WEBVTT - Dodger Talk (7-10-26) 0:00:00.560 --> 0:00:03.000 The quest for the three peat has begun. 0:00:03.240 --> 0:00:05.600 Only four teams in Major League. 0:00:05.360 --> 0:00:09.080 Baseball history have won three consecutive titles. 0:00:09.440 --> 0:00:13.200 The Dodgers are the favorites to become the fifth. 0:00:13.240 --> 0:00:15.800 This is world Champion Dodger Talk. 0:00:15.920 --> 0:00:16.680 Here we go again. 0:00:16.720 --> 0:00:17.800 We're getting ready running. 0:00:17.600 --> 0:00:19.800 Back to get in on the show called eight six 0:00:19.960 --> 0:00:23.119 six eighty seven two five seventy and be sure to 0:00:23.200 --> 0:00:27.200 follow Dodger Talk wherever you get short podcasts. And now 0:00:27.320 --> 0:00:30.000 your host, here's Tim Kings. 0:00:30.840 --> 0:00:35.959 Well, not every game could be a Picasso, a masterpiece, 0:00:36.680 --> 0:00:39.680 something that you look back and say, ah, that's a 0:00:39.720 --> 0:00:44.239 thing of beauty, because certainly tonight that was anything but 0:00:44.479 --> 0:00:47.120 a thing of beauty. Hi everybody, and welcome to Dodger 0:00:47.200 --> 0:00:50.120 Talk here on AM five to seventy LA Sports live 0:00:50.280 --> 0:00:54.360 everywhere on the iHeart Radio av No, wherever you may 0:00:54.400 --> 0:00:57.240 be on this Friday night. Thank you for being a 0:00:57.280 --> 0:01:01.200 part of the show, listening if your podcast the show afterwards, 0:01:01.280 --> 0:01:04.080 we appreciate you as well, and thanking us thanks for 0:01:04.080 --> 0:01:07.800 making us one of the most downloaded postgame podcasts out there. 0:01:08.240 --> 0:01:11.440 Dodger Talk that's right here on AMI seventy LA Sports 0:01:11.440 --> 0:01:13.080 and the iHeart Radio app. 0:01:13.120 --> 0:01:13.920 Our phone number eight. 0:01:13.840 --> 0:01:17.200 Six six nine seven two five seventy eight six six 0:01:17.360 --> 0:01:21.119 nine eight seven two five seventy. It was a stinker. 0:01:21.760 --> 0:01:24.360 It was one of those games that the Dodgers cannot 0:01:24.400 --> 0:01:27.479 get home, put their head on the pillow and fall 0:01:27.560 --> 0:01:33.160 asleep fast enough. Then tonight's game, the Dodgers got back 0:01:33.200 --> 0:01:35.640 to back home runs in the first from Otani and 0:01:35.760 --> 0:01:39.600 Poz tied the game back up at two, gave everybody 0:01:39.600 --> 0:01:42.440 a new life. After Kyle Hurt gave up two runs 0:01:42.440 --> 0:01:44.560 to the top half of the first inning to the Snakes, 0:01:44.760 --> 0:01:46.800 it was a brand new ball game going to the 0:01:46.840 --> 0:01:50.760 second inning, and then it quickly faded for the Dodgers 0:01:50.760 --> 0:01:54.200 in the fourth, starting with Will Klein giving up a 0:01:54.240 --> 0:01:57.840 couple of runs and then to Tim Tawa to run 0:01:57.880 --> 0:02:00.840 home run off of Brock Stewart, and it just kind 0:02:00.840 --> 0:02:05.480 of fell apart for the Dodgers tonight as they fall 0:02:05.600 --> 0:02:08.480 to the Diamondbacks nine to three in this series. Opener 0:02:08.600 --> 0:02:11.360 a bullpen game for what was supposed to be a 0:02:11.440 --> 0:02:15.160 show Aotani start, But as we found out ours before 0:02:15.200 --> 0:02:17.000 the game, it was going to be a bullpen game. 0:02:17.200 --> 0:02:20.200 Otani was not going to pitch. The irritation in his 0:02:20.320 --> 0:02:25.600 left knee bothering him still, and it's better to side 0:02:25.600 --> 0:02:29.880 on precaution at this point and not get him out 0:02:29.880 --> 0:02:33.079 there and not need him to pitch in the final 0:02:33.160 --> 0:02:36.160 game before the All Star break and his final start. 