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Speaker 6: Six six nine seven two five seventy eight six six
Speaker 6: nine eight seven two five seventy. It was a stinker.
Speaker 6: It was one of those games that the Dodgers cannot
Speaker 6: get home, put their head on the pillow and fall
Speaker 6: asleep fast enough. Then tonight's game, the Dodgers got back
Speaker 6: to back home runs in the first from Otani and
Speaker 6: Poz tied the game back up at two, gave everybody
Speaker 6: a new life. After Kyle Hurt gave up two runs
Speaker 6: to the top half of the first inning to the Snakes,
Speaker 6: it was a brand new ball game going to the
Speaker 6: second inning, and then it quickly faded for the Dodgers
Speaker 6: in the fourth, starting with Will Klein giving up a
Speaker 6: couple of runs and then to Tim Tawa to run
Speaker 6: home run off of Brock Stewart, and it just kind
Speaker 6: of fell apart for the Dodgers tonight as they fall
Speaker 6: to the Diamondbacks nine to three in this series. Opener
Speaker 6: a bullpen game for what was supposed to be a
Speaker 6: show Aotani start, But as we found out ours before
Speaker 6: the game, it was going to be a bullpen game.
Speaker 6: Otani was not going to pitch. The irritation in his
Speaker 6: left knee bothering him still, and it's better to side
Speaker 6: on precaution at this point and not get him out
Speaker 6: there and not need him to pitch in the final
Speaker 6: game before the All Star break and his final start.
Speaker 2: There's no need.
Speaker 6: And I know he's bummed not to go to Philadelphia
Speaker 6: because of his knee and won't be able to play
Speaker 6: in the All Star Game on Tuesday as the starter
Speaker 6: voted by you the fans as the number one vote
Speaker 6: getter in all of baseball this year as a National
Speaker 6: League designated hitter. But it's the right choice and with
Speaker 6: the long term look at the season and what your
Speaker 6: ultimate goal is is to win a third straight championship,
Speaker 6: there's no need for him to make a start on
Speaker 6: July tenth for a knee that's bothering him. Let him sit,
Speaker 6: let him dh let him get treatment on the knee.
Speaker 2: On Sunday.
Speaker 6: We found out afterwards it's gonna be some drainage of
Speaker 6: fluid from the knee. They're gonna give him a little
Speaker 6: painkiller on the knee. He just needs to get that
Speaker 6: inflammation and irritation out of there. As they said, it's
Speaker 6: an intervention of his left knee. Yeah, take care of it.
Speaker 6: If the knees barking, get it taken care of. Nothing
Speaker 6: wrong with that, especially when you got a thirteen and
Speaker 6: a half game lead in the division and you've got
Speaker 6: the depth of Dodgers do. When your star player, your unicorn,
Speaker 6: you're a superstar. It's got a little something bothering him.
Speaker 6: Take care of it now before it blows up. God
Speaker 6: forbid into anything bigger. And not to say that it
Speaker 6: was going to, but if you've got the luxury of
Speaker 6: not having him go to the All Star Game and
Speaker 6: having the All Star break built in now for extra
Speaker 6: time off, take full advantage of it.
Speaker 2: So I have no problem with this.
Speaker 6: I think this is the smart decision all the way around,
Speaker 6: and a good job by the Dodgers for letting the
Speaker 6: show Toddi's still DH because certainly there's a difference between
Speaker 6: hitting and pitching and the strain and the toll, and
Speaker 6: you know the overall, you know, every pitch you're using
Speaker 6: your left foot and that's your landing foot, and you're
Speaker 6: landing knee and all the weight is falling on to
Speaker 6: your left knee and your left leg. That's the last
Speaker 6: thing you need to do is be out there throwing
Speaker 6: ninety pitches tonight in a game against the Diamondbacks, and what,
Speaker 6: let's be honest, doesn't mean a whole lot. At this
Speaker 6: point of this season, you can afford to have your
Speaker 6: guy not make the start. But clearly there's a difference
Speaker 6: between pitching and hitting. It doesn't bother him when he hits.
