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Speaker 6: On this Friday, August the seventh. You're back to back
Speaker 6: World Series champion Los Angeles Dodgers on the road in
Speaker 6: Arizona as they continue this six game road trip after
Speaker 6: getting swept in Chicago a day off yesterday, the Dodgers,
Speaker 6: now losers of six in a row, are in the
Speaker 6: desert for a three game series against the Diamondbacks. Dodgers
Speaker 6: eight and a half games up in the division going
Speaker 6: into action tonight. Roki Sasaki on the mound in this
Speaker 6: series opener, first pitch from Chase Field is coming up
Speaker 6: at six point forty between then and now. We got
Speaker 6: a lot to get to here on Morago Casino Dodgers
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Speaker 4: David Vase checks in. Of course.
Speaker 6: Throughout the hour, he'll go one on one with Hunter
Speaker 6: Producia Dodger Catcher. We'll also get the latest Dodger injury news.
Speaker 6: Is Blake Snell. We have a date on when he
Speaker 6: will return into the Dodgers rotation. Shortly, we'll check in
Speaker 6: with Tim Nevererd and Rick Monday out the gallpin Ford
Speaker 6: Broadcast booth. Well, the Dodgers were last in action on
Speaker 6: Wednesday in Chicago.
Speaker 4: They jumped out to.
Speaker 6: The early lead thanks to a solo home run to
Speaker 6: lead off the game from show Hey o'tani. So the
Speaker 6: Dodgers one batter into the game had a one nothing lead.
Speaker 6: Eric Lower got the start on the mound for the Dodgers,
Speaker 6: and it's just as quick as they took the lead,
Speaker 6: Lour gave it.
Speaker 2: Up facing pro Armstrong, a two eighty four hitter from
Speaker 2: the left side. He swings and drives it deep in
Speaker 2: the air to center field and with one pitch.
Speaker 1: This game is tied.
Speaker 2: Home run number twenty five for Pete Crow Armstrong and
Speaker 2: it is one to one and.
Speaker 7: Both leadoff hitters flexing the muscles.
Speaker 6: PCA with the leadoff home run in the bottom of
Speaker 6: the first, Cubs answered right back, tying the game. Eric
Speaker 6: Lower's troubles were just getting started. In the second danceby
Speaker 6: Swanson RBI double, Cubs a two to one lead. Two
Speaker 6: batters later, PCA with a RBI double Dodgers at three
Speaker 6: one deficit, and the fourth Cubs at it again. Pete
Speaker 6: crow Armstrong a two run home run off the scoreboard
Speaker 6: in right field.
Speaker 4: Cubs had a five to one lead.
Speaker 6: Two batters later, Alex Bregman RBI single to left Cubs
Speaker 6: with three runs in the inning and take a six
Speaker 6: to one lead our Eric Lawer's day was done. Four inning,
Speaker 6: six runs, eleven hits. Fast forward to the seventh, the
Speaker 6: Cubs tacked on another run, extending their lead to seven
Speaker 6: to one on a Nico Horner RBI double into the Ivy.
Speaker 6: Dodgers down but not completely out. In the eighth, a
Speaker 6: spark of life from the offense. Tucker and Betts with
Speaker 6: back to back singles with one out that brought up
Speaker 6: Max Munsey.
Speaker 2: Won one pitch, Max swings hits a high drive, deep
Speaker 2: bright field, way back, it.
Speaker 8: Goes hit as gone, a three run home run.
Speaker 2: Maxwell swinging the solver hammer in the Windy City home
Speaker 2: run number twenty two and the Dodgers cut the lead
Speaker 2: is seven to four.
Speaker 7: Well, they've been waiting for a big opportunity in a
Speaker 7: big blast. Kerns still has some outs to work with,
Speaker 7: and at least they have closed the gap a bit
Speaker 7: and for months. He got every bit of it.
Speaker 6: Three run home run for Max Mounsey, twenty second of
Speaker 6: the season, Dodgers down seven to four. Later in the inning,
Speaker 6: show Hey Otani ad two run blast, his second of
Speaker 6: the game.
Speaker 4: Dodgers with five.
Speaker 6: Runs in the eighth, and he made it a game
Speaker 6: down only seven to six. Unfortunately, that's as close as
Speaker 6: they would get. Cubs hang on for the win. Dodgers
Speaker 6: lose all three games at Wrigley. They fall to sixty
Speaker 6: nine and forty six on this season. They have now
Speaker 6: dropped six in a row. After a day off yesterday,
Speaker 6: Dodgers back at it in Arizona for a weekend set
Speaker 6: against the Diamondbacks. Rokie Sasaki on the mount first pitcher
Speaker 6: and Chase Field. He's coming up at six forty with more.
Speaker 6: We head out to the Gaup and Ford Broadcast booth
Speaker 6: on this Friday night as we welcome in Tim Nefverett
Speaker 6: and Rick Monday.
Speaker 4: Guys, Tim, thank you very much.
Speaker 2: Roof has closed on a hundred degree day here in Phoenix, Arizona,
Speaker 2: as the Dodgers take on the Arizona Diamondbacks, first of
Speaker 2: three here, and the Diamondbacks have closed the lead to
Speaker 2: eight and a half. They come off a four game
Speaker 2: series split with San Diego Padres, beating him here last
Speaker 2: night to keep the distance at eight and a half games,
Speaker 2: and the Dodgers have lost six straight and have been
Speaker 2: outscored forty two to twenty two in two series with
Speaker 2: Boston and the Chicago Cubs. So it's time to start
Speaker 2: a winning streak here tonight. They'll look to do it
Speaker 2: behind right hand to Roki Sasaki, who is five and
Speaker 2: five six ERA and Merril Kelly, who somehow missed the
Speaker 2: Dodgers since August of twenty four, but the Dodgers have
Speaker 2: had great success against him. In fact, the Arizona Diamondbacks
Speaker 2: have lost fifteen of Kelly's seventeen starts against them, Kelly
Speaker 2: is eight and nine with a five h four ERA.
