Speaker 1: One thing about this gene is the invisible and tangibles
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Speaker 2: This team is really becoming a family.
Speaker 3: Let's not play one on Tom.
Speaker 1: Let's win this.
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Speaker 5: And now your host of Dodger Talk, Tim Kains.
Speaker 7: A Mother's Day win for the Dodgers, says a wrap
Speaker 7: up this long ten game road trip with a win
Speaker 7: over the Diamondbacks eight to one. Hi, everybody, and Happy
Speaker 7: Mother's Day to all you out there on this Sunday afternoon.
Speaker 7: Hope you enjoyed the little Dodger baseball. Eight sixty six
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Speaker 7: get the win, a good win for the Dodgers, he
Speaker 7: explode for eight runs on eighteen hits to beat the
Speaker 7: Diamondbacks eight to one. The top of the lineup, absolutely
Speaker 7: dominating for the Dodgers.
Speaker 4: Today, we talk about the Big three all the time.
Speaker 7: I'm Otani, Betts and Freeman, and every so often we
Speaker 7: talk about the Big four or the Big five when
Speaker 7: we throw tay Oscar Hernandez and Will Smith into the equation.
Speaker 7: Today it's the Big four Otani, Bett, Freeman and the
Speaker 7: cleanup hitter Will Smith. They go a combined eleven for
Speaker 7: eighteen combine three doubles, a walk, two home runs, one
Speaker 7: from Freddy Freeman, one for Mookie Betts, seven runs batted in,
Speaker 7: and they score seven of the Dodgers eight runs. Talk
Speaker 7: about production from the top of the lineup. Nobody else
Speaker 7: five through nine had to do any of the lifting
Speaker 7: today if they didn't want to. Oh Andy paj has
Speaker 7: drove in a run, win two for five, Michael Conforto
Speaker 7: his first multi hit game since April second, Kei k
Speaker 7: had a pinch hit single, Hey Sung Kim had a
Speaker 7: s Miguel Rojas had a single off the bench. The
Speaker 7: only two Dodger starters who were hitless today were Max Munty,
Speaker 7: who went oh for four with the strikeout on a walks,
Speaker 7: and James Autman, who went over three with two punchouts
Speaker 7: before coming out of the game for Chris Taylor late
Speaker 7: in this one. The Dodgers offense was on fire and
Speaker 7: we can see they can score runs in bunches.
Speaker 4: Just go back to the other night.
Speaker 7: Down three in the ninth, they put up a sixth
Speaker 7: spot in the ninth inning to come back and beat
Speaker 7: the Diamondbacks fourteen to eleven. In the two wins of
Speaker 7: this four game series, the Dodgers scored twenty two runs
Speaker 7: fourteen and eight.
Speaker 4: Wasn't a math.
Speaker 7: Major, but I know that's twenty two runs, the eight
Speaker 7: today and the eighteen hits. The eighteen hits tying a
Speaker 7: season high for the Dodgers as they win it. They're
Speaker 7: now twenty seven and fourteen on the season. Back atop
Speaker 7: the NL West, a game in front of the San
Speaker 7: Diego Padres, who lost earlier today to the Colorado Rockies,
Speaker 7: who I mentioned in the Clubhouse Show. After their win,
Speaker 7: their seventh win of the season for the Rockies, they
Speaker 7: fired manager Buddy Black.
Speaker 4: Like that is going to change things, Like there's.
Speaker 7: Gonna be a sweeping change of emotion and talent level
Speaker 7: across that clubhouse for the Rockies that all of a
Speaker 7: sudden they're gonna become a contender now in a playoff team. Please,
Speaker 7: they're seven to thirty three. Bud Black's been there what
Speaker 7: nine years. He's pretty much a five hundred or below
Speaker 7: manager in Colorado because he doesn't have any talent.
Speaker 4: Any guys they had, I e. Nolan Arenado gone.
Speaker 7: They haven't really been able to develop any pitching in
Speaker 7: the history of that franchise. I know this isn't Rockies talk,
Speaker 7: But still I feel bad for Buddy Black, former Angels
Speaker 7: pitching coach, good guy San Diego guy, Buddy Black, and
Speaker 7: what he had to go through there and try to
Speaker 7: year in a year out make something out of nothing
Speaker 7: in Colorado and just get beat down every year in
Speaker 7: the division. And it's his fault, Okay, so he'll take it,
Speaker 7: he'll get fired, But it's not Buddy Black's fault in Colorado.
Speaker 7: That is an absolute mess in the mile highest city.
Speaker 4: But that is their.
Speaker 7: Problem to deal with. The Dodgers will tee off on
Speaker 7: them the many times they played them the rest of
Speaker 7: the season.
Speaker 4: They've already played him three.
Speaker 7: So what they've got to ten more head to head
Speaker 7: matchups in the NL West Divisional race there against the
Speaker 7: Colorado Rockies. Today the Dodgers take care of the Diamondbacks
Speaker 7: eight to one. How about Tony Gonslin five shutout Indians,
Speaker 7: three hits, four strikeouts, eighty four pitches. Got some help
Speaker 7: from his defense. Will Smith with an absolute laser to
Speaker 7: second base with two outs in the fifth after Corbyn
Speaker 7: Carroll has walked to get to first base, and one
Speaker 7: of the fastest guys in baseball, you just assume he's
Speaker 7: gonna steal second base because everybody else steals bases off
Speaker 7: the Dodgers Will Smith with an absolute laser to second
Speaker 7: to throw him out and in the fifth inning, and
Speaker 7: that would be it for Tony Gonslin. You could not
Speaker 7: ask for much more from Tony Gonson th what he
Speaker 7: has done in his three starts from coming back from
Speaker 7: Tommy John surgery. Now, he could have come back last October.
