Speaker 1: The quest for the three peat has begun.
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Speaker 2: Dodgers finally win a baseball game. Took him long enough.
Speaker 2: They snapped their four game losing streak finally with a
Speaker 2: four oh one win over the Saint Louis Cardinals today
Speaker 2: in Saint Louis. Hi, everybody, and welcome to Dodger Talk.
Speaker 2: Tim Kates with you here for the next thirty minutes
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Speaker 2: give me a follow as the Dodgers in their losing streak.
Speaker 2: With a four to one win, they get some offensive
Speaker 2: hits when they needed him in the second inning from
Speaker 2: Andy Pajes and I Sung Kim, and then Freddie Freeman
Speaker 2: delivering with a two out single in the fifth. Alex
Speaker 2: Call came off the bench in the ninth inning with
Speaker 2: an RBI single to give the Dodgers they much needed
Speaker 2: insurance run to extend their lead to four to one.
Speaker 2: But today it was all about Justin Robleski. Six innings,
Speaker 2: no run, six hits, zero strikeouts. He threw eighty three
Speaker 2: pitches to get the winnings now five to zero. On
Speaker 2: this season, Justin Robleski has made five starts. In those
Speaker 2: five starts, five innings, one run, eight innings, no runs,
Speaker 2: seven innings one earn run, six innings no earn runs.
Speaker 2: Today six innings, no earn runs. He has given up
Speaker 2: two earned runs in thirty two innings of work. Justin Robleski,
Speaker 2: the starter now is a one one five ERA on
Speaker 2: this season. That's overall as a starter, though it's ero
Speaker 2: point five to six as a starter for Justin Roblesky.
Speaker 2: What else does Justin Roblesky need to do to stay
Speaker 2: in this rotation. Nothing. As far as I'm concerned, Justin
Speaker 2: Robleski has earned every right to stay in this rotation
Speaker 2: and stick in the rotation when Blake Snell comes off
Speaker 2: the injured list, and we mentioned in the Clubhouse show
Speaker 2: Blake Snell trending in the right direction as far as
Speaker 2: coming back from the shoulder soreness. Made his third Minor
Speaker 2: league rehab start today, his first in TRIPAA with Oklahoma City.
Speaker 2: They planned round Rock. He went four innings, fifty five pitches,
Speaker 2: gave up a two run home run, but then retired
Speaker 2: seat of the last eleven batters that he faced. He
Speaker 2: is trending in the right direction to return. Looks like
Speaker 2: probably one more start. I would guess maybe he get
Speaker 2: up to about seventy pitches, five innings, six innings, seventy pitches,
Speaker 2: somewhere around there and then come back off the injured list.
Speaker 2: And when he does, the million dollar question has been
Speaker 2: whose spot does he take in the rotation? Is it
Speaker 2: Justin Robleski, is it Roki Sasaki? Is it image Sheian.
Speaker 2: If it was the game of musical chairs, when the
Speaker 2: music runs out and everybody dives for a chair, you've
Speaker 2: got three guys vying for one spot. Who's it gonna be,
Speaker 2: who's out? Who's gonna be the last guy that's gotta
Speaker 2: go probably to the bullpen and be a long reliever. Well,
Speaker 2: my guess is it's probably gonna be Imachian or Roki Sasaki,
Speaker 2: because Justin Robleski has done fantastic as a starter, his eer,
Speaker 2: his strikeout to walk certainly, the five to zero record
Speaker 2: speaks for itself. The way he has become the stopper
Speaker 2: for the Dodgers today, stopping the four game losing streak
Speaker 2: with the six shutout innings and doing it without any
Speaker 2: strikeouts is pretty darn impressive. So if you're to ask
Speaker 2: me here on Sunday, May third, with Blake Snell knocking
Speaker 2: on the door to come back and join this Dodger's rotation,
Speaker 2: whose spot is Blake Snell gonna take? And who's out
Speaker 2: of the rotation, Well, it's down to two guys in
Speaker 2: in my opinion, Roki Sasaki and Image Shean with one
Speaker 2: of whoever is the odd man out is gonna go
Speaker 2: down to the bullpen and become that long reliever. Now,
Speaker 2: David Vase mentioned yesterday on the pregame show in case
Speaker 2: you missed it, a great solution. Blake Snell returns, Imit Shean,
Speaker 2: he said, justin Robleski. But I'm gonna say justin Robleski.
Speaker 2: After today is no doubt earned a spot. Im It
Speaker 2: Sheen goes down to the bullpen, and you make it
Speaker 2: a piggyback tandem start every time for Roki Sasaki, So
Speaker 2: Imit Shean is ready to go, and the leash gets
Speaker 2: a little shorter for Roki Sasaki, who yesterday went out
Speaker 2: got in trouble the first three innings he was out there,
Speaker 2: had traffic on the base pass, was giving up runs.
Speaker 2: But it ended up going out there and pitching and
Speaker 2: giving the Dodgers some length when it was all said
Speaker 2: and done with six innings, giving up the three runs
Speaker 2: on five hits. But if you're moving forward and you
Speaker 2: got to take somebody out of the rotation, my guest
Speaker 2: right now, it's imag Shean, and then Sasaki is the starter.
