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Speaker 2: thirty after the Cardinals take Game one of this three
Speaker 2: game series by a final score of seven to two
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Speaker 2: hear from Emi Sheen. We had a chance to catch
Speaker 2: up with tom Y Edman. We'll get an update on
Speaker 2: how his right ankle is responding after undergoing off season
Speaker 2: surgery to try to surgically repair that right ankle that
Speaker 2: has been giving him problems for the last two years.
Speaker 2: So you'll hear part of our conversation with Tommy Edmund
Speaker 2: But as far as tonight goes for the Dodgers, it
Speaker 2: just was another flat night. And I know when a
Speaker 2: team's not hitting and not scoring runs and not stringing
Speaker 2: hits together, they will look flat. But you know, having
Speaker 2: a chance to hear what Adrian Gonzalez and No More
Speaker 2: Garcia Para had to say on Sports Net LA after
Speaker 2: the final out, the way they describe it is something
Speaker 2: that you know, I couldn't put into words. They're two
Speaker 2: of the best hitters of their generations and actually had
Speaker 2: an idea of what they were doing and what was
Speaker 2: going on in the game, and I thought they hit
Speaker 2: the nail on the head, not only when it comes
Speaker 2: to Andy Pajz, but everybody tonight seem to be trying
Speaker 2: to cover too much of the strike zone and you
Speaker 2: can't do that. You'll hear some of the best hitters
Speaker 2: like Adrian Gonzalez and No Mar Garcia Para, they'll say
Speaker 2: you can't cover the outside part of the plate and
Speaker 2: the inside part of the plate you can't cover down
Speaker 2: in the way and up and in. You've got to
Speaker 2: know your strike zone. And that goes back to what
Speaker 2: people always say, like Adrian and Nomar, you gotta know
Speaker 2: who you are, you gotta know what your strike zone is.
Speaker 2: And we saw a lot of indecisive swings tonight. We
Speaker 2: saw show Hey Otani take a fastball right down the
Speaker 2: middle for strike three to end the seventh inning. So
Speaker 2: we saw the Cardinals do the exact opposite. I thought
Speaker 2: they brought up a great point. Jordan Walker was a
Speaker 2: great example of that. He was first pitch swinging. He
Speaker 2: was ready to hit on the first pitch. Did not
Speaker 2: want to get into any counts with Emit Sheen where
Speaker 2: he's gonna throw his slider or his change up. No,
Speaker 2: he knows Emit Sheen relies on his fastball, So he
Speaker 2: was going to be ready to hit she Hen's fastball
Speaker 2: early and often, same thing with a Guardo Enriquez who
Speaker 2: throws one hundred miles an hour. Jordan Walker hits a
Speaker 2: ball down the left field line for a two run double,
Speaker 2: ends up at third base because of a bad play
Speaker 2: by taoscar Hernandez. So it just seems like a lot
Speaker 2: of guys, some of the best, are very indecisive at
Speaker 2: the plate, and maybe to a certain extent. You know,
Speaker 2: this is just a theory, and they threw it out there,
Speaker 2: and I feel like at times it does hamper the Dodgers.
Speaker 2: They have paralysis by analysis, too much information, too much guessing.
Speaker 2: This guy is gonna throw this pitch in this count,
Speaker 2: Look for this pitch in this out. No, look for
Speaker 2: the pitch in your strike zone. That's what Andy Pai
Speaker 2: has was doing so well in spring training and to
Speaker 2: start the year. Now all of a sudden, he's expanding
Speaker 2: his strike zone, and you saw tonight the reason why
Speaker 2: he's in a slump. Now, in the fourth inning, he
Speaker 2: swings at a pitch out of the strike zone. Not
Speaker 2: his pitch grounds into a soft double play to end
Speaker 2: the inning. In the fourth and then in the sixth inning,
Speaker 2: first and third, two outs, he works a full count
Speaker 2: somehow and swings at a pitch down in the zone
Speaker 2: and it was ball four. You gotta know, if you're
Speaker 2: Andy pa Has, I gotta keep the line moving. Max Muncie,
Speaker 2: our most consistent and best hitter is on deck behind me.