0:02:36.480 --> 0:02:37.160 There's no need. 0:02:37.520 --> 0:02:39.880 And I know he's bummed not to go to Philadelphia 0:02:40.280 --> 0:02:42.480 because of his knee and won't be able to play 0:02:42.600 --> 0:02:45.040 in the All Star Game on Tuesday as the starter 0:02:45.560 --> 0:02:48.240 voted by you the fans as the number one vote 0:02:48.240 --> 0:02:50.919 getter in all of baseball this year as a National 0:02:51.000 --> 0:02:55.440 League designated hitter. But it's the right choice and with 0:02:55.560 --> 0:02:59.160 the long term look at the season and what your 0:02:59.480 --> 0:03:03.320 ultimate goal is is to win a third straight championship, 0:03:03.720 --> 0:03:07.120 there's no need for him to make a start on 0:03:07.240 --> 0:03:12.560 July tenth for a knee that's bothering him. Let him sit, 0:03:13.000 --> 0:03:15.480 let him dh let him get treatment on the knee. 0:03:15.480 --> 0:03:16.080 On Sunday. 0:03:16.120 --> 0:03:18.600 We found out afterwards it's gonna be some drainage of 0:03:18.680 --> 0:03:21.000 fluid from the knee. They're gonna give him a little 0:03:21.000 --> 0:03:23.400 painkiller on the knee. He just needs to get that 0:03:23.440 --> 0:03:26.000 inflammation and irritation out of there. As they said, it's 0:03:26.040 --> 0:03:29.840 an intervention of his left knee. Yeah, take care of it. 0:03:30.440 --> 0:03:33.920 If the knees barking, get it taken care of. Nothing 0:03:33.960 --> 0:03:35.960 wrong with that, especially when you got a thirteen and 0:03:36.000 --> 0:03:38.720 a half game lead in the division and you've got 0:03:38.720 --> 0:03:42.960 the depth of Dodgers do. When your star player, your unicorn, 0:03:43.000 --> 0:03:45.839 you're a superstar. It's got a little something bothering him. 0:03:46.200 --> 0:03:48.840 Take care of it now before it blows up. God 0:03:48.880 --> 0:03:51.840 forbid into anything bigger. And not to say that it 0:03:51.920 --> 0:03:54.280 was going to, but if you've got the luxury of 0:03:54.880 --> 0:03:57.200 not having him go to the All Star Game and 0:03:57.240 --> 0:04:00.480 having the All Star break built in now for extra 0:04:00.560 --> 0:04:03.320 time off, take full advantage of it. 0:04:03.680 --> 0:04:05.240 So I have no problem with this. 0:04:05.440 --> 0:04:08.080 I think this is the smart decision all the way around, 0:04:08.440 --> 0:04:11.120 and a good job by the Dodgers for letting the 0:04:11.120 --> 0:04:15.080 show Toddi's still DH because certainly there's a difference between 0:04:15.520 --> 0:04:23.400 hitting and pitching and the strain and the toll, and 0:04:24.160 --> 0:04:26.680 you know the overall, you know, every pitch you're using 0:04:26.720 --> 0:04:29.680 your left foot and that's your landing foot, and you're 0:04:29.760 --> 0:04:33.039 landing knee and all the weight is falling on to 0:04:33.120 --> 0:04:35.560 your left knee and your left leg. That's the last 0:04:35.560 --> 0:04:37.400 thing you need to do is be out there throwing 0:04:37.480 --> 0:04:40.960 ninety pitches tonight in a game against the Diamondbacks, and what, 0:04:41.440 --> 0:04:44.400 let's be honest, doesn't mean a whole lot. At this 0:04:44.520 --> 0:04:46.680 point of this season, you can afford to have your 0:04:46.680 --> 0:04:49.000 guy not make the start. But clearly there's a difference 0:04:49.000 --> 0:04:51.799 between pitching and hitting. It doesn't bother him when he hits. 0:04:52.000 --> 0:04:54.840 And boy did he show us all that. The third 0:04:54.839 --> 0:04:56.400 pitch of the game and the bottom half of the 0:04:56.400 --> 0:05:00.680 first inning a solo home runoff or Water Rodriguez his 0:05:00.800 --> 0:05:02.640 twenty first home run of this season. 0:05:02.720 --> 0:05:04.160 So no show. 0:05:04.200 --> 0:05:07.480 Hey, Otani turned out to be a problem for the bullpenning. Again, 0:05:07.800 --> 0:05:11.040 a bullpen game is only as good as your bullpen is. 0:05:11.720 --> 0:05:14.920 You can throw seven guys out there like they did tonight, 0:05:15.560 --> 0:05:17.680 and all it would take is a hiccup from one 0:05:17.720 --> 0:05:23.359 of them just for one guy to have a bad inning. Well, tonight, 0:05:24.240 --> 0:05:28.400 the Dodgers had five of their seven relievers have bad innings. 