Speaker 7: We know that he even talked about he was ready
Speaker 7: to go if they needed him. They elected to save
Speaker 7: him here for twenty twenty five extra rests coming off
Speaker 7: to Tommy John surgery and extra offseason to get ready.
Speaker 7: The back injuried in spring training while lifting weights set
Speaker 7: him back a few weeks and put him on the
Speaker 7: IL to start the season. But in his three starts
Speaker 7: now he's gone at least five innings at all three.
Speaker 7: He's gone six in his last start against the Marlins,
Speaker 7: and he had seventeen strikeouts going into the game today.
Speaker 7: Four more so, he's at twenty one strikeouts in three starts,
Speaker 7: two to zero record.
Speaker 4: Can't ask for.
Speaker 7: Much more from Tony Gonson than what you've gotten out
Speaker 7: of the three starts that he has given you since
Speaker 7: starting this season coming off the injured list.
Speaker 4: In a few minutes, we'll get you.
Speaker 7: An update on a couple of Dodgers in Triple A,
Speaker 7: Oklahoma City who are working their way back from injuries,
Speaker 7: Clayton Kershaw and Michael Kopek. Let's go out to the
Speaker 7: phone though eight sixty six, nine eighty seven two five seventy.
Speaker 7: We'll hear from the Dodger skipper Dave Roberts as well
Speaker 7: coming up between here at the bottom of the hour.
Speaker 7: But let's go out to Will and Wilmington. Thanks for
Speaker 7: being patience starting things off here on this Mother's Day
Speaker 7: on Dodger Talk.
Speaker 4: Hi, Will, how are you?
Speaker 1: Hey?
Speaker 2: Good?
Speaker 3: Good good?
Speaker 2: I'm doing good.
Speaker 3: I'd like to say a great win every time I
Speaker 3: come down here to work.
Speaker 2: You got all my hold I forgot what I was
Speaker 2: gonna talk about.
Speaker 7: Oh but Max Mounsey, Max Monts You want to talk
Speaker 7: about Max Monty?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I hope they, I hope they.
Speaker 2: I hope they don't get rid of him so quick,
Speaker 2: you know, because he's such a good defensive third baseman.
Speaker 2: You know, did you see that play did today with
Speaker 2: his bare hands?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 4: It was a nice bear play.
Speaker 7: Yeah, it was very nicely done, Max Monty. You know,
Speaker 7: you just kind of hope he eventually flips the switch offensively.
Speaker 7: Oh for for today, Will another punch out now hitting
Speaker 7: one ninety on the season, only slugging at to eighties.
Speaker 7: You got to get all those numbers up. If he's
Speaker 7: gonna be a guy who's a home run threat like
Speaker 7: he has been in his career, and that's what he
Speaker 7: provides to this lineup. He's not an average hitter. He's
Speaker 7: not a guy that you can put at the bottom
Speaker 7: of the lineup and you know, try to spray the
Speaker 7: ball around the field.
Speaker 4: That's not what he is. He is a slug, power hitter.
Speaker 7: He is baseball from five years ago, from three years ago,
Speaker 7: home run or bust. And that's kind of what he
Speaker 7: has built his career on. And it's not a bad thing.
Speaker 7: Will and I appreciate the phone call. Max Munty is
Speaker 7: a slug guy. I mean he is a power hitting
Speaker 7: left handed bat for the Dodgers and has been ever
Speaker 7: since he burst onto the scene really in twenty eighteen
Speaker 7: and twenty nineteen. He's a guy that's gonna hit you
Speaker 7: twenty plus home run, maybe get you thirty plus, like
Speaker 7: he has twice for the Dodgers. He is a power hitter.
Speaker 7: That's where his bread and butter is, and he needs
Speaker 7: to get those power numbers up, especially at the third
Speaker 7: base position. And I mentioned Michael Confordo and I'll continue
Speaker 7: to mention him because he's been given an opportunity here
Speaker 7: to play every day in left field as another left
Speaker 7: handed bat.
Speaker 4: I hope he's turned the corner. He's hit the ball hard.
Speaker 7: On this road trip in Miami, didn't see the success
Speaker 7: as far as the ball falling in for hits. But
Speaker 7: today Michael Confordo his first extra base hit, a double
Speaker 7: almost went out opposite way, his first extra base hit
Speaker 7: since April fifth, and his first multi hit game for
Speaker 7: the Dodger left fielder since April second. So maybe he's
Speaker 7: trending and coming back around offensively.
Speaker 4: You like the hope. So for this Dodgers team, which tonight.
Speaker 7: In Arizona didn't necessarily need the bottom of the lineup again,
Speaker 7: when you've got the power four the top of the lineup,
Speaker 7: including the big three of Otani, Betts, and Freeman and
Speaker 7: Will Smith throwing in today as the big four, it's
Speaker 7: gonna be hard to stop this Dodgers team. When they
Speaker 7: score seven runs, when they got eleven hits between them,
Speaker 7: a couple of home runs, three doubles, it's a lot
Speaker 7: of offense to stop. And that's a lot of offense
Speaker 7: put up on the scoreboard for any pitching staff. And
Speaker 7: today Tony Gonsolin five shot out Indan, it's great to
Speaker 7: see Jack Dryer back out there pitching two thirds of
Speaker 7: an Inningan benk Asparius gave out a two out double
Speaker 7: in the seventh inning, the only run giving up in
Speaker 7: the game. Today, Tanner Scott had pitched a scoreless eighth inning.
