WEBVTT - Dodgers on Deck (6-1-26) 0:00:00.600 --> 0:00:03.600 For the back to back World Champions of Baseball. 0:00:03.760 --> 0:00:06.119 One of the greatest runs in the history of baseball. 0:00:06.160 --> 0:00:08.639 Immortality is within their reach. 0:00:08.960 --> 0:00:12.840 Incredible and while others make excuses. 0:00:12.400 --> 0:00:14.680 The only reason the Dodgers are doing this because they can. 0:00:14.760 --> 0:00:17.720 They print money. The Dodgers just can't continue. It's not 0:00:17.880 --> 0:00:20.320 fair are making plans again. 0:00:20.440 --> 0:00:25.320 It's a singular focus on controlling what they can control. 0:00:25.760 --> 0:00:29.520 Now your pregame host of the World Champion La Dodgers, 0:00:30.000 --> 0:00:31.160 Jam Cats. 0:00:31.320 --> 0:00:36.920 Hi, everybody, and welcome in Tubo Wrongo Casito Dodgers on deck. 0:00:37.040 --> 0:00:41.560 On this Monday, June the first, we flipped the calendar 0:00:41.680 --> 0:00:44.240 to a new month as your back to back World 0:00:44.280 --> 0:00:47.720 Series champion Los Angeles Dodgers thirty eight and twenty one 0:00:47.760 --> 0:00:50.920 on the season, first place atop the NL West, five 0:00:51.000 --> 0:00:53.599 and a half games up on the Padres in the 0:00:53.840 --> 0:00:57.000 NL West after a five and one homestead they included 0:00:57.040 --> 0:00:59.120 a sweep of the Rockies and taking two or three 0:00:59.160 --> 0:01:01.640 from the Phillies. The Dodgers now hit the road for 0:01:01.720 --> 0:01:06.119 a four game series in Phoenix against the Snakes. Emmitt 0:01:06.200 --> 0:01:08.640 Sheen on the mount of the series opener. First pitch 0:01:08.680 --> 0:01:11.120 from Chase Field is coming up at six point forty 0:01:11.120 --> 0:01:13.520 being now and then, though, we got a lot to 0:01:13.600 --> 0:01:16.840 get to here on Morongo Casino. Dodgers on deck coming up, 0:01:16.880 --> 0:01:18.920 we'll check in with David vas Say he's gonna go 0:01:18.959 --> 0:01:22.440 one on one with Ryan Ward, who had a milestone 0:01:22.560 --> 0:01:26.039 moment yesterday in the win over Philadelphia. We'll hear from 0:01:26.040 --> 0:01:28.320 the manager Dave Roberts. Coming up about twenty minutes. We 0:01:28.400 --> 0:01:31.320 got your O Tani Rewind Kirsten Watson from Sports and 0:01:31.360 --> 0:01:34.000 at LA we'll check in. We got the latest injuries news, 0:01:34.160 --> 0:01:36.480 we got the magical moment of the day, and in 0:01:36.600 --> 0:01:38.000 just a couple of minutes we'll head out to the 0:01:38.000 --> 0:01:42.280 galloping Ford Broadcast booth with Tim Neffert and Rick Monday Well. 0:01:42.400 --> 0:01:44.840 Yesterday at the Ravine, the Dodgers were going for the 0:01:44.880 --> 0:01:49.960 series win over Philadelphia and Yoshinobu Yamamoto got the ball 0:01:50.200 --> 0:01:53.280 he'd would pitch into the sixth Anny no runs, four hits, 0:01:53.320 --> 0:01:56.440 struck out ten. He got himself into a little bit 0:01:56.480 --> 0:01:58.160 of trouble, but was able to get out of it 0:01:58.200 --> 0:02:01.200 in the fifth after striking out Arber and Trade Turner 0:02:01.480 --> 0:02:03.760 to end the threat. As the Phillies had runners on 0:02:03.840 --> 0:02:06.880 second and third with one out, outside of that leadoff 0:02:06.960 --> 0:02:09.440 runners on in four of the five innings, but he 0:02:09.520 --> 0:02:13.480 was able to maneuver through those traffic on the base pass. Meanwhile, 0:02:13.520 --> 0:02:17.800 the Dodgers offense scored early and offen Alex Freeland RBI 0:02:17.960 --> 0:02:21.079 double in the second, Dodgers a one nothing lead. Bottom 0:02:21.120 --> 0:02:23.880 of the third, Kyle Tucker RBI single, Dodgers with a 0:02:23.960 --> 0:02:27.440 two to nothing lead. Bottom of the fourth, Ryan Ward 0:02:27.520 --> 0:02:33.160 Welcome to the big leagues, going oh Ward in the air, right. 