WEBVTT - Dodgers on Deck (4-15-26) 0:00:00.360 --> 0:00:03.400 For the back to back World Champions of Baseball. 0:00:03.520 --> 0:00:05.880 One of the greatest runs in the history of baseball. 0:00:05.920 --> 0:00:12.559 Immortality is within their reach. Incredible and while others make excuses. 0:00:12.160 --> 0:00:14.319 The only reason the Dodgers are doing this because they 0:00:14.320 --> 0:00:15.280 can they print money. 0:00:15.320 --> 0:00:17.160 The Dodgers just can't continue. 0:00:17.200 --> 0:00:18.000 It's not fair. 0:00:18.160 --> 0:00:19.400 Are making plans. 0:00:19.880 --> 0:00:25.079 Yeah, it's a singular focus on controlling what they can control. 0:00:25.360 --> 0:00:29.080 Now your pregame host of the World Champion LA Dodgers, 0:00:29.560 --> 0:00:30.920 tam Cats. 0:00:30.840 --> 0:00:36.200 Hi, everybody, and welcome to Morongo Casino Dodgers on deck 0:00:36.240 --> 0:00:42.080 on this Wednesday night, April fifteenth, twenty twenty six, Jackie 0:00:42.159 --> 0:00:45.800 Robinson Day around Major League Baseball is Today is the 0:00:46.080 --> 0:00:49.760 seventy ninth anniversary of the former Dodger great breaking the 0:00:49.840 --> 0:00:53.760 color barrier in the sport. Your World Series Champion Dodgers 0:00:53.800 --> 0:00:55.480 thirteen and four on this season. 0:00:55.520 --> 0:00:58.360 After taking two or three from the Texas Rangers. 0:00:58.040 --> 0:01:00.600 Over the weekend, the winning can ting you with the 0:01:00.600 --> 0:01:03.640 first two games over the Mets, and tonight they go 0:01:03.720 --> 0:01:07.560 for the sweep of New York with show Hey Otani 0:01:07.720 --> 0:01:10.640 on the mound. First pitch from uniclove Field that Dodger 0:01:10.680 --> 0:01:13.040 Stadium is coming up at seven to ten Between then 0:01:13.080 --> 0:01:14.840 and out. They got a lot to get to here 0:01:14.880 --> 0:01:17.959 on Marongo Casino Dodgers on Deck, including hearing from the 0:01:17.959 --> 0:01:21.600 manager himself, Dave Roberts as show Heyo Tani is not 0:01:21.760 --> 0:01:25.640 a two way player tonight, Yes, show Heyo Tani is pitching. 0:01:25.680 --> 0:01:28.039 He is the Dodgers starter. He'll be on the mound 0:01:28.160 --> 0:01:32.080 comes seven to ten. But Dalton Rushing is the Dodgers 0:01:32.120 --> 0:01:32.920 designated hitter. 0:01:33.080 --> 0:01:33.640 More on that. 0:01:33.800 --> 0:01:37.240 Throughout the pregame show, we'll dive deeper into this pitching matchup. 0:01:37.319 --> 0:01:40.319 We'll hear from Charlie Steiner. Shortly, we'll also hear from 0:01:40.319 --> 0:01:43.759 Alex Vesia. We'll check in with Steven Nelson, Rick Monday 0:01:43.800 --> 0:01:46.440 and the crew out the gallpin Ford Broadcast Booth coming 0:01:46.520 --> 0:01:47.720 up in just a little bit. 0:01:47.720 --> 0:01:48.520 Well, last night, the. 0:01:48.520 --> 0:01:52.680 Ravine and Old School pitchers duel between Yoshinobu Yamamoto and 0:01:52.680 --> 0:01:56.520 Nolan McClain. Yamamoto pitched a season high seven and two 0:01:56.640 --> 0:01:59.160 third innings line one run, one walk, four hits, and 0:01:59.240 --> 0:02:00.960 a season high seven strikeouts. 0:02:01.160 --> 0:02:03.240 The Mets. McClain was equally as good. 0:02:03.360 --> 0:02:06.480 McClain struck out eight over seven innings, giving up two hits, 0:02:06.520 --> 0:02:07.880 one run, just two walks. 0:02:08.120 --> 0:02:09.720 Both starters were great. 