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Speaker 3: beginning of a three game series against the Cleveland Guardians.
Speaker 3: Roki Sasaki on the mound, first pitch from uniclough Field.
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Speaker 3: Monday at the gallopin Ford Broadcast Booth in just a
Speaker 3: couple of minutes. Well, the Dodgers were off yesterday before
Speaker 3: that on Saturday night, they finished off a sweep of
Speaker 3: the Snakes. Tyler Glass now got the start and six innings.
Speaker 3: He allowed two runs on four hits while striking out
Speaker 3: six along the way. The Diamondbacks, like they did in
Speaker 3: the first two games of this series, jumped out to
Speaker 3: the early lead. They were up two to nothing as
Speaker 3: they failed though to hold that lead again, this time
Speaker 3: Peven Smith the two out RBI single in the first
Speaker 3: in Corbyn Carrol sacked flying the third off Tyler Glass
Speaker 3: Now and the Dodgers were in a hole, down two
Speaker 3: to nothing. Arizona starter eduard O Rodriguez meanwhile gave the
Speaker 3: Dodgers hitters some fits. He went five innings, gave up
Speaker 3: a run on four hits while striking out five the
Speaker 3: first five innings really good. In the sixth inning, Dodgers
Speaker 3: down two to nothing, when Kyle Tucker let off the inning,
Speaker 3: reaching base on an air that would send Rodriguez to
Speaker 3: the bench. The Snakes would go to their bullpen. After
Speaker 3: a pitching change, Mookie Betch flew out, Will Smith grounded out,
Speaker 3: so two down. Kyle Tucker now at second when Freddy
Speaker 3: Freeman came through.
Speaker 2: Three ball, one strike pitch to Freeman. Lway's a go set.
Speaker 2: He kicks fires Man. Freddie hits him inside a third,
Speaker 2: down the line, play ball.
Speaker 6: Tucker will around third.
Speaker 2: He'll score Freeman around first.
Speaker 6: He is in a second base with a double.
Speaker 2: The five hundred forty eight career double for Freddie Freeman
Speaker 2: is now tied Alex Rodriguez on the all time list
Speaker 2: thirty third all time, and he drives into Dodgers first
Speaker 2: run of the game and represents the tying run at
Speaker 2: second base.
Speaker 3: Freddie Freeman delivering with the RBI double. He went three
Speaker 3: for four, ending an zero for eight skid to start
Speaker 3: the season. Dodgers down two to one. Fast forward to
Speaker 3: the eighth, little two out magic Mookie Betts, a two
Speaker 3: out walk, next batter, Will Smith fell behind two, then
Speaker 3: a couple of balls. It was a two to two count.
Speaker 3: Fouled up a couple of pitches. Pitch seven of the bat,
Speaker 3: Will Smith went yard.
Speaker 6: Two ball, two strike pitch from Mario to Smith.
Speaker 7: Will swings heads up, high drive to center field and
Speaker 7: deep this ball back this pop.
Speaker 1: Will Smith Happy birthday.
Speaker 7: Dodgers lead three to two. I wanna go ahead home
Speaker 7: run at the bottom of the eighth with two outs,
Speaker 7: have two strikes. Second home run of the season for Smith,
Speaker 7: four hundred and fourteen feet to ted center field.
Speaker 3: Will Smith delivers on his bobble head nine on his birthday.
Speaker 3: With the top tier play the game, brought to by
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Speaker 3: home run to center field and the bottom half of
Speaker 3: the eighth inned would give the Dodgers the lead.
Speaker 4: Will kleinb gets the win. Edwin Diaz with the.
Speaker 3: Trumpets of Blair and at Dodgers Stadium picked up to
Speaker 3: save his second of the season, pitching the ninth as
Speaker 3: the Dodgers finish off Arizona with a three to two win.
Speaker 4: Over the time, They're now three and zero to start
Speaker 4: this season.
Speaker 3: After a weird Sunday off day yesterday, the Dodgers' homestay
Speaker 3: continues tonight, first of three against the Cleveland Guardians. Rookie
Speaker 3: Sasaki on the mount in his first start of the year,
Speaker 3: first pitch coming up at seven to ten, and with
Speaker 3: more we head out to the Gallpin Motors Broadcast booth
Speaker 3: as we welcome in Charlie Steiner and Rick Monday.
Speaker 8: Guys, all right, tim second series of the season. Dodgers,
Speaker 8: of course, off to the perfect start, three comeback wins,
Speaker 8: the raising of the championship banner on Thursday, the ring
Speaker 8: ceremony on Friday, Will Smith's game winning home run on
Speaker 8: his bobblehead night no Less, by the way, other Bobblehead Night,
Speaker 8: home run hitters for the Dodgers Manny Ramirez, hanglo Vermires,
Speaker 8: Juan Yuribay, Yasiel Puig, Cody Bellinger twice, and Mookie Betts.
