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Speaker 4: Because the Dodgers came in and took over the Big
Speaker 4: A and Anaheim this weekend with a three game dominating
Speaker 4: series against the Angels, outscoring them thirty one to three
Speaker 4: over the last three days, including a ten to one
Speaker 4: win this afternoon in Anaheim. Hi, everybody, and welcome to
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Speaker 4: as the Dodgers today. After putting up fifteen runs last
Speaker 4: night in a fifteen to two win over the Angels,
Speaker 4: the Dodgers came back today and put a ten spot
Speaker 4: up on the scoreboard with a ten to one win
Speaker 4: with plenty of off friends from shoey Otani, who had
Speaker 4: three hits and drove in two runs. Kyle Tucker had
Speaker 4: three hits. He had a two run single in the
Speaker 4: fourth and then a two run.
Speaker 3: Double in the ninth inning.
Speaker 4: As the Dodgers today just got so much offense and
Speaker 4: took advantage of opportunities when they were there. From the
Speaker 4: Angels pitching staff, which has struggled over the last three days,
Speaker 4: and quite frankly, the Angels are just not a very good.
Speaker 3: Team this year.
Speaker 4: And I feel bad for Curtis azukis really one of
Speaker 4: the good guys in baseball, and Mike Maddocks, they're pitching coach.
Speaker 4: It's a good coaching staff, a veteran group of former
Speaker 4: players and baseball lifers. You feel for them because the
Speaker 4: talent is not just is just not there, and they
Speaker 4: go into a series against the Dodgers. Was certainly a
Speaker 4: lot of hope after sweeping the Dodgers last year at
Speaker 4: all six games, and it was the pitchers dual early.
Speaker 4: The Dodgers, though, win the game six to nothing. Last night,
Speaker 4: their ace and arguably one of the top two pitchers
Speaker 4: in the American League, Jose Soriano, goes.
Speaker 3: Last night.
Speaker 4: It was back and forth in a one nothing game
Speaker 4: for the first five innings, and then the wheels fell
Speaker 4: off Soriano and the Dodgers unloaded for fourteen runs after
Speaker 4: the sixth inning on their way to a fifteen to
Speaker 4: two win. And then today again the second time through
Speaker 4: the lineup. It got turned over from role Kim in
Speaker 4: the second the Dodgers in the fourth inning explode with
Speaker 4: the two run single from Otani, Pat has a two
Speaker 4: run single Kyle Tucker and RBI single, and all of
Speaker 4: a sudden, they put a five spot up on the board.
Speaker 4: And when you're the Dodgers and you're just scoring runs
Speaker 4: in bunches, it doesn't matter what really happens on the
Speaker 4: other side of the field. But then you add in
Speaker 4: Rokie Susaki shutting down the Angels today and what could
Speaker 4: be his coming out party here in the big leagues.
Speaker 4: Seven strong innings, he allowed just one run, only four hits,
Speaker 4: eight strikeouts. I mean, Rokie Susaki was a question mark
Speaker 4: for a lot of you Dodger fans. Was a question
Speaker 4: mark the last three or four times out there. And
Speaker 4: we had this conversation, as the kids like to say,
Speaker 4: I'm old enough to remember when we were talking about
Speaker 4: it here on Dodger Talk a month ago. Who's out
Speaker 4: of the rotation when Blake Snell comes back?
Speaker 3: Willip be Susaki? Will it b Robleski?
Speaker 4: Who is the odd man out when the music stops?
Speaker 4: Who doesn't have a chair in this game of musical
Speaker 4: chairs in the rotation? Well, it turns out it worked
Speaker 4: itself out with Blake Snell going back on the injured
Speaker 4: Listen Tyler's glass now getting hurt. We don't want to
Speaker 4: see that, certainly, but it worked itself out where they.
Speaker 3: Didn't have to make a decision.
Speaker 4: And now you got Roki Sasaki who is starting to
Speaker 4: string together good outings. And today I thought took that
Speaker 4: next step forward in becoming a really good starting pitcher.
