Speaker 1: The quest for the three peat has begun.
Speaker 2: Only four teams in Major League Baseball history have won
Speaker 2: three consecutive titles.
Speaker 3: The Dodgers are the favorites to become the fifth fifth.
Speaker 1: This is World Champion Dodger Talk.
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Speaker 1: Back to get him on the show called eight six
Speaker 1: six eighty seven two five seventy, and be sure to
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Speaker 1: David Vasselas.
Speaker 2: Welcome the Dodger Talk. David vasse with you until eight thirty.
Speaker 2: Tonight at eight sixty six nine eighty seven two five seventy.
Speaker 2: We are live at City Field after the Dodgers beat
Speaker 2: the Mets four to three on a night that Kyle
Speaker 2: Tucker hit his hardest baseball of the season one hundred
Speaker 2: and seven plus miles an hour, the hardest hit ball
Speaker 2: Kyle Tucker has hit all season long, and it was
Speaker 2: a home run leading off the third inning off Nolan
Speaker 2: McClain that he sent to the upper deck down the
Speaker 2: right field line, and then in his.
Speaker 3: Next at bat, he.
Speaker 2: Really smoked the ball to left field for what might
Speaker 2: have been extra bases if not for the young left
Speaker 2: fielder for the Mets, aj Ewing being turned around because
Speaker 2: the ball was hit one hundred miles an hour and
Speaker 2: he was turned around, but he recovered and made the catch.
Speaker 3: So I want to believe. I want to believe that.
Speaker 2: Kyle Tucker is taking off and never looking back starting
Speaker 2: this series against the Mets, because let's be honest, the
Speaker 2: first two series of the second half of the year
Speaker 2: did not go well for Kyle Tucker. It looked like
Speaker 2: more of the same. But the last two games have
Speaker 2: looked like Kyle Tucker. I will say this as well
Speaker 2: for Kyle Tucker. One thing that Dave Roberts said they
Speaker 2: know Kyle Tucker can do is not chase pitches outside
Speaker 2: of the strike zone. And Kyle Tucker is striking out
Speaker 2: at a clip a lot smaller than he was.
Speaker 3: At the beginning of the season.
Speaker 2: He was striking out twenty eight percent of the time
Speaker 2: in June. In the month of July, he's only striking
Speaker 2: out ten percent of the time, which is certainly impressive.
Speaker 2: And certainly, you know what he told us in Minnesota,
Speaker 2: that he is striking out a lot less than he
Speaker 2: was at the beginning of the year. And I think
Speaker 2: that's a part of the equation here to hopefully buy
Speaker 2: in that Kyle Tucker can you know, right the ship
Speaker 2: here in at the end of July and into August.
Speaker 2: But I think we all want to believe that Kyle
Speaker 2: Tucker has found something, so we'll see how it goes.
Speaker 2: Two games is not going to make us a narrative
Speaker 2: change when it comes to Kyle Tucker. But getting to
Speaker 2: know him this year, he's a really good guy and
Speaker 2: you're rooting for him. I'll just say that I'm rooting
Speaker 2: for Kyle Tucker because getting to know him on a
Speaker 2: personal level certainly makes you want to hope for a
Speaker 2: guy like that to be able to turn his season around.
Speaker 3: And I will say this. You know another subplot to
Speaker 3: this series.
Speaker 2: I mentioned it during the Clubhouse show is the fact
Speaker 2: that it was the Mets that constructed this wacky contract
Speaker 2: to go shorter years with the highest aav this side
Speaker 2: of sho hey Otani, and they went a little bit
Speaker 2: lower to Boba Ship, but they basically did the same thing.
Speaker 2: They gave him forty something million dollars for one year
Speaker 2: for him to be able to opt out. And Kyle
Speaker 2: Tucker can opt out of his contract with the Dodgers
Speaker 2: after year two. But look, it was the Mets that
Speaker 2: offered Tucker fifty five million dollars for this season, and
Speaker 2: the Dodgers said, you know what, We'll see your fifty
Speaker 2: five and raise you five more because we can. And
Speaker 2: Kyle Tucker I think made the right choice choosing the Dodgers.
