Speaker 1: The quest for the three peat has begun.
Speaker 2: Only four teams in Major League Baseball history have won
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Speaker 6: All yet a feeling.
Speaker 7: The Dodgers had another run in them late in this
Speaker 7: game today, and boy did they Freddie Freeman a two
Speaker 7: run home run at the bottom of the sixth City
Speaker 7: is the Dodgers come back and beat the Tampa Bay
Speaker 7: Rays by final of five to four. Hi, everybody, Tim
Speaker 7: Kates with you here on Dodger Talk on a five
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Speaker 7: your time for your calls, and we're gonna hear from
Speaker 7: the manager, Dave Robbers. An overall, really good game for
Speaker 7: the Dodgers today, a great series in general, the last
Speaker 7: three days, all one run games that the Dodgers were
Speaker 7: able to win over the Tampa Bay Rays, who are
Speaker 7: a really good team. They're fighting it out in the
Speaker 7: Al East. They're gonna be back in the playoff pitcher
Speaker 7: yet again. This is a raised team who the Dodgers
Speaker 7: saw six years ago in the World Series down in
Speaker 7: Arlington in the Bubble. This is a perennial playoff team
Speaker 7: every single year. They're always fighting for the division or
Speaker 7: a wild card spot.
Speaker 6: It's a really good.
Speaker 7: Tampa Bay's Race team that could score runs and can
Speaker 7: put together big innings. And when't you know it, the
Speaker 7: Dodgers today again gave up another big inning and all
Speaker 7: of it came against show Heyoan, which is kind of
Speaker 7: head scratching.
Speaker 6: He was really good for four innings of work.
Speaker 7: He was cruising a leadoff walk in the fifth inning, though,
Speaker 7: and things then sort of unraveled as the leadoff walked
Speaker 7: then turned into a Hunter Produci double. After that, there
Speaker 7: were four singles in the inning given up by Otani,
Speaker 7: including one where he was late covering first base on
Speaker 7: a ground ball that led to a four run, five
Speaker 7: hit inning for the Tampa Bay Rays.
Speaker 6: In the fifth, they batted.
Speaker 7: Around in that fifth inning and what was a two
Speaker 7: to nothing Dodgers lead flipped to a four to two
Speaker 7: Tampa Bay's real lead, and the Dodgers in the fifth
Speaker 7: had the bases loaded. Could they get more than one
Speaker 7: run across after the Kyle Tucker walked. They couldn't, and
Speaker 7: that was very deflating to see Alix call pop out
Speaker 7: in the infield, Dalton rushing a fly ball to shallow
Speaker 7: right field that couldn't advance the runner. And then you
Speaker 7: had Freddie Alex freelan strike out with the bases loaded,
Speaker 7: so the Dodgers couldn't get anything outside that one run
Speaker 7: to make it a four to three game in the fifth,
Speaker 7: So you're thinking, gosh, there's gotta be one more running, right,
Speaker 7: You're gonna see the heart of the lineup flip around
Speaker 7: at least one more time to have these guys have
Speaker 7: a chance to get one run tie it up, maybe
Speaker 7: take the lead somehow, and they did in the sixth inning,
Speaker 7: Andy Pajez a double down the left field line and
Speaker 7: then Freddie Freeman with the two run blasts.
Speaker 6: That's just sort of how they draw it up.
Speaker 7: And they did it again today and show Heotani in
Speaker 7: favor of the win today despite the five the fifth
Speaker 7: inning that he had today, which was unusual for show
Speaker 7: Heyo Tani.
Speaker 6: Think think about this.
Speaker 7: His first ten starts this year, Show Heotani had not
Speaker 7: a single inning of multiple runs allowed. Now when back
Speaker 7: to back starts, he has given up multiple runs an inning.
Speaker 6: Last week in Pittsburgh four runs of the seventh inning.
Speaker 7: Today in the fifth inning against the Rays, he allowed
Speaker 7: four runs on five it's including a walk. So not
Speaker 7: what we're used to seeing. But when you've got a
Speaker 7: Dodgers team surrounding him. You heard show Hey say it
Speaker 7: himself to David Vaz say just a little bit to
Speaker 7: go in the clubhout, Show you may not be your best,
Speaker 7: and you know you're not gonna have your best stuff
Speaker 7: every outing. You're not gonna be feeling your best. You're
Speaker 7: not gonna be at one hundred percent.
