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Speaker 5: Welcome to Dodgers on Tap. Now your host walking you
Speaker 5: up to first pitch.
Speaker 1: Tim kays Hi, everybody and old, Welcome in to my
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Speaker 1: As your world champion Los Angeles Dodgers thirty six and
Speaker 1: twenty three on this season. After taking two or three
Speaker 1: over the weekend for the Yankees, the All New York
Speaker 1: homestand continues tonight with the Mets in town for the
Speaker 1: start of a four game series. Dustin May will go
Speaker 1: for the blue first pitch on Tommy Edmund Bobblehead Night
Speaker 1: is coming up at seven to ten between then and now,
Speaker 1: we got a lot to get to here a Marango Casino,
Speaker 1: Dodgers on deck, you're gonna hear from the Dodger manager
Speaker 1: Dave Roberts. We'll dive deeper into this opening pitching matchup
Speaker 1: between the Dodgers and the Mets. David Va sego's one
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Speaker 2: We've got your Dodgers magical moment.
Speaker 1: And shortly we will visit with Kirsten Watson, who is
Speaker 1: back from sports Net LA. And in just a few
Speaker 1: minutes we'll head out to the Gallpin Motors broadcast booth
Speaker 1: with Tim Neverett and Rick Monday.
Speaker 6: Well.
Speaker 1: Yesterday out at the Ravine, it was Sunday Night baseball.
Speaker 1: The Dodgers were going for the sweep of the New
Speaker 1: York Yankees, and they.
Speaker 2: Had the right guy on the mound.
Speaker 1: Yoshinobu Yamamoto went for the Dodgers, and yesterday, arguably he
Speaker 1: is not best outing of the year. Three and two
Speaker 1: third innings, he went four runs, all of them, earned
Speaker 1: seven hits, walked three through ninety six pitches, had some
Speaker 1: control issues, high pitch count pitching into the fourth inning,
Speaker 1: he got into some early trouble, giving up a run
Speaker 1: in the first actually got out of a bass loaded
Speaker 1: jam to limit the damage to make it just a
Speaker 1: one nothing Yankees lead. In the second inning, a guy
Speaker 1: who's got his bobblehead tonight yesterday homeward two one.
Speaker 6: Tommy Edmond hits a high fly ball left field, going
Speaker 6: back toward the wall.
Speaker 7: It is out of hair.
Speaker 6: Tommy ties it with a tank into the Dodger bullpen.
Speaker 6: Ninth of the season for Edmund. He rounds the bases
Speaker 6: and ties the game at one. That's the good news.
Speaker 6: It could have and should have been better news, but
Speaker 6: alas Pojez was thrown out, so it's only a one
Speaker 6: to one game.
Speaker 1: Tommy Eman goes deep, his ninth home run of this
Speaker 1: season that tied the game in one, and then the
Speaker 1: wheels fell off Yamamoto in the third inning, Rice a
Speaker 1: two run home run. Volpi then scored on a wild
Speaker 1: pitch as the Yankees took a four to one lead.
Speaker 1: Lemayhewes singled in the fifth. Paraza then singled. It was
Speaker 1: a six to one Yankees lead after five innings. Yamamoto
Speaker 1: would go just to three and two third innings, Anthony
Speaker 1: Banda gave up a pair of runs as well, as
Speaker 1: the Dodgers found themselves having to play catch up down
Speaker 1: six to one, and in the seventh when Andy Parez
Speaker 1: went deep a solo home run, the Dodgers finally got
Speaker 1: to the Yankees bullpen after former Dodger Ryan Yarborough was
Speaker 1: really good for six innings, one run, four hits, five strikeouts,
Speaker 1: just that home run to Tommy Edmund, But with him
Speaker 1: out of the game, the Dodgers went to work on
Speaker 1: the Yankees bullpen. Andy Pahz with a solo home run.
Speaker 1: Two batters later, Max Muncy payoff pitch.
Speaker 2: Mounsie hits it high.
Speaker 6: In there, deep brightfield, maxim We see Max power halfway
Speaker 6: up the pavilion. Dodgers not going quietly. Second home run
Speaker 6: of the seventh inning. It's now just a three run game.
Speaker 2: Andy Pajes with the home double.
Speaker 1: Earlier, that was Max Monty with the home run, a
Speaker 1: solo shot for Mad Max. That's the top tier play
Speaker 1: of the game, brought to by Arco quality, top tier
Speaker 1: gas for les Dodgers within a six to three striking
Speaker 1: distance until the May Hughes double and the ninth inning
Speaker 1: scored Cody Bellinger. That gave the Yankees a seven to
Speaker 1: three lead and the Dodgers could not get anything in
Speaker 1: the bottom half of.
Speaker 2: The ninth inning.
Speaker 1: Game over, Yankees beat the Dodgers yesterday seven to three.
Speaker 1: Ryan Yarborough gets the win. Yoshi Yamamoto gets tagged with
Speaker 1: the loss. He falls to six and four on the season.
