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Speaker 2: Cats Ah, this feels a little bit better. This Dodger lineup,
Speaker 2: vintage Kershaw.
Speaker 3: Equals a Dodger win.
Speaker 2: Hi, everybody, and welcome to Dodger Talk here on a
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Speaker 2: Thanks for being with us here until the top of
Speaker 2: the hour. Phone lines are wide open at eight six
Speaker 2: six nine eighty seven two five seventy eight six six
Speaker 2: nine eight seven two five seventy. As the Dodgers enjoy
Speaker 2: a win tonight in Milwaukee, Clayton Kershaw, his fourth start
Speaker 2: since coming off the injured lists and having off season
Speaker 2: shoulder surgery, pitches into the sixth inning. He looked fantastic.
Speaker 2: He had command of three pitches tonight. He had pinpoint
Speaker 2: accuracy with his fastball. He got some swinging misses tonight,
Speaker 2: unlike he has in his last couple of starts, and
Speaker 2: you had to feel in it's just gonna take a
Speaker 2: few starts for him to get going after just you know,
Speaker 2: three minor league appearances, comes back, makes three starts for
Speaker 2: the Dodgers, and they were okay starts, and now tonight
Speaker 2: maybe you feel he's turned a corner. Pitching into the
Speaker 2: sixth any his longest outing so far, six punch outs
Speaker 2: walked to three hits allowed through eighty three pitches fifty
Speaker 2: six for strikes to get the victory, and just how
Speaker 2: the Dodgers drew it up right. The Dodgers lineup when
Speaker 2: they started this season with Freddie Freeman and Max Munci
Speaker 2: and Tae Oscar hernandez Will Smith. We talked about the
Speaker 2: Big four and of course the two guys at the
Speaker 2: top of the lineup with Mookie Bets and show Hey Otani.
Speaker 2: They've now reversed in the lineup, show Hey leading off
Speaker 2: and Mookie batting second. With Mookie coming back off the
Speaker 2: injured list tonight.
Speaker 3: A lot of.
Speaker 2: Questions about that year on Dodger Talk, whether or not
Speaker 2: Mookie Betts should have his starting spot at short and
Speaker 2: his lead off spot from injury. Well, Show Hey o
Speaker 2: Tani is the new leadoff hitter. Miguel Rojas is taken
Speaker 2: over at shortstop, so Mooki goes back out to right
Speaker 2: field a more natural, comfortable position for Mookie Betts. He'll
Speaker 2: even admit that, and he did so on the pregame
Speaker 2: show with David Vase, talking about the pressure being alleviated,
Speaker 2: not having to worry the night before, an outing of
Speaker 2: whether or not you know where the guy's going to
Speaker 2: hit the ball in positioning. It's just easy for him
Speaker 2: to navigate in right field. But tonight Mookie Betts and
Speaker 2: Showy O Tani both go deep. Both hit two run
Speaker 2: home runs. Mooki goes two for four in his return,
Speaker 2: the home run, the three ribbies, and a stolen base.
Speaker 2: Show Hey O Tani goes one for three, a walk
Speaker 2: on base twice, a home run, two ribbys, and a
Speaker 2: stolen base. The biggest example of what these two are
Speaker 2: going to do with hopefully the rest of the way
Speaker 2: at the top of the lineup is what happened in
Speaker 2: the seventh inning.
Speaker 3: The Dodgers were up four to two. They had a
Speaker 3: four to nothing lead.
Speaker 2: All of a sudden, it's four to two on the
Speaker 2: Wilson Cantrez home running the sixth inning. The Dodgers come
Speaker 2: back in the seventh inning, Milwaukee feeling the pretty good
Speaker 2: about themselves a little momentum after the Contreres two run
Speaker 2: home run and Joe Kelly walking that tight rope in
Speaker 2: the bottom half of the sixth inning and taking over
Speaker 2: for Clayton Kershaw. They face the reliever in Hudson, who
Speaker 2: comes in and gets two quick ground ball outs of
Speaker 2: Keith a Hernandez and Kevin Kiermier. Took six pitches bet again,
Speaker 2: momentum for Milwaukee. They just cut the lead in half.