Speaker 8: But all in all, most it could not have been
Speaker 8: a more perfect opening series for the Dodgers. By the way,
Speaker 8: they're three and zero. The rest of the National League
Speaker 8: is won and eleven.
Speaker 9: Yeah, and it's severey good star, no question about it.
Speaker 9: Remember last year Dodgors went eight and oh before they
Speaker 9: dropped their first decision. It's a nice way to go
Speaker 9: because the magnifying glass is there. Are they looked at
Speaker 9: as the villain? Quote unquote, who cares?
Speaker 10: I thought?
Speaker 9: Mookie Bets put it nicely. So the games, the ending
Speaker 9: of the games will dictate who the good guys are
Speaker 9: and the bad guys are. The Dodgors have a very
Speaker 9: good team, and we can underline that. Now they have
Speaker 9: to play consistently good baseball. And they're off to that
Speaker 9: very good start. You know what gets lost a little
Speaker 9: bit in the transition, which, by the way, they need
Speaker 9: to have a lot more of the bobbleheads in particular,
Speaker 9: maybe even multi bobblehead nights. Here's the thing, that maybe
Speaker 9: gets unnoticed for those on the radio. Here's how many
Speaker 9: runs the bullpen has given up in case you cannot
Speaker 9: see my fingers, it's for good reason. Zero is the
Speaker 9: number to this point.
Speaker 8: Eleven and two thirds shutout and nine strikeouts, two walks.
Speaker 6: And if there was a ify part of their season
Speaker 6: last year was the bullpen.
Speaker 8: And now certainly three games in there's a strength and
Speaker 8: they've got a legitimate closer in da and Charlie.
Speaker 9: I think, especially too in the beginning of a season,
Speaker 9: because the starters are still.
Speaker 10: Not stretched out that far.
Speaker 9: We'll find out how far rookie Susaki is going to
Speaker 9: go into night's bowl game and trying to turn things around.
Speaker 9: Kind of a disappointing spring, no question about that end
Speaker 9: of it, so they'll be looking at it. But the
Speaker 9: bullpen to me seems rather solidified in their roles, and
Speaker 9: sometimes there are some years with some bullpens it takes
Speaker 9: them a month or two to understand the roles they're
Speaker 9: going to be called upon.
Speaker 8: Well, we've got Diaz and the trumpet in coming out
Speaker 8: of the bullpen is a spectacular show. And oh, by
Speaker 8: the way he gets on the mountains.
Speaker 6: Spectacular.
Speaker 9: Yeah, yeah, they when he gets on the mound for hitters,
Speaker 9: it may seem like at home plate they're turning off
Speaker 9: the lights of the stadium.
Speaker 10: When the pitch is on his way.
Speaker 9: There's a lot of hoopla, There's no question about it.
Speaker 9: But these guys are up to the challenge because I
Speaker 9: think they understand full well they can do something that
Speaker 9: has never been done in the National League. Win three
Speaker 9: consecutive World championships.
Speaker 8: And we welcome Tatiana Tait and her trumpet. It is
Speaker 8: such an exciting moment for Daz to come out of
Speaker 8: the bullpen. The lights are flashing and there goes the trumpet.
Speaker 9: And you know, it's really nice about it. It even
Speaker 9: surprised him because he did not know ahead of time
Speaker 9: that there was going to be a live trumpet player,
Speaker 9: uh bugling, if you will.
Speaker 1: As he entered the ball game.
Speaker 8: It was a terrific first weekend. Cleveland Guardians are in
Speaker 8: for the first of this three game series. We'll get
Speaker 8: to the lineups and the first pitch a little later
Speaker 8: on Tim.
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Speaker 11: Yeah, and you know what, there's kind of there's gonna
Speaker 11: be a lot of eyes on Rokie tonight because he's
Speaker 11: unfortunately coming into a situation where he did have a
Speaker 11: tougher spring. The results weren't necessarily there. He had a
Speaker 11: lot of walks, and so you know, Dave Robertson the
Speaker 11: organization have been very clear that they believe and what
Speaker 11: Rokie has been able to do, maybe outside of those
Speaker 11: results and the signs he's been showing. We saw what
Speaker 11: he did in the postseason last year after battling shoulder
Speaker 11: injury and then really showing up for his team, So
Speaker 11: they're hoping he can lock back into that tonight. Dave
Speaker 11: Roberts did's share that he had a bullpen just earlier
Speaker 11: this week in which the stuff looked better as more
Speaker 11: consistent with his throw in the strike zone. So they're
Speaker 11: really hoping that he can just carry that over into tonight.