Speaker 2: But that leash is a little tighter on Sasaki every
Speaker 2: time he makes his start, knowing that imag Shean is
Speaker 2: there to tandem him as the guy out of the
Speaker 2: bullpen to give you long relief if necessary. Eight sixty
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Speaker 2: the phones. Let's check in with Will and long beat
Speaker 2: your first up here on Dodger Talk after the Dodgers
Speaker 2: get a four to one win over the Cardinals. How
Speaker 2: you doing Will?
Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm doing great, brother. Hey, you guys are doing
Speaker 5: a great job over there Dodgers Talk and all this stuff.
Speaker 5: But listen, why did he take the picture off so
Speaker 5: quick like that? He was he had a shutout. He
Speaker 5: doesn't like shutouts or something like that.
Speaker 3: He was a good game.
Speaker 2: I think he likes shutouts, and I appreciate the phone call. Well,
Speaker 2: I think he likes what the Justin Robleski was doing
Speaker 2: out there. But at that point in the game, Will
Speaker 2: Klein comes in Justin Robleski's had eighty three pitches. He
Speaker 2: again had a sixth inning in which he gave up
Speaker 2: a two out single, gets out of it with the
Speaker 2: flyball out to end the six A lot of traffic
Speaker 2: on the base pass, eighty three pitches, another spin through
Speaker 2: the lineup. No Dave Roberts felt like, Hey, I'd rather
Speaker 2: go to a fresh arm, a new looking arm or
Speaker 2: right hander and Will Klein. And Will Klein came out
Speaker 2: in the seventh inning. He took only seven pitches. Hard
Speaker 2: to argue the success that he had in the seventh
Speaker 2: got into trouble with the walk in the eighth inning.
Speaker 2: And that's the dreaded walk that no Dodger or any
Speaker 2: manager wants to see. When you come out of the bullpen,
Speaker 2: throw strikes. That's your job. And with two outs in
Speaker 2: the eighth inning, a walk to Jordan Walker by Will
Speaker 2: Klein came back to bide him on the single from
Speaker 2: Alex Burlson, scoring Walker all the way from first as
Speaker 2: he was going on the play. Gave the Cardinals one
Speaker 2: and only run. Blake Tridon came in and got the
Speaker 2: one pitch one out in the eighth inning, but hard
Speaker 2: to argue with the success of Justin Robleski through the
Speaker 2: six innings. I have no problem with Dave Roberts saying
Speaker 2: eighty three pitches traffic on the base pass and fixed
Speaker 2: five to the six innings. This Cardinals team, you know,
Speaker 2: has scored runs the first two games of this series.
Speaker 2: You've lost the first two games to the Cardinals. Why
Speaker 2: not go to the Will Cline. I had no problem
Speaker 2: with him going to the Dodger reliever in that situation.
Speaker 2: Let's go to Maxwell in Austin, Texas, who was at
Speaker 2: Blake Snell's rehab start today. All right, Maxwell, what did
Speaker 2: you see?
Speaker 6: Well, I just saw Mike blake Snell was sitting. I
Speaker 6: mean Blake Snell was pitching when that was he was
Speaker 6: dowing sixty pitches and first at that was boom, a
Speaker 6: home run, and he was nasty and with guys like
Speaker 6: Justin Ribleski, Andy PAHs Don rushing.
Speaker 5: His own, Kim and.
Speaker 6: Alex Freeland all showing the system's depth today.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the depth is on full stage for this Dodger's team,
Speaker 2: no doubt about it. Maxwell, appreciate it. Thanks for the
Speaker 2: live report there from Texas As. Blake Snell made in
Speaker 2: a triple A appearance in Round Rock, Texas with the
Speaker 2: Oklahoma City Comments in triple A four innings, two runs,
Speaker 2: two hits, four strikeouts, a walk. He threw fifty five pitches.
Speaker 2: He gave up an early two run home run, but
Speaker 2: then retired ten of the next eleven batters that he
Speaker 2: faced today and looked pretty good as he got a
Speaker 2: little momentum going. He retired the side in order in
Speaker 2: the second inning, picking up two more strikeouts in the inning,
Speaker 2: and is well on his to four strikeouts in the
Speaker 2: four innings of work. Again, fifty five pitches. You gotta
Speaker 2: believe probably one more start underneath his belt, no matter
Speaker 2: what level that's at, we'll probably see Blake Snell then
Speaker 2: called back up and activated on the twenty six man
Speaker 2: roster after one more start. And again that is gonna
Speaker 2: be the big question. Who is out of the rotation
Speaker 2: for the Dodgers. And again, things seem to always work
Speaker 2: themselves out. Maybe an I L stend, whatever the case
Speaker 2: may be, somebody's got some fatigue in the arm. Who
Speaker 2: knows things always seem to work out Just when we
Speaker 2: start to worry, or we start to speculate, or we
Speaker 2: start to think what's this going to look like? Something
Speaker 2: happens the next thing, you know, that worry that debates
Speaker 2: that question of what they're gonna do with that roster
Speaker 2: spot works itself out, But for the time being, it'll
Speaker 2: be interesting to see which one of the Dodger starters
Speaker 2: currently in the rotation is taken out of the rotation
Speaker 2: when Blake Snell is coming off the injured list. Eight six, six,
Speaker 2: nine eighty seven, two five seventy is the number, Gil
Speaker 2: San Diego, thanks for being patient on this Sunday afternoon
Speaker 2: after the Dodgers beat the Cardinals four to one in
Speaker 2: Saint Louis, HOI you doing, Gil, Thanks.