Speaker 7: And then Matt Soer. I love Matt Suer at Righetti
Speaker 7: High School in Santa Maria. It's aarready got a save
Speaker 7: on the season, and he's got a win that he
Speaker 7: picked up as well. In his short time up and
Speaker 7: down this year with the Dodgers, I mean, he has
Speaker 7: been asked to pitching games that are blowouts. He's been
Speaker 7: asked to pitching games to eat up innings as a
Speaker 7: middle reliever, and he has gone out there and done
Speaker 7: exactly that. He is pac man, just gobbling up outs
Speaker 7: for the Dodgers, and nice to see him out there
Speaker 7: get an opportunity to pitch the ninth inning, a one
Speaker 7: to two three inning for Matt Sower, who I really
Speaker 7: like out there, and I like his stuff. I like
Speaker 7: his makeup with his pitches, and with the injuries to
Speaker 7: this Dodger bullpen, and who knows how long some of
Speaker 7: these got are going to be before they come back.
Speaker 7: Matt Sour's gonna be one of these arms that you
Speaker 7: didn't know him before, but you're gonna like him now
Speaker 7: for what he's going to add to this Dodgers team.
Speaker 7: Eight six six nine eighty seven two five seven. Let's
Speaker 7: head back out to Arizona. The manager Dave Roberts talking
Speaker 7: about the win and maybe a little thought about Buddy
Speaker 7: Black being fired by the Rockies.
Speaker 1: Really good team win.
Speaker 8: I thought Tony on regular rest did a really nice job.
Speaker 8: I thought he got better as the game went on,
Speaker 8: worked ahead. The first pitch strike percentage was really high,
Speaker 8: kept him off balance. I thought his secondary stuff was
Speaker 8: was on point and gave us five huge innings and
Speaker 8: then to be hat to pass it to the bullpen
Speaker 8: was big today and still stay away from Kirby and
Speaker 8: just offensively.
Speaker 1: I thought we really took good at best today.
Speaker 4: It's no secret that Freddie Freeman is. Whether he's found
Speaker 4: astride offensively has been fantastic. What is something that just
Speaker 4: kind of stands out.
Speaker 1: To you though?
Speaker 4: Just with his at bats?
Speaker 8: I just think he's relentless. And I'm sure you know,
Speaker 8: obviously he's swinging a hot bat. I'm sure Mother's Day
Speaker 8: certainly always means a lot to him in particular, and
Speaker 8: he carried us this road trip and he's.
Speaker 1: Been ailing, and you know, I thought, I remember.
Speaker 8: Even before the trip started, when the trip started, we
Speaker 8: talking about giving him a day off at some point,
Speaker 8: but you know, he persevered and we needed every bit
Speaker 8: of it.
Speaker 7: Are you surprised he's hitting three seventy six coming off
Speaker 7: the ankle and everything.
Speaker 1: That's where came with it, You know what?
Speaker 8: I guess it's one of those things that I am.
Speaker 8: But I think it's just a byproduct that he just
Speaker 8: doesn't give anything away and he's just taking good at bats.
Speaker 1: And I looked up the other day and saw he
Speaker 1: was hitting three sixteen.
Speaker 8: I had no idea, but kind of when you look
Speaker 8: into it, it's just he's just really, like I said,
Speaker 8: he's just been relentless.
Speaker 5: You think he's surprised you think he was kind of
Speaker 5: expecting to be able to come back and be, you know,
Speaker 5: as good as he has been.
Speaker 1: In this last week. You know, I don't know. I
Speaker 1: do know that we've talked about a new normal form.
Speaker 8: I know he's not one hundred percent, but I do
Speaker 8: feel that he's seeing the baseball well, swinging his strikes
Speaker 8: like he does.
Speaker 1: And I think you really understand how.
Speaker 8: His body's moving right now with regards to his swing.
Speaker 7: You see, he's not one hundred percent, but we still
Speaker 7: talk about the ankle.
Speaker 1: H we're still till with the ankle.
Speaker 8: But but he's moving really well, and so I think
Speaker 8: that he's doing a really nice job of sort of
Speaker 8: playing with the governor managing it, you know, knowing when
Speaker 8: to pick his spots, managers, working all that you've.
Speaker 1: Seen to be like this good.
Speaker 7: I know last year was kind of frustrated with the
Speaker 7: swing seem in the all season long.
Speaker 8: It's you know, I can't remember him being this good
Speaker 8: for this long as far as the stretch. And yeah,
Speaker 8: I mean I'm trying. I hope he doesn't overthink you,
Speaker 8: which I'm sure he doesn't. But it's been a while
Speaker 8: that i've seen him disconsistent.
Speaker 5: One part of what he's gone through physically almost contributes
Speaker 5: to that where you know he has to kind of
Speaker 5: put a little extra in to get through with the ankle.
Speaker 4: And maybe now it's you.
Speaker 8: Know what, maybe that with the ankle that he's very
Speaker 8: precise with his mechanics and trying to stay within himself.