Speaker 6: And boy did he show us all that. The third
Speaker 6: pitch of the game and the bottom half of the
Speaker 6: first inning a solo home runoff or Water Rodriguez his
Speaker 6: twenty first home run of this season.
Speaker 2: So no show.
Speaker 6: Hey, Otani turned out to be a problem for the bullpenning. Again,
Speaker 6: a bullpen game is only as good as your bullpen is.
Speaker 6: You can throw seven guys out there like they did tonight,
Speaker 6: and all it would take is a hiccup from one
Speaker 6: of them just for one guy to have a bad inning. Well, tonight,
Speaker 6: the Dodgers had five of their seven relievers have bad innings.
Speaker 6: That is a recipe for disaster. When you have one hiccup,
Speaker 6: you gotta overcome that. Depending on how bad it is
Speaker 6: two relievers in a bullpen game, no matter where they're
Speaker 6: scattered in that realm of the bullpen game, Yeah, that's
Speaker 6: gonna be something that's gonna be tough to overcome.
Speaker 2: Three, that's gonna be really tough.
Speaker 6: Five of your seven relievers in a bullpen game give
Speaker 6: up runs, you're gonna be You're gonna be finding yourself
Speaker 6: not winning a lot of baseball games in that case.
Speaker 6: No matter if you get a home run from Otani
Speaker 6: and Payees in the first inning, you know, you all
Speaker 6: of a sudden find yourself down four to two, six
Speaker 6: to two, eight to two, and you look up for
Speaker 6: air and it's ninety two going into the eighth inning.
Speaker 6: That's a tough one for the Dodgers tonight. And again, defensively,
Speaker 6: three airs, three airs for a Dodgers defense. That's unheard
Speaker 6: of this year. Six airs in the last three games
Speaker 6: for this Dodgers team. We're just not used to seeing
Speaker 6: this sloppy baseball from a Dodgers team here in twenty
Speaker 6: twenty six. Certainly we haven't seen it in the last
Speaker 6: couple of years. And again, teams will go through stretches
Speaker 6: in which they don't play good baseball. It just happens,
Speaker 6: and you're gonna lose games. You're gonna lose games back
Speaker 6: to back, You're gonna.
Speaker 2: Lose a series. You may have a three or four
Speaker 2: game losing string.
Speaker 6: It's going to happen, but it doesn't happen very often
Speaker 6: where we see a Dodgers team over the course of
Speaker 6: nine innings in a game play as bad as they
Speaker 6: did tonight. The Dodgers tonight issued five walks, a wild pitch,
Speaker 6: a bock, and three errors. Ough ad the five walks,
Speaker 6: three of those runs scored. They allowed Tim Tawa, who
Speaker 6: had eight runs batten in all season, come in tonight
Speaker 6: and have a four hit game, hit a two run
Speaker 6: home run, and drive in four. I don't know what
Speaker 6: it is about Arizona Diamondbacks. How many years do we
Speaker 6: have to see Paul Goldshman Old Goldie just absolutely dominate
Speaker 6: the Dodgers, And he still doesn't, by the way, no
Speaker 6: matter where he's playing. But who was the other first
Speaker 6: baseman that's now in Houston? Was that was also a
Speaker 6: guy that dominated the Dodgers. H Christian Walker? Yeah, thanks
Speaker 6: calling Christian Walker. Also a Dodger killer? Is Tim Towan
Speaker 6: now another Dodger killer? Holy smokes eight RBIs all season
Speaker 6: and he had four tonight against the Dodger bullpen. So
Speaker 6: something you don't see very often from this Dodgers team,
Speaker 6: and we haven't just a bad game all the way around,
Speaker 6: just a forgettable game for that matter by this Dodgers team.
Speaker 6: And now they got to flush it out of their system.