Speaker 11: It is about compete mode. They want to see him
Speaker 11: go out there and attack the Guardian's hitters, and he's
Speaker 11: saying that, you know, he did work there a few
Speaker 11: small mechanical changes, just small things here and there, and
Speaker 11: that they do believe is going to put him in
Speaker 11: a better position. So he does have the support of
Speaker 11: the bullpen. The bullpen has been excellent as of late,
Speaker 11: but in specific justin Robleski. He of course broke camp,
Speaker 11: but the team had a really strong spring training and
Speaker 11: the question was could he potentially be that sixth starter
Speaker 11: or could this be a piggyback situation, And they have decided,
Speaker 11: just considering what they've seen with Rokie and some of
Speaker 11: those results, to protect him. They have Justin Robleski as
Speaker 11: a piggyback option for him if need be.
Speaker 4: Behind the play tonight.
Speaker 3: Will Smith not in the lineup after his heroics on
Speaker 3: Saturday night on his bobblehead night and his birthday, but
Speaker 3: dal Russian behind the plane.
Speaker 11: Yeah, well, first I should say, you know, for Will
Speaker 11: Smith in that final game of the Diamondback series, he
Speaker 11: actually was supposed to be off that day, but definitely
Speaker 11: was like, it's my bubblehead night. I want to be
Speaker 11: out there. And honestly, we go back last year he
Speaker 11: wasn't playing with babb blah head night and even Dave
Speaker 11: Roberts was teasing that. His wife Trisha was like, the
Speaker 11: guys need to be out there on their babblehead night.
Speaker 1: You know, that's when the big moments happened.
Speaker 11: And of course we saw the big moment on Saturday.
Speaker 11: So that was great for him, But that does mean
Speaker 11: they wanted to give him a day.
Speaker 1: Off in this series.
Speaker 11: So he's down today as you mentioned, so Dalton Rushing
Speaker 11: is going to be behind the plate. Dalton obviously had
Speaker 11: majority of the work this spring just because Will was
Speaker 11: away from the team at the World Baseball Classic with
Speaker 11: Team USA. So Dalton's in a really good spot, made
Speaker 11: a few mechanical changes to his swing, is really seeing
Speaker 11: the results, and also is just feeling more confident in
Speaker 11: who he is at the big league level. Obviously, he
Speaker 11: saw him make his debut last year, so he comes
Speaker 11: in this year just with a complete different kind of
Speaker 11: mindset and framework. So he's feeling really good, So expect
Speaker 11: to see, you know, some good stuff with him behind
Speaker 11: the plate, and also just working closely with Rokey and
Speaker 11: helping him navigate through this out.
Speaker 3: Hopefully rookie Sasaki gets on track tonight. Hasn't been there
Speaker 3: during the spring, but hey, regular seasons here and we'll
Speaker 3: see if he's able to get through a couple of anying's.
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Speaker 10: Questions for Dave Dave? Can you just describe Dave? Can
Speaker 10: you talk about the pressure in.
Speaker 12: The dugouts with Dave Roberts, I feel, you know, he
Speaker 12: had a good pen the other day. I think he's
Speaker 12: in a good headspace, so you know, hopefully we can
Speaker 12: just kind of he can just get past, you know,
Speaker 12: all the spring and kind of the inconsistencies of the
Speaker 12: spring and and get to pitching. One games matter. So
Speaker 12: I think for me it's you know, go out there
Speaker 12: and I mean we've got to attack. We have to
Speaker 12: attack and uses mix and try to be as efficient
Speaker 12: as possible and get some length out of him as
Speaker 12: a starter.
Speaker 6: And just let it out and listen out.
Speaker 12: It was more the consistency of the throw, the execution,
Speaker 12: and you know, just talking to the pitching guys, they
Speaker 12: were all pretty encouraged and even Roki was had a
Speaker 12: little smile when I asked him how it was. So
Speaker 12: that was a good sign.
Speaker 10: Brandon was sort of saying, they even put the blows
Speaker 10: down last year.
Speaker 6: Who's able to obvious keeps games?
Speaker 10: Wasn't you have stressed with this click that.
Speaker 13: Experience last year, using that maybe building block into what
Speaker 13: this can be going forward.
Speaker 12: You know, I think that in different ways. I think
Speaker 12: that you know, pitchers have have the confidence that they
Speaker 12: feel that they expect a lot of them of themselves.
Speaker 12: So I think for me, it's just framing it that
Speaker 12: we need length, We need you to to because we can't.
Speaker 12: You know, we got to get some innings out of
Speaker 12: our starters, you know, to knock tax the pen and
Speaker 12: with our offense, you know, just keep us in games.
Speaker 12: But I think that you know, he's expecting to go
Speaker 12: out there and pitch really well, and that kind of
Speaker 12: mindset is a good thing. But I think, yeah, so
Speaker 12: I think the way to kind of you know, cut
Speaker 12: both sides of it is just saying, you know, give
Speaker 12: us some length out of your start and we'll go
Speaker 12: from there.
Speaker 3: Yeah, all right, there's manager Dave Roberts. Yeah, he's absolutely right.