Speaker 8: He's already got a simple swing, simple approach, but this
Speaker 8: might be something where you know, because of the right ankle,
Speaker 8: that he is being more mindful than not trying to
Speaker 8: overswing or do too much.
Speaker 7: Maybe, all right, there's Dave Roberts, Dodger manager, talking a
Speaker 7: lot about Tony Gonsolin and how he got better after
Speaker 7: he changed his cleats. By the way, I want to
Speaker 7: make sure I bring that up again. He had his
Speaker 7: pink Mother's Day cleats on the first two innings and
Speaker 7: kind of kept looking down on the mound, just didn't
Speaker 7: feel like he was getting the right grip on his
Speaker 7: landing front left leg. Maybe the cleats weren't were right,
Speaker 7: and he said, yeah, in fact, afterwards, he just didn't
Speaker 7: feel right. So we went back to his original cleats
Speaker 7: that he's been wearing and went back out there and
Speaker 7: pitched three more innings, had a one two three fourth inning,
Speaker 7: including a couple of strikeouts, five shutout innings for Tony Gonson.
Speaker 7: You heard Dave Roberts talking about Freddy Freeman as well.
Speaker 7: Freddie Freeman four for four, two doubles, a home run,
Speaker 7: three RBI, now hitting him three seventy six. Dave Roberts
Speaker 7: also was asked about Bud Black and commented on the
Speaker 7: Rockies firing the Dodger manager, and this is via Bill
Speaker 7: Plunkett of the Orange County Register. He called him a
Speaker 7: mentor in his managing career and said quote, I'm bummed.
Speaker 7: I'm disappointed. I don't think Casey Stingle could change the
Speaker 7: outcome of that ball club. And that's not the manager's fault,
Speaker 7: but obviously they felt they needed a change in voice
Speaker 7: or direction. But for me, there's not many people that
Speaker 7: are better than Buddy Black. So yeah, that's very disappointing.
Speaker 7: It's certainly not his doing and I echo that, and
Speaker 7: I absolutely agree. Buddy Black one of the great guys
Speaker 7: in baseball, former player, coach, pitching coach, and now manager
Speaker 7: fired by the Colorado Rockies. We'll continue here on Dodger
Speaker 7: talking when we come back. More of your phone calls.
Speaker 7: Dodgers get the win over the Arizona Diamondbacks on this
Speaker 7: Mother's Day. Eight to one is your final. Freeman goes deep,
Speaker 7: Bets goes deep. Dodgers eighteen hits in the game today,
Speaker 7: Tony Gonslin five shoutout innings.
Speaker 4: He gets the win.
Speaker 7: Dodgers a happy fly a home after a six and
Speaker 7: four road trip that ended with an eight to one
Speaker 7: win over the Diabacks. It's Dodger Talk here on A
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Speaker 5: Hitch the Bets swings and he hits one up of
Speaker 5: the air tape to right center.
Speaker 4: It is heading back toward the track to the wall.
Speaker 4: A hold run for Bets.
Speaker 1: Mookie goes yard and it is six to one.
Speaker 7: Mookie Bets goes deep, a solo shot in the ninth
Speaker 7: is sixth of this season.
Speaker 4: Dodgers were They're done.
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Speaker 7: Talk on this Mother's Day. Thanks for being with us
Speaker 7: as you enjoy this hot Sunday afternoon. As the Dodgers
Speaker 7: wrap up their ten game road trip, their longest of
Speaker 7: this season, tay two to three in Atlanta, two of
Speaker 7: three from the Marlins in Miami, and then they get
Speaker 7: a four game split with the Arizona Diamondbacks. As they
Speaker 7: win it today eight to one over the Snakes, they
Speaker 7: tie a season high with eighteen hits as they now
Speaker 7: have a one game lead over the San Diego Padres
Speaker 7: in the NL West, three games up on the Giants,
Speaker 7: who got swept, right, Colin, They got swept by the
Speaker 7: Minnesota Twins. How does that happen? Interesting? They lose three
Speaker 7: games to the Minnesota Twins, a Minnesota's Twins team that's.
Speaker 4: Now won eight in a row.
Speaker 7: Look out Twins over five hundred, but still sitting in
Speaker 7: fourth place in the Central Division of the American League.
Speaker 7: The Diamonbacks with the loss today, now six games back
Speaker 7: of the Dodgers and the Colorado Rockies minus Bud Black,
Speaker 7: who they fired this afternoon seven and thirty three. They
Speaker 7: actually won a game today over the Padres. They are
Speaker 7: nineteen and a half games back in the NL West.
Speaker 7: Just think the Dodgers and Padres. They don't square off
Speaker 7: until June. That's the first time the Dodgers and Padres
Speaker 7: will go at it. And then they play like six
Speaker 7: times in a two and a half week stretch in
Speaker 7: San Diego and at Dodgers Stadium. So those series against
Speaker 7: the Padres will come up and they'll be fast and
Speaker 7: furious when they do get here next month. But the
Speaker 7: Dodgers now back home Tuesday for a nine game homestand
Speaker 7: three against the A's, three against the Angels, and three
Speaker 7: against the Arizona Diamondbacks, and don't sleep on the athletics.