0:05:28.680 --> 0:05:33.839 That is a recipe for disaster. When you have one hiccup, 0:05:34.320 --> 0:05:36.840 you gotta overcome that. Depending on how bad it is 0:05:37.279 --> 0:05:39.960 two relievers in a bullpen game, no matter where they're 0:05:39.960 --> 0:05:43.000 scattered in that realm of the bullpen game, Yeah, that's 0:05:43.040 --> 0:05:44.920 gonna be something that's gonna be tough to overcome. 0:05:45.000 --> 0:05:47.520 Three, that's gonna be really tough. 0:05:48.160 --> 0:05:52.040 Five of your seven relievers in a bullpen game give 0:05:52.120 --> 0:05:56.719 up runs, you're gonna be You're gonna be finding yourself 0:05:57.440 --> 0:06:00.279 not winning a lot of baseball games in that case. 0:06:00.360 --> 0:06:02.719 No matter if you get a home run from Otani 0:06:02.760 --> 0:06:05.320 and Payees in the first inning, you know, you all 0:06:05.320 --> 0:06:07.520 of a sudden find yourself down four to two, six 0:06:07.600 --> 0:06:09.160 to two, eight to two, and you look up for 0:06:09.760 --> 0:06:13.240 air and it's ninety two going into the eighth inning. 0:06:13.520 --> 0:06:16.800 That's a tough one for the Dodgers tonight. And again, defensively, 0:06:17.240 --> 0:06:22.359 three airs, three airs for a Dodgers defense. That's unheard 0:06:22.360 --> 0:06:25.800 of this year. Six airs in the last three games 0:06:26.360 --> 0:06:29.960 for this Dodgers team. We're just not used to seeing 0:06:30.400 --> 0:06:34.679 this sloppy baseball from a Dodgers team here in twenty 0:06:34.720 --> 0:06:36.599 twenty six. Certainly we haven't seen it in the last 0:06:36.640 --> 0:06:40.160 couple of years. And again, teams will go through stretches 0:06:40.520 --> 0:06:43.279 in which they don't play good baseball. It just happens, 0:06:43.560 --> 0:06:45.680 and you're gonna lose games. You're gonna lose games back 0:06:45.720 --> 0:06:46.760 to back, You're gonna. 0:06:46.480 --> 0:06:48.599 Lose a series. You may have a three or four 0:06:48.640 --> 0:06:49.440 game losing string. 0:06:50.000 --> 0:06:53.839 It's going to happen, but it doesn't happen very often 0:06:54.440 --> 0:06:57.320 where we see a Dodgers team over the course of 0:06:57.440 --> 0:06:59.480 nine innings in a game play as bad as they 0:06:59.520 --> 0:07:06.640 did tonight. The Dodgers tonight issued five walks, a wild pitch, 0:07:07.160 --> 0:07:13.800 a bock, and three errors. Ough ad the five walks, 0:07:13.840 --> 0:07:19.320 three of those runs scored. They allowed Tim Tawa, who 0:07:19.440 --> 0:07:23.400 had eight runs batten in all season, come in tonight 0:07:23.440 --> 0:07:25.440 and have a four hit game, hit a two run 0:07:25.480 --> 0:07:29.640 home run, and drive in four. I don't know what 0:07:29.760 --> 0:07:32.280 it is about Arizona Diamondbacks. How many years do we 0:07:32.280 --> 0:07:37.560 have to see Paul Goldshman Old Goldie just absolutely dominate 0:07:37.600 --> 0:07:39.320 the Dodgers, And he still doesn't, by the way, no 0:07:39.360 --> 0:07:43.239 matter where he's playing. But who was the other first 0:07:43.240 --> 0:07:45.600 baseman that's now in Houston? Was that was also a 0:07:45.640 --> 0:07:49.960 guy that dominated the Dodgers. H Christian Walker? Yeah, thanks 0:07:49.960 --> 0:07:53.760 calling Christian Walker. Also a Dodger killer? Is Tim Towan 0:07:53.880 --> 0:07:59.080 now another Dodger killer? Holy smokes eight RBIs all season 0:07:59.640 --> 0:08:04.680 and he had four tonight against the Dodger bullpen. So 0:08:06.280 --> 0:08:09.000 something you don't see very often from this Dodgers team, 0:08:09.000 --> 0:08:13.320 and we haven't just a bad game all the way around, 0:08:13.600 --> 0:08:17.600 just a forgettable game for that matter by this Dodgers team. 0:08:19.240 --> 0:08:21.080 And now they got to flush it out of their system. 