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Speaker 6: and here from Tim Neverett and Rick Monday. Well, the
Speaker 6: Dodgers are reloaded and ready to defend their World Series championship.
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Speaker 7: Kirk Tucker is second of the spring.
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Speaker 6: it's gonna be a couple of different options. Alex Frielan's
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Speaker 6: He'll go with Miguel Rojas at second base. Haysan Kim
Speaker 6: gets sent to TRIPLEA Oklahoma City, Will Smith behind the plate,
Speaker 6: already having played in the World Baseball Classic. The Dodgers'
Speaker 6: pitching staff no longer has number twenty two and it
Speaker 6: Clayton Kershaw retired, but Yoshinobu Yamamoto now anchoring a Dodgers'
Speaker 6: rotation that features Show Hey O Toddi, Tyler Glass now
Speaker 6: who pitches tonight, Blake Snell, Roki Sasaki imag Shean has
Speaker 6: earned a spot in the rotation after a really good spring.
Speaker 6: The Dodgers' bullpen now has a lockdown closer in it,
Speaker 6: and Edwin Diaz, the right hander signed a free agent
Speaker 6: deal after twenty eight saves a year ago in New
Speaker 6: York with the Mets.
Speaker 3: So the twenty six man roster pretty much set.
Speaker 6: Dave Roberts breaking camp at Campbell Back Ranch at Arizona yesterday.
Speaker 6: The Dodgers now with three exhibition games left before opening
Speaker 6: day tonight, Game one or the Freeway Series again the
Speaker 6: Angels in Anaheim. Tyler Glass now gets to start it
Speaker 6: with more. We head out to the Gallopin Motors Broadcast
Speaker 6: booth as we welcome in Tim Neverett and Rick Monday.
Speaker 8: Guys, thank you very much.
Speaker 5: Tim.
Speaker 2: Good to hear from you again as we get set
Speaker 2: for baseball here tonight Freeway Series style from the Big
Speaker 2: A in Anaheim, the Dodgers and the Angels. First of
Speaker 2: three straight, the next two at Dodger Stadium. Tyler Glays
Speaker 2: now one and zero. George Klassan he is one and
Speaker 2: one for the Angels. And the big news today was
Speaker 2: the fact that the Dodgers decided on who that extra
Speaker 2: infielder is going to be, and it is not hissan Kim,
Speaker 2: it is Alex Freeland.
Speaker 8: Dave Roberts just a short.
Speaker 2: Time ago saying that he has been pleased and the
Speaker 2: organization has been pleased with the quality of at bat
Speaker 2: from Freeland, and that may have made the difference. Even
Speaker 2: though hissan Kim has a nine game spring training hitting streak,
Speaker 2: sometimes he doesn't control the strike zone very well. And
Speaker 2: they want him to go to Triple A and play
Speaker 2: every day either at second, short or center field.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, I.
Speaker 9: Think that the swing has got to get worked out.
Speaker 9: I think also even before the swing pitch selection and
Speaker 9: that seemed to not be there all the time. So yeah,
Speaker 9: that's good. He's got the good foundation of everything else.
Speaker 9: He's got the lateral movement at second base or its
Speaker 9: shortstop doesn't really matter, so I'm also play in center field,
Speaker 9: so there's some versatility on that end of it, but
Speaker 9: needs a little bit more polishing. I think it's going
Speaker 9: to work out well for him and obviously the Dodgers
Speaker 9: hoping it works out very well for them as well.
Speaker 2: And the lineup tonight could be the one we see
Speaker 2: on opening Day. The question is will Alex Freeland start
Speaker 2: as a left handed batter against the right hander Zach
Speaker 2: Gallon of Arizona or will Miguel Rojas get rewarded and
Speaker 2: get the start on opening up?
Speaker 9: And something we talk about during the game, not only tonight,
Speaker 9: but the next couple of games there'll be a Dodger stadium.
