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Tyler Glass now on 0:01:23.920 --> 0:01:25.680 the mount, first pitch coming up at eleven to ten. 0:01:25.760 --> 0:01:27.720 Between then and now, we got a lot to get 0:01:27.760 --> 0:01:29.319 to and not a lot of times, So we're gonna 0:01:29.319 --> 0:01:31.520 be off and running here on Morongo Casino, Dodgers on deck, 0:01:31.600 --> 0:01:33.560 where we're gonna hear from the manager, Dave Roberts. We 0:01:33.600 --> 0:01:36.200 also here from Dodger catcher Will Smith. David vas Say, 0:01:36.240 --> 0:01:39.880 our Dodger insider joins us throughout the hour. Kirston Watson 0:01:39.880 --> 0:01:41.840 from Sports and at LA will join us. In just 0:01:41.880 --> 0:01:44.360 a little bit, we'll hear from Charlie Steiner. We got 0:01:44.360 --> 0:01:46.680 your Dodgers magical moment. In a few minutes, we will 0:01:46.720 --> 0:01:49.320 head out to the gallupin Ford Broadcast booth and check 0:01:49.360 --> 0:01:52.160 in with Tim Neverett and Rick Monday. Well, yesterday was 0:01:52.160 --> 0:01:55.720 Otani day, but just O'tani the pitcher. He did not 0:01:55.880 --> 0:01:58.720 serve as a hitter. Instead, Dalton Russian was a designated 0:01:58.760 --> 0:02:00.760 hitter as Dave Robert to let to go with shoey 0:02:00.760 --> 0:02:03.440 Otani as just the pitcher on the mount, and he 0:02:03.520 --> 0:02:06.440 was really good pitch deep into the game longest outing 0:02:06.480 --> 0:02:08.920 as a Dodger seven innings. He allowed two runs on 0:02:09.000 --> 0:02:11.760 four hits, struck out eight, did not walk a batter. 0:02:11.960 --> 0:02:15.880 His sweeper was nasty. Yesterday he threw eighty nine pitches. 0:02:15.960 --> 0:02:19.200 His era still sub one on this season, but got 0:02:19.280 --> 0:02:21.560 himself into a little trouble against Dodger Killer. 0:02:21.639 --> 0:02:26.920 Christian Walker has twenty nine career home runs against Los Angeles, 0:02:28.400 --> 0:02:31.359 most of those, if not all of them, coming when 0:02:31.360 --> 0:02:34.639 he was with the Diamondbacks. But he's got another one 0:02:34.680 --> 0:02:40.519 here as he just absolutely unloads on a Soheil Tani fastball. 0:02:40.600 --> 0:02:43.400 He ambushes him, hits it out of the back end 0:02:43.440 --> 0:02:45.519 of the Crawford Boxers. It's one nothing. 0:02:45.560 --> 0:02:45.960 Houston. 0:02:46.360 --> 0:02:50.920 His thirtieth home run in his career against the Dodgers, 0:02:51.080 --> 0:02:53.760 the most he's had against any other. 0:02:53.639 --> 0:02:56.920 Team, whether as a Diamondbacker now as an Astro, Christian 0:02:57.000 --> 0:03:01.639 Walker loves seeing Dodger Blue. Thirtieth career home run against 0:03:01.680 --> 0:03:04.639 the Dodgers a solo shot in the second. The Astros 0:03:04.680 --> 0:03:06.919 went deep again off Otani in the bottom half of 0:03:06.960 --> 0:03:09.480 the third inning, but that was it. Damage limited just 0:03:09.480 --> 0:03:12.920 to the two runs. He struck out eight over seven innings. Meanwhile, 0:03:12.960 --> 0:03:16.280 the Dodgers offense just couldn't together any back to back hits. 0:03:16.280 --> 0:03:18.400 There were one for eight with runners in scoring position. 0:03:18.600 --> 0:03:20.919 They stranded eight runners in the game. The long run 0:03:21.000 --> 0:03:23.919 they scored came in the eighth from former aster Kyle Tucker. 