Speaker 4: He had command of all four of his pitches. He
Speaker 4: had his slider working. He of course has got that
Speaker 4: fourth ball splitter that is, you know, at times a
Speaker 4: little erratic and out of the strike zone, but he
Speaker 4: was getting swinging missus. He was throwing it for strikes,
Speaker 4: and that's the key no matter who you are, but
Speaker 4: certainly for Roki Sasaki. When he throws strikes and he
Speaker 4: attacks the strike zone and he can get some swinging misses,
Speaker 4: he's really good. And he was effective last year in
Speaker 4: that role as a closer, getting an out, out, getting
Speaker 4: an inning, whatever he was asked to do, because he
Speaker 4: was attacking and just pumping strikes and attacking with his
Speaker 4: offspeed pitches.
Speaker 3: I don't know if he felt like.
Speaker 4: He was getting too cute, he had to be too
Speaker 4: perfect as a starting pitcher, but he's he's kind of
Speaker 4: molded into now, this Rokie Sasaki where he's got a
Speaker 4: tighter grip on the forkball and not necessarily looking forward
Speaker 4: to dan to beware and have that complete bite up there,
Speaker 4: as they say, when it comes out of his hand.
Speaker 4: But when he's got all four pitches working and he's
Speaker 4: throwing them for strikes, he's really good.
Speaker 3: And today he was on and I don't want to
Speaker 3: hear it all.
Speaker 4: It was the Angels. They're the worst team in baseball.
Speaker 4: That's still a lineup with Celayer. That's still a lineup
Speaker 4: with Nato zac Nato. That's still a lineup that's got
Speaker 4: Mike Trout in it. I mean, that's a good lineup
Speaker 4: still for Roki Sasaki.
Speaker 3: To attack like he did today.
Speaker 4: Nineteen of the twenty four batters that he faced, he
Speaker 4: got strike one, a career high eight strikeout and the
Speaker 4: zero walks is what's impressive. When you're attacking the strike
Speaker 4: zone and when you're getting swinging missus and you're not
Speaker 4: putting guys on base with free passes, you're not pitching
Speaker 4: out of the stretch a lot, and today he wasn't
Speaker 4: pitching out of the stretch very much. You give up
Speaker 4: an RBI single to yaw On Mankata in the fourth inning,
Speaker 4: but that was it as far as damage.
Speaker 3: And again when you get the run.
Speaker 4: Support that he got today, Yeah, the confidence is certainly there.
Speaker 4: And that's something with rookie Sasaki. It's all about confidence.
Speaker 4: I truly believe, and I said it last year when
Speaker 4: he was struggling, went on the injured list, and when
Speaker 4: he came back and was trying to find a spot
Speaker 4: right in September, and we were talking about it here
Speaker 4: on Dodgers like, well, where does he fit in? Is
Speaker 4: there a spot for him on the roster come October?
Speaker 4: We just don't see it. You know, too many guys
Speaker 4: have earned that spot on the twenty six man roster
Speaker 4: come October?
Speaker 3: Where does Sasaki fit in?
Speaker 4: And he adapted that role and had confidence pitching out
Speaker 4: the bullpen and looked like a completely different pitcher out
Speaker 4: there between the years and on the mound, just oozing
Speaker 4: with confidence and domination pitching came back as a starter.
Speaker 4: This year, it's been up and down, losing control, pitching
Speaker 4: with guys on base too many times, you know, walking
Speaker 4: that tightrope and pitching himself out of trouble inning after
Speaker 4: inning and putting himself in that situation with walks and
Speaker 4: a lack of control. Well, that to me is also
Speaker 4: again confidence. You start to lose it. You start to think, man,
Speaker 4: I can't throw strikes. I'm not as good as people think.
Speaker 3: Maybe I can't pitch here with the Dodgers in the
Speaker 3: major leagues. And he's only twenty four.
Speaker 4: It's like he came over with the pedigree that Yamamoto
Speaker 4: did or the experience that a show Aotani has. Now,
Speaker 4: you know, having been in baseball since twenty seventeen, this
Speaker 4: is a young pop still.
Speaker 3: Figuring it out.
