WEBVTT - Dodgers on Deck (8-7-26) 0:00:00.520 --> 0:00:03.520 For the back to back World Champions of Baseball. 0:00:03.680 --> 0:00:06.040 One of the greatest runs in the history of baseball. 0:00:06.080 --> 0:00:08.559 Immortality is within their reach. 0:00:08.920 --> 0:00:12.719 Incredible and while others make excuses. 0:00:12.360 --> 0:00:14.720 The only reason the Dodgers are doing this because they can. 0:00:14.680 --> 0:00:18.160 They print money, the Dodgers discut it's not fair. 0:00:18.320 --> 0:00:19.440 Are making plans. 0:00:20.040 --> 0:00:25.200 Yeah, it's a singular focus on controlling what they can control. 0:00:25.400 --> 0:00:29.160 Now your pregame host of the World champion La Dodgers, 0:00:29.640 --> 0:00:30.960 Damn Cats. 0:00:31.880 --> 0:00:36.519 Hi, everybody, and welcome in to Morongo Casino Dodgers on 0:00:36.720 --> 0:00:41.800 Deck live from Van's Headquarters and coast of Mesa, California. 0:00:41.960 --> 0:00:45.040 On this Friday, August the seventh. You're back to back 0:00:45.040 --> 0:00:48.239 World Series champion Los Angeles Dodgers on the road in 0:00:48.400 --> 0:00:52.720 Arizona as they continue this six game road trip after 0:00:52.720 --> 0:00:56.080 getting swept in Chicago a day off yesterday, the Dodgers, 0:00:56.080 --> 0:00:58.840 now losers of six in a row, are in the 0:00:58.920 --> 0:01:01.800 desert for a three game series against the Diamondbacks. Dodgers 0:01:01.800 --> 0:01:04.039 eight and a half games up in the division going 0:01:04.080 --> 0:01:07.280 into action tonight. Roki Sasaki on the mound in this 0:01:07.400 --> 0:01:10.440 series opener, first pitch from Chase Field is coming up 0:01:10.480 --> 0:01:12.800 at six point forty between then and now. We got 0:01:12.840 --> 0:01:15.720 a lot to get to here on Morago Casino Dodgers 0:01:15.720 --> 0:01:18.039 on Deck. We're gonna check in with Kirsten Watson from 0:01:18.160 --> 0:01:20.160 Sports in La in just a couple of minutes. 0:01:20.200 --> 0:01:21.640 David Vase checks in. Of course. 0:01:21.800 --> 0:01:23.880 Throughout the hour, he'll go one on one with Hunter 0:01:24.040 --> 0:01:27.720 Producia Dodger Catcher. We'll also get the latest Dodger injury news. 0:01:27.800 --> 0:01:30.160 Is Blake Snell. We have a date on when he 0:01:30.240 --> 0:01:33.800 will return into the Dodgers rotation. Shortly, we'll check in 0:01:33.880 --> 0:01:35.920 with Tim Nevererd and Rick Monday out the gallpin Ford 0:01:36.200 --> 0:01:38.560 Broadcast booth. Well, the Dodgers were last in action on 0:01:38.640 --> 0:01:39.720 Wednesday in Chicago. 0:01:40.000 --> 0:01:40.920 They jumped out to. 0:01:40.880 --> 0:01:43.240 The early lead thanks to a solo home run to 0:01:43.319 --> 0:01:46.120 lead off the game from show Hey o'tani. So the 0:01:46.160 --> 0:01:49.480 Dodgers one batter into the game had a one nothing lead. 0:01:49.720 --> 0:01:52.240 Eric Lower got the start on the mound for the Dodgers, 0:01:52.520 --> 0:01:54.559 and it's just as quick as they took the lead, 0:01:54.680 --> 0:01:55.600 Lour gave it. 0:01:55.680 --> 0:01:59.480 Up facing pro Armstrong, a two eighty four hitter from 0:01:59.480 --> 0:02:01.600 the left side. He swings and drives it deep in 0:02:01.600 --> 0:02:04.280 the air to center field and with one pitch. 