Speaker 6: Get ready for tomorrow, because I think you got to
Speaker 6: go into this All Star break still feeling good about
Speaker 6: the way you're playing.
Speaker 2: Last thing you want to do is be stewing for
Speaker 2: the next week.
Speaker 6: Then start in the second half of the season on
Speaker 6: the road in New York Philly and then back in
Speaker 6: New York. Tough road trip coming up, no doubt about it.
Speaker 6: And you've built yourself a cushion in the NL West.
Speaker 6: But the last thing you want to do is all
Speaker 6: of a sudden, that lead, which was up to fourteen
Speaker 6: and a half games, is now down to eleven and
Speaker 6: a half, and you're gonna laugh and say, oh, eleven
Speaker 6: and a half game lead. You know what, Funnier things
Speaker 6: have happened in baseball. It's not gonna happen to the Dodgers,
Speaker 6: but certainly things that have happened like that in the
Speaker 6: history of baseball, where teams have blown double digit leads
Speaker 6: in the division.
Speaker 2: Dodgers are not gonna let that happen. But going into
Speaker 2: the All Star break.
Speaker 6: You definitely want to feel good about the way you're
Speaker 6: playing and build up that lead again to thirteen fourteen
Speaker 6: games going into the All Star break. Eight sixty six,
Speaker 6: nine eighty seven two five seventy is the number we're
Speaker 6: gonna hear from Kyle Hurt coming up. He got roughed
Speaker 6: up in his start for the Dodgers, his second in
Speaker 6: the big leagues, and then inning and two thirds he
Speaker 6: gave up two runs, both of them, earned three hits
Speaker 6: a walk before turning it over to Will Klein in
Speaker 6: the third inning as the Diamondbacks beat the Dodgers by
Speaker 6: a final of nine to three. All right, let's go
Speaker 6: out to the phones. Got a line open if you
Speaker 6: want to jump on it. Eight six six nine eighty
Speaker 6: seven two five seventy Bill mission Viejo.
Speaker 2: Welcome to Dodgers Talk. Bill. How you doing tonight?
Speaker 7: Pretty good? Thanks for taking my call. Sure, yeah, this
Speaker 7: the four RBIs tonight has been kind of a trend lately.
Speaker 7: You know, in the Padre series, their catcher Campusina, the
Speaker 7: backup catcher, had a single that's set up Machado's home running.
Speaker 7: The Padre win and over the Dodgers, and then it
Speaker 7: happened a little bit on the road for two. So
Speaker 7: it's what do you think of this? Do you think
Speaker 7: there was a trend going on with the eight to
Speaker 7: nine hitters a lot this.
Speaker 6: Year against the Dodgers or just in general and baseball
Speaker 6: the eight nine.
Speaker 7: Hitters, well, I mean just went against the Dodgers. I
Speaker 7: mean they had you know, the Pittsburgh the eight or
Speaker 7: nine hitters got to them and the loss. And then
Speaker 7: I think in Sacramento the bottom of the order when
Speaker 7: it was a bullpen game. Also true last game in
Speaker 7: Sacramento there was a couple bottom of the order hits two.
Speaker 7: It just seems to happen. Is that just because they
Speaker 7: get up to the Dodgers.
Speaker 6: I think it's probably a combination of that, and Bill,
Speaker 6: I appreciate the phone call. It's probably that it's promissably
Speaker 6: Also the fact that you know, the Dodgers look at
Speaker 6: the bottom of the lineup of a team like the
Speaker 6: Athletics or a team like the Rockies, or a team
Speaker 6: like the Diamondbacks and probably figure, you know what, if
Speaker 6: there's a hitter or a sequence of hitters that we
Speaker 6: can feel like we can throw one, two to one
Speaker 6: down the middle of the plate and challenge a hitter,
Speaker 6: and I don't think he's going to hit it out
Speaker 6: of the ballpark, or don't think he's going to drive
Speaker 6: the ball into the gap or find green grass somewhere
Speaker 6: for a base hit. We're gonna take our chances there.