Speaker 3: A fifteen e r and four starts. A couple of
Speaker 3: times he was taken out of an inning and then
Speaker 3: brought back to reset in spring training. You can do that,
Speaker 3: you can't do it during the regular season, so the
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Speaker 3: We talked during the Freeway Series rookie Sasaki against the
Speaker 3: Angels in his last start before the regular season. He
Speaker 3: needed to turn the page, get right, do something different
Speaker 3: than what he was doing during spring training, and he
Speaker 3: went out and had the same result. What does he
Speaker 3: got to do tonight to get back on track.
Speaker 5: It's easy throw strikes and that's something that he's had
Speaker 5: trouble with. You know, we talked about when spring training began,
Speaker 5: going back to Dodger Fest, when Roki told us that
Speaker 5: he was trying to develop a third pitch. It just
Speaker 5: seems like he's thinking way too much on the mound.
Speaker 5: And that's not for me. That's from Dave Roberts and
Speaker 5: the Japanese media. Tim As you know, they do not
Speaker 5: keep a comfortable distance from the Japanese pitchers and players
Speaker 5: that they cover. They really get close up, especially in
Speaker 5: bullpen sessions, and a few of the Japanese media members
Speaker 5: told me that in Sasaki's last bullpen session, he was
Speaker 5: all over the place. He was just as erratic in
Speaker 5: his bullpen session as he has been in games.
Speaker 6: So fast forward to tonight. There's no secrets.
Speaker 1: Justin.
Speaker 5: Robleski is on high alert to come into this game
Speaker 5: whenever needed. Dave Roberts and the Dodgers are hoping they
Speaker 5: won't need him until maybe the fifth inning, but he
Speaker 5: is ready, and you know at some point the Dodgers
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Speaker 5: he told me earlier today that he is biting and
Speaker 5: wanting to come back sooner rather than later, but the
Speaker 5: Dodgers are not letting him skip any steps. He still
Speaker 5: hasn't thrown to hitters. He threw another bullpen session today.
Speaker 5: Snell told me that he will not throw to hitters
Speaker 5: until after the Dodgers return from this upcoming road trip,
Speaker 5: So he's gonna stay back, but he's expected to throw
Speaker 5: the hitters. When the Dodgers returned from their first road
Speaker 5: trip of the season, and Dave Roberts made it very
Speaker 5: clear that they're not expecting Snail to come back until
Speaker 5: the middle or end of May, and look, that's just
Speaker 5: the reality of it. He may not like it, but
Speaker 5: you can't skip steps. The Dodgers want him to come
Speaker 5: back and never look back.
Speaker 3: David, I saw you on social media standing next to
Speaker 3: a guy on the field.
Speaker 4: You're taller than this guy.
Speaker 1: Who is it.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's Alabama quarterback Ty Simpson, who is eligible for
Speaker 5: the NFL Draft. He's in town and Dave Roberts has
Speaker 5: become very friendly with the Alabama football coach, so he
Speaker 5: found out that Ty Simpson was in town and wanted
Speaker 5: to invite him to his very first Dodger game. Simpson
Speaker 5: actually told me Tim I had a chance to visit
Speaker 5: with him. He told me he's a huge baseball fan.
Speaker 5: He grew up in the Nashville area and actually played
Speaker 5: on the same travel ball team that Mookie Betts played on.
Speaker 5: Obviously there's an age difference, but that travel team and
Speaker 5: the coach was the same as when Mookie Betts played
Speaker 5: on it, and he also told me he wanted to
Speaker 5: continue the baseball dream at Alabama, but Nick Saban told him,
Speaker 5: no chance. You are the quarterback for Bama. You are
Speaker 5: not pursuing your baseball dreams. He told me he was
Speaker 5: a shortstop and outfielder and was a big enough fan
Speaker 5: growing up out there in Nashville. He followed LSU and
Speaker 5: Vanderbilt College baseball. He actually went to the Dansby Swanson
Speaker 5: baseball clinic when he was a young kid. So Ty
Speaker 5: Simpson a big baseball fan and a special guest of
Speaker 5: Dave Roberts.
Speaker 6: Tonight.
Speaker 3: Who knows, maybe he's wearing a Rams uniform next year,
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Speaker 6: I would love him part of the ramilly for sure.
Speaker 6: Bring him home. I let him know too.
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Speaker 6: A rare Sunday day off.
Speaker 5: I think Rick Monday had some bass say with drawls yesterday.
Speaker 9: No, take a couple of days off. We'll get back
Speaker 9: to you.
Speaker 6: So you know what is nice?
Speaker 9: You know the players received their rings. All of the
Speaker 9: front office and the coaching staff and the training staff
Speaker 9: clubhouse they got their rings yesterday and then the rest
Speaker 9: of us Gunnar's today, and it's a big, big deal.
