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Speaker 3: Well.
Speaker 5: A rough afternoon in Chicago as they fall to the
Speaker 5: Cubbies seven to six as the Dodgers get swept out
Speaker 5: of the Windy City and lose all three games in
Speaker 5: Chicago this week. Get a brutal three game loss for
Speaker 5: the Dodgers after getting swept by the Boston Red Sox
Speaker 5: over the weekend. The Dodgers then go to Chicago and
Speaker 5: lose all three games and a day off tomorrow wouldn't
Speaker 5: come at a better time for this Dodgers teammate. Much
Speaker 5: needed day off as they are back at it on
Speaker 5: Friday in a three game series against the Arizona Diamondbacks.
Speaker 5: But what a disaster in Chicago, losing all three games
Speaker 5: to a Cubs team that's fighting and scrapping in the
Speaker 5: NL Central to get back into that divisional race and
Speaker 5: certainly fighting for a wild card spot and trying to
Speaker 5: hang on there for one of those two spots in
Speaker 5: the National League. But just a disastrous weekend against the
Speaker 5: Red Sox and then the last three days in Chicago
Speaker 5: couldn't have gone worse. Eric Lower had been so good
Speaker 5: for this Dodgers team over the course of three games.
Speaker 5: Today he comes out four inny and six runs, eleven
Speaker 5: hits and gives up a couple of home runs to
Speaker 5: pie Crow Armstrong. Just absolutely disastrous for the Dodgers, who
Speaker 5: in all three games to the Chicago Cubs jumped out
Speaker 5: to a lead and then gave up the lead only
Speaker 5: to fall behind and really just not play clean baseball.
Speaker 5: Just weren't able to do things they've been doing all year.
Speaker 5: Good pitching, timely defense, and lots of good offense. And
Speaker 5: the team that relies on pitching, defense and slug When
Speaker 5: you're not having one or two of those facets, you're
Speaker 5: not gonna win a lot of baseball games. And that
Speaker 5: has been the case for the Dodgers over the last
Speaker 5: six games.
Speaker 4: And really you go back over the last two weeks.
Speaker 5: I mean, this is a five hundred baseball team since
Speaker 5: the All Star Break.
Speaker 4: As much as we talk about.
Speaker 5: How they have won those series in New York and Philadelphia,
Speaker 5: they just could not come back home. And do you
Speaker 5: know anything against the Boston Red Sox and they were
Speaker 5: lucky to take two to three from the Seattle Mariners.
Speaker 5: They struggled in this series against the Chicago Cubs, and
Speaker 5: outside of the five run outburst in the eighth inning
Speaker 5: from the Dodgers, you know this was gonna be a
Speaker 5: tough go for them against the Cubbies. Down seven to one, offensively,
Speaker 5: just couldn't do anything until that five run eighth inning.
Speaker 5: And again, what do they rely on the slug What
Speaker 5: do they rely on the home runs for Max Munsey
Speaker 5: and show Hey o'tani as The Dodgers able to get
Speaker 5: back into it, but then when they needed a timely hit,
Speaker 5: they just couldn't get it. And at that point, you know,
Speaker 5: the Dodgers already had Andy Paez out of the game.
Speaker 5: At that point, they already had Freddy Freeman out of
Speaker 5: the game, and the Dodgers, relying on Alex Call and
Speaker 5: keyk Hernandez Alice Call got hit by a pitch got
Speaker 5: the second on a wild pitch, and the Dodgers with
Speaker 5: the ty and run at second base with two outs
Speaker 5: again couldn't get the big hit they needed. So it's
Speaker 5: certainly a disappointment for the Dodgers. You've got to be
Speaker 5: playing better at this time.
Speaker 4: Now.
Speaker 5: I say that with the preference that a year ago
Speaker 5: this Dodgers team lost seven in a row.
Speaker 4: Yeah, this is the.
Speaker 5: Dodgers team that's not you know, not gone through this
Speaker 5: before and been okay. I mean, you go back to
Speaker 5: last year and certainly they won a World Series, they
Speaker 5: win the division, they did what they did last year
Speaker 5: in twenty twenty five, and last year in July going
Speaker 5: into the All Star Break, this is a Dodgers team
Speaker 5: then had lost seven.
Speaker 4: In a row.
Speaker 5: They got swept by the Houston Astros in a three
Speaker 5: game series. Then they go to Milwaukee and they lose
Speaker 5: three games, and then they lose in San Francisco in
Speaker 5: the opening game of a three game set. They had
Speaker 5: dropped seven in a row and the Dodgers could not
Speaker 5: figure it out going into the All Star Break, and
Speaker 5: then come out in the second half of the season
Speaker 5: and we're okay, and they win a World series and
Speaker 5: the world is right. So we've been through this before,
Speaker 5: this long losing streak. Now do we want to continue?
Speaker 4: Certainly not.
Speaker 5: And for this Dodgers team, you now find yourself eight
Speaker 5: and a half games up in the division.
Speaker 4: And yes it's a big lead. Don't get me wrong.
