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Speaker 2: Well those darn big innings doing the Dodgers again, a
Speaker 2: six run sixth for the Chicago White Sox. Does it
Speaker 2: just seemed like it's snowball for image and and Jack Dryer,
Speaker 2: and it does in the Dodgers is a fall to
Speaker 2: the White Sox today in Chicago by a final of
Speaker 2: six to four. Hi, everybody, and welcome into Dodger Talk
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Speaker 2: we want to hear from you. Eight sixty six, nine
Speaker 2: eighty seven two five seventy. A rough day in the
Speaker 2: sixth inning for the Dodgers, and it seems to be
Speaker 2: a reoccurring theme, especially the last week for this Dodgers team.
Speaker 2: Big innings by their opponents. For the fifth time in
Speaker 2: the last seven games, the Dodgers have allowed four plus
Speaker 2: runs to their opponents in an inning and it's cost
Speaker 2: them several times. Go back to last Sunday, the Dodgers
Speaker 2: gave up six runs in the seventh and end up
Speaker 2: losing to the Angels. Go back to Wednesday in Pittsburgh,
Speaker 2: a five run eighth inning in which the bulpen just
Speaker 2: imploded in a loss to the Pirates. Go back to
Speaker 2: Friday nine against these same White Socks, a seven run
Speaker 2: fifth inning, Rokie Susaki and the Dodgers bullpen just could
Speaker 2: not get out and a crooked number put up against
Speaker 2: them and what turned about to be a Dodger loss. Today,
Speaker 2: the Dodgers a one nothing lead. Im A Shean two
Speaker 2: times around this White Sox lineup five innings, looked really good,
Speaker 2: was getting swinging missus, was getting them to chase out
Speaker 2: of the zone, and had eight strikeouts over five innings.
Speaker 2: Then the sixth inning comes and he falls behind. He
Speaker 2: gets ahead to two to Sam and As Tansi, and
Speaker 2: he gives up a solo home run and all of
Speaker 2: a sudden it's a tie game. Then he gives up
Speaker 2: the base hit. Then Andrew Benattendi an RBI double and
Speaker 2: next thing you know, the Dodgers are down two to one.
Speaker 2: That was it for image Shean, and it erases really
Speaker 2: five innings of really good work from image Shean. Attacking
Speaker 2: the strike zone. Four of his eight strikeouts were off
Speaker 2: the changeum. He had a strike off off the fastball.
Speaker 2: He had a couple of strike offs off the curveball.
Speaker 2: He was really good through five innings. And I'll go
Speaker 2: back to the fourth inning. With two outs, he gives
Speaker 2: up a double to Colson Montgomery. Then he falls behind
Speaker 2: two to one to Braid Montgomery, and you're starting to
Speaker 2: think to yourself, Okay, here it is, here's that inning,
Speaker 2: here's that trouble. Two outs, double behind two to one
Speaker 2: to Braid Montgomery, gets a curveball in their first strike,
Speaker 2: then a change up and he gets strike three on
Speaker 2: Braid Montgomery to end the great job, great sequencing between
Speaker 2: him and Dalton Rushing gets a swing and miss and
Speaker 2: gets out of the fourth inning. Then in the fifth
Speaker 2: a one out walk does not come back to bite him,
Speaker 2: get the fly ball out and then a strikeout his
Speaker 2: longest inning eighteen pitches through five.
Speaker 4: Again not a lot of run support.
Speaker 2: It was only a one nothing game, but you felt
Speaker 2: pretty good about the way Immit Sheeen was pitching that
Speaker 2: third time around, and he gets hit around by the
Speaker 2: top of the lineup, and then Jack Dryer comes in
Speaker 2: and couldn't get an out, gives up a home run,
Speaker 2: a single, and then a two run shot to Mira
Speaker 2: Coosa's own chase my draft. The big inning against the
Speaker 2: Dodgers reared its ugly head again, and as Hose Mode
Speaker 2: has said, sometimes you can go series weeks, months without
Speaker 2: something like this happening. And in the course of the
Speaker 2: last seven games, the Dodgers have had five times given
Speaker 2: up big innings to their opponents, and for of those
Speaker 2: seven times it is hurt them and cause the loss,
Speaker 2: and today one of those games. It's tough when you
Speaker 2: give up six runs in the six and you feel
Speaker 2: like just you can't get anybody out. Driver is able
Speaker 2: to get out of it, but the damage have been done.
Speaker 2: Now to the credit, the Dodgers fought back with the
Speaker 2: run of the seventh, Mookie BET's home run in the eighth,
Speaker 2: moral Mookie in a second, and then Alex Frielan battling
Speaker 2: for an RBI double in the ninth. Dodgers had traffic
Speaker 2: on the base pats they walk o'tany he you know,
Speaker 2: hard hit ball by Pahz gets a force out at second.
Speaker 4: You know, things could be different.
Speaker 2: The ball, you know, it doesn't go right to mydraft
Speaker 2: who makes a great defensive play flipping it to the
Speaker 2: shortstop Montgomery for a force out. Who knows bases are loaded.
