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Speaker 3: We are live at Dodgers Stadium for Morongo Casino Dodgers
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Speaker 3: baseball at seventy eight and fifty three, and they are
Speaker 3: at first place in the NL West. After a sweep
Speaker 3: of the Mariners to start this homestand and taking two
Speaker 3: out of three from the Tampa Bay Rays, the Dodgers
Speaker 3: close out this nine game homestand with another three game
Speaker 3: series against an American League team, one of the best,
Speaker 3: the Baltimore Orioles, and some are calling this a possible
Speaker 3: World Series. Preview Jack Flaherty is on the mound Tonight's
Speaker 3: first pitch coming up at seven ten. Coming up over
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Speaker 3: we'll hear from Dodgers manager Dave Roberts. We'll get a
Speaker 3: preview of tonight's pitching matchup. We'll hear from Mike Soosha
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Speaker 3: we'll check in with Charlie Steiner, who's in the booth
Speaker 3: tonight for the first couple of innings alongside Rick Monday.
Speaker 3: But on Sunday afternoon, Gavin Stone threw a gem, but
Speaker 3: it was a mooky moment late that won it. Gavin
Speaker 3: Stone a great outing on the mound. Seven innings, seven strikeouts,
Speaker 3: allow just one run. The Dodger offense, meanwhile, needed a
Speaker 3: few times through the lineup to get going. Finally, in
Speaker 3: the fifth inning, it belonged to Keike Hernandez who got
Speaker 3: the Dodgers on the board.
Speaker 4: The one one pitch to key k is drill left
Speaker 4: center field into the gap.
Speaker 2: It's carrying it. It is out a hair.
Speaker 5: Keth k Hernandez starts the scoring with a.
Speaker 2: Laser to the left field. Is ninth of the year
Speaker 2: and the Dodgers lead.
Speaker 3: It won nothing that was off the lefty from Granada Hills,
Speaker 3: Jacob Lopez. The Dodgers had an early one nothing lead.
Speaker 3: Gavin Stone put up zeros on the board. However, in
Speaker 3: the seventh inning, his only mistake was to former teammates
Speaker 3: Johnny de Luca, who even the score. The Dodgers and
Speaker 3: Rays remained tied in the bottom of the eighth inning
Speaker 3: when Sho he Otani got hit by a pitch on
Speaker 3: his left hand to put a runner at first base.
Speaker 3: A scary moment, but x Rays came back negative the
Speaker 3: very next batter, Mookie Bets.
Speaker 4: Mookie Bets heirst pitch swinging high fly ball left field.
Speaker 5: Did you poky Pokie? Betts makes it hurt a two
Speaker 5: run home run to.
Speaker 4: Break the tie and the Dodgers leaded three to one.
Speaker 3: Two run home run from Mookie Bets is twelfth of
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Speaker 3: The Dodgers led three to one. They would go on
Speaker 3: to beat the Rays three to one. Anthony Banda got
Speaker 3: his second save of the season, and now the Dodgers
Speaker 3: continue to hold off those pesky snakes. Three games up
Speaker 3: on the Diamondbacks, four games up on the Padres. After
Speaker 3: a day off yesterday, the Dodgers back here at Dodgers
Speaker 3: Stadium to close out this homestand for the final game
Speaker 3: our final series of this homestand against the Baltimore Orioles,
Speaker 3: who are two games back of the Yankees in the
Speaker 3: Al East and the top team in the American League
Speaker 3: Wildcard race. Tonight, Like I mentioned Jack Flaherty on the
Speaker 3: mound in the series opener, first pitch coming up at
Speaker 3: seven to ten, and with more we go down a
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Speaker 3: check in with Rick Monday and his old buddy Charlie Steiner.
Speaker 4: All right, David, after an off day yesterday, the first
Speaker 4: of three between the Dodgers and the Orioles and remarkably
Speaker 4: similar records. The Dodgers at seventy eight and fifty three
Speaker 4: have a three game lead on Arizona San Diego in
Speaker 4: third plays in the West, four games behind the Dodgers.
Speaker 4: Then you've got the Orioles at seventy and fifty six.