Speaker 9: From an organizational standpoint, yes, it's a lot of blame,
Speaker 9: but I think more than that, it really shows the
Speaker 9: commitment to this organization has had over the years, the
Speaker 9: investment that they've had on top of it, and the
Speaker 9: expectations that they had, not just within the community expectations,
Speaker 9: but the organization as well. And it's over and above
Speaker 9: what you see. You know, every night we come into
Speaker 9: the ballpark and we leave reality at the gate. I
Speaker 9: was just telling a group down the right field line
Speaker 9: about twenty minutes ago. I said, that's the good news.
Speaker 9: So you leave reality to the gate. Unfortunate, We're going
Speaker 9: to give it back to you when you leave the ballpark.
Speaker 9: But during that time, it's kind of a kind of
Speaker 9: a respite from reality.
Speaker 10: When we're here at the ballpark.
Speaker 5: Well, tonight, the Dodgers are coming off a sweep of
Speaker 5: the Diamondbacks and they did it from come from behind
Speaker 5: fashion in all three games, all.
Speaker 10: Three of them.
Speaker 9: And if we start to look at different things too,
Speaker 9: how about the bullpen. I mean the bullpen. You know,
Speaker 9: I can't say it's unheralded, but if you look at
Speaker 9: the fact that the bullpen itself has not given up
Speaker 9: a run to this particular point. Now, that's not going
Speaker 9: to continue on obviously, but I think it shows that,
Speaker 9: you know, sometimes it takes a bit of time for
Speaker 9: everybody to understand their roles in the bullpen. This is
Speaker 9: a group to kind of feed off one another to.
Speaker 10: This particular point.
Speaker 9: Yes, the success of the past helps they understand one
Speaker 9: another exceptionally.
Speaker 10: Well, there's not too many.
Speaker 9: New faces down there except for Diaz really, and you know,
Speaker 9: he's been trumpeting all the way into the stadium and
Speaker 9: that's kind of a kind of a neat situation when
Speaker 9: he comes in now because it catches everybody by surprise,
Speaker 9: including Edwin Diaz. He did not realize that the Dodgers
Speaker 9: are going to have a live trumpet player play his
Speaker 9: interest music when he came out of the bullpen.
Speaker 5: Yes, a young Tatiana Tate from Long Beach has been
Speaker 5: brought into a company Edwin Diaz's entrance. But Rick, when
Speaker 5: you talk about Edwin Diaz, to me, there's that feel
Speaker 5: again that the Dodgers haven't had since Kenley Jansen was here,
Speaker 5: that the ninth inning is very secure.
Speaker 9: The other part, too, is that Charlie Stein and I
Speaker 9: were talking about this earlier today. Is that everything that
Speaker 9: he throws seem to have movement. I would assume that
Speaker 9: the movement is something that he designs himself and knows
Speaker 9: ahead of time. Is a different pressure points that he
Speaker 9: makes on the baseball itself. By that, maybe one pitch
Speaker 9: a little bit more pressure with the index finger, next pitch,
Speaker 9: maybe a little bit more the pressure with the middle finger.
Speaker 9: But everything that he throws seem to have great deal
Speaker 9: of movement. And by the way, he also has a
Speaker 9: pretty good idea of what he's doing before he releases
Speaker 9: the baseball.
Speaker 5: And the ninth inning isn't made for everybody, reck I'm
Speaker 5: sure you've seen that over the years.
Speaker 9: Yeah, and there's some guys that don't. He has expectations too,
Speaker 9: I mean, he wants to be able to have the
Speaker 9: baseball when the game's on the line. By the way,
Speaker 9: the ABS system, if we look at the opening series
Speaker 9: around Major League Baseball, one hundred and seventy five challenges,
Speaker 9: fifty three point seven percent success rate in those challenges,
Speaker 9: and here's the breakdown. How many teams that we heard
Speaker 9: in spring training, well, we're not going to have the
Speaker 9: pitcher be able to challenge. We don't want the pitcher
Speaker 9: to challenge on a call that they think is a strike. Well,
Speaker 9: pitchers have only challenged five they've been successful in just
Speaker 9: two of those five hitters. They're at forty three plus percent.
Speaker 9: And the catchers, by and large, this is not a surprise.
Speaker 9: We figured their number would be higher. Sixty four percent
Speaker 9: of the challenges by catchers they had been reversed. And
Speaker 9: we've seen some umpires they've had some difficulty. I'm not
Speaker 9: going to mention the umpire's name, but one was challenged,
Speaker 9: was it yesterday? Lost six out of eight challenges, and
Speaker 9: that's something you know, that's for the umpires to worry about.
Speaker 9: It from a hitter, pitcher and catcher just worry about
Speaker 9: what affects you at that particular moment.
Speaker 5: Well, Will Smith has the night off tonight, but we're
Speaker 5: going to talk to him about the abs and his
Speaker 5: experience the first series of the season so when it
Speaker 5: is to be bought on. Yeah, yeah, he's been good.
