Speaker 1: For the back to back World champions of Baseball.
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Speaker 1: Immortality is within their reach. Incredible and while others make excuses.
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Speaker 1: Now your pregame host of the world champion La Dodgers,
Speaker 1: tam Cats, Hi.
Speaker 5: Everybody, and welcome in to Molrongo Casino. Dodgers on deck.
Speaker 5: It's a cool Saturday afternoon. April twenty fifth, twenty twenty six,
Speaker 5: is cloudy and gloomy here in Los Angeles, and now
Speaker 5: Dodger fans film like that as well. After the Dodgers
Speaker 5: lost last night's series opener to the Chicago Cubs, Dodgers now.
Speaker 3: Seventeen to nine on this season.
Speaker 5: They start the day a half game back of the
Speaker 5: Padres in the NL West. Today they look to turn
Speaker 5: the page though on last night, get back on track.
Speaker 5: Roki Sasaki on the mount on his bobblehead giveaway. It's
Speaker 5: also a special day for our own Rick. Monday fifty
Speaker 5: years ago. Today he saved the American flag from two
Speaker 5: Yahoo's trying to burn it in left field the Dodgers Stadium.
Speaker 5: We salute Rick, a US Marine Corps Reserve veteran, for
Speaker 5: what he did. More on that and from Rick coming
Speaker 5: up over the next hour plus first pitch from uniclove Field.
Speaker 3: That Dodgers Stadium is coming up at four fifteen.
Speaker 5: Coming up between then and now that we got a
Speaker 5: lot to get to here on Moroco Casino Dodgers on Deck.
Speaker 5: We're gonna hear from the Dodger manager, Dave Roberts. We're
Speaker 5: gonna hear from Andrew Freeman, the president of baseball Operations
Speaker 5: for the Dodgers. David Vasaid checks in throughout the hour,
Speaker 5: and of course we will hear from Steven Nelson and
Speaker 5: Rick Monday out at the gallopin Ford Broadcast booth. Well,
Speaker 5: last night at the Ravine, a tail of two games
Speaker 5: really for the Dodgers, one that started out great, but
Speaker 5: one that ended not so much. And she ain't got
Speaker 5: the start. The big right hander was good. He struck
Speaker 5: out seven of the first nine batters he faced. He'd
Speaker 5: go six and a third, one run, four hits, ten
Speaker 5: punch outs. The Dodgers offense meanwhile, got after a cup
Speaker 5: starter Jamison tay On in the third, I Sung Kim single,
Speaker 5: Alex freelan walk, three batters later, two outs for Will Smith.
Speaker 6: Two sixty three, couple of home runs, eleven RB eyes
Speaker 6: and throughout his career, Will Smith has been a terrific
Speaker 6: clutch hitter.
Speaker 3: Let's see what he can do with two on.
Speaker 6: There's a fly ball the right fielding deep back, go
Speaker 6: Suzuki to.
Speaker 1: The wall and in his call, a home run.
Speaker 6: Will Smith, when you're hot, You're hot, a three run blest.
Speaker 3: It's his third home run of the year.
Speaker 6: He's knocked in fourteen and the Dodgers leads three nothing,
Speaker 6: three run home run for Will Smith.
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Speaker 5: a three.
Speaker 3: To nothing lead.
Speaker 5: In the fourth, it was the Dodgers bottom half of
Speaker 5: the lineup that got it going, Max Munts. He went
Speaker 5: out double two batters later, with two outs, I Sung
Speaker 5: Kim with an RBI single that gave the Dodgers a
Speaker 5: four to nothing lead. Him and she had fished into
Speaker 5: the seventh after he give up a one out single
Speaker 5: day Roberts came and got him. Alex Vessia got a
Speaker 5: fly ball out, then walked PCA for Dancy Swanson and
Speaker 5: hit a two out triple, making it a four to
Speaker 5: two Dodgers lead. Next, Bider Horner and RBI single to
Speaker 5: left that made it a one run game.
Speaker 3: Dodgers lead was down to four to three. In the eighth.
Speaker 5: The Dodgers' lead was gone when Blake trying and gave
Speaker 5: up a lead off home run to Alex Bregman. Dodgers
Speaker 5: and Cubs tied at four. In the top half of
Speaker 5: the ninth inning, Tanner Scott on in relief. Same results
Speaker 5: a leadoff single to the PCA. Then Dansby Swanson went
Speaker 5: Deeve Scott.
Speaker 7: The lefty looking straight ahead at PCA. The pitch comes
Speaker 7: home and Swanson turns on a ball to left field
Speaker 7: and deep. The Cubs half jumped ahead a two run
Speaker 7: blast from Dansby Swanson out of the ninth spot of
Speaker 7: the order in Chicago.
Speaker 2: With this sixth consecutive.
Speaker 5: Run two run home run for Swanson, Cubs with six
Speaker 5: unanswered runs come back and beat the Dodgers last night
Speaker 5: six to four. The Dodgers' top three relievers, Vessi, has
Speaker 5: Tryna and Scott all got hit around. Meanwhile, the Dodgers'
Speaker 5: big hitters got shut out. Show Io Tani struck out
Speaker 5: three times to go with the walk. Freddie Freeman was
Speaker 5: zero for four. Kyle Tucker oh for three at the
Speaker 5: walk against his former team. A disappointing night for the Dodgers,
Speaker 5: no doubt, who have now lost five of their last eight.