Speaker 3: For taking my call to Tim. Two things, uh, First
Speaker 3: is what does Kim have to do to see in
Speaker 3: the lineup? He goes two for two today, you know,
Speaker 3: and then he gets kicking out. And then number two
Speaker 3: related to that is what's gonna happen when Mooki comes back.
Speaker 3: I mean you're talking about with the pitching staff. I
Speaker 3: mean it just seems like from what it was like,
Speaker 3: Kim might be put back down again, and so yeah,
Speaker 3: it's just it's just hard to see that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's that's a tough one for me Gil that
Speaker 2: that is a hard conversation if you're Dave Roberts, Andy
Speaker 2: free or Andrew Freeman, you know, having to go to
Speaker 2: Hi Sun Kim and say, hey, you guys, send you
Speaker 2: back down to Triple I. I I don't see that
Speaker 2: being the case. My guess would be Alex Freeland is
Speaker 2: going to be the odd man out when Mookie Betts
Speaker 2: comes back off the injury list with the oblique strain.
Speaker 2: But you know what, we are closer to seeing the
Speaker 2: return of Snell than we are to see in the
Speaker 2: return of Mookie Betts based on where he's at, what
Speaker 2: he's doing with baseball activities. It was just what earlier
Speaker 2: this week he was talking about, you know, still a
Speaker 2: little bit of soortness, uh in baseball activities. So you know,
Speaker 2: I'm not a doctor, but I'm gonna play one real
Speaker 2: quick here on Dodger Talk. My guess is he's at
Speaker 2: least a few weeks away, if not more, to coming
Speaker 2: off the and at this point there's no need for
Speaker 2: him to return with a sense of urgency or come
Speaker 2: back quicker than he needs to get one hundred percent right.
Speaker 2: Make sure there is no more swelling, no more soreness,
Speaker 2: no more aching and that oblique and come back when
Speaker 2: you're ready, and you're good to go for the rest
Speaker 2: of this season. Because at this point, the Dodgers are
Speaker 2: a twenty one win team. You know, this is a
Speaker 2: Dodgers team that is in first place in the division.
Speaker 2: This is a Dodgers team that doesn't have to worry about,
Speaker 2: you know, getting Mookie Bets back because we need him
Speaker 2: so bad to stir our offense every day and to
Speaker 2: be our defensive catalyst at shortstop. They've gotten away with
Speaker 2: not having him already for a majority of the season
Speaker 2: with the old league strain, they can afford to have
Speaker 2: him out for a little bit longer. And again, not
Speaker 2: a doctor, but based on where he's at and looking
Speaker 2: at the fact that he still needs to go on
Speaker 2: a minor league rehab assignment and playing some games and
Speaker 2: get some innings and at bats underneath his belt, even
Speaker 2: that feels like it's at least a few weeks away,
Speaker 2: if not longer. So I don't think it's anytime soon
Speaker 2: that Mookie Betts comes back. So we don't have to
Speaker 2: have that conversation quite yet, but certainly when that comes up,
Speaker 2: it's gonna be hard to tell. Haysung Kim, great defense,
Speaker 2: great job at the bottom of the order, but you're
Speaker 2: going back to triple A. I would imagine that conversation
Speaker 2: is going to be more with Alex Freeland than it
Speaker 2: would be with Haisung Kim. Eighty six six, nine, eighty
Speaker 2: seven two five seventy is the number as the Dodgers
Speaker 2: get the four to one win over the Saint Louis Cardinals.
Speaker 2: No more, no home runs today for the Dodgers. How
Speaker 2: about that six straight games The Dodgers have not hit
Speaker 2: a home run. The longest streak with a home run
Speaker 2: before that eight games back in twenty fourteen, So the
Speaker 2: Dodgers now six straight games without the long ball. Andy
Speaker 2: Pot has an RBI double and then RBI singles from Kim,
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Speaker 5: How you doing, I'm saying, good tim How about yourself?
Speaker 2: I'm doing great. I got Zach and Colin here in studio,
Speaker 2: just hanging out, talk a little Dodgers baseball.
Speaker 5: Yeah, so I want to talk about Sasaki. Everybody knows
Speaker 5: that he's been struggling. Lady, He's not the same Tasaki
Speaker 5: that we saw during the postseason. So one of the
Speaker 5: honest that he's out man out and he can send
Speaker 5: down to the miners get more experienced to see.