Speaker 2: This would not have been a good situation for Kyle Tucker.
Speaker 2: Kyle Tucker great guy, a guy that wants to go
Speaker 2: under the radar, does not want to be center stage,
Speaker 2: does not want to have the expectations of having to
Speaker 2: carry a team. And they all would have been looking
Speaker 2: at Kyle Tucker right now in New York and Bobashek
Speaker 2: got booed in the first series back after the All
Speaker 2: Star break. But tonight, I didn't hear booze for Bobashitt.
Speaker 2: I didn't hear booze for Francisco Lindor. I guess they
Speaker 2: don't boo people out here in Queens, but they do
Speaker 2: boo a Yankee stadium. But yeah, I was a little
Speaker 2: surprised they're not booing this team. More so different vibe,
Speaker 2: definitely a different vibe. But going back to Tucker, yeah,
Speaker 2: he could have signed with the Mets, and he made
Speaker 2: the right decision to sign with the Dodgers because, like
Speaker 2: I've said before, he has the high price tag next
Speaker 2: to his name, but the number doesn't match who he
Speaker 2: is in his career. And that's why I always say,
Speaker 2: forget about the salary. The salary means nothing when you
Speaker 2: step between the lines or step in the batter's box.
Speaker 2: That's for us to talk about. But you look at
Speaker 2: Kyle Tucker's career. His career averages is two seventy hits,
Speaker 2: somewhere between twenty five and thirty home runs, drives in
Speaker 2: somewhere between ninety and one hundred runs. That's who he is,
Speaker 2: and that's not a guy that's going to carry you.
Speaker 2: What that's going to do is to give a guy
Speaker 2: that sees a lot of pitches. Even in his last
Speaker 2: at bat where he struck out, it was a ten
Speaker 2: pitch at bat. He's gonna see a lot of pitches.
Speaker 2: He's not going to strike out a lot. He's going
Speaker 2: to walk as many times as he's going to strike out.
Speaker 2: But we just haven't seen that this year from Kyle Tucker.
Speaker 2: But hopefully home ering for the first time and back
Speaker 2: to back games is the beginning of Kyle Tucker, you know,
Speaker 2: washing away the first four months of the season and
Speaker 2: when you're on the Dodgers and you have the best
Speaker 2: record in baseball and you're trying to repeat. If he's
Speaker 2: able to become Kyle Tucker that he's been his entire career,
Speaker 2: starting last night and carrying it over tonight and carrying
Speaker 2: it forward, I think everybody would be happy with that.
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Speaker 2: of a fighter man.
Speaker 3: I mentioned this earlier with Jose Mota.
Speaker 2: You hear about the Mets and how bad they are,
Speaker 2: and then you see them in person and the care
Speaker 2: factor you want to talk about, lack of care factor.
Speaker 2: I see a lot of lack of care factor out
Speaker 2: here from a lot of guys.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 2: Before the game, Francisco Lindors showed a lot of care factor.
Speaker 2: He was taking early batting practice and was trying to
Speaker 2: get coached up by America's DH JD Martinez, who was
Speaker 2: hired by the Mets as a hitting consultant. And JD
Speaker 2: is in here for the weekend and is trying to
Speaker 2: do whatever he can to try to help guys get better,
Speaker 2: even if it is to close out the season.
Speaker 3: But a guy like.
Speaker 2: Lindor who struggled all year, hitting two twenty four with
Speaker 2: an OPS under seven hundred out here early with Jad Martinez,
Speaker 2: but you watched the game being played. Lindor cares he
Speaker 2: loves baseball. From everybody I talked to around the Mets,
Speaker 2: baseball is vita for Francisco Lindor. But you see some
Speaker 2: of these other guys. I'm I don't see a lot
Speaker 2: from Francisco Alvarez. I don't see a lot from Boba Shet.
Speaker 2: You just don't see it. This was a poorly constructed team.
