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Speaker 2: Dodgers fall to the A's tonight. Six to five eight
Speaker 2: six six nine eighty seven two five seventy is the
Speaker 2: phone number we will get to your phone calls. We
Speaker 2: will hear from Dave Robert Show, Hey Otani, and Gavin Stone.
Speaker 2: But the Dodgers are struggling right now with a lot
Speaker 2: of their players out, including Freddie Freeman, who is not
Speaker 2: going to rejoin the Dodgers here in Oakland obviously, bigger
Speaker 2: things going on with his family. And we're sending out
Speaker 2: our thoughts and prayers. I know all of Los Angeles
Speaker 2: is to little Max Free We're with you. We know
Speaker 2: you got this, Max, and you got a great mom
Speaker 2: and dad and grandpa Grandpa Freddie Freeman as well, So
Speaker 2: we're thinking about you, Max. And good news that Chelsea
Speaker 2: Freeman tweeted out yesterday that Max is starting to get
Speaker 2: on the right track to recovery and handling this syndrome
Speaker 2: that unfortunately he's been hit with. So if I could,
Speaker 2: I don't dedicate shows to anybody, but if I could
Speaker 2: dedicate a show, it would be to Max Freeman, Freddie
Speaker 2: Freeman and the rest of their family, because that's bigger
Speaker 2: than baseball. So Freddie's out for this series, don't know
Speaker 2: when he's coming back. Mookie Betts is out, Max Munsey
Speaker 2: is out, No, Miguel Rojas and the Dodgers are waiting
Speaker 2: on Tommy Edmond to get his right ankle straight for
Speaker 2: him to be a contributor to this roster after they
Speaker 2: traded for him. So you got guys like Kevin Bugey
Speaker 2: playing first base. You got Keithy Hernandez playing third base.
Speaker 2: Kevin Kiermeier got the start in center field tonight. He
Speaker 2: was zero for two in his Dodger debut. You got
Speaker 2: Nick on med playing shortstop. I mean, Cavin Bigio, Kevin
Speaker 2: Kiermeyer and Nick amed were all designated for assignments by
Speaker 2: their teams, and they're in the starting lineup in the
Speaker 2: same lineup for the Dodgers. Jason Hayward is struggling. He's
Speaker 2: not hitting. I'm sure Jason is still feeling the effects
Speaker 2: of the different back injury that he suffered when he
Speaker 2: tried to rob Jock Peterson of a home run about
Speaker 2: three weeks ago. He obviously was having some issues earlier
Speaker 2: in the season with it as well, So he just
Speaker 2: does not look like the same Jason Hayward that we
Speaker 2: saw the first part of spring training and the Jason
Speaker 2: Hayward we saw last year. You got Gavin Lux starting
Speaker 2: at second base and hitting third for the Dodgers. Gavin
Speaker 2: Lux right now is the Dodgers best hitter, make no
Speaker 2: mistake about her, or hottest hitter. You got Will Smith struggling.
Speaker 2: He's hitting two oh eight with an ops of seven
Speaker 2: ten since May one. So you can judge and panic
Speaker 2: and freak out all you want, but I'm a big
Speaker 2: believer when the Dodgers get their guys back, they are
Speaker 2: going to have to start playing their best baseball of
Speaker 2: the season and are not going to have a lot
Speaker 2: of time to do it, because once they get whole,
Speaker 2: it's probably a month plus a month and ten days
Speaker 2: they probably have all their guys back. Not to mention
Speaker 2: their bullpen of Michael Grove, Bruce Star graderol Ryan Brazier.
Speaker 2: They need those guys back, they need Yamamoto back. They're
Speaker 2: going to see what they got with Walker Buehler. I've
Speaker 2: said all season long, I'm not really I don't really
Speaker 2: have high expectations for a guy that's missed two years
Speaker 2: with Tommy John surgery and after or what we saw
Speaker 2: earlier in the season. I don't know how your expectations
Speaker 2: could be any higher than that. Whatever he gives you
Speaker 2: or doesn't give you is kind of a neutral effect
Speaker 2: on this team because the Dodgers, I feel like, built
Speaker 2: this team to a certain extent, not expecting a lot
Speaker 2: out of Walker Buller, but hoping he could come back,
Speaker 2: and so far it just hasn't gone that way. And
Speaker 2: Bobby Miller taking a step back in his second season
Speaker 2: obviously was not something the Dodgers envisioned, and that's where
Speaker 2: they're at right now. But right now, their lineup is
Speaker 2: a skeleton of what it will look like in the
Speaker 2: next two to three weeks because Mookie Bets, Max Munsey,
Speaker 2: and Tommy Edman are all expected to participate in a
Speaker 2: simulated game next week at Dodgers stadium. That's a consolation
Speaker 2: prize right now. The Dodgers have got to find out
Speaker 2: how to win games, and it starts with their starting pitching.