Speaker 2: Their reliever comes out and gets two ground ball outs
Speaker 2: and six pitches. Shoey Otani draws a six pitch walk
Speaker 2: and quite frankly, only one of the pitches was really
Speaker 2: in the zone. They were trying to get him to chase.
Speaker 2: They were trying to find show Hey to chase and
Speaker 2: roll over on the ball for the final out of
Speaker 2: the inning. To his credit, shoey Otani disciplined in that
Speaker 2: at bat six pitches, draws the walk, He steals second
Speaker 2: base to get into scoring position with two outs, and
Speaker 2: Mookie bets up at bat. Mookie falls behind in the
Speaker 2: count Owen two fouls off of pitch, gets ball one
Speaker 2: fouls off two more pitches. The seventh pitch the bat
Speaker 2: is a ball low and away on a sweeper from
Speaker 2: Brian Hudson, a two to two count, two out Dodgers
Speaker 2: with a two run lead, and a cutter throw from Hudson,
Speaker 2: it's a strike. Mookie puts bat on ball in the
Speaker 2: right field for a base hit, and because show Hate
Speaker 2: drew walk with two outs, and because show Hate stole
Speaker 2: second to put himself into scoring position, Mookie's able to
Speaker 2: put bat on ball, base hit to right. Show Hay
Speaker 2: scores easily, and just like that, momentum is snatched back
Speaker 2: by the Dodgers and they gain a run and go
Speaker 2: up three with.
Speaker 3: A five to two lead.
Speaker 2: Exactly how you want to answer a Milwaukee team who
Speaker 2: just got runs on the two quick outs in the
Speaker 2: top half of the seventh inning.
Speaker 3: Squash it.
Speaker 2: And it was the top of the lineup Otani and
Speaker 2: Mookie Betts who did absolutely a fantastic job of getting
Speaker 2: the Dodgers that insurance run to go up five to two, eight.
Speaker 3: Six six nine, eight seven two five seventy.
Speaker 2: I know there's been a lot of question the last
Speaker 2: week when it was official that Mooki was gonna come
Speaker 2: back on this road trip, and Dave Roberts talked a
Speaker 2: lot about, well, he's gonna go back to short they
Speaker 2: ran a sim game. Okay, that's gonna change. He's going
Speaker 2: back to right field, all right. Who's gonna lead off?
Speaker 2: Is it back to Mookie Bets? Who's been so good
Speaker 2: at leading off for the Dodgers this year and all
Speaker 2: those leadoff home runs, No show he has taken over
Speaker 2: that role in the last seven weeks. With Mookie Bets
Speaker 2: out the broken hand, and even with the return of
Speaker 2: Mookie show heey was going to continue to bat lead off.
Speaker 2: And there was a lot of chatter about that Dodger
Speaker 2: fans here on Dodger Talk, on n FI seventy LA Sports,
Speaker 2: on social media, on the chat boards weighing in and
Speaker 2: didn't like the fact that Mookie didn't get the leadoff
Speaker 2: spot bat. I like it, and I don't just say
Speaker 2: that because it worked tonight. I like it for the
Speaker 2: reason it's left right left. You get Showy Otani leading off,
Speaker 2: a non traditional leadoff hitter, left handed, and he's shown
Speaker 2: that he can produce, get on bass and steal bases.
Speaker 2: Mookie Betts has been really good runners in scoring position
Speaker 2: this year, good at driving the ball out of the
Speaker 2: ballpark like he did tonight, good at putting the ball
Speaker 2: in play to all sides of the field, a right
Speaker 2: handed hitter, and then you go to Freddie Freeman batting third. Oh,
Speaker 2: let's flip it around now, a left handed hitter.
Speaker 3: Again.