Speaker 5: They're seventeen and nine. There a half game back of
Speaker 5: the Padres as they go into action today in the
Speaker 5: NL West.
Speaker 3: Today though, new day, new game.
Speaker 5: Rokie Sazaki on the mount on his bobblehead night first
Speaker 5: pitch A four fifteen and with more. Let's head out
Speaker 5: to the galloping Ford Broadcast booth as we say hello
Speaker 5: to Stephen Nelson and Rick Monday.
Speaker 2: Guys, all right, TC, thanks so much.
Speaker 7: Great to be back here on a very special day
Speaker 7: at Dodgers Stadium. Mo I know you're going to deflect
Speaker 7: everything away from you and out to the field. We'll
Speaker 7: get to you in a second. We do got to
Speaker 7: tie a bow on what happened last night. Not a
Speaker 7: great way to start the home stand, a great way
Speaker 7: to finish a ballgame for the Dodgers, but that tends
Speaker 7: to happen over the course of the year. When he
Speaker 7: woke up today, what were you thinking about with regards
Speaker 7: to the opener.
Speaker 8: I think frustration. I think that was probably taking place
Speaker 8: in the dugout and in the locker room after the
Speaker 8: game as well, because the Dodgers are squandered a Ford
Speaker 8: to nothing lead. But we start to analyze it, there
Speaker 8: was some positive I thought came out of the game itself. Defense,
Speaker 8: no question about it. Dodgers able to throw out two
Speaker 8: guys at home plate to see some good plays that
Speaker 8: are going to be made and were made needed to
Speaker 8: be made. But at the same time, now you're looking
Speaker 8: and not to show responsibility or trying to point fingers.
Speaker 8: But the bullpend did not hold up their end of
Speaker 8: the bargain and it really wasted. A magnificent outing by
Speaker 8: Emmitt Sheen, who went six and a third allowed just
Speaker 8: one run, only four hits, and it was at last
Speaker 8: inning where they finally got a run across. He had
Speaker 8: ten strikeouts that tied a career high. But as Dave
Speaker 8: Roberts was saying before the ballgame, he needed to move
Speaker 8: the ball around much better. Last night, chain speeds changed. Look,
Speaker 8: and that's exactly what he did.
Speaker 2: All right, Enough about that, now, all about you, all right,
Speaker 2: because today, fiftieth.
Speaker 1: Th that's enough about that.
Speaker 2: No, no, no, no, no, you're not getting off that easy.
Speaker 1: Look.
Speaker 7: I think anybody who's listened to you over the years
Speaker 7: or has stumbled upon our booth views on the medias
Speaker 7: of social they know that you don't get rattled by
Speaker 7: anything because you've seen and done everything that there is
Speaker 7: to see and do in this game. But I wonder,
Speaker 7: on a day like this, a fiftieth anniversary of a
Speaker 7: day that means so much to you and so much
Speaker 7: to so many people, and you have the people that
Speaker 7: mean the most to you here, I wonder if today's
Speaker 7: a little bit different, if the heart's beating a little
Speaker 7: bit different.
Speaker 8: It's not beating differently. But I think at the same time,
Speaker 8: I take a lot of pride in acting fifty years
Speaker 8: ago for what I thought was right to do at
Speaker 8: that moment. Uncomfortable at the same time, and being a right,
Speaker 8: honest uncomfortable with the attention that has been placed upon
Speaker 8: me because I did what everybody that I know would
Speaker 8: have done the same thing had they been geographically close
Speaker 8: in honor of those in particular with the military. But
Speaker 8: it's not just the military. It's a lot of people
Speaker 8: that make it convenient for you and I and everyone else.
Speaker 8: They have the conversations that we are having. That's part
Speaker 8: of the freedoms and rights that we have that's represented
Speaker 8: by this piece of material called our flag that Sunday
Speaker 8: afternoon years later. Now, I could not tell you exactly
Speaker 8: what was on my mind the incident I saw them,
Speaker 8: except that I was mad. I was irritated that they
Speaker 8: were there. And then when I saw the flag of
Speaker 8: being put on the ground and the lighter flu and
Speaker 8: being put on top of it, I was extremely mad
Speaker 8: because again I made a move that I thought was
Speaker 8: right fifty years ago. Nothing has changed my mind since then,
Speaker 8: and I'm very very happy that I happen to be
Speaker 8: close enough to do something about it.
Speaker 7: And isn't it crazy because I can't imagine that the
Speaker 7: schedulers in Major League Baseball had any idea when they
Speaker 7: were thrown together the twenty twenty sixth schedule.
Speaker 2: That the Dodgers would be hosting the Cubs on this day.
Speaker 8: Yeah, when I first saw the schedule, I did not
Speaker 8: even recognize it. I think my wife, Barb believe was
Speaker 8: the one. The pointer now says, Hey, by the way,
Speaker 8: have you looked at the April twenty fifth I said, no,
Speaker 8: I have it. Look at what is this goes the
Speaker 8: Cubs are Dodger Stadium. I went, oh, my goodness, Wow, Wow, what.
