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Speaker 2: David Vase with you until ten thirty tonight here on
Speaker 2: AM five to seventy LA Sports. We are alive from
Speaker 2: Peco Park after the Padres snapped the Dodgers five game
Speaker 2: winning streak with a one nothing shutout win. We have
Speaker 2: phone lines open at eight sixty six, nine eighty seven,
Speaker 2: two five seventy. You'll hear from Dodgers GM Brendan Gomes
Speaker 2: coming up at ten fifteen about the trade they made
Speaker 2: for Eric Lower. We'll give you an update on Glass,
Speaker 2: now Snell, Bruce, Star, Grattol, all of those guys coming
Speaker 2: up between now and ten thirty. But let's talk about
Speaker 2: this game and we'll get to you know, the Dodgers
Speaker 2: and hearing from Freddie Freeman in the clubhouse in just
Speaker 2: a moment. But Michael King was really good. I'm not
Speaker 2: going to freak out over the Dodgers offense tonight. Michael
Speaker 2: King's been good all year long. Is Era's two thirty
Speaker 2: one now for a reason, So this wasn't just a
Speaker 2: Dodger thing. But I will say this, he was exceptional tonight.
Speaker 2: I don't care how good he was. He was probably
Speaker 2: his best tonight. In fact, his nine strikeouts was a
Speaker 2: season high in seven scoreless innings. And he wasn't just
Speaker 2: throwing pitches in the strike zone that the Dodgers weren't hitting.
Speaker 2: He was dotting fastballs on both sides of the plate tonight.
Speaker 3: He was that good.
Speaker 2: And sometimes you have to acknowledge that he's a really
Speaker 2: good pitcher, and he pitched really well tonight, and the
Speaker 2: Dodgers just couldn't do anything against him, and they were
Speaker 2: frozen with some of these pitches on the corner. So
Speaker 2: Michael King did his job. Yamamoto did his job as well.
Speaker 2: One run should not cost you a game, but he
Speaker 2: was going up against Michael King, and it did. Miguel
Speaker 2: andw Har's solo home run. The DH for the Padres
Speaker 2: second batter that Yamamoto faced tonight hit a home run
Speaker 2: to left field, and that was the only run that
Speaker 2: San Diego or the game saw. And Yamamoto, the home
Speaker 2: run problem is a real thing. He only gave up
Speaker 2: fourteen home runs last year. He's already given up nine
Speaker 2: this season, and he's on pace to give up over thirty.
Speaker 2: I don't care if it's the eight to nine hitter.
Speaker 2: I don't care if it's Miguel Andrew Harr. It's a
Speaker 2: real thing. But I will say this in Yamamoto's defense,
Speaker 2: Clayton Kershaw covering him for the last fifteen years of
Speaker 2: his career, he could live with solo home runs. It
Speaker 2: was those two run, three run home runs that he
Speaker 2: didn't want to give up. And Yamamoto really hasn't given up,
Speaker 2: you know, big time two three run home runs. A
Speaker 2: lot of them have been solo home runs. So I'll
Speaker 2: say that in Yamamoto's defense of giving up so many
Speaker 2: home runs to start the year. And look, the debate
Speaker 2: is raging on X right now, and I'm sure it's
Speaker 2: raging on in the chat rooms and at your house.
Speaker 3: And at the bars.
Speaker 2: In the sixth inning with two outs, that ball that
Speaker 2: got away from Gavin Sheets, the ball in the dirt
Speaker 2: from the Padres catcher Yodel Duran, who was really good tonight.
Speaker 2: I'm with Dino Ebel. You don't send Kim, But I
Speaker 2: do understand the train of thought where you're not getting
Speaker 2: many hits against Michael King, So why not Gamble in
Speaker 2: a situation like that?
Speaker 3: And is he safe if he keeps going?
Speaker 2: I would say probably, But as Dino Eble has always said,
Speaker 2: and he learned from the best, Joe Amalfatano, who is
Speaker 2: Tommy Lasorda's third base coach for a long time. And
Speaker 2: Joe Amalfatano tak guys like Ron Rennick and Dino Eble
Speaker 2: how to coach third base. He doesn't have a yellow light.
Speaker 2: He can't go back on his DVR and replay whether
Speaker 2: or not Fernando Tattis Junior was going to overrun the
Speaker 2: base ball. He can't see that. He is not a
Speaker 2: fortune teller to be able to know that Tattos is
Speaker 2: going to overrun the ball. And he should sing Kim.