0:02:04.640 --> 0:02:06.160 This game is tied. 0:02:06.920 --> 0:02:11.000 Home run number twenty five for Pete Crow Armstrong and 0:02:11.080 --> 0:02:14.800 it is one to one and. 0:02:15.040 --> 0:02:17.560 Both leadoff hitters flexing the muscles. 0:02:19.480 --> 0:02:22.079 PCA with the leadoff home run in the bottom of 0:02:22.120 --> 0:02:24.440 the first, Cubs answered right back, tying the game. Eric 0:02:24.480 --> 0:02:27.320 Lower's troubles were just getting started. In the second danceby 0:02:27.400 --> 0:02:29.919 Swanson RBI double, Cubs a two to one lead. Two 0:02:29.919 --> 0:02:33.480 batters later, PCA with a RBI double Dodgers at three 0:02:34.080 --> 0:02:36.680 one deficit, and the fourth Cubs at it again. Pete 0:02:36.680 --> 0:02:39.960 crow Armstrong a two run home run off the scoreboard 0:02:39.960 --> 0:02:40.639 in right field. 0:02:40.760 --> 0:02:42.040 Cubs had a five to one lead. 0:02:42.040 --> 0:02:45.480 Two batters later, Alex Bregman RBI single to left Cubs 0:02:45.600 --> 0:02:48.200 with three runs in the inning and take a six 0:02:48.240 --> 0:02:51.720 to one lead our Eric Lawer's day was done. Four inning, 0:02:51.840 --> 0:02:54.600 six runs, eleven hits. Fast forward to the seventh, the 0:02:54.639 --> 0:02:57.160 Cubs tacked on another run, extending their lead to seven 0:02:57.200 --> 0:03:00.600 to one on a Nico Horner RBI double into the Ivy. 0:03:00.880 --> 0:03:04.000 Dodgers down but not completely out. In the eighth, a 0:03:04.160 --> 0:03:06.840 spark of life from the offense. Tucker and Betts with 0:03:06.880 --> 0:03:09.520 back to back singles with one out that brought up 0:03:09.720 --> 0:03:10.880 Max Munsey. 0:03:11.240 --> 0:03:15.160 Won one pitch, Max swings hits a high drive, deep 0:03:15.200 --> 0:03:17.280 bright field, way back, it. 0:03:17.400 --> 0:03:20.280 Goes hit as gone, a three run home run. 0:03:21.000 --> 0:03:25.320 Maxwell swinging the solver hammer in the Windy City home 0:03:25.400 --> 0:03:29.440 run number twenty two and the Dodgers cut the lead 0:03:29.560 --> 0:03:30.560 is seven to four. 0:03:31.320 --> 0:03:33.800 Well, they've been waiting for a big opportunity in a 0:03:33.840 --> 0:03:38.280 big blast. Kerns still has some outs to work with, 0:03:39.200 --> 0:03:41.880 and at least they have closed the gap a bit 0:03:42.200 --> 0:03:44.320 and for months. He got every bit of it. 0:03:44.960 --> 0:03:47.600 Three run home run for Max Mounsey, twenty second of 0:03:47.640 --> 0:03:50.360 the season, Dodgers down seven to four. Later in the inning, 0:03:50.480 --> 0:03:53.280 show Hey Otani ad two run blast, his second of 0:03:53.280 --> 0:03:53.640 the game. 0:03:53.880 --> 0:03:55.160 Dodgers with five. 0:03:55.000 --> 0:03:56.840 Runs in the eighth, and he made it a game 0:03:57.200 --> 0:03:59.560 down only seven to six. Unfortunately, that's as close as 0:03:59.560 --> 0:04:01.840 they would get. Cubs hang on for the win. Dodgers 0:04:01.880 --> 0:04:04.320 lose all three games at Wrigley. They fall to sixty 0:04:04.400 --> 0:04:06.440 nine and forty six on this season. They have now 0:04:06.520 --> 0:04:09.080 dropped six in a row. After a day off yesterday, 0:04:09.280 --> 0:04:11.760 Dodgers back at it in Arizona for a weekend set 0:04:11.800 --> 0:04:14.960 against the Diamondbacks. Rokie Sasaki on the mount first pitcher 0:04:14.960 --> 0:04:17.400 and Chase Field. He's coming up at six forty with more. 0:04:17.560 --> 0:04:19.640 We head out to the Gaup and Ford Broadcast booth 0:04:19.640 --> 0:04:21.720 on this Friday night as we welcome in Tim Nefverett 0:04:21.960 --> 0:04:23.000 and Rick Monday. 