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Speaker 5: host of Dodger Talk, Tim Kakes.
Speaker 7: Ah, So we meet again here on rain delayed Dodger
Speaker 7: Talk on a five seventy LA Sports and many of
Speaker 7: you driving around, maybe outside doing some gardening, doing some
Speaker 7: household work, doing some launch and join the Sunday by
Speaker 7: the pool. You're looking around thinking it's hot outside, Tim,
Speaker 7: blue skies everywhere we got beautiful hot weather here in
Speaker 7: southern California could be toasty in some parts of the
Speaker 7: South End.
Speaker 3: It is but the.
Speaker 7: Dodgers are in Kansas City, Missouri, and it is hot, humid.
Speaker 4: And raining as we speak.
Speaker 7: So we are in a rain delay because of the
Speaker 7: weather in Kansas City at Kaufman Stadium.
Speaker 4: But do not worry.
Speaker 7: The game will start an hour later than scheduled. It
Speaker 7: was supposed to start fifteen minutes ago at eleven ten
Speaker 7: am Pacific. They have announced the start time of twelve
Speaker 7: ten pm Pacific two pm Central time there in Kansas City,
Speaker 7: so a one hour delay because of the weather.
Speaker 4: It will blow through.
Speaker 7: If you know the Midwest, you know it comes and
Speaker 7: goes pretty quickly, the weather systems through the area, and
Speaker 7: this one is no different.
Speaker 4: They saw it coming.
Speaker 7: They said better to wait to start the start time
Speaker 7: of this game rather than start it up stop it
Speaker 7: go to a randola. And the Royals do not want
Speaker 7: to waste their starting pitcher in this game. There is
Speaker 7: no doubt about that because he is having a great season,
Speaker 7: Young Chris Bubik, who is really an unbelievable story, which
Speaker 7: I want to really get into it quickly here before
Speaker 7: we get to your phone calls at eight six six
Speaker 7: nine eighty seven, two five seventy. We also got to
Speaker 7: hear the twenty nine year anniversary and one of the
Speaker 7: great calls in Major League Baseball history, certainly one of
Speaker 7: the most iconic calls in Dodger history. Fernando v Alenzuela
Speaker 7: is no hitter on this date in nineteen ninety. We
Speaker 7: are almost a month away from the trade deadline. Yeah,
Speaker 7: July thirty first is the Major League Baseball trade deadline.
Speaker 7: As we sit here on June twenty ninth, we're a
Speaker 7: month away and the Dodgers at atop the NL West,
Speaker 7: are they looking to bolster their roster. There's a name
Speaker 7: that is floating out there as a possible pitcher that
Speaker 7: the Dodgers may be looking at at the trade deadline. Also,
Speaker 7: the Phase two of the All Star voting begins tomorrow
Speaker 7: on Dodgers dot Com. At MLB dot com, I'll tell
Speaker 7: you which Dodgers have moved on in exactly how many
Speaker 7: Dodgers could be going to Atlanta for the Midsummer Classic,
Speaker 7: and what some around baseball communities are saying about the
Speaker 7: Dodgers having so many players that could be going to
Speaker 7: the All Star Game. But today the Dodgers will have
Speaker 7: Justin Robleski be the bulkeeting guy for the Dodgers, that
Speaker 7: he has been fantastic in whatever role he has been
Speaker 7: asked to do by Dave Roberts and Mark Pryor in
Speaker 7: this coaching staff, whether it starts games, whether it's a
Speaker 7: bulkeeting guy, which he's done the last couple of times
Speaker 7: out in his opportunities against the Rockies.
Speaker 4: He did that on Tuesday in coors.
Speaker 7: Field, and today he will do that following Luke Trevino,
Speaker 7: who will get the start to face a couple of
Speaker 7: left handers, and then Justin Robleski will come in and
Speaker 7: face the rest of the lineup as the bulkanning pitcher
Speaker 7: for the Dodgers. The Kansas City Royals are going with
Speaker 7: a leftander by the name of Chris Bubach.
Speaker 4: Yes bub Ich.
Speaker 7: He is a fascinating story seven year old left hander
Speaker 7: at in Northern California, Coopertino, California, the home of Apple
Speaker 7: went to Stanford, a high draft pick, a really good prospect,
Speaker 7: a really good young left handed arm that the Royals drafted, developed,
Speaker 7: brought up in twenty twenty during the COVID season, really
Speaker 7: took shape in twenty twenty one. Just not great stuff,
Speaker 7: losing record er neear five twenty twenty two twenty seven starts.
Speaker 7: He was three to thirteen with an ERA over five
Speaker 7: and a half. It was a bad season for Chris Bubage,
Speaker 7: the starter today for the Kansas City Royals. Tommy John
Speaker 7: surgery three games into the twenty twenty three season, missed
Speaker 7: all of basically twenty twenty three. Came back last year
Speaker 7: and only came out of the bullpen, didn't start games.
Speaker 7: They slow played his way back, and it's pretty good
Speaker 7: here in twenty twenty five, his first full season back
Speaker 7: from Tommy John surgery.
Speaker 4: He has reinvented himself.
Speaker 7: The arm surgery has literally made him a better pitcher
Speaker 7: than he was pre Tommy John surgery.
Speaker 4: It's one of those stories.
