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Speaker 2: Dodgers on Deck. Thanks for being with us on this
Speaker 2: Friday night in the Los Angeles.
Speaker 3: Dodgers sixty six and.
Speaker 2: Forty nine on this season, first place to top the
Speaker 2: NL West. The lead, though, is starting to shrink down
Speaker 2: to just two and a half games over the Padres,
Speaker 2: three and a half games over the Diamondbacks after dropping
Speaker 2: two of three to the Phillies to start the homestand
Speaker 2: the Dodgers now welcome the Pittsburgh Pirates to town for
Speaker 2: a three game weekend series tonight.
Speaker 3: Jack Flaherty on the mound.
Speaker 2: First pitch from Dodgers Stadium is coming up at seven
Speaker 2: to ten. We got a lot to get to over
Speaker 2: the next hour here on Marongo Casino Dodgers on Deck.
Speaker 2: We're gonna hear from the man of the Night, Dusty
Speaker 2: Baker in forty five minutes. Dusty Baker, now the eighth
Speaker 2: player to be inducted into the Legend to Dodgers Baseball
Speaker 2: before tonight's game, honoring his eight seeds with the Dodgers
Speaker 2: as he helped them to a three national egue pennants
Speaker 2: and a nineteen eighty one World Series championship that's coming up.
Speaker 2: In forty five minutes, we'll check in with David Vassa.
Speaker 2: Throughout the show, we'll dive deeper into this pitching matchup.
Speaker 3: We'll of course have your Dodgers magical moment.
Speaker 2: Shortly, we'll hear from Kirsten Watson, who's live on the
Speaker 2: field at Dodgers Stadium. In just a few minutes, we'll
Speaker 2: send it out to Rick Monday at the Galpin Motors
Speaker 2: Broadcast booth. Well Wednesday night, a frustrating call turned into
Speaker 2: a frustrating night for the Dodgers.
Speaker 3: Cavin Stone got the start.
Speaker 2: The right hander immediately got tagged by Kyle Schwarber for
Speaker 2: a home run.
Speaker 3: To lead off the game.
Speaker 2: The Phillies the early one nothing lead, but that didn't
Speaker 2: last long. Is a Dodgers answer back In the bottom
Speaker 2: of the first Freddie Freeman and RBI single tied the
Speaker 2: game at none and won and then came at Gel Rojas.
Speaker 4: One ozer pitch, Rojas blisters of all the left field. Hey,
Speaker 4: he's coming in, it's sicking. He can't all make the cats.
Speaker 4: Freeman cross his home play Dodgers half the lead. A
Speaker 4: tie breaking single for Miguel Rojas in his first plate
Speaker 4: appearance off the Il Harvey I.
Speaker 2: Single for Miguel Dodgers up two to one. In the second,
Speaker 2: the Dodgers added to their lead thanks to Freddy Freeman.
Speaker 5: First pitcher.
Speaker 4: Freeman, He's swinging a little flair left side, turning going
Speaker 4: back from shore. It drops in the left field arm
Speaker 4: scores Kiermia.
Speaker 6: Right behind him. A two run bloop single for.
Speaker 4: Freddy Freeman, and now he's got three RBIs.
Speaker 6: The Dodgers have a three run lead, four to one.
Speaker 7: That's the O line in the box score tomorrow. That
Speaker 7: will look like a line drive.
Speaker 2: No doubt about a two out, two run single for
Speaker 2: Freddy Freeman. That is the top tier play of the game,
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Speaker 3: Dodgers.
Speaker 2: With a four to one lead and feeling good. In
Speaker 2: the fifth though, things started to get away from Gavin Stone.
Speaker 2: Kyle Schwarber a two run double that made it a
Speaker 2: four to three Dodgers lead. In the sixth inning, Alex
Speaker 2: Baum to the left, Brandon Marsh grounded into a fielder's
Speaker 2: choice at third, but Key k hernet Is.
Speaker 3: His throw to Miguel Rojas.
Speaker 2: Ruled interference by umpire Hunter Windelstead. Boom then scored on
Speaker 2: a jt Real Muto RBI ground out to third against
Speaker 2: Joe Kelly. That tide they came at four. Joe Kelly walked,
Speaker 2: Nick Castianis, Joe on Rojastin loaded the bases. Brandon Marsh
Speaker 2: scored on a wild pitch and fell apart for the
Speaker 2: Dodgers in that sixth inning. Kyle Schwarber in his twenty
Speaker 2: seventh home run to lead off the ninth inning against
Speaker 2: Michael Grove, the Dodgers let one get away. They fall
Speaker 2: to the Phillies nine to four. Dodgers blow a lead
Speaker 2: for the second straight game. Dodgers dropped two of three
Speaker 2: to Philadelphia. They're now sixty six and forty nine on
Speaker 2: this season, and they're lead now two and a half
Speaker 2: games in the Division over the Padres, and tonight the
Speaker 2: Pirates in town for a three game series. Check Flaherty
Speaker 2: on the mound, first pitch coming up at seven to ten,
Speaker 2: and with more, let's head out to the Gallpin Motors
Speaker 2: broadcast booth as we say hello to Rick Monday and friends.