0:04:23.080 --> 0:04:24.880 Guys, Tim, thank you very much. 0:04:25.000 --> 0:04:28.840 Roof has closed on a hundred degree day here in Phoenix, Arizona, 0:04:28.880 --> 0:04:32.000 as the Dodgers take on the Arizona Diamondbacks, first of 0:04:32.080 --> 0:04:34.520 three here, and the Diamondbacks have closed the lead to 0:04:34.600 --> 0:04:36.920 eight and a half. They come off a four game 0:04:37.000 --> 0:04:40.080 series split with San Diego Padres, beating him here last 0:04:40.240 --> 0:04:43.320 night to keep the distance at eight and a half games, 0:04:43.360 --> 0:04:46.000 and the Dodgers have lost six straight and have been 0:04:46.080 --> 0:04:50.760 outscored forty two to twenty two in two series with 0:04:50.880 --> 0:04:54.119 Boston and the Chicago Cubs. So it's time to start 0:04:54.120 --> 0:04:56.080 a winning streak here tonight. They'll look to do it 0:04:56.120 --> 0:04:59.080 behind right hand to Roki Sasaki, who is five and 0:04:59.200 --> 0:05:04.760 five six ERA and Merril Kelly, who somehow missed the 0:05:04.800 --> 0:05:08.599 Dodgers since August of twenty four, but the Dodgers have 0:05:08.640 --> 0:05:11.960 had great success against him. In fact, the Arizona Diamondbacks 0:05:12.000 --> 0:05:16.719 have lost fifteen of Kelly's seventeen starts against them, Kelly 0:05:16.800 --> 0:05:19.520 is eight and nine with a five h four ERA. 0:05:19.839 --> 0:05:23.400 That's the pitching matchup. Dodgers still searching for that seventieth 0:05:23.400 --> 0:05:26.360 win of the year, sixty nine and forty six. They 0:05:26.360 --> 0:05:29.840 have lost eight of their last ten. Meantime, the Diamondbacks 0:05:30.480 --> 0:05:32.679 have won six of the last ten, and they're sixty 0:05:32.680 --> 0:05:36.520 one and fifty five and both a day off yesterday. 0:05:36.600 --> 0:05:38.799 It was a day of rest, just kind of taking 0:05:38.800 --> 0:05:41.960 an informal poll between players and coaches, and they all 0:05:42.000 --> 0:05:44.400 said they had a good day yesterday. A lot of 0:05:44.480 --> 0:05:47.320 quiet time, a lot of time to rest, get ready 0:05:47.360 --> 0:05:49.040 and start a winning streak here tonight. 0:05:49.200 --> 0:05:51.600 Well, let me just make sure that we avoid this 0:05:51.760 --> 0:05:54.919 guy is falling scenario because I'm gonna start out with 0:05:54.960 --> 0:05:57.440 some good points. First of all, show heyo, Tonny, a 0:05:57.440 --> 0:06:01.039 couple of home runs on Wednesday has done. Now you 0:06:01.120 --> 0:06:02.920 start to look at the last nine games, he's hitting 0:06:02.960 --> 0:06:05.760 at four to fifty seven. What about Mookie Betz had 0:06:05.800 --> 0:06:09.119 four hits on Wednesday, swung the bat much much better 0:06:09.520 --> 0:06:11.920 on top of that inning, So we'll find out how 0:06:11.960 --> 0:06:14.919 that going again. The third positive point is that Freddy 0:06:14.960 --> 0:06:17.920 Freeman we discovered after the ballgame on Wednesday. We thought 0:06:17.920 --> 0:06:19.599 that he took a foul ball off the knob of 0:06:19.600 --> 0:06:21.480 the bat turned out and also hit his right hand. 0:06:21.839 --> 0:06:24.560 He had X rays taken after the ballgame. He's taken 0:06:24.600 --> 0:06:26.680 out of the game in the fifth inning. X rays 0:06:26.720 --> 0:06:29.760 were negative. And for Freeman, he's in that line up tonight. 