Speaker 2: And never was there him waving Kim. He always was
Speaker 2: looking at where the ball was and once he saw
Speaker 2: Tattoos going after it and being around the ball before
Speaker 2: he overran it. He was holding up Kim. He had
Speaker 2: the stop sign up. He never had the green light up.
Speaker 2: And I know Tatus is starting at second base. I
Speaker 2: know Tattoos doesn't have a home run this year, But
Speaker 2: the reality is Tattoos has a right fielder's arm. He
Speaker 2: has a very strong arm, and I'm sure dino Ebel
Speaker 2: was very well aware of that, and that was in
Speaker 2: the back of his mind because he was in shallow
Speaker 2: right field when that ball carramed off the wall and
Speaker 2: was basically around the foul line in shallow right field.
Speaker 2: So all of those things are pre pitch thoughts that
Speaker 2: dino Ebel has in his mind. It's not like, oh
Speaker 2: now I got to start thinking about all these things. No,
Speaker 2: he's thinking about it before the pitch is thrown, just
Speaker 2: like a base runner should be thinking where he's going.
Speaker 2: Outfielder an infielder should know where they're going with the ball,
Speaker 2: and a hitter having a plan going to the plate.
Speaker 2: The third base coaches, to me, the most important coaching
Speaker 2: position this side of a manager and pitching coach in
Speaker 2: the dugout, and I would venture to say that in
Speaker 2: the heat of a game, I would say, the manager
Speaker 2: of the pitching coach, and the third base coach are
Speaker 2: the three most important manager slash coaches on the field.
Speaker 2: So I'm sorry. If you wanted me to come on
Speaker 2: here and crush Dino, I'm not going to because I
Speaker 2: agree with him. I understand what he was thinking. But
Speaker 2: I understand as well that what well. I'll have to
Speaker 2: just preface this by saying, I'm a gambling guy. So
Speaker 2: sometimes I will hit on sixteen at Blackjacks. Sometimes I'll
Speaker 2: hold on sixteen, So that's my personality. I'm a very
Speaker 2: aggressive gambler. So if I'm Deno Ebel, if David Vasse
Speaker 2: was coaching third base tonight, i would have said, keep going, Kim,
Speaker 2: because I'm a gambler, I'm reckless, and I'm seeing that
Speaker 2: the Dodgers can't get any hits against Michael King, so
Speaker 2: why not gamble? But Dino Ebel, like I said, pre pitch,
Speaker 2: knowing Tatis's arm is a right fielder's arm. Also in
Speaker 2: his mind, who's on deck, it's Mookie Betts, who I
Speaker 2: know tonight had a rough night. He came up a
Speaker 2: couple of different times, including in that sixth inning with
Speaker 2: two outs and couldn't get the job done. But Mookie's
Speaker 2: been swinging the bat pretty well. He's been hitting the
Speaker 2: ball hard, so I'm sure that's in the back of
Speaker 2: Dino's mind as well. Hey, two outs, Do I want
Speaker 2: to get Kim thrown out at the plate and Mookie
Speaker 2: Bets is sitting on deck? Or do I want to
Speaker 2: have runners at the corners? King stressed and Mookie Bets
Speaker 2: coming to the plate. That's what he's thinking before the
Speaker 2: pitch is thrown. Eight six six nine eight seven two
Speaker 2: five seventy is the phone number. Let's go out to
Speaker 2: Jim and Lakenyata. You're on Dodger Talk with David vasse Hi.
Speaker 3: Jim.
Speaker 4: Hey, David, longtime, first time, lifelong fan of the Dodgers,
Speaker 4: wondering what you think about just lineup and order. I mean,
Speaker 4: offense is an early season problem, but it's going a
Speaker 4: little bit longer into the season. I don't remember as
Speaker 4: much opportunity to tinker with the lineup card as there
Speaker 4: was during the twenty four and twenty five championship seasons.
Speaker 4: You know, we're having to do a little bit of
Speaker 4: it with Sho Hayes. You know, newfound maybe not hitting
Speaker 4: on pitching nights, and new guys have been called up
Speaker 4: as well. So just running your thoughts on to what
Speaker 4: degree could maybe tinkering with the lineup card even more
Speaker 4: so than has been happening this season, maybe could get
Speaker 4: us out of this offensive run.
Speaker 3: I don't know what you would want to tinker.
