Speaker 1: And now your host of Dodger Talk. Tim Kakes.
Speaker 2: Dodgers explode for seven runs in the first inning, Bobby
Speaker 2: Miller gave a lot of it back in the third
Speaker 2: with the Dodgers hang on and get the win over
Speaker 2: the Colorado Rockies eight to seven. Hi, everybody, and welcome
Speaker 2: in to postgame Dodger Talk here on a five to
Speaker 2: seventy LA Sports Live Everywhere on the iHeartRadio apps. For
Speaker 2: being with us late night on this Wednesday night. Eight
Speaker 2: six six nine eighty seven two five seventy is a
Speaker 2: number jump on board if you're leaving Dodgers Stadium. Enjoyed
Speaker 2: the game tonight, eight sixty six nine eighty seven to
Speaker 2: two five seventy A lot to digest from this game tonight,
Speaker 2: and really this six game Homestand the Dodgers dropped two
Speaker 2: to three over the weekend to the Chicago Cubs and
Speaker 2: come back against a Colorado Rockies team that had just
Speaker 2: gotten swept and didn't score a run in twenty seven
Speaker 2: innings in San Diego. And the Dodgers do what they're
Speaker 2: supposed to do. They beat the Rockies in a three
Speaker 2: game series. They sweep the Rockies in a three game series,
Speaker 2: a little close form my comfort here tonight in an
Speaker 2: eight seven win over the Rockies. Bud Nonetheless, you get
Speaker 2: the w, you get the sweep, you feel good about
Speaker 2: how the way you're playing. Some of the bats are
Speaker 2: starting to pick up at the bottom of the lineup
Speaker 2: for the Dodgers, and you head off now for a
Speaker 2: five game road trip beginning Friday in Texas. Tonight, in
Speaker 2: that first inning, the Dodgers down one to nothing, shoey
Speaker 2: Otani was behind in the count to lead off the
Speaker 2: bottom of the first and show he extended his hands
Speaker 2: and crushed the ball four hundred and forty eight feet
Speaker 2: almost near the roof of the right field pavilion. He
Speaker 2: hit that ball so far. The Dodgers put up seven
Speaker 2: runs in the first Freddie Freeman goes deep. They batter around.
Speaker 2: They had twelve different batters go to the plate in
Speaker 2: the first inning, and shoey Otani goes two for two
Speaker 2: in the inning alone with two ribbies, as the Dodgers
Speaker 2: were up seven to one. The only problem tonight Bobby
Speaker 2: Miller gave back uns, Michael Talia a grand slam, Mickey
Speaker 2: Moniac a home run. The Rockies came back with a
Speaker 2: five run third inning, and that leads us now to
Speaker 2: what the Dodgers do moving forward with this spot in
Speaker 2: the rotation. They have given Justin Robleski, Landon Knack, and
Speaker 2: Bobby Miller now all opportunities to seize a spot in
Speaker 2: the rotation to be a part of the big league
Speaker 2: rotation for however long they need to be until the
Speaker 2: injuries bring back Clayton Kershaw and Blake Snell off the il.
Speaker 2: But none of these three have really said, Okay, I'll
Speaker 2: be the guy. I want that spot in the rotation.
Speaker 2: Landonnack got a second opportunity last night. Justin Robleski's been
Speaker 2: given an opportunity tonight. Bobby Miller, who's pitched okay in Tripa,
Speaker 2: Oklahoma City, came out, gave up a run of the
Speaker 2: first through twenty nine pitches not ideal. Came back in
Speaker 2: the second and he got a couple of punchouts, worked
Speaker 2: around a two out single. All right, looked better. His
Speaker 2: off speeds pitches tonight looked really good. He was throwing
Speaker 2: them for strikes. He just threw too many pitches eighty
Speaker 2: four in three innings of work. The pitch count was
Speaker 2: too high after three innings. That's what a twenty nine
Speaker 2: pitch first inning will do. And quite frankly, did Bobby
Speaker 2: Miller do enough to go back out when the next
Speaker 2: spot and there his rotation comes up Wednesday in Chicago.
Speaker 3: I mean, we'll find out.
Speaker 2: I don't know how many more options the Dodgers have
Speaker 2: in Tripa, Oklahoma City, because Tyler Glass now is going
Speaker 2: to go out there this weekend and pitch. Yoshi Yamamoto
Speaker 2: is gonna go out and pitch on Friday. Rookie Sazaki
Speaker 2: is gonna go out and pitch on Saturday. But the
Speaker 2: Dodgers don't have Blake Snell. The Dodgers don't have Clayton Kershaw.