Speaker 2: I need to get on to force the issue to
Speaker 2: load the bases again against George Soriano, who didn't really
Speaker 2: have command of the strike zone in that inning, and
Speaker 2: he swung at a pitch outside the strike zone, popped
Speaker 2: it up shallow center field, and the inning was over
Speaker 2: and Muncie was on deck. I'm not pointing the finger
Speaker 2: at Pajez, but my point is when you're in a
Speaker 2: slump like Paz, the game will find you. The biggest
Speaker 2: moments of the game will find you. And Jose Mota
Speaker 2: brought up a great point just a couple of weeks ago.
Speaker 2: We wanted the game to find Pahz, but right now
Speaker 2: he looks like the Paez of last year, and same
Speaker 2: with Freddie Freeman on the home stand. The game found
Speaker 2: him and he was in a slump. He was three
Speaker 2: for twenty five on this last homestand including zero for
Speaker 2: five the day before yesterday, and tonight in a ballpark
Speaker 2: that he loves to hit in. He started to hit
Speaker 2: the ball hard up the middle, two for four with
Speaker 2: a run score tonight, so that was encouraging. But my
Speaker 2: point being on the offense, they just got to get
Speaker 2: back to not trying to do it all them So
Speaker 2: going back to twenty fifteen, the Dodgers always talked about
Speaker 2: passing the baton. That's when they're at their best. That's
Speaker 2: when they were at their best at times last year.
Speaker 2: That's when they were at their best the year before.
Speaker 2: When they start trying to be the hero, things really
Speaker 2: fall apart. The chain gets broken and you go homerless
Speaker 2: for four straight games. That hasn't happened since twenty twenty three.
Speaker 2: And I told you last night on off day Dodger
Speaker 2: talk that the Cardinals can hit the ball out of
Speaker 2: the ballpark. The Dodgers lead major League Baseball with seventy
Speaker 2: five home runs, while the Cardinals coming into tonight had
Speaker 2: seventy one home runs. The problem was their pitching staff
Speaker 2: gave up thirty seven home runs. It's the pitching for
Speaker 2: the Cardinals right now that is holding them back. But
Speaker 2: tonight Nolan Gorman and Alec Burlison homer and off Emmi Shean,
Speaker 2: who had eight strikeouts, which is great, but they were
Speaker 2: jumping all over his first pitch fastballs and he wasn't
Speaker 2: adjusting and then things kind of snowballed him after that. Bok,
Speaker 2: you heard Dave Roberts say that speaking of Emmit Shean.
Speaker 2: Let's go back to Saint Louis to hear from Shean
Speaker 2: on sports and at LA met some mistake.
Speaker 3: I didn't share that I was switching to the to
Speaker 3: the stretch. I know the rule, it was just in
Speaker 3: the moment I didn't declare it, and yeah, unacceptable.
Speaker 1: And you look at just kind of what followed after that.
Speaker 1: Did it just feel like things kind of went in
Speaker 1: a little haywire there?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean maybe a little bit. Just gotta have
Speaker 3: a better execution on that fastball to Gorman. Other than that, yeah,
Speaker 3: just frustrating. You know, stuff wasn't where it should be.
Speaker 3: Delivery is still a little out of whack, but we're
Speaker 3: going to stay on it.
Speaker 2: So it just seemed like Emmit Sheen was fighting himself tonight.
Speaker 2: I know the fastball was on and off good, but
Speaker 2: he just didn't seem to have command of his pitches
Speaker 2: and was getting front strated with himself and in turn,
Speaker 2: it was snowballing on him, especially in that first inning.
Speaker 2: The Cardinals scored their three runs with two outs in
Speaker 2: that first inning. If he's able to get that last out,
Speaker 2: maybe it's a different game for IMiD Shean. But that
Speaker 2: first inning went a lot longer than it should have,
Speaker 2: and the Cardinals were able to take advantage of a
Speaker 2: frustrated she Hen in that first inning with two outs,
Speaker 2: got the first two outs, couldn't get the last one.
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Speaker 2: two five seventy is the phone number. You know, the
Speaker 2: narrative coming into the game tonight, because this series is
Speaker 2: going to have three guys that were in the bullpen
Speaker 2: at times last year. We're in the minor leagues at
Speaker 2: times last year. Are not glass now, Yamamoto, Otan, right, Sheehan,
Speaker 2: Roki Robleski are all pitching in this series this weekend.