Speaker 7: Thank you very much, Tim And for the Dodgers back
Speaker 7: in Harness, and they're leading out two and a half
Speaker 7: games in front of the second place San Diego and
Speaker 7: andres three and a half in front of Arizona. And
Speaker 7: for the Dodgers trying to get it in the gear
Speaker 7: with Jack Flaherty, his second Dodger starting on the mound
Speaker 7: here tonight. Well, it's a big night in a lot
Speaker 7: of different ways. Dodgers, steady, and first of all, Dusty
Speaker 7: Baker is going to become the eighth former player inducted
Speaker 7: it into the legends of Dodger Baseball.
Speaker 5: And I have the pleasure.
Speaker 7: Of bringing back on the air not only a friend
Speaker 7: of mine, but a broadcast partner of mine that I
Speaker 7: have dearly missed. And he's here and we're going to
Speaker 7: do some baseball. And that's Charlie Steiner and Charlie. I
Speaker 7: cannot tell you enough how many times people have said,
Speaker 7: how's Charlie doing well? Charlie is doing well enough, and
Speaker 7: welcome back, my friend.
Speaker 8: You know, this is our twentieth year together, and I thought, well,
Speaker 8: happy anniversary. I'm sorry I'm a little late to wish it,
Speaker 8: but we're back. You know, some folks know that I've
Speaker 8: had a bad back. I don't recommend it to anyone,
Speaker 8: but we're getting better. We're here tonight. A I miss you,
Speaker 8: I miss Dwayne, I miss David. Is so much fun
Speaker 8: to see everybody again. I've been sneaking in and out
Speaker 8: here and there the last couple of weeks as I
Speaker 8: am progressing, and we'll get to do a couple of
Speaker 8: innings tonight together. I miss you, guys. Don't get me gone,
Speaker 8: I'll start to tear up. I'm so happy.
Speaker 5: Well, we're not going to let that happen.
Speaker 7: But you and I have been talking about this Dodger
Speaker 7: ball club on and off because we're on the phone.
Speaker 7: A lot of we're not on the phone, we're texting
Speaker 7: back and forth. Okay, the lead is two and a
Speaker 7: half games. The Dodgers since the opening day, which took
Speaker 7: place in South Korea, have had a share of the
Speaker 7: lead in the nash League Western Division. But quite frankly,
Speaker 7: they need to play better. They need to hit better,
Speaker 7: and they also need some healthy guys that can pitch better.
Speaker 8: Well, and talking about help. At least now it looks
Speaker 8: like Mookie will be back. He's been on the field
Speaker 8: here today last couple of days and I gather he'll
Speaker 8: be back in right field and not at short stop
Speaker 8: beginning on Monday. And as you mentioned, the Dodgers got
Speaker 8: off to the great start that everybody expected and then
Speaker 8: now it is really kind of petered out. Yeah, and
Speaker 8: for the last what is it, three months, roughly a
Speaker 8: five hundred tea.
Speaker 7: Your impressions are watching his team. Yes, they've had the injuries,
Speaker 7: there's no question about it, but the other guys have
Speaker 7: had to step up. They've had to reach into the
Speaker 7: minor league level. They've been over thirty three pitchers that
Speaker 7: have also been used. But just a brief sketch if
Speaker 7: you will, what you have seen from this team of
Speaker 7: what you think that.
Speaker 5: They need to do as far as the direction from here.
Speaker 8: I think health is the big thing. You know, when
Speaker 8: you're missing the likes of a Mookie Bets day in
Speaker 8: and day out, and when he comes back, you will
Speaker 8: be batting second, which I find fascinating, and not short stuff,
Speaker 8: but in right field once they get their help. If
Speaker 8: my grandmother used to say, how you doing, Grandma, If
Speaker 8: you got your health, you got everything, And they're getting close, Hi, Grandma,
Speaker 8: buffing beyond all that again, I'm so thrilled to be
Speaker 8: back in the booth with you guys and uh but
Speaker 8: we'll chat more about it a little bit later on.
Speaker 8: But between now and then, much more important stuff than
Speaker 8: their health or mine.
Speaker 2: We go back to Tim, Charlie. Great to hear your voice.