Speaker 9: What is Dave Roberts's lineup going to be and will
Speaker 9: it vary when there is a right handed pitcher or
Speaker 9: a left handed pitcher. And here's why I bring that up,
Speaker 9: because you have tonight again what we have seen o
Speaker 9: toany the designated hitter, he'll leave it off, then Kyle
Speaker 9: Tucker two lefties in a row, followed by Mookie Betts.
Speaker 9: Then the fourth spot is Freddie Freeman. So that's three
Speaker 9: out of four left handed batters, and then you go
Speaker 9: Will Smith, Max Muntzi, Lefty Ti Oscar. Her name is
Speaker 9: Andy PAHs, and then Alex Friedland. You and I were
Speaker 9: talking the way down from Los Angeles here to Orange
Speaker 9: County today. That's a very formidable lineup. And I think
Speaker 9: if you're batting in the middle of this Dodger lineup,
Speaker 9: even towards the end of the lineup, you're going to
Speaker 9: have a great number of bats this year with runners
Speaker 9: possibly on baits.
Speaker 2: Well, the least important thing we can tell you is
Speaker 2: the fact that the Dodgers won the Cactus League by
Speaker 2: a half game.
Speaker 5: Over the Giants. When's the parade?
Speaker 2: There isn't one, Okay, David. It was pointed out to
Speaker 2: Dave Roberts a short time ago. He just sort of
Speaker 2: laughed it off. He said, Wow, that's.
Speaker 1: Well, yes, I thought they had us sort I'll tell
Speaker 1: you this.
Speaker 9: As I was driving from Glendale, Arizona yesterday after the game,
Speaker 9: I was waving the entire time on Interstate ten all
Speaker 9: the way to LA.
Speaker 2: I'm sure you are. We're all happy to be back
Speaker 2: in southern California. The first of three games in the
Speaker 2: Freeway Series the Dodgers and the Angels. It is George
Speaker 2: Clausan pitching against Tyler Glasnow. Glasnows look very good this spring,
Speaker 2: and we'll see how many pitches he gets to in
Speaker 2: this one tonight. Angels sixteen and fourteen, the Dodgers nineteen
Speaker 2: eighteen and one after their tie with the A's yesterday afternoon.
Speaker 2: Stand by, we'll have more to come from the Big
Speaker 2: A mee time we send it back to Tim Kates.
Speaker 3: All right, thank you, guys. Off and running here, so
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Speaker 6: and getting sent to Triple A Oklahoma City. Alex Freeland
Speaker 6: will get the nod at second base along with mcguil
Speaker 6: Rojas to start the season. We'll check it with David Vess.
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Speaker 11: Twenty twenty six, Here we come.
Speaker 3: I mean it feels like yesterday.
Speaker 6: We're talking before Game seven of the World Series. They
Speaker 6: beat the Blue Jay. The off seasons coming gone. We've
Speaker 6: enjoyed you during the spring on Sports and n LA
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Speaker 3: But here we are. It's the Freeway Series.
Speaker 6: But first of three at a big league seeing against
Speaker 6: the Angels, and one of the big storylines all spring.
Speaker 6: Kerson has been second base. And now we got some clarity. Yeah,
Speaker 6: we finally do. And so of course when it came
Speaker 6: to that the big question. It was kind of a
Speaker 6: I don't want to say one against the other, but
Speaker 6: it was Alex Freeland or is it going to be
Speaker 6: Hassan Kim. Of course, you know, for Hassan he was
Speaker 6: away from the team playing for team Career in the
Speaker 6: World Baseball Classics, so we didn't see him for about
Speaker 6: let's say two weeks. Alex was there, of course, getting
Speaker 6: lots of playing time, and the decision came today, so
Speaker 6: they optioned Haysan Kim optioned him to triple a OKC.
Speaker 6: That means that Alex Freeland is going to making his
Speaker 6: first opening day roster. Of course, we saw him debut
Speaker 6: last year and with that time, you know, a lot
Speaker 6: of times they want to give runway to young players.