Speaker 2: Things get, you know, three ft four feet to a
Speaker 2: different direction. That ball goes up the middle for a
Speaker 2: base hit, and it's a different story. But as it is,
Speaker 2: the Dodgers fall short. They fall to the White Sox
Speaker 2: six to four, and it's these big innings that are
Speaker 2: really becoming problems. And I think Jose Mota touched on
Speaker 2: something really well where is that Dodger reliever outside of
Speaker 2: Alex Vesia that you could go to when when you
Speaker 2: see the momentum building from a team, and in this
Speaker 2: case today was the sixth inning, all of a sudden
Speaker 2: you're down two to one. You have got to put
Speaker 2: a stopper in there to stop what is happening in
Speaker 2: the momentum and get out of that inning without any
Speaker 2: more damage being done in hopes that your offense then
Speaker 2: will get it going down two to one, you got
Speaker 2: to have somebody who can clamp what is happening completely down,
Speaker 2: shut off that offense from the opposition, and get your
Speaker 2: bats back up to bat. Alex Vessi has really been
Speaker 2: the only guy right now that has proven to be
Speaker 2: a stopper, somebody who can end a threat even when
Speaker 2: nobody on or there's traffic on the base pass. Who
Speaker 2: else do you have confidence in right now? Not a
Speaker 2: lot of Dodger arms down there that you feel like, okay,
Speaker 2: we need an out, We need somebody to get us
Speaker 2: out of this jam. Tyne runs ninety feet away, you
Speaker 2: get you know, Tyne runs on base. Whatever this circumstance
Speaker 2: may be, but there is clearly momentum in favor of
Speaker 2: the other team that.
Speaker 4: You need to stop.
Speaker 2: Alex Vessi has really been the only guy I can
Speaker 2: think of right now. You can go to Jack Dryer
Speaker 2: has not been that guy. And Jack Dryer, for whatever reason,
Speaker 2: is just not having the command and when he does
Speaker 2: throw strikes, he's getting hit hard. Thus today giving up
Speaker 2: a home run, a single, and then a two run
Speaker 2: home run, and those were hard hit balls. The Coleson
Speaker 2: Montgomery two run home run, that.
Speaker 4: Ball was crushed.
Speaker 2: The Chase my Draft home run, solid content at good
Speaker 2: exit velocity, crushed. The Dodgers need some of these veteran
Speaker 2: arms to get healthy and get healthy quick. Brock Stewart.
Speaker 2: Brock Stewart and this bone spur at his foot. He
Speaker 2: has been hurt ever since he came back to the
Speaker 2: Dodgers last year. They need brock Stewart to get back
Speaker 2: and get back healthy and be a right handed arm
Speaker 2: that they can now count on is to come in
Speaker 2: and close an inning, get out of a jam, stop
Speaker 2: a big threat from the opposition. Edwin Diaz is still
Speaker 2: a ways away. Evan Phillips, I mean could be coming
Speaker 2: down the pike. I don't think he's close. He's not
Speaker 2: out there doing what brock Stewart's doing as far as
Speaker 2: building himself back up in minor league rehab appearances, but
Speaker 2: he kind of feels like the next guy out there.
Speaker 2: The Dodgers need to get some arms in that bullpen,
Speaker 2: and arms that they can rely upon to go out
Speaker 2: and get out of trouble and to bail out whatever
Speaker 2: has happened to the starter or the reliever in front
Speaker 2: of him. Eight sixty six nine eighty seven two five seven.
Speaker 2: It has reared its ugly head. And I go back
Speaker 2: to the game in which Roki Sasaki had trouble, and
Speaker 2: Sasaki puts himself in his own trouble command issues, but
Speaker 2: then the bullpen doesn't necessarily come in and help him out.
Speaker 2: If your starter gets into trouble, you need guys out
Speaker 2: of the bullpen that can come in and extinguish a fire.
Speaker 2: They need somebody they can come in and put out
Speaker 2: what is starting to smold and get bigger and build
Speaker 2: a little bit more and the fire starting to go
Speaker 2: there for the for the opposing team, as far as
Speaker 2: momentum and runs and traffic on the base pass gos
Speaker 2: just in my mind at this point, just don't have
Speaker 2: anybody besides Alex Vesia, and he can't pitch every game.
Speaker 2: They've got to find somebody else. Blake trying at times.
Speaker 2: At time it's Blake trining, but there's nobody else right now.
Speaker 2: You just feel like, Okay, I'm gonna go down to
Speaker 2: him and he's gonna get me out of this situation.
Speaker 2: At Gardlo Rodriguez maybe at times, but then he's been
Speaker 2: up and down as well. Justin Robleski was that guy
Speaker 2: last year, but now he's a starter. Kyle Hurt, Will
Speaker 2: kleinb they were those arms last month, I mean last
Speaker 2: month in May. The Dodgers bullpen was the best in baseball.
Speaker 2: In June, they haven't. Now an era combined over eight
Speaker 2: and it is what June the fourteenth. Things could change
Speaker 2: quickly in baseball, the ups and downs of a marathon,
Speaker 2: one hundred and sixty two game season. Just when you
Speaker 2: feel like things are going right and you figured it out,
Speaker 2: things can change in a blink. Things can change in
Speaker 2: a game, in a series, in a week, and all
Speaker 2: of a sudden, thirty eight consecutive score innings combined by
Speaker 2: everybody and anybody down in that Dodger's bullpen has now
Speaker 2: turned into a bullpen. That's north of eight combined here
Speaker 2: in the month of June. How much confidence do you
Speaker 2: haven't Kyle Hurt last couple outings have not been good.
Speaker 2: Will climb Will clinb I still got confidence in him.
Speaker 2: But what he has done the last couple outings. You
Speaker 2: have three hits in an inning on Thursday in Pittsburgh.
Speaker 2: You know, you go back to what he pitched in
Speaker 2: the last road trip in Arizona got roughed up. I mean,
Speaker 2: they need more arms to get healthy down there in
Speaker 2: the back end of that bullpen.
Speaker 4: They just need it.
Speaker 2: And on the flip side, and David Vassi brought this
Speaker 2: up the last couple of days.