Speaker 2: And like we talked about, you can spend all the
Speaker 2: money you want, but if you don't spend it the
Speaker 2: right way, you're gonna be where the Mets are forty
Speaker 2: three and sixty two compared to the Dodgers, the team
Speaker 2: the Mets want to be, Like, who's sixty seven and
Speaker 2: thirty eight eight sixty six nine eight two five seventy
Speaker 2: is the phone number?
Speaker 3: Want to give you an update on show? Hey Otani?
Speaker 2: Uh Showotani was tentatively how about that, I'll say it
Speaker 2: that way, tentatively scheduled to throw a bullpen today coming
Speaker 2: off his bullpen session on Wednesday in Philadelphia where he
Speaker 2: threw thirty four pitches and threw his full compliment of pitches.
Speaker 2: So Dave Roberts was asked before the game, Hey, is
Speaker 2: he going to throw one?
Speaker 3: Did he throw one? And the answer was no, And the.
Speaker 2: Exact quote from Dave Roberts was that Otani and the
Speaker 2: Dodgers were going to kick the can down the road,
Speaker 2: meaning they're going to pause again the pitching because Otani's
Speaker 2: left knee was sore, and the team trainer started to
Speaker 2: get an idea that O'tani was not going to throw
Speaker 2: a bullpen today yesterday because his routine changed. He just
Speaker 2: instead of going out to the outfield to play catch
Speaker 2: and his flat round pitching, he just threw plioballs against
Speaker 2: the wall. So you know, they keep saying that the hitting,
Speaker 2: the base running is not affecting how that left knee feels.
Speaker 2: You can't tell me last night that Otani is trying
Speaker 2: to stretch a double into a triple, slides into third
Speaker 2: base hard into the bag, and today he can't throw
Speaker 2: his bullpen session.
Speaker 3: You can't tell me. I'm not.
Speaker 2: Dave Roberts said, that's not the reason why. But you
Speaker 2: can't tell me that's not contributing to the soreness.
Speaker 3: In the left knee.
Speaker 2: Not getting over the hump, and Dave Roberts talked about
Speaker 2: the fact that his left knee is in a better
Speaker 2: spot than it was before the All Star break, and
Speaker 2: he did say that he's still confident Otani will pitch
Speaker 2: again this season. That still remains to be seen, but
Speaker 2: I would lean on that side if there's any sort
Speaker 2: of soreness. We all know the Dodgers are extra cautious
Speaker 2: with all of their players, let alone the best player
Speaker 2: on the planet. So I tend to lean that he
Speaker 2: will pitch again this season, and the Dodgers are just
Speaker 2: being extra cautious with Otani's left knees.
Speaker 3: So he's ready to go in the postseason. But here's
Speaker 3: the catch.
Speaker 2: It's fine if you want to rest him and make
Speaker 2: sure that knees as close as possible to getting that
Speaker 2: soreness out. But the longer he goes without throwing off
Speaker 2: the mound, the longer it's going to take for him
Speaker 2: to be stretched out again. Because now what we're going
Speaker 2: on two weeks where he's not pitching and he's not
Speaker 2: getting stretched out, it's going to take at least that
Speaker 2: amount of time and counting for him to get stretched
Speaker 2: out to pitch. So that's part of the equation, and
Speaker 2: everybody's trying to tie in Otani pitching or not pitching
Speaker 2: to whether or not the Dodgers will have more urgency
Speaker 2: to pursued Zue Trek Scooble. I think a lot of
Speaker 2: that hinges on how Blake Snell looks in his next
Speaker 2: rehab appearance, and I kind of have a feeling with
Speaker 2: Dave Roberts leaving the door open that Snell could possibly
Speaker 2: make one more rehab start and then rejoin the rotation.
Speaker 2: I kind of feel like that's to see where he's
Speaker 2: at before we get to August third. And that trade
Speaker 2: deadline eight six six eight seven two, five seventy is
Speaker 2: the phone number. We're gonna take a time out here
Speaker 2: on Dodger Talk. When we continue, we'll get more into
Speaker 2: the trade deadline and what the Dodgers are thinking. Also,
Speaker 2: we'll let you know exactly when Keyke Hernandez and Edwin
Speaker 2: Diaz are going to return. As the Dodgers beat the
Speaker 2: Mets four to three on a five seventy LA Sports.