Speaker 6: All the time.
Speaker 7: He's dealing with the inflammation in his knee on his
Speaker 7: left knee that he plants his leg with. Then you're
Speaker 7: talking about a blister that again flared up on his
Speaker 7: middle finger on his right throwing hand. You can visibly
Speaker 7: see the blood in the fifth and sixth inning coming
Speaker 7: from shoe Otani pitching through it, and he said it, Hey,
Speaker 7: I gotta figure out a way to get out and
Speaker 7: go out there because of the team around him, and
Speaker 7: he's got confidence in this team around him.
Speaker 6: That's the difference between.
Speaker 7: The team like the Dodgers and let's say the Angels
Speaker 7: or a lot of other teams in baseball. When your
Speaker 7: guy doesn't have his best stuff but still got really
Speaker 7: good stuff and you've got the offense let the Dodgers do,
Speaker 7: you can lift him up. You can pick him up
Speaker 7: when he doesn't have his best and you're gonna assume
Speaker 7: that nine times out of ten, three times out of four,
Speaker 7: whatever it is, he's gonna have his really good stuff
Speaker 7: out there on the mound, and the days that he
Speaker 7: doesn't or he gives up a biginning, you can pick
Speaker 7: him up because you are so good and the Dodgers
Speaker 7: just are that good.
Speaker 6: And you saw it today.
Speaker 7: Down four to two, they loaded the bases in the fifth,
Speaker 7: they don't get an opportunity to have a big inning there,
Speaker 7: but wouldn't you know what, They come back in the
Speaker 7: sixth inning and they do flip the scoreboard with that
Speaker 7: two run home run, just the way the Dodgers do it,
Speaker 7: just how talented they are, and they finish off the
Speaker 7: sweet three games sweep of the Tampa Bay Race, who
Speaker 7: again we mentioned a playoff team, a really good team
Speaker 7: in the American League East, and the Dodgers fought back
Speaker 7: and forth of them in games that could have gone
Speaker 7: back and forth the last two days.
Speaker 6: I mean, the Dodgers could have lost this game.
Speaker 7: Last night they were a one to one or one
Speaker 7: nothing winner over the Race, and that one run came
Speaker 7: on the solo blast from show Heyo Tani, so easily
Speaker 7: could have flipped the other way around. The Dodgers lose
Speaker 7: this series, but as it is, they prevail with three
Speaker 7: one run wins as they sweep the Tampa Bay Rays.
Speaker 6: Again we mentioned it earlier.
Speaker 7: The Diaingbacks and the Padres have both won also today,
Speaker 7: so the Dodgers will be nine games up for San
Speaker 7: Diego in ninety and a half games up the Arizona Diabacks.
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Speaker 7: of a Fire. Let's go out to the phones. Eric
Speaker 7: in Hollywood, first up here on Dodger Talk on this Wednesday.
Speaker 8: How you doing, Eric, Dodger nay Shore.
Speaker 5: Back to back champion, sweeping the Rag twenty twenty is legit.
Speaker 5: Always Dodger Nation always, never forget that that. Yeah, Oh
Speaker 5: my god, pitch a gem, pitch a Chamble's Golden pony. Boy, Glad,
Speaker 5: We're gonna have to see Blake. I'm sorry, Timmy. I
Speaker 5: don't trust Blake anymore. I don't trust them. And I
Speaker 5: know I got a lot of love for all my Dodgers,
Speaker 5: but I just don't trust him. My Dodger Tex chain
Speaker 5: e Or said he's not there anymore. He's not. So
Speaker 5: I mean, we could we could take that conversation another way.
Speaker 5: But literally, Pa, his all Star All Star Pies is
Speaker 5: an All Star and I'm so happy for him. He's
Speaker 5: played so good. He's been literally our rock this year.
Speaker 5: He really has. Man and Yo, Timmy, Man, we haven't talked.
Speaker 1: In a bit.
Speaker 5: Man. Hey, congratulations to your daughter in the graduation.
Speaker 6: Thank you I appreciate it.
Speaker 7: Two daughters graduate, went from high school, one from college,
Speaker 7: so certainly appreciate that.
Speaker 9: Eric.