Speaker 2: It prevents the opener from opposing teams. And when you
Speaker 2: flip the lineup over in the middle of a game
Speaker 2: and you try to go to the bullpen, and all
Speaker 2: of a sudden you get back to the top of
Speaker 2: the lineup and it's a left hander and Otani a
Speaker 2: right hander, and Mookie Betts and a light left handed
Speaker 2: hitter and Freddie Freeman back to a right handed hitter,
Speaker 2: either in Taoscar or Will Smith.
Speaker 3: It's difficult.
Speaker 2: It's difficult to navigate this Dodgers lineup when you rotate
Speaker 2: left right, right, left right, like they've been doing. And
Speaker 2: when they get healthy with Max Muncy, they can even
Speaker 2: elongate that further into this Dodger's lineup.
Speaker 3: So I think it's a good move by the Dodgers
Speaker 3: to do it.
Speaker 2: And when you saw tonight with Shoeyo Otani's ability to
Speaker 2: get on base, draw the walk, not chase pitches out
Speaker 2: of the zone, and Colin he and I were talking
Speaker 2: about this here in the clubhouse during one of the breaks, Colin,
Speaker 2: He's absolutely right when Shoeotani zero's in on pitches, doesn't
Speaker 2: chase out of the zone, doesn't let the zone get
Speaker 2: too big on him, especially with a head in the
Speaker 2: count two to zero, three to zero like he was tonight,
Speaker 2: and he hit his home run. When he finds his
Speaker 2: pitch in the zone, more times than not, he's putting
Speaker 2: that ball either out of the park or he's putting
Speaker 2: into play really hard somewhere. It's when he starts expanding
Speaker 2: the zone and chasing pitches, then he gets into trouble
Speaker 2: and he rolls over on pitches and he pops the
Speaker 2: ball up and he pops it into foul territory like
Speaker 2: he did a couple of times over the weekend against
Speaker 2: the Pirates. Chasing pitches. Tonight though didn't chase pitches. Hit
Speaker 2: one out of the park on a three to zero count,
Speaker 2: and that was really good at getting on base with
Speaker 2: two outs in the seventh inning and giving show he
Speaker 2: Otani a chance to steal second, which he did, and
Speaker 2: allowing Mookie Betts then to put the ball in place.
Speaker 2: See what happens and what happened a single to write
Speaker 2: Otani scores and the Dodgers get an assurance run. I
Speaker 2: like the makeup of this top of the lineup right now,
Speaker 2: and again when you get Will Smith going, which is
Speaker 2: hopefully soon, when you get Max Munsey back into this lineup,
Speaker 2: and you can go left, right, left, right, left, right
Speaker 2: and elongate this lineup even more.
Speaker 3: Look out.
Speaker 2: Oh and Gavin Lux, hottest hitter on the Dodgers since
Speaker 2: the All Star break. I mean we're talking about one
Speaker 2: through eight right now, just crushing it for the Dodgers.
Speaker 2: So panic time two weeks ago. Yes, for a lot
Speaker 2: of Dodger fans. But right now, and I told you this, wait,
Speaker 2: wait till they get healthy, Wait till the guys who
Speaker 2: are supposed to be in the lineup every day are back.
Speaker 2: Clayton Kershock gets another start underneath his belt. He starts
Speaker 2: getting this muscle memory of positive results and seeing that, yeah,
Speaker 2: all right, my shoulder's good to go. Okay, I'm not
Speaker 2: worried about it anymore. I'm not worried about going out
Speaker 2: there and now touching ninety two to ninety three and
Speaker 2: going out there and working on my slider and having
Speaker 2: that curveball that's so devastating and pinpoint accuracy and getting
Speaker 2: the guys out.
Speaker 3: He knows he could do it again.