Speaker 2: They have not gotten good starting pitching consistently. Tyler Glass. Now,
Speaker 2: when seven innings in his last start, that's probably the
Speaker 2: best start the Dodgers have gotten out of a starter
Speaker 2: since the beginning of July. Because since the beginning of July,
Speaker 2: only five innings separate how many innings the Dodgers starters
Speaker 2: have pitched compared to the relievers. That's just not going
Speaker 2: to get it done. Eight six, six, nine, seven, two,
Speaker 2: five seventy is the phone number. Let's head downstairs right
Speaker 2: now to hear from the manager, Dave roberts Well.
Speaker 3: I thought the ninth we took some good at beats,
Speaker 3: obviously got show hate to the plate, and I thought, tonight,
Speaker 3: you know, he just missed a couple homers early, took
Speaker 3: some good swings and squared one up in the ninth,
Speaker 3: which is good to see. Love the fight. We kept going,
Speaker 3: you know, strikeouts, you know, eleven strikeouts against a guy
Speaker 3: that really doesn't strike me any guys out, and we
Speaker 3: just can't right now find ways to build innings. Get hits,
Speaker 3: and you know, it's hard when you're not getting hits
Speaker 3: and you're striking out at the clip where you are
Speaker 3: right now. And I thought Gavin was good early, and
Speaker 3: you know, you can just tell that Langeliers was hunting
Speaker 3: that change up that second at bat and get another
Speaker 3: home run on a high ball to Smith that he
Speaker 3: got him earlier, and then just kind of the doubles
Speaker 3: started happening for me. I just felt we had to
Speaker 3: try to keep that getting close with Gavin tonight.
Speaker 4: What are you even seeing from him? And what do
Speaker 4: you think is just been kind of leading to the
Speaker 4: long ball. It seems like that's been kind of the
Speaker 4: one thing that's been getting tenssively, you know.
Speaker 3: I think tonight, I don't know if that Smith pitch
Speaker 3: was was a bad pitch. It was a fastball count.
Speaker 3: I think it was three to two and he put
Speaker 3: goodwood on it. The change I think just it was
Speaker 3: just elevated. I don't know, you know what the reason
Speaker 3: behind the propensity recently for the long ball. You know,
Speaker 3: he's a guy that's going to put the ball on
Speaker 3: the ground work efficiently gets strike one, and I thought
Speaker 3: he did that for three innings and then it just
Speaker 3: got away from pretty quickly.
Speaker 5: Before the game.
Speaker 6: He's gonna throw more innings securely.
Speaker 2: Ever, has is that a factor in his last month end?
Speaker 5: You know what it might be. It might be.
Speaker 3: You know, he's been our most consistent starter as far
Speaker 3: as taking the baseball, giving us length. But I think
Speaker 3: if you look back at since that New York start,
Speaker 3: you know, it hasn't been what he was doing in
Speaker 3: the first, you know, a few months of the season.
Speaker 3: So I don't know if it's fatigue. You know, everything
Speaker 3: I hear from our guys, he still feels strong. And
Speaker 3: the fastball velocity at times during the inning during an
Speaker 3: outing is right where in line with where it has been,
Speaker 3: So that's a good I thought. Commanding of the baseball
Speaker 3: tonight was good at times, and there are a couple
Speaker 3: of balls that were just elevating and they got to
Speaker 3: be able to, you know, move them forward. And you
Speaker 3: know even that the bledat double it just found, you know,
Speaker 3: got past Cavin right there. But you know, then there
Speaker 3: was a hanging breaking ball another double. So yeah, I
Speaker 3: don't know if it's a fatigue though, but it very
Speaker 3: well could be.