Speaker 5: There are teams with lesser leads in the division right
Speaker 5: now around Major League Baseball. But for a team that
Speaker 5: was up fourteen games and running away from the division,
Speaker 5: I didn't think they were gonna be winning by this much. Yeah,
Speaker 5: they're not gonna win by fourteen or fifteen games. It
Speaker 5: wasn't gonna be that much of a boat race. But
Speaker 5: to see this lead now in the division down to
Speaker 5: eight and a half and oh by it. Wait, look
Speaker 5: at the Padres only nine and a half games back, folks.
Speaker 5: There's still a chunk of August to go in all
Speaker 5: of September to play before we get to October. And
Speaker 5: something to also keep in mind. And again, the top
Speaker 5: two teams don't have to play in the wildcard round.
Speaker 5: But right now as we speak, the Dodgers at sixty
Speaker 5: nine and forty six, are behind the Milwaukee Brewers, who
Speaker 5: have the best record in baseball and are one game
Speaker 5: up in the win column, ahead of the Atlanta Braves,
Speaker 5: who have won six in a row and can very
Speaker 5: easily leap fro out the Dodgers.
Speaker 4: So just when you think, oh, fourteen game.
Speaker 5: Lead, Okay, it's down to eight and a half, not
Speaker 5: not to panic, don't worry, We'll still win the NL West. Well,
Speaker 5: the last thing you want to do is go through
Speaker 5: the wildcard round again.
Speaker 4: You'd like to get to maybe a little.
Speaker 5: Bit of a break, But as it is, the Dodgers
Speaker 5: right now see themselves with the Braves and Brewers fighting
Speaker 5: for those two top two spots in the National League.
Speaker 4: Something to keep an eye on it.
Speaker 5: As much as you think, well, what do they have
Speaker 5: to play for, they're running away with the division still
Speaker 5: eight and.
Speaker 4: A half games to him. Slow down.
Speaker 5: It'd be nice to have a bye in the wildcard round.
Speaker 5: It'd be nice not have to play that series again
Speaker 5: this year. Think about all the mileage this team has
Speaker 5: had to go through the last two years to win
Speaker 5: back to back World Series championships.
Speaker 4: Shorter off seasons, a.
Speaker 5: Team that's full of thirty plus year old guys on it,
Speaker 5: dealing with injuries, dealing with struggles of down seasons. It'd
Speaker 5: be nice to get a little bit of a break
Speaker 5: and not have to play in the wildcard round. But again,
Speaker 5: just when you think, ah, we're gonna win the division
Speaker 5: hands down, there is something else to play for eight
Speaker 5: sixty six, nine eighty seven to two five seventy one.
Speaker 4: Other note, Mookie Betts. The struggle is real for Mookie
Speaker 4: this year.
Speaker 5: And last night after the game, I thought it was
Speaker 5: his comments were interesting, very professional, you know, and you're
Speaker 5: not gonna get a Mookie Bets who's gonna fly off
Speaker 5: the hand or get too down on himself. I thought
Speaker 5: he was interesting what he had to say last night
Speaker 5: when he talked about another zero for night, and he'say, like,
Speaker 5: I hit the ball hard.
Speaker 4: Man, I'm not going to change anything.
Speaker 5: It's not like I'm doing something wrong or I feel
Speaker 5: like my mechanics are wrong or my approach is wrong.
Speaker 5: I'm just hitting it right at guys. I'm just unlucky.
Speaker 5: I guess that's my word, unlucky. But he talked about
Speaker 5: how he feels like he's at a good spot. It's
Speaker 5: just not finding green grass. It's just not finding open
Speaker 5: parts of the field for base hits. And what happens
Speaker 5: today hits the ball hard again and has a four
Speaker 5: hit game against the Cups, and you hope maybe this
Speaker 5: is a springboard for him moving forward offensively, And at
Speaker 5: the same time, you hope it's a springboard moving forward
Speaker 5: for this team with that five run eighth inning that
Speaker 5: the Dodgers can build on going into Arizona. Eight six
Speaker 5: six nine eighty seven two five seventy is our number.
Speaker 5: Eight sixty six nine eight seven two five seventy. Dodges
Speaker 5: Baseball is brought to by Medello Midello, the.
Speaker 4: Mark of a fighter. So again the lead is dwindled.
Speaker 5: A big three game series against the Arizona Diamondbacks, who remember,
Speaker 5: going into the All Star Break, went to Uniclow Field
Speaker 5: to Dodger Stadium and beat.
Speaker 4: The Dodgers in three games.
Speaker 5: They've got it lined up with Merril, Kelly, Brandon Fought,
Speaker 5: and Anuarno Rodriguez Friday, Saturday and Sunday against the Dodgers.
Speaker 4: That lead could dwindle even more.
Speaker 5: And besides the division which we all thought they were
Speaker 5: running away with and this thing was over again. I
Speaker 5: will keep bringing it up. The two top spots in
Speaker 5: the National League be nice to avoid the wild card
Speaker 5: Round eight six, six, nine, eight, seven, two five seventy
Speaker 5: is the number. All right, you got one line open
Speaker 5: if you want to jump on board. On this Wednesday
Speaker 5: afternoon Talk from Dodger Baseball, we.
