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Speaker 1: Tim Kas everybody, and good afternoon, Happy Saturday.
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Speaker 1: Los Angeles Dodgers fifty two and thirty one on this season,
Speaker 1: best record in baseball, winners of five in a row.
Speaker 1: They're undefeated on this road trip, and they're in Kansas
Speaker 1: City for a game two of this three game weekend
Speaker 1: set against the Royals. Show hey Otani on the mound
Speaker 1: in this game for the Dodgers first pitch from the
Speaker 1: k is coming up at one ten coming up.
Speaker 3: Over the next hour here on Morongo.
Speaker 1: Casino, Dodgers on deck. We got a lot to get
Speaker 1: to here. We're gonna hear from the manager himself, Dave Roberts.
Speaker 1: What are the expectations for show, hey Otani in this
Speaker 1: start today, his third since coming back from elbow surgery.
Speaker 1: We'll dive deeper into this pitching matchup. David Vesego's one
Speaker 1: on one with Alex Vesia, Dodger reliever. We got your
Speaker 1: Dodgers magical moment. We got an update on the Dodgers
Speaker 1: injury situation. In just a few minutes, we'll check in
Speaker 1: with Tim Neverett and Rick Monday.
Speaker 3: Out the Gallpin Motors Broadcast booth.
Speaker 4: Well.
Speaker 1: Last night, Dustin May got the start a rocky four
Speaker 1: Indians at which he gave up four runs on six
Speaker 1: HiT's through eighty four pitches, just forty six for strikes.
Speaker 1: The Dodgers offense gave him an instant lead. Tani e
Speaker 1: lead off home run in the first is eight lead
Speaker 1: off home run of the season, number twenty nine on
Speaker 1: the year, and the Dodgers led one to nothing, but
Speaker 1: Salvador Perez an RBI single in the bottom of the
Speaker 1: first that even things up at one. In the second,
Speaker 1: the Dodgers yet again gave Dustin maya lead, this time
Speaker 1: thanks to Max Munsey.
Speaker 7: Three won the Mounsie.
Speaker 4: He swings.
Speaker 7: It's a high fly ball deep center field. It's heading
Speaker 7: back to the wall and is god it's a homer.
Speaker 7: Another one as Maxwell swings the silver hammer in Kansas City.
Speaker 7: He's done it again, Mounsey with his thirteenth home run
Speaker 7: and the Dodgers lead at three to one.
Speaker 8: Did we mention the sound when the ball hits the
Speaker 8: bat and you hit it solidly, There's something very distinctive
Speaker 8: about it.
Speaker 1: He crushed it over four hundred feet to straightaway center field,
Speaker 1: number thirteen on this season for Max Munsey, a two
Speaker 1: run shot, his fourth home run in his last four games.
Speaker 3: Dodgers up three to one.
Speaker 1: However, Dustin May would give back those runs and the
Speaker 1: lead as the Royal score three in the bottom of
Speaker 1: the second to go up four to three. Dustin May
Speaker 1: went the four innings, turned it over to the Dodgers' bullpen,
Speaker 1: who put up zeros, all of them Luis Garcia, Lou Trevino,
Speaker 1: Anthony Bonda, Alex Vessi and then Tanner Scott. The Dodgers
Speaker 1: would grab the lead in the fifth show, Hey Otani
Speaker 1: and RBI triple that tied the game at four. Then
Speaker 1: Mookie Betts and RBI single game of five to four lead.
Speaker 1: With that lead, the Dodgers' bullpen put up those zeros
Speaker 1: and it got to the ninth inning a little hairy
Speaker 1: for Tanner Scott. One out, bases loaded and Jack Kaglione
Speaker 1: up to.
Speaker 7: Bat, Hitch to Caglion. He swing hits the ground bowl.
Speaker 7: In a second, Edmond goes to pets one on the
Speaker 7: first it's.
Speaker 2: Low dugout thy Freeman. He's got it.
Speaker 5: And the Dodgers.
Speaker 3: They win this game.
Speaker 7: We're gonna possibly have a challenge, and we'll not have
Speaker 7: the challenge. Kansas City was looking at it. And a
Speaker 7: double play ends in with the bases loaded, and you
Speaker 7: can exhale.
Speaker 1: No challenge needed when you got Freddy Freeman at first
Speaker 1: base stretch makes the scoop hangs onto the ball on
Speaker 1: the pick on the one hot from Mookie Bets from
Speaker 1: second base. Double play converted. Dodgers hang on for a
Speaker 1: five to four win over the Kansas City Royals last
Speaker 1: night Luke Trevino gets the winning relief of Dustin may Tanner.