Speaker 6: He was able to kind of get in. We know
Speaker 6: he can play different parts of the diamond, but for
Speaker 6: this year, the plan is for him to be playing
Speaker 6: second base. He's going to be a true platooning situation,
Speaker 6: so it's going to be him against righty's and then
Speaker 6: Miguel Rojas against lefties. So that's what things are really
Speaker 6: going to look like.
Speaker 11: But for Alex Failer, I think if you look at
Speaker 11: the numbers of this spring, he was only batting one
Speaker 11: sixteens on paper, not the best of springs, but even
Speaker 11: Dave Roberts as well as Alex have said that the
Speaker 11: numbers didn't show what he was able to achieve during
Speaker 11: spring training he felt. He said, he made a few
Speaker 11: mechanical changes to his batting stands, he was able to
Speaker 11: just be better when it comes to pitch selection, really
Speaker 11: getting back to his true self, the guy he was
Speaker 11: in TRIPAA, and so Davis said, you know, they feel
Speaker 11: like he's done everything he could do in the minors,
Speaker 11: and now this is his opportunity to really show what
Speaker 11: he's got and really getting a balanced playing time. So
Speaker 11: we'll see kind of how it looks like. But when
Speaker 11: it comes to his on Kim, they also told him that,
Speaker 11: you know, continue to be confident. He did have an
Speaker 11: excellent spring for the time that he was with the organization,
Speaker 11: and it's really just continuing to understand the utility player
Speaker 11: he can be. So that's going to be playing every day,
Speaker 11: whether it's going to be at second, whether it's maybe
Speaker 11: at short, playing in center field, allowing him to do
Speaker 11: just that.
Speaker 6: Tyler Glass now gets the final tune up before his
Speaker 6: first start of the regular season comes next week and
Speaker 6: for Tyler Glass now, but a nice little spring for him.
Speaker 11: Oh it's been an excellent spring for Tyler Glass now.
Speaker 11: For him, he just how he talks about how his
Speaker 11: body is feeling, the confidence you see on the mount.
Speaker 11: I was talking to a few of the pitching coaches
Speaker 11: and he was just they were saying that, you know,
Speaker 11: they saw the biggest difference in Tyler right before the postseason.
Speaker 11: If you remember, coming into the season last year, he
Speaker 11: made a lot of mechanical changes trying to kind of
Speaker 11: change just how he was using his upper half compared
Speaker 11: to his legs, and so Kate obviously there was a
Speaker 11: bit of a back pain, some things like that of
Speaker 11: injury here and there. So for him, he has really
Speaker 11: understood what is best for him. He has his cues
Speaker 11: and so now he comes in he feels excellent. He
Speaker 11: was able just to kind of carry over what he
Speaker 11: did in October into the off season and now into
Speaker 11: this spring. So the plan for him tonight is just
Speaker 11: to continue building up. But they can get ninety pitches,
Speaker 11: that would be great. But there everyone's for what Tyler
Speaker 11: Glass now can really do this year. I mean, as
Speaker 11: long as he stays healthy, the stuff is playing just excellent,
Speaker 11: and even Dave said this is the best that he
Speaker 11: has looked, the best they have seen of him since
Speaker 11: he's been in this organization.
Speaker 3: Ready or not, here we go.
Speaker 6: The Freeway Series is here and right before we know it,
Speaker 6: Opening Day coming up on Thursday.
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Speaker 6: But up next, we got an injury report and we'll
Speaker 6: hear from the manager Dave Roberts. Get his pregame thoughts
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Speaker 6: on the IL, recovering from off season ankle surgery. Blake
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Speaker 6: playing his way back from a short left throwing shoulder.
Speaker 6: Brock Stewart on the IL, working his way back from
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Speaker 6: Keiy Hernandez on the sixty day IL. He's looking at
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Speaker 13: It was a very probably the toughest decision of the spring.
Speaker 13: There's there's no doubt that hay Song at some point
Speaker 13: is going to come help us out. I think the
Speaker 13: driver as far as the outset, was given hay Song
Speaker 13: an opportunity to play every day, play all over the diamond.