Speaker 4: Go up to Utah. Love Utah. Heather next up here
Speaker 4: on Dodger Talk. How you doing, Heather Hallu, I'm doing fantastic.
Speaker 4: We're in Utah. Are you.
Speaker 2: Just south of Salt Lake City?
Speaker 6: Okay?
Speaker 4: Very cool?
Speaker 2: What wanted to be whenever we can so, so just
Speaker 2: calling in about the game. My parents were actually there.
Speaker 6: We were a big doctor.
Speaker 2: Baseball family, and we tried to travel with them when
Speaker 2: we can. We weren't able to go to Chicago with them,
Speaker 2: and we've got two boys playing travel team in high
Speaker 2: school baseball, you know, so it's busy. But they went.
Speaker 2: They said they had a great time. Really unfortunate that
Speaker 2: they couldn't get at least one win, but they said
Speaker 2: today was really great during the eighth inning to get
Speaker 2: the five runs and also just seeing show heyo, Tony,
Speaker 2: wake up, months he wake up. That's wake up. It
Speaker 2: stills a little, you know, doom and gloom, but I
Speaker 2: really think, truly, like for any Dodger fan out there,
Speaker 2: that's kind of panicking like me. You know, when we
Speaker 2: get these like five six game losing streak, Septembers matters
Speaker 2: more than August, and we don't need to panic right
Speaker 2: right now, it's going to be okay. It stills not great,
Speaker 2: but September matters, and you're gonna get smell and glass,
Speaker 2: noow back, and then the veteran hitters hopefully will wake up.
Speaker 2: So my thoughts are as far as that goes. I mean,
Speaker 2: is this just baseball being baseball? Or is there you know,
Speaker 2: not some pestimistic but is there anything going on in
Speaker 2: the clubhouse? Like I think it's probably just like it's August,
Speaker 2: you know what I.
Speaker 5: Mean, It's baseball. It's the ups and downs of one
Speaker 5: sixty two. Heather, great to hear from you. You don't be
Speaker 5: a stranger here to Dodger talk. Like we said a
Speaker 5: year ago, they went through a seven game losing streak,
Speaker 5: their longest skid since twenty nineteen. Right now it's sitting
Speaker 5: at six game losing streak for the Dodgers. You look
Speaker 5: at again what this Dodger team does so good slug,
Speaker 5: good pitching, and really good defense.
Speaker 4: Well, what have we not seen recently?
Speaker 5: The slug Okay, we're not seeing the offensive productions, not
Speaker 5: seeing a lot of runs on the scoreboard. Defense, base running, yeah,
Speaker 5: stop being great. Then you look at the pitching, and
Speaker 5: the pitching has not been great, both facets, the bullpen
Speaker 5: and starting pitching. So the Dodgers, I'm pretty confident they're
Speaker 5: going to turn things around. I'm pretty confident this Dodgers
Speaker 5: team we'll get out of this hole that they've now
Speaker 5: dug themselves into. And I guess you can say thankfully
Speaker 5: they built up such a big lead previously that a
Speaker 5: six game losing streak and a little run by the
Speaker 5: Arizona Diamondbacks has now got it at eight and a half.
Speaker 5: So you know, if they were only up eight or
Speaker 5: nine and all of a sudden this thing happened with
Speaker 5: both teams of the Dodgers' lead was a half game,
Speaker 5: I think we'd be hitting the panic button a little
Speaker 5: bit more. But because they had built a fourteen game
Speaker 5: lead in the division, a six game losing streak is
Speaker 5: not good. It's not ideal, but you had a little
Speaker 5: bit of a buffer there and a cushion to work with.
Speaker 5: Now it's time to crank it back up. It's time
Speaker 5: for the starters this weekend, beginning with Roki Sasaki on
Speaker 5: Friday to get dialed in in the dome there and
Speaker 5: Chase Field with the roof closed in nice seventy two
Speaker 5: degrees on Friday night against Merril Kelly to get it going.
Speaker 5: And it's time for the Dodgers to clean it up.
Speaker 5: And that's something that Dave Roberts has always coached his
Speaker 5: team as the fundamentals, and we're talking about fundamentals of defense.
Speaker 5: We're talking about the fundamentals of you know, winning necessary
Speaker 5: moving guys over which they don't do a lot of
Speaker 5: if I understand them. It's a huge topic, but also the
Speaker 5: fundamentals of defense and base running, base running. How many
Speaker 5: times did the Dodgers run themselves out of outs or
Speaker 5: innings or potential runs with a runner at second or third?
Speaker 4: Too many times? Too many times over.
Speaker 5: The last two weeks have we heard Dodger runner thrown out,
Speaker 5: a second, Dodger runner picked off at first?
Speaker 3: Show?
Speaker 4: Hey Otani, you know, show he's trying to stretch.
Speaker 5: A double in the triple, gets banged at third, you know,
Speaker 5: not running hard from second to home like Alfonso did
Speaker 5: in the Philadelphia series.
Speaker 4: A couple of weeks ago, you know.