Speaker 2: He knows he's got the ability to go out and
Speaker 2: get out again on a rebuilt shoulder that's big, and
Speaker 2: with Max Munty coming back this lineup look out, look
Speaker 2: out Colin. He and I were sitting here on our
Speaker 2: baseball card board where we've got all the Dodger players
Speaker 2: that we've collected baseball cards this year and put them
Speaker 2: up on the board of the injured list, guys who've
Speaker 2: been in sent down the bench, the bullpen, and the
Speaker 2: starting lineup every day, and it kind of just gives
Speaker 2: us a visual what's happening with this Dodgers team.
Speaker 3: Who's in the lineup, where guys are.
Speaker 2: Collectively every day Right now, the Dodgers are looking at
Speaker 2: Ryan Brasier potentially coming back, Bruce Dark Gratterol potentially coming back,
Speaker 2: Walker Buehler is going to come back and pitch on Wednesday.
Speaker 2: That's three, Okay, through the math, Yamamoto looking like September.
Speaker 2: He says he's good to go now, but they're playing
Speaker 2: conservatively here. That's four, Chris Taylor, that's five, and I
Speaker 2: got one more, Max Muncy. Six potential players currently on
Speaker 2: the injured list. They're going to come back and help
Speaker 2: out this Dodgers team at different points moving forward. Look
Speaker 2: at the Dodger roster, Look at the bullpen arms, look
Speaker 2: at the bench, look at the rotation.
Speaker 3: Right now, where do you see.
Speaker 2: Six spots for these six players currently on the injured
Speaker 2: list that I just mentioned to come back and take.
Speaker 2: Like we've been mentioning it and we keep preparing you
Speaker 2: for it. There are guys on this Dodgers roster. Amedrozario
Speaker 2: is a prime example DFA today. They acquired him two
Speaker 2: weeks ago at the trade deadline to help this Dodgers
Speaker 2: team with depth in the infield, and he gets dfayde
Speaker 2: before they get on a flight and it's officially announced today.
Speaker 2: Why not enough chairs in the game of musical chairs
Speaker 2: for this roster.
Speaker 3: It's a great problem to have.
Speaker 2: If you're the Dodgers and you got too many guys
Speaker 2: for twenty six spots, that's a great problem to have
Speaker 2: at this point of the season. That means you're getting
Speaker 2: guys back healthy and you're getting back some arms that
Speaker 2: you desperately need in the back end of that bullpen.
Speaker 2: Eight six, six, nine eighty seven two five, seventy again,
Speaker 2: six guys currently on the injured list that will come
Speaker 2: back at some point. Oh play Trenton seven. Seven guys
Speaker 2: on the injured list right now? Where do they fit in?
Speaker 2: Bruce Dark Graderol, Ryan Brasier, Blake Trenton three reliever spots.
Speaker 2: Just think about it for a second, Dodger fans, if
Speaker 2: you're driving around, you're sitting at a home, you're podcasting
Speaker 2: the show, think of three guys in the bullpen right now.
Speaker 2: Who they're going to take their spots? Who whose spots
Speaker 2: are they gonna take? Who are the three guys of
Speaker 2: the odd man out? If Brazier comes back healthy, Blake
Speaker 2: Trining comes back healthy, and Bruce Dark Graderol comes back healthy,
Speaker 2: the rotation wise, Walker Bueller is sliding right in to
Speaker 2: a spot that River Ryan was taken up, So it's
Speaker 2: not like you're having to take somebody spot in the rotation.
Speaker 2: Then think about Max Munsey and Chris Taylor, two position players.
Speaker 2: Want to starter Chris Taylor off the bench. Well, I mean,
Speaker 2: I hate to break the news to Nick on med
Speaker 2: but he could be the victim of this game of
Speaker 2: musical chairs with this roster. All right, That frees up
Speaker 2: a spot, Let's say for Max Munsey when he returns
Speaker 2: next Homestand what about Chris Taylor where the CT three
Speaker 2: fit of this does he take a job of a
Speaker 2: Kevin Kiermeyer whose spot does he take off the bench?