Speaker 4: There are two games behind the Yankees in the American
Speaker 4: League East. And the Dodgers, more than anything else in all,
Speaker 4: have been playing very good baseball of lay, and.
Speaker 6: They want to be able to continue that. I mean,
Speaker 6: the best record in baseball, as you're alluding to, but
Speaker 6: not only winners of seven of the last ten. They've
Speaker 6: won twelve of sixteen in the month of August fourteen
Speaker 6: and seven. And also they've got some very good pitching,
Speaker 6: even though they've got a banged up starting rotation, a
Speaker 6: three point four Era in that period of time. So
Speaker 6: the Dodgers know full well that both Arizona and San
Speaker 6: Diego maybe playing the best baseball of the season for them,
Speaker 6: no question about it. The Dodgers don't look in the backyard,
Speaker 6: look in that front windshield and just keep driving down
Speaker 6: the road and continue to win ball games.
Speaker 4: And the Oriols just two behind the Yankees. They've been
Speaker 4: a very good team all year long.
Speaker 6: Yeah, but they've had difficulty, Charlie recently, I mean since
Speaker 6: the All Star break their five hundred team and their
Speaker 6: ERA has been above four and a half. They're trying
Speaker 6: to turn that around. They've had some offense, but they
Speaker 6: have I've not really had enough help out of the bullpen,
Speaker 6: and that's something that they need to address and do
Speaker 6: it in a hurry in order to move up that
Speaker 6: ladder in the American League East.
Speaker 4: On paper, they've got two of the best catchers on
Speaker 4: the field tonight Will Smith and Atlie Rutchman, but they
Speaker 4: have both been struggling offensive Leo late.
Speaker 6: Yeah, they have, and for Will Smith, we're beginning to
Speaker 6: see some better swings, but it's not been back to
Speaker 6: back games back the last thirty one games for Will Smith,
Speaker 6: hitting just won seventy seven, but again he has been
Speaker 6: a big force. He keeps drawing runners out at second
Speaker 6: base and at a very good rate. The question is
Speaker 6: Baltimore is not afraid to try and steal at all?
Speaker 6: Will the arm of Will Smith shut down that possibility tonight?
Speaker 4: Jack Flaherty gone for the Dodgers tonight, Cole Irvin for
Speaker 4: the Orioles, And we'll detail that pitching matchup a little
Speaker 4: later on in the hour.
Speaker 3: David, all right, great to hear your voice, Charlie Steiner.
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Speaker 3: He was hit by a pitch on his left hand,
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Speaker 3: all right, and we had a chance to catch up
Speaker 3: with Mookie Betts after Sunday's big home run.
Speaker 7: Mookie, you've had three home runs. It's coming off the il.
Speaker 7: When you think about just keeping it consistent at the plate, what's.
Speaker 2: Been the biggest focus for you as a plate.
Speaker 6: I don't know.
Speaker 8: I mean I feel like I've been very inconsistent.
Speaker 5: So I don't know.
Speaker 8: I'm just here to win, here to do what I
Speaker 8: can to help show hey carry us to the finish line.
Speaker 7: Can you think about that at bat against love Lady?
Speaker 2: What were you seeing from him?
Speaker 7: What allowed you to get that swing?
Speaker 8: I was just ready to swing. I mean, I know
Speaker 8: they've been attacking new with strikes the whole series, and
Speaker 8: so I just try to get a good swing off.
Speaker 7: It's not your show, it's you as But when you
Speaker 7: think about just coming in the clutch for certain situations,
Speaker 7: how important was that at that not only for you
Speaker 7: but also for this team to get that win?
Speaker 8: You know, I think eg and never had bet is
Speaker 8: super important. But definitely coming down there, show gets all
Speaker 8: all on base there and you just got to find
Speaker 8: a way to Bill's some momentum and we fortunately did it.
Speaker 7: Gavin Stone today, how impressive was he?
Speaker 6: Oh?
Speaker 8: He's been amazing all year. I mean he's given us
Speaker 8: a chance to win easing every game. I mean he's
Speaker 8: going six seven, eight innings consistently, and so he's been
Speaker 8: huge for the Dodgers for sure.
Speaker 7: This wind tonight, you guys have won this here is
Speaker 7: this homestand so far is not to a really great start.