Speaker 2: A special day.
Speaker 7: And Mo, it's an honor and Pluggridge told be with
Speaker 7: you every single day, but especially on this one. And
Speaker 7: TC is to get it back to you, just to
Speaker 7: paint a picture. Rip Monday's gonna suit and tie today,
Speaker 7: all right, so you know it's a big day.
Speaker 8: Yeah, you want to get back by ten o'clock.
Speaker 7: I tried to convince him to go matching Aloha shirts
Speaker 7: and he wouldn't go for it till I go down.
Speaker 8: It was cheaper to just buy it and rent it
Speaker 8: for about ten hours instead of on an hourly basis.
Speaker 7: All right, you're not in the hot seat yet. We're
Speaker 7: gonna get a key from you a little bit later.
Speaker 7: Until then, Tim, take it away in the studio.
Speaker 3: All right, thanks a lot, Nelly.
Speaker 5: It is all about Rick Monday today the fiftieth anniversary
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Speaker 10: Any questions for Dave Dave?
Speaker 9: Can you just describe Dave?
Speaker 3: Can you talk about the pressure in.
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Speaker 11: Will's back's a little little tight, so, uh, you know,
Speaker 11: figured I'd give him an extra day, see how he
Speaker 11: comes in tomorrow and then you know, Max a little
Speaker 11: under the weather and uh so I wanted to, you know,
Speaker 11: get him up there and get a few few, get
Speaker 11: an extra bat versus Ray, and I just felt like
Speaker 11: leaving Tuck in the foe.
Speaker 1: I like that.
Speaker 11: And yeah, I got Dalton in there. So that's kind
Speaker 11: of the.
Speaker 1: Thought still back you guys.
Speaker 11: No, No, it's just more of you know, if I
Speaker 11: had him playing uh you know, two of three and
Speaker 11: so there's really no cost and giving him today and
Speaker 11: playing them tomorrow.
Speaker 1: Lin did does that kind of flare up?
Speaker 11: Uh? Yesterday, maybe a couple of days ago. Just a
Speaker 11: little tightness, but uh, nothing of concern right now.
Speaker 8: Yeah, with the show.
Speaker 12: It is just like the last five people has it
Speaker 12: just been kind of weird for you getting what he
Speaker 12: some the last years.
Speaker 1: To see him and you can go through like Rowe
Speaker 1: or the kind of spaces.
Speaker 11: Yes, you don't hear the word slump correlated with show
Speaker 11: hey on the hitting side ever, So it is it
Speaker 11: is certainly unique. So but yeah, he's working and it'll
Speaker 11: it'll balance itself out. But yeah, he's going through it
Speaker 11: right now.
Speaker 2: Any part of this.
Speaker 12: Is just like everything that goes back and being a
Speaker 12: full time picture and having relearn my downs, his body
Speaker 12: and kind of work.
Speaker 7: Through that transition.
Speaker 11: Say on this year, I think so, you know, last
Speaker 11: year there was a slow build up where you could
Speaker 11: argue that or the truth is is that he was
Speaker 11: more focused on the hitting because of there wasn't much
Speaker 11: demand on the pitching side. And then right now, you know,
Speaker 11: you start the season where he's at with the innings
Speaker 11: and pitches and all that stuff, that you could argue
Speaker 11: that there's more focus on the pitching and there's more
Speaker 11: demand on the pitching and what we're asking of them.
Speaker 11: So there's got to be some you know, you know
Speaker 11: cut you know, cuts into some of the bandwidth the
Speaker 11: production on the offensive side, that's just common sense. So
Speaker 11: what it translates to, you know, how he's been swinging
Speaker 11: the bat in the last you know, a week. How
Speaker 11: much of that is the pitching. I don't have an
Speaker 11: answer for that, but that's to be understood that there's
Speaker 11: some kind of into production given how much he's pitching.
Speaker 1: Yet.
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Speaker 5: Also coming up, your magical moments on the fiftieth anniversary
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Speaker 5: Well, DV, we don't say this very often, but uh
Speaker 5: show hey. Otani's in a slump.
Speaker 4: Yeah, big time slump. The longest drought without hitting a
Speaker 4: home run since becoming a Dodger to start twenty twenty four,
Speaker 4: fifty two played appearances for Otani without hitting a home run.
Speaker 4: And something interesting that Jose Motis said last night on
Speaker 4: Dodger Talk is that he's noticed O'tani has gone into
Speaker 4: a greater slump since being hit by a pitch in
Speaker 4: the first game of that three game series against the
Speaker 4: Mets on the last homestand David Peterson plunked him on
Speaker 4: the back right shoulder. Since the then his next ten games,
Speaker 4: including last night, he is hitting one eighty nine with
Speaker 4: a slugging percentage of just two seventy no home runs,
Speaker 4: twelve strikeouts and four walks, and Dave Roberts was asked
Speaker 4: about whether or not that was something that sent him
Speaker 4: psychologically or mechanically into a downward spiral, and he said,
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Speaker 4: Yeah, I got good news today. Bruce star Graderol actually
Speaker 4: threw to hitters today at Camelback Ranch, and that's further
Speaker 4: than he has gone in the last two years trying
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Speaker 10: So that's great news.