Speaker 2: Tommy Evans not going anywhere? You need two catchers? Is
Speaker 2: Andy Pott has the odd man out? Maybe Jason Hayward's
Speaker 2: not going anywhere. So it's a good problem to have
Speaker 2: for the Dodgers right now. Healthy guys back to this
Speaker 2: Dodger team in August, healthy arms position players joining this
Speaker 2: team during the stretch run going into September and October,
Speaker 2: at a time in which the Dodgers, even though they've
Speaker 2: now got the best record in the National League and
Speaker 2: tied for the most wins in all of Baseball, are
Speaker 2: only holding on to a three and a half game
Speaker 2: lead in the division over the Padres of the Diamonbacks.
Speaker 2: Eight six six nine seven two five seventy We'll take
Speaker 2: a quick break, we'll come back. We'll get to your
Speaker 2: phone calls before we wrap things up. Joey ish manny
Speaker 2: is he, We'll get to you. Eight six six nine
Speaker 2: eight seven two five seventy two. Rogers get the win
Speaker 2: tonight in Milwaukee. They beat the Brewers five to two.
Speaker 2: Clayton Kershaw gets the win pitching into the sixth inning.
Speaker 2: Mookie goes deep, show Hey goes deep to win for
Speaker 2: the good guys. Dodgers now seventy and forty nine as
Speaker 2: they beat the Brewers. Are here on AM fi seventy
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Speaker 1: swaying to drive deep left field, best ball, aheaded back toward.
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Speaker 2: Welcome back, Bookie Bets with us eleventh home run and
Speaker 2: the Dodgers lead it. Tune and up to run home
Speaker 2: run from Mookie Bett to the third inning. His eleventh
Speaker 2: of the season is first since June sixth, As the
Speaker 2: Dodgers also get a two run home run from Choeo Tani.
Speaker 2: The Mookie came back and delivered with an RBI single
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Speaker 2: most wins in all of baseball eight six six.
Speaker 3: Ninet eighty seven to two, five seventy.
Speaker 2: Joey and Ontario start us off here on Dodger Talk
Speaker 2: after the Dodgers went in tonight in Milwaukee five to two.
Speaker 3: How you doing, Joey good good.
Speaker 4: Man, Thank you for having me on a positive note.
Speaker 4: The first thing, I just want to say, it was
Speaker 4: great to see who could come back tonight and just
Speaker 4: seeing the instant impact he has on this team. And
Speaker 4: it's still also amazing to me how we're tied to
Speaker 4: the best record in the league even after all the
Speaker 4: injuries and stuff that we've gone through for the past
Speaker 4: two three months. But I do want to bring up
Speaker 4: something and I want your take on it. Two things
Speaker 4: really quick. The first is do you think with the
Speaker 4: bullpen management that we've seen in the past couple of weeks.
Speaker 4: I know we've had injuries, but this is about the
Speaker 4: fourth or fifth, maybe even more time this season where
Speaker 4: a starter's dealing and I feel like even though Kershall
Speaker 4: was hitting his fitchlan, I feel like he could have
Speaker 4: finished that inning. And we bring in somebody like.
Speaker 5: Joe Kelly, who, yes, we want him to.
Speaker 4: Build his confidence, but he's just been really bad every
Speaker 4: time he's been out, And do you think that that
Speaker 4: could be something that needs to be limited or something
Speaker 4: that could come to bite us in the button the postseason.
Speaker 3: I appreciate it.
Speaker 2: Joey, you heard Clayton Kershaw, maybe you didn't in the
Speaker 2: post game with the media talking about how the batter
Speaker 2: before his last batter, Garrett Mitchell, fell behind two to
Speaker 2: zero in the count and then got three straight strikes,
Speaker 2: including two strikes looking on a slider to strike out Mitchell,
Speaker 2: and that's what Dave Roberts came out and got him.
Speaker 3: At eighty three pitches.
