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Speaker 2: Dodgers finished off a great homestand with a win over
Speaker 2: the Baltimore Orioles. Hi, everybody, and welcome to Dodger Talk
Speaker 2: on this Thursday night. Thanks for staying up with us late,
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Speaker 2: eighty seven two five seventy. We're gonna hear from Bobby Miller.
Speaker 2: Coming up here on Dodger Talk. We'll also get the
Speaker 2: postgame thoughts of the manager, Dave Roberts as the Dodgers
Speaker 2: now pack up and head to the desert for a
Speaker 2: four game series against the Arizona Diamondbacks. And I'm telling you,
Speaker 2: I was just in Arizona for the last forty eight
Speaker 2: hours and there is a lot of buzz over in
Speaker 2: the deserts, not about the start of the NFL season,
Speaker 2: not about the start of Arizona State football, but about
Speaker 2: the Arizona Diamondbacks.
Speaker 3: It's on all the.
Speaker 2: TVs in Scottsdale and Phoenix and Tempe when.
Speaker 3: The games are on.
Speaker 2: It is the buzz right now about the Diamondbacks coming
Speaker 2: back and winning games. Corbyn Carolina Grand Slam the other
Speaker 2: night to help them come back and get a win
Speaker 2: over the Mets.
Speaker 3: They are ready.
Speaker 2: They are ready and waiting for the Dodgers to come
Speaker 2: to Phoenix for this four game series. Now, the Dodgers
Speaker 2: helped themselves out by getting the win tonight with the
Speaker 2: Diamondbacks losing, so they pick up a game. So they'll
Speaker 2: go into Chase Field this weekend with a four game lead.
Speaker 3: In the division.
Speaker 2: And this is big head to head of games against
Speaker 2: the Arizona Diamondbacks. They don't facing the rest of the
Speaker 2: year again. They'll get the Padres for three games later
Speaker 2: in September, but with the balance schedule, no more facing
Speaker 2: NL West opponents the final month of this season. No
Speaker 2: more nineteen head to head matchups against teams in your division.
Speaker 2: You play everybody in baseball. That means you only get
Speaker 2: thirteen regular season head to head meetings against everybody in
Speaker 2: your division, Giants, Padres, Rockies, Diamondbacks. This is a huge
Speaker 2: four game series against Arizona. And I'll tell you why,
Speaker 2: because I don't have the numbers in front of me.
Speaker 2: Probably should have looked it up and had it ready
Speaker 2: for you. But just go off of the last two years,
Speaker 2: last year, in this year, what's the one team that
Speaker 2: you can think of that's really given the Dodgers fits.
Speaker 2: And it's not just because they beat him in the
Speaker 2: NLDS last year. It's been Arizona. Last year they rode
Speaker 2: the momentum of Corbyn Carroll. And I remember being here
Speaker 2: on Dodger Talks, kept saying the first half of the year, Ah,
Speaker 2: they're gonna run out of pitching their first half team,
Speaker 2: they will flatten out. And then they come back after
Speaker 2: the All Star break and they picked up right where
Speaker 2: they left off, and I kept thinking, Nope, nope, nope,
Speaker 2: we tug calls here on Dodge and Talk. Nope, Arizona
Speaker 2: doesn't have enough depth. Guys are gonna get it hurt,
Speaker 2: They're gonna get to innings limits and it's gonna be
Speaker 2: it and there's no way Corbyn Carroll and this Arizona
Speaker 2: team keeps it up.
Speaker 3: And what did they do.
Speaker 2: They rode that momentum to the playoffs. They rode that
Speaker 2: momentum beating the Dodgers in the NLDS all the way
Speaker 2: to a World Series appearance. This is an Arizona Diamonbacks
Speaker 2: team that when I think of teams in the NL
Speaker 2: West that have given the Dodgers fits, most recently Arizona.