0:02:10.120 --> 0:02:12.280 Both starters gave up a run of the first inning 0:02:12.320 --> 0:02:14.960 before locking in in the top of the first. Francisco 0:02:15.040 --> 0:02:17.680 Lindor started things off with his solo home run as 0:02:17.720 --> 0:02:19.480 the Mets grabbed an early one to ninhing lead. But 0:02:19.520 --> 0:02:21.560 in the bottom of the first, Kyle Tucker drew a 0:02:21.560 --> 0:02:24.079 one out walk, Will Smith doubled and Freddie Freeman grounded 0:02:24.120 --> 0:02:24.919 out to the first butt. 0:02:25.000 --> 0:02:27.280 Tucker was able to score on the play that tied 0:02:27.320 --> 0:02:28.280 the game at one. 0:02:28.720 --> 0:02:33.280 After that first inning, again, Yamamoto McClain were dealing nearly unhittable. 0:02:33.560 --> 0:02:37.120 Both put up zeros in the second, third, fourth, fifth, 0:02:37.400 --> 0:02:40.960 sixth through seven innings. Finally, in the eighth, McClain out 0:02:40.960 --> 0:02:43.480 of the game. The Dodgers offense got to work. Miguel 0:02:43.560 --> 0:02:46.120 Rojas the lead off walk two batters later, showing Otani 0:02:46.400 --> 0:02:49.079 intentionally walked that brought up Kyle Tucker. 0:02:49.480 --> 0:02:51.440 Dodgers won Mets one. 0:02:51.600 --> 0:02:56.360 Bottom of the eighth, first and second, one out, Kyle Tucker. 0:02:57.880 --> 0:03:02.079 At the plate. The pitch Tucker jam clear. 0:03:02.040 --> 0:03:06.000 Into left field, hit books out for ahead. Here's Rojas, 0:03:06.120 --> 0:03:08.880 he scores and Kyle Tucker. 0:03:08.800 --> 0:03:09.680 Hun ties it. 0:03:11.520 --> 0:03:17.520 Inside out swing looked like he got Jamndavid so Rayley 0:03:17.680 --> 0:03:20.400 missed on the Oak two with a big sweeping curve 0:03:20.440 --> 0:03:23.320 ball outside. He tried to come back inside and it 0:03:23.480 --> 0:03:24.320 cost him dearly. 0:03:24.880 --> 0:03:28.360 Kyle Tucker with the pitching wedge, just lobs it over 0:03:28.480 --> 0:03:32.440 third base into shallow left field, scoring the runner Rojas. 0:03:32.440 --> 0:03:33.920 That's the top show player the game, right to my 0:03:34.000 --> 0:03:36.680 Arco quality, top tier gas for less than Dodgers. 0:03:36.840 --> 0:03:40.280 A two to one lead the ninth belonged to Alex Vessia. 0:03:40.320 --> 0:03:41.240 He was fired up. 0:03:41.480 --> 0:03:44.440 He came in, struck out the first two batters he faced, 0:03:44.760 --> 0:03:47.440 then made quick work of Francisco Alvarez. 0:03:48.040 --> 0:03:54.640 Alex Vessia one more strike, that's all that's needed. The 0:03:54.720 --> 0:03:57.640 pitch checks, hanging a breaking ball down and then. 0:03:57.600 --> 0:04:03.000 He went around and top so in for La. Alex 0:04:03.120 --> 0:04:07.960 Fesia strikes out the side and records his second save 0:04:08.440 --> 0:04:12.840 in as many outings. The Dodgers thanks to Kyle Tucker's 0:04:12.960 --> 0:04:16.080 RBI single in the eighth, and Bessie is working the ninth. 0:04:16.400 --> 0:04:19.400 Take game two by a final of two to one. 0:04:19.760 --> 0:04:22.919 Ballgame Meet the Mets step right up and beat the 0:04:23.040 --> 0:04:25.520 Mets two to one. The final Dodgers with the win 0:04:25.760 --> 0:04:27.960 now thirteen and four on the season. They hand the 0:04:28.000 --> 0:04:31.159 Mets their seventh straight loss. Tonight they look to finish 0:04:31.160 --> 0:04:34.359 off New York Show. Hey Otani on the map, first 0:04:34.360 --> 0:04:36.360 pitch at seven to ten, and with more we head 0:04:36.360 --> 0:04:38.760 out to the galloping four to broadcast booth as we 0:04:38.760 --> 0:04:41.000 welcome in Stephen Nelson and Rick Monday. 