Speaker 2: Great to have you back on the broadcast. The great
Speaker 2: Charlie Snider back with us tonight for a few Indians
Speaker 2: coming up here on Marago Casino, Dodgers on Deck. We
Speaker 2: are going to hear from the manager Dave Roberts. We'll
Speaker 2: check in with David Vazz. He'll go one on one
Speaker 2: with Dusty Baker, who's being honored tonight in the Legends
Speaker 2: of Dodgers Baseball. We'll dive deeper in to this pitching
Speaker 2: matchup up next, so your o Tawny Rewind, we'll visit
Speaker 2: with Kirsten Watson live on the field at Dodgers Stadium.
Speaker 2: So much to get to as we lead you up
Speaker 2: to first pitch on this Friday night, Dodgers and Pirates,
Speaker 2: first pitcher, Dodger Stadium is at seven ten.
Speaker 3: Thanks for being with us.
Speaker 2: I'm Tim Katsus Los Angeles Dodgers Audio.
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Speaker 6: This is Kirston's corner with Kirston Watson.
Speaker 2: And Kirston now joins us from Dodgers Stadium. A busy
Speaker 2: day with Dusty Baker going into the Legends of Dodgers
Speaker 2: Hall of Fame. But off the field, Mookie Bets getting
Speaker 2: closer to returning to this Dodgers lineup, and Kirston when
Speaker 2: he does, he's gonna be playing right field.
Speaker 9: So he's, like you said, he's getting even closer. And
Speaker 9: he's been taking part in different sim games the last
Speaker 9: couple of days, including one today, and everyone noticed that
Speaker 9: when he was taking part of the sim game in
Speaker 9: between is at best, he would go and do some
Speaker 9: just defensive reps and he was taking fly balls in
Speaker 9: right field. So of course the question came up of
Speaker 9: especially after the other day when Dave Roberts said that
Speaker 9: he's going to primarily be playing at shortstop, questions came
Speaker 9: up of, you know what led to now him getting
Speaker 9: reps in right field and what does that mean for
Speaker 9: the team. So Dave Roberts today that then he had
Speaker 9: a conversation with Movie last night, and you know, They've
Speaker 9: been having a lot of conversations just as of late
Speaker 9: as kind of what the team needs and things like that,
Speaker 9: and it's for both sides. It just made the most
Speaker 9: sense for him to go back to right field. They've
Speaker 9: obviously been staying that Gavin Bluff has been playing really
Speaker 9: strong at second base, and I think you know, earlier
Speaker 9: season there are maybe some questions of maybe does movie
Speaker 9: come back at the second basement and they come back
Speaker 9: at shortstop. And then we've been seeing toguil roof not
Speaker 9: only getting his bat going but continuing to play go
Speaker 9: in dee bet he's now healthy and he saw him
Speaker 9: making some huge plays the other day. And then you
Speaker 9: acquire someone like Nick Ahmed, and there's all these other
Speaker 9: players that have come in who can kind of play
Speaker 9: at different parts of the field. A lot of the
Speaker 9: questions were what are the needs right now, and right
Speaker 9: now the need is Mookie Bets and right field. He
Speaker 9: obviously has been working really hard to try to come
Speaker 9: back as the shortstop, and it even said that these
Speaker 9: last what months and a half has been kind of
Speaker 9: like a spring training for him of getting his reps
Speaker 9: at short So yes, he's gonna have to kind of
Speaker 9: get readjusted going back to right field, but he has
Speaker 9: the confidence and his skill set and so that's just
Speaker 9: what the team means. Now he's still going to be
Speaker 9: batting second behind Shoeotani, which was another, you know, big move,
Speaker 9: But right now it's what does the team need to win,
Speaker 9: and right now they need Mookie Betts and right field
Speaker 9: to not only win the division, to win to win
Speaker 9: the Pennant and to ultimately win the World Serio.
Speaker 2: Quick update, Tommy Edmonds going out in a minor league rehab,
Speaker 2: Assigmon and Max Months he's getting close, sir.
Speaker 9: Yeah, both of those guys. They flew out today. So
Speaker 9: they're going to meet the Oklahoma City team and Dave
Speaker 9: was saying, I calling need about a week of just
Speaker 9: whether it's fast, playing defense, all the above, and then
Speaker 9: they're going to have a conversation at the end of
Speaker 9: the week and kind of reevaluate see where they're at.
Speaker 9: But hopefully they'll be returning quickly after that.
Speaker 2: Deerson, we appreciate it. We will check in with you
Speaker 2: after the game. The guys are starting to get back healthy.
Speaker 2: This Dodgers roster is starting to look like the roster
Speaker 2: we saw pre All Star breaking.
Speaker 3: That is certainly great news. We appreciate it.
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Speaker 2: to this bitching matchup. David Vassa goes one on one
Speaker 2: with Dusty Baker. But up next we get you an
Speaker 2: injury report. Hey, we'll hear from the manager himself, Dave Roberts.