Speaker 2: They're searching for a fifth start in this rotation, and
Speaker 2: they've desperately looked for one of these young arms to
Speaker 2: grab that and run with it, and none of the
Speaker 2: three have. And speaking of young arns, thank goodness for
Speaker 2: Ben Casparius, who was not only big in October last
Speaker 2: year for the Dodgers after getting called up, Ben Casparrius
Speaker 2: has been big this season already, and tonight is a
Speaker 2: prime example of that.
Speaker 3: He gets the win. He gives up.
Speaker 2: One run on two hits, strikes out three and three
Speaker 2: innings of work. He was huge tonight, bridging the gap
Speaker 2: from a short three innings from Bobby Miller to get
Speaker 2: it to the seventh inning and the high leverage relievers
Speaker 2: Vessia Tanner Scott able to come out and pitch for
Speaker 2: the Dodgers. What Ben Casparius did was huge, bridging that
Speaker 2: gap to Vessi and Tanner Scott to close it out.
Speaker 2: If not, it's a long night for the.
Speaker 3: Dodger pitching staff.
Speaker 2: Another one, Well, you've seen too many of them early
Speaker 2: on because of the lack of depthness from the starting pitchers.
Speaker 3: I brought it up with Jose.
Speaker 2: It's something, at least in my mind, I'm starting to
Speaker 2: look at It's April sixteenth, and we're seeing a lot
Speaker 2: of bullpen usage. We're seeing a lot of arms being
Speaker 2: asked to go and save the butts of the starters.
Speaker 2: Seeing a lot of Jack Dryer, seeing a lot of
Speaker 2: Ben Casparius. We're seeing a lot of Louis Garcia in
Speaker 2: low leverage, blowout type situations. But still he's pitched nearly
Speaker 2: ten innings already. Luis Garcia, if you had him on
Speaker 2: your Bengo board for a guy that'd be on this
Speaker 2: roster In the first place, you're lying, we're seeing a
Speaker 2: lot of innings already from the Dodger bullpen and we
Speaker 2: haven't been seen yet. Evan Phillips, Bruce degraderol In, Michael Kopek. Yes,
Speaker 2: I get it. Those three high leverage relievers are working
Speaker 2: their way back from excess usage last year, forcing them
Speaker 2: to start the year this year on the injured list,
Speaker 2: working their way back from LB situations. And for Bruce Darcgradral,
Speaker 2: really everything has been hurting him. But the innans are
Speaker 2: starting to mount up for this Dodgers' bullpen and it's
Speaker 2: April sixteenth.
Speaker 3: Just something to keep an eye on.
Speaker 2: The Dodgers need to see longer outings from their starters.
Speaker 2: They need to see guys go at least five innings
Speaker 2: for him. Now, this this three innings, two and a
Speaker 2: third having to go to the bullpen, having to see
Speaker 2: guys bail them out. The last road trip Washington, DC, again,
Speaker 2: the bullpen in the closeout game had to carry this
Speaker 2: Dodgers team because Land and That couldn't get out of
Speaker 2: it out past the third inning. That can't last. That
Speaker 2: is not a good recipe for any pitching staff to
Speaker 2: have a bullpen have to pitch five and a third
Speaker 2: six innings constantly. You've got to get more out of
Speaker 2: your starting pitching. And again, three young arms have been
Speaker 2: given opportunities here in the first three weeks of the
Speaker 2: season to grab on with tart starting spot, Bobby Miller,
Speaker 2: Tonight Landon Nax has been given twice now opportunities, and
Speaker 2: Justin Robleski, and none of the three have seized the opportunity.
Speaker 2: So again, it'll be interesting to see what the Dodgers
Speaker 2: do next Wednesday. Could Tony Gonslim be an option We'll
Speaker 2: see he's still down in TRIPLEA Oklahoma City returning from
Speaker 2: a back injury. I mean, Landon Nax had three audings
Speaker 2: this year with an ERA near seven and a half.
Speaker 2: Justin Robleski has given up eight runs in his lone
Speaker 2: start last week. He's already been optioned, so the Dodgers
Speaker 2: are gonna have to figure out what they're gonna do
Speaker 2: for another starter. The next couple spins around the rotation
Speaker 2: until at least Blake Snell gets back eight sixty six
Speaker 2: nine eight seven, two five seventy. It gets overlooked, it
Speaker 2: gets kind of brushed to the side. On a night
Speaker 2: like tonight when the Dodgers put up seven runs in
Speaker 2: the first. When the Dodgers win eight to seven over
Speaker 2: a bad Colorado Rockies team, we raised the w We
Speaker 2: get excited about the victory, the sweep over the Rockies.