Speaker 7: Great to catch up with you. I'm gonna push back
Speaker 7: a little bit on the Blake Trining. Uh, we don't
Speaker 7: have faith him in anymore. I mean, he hasn't pitched
Speaker 7: since Sunday. He pitched a scoreless inning on Sunday against
Speaker 7: the White Sox.
Speaker 6: You go back to the Pirate.
Speaker 7: Series, he had a scoreless inning where he struck out three,
Speaker 7: did have a couple of walks.
Speaker 6: He's had good game, okay game, good game, okay game.
Speaker 7: He's been kind of up and down his last six outings.
Speaker 6: But with that being said.
Speaker 7: I still have to trust to go out to Blake
Speaker 7: Trining in a situation where you need a big right
Speaker 7: hander to get it out, for you to get out
Speaker 7: of a jam, to put up a zero in the inning.
Speaker 6: I still got one hundred percent confidence in Blake Tryning.
Speaker 7: And you said, alex Vesia, what was his words was fantastic,
Speaker 7: was outstanding today. I'll push back on that. Alex Vesia
Speaker 7: walk the bases loaded allbe at. One of them was
Speaker 7: an intentional walk. He put three guys on base. The
Speaker 7: Dodgers were in a one run game and the basses
Speaker 7: were loaded, and he was facing Mullins on a three
Speaker 7: to two count, and he went with his slider, knowing
Speaker 7: that the fastball he just didn't have the control, and
Speaker 7: the slider he had better control. And he got a
Speaker 7: swing in a miss from Mullins to end the game
Speaker 7: on the slider. But again that was a tight rope walk.
Speaker 7: There is Alex Vesi in the ninth Inny and made
Speaker 7: it very, very interesting, and the race had the tie
Speaker 7: and run ninety feet away and the go ahead run
Speaker 7: standing at second base there with two outs in the
Speaker 7: ninth inning. So I wouldn't call it a dominant performance
Speaker 7: from Alex Vesia. He was able to get out of
Speaker 7: the jam, and I know he is going to credit
Speaker 7: a lot to Dalton Rushing for helping him get out
Speaker 7: of there. So again Dalton rush we mentioned it. What
Speaker 7: the job he has done filling in on a regular
Speaker 7: basis for Will Smith is pretty impressive. He continues to
Speaker 7: go out there and work with this pitching staff, this bullpen,
Speaker 7: and at the same time be productive at the plate
Speaker 7: and today at a base hit as well. He in
Speaker 7: the bottom of the line up there with Alex Call
Speaker 7: and Alex Freeland a couple of base hits, the three
Speaker 7: of them driving a run.
Speaker 6: Did Freeland and Alex Call.
Speaker 7: To get the Dodgers on the board in the fourth
Speaker 7: inning with that two run fourth? Love to see it,
Speaker 7: Love to see what Dalton Rushing is doing. And David
Speaker 7: Vetse talked about in the pregame show, It's no secret
Speaker 7: the more at bats you get, the more reps you get,
Speaker 7: and whatever you do, whatever your line of job is,
Speaker 7: whatever you do, whether you're just a recreational golfer, you know,
Speaker 7: trying to figure out the sport, playing pickleball, whatever, the
Speaker 7: more you play something, the more you do something, the
Speaker 7: better you're going to become at that, and the more
Speaker 7: confidence you're going to have at that. At the big
Speaker 7: lee level, Dalton Rushing is finally getting an opportunity to
Speaker 7: play on a consistent basis, and he's doing so because
Speaker 7: of the injury to Will Smith, and credit to him
Speaker 7: taking full advantage of that that opportunity.
Speaker 6: Eight sixty six ninety.
Speaker 7: Seven seventy tray leaving the game on this Wednesday afternoon,
Speaker 7: one of the fifty and five and attendance got to
Speaker 7: see a Dodger comfort behind win try.
Speaker 6: That's pretty cool.
Speaker 8: Yes, sir, Tim, how have you been I've missed you,
Speaker 8: my man. We haven't spoken since I called you from
Speaker 8: opening day last year Tokyo Series when I was in Taipei.
Speaker 6: Where have you been trayed? Did you just come back
Speaker 6: with what's going on?
Speaker 4: Well?