Speaker 7: How important though, was this just knowing what the division
Speaker 7: looks like at the moment.
Speaker 8: I mean it's his crunch time now, you know, we
Speaker 8: got to win every game, and not that it's not
Speaker 8: crunch time all year, but especially now, and those other
Speaker 8: teams are playing really well, and so we have to
Speaker 8: just keep playing Dodger baseball and we should be okay.
Speaker 7: All right, we'll congratulations on this one tonight, Uki, Thank
Speaker 7: you hey.
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Speaker 3: is not in the starting lineup tonight. Kei k Hernandez
Speaker 3: is at first base. Max Mounsey stays at third base
Speaker 3: because Dave Roberts said they wanted to get Freddy Freeman
Speaker 3: out of the lineup for not only today but possibly
Speaker 3: tomorrow to let the inflammation in that hairline fracture in
Speaker 3: his right middle finger to cool down. He's been playing
Speaker 3: through it, but the bat, the bats, the wings haven't
Speaker 3: been there.
Speaker 5: Also, Yoshiyama Moto who went.
Speaker 3: On the IL after his first two months in the
Speaker 3: big leagues is going to make a rehab start tomorrow
Speaker 3: for Oklahoma City. So that's good news for the Dodgers
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Speaker 6: Anything else, Dave?
Speaker 5: Do you think the questions for Dave?
Speaker 6: Dave? Can you just describe Dave? Can you talk about
Speaker 6: the pressure.
Speaker 2: In the dugouts with Dave Roberts a.
Speaker 9: Conversation with only ils for ten days.
Speaker 10: To sort of let us no, I don't think so.
Speaker 10: I think that obviously he could have played today, wanted
Speaker 10: to play. So I just don't think that the IL
Speaker 10: right now makes a whole lot of sense because it's
Speaker 10: something where even in ten days, it's not going to
Speaker 10: the fracture is not going to heal in ten days.
Speaker 5: Is there a chance that he sits out tomorrow.
Speaker 6: Or the rest of this series.
Speaker 10: There's a chance. But I still think that having them
Speaker 10: potentially available off the bench makes sense. We'll see what
Speaker 10: that looks like each day, though, and we'll kind of
Speaker 10: read and react.
Speaker 3: Is that that's not being the same because the middle
Speaker 3: finger is that part of this equation too.
Speaker 10: I think it's part of it. I think that for me,
Speaker 10: I think that it just doesn't look the same. But
Speaker 10: hitting's hard. That could be a separate point, and it
Speaker 10: could not be because of the finger. Freddy could argue that,
Speaker 10: which is completely fine, But I still believe that, you know,
Speaker 10: giving it some time to kind of calm down and
Speaker 10: not be inflamed, there's only benefit you guys, just like
Speaker 10: how tough talking to you know, I think he understands
Speaker 10: he wants to play well, everybody knows, you know, what
Speaker 10: he means to the ball club, being able to post,
Speaker 10: be in the lineup. All that stuff matters. But also
Speaker 10: it's still matters to feel that you feel good, that
Speaker 10: you your swing feels good. And I just again, I
Speaker 10: just don't think that taking a couple of days off,
Speaker 10: whatever the days it ends up being, is going to
Speaker 10: be too costs.
Speaker 6: I really don't.
Speaker 5: Why did you.
Speaker 3: Choose a GT at first and once heet there instead
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Speaker 10: It's short term munchies our third basement, So in a
Speaker 10: vacuum you could argue the other way, But for Max
Speaker 10: to go over there, it hasn't taken ground balls over
Speaker 10: there in two years to just say he's played first base, doesn't.
Speaker 6: Make sense.
Speaker 2: Any new one class.
Speaker 6: Slow moving.
Speaker 10: He was lined up to play catch today, so I
Speaker 10: don't know if he ended up playing catch today. But
Speaker 10: given the time that he's been down the potential build up,
Speaker 10: there's going to be a rehab assignment. He's got to
Speaker 10: get back on the mound. So I just don't know
Speaker 10: what that looks like. But not surprising for me that
Speaker 10: it's taken longer than we initially.
Speaker 9: Thought getting fully built up altober.