Speaker 2: But back of my mind, I'm looking at this bullpen.
Speaker 2: Say six more innings of work for Dodger relievers, three
Speaker 2: more innings asked by Ben Casparius. You know these guys
Speaker 2: were huge in October. You're gonna need these arms in October.
Speaker 2: I don't want to burn these guys out by the
Speaker 2: All Star break, and I understand you have high leverage
Speaker 2: arms coming back, and it's gonna take more than just
Speaker 2: what we are seeing now.
Speaker 3: And there's gonna be.
Speaker 2: Guys added to this bullpen roster like we saw a
Speaker 2: year ago, Brent Honeywells of the world, who you don't
Speaker 2: even know who they are yet they're gonna join this
Speaker 2: Dodgers team and be asked to soak up innings in
Speaker 2: July in August to get through one hundred and sixty
Speaker 2: two games.
Speaker 3: But it just kind of.
Speaker 2: Feels like early on here calling on the bullpen an
Speaker 2: awful lot to come in and pitch games, and the
Speaker 2: sixteen nothing loss to the Cubs over the weekend. Sure,
Speaker 2: we all had fun watching Miguel Rojas pitch two innings,
Speaker 2: but we also saw the bullpath to come in and
Speaker 2: pick up and pitch more than they were asked to do,
Speaker 2: you know, on the next day, and then the next day,
Speaker 2: and then tonight has to pitch six more at combined
Speaker 2: innings of relief eight sixty six, nine eighty seven, two
Speaker 2: five seventy. Ben Casparius gets the winning relief. Tanner Scott
Speaker 2: gets his sixth save already that is top three in
Speaker 2: the major leagues as the Dodgers finish off the Rockies
Speaker 2: eight to seven. Coming up, we'll hear from Clayton Kershaw,
Speaker 2: who today was in Oklahoma City on a minor league
Speaker 2: rehab started.
Speaker 3: Don't get too excited.
Speaker 2: He's on the sixty day il I mean, he can't
Speaker 2: come back any time soon, but he has started at
Speaker 2: least the progress of working his way back and building
Speaker 2: himself up to be a starter again on this Dodgers team.
Speaker 2: With a aging Clayton Kershaw, You're not looking for him
Speaker 2: to nessily pitch in April, May and June, at least
Speaker 2: I'm not. If I'm the Dodgers, and I'm looking at
Speaker 2: it long term here for a six month season, I
Speaker 2: want my future Hall of Fame closer to forty left
Speaker 2: handed starter available the second half of the season, sort
Speaker 2: of like what we're seeing for shoey O TAWNI probably
Speaker 2: could come back and start right now and be a
Speaker 2: part of the rotation.
Speaker 3: But why waste those bullets, so to speak, right.
Speaker 2: Now where you could save them for the second half
Speaker 2: of the season, so you can ramp them up and
Speaker 2: he's ready to go and really lathered up by September,
Speaker 2: you get it, staggering his starting time. Same with Clayton
Speaker 2: Kershaw to fit in to the All Star break and
Speaker 2: beyond when it really gets into crunch time over the
Speaker 2: course of the season, not the April, in May, doesn't matter.
Speaker 2: But you're able to get win still because this team
Speaker 2: is so talented with the rash they have this early
Speaker 2: in the season and not have all their starting pitching
Speaker 2: when they need it. But again, something to keep in
Speaker 2: mind the bullpen.
Speaker 3: A lot of.
Speaker 2: Innings starting to mount up on this bullpen staff for
Speaker 2: Dave Roberts eight sixty six nine eight seven two five
Speaker 2: seventy James in North Hollywood start things off here on
Speaker 2: this Wednesday night postgame Dodge Talk.
Speaker 4: How you doing doing great? Tim doing great? Great to
Speaker 4: be on Dodger Talk for the first time this season.