0:04:41.040 --> 0:04:41.760 Guys. 0:04:42.080 --> 0:04:44.760 All right, Tim Kates, it is a gorgeous Wednesday here 0:04:44.880 --> 0:04:47.600 at Uniclow Field at Dodgers Stadium, where the Dodgers and 0:04:47.640 --> 0:04:49.919 Mets are preparing for a series finale and mode. The 0:04:49.920 --> 0:04:53.719 Dodgers are preparing to sweep the Mets out of LA 0:04:54.040 --> 0:04:56.400 and head into the off day, the travel day before 0:04:56.560 --> 0:04:59.520 a seven game road trip. They're about to play thirteen 0:04:59.600 --> 0:05:03.760 games thirteen days. And so the news of today is 0:05:03.800 --> 0:05:07.200 at show, Hey old Tani starting on the mound, but 0:05:07.480 --> 0:05:08.719 not in the lineup, as. 0:05:08.560 --> 0:05:10.080 It does not in the lineup. 0:05:10.120 --> 0:05:12.880 And you know, there's been some talk you bandied about 0:05:13.279 --> 0:05:16.800 really last year and so far early going in this 0:05:16.880 --> 0:05:18.360 year as well. 0:05:18.800 --> 0:05:19.760 I think I'm pounded too. 0:05:19.760 --> 0:05:22.480 And Dave Roberts talking to members the medium, compounded by 0:05:22.520 --> 0:05:24.080 the fact that he took a fast ball. 0:05:23.920 --> 0:05:25.640 Off the back of his right shoulder. 0:05:26.839 --> 0:05:29.480 A couple of nights ago, there might still be some 0:05:29.520 --> 0:05:32.240 residual soreness right in that area. The other part, too, 0:05:32.360 --> 0:05:35.839 is that the talk was going to continue when Otani 0:05:36.040 --> 0:05:38.640 is pitching in particular at home and he's in the 0:05:38.640 --> 0:05:41.360 lineup as a DH, are they going to maybe move 0:05:41.440 --> 0:05:43.679 him down that lineup so he can get at least 0:05:43.720 --> 0:05:47.279 a breather coming off the mound and then getting prepared 0:05:47.320 --> 0:05:49.719 to put the helmet on, get the bat, get everything 0:05:49.720 --> 0:05:52.080 else ready to go and hit itself and it doesn't 0:05:52.080 --> 0:05:54.040 have to worry about that. Tonight the lineup changes a 0:05:54.040 --> 0:05:56.400 little bit as there's old Kyle Tucker in the elite 0:05:56.400 --> 0:05:59.320 off spot. Then Freddie Freeman founded by Will Smith, and 0:05:59.360 --> 0:06:01.880 Hashung Kim gets the start at shortstop de Secon. 0:06:02.080 --> 0:06:05.599 You know, when the lineup was initially sent out, I knew, 0:06:06.120 --> 0:06:09.040 you knew that there was going to be some heads 0:06:09.080 --> 0:06:12.159 tilting and some questions for Dave robertson that was the 0:06:12.200 --> 0:06:14.320 first several minutes of his press commerce were about that. 0:06:14.360 --> 0:06:18.360 You expected that, But internally I'm thinking it's a number 0:06:18.400 --> 0:06:22.320 of combinations. One, it's April fifteen, two he got hit 0:06:22.360 --> 0:06:24.400 by a pitch on Monday. Dave Roberts said, if it 0:06:24.480 --> 0:06:25.880 was not for the hit by a pitch on his 0:06:26.000 --> 0:06:28.000 right scapula, then he would be in there as a 0:06:28.080 --> 0:06:32.680 DH Today, you have already clinched this series again, You're 0:06:32.720 --> 0:06:35.640 about to play thirteen consecutive games, including the first four 0:06:35.720 --> 0:06:37.960 on the road in Colorado, and everybody knows what that 0:06:38.040 --> 0:06:41.880 does to a player's body. So that, combined with Dalton 0:06:41.920 --> 0:06:44.440 Rushing's form to start the year, it just makes sense 0:06:44.560 --> 0:06:46.320 to not try and push the pedal to the Metta. 