Speaker 4: It goes hand in hand with starting pitching.
Speaker 2: Okay, you can't have a bullpen continuously bail out starting pitching.
Speaker 4: Like they have in some of these games.
Speaker 2: You go back to the bad outing a week ago
Speaker 2: from Emmit Sheean put the Dodgers in a hole. Now
Speaker 2: you're relying upon the bullpen to be perfect.
Speaker 4: In May they were. In June, they haven't been.
Speaker 2: You look at the last Rokie Sasaki start, same thing happened,
Speaker 2: got into trouble, big inning. The Dodgers' bullpen had to
Speaker 2: be perfect and couldn't. The starting pitching needs to continue
Speaker 2: to go deeper into games. The starting pitching needs to
Speaker 2: be good. They got to give him five innings, at
Speaker 2: least they did today with Imagean, no doubt, but the
Speaker 2: sixth inning completely different story. And Jose Moda mentioned it,
Speaker 2: and if you're watching the game, if you were listening
Speaker 2: to the game, if you go back and kind of
Speaker 2: look at the numbers and the pitch by pitch, he
Speaker 2: didn't lose velocity.
Speaker 4: I mean, Sheen was still.
Speaker 2: Pumping seventy ninety seven ninety six, So wasn't a loss
Speaker 2: of velocity in the six It didn't seem like he
Speaker 2: didn't have that bite on his off speed pitches.
Speaker 4: It was still there.
Speaker 2: He just wasn't getting the chases and the promise. He
Speaker 2: made mistakes, and they pounded on those mistakes first three
Speaker 2: batters that he facing the sixth inning.
Speaker 4: So again it's a combination.
Speaker 2: Starting pitching needs to give them some depth and the bullpen,
Speaker 2: which had been perfect. And I know you can't be
Speaker 2: perfect all the time, but you go from being perfect
Speaker 2: for thirty eight consecutive scoreless innings to now a bullpen
Speaker 2: combined with an Era pushing over eight here in the
Speaker 2: month of June eight six, six, nine eighty seven two
Speaker 2: five said we'll take some phone calls here. Thank you
Speaker 2: for being patient. I appreciated Paul in El Segundo first
Speaker 2: up here on Dodger Talk after the White Sox score
Speaker 2: six in the six and beat the Dodger six to four.
Speaker 5: Hey doing, Paul, I'm good, Jim, how are you?
Speaker 2: I'm doing okay? One more I think about this. This
Speaker 2: is getting a little frustrating, these big innings.
Speaker 4: Paul.
Speaker 5: Right, you're bringing up about the right handed relief.
Speaker 6: And trade deadline. I think let me ask you this.
Speaker 6: I think they should go for a dollars chapmin. So
Speaker 6: my question is whether he's gonna fit into that clubhouse.
Speaker 6: It also gives you, now you have a righty save
Speaker 6: in a lefty save when Diaz comes back, you know
Speaker 6: what I mean. So we talk about when it gets busy,
Speaker 6: sometimes you have to bring in a guy in the seventh,
Speaker 6: you know what I mean.
Speaker 4: I get that.
Speaker 2: I get that, But you also are paying You're also
Speaker 2: paying a guy, and I appreciate the phone call.
Speaker 4: You're breaking up a little bit there, Paul.
Speaker 2: You're also paying a guy named Tanner Scott a lot
Speaker 2: of money this year and for another two years, big
Speaker 2: time money to be a closer, if not a closer,
Speaker 2: high leverage, end of game guy that can get you
Speaker 2: out in the seventh and eighth inning and ninth inning
Speaker 2: and closing out games.
Speaker 4: Thanks for the phone call, phone call.
Speaker 2: I don't see Andrew Friedman going and getting an eroald
Speaker 2: As Chapman at the deadline. I just don't see that.
Speaker 2: That's Tanner Scott's role. That's why you have Tanner Scott.
Speaker 2: That's why you have signed him to a big deal
Speaker 2: last year and didn't pay out in twenty five. He's
Speaker 2: pitched a lot better in twenty six. I'll be in
Speaker 2: a couple of hiccups. I know Arizona and the bomb
Speaker 2: that he gave up to could tell Marte.
Speaker 4: But for the most part, he's been really good.
Speaker 2: But I don't see Andrew Freeman going out and getting
Speaker 2: a left handed arm. Listen, look at the injured list
Speaker 2: for this Dodgers team at various times. These dudes should
Speaker 2: be coming back to help out the depth of this
Speaker 2: Dodgers team. I don't think there's a trade out there
Speaker 2: right now that Andrew Freeman. I mean, I'm sure there is.
Speaker 2: With Terrek Schouoble. I shouldn't say there's no trade. But
Speaker 2: you've got Evan Phillips sixty day il. You know he's
Speaker 2: on a rehabit simon the last day or two in
Speaker 2: Triple A Oklahoma City. Okay, there is a high leverage
Speaker 2: reliever you can count on. Hopefully he's healthy coming back
Speaker 2: the arm surgery. Brock Stewart. You trained for him because
Speaker 2: he was really good in Minnesota. How do we get
Speaker 2: that brock Stewart when he comes back healthy again hurt,
Speaker 2: it's gonna come back healthy. Tyler Glass now beginning to
Speaker 2: feel better, hopes this is a zum pitching here shortly
Speaker 2: and be back after the All Star break. Blake Snell,
Speaker 2: mister Snell Zilla, mister two time cy Young Award winner.
Speaker 2: When is he coming back well after the All Star break.
Speaker 2: You've got dudes on the injured list who, in theory,
Speaker 2: when they come back at their respective times, should be
Speaker 2: able to fill these needs that we're talking about right now.