Speaker 10: I think that the coming days will be telling. So
Speaker 10: I don't think anyone can sit here today and say
Speaker 10: that because if he played catch today it went great
Speaker 10: and he does the same thing, yes, But if he doesn't,
Speaker 10: then it's probably a different.
Speaker 2: Answer that what has God changed and.
Speaker 7: Better?
Speaker 10: Not getting better? So he's just still not throwing free
Speaker 10: and easy, and so when you're not, then you've got
Speaker 10: to kind of make some concessions and slow down the process.
Speaker 10: So that's kind of what it.
Speaker 6: Is, all right.
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Speaker 3: Yesterday we had an off day Dodger talk and we
Speaker 3: had a chance to catch up with the man that
Speaker 3: caught more games than any other Dodger in franchise history.
Speaker 3: And with this being a series of two really good
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Speaker 11: David. Great to be with you, and boy did I
Speaker 11: learn a lot from Sandy. You're right about that. It
Speaker 11: was just a great experience to be around a lot
Speaker 11: of those great Dodgers, and Sandy was at the top
Speaker 11: of the list.
Speaker 5: Mike, Is it true.
Speaker 3: I've heard stories from as reporters that told me Sandy
Speaker 3: Kofax would throw BP to you guys in Vero Beach.
Speaker 3: Is that true?
Speaker 6: Yes?
Speaker 11: He would, and he still got us out. He was
Speaker 11: throwing VP. Last time I remember was nineteen eighty five.
Speaker 11: I remember hitting off of him on the lower fields
Speaker 11: and he started that curveball. You could hear it was unbelievable,
Speaker 11: and he'd really enjoyed it.
Speaker 2: He loved it.
Speaker 11: And then I think he finally his shoulder gave out,
Speaker 11: but he loved it. You know, anything he could do
Speaker 11: to make us a little better, he put his time
Speaker 11: in and just a tremendous man.
Speaker 3: You feel like, who makes you this manager now that
Speaker 3: Team USA wants? Was was kind of built as a
Speaker 3: catcher as a young catcher in the Dodger organization with
Speaker 3: all these guys being around like Sandy.
Speaker 11: Oh, there's no way, I mean, excuse me, there's no
Speaker 11: doubt that. You know. The way that I took through
Speaker 11: the Dodger organization was special. And to get so many
Speaker 11: great baseball minds around you at at such a young
Speaker 11: age and just being smart enough to shut up and
Speaker 11: listen was really important to my development. Is not only
Speaker 11: a player, but getting opportunity to manage, and you know
Speaker 11: the great the great guys like Roy Campanella, Sandy Kofax,
Speaker 11: Del Krandle playing for Time Ofless Order for all those years,
Speaker 11: Joel Malfatano, Monty basketballin on a whole list you know
Speaker 11: of of of coaches that I had, and that just
Speaker 11: that just had a huge impact on me.
Speaker 3: All right, So all these years of managing and playing
Speaker 3: and all the knowledge and experience you've gained has brought
Speaker 3: you to Team USA. You manage in the Olympics and
Speaker 3: now here you are back again managing this premiere twelve team.
Speaker 3: Can you explain the type of players that you'll be
Speaker 3: managing and is this a qualifier necessary to be able
Speaker 3: to have Team USA here in LA in twenty twenty eight.
Speaker 11: Well, since we're the home country, we will get an
Speaker 11: automatic bid into the twenty eight Olympics. But this is
Speaker 11: important tournament, David. It's it's really for world seeding and
Speaker 11: world ranking. We're gonna be playing really tough teams. There's
Speaker 11: twelve teams around the you know globe that are really,
Speaker 11: uh that just excel in baseball. You know teams teams
Speaker 11: from you know, Mexico and Venezuela and Cuba and Japan, Korea. Uh,
Speaker 11: these these, these these it's gonna be a tough tournament.
Speaker 11: So we'll play a series of Mexico to get going,
Speaker 11: hopefully get through that and then head to Tokyo. And
Speaker 11: the quality of players and the caliber players is going
Speaker 11: to be very high. We can't use forty man roster guys,
Speaker 11: but we can use a lot of guys that have
Speaker 11: major league experience that aren't attached to a to a
Speaker 11: team when we play and uh, and then some of
Speaker 11: the young guys coming up that are in Double A
Speaker 11: and Triple A that haven't hit forty man rosters yet.