Speaker 4: I'm a regular from past seasons. Hey, I want to
Speaker 4: say I want to talk about Casparrius and Tommy Evan,
Speaker 4: but first I want to say, big picture, I think
Speaker 4: the Dodgers are handling this right with their primary focus
Speaker 4: being on, you know, having all their starting pictures healthy
Speaker 4: for when it matters most. I think that's a you know,
Speaker 4: it's a bigger priority than the bullpen usage currently. I'm
Speaker 4: not disagreeing with you. I think that the bullpen usage
Speaker 4: is already an issue, But I think as far as
Speaker 4: keeping their eye on the ball, I think the Dodgers
Speaker 4: are doing exactly that. And we do know we're going
Speaker 4: to get Gonsolin back relatively soon. Snell will be back
Speaker 4: relatively soon, So I think that's going to bring some
Speaker 4: normalcy to the situation that that we're seeing. But going Casparius,
Speaker 4: here's a not so wacky idea. In my opinion, this
Speaker 4: is going back to his performance in the postseason and
Speaker 4: last year Wednesday, right, They're going to have to figure
Speaker 4: out who's going to start for them. Well, today's Wednesday.
Speaker 4: Why not have Casparius just throw a pen between now
Speaker 4: and then and let him take the ball. I mean,
Speaker 4: he went forty seven pitches three innings. He is a
Speaker 4: starter by trade that was put in the pen, you
Speaker 4: know initially, And I mean you could even piggyback Dryer
Speaker 4: off of Casparius and they could give you five or
Speaker 4: six right there, and then you know, without making a
Speaker 4: roster move, you can simply put Bobby Miller in the
Speaker 4: pen until he figures out how not to completely lose
Speaker 4: command of half of his pitches after two innings. You
Speaker 4: know that that way you've got you still got a
Speaker 4: long man in the pen who can you know, come
Speaker 4: in and eat up innings in a blowout, whether it's
Speaker 4: the Dodgers up with the Dodgers down, And I think
Speaker 4: that gives us a better chance to win ballgames. So
Speaker 4: that's what I would like to say about Casparraus And
Speaker 4: if I may, on Edmund, what an unbelievable start he's had,
Speaker 4: And I would love to see Dave move him a
Speaker 4: little further up in the lineup, even if it's just
Speaker 4: one spot above Conforto, let's say, because Conforta's got a
Speaker 4: lot of swing and miss and flyout, and Edmund's got
Speaker 4: great bat to ball skills. I'd like to see him
Speaker 4: right behind ta Oscar because I think sometimes you might
Speaker 4: see Edmund leading off an inning more often than not,
Speaker 4: and he on any other team would be a heck
Speaker 4: of a leadoff guy with his speed and back to
Speaker 4: ball skills.
Speaker 3: Interesting theory. I appreciate the phone call, James.
Speaker 2: You're right about being conspiraus and he's somebody that I've
Speaker 2: talked about well really all of last year until his
Speaker 2: call up at the end of the season. Was what
Speaker 2: he was able to do in the minor leagues and
Speaker 2: how quickly he moved up in the minor leagues. I
Speaker 2: mean it was just twenty twenty two. He started the
Speaker 2: year in Rancho Kucamonga. Twenty twenty three, he started the
Speaker 2: year in High A ball Great Lakes with the Wounds.
Speaker 2: Last year, he's already in Double A before getting called
Speaker 2: up to Triple A. And his professional career in the
Speaker 2: minor leagues was as a starter sixteen starts in twenty two,
Speaker 2: twenty one starts in twenty three, and keep in mind
Speaker 2: the Dodgers used him last year when he got called
Speaker 2: up as a long reliever like he did tonight, forty
Speaker 2: seven pitches, three innings. He made nineteen starts last year.
Speaker 2: He threw eighty eighty eight and two third innings as
Speaker 2: a starter in Double A in Triple A last year
Speaker 2: with a three thirty five ERO. The Dodgers put him
Speaker 2: in a bullpen because they needed him at that spot
Speaker 2: in October. But you're right, he is a starter by trade.
Speaker 2: I wouldn't I wouldn't be mad if you wanted to
Speaker 2: build him up three innings, forty seven pitches. I know
Speaker 2: he's fitting really nicely into that middle relief, bridged the
Speaker 2: gap between the starters inabilities and the high leverage bullpen relievers.
Speaker 2: He's done very nicely in that. Okay, it's a nice
Speaker 2: role for a guy in the major leagues, especially a
Speaker 2: young arm like Benk Casparius, who's twenty six.
Speaker 3: Not so young.
Speaker 2: But I wouldn't be mad if you said, Benk Caspirius, Yeah,
Speaker 2: let's build him up, let's have him go out. Maybe
Speaker 2: he goes four innings in a start next Wednesday in Chicago.
