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Speaker 2: You know they saying major League Baseball to one hundred
Speaker 2: and sixty two games, you can't get too high with
Speaker 2: the highs and you can't.
Speaker 4: Get too low with the lows.
Speaker 2: And I think today is a prime example, is one
Speaker 2: of those days the Dodgers get beat up by the
Speaker 2: Baltimore Orioles twelve to one. But you know what, Tomorrow's
Speaker 2: a new day and new series and new road trip
Speaker 2: for the Dodgers is they got to put this one
Speaker 2: behind them. But as fast as they can get to
Speaker 2: Lax and get on that seven fourty seven to head
Speaker 2: to the Midwest, TI everybody. Tim kaits here on Dodger
Speaker 2: Talk on an five seventy LA Sports Live Everywhere on
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Speaker 2: Father's Day to Colin's dad. Billy Yee, who I know
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Speaker 2: who does a tremendous job. And you hear him on
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Speaker 2: five seventy, LA Sports eight six six nine eighty seven.
Speaker 2: Two five seventy is our telephone number. I know a
Speaker 2: lot of Dodger fans not happy with the last two
Speaker 2: days the way this Dodgers team has played offensively. And
Speaker 2: if you heard Dave Roberts in the Clubhouse show, he
Speaker 2: too Dodger fans not happy with his Dodgers' offense. He's
Speaker 2: specifically talked about the approach and the plan that they
Speaker 2: have at the plate and taking fastballs for strikes and chasing,
Speaker 2: as he said, spin pitches off speed pitches out of
Speaker 2: the zone you got. The approach of the Dodgers at
Speaker 2: bats right now is just not good in Dave Roberts'
Speaker 2: eyes and not what he wants to see collectively from
Speaker 2: this Dodgers lineup. And I said it in the Clubhouse Show,
Speaker 2: and if you missed it, I think it's important because
Speaker 2: Dave Roberts touched on this. He said, when you get
Speaker 2: a starting pitcher like last night, and you get a
Speaker 2: starting pitcher like today and the Baltimore Orioles Brandon Young,
Speaker 2: who is all of a sudden getting into a rhythm
Speaker 2: and starting to collect out and starting to get strikeouts,
Speaker 2: and all of a sudden, it's putting up zeros on
Speaker 2: the scoreboard against this Dodgers' offense the way they did
Speaker 2: last night and tonight, both starting pitchers. That's an issue
Speaker 2: because the Rodgers have too good of a lineup to
Speaker 2: go through stretches where they put up zeros like they
Speaker 2: have the last couple of days. And I'll outside of
Speaker 2: a comeback winning the ninth and in the Dodgers very
Speaker 2: easily could have got swept in this three game set
Speaker 2: to the Baltimore Orgers last night.
Speaker 4: They had a chance to come back and win.
Speaker 2: His second come from behind Win had the tye run
Speaker 2: at third base with two outs and Kyle Tucker struck
Speaker 2: out on three split finger pitches that were, you know,
Speaker 2: his pitches that he chased out of the zone.
Speaker 4: And I think that's.
Speaker 2: Sort of what Dave Roberts was also talking to as
Speaker 2: far as the overall approach, and at bat Jose Motive
Speaker 2: touched upon it as well.
Speaker 4: You know, that's the situation last night.
Speaker 2: Just going back to last night's game where you kind
Speaker 2: of just got to be able to put the ball
Speaker 2: in play and look to spray the ball to the
Speaker 2: outfield somewhere instead of trying to come up with that
Speaker 2: big home run to win it. I mean, you got
Speaker 2: the tye run ninety feet away. All you got to
Speaker 2: do is somehow someway find some green grass somewhere and
Speaker 2: get that run in. And to you saw, the Dodgers
Speaker 2: just didn't string together hits. Now, it happens in games,
Speaker 2: it happens in series. You tip your cap to the
Speaker 2: other team's starting pitcher or pitching staff and say they
Speaker 2: got the best of us, they had a game plan,
Speaker 2: it was better than ours, and they win today's matchup,
Speaker 2: and we're gonna fight to play tomorrow and see who wins.
Speaker 4: The next game.
Speaker 2: And for the Dodgers, they kind of have to put
Speaker 2: this out of their memory, kind of get that, you know,
Speaker 2: men in black, little device kind of waving in front
Speaker 2: of their eyes, and erase what happened the last forty
Speaker 2: eight hours and head to Minneapolis to start anew in
Speaker 2: this three game series against the Twins. Because their approach
Speaker 2: and this offense is too good to be what we
Speaker 2: saw the last two games. I mean, last night, without
Speaker 2: side of scoring the runs of the ninth inning, just
Speaker 2: got out played and didn't have a good approach at
Speaker 2: the plate. And today outside the Max months the RBI
Speaker 2: single on the bottom half of the first inning just
Speaker 2: didn't even have opportunities.
Speaker 4: Now that's the offense right.
Speaker 2: The pitching staff as a whole has got to be
Speaker 2: a starting staff that does not put their off and
Speaker 2: holes all the time. It feels like every time I
Speaker 2: do dodge of talk. I did it after the White
Speaker 2: Sox game last week. I mean, you look up and
Speaker 2: it's the other team's up to nothing. You look up
Speaker 2: and it's four nothing. You look up at six to one.