0:06:46.400 --> 0:06:49.160 And I think if you're looking at the long picture 0:06:49.279 --> 0:06:52.760 of it, is it giving him a rest where I'm 0:06:52.800 --> 0:06:55.560 marveling the fact that shoe Hee Otani is able to 0:06:55.600 --> 0:06:58.640 do two roles for the same time. I know what 0:06:58.720 --> 0:07:02.080 it took from a hitting standpoint and the defensive standpoint 0:07:02.320 --> 0:07:05.280 on a daily basis. At this level, it is amazing. 0:07:05.680 --> 0:07:08.440 The amount of injury energy that it tasted is down 0:07:08.800 --> 0:07:11.400 in order to also do the pitching aspects of it 0:07:11.480 --> 0:07:15.080 while you're working around all that other stuff. I'm flabbergast 0:07:15.200 --> 0:07:16.880 that you can do it, and do it to the 0:07:17.040 --> 0:07:18.800 level that he has done it. 0:07:18.800 --> 0:07:21.240 It's just a marvel Look, he's gone six innings in 0:07:21.240 --> 0:07:23.880 each of his first two starts. That Dave Roberts was 0:07:23.920 --> 0:07:26.560 a little hesitant to say if he would officially have 0:07:26.640 --> 0:07:29.560 a shorter leash tonight given some of the soreness and 0:07:29.600 --> 0:07:32.560 fatigue that he's experienced over the last week and then 0:07:32.800 --> 0:07:34.960 getting hit by a pitch on Monday. So we'll find 0:07:35.000 --> 0:07:36.400 out how deep he can go to the game with 0:07:36.440 --> 0:07:39.800 the Dodgers bullpen is certainly well rested heading into this 0:07:39.880 --> 0:07:42.040 series finale. Tim, we'll be back a little bit later 0:07:42.080 --> 0:07:43.160 with a key from Mo. 0:07:43.400 --> 0:07:45.200 All right, thank you, Nelly, as we count you down 0:07:45.200 --> 0:07:47.640 to first pitch. Dodger fans, get your game day meal 0:07:47.720 --> 0:07:51.040 on at Shakey's Pizza Parlor. 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That's Cars with the K. 0:09:15.880 --> 0:09:19.200 The Dodgers get the win last night, alex Vestia comes in, 0:09:19.280 --> 0:09:21.880 strikes up the side of the ninth inning and afterwards 0:09:21.960 --> 0:09:23.520 talked with our Kirston Watson. 0:09:23.679 --> 0:09:25.880 Well, Alex Fers, I want you to look up there. 0:09:25.679 --> 0:09:28.120 And that entire suite is here for you. 0:09:28.400 --> 0:09:30.719 How special is it to share this healthcare appreciation and 0:09:30.800 --> 0:09:32.920 with the team that supported you and your wife so closely. 0:09:34.920 --> 0:09:39.320 I'm gonna cry, man, this is uh very emotional day. 0:09:39.920 --> 0:09:42.440 Everyone up there played a very, very very big part. 0:09:43.760 --> 0:09:47.520 Kay and I are I'm just so happy to family 0:09:47.640 --> 0:09:52.040 share it today. For me to get a save, it's unbelievable. 0:09:52.480 --> 0:09:57.040 Yeah, let's talk some baseball. Your second save of the season, 0:09:57.120 --> 0:10:00.640 navigating through that lineup. Clearly you had everything working, striking 0:10:00.679 --> 0:10:02.319 out the side. Describe to you what you were feeling 0:10:02.360 --> 0:10:04.400 and how you just chose to navigate through there. 