Speaker 7: The don't call me Oakland. We're not in Vegas yet,
Speaker 7: We're in Sacramento. A's twenty one and twenty overall on
Speaker 7: this season, and the Dodgers are gonna see one of
Speaker 7: their young stud right handers, Gunner Hoglin, on Wednesday, and
Speaker 7: that's a really good young A's team. Jacob Wilson at
Speaker 7: a Grand Canyon University, Thousand Oaks High School. His dad
Speaker 7: Jack coached him, and the other Max Munsey, who's playing
Speaker 7: second base for the A's, they were teammates just a
Speaker 7: couple of years ago at Thousand Oaks High School. Now,
Speaker 7: Jacob Wilson, who is a stud hitting three forty eight
Speaker 7: on the season at eight forty one ops, the shortstop
Speaker 7: for the A's, will be coming back home as the
Speaker 7: A's visit Dodger Stadium Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday ten. It's available,
Speaker 7: by the way at Dodgers dot com. Justin in Santa Monica,
Speaker 7: thanks for being patient. Welcome to this Mother's Day edition
Speaker 7: of Dodger Talk. After an eight to one win over
Speaker 7: the Snake. How you doing, Justin?
Speaker 2: I'm good, Jim, Thanks for taking my call. You know,
Speaker 2: and seeing that in his mother's day, you know, I
Speaker 2: wanted to just pass on what some good motherly advice
Speaker 2: that my mom would give me, which is, if I
Speaker 2: give you something, really, if I give you something that's
Speaker 2: important that's expensive, I want you to take care of it.
Speaker 2: And with that said, I really want to address our
Speaker 2: training staff and the litany of injuries that we have
Speaker 2: had this year going into last year. I kind of
Speaker 2: called about this before, but the head athletic trader, who's
Speaker 2: this is his third year and now you have Glas
Speaker 2: Now hurt for a second year.
Speaker 1: In a row.
Speaker 7: It's not their probably, I know, justin I appreciate the
Speaker 7: phone call, but I'm not going to let you go
Speaker 7: after the training staff of the Dodgers. Okay, Blake Snell
Speaker 7: is not a pitcher who comes in and something happened
Speaker 7: with him and it's blamed somebody for his injury. Blake
Speaker 7: Snell's arm and shoulder is barking. There has nothing to
Speaker 7: do with the training staff of the Dodgers. The injury
Speaker 7: to Tyler Glass Now, I mean, last time I look,
Speaker 7: Tyler glass Now is always hurt and when he's not hurt,
Speaker 7: he's really good. But the problem is he's always hurt.
Speaker 7: That's not the training staff of the Dodgers' fault, because
Speaker 7: that goes back to Tampa, that goes back.
Speaker 4: To Pittsburgh when he first came up in the big leagues.
Speaker 7: They use a lot of arms, that's.
Speaker 4: Not a question.
Speaker 7: They use a lot of arms, and they go through pitchers,
Speaker 7: and they ask pitchers to go out there and use
Speaker 7: and throw a lot of innings.
Speaker 4: That's not a surprise.
Speaker 7: That's not a surprise to anybody, the injuries to these arms.
Speaker 4: There is something to look.
Speaker 7: At across baseball for the fact that Gavin Stone, I mean,
Speaker 7: I'll look at Gavin Stone. Example, Gavin Stone carried this
Speaker 7: Dodgers team last year and threw a lot of innings,
Speaker 7: the most in his major league career, most of his
Speaker 7: professional career at any level.
Speaker 4: Gavin Stone was asked.
Speaker 7: To go out there every five days and did so
Speaker 7: without a complaint, and then his arm just gave out
Speaker 7: on him. His shoulder, I think is what it was
Speaker 7: for Gavin Stone. Kyle Hurt, River, Ryan Immit, Shean. All
Speaker 7: guys come up and ask to do a thing, but
Speaker 7: it's not an athletic training issue. It's not the strength
Speaker 7: and conditioning program of the Dodgers. There's a bigger issue
Speaker 7: in baseball with the amount of injuries there are. How
Speaker 7: many abductor injuries have you seen in baseball? Do you
Speaker 7: even know where the abductor is? How many glute injuries
Speaker 7: are there now in baseball, more than we've ever seen before.
Speaker 7: I mean, there's a lot of issues across baseball with injuries.
Speaker 7: And you can't just point the finger at the Dodgers
Speaker 7: for the amount of injuries that are happening. It's an
Speaker 7: epidemic across baseball. The amount of injuries that happened, and
Speaker 7: I don't want to hear will look shorten the season
Speaker 7: because folks, for one hundred and fifty plus years, injuries
Speaker 7: weren't a problem for guys and the travel was a
Speaker 7: lot harder back then. The travel thirty years ago was
Speaker 7: a lot harder for teams getting from city to city,
Speaker 7: you know, not traveling in style and luxury like these
Speaker 7: guys are. Not not that that prevents injuries, but it
Speaker 7: certainly eases stress on travel and lifestyle and the wear
Speaker 7: and tear of a season. But the Dodgers pitching staff
Speaker 7: and the amount of injuries cannot be pointed at anybody
Speaker 7: come on, that's insane to sit there and say the
Speaker 7: amount of injuries are because they're training them some way,
Speaker 7: or they're not training them some way, or look at
Speaker 7: other teams.
Speaker 4: It's not the case.
Speaker 7: The only thing you can say is the amount of
Speaker 7: innings these guys are pitched. There's a lot of usage
Speaker 7: on arms. I ask you about Bruce dark Gratural, I'm
Speaker 7: gonna just throw out him as an example. Bruce dark Graderol.
Speaker 7: The guy is built like a Bozuka. That's his name,
Speaker 7: twenty six years old. Bruce dar Graderol is not thirty six, folks.