Speaker 13: He's gonna play some short, some center, some second base
Speaker 13: there whereas here he just wouldn't have the runway to
Speaker 13: do that, to play more frequently. I think with Alex
Speaker 13: it's just what he's done in Triple A already.
Speaker 5: He's really played well there.
Speaker 13: There's really nothing left for him to prove there, and
Speaker 13: so I think for us to give him a little
Speaker 13: bit and runway to see what we got in him,
Speaker 13: give him an opportunity to play here for us it
Speaker 13: gets right handed pitching, and so just kind of see
Speaker 13: where it goes. But again, it's really not an in
Speaker 13: Diamond on hay Song at all. And like I said,
Speaker 13: we think the world to him as a player, as
Speaker 13: a teammate and expecting him to help.
Speaker 5: Us at some point.
Speaker 11: Yeah, with Haysong and being that utility player, I mean,
Speaker 11: do you just feel like there's just more value if
Speaker 11: he can play at different parts of the diamond.
Speaker 13: Yeah, you know, he's an excellent elite second basement, but
Speaker 13: to continue to get at bats, the versatility piece, the
Speaker 13: opportunity to do that, he wouldn't be really getting that
Speaker 13: here ow.
Speaker 6: G factor in the spring results for Alec Freeland where
Speaker 6: the surface numbers were now very good.
Speaker 13: You know, I think that. I think for me with Alex,
Speaker 13: I think I think the bad quality has been fine.
Speaker 13: He just hasn't finished off. He hadn't hasn't finished off
Speaker 13: the at bats. So I think that for us, I've
Speaker 13: always said I don't evaluate completely through spring with spring training,
Speaker 13: but yeah, Haysong, you know it was abbreviated, but he
Speaker 13: had a nice spring. But it's a small sample and
Speaker 13: Alex played a lot, didn't have a great spring, but
Speaker 13: played great defensively. And I still think that, you know,
Speaker 13: in talking to the front office, we felt that with
Speaker 13: what he's done before in the past at Triple A,
Speaker 13: giving him this opportunity and see where it leads.
Speaker 6: All Right, there's manager Dave Roberts talking about Alex Freelan
Speaker 6: making the opening day roster. Hayes On Kim optioned to
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Speaker 3: We just heard from the manager Dave Roberts.
Speaker 6: But a lot of people still scratching their heads as
Speaker 6: far as they hates on Kim versus Alex frielan battle
Speaker 6: at second base and Freeland gonna be on this opening
Speaker 6: day roster.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and there's a couple of layers to all this.
Speaker 4: I can remember back in twenty seventeen spring training where
Speaker 4: Chris Taylor and Key k Hernandez were not Chris Taylor
Speaker 4: and Key k Hernandez, yet they were fighting for like here,
Speaker 4: the final roster spot, and Chris Taylor had an unbelievable
Speaker 4: spring training which led to an unbelievable season, and the
Speaker 4: Dodgers sent Chris Taylor down and had Key k Hernandez
Speaker 4: on the roster because there's a bigger plan in place.
Speaker 4: Just like during the regular season, the Dodgers match up,
Speaker 4: map out matchups and who they believe is going to
Speaker 4: fit it better for that stretch of time, or if
Speaker 4: they're trying to get a guy more at bats in
Speaker 4: the minor leagues, And that's what I'm gathering is the
Speaker 4: case here with Kim versus Freeland in particular, the Dodgers
Speaker 4: want him to play a lot of center field in
Speaker 4: Oklahoma City and get his swing back in rhythm, which
Speaker 4: got out of rhythm when he went to.
Speaker 8: The World Baseball Classic.
Speaker 4: And obviously the results were not with what Alex Freeland
Speaker 4: would want during spring training or the Dodgers, but he
Speaker 4: believes that he had an underlying good spring training.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 14: I mean, you could definitely look at spring training and
Speaker 14: look at the stats and say, yeah, he had a
Speaker 14: terrible spring training. But in my eyes, I worked on
Speaker 14: certain things and I achieved certain goals. So I mean,
Speaker 14: I feel comfortable with how spring training went. Obviously it
Speaker 14: wasn't my to my standards or anything like that, but
Speaker 14: there's there's good in there. It's not just looking at
Speaker 14: a batting average and saying, oh, it is a terrible.