0:10:04.880 --> 0:10:06.240 I mean, basketball come in. 0:10:06.320 --> 0:10:09.360 I felt like I had it in the bullpen. I 0:10:09.440 --> 0:10:12.079 actually I barely threw any change up for so sliders, 0:10:12.080 --> 0:10:13.840 who was just more just getting the basketball dialed in 0:10:14.840 --> 0:10:19.640 trusting Well, I love that guy, and yeah, we just 0:10:20.160 --> 0:10:21.960 all I wanted to do was just put the pressure 0:10:21.960 --> 0:10:22.439 on the hitters. 0:10:23.280 --> 0:10:24.400 And tonight what's. 0:10:24.280 --> 0:10:26.920 Going tonight was truly a picture's tool. When you look 0:10:26.960 --> 0:10:29.800 at Yoshinobu did blake China yourself? What is it like 0:10:29.840 --> 0:10:32.000 when you're just a part of a pitching staff that 0:10:32.160 --> 0:10:34.080 is going out executing on alf facets. 0:10:34.160 --> 0:10:38.680 Yeah, Yam, Yam's one of the greatest pitchers ever. We're 0:10:38.720 --> 0:10:42.000 watching greatness day in and day out, and I'm really 0:10:42.000 --> 0:10:44.319 happy for for Blake to get the last out there 0:10:44.360 --> 0:10:45.560 and then for myself. 0:10:45.679 --> 0:10:47.120 Just shut the door, Alex. 0:10:47.160 --> 0:10:48.880 This night was special for so many reasons, but it 0:10:48.920 --> 0:10:50.559 was clear that you had an angel with you out 0:10:50.559 --> 0:10:52.760 there on the mound. Congratulations on your second stay with 0:10:52.800 --> 0:10:54.880 the season, and thank you as all, thank you, thank. 0:10:54.760 --> 0:10:56.679 You all Right, there's Alex Vessio. 0:10:56.800 --> 0:11:00.080 Last night a very special emotional night for he and 0:11:00.120 --> 0:11:02.920 his wife on the field, locked down for the Dodgers, 0:11:02.920 --> 0:11:05.240 save as they get the victory, and now tonight they 0:11:05.280 --> 0:11:07.560 go for the three game sweep over the New York 0:11:07.600 --> 0:11:10.600 Mets with show Hey Otani on the mount again, Show 0:11:10.600 --> 0:11:13.599 Hey will not back tonight. He is not the designated 0:11:13.679 --> 0:11:17.040 hitter that is Dalton Rushing. He is just the Dodgers 0:11:17.080 --> 0:11:20.200 starting pitcher tonight at seven ten. Still they come here 0:11:20.240 --> 0:11:22.720 on Morocco Casino, Dodgers on deck, will dive deeper into 0:11:22.760 --> 0:11:26.760 this pitching matchup, David vad saying goes one on one 0:11:27.040 --> 0:11:30.560 with a great man from a great spot, and up 0:11:30.600 --> 0:11:33.719 next we get you an injury report as well. Here 0:11:33.720 --> 0:11:36.520 from the manager himself, Dave Roberts. That's all coming up. 0:11:36.800 --> 0:11:40.679 Dodgers and Mets on this Jackie Robinson Day. I'm Tim Kates. 0:11:40.760 --> 0:11:42.840 This is the back to back World Series champion Dodgers. 0:11:42.920 --> 0:11:51.760 Audio Delas, this is Marongo Casino Dodgers on Deck. On 0:11:51.960 --> 0:11:54.320 your hole for the blue all season long. 0:11:55.400 --> 0:11:58.760 Marago Casino Dodgers on Deck continues as we lead up 0:11:58.800 --> 0:12:01.199 to first pitch. Had the New York Mets on this 0:12:01.320 --> 0:12:04.680 Jackie Robinson Day, Marongo Casino Resort and Spa a grand 0:12:04.720 --> 0:12:06.839 slam for a good time show. Hey O Tani on 0:12:06.840 --> 0:12:07.120 the mound. 0:12:07.160 --> 0:12:08.079 First pitch at seven ten. 0:12:09.559 --> 0:12:13.000 It's the LA Dodgers Injury. 