Speaker 7: There a guy struggles arm injury, surgery, comes back, and
Speaker 7: he's better than he was. He was a good pitcher,
Speaker 7: a major league pitcher, three and thirteen, an ERA over
Speaker 7: five and a half Tommy John surgery. He comes back
Speaker 7: this year. He's six and five, a winning record in
Speaker 7: a two to eighteen er. It's pretty remarkable to see
Speaker 7: what he has done. It is just like that movie
Speaker 7: Rookie of the Year, Well not just like it. That
Speaker 7: was a kid that you know, broke his arm, hurt
Speaker 7: his shoulder and it was in a cast and came
Speaker 7: back and was thrown a hundred miles an hour.
Speaker 4: But you get the point.
Speaker 7: Chris Boubach okay Major League picture arm injury, Tommy John
Speaker 7: surgery and has comeback a different pitcher and one of
Speaker 7: the best young pitchers still only at the age of
Speaker 7: twenty seven in the American League. And that too the
Speaker 7: Dodgers will face today. And that's why the Royals did
Speaker 7: not want to start the game on time, because they
Speaker 7: want to make sure he gets an opportunity to pitch
Speaker 7: the game and not go one inning and had the
Speaker 7: game stop because of rain delay, and then they lose
Speaker 7: them for the rest of the day. Eight six six
Speaker 7: nine eighty seven two five seventy is a number. Eight
Speaker 7: six six nine eighty seven two five seventy. We are
Speaker 7: in rain delay Dodger Talk here on AM five to
Speaker 7: seventy LA Sports and the Dodgers Audio Network. The game
Speaker 7: will start at twelve ten Pacific, so a one hour
Speaker 7: rain delay between what was supposed to be first pitch
Speaker 7: and what will actually be first pitch Tomorrow morning, Monday
Speaker 7: at nine a m. Pacific twelve o'clock Eastern Phase two
Speaker 7: of the All Star voting will resume and it will
Speaker 7: last until Wednesday at nine am Pacific twelve Eastern. You'll
Speaker 7: have two full days to vote in Phase two of
Speaker 7: the All Star voting. Now, a lot of you Dodger
Speaker 7: fans voted. There was over eleven million total votes cast
Speaker 7: for the All Star voting in phase one, So many
Speaker 7: of you voted. Show Hey Otani got an automatic bid
Speaker 7: as the top vote getter of.
Speaker 4: The National League.
Speaker 7: So many of you voted that Freddie Freeman, Tommy Edmund
Speaker 7: Mooki Betts, Max Munsey, Will Smith, Teoscar Hernandez, and Andy
Speaker 7: pat Has. Seven Dodgers are in the running in the
Speaker 7: final vote here of MLB All Star voting for the
Speaker 7: All Star Game, seven different Dodgers. Freddie Freeman's fighting it
Speaker 7: out to start at first base, Tommy Evans fighting it
Speaker 7: out in voting to start at second base, Mookie Betts
Speaker 7: is battling it out a shortstop at the National League,
Speaker 7: Max Munsey battling it out with Manny Machado with third
Speaker 7: base to be the All Star starter. Will Smith battling
Speaker 7: out to see if he'll start behind the plate in
Speaker 7: the All Star Game, and Tai Oscar Hernandez Andy Payez,
Speaker 7: two of the six finalists to see who will be
Speaker 7: the starting three outfielders for the National League in the
Speaker 7: Midsummer Classic. Seven Dodgers have made it to Phase two,
Speaker 7: and that's not even counting show Hey Otani, who's already in.
Speaker 7: There could be eight starters from the Dodgers in Atlanta
Speaker 7: for the All Star Game coming up in a few weeks.
Speaker 7: And it's interesting. You know, you're on social media and
Speaker 7: sometimes you know what you're looking at. You know, the
Speaker 7: algorithm what is it? Algorithm? Algorithm, excuse me, is formulated
Speaker 7: on what you're looking at. So I'm looking at some
Speaker 7: All Star Dodger voting and next thing, you know, a
Speaker 7: real pops ub and it's a podcaster who talks baseball,
Speaker 7: and I even know who this guy is. Not a
Speaker 7: Dodger guy, just a baseball podcaster. Pops up on on
Speaker 7: Instagram and he's complaining about how many Dodgers there could
Speaker 7: be in Atlanta for the All Star Game.
Speaker 4: And he says, I get the Dodgers are good.
Speaker 7: I understand they've got a ton of talent and they
Speaker 7: just won the World Series, But you're really telling me
Speaker 7: we could have eight starters from the Dodgers in the
Speaker 7: All Star Game. Yeah, that's what I'm telling you a podcaster,
Speaker 7: because that's what could happen. Now, keep in mind, Dodger fans,
Speaker 7: you did such a great job voting for your favorite
Speaker 7: Dodgers in the first round of the All Star voting.
Speaker 4: It resets, so all.
Speaker 7: Those votes you cast for Freddie Freeman, Will Smith, Andy
Speaker 7: Pie has all the Dodgers. It resets at zero for
Speaker 7: every player now in phase two, So you've got to
Speaker 7: vote again. And voting starts tomorrow at nine am Monday,
Speaker 7: nine am Pacific and closes Wednesday at nine am. You
Speaker 7: only got forty eight hours to do it, and then
Speaker 7: they'll announce the starters on Wednesday afternoon on MLB Network
Speaker 7: in a big All Star unveiling on the MLB Network. Again,
Speaker 7: you have to keep voting because what you did in
Speaker 7: the first round resets. All these Dodgers who you got
Speaker 7: moved on to the final vote have to be voted
Speaker 7: for again. Freddie Freeman is battling Pete Alonso for the
Speaker 7: National League first base spot. Tommy Edmond is going head
Speaker 7: to head with Kotel Marte of the Diamondbacks for the
Speaker 7: starting second base spot.