Speaker 1: Scott hangs on to get his eighteenth save of the season,
Speaker 1: his eight straight successful save as the Dodgers c show
Speaker 1: hel Tani go two for three in RBI triple a
Speaker 1: home run, on base three times. The Dodgers had four
Speaker 1: hits in the game. In all four of those hits
Speaker 1: drove in runs. As the Dodgers improved to fifty two
Speaker 1: and thirty one on this season, they're leading the division
Speaker 1: now six and a half games over the Giants, seven
Speaker 1: games over the San Diego Padres, and today they give
Speaker 1: the ball to show Hey O Tawny, Game two of
Speaker 1: this three game weekend set from Kansas City. First pitch
Speaker 1: of one ten and with more we head out to
Speaker 1: the the Galloping Motors broadcast booth as we say good
Speaker 1: afternoon to Tim Neverett and Rick Monday.
Speaker 5: Guys, Tim, thanks very much.
Speaker 7: It's a warm Saturday afternoon and Kansas City here at
Speaker 7: Kaufman Stadium, the Dodgers and the Royals getting set for
Speaker 7: the middle frame of this three game set. A thriller
Speaker 7: here last night five to four. The Dodgers would hang
Speaker 7: on and win, but Kansas City loaded the basis with
Speaker 7: one out and the big double play hit into by
Speaker 7: Jack Caglion and the play that saved the game Freddie
Speaker 7: Freeman at first base with that scoop. And that was
Speaker 7: a part of the game, but certainly the most memorable
Speaker 7: part is how it ended.
Speaker 8: I tell you what, that was just a scintillating play
Speaker 8: and just watching some of the work earlier today, neither
Speaker 8: ball club took banning practice for the Dodgers as they
Speaker 8: normally did. They took some defense on the field, in
Speaker 8: particular with the infield and just watching them practice the
Speaker 8: double play balls. It paid off last night to end
Speaker 8: the ball game.
Speaker 7: So today show heel Tani will make the start. He
Speaker 7: will make his third Star all right of the season.
Speaker 7: And Dave Robert's telling us just a short time ago,
Speaker 7: as long as there's not too much stress in the
Speaker 7: first inning, they want to try to get him through
Speaker 7: two innings today, continue his progression.
Speaker 8: You know what we've also seen. We have seen the
Speaker 8: emergence of velocity also with Otani. I understand, yes, the
Speaker 8: emotions and the adrenaline, no question about that. He's averaging
Speaker 8: over the first two outings that we have seen ninety
Speaker 8: eight point six. We've also seen him touch one hundred
Speaker 8: miles an hour more so than looking.
Speaker 4: At the velocity.
Speaker 8: That's nice to have, But put that aside, the fact
Speaker 8: that he's had pretty good command of the strike zone
Speaker 8: and moving things around and throwing the splitter on top
Speaker 8: of it is rather impressive.
Speaker 7: And oh not to mention a five game hitting streak
Speaker 7: another home run last night. Offensively, he's gotting it done.
Speaker 7: But here's the difference with Otani today. His first two
Speaker 7: starts were at home, so he was on the mound first.
Speaker 7: He came from the bullpen onto the mound, pitched the inning,
Speaker 7: then went to the dugout and got ready to hit.
Speaker 4: Today's going to be the opposite.
Speaker 7: He'll come out of the bullpen after warming up, go
Speaker 7: to the plate first, and then see how the first
Speaker 7: inning turns out, then go out to the mound.
Speaker 5: It'll be a little bit different.
Speaker 7: And Dave Roberts was saying that they're going to ask
Speaker 7: him afterward how it is on the road as opposed
Speaker 7: to home.
Speaker 8: I would imagine it's going to be much better because
Speaker 8: one of the big benefits he's had at home is
Speaker 8: that Dodger bat boys have had all of his gear,
Speaker 8: elbow pads, batting gloves, helmet, you name it. They've had
Speaker 8: everything ready for him. When he would start on the mound,
Speaker 8: come back to the dugout. Never did go into the dugout.
Speaker 8: Everything was done near the on deck circle. Well, today
Speaker 8: he has a chance to warm up, come into the dugout,
Speaker 8: relax a little bit, didn't put on the batting gloves,
Speaker 8: and well, he did pretty well last night. The leadoff
Speaker 8: home run in the top of the first inning.
Speaker 7: He was amazing. We know how well Max months he's playing.
Speaker 7: He had another home run last night. But another left
Speaker 7: handed bat back in the lineup who's been playing better lately,
Speaker 7: and that's Michael Conforto. He changed his bat recently and
Speaker 7: it's paid off.
Speaker 8: He's changed the bat. He's also changed a little bit
Speaker 8: of his stance, a little bit more of a lake kick.
Speaker 8: But he's feeling comfortable the bat. Will talk about it
Speaker 8: during the ball game. He just has a better balance.
Speaker 8: He's ordered a slightly lighter bat, and there's so much
Speaker 8: confidence that has to go into hitting, just as Freddy
Speaker 8: Freeman right now, because he's looking for the confidence. I'll
Speaker 8: say this about Freddy. I'm beginning to see some better
Speaker 8: swings from him. I don't think it's going to be
Speaker 8: too long. Hopefully here today he breaks out of it.
Speaker 8: And when he does, Katie bar the door and some
Speaker 8: of the pictures are going to be wondering, where's this
Speaker 8: slup we heard.