Speaker 2: I'd be okay with that, I would, you know, especially
Speaker 2: since you've given three other arms and Bobby Miller, Landon
Speaker 2: Neck and Justin Robleski every opportunity here in the first
Speaker 2: month of the season and in spring training to get
Speaker 2: a spot in this rotation. Benk Casparius has earned that
Speaker 2: right to possibly be a starter if the Dodgers see fit.
Speaker 3: That's the role that they want to have him.
Speaker 2: And again, what he's doing right now is working and
Speaker 2: has been beneficial and has been the times game saving
Speaker 2: for this Dodgers team. They may not want to take
Speaker 2: him out of that role. Let's go back out to
Speaker 2: Dodger Stadium. Let's get some thoughts here from the Dodgers
Speaker 2: skipper Dave Roberts talking to the media.
Speaker 1: End of the day, you have to stake a miss
Speaker 1: getting straight down.
Speaker 5: What do you think is lead that part contact today?
Speaker 6: I think yeah, there was. There was some strikeouts in
Speaker 6: there certainly, which was good. But you know, when you
Speaker 6: get a seven to one lead, you've got to be
Speaker 6: able to go deeper in the game. You have to
Speaker 6: You've got to be able to chip outs, You've got
Speaker 6: to get count leverage. They're young, aggressive ball club swinging
Speaker 6: the bat and you just can't keep behind. And you know,
Speaker 6: when you start running deep counts certain then you're going
Speaker 6: to make mistakes, and case in point was a totally
Speaker 6: ad bat hanging breaking ball with count leverage, and you've
Speaker 6: just got to you know, Bobby's just got to learn
Speaker 6: to navigate innings better and to go to brant games.
Speaker 6: But the stuff is good. The curveball is good today,
Speaker 6: the command of the fastball was good. The change up
Speaker 6: and the slider were just non competitive, and so that's
Speaker 6: something that we got to get back to. But it's
Speaker 6: a learning lesson. I think there were some encouraging things
Speaker 6: in the sense of the strikeouts that we talked about.
Speaker 6: You know, he's trying his tail off, he's competing. He
Speaker 6: didn't run from it. But yeah, you do have to
Speaker 6: understand how to navigate hitters and innings to go deeper
Speaker 6: in games.
Speaker 5: As much as we swings at the top of the
Speaker 5: order now encouraging to see.
Speaker 6: The bottle when we were really joying today years it
Speaker 6: was really good to see. I think what stands out obviously,
Speaker 6: I thought Andy the last couple of days is swinging
Speaker 6: the bat a lot better. Max is taking really good
Speaker 6: at bats. I thought that bad versus par Alta was
Speaker 6: his best at bat of the season, missing a homer,
Speaker 6: hitting at foul, lining a ball, taking some good pitches.
Speaker 6: So him getting on base certainly is very helpful for
Speaker 6: our ball club and the bottom of the order and
Speaker 6: just some good things. But obviously what sho Hey and
Speaker 6: Freddy did tonight was, you know, really stood out.
Speaker 4: All right.
Speaker 2: There's Dave Roberts his post, same thoughts with the media.
Speaker 2: As yeah, Bobby Miller was given a seven to one lead,
Speaker 2: and as he mentioned, count leverage is huge for Bobby
Speaker 2: Miller the control issues last year. Tonight, he just needed
Speaker 2: to get ahead in the count and get those swing
Speaker 2: happy Rockies to start chasing after pitches. But when you
Speaker 2: fall behind, you got to zero in a little bit more.
Speaker 2: They're hunting you, and they love to swing the bat.
Speaker 2: They're a free hitting team, the Colorado Rockies, and tonight
Speaker 2: a grand slam, a home run the third five spot
Speaker 2: got them right back in the game. Thankfully, the Dodgers
Speaker 2: able to get the go ahead run in the fifth
Speaker 2: inning and proved to be the winning run an eight
Speaker 2: to seven win over the Colorado Rockies. Will continue with
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Speaker 2: here on Dodger Talk as the Dodgers improved now to
Speaker 2: fourteen and six on this season. Ben Casparius gets to
Speaker 2: win and relieve three impressive innings out of the bullpen
Speaker 2: for Caspirius. After Bobby Miller went just three innings, giving
Speaker 2: up six runs on eight hits. He was given a
Speaker 2: seven to one lead, but gave up five runs in
Speaker 2: the third inning to get the Rockies back in it.
Speaker 2: Andy Potter has an RBI single in the fifth gave
Speaker 2: the Dodgers an eight six lead, and that would prove
Speaker 2: to be the game winning run for the Dodgers as
Speaker 2: they win it eight to seven. Well here from Clayton
Speaker 2: Kershaw coming up in just a couple of minutes. Manny
Speaker 2: in La joins us here on Dodgers talk.