Speaker 6: And yeah, you're right, the Dodgers, now you think about it,
Speaker 6: there have been a lot of guys at the bottom
Speaker 6: of the lineup. Tallibyan the latest who goes three for
Speaker 6: four with four RBIs tonight. And this is a guy
Speaker 6: hitting one to eighty seven now on this season, he
Speaker 6: raised his average up to one eighty seven on base
Speaker 6: percentage of two seventy nine and slunk it out a
Speaker 6: three zero seven percentage. So that's my that's my theory.
Speaker 6: You know, these are all major league hitters. I don't
Speaker 6: care if it's one the second hitter, the third hitter,
Speaker 6: that the ninth hitter.
Speaker 2: These guys are all there for a reason.
Speaker 6: But certainly if you're looking at a team like the Diamondbacks,
Speaker 6: the Rockies, the Athletics, who you referenced, the Pirates going
Speaker 6: back to that series against Pittsburgh. When you look at
Speaker 6: teams who aren't winning and you look at the bottom
Speaker 6: of the lineup where maybe they have their weaker hitter
Speaker 6: that are hitting like a Tawa one eighty seven or
Speaker 6: a struggling Watchment. It's it's a it's probably in your
Speaker 6: back of your mind or maybe part of your game
Speaker 6: plan is we're not gonna light we're gonna let We're
Speaker 6: not gonna let Marte or por Domo or Carol beat us.
Speaker 6: We're gonna go after the guys at the bottom of
Speaker 6: the lineup, challenge them a little bit, let them try
Speaker 6: to hit themselves out of the of the ginning and
Speaker 6: get to the top half of the lineup again, so
Speaker 6: we can really go after Marte and Perdomo and Carol.
Speaker 2: It could be part of the philosophy.
Speaker 6: And you know, credit to those hitters, those guys like
Speaker 6: Taua at the bottom of the lineup that take full
Speaker 6: advantage of fastballs. You know, two to one pitch from
Speaker 6: Brock Stewart to Tawa. Dave Roberts alluded to it. You
Speaker 6: just can't do that. You know, maybe it's a nine
Speaker 6: hitter and you're thinking, well, all right, two to one pitch,
Speaker 6: runner on, let's see what you can do with it.
Speaker 2: Buddy. You know what he did with it.
Speaker 6: He hit it four hundred and twenty nine feet for
Speaker 6: a two run home run to give the Backs a
Speaker 6: four to two lead, and they never looked back as
Speaker 6: the Arizona Diamondbacks then to go on and score two
Speaker 6: in the fifth, two in the six, one more in
Speaker 6: the eighth, and go.
Speaker 2: On and beat the Dodgers tonight by a final of
Speaker 2: ninety three.
Speaker 6: I don't know if they've got All Star itis or not,
Speaker 6: but kind of felt like it tonight. Tonight was those
Speaker 6: just didn't feel like this is the same Dodger team
Speaker 6: we had seen for ninety four games before tonight. I
Speaker 6: mean tonight was game number ninety five of this season.
Speaker 6: I cannot think off the top.
Speaker 2: Of my head.
Speaker 6: Colin and I were talking about during the last part
Speaker 6: of the game, We're trying to think of clunkers of
Speaker 6: games that the Dodgers played this year. Nothing really comes
Speaker 6: to mind like this where the bullpen, five of the
Speaker 6: seven relievers all give up runs. The Dodgers defensively three
Speaker 6: airs and a couple of other mental mistakes, could not
Speaker 6: score after the first inning until a RBI double in
Speaker 6: the ninth inning when this game was already out of reach.