Speaker 4: He's on his way back, and brock Stewart is in
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Speaker 5: We go back to April twenty fifth, nineteen seventy six,
Speaker 5: fifty years ago. Today, the Dodgers and Cubs out of
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Speaker 5: Today we salute Rick Monday, US Marine Corps Reserve veteran.
Speaker 13: Sysmore fouled out in the first in ain't he's over one?
Speaker 13: And the first one outside by one And wait a minute,
Speaker 13: there's an animal loose.
Speaker 1: Two of them.
Speaker 13: All right, I'm not sure what he's doing out there.
Speaker 13: It looks like he's going to burn a flag.
Speaker 7: And Rick Monday runs and takes it away from him.
Speaker 13: And so on Monday, I think a guy was going
Speaker 13: to set fire to the American flag, can you imagine.
Speaker 13: So they've gotta lose him in a hurry. And Monday,
Speaker 13: when he realized what he was gonna do, race cover
Speaker 13: and took the flag away from him. And now the
Speaker 13: crowd is doing what they ought to do.
Speaker 1: All the time.
Speaker 9: Wooh.
Speaker 13: One of these characters for this guy was gonna try
Speaker 13: and perform the indignity of shutting fire to the American flag.
Speaker 13: And Rick, we'll get an ovation and properly.
Speaker 5: So great save by Rick Monday, American hero fifty years ago.
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Speaker 6: Well, congratulations Will fifty souvenir years ago today, you became
Speaker 6: a part of baseball legend. And Low, here's a question
Speaker 6: for you. I don't know if that's passed it. Have
Speaker 6: any idea what.
Speaker 10: You had for breakfast that morning?
Speaker 8: I have no idea. They start, I have no idea,
Speaker 8: And I could not tell you what I had for
Speaker 8: dinner because immediately after the ballgame, you know, with the Cubs,
Speaker 8: we played here on that Sunday afternoon, and then we
Speaker 8: went down to San Diego that evening to start the
Speaker 8: series down there, so it was it was all kind
Speaker 8: of fuzzy. I do remember that after the game, reporters
Speaker 8: are coming into the locker room, and I did request
Speaker 8: through the Dodgers if I could get that flag, and
Speaker 8: fortunately our Campanis, the Dodgers' organization, kept very close tabs.
Speaker 8: When the legal issue was taken care of, and it
Speaker 8: was about a couple of months later Dodgers came into
Speaker 8: Chicago at Wrigley Field and our Campanis presented me with
Speaker 8: that flag. The irony, as you well know, Charlie, throughout
Speaker 8: the years and the times that we had talked about it.
Speaker 8: That very flag that they were trying to desecrate on
Speaker 8: that Sunday afternoon here at Dodgers Stadium still has a
Speaker 8: lifespan and we've been honored and privileged enough to take
Speaker 8: it around the country at various times and to show
Speaker 8: it and do some fundraisers with it. And we hear
Speaker 8: every day, if not every week, at least as someone
Speaker 8: that's calling up a former military or maybe even a
Speaker 8: future military someone thinking about that, or a family member
Speaker 8: and just saying, you know, thanks for stepping up and
Speaker 8: protecting the rights and freedoms that we all enjoy in
Speaker 8: this country.
Speaker 6: Enjoy the day today. Dodgers did not enjoy themselves last night.
Speaker 6: Emmitt Sheen was terrific six and the third run and
Speaker 6: four hits, ten strikeouts in a walk, and then the
Speaker 6: bullpen imploded. And that's beginning to be a sign of
Speaker 6: real concern for this team.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it is.
Speaker 8: And too many runs have been given up in recent times.
Speaker 8: I remember the conversation that you and I had yesterday
Speaker 8: on the pregame show talking about Emmitt Shean, when Dave
Speaker 8: Roberts told the media that a he needed to be
Speaker 8: more efficient talking about Sheen he needed to fill the
Speaker 8: strength zone. And then sequencing was a word that he used.
Speaker 8: I remember you asked me yesterday what do you mean
Speaker 8: by sequencing? And I said, well, how are you following
Speaker 8: up with the curbo? You fall up with the fastball?
Speaker 8: What about the austb pitch. Well, his sequencing last night
Speaker 8: and filling up the zone, the strength zone that is
Speaker 8: was absolutely amazing to watch, a fun time to watch,
Speaker 8: and hopefully this is the Immachian that we're going to
Speaker 8: be seeing for the rest of the season.
Speaker 6: This is the first day of the season that Dodgers
Speaker 6: have not been in first place.
Speaker 1: There are half a game behind.
Speaker 6: The Padres will begin a two game series down in
Speaker 6: Mexico City with the Arizona Diamondbacks. Dodgers have lost five
Speaker 6: of their last seven and that bullpen we're talking about
Speaker 6: giving up eighteen runs and fifteen innings over the last
Speaker 6: seven games, giving up four home runs, and last night
Speaker 6: was really hard to watch.