Speaker 2: That could be one of the options. That could be
Speaker 2: one of the options. Brian. I think by the time
Speaker 2: Blake Snell gets back and we have to have this
Speaker 2: discussion with somebody in the Dodger starring rotation, that little
Speaker 2: long longer be there. You're looking at probably two more
Speaker 2: starts for Roki Sasaki. I mean he's made now six
Speaker 2: on the season, and you look at what he's done
Speaker 2: in the last you know, five starts, six earned runs,
Speaker 2: two earned runs, three earn runs four earned runs yesterday,
Speaker 2: three earned runs over six innings. Gave up the three early,
Speaker 2: bounced back and pitched well in the final three innings
Speaker 2: of his outing yesterday, but still got tagged with the loss.
Speaker 2: You could you see the potential. He's twenty four years old,
Speaker 2: And I think it's a great point to bring up
Speaker 2: the fact that the comparisons to Yoshinobu Yamamoto in Roki Sasaki, Well,
Speaker 2: Yamamoto comes over, gets all this money, and is you
Speaker 2: know it looked about as a as one of the
Speaker 2: best pitchers in baseball, and look what he's done, you know,
Speaker 2: the MVP of the World Series. And well, isn't rookie
Speaker 2: Sazaki supposed to be the same. Well, the little younger
Speaker 2: than Yamamodo, he wasn't as established or as decorated for
Speaker 2: what he did over in Japan because he's still such
Speaker 2: a young pitcher, just twenty four years old. He comes over,
Speaker 2: you know, at the age of twenty two to play
Speaker 2: for the Dodgers. Now he's twenty four, doesn't have a
Speaker 2: lot of starts underneath his belt. Last year he had
Speaker 2: the up and down season. The injury was a big
Speaker 2: part of it. We saw what he was able to
Speaker 2: do in October and everybody got excited and everybody was like, wow,
Speaker 2: this is something special. And once he goes back to
Speaker 2: a starter, we're gonna just see this dominance all the time.
Speaker 2: Hasn't panned out this year. He's been up and down.
Speaker 2: He's shown some brilliance in some innings, and then there's
Speaker 2: been innings they just completely get away from him and
Speaker 2: he's got zero control of any of his pitches. So
Speaker 2: I don't think it's time to pull the plug on
Speaker 2: him by any means. John Smoltz said this on Fox
Speaker 2: yesterday that he is oozing with talent, and everybody wants
Speaker 2: to be so quick to say, well, it's not working,
Speaker 2: it's not what's wrong, what's wrong? How do we fix it?
Speaker 2: He just needs to mature a little bit. He just
Speaker 2: needs to, you know, to marinate, so to speak. And
Speaker 2: if that marination means more starts in Triple A or
Speaker 2: more starts at the big league level, but justin Robleski
Speaker 2: or image Shean's there to back them up in a
Speaker 2: tandem situation, then that's the scenario. I don't know which
Speaker 2: direction they go. I think it's going to be a
Speaker 2: fascinating decision when Blake Snell does come off the injured list,
Speaker 2: And it's something we've been talking about and whispering about
Speaker 2: for the last two weeks or so and every start
Speaker 2: that goes by between She and Sasaki and Robleski. Out
Speaker 2: of the three, Robleski's the one that's at the top
Speaker 2: of the list, and like, hard to take this guy
Speaker 2: out of the rotation. You know, you can make an
Speaker 2: argument for Sasaki and Shean not being the rotation anymore.
Speaker 2: You can certainly make a case for a Sasaki, you know,
Speaker 2: maybe going back to the bullpen she and being the
Speaker 2: tandem guy, the bulkating guy behind the Sasaki. There's there's
Speaker 2: different avenues that they can take. I just cannot wait
Speaker 2: to see which is the decision they go to. Without
Speaker 2: all being said, all these guys are going to be
Speaker 2: asked to be a part of this team in a
Speaker 2: big way all season long, and their roles are going
Speaker 2: to be asked to be big all season long, no
Speaker 2: matter that as a starter or a leiever, a bull
Speaker 2: geting guy in the rotation, out of the rotation. It's
Speaker 2: a long season. Folks, were just now at May third
Speaker 2: and things happen, Injuries happens, ups and downs, the seasons happened.
Speaker 2: That's all going to come into factor here in twenty
Speaker 2: twenty six. But without a doubt all these guys were
Speaker 2: talking about in the rotation. You know, the log jam
Speaker 2: is starting pitching is a first world problem, I guess
Speaker 2: is what you would say around Major League Baseball, because
Speaker 2: there are number of teams that don't even have enough
Speaker 2: starting pitching or caliber starters like the Dodgers have. So
Speaker 2: what they have is a first world problem, a good
Speaker 2: problem to have, and certainly shows the depth of this organization.