0:06:29.800 --> 0:06:32.480 And for Freddy Freeman, all he's done the last fifteen 0:06:32.520 --> 0:06:34.960 games has hit a four to sixty six clip. So 0:06:35.279 --> 0:06:37.479 those are the three strong points. The other part is 0:06:37.800 --> 0:06:39.520 the Dodgers have to play better baseball. 0:06:39.839 --> 0:06:43.960 Hookie bats had four hits on Wednesday afternoon in Chicago, 0:06:44.000 --> 0:06:48.159 went four for five. He's had great luck against Merril Kelly. 0:06:48.200 --> 0:06:50.040 A couple of guys have hit well against him on 0:06:50.120 --> 0:06:53.200 top of it, including Otani's hit four hundred against him, 0:06:53.240 --> 0:06:57.280 Freeman's hit three thirteen months. He has held his own. 0:06:57.400 --> 0:07:00.240 I'll say that hitting at four to ten against team 0:07:00.279 --> 0:07:02.479 as well, we'll talk about the pitching. But for the 0:07:02.480 --> 0:07:04.800 Dodgers standpoint, I mean you start to look at losing 0:07:04.880 --> 0:07:07.760 eight out of ten. They've been the eighth best hitting 0:07:07.800 --> 0:07:10.320 team in that period of time, hitting above the season 0:07:10.360 --> 0:07:12.840 average through two seventy four in the last ten games 0:07:13.120 --> 0:07:16.480 home runs, their tenth in the majors in that category 0:07:16.520 --> 0:07:19.840 within that time frame, the number of hits their ninth. However, 0:07:20.200 --> 0:07:23.280 if you look at the era, it's almost seven and 0:07:23.320 --> 0:07:24.480 that's got to change. 0:07:24.880 --> 0:07:28.600 Just a bit of news on pitching Monday, Trek Scoble 0:07:28.680 --> 0:07:32.320 will start against the Royals back home at Uniclow Field 0:07:32.320 --> 0:07:35.440 at Dodgers Stadium, and Blake Snell will make the start 0:07:35.560 --> 0:07:38.720 on Tuesday. Dave Roberts telling us just a few moments 0:07:38.720 --> 0:07:42.840 ago it's the Dodgers and the Arizona Diamondbacks coming up 0:07:42.840 --> 0:07:44.800 from Chase Field in downtown Phoenix. 0:07:44.840 --> 0:07:44.960 Ten. 0:07:45.680 --> 0:07:47.240 All right, thank you, Tim, as we tell you down 0:07:47.280 --> 0:07:49.480 to first pitch. Dodger fans, get that Gayden Day meal 0:07:49.560 --> 0:07:50.720 on what you doing for dinner? 0:07:50.800 --> 0:07:53.560 How about Shaky's Pizza Parlor. 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Swan not 0:08:57.000 --> 0:08:59.079 belt at the right field and dap this ball heading 0:08:59.120 --> 0:08:59.920 back at his car. 0:09:00.200 --> 0:09:02.600 It's a home run for Otani to lead off the 0:09:02.640 --> 0:09:08.120 ball game one nothing Dodgers, his thirty fourth career lead 0:09:08.160 --> 0:09:11.680 off home run, his twenty ninth with the Dodgers, is 0:09:11.840 --> 0:09:16.200 eleventh this season, and he moves past Davy Lopes into 0:09:16.280 --> 0:09:19.640 second place all time in Dodger history, right behind Rookie 0:09:19.679 --> 0:09:25.280 Bitts for this twenty ninth for the Dodgers, and Otani 0:09:25.320 --> 0:09:27.000 swings lifts it deep to left field. 