Speaker 3: How you doing many?
Speaker 1: What's going on?
Speaker 7: Tim?
Speaker 4: Just leading the stadium.
Speaker 1: I was with my son.
Speaker 8: It was our first game this year. Kind of a
Speaker 8: roller coaster of a game. Sat down, first pitch, was awesome,
Speaker 8: lost the first in shots to all the guys who
Speaker 8: put up all those runs. It was great to see
Speaker 8: a couple of tames. I'm gonna talk about. The first
Speaker 8: is a very unpopular opinion. I am just not sold
Speaker 8: on Bobby Miller. I haven't been since the beginning, but
Speaker 8: you know, they keep trying him out there. You know,
Speaker 8: we're rooted for him. He throws too many pitches, gets
Speaker 8: into many jam that loves to throw that long ball.
Speaker 8: So unfortunately, that's a recipe for disaster. And I'm going
Speaker 8: to be in Chicago this week supporting our boys out
Speaker 8: there nice and I'm praying that we don't get to
Speaker 8: see him. I'd love to see anybody, Hey throw Migo
Speaker 8: Rohas back out there. I'll root hard, but I think
Speaker 8: Bobby Miller showed us what he's made of and it's
Speaker 8: not really big level stuff. So I'm gonna keep rooting
Speaker 8: for him.
Speaker 1: Tim.
Speaker 8: You know, I have a lot of faith in this team.
Speaker 8: But we saw what we saw tonight and the writing's
Speaker 8: on the wall. So that's all I gotta say about.
Speaker 3: That, all right, Manny, I appreciate it.
Speaker 2: It wasn't a good performance from Bobby Miller overall, and
Speaker 2: Dave Roberts alluded to it. He used the phrase count
Speaker 2: leverage a couple of times, meaning you've got to get
Speaker 2: ahead in the can. You can't keep having three to
Speaker 2: two counts against a team like the Colorado Rockies. You've
Speaker 2: got to attack them. You've got to throw strikes. You
Speaker 2: got to have the ball put in play. Let your
Speaker 2: defense take care of you. Behind you, you're not going
Speaker 2: to get punch out after punch out. You got some
Speaker 2: swinging and missus when you got a head on two
Speaker 2: strikes and you fought your way back to two strike
Speaker 2: counts and you got swinging misses against Colorado because they're
Speaker 2: a swing happy team. They're a young team that loves
Speaker 2: to swing the bat. You can get them to chase
Speaker 2: when you get ahead, but when you fall behind the count,
Speaker 2: like Bobby Miller did, then you got to zero in
Speaker 2: a little bit more.
Speaker 3: You're forced to throw strikes. They know that, and so
Speaker 3: they're attacking you.
Speaker 2: And that was what Dave Roberts was alluding to about
Speaker 2: count leverage and needing to get ahead, and needing to
Speaker 2: be better with his off speed pitches, in particular his
Speaker 2: change up in his slider tonight. He had a fastball
Speaker 2: and a curve ball. That was it that he was
Speaker 2: able to throw for strikes tonight. The other two pitches
Speaker 2: just didn't have a grasp on it. And again you're
Speaker 2: giving a seven to one lead. Close the door, help
Speaker 2: out this bullpen. Get to the fifth, sixth, seventh inning,
Speaker 2: maybe and help out this Dodgers team, because they helped
Speaker 2: out you with the seventh spot in the first inning.
Speaker 2: The last thing you want to do is go out
Speaker 2: there and give up runs, especially at five run third inning,
Speaker 2: and all of a sudden, it's a one run game again,
Speaker 2: and the Rockies have some confidence and the Dodgers' offenses
Speaker 2: needed to do more, and Andie Pott has delivered with
Speaker 2: that RBI single in the fifth inning, and that was
Speaker 2: proved to be big because the Dodgers end up winning
Speaker 2: eight to seven. Greg at Harbor City has been winning patiently.
Speaker 2: Welcome to Dodger Talk.
Speaker 3: Greg. How you doing.