0:12:12.640 --> 0:12:16.280 Report presented by UCLA Healthy, official medical partner of the 0:12:16.280 --> 0:12:17.319 Los Angeles Dodgers. 0:12:17.320 --> 0:12:20.160 Been Consparraus on the iel with the right shoulder inflammation. 0:12:20.240 --> 0:12:22.160 Mookie Betts, who you heard from last night, with David 0:12:22.240 --> 0:12:25.040 Vasse on the IL with the right obleaque strain, Tommy 0:12:25.040 --> 0:12:28.800 Evan recovering from off season ankle surgery, Blake Snell throwing again. 0:12:28.840 --> 0:12:30.960 More on that with David Vasse coming up. Brock Stewart 0:12:30.960 --> 0:12:33.760 on a minor league rehab assignment last night in Ontario. 0:12:34.240 --> 0:12:36.160 He with the tower buzzers and looks like he's going 0:12:36.240 --> 0:12:38.600 to spend the next three weeks rapping up to join 0:12:38.640 --> 0:12:41.320 this Dodgers' bullpen, so that is certainly good news. Kevin Stone, 0:12:41.400 --> 0:12:45.680 Landing Neck, Evan Phillips, Bruce Dargrauder, all all different spots 0:12:45.679 --> 0:12:47.840 working their way back from arm injuries. 0:12:47.880 --> 0:12:49.439 Let's head back out to the stadium and check you 0:12:49.440 --> 0:12:50.320 out with the Dodgers kipper. 0:12:50.640 --> 0:12:54.520 Anything do you questions for Dave? Dave? Can you just 0:12:54.720 --> 0:12:58.320 describe Dave? Can you talk about the pressure in. 0:12:58.200 --> 0:13:00.120 The dugouts with Dave Rob. 0:13:01.360 --> 0:13:04.240 We're just what went into the county, not the Asian today. 0:13:06.040 --> 0:13:10.520 Just uh feeling that you know what gives him the 0:13:10.520 --> 0:13:14.760 best chance to uh stay loose U during the outing, 0:13:16.600 --> 0:13:19.440 you know, feel good and uh you know, he got 0:13:19.480 --> 0:13:21.720 hit on the scapula of the back of the shoulder 0:13:21.880 --> 0:13:24.040 a couple of days ago, so there's still some sortus 0:13:24.120 --> 0:13:28.480 in there. So you know, when he's hitting, there's a 0:13:28.559 --> 0:13:31.040 component that he's in the cage getting ready to hit, 0:13:31.440 --> 0:13:33.480 and you know, if we can take that off his 0:13:33.600 --> 0:13:39.160 plate and just focus on one thing tonight, we felt 0:13:39.440 --> 0:13:43.160 training staff, pitching coaches and myself, we just felt it 0:13:43.200 --> 0:13:45.120 was the best thing for him. So once I told 0:13:45.200 --> 0:13:47.280 him he completely understood. 0:13:47.440 --> 0:13:49.760 He's obviously still been throwing the last couple of days. 0:13:49.760 --> 0:13:51.600 Has he had issues like getting loose again. 0:13:51.720 --> 0:13:54.360 He hit after it's throwing in the afternoons, and that 0:13:54.520 --> 0:13:55.000 the best real. 0:13:54.960 --> 0:13:55.360 Prompt with this. 0:13:57.520 --> 0:14:00.480 He feels much better today than he did today days ago, 0:14:01.120 --> 0:14:06.360 and he feels better today than he did yesterday. There 0:14:06.520 --> 0:14:10.280 was some of that early, which is natural, but going 0:14:10.320 --> 0:14:11.640 into tonight he feels good. 0:14:12.360 --> 0:14:15.880 Last week he talked about being a little like fatigued 0:14:16.040 --> 0:14:19.320 after a start, and some of those mechanics were also off. 0:14:19.400 --> 0:14:21.480 Is that something you considered. 