Speaker 1: Dodgers now thirty six and twenty three. They take two
Speaker 1: to three still from the Bronx Bombers over the weekend,
Speaker 1: and now the guys from Queens, New York make their
Speaker 1: the Dodgers Stadium. The New York Mets in town for
Speaker 1: a four game series. Dustin May on the mount in
Speaker 1: the series opener. First pitch is seven ten and with
Speaker 1: more we head out to the Galpa Motors broadcast booth
Speaker 1: as we welcome in Tim Neverett and Rick Monday.
Speaker 3: Guys, Tim, thank you very much.
Speaker 8: Goodn't ask for a better night for a ballgame here
Speaker 8: at Dodgers Stadium as they get sent to open up
Speaker 8: a four game set with the New York Mets, coming
Speaker 8: off a three game weekend set with the New York Yankees,
Speaker 8: the World Series opponents, the Dodgers taking two of three,
Speaker 8: including drubbing New York eighteen to two on Saturday afternoon.
Speaker 8: But it's the other New York the National League contingent,
Speaker 8: the Mets, who come in in first place in the
Speaker 8: National League Eastern Division first time this year. The Mets
Speaker 8: have been fifteen games over five hundred. They're thirty seven
Speaker 8: and twenty two, a game in front of the Phillies
Speaker 8: and the Dodgers at thirty six and twenty three, two
Speaker 8: games up on the Padres, three games up on the
Speaker 8: San Francisco Giants. Dustin May will make his eleventh start.
Speaker 8: Paul Blackburn, the right hander, will make his twenty twenty
Speaker 8: five debut, coming off the injured Lie and Mo. There's
Speaker 8: a lot of pitching news not related to the starters tonight.
Speaker 8: A lot of pitchers have been warming up in the outfield,
Speaker 8: a lot of guys been throwing. Kirby HS throw a
Speaker 8: bullpen today. We're seeing that Blake Snow will probably either
Speaker 8: this weekend or right after the weekend maybe in San
Speaker 8: Diego throw a bullpen. Blake Tron and Roki Sasaki we're
Speaker 8: throwing today as well. And there's a word that Michael
Speaker 8: Kopek is going to rejoin the team, and we're not
Speaker 8: sure when he'll be activated, but he should be here soon.
Speaker 9: Yeah. There's a total of fifteen pitchers now currently on
Speaker 9: the injury list. Seven of those are starters, and no
Speaker 9: real update on Tyler Glass now as well, other than
Speaker 9: the Dave Robbers said, Look, he's on pause playing catch
Speaker 9: and that's just about the extent of that. So the
Speaker 9: Dodgers hopefully are going to get healthy because the burden
Speaker 9: of the bullpen has really increased as a result of
Speaker 9: starting pitchers that come in and filled. They're kind of
Speaker 9: the opener that's put a lot of stress and strain
Speaker 9: on the bullpen. They need a brief either and tonight
Speaker 9: they need some innings from Dustin May, who's been able
Speaker 9: to supply that really over the last three starts or so.
Speaker 9: And for Dustin May, he has performed better. He's made
Speaker 9: ten starts, but his record is much much better at
Speaker 9: home to this particular point that it is on the road.
Speaker 8: Shohe Otani enters the game leading baseball with twenty two
Speaker 8: home runs. Freddie Freeman leeds the National League and batting
Speaker 8: average at three sixty five. A lot of lefties in
Speaker 8: the lineup tonight against right hander Paul BlackBook.
Speaker 9: Yeah, I think from an offensive standpoint, I mean, you
Speaker 9: start to look at what the Dodgers have done with
Speaker 9: the bats, they're first and team average, their first in
Speaker 9: run scored, their first in baseball, also with the home
Speaker 9: run department. But then you go to the era collectively,
Speaker 9: that's twenty third, and that's something again the stress and
Speaker 9: strain that goes along, and they're facing a team quite frankly,
Speaker 9: I mean, they saw the Mets in New York on
Speaker 9: the last road trip, and New York making some noise.
Speaker 9: Not only three consecutive games in the win streak, but
Speaker 9: they have won eight of the last ten. As you mentioned,
Speaker 9: they have now taken over first place in the Eastern
Speaker 9: Division the National League.
Speaker 3: Yep.
Speaker 8: And you look at players like Pete A. Lonzoways got
Speaker 8: an eight game hitting streak going on the first basement
Speaker 8: and the shortstop Francisco Lindor three games streak, but he's
Speaker 8: been hitting a bunch of home runs lately. He's up
Speaker 8: to thirteen in the season, and the switch hitter, proving
Speaker 8: once again that he's one of the better players in
Speaker 8: the National League.
Speaker 9: Yeah, here's another thing about the New York Mets. I
Speaker 9: saw this number a little bit earlier. Today when they
Speaker 9: score first in the ball game, they have the best
Speaker 9: record in baseball. They have won eighty two percent of
Speaker 9: the games that they put the tally up on the
Speaker 9: board before the opposing team. So they like to score
Speaker 9: early and then take it the rest of the way home.