Speaker 5: Not not tagging up and running when you're supposed to,
Speaker 5: or not getting a good jump on a ball and
Speaker 5: scoring from second on a ball hit to the outfield.
Speaker 5: And they're not even making a play at home. They're
Speaker 5: throwing a second and you pull up around third in hole.
Speaker 5: See these little fundamental things the base running have got
Speaker 5: to be cleaned up.
Speaker 4: It's a huge part of the game, and the Dodgers.
Speaker 5: Aren't doing it right right now. They'll turn it around,
Speaker 5: no doubt about it. You're gonna see this team rattle
Speaker 5: off wins. I mean as bad as they're playing over
Speaker 5: the six game losing streak. Think about the last road trip,
Speaker 5: the two stops in New York and the three game
Speaker 5: series in Philadelphia. Okay, they didn't go nine to oh,
Speaker 5: but they went six and three and they won all
Speaker 5: three series. That's the big thing. Win series. Take two
Speaker 5: to three, win three of four, win the series and.
Speaker 4: You'll be all right.
Speaker 5: Unfortunately, the Dodgers have been swept in the last two series.
Speaker 4: And I look at this.
Speaker 5: You know, Arizona Diamondbacks team coming up Friday night. They
Speaker 5: got some momentum and a win tonight against San Diego
Speaker 5: in that game against the Padres.
Speaker 4: This leads eight.
Speaker 5: They got all the momentum going on the weekend, and
Speaker 5: as they got it stacked up, they got their three
Speaker 5: veteran best pitchers going at it, including Eduardo Rodriguez on
Speaker 5: Sunday in the finale. And you think about Roki Sasaki. Okay,
Speaker 5: which rookie we're gonna get on Friday Night? Hopefully the
Speaker 5: good rokie who the last two starts too and zero
Speaker 5: with a one to fifty era Yoshinobu Yamamoto. I don't
Speaker 5: worry about Justin Robleski on Sunday in the finale. Which
Speaker 5: Robleski is going to show up? The Robleski that was
Speaker 5: the All Star or the Juster Robleski the last few
Speaker 5: starts that has just giving up home run after home
Speaker 5: run after home run after home run. Hopefully he has
Speaker 5: a bounce back game on Sunday again, a huge three
Speaker 5: game weekend series coming up Friday, Saturday and Sunday out
Speaker 5: at Chase Field, the game between the Dodgers and the Diamondbacks.
Speaker 5: Eight sixty sixth ninety seven, two five seventy. Let's go
Speaker 5: to Bill and see me Valley. Welcome to Dodger Talk.
Speaker 5: With Tim Kate TWI doing, Bill, good?
Speaker 1: How you doing?
Speaker 5: I'm all right, I'm not panicking yet, Bill, but you
Speaker 5: know what, I am kind of looking at this sideways, like,
Speaker 5: what's go on here?
Speaker 4: We need to be better than this.
Speaker 6: Fine, No, thanks for the facts, because I was just
Speaker 6: wondering when was the last time they lost? They got
Speaker 6: swept in two series and I thought, this is this
Speaker 6: is incredible that they did that. And I guess my
Speaker 6: frustration is, I think you're right, they'll turn it around.
Speaker 6: I know it's August. My concern is when October comes around.
Speaker 6: I hopefully it's not one of those where they say, oh,
Speaker 6: let's put it in another gear. Oh there is no
Speaker 6: other gear, right, And you know, I just I know
Speaker 6: they're a veteran teams. They'll they'll probably get you know'll
Speaker 6: turn it around a little bit. It's just frustrating when
Speaker 6: they lose to you know, two big contenders, Boston and Chicago.
Speaker 6: And I think Boston's the best team in baseball now.
Speaker 6: I think Chicago and Milwaukee are pretty close. Even though
Speaker 6: the Dodgers have a better record, they're not playing better.
Speaker 6: And you know, it's just it's just frustrating because it's like,
Speaker 6: I don't think guys should be losing six games in
Speaker 6: a row to the contenders. Mentally, that can't be good.
Speaker 5: No, no, no, no doubt about it. Bill, and I
Speaker 5: appreciate the phone call. I mentioned it with Jose and
Speaker 5: the Clubouse show. You know, you go back to the
Speaker 5: start of the second half of the season and we
Speaker 5: talked about the nine game road trip and how big
Speaker 5: it was going to be. And with the Dodgers a
Speaker 5: huge lead at the All Star break, how are they
Speaker 5: going to come out of the All Star break? How
Speaker 5: are they going to start on the road East Coast
Speaker 5: nine games, ten days, going to Washington, DC on the
Speaker 5: day off. How are they gonna fare? This is gonna
Speaker 5: be a big test for them. And the Dodgers took
Speaker 5: two or three from the Yankees, took two to three
Speaker 5: from the Phillies, took two of three from the Mets.