0:02:33.040 --> 0:02:40.440 Field, Ryan Ward worth the wait, his first major league 0:02:40.480 --> 0:02:49.280 home run in his first game at Dodger Stadium. He's 0:02:49.400 --> 0:02:52.080 running around the bases, but mo, he may as well 0:02:52.120 --> 0:02:52.799 be floating. 0:02:53.880 --> 0:02:56.720 I guarantee you if he does not feel his feet 0:02:56.880 --> 0:03:01.160 hit the ground. After seven hundred games at the minor 0:03:01.200 --> 0:03:03.519 league level, he has been here, He's been down, he's 0:03:03.520 --> 0:03:05.920 been back up, and welcome aboard. 0:03:06.200 --> 0:03:09.520 Ryan Award his first major league home run down the 0:03:09.560 --> 0:03:12.000 right field line that gave the Dodgers a three to 0:03:12.040 --> 0:03:15.280 nothing lead. Two batters later, Alex freelan home run to 0:03:15.400 --> 0:03:17.880 right that made it a four to nothing Dodgers leader. 0:03:17.919 --> 0:03:20.520 They were just getting started. Bottom of the fifth, Alex 0:03:20.600 --> 0:03:23.480 Call off the bench, our two run single, Dodgers lead 0:03:23.560 --> 0:03:26.280 was six to nothing in the six more Dodgers scoring 0:03:26.520 --> 0:03:30.360 Freddie Freeman sack fly as the Dodgers took a seven 0:03:30.440 --> 0:03:32.440 to nothing lead. How about we go to this seventh 0:03:32.440 --> 0:03:33.400 Could they score again? 0:03:33.639 --> 0:03:33.919 Yep? 0:03:33.960 --> 0:03:35.360 Thanks to Max Monsey. 0:03:35.240 --> 0:03:40.000 Grade one hamstring screen to Taoscar Hernandez, which the Dodgers 0:03:40.000 --> 0:03:43.080 hope to keep him out just a month. Max another 0:03:43.120 --> 0:03:44.920 three to two Monsey. 0:03:44.720 --> 0:03:50.520 Lifts off to right field, Max Monsey, Max power halfway 0:03:50.600 --> 0:03:55.800 up the pavilion market eighth for the Dodgers. Max Monsey 0:03:56.000 --> 0:03:58.680 on the eighth pitch of the BATA three to two pitch, 0:03:58.800 --> 0:04:01.720 goes deep to right for his fourteenth home run of 0:04:01.760 --> 0:04:04.520 this season that leads the Dodgers on the year. The 0:04:04.560 --> 0:04:07.320 Dodgers at eight nothing lead, how about the bottom of 0:04:07.360 --> 0:04:08.680 the eighth, could they score again? 0:04:08.880 --> 0:04:12.960 Yep? Freddie Freeman sack fly RBI number twenty nine Dodgers 0:04:12.960 --> 0:04:16.960 with a nine to nothing lead, they scored in the second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, 0:04:17.000 --> 0:04:19.520 eighth inning to take a nine to ninhing lead to 0:04:19.600 --> 0:04:22.000 Bryson Stott solo home run to lead off the ninth 0:04:22.000 --> 0:04:24.760 off of Jonathan Hernandez, the only run of the game 0:04:24.800 --> 0:04:27.600 for Philadelphia as the Dodgers win a nine to one 0:04:27.720 --> 0:04:30.920 Yoshinobu Yamamoto gets the victory. Dodgers take two or three 0:04:30.920 --> 0:04:33.880 from Philadelphia. They go five and one on the home stand. 0:04:33.880 --> 0:04:37.360 They go eighteen and ten in the month of May. 0:04:37.560 --> 0:04:40.000 As we now flip the calendar to June, the Dodgers 0:04:40.040 --> 0:04:42.720 thirty eight and twenty one overall first place atop the 0:04:42.880 --> 0:04:45.520 NL West, five and a half games up on San Diego, 0:04:45.640 --> 0:04:48.159 six and a half games up on Arizona, and the 0:04:48.200 --> 0:04:50.360 Dodgers in the desert for the start of a four 0:04:50.400 --> 0:04:53.520 game series against the Diamondbacks. Emmett Sheen takes the ball 0:04:53.520 --> 0:04:55.920 in the series opener, first pitch at six forty and 0:04:55.960 --> 0:04:58.800 with more, let's head out to the galloping Ford broadcast 0:04:58.800 --> 0:05:02.040 booth as we welcome in and Tim Nevertt and Rick Monday. 