Speaker 2: I don't see an Ewalda Chapman trade as something that
Speaker 2: you need to go out and make when you've got
Speaker 2: injured guys, or in this case of Tanner Scott, who's
Speaker 2: already there that fit that mold, that fit that need.
Speaker 2: As you said, as a left handed closer, you got
Speaker 2: Tanner Scott, So I don't and it's not into DNA
Speaker 2: necessarily at the trade deadline of Andrew Freeman to go
Speaker 2: out there and get that high leverage closer. They do
Speaker 2: that in the off season where you don't have to
Speaker 2: give up the prospects, and you can do it in
Speaker 2: free agency and it doesn't cost you in theory as
Speaker 2: much as far as you know, like I said, a
Speaker 2: minor league talent in your farm system. They go out
Speaker 2: and they get the Brox Stewarts. They go out and
Speaker 2: they pick up the relievers that aren't going to cost
Speaker 2: you a lot financially and aren't going to cost you
Speaker 2: a lot as far as prospects, and bank on the
Speaker 2: fact that they're going to come in and continue to
Speaker 2: have whatever good seasons they're having with your team. And
Speaker 2: they just got to get Brock Stewart healthy, got to
Speaker 2: get him back to what he was in Minnesota. Evan
Speaker 2: Phillips has got to come back like he was pre
Speaker 2: arm injury. You know, this is a Dodgers team out
Speaker 2: the position players. I mean Edwin Diaz when he comes back,
Speaker 2: hopefully you get the Edwin Diaz that you signed to
Speaker 2: the offseason as one of the best relievers in baseball
Speaker 2: the last few years, and.
Speaker 4: Certainly what he did last year in New York.
Speaker 2: You're hoping all these guys, when they get healthy, are
Speaker 2: going to come back and fill these voids, because that's
Speaker 2: what you're paying them to do, and that's why you
Speaker 2: brought them in, and that's why you sign them to
Speaker 2: the deals they did.
Speaker 4: So I don't see the.
Speaker 2: Dodgers going out again and making a deal just for
Speaker 2: the sake of getting a roll as Chapman, I don't
Speaker 2: see it.
Speaker 4: Eight six six nine eight seven two five seventy.
Speaker 2: Let's keep things going. We're gonna go to the golf course.
Speaker 2: We got We got Eric on a golf course checking
Speaker 2: in here on Dodge. First off, where are you golfing
Speaker 2: right now?
Speaker 5: Eric?
Speaker 7: Hey, I'm in Beaumont, California at Oak Valley. I'm on
Speaker 7: the fourth hole right now and I'm three over. So
Speaker 7: I've been voguing every hole so far.
Speaker 4: Playing great game. There luckal change.
Speaker 7: Yeah, you know what I'm playing just like the bullpen is.
Speaker 4: So there you go? All right? Is that it? Eric
Speaker 4: is that all you got.
Speaker 7: No, no, no, uh, Let's go after Chapman. Let's go
Speaker 7: get Chapman. He's lights out and you know this bullpen.
Speaker 7: We're just gonna have to piece it together. We've been
Speaker 7: doing that the last couple of championships and that's how
Speaker 7: we're gonna live, is just piecing the lineup together. And yeah,
Speaker 7: it's gonna it's up to the coaching staff and the
Speaker 7: front office and make some moves.
Speaker 5: All right, we'll be all.
Speaker 7: Right, Tim, We're in first place.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I have all the confidence they're gonna be. Okay, Eric,
Speaker 2: play a little bit better. Okay, you're three over on
Speaker 2: the fourth hole, and we need you to step up
Speaker 2: your game. You can talk about the bullpens. Eric, I
Speaker 2: need you to step up your golf game right now.
Speaker 4: Okay, Kim, you.
Speaker 7: Know what, I just saw myself a paloma, So I
Speaker 7: will step it up.
Speaker 4: Now.
Speaker 2: There you go, enjoy that Poloman, enjoy the rest of
Speaker 2: their round of your golf. There, Eric, I appreciate the
Speaker 2: phone call. In no way is anybody panicking. And this
Speaker 2: Dodgers team, the depth, just think think about this. The
Speaker 2: depth of this Dodgers team is what it's been built on.
Speaker 2: Now the depth has been challenged because the starting pitching
Speaker 2: has been hurt, and now the bullpen has been hurt,
Speaker 2: and the guys who have been pitching really well in
Speaker 2: are not pitching well in June. And so these big
Speaker 2: innings are being magnified even more so now.
Speaker 4: And how do you stop these big innings?
Speaker 2: Well, again, it's not just going out and making a
Speaker 2: trade for the sake of getting a rolled as che No,
Speaker 2: you have the arms, you have the commodities here already
Speaker 2: in house. You have those weapons offensively that are gonna
Speaker 2: get healthy in taoscar and Will Smith, and I'm not
Speaker 2: worried about that. These guys just need to get healthy.
Speaker 2: The good thing is, I think the Dodgers will be
Speaker 2: fine through the All Star Break and post All Star Break.
Speaker 2: I think there needs to be a line, there needs
Speaker 2: to be a line from Oklahoma City to La of
Speaker 2: guys just coming back off the injured list, whether it's
Speaker 2: position players, whether it's pitching, starting, or relievers. These guys
Speaker 2: need to start coming back. And when you pull back
Speaker 2: the scope here of the season, why rush a pitcher
Speaker 2: back Evan Phillips when you wouldn't do that coming off
Speaker 2: of Tommy John surgery, Why rush back somebody who's maybe
Speaker 2: not one hundred percent in the back's flaring up a
Speaker 2: little bit in Tyler Glass Now in mid to early June,
Speaker 2: when you still got the end of the month, you
Speaker 2: still got July, August, September to go for this season,
Speaker 2: just to get.