Speaker 2: And we all know Blake Snell is on his way back,
Speaker 2: if not by the end of the next homestand then
Speaker 2: in Anaheim at the beginning of the next road trip
Speaker 2: because he is going to pitch Sunday for Oklahoma City.
Speaker 2: He is going to make one more rehab start after that,
Speaker 2: so it would line him up for the Giant Series
Speaker 2: at the end of that four game series or in Anaheim.
Speaker 2: So he is coming back. He is the two time
Speaker 2: Cyung Award winner. The Dodgers need him, and that is
Speaker 2: going to make their rotation even more devastating. With the
Speaker 2: way glassnow's pitching, you're getting Otani Yamamoto and now you're
Speaker 2: getting Blake Snell back. I mean, name a better four
Speaker 2: in baseball than those four starters. But nonetheless, the narrative
Speaker 2: coming into the game tonight was this series is somewhat
Speaker 2: of a tryout for these three guys. I got news
Speaker 2: for you. Andrew Friedman is not going to let one
Speaker 2: start in Saint Louis dictate what his plan is for
Speaker 2: any one of these three guys. He already knows what
Speaker 2: he's going to do, barring an injury. That's what it's funny.
Speaker 2: There's a lot of new people covering the Dodgers, so
Speaker 2: they don't understand that. Obviously they don't know Andrew Friedman.
Speaker 2: He is not going to allow one start in Saint
Speaker 2: Louis to dictate whether or not Emid Shehan is out
Speaker 2: of the rotation, or if Roki Sazaki is out of
Speaker 2: the rotation, or if Justin Robleski is going back to
Speaker 2: the bullpen. That's not how he operates. It was evident
Speaker 2: by the way the Dodgers opening day roster was laid
Speaker 2: out this year. It was obvious in past years. It's
Speaker 2: obvious how they navigate a regular season. It's not about
Speaker 2: one start being a tryout in the middle of the year.
Speaker 2: It's about looking at the schedule, looking at the matchups,
Speaker 2: looking at the state of their bullpen to see whether
Speaker 2: or not one of these three guys can help their bullpen.
Speaker 2: Is Robleski better suited to help the Dodgers in the
Speaker 2: bullpen and maybe combo him on a start with Roki Sasaki?
Speaker 2: Is Emi Shean better for the team? Do the puzzles
Speaker 2: fit better for a guy that has struggled to get
Speaker 2: through a lineup more than twice this year? Is he
Speaker 2: a better fit to piggyback a erratic Roki Sasaki? Now,
Speaker 2: if you took all three of these guys, Robleski and
Speaker 2: Shehan obviously have had better results. I would say Robleski
Speaker 2: way better results than Roki Shean. Mixed results, but still
Speaker 2: better than Roki Sasaki. Uh, the Dodgers are gonna look
Speaker 2: at what he does tomorrow and figure out whether or
Speaker 2: not if he's going to continue to walk five guys
Speaker 2: and only you know, pitch four innings, if that's going
Speaker 2: to work for them. But like I said, the Dodgers
Speaker 2: are not going to allow one start this weekend to
Speaker 2: dictate whether or not one of these guys is out
Speaker 2: of the rotation. That's not how Andrew Freeman works. That's
Speaker 2: not the way that they've won back to back World series.
Speaker 2: That's not the way they've mastered the regular season. So
Speaker 2: can we please stop with this being a so called
Speaker 2: tryout series for all three of these guys, because it's not.
Speaker 2: I got news for you. Andrew Freeman has already plotted
Speaker 2: out what he's going to do when Blake Snell comes
Speaker 2: back in a week and a half, not a few weeks,
Speaker 2: not a few starts, two more rehab starts, two more weeks.