Speaker 8: They are twenty three and five when that occurs. Dustin
Speaker 8: May against Paul Blackburn. That's the pitching matchup. As we
Speaker 8: get you ready for game one of those four game
Speaker 8: set two first place teams going out in the National League.
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Speaker 1: Mookie Betts missed the entire Yankee series with that fractured
Speaker 1: fourth left toe. Kirsten, what's the latest with MOOKI Well?
Speaker 10: The good thing is is that today he was doing
Speaker 10: some drills on the field, moving really well, so whether
Speaker 10: it was taking grounders, he was running the bases, he's
Speaker 10: been taking swings.
Speaker 4: The fact that he's just continuing to feel better.
Speaker 10: So yesterday was the first day he was able to
Speaker 10: wear clothed toe shoes, so it's just each day.
Speaker 4: He's getting better.
Speaker 10: Dave Roberts even added that he is available off the
Speaker 10: bench tonight, so that's a huge sign. They're hoping that
Speaker 10: tomorrow he could potentially back in the lineup, but they
Speaker 10: are going to just see how he comes into the day.
Speaker 10: So of course, you know, you're getting your body, you're
Speaker 10: ramping up and you're cool off ahead of the game,
Speaker 10: be available potentially in the game, So see how he
Speaker 10: comes out of just kind of that up and down
Speaker 10: of today. He feels good, tomorrow, fingers cross will see
Speaker 10: him back out there against the nets.
Speaker 2: How about the Dodgers' arms.
Speaker 1: Long list of Dodger relievers that are hurt, starters that
Speaker 1: are hurt, what's the latest?
Speaker 10: Yeah, long list is correct, it really is. So let's
Speaker 10: start with the reliever. So Michael Kopek, he is going
Speaker 10: to be returning to the team likely tomorrow, and it's
Speaker 10: not necessarily going to be activation, though Dave Roberts was saying,
Speaker 10: you know, of course they've seen the results from his
Speaker 10: rehabstance and things just aren't really the command'sren't really there.
Speaker 10: They're not exactly where they're hoping he would be. Dave
Speaker 10: did say that he's not necessarily a command guy, but
Speaker 10: they do want him to come in talk to the coaches,
Speaker 10: see if there's something that can kind of work through.
Speaker 10: So they're going to just get their eyes on him.
Speaker 10: So he's going to be around the team and that
Speaker 10: will be huge. He could potentially be activated. They'll just
Speaker 10: they do believe he's healthy, so they just want to
Speaker 10: have some of those conversations.
Speaker 4: And before they activate for mic Copek, then you have
Speaker 4: Kirby Yates.
Speaker 10: Dave Roberts did say that him with the hamstring injury,
Speaker 10: he is doing really, really well and feeling good right now,
Speaker 10: so they're hoping he could be activated over the weekend.
Speaker 10: So that's the bullpen side continueing to het a little
Speaker 10: bit stronger on the starting rotation side, So Tyler Glasta
Speaker 10: was supposed to be the first arm to likely come
Speaker 10: off the IL, especially with those group of guys of Tyler, Blake,
Speaker 10: and Rokie. Unfortunately, for Tyler, he has thrown one bullpen
Speaker 10: thus far, and coming out of that bullpen session is
Speaker 10: just his body didn't feel right, you know. Dave Roberts
Speaker 10: said that it wasn't necessarily the shoulder specific, he just
Speaker 10: something isn't feeling kind of right for him. So they
Speaker 10: have him on a pause from bullpens. He is still
Speaker 10: playing catch and throwing on flat ground, but until he
Speaker 10: can get back off the mound and then kind of
Speaker 10: figure out what's going on there, he is going to
Speaker 10: be a little bit of a now.
Speaker 4: A slower progression.
Speaker 10: For Blake Snell, the hope is that he can potentially
Speaker 10: go off the mound maybe over the weekend or early
Speaker 10: next week. Of course the team will be on the
Speaker 10: road then, so hopefully we'll just kind of get positive
Speaker 10: reports on him. And then there's Troki Sasaki, who at
Speaker 10: least is continuing he's playing catch, he's still on flat ground.
Speaker 10: Dave said, he's likely out to like one twenty right now,
Speaker 10: but it is going to take some more time because
Speaker 10: he's not throwing with any life, full force or kind
Speaker 10: of intensity behind it. He's more of a light playing catch,
Speaker 10: but he's being physical and that's huge. So hopefully these
Speaker 10: are guys. It's a lot of names on the list,
Speaker 10: but as long as they continue to get healthier and
Speaker 10: they continue to build up. We don't really have an
Speaker 10: exact timeline on things. So we do know that that's
Speaker 10: still going to be, you know, relatively a hole for
Speaker 10: the rotation that they're going to hope to fill with
Speaker 10: the guys who are available right now.
Speaker 1: It's a long list of injuries, but they're gonna start
Speaker 1: trickling back here, which is a good thing for the Dodgers.
Speaker 2: Kirsten, We appreciate it still.
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Speaker 1: all the latest Dodgers injuries and what is happening with
Speaker 1: Blake Snell, Tyler Glasnow, Kirby Yates, Mookie Betts day to day.