Speaker 4: In the National League in the All Star Game. Mookie
Speaker 4: Betts is.
Speaker 7: Going head to head with Francisco Lindor of the Mets
Speaker 7: for the starting shortstop for the National League in the
Speaker 7: All Star Game. Max Munsey. What a month and a half.
Speaker 7: Max Munsey has had, Dodger fans.
Speaker 4: You got him to the.
Speaker 7: Second round of the voting. He is going head to
Speaker 7: head with Manny Machado to see who will start for
Speaker 7: the National League at third base.
Speaker 4: Will Smith.
Speaker 7: I mean he's going head to head against Carson Kelly
Speaker 7: of the Cubs. No offense to Carson Kelly, who's having
Speaker 7: a good season. Will Smith is having a really good
Speaker 7: season and is a proven All Star. He has to
Speaker 7: be your starter for the National League. And in the outfield,
Speaker 7: it is a tight race. Six finalists for the National
Speaker 7: League All Star voting. Juan Soto, Kyle Tucker, Ronald Lukunya,
Speaker 7: Junior Pete Crow Armstrong of the Cubs out of here
Speaker 7: in southern California, Harvard Westlake High School. And then the
Speaker 7: two Dodgers Taoscar Hernandez and Andy Pajees And again shoey
Speaker 7: Otani already named the starting DH for being the National
Speaker 7: League's leading vote Getter, get out and vote, Vote Vote
Speaker 7: Vote Dodgers dot Com slash vote Dodgers dot Com slash
Speaker 7: vote get Freddie Friedman, Tommy Edmund, Mookie Bets, Max Muncie,
Speaker 7: Will Smith, Taoskarz, and Andy Pajes to Atlanta as starters
Speaker 7: for the National League.
Speaker 4: How cool would it be to see all these Dodgers.
Speaker 7: Starting for the National League catcher, first base, second base,
Speaker 7: third base, shortstop. Two of the three starting spots in
Speaker 7: the outfield have Dodger players out there. Will Smith behind
Speaker 7: the plate, Shoe a Otani is your designated hitter.
Speaker 4: That would be pretty cool.
Speaker 7: It'd be even better if they allowed show Hey to
Speaker 7: pitch one inning to start the All Star Game. It'd
Speaker 7: basically be eight of the nine players on the field
Speaker 7: for the National League Dodgers. That would look amazing. Now,
Speaker 7: show He's not going to pitch in the All Star Game,
Speaker 7: but it would look pretty cool optically to have the
Speaker 7: best team in baseball. The defending World Series champions have
Speaker 7: eight of the nine players out on the field for
Speaker 7: the All Star Game in Atlanta eight sixty six nine
Speaker 7: eight seven two five to seventy.
Speaker 4: So again, that opens up up Monday morning at nine am.
Speaker 7: Pacific, Phase two of the All Star Voting Dodgers dot
Speaker 7: Com slash vote. Dodgers dot Com slash vote, you have
Speaker 7: forty eight hours to get to work, Dodger fans Monday
Speaker 7: morning nine am until Wednesday morning at nine am, to
Speaker 7: make sure you send as many Dodgers as possible to
Speaker 7: the All Star Game. All right, coming up, we're gonna
Speaker 7: get into the Major League Baseball trade deadline. But today
Speaker 7: is June twenty ninth, twenty twenty five, thirty five years
Speaker 7: ago today, the Dodgers taking on the Saint Louis Cardinals
Speaker 7: out at Dodgers Stadium. Dave Stewart already that day threw
Speaker 7: a no hitter in the major leagues, so you had
Speaker 7: one no hitter already completed in baseball.
Speaker 4: Well on that night.
Speaker 7: Fernando Valenzuela sporting his glasses on the mount at Dodgers Stadium,
Speaker 7: June twenty ninth, nineteen ninety, taking on the Saint Louis Cardinals,
Speaker 7: eight no hit ins already in the books, three outs
Speaker 7: away from his first no hitter. Here's the great Vin
Speaker 7: Scully with the final top half of the ninth inning
Speaker 7: at Dodger Stadium, Fernando Valenzuela going to work working on
Speaker 7: a no hitter, enjoy and so.
Speaker 3: It has come to this. We go to the ninth
Speaker 3: inning here at Dodger Stadium.
Speaker 1: The Dodgers six runs, twelve hits, one era, the Cardinals
Speaker 1: no runs, no hits, and three eras it is the
Speaker 1: twenty ninth of June. In case someday long from now,
Speaker 1: Fernando is playing this back to his grandchildren and Vince
Speaker 1: Coleman will start it off. Coleman is grounded a short
Speaker 1: and struck out twice. It's pass ball, away ball on
Speaker 1: for Fernando had began with the Dodgers in nineteen hundred
Speaker 1: and eighty.
Speaker 3: This is game number three hundred and fourteen for.
Speaker 1: Him in his career, and he's had some glorious moments,
Speaker 1: but none brighter than right now.