Speaker 2: Wilson Contrero was up and with a runner on standing
Speaker 2: at second base. Two outs, and you go to Joe Kelly,
Speaker 2: who fell behind two on the count and then got
Speaker 2: two foul balls for a two to two count. He
Speaker 2: throws a ninety nine mile an hour fastball Joe Kelly
Speaker 2: did on the outside part of the plate. Now, if
Speaker 2: you're watching the stat cast, or if you're watching the
Speaker 2: k Zone on sports and at LA, or if you're
Speaker 2: following it online, it hit the corner. It touched the
Speaker 2: outside part of the strike zone. And if we had
Speaker 2: robo ups, you could have made a case they probably
Speaker 2: would have challenged that strike three. But it's at the
Speaker 2: discretion of the home plate umpire who said it was
Speaker 2: outside for a ball. Okay, so what could have been
Speaker 2: strike three ending over at a four to nothing leave
Speaker 2: still intact. Joe Kelly does the job instead it's a
Speaker 2: full count and Joe Kelly goes back to that same fastball,
Speaker 2: but instead of getting it on the outside part of
Speaker 2: the plate, he throws it down the middle of the
Speaker 2: plate and Wilson Contrere's hits a home run to make
Speaker 2: it a four to two Dodgers lead.
Speaker 3: A game of benches is the game of baseball, and.
Speaker 2: What could have been strike three on a pitch on
Speaker 2: the outside part of the plate instead's a ball in
Speaker 2: the next pitch. A four to nothing lead is all
Speaker 2: of a sudden four to two. That's how close Joe
Speaker 2: Kelly was to getting out of it without giving up
Speaker 2: any runs. Now, he then gives up back to back singles,
Speaker 2: and you've got, you know, the tie, the go ahead
Speaker 2: run at the plate in Hoskins, who he strikes out
Speaker 2: on a curver on a knuckle curve and gets out
Speaker 2: of the inning. But yeah, you start seeing Joe Kelly
Speaker 2: get some traffic on the base pass and it gets
Speaker 2: a little dicey tonight. But that could have been different
Speaker 2: if he gets a strike three call on Contrere as
Speaker 2: it is, it's a two run home run on the
Speaker 2: very next pitch from Contreras to making a four to
Speaker 2: two game, Dodgers get out of it. The rest of
Speaker 2: the bullpen does their job. Michael Kopek and eighth inning.
Speaker 2: Before that, Alex Vesia was nasty, striking out three batters
Speaker 2: on fourteen pitches. Kopek comes in, he looks nasty as well,
Speaker 2: hitting one hundred and one, and then Daniel Hudson a one, two.
Speaker 3: Three ninth inning. I talked to Jose Mode about it earlier.
Speaker 2: If this is the recipe every night for success for
Speaker 2: the arms, sign me up the rest of the way.
Speaker 2: A starter that can get you to the sixth inning, Yes, absolutely,
Speaker 2: because now you're asking the bullpen to get nine ten outs.
Speaker 3: That's it. You shorten the game when you get a
Speaker 3: starter going deep. I know, old.
Speaker 2: School baseball they did this all the time, right We
Speaker 2: saw pitchers go six, seven, eight innings all the time.
Speaker 2: Complete games were common every day in baseball. The game
Speaker 2: has changed. Pitchers don't go three times through a lineup anymore,
Speaker 2: meaning they don't get to this sixth thenning very often
Speaker 2: unless they go quickly and have a low pitch count. Tonight,
Speaker 2: Clayton Kershaw pitched into the sixth inning and was one
Speaker 2: batter away from completing six to hand the bullpen that
Speaker 2: the Dodgers have right now, with a Copek down there,
Speaker 2: a Vessia down there, Hudson down there, and Evan Phillips
Speaker 2: down there. I like all four of those relievers to
Speaker 2: combine to get you nine outs in the case they
Speaker 2: needed to get ten outs. Tonight, Joe Kelly struggled to
Speaker 2: get the one out, give up a two run home run,
Speaker 2: but the Dodgers are able to hang on for the win.