Speaker 11: So we're excited about the group. We're putting the rosters
Speaker 11: together as we speak through these last this last month
Speaker 11: and moving forward getting ready for the tournament. So we're
Speaker 11: we'll be ready to go.
Speaker 3: We hear about when uh, these plays I just want
Speaker 3: to play in the World Baseball Classic that are on
Speaker 3: the forty man roster, Mike. Obviously, the team has a
Speaker 3: lot of say and how many innings the pitchers can
Speaker 3: pitch and just the restrictions on them. Will you have
Speaker 3: the same type of challenges managing this premiere twelve tournament.
Speaker 11: If a player is with an affiliated team in an organization,
Speaker 11: most likely yes, if there's but there's a lot of
Speaker 11: guys that are are pitching an independent ball a lot
Speaker 11: of guys that are pitching you know, overseas right now
Speaker 11: that aren't really affiliated with uh, with an organization, So uh,
Speaker 11: they'll be able to you know, we'll be able to
Speaker 11: use them probably, you know a little in some of
Speaker 11: the roles we want, but certainly every organization wants to
Speaker 11: protect their players, and we'll be looking at the guys
Speaker 11: that are in the Fall League, they'll be hopefully ramped
Speaker 11: up or ready to go, and if they can come,
Speaker 11: we'll We'll live with whatever restrictions the organization gives us.
Speaker 3: All Right, there's Mike Soosha and you can hear the
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Speaker 6: Is that a nice way of saying, Oh, hi, old guy,
Speaker 6: how are you?
Speaker 11: No?
Speaker 6: No, Yeah, did you enjoy your off day? Well?
Speaker 5: I had a busy, very busy off day.
Speaker 6: Yeah. Well I also did the off day DODG. You
Speaker 6: talk too.
Speaker 3: We had two big guests, Joe Kelly and former two
Speaker 3: hemate Mikesosha. Yeah, yours not mine.
Speaker 6: Yeah. Yeah. Well it's one of those things. So here's
Speaker 6: an interesting question. I did not listen last night. I
Speaker 6: had other obligations. So did you talk a lot about catching?
Speaker 11: Yeah?
Speaker 3: I felt like I had to get it in there. Well,
Speaker 3: he said, and this is a direct quote. The catching
Speaker 3: position is changing, and not necessarily for the better. He
Speaker 3: is not a fan of catchers down on one knee.
Speaker 3: He's not a fan of catchers not giving a target
Speaker 3: to the picture to try to steal a low strike.
Speaker 3: He feels like guys like Bob Boone and himself were
Speaker 3: able to do that fairly well without having to go
Speaker 3: to one knee and move their glove around.
Speaker 5: There's not a lot of quiet catchers these days.
Speaker 6: Well, yeah, it's and you're speaking of catching. You know,
Speaker 6: today's kind of an odd day to begin with. It
Speaker 6: was in the late eighteen hundreds. Now this is going back. Yeah,
Speaker 6: you weren't there for that, but Roger Bresnahan and I
Speaker 6: bring his name up in relationship you talked about with
Speaker 6: Mike Soshi with catching, who was a marvelous catcher and
Speaker 6: a wonderful teammate. And he's one of those guys too.
Speaker 6: Someone asked me about two guys in particular, Dusty Baker
Speaker 6: and with Mike Sooshi, and I was asked, well, did
Speaker 6: it surprise you at all that they became a managers?
Speaker 6: And I said, immediately before they could even continue the question,
Speaker 6: I said, no, it didn't surprise me either. One I said,
Speaker 6: it also did not surprise me that they became very
Speaker 6: good managers. It's one thing to be a manager, that
Speaker 6: in itself is really something, but to be a good
Speaker 6: manager to the level that both Baker and Soshia really
Speaker 6: became accomplished was really something to watch. And they were
Speaker 6: good for the game of baseball on top of it.
Speaker 3: You know what Mike Sooshi said, And Dusty said this
Speaker 3: as well when he was here for his honor. He
Speaker 3: said and both men said growing up in the organization
Speaker 3: and being there in spring training, Sandy Coefax, Johnny andres
Speaker 3: Roy Campanella, all those guys helped them rick to become
Speaker 3: the managers that they became.