Speaker 3: And a screwball high ball too.
Speaker 1: He has a paid crowd of thirty eight thousand, five
Speaker 1: hundred and eighty three over thirty nine thousand in the house,
Speaker 1: and they are here. They are riveted in their seats.
Speaker 1: Fernando into his wind up and the two zero pitch
Speaker 1: is in there first right. Anytime a pitch is taken
Speaker 1: at the plate, you could almost neglect to call ball
Speaker 1: or strike, because this crowd.
Speaker 3: Would let you know.
Speaker 1: In eight innings, Fernando made one hundred and seven pitches,
Speaker 1: so he should have quite a bit of ammunition left.
Speaker 1: The two to one pitch to comban line fowl outside.
Speaker 3: A third and down the line, and the crowd oohs
Speaker 3: and ohs.
Speaker 1: The severity of the blow and also thinking about how
Speaker 1: close it might have been to breaking the spell. Crowd
Speaker 1: trying to will Fernando to get an out, and the
Speaker 1: two to two pitch is strike three called outside corner
Speaker 1: has coma ran up as if the bunt and he
Speaker 1: and Jerry Lane to play on fire are nose to nose.
Speaker 1: William McGhee, who has hit Fernando hard in the past
Speaker 1: tonight struck out, lined out and grounded out, takes a
Speaker 1: look at a pitch low ball on Fernando's one to
Speaker 1: oh pitch to McGee outside. Fernando reading his buddy, signs
Speaker 1: Mike Sooshi and the two oh scrooge.
Speaker 3: He is high ball.
Speaker 1: Three, Fernando back three to oh, and he is inside
Speaker 1: ball four. So now when he needs everything he has,
Speaker 1: he will have to pitch out of his stretch with.
Speaker 3: Guerrero and zeal coming out.
Speaker 1: There's almost some poetry in the moment to realize the
Speaker 1: former Dodger the good friend of Fernando as a teammate,
Speaker 1: and it is Pedro Guerrero hitting two ninety four, with
Speaker 1: the opportunity now to break up the no hitter. McGee
Speaker 1: with all of his talent, can't steal a no hitter
Speaker 1: from first base. Pitch to Pedro Guerrero swung on and missed,
Speaker 1: and the crowd now with more emotion following every pitch.
Speaker 1: Fernando ready in the strike two pitch is hit back
Speaker 1: to the box, dribbling the second Samuel on the bed
Speaker 1: cross the first double play. Fernando Valenzuela has pitched a
Speaker 1: no hitter. At ten seventeen in the evening of June
Speaker 1: the twenty ninth, nineteen ninety.
Speaker 3: If you have a sombrero, throw it to the star.
Speaker 7: There it is the great Vinscully on the call. June
Speaker 7: twenty ninth, nineteen ninety Fernando Valenzuela with the no hitter
Speaker 7: over the Saint Louis Cardinals. Keep in mind, Dodger fans,
Speaker 7: this was an older Fernando Valenzuela at that point, of
Speaker 7: his career nineteen eighty one burst onto the scene for
Speaker 7: Nando Mania.
Speaker 4: This was nineteen ninety.
Speaker 7: Fernando had slowed down as far as dominance on the
Speaker 7: mound nineteen eighty eight, remember hurt not even on the
Speaker 7: postseason roster for the eighty eight World Series run. Nineteen
Speaker 7: eighty nine, he went ten to thirteen. His shoulder was
Speaker 7: barking at him. He signed a one year, two million
Speaker 7: dollar deal to come back in nineteen ninety with the Dodgers.
Speaker 7: He was thirteen and thirteen that year, four fifty nine RORA.
Speaker 7: But on that June ninth, excuse me, that June night,
Speaker 7: nineteen ninety, he threw a no hitter against the Saint
Speaker 7: Louis Cardinals, again the second no hitter that day, as
Speaker 7: Dave Stewart had thrown a no hitter against the Toronto
Speaker 7: Blue Jays earlier, and Mike Soosha tells the story that
Speaker 7: watching it on TV, he made the comments, you see one,
Speaker 7: now you're gonna see one in person. It was the
Speaker 7: first time at that time in modern baseball history that
Speaker 7: two no hitters were thrown in the same day, so
Speaker 7: pretty remarkable. Fernando Mania nineteen eighty one Fernando Valenzuela in
Speaker 7: nineteen ninety, tail end of his career with the Dodgers,
Speaker 7: A five hundred pitcher at that time, El Toro on
Speaker 7: the mound that June twenty ninth, nineteen ninety found it
Speaker 7: somewhere deep inside of him and pitched a no hitter
Speaker 7: in the Dodgers win over the Saint Louis Cardinals. And
Speaker 7: of course we lost Fernando Valenzuela last October, way too young,
Speaker 7: at the age of sixty three. All right, let's go
Speaker 7: out to the phones before we take a break again.
Speaker 7: We're in a rain delay here on Dodger Talk. First
Speaker 7: pitch will start at twelve ten, so one hour later
Speaker 7: then scheduled twelve ten Pacific, two ten Central time from
Speaker 7: Kansas City. It'll be the Dodgers and of the Royals.
Speaker 7: Ozzy long Beach, Welcome to rained the lad Dodger Talk.