Speaker 2: It's only going to get deeper when you get you know,
Speaker 2: a Bruce dar Gratterol who made a minor league rehab
Speaker 2: assignment outing last night, his first in two years. You
Speaker 2: know you're gonna get back of Brock Stewart off the
Speaker 2: end list here very shortly. Where does he slot into
Speaker 2: the bullpen? Which arm? And the bullpen is then gonna
Speaker 2: be the odd man out. So these are good problems
Speaker 2: to have, but no doubt. Keep in mind, it's May,
Speaker 2: and just because a guy is taking out of the
Speaker 2: rotation in May doesn't mean he'll be back in the
Speaker 2: rotation in June or is not going to be a
Speaker 2: huge factor for this Dodgers team the second half of
Speaker 2: the season and come October, Because without a doubt, all
Speaker 2: these guys are going to be counted on in whatever
Speaker 2: capacity to help out this Dodgers team. Eight six six
Speaker 2: nine eight seven two five seven. Let's take a quick
Speaker 2: time out. We'll come back, we'll reset, We'll get to
Speaker 2: more phone calls. Appreciate you being with us here on
Speaker 2: this Sunday afternoon. Tim kates with you here on postgame
Speaker 2: Dodger Talk as the Dodgers beat the Cardinals four to
Speaker 2: one behind Justin Roldbleski's six shutout innings. He's now five
Speaker 2: to zero on this season. Lowers is era to one
Speaker 2: point twenty five overall as the Dodgers snap their four
Speaker 2: game losing streak. Most importantly, now it's off the Houston
Speaker 2: for a three game series against the Ashows your phone calls.
Speaker 2: We'll hear from the manager, Dave Roberts as well when
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Speaker 2: the Dodgers beat the Cardinals four to one in Saint
Speaker 2: Louis Justin Robleski six shutout innings. Tenor Scott got his
Speaker 2: second save of this season, pitching a one two three
Speaker 2: ninth inning for the Dodgers, who improved a twenty one
Speaker 2: and three overall, and they get the win. Being their
Speaker 2: former teammate Dustin May, he got his World Series ring
Speaker 2: on Friday night and then he got a hung with
Speaker 2: the loss on Sunday by the Dodgers. He allowed three
Speaker 2: runs on seven hits over six innings in his first
Speaker 2: start against his former team that drafted him way back
Speaker 2: win and came up into the major leagues seven plus
Speaker 2: seasons with the Dodgers. They traded him to the Red
Speaker 2: Sox last year at the trade deadline, and it comes
Speaker 2: back today with six innings against the Dodgers. But the
Speaker 2: Dodgers get the victory. Saint Louis has their six game
Speaker 2: winning streak come to an end, and they do it
Speaker 2: again without hitting a home run for their sixth straight game.
Speaker 2: The Dodgers saw show Hey Otani go oh for three
Speaker 2: today with a walk and a hit by pitch from
Speaker 2: Justin Brule, the former Dodger, in the seventh inning. Otani
Speaker 2: oh for fourteen in his last four games, his longest
Speaker 2: hitless streak since going five games without a hit as
Speaker 2: a member of the Angels in May of twenty twenty two.
Speaker 2: So the Dodgers win despite no production at the plate
Speaker 2: from Show Hey Otani. Freddie Freeman a two hour RBI
Speaker 2: single up the middle of the fifth put the Dodgers
Speaker 2: up three to nothing, and then Alex Call with the
Speaker 2: pinch hit RBI single in the ninth inning. The Dodgers
Speaker 2: get the win to salvage the series in Saint Louis.
Speaker 2: Now it's off to Houston. Yoshinobu Yamamoto will get the
Speaker 2: start in the series opener. Show he Otani will go
Speaker 2: on Tuesday. Tyler Glass now scheduled to go on Wednesday.
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Speaker 2: Mark of a fighter and go to Colorado and my
Speaker 2: guy Blake checks in here on Dodger Talk on this
Speaker 2: Sunday afternoon. What's going on, Blake.
Speaker 6: I'm really glad that don get a win today.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they did so without hitting a home run, no
Speaker 2: strikeouts from Justin Robleski, Blake, what do you do when
Speaker 2: Blake Snell comes back into this rotation off the injured list?
Speaker 2: Who's no longer in the rotation?
Speaker 7: I would say, sank wokee to talking down to tri
Speaker 7: A Blade. He hasn't had a good Kay, She's not
Speaker 7: doing great right now.
Speaker 2: I've just though, Yeah, you gotta wonder if a send
Speaker 2: down to Triple A is the answer, or maybe he
Speaker 2: and an Image, she and you know, become a tandem
Speaker 2: and moving forward, Sasaki gets to start and we see
Speaker 2: how long you could go the least gets a little shorter.
Speaker 2: Blake and you got Image. Sheen to be a bulkeanning guy.
Speaker 2: Both of them deserve to be in the rotation, no
Speaker 2: doubt about it. Both have pitched well. But with Blake
Speaker 2: Snell coming back, you gotta make a decision, and it's
Speaker 2: a hard it's a hard decision to tell Justin Robleski sorry,
Speaker 2: you're five and zero. You got one of the top
Speaker 2: three e ras in baseball the first six weeks of
Speaker 2: the season, but you're no longer in the rotation. I
Speaker 2: just I can't see that happening, Blake.
Speaker 7: No, No, he's been good.
Speaker 4: He's been good for us. And with like Tommy Edmond
Speaker 4: and Kik coming back, who's gonna have a good season?
Speaker 8: Oh?