0:08:21.120 --> 0:08:22.760 Get ready for tomorrow, because I think you got to 0:08:22.800 --> 0:08:25.040 go into this All Star break still feeling good about 0:08:25.040 --> 0:08:25.840 the way you're playing. 0:08:26.240 --> 0:08:27.760 Last thing you want to do is be stewing for 0:08:27.800 --> 0:08:28.400 the next week. 0:08:28.600 --> 0:08:30.240 Then start in the second half of the season on 0:08:30.280 --> 0:08:32.000 the road in New York Philly and then back in 0:08:32.040 --> 0:08:34.679 New York. Tough road trip coming up, no doubt about it. 0:08:34.880 --> 0:08:37.559 And you've built yourself a cushion in the NL West. 0:08:37.559 --> 0:08:39.040 But the last thing you want to do is all 0:08:39.040 --> 0:08:42.120 of a sudden, that lead, which was up to fourteen 0:08:42.120 --> 0:08:43.679 and a half games, is now down to eleven and 0:08:43.720 --> 0:08:45.760 a half, and you're gonna laugh and say, oh, eleven 0:08:45.800 --> 0:08:48.160 and a half game lead. You know what, Funnier things 0:08:48.160 --> 0:08:52.000 have happened in baseball. It's not gonna happen to the Dodgers, 0:08:52.120 --> 0:08:55.640 but certainly things that have happened like that in the 0:08:55.679 --> 0:08:58.560 history of baseball, where teams have blown double digit leads 0:08:58.920 --> 0:08:59.680 in the division. 0:09:00.240 --> 0:09:03.160 Dodgers are not gonna let that happen. But going into 0:09:03.160 --> 0:09:04.120 the All Star break. 0:09:04.360 --> 0:09:06.560 You definitely want to feel good about the way you're 0:09:06.559 --> 0:09:10.160 playing and build up that lead again to thirteen fourteen 0:09:10.240 --> 0:09:13.200 games going into the All Star break. Eight sixty six, 0:09:13.320 --> 0:09:15.280 nine eighty seven two five seventy is the number we're 0:09:15.280 --> 0:09:17.800 gonna hear from Kyle Hurt coming up. He got roughed 0:09:17.880 --> 0:09:21.360 up in his start for the Dodgers, his second in 0:09:21.400 --> 0:09:23.480 the big leagues, and then inning and two thirds he 0:09:23.520 --> 0:09:26.360 gave up two runs, both of them, earned three hits 0:09:26.480 --> 0:09:29.240 a walk before turning it over to Will Klein in 0:09:29.280 --> 0:09:31.920 the third inning as the Diamondbacks beat the Dodgers by 0:09:31.960 --> 0:09:34.000 a final of nine to three. All right, let's go 0:09:34.000 --> 0:09:35.679 out to the phones. Got a line open if you 0:09:35.679 --> 0:09:37.400 want to jump on it. Eight six six nine eighty 0:09:37.440 --> 0:09:39.920 seven two five seventy Bill mission Viejo. 0:09:39.960 --> 0:09:41.600 Welcome to Dodgers Talk. Bill. How you doing tonight? 0:09:42.640 --> 0:09:45.079 Pretty good? Thanks for taking my call. Sure, yeah, this 0:09:46.320 --> 0:09:50.920 the four RBIs tonight has been kind of a trend lately. 0:09:51.000 --> 0:09:55.120 You know, in the Padre series, their catcher Campusina, the 0:09:55.160 --> 0:09:59.160 backup catcher, had a single that's set up Machado's home running. 0:09:59.160 --> 0:10:02.200 The Padre win and over the Dodgers, and then it 0:10:02.240 --> 0:10:04.040 happened a little bit on the road for two. So 0:10:04.080 --> 0:10:05.719 it's what do you think of this? Do you think 0:10:05.720 --> 0:10:07.160 there was a trend going on with the eight to 0:10:07.240 --> 0:10:08.360 nine hitters a lot this. 0:10:08.400 --> 0:10:12.439 Year against the Dodgers or just in general and baseball 0:10:12.440 --> 0:10:13.080 the eight nine. 0:10:13.000 --> 0:10:15.400 Hitters, well, I mean just went against the Dodgers. I 0:10:15.440 --> 0:10:18.520 mean they had you know, the Pittsburgh the eight or 0:10:18.600 --> 0:10:21.600 nine hitters got to them and the loss. And then 0:10:21.960 --> 0:10:25.400 I think in Sacramento the bottom of the order when 0:10:25.400 --> 0:10:28.040 it was a bullpen game. Also true last game in 0:10:28.080 --> 0:10:31.480 Sacramento there was a couple bottom of the order hits two. 0:10:31.760 --> 0:10:33.720 It just seems to happen. Is that just because they 0:10:33.720 --> 0:10:35.120 get up to the Dodgers. 