0:03:24.600 --> 0:03:27.400 One ball, two strikes to the Dodger right fielder. With 0:03:27.560 --> 0:03:30.840 pitch these wings lines up to right field toward the corner. 0:03:31.120 --> 0:03:34.600 Kyle's gonna round third, He'll score, and Kyle Tucker with 0:03:34.680 --> 0:03:38.200 a two out run scoring single Dodgers on the board. 0:03:38.240 --> 0:03:39.040 It's two to one. 0:03:40.080 --> 0:03:43.360 Kyle Tucker delivers with the RBI singled to right. Kyle 0:03:43.400 --> 0:03:45.880 Tucker having himself a nice little road trip, he had 0:03:45.920 --> 0:03:49.000 the only Dodger RBI of the game yesterday, as the 0:03:49.000 --> 0:03:52.040 Dodgers again had traffic on the base, bats six hits, 0:03:52.160 --> 0:03:55.320 four walks, zero for or one for eight with runners 0:03:55.320 --> 0:03:58.800 in scoring position. As showy Otani the victim of zero 0:03:59.040 --> 0:04:02.560 run supportay as he gets tagged with the loss. He 0:04:02.680 --> 0:04:05.280 is now two and two on this season. The ERRA 0:04:05.520 --> 0:04:09.120 still sub one is zero point nine to seven. Dodgers 0:04:09.160 --> 0:04:12.160 fall to twenty two and fourteen overall of this season 0:04:12.200 --> 0:04:15.520 and today a much needed win in Houston to win 0:04:15.600 --> 0:04:18.320 this series and to come back on a five hundred 0:04:18.400 --> 0:04:21.520 road trip before starting a homestown on Friday. Tyler Glass 0:04:21.560 --> 0:04:23.320 now just demand to be on the mound first pitch 0:04:23.360 --> 0:04:25.240 at eleven ten and with more we head out to 0:04:25.240 --> 0:04:27.719 the gaalpin Ford broadcast booth as we say good morning 0:04:28.040 --> 0:04:29.440 to Tim Nevertt and Rick Monday. 0:04:29.440 --> 0:04:31.120 Guys, Tim, thank you very much. 0:04:31.200 --> 0:04:33.520 Rufe closed again for the third straight day as the 0:04:33.600 --> 0:04:35.960 Dodgers and Astros get set for the rubber game of 0:04:36.000 --> 0:04:40.039 this three game series. Astros fifteen and twenty two after 0:04:40.240 --> 0:04:43.400 last night's two to one victory over the Dodgers. Dodgers 0:04:43.400 --> 0:04:46.280 twenty two and fourteen, still sitting on top of the 0:04:46.360 --> 0:04:49.000 National League Western Division by half a game over the Padres, 0:04:49.040 --> 0:04:52.640 who came back and beat the Giants last night. Dodgers 0:04:52.680 --> 0:04:55.840 have lost five of the last seven. They are homerless 0:04:55.960 --> 0:04:58.840 in six of their last seven games. They hope to 0:04:58.880 --> 0:05:02.400 turn things around today. Hey, yesterday, No, they just didn't 0:05:02.440 --> 0:05:04.960 hit the fastball. Dave Roberts talked about a little while ago, 0:05:05.480 --> 0:05:08.800 and when you have a pitcher throwing a fastball, it's 0:05:08.839 --> 0:05:11.640 not getting hit. He's not afraid to keep throwing more fastball. 0:05:11.760 --> 0:05:14.520 No, And if you're looking at the pitches, if you're 0:05:14.520 --> 0:05:18.040 gonna diagram, which is the easiest to hit? Nothing is 0:05:18.080 --> 0:05:20.520 easy here, but which is easier because it's not moving 0:05:20.560 --> 0:05:22.200 all that much? He doesn't have that spin would be 0:05:22.200 --> 0:05:24.280 the fastball, but not the case. Andy Biz was. 0:05:24.240 --> 0:05:24.839 Three for four. 0:05:25.279 --> 0:05:28.920 The rest of the team combined just three for twenty eight. 