Speaker 2: Is still at that fractured leftow.
Speaker 1: Luis Garcia the latest to go on the IL yesterday
Speaker 1: with the right adductor injury. Fifteen different pitchers on the IL.
Speaker 1: The Dodgers at some point are going to have to
Speaker 1: get healthy. When they do, when these players start trickling back,
Speaker 1: it's gonna be a good thing for this Dodgers team,
Speaker 1: who's already a top the NL sor right let's head
Speaker 1: back out to Dodgers Stadium and get the pregame thought
Speaker 1: to the Dodger skipper an.
Speaker 4: The questions for Dave, Dave, can you just describe Dave?
Speaker 5: Can you talk about the pressure in the dugouts with
Speaker 5: Dave Roberts.
Speaker 11: Yeah, you know what I think if you look at
Speaker 11: the last you know, call it ten days, I think
Speaker 11: we've done a good job, some of it of necessity
Speaker 11: from necessity, some of it intentional in the sense of
Speaker 11: building these guys up the starters, and so I think that,
Speaker 11: you know, that's certainly been very helpful. And we've obviously
Speaker 11: made some moves and trying to protect downside with the pen,
Speaker 11: and I think that these guys are in a good
Speaker 11: spot having some length also options. So I think, you know,
Speaker 11: as a whole building the starter is up. Getting our
Speaker 11: relievers back online, I think this stretch that we're going through,
Speaker 11: we're pretty good spot with the pitching.
Speaker 4: Is Michael Kopex still online? Seen coming back in the
Speaker 4: next few days.
Speaker 10: He is.
Speaker 11: He will be in town still on his rehab and
Speaker 11: through yesterday. So I think that for us, the thought
Speaker 11: was to bring him here and to kind of evaluate
Speaker 11: see how he is and to see when that day
Speaker 11: is to activate. But there's no hard day yet.
Speaker 3: Hey, Dave, I'm.
Speaker 8: Sure this is a problem that you gladly welcome.
Speaker 9: But the fact that you don't have the DH spot
Speaker 9: available for guys like.
Speaker 5: Mookie coming back from the toe, Freddy with the angle,
Speaker 5: how much more difficult does that make it in terms
Speaker 5: of when they come back?
Speaker 11: For me? It's a little bit more challenging, certainly, but
Speaker 11: it's of no cost when you have show Hey as
Speaker 11: your DH. But I think if you do look at
Speaker 11: any other kind of where in years past before we
Speaker 11: got show Hey, you could sort of it's an evolving
Speaker 11: role that you could kind of manage and fill in
Speaker 11: with players for matchups or workload guys coming back. So
Speaker 11: that's kind of the thing that we just don't have
Speaker 11: that luxury.
Speaker 1: All Right, there's Dave Roberts' pregame thoughts with the media,
Speaker 1: and we continue here on Dodgers on Deck.
Speaker 2: We'll check out with the David Man. Say, as we're
Speaker 2: leading you up.
Speaker 1: To first pitch on this Monday night, Dodgers and the Mets,
Speaker 1: first pitch at seven ten. I'm Tim kase Is, the
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Speaker 5: This is Dodger insider David basse.
Speaker 2: Hi DV the Yankees in town. They have left.
Speaker 1: The Mets come to town, and Juan Soto comes with them.
Speaker 2: We're in a different uniform than last time they saw him.
Speaker 3: Yeah, think about this, Tim, how many different uniforms Juan
Speaker 3: Soto has already worn in his major league career. You
Speaker 3: think back to the twenty nineteen season where the Nationals
Speaker 3: beat the Dodgers in the NLDS. He was there and
Speaker 3: a big part of it, hit a big home run
Speaker 3: off of Clayton Kershaw. And then he moved on to
Speaker 3: the San Diego Padres and then moved on to the
Speaker 3: New York Yankees and now is wearing a New York
Speaker 3: Mets uniform. And remember when the Dodgers saw the Mets
Speaker 3: last time last weekend in New York. Wan Soto is
Speaker 3: in a big time, but nothing like the Rockies to
Speaker 3: get you out of a slump. So we'll see whether
Speaker 3: or not Juan Soto can carry whatever he found against
Speaker 3: the Rockies against the Dodgers in these four games. But
Speaker 3: it's funny, tim you think back to when Juan Soto
Speaker 3: won the home run Derby at the All Star Game
Speaker 3: here at Dodgers Stadium. He was getting serenaded when the
Speaker 3: Nationals opened up the second half of the season here
Speaker 3: at Dodgers Stadium by the fans and the pavilion in
Speaker 3: left field, just channing they want Sodo in La, we
Speaker 3: want Sodo. And this past offseason the Dodgers were serious
Speaker 3: players in the Sodo sweepstakes. Obviously, he chose the Mets
Speaker 3: at the very end, but the Dodgers were in there.
Speaker 3: And Scott Boris told me a lot more tantalizing than
Speaker 3: what people realize, how much the Dodgers were really tempting
Speaker 3: Sodo to come to the West Coast.