Speaker 7: Bruce dar Graderol is twenty six years old and has
Speaker 7: been battling arm issues since he was with the Twins,
Speaker 7: and he was traded for Kentamayida and came over a
Speaker 7: deal after the twenty nineteen season, came to the Dodgers
Speaker 7: in twenty twenty, burst onto the scene.
Speaker 4: We all fell in love with them.
Speaker 7: In the bubble down in Arlington for going back and
Speaker 7: forth with Tatissa. Machado pitched in thirty four games in
Speaker 7: twenty one, forty six games in twenty two, sixty eight games.
Speaker 7: He pitched out of the bullpen in twenty twenty three
Speaker 7: sixty seven and third innings, asked to do a lot
Speaker 7: in twenty twenty three, came back a year ago, he
Speaker 7: pitched seven innings a year ago.
Speaker 4: What is it that?
Speaker 7: And they had it was the hamstring or calf that
Speaker 7: he injured. So what is it about Bruce darc graderol?
Speaker 7: Is it somebody's fault that he keeps getting hurt? Is
Speaker 7: it his body shutting down? I mean, the guy is
Speaker 7: a pretty impressive specimen when you look at him, six'
Speaker 7: two two sixty, five built like an, ox can throw
Speaker 7: one hundred miles an.
Speaker 4: Hour why does he keep getting? HURT i don't.
Speaker 7: KNOW i don't know why he keeps getting hurt and
Speaker 7: continues to have shoulder issues and its started the season
Speaker 7: on this sixty day.
Speaker 4: IL i don't point the.
Speaker 7: Finger at the athletic training staff or their strength and conditioning.
Speaker 7: Coaches it's just not their. Fault the amount of innings
Speaker 7: these guys. Pitch that is the only thing you can look.
Speaker 7: At do you think these guys AND i, say these,
Speaker 7: guys these, owners these, teams and not to go out
Speaker 7: on a soapbox here in a, rant but just real
Speaker 7: quickly you talk about it protecting your. Investment these guys
Speaker 7: get protected more than they ever have in the history
Speaker 7: of baseball because they're making so much. Money because a
Speaker 7: guy is making basically a million dollars a start if
Speaker 7: he is one of the top pitchers in. Baseball and
Speaker 7: that's what these guys are. Getting these, pictures a million
Speaker 7: dollars a. Start when you look at, it guy's getting
Speaker 7: paid forty million. Dollars he's making thirty plus. Starts, yeah
Speaker 7: that's over a million dollars a start for upper, echelon
Speaker 7: top pitchers in.
Speaker 4: Baseball, so, yeah you're gonna baby these.
Speaker 7: Guys AND i, say, baby you're gonna side, on you
Speaker 7: gonna you're you're on the side of. Caution when the
Speaker 7: arm's barking a little, bit there's a little bit of.
Speaker 7: STRAIN i, mean back in the, day it used to
Speaker 7: be pitched through, it dead. Arm let's dead, arm pitch through.
Speaker 7: It now it's shut a guy. Down let's see how
Speaker 7: it reacts to some. Treatment we got a lot invested
Speaker 7: in this. Guy the last thing we want to do
Speaker 7: is lose him for a, season lose them for a year.
Speaker 4: And a half because Of Tommy.
Speaker 7: John so there is a lot of protection you could
Speaker 7: even make the case there's over protection on players in
Speaker 7: professional sports now because of how much money is invested
Speaker 7: in pay to these.
Speaker 4: Players and if you're an owner and you're investing six
Speaker 4: million dollars in a, Reliever, Yeah i'm gonna look at this. Asay,
Speaker 4: okay Maybe i'm.
Speaker 7: Gonna shut him down for ten to fifteen days on
Speaker 7: the il because his arm's a little tight AND i
Speaker 7: don't want to get worse because he's just pitched in
Speaker 7: seven games in the last four seven of the last
Speaker 7: fourteen games that we've played. In, okay So i'm gonna
Speaker 7: shut him down realizing That i'm not gonna risk losing
Speaker 7: him for the second half of the season just Because
Speaker 7: i've used him a lot here in the twenty one
Speaker 7: day stretch or two week, stretch whatever it. Is so,
Speaker 7: yeah there is a lot of protection of these players
Speaker 7: and the overall injuries that are happening more and more.
Speaker 7: Now that is a great. Study AND i guarantee you
Speaker 7: if there was an answer to why there are so
Speaker 7: many injuries and a solution to how to fix it
Speaker 7: with all these arm, INJURIES i think there would be a,
Speaker 7: race a sprint to see who can get there fast
Speaker 7: to get that, answer to get that magic, remedy to
Speaker 7: find out the solution and then implement. It because the
Speaker 7: last thing you want as an, owner as a professional
Speaker 7: league is to have your top players, hurt to have
Speaker 7: a lot of stars, hurt to have guys missing games
Speaker 7: because of.
Speaker 4: Injuries it's bad for your, product it's bad for the.
Speaker 7: Game you're gonna get people who lose interest in your
Speaker 7: sport because your stars are all. Hurt And i'm not
Speaker 7: saying that all the stars are hurt right, now but
Speaker 7: you want to keep these guys healthy and on the
Speaker 7: field and playing as many games as, possible showcasing their
Speaker 7: talents as much as. Possible i'm off my, Soapbox glenn And.
Speaker 7: Himmett thanks for being.
Speaker 4: Patient.