0:05:02.160 --> 0:05:05.400 Guys, Tim, thanks very much. The roof is closed at 0:05:05.480 --> 0:05:08.760 Chase Field for tonight's ball game as the Dodgers begin 0:05:08.839 --> 0:05:12.599 a four game set with the Arizona Diamondbacks. Dodgers winners 0:05:12.600 --> 0:05:15.760 of fourteen of the last seventeen thirty eight and twenty 0:05:15.760 --> 0:05:17.680 one in the season. They're five and a half up 0:05:18.080 --> 0:05:20.640 in the National League West over San Diego six and 0:05:20.640 --> 0:05:24.000 a half over the Diamondbacks. Diamondbacks meantime thirty one and 0:05:24.040 --> 0:05:27.440 twenty seven, they're coming off a three game sweep. They 0:05:27.440 --> 0:05:29.560 were on the wrong side of it as the red 0:05:29.640 --> 0:05:33.599 hot Seattle Mariners swept him over the weekend. This was 0:05:33.640 --> 0:05:36.200 after winning eleven of thirteen to get back into the 0:05:36.640 --> 0:05:39.359 hunt in near the top of the standings. So the 0:05:39.400 --> 0:05:41.680 Dodgers come off a five and one home stand, They'll 0:05:41.720 --> 0:05:44.520 put Emmitt Sheehan on the mound tonight. The right hander 0:05:44.560 --> 0:05:48.839 will face Eduardo Rodriguez, the veteran lefty for Arizona, off 0:05:48.839 --> 0:05:51.719 to a very good start at five and one. Emmett 0:05:51.800 --> 0:05:55.280 is three and one and Mo show Hal tiny back 0:05:55.279 --> 0:05:57.279 at the top of the order. Andy Pie has hitting 0:05:57.279 --> 0:05:58.920 in the two spot. One of the things that Dave 0:05:59.000 --> 0:06:02.880 Roberts said about Pie today is that he deserves to 0:06:02.960 --> 0:06:05.159 get five at bats a game now rather than hitting 0:06:05.160 --> 0:06:07.200 down on the order the way that he's been driving 0:06:07.200 --> 0:06:08.120 in runs and getting on. 0:06:08.080 --> 0:06:10.440 Base, and especially if you look at the last seventeen games, 0:06:10.480 --> 0:06:13.039 any of three ninety three in that particular time with 0:06:13.120 --> 0:06:16.280 four home runs on top of it, and for Andy Paes, 0:06:17.160 --> 0:06:20.080 I would imagine he's also turned some heads as far 0:06:20.200 --> 0:06:23.040 as All Star balloting is going to be starting, and 0:06:23.279 --> 0:06:25.760 for pa Haes get his mat in there the way 0:06:25.800 --> 0:06:28.040 that he has played. Really we talked about both sides 0:06:28.080 --> 0:06:31.960 of the baseball, offensively, defensively, also the base running. I 0:06:32.040 --> 0:06:34.760 think the base running for me with Andy Pies, if 0:06:34.760 --> 0:06:36.920 you look at the last couple of years, has also 0:06:37.440 --> 0:06:40.640 improved a great deal. He just feels more comfortable. You 0:06:40.680 --> 0:06:42.560 can kind of see the results of it. At the 0:06:42.640 --> 0:06:44.920 Dodger ball club, they come in, they know full well 0:06:45.240 --> 0:06:48.600 Arizona's thought has to be tim Look, they're six and 0:06:48.680 --> 0:06:51.640 a half behind the Dodgers. This is a four game series. 0:06:52.080 --> 0:06:55.040 What can they do as far as closing the gap, Say, 0:06:55.200 --> 0:06:58.000 if they win three out of the four, what happens 0:06:58.040 --> 0:07:00.479 if they sweep this series. That's got to be on 0:07:00.520 --> 0:07:02.800 the minds of Arizona. So don't take them lightly in 0:07:02.800 --> 0:07:03.920 the four game series. Here. 0:07:04.560 --> 0:07:08.000 Dodgers offensively, however, have been taking it to whoever's been 0:07:08.040 --> 0:07:10.640 throwing the baseball in their general direction. You look at 0:07:10.640 --> 0:07:13.800 their run differential this year plus one twenty nine. That 0:07:13.880 --> 0:07:16.760 means one hundred and twenty nine runs more than they 0:07:16.800 --> 0:07:19.760 have allowed. That is the top mark in Major League baseball. 