Speaker 7: About that son Kim's been out of the lineup for
Speaker 7: a while. He's back today at second base and not
Speaker 7: in the outfield, and the Dodgers looking for him to
Speaker 7: be a spark plug at the bottom of the order.
Speaker 8: I just watched him again take some ground bowls earlier
Speaker 8: this afternoon. I commented looking at video during the off
Speaker 8: season when he signed how much range he had, in
Speaker 8: particular going up the middle to the backhand side. Not
Speaker 8: only that, but has a very strong throwing arm. He's
Speaker 8: kind of fun to watch at second base.
Speaker 7: So the Dodgers have won five in a row eleven
Speaker 7: of the last thirteen. They built a six and a
Speaker 7: half game lead in the division. Meantime, the Royals have
Speaker 7: lost eleven straight at home. They have never lost twelve
Speaker 7: straight in franchise history. That could happen today if the
Speaker 7: Dodgers have a big day show. Hey Otani starts for
Speaker 7: the Dodgers. Seth logo, the right hander will go for
Speaker 7: Kansas City.
Speaker 4: Tim All right, thank you.
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Speaker 4: Run totals have been way down.
Speaker 7: Here's the whine of the pitch, and show Hey swings
Speaker 7: and hammers one deep right center going back on it
Speaker 7: is caglion. He looks up and has gone that's a
Speaker 7: home run to lead off the ball game one nothing Dodgers.
Speaker 7: It is showtime early in Kansas City. In the pitch,
Speaker 7: he swings and belts at into the gap in right
Speaker 7: center field. That's gonna split the outfielders. He'll be able
Speaker 7: to run for a while. He came round second on
Speaker 7: his way to third, touch us third. He comes in
Speaker 7: to tie the game. Here comes Otani into third with
Speaker 7: a run scoring triple. Otani ties the game with his
Speaker 7: seventh triple of the season.
Speaker 5: It is four to four.
Speaker 1: Show Hey Otani last night as the leadoff hitter and
Speaker 1: designated hit her two for three. The RBI triple there
Speaker 1: in the fifth inning to tie it and in the
Speaker 1: first a lead off home run is twenty ninth on
Speaker 1: the season. His eighth leadoff home run of the year.
Speaker 1: He's on base three times, including the walk as the
Speaker 1: Dodgers beat the Royals last night five to four. The
Speaker 1: Dodgers had four hits, two of which came from Shoeo Tani,
Speaker 1: Max Muntzi a two run home run. Mookie Betts came
Speaker 1: up huge in the fifth inning with an RBI single
Speaker 1: with two outs to give the Dodgers a five to
Speaker 1: four lead, and afterwards talk with Davids, Mookie, what.
Speaker 9: A way to end the game tonight, game ending double
Speaker 9: playing with the snow cone scoop.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that Freddy.
Speaker 10: Freddy does a really good job over there. All I
Speaker 10: gotta do is throw it in the vicinity and he
Speaker 10: always catch it.
Speaker 9: You're doing better than that, Mookie. For you to be
Speaker 9: able to come up big with the bat is one
Speaker 9: thing tonight, But then to do it again with the glove,
Speaker 9: this seems.
Speaker 5: To be not a big deal anymore.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 10: I've learned to really enjoy playing defense.
Speaker 11: Man.
Speaker 10: I really just get lost out there and lost in
Speaker 10: a good way. Like I'm just in my element and
Speaker 10: so I have a lot of fun.
Speaker 9: For you to come up with the go ahead base
Speaker 9: sit after Otani triples in the tying run, for you
Speaker 9: to find any way right now to drive in runs.
Speaker 5: It must be a good feeling.
Speaker 10: Yeah, HiT's a kind of hard to come by right now.
Speaker 10: But I just got to keep swinging, man, and hopefully
Speaker 10: they fall and we just jump on show Hayes back
Speaker 10: and Hill take.
Speaker 3: Us to the promised Lang.
Speaker 9: Oh, please stop that aggressive early in the count on
Speaker 9: that base hit.
Speaker 10: Yeah, I mean I I mean the guy throws higher,
Speaker 10: throws hard now, so you can't really can't keep falling behind.
Speaker 9: All right, we'll see you back out here. Don't forget,
Speaker 9: don't sleep. Oh my guy, Mookie bets right here. He
Speaker 9: came up big with the glove and the bat tonight.
Speaker 1: Yeah, last night he had that big hit in the
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Speaker 2: This is the LA Dodgers injury report.
Speaker 1: President of my UCLA Healthy official medical partner of the
Speaker 1: Los Angeles Dodgers, Tony Gonsolon on the sixty day IL.
Speaker 1: Tyler Glass now on the IL made in a minor
Speaker 1: league rehab start last night in Oklahoma City. Blake Snell
Speaker 1: and Blake Trinan today throwing bullpens. According to Dave Roberts,
Speaker 1: they are back here in Los Angeles. They're getting closer
Speaker 1: to throwing the live hitters. No date for that yet.