Speaker 2: Dave Roberts has tinkered with it, and I feel like
Speaker 2: you have to settle into a lineup instead of tinkering
Speaker 2: all the time, especially with your first four hitters. The
Speaker 2: Dodgers have lineups and matchups for left handed pitchers and
Speaker 2: right handed pitchers. It makes sense to move up some
Speaker 2: of your righties against left handed pitching. But I like
Speaker 2: the I like Otani, Betts, Freeman, Tucker. I do like
Speaker 2: those first four. If it's up to me, though, if
Speaker 2: you wanted to take some of the burden off Otani,
Speaker 2: and Otani's starting to hit the ball and make action
Speaker 2: for some action tonight and over the course of the
Speaker 2: last five games, so I would monitor that. But if
Speaker 2: there was one thing I would switch, if if I
Speaker 2: wanted to take Otani out of the leadoff spot, I
Speaker 2: would have him hit cleanup. I would have Mookie Betts
Speaker 2: leadoff and Kyle Tucker not very comfortable hitting second. We
Speaker 2: saw that, but you need a little bit more out
Speaker 2: of Freddie Freeman, who had a couple of walks tonight,
Speaker 2: but is oh for his last eighteen. So that's something
Speaker 2: else to keep in mind. And I don't remember the
Speaker 2: last time I ever looked up and saw Freddie Freeman
Speaker 2: in May hitting two point fifty seven coming into the game.
Speaker 3: All right, thank you for the phone call.
Speaker 2: I'm not really sure how much tinkering theirs to do
Speaker 2: because you have guys that have the resume that helped
Speaker 2: you went back to back championships, and the the reality
Speaker 2: is the Dodgers went back to back championships and you
Speaker 2: had to bring the team back. You got to give
Speaker 2: them a chance to run it back again. And the
Speaker 2: Dodgers have some older players, including Freddie Freeman, who's thirty
Speaker 2: six years old. You have to realize that at a
Speaker 2: certain point in time in Freddy's career, father time is
Speaker 2: going to win out, and you just hope that it's
Speaker 2: not happening now. But at times he does look old. Tonight,
Speaker 2: he didn't look great at the play, but took a
Speaker 2: big walk against Mason Miller in that ninth inning that
Speaker 2: got things started, and the Dodgers actually made Mason Miller
Speaker 2: look human at one point in time when he walked
Speaker 2: Freddy Freeman and Kyle Tucker and threw a first pitch
Speaker 2: ball to Will Smith. Mason Miller had thrown six pitches
Speaker 2: outside of the strike zone and he threw a seventh,
Speaker 2: but the ABS challenge helped him out. We all agree
Speaker 2: in the booth here it felt like that ninth inning
Speaker 2: kind of changed when the Padres challenged the call that
Speaker 2: it was outside the strike zone and it turned out
Speaker 2: to be a strike. It went from a two to
Speaker 2: zero count to Will Smith to a one to one count,
Speaker 2: and all of a sudden, Mason Miller got a strike,
Speaker 2: and all of a sudden he started to be Mason
Speaker 2: Miller in that ninth inning, and he retired the next
Speaker 2: three batters in order when the Dodgers had runners at
Speaker 2: first and second and nobody out against Mason Miller. And
Speaker 2: that's the thing that Dave Roberts mentioned after the game,
Speaker 2: that's something we all should have been aware of. I was,
Speaker 2: I'm not sure who wasn't, But you want to have
Speaker 2: the lead against the Padres before the seventh inning or
Speaker 2: they're gonna have a real good chance of winning the
Speaker 2: game with their bullpen. And we saw tonight Jason Adam
Speaker 2: and Mason Miller after Michael King went seventh scoreless. Let's
Speaker 2: go out to Westlake. David, you're on Dodger Talk with
Speaker 2: David Vasse. How you doing, David, big day?
Speaker 3: Thank you for taking the call.
Speaker 5: I'm a season ticket holder, a long time to surview
Speaker 5: and also a fan of yours also, but a thank you.
Speaker 3: Not too many people are fans of me.
Speaker 5: No, no, no, we love you on TV and all
Speaker 5: the celebrations. I've been with you man the whole time. Anyway,
Speaker 5: a big d you know today in the ninth inning
Speaker 5: with two men on no oubts, a learning why they
Speaker 5: wouldn't do a sacrifice, but especially against Miller.
Speaker 3: What do you think? What's your take in the ninth inning?
Speaker 2: Okay, so you've got Alex call who's pinch running for
Speaker 2: Freddie Freeman at second base. You got Tucker at first,
Speaker 2: you got Will Smith and Max Munsey. The next two
Speaker 2: batters they don't really bunt. Will Smith is a really
Speaker 2: good hitter, a clud shitter. He's been really good against
Speaker 2: Righty's If it was Let's say, if we're getting towards
Speaker 2: the bottom of the order, I would say, okay, but
Speaker 2: in that case, it's your it's your guys that you
Speaker 2: expect to get hits.