Speaker 4: How you doing, Auzzie, yourself doing well? I'm assuming you
Speaker 4: were around in nineteen ninety for the no hitter? Do
Speaker 4: you remember it?
Speaker 3: Uh?
Speaker 2: You know what I was. I was actually born ninety six,
Speaker 2: but being a big Dodger fan, I know I know
Speaker 2: a good portion of all the history of you can
Speaker 2: say Dodgers.
Speaker 4: You know, okay, all right, yeah, no doubt about it.
Speaker 4: What you want to say?
Speaker 2: I just want to say, with show hey slowly, also
Speaker 2: with a Toney coming back to pitch, would you guys
Speaker 2: rather see him slowly?
Speaker 4: You know?
Speaker 2: Come? I would, I would prefer this is my opinion.
Speaker 2: I would think it'd be better if he come back
Speaker 2: as a relief for right now being you know, are
Speaker 2: books you know, tiring as it is, oh Tony, I
Speaker 2: think would be like a fresh relief presence and come
Speaker 2: playoff time. I think it'll be better to unleash him.
Speaker 2: That's just my opinion. What do you what do you guys?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I appreciate that. Thank you, Ozzy. I would push
Speaker 4: back on that. You're getting a show aotime.
Speaker 7: The two way player pitching every five six days, he's
Speaker 7: pitching once a week. In essence, there is no way
Speaker 7: his body can hold up being a d hitting three
Speaker 7: or four times a day as a designated hitter, and
Speaker 7: then also asking him to pitch three or four days
Speaker 7: a week as a reliever, whether it's one inning out
Speaker 7: of the end of a game, the ninth or coming
Speaker 7: in in a high leverage situation in the seventh or eighth.
Speaker 7: There's no way you can do that and continue to
Speaker 7: juggle the DH spot as well. So the only way
Speaker 7: it works to have a two way player in modern
Speaker 7: baseball like we are seeing now in twenty twenty five
Speaker 7: is to have sho Heo Tani DH and the days
Speaker 7: he's pitching also DH. But that's once a week. Yeah,
Speaker 7: just once a week. You are physically not able to
Speaker 7: do it as a reliever and as a designated hitter
Speaker 7: and do it on a daily basis, It is just
Speaker 7: not possible.
Speaker 4: That is asking a lot. We know Shoeo Tani is
Speaker 4: a unicorn horn.
Speaker 3: But.
Speaker 7: Pretty pretty impressive. Eight six six nine, eight seven two
Speaker 7: five seventy and take a break. We'll come back and
Speaker 7: we'll get to more of your phone calls. And there's
Speaker 7: a certain pitch of the Dodgers reportedly are looking at
Speaker 7: at the trade deadline. They've got a lot of starting
Speaker 7: pitchers that are hurt. How many are gonna come back
Speaker 7: and how many are gonna come back and be good?
Speaker 4: We'll tell you.
Speaker 7: We'll look ahead to what the Dodgers may be doing
Speaker 7: at the deadline. Dodgers in a rain delay in Kansas
Speaker 7: City hasn't even started yet.
Speaker 4: First pitch will be at twelve ten.
Speaker 7: Dodgers will go with an opener of Luke Trevino, followed
Speaker 7: by Justin Robleski final game in Kansas City as they
Speaker 7: go for the series win the final game of this
Speaker 7: six game road ship. Tim Kate's with you here until
Speaker 7: the top of the hour on an FI seventy, LA
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Speaker 7: Rain Dela Dodgers continues here on this Sunday ten. Kates
Speaker 7: with you from our Burbank studios is we will head
Speaker 7: out to Kansas City in about fifteen minutes. First pitch
Speaker 7: schedule for twelve ten Pacific two ten Central Time from
Speaker 7: the K. Kaufman Stadium in Kansas City, Missouri, Game three
Speaker 7: of this three game set. Dodgers took the opener on
Speaker 7: Friday night. The Royals snapped the Dodgers five game winning
Speaker 7: streak with a nine to five win yesterday in Kansas City.
Speaker 7: Showio tani with the two shutout innings in the open
Speaker 7: as the Dodgers today go for the series win, and
Speaker 7: how about five and one.
Speaker 4: Road trip, that'd be pretty impressive.
Speaker 7: Took three in Colorado in the sweep of the Rockies,
Speaker 7: and to take two to three from the Kansas City
Speaker 7: Royal to be pretty impressive. A five to one road trip.
Speaker 7: You've built a six game lead in the division over
Speaker 7: the San Diego Padres, a six and a half game
Speaker 7: lead over the San Francisco Giants depending on what they
Speaker 7: do today. The lead can build if the Dodgers can
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Speaker 7: five seventy is our number here on Dodger Talk. The
Speaker 7: trade deadline is just over a month away. We'll get
Speaker 7: into what the Dodgers may or may not be doing,
Speaker 7: and how the injuries to the guys on the injured
Speaker 7: list right now could affect what the Dodgers ultimately decide
Speaker 7: to do and moves they make at the deadline. Coming
Speaker 7: up in just a couple of minutes. Scott to Bob
Speaker 7: and Long Beach. Thank you Bob for joining us here
Speaker 7: on rain delay Dodger Talk.