Speaker 2: It's the Dodgers and Pirates on this Friday night, first
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Speaker 2: out to Dodger Stadium and check you with the Dodger Skipper.
Speaker 5: Anything else with questions for Dave Dave? Can you just
Speaker 5: describe Dave? Can you talk about the pressure in.
Speaker 6: The dugouts with Dave Roberts.
Speaker 10: It's coming along well, you know, they're they're taking it bats,
Speaker 10: they're playing defense. Uh, you know, they're running the bases
Speaker 10: and all that stuff. So I'm encouraged.
Speaker 5: You know.
Speaker 10: Mookie is still on track to join us on Monday.
Speaker 10: And you know, CT is probably a couple of weeks behind. Uh,
Speaker 10: Tommy and Max just went on rehab. They left today
Speaker 10: and they'll start playing games with OKC tomorrow, and so
Speaker 10: you know, I'm hopeful that in a week we'll get
Speaker 10: both those guys back, you know, a week or so
Speaker 10: something like that. And yesterday Walker just kind of on
Speaker 10: the re have front. Walker was good yesterday, then got
Speaker 10: into the sixth inning, which was really good to see
Speaker 10: the performance of stuff. All that was lined up. So,
Speaker 10: you know, to imagine him making a start for us
Speaker 10: in Milwaukee seems feasible. So we're trending he is as.
Speaker 1: Righting the guys play in that conversation that just taking
Speaker 1: he inspress right.
Speaker 10: Yeah, I think that with Mookie, he's first off, what
Speaker 10: he's done for us at shortstop doesn't go unnoiced, taking
Speaker 10: on that daunting task to be a great teammate, and
Speaker 10: he was relentless, has been relentless with his work at
Speaker 10: short as we've all seen guys that have been here
Speaker 10: every day. And so I think that, you know, we've
Speaker 10: had commons essentially daily about what's best for him, what's
Speaker 10: best for the team, And I think that, you know,
Speaker 10: I know that I said that. You know, we want
Speaker 10: to start with Mooki out there at short to then
Speaker 10: give the potential a pivot out there. I had a
Speaker 10: good conversation with him last night, and you know, I
Speaker 10: think right now and again things always seem to change.
Speaker 10: But right now we're gonna go. We're gonna kick Mooky
Speaker 10: out to right field.
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Speaker 11: I accept everybody for who they are.
Speaker 6: This is Dodger insider David Basse.
Speaker 2: All right, DV, you're gonna go high and tight with
Speaker 2: Dusty Baker in about twenty minutes. But what a night
Speaker 2: to celebrate one of the great.
Speaker 3: Dodgers, no doubt.
Speaker 11: And when he was playing, I'm not sure if you
Speaker 11: know this, Tim, they called left field Baker's field here
Speaker 11: at Dodgers Stadium. And how about this He was telling
Speaker 11: the story story in his press conference that there was
Speaker 11: a fan in the left field pavilion that would throw
Speaker 11: bubblegum to Dusty Baker, and then all of a sudden
Speaker 11: it turned into all the fans throwing bubblegum to Dusty
Speaker 11: Baker when he would take his position out there in
Speaker 11: left field. But he said he would only eat the
Speaker 11: gum from that fan because he trusted that gum. He
Speaker 11: wasn't sure what could have been in those other gums
Speaker 11: that were being thrown at him. So it's awesome that
Speaker 11: Dusty's going to be honored Reggie Smith this year. Kenny
Speaker 11: Landrou is here, Rick Monday is right in front of me,
Speaker 11: So it's a special night to have a lot of
Speaker 11: his teammates here to celebrate one of the all time
Speaker 11: favorite Dodgers.
Speaker 3: No doubt about it. David is driven by Ford.
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Speaker 2: one fifty. Jack Flaherty gets to start tonight, David. He
Speaker 2: got to start in Oakland last time his Dodger debut,
Speaker 2: But tonight his Dodger debut at Dodger Stadium.
Speaker 11: Really full circle for Jack Flarerity. In twenty thirteen, when
Speaker 11: he was pitching for Harvard Westlake in the CIF Championship game,
Speaker 11: he pitched a complete game shutout to win the championship
Speaker 11: for Harvard Westlake. And also drove in the only run
Speaker 11: of the game. It was a one nothing game. So
Speaker 11: Jack Flarity on the mound in twenty thirteen as a
Speaker 11: high school senior, and now here he is tonight wearing
Speaker 11: a Dodger uniform, making his Dodger Stadium debut this season.
Speaker 11: Wearing that blue certainly a special night for him, his
Speaker 11: mom and everybody that saw him grow up in the
Speaker 11: San Fernando Valley.