Speaker 3: You don't even need a home run.
Speaker 2: They're guys that get base hits in Will Smith and
Speaker 2: Max Muntsey, and then you had Paz coming up, So
Speaker 2: it wasn't these guys are not Those were not the
Speaker 2: right guys to bunt with, David. But I understand what
Speaker 2: you're saying. And look, maybe if Will Smith, if they
Speaker 2: have Will Smith's sacrifice, you got Max Muntsey who could
Speaker 2: hit a sacrifice fly to tie the game. But man,
Speaker 2: that would be really hard to swallow your most clutch
Speaker 2: hitter or one of your most clutch hitters, Will Smith.
Speaker 2: You're saying, hey, just just sacrifice. You're at bat for
Speaker 2: a sacrifice bunt that And when was the last time
Speaker 2: we saw Will Smith do that?
Speaker 1: Right?
Speaker 5: Right? I thought, maybe, you know, just to sow them
Speaker 5: off because you know, like you said, you know Will Smith,
Speaker 5: it was a good hitter, so maybe they wouldn't anticipate
Speaker 5: a sacrifie now. But anyway, just a fun you know, Yeah, you're.
Speaker 1: I tut you.
Speaker 3: It's tough, you know what.
Speaker 2: They had Miguel Rojas on the bench and look if
Speaker 2: it's ta Oscar Hernandez coming up with thrunners at first
Speaker 2: and second, nobody out, David, I'm all in with getting
Speaker 2: Rojas off the bench to bunt. I'm good with that.
Speaker 2: But it wasn't It wasn't the right time. It wasn't
Speaker 2: the right hitters because they've been so good, so I
Speaker 2: wouldn't ask Will Smith.
Speaker 3: To do that.
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Speaker 2: continue live from Petco Park in San Diego. After the
Speaker 2: Padres snapped the Dodgers five game winning streak with a
Speaker 2: one nothing win over the Dodgers in Game one of
Speaker 2: this three game series on a five to seventy LA Sports.
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Speaker 1: Dodger Talk with Dodger insider David Vasse.
Speaker 2: David Vasse live at Teco Park in San Diego after
Speaker 2: the Padres snapped the Dodgers five game winning streak with
Speaker 2: a one nothing win behind a great pitch game from
Speaker 2: Michael King, who win seven scoreless innings with the season
Speaker 2: high nine strikeouts eight six, six, nine to eighty seven.
Speaker 2: Two five seventy is the phone number. King now lowers
Speaker 2: his season e LRA to two and a half with
Speaker 2: a four and two record. Yamamoto takes the loss despite
Speaker 2: going seven strong innings himself. He had eight strikeouts and
Speaker 2: two walks. He gave up a solo home run in
Speaker 2: the first inning to Padres DH Miguel and Dowhar. Mason
Speaker 2: Miller came in for his fifteenth save of the season.
Speaker 2: The Dodgers are gonna look to bounce back tomorrow against
Speaker 2: Griffin Canning.
Speaker 3: I feel like they should.
Speaker 2: And then you got a really good pitching matchup as
Speaker 2: well on Wednesday, with sho Hey Otani on the mound
Speaker 2: going up against Randy Vasquez. By the way, Emma Shean's
Speaker 2: going on four days rest because the Dodgers wanted to
Speaker 2: give Otani an extra day of rest and have him
Speaker 2: pitch on Wednesdays for the most part. So Shehan is
Speaker 2: pitching on I guess by Dodgers standards, sure rest, but
Speaker 2: by everybody else's standards, regular rest. So keep that in
Speaker 2: mind tomorrow night as well. Let's head downstairs right now
Speaker 2: to hear from Freddy Freeman, who did not have a
Speaker 2: hit tonight, but did have a big walk in that
Speaker 2: ninth inning to start the rally. That was not meant
Speaker 2: to be as far as trying to get to Mason Miller.
Speaker 2: Freddy's in front of his locker on Sports at La.
Speaker 6: Just a good pitching matchup. Great, you know, she made
Speaker 6: one mistake to Miguel has splitter and got it, and yeah,
Speaker 6: it's just a good pitching game. And we had some opportunities,
Speaker 6: but harder score against Mason Miller, but you know, it
Speaker 6: was just a good pitching matchup tonight, Michael King creates
Speaker 6: man you're trying to cover really realistic can be almost
Speaker 6: about thirty inches because you've got ball to strike pitches,
Speaker 6: you got back door siders that are starting balls coming back.