Speaker 6: So we're talking about catching, right. So Bresnahan, he came
Speaker 6: on in the late eighteen hundreds, actually as a pitcher
Speaker 6: in the major league level, didn't last that long as
Speaker 6: a pitcher, didn't hit too well or it came up
Speaker 6: with a sore arm basically, but he could catch well.
Speaker 6: Bresnahan is the gentleman who came up with the modern
Speaker 6: day catcher's shin guard. And when he first came up with,
Speaker 6: I mean it was leather, you know, it wasn't the
Speaker 6: hard plastic, it was leather. He was the one that
Speaker 6: thought this up and how to scrap it on your leg.
Speaker 6: In reading a biography of Bresnahan, he really caught a
Speaker 6: lot of grief from major league players because they figured
Speaker 6: that he was a little soft if he had to
Speaker 6: have shin guards on. But it was Roger Bresnahan who
Speaker 6: played at one time he was a catcher, became the
Speaker 6: catcher for the Chicago Orphans in the Nation League in
Speaker 6: nineteen hundreds.
Speaker 5: So what a name?
Speaker 6: Yeah, so we look at the catchers gear. How did
Speaker 6: it originally start? But it was Roger Bresnahan that that
Speaker 6: invented what is now the modern day sh guards.
Speaker 3: It's used in baseball, and they called it when I
Speaker 3: was growing up, the tools of ignorance. Rick Monday referred
Speaker 3: to catchers and catching.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I don't say that. I also didn't think that.
Speaker 6: During super teams competition years and years ago, the Dodgers
Speaker 6: and Super Teams, and we were in Hawaii competing and
Speaker 6: one of the events was the tandem bicycle race, the
Speaker 6: four forty bicycle race, and Yager and I were teamed
Speaker 6: up on this same bike. Well, the bike kept breaking
Speaker 6: because the chains would break. We were putting so much
Speaker 6: pressure on them. But in the interview, they said, well,
Speaker 6: what's it like to ride behind Steve Jeger? And I turned.
Speaker 6: I said, well, let me put it this way. I'm
Speaker 6: riding blind behind the guy that wears the tools of ignorance.
Speaker 6: But I have total trust in it.
Speaker 5: Well said Rick.
Speaker 3: Thanks a lot for sharing that story in History of
Speaker 3: the Catching good show last night.
Speaker 5: Thanks, Rick, appreciate it.
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Speaker 1: But first and now, what will likely be vast a
Speaker 1: fielding insults from.
Speaker 2: A Dodger player. It's an engagement of endearment. This is
Speaker 2: high and tight.
Speaker 3: Well, I promised I wouldn't bother this man until August,
Speaker 3: and here we are at the end of August, and
Speaker 3: I am a man of my word, and tonight he
Speaker 3: is starting at second base. And that is the one
Speaker 3: and only Chris Taylor. Chris, thanks a lot for the time.
Speaker 5: Appreciate it.
Speaker 9: Yeah, I made it easy on you there being on
Speaker 9: the IL that whole time.
Speaker 3: But well, it is a technicality, but I'll take it
Speaker 3: for sure. How does it feel to be back and
Speaker 3: to get a start tonight against the lefty Cole Irvin.
Speaker 9: It feels good to be back. You know, anytime around
Speaker 9: the IL you're itching to get back in the lineup
Speaker 9: and you know, or just get on the field and
Speaker 9: you know what plan two days ago. It was just
Speaker 9: refreshing to get back out there and you know, compete again.
Speaker 9: And yeah, I'm excited.
Speaker 6: Cet.
Speaker 3: Even before you got injured, you were starting to find
Speaker 3: your rhythm to the season. Strikeouts were down, batting average
Speaker 3: was up, and you even told me that you made
Speaker 3: some noticeable swing changes. Do you feel like you carried
Speaker 3: the momentum from before the injury into you know, your
Speaker 3: rehab assignment.