Speaker 2: The battles they've had already this year, head to head,
Speaker 2: last year's NLDS, last year's head to head series against
Speaker 2: each other, the Diamondbacks for whatever reason, and maybe it's
Speaker 2: because they play each other so many times, and guys
Speaker 2: are used to each other, and you know, they're used
Speaker 2: to facing the same pictures over and over again, so
Speaker 2: there's not a lot of difference. There, not a lot
Speaker 2: of secrecy you can keep against the team because you've
Speaker 2: seen what they have. Maybe that's the case, but the
Speaker 2: Dodgers and Diamondbacks feels like the last two years have
Speaker 2: really been battling it back and forth. And this is
Speaker 2: gonna be no different a four game series in Arizona.
Speaker 2: They're waiting for the Dodgers to get to town. Clayton
Speaker 2: Kershaw left early, wasn't with the team tonight, flew to
Speaker 2: the desert to get a good night sleep because the
Speaker 2: Dodgers right now are packing up a Dodger Stadium and
Speaker 2: hitting the road. And though it's not a long flight,
Speaker 2: I was just on one today, fifty four minutes from
Speaker 2: Phoenix Sky Harbor to the Burbank Airport. It is a flight, nonetheless,
Speaker 2: and you gotta get on that flight. The Dodgers got
Speaker 2: to get to the airport. They got to get on
Speaker 2: a flight. They gotta fly there. They got unpacked, off
Speaker 2: the buses, get to the hotel. So they're probably looking
Speaker 2: at about two o'clock in the morning getting their head
Speaker 2: on a pillow to start a four game series tomorrow.
Speaker 2: And two of those games Sunday and Monday are day
Speaker 2: games won ten first pitch, so Clayton Kershaw got a
Speaker 2: head start. But it is going to be a fun series.
Speaker 2: Four games against the Arizona Diamonbacks. But that's coming up.
Speaker 2: This three game series against the Baltimore Orioles. Don't just
Speaker 2: sneeze that like it's nothing, all right, This is a
Speaker 2: Baltimore Orioles team.
Speaker 3: That, yes, they're struggling right now.
Speaker 2: You know, they've fallen a game and a half back
Speaker 2: of the Yankees, but still a seventy seven win team.
Speaker 2: They're right there, and they're gonna go as a wild
Speaker 2: card or divisional winner if they can get hot here
Speaker 2: and catch the Yankees and surpass them the final month
Speaker 2: of the season. They're gonna be playing in October. And
Speaker 2: it's a good nucleus of players they've got there, young
Speaker 2: stars that they have on that roster. They've been hit hard,
Speaker 2: harder than even the Dodgers, with losing starting pitchers to
Speaker 2: elbow injuries this year, and they still find themselves in
Speaker 2: the pennant race. And the Dodgers just happened to catch
Speaker 2: them in a good time, and they battled for three games.
Speaker 2: Not that the Dodgers swept them, it's that the Dodgers
Speaker 2: boat raced them in all three games. They were close games,
Speaker 2: and the Dodgers prevailed tonight with a six to three win.
Speaker 2: And they get outings from two starters that they desperately
Speaker 2: needed innings from, and while they didn't get necessarily depth
Speaker 2: from Walker.
Speaker 3: Bueler last night.
Speaker 2: They didn't necessarily get a long outing from Bobby Miller
Speaker 2: tonight five innings, three runs, two hits. At one point
Speaker 2: he was working on a no no. By the way,
Speaker 2: they got enough to pass it to the bullpen and
Speaker 2: give it to the bullpen with leads, and tonight the
Speaker 2: Dodgers bullpen four shutout innings last night, four to third
Speaker 2: shutout innings to help out Walker Buehler. But for the
Speaker 2: Dodgers going into that three game series against Baltimore, it
Speaker 2: proved big to have what Bobby Miller did tonight and
Speaker 2: what Walker Buehler did last night, because the Dodgers aren't
Speaker 2: just playing out the year and oh yeah, this is
Speaker 2: a Baltimore team, you know, we could see in the
Speaker 2: World Series, and it's a World Series preview possibly and
Speaker 2: you lose to a three Ah, it doesn't matter Dodgers
Speaker 2: nine games up in the division. No, because it's so
Speaker 2: tight the Dodgers. These games are so important in the
Speaker 2: standings for the NL West. But certainly they're important for
Speaker 2: the Dodgers facing a Baltimore Oreals team that they could
Speaker 2: see in October and see some of those arms and
Speaker 2: see some of those young exciting bats like Gunnar Henderson
Speaker 2: and Nallie Rushman and crew. And you know, it's a
Speaker 2: fun Baltimore Orioles team that the Dodgers just took care
Speaker 2: of business with.