0:10:35.520 --> 0:10:37.520 I think it's probably a combination of that, and Bill, 0:10:37.559 --> 0:10:40.880 I appreciate the phone call. It's probably that it's promissably 0:10:40.960 --> 0:10:44.600 Also the fact that you know, the Dodgers look at 0:10:44.600 --> 0:10:46.240 the bottom of the lineup of a team like the 0:10:46.280 --> 0:10:49.280 Athletics or a team like the Rockies, or a team 0:10:49.280 --> 0:10:51.920 like the Diamondbacks and probably figure, you know what, if 0:10:51.920 --> 0:10:54.560 there's a hitter or a sequence of hitters that we 0:10:54.600 --> 0:10:56.640 can feel like we can throw one, two to one 0:10:56.679 --> 0:10:59.200 down the middle of the plate and challenge a hitter, 0:10:59.320 --> 0:11:01.079 and I don't think he's going to hit it out 0:11:01.080 --> 0:11:03.679 of the ballpark, or don't think he's going to drive 0:11:03.720 --> 0:11:06.800 the ball into the gap or find green grass somewhere 0:11:06.880 --> 0:11:09.439 for a base hit. We're gonna take our chances there. 0:11:09.440 --> 0:11:11.920 And yeah, you're right, the Dodgers, now you think about it, 0:11:11.960 --> 0:11:14.240 there have been a lot of guys at the bottom 0:11:14.280 --> 0:11:17.719 of the lineup. Tallibyan the latest who goes three for 0:11:17.960 --> 0:11:22.079 four with four RBIs tonight. And this is a guy 0:11:22.120 --> 0:11:24.640 hitting one to eighty seven now on this season, he 0:11:24.960 --> 0:11:29.720 raised his average up to one eighty seven on base 0:11:29.760 --> 0:11:31.840 percentage of two seventy nine and slunk it out a 0:11:31.840 --> 0:11:35.800 three zero seven percentage. So that's my that's my theory. 0:11:36.200 --> 0:11:38.760 You know, these are all major league hitters. I don't 0:11:38.760 --> 0:11:41.600 care if it's one the second hitter, the third hitter, 0:11:41.640 --> 0:11:42.440 that the ninth hitter. 0:11:42.720 --> 0:11:44.360 These guys are all there for a reason. 0:11:44.440 --> 0:11:47.680 But certainly if you're looking at a team like the Diamondbacks, 0:11:47.840 --> 0:11:51.400 the Rockies, the Athletics, who you referenced, the Pirates going 0:11:51.480 --> 0:11:54.040 back to that series against Pittsburgh. When you look at 0:11:54.040 --> 0:11:57.679 teams who aren't winning and you look at the bottom 0:11:57.720 --> 0:11:59.960 of the lineup where maybe they have their weaker hitter 0:12:00.240 --> 0:12:03.920 that are hitting like a Tawa one eighty seven or 0:12:04.000 --> 0:12:09.439 a struggling Watchment. It's it's a it's probably in your 0:12:09.440 --> 0:12:11.120 back of your mind or maybe part of your game 0:12:11.200 --> 0:12:13.839 plan is we're not gonna light we're gonna let We're 0:12:13.840 --> 0:12:17.800 not gonna let Marte or por Domo or Carol beat us. 0:12:18.800 --> 0:12:20.719 We're gonna go after the guys at the bottom of 0:12:20.800 --> 0:12:23.680 the lineup, challenge them a little bit, let them try 0:12:23.679 --> 0:12:26.920 to hit themselves out of the of the ginning and 0:12:27.160 --> 0:12:29.320 get to the top half of the lineup again, so 0:12:29.400 --> 0:12:32.000 we can really go after Marte and Perdomo and Carol. 0:12:32.400 --> 0:12:33.800 It could be part of the philosophy. 