Speaker 2: That's the pitching matchup. Dodgers still searching for that seventieth
Speaker 2: win of the year, sixty nine and forty six. They
Speaker 2: have lost eight of their last ten. Meantime, the Diamondbacks
Speaker 2: have won six of the last ten, and they're sixty
Speaker 2: one and fifty five and both a day off yesterday.
Speaker 2: It was a day of rest, just kind of taking
Speaker 2: an informal poll between players and coaches, and they all
Speaker 2: said they had a good day yesterday. A lot of
Speaker 2: quiet time, a lot of time to rest, get ready
Speaker 2: and start a winning streak here tonight.
Speaker 7: Well, let me just make sure that we avoid this
Speaker 7: guy is falling scenario because I'm gonna start out with
Speaker 7: some good points. First of all, show heyo, Tonny, a
Speaker 7: couple of home runs on Wednesday has done. Now you
Speaker 7: start to look at the last nine games, he's hitting
Speaker 7: at four to fifty seven. What about Mookie Betz had
Speaker 7: four hits on Wednesday, swung the bat much much better
Speaker 7: on top of that inning, So we'll find out how
Speaker 7: that going again. The third positive point is that Freddy
Speaker 7: Freeman we discovered after the ballgame on Wednesday. We thought
Speaker 7: that he took a foul ball off the knob of
Speaker 7: the bat turned out and also hit his right hand.
Speaker 7: He had X rays taken after the ballgame. He's taken
Speaker 7: out of the game in the fifth inning. X rays
Speaker 7: were negative. And for Freeman, he's in that line up tonight.
Speaker 7: And for Freddy Freeman, all he's done the last fifteen
Speaker 7: games has hit a four to sixty six clip. So
Speaker 7: those are the three strong points. The other part is
Speaker 7: the Dodgers have to play better baseball.
Speaker 2: Hookie bats had four hits on Wednesday afternoon in Chicago,
Speaker 2: went four for five. He's had great luck against Merril Kelly.
Speaker 7: A couple of guys have hit well against him on
Speaker 7: top of it, including Otani's hit four hundred against him,
Speaker 7: Freeman's hit three thirteen months. He has held his own.
Speaker 7: I'll say that hitting at four to ten against team
Speaker 7: as well, we'll talk about the pitching. But for the
Speaker 7: Dodgers standpoint, I mean you start to look at losing
Speaker 7: eight out of ten. They've been the eighth best hitting
Speaker 7: team in that period of time, hitting above the season
Speaker 7: average through two seventy four in the last ten games
Speaker 7: home runs, their tenth in the majors in that category
Speaker 7: within that time frame, the number of hits their ninth. However,
Speaker 7: if you look at the era, it's almost seven and
Speaker 7: that's got to change.
Speaker 2: Just a bit of news on pitching Monday, Trek Scoble
Speaker 2: will start against the Royals back home at Uniclow Field
Speaker 2: at Dodgers Stadium, and Blake Snell will make the start
Speaker 2: on Tuesday. Dave Roberts telling us just a few moments
Speaker 2: ago it's the Dodgers and the Arizona Diamondbacks coming up
Speaker 2: from Chase Field in downtown Phoenix.
Speaker 3: Ten.
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Speaker 6: Rookie Sazanki and Merril Kelly the pitching matchup. We'll dive
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Speaker 6: First pitch set for six forty.
Speaker 1: This is the Otani rewide play on pitch. Swan not
Speaker 1: belt at the right field and dap this ball heading
Speaker 1: back at his car.
Speaker 8: It's a home run for Otani to lead off the
Speaker 8: ball game one nothing Dodgers, his thirty fourth career lead
Speaker 8: off home run, his twenty ninth with the Dodgers, is
Speaker 8: eleventh this season, and he moves past Davy Lopes into
Speaker 8: second place all time in Dodger history, right behind Rookie
Speaker 8: Bitts for this twenty ninth for the Dodgers, and Otani
Speaker 8: swings lifts it deep to left field.
Speaker 1: That ball headed back to.
Speaker 8: The wall and is gone a home run for Otani,
Speaker 8: his second of a ball game.
Speaker 2: He stops at second thinking it's a double. It went
Speaker 2: over the basket.
Speaker 4: Now he's told it to home run and he continues
Speaker 4: his try show.
Speaker 6: Hey O'tani goes three for five, a pair of home runs.
Speaker 6: Three ribis Otani now hitting two ninety seven on the season,
Speaker 6: twenty six home runs, seventy RBI Dodgers. Zoh gets swept
Speaker 6: out of Chicago having not dropped six in a row.
Speaker 1: This is Keirston's corner with kar Watson.
Speaker 6: Hey Carrison now joins us from Chase Field and Arizona.
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Speaker 6: this is Dodgers team. They need to win losers of
Speaker 6: six in a row. I guess if you could take
Speaker 6: anything away from that game in Chicago on Wednesday, that
Speaker 6: eighth inning, maybe something they can build on.