Speaker 3: And this series.
Speaker 2: Is homestand really important, really important to sweep Seattle, take
Speaker 2: care of business, to take two of three from Tampa,
Speaker 2: do what you're supposed to do, to take two or
Speaker 2: three from Baltimore. Absolutely what you're supposed to do. And
Speaker 2: now the Dodgers are the first team to eighty. I
Speaker 2: have to remind friends that keep saying, man, what's wrong
Speaker 2: with this Dodgers team?
Speaker 3: And I said, what do you mean? What's wrong with them?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 2: And oh, Tyler Glass now has heard. You know, they
Speaker 2: just got hit by injuries all season long. And Freddie
Speaker 2: Freeman's finger now, and you know, Jason Hayward got DFA,
Speaker 2: they kept Chris Taylor, and you know all I hear
Speaker 2: is whining and complaining and what's wrong. Well, look at
Speaker 2: the standings, folks. The Dodgers had the best record in
Speaker 2: baseball and the first team to get to eighty wins.
Speaker 2: Pretty darn impressive for all that griping and whining that
Speaker 2: people keep coming to me about and what's wrong with
Speaker 2: the Dodgers and why can't they do this? And why
Speaker 2: is this person struggling or why are they doing this
Speaker 2: at the order and why are so many guys hurt?
Speaker 3: For all those whys, what's wrong? And what's wrong? And
Speaker 3: what's wrong?
Speaker 2: They're an eighty win team and counting. They're in a
Speaker 2: pennant race, and they get guys produced on a different
Speaker 2: nightly basis. Tonight the bottom of the lineup. Seven of
Speaker 2: the fourteen hits come from the bottom four hitters in
Speaker 2: the lineup, Chris Taylor, Oh sorry, produce tonight, Austin Barnes.
Speaker 2: You can make a pretty good case Austin Barnes could
Speaker 2: be catching every day for this Dodgers team. You can
Speaker 2: make a serious case for that. For the struggles of
Speaker 2: Will Smith, I mean, look at the Knight's lineup. No
Speaker 2: Will Smith in the lineup, no Maximunts in the lineup
Speaker 2: because the left hand are starting, and no Freddy Freeman
Speaker 2: because of the finger. That's three bats not in the lineup.
Speaker 2: And the Dodgers still pounded out fourteen hits, they scored
Speaker 2: six runs, and they beat.
Speaker 3: A really good Orioles team. So for all.
Speaker 2: Those who want to talk to me about and tweet
Speaker 2: at me. And every time I see somebody, what's wrong?
Speaker 2: Why is this? What's this that? The everything's wrong, everything's bad.
Speaker 2: Everything is the end of the world, the Dodgers. But yeah,
Speaker 2: they just keep on winning series, seven to two home
Speaker 2: stand and they had the best record in baseball eight
Speaker 2: six six nine seven two five seventy. Bobby Miller Tonight,
Speaker 2: Bobby Miller picks himself up, goes five innings, three runs,
Speaker 2: two hits. Looked like he had a lower leg injury
Speaker 2: and knee injury. We'll find out more about that. In fact,
Speaker 2: let's go back out the Dodger Stadium. Bobby Miller, who
Speaker 2: tonight picked up his first win since March, standing by
Speaker 2: with David Vassa in the media.
Speaker 5: Bobby, you feel out there tonight.
Speaker 6: Feel pretty good. Just four and two thirds of really
Speaker 6: good pitching and then just just one bad pitch. Seems
Speaker 6: to be a story of my last few outings. It's
Speaker 6: just one bad pitch I don't want to look back on,
Speaker 6: and unfortunately it's over the fence. But you know, one day,
Speaker 6: one day soon it'll fall.
Speaker 5: I know pitchers talked about It's not so much the
Speaker 5: home run but what takes place before the home run
Speaker 5: is that equally as frustrating.