0:12:33.800 --> 0:12:36.400 And you know, credit to those hitters, those guys like 0:12:36.440 --> 0:12:38.840 Taua at the bottom of the lineup that take full 0:12:38.880 --> 0:12:42.560 advantage of fastballs. You know, two to one pitch from 0:12:42.559 --> 0:12:45.920 Brock Stewart to Tawa. Dave Roberts alluded to it. You 0:12:46.040 --> 0:12:49.080 just can't do that. You know, maybe it's a nine 0:12:49.120 --> 0:12:51.400 hitter and you're thinking, well, all right, two to one pitch, 0:12:51.480 --> 0:12:53.240 runner on, let's see what you can do with it. 0:12:53.280 --> 0:12:54.720 Buddy. You know what he did with it. 0:12:55.000 --> 0:12:58.240 He hit it four hundred and twenty nine feet for 0:12:58.360 --> 0:13:00.920 a two run home run to give the Backs a 0:13:00.960 --> 0:13:03.320 four to two lead, and they never looked back as 0:13:03.320 --> 0:13:05.720 the Arizona Diamondbacks then to go on and score two 0:13:05.760 --> 0:13:07.640 in the fifth, two in the six, one more in 0:13:07.679 --> 0:13:08.800 the eighth, and go. 0:13:08.720 --> 0:13:10.400 On and beat the Dodgers tonight by a final of 0:13:10.480 --> 0:13:10.959 ninety three. 0:13:11.120 --> 0:13:13.960 I don't know if they've got All Star itis or not, 0:13:14.160 --> 0:13:17.640 but kind of felt like it tonight. Tonight was those 0:13:18.520 --> 0:13:21.280 just didn't feel like this is the same Dodger team 0:13:21.559 --> 0:13:26.800 we had seen for ninety four games before tonight. I 0:13:26.800 --> 0:13:29.400 mean tonight was game number ninety five of this season. 0:13:30.640 --> 0:13:33.000 I cannot think off the top. 0:13:32.840 --> 0:13:33.280 Of my head. 0:13:33.360 --> 0:13:35.400 Colin and I were talking about during the last part 0:13:35.400 --> 0:13:37.640 of the game, We're trying to think of clunkers of 0:13:37.720 --> 0:13:41.200 games that the Dodgers played this year. Nothing really comes 0:13:41.200 --> 0:13:45.400 to mind like this where the bullpen, five of the 0:13:45.440 --> 0:13:51.120 seven relievers all give up runs. The Dodgers defensively three 0:13:51.200 --> 0:13:54.880 airs and a couple of other mental mistakes, could not 0:13:55.080 --> 0:13:58.920 score after the first inning until a RBI double in 0:13:58.960 --> 0:14:01.280 the ninth inning when this game was already out of reach. 0:14:03.040 --> 0:14:07.320 Just haven't seen this at all this year by a 0:14:07.400 --> 0:14:12.800 Dodgers lineup, the Dodgers pitching staff, Dodgers defense. This is 0:14:12.840 --> 0:14:15.840 a rarity, folks, and again I hope I never see 0:14:15.880 --> 0:14:18.680 it again this year. I don't think we're gonna see 0:14:18.679 --> 0:14:21.240 too many of these clunkers of a game from this 0:14:21.360 --> 0:14:24.040 Dodgers team the rest of the year. I certainly hope not, 0:14:25.120 --> 0:14:28.440 because this is not what this team is about. They 0:14:28.480 --> 0:14:33.520 pride themselves on good pitching, great defense, and slug a 0:14:33.560 --> 0:14:35.480 team that can hit the ball of the ballpark and 0:14:35.680 --> 0:14:37.520 is never really out of the game even if it's 0:14:37.680 --> 0:14:40.800 two nothing after a half inning. They come back in 0:14:40.840 --> 0:14:42.840 the first two batters in the bottom of the first 0:14:43.160 --> 0:14:46.240 Otani and Piez both hit solo shots, and all of 0:14:46.280 --> 0:14:51.760 a sudden to nothing deficit, it's tied to two and 0:14:51.800 --> 0:14:55.480 it's a whole new game. Eight six, six, nine, seven, 0:14:55.560 --> 0:14:57.960 two five seventy is the number? Does this team look 0:14:58.000 --> 0:15:01.160 like they've got All Star itis? Looking to get to 0:15:01.200 --> 0:15:03.160 the All Star Break with a thirteen and a half 0:15:03.200 --> 0:15:03.760 game lead. 0:15:04.160 --> 0:15:05.800 You know what. I hate to say it, but it 0:15:05.840 --> 0:15:06.400 did tonight. 0:15:07.600 --> 0:15:10.520 But they got two games in this series to turn 0:15:10.560 --> 0:15:12.840 things around and then go into the All Star Break 0:15:12.840 --> 0:15:15.280 feeling good about themselves because it's gonna be a tough 0:15:15.360 --> 0:15:18.200 road trip to begin things next Friday in New York 0:15:18.240 --> 0:15:20.320 when they start a three game series against the Yankees. 