Speaker 2: This can't keep happening. The starting pitching has got to
Speaker 2: put up zeros. Last week we talked about in Chicago
Speaker 2: that a bullpen and the relievers got to put up
Speaker 2: zeros and hold whatever the game is that at that point,
Speaker 2: to allow the offense to get back into a game,
Speaker 2: whether it's a three to one deficit, a four to
Speaker 2: one deficit, a four to nothing deficit, the Dodger's bullpen,
Speaker 2: and the job of every bullpen is to then put
Speaker 2: zero's up the rest of the way. That's our job
Speaker 2: is to stop it right there, put a line in
Speaker 2: the sand and say no more offense from the other
Speaker 2: team the rest of the game, and we gotta hope
Speaker 2: our offense can get going and chip away or somehow
Speaker 2: cut back into this deficit. But when you get a
Speaker 2: situation like im and she and all of a sudden
Speaker 2: it's too nothing batters into the game, then all of
Speaker 2: a sudden, you're down three to one. After you admite
Speaker 2: it a two to one game in the bottom of
Speaker 2: the first, and then Colton Kowser it's a home run
Speaker 2: the third and it's four to one, and then you
Speaker 2: get chased in the fourth inning because Jack Dryer comes in, strikeout, walk,
Speaker 2: two runs, single to Colton Kowser. That's a situation where
Speaker 2: you're inheriting runners on base like Jack Tyer did. But
Speaker 2: it also is a three to one game or four
Speaker 2: to one game. You've got to put up a zero
Speaker 2: at that point, at least get out of the inning
Speaker 2: with no more damage. At least stop the bleeding in
Speaker 2: that fourth inning. It can't go from four to one
Speaker 2: to six to one. So today, the last two days
Speaker 2: just not great all round performances by the starting pitching,
Speaker 2: the bullpen, and certainly, as Dave Roberts alluded to, the
Speaker 2: approach and plan of the bats by this Dodgers offense
Speaker 2: against the Baltimore Orioles, who are a sub five hundred team,
Speaker 2: who are a young team with a good offensive production
Speaker 2: from young players every day that go out and fight
Speaker 2: and grind, but they don't have great starting pitching.
Speaker 4: They don't this This should have been.
Speaker 2: A series the Dodgers offense quite frankly, should have feasted
Speaker 2: on this starting pitching, but tables got flipped on them
Speaker 2: and they dropped two of three. Today they fall to
Speaker 2: the Baltimore Orioles by a score twelve to one. Dodgers
Speaker 2: Baseball is brought to by Medello Midello. The mark of
Speaker 2: a fighter. Now before we get to the River Ryan calls,
Speaker 2: because I know they're there and we got one line op.
Speaker 2: But if you want to jump on board, Dodger fans
Speaker 2: eight sixty six, nine eighty seven, two five seventy, there's
Speaker 2: been a cry for River Ryan and bring River Ryan
Speaker 2: the image. Shean's out of the rotation. I just want
Speaker 2: to put in a little bit of perspective here. We're
Speaker 2: missing Blake's now, you're missing Tyler Glass now, okay, two
Speaker 2: fifths of your starting rotation. Heading into this weekend against
Speaker 2: the Baltimore Orioles, the Dodger starting staff still had the
Speaker 2: lowest ERRA and opponents batting average in the major leagues.
Speaker 4: Okay, keep that in mind.
Speaker 2: Despite the struggles and ups and downs of Immitchian the
Speaker 2: straight despite the ups and downs of Roki Sasaki, despite
Speaker 2: having Eric Lauer as your rotation out and he's actually
Speaker 2: been pretty good, the Dodger starters going into this weekend
Speaker 2: lowest r RAY and opponents batting average in the Major leagues,
Speaker 2: while leading the National League in strikeouts and innings pitched combine. Okay,
Speaker 2: that's the Dodger starters, now, immit Shean every start that
Speaker 2: goes on now, and he has now continued to lose
Speaker 2: games in the month of June. He's zero and four
Speaker 2: now in four starts. The cry for River Ryan gets
Speaker 2: louder and louder. River Ryan coming off Tommy John surgery.
Speaker 2: The last thing he can do is come back and
Speaker 2: throw a hundred plus innings. So you've got to pace
Speaker 2: River Ryan's return. It's June twenty first, there is still
Speaker 2: a second half of the baseball season to go. There's
Speaker 2: still a good two what three weeks before the All
Speaker 2: Star break. With that in mind, at the minor league level,
Speaker 2: they're only a few weeks behind the major leagues as
Speaker 2: far as their schedule is concerned. River Ryan's already a
Speaker 2: near forty innings pitched in Triple A.
Speaker 4: Now he's building up.
Speaker 2: He's pitched well in May, he pitched well in his
Speaker 2: first couple starts in June. But River Ryan folks his
Speaker 2: last time out four to third innings, eight runs on
Speaker 2: ten hits, and his ERA is now close to four
Speaker 2: and a half on the season. Not to say he's
Speaker 2: not the guy, but the last downing wasn't a good one.