Speaker 5: He told me in spring. The pitchers have enough to
Speaker 5: worry about all handle the challenges well.
Speaker 9: Especially too, because pictures are still off palaced. I mean,
Speaker 9: they're just throwing a pitch, they go into the defensive
Speaker 9: mode as soon as they release the ball, and many
Speaker 9: of them falling off to one side.
Speaker 10: Or the other.
Speaker 9: They don't really get a clear shot of what's happening.
Speaker 9: I've said this before interview. It pitches lead. The strike
Speaker 9: zone is from here to the to the curvature of
Speaker 9: the earth.
Speaker 6: Well, you got one hundred percent right on this.
Speaker 9: Teste, just like you walking into the boot table.
Speaker 6: Thanks a lot. We'll send it back in the studio, Tim, all.
Speaker 4: Right, thanks a lot, guys.
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Speaker 6: It was a great birthday for Will Smith.
Speaker 5: Last time we saw him on Sunday, the Babblehead Night,
Speaker 5: the go ahead to run home run and of course
Speaker 5: the family out here to witness dad do his thing.
Speaker 5: Three time World Series champion Will Smith joins us. Thanks
Speaker 5: a lot for the time, appreciate.
Speaker 10: It, of course, Dave, thanks for having me on.
Speaker 5: So, I guess days off are not really days off
Speaker 5: for you. You had to kind of walk Dalton rushing
Speaker 5: through some some things for tonight's game.
Speaker 10: I guess, yeah, what do you what do you mean
Speaker 10: what I have to walk them through?
Speaker 5: Well, don't you help him with the game planning first
Speaker 5: start of the season.
Speaker 10: Yeah, I know, we already talked.
Speaker 13: We talked through some stuff, tragging the same page, talk to,
Speaker 13: you know, talk about these guys and you know, hopefully
Speaker 13: get rookie up to go start tonight.
Speaker 5: After another clutch home run the other day, I started
Speaker 5: to look back at some of the moments you had
Speaker 5: in your career. Is it hard to believe now you've
Speaker 5: been in the league since twenty nineteen, it feels like
Speaker 5: yesterday you were here following the team around in twenty eighteen.
Speaker 13: Yeah, No, it's it's yeah, it's been it's felt like
Speaker 13: a long you know, seven years now, I guess.
Speaker 10: But also it's kind of flies.
Speaker 6: By to.
Speaker 10: Yeah, just just grateful to be with the Dodgers.
Speaker 13: You know, we've been competitor every year, making the postseason
Speaker 13: every year, one a few World Series.
Speaker 10: Yeah, it's gone.
Speaker 13: It's gone really well, and you know, just couldn't be
Speaker 13: We're happy and you know, grateful to be here.
Speaker 5: Was that thirty first birthday maybe the most memorable birthday
Speaker 5: you've ever had.
Speaker 13: Yeah, probably it's most recent, so it's definitely the most
Speaker 13: memorial at this point.
Speaker 10: Yeah.
Speaker 5: I can't think of another birthday where you had your
Speaker 5: Bobblehead night and you're able to do what you've done
Speaker 5: so many times and help the Dodgers win a game.
Speaker 10: Yeah. Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 13: Usually, you know, sometimes the season hasn't even started yet,
Speaker 13: so uh yeah, that was That was a fun one.
Speaker 10: The other day.
Speaker 5: What was this story that Dave Roberts was talking about
Speaker 5: how he wanted to give you Sunday off, but you
Speaker 5: convinced him to play you. Is that accurate assessment of
Speaker 5: the way it went down?
Speaker 1: Uh?
Speaker 13: Yeah, yeah, I think, you know, it's still early the year.
Speaker 13: I feel feel good, you know, I think, you know,
Speaker 13: his mindset, front office mindset or whatever is always kind
Speaker 13: of like just slow play it, you know, build back up.
Speaker 13: But uh yeah, I felt good. Just felt like I
Speaker 13: needed to let him know that, you know, I was
Speaker 13: kind of just joking around. I wasn't really like totally
Speaker 13: like fighting, like I need to be in there, but
Speaker 13: I kind of like, you know, always I wanted.
Speaker 10: To be in there every game.
Speaker 13: Uh And I remember last year I didn't play my bibblehead,
Speaker 13: and I remember giving him some grief about that and stuff,
Speaker 13: but uh yeah, pulled that card. He let me in there,
Speaker 13: and uh turned out all right.
Speaker 5: I guess when his starting catcher is invited to go
Speaker 5: to Augusta with him, you got some pool with the manager.
Speaker 10: Right, yep, that'll help for sure.
Speaker 5: So your golf game is almost as legendary as your
Speaker 5: dramatic home runs late in games. What what was that
Speaker 5: like going to Augusta with Dave Roberts.