Speaker 2: And it's not an indictment on Sheehan or Robleski. It's
Speaker 2: about what's best for the team. And Robleski said this
Speaker 2: coming out of spring training. Of course I want to
Speaker 2: be a starter. Of course I know I can be
Speaker 2: a starter, but I'll do whatever it takes to be
Speaker 2: on this team. Same with Sheehan. He may be ultimately
Speaker 2: in the same type of bucket as a Dustin May
Speaker 2: and maybe better suited for the bullpen, because right now
Speaker 2: he's been, you know, not very effective either, and he
Speaker 2: hasn't been really on his game since day one of
Speaker 2: spring training for whatever reason. His mechanics just haven't been
Speaker 2: that good. So are his mechanics going to get better
Speaker 2: in the bullpen? It's a lot harder to work on
Speaker 2: your mechanics in the bullpen, it really is. So maybe
Speaker 2: he gets sent down to work out those mechanical issues
Speaker 2: be more consistent to help the Dodger rotation. Now, the
Speaker 2: whole Rokie thing, that's a whole different topic that, you know,
Speaker 2: I'm not sure anybody really fully understands, because our eyes
Speaker 2: would tell you that maybe he's not major league ready
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Speaker 2: Dodgers fall to the Cardinals tonight seven to two in
Speaker 2: Saint Louis, dropped their third straight They've lost eight of
Speaker 2: their last twelve and did not hit a home run tonight,
Speaker 2: so for the first time since twenty twenty three, the
Speaker 2: Dodgers go homerless for the fourth straight game. On the
Speaker 2: flip side, the Cardinals are one of the hotter teams
Speaker 2: in the National League. They are coming off a four
Speaker 2: game sweep of the Pirates, so they have won five
Speaker 2: in a row and they're very much in the NL
Speaker 2: Central race thanks to a very surprising offense to begin
Speaker 2: the year, led by Jordan Walker, who had four hits
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Speaker 2: six six nine eight seven two five seventy is the
Speaker 2: phone number. Uh. Look, when the Dodgers are flat like this,
Speaker 2: they're not really fun to watch and you're just wondering,
Speaker 2: how can all these great hitters go into a slump
Speaker 2: at the same time. And that's That's one of those
Speaker 2: baseball mysteries that are hard to understand. We always just
Speaker 2: lean on the default that hitting is contagious. When you're
Speaker 2: going good, everybody's feeling great and you're rolling. Other times,
Speaker 2: when you're in a slump, it's contagious and everybody's cold.
Speaker 2: But when that happens, everybody wants to be the hero.
Speaker 2: And then you start pressing, and that's when it starts
Speaker 2: to look like it looked tonight. You start expanding your zone,
Speaker 2: your strike zone, and you swing at pitches out of
Speaker 2: the strike zone and not in a place that you
Speaker 2: can do some damage with. And I think we're seeing that. Really,
Speaker 2: the only Dodger that has been consistent is Max Munsey,
Speaker 2: and I know there's been a lot written about him
Speaker 2: in the last week about the eyeglasses, about all that.
Speaker 2: I mean, if you go back to what we talked
Speaker 2: about last year, so many of you were off the
Speaker 2: Munseie bandwagon but didn't understand until he came back his
Speaker 2: function in the lineup. Yes, he's he came into the
Speaker 2: league as a three true outcome player walk, home run,
Speaker 2: or strike out, but he has made a concerted effort
Speaker 2: to be a much better hitter than that. And the
Speaker 2: one thing that wasn't written about when it comes to
Speaker 2: Max Munsey's worth is how many pitches he sees per
Speaker 2: at bat, understands the situation, understands whether or not it's
Speaker 2: time to ambush the first pitch, whether or not depending
Speaker 2: on who's hitting in front of him. Like Andy Paz,
Speaker 2: who swings at everything, is it time for him to
Speaker 2: be a little bit more patient and go deeper into
Speaker 2: the count. That is the function of Max Munsey. And
Speaker 2: you know what, I know what Dave Roberts is thinking.
Speaker 2: The bottom third of the order against the lefty like
Speaker 2: Matthew Libertore. I know what he's thinking. I need Muncy
Speaker 2: in that area sandwiched between Rojas and Paz because they
Speaker 2: may especially Pahz will swing at the first pitch, and
Speaker 2: you need a guy it attacks the opposing pitcher. But
Speaker 2: Taoscar Hernandez is hitting two thirty eight, he's not really
Speaker 2: doing much power. If I'm Dave Roberts, you know who's
Speaker 2: hitting cleanup for me tomorrow, It's Max Munsey. Let's get
Speaker 2: back to the guys that got you there, right, Max
Speaker 2: Munsey should be hitting cleanup. Kyle tu probably should be
Speaker 2: hitting fifth or sixth in this lineup right now, that's
Speaker 2: where he did the most damage when he was with
Speaker 2: the Astros, when he was hitting fifth behind guys like
Speaker 2: Bregman and jor Don Alvarez. Let's get back to Max
Speaker 2: Munsey being the cleanup hitter. If this lineup is that stagnant,
Speaker 2: and I hate to say this, but he is. He
Speaker 2: has the second most home runs on the team. He
Speaker 2: has seventeen RBIs, his ops is almost thirteen hundred. He
Speaker 2: right now is the hottest Dodger hitter. And his name's
Speaker 2: Dalton Rushing. And he didn't get in at bat tonight.