Speaker 2: The last two outings before that, though, were pretty good,
Speaker 2: but against Sacramento on the seventeenth, just a couple of
Speaker 2: days ago, a rough one for River Ryan. I want
Speaker 2: to see how he bounces back. But the Dodger front
Speaker 2: office also has been very adamant at that they aren't
Speaker 2: just gonna a rush to bring River Ryan up, who
Speaker 2: many consider the Dodgers' top pitching prospect right now and
Speaker 2: could be somebody used in a trade at the deadline.
Speaker 2: Who knows the possibility You never know because he's a
Speaker 2: commodie that teams are looking for young starting pitcher. And
Speaker 2: I say young, he's twenty seven years old. But as
Speaker 2: far as wear and tear coming off Tommy John surgery hasn't.
Speaker 4: Really pitched since twenty twenty four.
Speaker 2: You still have to and I use this in quotes
Speaker 2: baby him as he comes back. You can't rush a
Speaker 2: guy back coming off of Tommy John surgery. Think about
Speaker 2: Joe Heyo Tani a year ago, one inning, then another inning, start,
Speaker 2: then it was two innings. He progressed at the same time,
Speaker 2: he didn't have minor leagues to rehab and build up
Speaker 2: his stamina in his outings and innings. He used the
Speaker 2: major leagues as his rehab. But River Ryan, while albeit
Speaker 2: pretty much built up now and Triple A Oklahoma City.
Speaker 2: I still think it's a little premature to pull the
Speaker 2: River Ryan card if you're the Dodger.
Speaker 4: I think the.
Speaker 2: Way the Dodger's starting pitching is right now, Immit Shean's
Speaker 2: gonna get another spin or two around this rotation. And
Speaker 2: I say this before we get out to the phones
Speaker 2: real quick. I was talking to Colin you about this
Speaker 2: during the break between the clubhouse showing Dodger talk.
Speaker 4: The Dodgers have a six man rotation.
Speaker 2: Not a lot of teams in baseball have gotten to
Speaker 2: that yet, meaning Dodger starters only pitch once a week
Speaker 2: and usually on five days rest. We've only seen a
Speaker 2: couple of Dodgers starters this year go on four days.
Speaker 4: Rest, only a few.
Speaker 2: For the most part, it's five days rest and pitching
Speaker 2: once a week. They're getting rest in between starts. It's
Speaker 2: not like these guys are being taxed as a starting staff.
Speaker 2: And again, a starting staff with Eric Louer in it,
Speaker 2: with Justin Robleski in it, and with Immit Sheen and
Speaker 2: it still missing Tyler Glass now and Blake Snell. Who
Speaker 2: knows when those guys are getting ready to come back.
Speaker 2: You've got a six man rotation. They're only pitching once week.
Speaker 2: When they're out there, they've got to empty the tank,
Speaker 2: so to speak. All these dudes, and you heard Dave
Speaker 2: Roberts allude to it, and Jose Muda mentioned it.
Speaker 4: Emma, she has just.
Speaker 2: Got to get more aggressive out there and attack hitters more. Today,
Speaker 2: balls in the zone were getting hit, hard balls outside
Speaker 2: the strike zone. He wasn't getting any swinging missus, very
Speaker 2: very few chases on pitches outside the strike zone. All right,
Speaker 2: let's go out to the phones. I said what I
Speaker 2: wanted to say. Let's go out to helmet Man, my guy,
Speaker 2: helmet Man who has been calling sports talk radio and
Speaker 2: AM five to seventy LA Sports for the better part
Speaker 2: of thirty years.
Speaker 4: Helmet Man, Welcome, sir. How are you dame?
Speaker 5: Top up the evening tim Yeah, I was up by
Speaker 5: the game and I'm down by Union Station, and okay,
Speaker 5: I called in. I finally called in, you know, and
Speaker 5: I didn't know that they would. I'm both a Dodger
Speaker 5: fan and an Oil fan. I don't have no other teams,
Speaker 5: but I root for both because I've been out here
Speaker 5: since nineteen eighty one. Nice, I'm going to Anaheim. Okay,
Speaker 5: but I want the Dodgers to win because I used
Speaker 5: to work for them.
Speaker 6: Yes, yes, and I was.
Speaker 5: I was talking to Eddie Murray outside the Staples Center.
Speaker 5: But I want the Well see the Dodgers kind of
Speaker 5: like laying back probably. I know they're trying, but they can.
Speaker 5: I mean, they can't afford to lose, but they they
Speaker 5: lose games, but they know how to win.
Speaker 2: They know how to adject I gotcha, I gotcha, hell men,
Speaker 2: everything everything else, okay.
Speaker 4: Great to hear your voice. Don't be a stranger.
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. I saw you at the Winning
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Speaker 2: It's been a long time, man, but great to hear
Speaker 2: your voice. I hear you call Big Ben all the time.
Speaker 2: We're gonna let you go, helmet Man. Enjoy your Sunday afternoon.
Speaker 2: Try to stay cool out there. Great to hear from
Speaker 2: my guy, helmet Man Man. He's been calling sports talk
Speaker 2: radio since I was an intern back in the nineties.
Speaker 2: Great to hear the voice of helmet Man eight sixty
Speaker 2: sixth nine eighty seven, two five seventy.
Speaker 4: He's right, you know, it's not the end of the world.