Speaker 2: I mean they're already in first place and they're doing
Speaker 2: so with those guys you mentioned on the injured list, No,
Speaker 2: Blake Snell, a bullpen that's got a lot of arms
Speaker 2: still on the men that will come back and help
Speaker 2: out at some point. And you again no Mookie Bets
Speaker 2: for the better part of this season out with the
Speaker 2: obleaque injury. This is this shows you, Blake, just how
Speaker 2: deep this team it is, right, Just how how many
Speaker 2: guys it takes to contribute, and how good the Dodgers
Speaker 2: are compared to everybody else. Yeah, all right, my man,
Speaker 2: Everything good with you outside of baseball?
Speaker 6: Yeah? All right?
Speaker 2: You have any plans this summer? A you're gonna go
Speaker 2: on any trips?
Speaker 9: Not yet yet.
Speaker 7: I'll let you know.
Speaker 2: Please do because last year you went on those great trips. Uh,
Speaker 2: to see the Dodgers play on the road and see
Speaker 2: them in different ballparks around the country. So uh, maybe
Speaker 2: you get back out on the road. Either way. Great
Speaker 2: to hear your voice, Blake, and we'll talk soon.
Speaker 3: Be back.
Speaker 2: I'll be back later and during the week. How about that?
Speaker 7: Okay, talk to you when.
Speaker 2: I think so. We'll talk to you then, Blake. Good
Speaker 2: to hear from you, my man. That opens up a line.
Speaker 2: It ain't sick six nine seventy Daniel in Long Beaches
Speaker 2: next up here on Dodger Talk after a Dodgers four
Speaker 2: to one win over the Saint Louis Cardinals to snap
Speaker 2: their four game losing streak. How are you doing there, Daniel,
Speaker 2: I'm doing great.
Speaker 3: How are you?
Speaker 2: I'm doing great? Dodgers get the win, Justin Robleski's a
Speaker 2: stud and the Dodgers are still in first place.
Speaker 8: That's right, man, Yeah, it looks great today. So I
Speaker 8: got a question about two players for you who are
Speaker 8: in the organization. Two young guys who seem to have
Speaker 8: had all the potential at some point, you know, during
Speaker 8: their careers, and guys Gavin Stone. I'm curious, do you
Speaker 8: think he's gonna get some runway as a starter this year.
Speaker 8: And Bobby Miller, you know, a guy that's in the organization.
Speaker 8: It seems like they may have missed the boat to
Speaker 8: trade him at some point, but he's still with the team.
Speaker 8: I'm not sure what its value is at this point,
Speaker 8: but do you think he's going to be up with
Speaker 8: the big league team at any point during this year?
Speaker 2: Appreciate it, thanks for checking in. Bobby Miller and Gavin
Speaker 2: Stone both not really pitching right now, and Gavin Stone
Speaker 2: gave it a try in spring training. Gavin Stone had
Speaker 2: a setback with his shoulder and is still just kind
Speaker 2: of up in the air. And we're seeing Bobby Miller
Speaker 2: down in the minor leagues, not pitching any games yet.
Speaker 2: So Bobby Miller is still bothered by the shoulder sowortness
Speaker 2: that he had during spring training as well. So neither
Speaker 2: are close. Neither right now are you know, expected to
Speaker 2: contribute at any point. In fact, Bobby Miller's on the
Speaker 2: sixty day il with that right shoulder swordness, so he
Speaker 2: is not looking like he's going to be back anytime soon.
Speaker 2: And Gavin Stone a guy you root for because think
Speaker 2: about what Gavin Stone meant to this Dodgers team in
Speaker 2: twenty twenty four. I mean go back to the injuries
Speaker 2: the Dodgers had, and that was prevalent all the way
Speaker 2: through the postseason, right, I mean bullpen games they had
Speaker 2: the World Series, what they had two or three games
Speaker 2: in which there were bullpen games because they didn't have
Speaker 2: enough starting pitching. Gavin Stone made twenty five starts in
Speaker 2: twenty twenty four. Where would they be without them? You
Speaker 2: can make a case they don't win the division in
Speaker 2: twenty twenty four. He was that good, eleven wins, He
Speaker 2: had an era you know, three and a half. You know,
Speaker 2: he struck out one hundred and sixteen in those twenty
Speaker 2: five starts, and then his arm just gave out on
Speaker 2: him late in August early September and wasn't around come
Speaker 2: the postseason. But he left it all out there during
Speaker 2: the regular season. Unfortunately, Gavin Stone has battled the arm
Speaker 2: and shoulder injuries the last year plus and has not
Speaker 2: been back since he was out there pitching for the
Speaker 2: Dodgers in twenty twenty four. So he's not anywhere close
Speaker 2: to coming back, nor is Bobby Miller. But yeah, certainly
Speaker 2: the Dodgers right now have a pluth throw of starting pitching,
Speaker 2: and we mentioned the bullpen with Blake, you know, mentioned
Speaker 2: a couple of names that are still out there, Bruce
Speaker 2: dar Graderol brox Stewart, still out there making their way
Speaker 2: back In brock Stewart, I gotta believe he's gonna be
Speaker 2: back closer than we expect because he's already made a
Speaker 2: couple of appearances in the minor leagues. He's pitched on
Speaker 2: back to back games that checked a couple of boxes.