Speaker 5: You know, they come back home, they take two or
Speaker 5: three from the Seattle Mariners, who ended up being sellers
Speaker 5: at the deadline. The Mets were sellers, but the Phillies
Speaker 5: and the Yankees are playoff teams.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 5: The Boston Red Sox, as Bill mentioned, the hottest team
Speaker 5: in baseball hands down the hottest team in the major leagues,
Speaker 5: the Chicago Cubs right there for a wildcard spot. And
Speaker 5: don't look now, they're only five games back in the
Speaker 5: NL Central behind the Milwaukee Brewers, who have the best
Speaker 5: record in Baseball Arizona this weekend, you know, they got
Speaker 5: three game series against Kansas City coming up. The Royal's
Speaker 5: got nothing to fight for, you know. But then the
Speaker 5: Milwaukee Brewers come to town for a four game series
Speaker 5: at Dodgers Stadium. The Pirates who became buyers at the
Speaker 5: trade deadline are at Unicle Field, a Dodger Stadium coming
Speaker 5: up at the end of the month.
Speaker 4: And then you go to Atlanta.
Speaker 5: You know, you've got a stretch in which you're facing
Speaker 5: teams that you should just destroy, and the Cardinals and
Speaker 5: Nationals and Reds. But then you got Miami and you
Speaker 5: got a Padres team at the end of the year.
Speaker 5: You know, the schedule is the way it is. There
Speaker 5: are teams that are hunting for the Dodgers. There are teams,
Speaker 5: I mean, look at the trade deadline. It's a prime example.
Speaker 5: Thirty teams in Baseball twenty four of the thirty we're
Speaker 5: still in contention for the division or a wildcard spot
Speaker 5: within four and a half games. That left six teams
Speaker 5: that were legitimately out of it, no shot, absolute.
Speaker 4: Sellers at the deadline. That's a lot of teams still
Speaker 4: in contention.
Speaker 5: You can say this is good for baseball, and I
Speaker 5: will argue it is because the wildcard has added this competition.
Speaker 5: If there's no wildcard in the American League or the
Speaker 5: National League, we're talking about a boat race in two
Speaker 5: of the three league in the National League, two of
Speaker 5: the three divisions in the National League, and we're talking
Speaker 5: about one of the divisions in the American League being
Speaker 5: a runaway as well. So it has created a lot
Speaker 5: of competition and it's good for the sport. Absolutely, it's
Speaker 5: great for all these markets that are still in it.
Speaker 5: But with that being said, if you're the team like
Speaker 5: the Dodgers, you've got to be ready now because as
Speaker 5: we get here in the last seven weeks of the season,
Speaker 5: there are teams fighting and not just throwing it in
Speaker 5: and saying one, two, three can con they're fighting and
Speaker 5: they may not have been fighters in years past, but
Speaker 5: now you got teams that are scrapping and klawn and
Speaker 5: they're looking at the Dodgers now and they're seeing them
Speaker 5: being picked off by the Cubs, swept by the Red Sox,
Speaker 5: Diamondbacks got.
Speaker 4: Them for three before the All Star breaking and you
Speaker 4: know what, they're beautible. We can get to them.
Speaker 5: You know, there's a recipe here to how to pitch
Speaker 5: to these Dodger hitters now and attack them and you know,
Speaker 5: put the pressure on them defensively. So you're starting to
Speaker 5: see the teams do this and cut it after the
Speaker 5: with the Cubs, how aggressive they were, just like the
Speaker 5: Red Sox early in the count, attacking and ambushing the
Speaker 5: pitching and defensively playing really good defense and being aggressive
Speaker 5: on the bass pass forcing plays. The Red Sox did
Speaker 5: a great job of that, putting the ball in play,
Speaker 5: guys in motion, you know, small ball, with the bunt
Speaker 5: for base hits, a couple of infield singles. They do
Speaker 5: everything the Dodgers needs to need. Get it back to
Speaker 5: what they do right, slug pitching and defense. We haven't
Speaker 5: seen the defense in base running. Pitching's been iffy, and
Speaker 5: the offense has been there in spurts. I mean today,
Speaker 5: prime example, one run over the first seven innings.
Speaker 4: That's it.
Speaker 5: Yesterday, one run in the game. Today they score five
Speaker 5: in the eighth, they show what they can do. Guy
Speaker 5: get on base, Max Mounty, three run home run. Another
Speaker 5: runner gets on bass, show Aotani two run home run,
Speaker 5: slug slug back in the game. All of a sudden's
Speaker 5: a one run game. That's what the Dodgers are built on.
Speaker 5: Eight sixty six, nine eighty seven, two five seventy. We'll
Speaker 5: take a time out, we'll come back. We'll get to
Speaker 5: your phone calls. We'll hear from Freddy Freeman as well.
Speaker 5: Who good news, Freddy Freeman got hit on the right hand,
Speaker 5: came out of the game after the fifth inning. X
Speaker 5: rays negative. We'll hear from Freddy coming up and your
Speaker 5: phone calls. Cubs beat the Dodgers seven to six as
Speaker 5: the Dodgers get swept out of the Windy City, losing
Speaker 5: all three games in Chicago. Now day off Tomorrow, Phoenix, Friday,
Speaker 5: Saturday and Sunday against the Diamondbacks. Your phone calls when
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Speaker 4: And Otani swings lifts it deep till that field. That
Speaker 4: ball headed back to the wall and is gone.