Speaker 2: It's not something to freak out about losing two to
Speaker 2: three to Baltimore Orioles. But you certainly don't want to
Speaker 2: continue this approach that they're having offensively, and you can
Speaker 2: hear the frustration in Dave Roberts's voice about the plan
Speaker 2: and approach. As he said at the plate in the
Speaker 2: last couple of games, he's just not liking what he
Speaker 2: has seen. Justin from Santa Monica is next up on
Speaker 2: Dodger Talk.
Speaker 7: How you doing, Justin, Hey, thanks for taking my call.
Speaker 3: So I gotta say, man, like I'm still gonna burn
Speaker 3: from last night with Tucker.
Speaker 8: I feel like he's.
Speaker 3: An astro but showing us directly now from the inside
Speaker 3: out those last three pitches, every people, everyone before him
Speaker 3: then at least took a pitch you knew what pitch
Speaker 3: was coming. Be a professional take one of those. I mean,
Speaker 3: he just bought every single one.
Speaker 8: And he's lifeless, and I.
Speaker 3: Don't I mean, are you hitting Instructors can just do
Speaker 3: so much with this guy. I don't know if it's
Speaker 3: rest I don't know what to do with him, but
Speaker 3: I feel like, you see these other prospects of Arts,
Speaker 3: Chilling and triple A, anyone could get better than him,
Speaker 3: I could get better. I could go, oh for three,
Speaker 3: give me a bat.
Speaker 7: In the uniform.
Speaker 3: And this guy just does not seem to get it.
Speaker 3: He took his money from us, but he's doing astrothal
Speaker 3: like behavior and screwing us. It's gotta be enough already.
Speaker 3: I mean today they were lifeless. I mean, like you said,
Speaker 3: sheen In, I mean, he came out so passive, and
Speaker 3: everyone's just we're looking for Snell to start getting up.
Speaker 3: I know he's probably closer than Plass now, but I'm
Speaker 3: just I just rave he ruined ruined today, know.
Speaker 8: How bad he was yesterday.
Speaker 3: I don't know if you see any lights possibly coming
Speaker 3: from this guy.
Speaker 2: I appreciate it justin I see your frustration. I'm with
Speaker 2: you at times watching the approach. Last night's ninth Inny
Speaker 2: and Bat was not a good one from Kyle Tucker.
Speaker 2: But he saw three splitt's that were tough and you know,
Speaker 2: balls that just dropped out out of the strike zone.
Speaker 4: But I have to go on what Dave Roberts is.
Speaker 2: Saying, and he's talking about Kyle Tucker, and I think he's,
Speaker 2: you know, pointing the finger based on everybody the last
Speaker 2: couple of games, the plan in the approach of the
Speaker 2: at bats is just not where he wants it to be.
Speaker 4: And again, this.
Speaker 2: Offense is too good to score one run on five hits.
Speaker 2: This offense is too good to be held in check
Speaker 2: until the ninth inning light.
Speaker 4: They were last night.
Speaker 2: This is an offense that you know, is so deep
Speaker 2: and long one through nine that the old saying is
Speaker 2: where do you come up from air? If you're a
Speaker 2: starting pitcher, you know, where is there a break? Where's
Speaker 2: a guy in the lineup that you can say, okay,
Speaker 2: who finally I can exit here and now not worry
Speaker 2: about having the ball drilled off my chest or hit
Speaker 2: out of the ballpark because these guys just crush.
Speaker 4: Well, that hasn't been the case.
Speaker 2: You know, the Dodger pitchers are getting hit around the
Speaker 2: last couple of nights, and the Dodgers' offense just hasn't
Speaker 2: been there. And I'm just gonna gain go back to
Speaker 2: what Dave Roberts said about the plan and the approach
Speaker 2: of this Dodger's offense and the hitters has got to
Speaker 2: be better moving forward, and I think going to Minnesota
Speaker 2: it will be. And when they get there, though, the
Speaker 2: offense can put up runs but I think it all
Speaker 2: starts also with starting pitcher. You know, it goes hand
Speaker 2: in hand, as I keep saying, and it's just it's
Speaker 2: it's not rocket science.
Speaker 4: It's baseball. It's sports.
Speaker 2: You know, if it's football and all of a sudden,
Speaker 2: your defense gives up three touchdowns and you're down twenty
Speaker 2: one to nothing, and there's like ten minutes to go
Speaker 2: in the first.
Speaker 4: Quarter, and you're like, oh boy, now we're Our.
Speaker 2: Offense has got a lot of work to do to
Speaker 2: get back into this game at the same time hoping
Speaker 2: your defense pitches a shutout the rest of the way.
Speaker 2: It's like in basketball, giving up, you know, fourteen run
Speaker 2: and you're down by twenty points. You know, you're not
Speaker 2: the New York Knicks every time gonna be able to
Speaker 2: come back and win every single game like they did
Speaker 2: in the NBA Finals. It takes a lot of effort
Speaker 2: and energy to get back into a game while also
Speaker 2: playing defense trying to hold the other team from not scoring.
Speaker 4: Same thing in baseball.
Speaker 2: The offense is, you know, if it's quiet and all
Speaker 2: of a sudden they're down three to nothing, Okay, another
Speaker 2: hole we got to get out of. Starting pitchers continue
Speaker 2: to put the Dodgers in the holes.
Speaker 4: That's got to stop. They've got to be able to.