Speaker 4: Spring Yeah, Freeland had a great chase percentage. He took
Speaker 4: a lot of walks, and he will be playing against
Speaker 4: right handed pitching and hitting ninth, and you want to
Speaker 4: get on base no matter which way it is. And
Speaker 4: so far, the quality of at bats the Dodgers saw
Speaker 4: from Freeland convinced them that he deserved the opportunity to
Speaker 4: get this runway. While Tommy Edmonds on the il to
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Speaker 1: and World Series Champion Dodger Rick Monday.
Speaker 4: Rick, you survived Arizona. You and Tim Neverett the iron
Speaker 4: Man of Spring Training.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 9: By the way, unless you bring a note from home,
Speaker 9: we want to know exactly where you went.
Speaker 4: I feel like you're tracking me more than my own family.
Speaker 4: You want to know every step I take.
Speaker 9: Well, because we miss you. That's the reason why. And
Speaker 9: I know you were going a couple of different times,
Speaker 9: so it worked out. You know, Tim and I talked
Speaker 9: about this a couple of days ago. I think overall
Speaker 9: the spring trending, I said, if you're going to give
Speaker 9: the Dodgers a score, I would put an a because
Speaker 9: I think from a fundamental standpoint, that's to me, that's
Speaker 9: the biggest thing.
Speaker 5: You get guys in shape.
Speaker 9: They come to shape to begin with, but then learn
Speaker 9: how to do the fundamentals all over again. And I'm
Speaker 9: talking about the cutoffs, the relays, knowing what to do
Speaker 9: with the baseball before it's hit to you. We didn't
Speaker 9: see that many rundowns. We saw two that I recall
Speaker 9: off hand. They were run very successfully, did not chase
Speaker 9: a lot of pitches. From a hitting standpoint, they drew
Speaker 9: a lot of walks. And I think if we looked
Speaker 9: at the last number of years, the Dodgers' success has
Speaker 9: been selective hitters selected by pitching, selecting good pitches in
Speaker 9: different situations in a ball game.
Speaker 5: So and then you look at the pitching.
Speaker 9: Fortunately, knock on would everybody kind of progress those who
Speaker 9: are coming off of injuries, and except for Blake Stelle,
Speaker 9: everyone has been really been in there and participating in
Speaker 9: somewhat in a rotation or at least in a routine.
Speaker 4: Rick, when you come out of Arizona and you get
Speaker 4: ready for the season already, there's some questions about the
Speaker 4: Dodgers and how they're going to navigate this season with
Speaker 4: so many thirty something players. How do they navigate that
Speaker 4: to be ready for October?
Speaker 9: Well, the only real question position wise was who's going
Speaker 9: to be the starting second basement on opening Day. Still
Speaker 9: don't have the absolute answer on that. We get a
Speaker 9: little bit closer because today Hasan Kem was reassigned, So
Speaker 9: that leaves the door open for the Dodgers to understand
Speaker 9: what's going to be taking place. And tonight at second
Speaker 9: base it'll be a Freeland against the start. He'll ban
Speaker 9: in the nine spot. The rest of the lineup, I mean,
Speaker 9: we're looking at probably the opening day lineup, including maybe
Speaker 9: the position in the lineup except for Freeland of at ninth,
Speaker 9: play second and base.
Speaker 4: Kyle Tucker's in there. The Dodgers are expecting him not
Speaker 4: just to hit home runs, but to get on base.
Speaker 4: Would have been your first impressions of Kyle Tucker.
Speaker 5: He's a solid player.
Speaker 9: I'm not that concerned about hitting a home runs, and
Speaker 9: I hope he doesn't feel the pressure that he has
Speaker 9: to hit home runs, get on base, utilizes base running skills,
Speaker 9: which includes speed and knowing how and when to run.