Speaker 8: We we don't have time for that, but I've been
Speaker 8: all over the place. I'll tell you right now. Is
Speaker 8: that the game? I'm in a Lithian park with a
Speaker 8: couple of friends right here. Yeah, coach be back yeah,
Speaker 8: and Horrow yeah. And I was in right field in
Speaker 8: one sixty eight and look, hey, we got the best
Speaker 8: record in the league. We've been cranking. The team is on.
Speaker 8: It's been fantastic. Look two questions you can answer either one.
Speaker 8: We got the Chris Taylor, Michael CONFORDO, Kyle Tucker Lyne
Speaker 8: Is that a concern? Or would you rather talk about Hey,
Speaker 8: are we gonna come up after the deadline? We're gonna
Speaker 8: have TERRK schoolball. What do you think about that?
Speaker 7: Well, I don't worry about Kyle Tucker, and I appreciate
Speaker 7: the phone call. Trade great to hear from you. Thanks
Speaker 7: for being a fan. I appreciate that the Terror Schoobol
Speaker 7: situation will be interesting to see who, when it gets
Speaker 7: closer to the trade deadline, feels the pressure to go
Speaker 7: out and get Schooble into the rotation. And I say
Speaker 7: that because the Dodgers are always in on the conversation.
Speaker 7: Just because of the Dodgers and the talent they have
Speaker 7: in the minor leagues, they have the commodities to make
Speaker 7: a trade, they have the depth to make the trade.
Speaker 7: That's why they're always gonna be in the conversation. Now,
Speaker 7: are they gonna be in talks to make a trade
Speaker 7: for Terror Schooball Who knows. But I look at a
Speaker 7: team like the Arizona Diamondbacks if they're gonna be all
Speaker 7: in for a wild card spot, and let's say they
Speaker 7: try to get back into this race with the Dodgers.
Speaker 7: They're nine and a half games back. They're a team
Speaker 7: I keep hearing look out for. They add an arm
Speaker 7: to that rotation in Schooble. You get them in Arizona
Speaker 7: at home and Chase Field, that's a tough place to play,
Speaker 7: and they got a lineup that can score.
Speaker 6: They can they can get on base.
Speaker 7: They play fast like they did a couple of years
Speaker 7: ago when flying around. I mean, that's that to me
Speaker 7: is the team to look out for in a possible
Speaker 7: Terry schoolbl trade. A team that is needy of a
Speaker 7: starting pitcher, that is maybe desperate to get somebody like
Speaker 7: that and will overpay at the deadline to get him
Speaker 7: just so they can get into the playoffs and make
Speaker 7: a run. Again, the Dodgers aren't one of those desperate teams.
Speaker 7: Those Dodgers are one of the teams that will always
Speaker 7: be in the consideration, the Mets, the Yankees. The Dodgers
Speaker 7: have the commodities to make a trade, and so then
Speaker 7: again they'll always be in the discussions. But do they
Speaker 7: need to go out and get Terry Schooble. I don't
Speaker 7: think they need to. Could they certainly if they got him,
Speaker 7: would that be fantastic, Absolutely it would be. But the
Speaker 7: Kyle Tucker situation again, I'll like I did on Sunday,
Speaker 7: there's sixty million reasons why Kyle Tucker is going to
Speaker 7: be out in that lineup every single day. And you're
Speaker 7: going to see Kyle Tucker in right field every single
Speaker 7: day for the Dodgers.
Speaker 6: Eight six, six, nine, seven, two five seventy.
Speaker 7: Let's hear from the manager Dave Roberts post game with
Speaker 7: David Vassa in the media following a Dodger's another comfort
Speaker 7: behind whind this time five.
Speaker 6: To four of the race.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Alex made a pitch. You know it certainly wasn't efficient,
Speaker 2: but but made a pitch when he needed to.
Speaker 10: We just see the way you guys had to responded
Speaker 10: to what the miss bass loads chances for him and
Speaker 10: kind of would be able.
Speaker 5: To come back this week.
Speaker 2: Really, uh, you know we I think that spurred that inning,
Speaker 2: that Dalton kind of challenge gets the walk Freddie obviously
Speaker 2: a big hit, you know that that that at bat,
Speaker 2: that those three at bats with the baseload, nobody out.