0:05:28.960 --> 0:05:31.000 That's a one oh seven average. And here's the other 0:05:31.040 --> 0:05:33.479 caveat The Dodgers have to break the habit that they've 0:05:33.520 --> 0:05:36.400 had now on this road trip in the five games, 0:05:36.720 --> 0:05:40.279 taking themselves out of innings and opportunities, they've hit into 0:05:40.440 --> 0:05:43.880 eleven double plays in the last five games. 0:05:44.200 --> 0:05:46.360 Showy Otani back in the lineup at the top of 0:05:46.400 --> 0:05:48.360 the order. Dave Roberts said he wasn't going to give 0:05:48.440 --> 0:05:50.680 him two straight days off with the day off tomorrow, 0:05:51.040 --> 0:05:53.560 but with Otani at the top of the order, he 0:05:53.600 --> 0:05:57.719 feels they have a much better lineup. And Otani pitched 0:05:57.800 --> 0:06:00.359 extremely well last night. Dodgers didn't get him and he 0:06:00.400 --> 0:06:02.880 runs and he suffered his second straight loss. But today 0:06:03.279 --> 0:06:05.080 he is trying to break out of an zero for 0:06:05.240 --> 0:06:08.120 seventeen skit. He does not have a hit on this road. 0:06:07.920 --> 0:06:09.840 Trip, but I think the swings have gotten a little 0:06:09.839 --> 0:06:11.800 bit better over each the last two games. Who've seen 0:06:11.880 --> 0:06:14.480 him as a hitter. One of the things that we're 0:06:14.520 --> 0:06:17.360 pointing out is that he's been pulling off the ball. 0:06:17.520 --> 0:06:20.039 His weight has been on his right heel, that's his 0:06:20.120 --> 0:06:23.359 front foot, and if he goes up the middle bit 0:06:23.400 --> 0:06:25.839 more often, he's staying on the ball much much better. 0:06:25.920 --> 0:06:26.800 So hopefully it's. 0:06:26.680 --> 0:06:27.440 Going to be a turnaround. 0:06:27.480 --> 0:06:30.880 Freddie Freeman batting right behind him, five game hitting streak 0:06:31.400 --> 0:06:33.840 in on this road trip. Freeman really starting to kind 0:06:33.839 --> 0:06:36.000 of balloon up. He is hitting over three point sixty 0:06:36.040 --> 0:06:37.680 on this trip, but the rest of the club is 0:06:37.760 --> 0:06:40.120 kind of hit and miss other than Freeman and Piez. 0:06:40.720 --> 0:06:43.800 For the Astros, they got terrible news today is they're 0:06:43.800 --> 0:06:47.880 starting short stuff. Carlos Correa will have to undergo surgery. 0:06:48.720 --> 0:06:53.120 A left ankle tendon tear happened in the batting cage yesterday. 0:06:53.160 --> 0:06:56.120 He said he heard something pop on a swing. He 0:06:56.279 --> 0:06:59.239 was in the lineup yesterday and right before the game 0:06:59.800 --> 0:07:02.840 the Astros had to make a lineup change. He was 0:07:02.880 --> 0:07:04.600 out and now he's going to be out for the 0:07:04.640 --> 0:07:05.880 remainder of the season. 0:07:05.920 --> 0:07:09.000 Well, what's the count now? Fifteen on the injured list 0:07:09.080 --> 0:07:11.400 for the Houston Astros. I mean they cannot catch a 0:07:11.440 --> 0:07:15.000 break at all. And meanwhile, they're fifteen and twenty two. 0:07:15.400 --> 0:07:17.560 They're a five hundred team at home. The Dodgers have 0:07:17.680 --> 0:07:20.680 to take care of their own business, and it's the 0:07:20.720 --> 0:07:23.160 old story. The Dodgers would love to have a happy 0:07:23.200 --> 0:07:24.800 flight back to Los Angeles. 