Speaker 9: And if you look at this lineup, I mean, if
Speaker 9: you're batting David Basse in the four, five and six spot,
Speaker 9: maybe even the seventh spot as well, in this Dodger lineup,
Speaker 9: you're going to get a great number of advasserd thrunners
Speaker 9: in scoring position. You've got a tany tonight batting in
Speaker 9: the leadoff spot, the designated hitter Kyle Tucker starting in
Speaker 9: right field. He's batting in the number two spot. Mookie
Speaker 9: Betts has now moved to the number three spot, more
Speaker 9: responsibilities there. Then you've got Freeman will Smith, Max Munsey,
Speaker 9: ti Oskar Hernanez, who, by the way, ti Oscar Hernanez
Speaker 9: and my estimation, has had himself a good spring. He
Speaker 9: looks much more comfortable in left field, and Max Munsey
Speaker 9: and my estimation, I think overall had one of the
Speaker 9: better springs that we have seen defensively, and I think
Speaker 9: it's the result of all the hard work he put
Speaker 9: in last year and he really improved in the skill
Speaker 9: levels right there. He's made in the Arizona portion, some
Speaker 9: terrific plays.
Speaker 8: Maybe also being a little lighter on his feet.
Speaker 9: Well, yeah, that does brought that up to him. Rick, Yeah,
Speaker 9: he agreed. You're a little lighter on your feet too.
Speaker 9: Of course your reason is a little bit different. You
Speaker 9: have to sprint out of the way of some of
Speaker 9: these guys because you're really irritating that.
Speaker 5: That's right.
Speaker 8: Otani almost sent me with a heavy promost.
Speaker 5: In midseason form. David.
Speaker 8: Thanks, Rick, I've been waiting for this day for a
Speaker 8: long time.
Speaker 5: Well, then you had a boring winner.
Speaker 8: We'll check back in with you and Tim never See.
Speaker 5: David.
Speaker 8: Hey, great to see you too, Rick. Tim, we'll send
Speaker 8: it back to you in the studio.
Speaker 3: All right, thanks a lot.
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Speaker 4: The Dodgers are back in California, first night of the
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Speaker 4: a man that came to camp with a minor league
Speaker 4: contract and performed and earned his way onto the Dodgers
Speaker 4: opening day roster. And that's former All Star Santiago. Espinal Santiago,
Speaker 4: thanks for the time and congratulations.
Speaker 15: Thank you, thank you guys for the opportunity. Thank God
Speaker 15: first and you know, excited to be here.
Speaker 4: Obviously you knew you were good enough to make this roster,
Speaker 4: but now that it's official, now that it's here, when
Speaker 4: you look back on your spring, how did you do it?
Speaker 15: I mean, just being prepared, you know, being prepared mentally ready.
Speaker 15: And also you know, that's why I work in the
Speaker 15: off season as well. You know, I came to a
Speaker 15: winning organization who back to back championship. But you know,
Speaker 15: my questions that I ask myself every day is how
Speaker 15: can I add to the championship team, you know, and
Speaker 15: that's what I've been doing. How can I do it offensively? Defensively?
Speaker 15: You know, I played multiple position. I can do a
Speaker 15: lot of things with the bat too as well. So
Speaker 15: that's what we're here for.
Speaker 4: That's another part of this equation. It's not like you're
Speaker 4: joining a team that finished fourth place. You're joining the
Speaker 4: team that's went back to back championships. Obviously they believe
Speaker 4: you're a championship player too.
Speaker 15: Yeah, you know, and I appreciate that too as well,
Speaker 15: you know, But you know, job is not done.
Speaker 12: You know, spring training just in the past.
Speaker 5: You know.
Speaker 15: Now, I just gotta keep doing my thing, being consistent
Speaker 15: everything that I do, you know, defensively, and offensively, so
Speaker 15: we're ready for it.
Speaker 4: You obviously are aware of the situation. You're not going
Speaker 4: to play every day. How do you stay ready now
Speaker 4: to be able to contribute?