Speaker 13: It was that was an amazing three days. You know,
Speaker 13: Mookie came with us. You know, Uh, our host was incredible,
Speaker 13: it was.
Speaker 10: It was awesome.
Speaker 13: You know, the courses in such good shape. It was
Speaker 13: so much fun to you know, play it. You know,
Speaker 13: I've seen the tournament so many times and different holes
Speaker 13: and different shots and like.
Speaker 10: Oh that's where that was, That's where that was.
Speaker 13: You know, we looked out with the weather, got to
Speaker 13: see kind of the whole every facility in the grounds
Speaker 13: and all that and kind of everything that goes on there.
Speaker 13: It was, you know, it's just a special place and uh,
Speaker 13: you know, just just Cloud was able to go at
Speaker 13: least once and hopefully, you know, some point in the future,
Speaker 13: could go again.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that place is tough to even cover as a
Speaker 5: media member. There's a lottery to be drawn. Could you
Speaker 5: ever imagine that you'd be playing golf where Tiger Woods
Speaker 5: is one of the Masters.
Speaker 13: Yeah, that's you know, that's one of those dream courses,
Speaker 13: you know, the bucket list course. You want to play,
Speaker 13: You want to you want to see what it's all about.
Speaker 13: You want to, you know, at least just go to
Speaker 13: the Masters and watch the tournament even and I know
Speaker 13: I'll do that at some point, you know, after baseball
Speaker 13: because that's in April.
Speaker 10: But yeah, it was. It was just really cool. It's
Speaker 10: kind of surreal, you know, it's incredible, you.
Speaker 13: Know, the level of like, uh, you know, care they
Speaker 13: put into every single thing, every single little detail is
Speaker 13: is the best of the best, you know, from from
Speaker 13: their bushes and stuff to their landscaping to the buildings
Speaker 13: to just the service. The people are so nice there
Speaker 13: and so like, uh just welcoming and everything.
Speaker 10: It was. It was really cool.
Speaker 5: So can you share with all the golfers out there?
Speaker 5: How Will Smith shot at Augusta.
Speaker 10: The first day was bad. I don't know what I
Speaker 10: was doing.
Speaker 13: The second day was better, but moo and MOOKI and
Speaker 13: I'd beat up on docks, so that's all that mattered.
Speaker 1: Yeah, not surprising.
Speaker 5: Will Smith is our guest three time World Series champion.
Speaker 5: There's been a lot of talk now after the first
Speaker 5: week of the season about the ABS and how it's
Speaker 5: gone so far, and now we're seeing percentages. From your standpoint,
Speaker 5: both as a hitter and a catcher, how has it
Speaker 5: gone in for the first time experiencing it in games
Speaker 5: that matter.
Speaker 13: Yeah, it's it's it's gone well, you know, I don't
Speaker 13: I don't know. I think it's good for the game,
Speaker 13: you know. I think, honestly, the best part about it
Speaker 13: is I think the umpires are more locked in.
Speaker 10: Just from the get go, you know, just.
Speaker 13: To spring training. I think, you know, there were a
Speaker 13: lot less overturned calls because they were they were locked in.
Speaker 13: That's that's the most important thing, is, you know, just
Speaker 13: getting the call right and you know they're they're trying
Speaker 13: to do their best too. They get that instant feedback,
Speaker 13: which is great, you know, for the rest of the game.
Speaker 13: So I think it's I think it's a good thing.
Speaker 13: I think we've handled it pretty well. You got a
Speaker 13: couple of calls go our way using the right situations.
Speaker 13: So it's just been good. It's still kind of learning
Speaker 13: process and learning different situations and all that stuff, But
Speaker 13: overall you've been pretty good as so far.
Speaker 6: I know you're always in the moment.
Speaker 5: You got the Guardians starting tonight, but ever since the
Speaker 5: schedule came out, it's hard to ignore that your first
Speaker 5: road trip is taking you to Toronto, the scene of
Speaker 5: where you guys dramatically came back to win the World Series.
Speaker 5: Any concern over customs the Mounties when you go back
Speaker 5: across the border.
Speaker 10: No, no, I'm not concerned.
Speaker 13: I was asked the other day if I was actually banned.
Speaker 13: That was that one kind of threw me for a
Speaker 13: loop thinking it was real.
Speaker 5: But you did a whole commercial promoting your babblehead going
Speaker 5: through the security line.
Speaker 13: I know that was that was that turned out better
Speaker 13: than I thought. That was pretty good. That was a
Speaker 13: good a good script. I didn't I didn't have any
Speaker 13: part of that other than just kind of reading the lines.
Speaker 10: But that was good. But no, it'd be fun.
Speaker 13: I know they're gonna want a little payback on us,
Speaker 13: so it should be. It should be a good series.
Speaker 13: You know they're they're a really good team again this year,
Speaker 13: so it should be you know, fun fun were there.