Speaker 1: Interesting. David is driven by for it. There's one thing
Speaker 1: we like, its choice. His fine yours with the four
Speaker 1: F one to fifty gas hybrid all electric tough. This
Speaker 1: march can only be called the f one fifty. The
Speaker 1: Dodgers signing Alexis Das his brother Edwin Daz David the
Speaker 1: closer for the Mets.
Speaker 3: That's right, and he's having a great year. He's found
Speaker 3: himself again. And Alexis Daz is at camel Back Branch
Speaker 3: right now working with the Dodgers pitching gurus and the
Speaker 3: pitching lab to try to correct the mechanics that were
Speaker 3: off in Cincinnati. And remember two years ago Alexis Diaz
Speaker 3: saved thirty eight games for the Reds and was an
Speaker 3: All Star. I asked Edwin Diaz just if he's spoken
Speaker 3: to his brother and what the Dodgers may do to
Speaker 3: get him back on track.
Speaker 12: Yes, he got three. I've been talking to him and
Speaker 12: he's really happy. He's he really appreciated he got trade
Speaker 12: to the Doyer, So he's he's really happy.
Speaker 3: Was it close? Did you try to push for him
Speaker 3: with the Mets?
Speaker 12: Hi? Wa if I wish if he got traight to
Speaker 12: the met ball you know, he the Doyer picking him,
Speaker 12: he's you, I really would go, Heyhan, I'm just happy
Speaker 12: for him, you know, looking forward to seeing the big
Speaker 12: lion Edwin.
Speaker 3: He's a great closer as well. What do you think
Speaker 3: the Dodgers can help him get back to What does
Speaker 3: he need to get back to be that all star?
Speaker 12: I think you'll fix his mechanics. I think it was
Speaker 12: a little way inconsistent this year. I think I think
Speaker 12: they have the everything to fix him, to help him,
Speaker 12: and I think if they can find the problem, it
Speaker 12: would be fine.
Speaker 3: And the Dodgers are not going to rush this, but
Speaker 3: Alexis Diaz will be here uh in the next couple
Speaker 3: of weeks. The Dodgers are working on getting him back
Speaker 3: on track to that all star form.
Speaker 1: That is certainly a good sign for the Dodgers getting
Speaker 1: another arm down there in the bullpen.
Speaker 2: DV appreciate it. We'll check back in with you in
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Speaker 1: a Saturday evening in Southern California. Sandy Kofak on the
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Speaker 1: through one hundred and thirty eight pitches and through his
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Speaker 7: Go back set and the pitch basketball A big bouncer
Speaker 7: down the wheels. He has it goes to far right,
Speaker 7: no hitter.
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Speaker 13: around Sandy pushing him guard to dug out other Dodgers
Speaker 13: leaping over the knot of players to just touching him.
Speaker 7: And indeed reason's shaking his hand. Dwayne Anderson is out
Speaker 7: there to put that valuable left arm in a windbreaker,
Speaker 7: and a shower of blue pillows down on the field.
Speaker 7: Sandy gobanks, he betch is a no hitter.
Speaker 13: More of the Dodgers.
Speaker 7: The first Dodger no hitters and Sal.
Speaker 13: Magley turned it in in nineteen fifty six, and the
Speaker 13: first Dodger left handed, I bet you're no hitter.
Speaker 7: Since way back in nineteen hundred.
Speaker 13: And he is now walking for a long place, and
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Speaker 3: All right, Rick, the Dodgers are in tow tonight against
Speaker 3: the Mets after what I believed was a successful weekend
Speaker 3: against the Agent.
Speaker 9: It was, but that's not the headline story for us.
Speaker 9: The headline story for us, and we are thrilled to
Speaker 9: say this. You had some fan mail delivered just a
Speaker 9: few moments ago, right before we came on the air,
Speaker 9: and I told you congratulations, and you open it up
Speaker 9: and it's just nice to see. You had some people
Speaker 9: that came in earlier, maybe thirty minutes ago, that said hello,
Speaker 9: and they listened. They're listening to broadcasts, both free and
Speaker 9: post game, and it is amazing the number of people
Speaker 9: that we are able to touch with Dodger Baseball on
Speaker 9: a daily basis.
Speaker 3: No doubt, it gives everybody an escape. You always said
Speaker 3: that whenever you come to the ballpark or turn on
Speaker 3: the radio. Yeah, well, reality at the door.
Speaker 9: Exactly, and that what we leave either at the base
Speaker 9: of the radio or at the front gate is reality
Speaker 9: at least for a few hours. So unfortunately they reissue
Speaker 9: it to us as we leave the stadium. But this
Speaker 9: is a great outlet and they have back to back
Speaker 9: New York teams and to see people you know, talk
Speaker 9: about it ahead of time and then show up here early.
Speaker 9: And by the way, if you have tickets really the
Speaker 9: the next three games in this series, I would strongly
Speaker 9: recommend that you get here early.