Speaker 3: I like that recipe. It's old school. I love it.
Speaker 2: A starting pitcher that could pitch in the sixth inning
Speaker 2: more time than that. I think you win baseball games
Speaker 2: when you got that recipe because you're limiting the amount
Speaker 2: of work your bullpen has to do. Let's go out
Speaker 2: to Ish in Riverside. It's next up here on Dodger Talk.
Speaker 3: Ish. What's going on. How you doing?
Speaker 5: Hey, I'm doing pretty good. Tim. I hope you guys
Speaker 5: are doing good out there. Listen. I just got two things.
Speaker 5: I'll be quick, you know, for Kershaw and then for Bets. Yeah,
Speaker 5: like you said, that vintage curse. It's good to see
Speaker 5: him back in form. I think he kind of found
Speaker 5: that fountain of youth with that art. Of scopas surgery.
Speaker 5: So again just looking forward to him, you know, continue
Speaker 5: to get those solid starts as far as Mookie. Yeah, man,
Speaker 5: it is really really good. I'm so glad he really
Speaker 5: didn't get the beat picked up from where he left off.
Speaker 5: And I still stand by it.
Speaker 4: Man.
Speaker 5: I think we ain't still see nothing yet. So I'm
Speaker 5: really happy with this. Let's go ahead and finish out
Speaker 5: this road trip strong and start expanding our lead.
Speaker 3: Thanks, that's all right, appreciate it, Thanks for the phone call.
Speaker 2: Clayton Kershaw gets into the sixth inning, but early in
Speaker 2: this game he faced some adversity. In the second inning,
Speaker 2: Clayton Kershaw gives up a double to Wilson Contrere's on
Speaker 2: the first pitch, he gets ambushed by Contreres, a leadoff double. Okay,
Speaker 2: we are the wheels gonna fall off and we're gonna
Speaker 2: see this horror picture again that we've seen from Clayton
Speaker 2: Kershaw late in his career. No, it's a Clayton Kershaw. Then,
Speaker 2: lead off, zero zero game, second inning and he gets
Speaker 2: Willia domis arguably their best hitter to ground out on
Speaker 2: one pitch, keeping a damas at second. Now he walks
Speaker 2: Sanchez to put runners on first and second with a
Speaker 2: one out, but gets out of it on a three
Speaker 2: to two pitch. The ninth pitch of the avatterse Hoskins,
Speaker 2: who swings and misses on a fastball up in the
Speaker 2: zone and a great throw to Nail Contreras at third
Speaker 2: who was caught stealing a bang bang play double play,
Speaker 2: and the Dodgers get out of it. Clayton Kershaw gets
Speaker 2: out of the jam. Leadoff double nothing happens, Brewers can't score.
Speaker 2: Clayton Kershaw, with his back up against the wall early
Speaker 2: gets the ground ball, a walk and a double play
Speaker 2: thanks to some great catching in defense tonight from Will
Speaker 2: Smith and of course to the third base Keith a Hernandez,
Speaker 2: and he gets out of the jam exactly what he needed.
Speaker 2: The inning could have spiraled out of control for him
Speaker 2: with the media to lineup up for Milwaukee. Instead, he
Speaker 2: gets out of it no runs. The Dodgers come back
Speaker 2: in the top of the third, and what do they do.
Speaker 2: They get on the board to run home run. Kershaw
Speaker 2: comes back in the third with the momentum of the
Speaker 2: two run lead, has a one two three inning in
Speaker 2: the third on fourteen pitches. What does he doing the
Speaker 2: fourth still right? In that momentum, a one to two,
Speaker 2: three inning on eight pitches, he just seemed to get
Speaker 2: better and better and gain that confidence with that lead
Speaker 2: thanks to Mookie Betts's two run home run.
Speaker 1: Is he?
Speaker 2: It's gonna be our final call here on Dodger Talk
Speaker 2: on this Monday night high Is he?