Speaker 6: You got front door sinkers for lefties. So it's not
Speaker 6: just the plate you're worried about. You're got to worry
Speaker 6: about a whole lot of different things. And you know,
Speaker 6: he's we haven't seen many backdoor side and me and
Speaker 6: Max got him, you know, in the first time around.
Speaker 6: So then it opens up the front door sliders and
Speaker 6: then I mean the sinkers, and then you look for
Speaker 6: that and you got changes through those zone. So you know,
Speaker 6: he just had all of it working tonight.
Speaker 2: You mentioned it's hard to score and Mixon Miller, but
Speaker 2: does it sing a little bit more when he did
Speaker 2: have him wild at the beginning.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean, but we still have really good at that. Uh,
Speaker 6: I mean there's a silver line to it. I mean,
Speaker 6: scoring off Mason's gonna be very hard to do, and
Speaker 6: you know it's gonna take one of those kind of
Speaker 6: things where you maybe walk a couple of guys and
Speaker 6: get a bluep It's not really much squaring up going
Speaker 6: on against him, but we had an opportunity maybe with
Speaker 6: him throwing a lot of pitches might make him, you know,
Speaker 6: be down in the next game. You know, you're just
Speaker 6: trying to have a little wins and in a case
Speaker 6: of this series, and you know here through that which
Speaker 6: is night.
Speaker 2: So bullpen has been so good, does it kind of
Speaker 2: hang over your head when you early?
Speaker 6: I mean, I'm they just we know they have a
Speaker 6: good bullpen. I mean they brought in at him. You
Speaker 6: got more Holmes sitting down there, Mason Miller, you still
Speaker 6: have a strata and they got a lot of good guys.
Speaker 6: So you know, in this kind of series, you know
Speaker 6: you're gonna have close games, and he just couldn't get
Speaker 6: done today.
Speaker 2: All right, there's Freddy Freeman, who you know, obviously stated
Speaker 2: the obvious everybody wants answers. But Michael King was that good.
Speaker 2: He was he was painting the corners tonight. He was
Speaker 2: so good, and the Dodgers had no answers and really
Speaker 2: couldn't do much of anything when the pitcher is pitching
Speaker 2: that well like he was, and the Padres bullpens so good,
Speaker 2: including the best closer in Mason Miller. But Freddy Freeman's
Speaker 2: in a little bit of a slump again. He's over
Speaker 2: his last eighteen with seven strikeouts. You don't usually see
Speaker 2: that from Freddy. You don't usually see a two point
Speaker 2: fifty seven batting average when it comes to Freddie Freeman.
Speaker 2: So hopefully tomorrow night against Griffin Canning, he could break out.
Speaker 3: Let's go out to Burbanksteen.
Speaker 2: You're on Dodger Talk Live from San Diego High, Steve.
Speaker 5: High Business, Dave, How you doing product?
Speaker 3: Doing great?
Speaker 7: So?
Speaker 5: You know, list, I think the struggles are part of
Speaker 5: the ebs and blows of the season. I do feel
Speaker 5: that the Dodgers could be a little more aggressive on
Speaker 5: first pitches.
Speaker 3: You know, I think the struggles are over, Steve.
Speaker 2: Honestly, I think the Dodgers struggles are over after what
Speaker 2: we've seen the last seven games, including scoring forty runs
Speaker 2: during that five game winning streak that ended tonight. And
Speaker 2: I know you're gonna say it's the Giants and Angels,
Speaker 2: which is true. It's against the Giants and Angels, and
Speaker 2: the Angels are the worst team in baseball in a
Speaker 2: lot of ways.
Speaker 3: But they still did it.
Speaker 2: And you can get confidence and get locked in, get
Speaker 2: a rhythm, and I feel like a lot of guys
Speaker 2: started to over the course of that five game winning streak,
Speaker 2: including two very important hitters in Otani and Tucker.
Speaker 4: Absolutely, yeah, I guess I'm referencing a bet. John kind
Speaker 4: of got the sense. I'm like, don't take the first
Speaker 4: pitch you're gonna be doing if you're you know, behind
Speaker 4: on the count. Sure enoughs takes a good first pitch,
Speaker 4: you know, But you know, I think once we get October,
Speaker 4: that's when the pitchers start getting a little more tired,
Speaker 4: our hitters get locked in, and that's almost see them
Speaker 4: be aggressive. And you know, if it's a good first pitch,
Speaker 4: you swing and you make these guys nervous. So that's
Speaker 4: kind of my favorite thing.