0:09:27.040 --> 0:09:28.040 That ball headed back to. 0:09:28.000 --> 0:09:31.200 The wall and is gone a home run for Otani, 0:09:32.040 --> 0:09:33.560 his second of a ball game. 0:09:35.280 --> 0:09:37.760 He stops at second thinking it's a double. It went 0:09:37.840 --> 0:09:38.680 over the basket. 0:09:38.760 --> 0:09:41.400 Now he's told it to home run and he continues 0:09:41.440 --> 0:09:43.600 his try show. 0:09:43.679 --> 0:09:46.480 Hey O'tani goes three for five, a pair of home runs. 0:09:46.520 --> 0:09:49.320 Three ribis Otani now hitting two ninety seven on the season, 0:09:49.480 --> 0:09:52.880 twenty six home runs, seventy RBI Dodgers. Zoh gets swept 0:09:52.880 --> 0:09:56.240 out of Chicago having not dropped six in a row. 0:09:56.960 --> 0:10:00.800 This is Keirston's corner with kar Watson. 0:10:02.679 --> 0:10:05.360 Hey Carrison now joins us from Chase Field and Arizona. 0:10:05.360 --> 0:10:07.160 Brought to my cars for kids. The easiest way to 0:10:07.200 --> 0:10:09.400 get rid of that old car. Just donate it today. 0:10:09.440 --> 0:10:11.920 Your car could be picked up tomorrow. That easy donating 0:10:11.960 --> 0:10:15.600 Now carsfrokids dot org. That's cars with a K. All Right, Kirison, 0:10:15.640 --> 0:10:17.560 this is Dodgers team. They need to win losers of 0:10:17.600 --> 0:10:19.520 six in a row. I guess if you could take 0:10:19.559 --> 0:10:23.040 anything away from that game in Chicago on Wednesday, that 0:10:23.160 --> 0:10:25.360 eighth inning, maybe something they can build on. 0:10:26.240 --> 0:10:28.360 That's exactly what they can build on. And you know, 0:10:28.480 --> 0:10:30.400 as much as that was a tough loss and as 0:10:30.480 --> 0:10:32.679 much as it's been six in a row, there are 0:10:32.760 --> 0:10:35.200 some positives coming into this one. You mentioned that five 0:10:35.280 --> 0:10:37.240 run eighth inning. Even when we spoke to the guys 0:10:37.320 --> 0:10:40.920 after that game, they shared that, you know, that inning 0:10:41.040 --> 0:10:42.920 showed a lot of fight for the group, and that 0:10:43.040 --> 0:10:45.080 I think is cute when you have a team that 0:10:45.200 --> 0:10:47.600 is struggling, or even what Mookie Betts recently said how 0:10:47.640 --> 0:10:49.120 they guys were just kind of a little bit of 0:10:49.200 --> 0:10:51.920 a rut right now. When you can build the momentum 0:10:52.000 --> 0:10:54.880 and make it a one run game and ultimately know 0:10:55.000 --> 0:10:57.760 they weren't able to pull off the comeback, but they 0:10:57.800 --> 0:11:00.480 showed a lot of life in that moment, so they 0:11:00.520 --> 0:11:02.960 can carry on that, and then they come to Arizona 0:11:03.040 --> 0:11:06.319 where a lot of guys do live here, so they 0:11:06.320 --> 0:11:09.320 are able to go home have truly a full day reset. 