0:07:24.880 --> 0:07:27.920 So the Astros and the Dodgers getting set for this 0:07:28.640 --> 0:07:31.120 final game of this three game set, in the last 0:07:31.120 --> 0:07:34.400 game of this six game road trip, will you send 0:07:34.400 --> 0:07:35.239 it back to you Tim? 0:07:35.280 --> 0:07:37.000 All right, thank you guys, as we count you down 0:07:37.040 --> 0:07:39.320 to first pitch. Dodger fans, what are you doing for lunch? 0:07:39.360 --> 0:07:41.920 How about getting your game day meal on at Shaky's 0:07:41.920 --> 0:07:44.680 Pizza Parlor. Sounds pretty good, Huh. Order your Shaky's Pizza 0:07:44.960 --> 0:07:49.160 shackin emojos at Shakys dot com. 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That's all coming up 0:08:07.920 --> 0:08:09.840 as we lead you up to first pitch from Houston 0:08:09.880 --> 0:08:11.560 on this Wednesday Dodgers and Astros. 0:08:11.720 --> 0:08:12.360 I'm Tim Kates. 0:08:12.440 --> 0:08:15.440 Is the back to back World Series champion Dodgers audio nowhere. 0:08:18.320 --> 0:08:23.480 This is Morongo Casino Dodgers Hunting game on your home 0:08:23.560 --> 0:08:28.360 for LA Dodgers Baseball. 0:08:26.800 --> 0:08:29.280 Leading you up to Dodgers and Astros on this Wednesday 0:08:29.360 --> 0:08:31.520 rubber game of this three game Saturday is but the 0:08:31.560 --> 0:08:35.760 first two Tyler Glass Now Lance McCullers Junior. The pitching matchup, 0:08:35.800 --> 0:08:37.640 first pitching Houston coming up at eleven ten. 0:08:38.679 --> 0:08:43.000 This is the Otani Rewinde Well two days, never shy 0:08:43.040 --> 0:08:47.400 about swinging the back, but he has missed time to fastballs. 0:08:47.440 --> 0:08:51.160 Now the next pitch, swing on it man strike three, 0:08:51.400 --> 0:08:55.040 got him with another fastball, tripled up on it. R 0:08:55.120 --> 0:08:59.920 Don Alvarez on deck one, two pitch waving on men, 0:09:00.120 --> 0:09:04.080 strike three on a ball that was four feet outside. 0:09:05.559 --> 0:09:08.280 Thank you very much to Jose al Twove for guest hitting, 0:09:08.320 --> 0:09:11.600 and he strikes out for the second time on a 0:09:11.640 --> 0:09:12.319 sweeper that. 0:09:12.440 --> 0:09:13.640 Was way off the plate. 0:09:13.720 --> 0:09:14.720 He had no chance. 0:09:15.480 --> 0:09:20.640 Yeah, show hey Otani yesterday the picture absolutely getting after 0:09:20.840 --> 0:09:23.920 Jose All two ve yesterday, striking him out a couple 0:09:24.000 --> 0:09:27.600 of times. That sweeper was nowhere near the strike zone 0:09:27.600 --> 0:09:32.800 and he had all two v absolutely fooled with the strikeout. Unfortunately, 0:09:32.880 --> 0:09:35.720 show hey Otani would go the seven innings, two runs, 0:09:35.720 --> 0:09:39.440 four hits, strikeout eight, no walks, but the two solo 0:09:39.520 --> 0:09:42.920 home runs enough damage against the Dodgers right hander as 0:09:42.960 --> 0:09:45.240 the Dodgers offense just couldn't get anything going except for 0:09:45.240 --> 0:09:47.439 the Kyle Tucker RBI single in the eighth as the 0:09:47.480 --> 0:09:48.600 Astros winning two to one. 0:09:49.280 --> 0:09:53.120 This is Kirston's corner with Kirston Watson. 