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Speaker 1: McLean's too two. Tucker tags it in the air, deep
Speaker 1: down the right field line.
Speaker 2: It is off the pole and gone. Kyle Tucker is
Speaker 2: alive in New York. Kyle Tucker leading off the third
Speaker 2: inning with a monstrous home run off of Nolan McLain
Speaker 2: and Kyle Tucker hit his hardest baseball of the season,
Speaker 2: hitting that home run at one hundred and seven miles
Speaker 2: an hour. That's the hardest hit ball Kyle Tucker has
Speaker 2: had all season long, and he homers for the first
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Speaker 2: eight seven two five seventy is the phone number the Dodgers.
Speaker 2: You know you gotta I'm gonna put into context with
Speaker 2: the Dodgers have done coming out of the All Star Break.
Speaker 2: They have the best record in baseball. They take two
Speaker 2: out of three at Yankee Stadium. They beat Garrett Cole,
Speaker 2: they beat Cam Schlittler, and they play a doubleheader on
Speaker 2: Getaway Day before going to Philadelphia after Sunday Night Baseball,
Speaker 2: last Sunday Sunday Night Baseball night game on Getaway Day,
Speaker 2: which has become the norm basically for the Dodgers this year.
Speaker 2: Tomorrow's the exception that they're actually getting a day game
Speaker 2: on Getaway Day. The Dodgers have been on the East Coast.
Speaker 2: Tomorrow will be ten days, a nine game trip in
Speaker 2: ten days. They take two out of three from the Yankees,
Speaker 2: including a doubleheader and Sunday Night Baseball. They go to Philadelphia.
Speaker 2: They beat the Phillies on a night that Christopher Sanchez
Speaker 2: is pitching. They beat the Phillies when Zach Wheeler's pitching,
Speaker 2: or excuse me, on the night that Aaron Nola was
Speaker 2: pitching and they lost the game against Sanchez.
Speaker 3: Excuse me.
Speaker 2: They beat Wheeler and Nola, so they take two out
Speaker 2: of three in Philadelphia.
Speaker 3: They go to the White House.
Speaker 2: After that last game in Philadelphia, they're at the White
Speaker 2: House or in Washington, d C. For about what seventeen hours?
Speaker 2: They're at the White House for two hours, hop on
Speaker 2: a bus back to the airport, get on a plane
Speaker 2: to fly back to New York to play the Mets.
Speaker 2: All they do is come out and beat the Mets
Speaker 2: last night, and they come out and beat the Mets tonight.
Speaker 2: That's all the Dodgers have done this road trip. Think
Speaker 2: about that they've only lost two games so far on
Speaker 2: this road trip. With all of that, who is going
Speaker 2: to stop this team? And the Dodgers are only getting stronger.
Speaker 2: Next week, specifically Tuesday, the first game of the homestand
Speaker 2: Key k a Hernandez is going to be activated. Dave
Speaker 2: Roberts joins us once a week with the Manager's Meeting
Speaker 2: presented by Downy Hunday. He told us before the game,
Speaker 2: and you can listen to the conversation on the iHeartRadio
Speaker 2: app that Key k Hernandez is going to be activated
Speaker 2: on Tuesday, and Edwin Diaz, the former Met and now
Speaker 2: the Dodger closer, is going to return on Wednesday night.
Speaker 2: Edwin Diaz is going to be active Wednesday night, and
Speaker 2: Diaz is going to pitch one more rehab game tomorrow
Speaker 2: and be active Wednesday night. So you look at the
Speaker 2: Dodger bullpen now. As far as high leverage arms, Brock
Speaker 2: Stewart just saved his first game since twenty twenty three.
Speaker 2: Tanner Scott for the most part, has done a phenomenal
Speaker 2: j this year and also during the period of time
Speaker 2: where Edwin.
Speaker 3: Diaz has been out.
Speaker 2: The Dodgers just got back Evan Phillips, who's shaking off
Speaker 2: the rust. You still got Vesia and Gardo Enriquez has
Speaker 2: been lights out this year. He didn't look great tonight,
Speaker 2: but he's been lights out all year long. You got
Speaker 2: Rock Stewart, you got Evan Phillips, you got Tenor Scott.