Speaker 2: That's Dave Roberts on sports Net LA and look, Gavin
Speaker 2: Stone was not fooling anybody after the first couple of innings.
Speaker 2: They were hitting the ball really hard. And look, Gavin
Speaker 2: Stone's a rookie. He's in the second half of his
Speaker 2: rookie season. This should not all be on him. Unfortunately,
Speaker 2: that's where the Dodgers are in their season. But he's
Speaker 2: got to find a way to get a second win
Speaker 2: here down the stretch because he has been so good
Speaker 2: the first half of the season. And I fully expect that.
Speaker 2: The one thing that Gavin Stone has is that he
Speaker 2: has that competitive to fight in him. He is not
Speaker 2: going to just wilter on the mound there, and that's
Speaker 2: what gives you hope that he'll find his way out
Speaker 2: of this. And this is a seven point fifteen era
Speaker 2: since his complete game shutout six starts ago on the
Speaker 2: South side of Chicago. Athletics beat the Dodgers tonight six
Speaker 2: to five, And I said coming into the game, I
Speaker 2: was on with Rogan and Rodney earlier Petro some money
Speaker 2: pregame show. They needed a really good start for Gavin Stone,
Speaker 2: and Gavin Stone needed to keep the A's in the ballpark.
Speaker 2: He was not able to do that and Joe Kelly
Speaker 2: certainly was not able to do that. Joe Kelly, to me,
Speaker 2: gave up the biggest hit of the game. He came
Speaker 2: in to put out the fire and keep the game
Speaker 2: four to two. Instead, he gave up a monster home
Speaker 2: run to Brent Rooker made it six to two. That
Speaker 2: was the difference in the game. A's beat the Dodgers
Speaker 2: six to five. Let's go out to Sam Pedro. Eddie,
Speaker 2: you're on Dodger Talk with David vasse Hi.
Speaker 7: Eddie, Hey, David, thanks stake my call in. I was
Speaker 7: gonna say power and praise to the Freeman Front family. Also,
Speaker 7: you mentioned what I was going to talk about regarding
Speaker 7: Will Smith. He's also in that same timeframe from May
Speaker 7: to present. He's got twelve home runs and like thirty
Speaker 7: three RBIs so he's down there too. But my question
Speaker 7: really was do you think they should under the certain
Speaker 7: conditions they're in with the lineup move showhy back a
Speaker 7: couple spots so he can come up.
Speaker 2: With a lot of show. Hey, Otani came up with
Speaker 2: a lot of runners on base tonight. He just has
Speaker 2: not been proficient with runners in scoring position. He came
Speaker 2: up with the bases loaded in the seventh inning with
Speaker 2: two outs, and it seemed like he was just trying
Speaker 2: to do too much. In the ninth inning, he seemed
Speaker 2: a lot more within himself. So no, I think Otani
Speaker 2: is perfect where he's at. If you want to talk
Speaker 2: about lineup adjustments, the Dodgers just acquired Ahmed Rosario, who
Speaker 2: is hitting three hundred against righty's three hundred plus against lefties.
Speaker 2: He should be starting at shortstop. The Dodgers need offense,
Speaker 2: and Ahmed Rosario should be starting at shortstop.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I agree with that.
Speaker 2: All right, thanks for the phone call. Let's go out
Speaker 2: to Brad and Mission Viejo. How you doing, Brad.
Speaker 8: Hi pretty good? A quick question and in a comment,
Speaker 8: how do you think copex and a figure in the
Speaker 8: bullpen moving forward? Even with the guys coming back? Is
Speaker 8: he going to be prominently featured?
Speaker 2: He's going to be part of a very strong bullpen
Speaker 2: when Bruce Darr Graderol comes back and you give these
Speaker 2: guys like Daniel Hudson, Blake trin In and Evan Phillips
Speaker 2: some support in that bullpen to go along with Alex
Speaker 2: Vesi and Anthony Banda. When you get those guys back
Speaker 2: with Kopek, Brad, that's going to be a power armed bullpen.
Speaker 2: That'll be a great bullpen to have going into the postseason.
Speaker 2: If Kopek can throw strikes. When he throws strikes, he's
Speaker 2: a really good pitcher.