Speaker 8: It was and had difficulty finding the strength zone in
Speaker 8: really areas of you normally don't see, including Alex Vessi,
Speaker 8: who worked as two thirds of an inning. It took
Speaker 8: him twenty pitches to find eight pitches in the strength zone,
Speaker 8: and that is very unusual for Vessia. Then it was
Speaker 8: trying to Scott and then Henrique is trying to spread
Speaker 8: the blame on anyone else. But the Dodgers know exactly
Speaker 8: what they have to do. And I think if you're looking,
Speaker 8: you know one guy. I want to just comment about it.
Speaker 8: Song Kim was very interesting, not only last night but
Speaker 8: of recent days. Had a couple of base hits. He
Speaker 8: had a stolen bays last night, knocked in a run
Speaker 8: on top of it. If he continues to improve with
Speaker 8: that swing that he had to kind of alter once
Speaker 8: he came back for the World Baseball Classic, he can
Speaker 8: really be a threat. And we're seeing a lot of
Speaker 8: range at the shortstop and or the second base position
Speaker 8: wherever he might be playing.
Speaker 6: And he can run Dodger starters. This year, collective bri
Speaker 6: two seventy five, it's the best in the National League.
Speaker 6: The bullpen at four sixty six, ranking thirteenth in the league.
Speaker 6: And of course Diaz is out. Now there's trying to
Speaker 6: find some stability where over the years it's been fairly stable.
Speaker 6: But right now, Rocky Ship.
Speaker 8: It has been I mentioned about ten days ago that
Speaker 8: it appeared that the bullpen was kind of settling into
Speaker 8: a routine. They knew whose name was going to be
Speaker 8: called depending upon the score, which inning. And I'm not
Speaker 8: certain that that same feeling is existing down there at
Speaker 8: the present time, because it's been some highs and some lows,
Speaker 8: and a couple of guys have had difficulty finding the
Speaker 8: strike zone, as Dave Roberts is talking about last night
Speaker 8: against san fill up the strike zone with pitch.
Speaker 6: Andy Pa has last night two remarkable assists, but at
Speaker 6: the plate he continues to struggle. You know, he was
Speaker 6: two weeks ago he was hitting four forty nine. Over
Speaker 6: the last seven games, he's three for his last twenty
Speaker 6: five or one twenty five batting average, And so the
Speaker 6: heat of the first few weeks has simmered and cooled
Speaker 6: off quite a bit for him.
Speaker 8: Yeah, last year he made a lot of improvement leaps
Speaker 8: and bounds in my estimation on the ball away from
Speaker 8: him to begin with, and especially the breaking ball away. Well,
Speaker 8: now we're beginning to see that reintroduced. I think some
Speaker 8: pitchers got burned by trying to come inside on him already.
Speaker 8: This year we're kind of seeing them leave that area
Speaker 8: and trying to go back outside again, But Pahz is
Speaker 8: not the only one in that category. To ask you,
Speaker 8: Hernandez has had some difficulty over four couple of strikeouts
Speaker 8: in last night's bowl game, and he too is having
Speaker 8: some challenges on that breaking ball that's away from him
Speaker 8: on the outside part of the plate.
Speaker 6: Otani is struggling as well. The Cubs seventeen and nine,
Speaker 6: same record as the Dodgers. They're tied for first as
Speaker 6: games began today with the Cincinnati Reds. The Cubs have
Speaker 6: won ten straight outscoring the opposition seventy two to thirty one.
Speaker 9: But let's not.
Speaker 6: Forget they beat the Philly six times, the Mets three times,
Speaker 6: and the Dodgers last night, and so you have two
Speaker 6: seventeen and nine teams, the Cubs and Dodgers. They got
Speaker 6: a big one today in Roki Sasaki looking to turn
Speaker 6: his fortunes around as Shean did.
Speaker 8: And I think with Sasaki it comes down is simply
Speaker 8: this is going to be oversimplified, but here's the numbers.
Speaker 8: When he's a head in the count, it's a one
Speaker 8: to thirty batting average against. When he falls behind in
Speaker 8: the count this year, a four hundred batting average, Which
Speaker 8: would you choose to have Colin Ray.
Speaker 6: Is going for the Cubs Game two of this three
Speaker 6: game series. The Dodgers again struggling of late, Cubs are
Speaker 6: red hot and congratulations on this fiftieth anniversary mode. Lineups
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Speaker 3: All right, thank you, Charlie.
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Speaker 1: This is high and tight.
Speaker 4: It's a beautiful saturday here in Los Angeles, and we're
Speaker 4: joined right now by the man that is the architect
Speaker 4: of the unprecedented success the Dodgers have had, including back
Speaker 4: to back championships, a man that is not as emotional
Speaker 4: as people on Ventura Boulevard. That's the one and only
Speaker 4: Andrew Friedman. Thanks a lot for.
Speaker 9: The time, Absolutely thanks for having me on. It feels like.
Speaker 4: This is just one of those moments in time during
Speaker 4: the season where you're dealing with some injuries, some guys
Speaker 4: are sick, but it feels like the cavalry is on
Speaker 4: its way.
Speaker 14: Yeah, you know, we go through this every year, especially
Speaker 14: in April.
Speaker 9: I think every single year I've been here, we've.