Speaker 2: So brock Stewart should be ready to go. And at
Speaker 2: some point I expected the right hander to be back
Speaker 2: up and joined the Dodgers bullpen. Bruce dark Ratorol, case
Speaker 2: you missed it, last night through in TRIPAA, Oklahoma City,
Speaker 2: his first time on a mountain since Game five of
Speaker 2: the twenty twenty four World Series. That's how long it's
Speaker 2: been since he's pitched in a minor league or major
Speaker 2: league game. And he was back out there last night
Speaker 2: surly checking a box and another step forward for the Bozuka,
Speaker 2: which would be fantastic get him back in this bullpen.
Speaker 2: Let's wrap things up real quick with Izzy before we
Speaker 2: hear from the manager Dave Roberts, Isy, how.
Speaker 7: You doing today, Hey, Kim, I told you to calm down.
Speaker 7: They'll be fine. I'm pretty too many patrols to calm down.
Speaker 7: This isn't the time to wary. This was the playoffs. Yeah,
Speaker 7: I would bring up the kind of bread, but hey, weall. Yeah,
Speaker 7: I invited it to my busy party. I did this
Speaker 7: tenny to you. But anyway, it was a good game today,
Speaker 7: So it's yeah, you know, it's when I did which
Speaker 7: we could have won the series. But maybe we can
Speaker 7: win this series is Houston. It's a long season. Yeah,
Speaker 7: it's a long season. People. Let's just calm down and
Speaker 7: we'll be fine. You play them when on Wednesday, because
Speaker 7: my body is on Thursday and the Dodges on scared
Speaker 7: go on Tuesday to win. But never my I'm scaredule
Speaker 7: on Thursday.
Speaker 3: Stuff.
Speaker 7: Whatever, it's the schedule it but yeah, the dogs be fine, guys.
Speaker 7: One thing I didn't meet you asked you think I've
Speaker 7: been dying to know is the anything I heart Radio
Speaker 7: have have a the Tripway team. I know the quake
Speaker 7: is ThisDay? Any move?
Speaker 2: Oh you're looking at Ontario tower buzzers? Yeah, you know,
Speaker 2: I'm not sure. I'll look into that for you is
Speaker 2: and I'll shoot you a text or next time we talk.
Speaker 2: I'll hope to have an update for you. But I
Speaker 2: just don't know if they're carrying the games on the
Speaker 2: iHeartRadio app like the Rancho Cuckamonga Quakes did. So I'll
Speaker 2: look into that for you and hopefully get an answer
Speaker 2: very soon. Dodgers get to win four to one over
Speaker 2: the Saint Louis Cardinals. Justin Robleski the six shutout innings.
Speaker 2: Tanner Scott picks up the save as the Dodgers get
Speaker 2: the series finale in Saint Louis. Let's head back out
Speaker 2: to Bush Stadium and let's hear from the manager, Dave
Speaker 2: roberts Day.
Speaker 4: When you have someone like Justin Rooblaski, we know that
Speaker 4: he's been pounding the zone, but when he gets through
Speaker 4: six shoutout innings without a strikeout, what does it just
Speaker 4: say as to how he's exactly kind of navigating to
Speaker 4: their lineup and what he's been able to do.
Speaker 9: You know, I think it's just it's it's what it does.
Speaker 9: It keeps the defense involved, he's got a good pace
Speaker 9: to it to him, you know, puts the ball in play,
Speaker 9: and obviously he'd like to get some more swing a miss,
Speaker 9: but you know, those guys are swinging the bats and
Speaker 9: you know, hitting it guys and a lot of soft contact.
Speaker 9: And again, I just like the way that guys stay
Speaker 9: involved behind him, and you know, every single time he
Speaker 9: takes the baseball, it just we have an opportunity to
Speaker 9: win a game, most importantly, and he goes deep in games,
Speaker 9: and so for me, I just feel like he's always
Speaker 9: prepared sequences differently and just goes after guys.
Speaker 4: How to the game, you talked about the importance of
Speaker 4: getting things going early, just as Hee those two runs
Speaker 4: in the second. Did you feel like this was a
Speaker 4: good sign for the offense and how they can kind
Speaker 4: of continue to.
Speaker 2: Move in the right direction.
Speaker 9: I think so, I think so. You know, I thought
Speaker 9: collectively the bets are good and getting timely hits, having
Speaker 9: some good walks and good at bats and you know, yeah,
Speaker 9: we didn't break out today, but we scored more than
Speaker 9: they did, so that's a good start.
Speaker 10: With Rubleski, you mentioned he's going to pretty much every
Speaker 10: start keeping them to one or no run. Just what
Speaker 10: kind of team impact does that kind of ripple out
Speaker 10: with that consistency.
Speaker 9: Yeah, you know, it's it's it's it's a team. When
Speaker 9: you know guys with him, you know he's gonna go
Speaker 9: at guys the defense here of like they're part of that.