Speaker 1: Roki Sasaki on the IL says he's feeling good according
Speaker 1: to Dave Roberts, but still TBD on what is next
Speaker 1: for him in his ramp up to return. All right,
Speaker 1: speaking of return, let's return to Kansas City as we
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Speaker 5: Dave, do you think the questions for Dave?
Speaker 4: Dave? Can you just describe Dave? Can you talk about
Speaker 4: the pressure.
Speaker 2: In the dugouts with Dave Roberts show.
Speaker 9: Hey Otani on the mound today, you kind of mentioned
Speaker 9: that he may be going further than an inning.
Speaker 5: What is the gradual step up today?
Speaker 6: Yeah, so he's gonna go Uh, it's going to be
Speaker 6: he's going to get into the second inning if if
Speaker 6: you know, if that first inning doesn't get too stressful
Speaker 6: or not efficient inefficient.
Speaker 4: So the plan is he's going to go two for
Speaker 4: us today.
Speaker 9: Is it a more real conversation to talk about him
Speaker 9: leading off or not leading off when he starts to
Speaker 9: get into being a normal.
Speaker 5: Starter out of the rehab process.
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, yes, I think right now, certainly it's going
Speaker 6: to be hot out there. You know. I mentioned the
Speaker 6: conversation I had with him about hitting lead off, which
Speaker 6: he feels very comfortable still doing. So that's going to
Speaker 6: be fluid as far as kind of his position in
Speaker 6: the order and kind of how we use.
Speaker 4: Him on the hitting side. With the pitching.
Speaker 9: You got Kim at second base today, Are you looking
Speaker 9: to get him more of a runway at that position?
Speaker 6: Yeah, I think that, you know, having Kim, I just
Speaker 6: want to give Tommy a day off. I want to
Speaker 6: get Haysong in there and going forward some opportunities to
Speaker 6: get you know, hey, Song, some more opportunities to play
Speaker 6: some second base.
Speaker 4: I mean Tommy could certainly.
Speaker 6: Now Tommy's gonna start playing some more outfield, you know,
Speaker 6: going forward.
Speaker 8: With Annie easier to do on the road.
Speaker 4: Make a difference, you know what.
Speaker 6: I I don't know that answer, and I think that
Speaker 6: obviously the I can have we can have our thoughts
Speaker 6: on it home road. I'd like to know that from
Speaker 6: show hey, to be quite honest, you know, because you know,
Speaker 6: to warm up in the pen, to come into the dugout,
Speaker 6: be the first hit of a ballgame, to then go
Speaker 6: take the mound versus warm up in the pen, come
Speaker 6: in the dugout, take the mound and then go right
Speaker 6: to the on deck circle. I don't know, it's more challenging.
Speaker 6: I probably should ask him.
Speaker 1: All right, there's Dave Roberts. Yeah, today is going to
Speaker 1: be different for show Hey. Batting lead off for the Dodgers,
Speaker 1: but doing that in the top half of the first
Speaker 1: inning and then coming into pitch, not having to pitch,
Speaker 1: and then come in right away, throw the gear on
Speaker 1: as a hitter, and then go out and hit. So
Speaker 1: we'll see how it affects him, how he does, and
Speaker 1: I'm sure they'll get the data and the feedback from
Speaker 1: show Hey after today's game.
Speaker 3: Move on from there.
Speaker 1: We'll see how long he pitches today, hopefully two plus innings.
Speaker 1: We'll find out together. As we leave you up to
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Speaker 1: Dodgers in Kansas City for a three game weekend set
Speaker 1: with the Royals.
Speaker 3: They won last night five to four.
Speaker 1: Show hey Otani goes today in game two of his
Speaker 1: three game is set from the K.
Speaker 3: First pitch coming up at one.
Speaker 2: Ten, joining Tim Kats on Dodgers on deck.
Speaker 5: I accept everybody for who they are.
Speaker 2: This is Dodger insider David Bai.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and David now joins us from the K in
Speaker 1: Kansas City Coffin Stadium. David, it's a big one for
Speaker 1: the Dodgers, and it's a big day for show Hey Otani,
Speaker 1: who makes his third start in at Dodger uniform. What
Speaker 1: can we expect today? What's the ultimate goal for him
Speaker 1: out there?
Speaker 5: Well, the biggest news Dave Roberts just said it. Tim.
Speaker 9: You heard him say that O'tani is expected to go
Speaker 9: two innings today for the Dodgers, and that makes sense
Speaker 9: after his first two starts an inning a piece, the
Speaker 9: slow gradual build up.
Speaker 5: Now to two.
Speaker 9: Innings today he is leading off and look, it's all
Speaker 9: dictated by the game.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 9: You know, in his first start he went one inning,
Speaker 9: but through twenty eight twenty nine pitches, Dave Roberts told
Speaker 9: me after that game he was not going to allow
Speaker 9: him to throw more than thirty pitches in that one inning.