0:11:09.400 --> 0:11:12.280 You do have to take into consideration. They played Sunday 0:11:12.360 --> 0:11:15.000 night baseball, then had to take the Red Eye into Chicago, 0:11:15.120 --> 0:11:17.440 So there were a lot of elements that have gone 0:11:17.559 --> 0:11:20.959 into this six game losing streak that maybe they won't say, 0:11:21.080 --> 0:11:22.880 just because they are professionals and they're not going to 0:11:22.960 --> 0:11:26.000 use fatigue as an excuse, but it's the realities of it. 0:11:26.080 --> 0:11:29.120 So the hope is they come in today. It's a 0:11:29.160 --> 0:11:31.560 great day to get a win streak going and to 0:11:31.640 --> 0:11:33.600 get back on track. And it's clear that you can 0:11:33.640 --> 0:11:36.080 feel that now, you can feel that in the clubhouse. 0:11:36.080 --> 0:11:36.480 So it's nice. 0:11:36.520 --> 0:11:38.040 And you can have Rochie on the mound, who's in 0:11:38.080 --> 0:11:41.080 a really good spot and has a confidence to him, 0:11:41.120 --> 0:11:42.760 a quiet confidence to him at the moment. 0:11:42.800 --> 0:11:43.200 No doubt. 0:11:43.200 --> 0:11:45.079 He's pitched well in his last two couple of starts 0:11:45.080 --> 0:11:46.160 for the Dodgers. 0:11:45.800 --> 0:11:48.439 Hopefully speaking of a building he can build on that this. 0:11:48.440 --> 0:11:50.800 Dodgers team anytime they get to Arizona. That's where the 0:11:50.880 --> 0:11:53.760 headquarters are there at Camelback Ranch, just about thirty minutes 0:11:53.800 --> 0:11:55.640 away from Chase Field. So a chance to see some 0:11:55.720 --> 0:11:58.000 of the guys who aren't around the team every day, right. 0:11:58.720 --> 0:12:01.559 Yeah, exactly. And what's not especially with this trip is 0:12:01.679 --> 0:12:04.160 we've got a few guys who we're expecting to see soon. 0:12:04.240 --> 0:12:05.880 So let's start with Blake Snow. We know that he 0:12:05.880 --> 0:12:08.280 has now officially finished up his rehab assignment, and Dave 0:12:08.320 --> 0:12:11.920 Roberts confirmed that his next start, or is return to 0:12:11.960 --> 0:12:14.160 the big league start, is going to be on Tuesday, 0:12:14.320 --> 0:12:17.000 back at Dodger Stadium, So always good to see him. 0:12:17.000 --> 0:12:19.040 He was out around the field playing catch and then 0:12:19.080 --> 0:12:21.920 another guy who we actually hadn't seen before, but I 0:12:22.160 --> 0:12:24.760 remember at the trade deadline there was an acquisition for 0:12:24.920 --> 0:12:28.080 Chris Bubich from the Royals. Now he is currently on 0:12:28.200 --> 0:12:31.120 the IL and so he's been at Cammelback Ranch since 0:12:31.280 --> 0:12:33.640 coming over from the trade deadline. So this is his 0:12:33.640 --> 0:12:36.120 first weekend being with the big league group, which is 0:12:36.160 --> 0:12:38.760 really nice for him just to kind of see everyone 0:12:38.880 --> 0:12:40.880 and make some connections and kind of get on the 0:12:40.880 --> 0:12:43.880 same page. But he has shared that not only is 0:12:43.880 --> 0:12:47.040 he continuing to progress with his rehab, he was able 0:12:47.040 --> 0:12:48.600 to take it off the mount. He threw his first 0:12:48.600 --> 0:12:52.480 bullpen on Sundays. Expected to throw another bullpen tomorrow, whether 0:12:52.520 --> 0:12:55.520 it's here at Chase Field or at CDR. But he's 0:12:55.520 --> 0:12:57.640 working his way and so he's looking to be a 0:12:57.720 --> 0:12:59.599 very viable option. He said, it's going to be a 0:12:59.640 --> 0:13:02.480 short leaf is what the Dodgers are needing from him 0:13:02.559 --> 0:13:05.719 for either late September come October. But he wants