Speaker 9: Yeah, it's kind of been a constant progression. You know,
Speaker 9: I think probably a few weeks before I got injured,
Speaker 9: I was feeling pretty good and some of my feels
Speaker 9: were starting to get a little too extreme. And when
Speaker 9: I got hurt, I wasn't I was feeling okay. You know,
Speaker 9: I was still getting hits, but I wasn't really driving
Speaker 9: the ball and kind of just like not really barreling much.
Speaker 9: But I was still, like you said, I was getting
Speaker 9: on base, and you know, I thought the the injury,
Speaker 9: you know, trying to take advantage of the downtime and
Speaker 9: you know, tune some things out. And right now I
Speaker 9: feel much better and feel like even two days ago,
Speaker 9: you know, I had a couple of swings where I
Speaker 9: actually drove it, one foul and the other one was
Speaker 9: a line out. But you know, I felt like I
Speaker 9: hadn't really barreled the ball or driven the ball to
Speaker 9: the outfield in a while, So that was a good
Speaker 9: sign for me.
Speaker 3: You're a guy that has a pretty good head on
Speaker 3: his shoulders to stand the moment. Do you just approach
Speaker 3: this as saying, this is my new season because we
Speaker 3: are getting closer to the time of year where Chris
Speaker 3: Taylor thrives.
Speaker 9: Yeah, I think as baseball players, you have to especially
Speaker 9: when you have a slow start, you kind of have
Speaker 9: to approach every day like a new season, and you
Speaker 9: have to find those short little periods. You can't dwell
Speaker 9: on your numbers for the year. Especially for me this year,
Speaker 9: getting such a bad start, it's just not a good
Speaker 9: head place to be in. So yeah, it kind of
Speaker 9: gives you a fresh start mentality, and I'm really just
Speaker 9: trying to, you know, help us get to the playoffs
Speaker 9: and you know, hopefully win at a Vision and win
Speaker 9: a World Series, and you know, trying to look forward.
Speaker 5: Chris Taylor is our guest.
Speaker 3: The Dodgers have the best record in baseball, including yourself.
Speaker 3: Your lineup is healthy. Does it feel like you guys
Speaker 3: are on the verge or in the middle of playing
Speaker 3: your best baseball of the season.
Speaker 9: Yeah, as you said, I think health is the biggest thing.
Speaker 9: You know, we got some guys back that we've really
Speaker 9: been missing, and finally having everyone on the field, almost
Speaker 9: everybody on the field, is huge for us.
Speaker 3: I'm looking at your left wrist. Do you have a
Speaker 3: few risk bands on there? And one was hashtag Dalton
Speaker 3: and the other one is for Kai. Can you explain
Speaker 3: those two wristbands and why you wear them.
Speaker 9: Yeah, I have one is Dalton, He's one of my
Speaker 9: He lives in my parents neighborhood. He lost his life
Speaker 9: you in sarcoma. Kai is currently fighting brain cancer. And
Speaker 9: the other one is the letters war Off, But that's
Speaker 9: for my one of my best friends growing up, call
Speaker 9: Profile he lost his fight with ostio sarcoma. So yeah,
Speaker 9: just kind of reminders, you know, keep those those guys
Speaker 9: in my thoughts, and I definitely puts things into perspective,
Speaker 9: like this is just a game, and you know, there
Speaker 9: are bigger things in life.
Speaker 3: How much do you think about them when you're standing
Speaker 3: at second base pre pitch or maybe in between innings
Speaker 3: when you're warming up, or is it just something that
Speaker 3: you keep with you throughout the day and just know
Speaker 3: they're there.
Speaker 9: Yeah, you know, I think it's you know, I don't
Speaker 9: know if I'm thinking about them like while I'm playing,
Speaker 9: or it's more just something you know, when I look
Speaker 9: down and see it, it's just a reminder, and you
Speaker 9: know I like to have that, you know, keep those
Speaker 9: keep those kids, and you I keep them in my thought.
Speaker 6: Love it.
Speaker 3: Thanks Chris, thanks for sharing, and we'll look forward to
Speaker 3: seeing you at second base.
Speaker 11: Tonight.
Speaker 9: Yeah, looking forward to be back.
Speaker 3: Hey, great to have Chris Taylor back. And this is
Speaker 3: Chris Taylor time in October. Certainly is KIK and Chris
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Speaker 3: They have left hander Cole Irvin on the mound for
Speaker 3: only the second time since June thirtieth, when the Orioles
Speaker 3: made the trade for Zach Efflyn.