Speaker 9: I'm doing pretty good. I just uh, it's kind of
Speaker 9: an irony I've seen now. The Dodgers just really loaded
Speaker 9: it up in the preseason, you know, bringing in these
Speaker 9: arms and spending money and everything is looking so good,
Speaker 9: and the only thing you could think is is, you know, well,
Speaker 9: injuries could derail it up just a little bit. It's early,
Speaker 9: but you know, there was talk from the talking heads
Speaker 9: on sports that they're going to trade a pitcher since
Speaker 9: they have a surplus and all this stuff, and then
Speaker 9: you see what starts happening. It kind of reminds you
Speaker 9: when the Lakers got you like Gary Payton and Carl
Speaker 9: Malone and they're like, they're gonna win the championship now,
Speaker 9: and then they got hurt and down went there, down
Speaker 9: went their championship hopes. And you know it's early, but
Speaker 9: it and they're above five hundred five bunch. They're playing,
Speaker 9: you know, pretty decent there in the pack. But pitching
Speaker 9: is such a premium. And if Smell is out much
Speaker 9: longer and he's really actually hurt somehow, and and uh,
Speaker 9: you know, maybe Jnslin could come up and get some innings,
Speaker 9: but this is the big leagues. Those even though Colorado's
Speaker 9: with three wins, them guys hit the ball, you know this,
Speaker 9: Bobby Miller came up and there's a big step from
Speaker 9: the league blow up to this one. And he does okay,
Speaker 9: But these are big league hitters. Everybody's up here for
Speaker 9: a reason. And they were teeing off too. So it's
Speaker 9: it's a hard game. Not you know, not everybody can
Speaker 9: play baseball, but it's like you you're hoping through for
Speaker 9: the Dodgers. I'm a Dodger fan for sure, but it's
Speaker 9: like it's almost like a curse. They stacked it so heavy.
Speaker 9: It's like, you know what, there's gonna be some come
Speaker 9: up ins here because look at the money they spent
Speaker 9: and they this looks like no one could beat them
Speaker 9: the way they built the team. And then you're like, well,
Speaker 9: I guess what, something's gonna something's not going to go
Speaker 9: out right and and they'll work through it, I'm sure,
Speaker 9: but they you know, the pitching no looks so a.
Speaker 4: Deep mal No.
Speaker 3: That's something that's interesting.
Speaker 2: You bring that up, Gregs because we knew that these
Speaker 2: arms that are currently on the injury list outside of
Speaker 2: Blake Snell, that they weren't going to be part of
Speaker 2: the Dodger team the first month of the season, maybe
Speaker 2: the first two months of the season. Evan Phillips, Michael Kopek,
Speaker 2: Tony Gonsolin, Clayton Kershaw. These were all arms that didn't
Speaker 2: get hurt, and it's like, oh, no, we didn't expect this.
Speaker 2: What do we do now? This was already known going
Speaker 2: into the start of the season. With that being said,
Speaker 2: the depth of this team is what a lot of
Speaker 2: the things we talked about in spring training, in all offseason.
Speaker 2: Why it's goodness, look at the starting pitching they have.
Speaker 2: You know, even with the guys that were going to
Speaker 2: be hurt to start the year or are coming off
Speaker 2: of injuries, they're so deep and so many young arms
Speaker 2: that they can call up. They'll be okay, don't worry
Speaker 2: about it. Well, we've mentioned it now, justin Robleski Land
Speaker 2: and that Bobby Miller. Those are three young arms that
Speaker 2: I don't know about you, but I was counting on.
Speaker 2: Is okay, we need a couple of starts here. We'll
Speaker 2: be all right because they got experience, they've showed some
Speaker 2: success at times. They've had their ups and downs, certainly,
Speaker 2: but I'll ride with them. I'm good with them going
Speaker 2: out and starting games. Well, now that you know, we're
Speaker 2: still ways away from Clayton Kershaw and Showeyo Tani pitching,
Speaker 2: and Blake Snell's injured and Tony Gonson's not ready yet,
Speaker 2: and these three young arms have given gotten opportunities and
Speaker 2: haven't taken it and.
Speaker 3: Ran with it. That's a little concerning.
Speaker 2: And the bullpen having to pick up and pitch as
Speaker 2: many innings as they had so far because of the
Speaker 2: lack of starting pitching.
Speaker 3: It's a little concerning. But and by no means is
Speaker 3: it panic time?
Speaker 2: Is that no means a curse on this Dodgers team
Speaker 2: for being as good as they are. I think it's
Speaker 2: just disappointing and not what they expected from having this
Speaker 2: depth and seeing guys not produced. Your depth has gotten
Speaker 2: a little smaller. The arms that you can go to,
Speaker 2: I've gotten a little smaller. That list of guys in
Speaker 2: the triple A and double A level has gotten a
Speaker 2: little smaller for you to go to based on what
Speaker 2: you've seen so far, and hopefully they'll get opportunities again.