Speaker 2: All Right, David Mookie Bags, last time we spoke, he
Speaker 2: was not gonna be batting lead off, but he was
Speaker 2: gonna play shortstop.
Speaker 3: Now, Dave Roberts, we've just heard from him.
Speaker 2: He said, not batting lead off and not playing shortstop anymore.
Speaker 3: What's going on?
Speaker 11: Well, when I got here to Dodgers Stadium, I saw
Speaker 11: they were getting ready for a simulated game where Mooki
Speaker 11: was participating. That part was not out of the ordinary.
Speaker 11: And then all of a sudden we saw Mooki Bets
Speaker 11: go out to right field, and that was certainly eye catching,
Speaker 11: And Dave Roberts was asked about it. And Muki is
Speaker 11: coming back Monday in Milwaukee, and Mookie Betts will be
Speaker 11: the starting right fielder. And right now, tim the Dodgers
Speaker 11: don't have the luxury of time to figure things out.
Speaker 11: There are only three games ahead of the Diamondbacks and
Speaker 11: Padres as play starts tonight. They are in a division race.
Speaker 11: And Dave Roberts had a phone call with Mookie Betts
Speaker 11: and asked him where do you feel the most confident,
Speaker 11: and MOOKI was honest. Right field and he's a six
Speaker 11: time goal glover.
Speaker 3: Tim.
Speaker 11: Many consider him one of the greatest, if not the greatest,
Speaker 11: right fielder of his generation. It just makes a lot
Speaker 11: of sense, especially when you have a guy like Miguel
Speaker 11: Rojas at shortstop.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no doubt about that. Smart move all around for
Speaker 2: the Dodgers. David great stuff. Dave's gonna go one on
Speaker 2: one with Dusty Baker in fifteen minutes.
Speaker 3: You're not gonna want to miss that, Dodger fans.
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Speaker 2: Jack Flarity making his home debut in a Dodger uniform,
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Speaker 11: Rick Mondy your best teammate. It's being honored in the
Speaker 11: legends of Dodger Baseball. Dusty Baker.
Speaker 7: Yeah, Johnny b the hard bake, doctor scald was the
Speaker 7: other was the other nick.
Speaker 11: Where did that nickname come from?
Speaker 5: And I brought this up. I think was on the road.
Speaker 5: We talked about him.
Speaker 7: Dusty had a tendency to say and he hit the ball,
Speaker 7: and he hit the ball hard a lot, so he
Speaker 7: would come back he goes, I scalded that ball.
Speaker 5: So we kept hearing I scalded it. I scalded it.
Speaker 5: So we just coined the phrase doctor scold.
Speaker 11: Hey, Rick, I was not teammates with him. I was
Speaker 11: just a kid watching you guys play in the San
Speaker 11: Fernando Valley. What made Dusty Baker such a great teammate.
Speaker 7: He had high expectations of himself, higher expectations of himself
Speaker 7: than those around him, and he wanted to prove a
Speaker 7: point all the time. You know, he's the same guy
Speaker 7: that was able to shake Hank Aaron's hand when he
Speaker 7: hit that big home run. And he learned a lot
Speaker 7: from Hank Aaron about not only being a player, but
Speaker 7: also about being he uman, being kind of man. And
Speaker 7: that's carried over to the Dusty.
Speaker 5: He always wanted to excel, but.
Speaker 7: Again his expectations were the highest of himself versus those
Speaker 7: around him. Someone asked me, also, a lot of people
Speaker 7: ask me, did it surprise me at all that Dusty became,
Speaker 7: first of all, a manager. The answer is flat out no.
Speaker 7: And then they asked me, did it surprise me at
Speaker 7: all that it became a very good manager? And that
Speaker 7: was double note. And here's a couple of reasons why.
Speaker 7: First of all, he's a wonderful person. You saw the ballplayer.
Speaker 7: He didn't get to see the person. Secondly because of
Speaker 7: the expectations that he had it himself. But the other
Speaker 7: part too, is he reads people very well. And by
Speaker 7: that I'm talking about you know, we work with people
Speaker 7: and we see them me eaching every day. And it's
Speaker 7: even more I think concentrated on a baseball field with
Speaker 7: the ups and downs and the expectations, and really you're
Speaker 7: looking at livelihoods and guys succeed and fail in front
Speaker 7: of fifty thousand people each and every night during the
Speaker 7: regular season. Sometimes you become very fragile. So my point
Speaker 7: in being able to read people, he knows when he
Speaker 7: needs to put an arm around someone, and he knows
Speaker 7: when he needs to place a boot somewhere on someone's backside,
Speaker 7: and very seldom does he do the boot because he
Speaker 7: understands he can get a whole lot more from people,
Speaker 7: and understand people by putting their arm around him and
Speaker 7: encouraging and nurturing. And that's kind of in a nutshell,
Speaker 7: I was thinking about a couple of different things. If
Speaker 7: I'm going to look at Dusty Baker, I would say
Speaker 7: it was a pleasure to have Dusty as a teammate.