0:15:20.360 --> 0:15:23.040 Eight six six nine eighty seven two five seventy is 0:15:23.040 --> 0:15:24.840 the number. Let's take a time out, we'll come back. 0:15:25.040 --> 0:15:27.320 We'll hear from Kyle Hurt, and we'll hear from you. 0:15:27.360 --> 0:15:30.320 Eight six six nine eighty seven two five seventy Dodgers 0:15:30.360 --> 0:15:34.000 Baseball brought to you by Medello Midello. The mark of 0:15:34.120 --> 0:15:36.600 a Fighter. Well, the Dodgers didn't show a lot of 0:15:36.600 --> 0:15:37.880 fight tonight until the end. 0:15:38.240 --> 0:15:39.040 It was too late. 0:15:39.320 --> 0:15:42.520 They were down nine to two until Miguel Rojas's RBI 0:15:42.640 --> 0:15:45.040 double in the ninth got the Dodgers on the board. 0:15:46.120 --> 0:15:49.400 Too little, too late, Diamondbacks beat up on the blue. 0:15:49.920 --> 0:15:53.360 Nine to three is your final. Continue with Dodger Talking 0:15:53.360 --> 0:15:55.760 here on a FI seventy LA Sports Live Everywhere to 0:15:55.840 --> 0:15:57.600 the iHeartRadio app. 0:16:00.240 --> 0:16:04.120 Five seventy LA Sports be anywhere at any time, and 0:16:04.200 --> 0:16:06.920 you can hear past episodes of Dodger Talk all of 0:16:07.040 --> 0:16:10.560 those things. Search AM five to seventy on the iHeartRadio app. 0:16:10.600 --> 0:16:12.000 We're streaming online. 0:16:12.120 --> 0:16:15.200 We stream every game too. Come find me back to 0:16:15.320 --> 0:16:19.160 Dodger Talk on AM five seventy LA Sports. 0:16:19.160 --> 0:16:21.080 Were based out of the runner, the wine, and the pitch, 0:16:21.120 --> 0:16:23.480 and Otani hits one in the year to left a 0:16:23.520 --> 0:16:25.080 long way curry out back. 0:16:24.920 --> 0:16:25.400 To the wall. 0:16:25.480 --> 0:16:28.960 It's gone, a lead off home run for Old Tony 0:16:29.600 --> 0:16:33.720 for thirty second career lead off home run and his 0:16:33.800 --> 0:16:38.600 twenty six with the Dodgers. His eighth this year career 0:16:38.680 --> 0:16:42.080 home run number three hundred and one and number twenty 0:16:42.160 --> 0:16:45.600 one this season. Otani starts it off with a. 0:16:45.800 --> 0:16:51.160 Bang show Hey Otani with the solo home run to 0:16:51.280 --> 0:16:54.360 lead off the bottom half of the first inning. Andy 0:16:54.440 --> 0:16:57.720 Pajz would follow that up seven pitches later with a 0:16:57.800 --> 0:17:01.120 solo home run as well as seventeenth home run of 0:17:01.160 --> 0:17:04.359 the year for Pahes number twenty one for Otani, back 0:17:04.400 --> 0:17:07.439 to back jacks for the Dodgers. Daniels Jewelers presents the 0:17:07.440 --> 0:17:09.400 home Run Forecast for your chance to win at fifty 0:17:09.480 --> 0:17:12.840 dollars Daniels Jeweler's gift card. Just visit an five seventy 0:17:12.920 --> 0:17:16.520 LA sports dot com keyword home run into your name 0:17:16.600 --> 0:17:20.840 and you could win. Daniels Jewelers own the Dream Well. 0:17:20.880 --> 0:17:23.639 The Dodgers tonight got owned by the Diamondbacks, a nine 0:17:23.680 --> 0:17:27.439 to three win by the Snakes. Eduardo Rodriguez gets the win, 0:17:27.560 --> 0:17:30.840 Will kleinb gets the loss. It was a bullpen game 0:17:30.880 --> 0:17:33.200 again for the Dodgers. In case you missed it, show 0:17:33.240 --> 0:17:35.879 Hey O'tani did not make his schedule start on the 0:17:35.880 --> 0:17:39.440 mound this evening due to irritation in his left knee. 0:17:39.480 --> 0:17:42.080 He still served as a designated hitter and will do 0:17:42.240 --> 0:17:44.160 so for the rest of the weekend, which two more 0:17:44.440 --> 0:17:48.119 against the Arizona Diamondbacks, but following the series against Arizona 0:17:48.359 --> 0:17:51.800 he will have some quote interventions on his