Speaker 2: That was as bad as it gets. So that was
Speaker 2: fortunately we weather that inning. Who should attack on certainly more,
Speaker 2: but we found a way to win. And you know,
Speaker 2: there's a little confusion with the show Hey inning as
Speaker 2: far as you know, Freddie going to second then show
Speaker 2: Hey thinking that so then kind of gave him giving
Speaker 2: them an extra out there. But yeah, to get show
Speaker 2: Hey through six innings, and I thought the bullpen was great.
Speaker 1: Was there any like hesitation about bringing Otani back out
Speaker 1: for the sixth given the pitch count and the blister too.
Speaker 2: I thought the pitchout was good, you know, just kind
Speaker 2: of making I thought about it, but just kind of
Speaker 2: talking to Mark and just watching show Hey, this stuff
Speaker 2: was still good, and just feeling like, if we can
Speaker 2: get him through another inning, it would you know, shorten
Speaker 2: who we need to use for the last three innings.
Speaker 2: And it worked out all right.
Speaker 6: There's a manager Dave Roberts interesting there.
Speaker 7: Yeah, they felt comfortable going back out there with show
Speaker 7: Hey Otani.
Speaker 6: So if the knee was a problem, if the blister was.
Speaker 7: A problem, there's no way you would have seen him
Speaker 7: back out there in the sixth inning and they would
Speaker 7: have called it a day for show a Otani at
Speaker 7: that point. Is especially after the four run fifth inning.
Speaker 7: But certainly he felt like he could go back out there.
Speaker 7: They had all the confidence in the world. So this
Speaker 7: knee and blister talk, if it was that bad, I'm
Speaker 7: convinced he wouldn't be back out there in the sixth
Speaker 7: So if it was good enough for them to feel
Speaker 7: like he was good to go, and he went out
Speaker 7: there and pished a one, two, three, six, I think
Speaker 7: we're in a good situation here moving forward with show
Speaker 7: Hey o'tani, who got the win after Freddy Frieman's two
Speaker 7: run home run at the bottom of the six put
Speaker 7: him in line for the win, and the bullpen comes
Speaker 7: in gets the final three innings, putting it up Zeros
Speaker 7: and the Dodgers finish off the sweep at the Tampa
Speaker 7: bay Rays.
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Speaker 9: Great, and there's a scoring position.
Speaker 1: And Freddie hits a high fly ball deep center Fan way.
Speaker 5: Back it us God.
Speaker 3: A home run for Freddie Freeman flips the score.
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Speaker 3: Is Freeman hits his twelfth home run of the season,
Speaker 3: the three hundred and seventy ninth of his.
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Speaker 7: in with Jose. It's time to go around the horn
Speaker 7: with Jose Mos. All right, Jose, the Dodgers were up,
Speaker 7: then the Dodgers were down, and the Dodgers come.
Speaker 6: Back and win it five to four.
Speaker 7: This series in general was pretty thrilling, three one run
Speaker 7: wins for the Dodgers.
Speaker 9: How about the bullpen scoreless this series. How about the
Speaker 9: defense throughout this whole series? And teams like play the
Speaker 9: Pirates bit socks the race. You look at them and go, well,
Speaker 9: how are they and how are you gonna beat him?
Speaker 9: And you find a way to beat him, which is
Speaker 9: obviously to avoid the beginning, but to keep catching the baseball.
Speaker 9: I mean, it just comes down to that, because it
Speaker 9: is what allows you to keep your guys in there
Speaker 9: a little bit longer and then allow your starter to
Speaker 9: line up and properly adjust to the bullpen. And on
Speaker 9: top of that, it gives you a chance to him
Speaker 9: to have the big swing win a ball game all
Speaker 9: three games, one swing really came down to that. Rojas,
Speaker 9: show Hey and today, Freddie Freeman, what.
Speaker 6: About show Hey the picture today?
Speaker 7: Jose, what did you see in the first four innings
Speaker 7: and what happened in your mind that fifth?
Speaker 9: Overall? Okay, I think he's compromised a little bit more
Speaker 9: more than he's telling in terms of delivery. And he
Speaker 9: actually said in the interview what they say about maybe
Speaker 9: some things that he had to change movement wise and
Speaker 9: mechanical wise to adjust to that. I saw a show
Speaker 9: him that really trusted his fastball. I think compromising pictures.