0:14:21.200 --> 0:14:25.600 As well, you know, uh, not really in the sense 0:14:26.400 --> 0:14:29.600 because if it weren't for the hit by pitch, he 0:14:29.640 --> 0:14:33.760 would have been dhing and pitching tonight. But I do 0:14:33.840 --> 0:14:36.880 think that just to be able to pitch and focus 0:14:36.920 --> 0:14:39.520 on that, I think will be of benefit for the 0:14:39.600 --> 0:14:42.760 mind and the body and hopefully, you know, we're just 0:14:42.840 --> 0:14:47.040 in a little moment of fatigue and we can get 0:14:47.120 --> 0:14:49.920 past it, which I think that, you know, talking to 0:14:49.960 --> 0:14:53.760 Thomas today, Showy came in feeling good, but we're going 0:14:53.840 --> 0:14:55.120 to keep a watchful eye on him. 0:14:55.120 --> 0:14:59.400 Though Tomorrow also had made that. 0:14:59.360 --> 0:15:04.120 Decision that was more the decision of pitching them having 0:15:04.120 --> 0:15:08.040 that lined up. But again, if he wouldn't have got hit, 0:15:08.080 --> 0:15:09.680 he would have DH today. So I just think in 0:15:09.720 --> 0:15:12.280 this one game it just makes most sense of given 0:15:12.280 --> 0:15:15.160 the best chance to kind of manage the shoulder. 0:15:14.800 --> 0:15:15.280 In the back. 0:15:15.720 --> 0:15:19.280 All Right, there's the manager, Dave Roberts explaining why Showey 0:15:19.360 --> 0:15:21.520 Otani is not a two way player tonight. He is 0:15:21.640 --> 0:15:25.000 just the starting pitcher instead, don't rushing serving. 0:15:24.680 --> 0:15:26.680 As the DH for the Dodgers. 0:15:26.720 --> 0:15:29.440 When we continue here on Wrongo Casino Dodgers on Deck, 0:15:29.640 --> 0:15:32.960 we check in with David Vaz moron Otani, an update 0:15:33.000 --> 0:15:36.720 on Edwin Diaz, and a special day out at the Ravine. 0:15:36.760 --> 0:15:39.200 That's all coming up as we lead up to Dodgers 0:15:39.280 --> 0:15:42.280 and Mets on this Jackie Robinson Day. First pitch from 0:15:42.400 --> 0:15:45.400 Uniclo Field that Dodgers dadiums at seven ten. 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So it 0:16:48.960 --> 0:16:52.640 is significant. But Dave Roberts, as you heard, gave the reason. 0:16:52.920 --> 0:16:55.200 What factored into it is the fact that he got 0:16:55.280 --> 0:17:00.320 hit high on the shoulder, his right pitching shoulder in 0:17:00.360 --> 0:17:03.560 the first game of the series. David Peterson, the left 0:17:03.560 --> 0:17:08.040 handed starter for the Mets, had had some problems with 0:17:08.160 --> 0:17:11.240 command and hit Otani high up on the right shoulder, 0:17:11.720 --> 0:17:14.760 so that factored into it. One thing to take into 0:17:14.840 --> 0:17:19.040 account about tonight. I know, Dave joke to let Carlos 0:17:19.119 --> 0:17:23.680 Mendoza know that Otani's still available to come off the bench. Well, 0:17:23.680 --> 0:17:27.439 that's not possible because the Otani rule is out of 0:17:27.560 --> 0:17:31.679 play when Otani is just pitching and not in the 0:17:31.720 --> 0:17:35.200 starting lineup. That was put in place for Otani when 0:17:35.240 --> 0:17:38.000 he was in the starting lineup and he stopped pitching 0:17:38.320 --> 0:17:40.560 coming out of the game. Well, he's not in the 0:17:40.600 --> 0:17:44.240 starting lineup, so he'll be treated as any other starting pitcher. 