Speaker 9: So that's the plan. But Otani's got to be efficient
Speaker 9: in that first inning and not allow the pitch count
Speaker 9: to get too high so he can see the second inning.
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Speaker 1: the end of June. Last night, Tanner Scott got bailed
Speaker 1: out of a basis loaded jam thanks to Freddie Freeman's
Speaker 1: glove at first base on the double play. Tanner Scott, though, overall,
Speaker 1: David kind of feels like he's right at the ship.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 9: And I was talking to one of the Dodgers pitching coaches,
Speaker 9: Connor McGinnis, earlier today, and he actually validated some of
Speaker 9: the things that we have said about Tanner Scott coming
Speaker 9: over to the Dodgers big contract closing for the Marlins,
Speaker 9: where they were kind of protecting him because they wanted
Speaker 9: to trade him last year. Significantly different environment than coming
Speaker 9: in to be the closer for the Dodgers, And if
Speaker 9: you think back to the last four or five years,
Speaker 9: Tim Kenley Jansen has really been the only real Dodger closer.
Speaker 9: They've kind of moved around different guys from Craig Kimberl
Speaker 9: to maybe Evan Phillips being a part timer with Blake Trinen.
Speaker 9: So really Kenley Jansen has been the real true closer
Speaker 9: for the Dodgers, and rightfully so. He has the most
Speaker 9: saves in Dodger history. But Tanner Scott now is adjusting
Speaker 9: to this new world and the expectations and the stage
Speaker 9: of being the closer for the Dodgers. Not to mention,
Speaker 9: if you look at it, he already has appeared in
Speaker 9: forty games, and if you look at his career statistics,
Speaker 9: his first half of the season has not been as
Speaker 9: good as it has been with the Dodgers.
Speaker 1: David Freddy Freeman, the struggle is real right now for
Speaker 1: a guy who's still hitting over three hundred on the season.
Speaker 5: Yeah, Freddy's very sad these days.
Speaker 3: Tim.
Speaker 9: I mean, he is looking for anything, a handshake, a hug,
Speaker 9: anything right now. And you know, I'm depressed just watching
Speaker 9: him when he comes out and he's kind of mopey.
Speaker 9: I mean, he really takes it hard when he's not
Speaker 9: getting hits. And this is the longest we have seen
Speaker 9: Freddie Freeman being a slump in his time in Major
Speaker 9: League Baseball. And Freddie Freeman now is only hitting a
Speaker 9: buck thirty eight with zero extra base hits over the
Speaker 9: last fifteen games. It's the longest streak without an extra
Speaker 9: base hit in his sixteen year Hall of Fame career.
Speaker 9: So obviously we have never seen this. Freddie has never
Speaker 9: experienced it, and Dave Roberts is trying to manage it
Speaker 9: real quick.
Speaker 1: Dave Dalton rushing behind the plate today, is that just
Speaker 1: because of the way the schedule lines up day game
Speaker 1: after a night game. Is Showy comfortable with him behind
Speaker 1: the plate?
Speaker 5: Well, think about this.
Speaker 9: Rushing's a left handed hitter, right handed pitcher, seth logo
Speaker 9: on the mound.
Speaker 5: Today.
Speaker 9: Tomorrow the Dodgers are going to face a lefty. Will
Speaker 9: Smith crushes lefty, so they feel like this was the
Speaker 9: day to play rushing for the offensive part of it.
Speaker 9: And Otani's only going to be there for two innings
Speaker 9: and he knows benk Caspiraus really well.
Speaker 1: All right, day appreciate it. We'll check with you just
Speaker 1: a little bit later. Coming up here on Wrongo because
Speaker 1: you know Dodgers on deck. We'll hear from Alex Vesia,
Speaker 1: Dodger reliever. He's been really good in lockdown situations. Will
Speaker 1: also dive deeper into this pitching matchup. But up next
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Speaker 5: Rick Game two of this three game series.
Speaker 9: Yesterday, Dave Roberts said, the Dodgers did not playing clean baseball,
Speaker 9: but certainly the Royals gave the Dodgers their best shot.
Speaker 8: Well they did, and I think that really the tone
Speaker 8: was said, you started to look at that double played
Speaker 8: into the ball game last night.
Speaker 4: I mean, that was absolutely terrific.
Speaker 8: And if you look how it was turned over ground
Speaker 8: ball that's hit the Edmund he feeds to a Damookie
Speaker 8: Benz and then bench that low throw dugout. Just terrific
Speaker 8: play by Freddy Freeman. A back end didn't know if
Speaker 8: the Royals were going to challenge the cal little surprise
Speaker 8: that they didn't, because if they don't, the game's over.
Speaker 8: And if they do, even you know, there's a slim
Speaker 8: chance that they could have said, hey, the ball was
Speaker 8: a little loose into Freddy Freeman's glove. That was not
Speaker 8: the case. So the Dodgers, you know, you win ball games.