Speaker 2: All right, Well, I kind of disagree with you and
Speaker 2: a lot of things that you're saying, because what made
Speaker 2: the Dodgers so good offensively the last seven games and
Speaker 2: Dave Roberts said this to us on the pregame show.
Speaker 2: If you like to go back and listen, you can
Speaker 2: find it on the iHeartRadio app. He used the term
Speaker 2: that we really haven't heard many managers use. The Dodgers
Speaker 2: had been earning good hitters counts, and they earn them
Speaker 2: by not chasing outside of the strike zone. And yeah,
Speaker 2: at times you get a little frustrated that they are
Speaker 2: taking first pitch fastballs and you have.
Speaker 3: To be ready to hit right away. I agree with you.
Speaker 2: But what has made the Dodgers back to some semblance
Speaker 2: of offense the last six seven games is the fact
Speaker 2: that they are not chasing pitches, and that's what led
Speaker 2: to big innings in Anaheim against the Angels. And look,
Speaker 2: tonight was just a really hard game to hit against
Speaker 2: really good pitching from Michael King to Jason Adam to
Speaker 2: Mason Miller, and the Dodgers made Miller look human because
Speaker 2: they weren't chasing and weren't just swinging away right away
Speaker 2: in the on the first pitch they saw from Miller.
Speaker 2: So I understand what you're saying. There's a balance there.
Speaker 2: So Andy pa has is a very aggressive hitter, But
Speaker 2: what has made him started to get locked in again,
Speaker 2: is that he's not chasing pitches outside of the strike
Speaker 2: zone and not just first pitch swinging every time eight
Speaker 2: six seven, two five seventies the phone number Dodgers get
Speaker 2: shut out tonight in San Diego. Look, it was just
Speaker 2: one of those nights. And maybe the thing to debate
Speaker 2: into tomorrow afternoon will be whether or not Kim should
Speaker 2: have been sent in the sixth inning if you're just
Speaker 2: going to gamble knowing that you're not getting many hits
Speaker 2: off of King, or do you do what don know
Speaker 2: Ebel did and hold him up and not cost being
Speaker 2: thrown out at the plate and ending the inning and
Speaker 2: leaving Mookie Bets on deck.
Speaker 3: Mooki had a rough night.
Speaker 2: He hit a ball hard in his first at bat
Speaker 2: for an out, and then he came up in the
Speaker 2: sixth and seventh in the sixth and eighth innings with
Speaker 2: runners at the corners and couldn't get a hit. In
Speaker 2: the sixth he swung at the first pitch, it was
Speaker 2: a pop up to Fernando Tattoos Junior to end the inning,
Speaker 2: and then in the eighth inning he hit a ball
Speaker 2: on the ground with runners at first and third. In fact,
Speaker 2: the same two runners at first and third, Kim at third,
Speaker 2: Otani at first, and he grounded out to end the
Speaker 2: inning a force play. So a rough night for Mookie Bets,
Speaker 2: but he'll have a chance to bounce back tomorrow. Had
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Speaker 2: Brendan Gomes had a chance to talk to us in
Speaker 2: case you missed it. Yesterday before first pitch, the Dodgers
Speaker 2: made a trade for Eric Lawer, the left hander from
Speaker 2: the Blue Jays who had a pretty good year last year,
Speaker 2: going from the bullpen to the starting rotation. He's made
Speaker 2: six starts this year and his ERA is six and
Speaker 2: a half. The Blue Jays da Fadelaer, which allowed them
Speaker 2: ten days to either trade him, release him, or have
Speaker 2: him accept a minor league assignment, and they were able
Speaker 2: to find a trade partner in the Dodgers, who traded
Speaker 2: cash for Eric Lauer at Lower has not arrived in
Speaker 2: San Diego yet, it is expected to arrive in the
Speaker 2: next couple of days. And with the injuries to glass
Speaker 2: Now and Blake Snell, not to mention River Ryan just
Speaker 2: coming back after missing a month, Gavin Stone not throwing
Speaker 2: off the mound yet, the Dodgers needed some pitching depth
Speaker 2: and Dodgers GM Brandon Gomes explained what the plan is
Speaker 2: going to be for Lower in the near future. Brandon,
Speaker 2: what can you tell us about the Eric Lawer trade
Speaker 2: and how he fits in?