Speaker 14: Have meetings about our relievers, with our catchers, just with
Speaker 14: our relievers about what their strengths are.
Speaker 9: It's like groundhog Day, and so there's.
Speaker 14: Periods where we're playing well and it feels like we're
Speaker 14: never going to lose again. And there's periods where we're
Speaker 14: not playing as well and you're waiting for something bad
Speaker 14: to happen.
Speaker 9: It is the cycle of a major league season.
Speaker 14: That being said, when you're in one of the downturns
Speaker 14: of it, it's frustrating.
Speaker 9: It's not fun to go through.
Speaker 4: I haven't talked to you since the news of Edwin
Speaker 4: Diaz going down with chips in his right elbow surgery.
Speaker 4: How does that affect the bullpen and how much do
Speaker 4: you need Rock Stewart and Bruce Stark grat all to
Speaker 4: come back.
Speaker 9: Don't forget Evan Phillips.
Speaker 10: That's a while away, Andrew, That's sure, that's true.
Speaker 9: You know, with that one, obviously it's a big loss.
Speaker 14: But you know, it was something he had been feeling
Speaker 14: in his last couple outings and velocity was down just
Speaker 14: where the chip was was pushing right on the tricep
Speaker 14: muscle and so something that just wasn't allowing him the
Speaker 14: same freedom uh to get to his velocity, and just
Speaker 14: a lot of discomfort. So fortunately it didn't involve anything
Speaker 14: with the ligament. It wasn't near the ligament, and el
Speaker 14: Doctor elatrosh felt really confident, let's go ahead and get
Speaker 14: it out. It will alleviate those symptoms and he'll come
Speaker 14: back and be in a good spot. So it's good
Speaker 14: in terms of, you know, the prognosis of him coming
Speaker 14: back and helping us in the second half of the
Speaker 14: season and hopefully through a long October, but frustrating for
Speaker 14: the now and us navigating the next you know, two
Speaker 14: two and a half months, and you know it'll be
Speaker 14: opportunity for some guys, and he'll be seen over the
Speaker 14: years when that opportunity has been created, it's given guys
Speaker 14: some runway to go and create a real role form.
Speaker 14: We saw it with Rogo last year. We've seen it
Speaker 14: with Evan Phillips in the past. We've seen it with
Speaker 14: a number of guys, So you know, we'll have this
Speaker 14: opportunity for some guys to emerge.
Speaker 4: Your starting rotation has been phenomenal. Ema Sheen coming off
Speaker 4: as best start of the season. Tyler Glass now eight innings,
Speaker 4: allowed just one hit in San Francisco. I wanted to
Speaker 4: ask you about Glass now because you've known him obviously
Speaker 4: for a long time. Why is he so different this year?
Speaker 4: What's different about him? To allow him to go to
Speaker 4: this next level.
Speaker 14: There's just there's even more confidence, you know. I think
Speaker 14: just going through some of the injury stuff he had
Speaker 14: gone through earlier in his career and then with us
Speaker 14: in that first year, you know, I think it eats
Speaker 14: into your ability to be as confident and just getting
Speaker 14: him to believe just how good is stuff is. There
Speaker 14: aren't a lot of guys that can beat guys in zone.
Speaker 14: You almost need to get a head and zone and
Speaker 14: then on to off and get guys to chase. He
Speaker 14: can dominate guys end zone. That's how good his stuff is.
Speaker 14: So last year the walker right was a little elevated,
Speaker 14: and we're seeing that come down right now with the
Speaker 14: miss as high as it is, and he's a tough
Speaker 14: guy to square up.
Speaker 9: And so I.
Speaker 14: Think the success he had last October and really being
Speaker 14: a big part of us winning a championship last year,
Speaker 14: whereas in twenty four he was doing it as a cheerleader,
Speaker 14: you know, with the injury. So I think him being
Speaker 14: a big part of what we did last October provided
Speaker 14: some fuel going into this offseason, and now each start
Speaker 14: is just continuing to build.
Speaker 4: As far as that series in San Francisco Utani may
Speaker 4: have pitched his best game in a long time as well.
Speaker 4: When you look at him the balance of him going
Speaker 4: full time pitcher, do you feel like a little bit's
Speaker 4: been taken away as a hitter or is that just
Speaker 4: the April that you were talking about.
Speaker 14: Yeah, I mean last year, you know, show got off
Speaker 14: to a little bit of a slow start offensively and
Speaker 14: then got going i think in late late April, and
Speaker 14: then took off from there. Look, it is hard. What
Speaker 14: he's doing is hard, and it is tiring, and we
Speaker 14: have to stay in lockstep with him to figure out
Speaker 14: how to balance that rest And you know that being said,
Speaker 14: he's had prolonged stretches where he's doing both and excelling
Speaker 14: it both.
Speaker 9: We just have to stay really.
Speaker 14: Connected with him because what he's doing obviously is unprecedented
Speaker 14: and it takes a real toll. But to be able
Speaker 14: to compartmentalize, to be able to pitch the way he
Speaker 14: has this year has been incredible.
Speaker 10: How do you look at it?