0:17:44.720 --> 0:17:47.440 Once he's out of the game, he's out of the game. 0:17:47.560 --> 0:17:49.840 He can't come off the bench to pinch hit. 0:17:50.800 --> 0:17:52.680 Interesting gainst great information, Dave. 0:17:52.720 --> 0:17:54.919 Brought to you by the Ford Maverick Motor trends at 0:17:54.960 --> 0:17:57.000 North American Truck of the Year. The Ford Maverick everything 0:17:57.000 --> 0:17:59.520 you need in the most innovative truck with forty two 0:17:59.560 --> 0:18:01.960 miles per down of the best MSRP. If it's category, 0:18:02.040 --> 0:18:03.600 it's time to see Ford in a new light. Go 0:18:03.600 --> 0:18:06.280 to your Southern California. Have four dealers today? All right, David, 0:18:06.359 --> 0:18:08.160 what's the update on Edwin Diaz. 0:18:09.359 --> 0:18:12.399 Yeah, Dave Roberts has said that Edwin Diaz has been 0:18:12.440 --> 0:18:15.280 available the last couple of days and that's not true. 0:18:15.760 --> 0:18:19.679 It's just a competitive gamesmanship not allowing the Mets to 0:18:19.680 --> 0:18:22.720 know whether or not Daz was available to come out 0:18:22.760 --> 0:18:26.760 of the bullpen. But yesterday Edwin Diaz threw a bullpen 0:18:26.880 --> 0:18:29.840 session because the trainers wanted to see how he looked 0:18:29.840 --> 0:18:33.280 and if everything was in one piece, and he passed 0:18:33.280 --> 0:18:36.720 the test. But when you throw a bullpen session as 0:18:36.760 --> 0:18:39.320 a reliever, you're not coming into the. 0:18:39.240 --> 0:18:40.560 Game that same night. 0:18:41.040 --> 0:18:45.040 So Diaz did not throw a bullpen session today, and 0:18:45.160 --> 0:18:48.359 by all accounts, he should be available if there is 0:18:48.520 --> 0:18:49.600 a safe situation. 0:18:50.480 --> 0:18:50.800 David. 0:18:50.960 --> 0:18:53.960 Jackie Robinson Day always a special day when the Dodgers 0:18:53.960 --> 0:18:56.960 at home. I know Dave Roberts has done something annually 0:18:57.040 --> 0:18:57.800 that's pretty special. 0:18:59.200 --> 0:19:02.240 Yeah, he actually, and the Dodgers have done something ever 0:19:02.320 --> 0:19:06.919 since they moved the Jackie Robinson statue from the upper 0:19:06.960 --> 0:19:11.800 reserve level to that beautiful center field plaza area. Ever 0:19:11.840 --> 0:19:14.439 since then, they've had whoever the Dodgers are playing on 0:19:14.560 --> 0:19:18.240 Jackie Robinson Day go out there with the Dodgers wearing 0:19:18.280 --> 0:19:22.239 their full uniforms, everybody wearing forty two tonight, and they 0:19:22.320 --> 0:19:25.440 usually get a guest speaker to go out there. Anybody 0:19:25.480 --> 0:19:29.359 from Magic Johnson to Kareem Abdul Jabbard or Reggie Smith. 0:19:29.680 --> 0:19:32.480 And today it was Bob Kendrick, who's going to join 0:19:32.600 --> 0:19:35.520 us later in the show, the president of the Negro 0:19:35.680 --> 0:19:39.320 League Baseball Museum. He flew out from Kansas City where 0:19:39.320 --> 0:19:44.000 that museum's at and really gave a powerful history lesson 0:19:44.440 --> 0:19:47.959 to the players. And it's always a special day Jackie 0:19:48.040 --> 0:19:48.880 Robinson Day. 0:19:49.240 --> 0:19:50.280 But there seems to be a. 0:19:50.320 --> 0:19:53.760 Little added more when the Dodgers are at home and 0:19:53.800 --> 0:19:57.119 you have that statue out there and they use it 0:19:57.400 --> 0:20:01.359 in a way that is a powerful to remind everybody 0:20:01.520 --> 0:20:05.080 just his impact on this franchise and on the country. 0:20:05.160 --> 0:20:08.160 So it's always special here at Dodgers Stadium, and even 0:20:08.240 --> 0:20:12.040