Speaker 4: Was hurt a lot of last year, and now when
Speaker 4: he gets some success, he can build on that. And
Speaker 4: if for Roki, remember his first start last year in Japan,
Speaker 4: Rick Monday talked about it during the game. He'd throw
Speaker 4: a pitch and turn around and look at the radar
Speaker 4: gun up on the jumbo tron at the Tokyo Dome.
Speaker 3: Okay, how fast am I throwing? Ah, it's ninety eight
Speaker 3: point six.
Speaker 4: He was more worried about that, And that to me
Speaker 4: is confidence, and that's between the years and and going
Speaker 4: out and pitching with affection. He has it now and
Speaker 4: I think today is something.
Speaker 3: He can build on.
Speaker 4: And it feels like if he can keep that confidence
Speaker 4: going into his next start in Milwaukee, he'll have something
Speaker 4: special going and we're gonna see more and more zeros
Speaker 4: put up on the scoreboard. Eight six six nine eighty
Speaker 4: seven two five seventy eight sixty six nine eight seven
Speaker 4: two five seventy is the number.
Speaker 3: So how about you. I love what I'm seeing.
Speaker 4: Out of Roki Sasaki now, start after start, and today
Speaker 4: he was able to really see the fruits of his
Speaker 4: labor there with zeros on six of the seven innings
Speaker 4: that he pitched today against the Angels.
Speaker 3: A career high strikeouts. It's his longest outing of the year.
Speaker 4: How many times we talked about Roki Sasaki struggling with
Speaker 4: the pitch count that's already in the sixties after three innings,
Speaker 4: struggling to get through four innings, and taxing the bullpen,
Speaker 4: putting strain on a bullpen because you can't go deep
Speaker 4: into a game because you're laboring and putting the team
Speaker 4: in a hole. And then all of a sudden, the
Speaker 4: bullpens asked to do five or six plus.
Speaker 3: Innings of work.
Speaker 4: When you can turn around and give them the seven
Speaker 4: strong gettings like they did today, I mean that is
Speaker 4: huge for the bullpen now going into the.
Speaker 3: San Diego series.
Speaker 4: So I just think it again, it is the confidence
Speaker 4: and he's got it now. He needs to just bottle
Speaker 4: it up, keep that feeling of confidence that he had
Speaker 4: pitching today against the Angels and take it with him,
Speaker 4: put it in his bag and take it with him
Speaker 4: to San Diego, watch this against the Padres, and then
Speaker 4: take it with him to Milwaukee and that next start
Speaker 4: out against the Brewers next weekend had that same confidence
Speaker 4: out there and the command of his new four pitch
Speaker 4: mix that he's got with the added slider. I mean,
Speaker 4: he looked really, really good today eight sixty six nine,
Speaker 4: eight seven two five seventy. And the confidence also comes
Speaker 4: with the offense giving you support. If he was in
Speaker 4: a pitchers duel and it's nottted up at zero after
Speaker 4: the first, the second, the third, the fourth, you know,
Speaker 4: maybe he starts losing confidence. But when the Dodgers put
Speaker 4: a two spot up on the board in the second,
Speaker 4: all right, all of a sudden, now he can settle
Speaker 4: in feel a little bit more confident.
Speaker 3: All Right, I'm feeling good about myself.
Speaker 4: A two to nothing lead all of a sudden turns
Speaker 4: into a seven nothing lead. When the Dodgers put a
Speaker 4: five spot up on the board in the fourth inning,
Speaker 4: now you can really go out. You can take some
Speaker 4: chances as far as pitchers are concerned. Maybe try to
Speaker 4: get away with something over to the plate, Maybe try
Speaker 4: to get a swing and miss. Challenge hitters a little
Speaker 4: bit more than you would in a zero zero game
Speaker 4: or a one nothing game where you can't take those
Speaker 4: chances and fear the guy taking you deep, and all
Speaker 4: of a sudden we're tied up at one. But when
Speaker 4: you've got a big lead to work with, man that
Speaker 4: confidence it gets even.
Speaker 3: Bigger for a pitcher out in the mound.