Speaker 9: How you doing, I'm doing great, sir, Thanks for taking
Speaker 9: my call. Sure, I don't know concern. My situation is
Speaker 9: about Mookie Bess. I'd rather have a player playing in
Speaker 9: rice field betting three hundred thirty home runs and one
Speaker 9: hundred RBIs, then have a short stop betting let's say
Speaker 9: nine home runs and two forty or whatever I think
Speaker 9: kid is. He's a little hurt, or he's getting burned
Speaker 9: down at shortstop. I would love to see the Dodgers
Speaker 9: putting back in right field. I know he really doesn't
Speaker 9: want to play right field, but come on, guys, we
Speaker 9: paid him a lot of money, and come on, what
Speaker 9: do you think about?
Speaker 7: Who would you put it shortstopped in every day for
Speaker 7: the Dodgers. Is that Miguel Rojas, Is that Tommy Edman
Speaker 7: is that key k who do you put it?
Speaker 4: Short eight exactly.
Speaker 9: It's almost a combination because Freddie Freeman has really been
Speaker 9: biling Mookie out a lot on his thas you know,
Speaker 9: I'm just saying what a lot of other people are shureing. O.
Speaker 9: I love Mookie best man. He's a great player, man,
Speaker 9: But I'm just saying, I hate to see a guy
Speaker 9: like that. Man. He's so talented.
Speaker 2: Man.
Speaker 9: To just come up with nine home runs and hitting
Speaker 9: two forty five is something I think the Dodgers are
Speaker 9: to sit down and have a really serioushity talk with him.
Speaker 9: That's all.
Speaker 2: That's just all I got, man.
Speaker 4: I appreciate it.
Speaker 7: I appreciate I think you echo a lot of for
Speaker 7: what Dodger fans have seen with their own eyes as
Speaker 7: far as the production of Mookie bets this year not
Speaker 7: being up to the level we've seen from Mookie in
Speaker 7: past years and MVP seasons.
Speaker 4: Play is shortstop every day is tolling. It really is.
Speaker 7: It is a grind to go out there and play
Speaker 7: shortstop in the major leagues. You're the floor you know,
Speaker 7: the field leader out there on the infield. You play
Speaker 7: a taxing position. You've got to be able to go
Speaker 7: left and go right. You've got to be physically able
Speaker 7: to have the demands of a whole season and get
Speaker 7: through it. Then you got to go out and bat
Speaker 7: as well.
Speaker 4: It's tough.
Speaker 7: That's why you know guys like cal Ripkin and you
Speaker 7: know Alex Rodriguez and no More Garcia Para were so
Speaker 7: good at what they did because they were able to
Speaker 7: play every day at short and the demands that that
Speaker 7: position has and also hit three hundred at the plate.
Speaker 7: And Mooki's been able to do it and stretches this
Speaker 7: year year, But this is his first full season really
Speaker 7: playing shortstop. He experimented with it last year, of course,
Speaker 7: taking over when Gavin Lux couldn't complete it in spring
Speaker 7: training and they moved Gavin back over to second base.
Speaker 7: Mookie said, I want to play short let me do
Speaker 7: it right before they went to Korea, and then he
Speaker 7: got hurt right around Father's Day last year, got hit
Speaker 7: on the wrist, and when he came back went back
Speaker 7: out to right field. I'd be interested to see what
Speaker 7: the Dodgers want to do post All Star Break when
Speaker 7: the grind of the season really hits. Is this going
Speaker 7: to be too much for Mookie? I mean This is
Speaker 7: a Mookie Bets making a transition to a grueling position
Speaker 7: on the field, not as an eighteen year old or
Speaker 7: a twenty one year old. Mookie Betts is doing this
Speaker 7: after the age of thirty. He's thirty two now, so
Speaker 7: last year he's thirty one. Making the transition to shortstop
Speaker 7: on an everyday basis in the big leagues.
Speaker 4: It is not easy. We applaud it. We love his athleticism.
Speaker 7: Certainly, what he's been able to do is remarkable because
Speaker 7: nobody else has done it ever. He has done it,
Speaker 7: But at what cost? With his offense two fifty two average,
Speaker 7: nine home runs, forty one RBI, we've seeing stretches in
Speaker 7: which he's just not hit for power. You know, it's
Speaker 7: it's taking a toll. I agree with all of you
Speaker 7: that have brought that up. Is the move to put
Speaker 7: him back in right field. Maybe move tay Oscar over
Speaker 7: to left field, keep Pas in center field. Maybe Tommy
Speaker 7: Evan plays short every day. Maybe Tommy doesn't play short
Speaker 7: every day, plays a little second base. You can put
Speaker 7: Keith k And gets some starts at shortstop, Miguel Rojas
Speaker 7: and starts at shortstop. Miguel Rojas plaited a great third
Speaker 7: base for Maxi Munsey in Colorado when months he got
Speaker 7: the day off. You can float these guys around on
Speaker 7: different days. Nobody says, if you're gonna be the starting
Speaker 7: shortstop and Mookie Bets goes back to right field, that
Speaker 7: it's gotta be one guy who makes every start every
Speaker 7: single day.
Speaker 4: No, not a platoon either.
Speaker 7: You can just every two of three a guy starts
Speaker 7: and then the third game of a series you move
Speaker 7: somebody else in there. Whatever, whatever the final call is,
Speaker 7: it could be done. But they got to make that
Speaker 7: decision ultimately, and they got to talk to Mooki about that,
Speaker 7: and he's got to be on board with it. It
Speaker 7: was his decision to go to shortstop, his suggestion, and
Speaker 7: the organization went through with it. I think it's going
Speaker 7: to take him saying, yeah, I tried it, it's taxing.