Speaker 9: That's exactly what they can build on. And you know,
Speaker 9: as much as that was a tough loss and as
Speaker 9: much as it's been six in a row, there are
Speaker 9: some positives coming into this one. You mentioned that five
Speaker 9: run eighth inning. Even when we spoke to the guys
Speaker 9: after that game, they shared that, you know, that inning
Speaker 9: showed a lot of fight for the group, and that
Speaker 9: I think is cute when you have a team that
Speaker 9: is struggling, or even what Mookie Betts recently said how
Speaker 9: they guys were just kind of a little bit of
Speaker 9: a rut right now. When you can build the momentum
Speaker 9: and make it a one run game and ultimately know
Speaker 9: they weren't able to pull off the comeback, but they
Speaker 9: showed a lot of life in that moment, so they
Speaker 9: can carry on that, and then they come to Arizona
Speaker 9: where a lot of guys do live here, so they
Speaker 9: are able to go home have truly a full day reset.
Speaker 9: You do have to take into consideration. They played Sunday
Speaker 9: night baseball, then had to take the Red Eye into Chicago,
Speaker 9: So there were a lot of elements that have gone
Speaker 9: into this six game losing streak that maybe they won't say,
Speaker 9: just because they are professionals and they're not going to
Speaker 9: use fatigue as an excuse, but it's the realities of it.
Speaker 9: So the hope is they come in today. It's a
Speaker 9: great day to get a win streak going and to
Speaker 9: get back on track. And it's clear that you can
Speaker 9: feel that now, you can feel that in the clubhouse.
Speaker 10: So it's nice.
Speaker 9: And you can have Rochie on the mound, who's in
Speaker 9: a really good spot and has a confidence to him,
Speaker 9: a quiet confidence to him at the moment.
Speaker 4: No doubt.
Speaker 6: He's pitched well in his last two couple of starts
Speaker 6: for the Dodgers.
Speaker 4: Hopefully speaking of a building he can build on that this.
Speaker 6: Dodgers team anytime they get to Arizona. That's where the
Speaker 6: headquarters are there at Camelback Ranch, just about thirty minutes
Speaker 6: away from Chase Field. So a chance to see some
Speaker 6: of the guys who aren't around the team every day, right.
Speaker 9: Yeah, exactly. And what's not especially with this trip is
Speaker 9: we've got a few guys who we're expecting to see soon.
Speaker 9: So let's start with Blake Snow. We know that he
Speaker 9: has now officially finished up his rehab assignment, and Dave
Speaker 9: Roberts confirmed that his next start, or is return to
Speaker 9: the big league start, is going to be on Tuesday,
Speaker 9: back at Dodger Stadium, So always good to see him.
Speaker 9: He was out around the field playing catch and then
Speaker 9: another guy who we actually hadn't seen before, but I
Speaker 9: remember at the trade deadline there was an acquisition for
Speaker 9: Chris Bubich from the Royals. Now he is currently on
Speaker 9: the IL and so he's been at Cammelback Ranch since
Speaker 9: coming over from the trade deadline. So this is his
Speaker 9: first weekend being with the big league group, which is
Speaker 9: really nice for him just to kind of see everyone
Speaker 9: and make some connections and kind of get on the
Speaker 9: same page. But he has shared that not only is
Speaker 9: he continuing to progress with his rehab, he was able
Speaker 9: to take it off the mount. He threw his first
Speaker 9: bullpen on Sundays. Expected to throw another bullpen tomorrow, whether
Speaker 9: it's here at Chase Field or at CDR. But he's
Speaker 9: working his way and so he's looking to be a
Speaker 9: very viable option. He said, it's going to be a
Speaker 9: short leaf is what the Dodgers are needing from him
Speaker 9: for either late September come October. But he wants to
Speaker 9: be a part of it, and we know that he's
Speaker 9: had a lot of success recently once he's when he's
Speaker 9: been healthy, so they're hoping to get that version of
Speaker 9: him back here soon.
Speaker 4: All right, Kirsty, we appreciate it. We will check in
Speaker 4: with you after the game.
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Speaker 6: injury report. Well, the Dodger is starting to get healthy,
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Speaker 6: the iel with a slight tear in his UCL you
Speaker 6: heard the good news. Blake Snell will be activated next
Speaker 6: week on Tuesday. We'll get the start in his return
Speaker 6: to the Dodger rotation. Tyler Glasnell a few weeks behind him.
Speaker 6: Will Smith is doing baseball activity, so that is certainly
Speaker 6: good news. How about Gavin Stone made in appearance last
Speaker 6: night in Triple A Oklahoma City. Bobby Miller, Bank cospiraus
Speaker 6: also pitching in Triple A Oklahoma City. We'll see what
Speaker 6: their status is for the rest of the season. We
Speaker 6: head back out to Phoenix and check in with the
Speaker 6: Dodgers skipper anything Dave do you think?
Speaker 2: Question for Dave?
Speaker 9: Dave?
Speaker 1: Can you just describe Dave?
Speaker 3: Can you talk about the pressure in the dugouts with
Speaker 3: Dave Roberts.
Speaker 11: I think it can be a certainly a good thing,
Speaker 11: a positive I think just kind of going around the
Speaker 11: clubhouse today, guys are in good spirits, feeling good and
Speaker 11: you know a lot of times, yeah, you lose the
Speaker 11: battle the game and to take something positive out of it.
Speaker 11: That five run inning was good. A lot of good
Speaker 11: things happen. So we've seen Merrill Kelly a lot. And
Speaker 11: these guys are, you know, playing pretty good baseball. So
Speaker 11: it's gonna be a good series. And they got the
Speaker 11: best of us, like I said a couple of days
Speaker 11: ago before the break, so expect to put our best
Speaker 11: foot forward.