Speaker 5: Haha.
Speaker 4: Run for al Tony his second of a ball game.
Speaker 4: He stops at second thinking it's a double.
Speaker 3: It went over the basket.
Speaker 5: Now he's told it's a home run, but he continues
Speaker 5: his try show.
Speaker 4: Hey Otani put on a show.
Speaker 5: Two home runs, a leadoff home run in the top
Speaker 5: of the first, his twenty fifth homer of this season,
Speaker 5: his twenty ninth leadoff home run as a Dodger, passing
Speaker 5: Davy Lobes, now three behind Mookie Betts for first all
Speaker 5: time on the Dodgers' leadoff home run list, as he
Speaker 5: then goes deep in the eighth inning of two run
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Speaker 5: PCA Pete Crow Armstrong goes deep twice, also had an
Speaker 5: RBI double. These two guys so much fun to watch.
Speaker 5: I mean, pie Crow Armstrong was a stud at Harvard
Speaker 5: Westlake High School right down the street and Studio City,
Speaker 5: and he has grown into one of the best players
Speaker 5: in baseball. And to see what he Tawny did today,
Speaker 5: going back and forth lead off home runs in the
Speaker 5: first inning, first by show Hey and then Pete Crow Armstrong.
Speaker 5: The two of them combined to go six for ten,
Speaker 5: a double, four home runs, four runs scored, and seven
Speaker 5: runs batted in combined.
Speaker 4: And you look at the MVP race in the National League.
Speaker 5: Stat wise, seventy RBIs on the season for show Hey,
Speaker 5: sixty nine for PCA. You look at their on base percentage,
Speaker 5: they're ops. They're batting average within you know, seven eight points.
Speaker 5: They're going neck and neck right now for the MVP
Speaker 5: vote in the National League. So with fifty games to
Speaker 5: go here, it is going to be a fun race
Speaker 5: to see what these two do the final six seven
Speaker 5: weeks of this season. Eight six, six nine, eight seven
Speaker 5: two five seventy is the number before we get back
Speaker 5: out to the phones. Freddy Freeman today in the fifth
Speaker 5: inning had a check swing. It was a check swing
Speaker 5: foul ball that ended up going towards the Cubs dugout
Speaker 5: over by the third base line, and it was on
Speaker 5: the first pitch of the bat against Immenaga in the
Speaker 5: fifth and it was a fastball high and inside. He
Speaker 5: was trying to get out of the way at the
Speaker 5: same time.
Speaker 4: It was called a.
Speaker 5: Foul ball check swing, but his hand got jammed between
Speaker 5: the ball and the bat on the pitch that he
Speaker 5: fouled off and he came out. Afterwards, we found out
Speaker 5: from Dave Roberts X rays were negative. Let's go back
Speaker 5: out to Rick Leavefield. David Vat staying in the media
Speaker 5: standing by with Freddy Freeman.
Speaker 4: So were you concerned that this might be more serious?
Speaker 4: Where's that at with your right hand right now? No,
Speaker 4: I wasn't concerned.
Speaker 8: I obviously didn't come out of that at bat because
Speaker 8: I knew it hit my bat as well. So I
Speaker 8: hit bat and in the hand and pinched my hand
Speaker 8: onto the bat. So next pitch I swung, and I
Speaker 8: could swing, and I swung again. But I say, Dronone
Speaker 8: wore off pain out a little bit more. I mean,
Speaker 8: I feels like I buy a ball buggy X rays
Speaker 8: for negative. So I feel all right to some treatment,
Speaker 8: do some more treatment tomorrow. I should be good Friday.
Speaker 4: Where's the swelling at right now? It's on right here.
Speaker 8: I got hit on the side of my hand, so
Speaker 8: pretty much just squeezed into my hand. So so I
Speaker 8: get for swinging the ball out my face.
Speaker 3: It was a foul ball.
Speaker 4: It was all just a swing right. No, I'm okay.
Speaker 8: I it's just more precautionary at that point, which is
Speaker 8: good because I got some treatment. It got about an
Speaker 8: hour hours worth of treatment and feeling much better.
Speaker 4: Would you make of that eighth inning where you guys
Speaker 4: were able to score five? Yeah, that was good.
Speaker 8: It's nice for us to start scaring some runs. I
Speaker 8: know it could come out on the losing side again,
Speaker 8: but show some life. Guys got Mookie had a great day.
Speaker 4: Max with the home run.
Speaker 8: Show heyes, getting some but there's xtra base hits and
Speaker 8: I think we're on the right foot. So day off tomorrow,
Speaker 8: we'll get get going on Friday.
Speaker 4: All right, there's Freddy Freeman. I liked that day off tomorrow.
Speaker 5: Build on the momentum they had any eighth anyway, they
Speaker 5: scored the five runs a couple of home runs from
Speaker 5: Monty and Otanian get After the Diamondbacks on Friday for
Speaker 5: the start of a three game series, Can in Newport
Speaker 5: walk in to Dodger talk Ken, how's it going with
Speaker 5: my friend?
Speaker 3: Oh, twice in one week? This is like special?
Speaker 4: I know, this is we should we should do this
Speaker 4: more often.