Speaker 8: The other part too, is we notice, and we've said
Speaker 8: this for a long time, if you make mistakes against
Speaker 8: good teams, and the Dodgers are a very good team,
Speaker 8: you make mistakes, you're going to pay the price.
Speaker 9: And that scoop by Freddy Freeman on a low throw
Speaker 9: by Mookie Bets. I know Freddy is not happy these days,
Speaker 9: rick with his hitting. He's in a prolonged slump, but
Speaker 9: he still does things like that to help you win
Speaker 9: a game.
Speaker 8: Yeah, and that's that's the whole key to Freddie Freeman.
Speaker 8: You know, in spite of the fact, yes he's struggling.
Speaker 8: In the last fifteen games, hitting gets won thirty nine.
Speaker 8: But for Freddy Freeman, you can ink his name into
Speaker 8: the lineup. Depends on where you're going to have him.
Speaker 8: You'll bat third this afternoon against Seth Lugo is going
Speaker 8: to go for the Royals. But he's a big guy
Speaker 8: to have in your lineup. And I've said this and
Speaker 8: I said it again last night in the broadcast. Freeman
Speaker 8: is getting closer and closer with some of the swings
Speaker 8: that he is taking. I talked to him the other
Speaker 8: day on the airplane and he knows he's getting closer.
Speaker 8: Still frustrating. When he gets back on track, there's going
Speaker 8: to be a high price for the pitchers because he's
Speaker 8: going to come back with vengeance.
Speaker 9: I know he's waiting for that. The dead fish handshake
Speaker 9: did not work. A hug from Eric Carross did not work.
Speaker 9: But you obviously have had the highs of highs and
Speaker 9: the lows of lows as a player. How much does
Speaker 9: sitting and watching a day help you get out of
Speaker 9: your own head in these situations?
Speaker 4: To be honest, I don't know.
Speaker 8: It depends upon the makeup of the player and Freddie
Speaker 8: Freeman has a special makeup.
Speaker 4: He understands.
Speaker 8: He challenges himself each and every day. You can tell
Speaker 8: that by the number of games that he plays in
Speaker 8: the way that he plays the game. Some guys, you know,
Speaker 8: you need to take a breather or it helps you
Speaker 8: maybe to take a breather just to exhale inhale, kind
Speaker 8: of cleanse the mind, if you will. Other guys know
Speaker 8: running back out there. For Freeman does not like to
Speaker 8: sit and watch games, No.
Speaker 5: He really doesn't.
Speaker 9: But tomorrow Lefty is on the mound and Dave Roberts
Speaker 9: said he is considering having Freddie sit and watch tomorrow.
Speaker 8: Here's what's gonna happen. Freeman will get three hits today
Speaker 8: and he really feel good about himself. Come to the
Speaker 8: ballpark tomorrow and Freeman will be in the Dave Roberts office.
Speaker 8: Say no, no, no, I'm breaking out of it.
Speaker 4: Leave me in there.
Speaker 8: This is how things kind of happen, And it's fun
Speaker 8: to be around the guys and see how they respond
Speaker 8: to different things.
Speaker 9: One guy that's broken out since mid May after going
Speaker 9: to see your guy, doctor lou his eyes have been fixed.
Speaker 5: Max Munsey, another home run yesterday.
Speaker 8: Everybody's eyes are fixed on Max Muncie. Here's the story
Speaker 8: with Max Bunzie. We're talking about record setting pace at
Speaker 8: the present time. Since the thirty first of May, Max Bunsey,
Speaker 8: first of all, has three games with six or more RBIs.
Speaker 8: He has three multi home run games. He has two
Speaker 8: games with seven or more RBIs. He has two games
Speaker 8: with multiple three run or more home runs. He has
Speaker 8: two Grand slams.
Speaker 4: Is that good? Well?
Speaker 8: Since May thirty first for Max Munsey. You know, there's
Speaker 8: only one other player in Major League Baseball history that
Speaker 8: has done all of those individual things over an entire season,
Speaker 8: much less than about one month. That was Jimmy Fox
Speaker 8: during nineteen thirty eight.
Speaker 4: Fox, by the way, who was most valuable player that year.
Speaker 9: That's incredible company to be with. If your name Max Muncy.
Speaker 8: Well, it's never happened before, and it took an entire season,
Speaker 8: and we've seen it for Max Monsey in one month.
Speaker 8: Are those people still calling you on the postgame show
Speaker 8: that were saying early in the season, hey trade Max Munsey,
Speaker 8: send him down to Triple A?
Speaker 4: Are they still calling?
Speaker 9: Their cell phone bill must not have been paid because
Speaker 9: they're not calling anymore.
Speaker 4: Rick, well, he was muted for a reason.
Speaker 5: Thanks a lot for sharing that with us.
Speaker 9: See David, thank you to your friend doctor Lou for
Speaker 9: fixing Max Munsey's eyes.
Speaker 4: I can see you now.