Speaker 9: I think comes down to uh with with split finger
Speaker 9: when he can use it. He's not using it as
Speaker 9: much anymore, at least for now. But a show is
Speaker 9: going to go out there and fight, you know, the
Speaker 9: big the big pictures are gonna just decignie to show
Speaker 9: by doing a couple of things, give you a chance
Speaker 9: to win, no matter what the situation is, how they feel,
Speaker 9: what the score will say. They want to push to
Speaker 9: a lace, allow your team to line up better, to
Speaker 9: give you one a chance to win with one swing
Speaker 9: or a beginning. But the show that I was on
Speaker 9: the fifth inning, a couple of things of me forgetting
Speaker 9: how to cover out the at first base, a compromise
Speaker 9: because of that knee, but nonetheless of mentality to me, Tim,
Speaker 9: it just doesn't waiver. It doesn't change at all because
Speaker 9: I know that perhaps if it was not showhait and
Speaker 9: the Bopa, I've been compromised just a bit because of
Speaker 9: the usage the last few games. He doesn't go out
Speaker 9: that one anying. But I'm like, we have a guy
Speaker 9: there and that says, just give me the ball. I'm
Speaker 9: gonna go out there and throw it.
Speaker 7: And he gets a w what about this Dodger catcher,
Speaker 7: Dalton Rushing and the job he has done. Jose, he
Speaker 7: is coming and now playing majority of the time because
Speaker 7: of the injury to Will Smith.
Speaker 6: I think we're seeing him kind of really grow up
Speaker 6: before our eyes here.
Speaker 9: Yes we are. And he's a guy that sets a challenge.
Speaker 9: He knows exactly how to navigate through lineups. He's not
Speaker 9: afraid of change. He's not afraid of going out and
Speaker 9: doing traditional stuff like hey, just a little tough love
Speaker 9: out there in my which works for a lot of guys.
Speaker 9: It's so different because he's a young catcher that comes
Speaker 9: into a championship type team, great environment, superstar players, that
Speaker 9: just is a super confident and understands his role way
Speaker 9: more this year than last year. I think it heard
Speaker 9: him that perhaps at the end of the season they
Speaker 9: were not depending on him as much. But hands on, man,
Speaker 9: you got to really applaud what he's done and what
Speaker 9: he's carrying into one thing or the other. If he
Speaker 9: doesn't them good at bat, it doesn't carry over to
Speaker 9: mind the plate. And he's not afraid to talk, express
Speaker 9: his opinions and perform, which is I think overall, just
Speaker 9: the sound of a guy that's going to contribute as
Speaker 9: a leader and a guy that the guys trust them about.
Speaker 9: The biggest thing is they trust them, and we have
Speaker 9: better in pictures talking highly about you, like Gamamoto, like
Speaker 9: the show. Hey, obviously they're going to say a lot
Speaker 9: of things that's going to just build you up to
Speaker 9: continue or challenge you to.
Speaker 6: Get better too, No doubt about it.
Speaker 7: A great series win for the Dodgers, a nice sweep
Speaker 7: over Tampa, and I much deserved day off coming up tomorrow,
Speaker 7: really a day and a half of these guys to
Speaker 7: enjoy getting off their feet before the Baltimore Oils come
Speaker 7: to town on Friday night. Jose enjoyed the time off tomorrow.
Speaker 7: We'll talk to you in a couple of days.
Speaker 9: Thank you and commercialations. I'm both daughters of my friends.
Speaker 6: Oh, I appreciate that. Thank you, Jose.
Speaker 7: There he goes Jose Mota check it in here on
Speaker 7: Dodger Talk. As the Dodgers get the five to four
Speaker 7: win over the Tampa Bay Rays. They improved a forty
Speaker 7: eight and twenty seven on this season. Let's go back
Speaker 7: out to the phone. Slars coming from Dodgers Stadium hopefully
Speaker 7: enjoyed a great time out there, fifty seven hundred and
Speaker 7: five on an attendance at Dodger Stadium for a five
Speaker 7: four Dodger win.
Speaker 6: How you doing, Lars?