Speaker 9: He's had his own ups and downs this season.
Speaker 1: But what do you like just about the version of
Speaker 1: to please right now?
Speaker 3: Especially to be the.
Speaker 1: Top or three you guys.
Speaker 11: I think for Rokie it's and I think just kind
Speaker 11: of how he carries himself. I really feel that that's
Speaker 11: something that you know, when a player is going well,
Speaker 11: there's there's an aura of confidence versus when there's when
Speaker 11: he's not going well, the uncertainty kind of exudes. I
Speaker 11: even just seeing him today, there's a quiet confidence, a stillness,
Speaker 11: a slowness, and you know that's translated onto the field.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 5: Recently, Snell's here, Do you have a day when he
Speaker 5: is going to start next week?
Speaker 8: Uh?
Speaker 11: Blake, As I understand it, he is slotted to start
Speaker 11: on Tuesday. So we're sitting here, Yeah, Scooba will go
Speaker 11: on Monday. Blake will go on Tuesday.
Speaker 4: All right, there's the manager, Dave Roberts officially there.
Speaker 6: Blake Snell returns on Tuesday against the Kansas City Royals,
Speaker 6: and Monday will be the home debut.
Speaker 4: Of Trek Scooble.
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Speaker 6: The Dodger is certainly in a funk right now, having
Speaker 6: lost six in a row.
Speaker 4: Can they get out of it tonight?
Speaker 5: I think so, And I feel like tonight's the night
Speaker 5: the Dodger offense wakes up again because it's a favorable
Speaker 5: matchup going up against Merrill Kelly. He has faced the
Speaker 5: Dodgers seventeen times in his career. He has never won
Speaker 5: a game. He's zero and eleven against the Dodgers and
Speaker 5: his ERA is at five point fifty six. Max Muncy's
Speaker 5: at the top of the list is Suars, the hitter
Speaker 5: that the Dodgers having their lineup tonight that has done
Speaker 5: the most damage against Merrill Kelly. So I feel like
Speaker 5: tonight is one of those Rick Monday nights, rockets right
Speaker 5: glair for the Dodgers.
Speaker 6: Dam As far as Rokie Susaki moving forward and even
Speaker 6: in October, where do you kind of envision that role
Speaker 6: for Roki?
Speaker 4: Is he a starter? Is he a reliever?
Speaker 5: Well, if you look at last year, the Dodgers needed
Speaker 5: Roki out of necessity to be their closer, and if
Speaker 5: it wasn't for him, I'm not even sure they get
Speaker 5: out of the NLDS against the Phillies. But this year,
Speaker 5: with the way he's pitching, the way he has made
Speaker 5: an adjustment with his fastball, and the confidence that Dave
Speaker 5: Roberts was just talking about, he mentioned that he feels
Speaker 5: he could slot Roki into the bullpen as you know,
Speaker 5: a multi inning reliever or even if necessary, close out games.
Speaker 5: So at this point where Roki's at, with the experience
Speaker 5: that he had last year, Dave Roberts has no hesitation
Speaker 5: to have Rokie go to the bullpen in the postseason
Speaker 5: with the number of starters they have. And we'll get
Speaker 5: back with Glass now coming back, So it seems like
Speaker 5: that would be his role in October and doesn't seem
Speaker 5: like Dave Roberts would hesitate to use him in any
Speaker 5: high leverage situation.
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Speaker 4: Haven't seen him yet. When are we going to see
Speaker 4: Chris Bubach.
Speaker 5: Dave, Yeah, probably not until September. He's eligible to come
Speaker 5: off the sixty day IL September. First, he is here
Speaker 5: in Arizona. He is going to remain in Arizona once
Speaker 5: the Dodgers closed this series and remain at Camelback Ranch.
Speaker 5: That's where he's doing the rehabbing for the shoulder, the
Speaker 5: arm that has placed him on the IL, and also
Speaker 5: starting to clean up some mechanics as well. You know,
Speaker 5: just went into that Dodgers pitching lab at Camelback Ranch,
Speaker 5: and when he does come back, it won't be as
Speaker 5: a starter. It's going to be as reliever. If he
Speaker 5: can make it back. We had a chance to catch
Speaker 5: up with him earlier today.
Speaker 12: You know, I've had experience kind of in every role
Speaker 12: possible in the big leagues, a little more recently in
Speaker 12: a high leverage roll back in twenty twenty four when
Speaker 12: we were in the postseason with Kansas City. But so
Speaker 12: you know, I'm open to doing that again. But like
Speaker 12: I said, I think, you know, making sure the volume
Speaker 12: is kind of where it needs to be over the
Speaker 12: next few weeks on the build up is going to
Speaker 12: be really important, and then obviously going on an assignment
Speaker 12: from there and getting back. So I don't want to
Speaker 12: get too far ahead of myself. Just make sure you know,
Speaker 12: things stay recovered day to day and then we'll go
Speaker 12: from there.
Speaker 5: Yeah, so this is the ultimate flyer for the Dodgers.
Speaker 5: Boo Bache is a free agent at the end of
Speaker 5: the year, but the Dodgers treated triple A reliever Carlos
Speaker 5: Durant to the Royals. He was going to be a
Speaker 5: minor league free agent at the end of the year,
Speaker 5: so they decided to take a roll of the dice
Speaker 5: that Boobage could get healthy and maybe help out of
Speaker 5: the bullpen in the postseason.