Speaker 4: So I love what I'm seeing with Roki Susaki, this
Speaker 4: Dodgers offense. The Angels were just what they needed. It's
Speaker 4: a get right game, It's a get right series for
Speaker 4: the team as a whole. After winning two against San Francisco,
Speaker 4: the day is off for Shoeo Tani. The day he pitched,
Speaker 4: he didn't hit, and then the day after he had
Speaker 4: a complete day off to come back, and these next
Speaker 4: four games really produce and be back to the show. Hey,
Speaker 4: who's not hitting the home runs, but eight hits in
Speaker 4: his last four games, driving in runs like he did
Speaker 4: today with the two run single the right center field
Speaker 4: in the fourth inning to pop the top off of
Speaker 4: Grayson Rodriguez and chase him from the game eventually. I mean,
Speaker 4: that's that's what Shoeo Tani is all about. And then
Speaker 4: Kyle Tucker starting to feel himself. All that being said,
Speaker 4: this is a Dodger lineup today. The Daves get a
Speaker 4: Dave off to Mookie Betts in a day off to
Speaker 4: Will Smith.
Speaker 3: Both of them weren't needing.
Speaker 4: The lineup today, scheduled days off for both of them. Instead,
Speaker 4: we saw Dalton Rushing doing the catching and he did
Speaker 4: a really good job. Rookie Sasaki was quick to really
Speaker 4: quick to praise him after the game. And then we
Speaker 4: saw Miguel Rojas at shortstop today who played really good
Speaker 4: defensively and came through with a big sack fly in
Speaker 4: the second inning to get the Dodgers on the board early.
Speaker 3: And it was part of the bottom of the lineup.
Speaker 4: Which again we'll take a quick breaker in a second,
Speaker 4: but how many times do we see it today in
Speaker 4: this series? The bottom of the lineup it and it
Speaker 4: doesn't have to be a base hit, you know, to
Speaker 4: keep the line moving. But the seven eight to nine hitters,
Speaker 4: the heisun kims, the Miguel Rojas is turning the lineup over,
Speaker 4: and we saw that really big in the fourth inning,
Speaker 4: turning the lineup over, bases loaded for Shoho Tani po
Speaker 4: Hez Tucker, let the big guys drive in the row.
Speaker 4: Let the big bats do the damage.
Speaker 3: Your job is to.
Speaker 4: Get on base, continue that line moving, and the bottom
Speaker 4: of the lineup has done that the last three nights
Speaker 4: really well. And the Dodgers, it's not a coincidence, put
Speaker 4: up six runs on Friday, fifteen runs last night, and
Speaker 4: ten more today than a ten to one win. Dodgers
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Speaker 5: Him is at third, O'tani is at second. Freeman's at first,
Speaker 5: pull one swing on hot shot in the left center
Speaker 5: of base. Here here comes can under score Otani. Rounding third,
Speaker 5: he will score. Andy pie Haz does it again with
Speaker 5: runners and scoring possession, drives in two. It is six
Speaker 5: to Ughlin Dodgers.
Speaker 4: Andy Piez continues to have a great twenty twenty six season.
Speaker 4: Drives in two more today part of a five run
Speaker 4: at fourth Indian for the Dodgers. Andy Piez now with
Speaker 4: forty one RBIs on this season as we have not
Speaker 4: even gotten to Memorial Day weekend yet, and he is
Speaker 4: having a great season offensively, and look at what he's
Speaker 4: done defensively this year as well. If he continues on
Speaker 4: the track that he's on, you're talking about a guy
Speaker 4: who can make a case for a Gold Glove in
Speaker 4: center field. And that is saying something for for the
Speaker 4: last couple of years in his development. Could he be
Speaker 4: an everyday center fielder? Is he more of a corner outfielder?
Speaker 4: Can you trust him in center field while you know
Speaker 4: he's a liability out there? Does he have the arm?
Speaker 4: He's got all of it and he has fine tuned
Speaker 4: all of it defensively, and a credit to Dino Eble
Speaker 4: and that coaching staff are working with him and developing
Speaker 4: him into a premier center fielder defensively, and it was
Speaker 4: on full display this weekend.