Speaker 4: Ready for postseason baseball.
Speaker 2: So there is no rush for these guys to come
Speaker 2: back before the All Star break. But I think once
Speaker 2: you get to that Midsummer Classic and we get to
Speaker 2: the back half of July and that first road trip
Speaker 2: in New York against the Yankees, and they'll see the
Speaker 2: Mets again in those first couple weeks after the All
Speaker 2: Star Break in New York, these guys gotta start getting right.
Speaker 2: And at that point they need to start getting healthy
Speaker 2: and building and building for September. They've built themselves a
Speaker 2: good lead here in the division. They're still playing well.
Speaker 2: This is the first series they lost since what the
Speaker 2: Brave Series in the second week of May. So again
Speaker 2: sky is not falling. It's not to the end of
Speaker 2: the world, but certainly these big innings and the lack
Speaker 2: of the bullpen coming in and clamping these innings down
Speaker 2: and stopping the momentum of the opposing team in these
Speaker 2: big innings has been a problem, and they need to
Speaker 2: find somebody that could come in and be that that
Speaker 2: that fireman, that guy who can come in and extinguish
Speaker 2: whatever fire is started offensively for the opposing team. Eight six, six, nine,
Speaker 2: eighty seven two five to seven will come back, and
Speaker 2: we're gonna hear from you. Eight six six, nine, eight
Speaker 2: seven two five seventy is a number Dodgers fall in Chicago.
Speaker 2: They lose to the White Sox six to four. Immed
Speaker 2: Shean gave up three in the six left with the
Speaker 2: runners on. Jack Dryer continued the mess, giving up two
Speaker 2: home runs. It was a six run sixth for the
Speaker 2: White Sox because they beat the Dodgers six to four
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Speaker 3: Taylor delivers Bookie Swings drives one deep to left. This
Speaker 3: ball back in, This ball gone in a White Sox bullpen.
Speaker 3: Rookie Betts with a seventh home run of the season.
Speaker 3: It's six to three.
Speaker 4: Mookie Betts with a home run in the eighth.
Speaker 2: The Solos shot. Mookie Betts starting to heat up. His
Speaker 2: fifth hit in the last two days. He had three yesterday,
Speaker 2: he had two today, raising his batting average down to
Speaker 2: two oh four on this season. I know it's not great,
Speaker 2: but he is starting to get hot here on this
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Speaker 2: six to four. Had a one nothing lead that was
Speaker 2: gone in the six when m Machine and Jack Dryer
Speaker 2: gave up six straight hits, and all six of those
Speaker 2: runners would score either by hits or home runs and
Speaker 2: a six to one lead turned all of a sudden
Speaker 2: into a six to four game. In the ninth inning,
Speaker 2: Dodgers made it interesting with the tie and runner on,
Speaker 2: but could not get the base hit they needed.
Speaker 4: They had stranded eight runners today.
Speaker 2: They were zero for seven with runners in scoring position
Speaker 2: as they dropped two to three in Chicago. They go
Speaker 2: three and three on the road trip, and they fall
Speaker 2: to forty five and twenty seven on this season. Let's
Speaker 2: go to maryon Long Beach. Thanks for being patient. Mary,
Speaker 2: Welcome to Dodger Talk on this Sunday afternoon.
Speaker 4: Already.
Speaker 8: Hey, I am so dandy even though my Dodgers lost today.
Speaker 8: But you know what, we're just waiting on glass and snow.
Speaker 8: I wish we were waiting on Dzuka that we do
Speaker 8: that this year A case and.
Speaker 9: Ed when dis coming back, Well he's coming back.
Speaker 8: I mean, come on, you're gonna We're gonna clean up everything.
Speaker 2: It's a long list of guys they're waiting to come back.
Speaker 2: And as I said, there needs to be that train
Speaker 2: coming from Oklahoma City post All Star break with these
Speaker 2: guys healthy and ready to go and ready to help
Speaker 2: out this Dodgers team. Because the guys who've been doing
Speaker 2: it for the first three and a half months of
Speaker 2: this season. You know you're starting to see some inningans
Speaker 2: mount up. I appreciate the phone call, Mary. I look
Speaker 2: at Justin Robleski. You know, Justin Robleski's already passed his
Speaker 2: career high in innings.
Speaker 4: Pitched at the big league level.
Speaker 2: Again, small sample size has been a reliever now as
Speaker 2: a starter this year in twenty twenty six, you're gonna
Speaker 2: see those numbers greatly increase. I get it, but you're
Speaker 2: now looking close to seventy Indians pitched. You know, can
Speaker 2: he throw another sixty seventy innings here and be one
Speaker 2: hundred and twenty innings in his first year as a
Speaker 2: real starter at the big league level. That's a lot
Speaker 2: of Indians. That's a lot of wear and tear on
Speaker 2: a guy's arm, and he wasn't even supposed to be
Speaker 2: in the rotation to start off this season. You know
Speaker 2: you're counting on Blake Snell and Tyler Glass now to
Speaker 2: be healthy. Eric lower was brought in to be that
Speaker 2: six starter so they can keep guys somewhat fresh pitching
Speaker 2: once a week, and again, the Dodgers have been very
Speaker 2: fortunate with the six man rotation, you're not asking guys
Speaker 2: to pitch more than one time a week.
Speaker 4: That's a nice luxury to have if.