Speaker 7: GLENN i just had to get that out BECAUSE i
Speaker 7: can't believe would point the finger at the training.
Speaker 4: Staff go go, Ahead.
Speaker 1: Glenn thank you for taking my.
Speaker 6: CALL i wanted to talk to you About Dalton.
Speaker 3: Rushing how soon will he be coming?
Speaker 4: Up it's a great, Question. GLENN i appreciate the phone.
Speaker 7: Call we talked About Dalton rushing a couple of days
Speaker 7: ago down In Triple Oklahoma. City Dalton rushing on the
Speaker 7: season now hitting three zho, four four home, runs fourteen.
Speaker 7: Ribis he got a start in left field last week
Speaker 7: AND i got really excited about, it AND i, Thought,
Speaker 7: okay here we, Go Dalton rushings making the switch from
Speaker 7: catcher back out to left. Field Michael confordo is, Struggling
Speaker 7: so The dodgers now see a path to the major
Speaker 7: leagues For Dalton, rushing not a, catcher not at first.
Speaker 7: Base that path is left. Field with the struggles Of Michael. Confordo,
Speaker 7: unfortunately we're now Seeing Dalton rushing back behind the. PLATE
Speaker 7: i say unfortunately because again the question is is there
Speaker 7: a spot for him at the major leagues right now
Speaker 7: with The dodgers as a. Catcher there is a roadblock
Speaker 7: by the name Of Will, smith and there's also a
Speaker 7: roadblock With Austin. Barnes and the only way right now
Speaker 7: we're gonna See Dalton rushing get to the major leagues
Speaker 7: as a catcher if there's an injury To Will.
Speaker 4: Smith and we do not want. That you don't want
Speaker 4: andrey to.
Speaker 7: Anybody but there's no way they're Bringing Dalton rushing up
Speaker 7: to back, up to sit on the bench and only
Speaker 7: play in one game in every three.
Speaker 1: Days of a.
Speaker 4: Series you have to.
Speaker 7: Give if he's called, up he's playing every, day Like Andy,
Speaker 7: Pius like hey Song. Kim right, now if he's gonna
Speaker 7: get called, up he has to play every. Day if,
Speaker 7: not you have to send him back down To TRIPLE
Speaker 7: a so he can get three to four at bats
Speaker 7: every single. Day so right, now there is a roadblock
Speaker 7: For Dalton rushing to the big. Leagues AND i said
Speaker 7: it a few weeks, AGO i would be interested to
Speaker 7: see what they do at the trade deadline with A
Speaker 7: Dalton rushing in your back pocket as a trade, chip
Speaker 7: as something you could look, to maybe get another, starter
Speaker 7: get another, bullpen high leverage, reliever. Something at the trade,
Speaker 7: deadline you gotta give up something to give something to
Speaker 7: get Something Dalton rushing because of the. Logjam i'm just,
Speaker 7: saying could be interesting to see if he is something
Speaker 7: The dodgers would be willing to trade at the deadline
Speaker 7: because of just a roadblock.
Speaker 4: Even at first.
Speaker 7: Base Freddie freeman's under contract for another two plus, Seasons
Speaker 7: so is there a chance for him to play every? Day?
Speaker 4: There?
Speaker 7: No is there a chance for him to play every
Speaker 7: day as a designated hitter for The Dodgers last TIME i,
Speaker 7: looked there is a guy named Shoe Hey. Otani ever
Speaker 7: heard of. Him he's your designated. Hitter the only path
Speaker 7: right now to play every day would be in left,
Speaker 7: field if that were even an. Opportunity just my. Opinion
Speaker 7: so there's your update On Dalton rushing, quickly an update
Speaker 7: On Clayton, kershaw the Future hall Of, famer scheduled to
Speaker 7: come off THE il Next sunday of the. Eighteenth it
Speaker 7: lines up perfectly to get a start that. Day today
Speaker 7: he threw a minor league rehab appearance In Oklahoma. City
Speaker 7: four innings, pitch two, runs two, hits two, walks two,
Speaker 7: strikeouts twos are wild today For Clayton, kershaw fifty seven total.
Speaker 7: Pitches AND i look At clayton his, age AND i
Speaker 7: look At Clayton kershaw the last two, years AND i
Speaker 7: had to do a.
Speaker 4: Double take BECAUSE i totally forgot about.
Speaker 7: This Clayton kershaw last Year dodger fans only made seven
Speaker 7: starts in twenty twenty. Four he had shoulder surgery after
Speaker 7: the twenty three. Season you remember that he had shoulder,
Speaker 7: surgery came, back did not make a start for The
Speaker 7: dodgers last year Until july twenty, fifth made seven starts
Speaker 7: and then was shut Down Labor day, weekend seven starts
Speaker 7: all of last, year and now was making his way.
Speaker 7: Back it's been a long year plus For Clayton. Kershaw
Speaker 7: when you think about, It it's not like he got
Speaker 7: thirty starts a year ago and then had the tow
Speaker 7: knee surgery and now coming. Back he is now basically
Speaker 7: a year and a half removed from his shoulder surgery
Speaker 7: and only seven starts underneath him at the big. Leagues
Speaker 7: i'm interested to see What Clayton kershaw's got left in
Speaker 7: the tank now moving, forward how anxious he is to
Speaker 7: get back out there on the, mound and how much
Speaker 7: of a you, know a shot of adrenaline he could
Speaker 7: be for This dodger rotation moving, forward because it'd be
Speaker 7: great to Get Clayton kershaw back pitching every five. Days
Speaker 7: lengthen this rotation a little bit to go With sazaki
Speaker 7: And yamamoto And Landon knack And Dustin may And Tony,
Speaker 7: gonsolin The dodgers can finally get to be in a
Speaker 7: six man rotation which they are built up to be
Speaker 7: With yamamoto And sasaki only pitching one day a, week
Speaker 7: you've got to have four other starters to fill the
Speaker 7: void to have a six man, rotation and now you
Speaker 7: Add Clayton kershaw potentially Next sunday when he can be
Speaker 7: activated off the injured.