Speaker 6: Well, yeah, for sure, I wouldn't have faced him if
Speaker 6: I didn't walk the guy before. There's a couple of
Speaker 6: guys before that guy that was having a lot of
Speaker 6: success on and unfortunately it was an HVP and then
Speaker 6: hit by pitch or no HVP and then a walk, which, yeah,
Speaker 6: just not getting not getting no one early enough towards
Speaker 6: the end of the game. Yeah, that's about it.
Speaker 5: Early in the game, though, did it feel like your
Speaker 5: changeup was allowing your fastball to play up more?
Speaker 6: Yeah? Yeah, everything is feeling really good and even the
Speaker 6: slider felt a little bit better today. There was one
Speaker 6: that I hung, but it was an out, But uh yeah,
Speaker 6: curb valan Chino felt great. You know, the straints have
Speaker 6: been getting better and I'm really close.
Speaker 5: When you were covering first base in the second ending,
Speaker 5: it looked like something happened with your left leg. Can
Speaker 5: you describe what that was and did it affect you
Speaker 5: the rest of the outing?
Speaker 6: Yeah, it was just left me some I've been dealing
Speaker 6: with for a while. You know, our training Stepp has
Speaker 6: done an outstanding job of keeping me healthy and keeping
Speaker 6: me out there, so really thankful for them. Yeah, everything
Speaker 6: kind of just went a little downhill after that. I
Speaker 6: wasn't really finishing my pitch is good. Losing some stuff armside.
Speaker 6: You know, there's no excuse to not make a pitch.
Speaker 5: Do you feel like that's something that you can manage
Speaker 5: moving forward?
Speaker 6: I've I've finished this plenty of time, so no worries
Speaker 6: about that.
Speaker 5: What'd you think about Austin Barnes' game?
Speaker 6: Great, he was outstanding back there. You know, I like
Speaker 6: throwing to him. Both of our guys. You know, we
Speaker 6: got two really good catchers back there. I know the
Speaker 6: game very well. They can they could manage a game,
Speaker 6: buying the play very well. So it's really nice going
Speaker 6: to the guys we have.
Speaker 2: All Right, there's Bobby Miller man scary to think about
Speaker 2: if he can get right and get back to the
Speaker 2: Bobby Miller of twenty twenty three, just another weapon that
Speaker 2: Dodgers could have going into the postseason with the now
Speaker 2: uncertainty of Tyler Glass now and not knowing really what
Speaker 2: this rotation is going to look like come October. To
Speaker 2: get Bobby Miller back on track, and he says he's
Speaker 2: getting closer and closer has change up in his curveball
Speaker 2: working tonight. I mean, granted, he gave him a three
Speaker 2: run home run, but even he said, hey, three to
Speaker 2: one count, made a bad pitch. The guy made him pay.
Speaker 2: But he's not in that situation if he doesn't walk
Speaker 2: a guy with one out and hit the first battery
Speaker 2: faces in the fifth inning to put runners on base,
Speaker 2: and that's his own fault. He admits it, but keep
Speaker 2: in mind, five innings, three runs, the home run was
Speaker 2: the big one.
Speaker 3: Two hits. That was it.
Speaker 2: Two hits over five innings for three to third. He
Speaker 2: didn't give up a hit. He was really good going
Speaker 2: into the fourth inning. Single was the first cit he
Speaker 2: gave up in the fourth inning. Then turn around and
Speaker 2: got a double play to get right out of it
Speaker 2: at ten pitch fourth inning. Bobby Miller tonight took I
Speaker 2: think another step forward. Now he has got to keep
Speaker 2: proving this in his next start, in the next start,
Speaker 2: in the next start, that he is going to get
Speaker 2: back to that Bobby Miller twenty twenty three status and
Speaker 2: level that he was pitching.
Speaker 3: At that was so good.