Speaker 5: All right, So no concerns over Canadian TSA stopping you
Speaker 5: a little longer. You and Rojas, you guys have some
Speaker 5: targets on your back when you go through TSA.
Speaker 10: Yeah, yeah, we'll see.
Speaker 13: Maybe it'll be longer, but now it should be fine.
Speaker 5: Thanks a lot for the time. Congratulations on a great birthday.
Speaker 5: Congratulations on helping the Dodgers win the World Series and
Speaker 5: keep it going.
Speaker 10: Yep, thank you.
Speaker 6: There he goes Will Smith.
Speaker 5: He has his birthday on Sunday and a belated birthday
Speaker 5: gift talking to me today, So the birthday just keeps going, right, Will, sure, Sure, we'll.
Speaker 6: Send it back to in the studio.
Speaker 1: Tim, all right, thanks a lot.
Speaker 3: DV leaning you out to first pitch Dodgers and Guardians
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Speaker 3: Parker Mesek on the mound before the Guardians twenty five
Speaker 3: year old left hander, second round pick of Cleveland in
Speaker 3: twenty twenty two out of Florida State, the Guardian's top
Speaker 3: minor league pitching prospect. He made his big league debut
Speaker 3: last year eight starts, three and one with the two
Speaker 3: seventy two era.
Speaker 4: He's pretty good.
Speaker 3: A fastball in the load of mid nineties, a change up,
Speaker 3: a slider, a sinker on the occasional curve ball. Rookie
Speaker 3: Sasaki goes for the Dodgers. Twenty four year old right
Speaker 3: hand or second year we're in a Dodger uniform. Last
Speaker 3: year limited to ten games eight starts due to a
Speaker 3: right shoulder impingement, but in the postseason came alive as
Speaker 3: the Dodger closer, notch three saves with a sub one
Speaker 3: erra in ten and two third innings in nine games.
Speaker 3: Pitch last October. He was huge for the Dodgers coming
Speaker 3: out of the bullpen. It's been a rough spring though
Speaker 3: for Rookie Sasaki, multiple times pulled and brought back in
Speaker 3: the next inning. You can't do that during the regular season.
Speaker 3: You can in Cactus League games where you had a
Speaker 3: fifteen to fifty eight RRA. Justin Robleski, just in case,
Speaker 3: ready to piggyback Rookie Sasaki if needed. Dodgers and Guardians,
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Speaker 8: All right, moth of the Dodgers, looking for their fourth
Speaker 8: consecutive went out of the gate.
Speaker 6: Of course, they won their first eight.
Speaker 8: Last year on their way to the World Series Championship.
Speaker 8: So tonight Roki Sasaki somewhat of a question because of
Speaker 8: how he fared in spring against the left He solid
Speaker 8: Parker Messik.
Speaker 9: Yeah, I think the big story is going to be
Speaker 9: with Sasaki because in the spring he just did not
Speaker 9: pinch very well at all. One thing that Dave Roberts
Speaker 9: said earlier this afternoon, asked about Sasaki, he said, look,
Speaker 9: we want him to attack the striketh zone, something he
Speaker 9: did not do in spring training. You know, he had
Speaker 9: that shoulder in pingement last year. After a few starts
Speaker 9: he came back in his rehab in Triple A, he
Speaker 9: wasn't finding the striketh zone and then finally said, look
Speaker 9: how about the bullpen. Well, he volunteered to go to
Speaker 9: the bullpen and fared very well in postseason and nine
Speaker 9: appearances in postseason play last year had three saves, two
Speaker 9: holes and that was over ten and two thirds innings.
Speaker 9: That we'll find out tonight how far he can stretch
Speaker 9: things out.
Speaker 8: Parker Messik, a left hander, slow stuff by and large.
Speaker 8: He was three and one last year.
Speaker 9: Yeah, man, but he closed out very well last year
Speaker 9: after getting the call up. In fact, so well his
Speaker 9: era was about two and three quarters. That was over
Speaker 9: seven stars. They got a very good look at him
Speaker 9: and they like what they have seen thus far.
Speaker 8: So it's the Dodgers looking to go four and oh
Speaker 8: to begin the season. The Guardians the first of a
Speaker 8: three game series. Lineups in first pitch.
Speaker 3: Coming up all right, Dodgers three and zero to start
Speaker 3: this season, and all three games against the Diamondbacks they
Speaker 3: fell behind and had to come back and win the game.
Speaker 3: How about getting off to a good start tonight? Give
Speaker 3: Rokie Susaki some run support the Dodgers get their fourth
Speaker 3: win to start this season. Getting you ready for first pitch,
Speaker 3: don't forget after the game is over. David Vassy's got
Speaker 3: you covered with all the postgame festivities, including Dodger Talk
Speaker 3: as well Roki Sasaki and Parker Messek. The pitching matchup
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