Speaker 6: Just haven't seen this at all this year by a
Speaker 6: Dodgers lineup, the Dodgers pitching staff, Dodgers defense. This is
Speaker 6: a rarity, folks, and again I hope I never see
Speaker 6: it again this year. I don't think we're gonna see
Speaker 6: too many of these clunkers of a game from this
Speaker 6: Dodgers team the rest of the year. I certainly hope not,
Speaker 6: because this is not what this team is about. They
Speaker 6: pride themselves on good pitching, great defense, and slug a
Speaker 6: team that can hit the ball of the ballpark and
Speaker 6: is never really out of the game even if it's
Speaker 6: two nothing after a half inning. They come back in
Speaker 6: the first two batters in the bottom of the first
Speaker 6: Otani and Piez both hit solo shots, and all of
Speaker 6: a sudden to nothing deficit, it's tied to two and
Speaker 6: it's a whole new game. Eight six, six, nine, seven,
Speaker 6: two five seventy is the number? Does this team look
Speaker 6: like they've got All Star itis? Looking to get to
Speaker 6: the All Star Break with a thirteen and a half
Speaker 6: game lead.
Speaker 2: You know what. I hate to say it, but it
Speaker 2: did tonight.
Speaker 6: But they got two games in this series to turn
Speaker 6: things around and then go into the All Star Break
Speaker 6: feeling good about themselves because it's gonna be a tough
Speaker 6: road trip to begin things next Friday in New York
Speaker 6: when they start a three game series against the Yankees.
Speaker 6: Eight six six nine eighty seven two five seventy is
Speaker 6: the number. Let's take a time out, we'll come back.
Speaker 6: We'll hear from Kyle Hurt, and we'll hear from you.
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Speaker 6: fight tonight until the end.
Speaker 2: It was too late.
Speaker 6: They were down nine to two until Miguel Rojas's RBI
Speaker 6: double in the ninth got the Dodgers on the board.
Speaker 6: Too little, too late, Diamondbacks beat up on the blue.
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Speaker 3: Were based out of the runner, the wine, and the pitch,
Speaker 3: and Otani hits one in the year to left a
Speaker 3: long way curry out back.
Speaker 2: To the wall.
Speaker 3: It's gone, a lead off home run for Old Tony
Speaker 3: for thirty second career lead off home run and his
Speaker 3: twenty six with the Dodgers. His eighth this year career
Speaker 3: home run number three hundred and one and number twenty
Speaker 3: one this season. Otani starts it off with a.
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Speaker 6: lead off the bottom half of the first inning. Andy
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Speaker 6: The Dodgers tonight got owned by the Diamondbacks, a nine
Speaker 6: to three win by the Snakes. Eduardo Rodriguez gets the win,
Speaker 6: Will kleinb gets the loss. It was a bullpen game
Speaker 6: again for the Dodgers. In case you missed it, show
Speaker 6: Hey O'tani did not make his schedule start on the
Speaker 6: mound this evening due to irritation in his left knee.
Speaker 6: He still served as a designated hitter and will do
Speaker 6: so for the rest of the weekend, which two more
Speaker 6: against the Arizona Diamondbacks, but following the series against Arizona
Speaker 6: he will have some quote interventions on his knee end
Speaker 6: quote to put him in the best position for the
Speaker 6: second half of the season. We found that this little
Speaker 6: painkiller to get the irritation away and some drainage of
Speaker 6: some fluid in the left knee. So a good sign
Speaker 6: for show hey o Tani that he's still able to
Speaker 6: dge while he can't pitch. If it was that bad,
Speaker 6: he would not be able to do both and he
Speaker 6: just would not be in the lineup at all tonight.