Speaker 7: He has been an honor to have me as a friend.
Speaker 11: Man, that's special. Rick, do you remember the first time
Speaker 11: you ever got a high five from Dusty Baker?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean he would bruise you. Yeah, he could
Speaker 7: bruise you and say, hey, wait a minute. You didn't
Speaker 7: necessarily want to high five him if you were coming
Speaker 7: to home plate. Here's why he hits a home run,
Speaker 7: you're standing at home plate celebrating and give him the
Speaker 7: high five. And I mean there was a loud sound
Speaker 7: that took place, and go, wait a minute, I have
Speaker 7: to let my hand cool off before I can grab
Speaker 7: the bat and go to home plate. He was one
Speaker 7: of those things let me tell you a quick story
Speaker 7: about Johnny b Dusty hard Bake, doctor skull Baker. I
Speaker 7: think we're in I think we're here in La playing
Speaker 7: against the Astros and Joaquin Andahar. If you think back
Speaker 7: into the memory bank, when he would strike a guy out,
Speaker 7: Joaquin Andahar would act as if he had a holster
Speaker 7: on his right side, and he would make believe he
Speaker 7: was pulling out a six shooter right, and then he
Speaker 7: was making believe that he was blowing into the barrel
Speaker 7: of the gun to blow the smoke out of it,
Speaker 7: because he just blew you away as a hitter. And
Speaker 7: then he would pretend that he was putting the gun,
Speaker 7: the six shooter back into the holster.
Speaker 5: Right.
Speaker 7: So he strikes out Dusty in one game here Dodger
Speaker 7: Stadium would believe it was and he pulls out this
Speaker 7: imaginary pistol and he blows in the end of the
Speaker 7: barrel and then puts it back into the holster. He
Speaker 7: strikes it Dusty out. The second time he pulls it out,
Speaker 7: he blows in into the barrel and then he.
Speaker 5: Puts it back into the holster.
Speaker 7: And Johnny goes back into the dugout and he stands
Speaker 7: with his right foot up on that ledge, the first
Speaker 7: step to come out of the dungout at the time,
Speaker 7: and he has hands on his hips, and only as
Speaker 7: bait could he goes, yeah, go hey, keep laughing. Next
Speaker 7: time up, I'm gonna knock the spit right out of
Speaker 7: your mouth. And he stood there. The dugout got very quiet,
Speaker 7: and then he started to chuckle. And he turned around
Speaker 7: and goes, that was pretty weak, wasn't it. So he
Speaker 7: has the ability to laugh at himself at the same time.
Speaker 11: Love it, Rick, you're the best person to honor Dusty us.
Speaker 5: You can tell I don't like him at all.
Speaker 11: That bond will be there forever, that's for sure. Rick,
Speaker 11: thanks a lot for sharing those stories and man, awesome
Speaker 11: to have Dusty Baker being honored by the Dodgers long overdue. Yeah,
Speaker 11: well send it back to you out there in Thousand Oaks.
Speaker 2: Tim, All right, thanks loud DV. Great stuff, Rick Monday.
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Speaker 11: Well, we're joined right now by a man that was
Speaker 11: a great player for the Dodgers, but more importantly, was
Speaker 11: beloved by his teammates and everybody that has ever come
Speaker 11: in contact with him. And that is the one and
Speaker 11: only Dusty Baker who is going into the legends of
Speaker 11: Dodger Baseball. Dusty, it's an honor to.
Speaker 5: Be here with you.
Speaker 11: This is the way it should be.
Speaker 12: Well, hey man, you've been interviewing me for years, and
Speaker 12: uh man, it's a time goes by very quickly. And
Speaker 12: I never thought about, you know, being a legend or
Speaker 12: just I just thought about playing ball and uh, you know,
Speaker 12: doing everything that I could to help my team win.
Speaker 12: It's just, uh, you know, it's a little strange to
Speaker 12: you know, to be here right now because I you know,
Speaker 12: I never thought of myself and so you know, I
Speaker 12: thought I was a good ball player. But at the
Speaker 12: same time, you know, and I you know, me going
Speaker 12: in the four guys like you know, Reggie Smith, I
Speaker 12: thought Reggie was the best player on the team. Oh yeah,
Speaker 12: I mean we all did. And uh and you know,
Speaker 12: you know, hopefully you know, and get Ronsea and some
Speaker 12: of my other teammates in because you know, without those guys,
Speaker 12: you know, I was hoping, well, when I look back,
Speaker 12: you know, they made me better coming here from the Braids.