Speaker 2: I'm not writing off Bobby Miller. I'm not riding off
Speaker 2: Landon Neck or Justin Robletski. They've been given opportunities, at
Speaker 2: least early on here. They haven't seized the opportunities that
Speaker 2: they've been given. Clayton Kershaw today in Oklahoma City, a
Speaker 2: day game for the comments, pitched three innings, shut out baseball,
Speaker 2: a couple of strikeouts through thirty pitches, and afterwards here's Clayton.
Speaker 3: The future Hall of Famer, on his outing.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 5: I mean, I think anytime as we have you want
Speaker 5: to feel healthy, which I do. I feel good today,
Speaker 5: and then if you want to see your stuff obviously,
Speaker 5: play and so you know, I got some wick outs,
Speaker 5: which is good. Uh, you know, there's some things that
Speaker 5: I need to work on still, but you know, for
Speaker 5: the first one, overall, it was a It was a
Speaker 5: good step forward for sure.
Speaker 3: And how's the toe feeling after climbing that bullpen gate?
Speaker 3: It feels good. Yeah, it feels good.
Speaker 5: I think I broke the gate back there, so sorry
Speaker 5: about that, but you feel good.
Speaker 8: There are a lot of sliders advance your go to
Speaker 8: on that feeling day.
Speaker 5: Yeah, there's some that had the right bite on it
Speaker 5: and some that you know, I don't want to have back.
Speaker 5: But I think that was overall there's some some good
Speaker 5: throws in there for sure, though right now at the
Speaker 5: fastball I don't know, probably not. Yeah, big crowd every
Speaker 5: time you come back here.
Speaker 8: What was it like being an Okay.
Speaker 5: See that was great. Yeah, it's a I like this ballpark.
Speaker 5: It's fun to be here. Eleven AM's a little early, obviously,
Speaker 5: I think the guys are still waking up. But yeah,
Speaker 5: it was a fun game. A lot of kids, which
Speaker 5: is great, and yeah it was fun. So you mix
Speaker 5: in a couple of sinkers and change ups. Are you
Speaker 5: gonna try to mix those in more this season or
Speaker 5: I don't know, Yeah, I don't really. I want it
Speaker 5: to be more of a runner, not a sinker, you know,
Speaker 5: just kind of go straight across the lefties. And then
Speaker 5: right now my change up feels okay, So that's we'll
Speaker 5: see if that lasts. But for right now, I feel
Speaker 5: like I can at least throw it a little bit,
Speaker 5: so I'd like to be able to, So we'll see.
Speaker 3: Yea, what do you think about just this week?
Speaker 1: Okay, Senior?
Speaker 3: I like these guys.
Speaker 8: There's a good, good group.
Speaker 5: Obviously a lot of talent, you know, a lot of
Speaker 5: big leaders for sure, So a good group. Fun to
Speaker 5: be around, and it's always fun to come down here.
Speaker 3: All right.
Speaker 2: There's Clayton Kershaw earlier today, three shutout Indians in his
Speaker 2: first outence. That's coming back from offseason at toe surgery.
Speaker 2: So the first step check for Clayton Kershaw as he
Speaker 2: makes his way back at some point to join this
Speaker 2: Dodgers' rotation. And when he does, it'll make him even better,
Speaker 2: and this Dodgers team will get show Yo Tony pitching
Speaker 2: at some point down the road here and the Dodgers
Speaker 2: will be off and running and even better than they
Speaker 2: are right now, and they're feeling pretty good after a
Speaker 2: win tonight over the Colorado Rockies in eight seven victory
Speaker 2: over the Rocks as they finish off the three games
Speaker 2: sweep and finish off this sixth game homes Dan, but
Speaker 2: they four into record over all.
Speaker 3: The Dodgers now fourteen and six, still.
Speaker 2: Behind the Padres and the Giants in the NLS. Now
Speaker 2: the Dodgers hit the road for a five game road trip.
Speaker 2: First stop Arlington, Texas Globe Life Field Dodgers and Texas Rangers.
Speaker 2: Old friend Corey Seeger. The Dodgers will see him Friday,
Speaker 2: Saturday and Sunday. Yoshi Yamamoto will get the start on Friday,
Speaker 2: first pitch at five oh five. We'll have wrong with
Speaker 2: Casino Dodgers on deck beginning at four o'clock in the
Speaker 2: afternoon after Petro some Money. I'll be back with Off
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