Speaker 6: And in fact, he's going to be in the lineup tomorrow,
Speaker 6: and it's scheduled to be in the lineup on Sunday,
Speaker 6: but will not be going to Philadelphia for the All
Speaker 6: Star Game, in which he was the top vogue getter
Speaker 6: in baseball as the National League's designated hitter. So disappointing, yes,
Speaker 6: But for the Dodgers bigger picture, their goal a third
Speaker 6: straight World Series championship, and that means extra rest for
Speaker 6: show Hay. No flying to Philadelphia and getting that knee
Speaker 6: taken care of with an extended rest is The Dodgers
Speaker 6: then go to New York next Friday to take on
Speaker 6: the Yankees for the second half of this season. Dodgers
Speaker 6: now sixty one and thirty four on this season. You
Speaker 6: look at the standings. Oh no, panic, brothers. They're thirteen
Speaker 6: and a half games up on the Diamondbacks. I said
Speaker 6: that sarcastically. They are fourteen and a half games up
Speaker 6: on the San Diego Padres, who lost again tonight, and
Speaker 6: the Giants are twenty one and a half games back.
Speaker 6: Don't look now, but the Giants are only one game
Speaker 6: ahead of the Colorado Rockies for last place in the
Speaker 6: NL West, as the Rockies have won six of their
Speaker 6: last ten and they're a fun, young team, very young.
Speaker 6: A lot of top draft picks, guys who were selected
Speaker 6: in the last four years that have been pushed to
Speaker 6: the major leagues. It was fun to see them Monday, Tuesday,
Speaker 6: Wednesday at a Dodger Stadium with Kyle Carros and Crewezz.
Speaker 6: That's a young, fun Colorado Rockies team that certainly has
Speaker 6: taken in the lumps the last few years, multiple one
Speaker 6: hundred loss seasons. But they they've got a fun little product.
Speaker 6: They got there in Colorado, in the Mile Hight City,
Speaker 6: and they did. They took it to the Dodgers in
Speaker 6: three games that are all decided by one run eight six, six,
Speaker 6: nine eighty seven to two five seventy in places show
Speaker 6: Hey o Tani. Kyle Hurt got the start night, his
Speaker 6: second start in the big leagues. He's been used primarily
Speaker 6: as a bulk reliever for the Dodgers. He got the
Speaker 6: start tonight, gave up two runs on three hits, to
Speaker 6: walk a strikeout and inning in two thirds put the
Speaker 6: Dodgers in a two nothing deficit early and afterwards talked
Speaker 6: with David Vasse and the media.
Speaker 4: When did all you find out that you were gonna
Speaker 4: have to throw a bullpen game today?
Speaker 5: I found out last night around eleven PM.
Speaker 4: That you were going to open as well. Yeah, well,
Speaker 4: what was the most frustrating part for you in that
Speaker 4: first inning? Was it having two strikes on a lot
Speaker 4: of those guys and letting them off the hook. Why
Speaker 4: couldn't you put them away?
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's kind of been been an issue for me lately.
Speaker 5: You know, I'm kind of doing the hard part getting No.
Speaker 5: Two to one two one guys and just not executing
Speaker 5: and getting pitches right. I need to get them, you know,
Speaker 5: I'm just kind of leaving things over the plate, getting
Speaker 5: into deep counts. Those deep counts can lead to walks,
Speaker 5: and I just got to be better at finishing guys.
Speaker 5: Just put them away when I'm ahead. So that's about it.
Speaker 4: You guys did so well in Anaheim. These bullpen games
Speaker 4: are they kind of a wildcard to try to expect,
Speaker 4: you know, seven or eight different guys to be on
Speaker 4: their game.
Speaker 5: It's not really a wildcard. I mean, it's a bullpen game.
Speaker 5: Like we're all going to go out there and do
Speaker 5: our part, and we got a job. And tonight, you know,
Speaker 5: it just there was a couple walks, some hits, you know,
Speaker 5: just just wasn't a good day for us. But we're
Speaker 5: expected to go out there and when our name is
Speaker 5: called and get those outs and today just wasn't that day,
Speaker 5: and we'll be better.
Speaker 2: All right.
Speaker 6: There's Kyle Hurt certainly frustrated with his performance tonight, and
Speaker 6: that has been the case for Kyle Hurt all season long.