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Speaker 6: Well, the Dodgers take it on the Diamondbacks. We'll go
Speaker 6: back to July second, twenty nineteen. Dodgers were down in
Speaker 6: the ninth inning, down four to three to the Snakes
Speaker 6: with two outs, then three straight walks loaded the bases.
Speaker 6: Matt Beatty drew a fourth straight walk that brought in
Speaker 6: the tying run. So bottom of the ninth game tied
Speaker 6: at four Dodgers and Diamondbacks. Two outs, bases loaded for
Speaker 6: Cody Bellinger on.
Speaker 13: Three and two of the bases loaded TJ McFarlane. The
Speaker 13: Bellinger inside ball four. The Dodgers take a walk on
Speaker 13: the wildfire with two in the bottom of the nine
Speaker 13: without a hit. Five walks, the Dodgers winning five to four.
Speaker 6: How about that five consecutive walks in the bottom of
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Speaker 6: It's the Dodgers and Diamondbacks on this Friday night's beginning
Speaker 6: of a three game set from Chasefield, Rookie Sasaki, Merril
Speaker 6: Kelly the pitching matchup in this series. Opener time now
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Speaker 14: All right, tim Game one and sixteen forty seven remain
Speaker 14: fifty three left in the regular season, and mo who
Speaker 14: would have thought on the seventh of August the Dodgers
Speaker 14: would be scoreboard watching because right now for the best
Speaker 14: record in the National League, Milwaukee at seventy two and
Speaker 14: forty three, Atlanta at seventy and forty five, the Dodgers
Speaker 14: sixty nine and forty six, three behind Milwaukee. Atlanta is
Speaker 14: playing with the Yankees tonight in New York. Milwaukee will
Speaker 14: be hosting Minnesota. Remember, the first two teams receive a
Speaker 14: bye in the first round of the playoffs. The third
Speaker 14: team must play the best of three in a wild
Speaker 14: card series. And a month ago, even three weeks ago,
Speaker 14: never saw this coming.
Speaker 7: No, I don't mean to sound flippant about this, but
Speaker 7: what the Dodgers need to do is look at their
Speaker 7: own scoreboard, because that has not been a pleasant sight.
Speaker 7: If you look at the fact of losing six in
Speaker 7: a row and during that time they have been outscored,
Speaker 7: they have not hit with runners in scoring position to
Speaker 7: the level that you normally see this ball club being
Speaker 7: able to do things. And for the Dodgers. Yeah, they
Speaker 7: need to try and do something some things a little
Speaker 7: differently tonight and produce. And if you look at what
Speaker 7: they've done against Arizona, they have split the ten games
Speaker 7: against them this year.
Speaker 14: The Dodgers have lost six straight all the while the
Speaker 14: Braves have won eight in a row, and the Brewers
Speaker 14: have been just a bottle of consistency all season long.
Speaker 14: In losing six in a row, they've also lost eight
Speaker 14: of ten, sixteen of their last thirty they have lost.
Speaker 1: So it's been a while.
Speaker 14: The d Backs, they've won six of ten, twelve of twenty,
Speaker 14: and they're right in the hunt for a wild cards.
Speaker 14: Sasaki and Merrill Kelly go tonight.
Speaker 7: Yeah, man, I think for Susaki, he's got to throw strikes.
Speaker 7: The Dodgers have to figure out Marrikell, who had change
Speaker 7: speeds as he's normally been able to do. And one
Speaker 7: of the notes, I mean, you look at the Dodgers too,
Speaker 7: Charlie's that we've been watching, Okay, six in a row
Speaker 7: when you're outscored forty two runs to twenty two, and
Speaker 7: that's against the ren Socks in the Cubs. Now, granted,
Speaker 7: each of those two teams came into you know, the
Speaker 7: Dodger Stadium. The Red Sox and then the Cubs playing
Speaker 7: at regular Field both were red hot. I mean absolutely
Speaker 7: red hot. They did just about everything in a positive sense.
Speaker 7: About the only positive thing I can think of, at
Speaker 7: least off the top of my head right now about
Speaker 7: this Dodger buclumb is that Freddie Freeman is in the lineup.
Speaker 7: We really didn't notice the fact that, you know, he
Speaker 7: fouled off the ball. We thought it was a foul ball,
Speaker 7: that's what it was called over in Chicago on Wednesday,
Speaker 7: and then in the fifth inning he was taken out
Speaker 7: of the game. Only after the game did we discover
Speaker 7: it was because that ball also went off his hand.
Speaker 7: X rays fortunately were negative. We're going to find out
Speaker 7: if in fact it still bothers him and swinging the
Speaker 7: bat tonight. He's in that lineup.
Speaker 14: Coming into the game with a fifteen game hitting street
Speaker 14: twenty seven for his last fifty eight, that's a four
Speaker 14: sixty six clip. So he has been very hot. Dodgers
Speaker 14: also had some pretty good hitting from others as well.
Speaker 14: You've got Otani four fifty seven in his last nine
Speaker 14: games and against the Diamondbacks this year, he's hitting four nineteen,
Speaker 14: Moki four to five on Wednesday after going hitless in
Speaker 14: his first four games this month, and Munsey against Merril Kelly, well,
Speaker 14: he's had his way with him in his career sixteen
Speaker 14: for thirty nine a four nineteen Clinton.
Speaker 1: So the Dodgers have the goods now.
Speaker 14: Merril Kelly is a guy that over the years they've
Speaker 14: had the better of it.