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Speaker 9: We're here with the man that the Dodgers rely upon
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Speaker 9: That's the one and only Alex Vesia thanks a lot
Speaker 9: for the time and thanks for being available for us
Speaker 9: no worries. I think you also have to add in
Speaker 9: there a lot of caffeine. Well, we see you on
Speaker 9: the mound. It feels like you do take it to
Speaker 9: another level. What world are you in when you're out there?
Speaker 11: I would definitely say it's it's my own world. Yeah,
Speaker 11: you know, as a really real every day is a
Speaker 11: new day. When I'm out on the mound, it's it's
Speaker 11: sort of on the edge of like super focused and
Speaker 11: then blackout. So there's there's there's a fine line between
Speaker 11: the two, and uh, I feel like I'm riding that
Speaker 11: a lot.
Speaker 9: Can you think back to your first year with the
Speaker 9: Dodgers to where you're at right now, a World Series champion,
Speaker 9: one of the pillars of strengthened that bullpen. How have
Speaker 9: you been able to harness all of that emotion?
Speaker 11: H I mean, I think it's kind of leaning on
Speaker 11: veteran guys throughout the years. You know, you have like
Speaker 11: Kenley Jansen was a was a big, big one that
Speaker 11: I kind of looked after his routine and how he
Speaker 11: went about certain things. And you have guys like Joe
Speaker 11: Kelly and and Blake tryning that, you know, set the
Speaker 11: tone day in and day out. So it's you know,
Speaker 11: really relying on the veteran guys to kind of bring
Speaker 11: you under your wing and and kind of show you
Speaker 11: the ropes, you know, from twenty one until now. You know,
Speaker 11: it's I kind of feel like I'm slowly getting into
Speaker 11: that role where you know, guys like Jack Dryer and
Speaker 11: and you know Ben Consparius. It's like I've I've kind
Speaker 11: of you know, taken them under my wing, not not
Speaker 11: necessarily like you know, they they have great routines, they
Speaker 11: they're very very good pictures, but I'm always like open
Speaker 11: to you know, having conversations with them, and you know,
Speaker 11: we have really good friendships and you know they've been
Speaker 11: doing great for us.
Speaker 5: It sounds like you're paying it forward.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, absolutely absolutely.
Speaker 11: You know, it's I always want to make sure that
Speaker 11: there's like a level of comfort down there. You know
Speaker 11: that we there is some some turnover, and you know,
Speaker 11: I'm always I want to be welcoming to everybody who
Speaker 11: steps in the in the pend.
Speaker 9: Yeah, speaking of turnover, there's a lot of guys from
Speaker 9: last year's Bullpen Dogs, but you got some new guys
Speaker 9: like you mentioned what's the dynamic this year in the bullpen.
Speaker 11: I also think we have a very good group of
Speaker 11: guys right and it's it's a little bit different than
Speaker 11: last year. But I also think that the you know,
Speaker 11: we have about four lefties and you know, five ish
Speaker 11: rieties depending on who we bring up and whatnot, So
Speaker 11: it is roles are.
Speaker 4: A little bit different.
Speaker 3: But I also think that we're very versatile in that.
Speaker 9: And Kirby Yates, he seems like he has a lot
Speaker 9: of veterans salt and edge.
Speaker 2: I wouldn't call it salt.
Speaker 11: I wouldn't call it salt. You know, I've been around
Speaker 11: some salty vets. He's definitely not one of them. I
Speaker 11: think he brings some really good energy for us, and
Speaker 11: you know, he he loves to keep it loose, loves
Speaker 11: to have fun and but like you know, when his
Speaker 11: name's called, it's you know, all all go.
Speaker 3: So it's a it's a great dynamic down there.
Speaker 9: It seems like you've really embraced being a leader and
Speaker 9: now being a world champion, being through it and being successful.
Speaker 9: Are you embracing being that guy now?
Speaker 11: I mean I think it's it's just I go about
Speaker 11: my business day in and day out where you know,
Speaker 11: I want to be available, I want to I want
Speaker 11: the ball, and I think it's kind of just leading
Speaker 11: by that, you know. I think someone who does a
Speaker 11: very very good job with that is is Kershaw, right.
Speaker 11: I mean, he every day he works, he you know,
Speaker 11: he does, he has his set routine and that's kind
Speaker 11: of something that from the beginning, that's what I noticed
Speaker 11: and why he's so great. So I kind of want to,
Speaker 11: you know, mimic that that same on Wednesday, he'll be
Speaker 11: three strikeouts away from three thousand.
Speaker 9: What will it be like in the bullpen watching him
Speaker 9: start that game?
Speaker 11: And I'll be on the fence for every every pitch,
Speaker 11: every battery until he does it so very special. I
Speaker 11: honestly don't think it will set in until I'm older
Speaker 11: about how special this moment really is. But I do
Speaker 11: know how you know how hard he's worked and just
Speaker 11: to come back, and you know he's been throwing the
Speaker 11: ball great for us, and you know he's been helping
Speaker 11: the pen out, So I mean he's he's doing it.
Speaker 9: When you have a guy like Kershaw around, what's what's
Speaker 9: his presence mean to the team.