Speaker 5: Okay?
Speaker 3: Before you get going?
Speaker 2: I know you still upset from a game like three
Speaker 2: days ago, But the Dodgers have won four in a row.
Speaker 2: The Dodgers have seventy wins, most in baseball along with
Speaker 2: the Guardians and the Muriols and the Yankees and the
Speaker 2: Philadelphia Films.
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, I know in the part and winning you
Speaker 6: never don't.
Speaker 3: And it's okay.
Speaker 2: Is the Dodgers just need to take care of business
Speaker 2: and they'll be fine.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2: You can't control what the Padres are doing against the
Speaker 2: Pirates or the Diamondbacks are doing against the Rockies who
Speaker 2: just blew a lead, let the let the.
Speaker 3: Snakes come back. You can't. You can't worry about that.
Speaker 6: I'm not even worry about that. The only thing I'm
Speaker 6: wiving about just.
Speaker 1: Will be there.
Speaker 6: Somehow, something's gonna happen. Maybe les. I don't know, but lit.
Speaker 3: So pessimistic and negative.
Speaker 2: What are you You're waiting for the other shot fall,
Speaker 2: You're waiting, You're you're waiting for an injury to happen.
Speaker 6: No, pay, don't ca go to any more and you
Speaker 6: need this year.
Speaker 3: You're the one thinking through that.
Speaker 6: Okay. But yeah, hey they want tonight and I'm happy
Speaker 6: you you you're familiated this week with cl this you know,
Speaker 6: did you have to do load trip because they had
Speaker 6: they good road trip. But but it's so great to him.
Speaker 6: We'll keep back.
Speaker 2: Yeah, great to hear your voice. As always, the Dodgers
Speaker 2: will be okay. This is a tough series. This is
Speaker 2: a Milwaukee Brewers team, folks, that isn't a bottom feeder
Speaker 2: in the division. This is a Milwaukee Brewers team that
Speaker 2: is in first place in the NL Central, that's just
Speaker 2: games behind the Dodgers in the Phillies for the best
Speaker 2: record in the National League. This is gonna be a
Speaker 2: tough four games. They win tonight, Yeah, feeling good about
Speaker 2: Otani and Betts going deep. A one to two punch
Speaker 2: at the top of the lineup. David Vassay wearing a
Speaker 2: suit on TV tonight. Clayton Kershawt dealing into the sixth
Speaker 2: n Everything was right tonight. Yes, you gotta continue to
Speaker 2: put together and wins, especially in this series in Milwaukee
Speaker 2: with the Rockies in Arizona taking on the Diamondbacks the
Speaker 2: Rocky Stink, with the Padres playing host of the pirates,
Speaker 2: who are really in right now?
Speaker 3: Watch out?
Speaker 2: The Dodgers are facing the stiffer competition right now during
Speaker 2: this stretcher for next three games in Milwaukee. All right,
Speaker 2: that's gonna do it for postgame Dodger talk. Wow, that
Speaker 2: would have fast. Thanks for being a part of the show.
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Speaker 3: We appreciate it. We know you got a lot of
Speaker 3: choices out there.
Speaker 2: We appreciate you being with us on this Monday night
Speaker 2: and talking some Dodgers baseball. Thanks to Colin ye number
Speaker 2: crunching during the break. Wow, the guy's a magician with numbers.
Speaker 2: I mean, the things he's got spinning in.
Speaker 3: His head it is unbelievable.
Speaker 2: Thanks to Colin. Again, thanks to you for being a
Speaker 2: part of the show. We'll be back at it tomorrow. Dodgers,
Speaker 2: Game two of this four game said in Milwaukee, Gavin
Speaker 2: Stone gets the ball against Colin Ray.
Speaker 3: Two right handers going at it.
Speaker 2: Rongo Casino, Dodgers on deck at four o'clock, first pitch
Speaker 2: at five to ten. Until then, have a great, safe
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