Speaker 3: Yeah, doing great, Just finishing the drive back to pick
Speaker 3: up my son from camp. Luckily the game finished and
Speaker 3: didn't go to extra innings. But man, that was exciting
Speaker 3: right to the finish. I even caught Otani's last pitch
Speaker 3: of that fateful fifth inning. I was behind behind the
Speaker 3: Dodgers dugout and they threw it over to me, So
Speaker 3: that was exciting.
Speaker 6: Cool.
Speaker 10: But I had one question regarding the Otani rule, just
Speaker 10: to get clarification. I was surprised that he was able
Speaker 10: to come in and pinch it, but I guess it
Speaker 10: wasn't really pinchhitting as much as hitting as the pitcher.
Speaker 10: Am I right in thinking that? And then that's why
Speaker 10: he had to leave. And then the pitcher spot basically
Speaker 10: had to hit from that point.
Speaker 6: Forward, correct, correct?
Speaker 7: So if that spot came up again with Otani up,
Speaker 7: it would be the pitcher who had to hit. So
Speaker 7: you had one at bat really for Otani there when
Speaker 7: he came in and hit the one pitch the ground out,
Speaker 7: and then if it spun around again, it would be the.
Speaker 6: Pitcher would have to hit because you lose the DH.
Speaker 6: You're right, absolutely.
Speaker 10: Got it, okay, and then they could do double switches
Speaker 10: or whatnot. Kind of old school nationally baseball.
Speaker 9: At that point.
Speaker 7: That would be kind of cool to see the old
Speaker 7: double switch at that point. We hadn't seen that in
Speaker 7: what a few years since they implemented the the DH
Speaker 7: in both leagues. That would be kind of fun to see,
Speaker 7: no doubt about that.
Speaker 6: Lars.
Speaker 11: I was waiting for it, thought, good, cool, good, that's
Speaker 11: what I figured.
Speaker 10: It's going to make sure I understood that problems.
Speaker 7: Awesome, Lars, appreciate you checking in. Thanks for thanks for
Speaker 7: being on Dodger Talk today. Yeah, it was a little
Speaker 7: interesting maneuvering there, as he wasn't the show hey dual
Speaker 7: player today to start the game, but because he then
Speaker 7: came in he was a pitcher, came out of the game,
Speaker 7: but then came in as a DH in the DH role,
Speaker 7: and by doing that you then lose the DH.
Speaker 6: It's all confusing, but the.
Speaker 7: Dodgers get to win five to four of the Tampa
Speaker 7: Bay Rays, and it was the first time we've seen
Speaker 7: that happen as far as Showy coming in as a
Speaker 7: DH in a game after pitching. We're not going to
Speaker 7: see it too many times. If we do, you know
Speaker 7: what's going to happen. He gets it at bat and
Speaker 7: then it flips back to the pitcher hitting. So all right, Well,
Speaker 7: that being said, our final call, Ken and Newport Beach.
Speaker 6: Can how you doing, hey, Jim?
Speaker 4: Praise a game?
Speaker 7: Right?
Speaker 3: Win?
Speaker 6: Yeh?
Speaker 9: Three really good wins.
Speaker 8: There's two questions.
Speaker 9: Yes, in the fifth inning, wa Tony gave up five
Speaker 9: hits in a walk and I'm kind of yelling at
Speaker 9: the TV.
Speaker 4: Dave, he's still injured.
Speaker 9: Take him out. Dave took him out. But Dave didn't
Speaker 9: do it. Don't you think he should have come out
Speaker 9: because he just didn't look right in that inning?
Speaker 6: They didn't.
Speaker 7: I think they had somebody up at that point, but
Speaker 7: I mean, he didn't get over to field the ground ball.
Speaker 7: On the ball hit to Freddie Friedman, he kind of
Speaker 7: saw it unraveling. But you know, show hey, show hey,
Speaker 7: you have to let him get himself out of that inning.
Speaker 7: If the knee was bothering him or the bloody blister
Speaker 7: was bothering him, I think you saw. I think you
Speaker 7: would have seen Dave Roberts come out and get him,
Speaker 7: but they let him go out there, fight through it.
Speaker 7: It was only a four to two game at that point.
Speaker 7: It's only the fifth inning. You got to figure your offense.
Speaker 7: Your big bobbers are gonna come up once, maybe twice
Speaker 7: more in this game. The bottom of the lineup has
Speaker 7: been productive. Heck, they scored the first two runs for you.