Speaker 3: You're getting back.
Speaker 2: You're getting back Edwin Diaz, you got Will Klein, you
Speaker 2: got Jack Dryer, who has not allowed an earn run
Speaker 2: since June twenty first. And Jack Dryer is going to
Speaker 2: join us on the pregame show tomorrow. So just think
Speaker 2: about that. And as far as the trade deadline goes,
Speaker 2: go back and listen to the show last night. Unless
Speaker 2: the Dodgers don't feel good about where Glass now is
Speaker 2: or where Snell is, they are not going to go
Speaker 2: all in for schoolbl they're going to be They have
Speaker 2: checked in with the Tigers. They are in contact with
Speaker 2: the Tigers about school ball because let's say another team
Speaker 2: is offering, you know, something that the Dodgers field they
Speaker 2: can do. They're going to go after school Bowl, if
Speaker 2: it makes sense. But they're not going after school ball
Speaker 2: to keep him away from the Brewers, the Yankees or
Speaker 2: the Braves. They're gonna go after school Bowl because they
Speaker 2: feel like whatever they have in house is not going
Speaker 2: the way that they would like to.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 2: Katie Wu the Athletic reported a couple of weeks ago,
Speaker 2: and it makes sense that the Dodgers want to use
Speaker 2: this trade deadline to try to replenish their farm system,
Speaker 2: maybe with a guy like Eric Lawer, who's been phenomenal
Speaker 2: and you can try to get you know, the Dodgers
Speaker 2: have a plethora of outfielders. We haven't heard anything about infielders,
Speaker 2: so maybe they want to upgrade there. Their catching depth
Speaker 2: is a little thin, Maybe they want to upgrade there.
Speaker 2: They're higher level pitching in the miner is a little thin.
Speaker 2: Maybe they want to add there. Now can they pull
Speaker 2: that off? I believe they can, and I believe you
Speaker 2: could do it not in a linear type of trade.
Speaker 2: Andrew Freeman has put together three team trades before for
Speaker 2: major league impact players. Why can't he be the facilitator
Speaker 2: of that with two other teams that are trying to
Speaker 2: help their team in the here and now. So I
Speaker 2: really do believe the Dodgers are going to be players
Speaker 2: at the trade deadline. But I don't feel like it
Speaker 2: necessarily has to be all about Trek Skuobel because there's
Speaker 2: still uncertainty about whether or not the Tigers are going
Speaker 2: to pull the trigger on a Schooble trade. But we've
Speaker 2: been talking about backup catchers. I mean, that's how good
Speaker 2: the Dodgers are. We're talking about backup catchers. I mentioned
Speaker 2: Jonah Him makes a lot of sense. Chris Woodward was
Speaker 2: his manager with the Rangers. Jonah Him was the catcher
Speaker 2: and played a big part in the Rangers winning the
Speaker 2: World Series in twenty twenty three. So he's a championship
Speaker 2: winning catcher. Jonaheim and he's a rental. The A's acquired
Speaker 2: him from the Braves earlier this year. Jonaheim would be
Speaker 2: a really good fit, and the Dodgers have a guy
Speaker 2: that has first hand knowledge of how good he really is.
Speaker 2: And Chris Woodward and you know, talking to Woodward over
Speaker 2: the years, he really likes Jonaheim and he challenged Jonaheim
Speaker 2: to be a better catcher over the years. So Jonahih
Speaker 2: makes a lot of sense. Here's another World Series experience
Speaker 2: catcher that nobody has talked about, and he used to
Speaker 2: be teammates with Freddie Freeman on the twenty one Braves.
Speaker 2: Travis Darnaut. How about Travis Darno who has not played
Speaker 2: basically all season long with planner fasciitis. He's now on
Speaker 2: a rehab assignment on his way back. Travis Darnault came
Speaker 2: up with a lot of big hits for the twenty
Speaker 2: one Braves to win the World Series, and he was
Speaker 2: a calming factor behind the plate. You don't need Travis
Speaker 2: Darnau to hit. You need a backup catcher in case
Speaker 2: Will Smith can't come back to be that stabilizing force
Speaker 2: if emotions run too high for Dalton Rushing.