Speaker 7: Yeah, they have. And for Kelly somehow there was one
Speaker 7: notice as well he has somewhat dodged the Dodgers that
Speaker 7: he just has not come up in the rotation against
Speaker 7: them in various times. So the Dodgers have to figure
Speaker 7: out how they're going to be doing it. And I
Speaker 7: think in particular a couple of pitches with Kelly. First
Speaker 7: of all, the slider away, particular to right headed batters,
Speaker 7: in particular to Tiasca Hernandez. That's been kind of his kryptonite,
Speaker 7: that breaking bawl away him. But the other point too
Speaker 7: is Merril Kelly throws a high percentage of changeups, almost
Speaker 7: forty percent could be exact, and if he gets ahead
Speaker 7: of you early in the count, he is going to
Speaker 7: use that change up. The question is how well do
Speaker 7: the Dodgers make adjustments, which is kind of the story
Speaker 7: each and every game.
Speaker 14: Merrill Kelly his last start on Sunday in Cleveland five
Speaker 14: runs and eight hits in five innings and lifetime against
Speaker 14: the Dodgers, he is O and eleven and a five
Speaker 14: point fifty six RA and in his seventeen starts against
Speaker 14: the Dodgers, his Diamondbacks have lost fifteen of those games.
Speaker 14: And Sosaki, who's pitched very well last three starts against
Speaker 14: the Yankees, Mets, and Mariners three earned runs in eighteen
Speaker 14: innings and a one fifty er, and certainly the Dodgers
Speaker 14: need a big outing from him tonight in the first
Speaker 14: of three the Dodgers and Diamondbacks from Phoenix coming up.
Speaker 4: All right, thank you, Charlie.
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Speaker 6: this pitching matchup. Tim and Rick will have the keys
Speaker 6: to the game. But up next we go high and
Speaker 6: tight with an old friend back with the Dodgers, Hunter Producier,
Speaker 6: Dodger catcher joins DV next, so we lead you up
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Speaker 3: And now what will likely be vast a fielding insults
Speaker 3: from a Dodger player.
Speaker 4: It's an engagement of endearment.
Speaker 3: This is high and.
Speaker 5: Tucked, nothing but first class. When you're with the man himself,
Speaker 5: freshly traded from the Tampa Bay Rays back to where
Speaker 5: he belongs, the LA Dodgers, and he's behind the plate
Speaker 5: tonight catching Roki Sasaki. That's the one and only Hunter
Speaker 5: Fiducca Fetti, thanks a lot for the time. Great to
Speaker 5: have you back.
Speaker 15: Of course, I'm happy to be back.
Speaker 5: I guess Austin Barnes doesn't watch a lot of Dodger games,
Speaker 5: because he was watching the other day and he said, wait, what,
Speaker 5: Fetti's back. So now that Barnes is aware that you're back,
Speaker 5: I guess that's all good.
Speaker 10: Yeah, I'm so waiting for the text from him. I
Speaker 10: should be here any any moment now. But yeah, I
Speaker 10: miss that guy.
Speaker 5: What's it been like for you? Is it still surreal
Speaker 5: to be back?
Speaker 10: Yeah, you know, you know it's at this but at
Speaker 10: the same time, it feels like I haven't missed much.
Speaker 10: You know, the guys were very welcoming when I When
Speaker 10: I got here, you know, kind of picked up where
Speaker 10: it left off. So you know, I'm excited to be
Speaker 10: back with these guys, and you know, they got a
Speaker 10: good thing going, so I'm excited to help out anyway
Speaker 10: I can.
Speaker 5: Is that how it felt. Maybe you don't see a
Speaker 5: guy from college for ten years and then you see
Speaker 5: him and you pick up right where you left off.
Speaker 10: Yeah, that's that's a good way to put it, honestly.
Speaker 10: You know, we spent a lot of hours together on
Speaker 10: the field and just bonding in general, so you know,
Speaker 10: a year doesn't take much off of it. So yeah,
Speaker 10: when I got back, it felt like I haven't I
Speaker 10: haven't missed too much, so that's good.
Speaker 5: Is it a crash course when it comes to some
Speaker 5: of these pictures or is it because you understand the
Speaker 5: method the process as far as the game planning. Does
Speaker 5: it matter that you haven't really caught Rokie before?
Speaker 10: Yeah? You know, I caught his bullpen the other day.
Speaker 10: You know, beforehand probably caught him a handful of times.
Speaker 10: So you know, not much has changed from that aspect.
Speaker 10: And you know, just being with the race for a
Speaker 10: while and you know, having to kind of lead a staff,
Speaker 10: it's helped out a lot with game planning and just
Speaker 10: getting comfortable in that sense.
Speaker 15: But you know, I feel comfortable for the most part.
Speaker 10: Obviously there's a little stuff here and there that need
Speaker 10: to pick up on and learn along the way, but
Speaker 10: I don't think it's gonna take too much time.
Speaker 15: Hopefully.
Speaker 5: Hunter Fiduccia is our guest. He has a clean shaven
Speaker 5: upper lip. Now you shave the stash. That thing was
Speaker 5: looking pretty nice over there, I mean ted Lasso's back
Speaker 5: and you shave the stash.
Speaker 15: Yeah, I don't know where that came about.
Speaker 10: I think it was like two am in the morning
Speaker 10: when I when I got in after getting traded, and.
Speaker 15: Thought, you know, I had to change something up.
Speaker 10: So here I am fresh, fresh, new team, fresh shave,
Speaker 10: So here goes nothing.
Speaker 5: Does it feel like when you came back to the
Speaker 5: Dodgers and when you were first traded? Obviously he's still
Speaker 5: trying to prove yourself in the big leagues. Now you've
Speaker 5: done that, You've established that. Does it feel like you
Speaker 5: left kind of like a boy and now you're a
Speaker 5: man that you came back.