Speaker 7: Yeah, you know, obviously Eric's coming off a great year
Speaker 7: last year, this year showing signs of being effective, but
Speaker 7: not quite to the level of last year. So, as
Speaker 7: you know, we're dealing with some pitching injuries and wanting
Speaker 7: to have guys available to come in and take down
Speaker 7: starts or you know, go deeper into games. Eric fits
Speaker 7: into that.
Speaker 2: Do you feel like he's gonna help out in bullpen
Speaker 2: game situations or be a starter?
Speaker 7: We're leaning more starter as of now. Yeah, Yeah, I
Speaker 7: mean the biggest thing is to make sure that you know,
Speaker 7: we're balancing winning as many games as possible, but not
Speaker 7: you know, not panic and panicking and throwing.
Speaker 3: Our process out of whack.
Speaker 7: Here, So trying to balance the short and long term.
Speaker 7: And you know, this is a guy that's had a
Speaker 7: lot of success in the big leagues and somebody that
Speaker 7: we feel like we can get back to what he
Speaker 7: was last year. I mean, we've had our guys take
Speaker 7: a look, and we'll sit down with them and talk
Speaker 7: through some stuff and see how much we can do
Speaker 7: on the fly.
Speaker 3: How much of.
Speaker 7: It is conscious subconscious, But you know, we know the
Speaker 7: makeup's really good and we're looking forward to get our
Speaker 7: hands on them and work with them to get back
Speaker 7: and being as successful as he's been in the best.
Speaker 2: And you may say, why do the Dodgers need another starter?
Speaker 2: They got five, Well, they need a six man rotation
Speaker 2: to accommodate Otani schedule and Roki Sasaki schedule. So you
Speaker 2: do need to stick with a six man rotation. And
Speaker 2: the Dodgers don't want to compromise the help or push
Speaker 2: some of these guys more than they have to just
Speaker 2: because there's some injuries that is caught seeing a ripple effects.
Speaker 2: So instead of going for a bullpen game every week,
Speaker 2: they decided to go out and get a guy that
Speaker 2: was available that knows how to pitch in the big leagues,
Speaker 2: has had success in the big leagues and can give
Speaker 2: them innings in some length instead of taxing your bullpen.
Speaker 2: And Brandon Gomes explained the thinking behind that as well.
Speaker 7: Yeah, really important. I think, you know, part of the
Speaker 7: thinking is to not create this domino effect of chasing
Speaker 7: our tails. So trying to maintain a similar schedule as
Speaker 7: we've had and when we can get guys extra day's
Speaker 7: the rest do it. If it doesn't, if we don't
Speaker 7: need it, or you know, we're trying to line things
Speaker 7: up in a different way, just maintaining the flexibility to
Speaker 7: do that.
Speaker 2: Does that buy some time for River Ryan who just
Speaker 2: came back to stretch out as well, how to see
Speaker 2: fit with the injuries to glass Now and Snow.
Speaker 7: Yeah, obviously incredibly talented and you know, back to full
Speaker 7: health and throwing them ball really well. Is lass out
Speaker 7: and we need some time to get River built top
Speaker 7: as we've talked about in the past, and a lot
Speaker 7: of it is like he needs to get out there
Speaker 7: and be able to pitch deeper into games before we
Speaker 7: feel good about bringing him up here.
Speaker 3: All right.
Speaker 2: So there was Brandon Gomes Dodgers GM, just talking about
Speaker 2: the Dodgers needing to get length and not wanting to
Speaker 2: compromise any of their other pitchers because of injuries to
Speaker 2: Snell and glass Now and River Ryan. That's the plan
Speaker 2: to give him probably another couple of starts, and if
Speaker 2: the Dodgers need another starter or a spot starter to
Speaker 2: give guys an extra day arrest, River Ryan could be
Speaker 2: that guy and he could stick.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 2: Tyler glass Now who injured his back and is on
Speaker 2: the il, from what I've gathered, he's not coming back
Speaker 2: for at least a month. Bruce Starr Graderol injured his
Speaker 2: lower back as he was trying to come back from
Speaker 2: a shoulder injury that has kept him on the shelf
Speaker 2: for nearly two years. Graderol lasts threw a pitch and
Speaker 2: professional baseball before this rehab assignment in Game five of
Speaker 2: the twenty four World Series, so he was on a
Speaker 2: rehab assignment. He was really encouraged, and then from what
Speaker 2: I was told, he showed up the next day in
Speaker 2: Oklahoma City and reported some back issues and his season
Speaker 2: is very much in doubt, so that's disappointing for our guy,
Speaker 2: Bruce Star Graderol. Now, as far as Blake Snell goes,
Speaker 2: I'm sure you heard us on Sports Net LA talk
Speaker 2: about this. He is going to undergo surgery on his
Speaker 2: left elbow tomorrow to remove some bone chips, loose bodies
Speaker 2: floating around there, and doctor Neil Elatrosh is going to
Speaker 2: perform a procedure that he performed on Trek Skuble with
Speaker 2: schoolbul having loose bodies being removed. It's called a nanoscope procedure,
Speaker 2: which is less invasive and could trim at least a month.