0:09:53.800 --> 0:09:56.360 Hen Kerson now joins this line from Houston, brought to 0:09:56.360 --> 0:09:58.320 you by Cars for Kids. The easiest way to get 0:09:58.400 --> 0:10:00.880 rid of that old car. Donating today and your car 0:10:00.920 --> 0:10:03.240 can be picked up tomorrow. 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Look, he's in his last five games, 0:10:28.920 --> 0:10:31.800 he is zero for seventeen, and so he obviously took 0:10:31.880 --> 0:10:34.920 VP when the team first got here, did some early work. 0:10:35.000 --> 0:10:37.719 So it's clear he's working through a few things at 0:10:37.720 --> 0:10:39.880 the plate. He even shared last night he believes that 0:10:39.920 --> 0:10:41.679 it's something that has to do with his posture. 0:10:42.280 --> 0:10:43.720 He believes that that's if. 0:10:43.520 --> 0:10:45.840 He can kind of get his upper half in a 0:10:45.840 --> 0:10:47.959 good spot, then he should be able to get. 0:10:47.800 --> 0:10:48.480 Back on track. 0:10:48.520 --> 0:10:51.440 And so he's actively working through that. But you know, 0:10:51.800 --> 0:10:55.280 with trying to manage what Dave Roberts has shared as 0:10:55.720 --> 0:10:58.120 could be early fatigue just with him getting back to 0:10:58.200 --> 0:11:01.880 his two way. He had brought up that, you know, 0:11:01.960 --> 0:11:05.040 everything's on the table. That's you know what we saw yesterday, 0:11:05.080 --> 0:11:08.360 having him not hit while he's pitching. That's potentially giving 0:11:08.400 --> 0:11:12.200 him the off day a day after he starts. Obviously, 0:11:12.240 --> 0:11:14.839 when you look at what the schedule is for this team, 0:11:14.960 --> 0:11:17.760 whether it's today moving forward, they have an early game today, 0:11:18.040 --> 0:11:20.160 there's a team off day tomorrow and then they have 0:11:20.200 --> 0:11:23.080 a three game series with the Braves. So the question was, 0:11:23.120 --> 0:11:25.640 you know, was it under consideration to have him not 0:11:25.760 --> 0:11:28.520 in the lineup, and he said, you know, there's off 0:11:28.600 --> 0:11:32.480 day tomorrow and obviously, you know show Hey, he's an 0:11:32.559 --> 0:11:36.520 MVP player. He is so talented and ultimately this team 0:11:36.559 --> 0:11:38.839 is better when he is in the lineup. So they 0:11:38.840 --> 0:11:41.120 are in a situation they do want to end not 0:11:41.160 --> 0:11:43.640 only the series with a win, but en this road 0:11:43.640 --> 0:11:45.440 trip with a high note in which they could go 0:11:45.520 --> 0:11:47.560 three and three if they could pick up the win today. 0:11:47.960 --> 0:11:51.120 So it's really just more of where's his lineup when 0:11:51.120 --> 0:11:53.200 it's at its best, and if they can have him 0:11:53.200 --> 0:11:56.120 out there, he feels good, he feels ready, and hopefully 0:11:56.200 --> 0:11:58.880 he can you know, set the tone and see some 0:11:58.920 --> 0:12:00.880 results from what he's been working looking on, because I 0:12:00.880 --> 0:12:02.320 know that would feel good for him as well. 0:12:02.440 --> 0:12:05.280 One positive is reinforcements are coming. In the case of 0:12:05.320 --> 0:12:06.560 Brock Stewart, he's there. 