Speaker 2: And I know, if you're Dave Roberts, it's hard to
Speaker 2: get him in a bat because Freddie Freeman's at first base,
Speaker 2: Will Smith is catching, so he can't get in there
Speaker 2: every night. But I'm just letting you know that right now,
Speaker 2: with this lineup, with so many guys scuffling, when you
Speaker 2: don't have Dalton Rushing in this lineup, it's not the
Speaker 2: same at least right now. The month of April belonged
Speaker 2: to Dalton Rushing and Max Munsey on this team, more
Speaker 2: Rushing than anybody else. Eight six, six, nine eighty seven
Speaker 2: two five seventy is the phone number. And don't get
Speaker 2: me wrong, I am not saying that Dalton Rushing should
Speaker 2: split time with Will Smith because that's only going to
Speaker 2: hurt Will Smith. And Will Smith to me, along with
Speaker 2: Max Munsey, are the two most underrated Dodgers period, the
Speaker 2: two most underrated Dodgers. Max Munsey's defense has been stellar
Speaker 2: this year. It was really good last year. If it
Speaker 2: wasn't for his incredible stab at Andres Jimenez's line drive
Speaker 2: in the eighth inning of last year's Game seven, the
Speaker 2: Blue Jays win the World Series. If it wasn't for
Speaker 2: Max Munsey's home run to pull the Dodgers within a
Speaker 2: run off a tree is savage in Game seven of
Speaker 2: the World Series, the Dodgers don't win the World Series.
Speaker 2: There is no Miguel Rojas game tying home run. Will
Speaker 2: Smith hit the go ahead home run in the eleventh
Speaker 2: inning of Game seven last year. He also caught more
Speaker 2: innings than any other catcher in the history of the
Speaker 2: World Series, including all eighteen innings. He's just not a
Speaker 2: self promoter. He's not a guy that's gonna go on
Speaker 2: a media tour. He's not a guy that loves to
Speaker 2: be in front of the camera or the microphone, and
Speaker 2: that's fine, that's him. But he's a really good teammate
Speaker 2: and he's a really good hitter. And I would argue
Speaker 2: that Muncie, will Smith and Freddie Freeman are the three
Speaker 2: most clutch hitters on the Dodgers for the last three years.
Speaker 2: Will Smith since he got here in twenty nineteen. Remember
Speaker 2: walk off weekend against the Rockies. That was the beginning
Speaker 2: of will Smith being one of the most clutch players
Speaker 2: on the Dodgers and in Major League Baseball. The problem is,
Speaker 2: will Smith and Freddie Freeman play the positions that Dalton
Speaker 2: Rushing play and he got Shoe hal Tani as the
Speaker 2: DH so right now, that's a problem. Eight six, six, nine, seven, two,
Speaker 2: five seventy is the phone number. The Dodgers are winning
Speaker 2: for tom Yedman as well. He is the twenty four NLCSMVP.
Speaker 2: He's a back to back World Series champion. He's a
Speaker 2: guy that could play second, short, third, center, left, right,
Speaker 2: anywhere you want to play, he could play there. But
Speaker 2: he's been hampered by this right ankle since he was
Speaker 2: with the Cardinals. So he finally had something done about it.
Speaker 2: Had off season surgery and he's not eligible to come
Speaker 2: off the IL until the end of this month. Whether
Speaker 2: or not that happens still remains to be seen, because
Speaker 2: he doesn't seem to me moving past running in the
Speaker 2: straight line, So that makes you wonder. And I had
Speaker 2: a chance to catch up with Tomy Edmond on the
Speaker 2: pregame show today.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, it's it's tough. It's it's tough when
Speaker 4: you know, we're baseball players and you know, or a
Speaker 4: lot of the time we find our value and just
Speaker 4: like how we're contributing on the field. But you know,
Speaker 4: I'm trying to do everything I can to, you know,
Speaker 4: just stay part of the team and and be the
Speaker 4: best cheerleader that I can be, and you know, just supporting,
Speaker 4: supporting everybody, supporting all the guys who are going through
Speaker 4: the grind and you know, hopefully I'll be a part
Speaker 4: of it soon.