Speaker 3: That's the insurance you need.
Speaker 2: And if Will Smith does come back, there is a
Speaker 2: way to carry three catchers. There is a way to
Speaker 2: do that. Don't forget. In September, rosters expand by a couple, right.
Speaker 2: I don't see Will Smith coming back in August. I
Speaker 2: don't know about you. I haven't heard him doing anything
Speaker 2: very vague, and you know, nobody's really saying much about
Speaker 2: Will Smith. So I don't see him coming back until
Speaker 2: rosters expand in September. So you make a trade with
Speaker 2: the Angels for Travis Starna, maybe you make a trade
Speaker 2: with the A's for Jonah him and all of a sudden,
Speaker 2: the one area where you are a little concerned about
Speaker 2: that can win or lose a game. Let's be honest.
Speaker 2: A catcher can win or lose the game behind the plate.
Speaker 2: Travis Darnault makes a lot of sense. I mean, the Angels,
Speaker 2: where are they going? Why do they need Travis Darnault.
Speaker 2: They got Logan o'hoppi, and they got a GM now
Speaker 2: that has some sensibility to him and John mozaylock. So
Speaker 2: to me, Jonaheim or Travis Darneault makes the most sense
Speaker 2: to acquire.
Speaker 3: Eight sixty six.
Speaker 2: Nine eight seven two five seventy is the phone number.
Speaker 2: The Dodgers beat the Mets tonight four to three. They're
Speaker 2: looking for the sweep tomorrow. And just a little history
Speaker 2: note as far as the Dodgers and Mets go since
Speaker 2: we are out here in New York. Just to put
Speaker 2: into contexts the Dodgers and Mets and how they're linked
Speaker 2: as far as the Dodgers moving out west and the
Speaker 2: Mets becoming an expansion team in the early sixties, where
Speaker 2: were right now where this stadium is and where Say
Speaker 2: Stadium was across the parking lot is where the mayor
Speaker 2: of New York wanted Walter O'Malley to build the new
Speaker 2: ebbots Field. When Walter O'Malley wanted to build the new
Speaker 2: ebbots Field where the Berkley Center is in Brooklyn. They
Speaker 2: were trying to force Walter O'Malley to build ebbotts Field
Speaker 2: out here in Queens and he said, no, there's like
Speaker 2: no public transportation. It's so out of the way. It's
Speaker 2: not in Brooklyn. We're not moving there. And that's when
Speaker 2: the Dodgers. Part of the reason the Dodgers left Brooklyn
Speaker 2: and came out west to la And another part of
Speaker 2: the equation with the Mets is that their colors orange
Speaker 2: and blue was a combination of the New York Giants
Speaker 2: and Brooklyn Dodgers colors, since they both left New York
Speaker 2: within a year of each other. The Mets the expansion
Speaker 2: team to give New York a second team in the
Speaker 2: National League. They just combined the Giants and Dodgers colors
Speaker 2: to come up with the Mets colors and the n
Speaker 2: Why the Curse of n Y It's exactly like the
Speaker 2: New York Giants hats. So there's a little history lesson
Speaker 2: on the Mets, the Dodgers and where City Field sits
Speaker 2: and Shay Stadium sits. This is where New York was
Speaker 2: trying to force Walter O'Malley to build the new ebbitts Field.
Speaker 2: And oh, by the way, the new EBITs Field was
Speaker 2: going to be the Astrodome. Yeah, Walter O'Malley designed a
Speaker 2: dome stadium to be built here in Brooklyn. That's what
Speaker 2: he wanted, the Astrodome, and that model was built in
Speaker 2: Houston for the Astrodome.
Speaker 3: So there you go, a little history lesson. He didn't
Speaker 3: think I had that in me, but I like that.
Speaker 3: I like that.
Speaker 2: Nine eight seven, two five seventy is the phone number.