Speaker 12: And I was hoping that possibly, you know, I could
Speaker 12: have you know, made them a little bit better. But
Speaker 12: they made me a lot better because I wanted to
Speaker 12: come here as a kid, I wanted to win the
Speaker 12: Dodgers and winners. I loved the Braids. I was born
Speaker 12: on the Braids, so to speak. But I I matured
Speaker 12: as a man and.
Speaker 5: A pro, you know, with the Dodgers.
Speaker 11: I remember in the eighties when you played Dusty the
Speaker 11: two best smiles in Los Angeles. One was at the
Speaker 11: form with Magic Johnson and the other smile that was
Speaker 11: the best was out here at Dodgers Stadium. The joy
Speaker 11: that you had for the game of baseball. Could you
Speaker 11: feel how infectious it was for your teammates and for
Speaker 11: the city.
Speaker 12: Well not really, Like I said, I didn't think about it.
Speaker 5: I love playing.
Speaker 12: I mean, I love it, and uh, you know, I
Speaker 12: try to respect the game, you know, as much as
Speaker 12: I could, and try to respect my you know, my teammates.
Speaker 5: I uh, you.
Speaker 12: Know, we came to play, and we came to play
Speaker 12: every day, I mean, and it was it was fun, yeah,
Speaker 12: you know, I mean, and and and the media guys
Speaker 12: were close to us at the same time, the media
Speaker 12: and and and the players were together. I mean, and that,
Speaker 12: you know, I kind of missed that after a while
Speaker 12: because now things are a little bit more adversarial than
Speaker 12: they were back in those days. I mean, you know,
Speaker 12: we'd hang out, you know, you know, with Joe McDonald
Speaker 12: and then I mean, you know, all these guys, Jim Hill,
Speaker 12: I mean, we were I mean we were like like
Speaker 12: one and uh so, uh.
Speaker 11: Would did Joe ever give you a ride in his Cadillac?
Speaker 12: Yeah? Yeah, if if I needed it, you know what
Speaker 12: I mean. You know, when every time I come to
Speaker 12: Dodge Stadium, it's like, you know, I have very pleasant
Speaker 12: memories here, and.
Speaker 5: You know, like I just.
Speaker 12: Think about a lot of the kids that were here,
Speaker 12: like you you know, and now they're fathers and grandfathers.
Speaker 12: Look at a few of them and just shows you
Speaker 12: how fast life goes. But you know, you try to
Speaker 12: enjoy it, try to do the right thing and treat
Speaker 12: people right.
Speaker 11: Dusty, before I let you go, the bond you shared
Speaker 11: with your teammates losing to the Yankees twice and then
Speaker 11: finally beating them, how much more complete is everything with
Speaker 11: you guys? Not only winning in eighty one, but beating
Speaker 11: those Yankees, well.
Speaker 12: You know something, I see Yankee fans now and they're
Speaker 12: still mad because we beat them one time. And I'm like,
Speaker 12: wait a minute, you guys beat us twice, and you
Speaker 12: know something. Seventy seven, I thought we had a great,
Speaker 12: great team and we had outstanding and then seven eight
Speaker 12: we were playing for Jim Gilliam who died of a
Speaker 12: brain aneurysm that August, and so we had this number
Speaker 12: on our sleeves and I think we were up to
Speaker 12: to nothing on the Yankees, and then we went to
Speaker 12: the Well two to nothing. We played them there, and
Speaker 12: then we came back here for a three game series
Speaker 12: and I don't think we lost the game of a
Speaker 12: series at home all year, and they beat us three
Speaker 12: in a row, and then we had to go back
Speaker 12: to New York to lose one in a row, to
Speaker 12: lose one and end up. I mean, I never you know,
Speaker 12: forget the you know, the pain and the hurt that
Speaker 12: we felt coming back home, because I was like the
Speaker 12: longest trip home. That was like a ghost trip. You know,
Speaker 12: none of us really wanted to come home. We didn't
Speaker 12: want to go out in the public. We didn't want
Speaker 12: to go to the supermarket, you know, because because we
Speaker 12: you know, we thought we were.
Speaker 5: Supposed to win.
Speaker 12: But you know, fourteen for us, we won eighty one,
Speaker 12: which wasn't our best team.
Speaker 5: So joseih show you.
Speaker 12: I mean a lot of times, you know, you win
Speaker 12: when you're supposed to win.
Speaker 11: Winner, Dusty Baker winning in life for sure.
Speaker 5: Thank you, Dusty.