Speaker 3: All right, Just a couple of things. After the the
Speaker 3: sweep of with what's called the Red Sox, I made
Speaker 3: up that a couple of times that this is more
Speaker 3: than just a sweep. This is three left handed starting
Speaker 3: pitchers going against the Dodgers, and the Dodgers aren't hitting well.
Speaker 3: They had two more starting pitchers. Now, now the league
Speaker 3: knows that really the Dodgers' biggest weakness is left handed pitching,
Speaker 3: especially Onceie two more strikeouts. He's got twelve in his
Speaker 3: last twenty eight twenty nine at bats. He's hitting about
Speaker 3: two point thirty. And when the league figures something out,
Speaker 3: they just hit it and hit and hit it. Now,
Speaker 3: that's the one thing. The other thing is I don't
Speaker 3: understand when Dave is leaving a pitcher in. It's the
Speaker 3: third time in these six games he left the pitcher
Speaker 3: in that gave up five or six runs. You pull
Speaker 3: him out immediately, that means he doesn't have it the day.
Speaker 3: They could have won this game if they would have
Speaker 3: pulled him out in the second or third innings, but
Speaker 3: they've left him in. Is there a reason that I'm
Speaker 3: missing here?
Speaker 4: Well, you look at Lower and he gets into trouble.
Speaker 4: We've seen him give up the home running ball.
Speaker 5: You've seen him, you know, put the Dodgers in a hole,
Speaker 5: and then he'll come up and start putting up zeros
Speaker 5: of the rest of the way, and the offense bails
Speaker 5: them out or gets them back into a game or
Speaker 5: gets them back to within striking distance. So it's not
Speaker 5: like Eric Lower has been perfect over these eight starts
Speaker 5: ninde appearances going in today.
Speaker 4: He's had his ups and downs. He's gotten the Dodgers
Speaker 4: in the early holes.
Speaker 5: They've bailed out of it though, and have come back
Speaker 5: and won those games that he's pitched today.
Speaker 4: They just unfortunately got into too big of a hole.
Speaker 4: I in there with your concerns.
Speaker 5: I'm there with your concerns. Ken I appreciate the phone call.
Speaker 5: You've been concerned about Mookie Betts. I'm gonna look at
Speaker 5: Mookie situations, say four hits today, hitting the ball hard
Speaker 5: the last couple of games in Chicago. Now that he's
Speaker 5: finding some green grass, finding some holes out there, the ball,
Speaker 5: you know, is not finding the glove around the outfield.
Speaker 4: It's a good thing.
Speaker 5: And he hit the ball hards, just off the end
Speaker 5: of the bat and his lasted bat there in what
Speaker 5: was at the ninth inning. You know, if he hit
Speaker 5: squares that up, who knows, wind blows out at Wrigley.
Speaker 5: We're talking about a different game. It's tied up going
Speaker 5: to the bottom of the ninth and the Dodgers make
Speaker 5: this huge comeback. As it is, he hits it off
Speaker 5: the end of the bat, doesn't get the barrel and
Speaker 5: flies out into left center field. So again, I think
Speaker 5: they'll be okay moving forward. I just want to see
Speaker 5: this team clean it up. Just be better at the
Speaker 5: things you do. And you're gonna go through your ruts.
Speaker 5: There's no argument there. It's one hundred and sixty two
Speaker 5: game season. You're gonna have your ups and your downs,
Speaker 5: your winning streaks or losing streaks. It's how you get
Speaker 5: out of them. It's how you figure out what you're
Speaker 5: doing wrong and fix it.
Speaker 4: And the Dodgers just.
Speaker 5: Aren't playing clean defense. They're not certainly running the base
Speaker 5: pass good at all. And those things can be fixed.
Speaker 5: And the offense, you know, you can score five runs,
Speaker 5: you can put up a crooked number on the scoreboard,
Speaker 5: which they do all the time.
Speaker 4: Just need to be more.
Speaker 5: Consistent and getting into holes like they did today are
Speaker 5: tough to get out of. You know, look at all
Speaker 5: three games in Chicago. The Dodgers took the lead early
Speaker 5: and gave it right up.
Speaker 4: I mean it was it.
Speaker 5: The first game of the series. Tommy Emans home run,
Speaker 5: three batters into three to nothing lead. I literally text
Speaker 5: my daughter, She's like the Cubs stink, and I wrote back,
Speaker 5: still a lot of baseball to be played. And as
Speaker 5: it was, they come back and they scored two I
Speaker 5: think in the bottom of the first, and then they
Speaker 5: go on and they take the lead and never look back.
Speaker 5: In the game one of this series in Chicago, same
Speaker 5: thing happened yesterday. Dodgers dumped out to a lead, gave
Speaker 5: it right back up. Same thing happened today. First batter
Speaker 5: Otani Boom goes deep bottom of the first. PCA says,
Speaker 5: hold my beer, I'm gonna hit a home run as well.