Speaker 2: Start working, you know, earlier in games and putting up zeros.
Speaker 2: The Dodgers starting pitching has to I mean, we're just
Speaker 2: seeing it too many times now. The other team getting
Speaker 2: out to the early leads. Well it's the first inning,
Speaker 2: second inning, and all of a sudden, the Dodgers are
Speaker 2: down three to nothing. So like, okay, who's gonna be
Speaker 2: Who's gonna hit the three run home run today to
Speaker 2: win it for the Dodgers. Well, I know they got
Speaker 2: twenty three comeback wins. I know they got walkoff wins
Speaker 2: at home. That's great, But they can't do it every
Speaker 2: single time. You've got to have your offense be able
Speaker 2: to work in a game that's zero zero or you know,
Speaker 2: give them a lead to work with early.
Speaker 4: How many times that we've seen it this year?
Speaker 2: A Justin Robleski, A Rokie Sasaki a great example. When
Speaker 2: they give them or leads early, they get comfortable, they
Speaker 2: get locked in, they can be a little bit more
Speaker 2: aggressive pitching, and they start putting up zeros. Next thing
Speaker 2: you know, it's you know, six innings, a one run
Speaker 2: baseball from a Sasaki or or Justin Robleski.
Speaker 4: There is something to that.
Speaker 2: A pitcher pitching with more confidence when it's a zero
Speaker 2: zero game or your offense gives you the lead.
Speaker 4: Again, it's not rocket science we're dealing with here.
Speaker 2: It's simple as sports and putting up runs against how
Speaker 2: many runs you give up. And when the Dodgers again
Speaker 2: are constantly giving up runs from their starting pitchers, it
Speaker 2: is a tough go day in and day out, having
Speaker 2: to come out.
Speaker 4: Of those holes.
Speaker 2: David on the six ZHO five, Thanks for being patient.
Speaker 2: Welcome to Dodge Talk. After the Baltimore Orioles win at
Speaker 2: twelve to one.
Speaker 4: What were the Dodgers today on Father's Day? How you doing, David?
Speaker 7: Good tim How are you okay? I don't know if
Speaker 7: you're a daddy, but if you are, a happy Father's
Speaker 7: day I am.
Speaker 4: Thank you, three beautiful girls. Thank you for that.
Speaker 7: Now correct me if I'm wrong. But it was the
Speaker 7: same Orioles, give or take a few players. Last year
Speaker 7: when we went back to Baltimore, they beat us two
Speaker 7: out of three. This year they come into our place
Speaker 7: and they beat us two out of three. I was
Speaker 7: reading a stat online. I guess that picture for the
Speaker 7: Ols that I think was Brandon or Braydon Young. Yes, Okay,
Speaker 7: when he starts a game, his record, the Oils record
Speaker 7: now is eleven and two. So I don't know. I
Speaker 7: don't know if he was doing everything right or we
Speaker 7: were just doing everything wrong. Now, talking about Michael Tucker
Speaker 7: last night, kind of looking you know, how bad he
Speaker 7: was swinging at those pitches, kind of remind me of
Speaker 7: the World Series when we were in Toronto. You know,
Speaker 7: Goslin was throwing the same thing, throwing pitches in the dirt,
Speaker 7: and we were just swinging at him because he just
Speaker 7: kept throwing him because he knew that we were going
Speaker 7: to swing at him. Just like today, it was a
Speaker 7: bad game. You know, I get it out of the system.
Speaker 7: You know, we got a tough road trip.
Speaker 8: We got to go to.
Speaker 7: Minnesota, then we got to go down to San Diego
Speaker 7: and you know, they always hate us, and we got
Speaker 7: to go up north to play the A's and they're
Speaker 7: playing some good baseball too, yea. And right after the
Speaker 7: All Star break it gets worse because we have to
Speaker 7: go to Yankee Stadium, we have to go to Philadelphia.
Speaker 7: So it's just it's not gonna get it.
Speaker 8: Easier.
Speaker 7: Like you said, we just have to step up and
Speaker 7: start playing Dodger Championship baseball, no doubt about it.
Speaker 4: I appreciate it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Kyle Tucker taking a lot right now. I gotta
Speaker 2: believe we're gonna see better things from him. And I
Speaker 2: appreciate the phone call. I like to hope, and I
Speaker 2: look at what he did last night, going over four
Speaker 2: and hitting in the seventh spot. Today he was hitting
Speaker 2: one sixth and goes over four. So they're trying different
Speaker 2: things with Kyle Tucker, moving him around in the order.
Speaker 4: We've seen him now.
Speaker 2: I mean, at the top the top of my head,
Speaker 2: I think we've now seen him one four different spots
Speaker 2: in the order this first half of the season.
Speaker 4: Last night the seven hole, today, the six hole.
Speaker 2: So they're trying, they're moving him around, trying to see
Speaker 2: if he can see some better pitches, if he can
Speaker 2: get some better at bats, string him together and all
Speaker 2: of a sudden get out of a hole. I mean,
Speaker 2: we see Mookie Betts, you know, in the last three weeks,
Speaker 2: the end of the last homestand the last road trip
Speaker 2: really in Pittsburgh and Chicago, and you know, this homestand
Speaker 2: continued to string together good at bats and better games
Speaker 2: and now hitting close to two twenty on the season.