Speaker 7: How about the second half of the season, I go
Speaker 7: back out to right field. I wouldn't be opposed to
Speaker 7: it at all.
Speaker 4: At all.
Speaker 7: I wouldn't be opposed to it. But we're gonna have
Speaker 7: to see post All Star Break what kind of effect
Speaker 7: it really has had on Mookie Bets. The grind to
Speaker 7: playing shortstop every day. Now, the Dodgers have a ton
Speaker 7: of arms on the injured list. You know that relievers
Speaker 7: on the injured list, starters on the injured list. Im
Speaker 7: it she and made a start back in Triple A
Speaker 7: Oklahoma City. I truly believe he'll be a factor in
Speaker 7: some capacity helping out this Dodgers rotation the second half
Speaker 7: of the season. Blake Snell is throwing bullpen sessions through
Speaker 7: yesterday at Dodger Stadium along with Blake Trining. Justin Robleski
Speaker 7: is a starter who today will take a bulk of
Speaker 7: the innings. He's built up to go five six innings.
Speaker 7: Tyler glassnow working his way back from an injury, has
Speaker 7: made two starts in Triple A Oklahoma City, most recently
Speaker 7: in Sacramento on Friday. I believe it was five runs
Speaker 7: on seven hits, walked one struck three over two to
Speaker 7: a third innings in two rehab outings so far in
Speaker 7: Triple A Oklahoma City. Tyler Glass, now it's got a
Speaker 7: ten to thirty eight er. Not great, but again it's
Speaker 7: deceiving the numbers when you look in rehab starts, get
Speaker 7: they're working on things. They're not necessarily going out there
Speaker 7: and throwing for v load just to strikeout guys. They're
Speaker 7: working on stuff. They're trying to get built up. They're
Speaker 7: trying to get ready to come back to the major leagues.
Speaker 7: They're not trying to dominate at the triple A level.
Speaker 7: That doesn't achieve anything. So you kind of have to
Speaker 7: look at it a little differently. You can't just look
Speaker 7: at the number and go, my gosh, what has happened
Speaker 7: to Tyler Glass. Now they're working on things, they're tinkering
Speaker 7: with things. Okay, But with all that being said, right
Speaker 7: now you've got a rotation of Yoshi Yamamoto, Clayton Kershaw,
Speaker 7: Dustin May, and shoey Otani, who's now built up to
Speaker 7: two winnings. Assuming Glass now and Snell comeback, that really
Speaker 7: lengthens out your rotation. But I'm not assuming anything anymore
Speaker 7: with this Dodger pitching staff. Why because just when you
Speaker 7: think they got enough starting pitching, they don't. Just when
Speaker 7: you think they have enough healthy starters, they don't, And
Speaker 7: somebody goes to the injured list with elbow tightness, shoulder soreness,
Speaker 7: shoulder impingement, body soreness, obleaque cramps.
Speaker 4: Just when you think, man, they got seven eight starters.
Speaker 4: How are they gonna juggle all this?
Speaker 3: Wow?
Speaker 7: This is real first person problems there, first world problems
Speaker 7: for the Dodgers. They don't have that problem because of injuries.
Speaker 7: So just when you get excited all these arms coming back,
Speaker 7: maybe somebody else gets hurt. Maybe somebody comes back and
Speaker 7: they're not ready and they go back on the angel list.
Speaker 7: It's just happened so much this year. I don't mean
Speaker 7: to be the half glass half empty kind of guy
Speaker 7: with the Dodger rotation, but I'm being realistic in that
Speaker 7: if they get all these guys back in the rotation,
Speaker 7: that's great, but I'm not assuming that that is gonna happen.
Speaker 7: And the Dodgers, reportedly, according to Bob Nightingale of the
Speaker 7: USA Today, are really interested in Sandy al Contra of
Speaker 7: the Miami Marlins. Now I understand Sandy al Conto is
Speaker 7: coming off Tommy John surgery. He was a stud before
Speaker 7: his arm injury. A Cy Young Award winner to Sandy
Speaker 7: al Contra is starting to get back to that level.
Speaker 7: Not there quite yet, but his start to get back there.
Speaker 7: Yesterday he had a major hiccup against the Diamondbacks, did
Speaker 7: not factor in the decision. He allowed seven runs on
Speaker 7: ten hits, didn't walk anybody over six innings, but he
Speaker 7: gave up his season nine ten hits for the season.
Speaker 7: His ERA is now near seven over eighty innings and
Speaker 7: sixteen starts. He had a really good June up until yesterday,
Speaker 7: four starts to seventy four. Erra was trending towards back
Speaker 7: the old Sandy al Contra before the Tommy John surgery.
Speaker 7: But yesterday a little bit of a hiccup, maybe a
Speaker 7: blip on the radar, hopefully for Sandy al Contra, who
Speaker 7: the Miami and Harlans are going to look to deal
Speaker 7: and get as much as possible for at the trade deadline.
Speaker 7: The Dodgers reportedly are one of the teams interested in
Speaker 7: Sandy al Contra. According to Bob Nightingale of the USA Today,
Speaker 7: to have his arm healthy and the Dodgers rotation would
Speaker 7: be fantastic.