Speaker 4: A lot of talk about him not being as good
Speaker 4: of a hitter to day that he pitches. How do
Speaker 4: you look at that conversation about looking at it, evaluating
Speaker 4: where he hits in the lineup, whether or not he
Speaker 4: does it when he pitches.
Speaker 14: Yeah, I mean, I think it's all part of the
Speaker 14: rest and what makes the most sense. You know, it
Speaker 14: doesn't make sense for him to go wire to wire
Speaker 14: pitch your hit or playing every day, pitching every week.
Speaker 9: That's hard, and so we do need to mix some
Speaker 9: rest in there.
Speaker 14: Whether we do it on the day starts and then
Speaker 14: therefore he can't hit late in the game, or if
Speaker 14: we do it around it the day before the day after,
Speaker 14: we would at least have the silver bullet off the
Speaker 14: bench and the ninth inning in a tight game to
Speaker 14: be able to pinch hit. You know, all those are
Speaker 14: questions and I think, you know, getting with him and
Speaker 14: from our standpoint, if there's a clear answer whatever it is,
Speaker 14: we're great with it. If there's not a clear answer,
Speaker 14: it's just going to require a lot of conversation and
Speaker 14: some trial and error to kind of feel it out.
Speaker 4: I mean, like you said, it's not normal. He's one
Speaker 4: of one and he's thirty one years old. Now, how
Speaker 4: much do we all take that for granted what he's
Speaker 4: doing is normal when it's not.
Speaker 14: Yeah, I mean, I think most things that we encounter.
Speaker 14: We all have some kind of mental rolodex we can
Speaker 14: go back to and like, oh yeah, in my experience
Speaker 14: it's this with jo Hey, there is none of that,
Speaker 14: and we have no experience dealing with this, and so
Speaker 14: it definitely makes it trickier. That being said, I think
Speaker 14: as long as we're just staying connected consistently, I think
Speaker 14: we will get at feel our way through kind of
Speaker 14: what makes the most sense.
Speaker 10: All right.
Speaker 4: So that brings me to the Otani rule. Great Council
Speaker 4: last week said he feels like the Otani rule is
Speaker 4: an unfair rule as far as rosters and rosters when
Speaker 4: it relates to pictures. I want to ask him to
Speaker 4: clarify that yesterday, and he doubled down in a very
Speaker 4: tense way.
Speaker 10: Where is this all coming from?
Speaker 4: Do you feel like this is just a carry over
Speaker 4: from all the talk during the offseason. Where do you
Speaker 4: think all this O tiny rule talk is coming from?
Speaker 6: Now?
Speaker 9: I don't know.
Speaker 14: It felt very random and strange to me that he
Speaker 14: felt the need to bring it up. And when Shoh
Speaker 14: was on the Angels and MLB was considering this, they
Speaker 14: reached out to a bunch of teams, us included, and
Speaker 14: I said look from a competitive standpoint as the Dodgers,
Speaker 14: I don't love it, but wearing my industry hat and
Speaker 14: what's best for the Major League Baseball it is to
Speaker 14: do everything we can for shohe Otani to be in
Speaker 14: and stay in games. And obviously with the thirteen pitcher rules,
Speaker 14: so that's the part of him being able to stay
Speaker 14: in the game when he pitches and when he comes
Speaker 14: off the mound. You know, the old rule would have
Speaker 14: been then the hitter has to come out as well.
Speaker 14: But I was able to look at what is best
Speaker 14: for the industry and show Hey playing and playing more
Speaker 14: often and staying in games is what is best for
Speaker 14: this game and best for the fans and everything else.
Speaker 9: So that was when he was with the Angels.
Speaker 14: And as far as the thirteen pitcher rule, again, it
Speaker 14: is more that we have thirteen pitchers. I had to
Speaker 14: clarify this with Jim Bowden who said that we have
Speaker 14: nine relievers. We don't have nine relievers. We have eight
Speaker 14: relievers just like everyone else. We have five starters like
Speaker 14: everyone else. It's just when show Hey is able and
Speaker 14: the rest makes sense, show Hay pitches. Also, it is
Speaker 14: not that we are carrying an extra reliever relative to others.
Speaker 14: So it's certainly an advantage, but it should be an advantage.
Speaker 14: What show Hey does and what he is capable of
Speaker 14: is so unique it should be rewarded, it should be celebrated.
Speaker 14: And everyone knew the show Hey rules and had an
Speaker 14: equal opportunity to sign him two years ago. So I'm
Speaker 14: not sure where the cups were in that process or
Speaker 14: what council's thoughts were on it then, but that seemed
Speaker 14: like more of the relevant time to voice it than now.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and that's something that I'm sure not a lot
Speaker 4: of us were ever aware of that. Major League Baseball
Speaker 4: checked in with you and other teams about implementing this rule,
Speaker 4: So if there were any objections, then.
Speaker 10: Was the time.
Speaker 4: Absolutely all right, thank you for setting the record straight.
Speaker 4: I love it, Thank you for the time. Great to
Speaker 4: see you. And look, I'm very steady. I'm right in
Speaker 4: the wave of one sixty two.
Speaker 9: I like it. You know, we've seen this year after year.