Speaker 2: You're the Dodgers, and they've been able to enjoy it
Speaker 2: now through mid June, and I think that's the plan
Speaker 2: to keep it going. Certainly, when you've got Otani pitching
Speaker 2: once a week and you can limit Yamamoto to pitching
Speaker 2: once a week, that's great. You're alleviating extra starts from
Speaker 2: them and wear and tear during the regular season and
Speaker 2: mileage on their arms here in the regular season.
Speaker 4: But at the same time.
Speaker 2: They're gonna need other guys to come back post All
Speaker 2: Star Break, because they're all gonna eventually come back off
Speaker 2: the injured list and help out this Dodgers team and
Speaker 2: build on what they've already able to do going into
Speaker 2: the All Star Break and beyond. Eight six six nine
Speaker 2: eighty seven two five. Any Carlos in Valencia the six
Speaker 2: six one checking in here on Dodger Talk on this Sunday.
Speaker 4: How you doing, Carlos?
Speaker 10: Hey, Jim, how you doing? Man? He's doing? Locations on
Speaker 10: your daughter's graduation, By the way, much props to you
Speaker 10: and your family.
Speaker 4: By the way. I appreciate.
Speaker 6: Uh.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 10: And by the way, I'm not playing golf, so I'm just.
Speaker 2: Are you watching the World Cup though, Carlos, I'm catching
Speaker 2: soccer fever.
Speaker 4: I don't care if it's uh, you know.
Speaker 10: When it comes around. Yeah, every four years when it
Speaker 10: comes around, for sure. I don't have a you know,
Speaker 10: much interested in soccer except for that. But uh, to
Speaker 10: get back to the golfer though, I'm sure he was
Speaker 10: drinking a few pilomas before he called in and got
Speaker 10: your eyer up.
Speaker 4: What's on your mind?
Speaker 5: We got we got guys coming back.
Speaker 10: We'll be We'll be okay, We'll be okay.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 10: Shout out to my man Lou out there, who thinks
Speaker 10: we're not going to make a three feet this year.
Speaker 2: Uh, Lou, Lou's got something else that he needs to
Speaker 2: be thinking about. I appreciate the phone call, Carlos. This
Speaker 2: team is gonna be okay. They just can't afford any
Speaker 2: more injuries. And you think about what they have been
Speaker 2: able to withstand here through the first three plus months
Speaker 2: of the season. I mean Will Smith has just been
Speaker 2: banged up and not playing every day and not been
Speaker 2: the Will Smith of the last couple of years where
Speaker 2: he was an All Star and you're asking Dalton Rushing
Speaker 2: to play a lot more and he's done a very
Speaker 2: good job of doing that. He continues to grow as
Speaker 2: a player and as a catcher. You know, you haven't
Speaker 2: had Tyler Glass now or Blake Snell for that matter.
Speaker 2: Blake Snell made what one or two stars? That's it
Speaker 2: here in twenty twenty six. You know Edwin Diaz was
Speaker 2: great initially. And then the bodies in the elbow, which
Speaker 2: we have learned has been a new name for you know,
Speaker 2: chips elbow chips, bone chips in the elbow that have
Speaker 2: that bark and really, you know, irritate a picture when
Speaker 2: they throw. Doctor Neil Latrosh told Petro some money that
Speaker 2: during the week is I know a lot of you
Speaker 2: have been saying, what is this new term bodies in
Speaker 2: the elbow? What does that mean? Loose bodies? It's just chips,
Speaker 2: you know, bone ships that are irritating or getting certain
Speaker 2: spots in your elbow and you can't shake it free
Speaker 2: or give them the mood around because they're just stuck
Speaker 2: and so they cause pain and in some cases if
Speaker 2: it's not pain, they cause you for preventing to really
Speaker 2: extend your arm and throw the pitches you want, and
Speaker 2: thus you don't have the same life on your fastball
Speaker 2: or your off speed pitches. And you know, this is
Speaker 2: the new term loose bodies. So we've had two Dodger
Speaker 2: pitchers have that surgery, and both those pictures hopefully will
Speaker 2: be coming back post All Star Break eight sixty six
Speaker 2: nine eight seven two five seventy. Ken in Newport Beach, Ken,
Speaker 2: how you doing, my friend?
Speaker 5: Well, the twenty foot waves are gone, so now it's boring.
Speaker 4: And you don't paddle out, do you? Ken? Did you
Speaker 4: go out and watch there at the wedge and in
Speaker 4: other spots?
Speaker 5: You know what, I've lived in Newport for fifty years.
Speaker 5: I lived on the ocean front for thirty years. Never
Speaker 5: served in my life. But I went out and match
Speaker 5: crowd and looked at those waves and it was just
Speaker 5: they were stark crazy to him? Yeah, cool, all right,
Speaker 5: just a couple of comments. I don't think that she
Speaker 5: is a starting pitcher. He's a four or five in pitcher.
Speaker 5: Every time he gets still later he gets crushed driers
Speaker 5: two games in a row has got crushed. And his
Speaker 5: fastball is for me. I think you need to take
Speaker 5: him out of that world you mentioned about free and uh,
Speaker 5: he's three for twenty. He was getting good. He's three
Speaker 5: for twenty in the last eight games. And there's a
Speaker 5: big hole in two places, number one, second base, and
Speaker 5: that guy's coming back. He's in the minors in the
Speaker 5: right field. How long are we going to go on
Speaker 5: with a sixty million dollars guy hitting two twenty three.
Speaker 5: It was a bad fielder. It changed those two things,
Speaker 5: and we're gonna win a championship. But there are major
Speaker 5: deals right now, and when the injuries changed, we'll be
Speaker 5: back where we need to be. And by the way,
Speaker 5: the White Sox are a really good team and their
Speaker 5: best hitter is injured. Yeah, there's the ball, so they
Speaker 5: are they are game. But yeah, that much you can do.