Speaker 2: Have some of the young guys try to lean on you,
Speaker 2: like Alex Freeland, maybe he's Sun Kim here and there.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, it's it's tough. You've seeing, uh, you know,
Speaker 4: seeing everybody go through the stuff of a regular season,
Speaker 4: you know, all the ups and downs, and you know,
Speaker 4: me not really not being able to to relate since
Speaker 4: I'm not playing, But you know, I've I've been able
Speaker 4: to have some good conversations with some of the guys
Speaker 4: and you know, just kind of trying to relate some
Speaker 4: of my own experiences and hopefully be a good influence
Speaker 4: and be a good leader for them.
Speaker 2: What's your therapy to try to maintain your patience until
Speaker 2: you come back.
Speaker 4: You know, it's we have a having two kids mix
Speaker 4: things a lot of easier. You know, there's not much downtime
Speaker 4: even when even when I'm not playing, So I guess
Speaker 4: that's been a good part of it is, you know,
Speaker 4: just getting a little bit of extra time with the family.
Speaker 4: And you know, Eli is going to be a really
Speaker 4: good hitter by the end of my ile stint because
Speaker 4: we're playing a lot of ball in the backyard right now.
Speaker 2: All right. I guess that's the positive. Eli's getting a
Speaker 2: lot of time with his dad, Tommy Edmund. But the
Speaker 2: Dodgers would love to get him back, and that would
Speaker 2: make this lineup even deeper. And talk about a guy
Speaker 2: that is not trying to hit home runs, understands his
Speaker 2: role hitting at the bottom of the lineup to be
Speaker 2: essentially another leadoff hitter Tommy Edmund definitely is missed. And
Speaker 2: Keith a Hernandez, who is eligible to come off the
Speaker 2: IL May twenty third or May twenty fourth, he's missed
Speaker 2: as well. He could play a lot of different positions
Speaker 2: and certainly is a second half guy and tober players.
Speaker 2: So key K is on his way back. He should
Speaker 2: be going out on a rehab assignment here while the
Speaker 2: Dodgers are on the road trip, and if not, when
Speaker 2: they come back home. So key K, a Hernandez and
Speaker 2: Tommy Edmund eligible to come off the IL at the
Speaker 2: end of May. So we'll see when those guys come back.
Speaker 2: And I feel like Kei K he's ready to go
Speaker 2: right now if you ask him. So the Dodgers will
Speaker 2: have to make a decision amongst Santiago Espinal, Alex Freeland
Speaker 2: and Hayesan Kim who gets sent down when KEYK a
Speaker 2: Hernandez returns at the end of the month. But there's
Speaker 2: a lot of time between now and then, and we'll
Speaker 2: see how long it takes for Tommy Edmund to come back.
Speaker 2: Right now, the platoon of Rojas and Alex Freeland at
Speaker 2: second base is working out pretty well. You get KEYK back.
Speaker 2: He could play some second base as well. So I
Speaker 2: think the Dodgers just want that right ankle, and same
Speaker 2: with Tommy Edmand to just cooperate a little bit something
Speaker 2: it hasn't done the last two years. All right, that'll
Speaker 2: do it for us. On Dodger Talk tonight. Coming up tomorrow,
Speaker 2: Roki Sasaki will be on the mound for the Dodgers.
Speaker 2: It's a flip a coin type of day with which
Speaker 2: Rokie you're going to get. He's one and two with
Speaker 2: an ERA of six thirty five. I will say this,
Speaker 2: he threw more strikes in his last start than he
Speaker 2: has all season long because he has tweaked how he's
Speaker 2: throwing that splitter. So he was able to throw that
Speaker 2: for strikes fifty three percent of the time in his
Speaker 2: last start. Let's see if he can build off that.
Speaker 2: Let's see if he can duplicate that. At the very least,
Speaker 2: the Dodgers are going up against twenty five year old
Speaker 2: right hander Michael McCreevy, who in six starts for Saint
Speaker 2: Louis has an ERA of two ninety seven. McCreevy's record
Speaker 2: is one and two this year. Morongo Casino Dodgers on
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Speaker 2: four fifteen. That'll do it for us tonight. Thanks to
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