Speaker 3: Off recovery, which is great news.
Speaker 2: If they're successful in being able to formed the nanoscope
Speaker 2: procedure on Snell's elbow tomorrow, that would, you know, put
Speaker 2: Snell in line to come back in August more than September,
Speaker 2: and give him some time to get ready for October.
Speaker 3: So that's the latest on all the.
Speaker 2: Injured Dodger pitchers and Tommy Edmunds here in San Diego,
Speaker 2: and for the first time we saw him run the bases,
Speaker 2: so you hope that his ankle is starting to respond.
Speaker 2: Dave Roberts said yesterday every time they try to push
Speaker 2: a little more, Tommy Edmund's ankle wouldn't respond, and quite frankly,
Speaker 2: at this point, I feel like it's a pain tolerance
Speaker 2: issue and it's time to go for Tommy Edmund and
Speaker 2: his right ankle. So that's a great sign for him
Speaker 2: to start running the bases because they need Tommy Edmund.
Speaker 2: They gave him a big extension. He had off season
Speaker 2: ankle surgery similar to Freddie Freeman before last year, and
Speaker 2: they were expecting him to be back in May at
Speaker 2: some point or at the end of April, and now
Speaker 2: it's May getting through the June, so by the time
Speaker 2: he starts going on rehab assignments, it's going to be
Speaker 2: June until he returns saying Key k Hernandez is playing
Speaker 2: virtually every day in Oklahoma City and he is eligible
Speaker 2: to come off the IL on May twenty sixth, and
Speaker 2: he is ready to go, and it'll be great to
Speaker 2: have keyk Hernandez back. Maybe Kei k will call the
Speaker 2: show one night if he's born in Oklahoma City. You
Speaker 2: never know, all right, that'll do it for us tonight
Speaker 2: on Dodger Talk coming up tomorrow, and it's Shechan on
Speaker 2: the mound against Griffin Canning. Our coverage begins at five
Speaker 2: point thirty, first pitch at six forty with Rick Monday
Speaker 2: and Stephen Nelson on the call from Petco Park. Another
Speaker 2: note I want to give you about tonight. The last
Speaker 2: time the Padre shut out the Dodgers one to nothing,
Speaker 2: it was April thirteenth, two thousand and eight, and it
Speaker 2: was at Dodger Stadium. The winning pitcher was Greg Maddox,
Speaker 2: the losing pitcher was Chad Billingsley, and Trevor Hoffman got
Speaker 2: the safe. So one nothing shutouts between these two teams
Speaker 2: don't happen all. It was almost twenty years ago, two
Speaker 2: thousand and eight, April thirteenth.
Speaker 3: Also, want to send out.
Speaker 2: Our thoughts and prayers to all those being evacuated because
Speaker 2: of the Sandy fire out there in the Semi Valley area.
Speaker 2: I hope you guys are staying safe out there and
Speaker 2: don't try to be a hero. If you're being asked
Speaker 2: to evacuate, you should do it. And hopefully those brave
Speaker 2: firefighters can find a way to contain this horrible wildfire
Speaker 2: that is growing. So hopefully they get containment and they're
Speaker 2: safe as well because they do a great job for
Speaker 2: all of us putting their lives on the line to
Speaker 2: save homes and lives. So our thoughts and prayers are
Speaker 2: not only with the people that are in that fire zone,
Speaker 2: but especially those that are fighting the fire as well.
Speaker 2: Thanks to Colin me back at our Burbank studios, Thanks
Speaker 2: to Dwayne McDonald out here at Peco Park in San Diego.
Speaker 2: Is great to be back on Dodger Talk. Can't wait
Speaker 2: to do it again tomorrow after you know. Don't want
Speaker 2: to brag. I was four and oh on sports in LA.
Speaker 2: Not trying to say anything here, but the five game
Speaker 2: winning streak comes to an end as the Padre shut
Speaker 2: out the Dodgers one to nothing.
Speaker 3: Fox Sports Radio is next. We'll talk to you tomorrow.
Speaker 3: See them the first time, fou