Speaker 2: Now, can I appreciate it? One of those big innings
Speaker 2: they give up again today? Thanks for checking in. Ken
Speaker 2: from Newport Beach. You ask about Kyle Tucker. I mean,
Speaker 2: I'll give you sixty million reasons why he's not coming
Speaker 2: out of right field. I mean that alone explains it.
Speaker 2: They're just they're not going to pull the rip cord
Speaker 2: on Kyle Tucker. He is second highest paid player in baseball, right.
Speaker 2: I mean, he's per year.
Speaker 4: It ain't happening, Kyle Tucker. They are going to ride through.
Speaker 2: His ups and his downs, and his goods and his
Speaker 2: bads here in this course of the season. I think,
Speaker 2: on a positive note, you look at what Mookie Betts
Speaker 2: has been able to do over this road trip. A
Speaker 2: couple of hits in Pittsburgh, hit the ball hard, even
Speaker 2: if he didn't have the success to show for it.
Speaker 2: And then you go to Chicago and he has three
Speaker 2: hits yesterday and he has two more today. I'll be
Speaker 2: an infield swinging bunt. You'll take it a positive result.
Speaker 2: You build on that. And what did he do later
Speaker 2: in the game. Dodgers were down six to two. Mookie
Speaker 2: Bets goes deep, hits a solo home run, his first
Speaker 2: home run in the month of June. And you know,
Speaker 2: all of a sudden, Mookie Betts, who hadn't been hitting
Speaker 2: over two hundred since March, is now hitting two oh
Speaker 2: four again. It's not something that's gonna jump on. Oh
Speaker 2: look at what Mookie Betts is doing. He's on fire, no,
Speaker 2: but he's trending in the right direction and he's starting
Speaker 2: to stack at bats and games and series, and you
Speaker 2: hope they can build on that moving forward in this
Speaker 2: home stand with three against Tampa Bay and then three
Speaker 2: against the Baltimore Orioles Dodgers. Baseball is brought to by
Speaker 2: Medello Midello The Mark of a Fighter. You mentioned Tommy Edmond.
Speaker 2: He's in TRIPAA Oklahoma City. kN alluded to a second
Speaker 2: basement coming back off the injured list.
Speaker 4: Well, he is scheduled to.
Speaker 2: Come off the sixty day IL, and Dave Roberts wasn't
Speaker 2: there to talk to the media today. He is with
Speaker 2: his daughter and his family up in Stanford for her
Speaker 2: graduation from Stanford, and congratulations to her and the Roberts family.
Speaker 2: But I expect Tommy Edmond, when he's eligible to come
Speaker 2: off the IL on Tuesday, should be back with the Dodgers,
Speaker 2: if not shortly thereafter. I mean, it's he's been in
Speaker 2: the minor leagues in Triple A on this minor league
Speaker 2: rehab assignment for a while now, and he think about this.
Speaker 2: He's not just been playing second base, it's been playing
Speaker 2: a lot of third base as well in Triple A
Speaker 2: Oklahoma City. Why is that important, Well, it's important because
Speaker 2: the odd man out out of this could be Alex
Speaker 2: frielan Santiago Espinal. And if that's the case, you got
Speaker 2: Tommy Edman, who can play third when you're gonna give
Speaker 2: Max Monty a day off. And you got Tommy Eemen,
Speaker 2: who can play second on an everyday basis as a
Speaker 2: switch hitter, so he can fill a couple of needs
Speaker 2: there playing two positions in the infield.
Speaker 4: When this is a Tommyeman who you ask.
Speaker 2: To play center field last year, Watt's not gonna be
Speaker 2: the case anymore. You got Andy Pajez Roman center field.
Speaker 2: Let's continue out in the phones. Thank you for being
Speaker 2: so patient. We appreciate it. Let's go to Bill and
Speaker 2: Mission Viejo. Bill, your next up on Dodger Talk. After
Speaker 2: the White Sox hang on and beat the Dodger six
Speaker 2: to four in Chicago.
Speaker 4: How you doing Bill?
Speaker 5: Yeah? By the way, was this the bullpen game for
Speaker 5: the White Sox.
Speaker 4: It was an opener with Eric Fetty. He was going
Speaker 4: to get most of the Bullkanny. There was a.
Speaker 2: Strategic move to have the left hander come in Hudson
Speaker 2: and try to face the lefty and Otani and then Freeman,
Speaker 2: also a left hander, at the top three of the Dodgers' lineup.
Speaker 2: It backfired because Freeman hit the home run, but it
Speaker 2: was set up to be lefty dominant to start the
Speaker 2: game to bring in Eric Fetty, so it wasn't really
Speaker 2: a bullpen game.
Speaker 5: Dodgers started.
Speaker 7: To have given up eight home runs on this road
Speaker 7: trip is not something it is.
Speaker 4: It's way too many.
Speaker 2: And the Dodgers' bullpen got an ERA north of eight
Speaker 2: now in the month of June.
Speaker 4: That's not as good as either.
Speaker 2: That's a recipe for disaster when you've got your starters
Speaker 2: not able to keep the ball in the ballpark and
Speaker 2: your bullpen is just not able to keep runners off
Speaker 2: the base.
Speaker 5: Yeah, the guy that face she and it's only a
Speaker 5: second home run of the year.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, he hit it far, and he hit it
Speaker 2: on an O two fastball. I appreciate the phone call, Bill, Yeah,
Speaker 2: he crushed it. That was an Antonasi a solo home
Speaker 2: run in the sixth inning on an O two pitch.