Speaker 5: They move Irvin to the bullpen. Eflyn on the il,
Speaker 5: so Irvin.
Speaker 3: Is back in the rotation for the injury riddled Orioles rotation,
Speaker 3: only his second start since June thirtieth. He actually has
Speaker 3: one of the lowest walk rates among active pitchers in
Speaker 3: Major League Baseball, so we'll see if the Dodgers are
Speaker 3: aggressive early in the count tonight. For the Dodgers, they
Speaker 3: have Jack Flaherty on the mound. He's ten and five
Speaker 3: this season with an ERA of three. He's making his
Speaker 3: twenty third start of the year, his fifth as a Dodger,
Speaker 3: and he's three and oh this year with the Dodgers
Speaker 3: since being traded from Detroit. His ERA is three twenty two.
Speaker 3: Jack has said he feels like he could pitch much
Speaker 3: better than he has already, and certainly the one thing
Speaker 3: he could say about flarity he is the ultimate competitor,
Speaker 3: something the Dodgers have sorely needed. This will be Jack
Speaker 3: Flarerty's first career start against the Baltimore Orioles, a team
Speaker 3: he pitched for the second half of last year when
Speaker 3: he was traded from Saint Louis to Baltimore. So Jack
Speaker 3: Flarerty against Cole Irvin. You're pitching matchup tonight, Dodgers and Orioles,
Speaker 3: fifteen minutes away from first pitch from Dodgers Stadium.
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Speaker 4: All right, David, as the Dodgers and Orioles get ready
Speaker 4: for the first of this three game series. The Dodgers,
Speaker 4: of course, the best record in baseball currently Baltimore, just
Speaker 4: two games behind the New York Yankees in the American
Speaker 4: League East. And we've got a good pitching matchup going tonight.
Speaker 4: Cole Irvin lefty six and five before eighty two going
Speaker 4: for the Birds. Jack Clarity ten up and five down
Speaker 4: an ERA of three. And he's been terrific since coming
Speaker 4: to the has he ever?
Speaker 6: Dave Roberts alluding to it a little bit earlier today,
Speaker 6: this afternoon four starts with the Dodgers. He's two and
Speaker 6: oh the other part two is both these guys tonight
Speaker 6: throw a lot of off speed, a lot of breaking stuff,
Speaker 6: and for Flarity, he has been able to get ahead
Speaker 6: in a lot of counts. So look for that tonight.
Speaker 6: In fact, you start to look at the local product.
Speaker 6: I mean, here's the team that he looked at as
Speaker 6: a kid watching the Dodgers. Born in bird Bank, went
Speaker 6: to Harvard Westlake in the high school area, and Roberts
Speaker 6: is saying he is about the most well prepared pitcher
Speaker 6: since joining his ball club right alongside Clayton Kershaw.
Speaker 5: What can you tell us about Cole Irvin?
Speaker 6: Well Again, he's a local product, born in Yorba Linda
Speaker 6: and for Urban. One of the things he's able to do,
Speaker 6: much like Flaherty, throw a lot of off speed stuff,
Speaker 6: but he's given up a two to ninety batting average
Speaker 6: against him. The Nighters only have two left handers strictly lefties.
Speaker 6: Edmunds in there. He's a switch hitter, but from Munsey
Speaker 6: and Otani. One of the things that Ervin has not
Speaker 6: been able to do. He's gone the last thirty four
Speaker 6: at bats lefties without having bigg a strikeout. We'll find
Speaker 6: out how that breaking bow is going to work against
Speaker 6: the lefties tonight.
Speaker 4: Two of the better teams in baseball this season, the
Speaker 4: Dodgers and the Orioles. Dodgers seventy eight at fifty three
Speaker 4: and the Orioles at seventy six, up fifty six down
Speaker 4: lineups at first pitch coming up?
Speaker 3: All right, Thank you guys. Great to have Charlie stop
Speaker 3: by today. Dodgers and Orioles first pitches. Next after the game,
Speaker 3: we will have postgame Dodger Talk for you with all
Speaker 3: the highlights and postgame reaction.
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