Speaker 8: Yeah, and the other stinger is gonna say, was the
Speaker 8: a's or no stranger to offense? You know, they went
Speaker 8: to Philly and hit eight home runs. If you might
Speaker 8: have seen that in the paper. They they can, they
Speaker 8: can take it out of the park. There's no doubt
Speaker 8: about it.
Speaker 2: No doubt. That's how they score runs. They slug and
Speaker 2: that's what they did tonight hitting three home runs and
Speaker 2: that was basically their six runs tonight eight six, six, seven,
Speaker 2: two five seventy is the phone number. Let's head back
Speaker 2: downstairs right now to here from Dodgers D eight show,
Speaker 2: Hey Otani, who hit a three run home run with
Speaker 2: two outs in the ninth inning tonight?
Speaker 4: So hey, does when you look at your avats this evening,
Speaker 4: did it kind of feel like it was a build
Speaker 4: up for that home run late in the game?
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Speaker 1: Some of mine? That's ok, uh, Domins.
Speaker 5: Just to be honest, the last several games, I haven't
Speaker 5: been too uh you know, feeling too great at the
Speaker 5: play and the previous at bat before that home run
Speaker 5: at that if I could have you know, uh, contributed
Speaker 5: a little bit more, I think we wouldn't have been
Speaker 5: in that spot late in the inning, uh the next inning.
Speaker 4: So the emotions that you expressed, was that just reflection
Speaker 4: I guess of that feeling and that frustration.
Speaker 5: Franustoration the home run. That's as kind it.
Speaker 8: So it's not.
Speaker 1: It's not good if you.
Speaker 8: Uh, it's all.
Speaker 9: Sort of mind William.
Speaker 7: That's yeah.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I thought I could have done a little bit
Speaker 5: more to help the team the last three at bats
Speaker 5: and just being able to you know, I just was
Speaker 5: very you know, I felt the urgency to be able
Speaker 5: to do something at that at that.
Speaker 2: All right, there is showhil Tani with interpreter will Ireton
Speaker 2: on sports Net. La Otani obviously understands the situation the
Speaker 2: Dodgers need him to perform without Freddy Freeman. Without Mooki Bets,
Speaker 2: without Max Munsey. The list goes on and on, and
Speaker 2: before that ninth inning home run with two outs, Otani
Speaker 2: was old for his last fifteen eight six six eight
Speaker 2: seven two five seventy is the phone number. We're gonna
Speaker 2: take a time out here on Dodger Talk. We have
Speaker 2: three lines open at eight six six nine eighty seven
Speaker 2: two five seventy. When we come back, more of your
Speaker 2: phone calls. Also an update on mouk Bets and the
Speaker 2: position he made play when he returns. And also we
Speaker 2: have a couple of highlights to share from around Major
Speaker 2: League Baseball. A couple of big things happen that we'll
Speaker 2: share with you. I'm sure you know one of them.
Speaker 2: Snel Zilla throwing a no hitter. We'll let you hear
Speaker 2: the final call of the no hitter in Cincinnati after
Speaker 2: the Dodgers fall to the Athletics tonight six to five
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Speaker 11: Two down and the pitch fromestis to Hernandez swung on well,
Speaker 11: hits a left going back.
Speaker 2: As Miguel ander Harn's.
Speaker 11: At the track, he looks up and has gone hondre
Speaker 11: on a two runs shot for Taioscar Hernandez's twenty third
Speaker 11: and the Dodgers jump on the board first.
Speaker 2: Is two to nothing. Things were looking good in Oakland early,
Speaker 2: a two out, two run home run by ta Oscar
Speaker 2: Hernandez to give the Dodgers an early two to nothing lead. Unfortunately,
Speaker 2: they gave it back and then some as Oakland scored
Speaker 2: four runs in the fourth inning off of Gavin Stone
Speaker 2: and Joe Kelly, and Oakland beats the Dodgers in Game
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Speaker 2: two five seventy is the phone number you know for
Speaker 2: the last week ten days, I would say. Dave Roberts
Speaker 2: has been asked about where Mookie Betts is going to
Speaker 2: play when he returns off the IL. And look, there
Speaker 2: are a lot of questions surrounding the Dodgers and how
Speaker 2: the pieces to their puzzle are going to fit when
Speaker 2: all these players come off the IL as they're expecting.