knee end 0:17:51.840 --> 0:17:54.000 quote to put him in the best position for the 0:17:54.040 --> 0:17:56.240 second half of the season. We found that this little 0:17:56.240 --> 0:18:00.359 painkiller to get the irritation away and some drainage of 0:18:00.440 --> 0:18:03.600 some fluid in the left knee. So a good sign 0:18:03.680 --> 0:18:05.760 for show hey o Tani that he's still able to 0:18:05.840 --> 0:18:09.960 dge while he can't pitch. If it was that bad, 0:18:10.640 --> 0:18:12.520 he would not be able to do both and he 0:18:12.640 --> 0:18:14.439 just would not be in the lineup at all tonight. 0:18:15.080 --> 0:18:17.120 And in fact, he's going to be in the lineup tomorrow, 0:18:17.160 --> 0:18:19.040 and it's scheduled to be in the lineup on Sunday, 0:18:19.280 --> 0:18:22.120 but will not be going to Philadelphia for the All 0:18:22.160 --> 0:18:24.200 Star Game, in which he was the top vogue getter 0:18:24.240 --> 0:18:28.879 in baseball as the National League's designated hitter. So disappointing, yes, 0:18:29.520 --> 0:18:34.120 But for the Dodgers bigger picture, their goal a third 0:18:34.160 --> 0:18:37.000 straight World Series championship, and that means extra rest for 0:18:37.080 --> 0:18:40.240 show Hay. No flying to Philadelphia and getting that knee 0:18:40.240 --> 0:18:42.959 taken care of with an extended rest is The Dodgers 0:18:42.960 --> 0:18:45.399 then go to New York next Friday to take on 0:18:45.440 --> 0:18:48.480 the Yankees for the second half of this season. Dodgers 0:18:48.520 --> 0:18:51.760 now sixty one and thirty four on this season. You 0:18:51.760 --> 0:18:55.119 look at the standings. Oh no, panic, brothers. They're thirteen 0:18:55.119 --> 0:18:57.800 and a half games up on the Diamondbacks. I said 0:18:57.800 --> 0:19:00.000 that sarcastically. They are fourteen and a half games up 0:19:00.400 --> 0:19:03.760 on the San Diego Padres, who lost again tonight, and 0:19:03.800 --> 0:19:06.640 the Giants are twenty one and a half games back. 0:19:06.680 --> 0:19:10.360 Don't look now, but the Giants are only one game 0:19:10.400 --> 0:19:16.399 ahead of the Colorado Rockies for last place in the 0:19:16.560 --> 0:19:20.520 NL West, as the Rockies have won six of their 0:19:20.600 --> 0:19:23.480 last ten and they're a fun, young team, very young. 0:19:23.920 --> 0:19:27.760 A lot of top draft picks, guys who were selected 0:19:27.800 --> 0:19:29.960 in the last four years that have been pushed to 0:19:30.000 --> 0:19:32.320 the major leagues. It was fun to see them Monday, Tuesday, 0:19:32.359 --> 0:19:35.760 Wednesday at a Dodger Stadium with Kyle Carros and Crewezz. 0:19:36.080 --> 0:19:39.919 That's a young, fun Colorado Rockies team that certainly has 0:19:40.000 --> 0:19:42.399 taken in the lumps the last few years, multiple one 0:19:42.440 --> 0:19:46.000 hundred loss seasons. But they they've got a fun little product. 0:19:46.000 --> 0:19:48.120 They got there in Colorado, in the Mile Hight City, 0:19:48.480 --> 0:19:50.280 and they did. They took it to the Dodgers in 0:19:50.359 --> 0:19:54.440 three games that are all decided by one run eight six, six, 0:19:54.560 --> 0:19:57.160 nine eighty seven to two five seventy in places show 0:19:57.160 --> 0:20:00.480 Hey o Tani. Kyle Hurt got the start night, his 0:20:00.520 --> 0:20:03.040 second start in the big leagues. He's been used primarily 0:20:03.040 --> 0:20:05.480 as a bulk reliever for the Dodgers. He got the 0:20:05.520 --> 0:20:07.920 start tonight, gave up two runs on three hits, to 0:20:08.040 --> 0:20:11.000 walk a strikeout and inning in two thirds put the 0:20:11.040 --> 0:20:14.640 Dodgers in a two nothing deficit early and afterwards talked 0:20:14.640 --> 0:20:16.160 with David Vasse and the media. 0:20:16.240 --> 0:20:18.680 When did all you find out that you were gonna 0:20:18.720 --> 0:20:20.520