Speaker 14: It doesn't mean it's fun while going through it, but
Speaker 14: we've seen it, and we've seen this group battle through it,
Speaker 14: and it's just the inevitable cycle of a long one
Speaker 14: hundred and sixty two game season. And I have the
Speaker 14: same amount of faith in these guys and the way
Speaker 14: they prepare, the way they compete, that the subtle them
Speaker 14: out and we'll start playing much better baseball.
Speaker 4: Isn't it amazing how these guys still have their edge
Speaker 4: and each individual has a chip to prove something this year.
Speaker 14: Yeah, I mean, it's what I said after twenty four
Speaker 14: that one of the concerns about and the difficulties around repeating,
Speaker 14: is that complacency sets in where teams won, they're.
Speaker 9: Like, Okay, they exhale, they don't have that same edge
Speaker 9: about them.
Speaker 14: And it was very apparent after the parade in twenty
Speaker 14: four just how focused everyone was on doing everything they
Speaker 14: could to run it back in twenty five. And we
Speaker 14: saw the same thing after twenty five. This is a
Speaker 14: group that's playing for, you know, their legacy, for the
Speaker 14: legacy of this group, you know, to continue to you know,
Speaker 14: do everything we can for this to be the Golden
Speaker 14: Eraw Dodgers Baseball and for them to have been a
Speaker 14: huge part of it. And so that motivation is so
Speaker 14: much further beyond the Okay, I won a championship. They're
Speaker 14: big pigs and I love it.
Speaker 10: Yeah, so is Andrew Friedman.
Speaker 4: Thanks a lot for the time, and thanks again for
Speaker 4: being so candid with all your answers.
Speaker 9: Absolutely thanks for having me on there.
Speaker 10: He is the man.
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Speaker 3: All right, thanks a lot.
Speaker 5: DV lead you up to first pitch Dodgers and Cubs
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Speaker 5: Colin Ray on the mound for the Cubbies three and
Speaker 5: zero with a three ERA. Thirty five year old right
Speaker 5: hander interesting career, made his major league debut in twenty
Speaker 5: fifteenth to Padres twenty to the Marlins in twenty sixteen,
Speaker 5: then didn't pitch again the big leagues until twenty twenty one,
Speaker 5: when he made one appearance of the Brewers. Then two
Speaker 5: years later, he returned to the big leagues in twenty twenty.
Speaker 3: Three with the Brewers.
Speaker 5: So where was he well, he was hurt minor leagues
Speaker 5: pitching in Japan. Now in his second season with the Cubbies. Fastball, splitter, slider, sinker, sweeter, sweeper,
Speaker 5: third start this year, sixth appearance.
Speaker 3: Started the season in the bullpen, but now a starter.
Speaker 5: Last time out six and two third innings, one run,
Speaker 5: six hits, five strikeouts in a win over the Phillies.
Speaker 5: He has allowed one runner fewer and four straight starts
Speaker 5: going back to last year one and one with a
Speaker 5: five ninety four RARA and eight career games, five starts
Speaker 5: against the Dodgers. Rookie Sasaki on the mound still looking
Speaker 5: for that first win this year. Zero to two, six
Speaker 5: to eleven ERA, twenty four year old right hand making
Speaker 5: his fifth start. Fastball, splitter, slider. Last time out, Rookie
Speaker 5: Sasaki pitched into the fifth inning, four and two third innings,
Speaker 5: three runs, seven hits, two strikeouts and in no decision
Speaker 5: against the Colorado Rockies in two games against the Cubs
Speaker 5: in his brief career zh to one with a two
Speaker 5: twenty five Rray in eight innings pitch with six strikeouts.
Speaker 5: Rokie Sasaki on his bobblehead giveaway. Colin Ray, the veteran
Speaker 5: right hander goes for Chicago. We are fifteen minutes away
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Speaker 2: Thanks so much. Tim.
Speaker 7: We're getting closer and closer and closer to the first
Speaker 7: pitch tonight, game two of three between the Dodgers and Cubs,
Speaker 7: and it's Rokie Sasaki starting for the Dodgers.
Speaker 2: Opposite Colin Ray.
Speaker 7: Back in here with the man of the Hours on
Speaker 7: this special Saturday, Rick.
Speaker 2: Monday and Moe, give me a key or a player
Speaker 2: to watch tonight.
Speaker 8: I go to what Dave Roberts said yesterday about Rookie Sasaki,
Speaker 8: and here's the quote. Still a work in progress, and
Speaker 8: there's a couple of reasons for it. First inning, two
Speaker 8: hundred average. Second inning a one to forty three average.
Speaker 8: Third inning, however, a fort to twelve batting average when
Speaker 8: he gets ahead, and account it's a one to thirty
Speaker 8: batting average when he gets behind. It's a four hundred average. Yes,
Speaker 8: a work in progress, but go after the strike zone
Speaker 8: a little bit more feverishly.
Speaker 7: All right, we're looking forward to the baseball game. Rokiye
Speaker 7: Sasaki will throw the actual first pitch, but before that,
Speaker 7: a special ceremony featuring you mo so take off the
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Speaker 8: Me, Kevin, you t I gotta get the suit clean
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Speaker 2: All right, TC, back over to you.
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