Speaker 2: But for anybody to think that it's a fore gone
Speaker 2: conclusion that Mookie Betts is going to be forced to
Speaker 2: go to right field, think again. I mean, look at
Speaker 2: Nick al Med right now. He's a really good defensive shortstop.
Speaker 2: But if you're going to play Kevin Kiermeyer and Nick
Speaker 2: almd on the same day and you're gonna have them
Speaker 2: hitting eight to nine for defense, you're not going to
Speaker 2: score a lot of runs. I got news for you.
Speaker 2: So that's why I still earlier in the week, I thought,
Speaker 2: for sure, there's no chance Mooki plays shortstop when he
Speaker 2: comes back. But when you see this offense and you
Speaker 2: see the lack of production at shortstop, it makes you
Speaker 2: give pause. And here was Dave Roberts in San Diego
Speaker 2: when he was asked, probably for the fiftieth time in
Speaker 2: the last six days, where Mookie Betts is going to
Speaker 2: play when he returns.
Speaker 10: You know, right now, I talk to Mooki today. That's
Speaker 10: his intent, and I welcome that. I support that. As
Speaker 10: we get to the middle of August when we're expecting
Speaker 10: him back, I don't know if that's going to change.
Speaker 10: I really don't. I know that we have two gold
Speaker 10: Gloves shortstops, one guy that's won a couple of gold
Speaker 10: Gloves and another guy that probably could have on our roster.
Speaker 10: So and we got a second base and that's playing
Speaker 10: you know, his base his best baseball in the last
Speaker 10: few years. So that shouldn't be lost on anyone. It's
Speaker 10: certainly not lost on me. And we got guys that
Speaker 10: can really defend on the offield. So I'm gonna have
Speaker 10: a conversation with Mooki and we'll figure out what's best
Speaker 10: for him.
Speaker 3: As well as our ball club, you know, when the
Speaker 3: time comes. So I don't I can't even answer that
Speaker 3: old him.
Speaker 2: There no doubt he cannot answer that. Right now. Jason
Speaker 2: Hayward is struggling at the plate. But if you bring
Speaker 2: back Tommy Edmond and he's part of your outfield dynamic,
Speaker 2: then where does Mookie Bets go? Does he stay in
Speaker 2: right field? There are a lot of moving parts, and look,
Speaker 2: Mookie Betts last year did a great job and had
Speaker 2: one of his actually his best offensive season with the Dodgers,
Speaker 2: moving from right field to second base a few different times,
Speaker 2: sometimes in the same game. I can envision a situation
Speaker 2: in the postseason where Mookie Betts is not playing shortstop,
Speaker 2: where Miguel Rojas or Nick Ahmed is playing shortstop, depending
Speaker 2: on if Rojas can come back from his right forearm
Speaker 2: strain or tightness, whatever they're calling it. But if Rojas
Speaker 2: doesn't come back, let's just say Nick Ahmed is the shortstop.
Speaker 2: I would personally like to have a sure handed shortstop
Speaker 2: in the postseason. Now where does that leave Mookie Betts.
Speaker 2: It leaves him in a spot to play right field
Speaker 2: because I am still believing in Gavin Lux doing what
Speaker 2: he's doing right now. He has turned the corner to
Speaker 2: his season, whether it's talking to his uncle during the
Speaker 2: All Star break, whether it's him trusting his right leg.
Speaker 2: Something has changed where he is a much more aggressive
Speaker 2: and powerful hitter that we saw than we saw in
Speaker 2: the first half of the season. So second base is
Speaker 2: out of the question if Gavin Lux is playing the
Speaker 2: way he's playing right now, So it's either shortstop or
Speaker 2: right field, and in a critical postseason game, I'd rather
Speaker 2: have a goal glove shortstop than having Mookie Betts at shortstop.
Speaker 2: But all of that is still up in the air.
Speaker 2: I mean, we have seen so many guys get hurt
Speaker 2: or something pop up, and all of the Dodger plans
Speaker 2: have gone sideways. So back to my initial point, you
Speaker 2: can't tell me where Mookie Bets is going to play,
Speaker 2: or you can't tell me Mookie Bets is not going
Speaker 2: to play shortstop when he comes back, especially when we're
Speaker 2: looking at an offense like this right now, and you're
Speaker 2: looking at an infield like this right now. But one
Speaker 2: thing is certain, second base is out of the question. Now.