Speaker 2: But man, I'm not starting to think if Bobby Miller
Speaker 2: can get it going we've seen Clayton Kershaw looks like
Speaker 2: his turn in the corner. Maybe Walker Buehler last night
Speaker 2: his best outing so far. I mean, you talk about
Speaker 2: perfect timing to get guys right. It's long season. Just
Speaker 2: because you do well in the first half doesn't mean
Speaker 2: you're doing well in the second half. Guys could be
Speaker 2: first half all Stars and then fall apart in the
Speaker 2: second half. Guys could be lousing the first half and
Speaker 2: then turn things around the second half. It's all about
Speaker 2: how you're playing, hitting, pitching. Come to last week in
Speaker 2: September and that first week of October going into the playoffs,
Speaker 2: and if Dodgers can start getting some quality starts here
Speaker 2: from Bobby Miller, Walker Buehler, you know, things can get
Speaker 2: interesting as far as what the Dodgers' rotation could look like.
Speaker 2: But again, last night a step in the right direction
Speaker 2: for Walker Buehler. Tonight, a step in the right direction
Speaker 2: for Bobby Miller. By no means, am I saying they've
Speaker 2: gotten to that level. They're back, let's go. This is
Speaker 2: the next next box they're checking. And that's positive, right,
Speaker 2: That's something positive to be about if you're the Dodgers
Speaker 2: right now looking at this rotation that is looking at
Speaker 2: go into Arizona now with a four game lead over
Speaker 2: the Diamondbacks and a five game lead over the padre
Speaker 2: is going into play tomorrow eight sixty six, nine eighty seven,
Speaker 2: two five Seventy's going to Abby. Abby joins us here
Speaker 2: on Dodger Talk. Welcome, Abby, How are you?
Speaker 4: I'm good. I just I'm coming back from the game.
Speaker 3: What a game it was?
Speaker 7: It was amazing.
Speaker 3: It was What about Bobby Miller tonight? Oh my god?
Speaker 4: Okay, so let's talk about the rotation. You were just
Speaker 4: talking about it, and I was just telling you know
Speaker 4: your handler, So here's here's what I'm thinking. And I
Speaker 4: was telling a couple of guys in the stands my
Speaker 4: same idea. So we get the top four back, which
Speaker 4: I'm talking about I'm talking about Glass now, I'm talking
Speaker 4: about Yamamoto. Stony has been great, and Flaherty has been
Speaker 4: proving great. So that's the four that I'm thinking of
Speaker 4: as starters. Okay, why not use especially if Yama Mote
Speaker 4: is coming back from an injury and so is Glass.
Speaker 4: Now if they can go a good five innings used
Speaker 4: for long release Miller, Kershaw and Bueler and then you
Speaker 4: can rest the rest of your bultpen and use them
Speaker 4: for target situations. I mean, we can do that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you can only carry so many pitchers. I appreciate it, Abby,
Speaker 2: But you get into the postseason you have to start
Speaker 2: looking at your bench and what players you're gonna have
Speaker 2: there and a twenty six man roster for that series,
Speaker 2: and it really serious. Two series you don't start setting
Speaker 2: your roster and that's it. You just go until the
Speaker 2: end of the playoff run. It's serious to series and
Speaker 2: matchups obviously, so that will dictate first and foremost what
Speaker 2: the Dodgers roster will look like come that first NLDS.
Speaker 2: But the Dodgers will have a lot of questions if
Speaker 2: these guys keep pitching the way they have been, Walker Buehler,
Speaker 2: Bobby Miller, even Clayton Kershaw. And I don't know, just
Speaker 2: off the top of my head, if there's room for
Speaker 2: a Bobby Miller on the postseason roster.
Speaker 3: Let's just say there is.
Speaker 2: Okay, how about a Clayton Kershaw first time around the road,
Speaker 2: the lineup two three innings, and then you bring in
Speaker 2: a Bobby Miller, change of pace, hard throwing right hander
Speaker 2: coming in after the crafty veteran left hander Clayton Kershaw.
Speaker 2: You get the bock up contrasting differences between the two
Speaker 2: and you can get six seven innings out of the
Speaker 2: two of them combined. Makes it easier on your bullpen
Speaker 2: less outs they have to be responsible for. I do
Speaker 2: of like that piggyback situation, but again, I don't know
Speaker 2: if there's room for all these starting pitchers then to
Speaker 2: just put in the bullpen, because what about your bullpen arms.
Speaker 2: I mean, if you use a Bobby Miller and a
Speaker 2: Clayton Kershaw and a piggyback situation in game one or
Speaker 2: Game two, you can't do that for Game three or whatever.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 3: I mean, Bobby Miller's gets pitching one game.