Speaker 7: You're already getting to the raised bullpen at that point.
Speaker 7: The game's not over.
Speaker 6: You're not conceding, all right, this game is over.
Speaker 7: At least we won the series. So appreciate the phone call, Ken,
Speaker 7: thanks for checking in. Let's get one more in my guy,
Speaker 7: Blake and Colorado Blake, longtime Noe talk. We missed you
Speaker 7: over the weekend. Hope you're well.
Speaker 11: Yeah, you always.
Speaker 5: Forgot about me.
Speaker 7: I would never forget about you, Blake. I would never
Speaker 7: forget about you.
Speaker 6: How you doing.
Speaker 7: Have you been into any games out of Coors Field
Speaker 7: or anywhere else in the last week or so?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 7: Okay, what what did you think about the Dodgers come
Speaker 7: from behind win today? They were down four to two.
Speaker 7: Freddie free with that big home run. This team is
Speaker 7: never out.
Speaker 11: Blake, Yeah, Alex be good sitting down the game and
Speaker 11: have a question. You think, do you think we learnt
Speaker 11: to get to call up and send MBSC hand down.
Speaker 7: Oh that is a great question, Blake. I don't know
Speaker 7: if they do it this next turn through the rotation.
Speaker 7: Thank you, Blake. Great to hear your voice, my friend.
Speaker 7: I'll be back in a couple of days.
Speaker 11: Okay, I canna be back Sunday.
Speaker 6: I'm not sure if I'm back Sunday, but if i am,
Speaker 6: i'll talk to you then.
Speaker 1: I'll say thank you, sir.
Speaker 7: I appreciate that that's my guy, Blake in Colorado. I
Speaker 7: appreciate that River Ryan was scheduled to start last night,
Speaker 7: did not make the start because he was, you know,
Speaker 7: kind of on standby because they didn't know whether or
Speaker 7: not shohe was going to make the start today after
Speaker 7: his bullpen session yesterday. Showhey makes the start. So my
Speaker 7: assumption is River Ryan will pitch again today. I haven't
Speaker 7: looked to see what Oklahoma City's doing today, but I
Speaker 7: assume he'll make another start and then when it's time
Speaker 7: for Imma Sheen to come back around that's on Sunday.
Speaker 7: I expect Emma to get the start. I don't see
Speaker 7: him losing his spot in the rotation right now. If
Speaker 7: Sunday comes and it's another up and down outing for
Speaker 7: Imma Sheian, I think the question.
Speaker 6: Is in value valid.
Speaker 7: Can can River Ryan give you better starts every five
Speaker 7: to six days in place of Imma Shean? But I
Speaker 7: think you're going to give Imma Sheen another start, and
Speaker 7: I think at that point it start to start to
Speaker 7: see how he does because when Imagan's pitching, well, he's
Speaker 7: really in, you know, in tune. And the problem is
Speaker 7: we see she and pitch three four a good Indian
Speaker 7: and then run into the fifth and things just fall apart.
Speaker 6: So maybe his.
Speaker 7: Role is more did as a bulk inty reliever. Maybe
Speaker 7: he's more suited just to see five or six guys
Speaker 7: in a game rather than go through the lineup two
Speaker 7: or three times as a starter.
Speaker 6: So we'll see.
Speaker 7: I don't think we're giving up on Imachine quite yet,
Speaker 7: but River Ryan certainly is waiting in the wings there
Speaker 7: down in TRIPLEA, Oklahoma City.
Speaker 6: That's gonna do it for Dodger Talk.
Speaker 7: Many thanks to coliny E, many thanks to you for
Speaker 7: being a part of the show. Thanks for podcasting it
Speaker 7: as well. We'll be back on Friday with the Dodgers
Speaker 7: playing host to the Baltimore Orioles.
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Speaker 7: get Petros coming up next. Dodgers victorious over the Tampa
Speaker 7: bay Rays. They went at five to four. Freddie Freeman
Speaker 7: to run home run showy Otani gets to win. Dodgers
Speaker 7: most wins in baseball have forty eight and twenty seven
Speaker 7: until Friday night with Moroco because he know Dodgers on
Speaker 7: deck at six first pitch and seven.
Speaker 6: Enjoy a little PMS next soul. Everybody