0:12:06.880 --> 0:12:10.080 Yeah, So Brock was activated this morning, so he is 0:12:10.120 --> 0:12:12.240 here and he's been here the last few days just 0:12:12.280 --> 0:12:14.840 kind of being around the clubhouse. But for Brock, he 0:12:14.840 --> 0:12:16.439 told us obviously when he came over at the trade 0:12:16.480 --> 0:12:19.160 deadline last year. He wanted to be that guy who 0:12:19.160 --> 0:12:21.280 could go in and be support. Obviously, the team brought 0:12:21.320 --> 0:12:24.280 him here for a reason. When he started feeling kind 0:12:24.320 --> 0:12:28.079 of some irritation inflemation and his shoulder, realized he needed surgery, 0:12:28.200 --> 0:12:30.680 immediately had it and now he feels like he's in 0:12:30.720 --> 0:12:32.800 a really good spot this year. And you know what, 0:12:32.880 --> 0:12:34.600 he's going to be the first of a few guys 0:12:34.600 --> 0:12:37.920 to be returning. So we've got two others who were 0:12:37.960 --> 0:12:39.800 actually three others I should say that are on their 0:12:39.840 --> 0:12:43.560 rehab assignments right now. Blake Snell only has one more outing, 0:12:43.600 --> 0:12:45.360 which is going to be this weekend, and then his 0:12:45.520 --> 0:12:48.040 next one we'll be back with the team. So then 0:12:48.360 --> 0:12:51.320 you've got Key k Hernandez he started his rehab assignment 0:12:51.320 --> 0:12:53.920 and Bruce Dark Graderle is on his rehab assignment. For 0:12:54.000 --> 0:12:55.960 Bruce ar he's still got a couple more weeks, say, 0:12:56.000 --> 0:12:57.760 with Kei k they want to get him built up 0:12:57.800 --> 0:12:59.920 into a position where you know, he can be playing 0:13:00.080 --> 0:13:02.960 full game things like that. 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I guess right. 0:17:17.040 --> 0:17:20.239 Yeah, you know it's interesting, Tim, nobody has brought up 0:17:20.320 --> 0:17:23.840 Mooky Bets, and I think we've all forgotten how good 0:17:23.920 --> 0:17:27.639 Mooki Bets can be when he is the guy that 0:17:27.680 --> 0:17:30.240 we have seen be one of the best leadoff hitters 0:17:30.600 --> 0:17:33.560 in the game of baseball. I know last year was 0:17:33.640 --> 0:17:36.680 an anomaly, he was not Mooky Betts, but the year 0:17:36.720 --> 0:17:38.879 before he was on his way to winning the MVP 0:17:39.480 --> 0:17:43.120 before a pitch broke his hand. And the Dodgers' right 0:17:43.119 --> 0:17:48.760 handed hitters Tim have been struggling mightily against left handed pitching. 0:17:49.240 --> 0:17:52.920 And we're talking about guys named Taoskar, Hernandez and Will 0:17:52.960 --> 0:17:58.360 Smith who traditionally have murdered left handed pitching. Taoscar last year, 0:17:58.400 --> 0:18:01.520 for some reason, was not goodgainst left handed pitching, and 0:18:01.560 --> 0:18:04.960 that's the original reason why the Dodgers signed him before 0:18:05.000 --> 0:18:08.679 the twenty fourth season, when he mashed against left handed pitching. 0:18:08.720 --> 0:18:12.040 But if you look at right handers, Dodger right handers 0:18:12.119 --> 0:18:16.119 this year against left handed pitching, they have a seven 0:18:16.119 --> 0:18:19.840 to forty ops and have only hit two home runs, 0:18:20.119 --> 0:18:24.560 and that's come from Andy Pajez and Miguel Rojas. The 0:18:24.640 --> 0:18:28.000 Dodgers need Mookie Betts back, if not just for that 0:18:28.200 --> 0:18:31.480 threat against left handed pitching. 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