Speaker 15: You know, I've been five almost six years in the
Speaker 15: big leagues. You know, I've been doing it for a
Speaker 15: long time, I feel, and you know, all I can
Speaker 15: do is control whatever I can control. Make sure that
Speaker 15: I'm prepared whenever my name is called, make sure my
Speaker 15: name is called when my name is called.
Speaker 12: Being prepared, and that's all it is, just being prepared.
Speaker 4: The big guy just ran by show hal Tani. What's
Speaker 4: it been like to get to experience being on the
Speaker 4: same side as him.
Speaker 12: It's been cool.
Speaker 15: You know, I face him a love, I play against
Speaker 15: him a law so you know, being on the same team,
Speaker 15: I'll be able to watch the homers, you know, all
Speaker 15: the loud noises and stuff like that.
Speaker 12: So it's been cool.
Speaker 4: Is it something different to see what his personality's like
Speaker 4: because he has a good sense of humor?
Speaker 15: Oh yeah, yeah, I mean it's different. Also, it's different
Speaker 15: the way he prepares. He barely have time for himself,
Speaker 15: you know, So there's something something that you can pick up,
Speaker 15: So you know, from one of the best players in
Speaker 15: the game, maybe the best players in the game.
Speaker 12: You know, he's the best player in the gay.
Speaker 15: So what I see his routine, the way he prepares,
Speaker 15: he doesn't even have time, you know.
Speaker 12: So as you can see, he was just out there throwing.
Speaker 12: Now he's going inside.
Speaker 15: He probably gonna go ahead, and then by the time
Speaker 15: he's done, he probably gotta hear a little and then.
Speaker 12: Ready for the game, you know. So that's his daily,
Speaker 12: you know.
Speaker 15: And I and I and I thought myself and I
Speaker 15: was asking myself, I'm like, how did he do it?
Speaker 12: You know, how did he do it? But he does
Speaker 12: it every day and it's it's crazy.
Speaker 4: Santiago our guest before you go, you're a proud Dominican.
Speaker 4: Did you see the big future Hall of Famer in
Speaker 4: the clubhouse today?
Speaker 15: I saw him, but I didn't want to bother him too.
Speaker 15: So it was a cool moment though that I met
Speaker 15: him when I was a rookie. I think it was
Speaker 15: back in twenty twenty or twenty twenty one, that's when
Speaker 15: I met him when he was with the Cardinals again.
Speaker 15: And U you know, being seeing him in the locker
Speaker 15: room to us where it was pretty cool.
Speaker 4: So yeah, yeah, that's the one and only Albert Poolholes.
Speaker 4: So people still can't believe that I gave Teo Albert
Speaker 4: a hug because he was giving all the Dodgers hugs
Speaker 4: that year. So I said, hey, big home run, I
Speaker 4: think I'm going to give him a hug too on TV.
Speaker 4: And to this day, I get Theo Albert hug every
Speaker 4: time we see each other.
Speaker 15: That's cool, man, that's good, especially from a legend like
Speaker 15: that Hall of Fame and then, uh, you know, great guy,
Speaker 15: and uh you know those hugs probably have a lot
Speaker 15: of hits and a lot of homers on it, so
Speaker 15: that's cool.
Speaker 4: All right, Well, thank you for the time, and I
Speaker 4: can't wait to see the Taosky Hernandez Sunflower seats coming
Speaker 4: your way.
Speaker 8: All year long.
Speaker 12: Well yeah, let's do it. Thank you.
Speaker 10: There we go.
Speaker 4: Santiago Espinal has been our guest Tim. He's gonna be
Speaker 4: a big part of this Dodger team. We'll send it
Speaker 4: back to you in the studio.
Speaker 1: All right.
Speaker 3: Thanks a lot of dv at Dodger fans get to
Speaker 3: know him.
Speaker 6: Santiago Espinal, you can play multiple positions and it give
Speaker 6: me a big factor for this Dodgers team. Certainly, while
Speaker 6: Keikey Hernandez is out lead, you have to first pitch
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Speaker 6: First pitch coming up at six to SOHO five up next.