to 0:13:05.760 --> 0:13:07.200 be a part of it, and we know that he's 0:13:07.240 --> 0:13:09.959 had a lot of success recently once he's when he's 0:13:09.960 --> 0:13:12.199 been healthy, so they're hoping to get that version of 0:13:12.280 --> 0:13:13.120 him back here soon. 0:13:13.360 --> 0:13:15.480 All right, Kirsty, we appreciate it. We will check in 0:13:15.559 --> 0:13:16.439 with you after the game. 0:13:16.520 --> 0:13:19.120 Still to come here on Marongo Casino Dodgers on Deck. 0:13:19.240 --> 0:13:21.160 We'll hear from David vat day he goes one on 0:13:21.160 --> 0:13:23.040 one with Dodger catcher Hunter Producia. 0:13:23.240 --> 0:13:24.440 But I'm next. 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Well, the Dodger is starting to get healthy, 0:14:09.600 --> 0:14:11.840 just at the right time. Presented by UCLA Healthy official 0:14:11.840 --> 0:14:14.280 medical partner of the Los Angeles Dodgers. Dalton rushing on 0:14:14.320 --> 0:14:16.480 the iel with a slight tear in his UCL you 0:14:16.559 --> 0:14:18.760 heard the good news. Blake Snell will be activated next 0:14:18.760 --> 0:14:20.880 week on Tuesday. We'll get the start in his return 0:14:21.040 --> 0:14:23.880 to the Dodger rotation. Tyler Glasnell a few weeks behind him. 0:14:23.960 --> 0:14:26.440 Will Smith is doing baseball activity, so that is certainly 0:14:26.480 --> 0:14:29.360 good news. How about Gavin Stone made in appearance last 0:14:29.440 --> 0:14:32.680 night in Triple A Oklahoma City. Bobby Miller, Bank cospiraus 0:14:32.760 --> 0:14:35.520 also pitching in Triple A Oklahoma City. We'll see what 0:14:35.520 --> 0:14:37.560 their status is for the rest of the season. We 0:14:37.640 --> 0:14:39.120 head back out to Phoenix and check in with the 0:14:39.120 --> 0:14:41.600 Dodgers skipper anything Dave do you think? 0:14:42.160 --> 0:14:42.880 Question for Dave? 0:14:42.960 --> 0:14:43.160 Dave? 0:14:43.240 --> 0:14:45.080 Can you just describe Dave? 0:14:45.160 --> 0:14:48.600 Can you talk about the pressure in the dugouts with 0:14:48.800 --> 0:14:49.920 Dave Roberts. 0:14:50.400 --> 0:14:52.640 I think it can be a certainly a good thing, 0:14:52.640 --> 0:14:54.600 a positive I think just kind of going around the 0:14:54.600 --> 0:14:57.640 clubhouse today, guys are in good spirits, feeling good and 0:14:58.200 --> 0:15:00.480 you know a lot of times, yeah, you lose the 0:15:00.920 --> 0:15:04.720 battle the game and to take something positive out of it. 0:15:04.800 --> 0:15:06.520 That five run inning was good. A lot of good 0:15:06.520 --> 0:15:10.200 things happen. So we've seen Merrill Kelly a lot. And 0:15:11.240 --> 0:15:14.000 these guys are, you know, playing pretty good baseball. So 0:15:14.040 --> 0:15:16.680 it's gonna be a good series. And they got the 0:15:16.720 --> 0:15:18.320 best of us, like I said a couple of days 0:15:18.360 --> 0:15:21.760 ago before the break, so expect to put our best 0:15:21.760 --> 0:15:22.360 foot forward. 0:15:22.840 --> 0:15:24.800 He's had his own ups and downs this season. 