Speaker 6: Glimpses of Kyle Hurt that's been really good in putting
Speaker 6: up zeros, and then glimpses of Kyle Hurt where he
Speaker 6: gets ahead and the count and you feel like another
Speaker 6: zero is coming up, and all of a sudden he
Speaker 6: gets tagged for runs and gives up hits and gives
Speaker 6: up runs and puts up a crooked number on this board.
Speaker 2: In a bad way. So Kyle Hurt one of those
Speaker 2: nights tonight.
Speaker 6: Unfortunately, he was whaton of five different relievers of the
Speaker 6: seven that pitched in this game tonight that gave up runs.
Speaker 2: And I mentioned it earlier in a bullpen game. It
Speaker 2: is a chain.
Speaker 6: It is a rope, so to speak, and everybody's grabbing
Speaker 6: on the rope, and all it takes is one guy
Speaker 6: to fall, one guy to have a hiccup, one guy
Speaker 6: to break that chain, whatever the analogy you want to use.
Speaker 6: If one guy messes up, gives up a run, has
Speaker 6: a bad inning, it could be doomsday for a bullpen game.
Speaker 6: Two guys or three guys have that happen, He's most
Speaker 6: likely not going to be a good result. When five
Speaker 6: of the seven relievers in a bullpen game give up runs,
Speaker 6: that's a recipe for disaster. And tonight the Dodgers down
Speaker 6: to nothing, tied it in the first we had a
Speaker 6: whole new ballgame after one inning. Unfortunately, the Dodgers didn't
Speaker 6: score again until the ninth inning, when this game was
Speaker 6: well out of reach.
Speaker 2: A nine to two lead.
Speaker 6: Miguel Rojas rbi double made it a nine to three game,
Speaker 6: and that's going to be the final.
Speaker 2: Again. The defense just uncharacteristic of the Dodgers.
Speaker 6: I can't think of a game in which the Dodgers
Speaker 6: defense hurt them this bad. I mean a couple of
Speaker 6: nights ago against the Rockies, they had an air that
Speaker 6: didn't help in a loss to the Rockies, but they
Speaker 6: certainly had chances and what turned to be a one
Speaker 6: run loss. This this is a game that got away
Speaker 6: from them. The bullpen didn't do their job, the defense
Speaker 6: do their job, and certainly over the seven of the
Speaker 6: nine innings, the Dodgers just couldn't score second inning through
Speaker 6: the eighth inning. So bad night for the Dodgers. Just
Speaker 6: one of those games you just don't want to see again.
Speaker 6: You can't see again, and we haven't seen at all
Speaker 6: from this Dodgers team. And I think one of the
Speaker 6: best lines that was just texted me, not by Shannon
Speaker 6: farm Thanks for listening to Shannon. This text came from
Speaker 6: Isabelle from Anaheim, and I think this is well put
Speaker 6: and I think this is exactly what sums up tonight's
Speaker 6: nine three loss to the Arizona Diamondbacks, in which the
Speaker 6: Dodgers pitching staff got rocked. With the Dodgers defense looked sloppy,
Speaker 6: Isabelle said, Tim, when did the Dodgers become the Giants?
Speaker 6: She's right, they looked like a Giants team out there
Speaker 6: that couldn't figure it out offensively, defensively and pitching. Yeah,
Speaker 6: if you're a Giants fan, you see this on a
Speaker 6: daily basis. I don't know how you stomach it. I
Speaker 6: don't know how you deal with it. But we expect
Speaker 6: bigger and better from the Dodgers, especially with this group.
Speaker 6: And we'll chalk it up as one game. Maybe it's
Speaker 6: all star itis. I don't know, don't want to see
Speaker 6: it again tomorrow, and certainly it'd be nice the next
Speaker 6: two days come back look like a Dodgers team with
Speaker 6: the high powered offense and really good pitching. And guess what,
Speaker 6: right guy, right place, right game Yoshinobu Yamamoto on the
Speaker 6: mount tomorrow in Game two, this three game set. Perfect
Speaker 6: guy to have on the mat. We talk about stoppers
Speaker 6: in baseball. Clayton Kershaw was that stopper and what does
Speaker 6: that mean. Well, he's gonna pitch every five days, So
Speaker 6: if you're losing four games in a row, he's your stopper.