Speaker 2: I know it's not you know, two twenty, it's not
Speaker 2: three twenty, but from where he was at to where
Speaker 2: he is now, that average is moving up. Beyond base
Speaker 2: percentage is moving up as well for Mookie Betts, so
Speaker 2: he seems to have turned the corner. You got to
Speaker 2: hope at some point Kyle Tucker is able to turn
Speaker 2: the corner as well.
Speaker 4: Eight six six, nine eighty seven to two five seven.
Speaker 2: We'll take a time out, we'll come back and we'll
Speaker 2: get all your phone calls for the rest of the way.
Speaker 2: If you're on a hole, we'll get to you. Eight
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Speaker 7: Im it?
Speaker 2: Shean three plus innings, gets tagged for six on eight hits.
Speaker 2: The bullpen, though also gave up six runs.
Speaker 4: Yep.
Speaker 2: The Baltimore Orioles past the Dodgers today twelve to one.
Speaker 4: The final.
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Speaker 2: Tim Kate's back with you here on Dodger Talk on
Speaker 2: this Father's Day. Happy Father's Day to all those out there.
Speaker 2: We appreciate it. As the Dodgers today get boat raced
Speaker 2: by the Baltimore Orioles twelve to one as Brandon Young
Speaker 2: gets the win, going five Indians allowed just the one
Speaker 2: run on a couple of hits six and two on
Speaker 2: the season, image Shean with three and a third give
Speaker 2: up six runs on eight hits through eighty two pitches.
Speaker 2: He gets tagged with the loss. He's now three and
Speaker 2: five overall on this season. As image Shean in the
Speaker 2: month of June, it just has not worked out for
Speaker 2: the twenty six year old right hander.
Speaker 4: Things started off really good for.
Speaker 2: Him in the month of April and May and picked
Speaker 2: up a win against the Giants on May fourteenth, and
Speaker 2: then a couple of outings against the Padres and Rockies
Speaker 2: that you know didn't go his way, but got no
Speaker 2: decisions out of it the month of June. He is
Speaker 2: now zero and four, with losses to the Diamondbacks, the Angels,
Speaker 2: the White Sox, and today giving up six runs through
Speaker 2: three plus innings to the Baltimore Orioles. Eight sixty six
Speaker 2: nine eight seven two five seventy is the phone number.
Speaker 2: Dodgers now head to Minnesota to start a nine game
Speaker 2: road trip, with three.
Speaker 4: To begin with against the Twins.
Speaker 2: Let's go to Cressline and Phil is next up on
Speaker 2: DI Did you talk on a seventy l A sports?
Speaker 4: Phil? How you doing? How's it? How is it in
Speaker 4: Cressline on this Sunday afternoon?
Speaker 5: Oh?
Speaker 8: It is a It is an absolutely beautiful.
Speaker 9: Afternoon up here in the mountains, and.
Speaker 8: Uh, you know, only soured by the Dodger performance today.
Speaker 4: Yeah, no doubt, no doubt. What's on your mind?
Speaker 7: Hey?
Speaker 8: Well versus the foremost, although others have said it a
Speaker 8: happy Father's Day. But I just want to get your
Speaker 8: perspective because I'm a previous minor league pitcher, so I'm
Speaker 8: not here to.
Speaker 9: Bag on anybody, but I'm just wondering, how long do
Speaker 9: you think the Dodgers will go with Emmett With his
Speaker 9: performance through June, and you know, I mean really it's
Speaker 9: been kind of rocky since he came back from as
Speaker 9: from surgery.
Speaker 8: It seen when you have River Ryan ready.
Speaker 10: To roll, and I mean, would it be beneficial to
Speaker 10: put Emmett back in the in the bullpen where he
Speaker 10: you know, shine before, or you know, setting down to
Speaker 10: Triple A two to get some warkumets and things.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's an interesting question what to do with him, Phil,
Speaker 2: and I appreciate the quite of the phone call. If
Speaker 2: you send him back down to Triple A, you're keeping
Speaker 2: him in the rotation there and he's built up still
Speaker 2: as a starter, and that's your plan, is to continue
Speaker 2: to use him as a starter. I don't see at
Speaker 2: this point of the season all of a sudden turning
Speaker 2: off the spicket, so to speak with him and making
Speaker 2: him a reliever and a long inding reliever at that,
Speaker 2: and changing his routine and his makeup. Now, certainly, injuries
Speaker 2: dictate change and things like that happen when you've got
Speaker 2: to move a guy around because you've got to other options.
Speaker 2: But the Dodgers got plenty of the options as far
Speaker 2: as starting pitching his concern and as you mentioned, River
Speaker 2: Ryan one of those I said it earlier. He's got
Speaker 2: thirty six plus innings in Triple A. He's last start,
Speaker 2: he gave up eight urned runs in Triple A against
Speaker 2: the Sacramento Rivercats. It wasn't a great outing form. In
Speaker 2: four to third innings, eight runs, ten hits, three strikeouts.
Speaker 2: His r and Triple A is near four and a half.
Speaker 2: With that being said, I guess you don't, you know,
Speaker 2: really want to say, well, it's one bat outing, He's
Speaker 2: still built up, he's ready to go. Probably is the case.