Speaker 2: It's how you can bring him back on the next
Speaker 2: day for Game two, or bring him back two days
Speaker 2: later for Game three.
Speaker 3: It just doesn't work that way.
Speaker 2: That's why the relievers are so special and so important
Speaker 2: because you can use them on multiple days in a
Speaker 2: row come the postseason, so a lot of decisions need
Speaker 2: to be made. No doubt, we'll take a break, we'll
Speaker 2: come back, We'll get to more of your phone calls.
Speaker 2: We'll hear from the manager Dave Roberts. A happy night
Speaker 2: for the Dodgers is they get ready to jump on
Speaker 2: their plane and head to Arizona for the start of
Speaker 2: a four game series tomorrow. They get the win tonight
Speaker 2: behind Bobby Miller's five innings, Dodgers' bullpen combines for four
Speaker 2: shutout innings of relief, and the Dodgers, with a four
Speaker 2: run fourth inning, explode and go on and win it
Speaker 2: six to three. Over the multiple oriols. Eight sixty six
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Speaker 7: On the ground through the right side a base hitting
Speaker 7: the right thrill for rookie Austin Barnes says the green
Speaker 7: light for pino evil. There won't be a throw or
Speaker 7: relay RBI base hit for bets. They get four not
Speaker 7: the Dodgers. In the fourth inning.
Speaker 2: Dodgers get four runs in the fourth Miguel Rojas woul
Speaker 2: attack on an RBI single to make it a five
Speaker 2: to nothing Dodgers lead.
Speaker 3: They go on and win.
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Speaker 2: win tonight. They take two or three from Baltimore. They
Speaker 2: go seven to two on the homestand and the Dodgers
Speaker 2: the first team to eighty wins. Let's go out to
Speaker 2: Lake Elson or Andy. Thanks for being patient on this
Speaker 2: Thursday night. Welcome to Dodger Talk.
Speaker 8: Hey Tim, how you doing tonight?
Speaker 3: I'm doing good, doing good? Thank you?
Speaker 8: Oh man? I just I just want to talk about
Speaker 8: how excited I am because finally we got our team
Speaker 8: all full roster. Yeah, the pitching staff, it's going to
Speaker 8: be interesting, but it's good to have that problem because
Speaker 8: I think we're going to have the pitching that we
Speaker 8: need to go into the playoffs. And you know what,
Speaker 8: everybody caught us when we were losing, like Arizona and
Speaker 8: the podcast, when we were all injured. I love that
Speaker 8: our bottom of the lineup now it's proven that you know,
Speaker 8: they're they're gonna be something to deal with. I love
Speaker 8: our team, and I think that when we go to Arizona,
Speaker 8: I'm not even worried because Arizona caught us at a
Speaker 8: at a bad time when we were all injured, and
Speaker 8: so have the Padres and now we're all back together,
Speaker 8: and you know, I'm looking forward to this matchup because
Speaker 8: I think when it all is said and done, uh,
Speaker 8: we're gonna show. I mean, I'm not even worried. We're
Speaker 8: going to show everybody now moving forward, we're already the
Speaker 8: best team in baseball. So we're going to show everybody,
Speaker 8: you know, with our with the bottom of the lineup,
Speaker 8: especially tonight. Yeah, yeah, it wasn't a fluke. It wasn't.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I appreciate it, man, thanks for checking in tonight.
Speaker 2: I don't think it was a fluke at all. No,
Speaker 2: the Dodgers came out tonight even with a lineup that
Speaker 2: didn't have Freddie Freeman, Max Monts here, Will Smith in it,
Speaker 2: and guys produced. The bottom of the lineup absolutely produced.
Speaker 2: Tommy Edmund hitting clean up for the Dodgers. Yet it
Speaker 2: wasn't your ideal lineup, and maybe going into the game,
Speaker 2: you're probably scratching your head thinking, oh ok, Edmonton cleanup.