Speaker 4: List this is going to be big for The. Dodgers,
Speaker 4: again only seven starts a year.
Speaker 7: Ago he hasn't gotten a lot of work at the
Speaker 7: big league, level some minor league rehab starts the last few,
Speaker 7: weeks and it's trending right now For Clayton kershaw to
Speaker 7: pitch next week or so for The. Dodgers, also one
Speaker 7: quick Update Michael, kopek Another dodger reliever whose arm was
Speaker 7: barking In october after a lot of. Usage Michael copek
Speaker 7: his second outing IN Triplea Oklahoma city today in a rehab.
Speaker 7: Appearance he retired three of the four batters he, faced two.
Speaker 7: Strikeouts he threw fourteen, pitches ten for, strikes and he
Speaker 7: reportedly was touching ninety nine miles an. Hour Michael kopek
Speaker 7: trending in the right. DIRECTION i love. This starting to
Speaker 7: see some positive news on the injury front that to
Speaker 7: go along with Ta Oscar hernandez's groin not as bad
Speaker 7: as initially thought And Tommy edmond scheduled to come off
Speaker 7: the injured list for this homestand The dodgers electing not
Speaker 7: to bring him off THE il in the series In
Speaker 7: arizona because the artificial turf and the wear and tear
Speaker 7: and just safer to bring him back on a few
Speaker 7: more extra days of rest and back on natural grass
Speaker 7: At Dodger stadium on T. Tuesday so really good. News
Speaker 7: finally the injury bug is turned for The dodgers and
Speaker 7: they're now starting to get some positive, news positive, results
Speaker 7: and guys coming back to help out this.
Speaker 4: Team is he In? Anaheim is he?
Speaker 7: SORRY i couldn't be at the birthday party? Yesterday we
Speaker 7: Had dodger pregame yesterday. Afternoon happy belated. Birthday how you.
Speaker 4: Doing, yeah it's.
Speaker 3: OKAY a lot of people are gonna. Come a lot
Speaker 3: of people can't show them, Yesterday, jo it was pretty,
Speaker 3: bizarre but it's. Okay, kim don't. WORRY i want to
Speaker 3: tell you what that called it with training, bug the training.
Speaker 3: Chap when did he play? Baseball when did oh the
Speaker 3: trainee jap? Playday? Fine how it can be his?
Speaker 6: Fault?
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Speaker 3: Ridiculous And i'm, said but you never answering my, my
Speaker 3: your question last week when we, TALKED i always wanted
Speaker 3: to know how did did how you? Did pay it started?
Speaker 3: Pitching that gets you, know the nineteen the. BLOWOUT i
Speaker 3: hate that. Too that's the next THING i hate To,
Speaker 3: yeah and we guys, dream how give we guys some
Speaker 3: how give the? GOALSEN i gotta Got david from all?
Speaker 4: Right is?
Speaker 7: He happy belated birthday to. You happy belated birthday to.
Speaker 7: You when position players start pitching more and, more when
Speaker 7: they really adapted the rule, now so it's got to
Speaker 7: be a.
Speaker 4: Ten run rule or at home an eight run.
Speaker 7: Deficit or something like. That but it's been more and
Speaker 7: more in the last few. Years and it happens late in,
Speaker 7: games certainly when games are out of, reach and you
Speaker 7: know at that point you don't want anybody to have
Speaker 7: to be used in a, situation and certainly you just
Speaker 7: want to get out of there as fast as possible
Speaker 7: with limited damage the rest of the. Way and what
Speaker 7: is usually a blowout situation ten runs or. More so
Speaker 7: that's why you see it more and more, now is he?
Speaker 7: So happy belated birthday to?
Speaker 1: You?
Speaker 4: Izzy And anahu that's gonna do. It for This Mother's
Speaker 4: day edition Of Dodger talk, Again Happy Mother's day to my.
Speaker 7: Mom Happy Mother's day to my, wife who is driving
Speaker 7: back safely and at the speed limit right now on
Speaker 7: the Ten freeway coming back From. Arizona seen our oldest Daughter.
Speaker 7: Ruby Happy Mother's day To. Colin he's beautiful. Mom happy
Speaker 7: birthday to. Everybody happy, Birthday Happy Mother's day to everybody out.
Speaker 7: There have a safe rest of Your sunday. Afternoon dodger's off,
Speaker 7: Tomorrow back at it On, Tuesday Maron Ooksino dodgers On
Speaker 7: deck begins at six. O'clock first pitch at seven to,
Speaker 7: ten landing Neck Jeffrey springs the pitching matchup in the
Speaker 7: opener of this three game series and the opener of.
Speaker 4: This nine Game homestand, Sorry.
Speaker 7: Brad, paisley maybe next time you'll call in until then
Speaker 7: so everybody some, cheers stop.
Speaker 1: Complain