Speaker 6: He's gonna stop that losing streak. There's a pretty good
Speaker 6: chance that you're never gonna lose more than four days
Speaker 6: in a row because he's gonna come back around the
Speaker 6: rotation and win you a game. Because he's that good.
Speaker 6: He is that starting stopper in Major League Baseball. Yamamoto
Speaker 6: has been that guy now here in twenty twenty six,
Speaker 6: and quite frankly took the baton from Clayton Kershaw a
Speaker 6: year plus ago in the Dodgers rotation. I love the Dodgers'
Speaker 6: chances with Yamamoto on the mount tomorrow for a guy
Speaker 6: to go out and put up zeros, help out a
Speaker 6: bullpen that got worked pretty good tonight, seven different relievers.
Speaker 6: I mean, Kyle Hurt through thirty six pitches, we'll climb
Speaker 6: through thirty one pitches. Most likely we won't see him
Speaker 6: the next two days. Brock Stewart through two nine pitches,
Speaker 6: and Gardo and Riquez through twenty nine pitches.
Speaker 2: We're most likely not going to see all four of
Speaker 2: those guys pitch tomorrow.
Speaker 6: I'd be shocked if those four guys pitched in the
Speaker 6: next two games. Jack Dryer only through fourteen pitches, Evan
Speaker 6: Phillips through twenty two pitches. I'm my guess is he's
Speaker 6: down tomorrow, probably the next two days since he's still
Speaker 6: coming back from Tommy John surgery.
Speaker 2: And Alex Vesia threw nineteen pitches.
Speaker 6: So yeah, they really need Yamamoto to go out and
Speaker 6: be the stopper tomorrow and get the Dodgers back on
Speaker 6: track and get a win and then go into Sunday's
Speaker 6: game with a chance to win the series and going
Speaker 6: to the All Star Break with a fifteen and a
Speaker 6: half game lead. Right now, it's down to thirteen and
Speaker 6: a half games. Oh no, down to thirteen and a half.
Speaker 6: Watch out for them Diamondbacks. Well, the Dodgers could quickly
Speaker 6: pop their balloon tomorrow with Yamamoto on the mount and
Speaker 6: then going to the All Star break again. The big
Speaker 6: news today show Aotani not going to the All Star Game.
Speaker 6: He's gonna have his left knee looked at after Sunday's
Speaker 6: game against the Dinabacksial service the designated hitter tomorrow and Sunday,
Speaker 6: but it's gonna have an intervention on his left knee.
Speaker 6: Fluid drained a shot, get him ready for the second
Speaker 6: half of the season. All right, that's gonna do it
Speaker 6: for Dodger to talk tonight. If we could not get
Speaker 6: to you on hold, I apologize. How about you take
Speaker 6: a rain check and you call back tomorrow. Eight six
Speaker 6: six ninety seven is that number? Put in your phone
Speaker 6: and be ready to go after the game tomorrow night,
Speaker 6: and you'll get a rain check if you're on hold.
Speaker 6: Dodgers lose to the Diamondbacks nine to three and a
Speaker 6: bullpin game that got away from him early and often.
Speaker 6: The Dodgers did get home runs from Otani and Paz,
Speaker 6: but not much after that.
Speaker 2: Three airs on defense. Let's put this one behind this.
Speaker 6: Rip up the scorecard, delete the box score, and let's
Speaker 6: turn the page to Saturday. New Day, New Game, New
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Speaker 6: depicting a five first pitch at six'. Ten thanks again for,
Speaker 6: listening for being a part of the, show and for
Speaker 6: podcasting as. Well until, tomorrow have a safe rest of
Speaker 6: Your friday night Sol on, everybody let's just say