Speaker 2: But Andrew Freeman is alluded to it. Brandon Gomes, I know,
Speaker 2: has talked about it. There are no rush to bring
Speaker 2: up River Ryan. You have a second half of a
Speaker 2: season to go. And think about Tyler Glass now his back.
Speaker 2: You don't know when he's coming back. He hasn't even started,
Speaker 2: you know, getting back up on the mount and throwing yet.
Speaker 2: Blake Snell just threw off a mount a couple of
Speaker 2: days ago. But it was to a guy standing up
Speaker 2: behind home plate. It wasn't to a catcher squatted behind
Speaker 2: the home plate in a traditional bullpen situation. He was
Speaker 2: just throwing off a mound to a guy standing sixty
Speaker 2: feet six inches away from him, So he is ramping up,
Speaker 2: but how far away is he realistically? He's not coming
Speaker 2: back before the All Star Break. It's June twenty first,
Speaker 2: the All Star breaks. What let's sit three weeks away. Hey,
Speaker 2: he's not three weeks away from being built up to
Speaker 2: pitch in the major leagues. And also look at the calendar.
Speaker 2: Why would you build them up only to take a
Speaker 2: week off. So I think you're looking at the All
Speaker 2: Star break as a reset for the Dodgers, and I
Speaker 2: think probably a reset to then bring Blake Snell back
Speaker 2: to this rotation at that point, Immaean probably the odd
Speaker 2: man out River Ryan.
Speaker 4: I don't think we.
Speaker 2: See until the after the All Star Break unless there's
Speaker 2: another injury to this rotation and that completely changes everything, Right,
Speaker 2: you got to throw the cards away and restart again,
Speaker 2: because everything's different with an injury. But if everything stays
Speaker 2: status quo with the injuries how they are, nobody else
Speaker 2: gets hurt. I just don't see River Ryan being called
Speaker 2: up until least after the.
Speaker 4: All Star Break, because then at that point he's ready
Speaker 4: to go, and uh, we'll.
Speaker 2: See what we can get out of him. Eight sixty
Speaker 2: six nine eighty seven two five seventy. Sergio next up
Speaker 2: here on Dodge Talk. Welcome to Dodge Talk, Surgeio.
Speaker 11: How you doing great, Tim, Thank you so much. Happy
Speaker 11: fathers did to you and the crew, and what a
Speaker 11: gift to have two daughters graduate Broway to go man,
Speaker 11: good job, good job. Wanted to tell you that I'm
Speaker 11: enjoying myself with my superior grocers, al Pato, Sauce and
Speaker 11: d to you and the Peak and that show. Can't
Speaker 11: wait for next week or tomorrow to hear what he
Speaker 11: did this weekend. But I'm here to tell you that
Speaker 11: the Dodgers are going to be fine. We just need
Speaker 11: to do iron sharpens iron and I want to see
Speaker 11: a bobblehead for sacrificing four times in a row or
Speaker 11: moving a runner over. I mean, we want those moments,
Speaker 11: but those moments are going to happen when we do
Speaker 11: things like we're supposed to and have those superstar moments.
Speaker 11: I know we have a lot of leaders in Superstars.
Speaker 11: You're not gonna ask these guys to do things, but
Speaker 11: I want them to be aware of it and be
Speaker 11: not letting those moments go. And I think when you
Speaker 11: start having the team play in that direction, I think
Speaker 11: that's what Doc's getting at. I think you're going to
Speaker 11: see the team play a little bit different. Also, we
Speaker 11: can't understate the rookie catchers that we have, and they
Speaker 11: got to learn to slow down the game. Get out there,
Speaker 11: talk to those pictures. I know we're limited. They once
Speaker 11: the game fast, but I remember Tony Larusa. You get
Speaker 11: a guy on base man, he would slow it down
Speaker 11: to a snails crawl and you would almost forget what
Speaker 11: was going on. So appreciate you guys, Thank you so much.
Speaker 11: Loving my superior grocers bro. Thanks very much, take care all.
Speaker 2: Right, appreciate the phone call. Thank you, SERGIOE eight six
Speaker 2: six ninety seven seventy. Let's go to Don in the
Speaker 2: city of Industry with the deepest pipes and sports talk radio.
Speaker 7: How you doing, Don, Jim the Great Kikes?
Speaker 6: Oh, how are you doing. I'm so happy for you,
Speaker 6: your beautiful family, surrounded by beauty. Happy Father's Day to you.
Speaker 6: Maybe increase thank you, you know, uh man, this thing
Speaker 6: at the game, I mean I'm bummed, but I'm bummed out,
Speaker 6: you know, because I know we're just too darn good
Speaker 6: for this to continue. But every now and then, you
Speaker 6: know how it is, Jim better than anyone. It's not
Speaker 6: only a long season, it's a long roller coaster ride.
Speaker 6: And you're gonna when you're that good, it's hard to
Speaker 6: keep that edge that eye had the tiger. You know,
Speaker 6: everybody's cliche and and you're gonna get punched in the
Speaker 6: mouth and that'll wake you up, hopefully and say, oh
Speaker 6: gee whiz, I needed that. And then so I'm sure
Speaker 6: we're gonna buck it down because, like as a previous
Speaker 6: caller said, San Diego's coming to town, we're gonna be
Speaker 6: yank all that stuff. So anyway, I think we'll be
Speaker 6: fine on that score. But you know, I had a question,
Speaker 6: hope it's on an odd question. What that kid and
Speaker 6: the miners that got hurt jumping over the bat retrieving dog?