Speaker 5: Tie this thing up so you can score like the
Speaker 5: Dodgers did early. But when a starting pitcher then goes
Speaker 5: out there and doesn't put it zeros and gives up
Speaker 5: a lead or gives up some of the lead, that's
Speaker 5: not good. That's that's trouble. And then the pitcher continues
Speaker 5: to not put up zeros and have traffic on the
Speaker 5: base pass that can't happen. Dodgers will be all right.
Speaker 5: I'm not worried about the longevity of this season. This
Speaker 5: team blowing a fourteen game lead, it's down to eight
Speaker 5: and a half now, I think this weekend not to
Speaker 5: put too much pressure and not to hype it up
Speaker 5: too much. But it's a big series against Arizona. If
Speaker 5: Arizona's eight or nine games, and it's eight and a
Speaker 5: half as we speak, if they lose tonight to the Padres,
Speaker 5: it'll be nine.
Speaker 4: If they win tonight, it'll be an eight game lead. Okay,
Speaker 4: do the math. The Dodgers get swept in Arizona, it's
Speaker 4: down to five. You take two or three? Wasn't a
Speaker 4: math major? What is it? Seven?
Speaker 3: Right?
Speaker 4: Yeah? Seven? If you're sweet.
Speaker 5: All of a sudden, it's up to eleven games. So
Speaker 5: there's a huge swing and where you could be after
Speaker 5: this weekend serious against Arizona, And in my book, I mean,
Speaker 5: you're not gonna see Arizona again the rest of the year.
Speaker 3: This is it. This is it.
Speaker 4: There's no more head to head with Arizona.
Speaker 5: So if you can take this series and sweep this
Speaker 5: series against Arizona, you are sending a message like, you
Speaker 5: know what, we're back. It's a double digit lead. You know,
Speaker 5: you had a nice little run. We had our little funk,
Speaker 5: but our double digit lead is now back and we'll
Speaker 5: take control the division again.
Speaker 4: All right. That is gonna do it for you know what?
Speaker 5: Oh Blake, my guy, Blake, Blake Colorado, final call here
Speaker 5: on Dodge Talk.
Speaker 4: Blake, how you doing, buddy?
Speaker 1: You always forgot about me?
Speaker 4: No, I didn't.
Speaker 5: I was dead, I was moving my hands around, I
Speaker 5: was all animated here and then I did not forget, Blake.
Speaker 4: I did not forget. What's on your mind?
Speaker 3: The daughters almost made a lake come back.
Speaker 2: What do you think the main problem is doing this
Speaker 2: losing street?
Speaker 1: Should we be worried?
Speaker 4: I'm not too worried, Blake.
Speaker 5: I think the biggest thing is they've just not played
Speaker 5: clean Dodger fundamental baseball. They got talent oozing out of
Speaker 5: every possible position and every spot in the lineup.
Speaker 4: There's no doubt about that blake. But when you don't
Speaker 4: play clean.
Speaker 5: Baseball, I don't care who you got in your lineup,
Speaker 5: how stacked you are offensively, how good your rotation is.
Speaker 5: If you don't throw strikes, if you fall behind in counts,
Speaker 5: if you give up walks, if you give up the
Speaker 5: long ball, like the Dodgers have been given up in
Speaker 5: record numbers here. I mean, the Cubs hit eight in
Speaker 5: this series over the last three games. And you don't
Speaker 5: play good defense and you don't run the base pass smart,
Speaker 5: You're not gonna win baseball games. You're not gonna win games.
Speaker 5: So that is what's happened with the Dodgers. But I
Speaker 5: think once they clean it up and a day off,
Speaker 5: a check, a chance to excel me. Think about this
Speaker 5: Dodgers team and the run they've had. You know, a
Speaker 5: lot of these guys were exult after that nine game
Speaker 5: road trip, had a quick day off, right back at it,
Speaker 5: right back on the road, had to play a game
Speaker 5: on Sunday night at Dodger Stadium, and then fly to Chicago,
Speaker 5: No day off, right back at it at Wrigley Monday night.
Speaker 4: You know, play a three game series.
Speaker 5: Now they have a chance to exhale, you know, decompressing
Speaker 5: the desert, sweat it out, so to speak, tomorrow by
Speaker 5: the pool wherever they're staying in Scottsdale, and then.
Speaker 4: Get ready for this three game series. So I think
Speaker 4: they'll be all right. Blake. Good to hear from you,
Speaker 4: my friend. I'll be back on Sunday.
Speaker 2: Okay, okay, talk to you Sundays.
Speaker 4: All right, Thank you, Blake. Great to check in with you.
Speaker 4: I didn't forget about my guy, Blake. All right, that's
Speaker 4: gonna do it for Dodger Talk.
Speaker 5: Many thanks to Coliny, Thanks to all you Dodger fans
Speaker 5: for being a part of the show. Don't worry, Dodger fans.
Speaker 5: They're gonna be all right. They're gonna be all right.
Speaker 5: This six game losey streak, it stinks. Dodgers haven't been
Speaker 5: playing good. There's no up stands or butts about it. Well,
Speaker 5: they'll clean it up. They'll figure it out. They'll figure
Speaker 5: it out fast. This Dodger team, I think, is gonna
Speaker 5: have a big weekend.
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