Speaker 10: Yeah, I know, like you said there, I think there's
Speaker 10: still some more to prove, you know, but developing more
Speaker 10: as you know, I've been the Bigs a little longer.
Speaker 10: You know, it has helped out a lot with being
Speaker 10: comfortable and you know, working with pitchers and you know,
Speaker 10: with the staff and and Tampa having a lot of
Speaker 10: veteran arms, you know, picking up on a lot of
Speaker 10: a lot of stuff from them and how they approach
Speaker 10: certain at bats and hitters, and you know, I feel
Speaker 10: a lot more well rounded as as a catcher for
Speaker 10: sure and ballplayer.
Speaker 5: I got to ask you this, Shane McClanahan. I mean,
Speaker 5: he's such a powerful pitcher we know him from starting
Speaker 5: the All Star Game against Kershaw in LA. But what's
Speaker 5: it like to be a teammate to be behind the
Speaker 5: plate when mcclanahan's pitching.
Speaker 10: Yeah, no, it's it's as advertised how you see it
Speaker 10: on on TV. It's it's truly a special arm. It
Speaker 10: was fun getting to work with him, and you know,
Speaker 10: especially after you know the injuries he's went through, seeing
Speaker 10: how he he bounced back and has developed his arm,
Speaker 10: it's a it's truly impressed all right.
Speaker 5: Before I let you go, Ben Roartfitz, the first thing
Speaker 5: he said to me was, it's so weird. You guys
Speaker 5: were treated for each other and now your finally teammates.
Speaker 5: What are your first impressions of the legend that is
Speaker 5: Ben Roartvett.
Speaker 15: He's the man. You know.
Speaker 10: I heard a lot of stories in the past about him,
Speaker 10: never really knew him, but you know, when I saw
Speaker 10: him for the first time in Chicago, it's like we've
Speaker 10: known each other for a long time. It's a weird feeling.
Speaker 10: But now it's been awesome so far. You know, he's
Speaker 10: been helpful too. It's some of the pictures I haven't
Speaker 10: caught before.
Speaker 15: And you know, he's had some time here and got.
Speaker 10: To build relationships with some of the pictures, so he's
Speaker 10: been super helpful and looking forward to get to know
Speaker 10: him a little better and working with them.
Speaker 1: All right.
Speaker 5: Well, great to have both you and Ben back with
Speaker 5: the Dodgers. Good luck tonight with Rokie and it's a
Speaker 5: good night to get a win.
Speaker 1: Yes, let's do it.
Speaker 15: Thank you.
Speaker 5: There he goes, Hunter Fiducca has been our guest. He'll
Speaker 5: receive a gift card to Travis Matthew Culture of Style
Speaker 5: and Fiducci back with the Dodgers in a great culture
Speaker 5: of Style as well.
Speaker 1: We'll send back to you Tim.
Speaker 4: All right, thanks a lot.
Speaker 6: DV lead you up to first pitch Dodgers and Diamondbacks
Speaker 6: from Phoenix. Up next, we'll dive deeper to this game
Speaker 6: one pitching matchup of this three game set to lead
Speaker 6: you up to Dodgers and Snakes. I'm Tim Kakes's the
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Speaker 6: Dodgers in Diamondbacks starting a three game set from Phoenix.
Speaker 6: First pitch coming up, in six forty.
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Speaker 6: Merril Kelly on the mound eight and nine with a
Speaker 6: five h four e RRA.
Speaker 4: Thirty seven year old.
Speaker 6: Right hander with the Diamondbacks traded at the deadline last
Speaker 6: year and said I want to come back to the
Speaker 6: heat of Phoenix, and he signed a two year deal
Speaker 6: this past offseason. He's now in his eighth season the
Speaker 6: big League's making his twenty first start this year. Last
Speaker 6: time out, Meryl Kelly five innings, five runs, eight hits,
Speaker 6: five strikeouts, four walks. That one is a loss to
Speaker 6: the Cleveland Guardians. He has faced the Dodgers a lot,
Speaker 6: and as David Veasse alluded to earlier, it hasn't been good.
Speaker 6: Seventeen starts against the Dodgers, Meryl Kelly is ozero and
Speaker 6: eleven with a five to fifty six ERRA during the
Speaker 6: regular season. Last time he faced the Dodgers was an
Speaker 6: eight to six loss at the end of the twenty
Speaker 6: twenty four season, one that he didn't get a decision. However,
Speaker 6: he allowed six runs four of which were earned in
Speaker 6: a known decision. Roki Sasaki on the mound for the
Speaker 6: Dodgers five and five with a four to sixty four ERA.
Speaker 6: The twenty four year old right hander making his twentieth
Speaker 6: start this year. After the All Star Break, Roky Sisaki
Speaker 6: came back with a new, bigger glove. The purpose was
Speaker 6: to hide the grips and keep hitters from knowing what
Speaker 6: he's throwing. Maybe he was tip of the pitches, maybe
Speaker 6: he wasn't. But since the glove change, Roki Sasaki has
Speaker 6: made three starts. He has a one to fifty ERA,
Speaker 6: twenty one strikeouts, and his first start out of the
Speaker 6: All Star Break, he threw twenty one fastballs over one
Speaker 6: hundred miles per hour. Maybe with the glove change works.
Speaker 6: Last time out five and a third innings, two runs,
Speaker 6: five hits, seven strikeouts in a win over the Mariners.