Speaker 11: Right there, he is the man. He's about to be
Speaker 11: inducted into the Legends of Dodger Baseball. I think now
Speaker 11: from now on, I'm going out to that area where
Speaker 11: they're gonna put his picture and just you know, tap
Speaker 11: it every day that I come to the stadium right
Speaker 11: behind uh, right behind center field. They're gonna have you
Speaker 11: and everybody else in this Legends of Dodger Baseball.
Speaker 3: They put you up like a plaque.
Speaker 12: Really, I'm gonna go out there every day.
Speaker 11: I'm gonna send you a picture. Okay, man, there he
Speaker 11: is the great Dusty Baker. We'll send it back to
Speaker 11: you in thousand oaks.
Speaker 3: Tim all right, thanks lod DV. Thank you.
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Speaker 2: and five with a three to twenty er Ray, twenty
Speaker 2: eight year old right hander, a second round pick of
Speaker 2: the Pirates in twenty fourteen, a sixth season now in
Speaker 2: the Big Leagues, making his twenty third start this season.
Speaker 3: He's got two thirty four er ray.
Speaker 2: Back to his start on five to six as May sixth,
Speaker 2: the Pirates have won five straight in seven of his
Speaker 2: last eight games that he's pitched in coming to the start,
Speaker 2: he's six in the National League in RRA and tied
Speaker 2: for six and wins. Last time out, four innings, one hit,
Speaker 2: for strikeouts and no decision against the Diamondbacks. It was
Speaker 2: only four innings because they had an hour and eight
Speaker 2: minute rain delay that he.
Speaker 3: Did not come back afterwards.
Speaker 2: Jack flairt he gets to start for the Dodgers the
Speaker 2: Pride of Burbank, twenty eight year old right hander in
Speaker 2: his eighth season in the Big Leagues Cardinals Orioles Tigers
Speaker 2: this year until he was traded to the Dodgers at
Speaker 2: the deadline. He's eight and five with a two to
Speaker 2: eighty RRA. In his first start the Dodgers six shutout
Speaker 2: innings against the A's, he scattered just five hits while
Speaker 2: striking out seven along the way in a win at
Speaker 2: Oakland last Saturday. He's facing the Pirates for the seventeenth
Speaker 2: time in his career, first as a Dodger he last
Speaker 2: pitched against him last June at PNC Park five and
Speaker 2: third innings, allowed one run over six innings while not
Speaker 2: factoring in the decision. Over sixteen games against the Buckos,
Speaker 2: he owned a nine to one record of the two
Speaker 2: to fifty two rray and ninety strikeouts. Dodgers Pirates were
Speaker 2: fifteen minutes. It's away from first pitch, Keys to the game.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, the Padres just keep on winning.
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Speaker 2: out to the booth. Rick Monday, Charlie Steiner, guys.
Speaker 8: All right, Tien back at Dodger Stadium, first of three
Speaker 8: the Pirates and the Dodgers. Neither team particularly hot coming
Speaker 8: into this three game set. The Dodgers their lead over
Speaker 8: the Padres now is just two and a half games
Speaker 8: in the Western Division and two terrific pitchers having hated tonight.
Speaker 8: Mitch Keller, He's ten and five out of the three.
Speaker 8: Twenty Eer the Pirates have won each of his last
Speaker 8: five starts and thirteen of his past fifteen. Jack Flaherty
Speaker 8: making his first start in a Dodger uniform here at
Speaker 8: Dodger Stadium. He is eight and five out of two.
Speaker 7: Eighty er and Charlie Flaerty was really really good on
Speaker 7: Saturday up in Oakland against the Ages. Six shutout innings,
Speaker 7: only one walk, only five hits, struck out seven. And
Speaker 7: I think really for both of these pitchers, tonight is
Speaker 7: going to be the breaking stuff, because if you're looking
Speaker 7: at Jack Flaherty, only four starters in baseball have thrown
Speaker 7: breaking balls more often than he has.
Speaker 8: The Pirates are just swept at home by the Padres,
Speaker 8: and they have lost six of their last seven, five
Speaker 8: of those defeats coming to us by one run.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 7: For Keller, he moves the fastball in on you, and
Speaker 7: he also has that good curve boall on top of it.
Speaker 7: Here's the thing too, with Keller, he's had hitters with
Speaker 7: two strikes. It's below a two hundred batting average. First
Speaker 7: of all, we're hitting one thousand tonight. I can't tell
Speaker 7: you what a big deal it is to have you
Speaker 7: back into booth, my friend.
Speaker 8: Love you guys, I really do. Can't wait for the
Speaker 8: first pitch it. Oh, by the way, come on Monday,
Speaker 8: Mookie Betts back in the lineup and he will be
Speaker 8: back in right field. Lineup's at first pitch coming up.
Speaker 2: All right, Great to hear you, Charlie, Great to have
Speaker 2: you back. Rick and Charlie Tien Neverard as well.
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