Speaker 9: They're on their they're on their toes ready to make
Speaker 9: a play. And the bottom line is to get as
Speaker 9: many outs as you can any way you can. And
Speaker 9: he's certainly been efficient, So it's not like you know,
Speaker 9: he's not efficient and not striking guys out. He's efficient
Speaker 9: getting guys out most importantly and getting out. So I
Speaker 9: love what he's doing. And it was good to get
Speaker 9: you know, Tanner in there. It was good to get
Speaker 9: Blake in there and up and down for clients. So
Speaker 9: just across the board, just a good, good ball.
Speaker 3: Game, clotard being I'll tell you about without swinging miss
Speaker 3: results like Roubuski's might not be sustainable. I think Rubuski
Speaker 3: would be the first to say that he doesn't care
Speaker 3: when you look at his how he's attacking and most
Speaker 3: I think his tenacity for the first pitch strike.
Speaker 2: And hammering the zone.
Speaker 10: How does that aggression maybe not reflect in the metrics,
Speaker 10: but reflect on him as a pitcher.
Speaker 9: Well, I think that he is very understanding of the
Speaker 9: most important things to get out and you're either going
Speaker 9: to chase strikeouts and work behind and nibble and not
Speaker 9: be efficient, go shorter in games, or you're going to
Speaker 9: keep going after guys and getting outs. And I think
Speaker 9: for me, just to kind of push back on the
Speaker 9: unlucky or the lucky part of things is there's a
Speaker 9: lot of soft contact. There's a lot of lazy fly balls,
Speaker 9: soft grounders, pop ups and things like that. So he's
Speaker 9: he going to have a one at the end of
Speaker 9: the day. Probably not, But I still think he's done
Speaker 9: a great job as a starting pitcher for us.
Speaker 2: All Right, there's a manager, Dave Roberts talking a lot
Speaker 2: about Justin Robleski what he has done for this Dodgers team,
Speaker 2: and hard to argue with the success six scoreless innings today,
Speaker 2: he has been fantastic. Now at five and zero on
Speaker 2: this season, he's got a one to fifty two E
Speaker 2: r ray, a sub one E r ray as a
Speaker 2: starting pitcher in the five starts, his two earned runs
Speaker 2: over thirty two innings of work as the Dodgers left
Speaker 2: hander gets the win yet again today as the Dodgers
Speaker 2: get the four to one win over the Cardinals. Matches
Speaker 2: next up, Mitchie there, Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 5: I doing tim side the gluton of pitchers and bets.
Speaker 5: How about Russia? He had to get on a bet
Speaker 5: too long, Will Smith. It's a real nice problem to have,
Speaker 5: and thanks all.
Speaker 2: Right, Mitch. Good to hear from you. It is a
Speaker 2: good problem to have. And finding a batch for Dalton
Speaker 2: Rushing has proven to be something that Dave Roberts is
Speaker 2: trying to do every single series, whether it's give him
Speaker 2: starts behind the plate, whether it's get him some at
Speaker 2: bats off the bench. You know, will we see him
Speaker 2: getting some more starts at first base? I have to
Speaker 2: believe so to get Freddie Freeman off his feet. But
Speaker 2: out of every Dodger player, kind of feel like Freddie
Speaker 2: Freeman is the hardest guy to tell you're not in
Speaker 2: the lineup today because he wants to play every single day,
Speaker 2: even when he has been sick over the weekend in
Speaker 2: Saint Louis telling Dave Roberts, I want to play, I
Speaker 2: want to start. I'll give you as much as I
Speaker 2: can and I'll let you know when I can't go
Speaker 2: any more. And Freddie Freeman just that kind of guy
Speaker 2: wants to play every single day. So finding that batch
Speaker 2: for Dalton Rushing has been hard, but they've been able
Speaker 2: to do that, and certainly when he's gotten the time,
Speaker 2: he has made the most of it and been a
Speaker 2: guy who's hit the long ball and certainly produced when
Speaker 2: his name has been asked. All Right, that's going to
Speaker 2: do it for Dodger Talk here on Sunday afternoon. Thanks
Speaker 2: to Zach, Thanks to all you Dodger fans for being
Speaker 2: a part of the show. We are back at it
Speaker 2: tomorrow with Morongo Casino Dodgers on Deck as the Dodgers
Speaker 2: roachum continues and Houston, with a three game series against
Speaker 2: the Astros, Yoshinobu Yamamoto will get the start. Morongo Casino
Speaker 2: Dodgers on Deck begins at four o'clock after Petros some
Speaker 2: money first pitch at five to ten. Dodgers with a
Speaker 2: four to one win over the Saint Louis Cardinals. Sixth
Speaker 2: great game without a home run, no problem. Dodgers get
Speaker 2: a double and an RBI from Freddie Freeman, I Sung
Speaker 2: Kim an RBI single, Andy Paez drives in a run,
Speaker 2: Alex Paul gets into the party driving in a run,
Speaker 2: and then Jester Robleski was six shutout innings to get
Speaker 2: the victory. His fifth of the season. Dodgers now twenty
Speaker 2: one and thirteen, still the top the NL West. Have
Speaker 2: a great safe rest of your Sunday afternoon until tomorrow
Speaker 2: sow everybody sa