0:15:24.800 --> 0:15:26.480 But what do you like just about the version of 0:15:26.640 --> 0:15:27.840 to please right now? 0:15:27.920 --> 0:15:28.600 Especially to be the. 0:15:28.640 --> 0:15:29.880 Top or three you guys. 0:15:29.960 --> 0:15:34.400 I think for Rokie it's and I think just kind 0:15:34.400 --> 0:15:37.280 of how he carries himself. I really feel that that's 0:15:37.280 --> 0:15:40.440 something that you know, when a player is going well, 0:15:40.600 --> 0:15:45.400 there's there's an aura of confidence versus when there's when 0:15:45.440 --> 0:15:50.480 he's not going well, the uncertainty kind of exudes. I 0:15:50.920 --> 0:15:54.960 even just seeing him today, there's a quiet confidence, a stillness, 0:15:55.040 --> 0:16:00.560 a slowness, and you know that's translated onto the field. 0:16:00.800 --> 0:16:01.000 You know. 0:16:01.120 --> 0:16:04.600 Recently, Snell's here, Do you have a day when he 0:16:04.680 --> 0:16:05.880 is going to start next week? 0:16:06.240 --> 0:16:06.600 Uh? 0:16:06.880 --> 0:16:10.920 Blake, As I understand it, he is slotted to start 0:16:10.920 --> 0:16:14.400 on Tuesday. So we're sitting here, Yeah, Scooba will go 0:16:14.440 --> 0:16:16.120 on Monday. Blake will go on Tuesday. 0:16:17.040 --> 0:16:19.680 All right, there's the manager, Dave Roberts officially there. 0:16:19.720 --> 0:16:23.160 Blake Snell returns on Tuesday against the Kansas City Royals, 0:16:23.160 --> 0:16:25.640 and Monday will be the home debut. 0:16:25.680 --> 0:16:26.560 Of Trek Scooble. 0:16:26.600 --> 0:16:28.680 Well, we continue here on Moroco because you know, Dodgers 0:16:28.680 --> 0:16:30.840 on Deck. We will check in with David Vassay and 0:16:30.880 --> 0:16:32.680 get you to the very latest as we're leading up 0:16:32.720 --> 0:16:35.960 to first pitch Dodgers and Diamondbacks from Phoenix. 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He has faced the 0:17:43.920 --> 0:17:48.360 Dodgers seventeen times in his career. He has never won 0:17:48.400 --> 0:17:51.840 a game. He's zero and eleven against the Dodgers and 0:17:51.920 --> 0:17:55.879 his ERA is at five point fifty six. Max Muncy's 0:17:55.960 --> 0:17:59.000 at the top of the list is Suars, the hitter 0:17:59.160 --> 0:18:01.840 that the Dodgers having their lineup tonight that has done 0:18:01.840 --> 0:18:04.960 the most damage against Merrill Kelly. So I feel like 0:18:05.040 --> 0:18:09.000 tonight is one of those Rick Monday nights, rockets right 0:18:09.080 --> 0:18:10.320 glair for the Dodgers. 0:18:12.000 --> 0:18:14.760 Dam As far as Rokie Susaki moving forward and even 0:18:14.760 --> 0:18:17.360 in October, where do you kind of envision that role 0:18:17.440 --> 0:18:18.359 for Roki? 0:18:18.480 --> 0:18:19.800 Is he a starter? Is he a reliever? 0:18:21.160 --> 0:18:23.600 Well, if you look at last year, the Dodgers needed 0:18:23.680 --> 0:18:27.960 Roki out of necessity to be their closer, and if 0:18:27.960 --> 0:18:30.440 it wasn't for him, I'm not even sure they get 0:18:30.480 --> 0:18:34.160 out of the NLDS against the Phillies. But this year, 0:18:34.240 --> 0:18:36.480 with the way he's pitching, the way he has made 0:18:36.520 --> 0:18:40.520 an adjustment with his fastball, and the confidence that Dave 0:18:40.600 --> 0:18:44.719 Roberts was just talking about, he mentioned that he feels 0:18:44.760 --> 0:18:48.359 he could slot Roki into the bullpen as you know, 0:18:48.600 --> 0:18:53.480 a multi inning reliever or even if necessary, close out games. 0:18:53.560 --> 0:18:57.399