Speaker 3: No doubt. Tonight is Tommy Edmund Bobblehead Night and LCSMVP
Speaker 3: against the Mets. It seems like Tommy's starting to get
Speaker 3: back to what we saw at the beginning of the year.
Speaker 9: I've said this before, and it's very difficult to maintain
Speaker 9: when you get hurt, and if you're swinging the bat
Speaker 9: really well, it's difficult to maintain that, hold on to
Speaker 9: it and have it when you come back. And that's
Speaker 9: happened to Tiascar Hernanez this year and for Tommy Edmond
Speaker 9: the same thing. But we're beginning now to see Tommy
Speaker 9: do what he did so brilliantly last year, in particular
Speaker 9: in the post season, which was to hit the ball
Speaker 9: all over the place. It didn't matter if his fastball,
Speaker 9: breaking ball, whatever it is. He understands how to play
Speaker 9: the game. On top of that, and we talk about,
Speaker 9: well he has a nose for the baseball from a
Speaker 9: defensive standpoint, and he understands how to play the game. Now,
Speaker 9: I'm saying it sounds probably a little strange to some people,
Speaker 9: but there's a lot of people that have wonderful ability
Speaker 9: that don't really have maybe the baseball instinct, and that's
Speaker 9: sometimes it has to be learned. Well, Tommy Edmond comes
Speaker 9: the full package and equipped with that.
Speaker 3: Rick a former Dodger that he really respects, Skip Schumacher,
Speaker 3: who was the bench coach in Saint Louis when Tommy
Speaker 3: Edmond was there. He told me that Tommy Edman and
Speaker 3: Paul Goldschmidt were the two most favorite players he ever
Speaker 3: coached because of everything he just said.
Speaker 9: And if we look at the Cardinals organization of the past,
Speaker 9: I can't really vocalize that. I believe it's in the present,
Speaker 9: but I know in the past the Cardinals were one
Speaker 9: of the teams I think with the Dodgers right alongside,
Speaker 9: fundamentally sounds not just teams, but organizations from the coaches
Speaker 9: at the minor league level really started in astounding for
Speaker 9: that standpoint. But then the coach at the minor league level,
Speaker 9: you know, they used to make fun of the fact
Speaker 9: that there was a book out by our campaign, and
Speaker 9: so there's a general manager about the Dodgers' way to
Speaker 9: play baseball. Well, if you open up that book and
Speaker 9: there's still a few around that you can kind of
Speaker 9: look at and see it was basic stuff when you
Speaker 9: read it, but it was stuff that got you through
Speaker 9: ball games on a daily basis on the fundamentals, not
Speaker 9: only the fundamentals, but also the thought process of getting
Speaker 9: to I'm out, getting to an at bat, getting to
Speaker 9: a pitch.
Speaker 3: That's amazing. Do you still have your book.
Speaker 9: I have it somewhere in storage.
Speaker 3: That's amazing.
Speaker 4: I do.
Speaker 3: That's awesome, Rick, thanks a lot for sharing. We'll see
Speaker 3: how this series goes.
Speaker 9: Doctors Mets, Okay, I know you'll be here early tomorrow.
Speaker 3: You're my number one fan. I know you are. We'll
Speaker 3: send it back here in the studio. Team all right.
Speaker 2: Thanks a lot of guys.
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Speaker 3: Well, he's out of his South Bay bubble. I'm back
Speaker 3: at Dodger Stadium, suited and booted and ready to go
Speaker 3: for tonight's game against the Mets. And that is one
Speaker 3: of the greatest hitters we have ever seen a Major
Speaker 3: League baseball and he's our own. No mar Garciapara Nomar.
Speaker 3: Thanks a lot for the time, Dave. You know, it's
Speaker 3: always good to see you. I mean, you have that
Speaker 3: beach glow after being out there in the South Bay,
Speaker 3: you know, on the strand, you come back ready to go.
Speaker 14: Well, you know, we were off the last couple of weekends,
Speaker 14: you know, because the games were nationally televised, you know,
Speaker 14: with Fox and ESPNN and Apple TVs taking it all,
Speaker 14: So we were off a little bit. We enjoyed ourselves
Speaker 14: for the couple weekends. But at the same time, I
Speaker 14: did enjoy watching the Dodgers, you know, win that series
Speaker 14: this past weekend.
Speaker 3: For a number of different reasons. How important was it
Speaker 3: for the Dodgers to, hey, come back against Max Freed
Speaker 3: on Friday night and then b come back the way
Speaker 3: they did on Saturday.
Speaker 14: Listen, no matter what you always say, win the series, right,
Speaker 14: we talk about that all the time, and they did that,
Speaker 14: and it was a great way in which they did that,
Speaker 14: the way they battled back, the way they persevered. I mean,
Speaker 14: I know every fan was hoping for a sweet but
Speaker 14: at the same time, you know, let's consider and take
Speaker 14: in the series win and continue that momentum against another
Speaker 14: tough team coming into town.
Speaker 2: No Mark.