Speaker 2: Mookie Bets is either playing shortstop or he's playing right field.
Speaker 2: And Gavin Lucks right now, how can you even think
Speaker 2: about anybody else playing second base. You're finally getting the
Speaker 2: Gavin Lucks that you wanted. He's staying there. Eight six
Speaker 2: six ninety seven two five seventy is the phone number.
Speaker 2: The Dodgers now just four games ahead of the Arizona
Speaker 2: Diamondbacks in the NL West. Arizona came back in Pittsburgh
Speaker 2: to beat the Pirates nine to eight. The Padres had
Speaker 2: their usual letdown after a Dodgers big series win for them.
Speaker 2: They lose to the Rockies at Peco Park. So the
Speaker 2: Padres now four and a half games back of the Dodgers,
Speaker 2: while Arizona is in second place, four games back and
Speaker 2: getting their starting rotation healthy. Eduardo Rodriguez is coming back,
Speaker 2: Merrill Kelly is expected back, and don't look now, Corbyn
Speaker 2: Carroll offensively has gotten his season on track. Let's go
Speaker 2: out to downy Frank. You're on Dodger Talk. How you doing, Frank?
Speaker 12: Pretty down, pretty down? I think we're taking a call.
Speaker 12: First of all, I just wanted to talk about the
Speaker 12: bottom of the lineup. I know, I know where Mickey, Mookie,
Speaker 12: Bett and Monty and Freeman is out right now. I
Speaker 12: think we're gonna be okay. But right now we have
Speaker 12: got a weather the storm at least for a couple
Speaker 12: of weeks at least to maintain that four or three
Speaker 12: or fight five game lead over the Pockets or the
Speaker 12: Arizona dialing back. I just think that from one to
Speaker 12: four those are going to be our run and opposing
Speaker 12: pieces are looking at our lineup, then nothing but automatic
Speaker 12: out after Toccer Hernandez or Calvin looked all the way
Speaker 12: to the night hitter, and unfortunately the trading tail line
Speaker 12: came and left, and all we got was utility there
Speaker 12: when we needed a prejudice in that bottom of the lineup.
Speaker 12: Well that's all I got, man. But I think we'll
Speaker 12: be okay, man, Just give it a couple of frank.
Speaker 2: I will say this. Everybody has complained over the last
Speaker 2: four or five years that the Dodgers kind of coast
Speaker 2: into the postseason. Well, it's starting to feel like twenty
Speaker 2: twenty one all over again, where the Dodgers are going
Speaker 2: to have to play through the finish line this year
Speaker 2: because Arizona is not going anywhere, the Padres are not
Speaker 2: going anywhere, and the Dodgers need to start playing their
Speaker 2: best baseball of the season going down the stretch. All right,
Speaker 2: thanks for the phone call. Look, that's the silver lining
Speaker 2: in all this. I'm a big believer when the Dodgers
Speaker 2: get their team hole again that they will have to
Speaker 2: play their best baseball of the season. And to me
Speaker 2: and to a lot of the coaches and Dave Roberts
Speaker 2: and the players, they don't believe they played their best
Speaker 2: baseball yet, even with Mookie Bets and Freddie Freeman and
Speaker 2: Max Muntsey in their lineup. So that's also, you know,
Speaker 2: the bright side of these of this stretch of time
Speaker 2: where the Dodgers are looking like a very average team
Speaker 2: and their lineup does not resemble anything that we saw
Speaker 2: on opening Day, whether it was in Korea or North America.
Speaker 2: Eight six six nine eight seven two five seventy is
Speaker 2: the phone number before we say good night. I want
Speaker 2: to share some things around Major League Baseball, starting with
Speaker 2: the fourth no hitter pitched this season in Major League Baseball,
Speaker 2: Blake Snell in Cincinnati. He had never been allowed to
Speaker 2: pitch in the eighth inning. He had never been allowed,
Speaker 2: obviously to pitch in the ninth inning in his career.
Speaker 2: Bob Melvin allowed him to go for the no hitter,
Speaker 2: and he paid it off by being able to do
Speaker 2: it in one of the biggest hitter ballparks in all
Speaker 2: of Major League Baseball. One hundred and thirteen pitches.