Speaker 2: Keith Hernandez is what batting six? Gavin Lux is all
Speaker 2: the way back down the eighth spot. What's going on? Well,
Speaker 2: Chris Taylor goes two for three with an RBI, on
Speaker 2: base three times because he walked Gavin Lux two for
Speaker 2: four tonight. He continues to put the ball in play
Speaker 2: and produce hits his nineteenth double of this season. And
Speaker 2: Austin Barnes, I mean, I hate to even say it,
Speaker 2: but the struggles of Will Smith are real, folks, They
Speaker 2: are real. In Austin Barnes tonight two for four drives
Speaker 2: in a pair to get the four run fourth innings
Speaker 2: started now hitting two to fifty on this season. I mean,
Speaker 2: I'm old enough to remember this year when Dodger fans
Speaker 2: are like, what is Austin Barnes doing? He is a
Speaker 2: liability on offense. Yes, we love his defense, but things
Speaker 2: have flipped for him. And good for him now hitting
Speaker 2: two to fifty compared to will Smith hitting two forty
Speaker 2: three on the season with those sixteen home runs. But
Speaker 2: if you look at the numbers for will Smith in
Speaker 2: the month of August hitting one to seventy two. In
Speaker 2: the month of July he hit two oh eight. Will
Speaker 2: Smith in the month of June hit two oh three.
Speaker 2: In the month of May he hit two twelve. Three
Speaker 2: of those four months, barely hitting two hundred in this
Speaker 2: month of August. In sixty four at bats, he's eleven
Speaker 2: for sixty four with sixteen strikeouts, one home run, seven
Speaker 2: ribbies and a one to seventy two batting average. It's
Speaker 2: not a it's not a it's not a slump that
Speaker 2: he's in. There's something going on. It's not a series
Speaker 2: that he's off. It's not a home stand that he
Speaker 2: just doesn't have it. It's three months he has really struggled.
Speaker 2: Dodgers get the win tonight. Bottom of the line of delivers.
Speaker 2: Bobby Miller's delivers gets this win first since March have
Speaker 2: I got to Dodger Stadium and here from the manager,
Speaker 2: Dave Roberts, can.
Speaker 9: You talk about this home stand, you guys on those
Speaker 9: two games.
Speaker 10: And being really hooded Air League teams, great homestand really
Speaker 10: good baseball. Uh yeah, I mean playing against teams that
Speaker 10: are in pennant races, you know, preparing for the postseason.
Speaker 10: And I thought we showed well, you know, I don't
Speaker 10: think it was litmus tests or anything, but it's still
Speaker 10: good to go out there and find ways to win
Speaker 10: baseball games. And I thought we did it in different
Speaker 10: ways throughout the homestand you know, at times the starting
Speaker 10: pitching was really good, other times the bats came to life,
Speaker 10: and the defense I felt was pretty consistent outside of
Speaker 10: that first game here against the uh the Orioles, and
Speaker 10: just something to build on. So now you know, we
Speaker 10: can look towards the Diamondbacks and those guys obviously are
Speaker 10: playing great baseball, and it's going to be uh, you know, boisterous,
Speaker 10: and a lot of people, a lot of Dodger fans,
Speaker 10: a lot of d Backs fans, So it's going to
Speaker 10: be a great series.
Speaker 9: Do you feel like you guys are starting to play
Speaker 9: the way that you believe you're capable of playing going
Speaker 9: into this series.
Speaker 10: I do. I do. There's some little things that I
Speaker 10: think that need to be cleaned up, but I think overall,
Speaker 10: guys are understanding that this is a time to lock
Speaker 10: it in and they're doing so unto that.
Speaker 7: Why a full strength and just being able to not
Speaker 7: be his top heavies, you guys work for more.
Speaker 10: No, it's great, you know, obviously getting Niggy back and
Speaker 10: Tommy length of the lineup. I think Keyk is still
Speaker 10: taking good at bats and Gavin kind of moving him
Speaker 10: around the order and so yeah, and even this series
Speaker 10: without Freddy and without Will getting untracked, which I think
Speaker 10: he's showing some life just been really good. And I
Speaker 10: think that's certainly part of it, having that length and
Speaker 10: also be able to kind of give Micky a day
Speaker 10: off here there to you know, play Tommy and get
Speaker 10: kier Meyer in there. So yeah, I think we're just
Speaker 10: on certainly on the position player side, we're at full strength.