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Speaker 6: George Classon on the mound for the Halos, twenty four
Speaker 6: year old right hander, six round pick of the Phillies
Speaker 6: in twenty twenty three out of the University of Minnesota.
Speaker 6: Angels acquired him in twenty twenty four in a deal.
Speaker 6: He's one of the Angels' top five pitching prospects. Fastball,
Speaker 6: upper nineties, curveball, really good slider. Spent a majority of
Speaker 6: last season in Double A, making twenty four starts. He
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Speaker 6: his fifth appearance here this spring. His fourth start, eleven
Speaker 6: and two third innings, five runs, nine hits, ten strikeouts
Speaker 6: and five walks. Tyler Glass now on the mound for
Speaker 6: the Dodgers, thirty two year old right hander going into
Speaker 6: his eleventh season in the Big Leagues, his third with
Speaker 6: the Dodgers, Hoping to build on last year where hemain
Speaker 6: eighteen starts during the regular season, then six appearances in October,
Speaker 6: making his final tune up of the spring. Three starts,
Speaker 6: ten and two third innings, five runs, six hits, fifteen
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Speaker 2: Tim and Rick, guys, Thanks again, Tim. The pitching matchup tonight,
Speaker 2: Tyler glass Now, He's one to zero with a four
Speaker 2: to two two ERA so far this spring and tonight
Speaker 2: the plan is six innings or ninety pitches. It would
Speaker 2: be the deepest he could go, depending on how the
Speaker 2: game goes, But the Dodger staff has said that mechanically
Speaker 2: and physically, this is the best that Tydler Glasnow has
Speaker 2: looked in quite some time.
Speaker 5: And they need him to be healthy.
Speaker 9: Just eighteen starts during the regular season, so I'm in
Speaker 9: the postseason as well. But for Glassdow low batting average against.
Speaker 9: I mean, lefties last year hit a buck eighty two
Speaker 9: and the right handers hit just one seventy three. So
Speaker 9: here's the guy in mainstay in this lineup, in the rotation,
Speaker 9: and hopefully he's going to stay healthy and have quite
Speaker 9: a few starts during this championship season.
Speaker 2: As far as pitching goes tonight, we'll see who comes
Speaker 2: in and back. But you know, the things have been
Speaker 2: shortened up as far as the bullpen is concerned, and
Speaker 2: I think most of the questions have been answered as
Speaker 2: far as guys coming in after the starters.
Speaker 9: Yeah, and Dave has been able to get them in
Speaker 9: mid inning as well if runners are on base, be
Speaker 9: able to do that. One area that the Dodgers' pitching
Speaker 9: staff has not really been I think spot on so
Speaker 9: far this spring, negating some of the running games of
Speaker 9: other teams and have not really allowed their catchers to
Speaker 9: have great opportunities to throw runners out.
Speaker 2: Show Hey, Otani will be the first batter of the
Speaker 2: ball game tonight, as the Dodgers visit the Angels. The
Speaker 2: next two games are at Dodgers Stadium and Tomorrow night
Speaker 2: Roki Sasaki expecting to pitch against left hander Reed Detmer's Otani.
Speaker 2: It's possible he could pitch Tuesday. We don't know right
Speaker 2: now for sure, but he could pitch the final game
Speaker 2: of the Freeway Series at Dodgers Stadium. Meantime, tonight we'll
Speaker 2: see Tyler Glas now against George Clausa. Stand by lineups
Speaker 2: and first pitch coming up.
Speaker 6: Tim all right, Dodgers and Angels back home in Southern
Speaker 6: California Tomorrow and Tuesday, the Freeway Series heads up through
Speaker 6: all the traffic the five to Dodgers Stadium for the
Speaker 6: final two games of this three game set day off Wednesday.
Speaker 6: Then it all starts for you all on Thursday with
Speaker 6: the Dodgers and the Diamondbacks. First things first, the Freeway
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Speaker 6: When we come back, Tim Kates, and this is the
Speaker 6: back to back world champion Dodgers.
Speaker 5: Onto that work.