Speaker 4: I think it would be a shot in the arm.
Speaker 7: No pun intended for this Dodgers team to get a
Speaker 7: Sandy al Contra, who again in four starts in June
Speaker 7: up until yesterday two seventy four e two and one record.
Speaker 4: He wouldn't come cheap. He wouldn't come cheap at all.
Speaker 7: Dodgers would have to give up some prospects, maybe a
Speaker 7: couple of young players in return for Sandy al Contrada,
Speaker 7: but man to hat him too a rotation, not knowing
Speaker 7: necessarily the future of a Glass Now is Sasaki or
Speaker 7: Blake Snell? And I say that not because I'm Doomsday
Speaker 7: or not because oh no, they're not coming back.
Speaker 4: We just don't know.
Speaker 7: Just when you think Blake Snell's gonna come back, okay,
Speaker 7: he's still throwing bullpens and it's almost the All Star break,
Speaker 7: Tyler Glass, Now two Rocky starts in triple A?
Speaker 4: Is he built up?
Speaker 3: Is he ready to go?
Speaker 4: How's he feeling?
Speaker 7: If you could have body sore on this and shut
Speaker 7: it down again, Rokie Sasaki? It has been quiet outside
Speaker 7: of day Robert saying, yeah, you know, we don't know
Speaker 7: if he's coming back, and then a few days later saying, oh,
Speaker 7: he's throwing on the side. We just don't know that
Speaker 7: unknown to me, has the Dodgers now looking for another
Speaker 7: starter to go with what they have right now because
Speaker 7: they don't know the status of three quality starting pitchers
Speaker 7: that are injured right now. So we'll see what happens
Speaker 7: at the trade deadline. It's sneaking up on us. We're
Speaker 7: a month away from that. It's June twenty ninth. We're
Speaker 7: just over a month away. July thirty first is the
Speaker 7: Major League Baseball trade deadline. There are teams that have
Speaker 7: quickly become sellers, like the Arizona Diamondbacks. They're out of it.
Speaker 7: Teams like the Angels, who are sellers a week ago.
Speaker 7: Maybe they're buyers at some sort of level because they
Speaker 7: want to make a run in the wild card, because
Speaker 7: they're only a game and a half back in the AL,
Speaker 7: they'll be interested. Over the next three weeks, We're gonna
Speaker 7: see which teams fall off and which teams make a
Speaker 7: run and decide to push their chips into the middle
Speaker 7: of the table and say we're gonna try to make
Speaker 7: a playoff run.
Speaker 4: We're gonna add to our That could.
Speaker 7: Up the ante as far as trade value for some players,
Speaker 7: position players and pitchers in Major League Baseball.
Speaker 4: So we'll see how that affects the Dodgers. But just
Speaker 4: start thinking about that.
Speaker 7: The trade deadline a little month, a little more than
Speaker 7: a month away, and according to Bob Nightingale, Sandy al
Speaker 7: contenta of the Miami Marlins could be on the Dodgers radar.
Speaker 7: Jeremy checks in here from the eight one to eight.
Speaker 7: How you doing, Jeremy, Hey.
Speaker 8: Thanks for taking my call. This call goes out to
Speaker 8: the last caller and everybody else who's complaining about the Dodgers.
Speaker 8: You're six games up in the best division in baseball,
Speaker 8: you have the best record in baseball, given you know
Speaker 8: what the Tigers are doing on in a given day,
Speaker 8: and you have half your pitching staff gone. Stop complaining,
Speaker 8: Stop complaining.
Speaker 7: I don't think anybody's complaining about the team, Jeremy, Jeremy,
Speaker 7: nobody's complaining about the team. I think they're complaining about
Speaker 7: the production of mooking bets and looking at what is
Speaker 7: causing that. Maybe here in twenty twenty five, and you
Speaker 7: can plaint to playing shortstop every day. I mean, if
Speaker 7: you're looking for an answer, you're look into what has
Speaker 7: happened to Mooki's production. Offensively, you can make a valid
Speaker 7: case that the grind and toughness of playing shortstop at
Speaker 7: the big leagues every day could be weighing on Mookie
Speaker 7: bets Offensively. That's a fair argument to make, and I
Speaker 7: think that's fair of Dodger fans to maybe look at
Speaker 7: after the All Star break, is a move back to
Speaker 7: right field something that Mookie Bets needs to make. Nobody's
Speaker 7: complaining about it. It's how do we get better? How
Speaker 7: do we make Mooki better? How do we get more
Speaker 7: production out of Mookie? How do we make Mooki Mooki
Speaker 7: again here in the second half of twenty twenty five.
Speaker 7: That's the simple question right now. If they stayed put
Speaker 7: with what they have, You're right, they're leading the division.
Speaker 7: There's six games up, they could have eight starters in
Speaker 7: the All Star Game. It's pretty fantastic right now. Being
Speaker 7: the Dodge fan, nobody's really complained about it. They're just
Speaker 7: trying to make Mooky better and get Mooki back to
Speaker 7: that elite level at an MVP status where he was
Speaker 7: at a year ago.
Speaker 4: Offensively at the plate, is he you got about twenty seconds?
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Speaker 6: next time.
Speaker 7: All right, thank you, Izzy, I appreciate thanks everybody for
Speaker 7: being a part of rain Delay Dodger Talk.
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