Speaker 2: Dodgers beat the Meds tonight four to three. Yamamoto with
Speaker 2: his eleventh win of the year, brock Stewart with his
Speaker 2: first save, of the season and his first save since
Speaker 2: twenty twenty three. I mentioned blake'snew who made a rehab
Speaker 2: start yesterday for Oklahoma City in Sacramento, and he he
Speaker 2: threw forty eight pitches yesterday when two and two thirds
Speaker 2: the Dodgers were hoping for him to get one more
Speaker 2: up down to pitch three innings and throw forty five pitches.
Speaker 2: But he hasn't pitched in a long time, so he's
Speaker 2: shaken off the rust. And from what I understand, his
Speaker 2: fastball was ninety five ninety seven.
Speaker 3: He was feeling good today.
Speaker 2: The curveball, he's starting to get the feel for that
Speaker 2: and the changeups. So his next start is supposed to
Speaker 2: be four innings and we'll see where it goes after that.
Speaker 2: Glass now is getting set to go out on a
Speaker 2: rehab assignment as well. So all these things and I
Speaker 2: feel like everybody is forgetting Justin Robleski.
Speaker 3: Nobody wants to buy in to Justin Robleski.
Speaker 2: This guy is one of the most prepared pitchers on
Speaker 2: the Dodger staff. He actually came up with his own
Speaker 2: stat for a computer program to evaluate and to prepare
Speaker 2: for starts. If one of these guys even Otani, let's
Speaker 2: say can't go in the postseason, you got Robleski, you
Speaker 2: got glass Now, you got Snell, and he got Roki
Speaker 2: Sasaki to be part of a you know, opener, bullpen,
Speaker 2: piggyback type of start. I could definitely see the Dodgers
Speaker 2: if Otani can't pitch, or glass Now can't pitch, using
Speaker 2: Roki and Robleski in the same game in a playoff game,
Speaker 2: Roki starts, Robleski comes in right left, different style, different look,
Speaker 2: and you force the opposing manager to empty his bench.
Speaker 2: I could totally see that happening. If Otani or glass
Speaker 2: Now or Snell, any one of those guys can't go,
Speaker 2: all right.
Speaker 3: That'll do it for us.
Speaker 2: On Dodger Talk tonight tomorrow, Emmit Shean's on the mound.
Speaker 2: He's four and seven with an ERA of five thirteen,
Speaker 2: going up against Freddy Peralta, who's five and nine with
Speaker 2: an ERA of five to zero one. Our coverage begins
Speaker 2: at nine thirty tomorrow with Morongo Casino Dodgers on deck.
Speaker 2: First pitch from City Field with Steven Nelson and Jose
Speaker 2: Mota at ten forty and I'm not going to take
Speaker 2: the seven train tomorrow morning. I took it in today.
Speaker 2: How about that all by myself. I'm a big boy.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 2: I went on the seven train from Grand Central Station
Speaker 2: all the way to Willett's Point right here to City Field,
Speaker 2: the subway stop here on the seven train, and I
Speaker 2: actually ran into two guys that don't live in the
Speaker 2: San Fernando Valley right now, but are from San Fernando Valley.
Speaker 2: And one guy was wearing a cal State Northridge polo
Speaker 2: and I said, hey, I went there, and the guy,
Speaker 2: the young man now started at seasun and is going
Speaker 2: to graduate from Columbia out here in New York. So
Speaker 2: it was great to meet some friends new friends on
Speaker 2: the seven train.
Speaker 3: So there you go. Don't be scared take the subway
Speaker 3: when you come.
Speaker 2: See the Dodgers out here, whether it's at City Field
Speaker 2: or at Yankee Stadium thanks to colin Ee back at
Speaker 2: our Burg Bank Studios, thanks to Dwayne McDonald out here
Speaker 2: at Dodger or excuse me, city Field, it is Dodgers
Speaker 2: Stadium East. Half of these fans were Dodger fans tonight.
Speaker 2: So we're looking forward to this long road trip ending
Speaker 2: with the Dodgers sweeping the Meds tonight they beat them
Speaker 2: four to three.
Speaker 3: Have a great rest of your night, see ya, and
Speaker 3: the Times handled away. The Times