Speaker 3: I feel like with the Otani celebration on a nightly basis,
Speaker 3: the incredible things he does incredibly, Freddie Freeman gets lost
Speaker 3: in the shuffle. What do you appreciate the most about
Speaker 3: Freddy and do you feel like sometimes we forget about him?
Speaker 14: Well, listen, this is a team full of superstars, so
Speaker 14: I don't think we forget about Freddy Freeman. I mean,
Speaker 14: at the same time, we're just also amazing at what
Speaker 14: Otani is doing on a regular basis. But Freddy Freeman,
Speaker 14: I don't think his lost. Freddy Freeman is just a professional.
Speaker 14: He's a Hall of Famer. That's what he is, a
Speaker 14: Hall of Fame player going out there and doing doing
Speaker 14: it on a nightly basis. What I love about Freddy
Speaker 14: Freeman is not only his consistency, but he always talks
Speaker 14: about how batting average matter. See, it really does, because
Speaker 14: he understands, you know, in this age of analytics, and
Speaker 14: if you really look back, if you hit three hundred,
Speaker 14: all those other numbers fall into place. If you worry
Speaker 14: about that, your ops, all this other stuff that just happens.
Speaker 14: And he knows that. So that's why he focuses on that.
Speaker 14: I think if more and more players do that they're
Speaker 14: going to be where they need to be.
Speaker 3: When you hear Freddy talk about hitting, do you identify
Speaker 3: or relate with the way you used to approach hitting?
Speaker 14: Well, I do enjoy talking to him about hitting, and
Speaker 14: it's not just my approach. I think, you know, there
Speaker 14: was this older thought about hitting, an approach, and he
Speaker 14: talks a lot about those things that was taught to
Speaker 14: me what I would hear around the clubhouse or other
Speaker 14: players when I was playing. So yeah, there is some
Speaker 14: you know, familiarity when he's speaking about hitting it like,
Speaker 14: oh yeah, exactly, hit light and drives, stay up the middle,
Speaker 14: stay on the other side, you know, stay back, shorten
Speaker 14: up with two strikes. You know, guys when they're in
Speaker 14: scoring position, it's a different mentality. That's my guy to
Speaker 14: knock in. I have to figure out how to knock
Speaker 14: him in and look with the defense and what the
Speaker 14: other team is giving me.
Speaker 3: Maybe you can translate some hitting wingo that Freddie threw
Speaker 3: on us a couple of weeks ago. He said he
Speaker 3: feels like his swing is where he wants it to be.
Speaker 3: Even last year he said he had this cut swing.
Speaker 3: Hard to believe his swing was not on yet last
Speaker 3: year either.
Speaker 14: Yeah, I think when he's when he's cutting the swing,
Speaker 14: you know, he cuts it off and he's not barreling
Speaker 14: it up or staying on the ball as long as
Speaker 14: he would like. Yeah, there are times when maybe he'll
Speaker 14: get a hit and he still hovers around you know,
Speaker 14: he's still hovering around three hundred and doing what he
Speaker 14: was doing. But at the same time, it might be
Speaker 14: off the off the end of the bat or the
Speaker 14: way the ball is coming off your bat. It's not
Speaker 14: coming off with that backspin that you like. Sometimes it
Speaker 14: has kind of that we call like a flare or
Speaker 14: just kind of you know, tails away, especially when you're
Speaker 14: going the other way. So that's sometimes you're cutting the
Speaker 14: ball off. You're hitting it maybe not square right behind us,
Speaker 14: so you don't create that backspin you like.
Speaker 3: All right, now, we got it. You explained the Freddie
Speaker 3: Freeman next level hitting to the common man like us.
Speaker 14: We listen. Like I said, he he is fun to
Speaker 14: watch and he is special and watching his consistency, his
Speaker 14: joy for the game and how hard he works, it's
Speaker 14: truly truly something to admire.
Speaker 3: No more. Garcia Para is our guest in front of
Speaker 3: first pitch between the Dodgers and Mets, a four game
Speaker 3: series here at Dodgers Stadium and no more. You obviously
Speaker 3: played in so many big games. What does a weekend
Speaker 3: like this past one, dude to kind of get you
Speaker 3: a little extra something to get through? You know, the
Speaker 3: hot summer months of June.
Speaker 14: Well, listen, I think you know you had their certain
Speaker 14: series that you know, okay, there's a lot of high
Speaker 14: behind it. You feel that, you feel that the energy
Speaker 14: from the fans as well, and you want to play well.
Speaker 14: You're playing against a good team, and listen, the Dodgers
Speaker 14: can't let up. I think as a Dodgers look, you're thinking, hey,
Speaker 14: this is just part of what we have. Are the
Speaker 14: run of all these good teams that we're playing that
Speaker 14: are going to be in contention or you assume they're
Speaker 14: going to be in contention down the stretch. So you're
Speaker 14: trying to win the series. I know it's cliche, but
Speaker 14: it's true. You do have to take it one game
Speaker 14: at a time. You can't look past you can't leave.