Speaker 6: What happened to him? I was I was wondering, how
Speaker 6: how is he progressing? Were able to treat his knee
Speaker 6: without surgery, or how is that kid doing? Because it
Speaker 6: sounded like just such a freaky thing, and plus he
Speaker 6: was like a super fast runner, a speed demon, and
Speaker 6: then for something that bogus to happen, I'm just concerned
Speaker 6: about him. Have you heard anything.
Speaker 2: Last I heard a couple of weeks ago. It was
Speaker 2: the left knee injury. I don't know if it was
Speaker 2: the meniscus. Uh oh, here we go. Putel attendant while
Speaker 2: jumping out of the way to avoid the dog putel attendant.
Speaker 2: So that's a kneecap injury. I believe from just kind
Speaker 2: of quickly looking here. Don appreciate the phone call, thank
Speaker 2: you for the nice words, and MRI. I revealed no
Speaker 2: ligament damage on Kendall George. This is going back a
Speaker 2: few weeks to Dodger Prospect and double A Tulsa who
Speaker 2: again was avoiding the bat dog in a game, and
Speaker 2: you saw the viral clip on social media and kind
Speaker 2: of everywhere after that. He tried to jump out of
Speaker 2: the way and landed awkwardly. So I'm just kind of
Speaker 2: going through the latest story. I can see here on
Speaker 2: a quick little search that it is a clean no
Speaker 2: ligament damage, linamit damage?
Speaker 4: Excuse me?
Speaker 2: And what they're called it a ptell attendant injury to
Speaker 2: his left knee.
Speaker 4: So that's all I got for you. Don wish I
Speaker 4: had more. I have not heard anything else on Kendall George.
Speaker 4: Let's go to.
Speaker 2: Izzy in Anaheim. Oh boy, here we go. Dodgers have
Speaker 2: lost two or three. They lose twelve to one on
Speaker 2: this Father's Day. Is he it's the end of the world.
Speaker 12: I'm very the press, but you know what, I kind
Speaker 12: of realize this year the Dodgers are trying to win.
Speaker 12: They're trying to win. They stay in a role. I
Speaker 12: can't feel we're gonna get bumping Rose after this. I'm
Speaker 12: still worried about them, but I'm always worried about them.
Speaker 12: But whatever, they they'll be okay. But yeah, this week
Speaker 12: was no, it was so pathetic. So I don't know
Speaker 12: what to say. But you know what, Oh well, you
Speaker 12: could tell the guys that they don't have to bring
Speaker 12: out the panic breather because they two. They won't bring
Speaker 12: the panic brother up out I'm bringing bring bring them
Speaker 12: out during the playoffs. That when the time they need
Speaker 12: to bring them out. So but yeah, I mean it's baseball, guys.
Speaker 12: I mean Lucky Day.
Speaker 5: You know.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it was a long season, is he?
Speaker 3: He?
Speaker 2: Those two or three out of Baltimore. It's not the
Speaker 2: end of the world. I appreciate it. And we'll do
Speaker 2: a little launching pad maybe on Thursday. H Wait, though
Speaker 2: it's not a day game on on Thursday. It's an
Speaker 2: off day on Thursday. They play on Wednesday and that's
Speaker 2: not even a day game, so is he. We'll talk
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Speaker 2: this Sunday. Many thanks to all you Dodger fans for
Speaker 2: being a part of the show. Thank you to Colin
Speaker 2: Ye for all his help today. Thanks to all you
Speaker 2: for listening and podcasting the show. Happy Father's Day to
Speaker 2: everybody out there. Hope you can enjoy the rest of
Speaker 2: you Sunday afternoon, whether you're out and about, barbecue and
Speaker 2: just hanging out.
Speaker 4: Watched the Little of the US Open. What to finish
Speaker 4: that was? I won't spoiler for you if you t
Speaker 4: vote it or DDR did it or.
Speaker 2: Don't know what happened yet, Well what happened to the
Speaker 2: Dodgers wasn't good. They get beat up by the Baltimore
Speaker 2: Orioles twelve to one. Brandon Young gets the win immage
Speaker 2: shee against the lost Dodgers dropped two or three in
Speaker 2: the series.
Speaker 4: Good news.
Speaker 2: Though the Diamondbacks lost and the Padres lost, it means
Speaker 2: the Dodgers still nine games up in the NL West
Speaker 2: as we sit here on June twenty, first Dodgers get
Speaker 2: on a plane head into Minneapolis.
Speaker 4: They start a nine game road trip.
Speaker 2: First up three games at Target Field in Minnesota, beginning tomorrow.
Speaker 4: Moron Goo Casino.
Speaker 2: Dodgers on deck gets oar cover started at three thirty
Speaker 2: in the afternoon after Petchro some money.
Speaker 4: First pitch at four forty.
Speaker 2: Eric Lauer, the veteran left hander, will be on the
Speaker 2: mound again. Happy Father's Day, Have a great save rest
Speaker 2: of your Sunday afternoon.
Speaker 4: So long, everybody,