Speaker 11: I think he holds a standard that is different than
Speaker 11: than most right, and you know being a picture as well.
Speaker 11: I think it really resonates with me more obviously guys
Speaker 11: like moved you and Freddie and show Hey, right, you know,
Speaker 11: shoe hey. I'm starting to see the pitching side, but
Speaker 11: we mostly see him from the hitting side, right, So
Speaker 11: kursh definitely brings that that standard. The you know, like
Speaker 11: I said, he's very focused and the I don't know
Speaker 11: how to really explained other than just like he sets
Speaker 11: the example.
Speaker 9: Yeah, today is Otani start day. What's it like behind
Speaker 9: the scenes? What is he like on start day?
Speaker 11: Honestly, it's it's he's very quiet, right, he has his routine.
Speaker 11: You can say what you can say hi to him,
Speaker 11: you can say what's it like. It's not it's not
Speaker 11: like it don't talk to me type. So but you
Speaker 11: know it is his his time, you know, and you
Speaker 11: know he takes it serious and uh, I'm looking forward
Speaker 11: to you know, keep keep watching him and building up
Speaker 11: and you know it's a very interesting build up, right
Speaker 11: because he can't go down to the minor leagues and
Speaker 11: kind of have that build up process. So you know,
Speaker 11: this is a great you know, kind of stepping stone,
Speaker 11: you know, for him, and you know today today you
Speaker 11: will be fun. I was very very surprised for him
Speaker 11: to be ninety nine one hundred miles an hour the
Speaker 11: last time.
Speaker 2: So you know, he's just so special.
Speaker 5: Hey, so are you?
Speaker 9: Alex Vessia means a lot to this Dodger team, to
Speaker 9: this Dodger bullpen. You've meant a lot since twenty one
Speaker 9: since you arrived. I call him the keyk Hernandez of
Speaker 9: relief pitchers. When the lights of the brightest, the moments,
Speaker 9: the biggest, Vessia has delivered.
Speaker 5: So thank you for the time.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I like that. Thank you.
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Speaker 1: Leass is second with Kansas City, making his fifteen start.
Speaker 1: There was a fastball, a sinker, a cutter, a slider,
Speaker 1: a curve, and a splitter. Yeah, that's a lot of pitches.
Speaker 1: Teammates nicknamed him the Surgeon because of how many pitches
Speaker 1: he throws at how he dissects hitters. Last time out
Speaker 1: six and a third innings, one run, two hit, seven
Speaker 1: strikeouts in a no decision against the Padres. Today, Max's
Speaker 1: fourteenth career outing against the Dodgers. He's three and two
Speaker 1: with a five to fifty four ERA and twenty two
Speaker 1: strikeouts at his most recent starts. It was ex actually
Speaker 1: almost one year ago June fifteenth. Last year, he had
Speaker 1: a quality start in a seven to two Royals win.
Speaker 1: He went six innings, just two runs on six hits
Speaker 1: with one walk. Show Hey O Tani on the mound.
Speaker 1: His third start at Dodger uniform, last time out Sunday
Speaker 1: against the Nationals. One inning, two strikeouts. Facing the Royals
Speaker 1: for the fourth time in his career as a pitcher.
Speaker 1: He faced them in twenty twenty three at Angels Stadium,
Speaker 1: seven scoreless innings. Show, Hey Otani, Dodgers Royals. We're fifteen
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Speaker 7: Tim, thanks again. We've got a beautiful day for a
Speaker 7: little bit warm and humid here in Kansas City. Show
Speaker 7: hey o toany will start? Show heys four seam fastball
Speaker 7: velocity as of right now, granted small sample size this
Speaker 7: year two starts, but so far what we've seen from
Speaker 7: it Mo, it's the highest of his career at ninety
Speaker 7: eight point six miles per hour.
Speaker 8: And we've also seen him at one hundred miles an hour.
Speaker 8: He's also thrown that splitter we talked about a little
Speaker 8: bit earlier. What we are going to watch Seth Lugo,
Speaker 8: who's going to go for the Royals. He's been very
Speaker 8: good in June. Four starts, era of one point five
Speaker 8: to seven. Here's very quickly what I would suggested the
Speaker 8: Dodger hitters first pitch strike by Lugo this year, seventy
Speaker 8: one percent of the time his first pitch is to strike.
Speaker 8: I'll be wondering if the Dodgers start to swing the
Speaker 8: bat early in counts this afternoon.
Speaker 7: Yeah, that's seventy one percent, fourth best in Major League
Speaker 7: Baseball in terms of first pitch strike percentage, so certainly
Speaker 7: that'll be one of the keys. We look at here
Speaker 7: this afternoon, counting it down to the first pitch at
Speaker 7: Kaufman Stadium in Kansas City, second game of this three
Speaker 7: game set show Hey O Tani, Seth logo the pitching matchup.
Speaker 4: Tim ready to go.
Speaker 3: We are ready to go, Seth Lugo. Take some mound.
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