Speaker 14: You couldn't look thinking past the Yankees and think of
Speaker 14: the Mets. So now that you go out there, you
Speaker 14: tip play a tough series. Now you've got to come
Speaker 14: in and play a series against a tough team that
Speaker 14: just beat you over at their home field, and you
Speaker 14: want to return the favor. So you're like, listen, we
Speaker 14: got to be at the top of the game, and
Speaker 14: then you have to continue that. It doesn't stop after
Speaker 14: that because then you're going over there and you're playing
Speaker 14: a hot team over the over the weekend after this
Speaker 14: week finishes. So you just got to be on. And
Speaker 14: you know this is not the bad time to be
Speaker 14: on because you're going through May June. This is when
Speaker 14: you're right in the thick of it. This is when
Speaker 14: you're kind of feeling where you're supposed to be, and
Speaker 14: this is who we are, and the weather's nicer, this
Speaker 14: is the heart of it, and you love these this month.
Speaker 3: Hey, it's hot, the weather's warmer, but No Mar's hair
Speaker 3: is still perfect. You'll see it tonight on Sports at LA.
Speaker 3: Thanks a lot for the time, Nomar, appreciate it.
Speaker 14: Dave always great talking to you.
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Speaker 2: Tim, all right, thanks a lot.
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Speaker 1: hand or first round pickback in twenty twelve. His way
Speaker 1: to the Mets last year at the trade deadline. Was
Speaker 1: an All Star with the A's when he made his
Speaker 1: debut in twenty seventeen, an All Star in twenty twenty two.
Speaker 1: Making his twenty twenty five debut. He started the first
Speaker 1: two months of the season on the il with the
Speaker 1: right knee injury activated today, there was a sinker curveball
Speaker 1: changeup has never faced to the Dodgers. Dustin May on
Speaker 1: the mound for the Blue three and fourth of four
Speaker 1: to twenty e r Ray, twenty seven year old right
Speaker 1: hander and his seventh season down in the big leagues.
Speaker 1: He's finally healthy is Dustin May missed a year and
Speaker 1: a half because of injuries. Making his eleven start of
Speaker 1: this season. Has got a little bit of momentum going
Speaker 1: his way. He finished the month of May Dustin May
Speaker 1: winning his last two starts, including last time out five innings,
Speaker 1: three runs, four hits, nine strikeouts in a win over
Speaker 1: the Guardians on the last road trip. This is his
Speaker 1: second start, third appearance against the Mets in his career.
Speaker 1: He last faced him in twenty twenty three. Dodgers and Mets.
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Speaker 8: Guys, Tim, thanks again, we count you down to the
Speaker 8: first pitch here at Dodger Stadium. Just an absolutely gorgeous
Speaker 8: night for a ballgame. Dustin May four and a four
Speaker 8: to twenty era makes his eleventh start, and for Dustin May,
Speaker 8: one of the things that you look at when you
Speaker 8: look at him is his first three starts of the
Speaker 8: season didn't give up a home run, but he's given
Speaker 8: up one in each of his last seven starts. So
Speaker 8: keeping the ball in the ballpark is going to be
Speaker 8: a key for Dustin.
Speaker 9: Matt and I think getting ahead in the count. Here's
Speaker 9: some numbers very quickly. When Dustin May has two strikes
Speaker 9: on hitters so far this season, you know there's only
Speaker 9: three starting pitchers have a lower batting average against with
Speaker 9: two strikes in Dustin May, it's an O ninety five average.
Speaker 9: And then you start to add, well, how about the slider. Well,
Speaker 9: the slider is a very big pitch for him. In fact,
Speaker 9: he throws it at two strikes over fifty percent of
Speaker 9: the time. This slider, by the way, overall, throws at about
Speaker 9: forty percent of the time. We have not seen very quickly.
Speaker 9: We had not seen that velocity at ninety eight and
Speaker 9: ninety nine, and he doesn't have to with the movement
Speaker 9: that he has. But the big thing is throw strikes
Speaker 9: at particular leadoff hitters of an inning.
Speaker 8: Right hander Paul Blackburn will counter for the Mets. He
Speaker 8: makes his twenty twenty five debut coming off the injured
Speaker 8: list knee inflammation put him on. But he's also coming
Speaker 8: off of back surgery that had him questioning whether or
Speaker 8: not he'd pitch again. Well, he's pitching again here tonight.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 9: And he had a spinal leakage in the back that
Speaker 9: had to be taken care of, and it was spring
Speaker 9: training and all of a sudden the knee came up,
Speaker 9: and then during his rehab he had an illness that
Speaker 9: really set that bank. So they're hoping for good things
Speaker 9: for Blackburn, who came up initially with the a's and
Speaker 9: eighty two career starts, and he'll make number eighty three
Speaker 9: here tonight against the Dodgers.
Speaker 8: Blackburn a local guy out of Heritage High School in Brentwood.
Speaker 8: He's thirty one years of age, getting the start against
Speaker 8: Dustin May as the Dodgers and Mets get ready for
Speaker 8: Game one of this four game set.
Speaker 1: Tim all right, first pitch is next. Enjoy David Vessy's
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