Speaker 3: We mentioned it last night on Dodger Talk.
Speaker 4: Eleven pop flyouts to him in center field, one shive,
Speaker 4: a major league record. Pretty impressive, Pretty impressive what he did,
Speaker 4: including a diving catch in shallow right center field in
Speaker 4: the fourth inning to save a one nothing lead for
Speaker 4: Justin Robleski. His arm is a threat, so guys are
Speaker 4: gonna be a little hesitant to run on him, whether
Speaker 4: it's from first to third or whether it's from second
Speaker 4: to home because of his arm strength. I mean, he
Speaker 4: can cover a lot of ground as we see. I mean,
Speaker 4: and then you throw up the offensive numbers. Randy pot
Speaker 4: Has today drives in two more. He got off to
Speaker 4: a blistering start, then he cooled down because he wasn't
Speaker 4: going to continue to hit four to.
Speaker 3: Eighty like he was.
Speaker 4: But now still floating over three hundred on this season,
Speaker 4: still slugging over five twenty. Just a really really fun
Speaker 4: player to watch in Andy pie Has and what he
Speaker 4: does for the Dodgers no matter where he's hitting in
Speaker 4: this lineup, and that's what's great is Andy Piez is
Speaker 4: a guy who you can pad fifth, sixth, seventh in
Speaker 4: the lineup, and gosh, he's just a threat to do
Speaker 4: it all, hit for power.
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Speaker 5: Man.
Speaker 6: I'm so happy we knocked off those pesky Angels. You know,
Speaker 6: it's I mean, the revenge tour, isn't it to you know?
Speaker 6: Like my gosh, last season, didn't we lose every game to.
Speaker 3: Him last year against the Dodgers.
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Speaker 6: Dave Roberts to finally get him the credit he's doing.
Speaker 6: He's a sly mongoose, you know, the way he's you know,
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Speaker 6: by jingo if we do, we've got the ships, we've
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Speaker 4: Big A. Dodgers win at ten to one over the Angels.
Speaker 4: They get the three games sweep outscoring him thirty one
Speaker 4: to three. Rokie Susaki gets the win. Let's check in
Speaker 4: with the manager, Dave Roberts.
Speaker 2: Dave, where did this come from today? Did you have
Speaker 2: any notion that Rokie could dominate the way he did today?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 7: I think he's been trending.
Speaker 6: I do.
Speaker 7: I thought today that he had command of the fastball,
Speaker 7: command of the split forkball, and then mixing the slider
Speaker 7: when needed, and Dalton did a great shob with him.
Speaker 7: They were in lockstep ball game, and it was just
Speaker 7: great to see him be efficient and continue to do
Speaker 7: what he's telling everyone that he needs to do better,
Speaker 7: and he executed.
Speaker 2: That you said before the game. His confidence is trending
Speaker 2: higher than it has before. Do you feel like that
Speaker 2: has lent itself to him attacking the strike zone like
Speaker 2: he did day?
Speaker 7: Yeah, I do. I think that, you know, it's understanding
Speaker 7: what is needed to get major lely hitters out, what's
Speaker 7: needed to you know, go deeper in a game. And
Speaker 7: then the other part of it is the confidence that
Speaker 7: I think that he's got clarity on what he needs
Speaker 7: to do and you can see it in every throw.
Speaker 7: The misses were near missus. The split was thrown presented
Speaker 7: as a strike to get swing and missing at chase
Speaker 7: and really just wasn't threatened all day.
Speaker 8: Did he change Did he change his pattern at all?
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 7: I don't think so. I think that Dalton did a
Speaker 7: good job with the game plan also just reading swings,
Speaker 7: so you know, every hitter is different as well.
Speaker 6: What was the thing about him today? Just watching it
Speaker 6: was like the most different especially that allowed him to
Speaker 6: be as efficient as he was.