Speaker 4: Again, right there.
Speaker 2: That case, you give up a home run, the guy
Speaker 2: beats you on a fastball, you tried to sneak by him.
Speaker 2: He hits you deep for a home run. Not a
Speaker 2: power hitting guy. Top of the lineup, for the White Sox.
Speaker 2: It's a one to one game. At that point, I
Speaker 2: need image shean to, you know, bear down, throw strikes
Speaker 2: and get out, get out of that sixth inning. Go
Speaker 2: out there and and battle. Now, get aggressive to one
Speaker 2: one game. You know you're you're you're backing it, fighting
Speaker 2: against the team, and you're facing the number two hitter
Speaker 2: and you give up a single, well, then you give
Speaker 2: up an RBI double to been attendee. They start hitting
Speaker 2: you hard, those three guys, I mean all of them
Speaker 2: hard hit balls.
Speaker 4: He's got to figure out.
Speaker 2: And Jose Modis said this earlier when he was with
Speaker 2: us in the Clubhouse Show.
Speaker 4: It's called taking that next step.
Speaker 2: Okay, you're pitching, well, some adversity comes, You get hit,
Speaker 2: you get punched. It's the one to one game. How
Speaker 2: do you react to that punch from the Chicago White Sox?
Speaker 2: How do you come back and battle back after giving
Speaker 2: up the game tying home run and now all of
Speaker 2: a sudden it's one one.
Speaker 4: The number two batter is up for the White Sox,
Speaker 4: and that of course is Miguel Vargas.
Speaker 2: Well, you fall behind three to zero, you get it
Speaker 2: to a three to two count before throwing a ninety
Speaker 2: six mile an hour fastball right down the middle, and Vargas,
Speaker 2: who is clearly one of their top two players right now,
Speaker 2: bangs it to left for a single steal. Second on,
Speaker 2: you still a one to one game, and what happens
Speaker 2: to Benettende again? This is where I need imit. Shean
Speaker 2: to bounce back after the punch in the home run
Speaker 2: and attack.
Speaker 4: You fall down in three to zero.
Speaker 2: You give up a single to Vargas, Ben Attend he
Speaker 2: comes up, and you fall behind two oh in the count.
Speaker 2: You get a strike swinging on a slider out of
Speaker 2: the zone, so you get him to chase, and then
Speaker 2: you leave a ball down the middle Ben Attend He
Speaker 2: hits it to right for a double, and all of
Speaker 2: a sudden, now it's a two to one game. At times,
Speaker 2: you just tip your cap to your team and you
Speaker 2: say they got the best of me. But I just
Speaker 2: want to see him take that next step, fight, come back,
Speaker 2: punch out a guy, get a ground ball out, put
Speaker 2: up a zero the rest of the way, and leave
Speaker 2: it one to one. Leave the game feeling good about
Speaker 2: how you finished in a one to one game, and
Speaker 2: hand it over to your bullpen and your offense to
Speaker 2: do the rest. You can't have more damage hit upon
Speaker 2: you. You can't have a worse inning. Continue to build, and
Speaker 2: then if you're Jack Dryer, I mean Jack Dryer comes
Speaker 2: in runner on and gives up a home run of
Speaker 2: the first battery he faces in Colson Montgomery, I mean
Speaker 2: an absolute, no doubt about her on a fastball, on
Speaker 2: an OH one pitch.
Speaker 4: You've got to be better than that.
Speaker 2: You just have to or else this is gonna keep happening,
Speaker 2: these big innings that you're posing teams are having. And again,
Speaker 2: for the fifth time in seven games, the Dodgers have
Speaker 2: allowed four plus runs in an inning. They lost to
Speaker 2: the Angels last Sunday, giving up six runs in the seventh.
Speaker 2: They lost to the Pirates on Wednesday in Pittsburgh, giving
Speaker 2: up five runs in the eighth. They lost to the
Speaker 2: White Sox on Friday night when they gave up seven
Speaker 2: runs in the fifth inning, And they lose to the
Speaker 2: White Sox again today giving up six runs without even
Speaker 2: recording an out in the sixth inning, ended up losing
Speaker 2: six to four. Just gotta be better. These big innings
Speaker 2: have got to stop. Gotta stop moving forward, all right,
Speaker 2: that's gonna do it?
Speaker 4: Is he sneaking? Is he real quick? Is he in Anaheim?
Speaker 4: Is he? I want to hear it? How frustrated? Are you?
Speaker 9: Very trustrated with the bullpen right now? I think, yeah,
Speaker 9: I'm dis frustrated, But you know what I kind of
Speaker 9: kind of did this year so far. You know, I'm
Speaker 9: not saying that I'm gonna make it the playoffs. They will,
Speaker 9: but I guess we're just gonna have to deal with
Speaker 9: the condition. They're let not forget Dave Robert hash It's
Speaker 9: gonna be the tempest season pig In.
Speaker 4: Yeah, they're gonna be all right?
Speaker 10: Is he?
Speaker 2: I got confidence? It's just frustrating right now. And appreciate
Speaker 2: the phone call. We'll check in with you in the
Speaker 2: in the next couple of days. Yeah, it's it's got
Speaker 2: to stop these these these big innings. And it can't
Speaker 2: just be Alex Vessia who is the fireman to come
Speaker 2: in and extinguish what has become a smoldering fire and
Speaker 2: then just a raging inferno like it was today with
Speaker 2: the six run six and it was four previous times
Speaker 2: over this week against the Dodgers in a losing effort.
Speaker 2: All right, that's gonna do it? For Dodge Talk. Many
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