Speaker 6: He picked up a consecutive win for the first time
Speaker 6: since May of this season against the Angels and Milwaukee.
Speaker 6: A win tonight would be the first time in his
Speaker 6: career Rokie Sasaki has earned the win in three consecutive outings.
Speaker 6: He'll take the mound for just the second time ever
Speaker 6: against the Diamondbacks. He made one start against him and
Speaker 6: last year when five innings, allowing five runs on five hits,
Speaker 6: Too walks with two strikeouts. Roki Sasaki on the mound
Speaker 6: for the Dodgers. Merrill Kelly goes for the Snakes. Dodgers
Speaker 6: an eight and a half game lead in the division.
Speaker 6: They have lost six in a row. They need a
Speaker 6: win bad. That's coming tonight. As we're fifteen minutes away
Speaker 6: from first pitch. Keys to the game are coming up next.
Speaker 6: Don't you go anywhere? Tim Kates is the back to
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Speaker 6: All season long, leading you up to Dodgers and timing
Speaker 6: bags from Phoenix one hundred and three outside and nice
Speaker 6: and cool inside Chase Field. Rokie Susaki, Merril Kelly. The
Speaker 6: pitching matchup. First pitch is coming up in just a
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Speaker 6: final time. The guy on the call tonight, Tim Neverert
Speaker 6: and Rick Monday.
Speaker 2: Guys, Tim, thank you very much. We count you down
Speaker 2: to the first pitch here tonight in Phoenix. Again, the
Speaker 2: roof will be closed. It should be closed this whole
Speaker 2: series due to triple digit temperatures. And that's what you
Speaker 2: get here in August in the Valley of the Sun.
Speaker 2: Certainly expected, and the Dodgers and Diamondbacks ready to go
Speaker 2: for this one tonight. Roki Susaki five and five, four
Speaker 2: sixty four the ERA, still throwing a good splitter. His
Speaker 2: last three starts, which were against the Yankees, the Mets,
Speaker 2: and the Seattle Mariners, have been very good. He's two
Speaker 2: and oh of a one five zero ERA and twenty
Speaker 2: one strikeouts over.
Speaker 7: Those last three starts. His splitter has been better in
Speaker 7: those last three starts. Also, the confidence lever Membery's also
Speaker 7: gone to a larger glove. Was he tipping his bitches
Speaker 7: ahead of time? Don't really know, but he's changed the
Speaker 7: grip on that splitter and it's working out. But here's Sizaki.
Speaker 7: When he's ahead in the count, it's a one sixty
Speaker 7: one batting average against. When he's behind in the count,
Speaker 7: it's a different god three eighty four. So it comes
Speaker 7: down to, very simplistically, throw strikes.
Speaker 2: Merril Kelly's had a tough time in August. He had
Speaker 2: a bat outing Sunday in Cleveland, gave up five runs
Speaker 2: on eight hits in five innings and the Diamondbacks were
Speaker 2: shut out five to nothing. But his era at five
Speaker 2: oh four could end up being the highest of his
Speaker 2: career by more than half a run.
Speaker 7: Well, if you look at Kelly, the fans ball has
Speaker 7: been hit at three thirty six average. That's the most
Speaker 7: of any starting pitcher in baseball. The slider away is
Speaker 7: going to give some of the right handed batters in
Speaker 7: this Dodger lineup some trouble. Why because they've expanded the
Speaker 7: strength zone. So that's a big pitch for Kelly along
Speaker 7: with the changeup, and he throws that change up over
Speaker 7: thirty percent of the time. He's going to change speeds
Speaker 7: tonight again.
Speaker 2: Dodgers know it's time to get back in the win column.
Speaker 2: They'll do their best to get there tonight, Tim.
Speaker 4: Yep, Dodgers need to get a victory. They need to
Speaker 4: get one two nights.
Speaker 6: Is this is a big series, Dodgers eight and a
Speaker 6: half games up on the Arizona Diamondbacks. You are right
Speaker 6: there with the Cubs and Phillies for the two wildcard
Speaker 6: spots in the National League. Guys are the Padres is
Speaker 6: one game back of a wildcard spot. But the Padres
Speaker 6: and Diamonbacks just finished off a series. Timonback's feeling good
Speaker 6: about the where they're at eight and a half games
Speaker 6: back as they go into this weekend.
Speaker 4: Said, Dodgers need to take care of business. This thing.
Speaker 6: They got swept in three games at Dodger Stadium right
Speaker 6: before the All Star Break that closed the.
Speaker 4: Gap by three games.
Speaker 6: Nothing better for the Dodgers to go in win this series,
Speaker 6: maybe get a sweep and add three games to this
Speaker 6: eight and a half game lead in the division. Keep
Speaker 6: an eye on what's happening with the San Diego Padres
Speaker 6: as they are at home tonight against the Houston Astros.
Speaker 6: Full slate oft schedule in Major League Baseball on this
Speaker 6: Friday night, We got first pitch from Phoenix coming up
Speaker 6: it's Merrill Kelly on the mound and Rookie Susaki. Merril
Speaker 6: Kelly winless in his career against the Dodgers. Rookie Susaki
Speaker 6: looking to win his third straight decision for the first
Speaker 6: time in his young career. Show Heyo Tani in the
Speaker 6: box next. Dared not take your eyes off when he's
Speaker 6: in the box. You never know what he's gonna do.
Speaker 6: He homered in the leadoff spot against the Cubbies on Wednesday.
Speaker 6: What will he do next? We'll find out first pitch,
Speaker 6: right around the corner. Enjoy it, everybody. I'm Tim Katson.
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