Speaker 7: I think that there weren't any you know, bad walks,
Speaker 7: deep counts that didn't need to be deep that he
Speaker 7: put himself in those situations. Those didn't happen, you know,
Speaker 7: just losing the ball and hitting a batter you know,
Speaker 7: accidentally didn't happen. You know, he faced the amount of
Speaker 7: hitters that he needed to face and got got i
Speaker 7: think one or two double plays when he needed so
Speaker 7: I just thought he was on the attack. And you
Speaker 7: know it's kind of what robo does, you know, attack kitters?
Speaker 6: What how important is going to be for him and
Speaker 6: the rest of their rotation to be able to kind
Speaker 6: of give you guys innings consistently. Right now as you
Speaker 6: work through some of the guys that are on an IL.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean it just kind of you also get
Speaker 7: to see other guys. Kyle Hurt will climb, you know,
Speaker 7: Gervase is here now to see him in different leverage.
Speaker 7: But you know, we still have the guys, the core
Speaker 7: guys in the pen that we have. But yeah, for
Speaker 7: them to be able to you know, take six seven
Speaker 7: innings and outing, certainly, you know, alleviates a lot of
Speaker 7: stress from everyone.
Speaker 4: All right, there's a manager, Dave Roberts, and what he
Speaker 4: didn't get to there is Eric Lauer, the newest Dodger.
Speaker 4: Yes you've heard the name. He is with the Padres,
Speaker 4: the Brewers, most recently the Blue Jays. He was dfade
Speaker 4: about a week ago by Toronto after going one in
Speaker 4: five with the six sixty nine erra in eight games
Speaker 4: for them dfade. And today the Dodgers made a trade.
Speaker 4: They acquired Eric Lawer from the Blue Jays for cash considerations.
Speaker 4: Bruce dear Gadol was extended to the sixty day IL
Speaker 4: to make room for Eric Lawer on the forty man roster,
Speaker 4: and Lower is set to join the team sometime in
Speaker 4: this series in San Diego. There's strategically got to get
Speaker 4: him from the Blue Jays, and I'm not sure where
Speaker 4: they were at.
Speaker 3: Oh, they were in Detroit, So they were in Detroit.
Speaker 4: So he's got to get from Detroit to San Diego
Speaker 4: in the next couple of days here and we'll see
Speaker 4: at what point he makes his Dodger debut. Hopefully he
Speaker 4: can revert back to the Eric lower from last year
Speaker 4: where he.
Speaker 3: Went nine and two with the three eighteen RRA.
Speaker 4: So if they can get that Eric Lawer, then look
Speaker 4: out just another added left handed arm for the Dodgers,
Speaker 4: who today Jack Dryer went on the IL with shoulder inflammation.
Speaker 4: He already got no Blake Snell. I know Tyler Glasnow
Speaker 4: is not right left handed, he's right handed, but he's
Speaker 4: on the injured list. So you got these injuries to
Speaker 4: the starring rotation and now Jack Dryer, a left handed
Speaker 4: arm out of the bullpen, the Dodgers bringing in Eric
Speaker 4: Lauer and Dave Roberts, saying that he will be the.
Speaker 3: New long man, the new swingman.
Speaker 4: For the Dodgers, that role Justin Robleski had last year.
Speaker 4: That's going to be Eric Lawer's role now for the
Speaker 4: foreseeable future. A guy who has started a lot of
Speaker 4: games in the big leagues and can go and eat
Speaker 4: up innings for you and pitch multiple innings for you
Speaker 4: when needed. So that is going to be his new
Speaker 4: role and that is so that's a huge pickup to
Speaker 4: go get it, Eric Lower. No, he didn't have the
Speaker 4: success this year for the Toronto Blue Jays, but the Dodgers,
Speaker 4: like they usually do, work their magic right. They tinker
Speaker 4: with guys and their grips on the ball and you know,
Speaker 4: their mechanics pitching, and all of a sudden, lo and behold,
Speaker 4: Will kleinb becomes Will Klein, Alex Vesia becomes Alex Vesia.
Speaker 4: They are just so good at refining guys problems that
Speaker 4: they may have mechanically and getting them back on track
Speaker 4: and back to being really good pitchers, whether as starters
Speaker 4: or relievers.
Speaker 3: And let's hope Eric.