Speaker 9: Bobby said he kind of tweeked his left and he's
Speaker 9: been managing it. Do you foresee that being an issue
Speaker 9: moving forward.
Speaker 10: I hope not. Yeah, you saw him, you know, cover
Speaker 10: first base on the one play and then the I
Speaker 10: think it was a holiday play, couldn't get to the
Speaker 10: bag and then you could see it kind of wasn't
Speaker 10: feeling well. And I don't know if that led to
Speaker 10: the home run, you know with Kowser. But you know,
Speaker 10: up until that point, I thought he threw the ball fantastic.
Speaker 10: He was mixing, like going to be a little bit
Speaker 10: more efficient, but just got behind a Kowser and then
Speaker 10: he had homer. But we have a five run lead,
Speaker 10: so it makes sense. But yeah, overall, I thought really good.
Speaker 2: All right, there's Dave Roberts talking a lot about this
Speaker 2: Dodgers team. As you said, position players outside of Freddie Freeman,
Speaker 2: they're healthy and they're good to go. And this is
Speaker 2: the position players that they've been looking forward to having
Speaker 2: healthy and together all season long. Now getting the pitching
Speaker 2: staff healthy and all together is another story as guys
Speaker 2: continue to work their way backs. Tyler Glass now on
Speaker 2: the il. The Dodgers also waiting on Yamamoto, who had
Speaker 2: a minor league rehab assignment for two winnings and a
Speaker 2: bullpen afterwards, Bruce dar Gratol still waiting to see what
Speaker 2: the status of him moving forward is.
Speaker 3: Again, there's gonna be a.
Speaker 2: Lot of guys looking to be on this twenty six
Speaker 2: man roster come the postseason, but some guys are going
Speaker 2: to get left off the NLDS roster. And again it's
Speaker 2: serious to serious to see the matchups. Who they'll carry,
Speaker 2: how many position players, how many pitchers or leievers. All
Speaker 2: that will be determined down the road. But this is
Speaker 2: the time of year that if you want to be
Speaker 2: on that October roster, you want to be a guy
Speaker 2: that is a no doubt bullpen arm that he can
Speaker 2: count on on a you know, two out of three
Speaker 2: games to go out there and pitch and be available.
Speaker 2: Then this is the time you need to go out
Speaker 2: and show it and put up zeros and going there
Speaker 2: in crucial times like Blake Trying did tonight with the
Speaker 2: bases loaded, two outs and gunner Henderson up and striking
Speaker 2: him out and getting out of the jam and keeping
Speaker 2: the Dodgers lead five to three at the time they
Speaker 2: attack on one more and making a six to three lead.
Speaker 2: These are the kind of stuff that you need to
Speaker 2: do now to show that you're ready for October, because again,
Speaker 2: it's not like the Dodgers will be limping into October
Speaker 2: or don't have enough arms, or you know you're gonna
Speaker 2: be dipping down to the minor leagues or asking guys
Speaker 2: to do different rules. No, if everybody's healthy and all
Speaker 2: the cards are on the table here for the Dodgers,
Speaker 2: there are gonna be some players who you think maybe
Speaker 2: are locks to make this twenty six man roster may
Speaker 2: not make the October roster because somebody's playing better and
Speaker 2: they can rely upon them more at the bullpen or
Speaker 2: as a starter or off the bench or whatever role
Speaker 2: or type of the player we're talking about. So again,
Speaker 2: starts thinking about this stuff in the final five weeks
Speaker 2: of the season as guys start fighting for playoff rosters,
Speaker 2: especially in the bullpen, and some of these arms, as
Speaker 2: they get healthy, that's.
Speaker 3: Gonna do it for Dodger to talk. Many thanks to
Speaker 3: Colin e.
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Speaker 2: Four days in the Desert, Dodgers going with a four
Speaker 2: game lead over Arizona as they started a four game
Speaker 2: series in Phoenix beginning tomorrow again. Dodgers win in tonight
Speaker 2: six three over the Oriols. They take two or three
Speaker 2: from Baltimore. They finish off this home stands seven to two,
Speaker 2: and don't look now. Dodgers first team to eighty wins
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