Speaker 9: Ellie de la Cruz from the right side, first pitch
Speaker 9: is swang fly ball. Right center, moving over is Yastremsky.
Speaker 2: He's there, He's got it, and Blake.
Speaker 5: Snell has done it.
Speaker 13: Snell has thrown a no hitter for the Giants tonight
Speaker 13: in Cincinnati, getting mop by his teammates in front of
Speaker 13: the pitchers bound, Blake Snell makes history.
Speaker 9: The raining Cy Young Award winner with a performance for
Speaker 9: the Ages tonight here at Great American BALLPP, a no
Speaker 9: hitter is the Giants have won three nothing.
Speaker 2: What a night for Blake Snell. Very happy for him,
Speaker 2: and he was very happy for himself and also trying
Speaker 2: to silence the critics that say he cannot pitch more
Speaker 2: than five or six innings. Well, it feels like he
Speaker 2: is turning those critics the other way. Eleven strikeouts in
Speaker 2: nine no hit innings for Snell Zilla tonight. And remember
Speaker 2: before the All Star Break he had pitched seven perfect
Speaker 2: innings in his last start before the All Star Break.
Speaker 2: Blake Snell since coming off the IL forty one strikeouts,
Speaker 2: only eight hits and two earned runs. Twenty nine other
Speaker 2: teams could have signed this guy into spring training, deep
Speaker 2: into spring training, and the San Francisco Giants did it
Speaker 2: at the last minute. They rushed him. But now that
Speaker 2: he's back and healthy and straight, he is showing why
Speaker 2: he is the two times two time Cy Young Award winner.
Speaker 2: And what are they gonna say, now, right, what are
Speaker 2: they going to say?
Speaker 4: Now?
Speaker 2: Snell Zilla, There's no other critics. There's nothing else the
Speaker 2: critics can say about Blake Snell after what he has
Speaker 2: done in his career and what he has done this season.
Speaker 2: Also in the Pacific Northwest, former Dodger Justin Turner, recently
Speaker 2: traded from the Blue Jays to the Mariners, made the
Speaker 2: Philadelphia Phillies pay in a big way, in a grand way.
Speaker 2: I can throw. Here's a two to one.
Speaker 1: There you go, Goes.
Speaker 2: Buza. Justin Turner, in his third game for the Seattle Mariners,
Speaker 2: hits a grand slam in Seattle's tend to to win
Speaker 2: over the Phillies. Philadelphia also having their issues, just three
Speaker 2: and ten since the All Star Break, they have lost
Speaker 2: twelve of their last sixteen, and the Atlanta Braves are
Speaker 2: only five games back of Philadelphia in the NL East.
Speaker 2: So Justin Turner making himself feel at home in the
Speaker 2: Pacific Northwest and the Mariners and Justin Turner will be
Speaker 2: at Dodger Stadium in the middle of August. It'll be
Speaker 2: the first time Justin Turner will play at Dodger Stadium
Speaker 2: since the twenty twenty two nlds. That'll do it for
Speaker 2: us on Dodger Talk Tonight. Coming up tomorrow, Harvard Westlake's
Speaker 2: own the Great one eight will be represented here in
Speaker 2: Oakland as Jack Flaherty will make his Dodger debut, going
Speaker 2: up against right hander Mitch Spence. Spence is seven and
Speaker 2: six with an ERA of four forty seven. Morongo Casino
Speaker 2: Dodgers on Deck begins at five o'clock. First pitch with
Speaker 2: Rick Monday and Tim Neverett from Oakland at six oh seven.
Speaker 2: That'll do it for us tonight from the Oakland Coliseum.
Speaker 2: Thanks to dwayn McDonald, who was already packed up and
Speaker 2: ready to get on bart. Thanks for sticking around, Duane,
Speaker 2: thanks to calling me back at our Burbank studios, and
Speaker 2: thanks to you for listening. In case you missed any
Speaker 2: of the show, you can find it on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 2: And that's also where you can hear our pregame conversation
Speaker 2: with new center fielder Kevin Kiermyer, who was zero for
Speaker 2: two in his Dodger debut tonight. Once again. The final
Speaker 2: score tonight from the Oakland Coliseum, the Athletics slam the
Speaker 2: Dodgers six to five. Have a great rest of your night.
Speaker 2: See you