Speaker 4: Lawer is just the next one in line for Mark
Speaker 4: Pryor and this pitching staff and coaching staff for the Dodgers,
Speaker 4: so they can get him on track. Man, if you
Speaker 4: can get Eric Lauer to be a swingman bul geting
Speaker 4: guy as a left handed arm and do what he
Speaker 4: did last year, goodness, just look out. This is just
Speaker 4: another arm for Dave Roberts to have now out of
Speaker 4: the bullpen. So that's that could potentially potentially be a
Speaker 4: big pickup for the Dodgers. All right, wrap things up?
Speaker 4: Is he in Anaheim? Thanks for being patient?
Speaker 3: How's it going?
Speaker 6: Is he?
Speaker 8: Okay?
Speaker 3: Okay? Stop stop stop stop?
Speaker 1: Is he?
Speaker 4: They've won five in a row. They just outscored the
Speaker 4: Angels thirty one to three. They win today ten to one,
Speaker 4: and now they're going to San Diego for a huge
Speaker 4: three game series.
Speaker 3: Things are going good. How can they be? All right?
Speaker 8: Hey, hey, so mad that they're not at least winning
Speaker 8: discibilge with the Giants. And you know how much I
Speaker 8: hate the Giants, but I know you hate it.
Speaker 4: But they got displayed. I mean it could have been worse.
Speaker 4: They could have lost three or four, got swept themselves.
Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah, I get yeah, And I look at it
Speaker 8: that way, and my day. I hate pitching injuries. Right now,
Speaker 8: I gets I get this better than having a gene decision,
Speaker 8: Jeane the playoffs. So now now Lakes now got effectively
Speaker 8: the same injury Edwin Dan, I mean, guy, this epidemic.
Speaker 8: But any way, and let me know if we ever
Speaker 8: find out about about the Rancho Comb.
Speaker 3: They are. They are. I'm glad you brought that. Uh.
Speaker 4: Clile sent me a note and said that, Yes, you
Speaker 4: just gotta go on the iHeart app and type in
Speaker 4: Ontario Tower Buzzers and you'll be able to find the
Speaker 4: feet of their games so you can listen to their games.
Speaker 4: I know the Quakes games were on the iHeart app
Speaker 4: on a station out there. You can't that you can't
Speaker 4: hear the the Ontario Tower Buzzer games. According to Klyyle,
Speaker 4: are our Dodger ficionado out in the I E So
Speaker 4: for sure, is he great to hear your voice?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 8: Wait, see how did dygerous? Is the week So it's.
Speaker 4: Gonna be a big series, big series. Dave's gonna be
Speaker 4: ready to take your phone call tomorrow night. Thanks is
Speaker 4: you have a great rest of your weekend. That's gonna
Speaker 4: do it for Dodger Talk on this Sunday afternoon. As
Speaker 4: the Dodgers finish off what was a very impressive weekend
Speaker 4: against the Anaheim Angels a ten to one win. Today,
Speaker 4: they outscore him thirty one to three. Rookie Sasaki his
Speaker 4: best outing in the Big League's seven solid inning strikes
Speaker 4: out of career high eight, didn't walk anybody, and he
Speaker 4: gets the victories now two and three, Dodgers now twenty
Speaker 4: nine at eighteen on the season, and they'll go into
Speaker 4: San Diego first place, a top the NL West and
Speaker 4: the start of a three game series against the Padres.
Speaker 3: It's lined up.
Speaker 4: Now to have Yoshinobu Yamamoto go tomorrow the series opener,
Speaker 4: image Sheen on Tuesday night, and then show Hey tom
Speaker 4: we'll go on Sunday. We'll get our cover start at
Speaker 4: beginning tomorrow at five thirty pm Pacific with Moroco Casino
Speaker 4: Dodgers on deck, first pitch at six forty.
Speaker 3: Thanks to colining E.
Speaker 4: Thanks to you for listening and podcasting the show as well.
Speaker 4: Go out and enjoy the rest of your Sunday afternoon.
Speaker 3: What's left of it? So long, everybody, let's just say