0:07:19.840 --> 0:07:22.000 Yeah, I looked at those numbers again this afternoon. They've 0:07:22.040 --> 0:07:26.520 scored three hundred and fourteen, they've allowed just one hundred 0:07:26.520 --> 0:07:29.360 and eighty five. The numbers are lopsided, but you still 0:07:29.400 --> 0:07:32.360 have to have more runs under the r department on 0:07:32.400 --> 0:07:34.760 the scoreboard when all the dust has settled at the 0:07:34.840 --> 0:07:36.920 end of the game. So yeah, they like to improve 0:07:36.960 --> 0:07:40.320 and walk out of here with forty plus victories for 0:07:40.360 --> 0:07:42.840 the season after playing the four games in Arizona. 0:07:42.920 --> 0:07:44.880 At the bottom of the order, the seven eight nine 0:07:44.920 --> 0:07:48.560 hitters tonight, Max Munsey hitting seven, Miguel Rojas he'll be 0:07:48.600 --> 0:07:52.840 at second base and place and hit eight, and Alex 0:07:52.920 --> 0:07:55.920 Call will be in left field batting ninth. Carl's going 0:07:56.000 --> 0:07:59.680 to get some extensive work now with Taeoscar Hernandez on 0:07:59.720 --> 0:08:02.360 the show for a little while. But Calls just answered 0:08:02.360 --> 0:08:05.000 the call really hitting three Tozho five. He hasn't produced 0:08:05.040 --> 0:08:07.080 really that much in the power game, but he hasn't 0:08:07.120 --> 0:08:08.200 had a lot of opportunity. 0:08:08.240 --> 0:08:10.680 Yeah, but he's gotten on base, whether it be walks, 0:08:10.680 --> 0:08:12.680 whether it be getting the base hits and what have you. 0:08:12.720 --> 0:08:15.600 Thenther part two is you don't give up anything. In fact, 0:08:15.680 --> 0:08:17.880 it's a plus if you look at what he does defensively, 0:08:17.880 --> 0:08:19.800 he has some speed on the bases on top of 0:08:19.840 --> 0:08:22.280 it the perfect high because the bottom of the order 0:08:22.600 --> 0:08:24.720 so important when they get on base, then you got 0:08:24.720 --> 0:08:28.080 the big guys coming on with Otani, Pajz, Freeman and 0:08:28.120 --> 0:08:30.560 then with Bens too, So it pays to have the 0:08:30.600 --> 0:08:32.760 bottom of the lineup red hot to set the stage 0:08:32.760 --> 0:08:33.480 for the other guys. 0:08:33.559 --> 0:08:37.040 Dodgers swept the Diamondbacks in Los Angeles to begin the 0:08:37.080 --> 0:08:40.200 season in late March. They'll play their fourth game against 0:08:40.280 --> 0:08:42.960 them this season coming up in just a little bit. 0:08:43.000 --> 0:08:45.120 Tim All right, thank you, guys. We're off and running 0:08:45.160 --> 0:08:47.120 here on Dodgers on Deck as we count you down 0:08:47.160 --> 0:08:50.120 to first pitch. Dodger fans, get your game day meal 0:08:50.280 --> 0:08:54.439 on a Shakey's Pizza parlor or your Shaky's Pizza, Chicken 0:08:54.480 --> 0:08:59.600 and Mojo's right now at Shakys dot com. Coming up 0:08:59.640 --> 0:09:01.600 here wrong, because you know, Dodgers on deck, you are 0:09:01.600 --> 0:09:04.120 gonna hear from the manager, Dave Roberts. You are gonna 0:09:04.200 --> 0:09:06.760 hear from David Vasse, who goes one on one with 0:09:06.760 --> 0:09:09.600 with Ryan Ward. We'll check out with Charlie Steiner. Of course, 0:09:09.800 --> 0:09:12.559 we'll break down this pitchy matchup, your magical moment and 0:09:12.640 --> 0:09:16.200 injury report. But up next you're O Tani, Rewind and 0:09:16.280 --> 0:09:19.480 Kirsten Watson from Sports to LA. That's all coming up. 0:09:19.720 --> 0:09:23.720 We lead you up to Dodgers and the Diamondbacks first pitching, Phoenix, 0:09:23.720 --> 0:09:25.839 coming up at six forty. Thanks for being with us. 0:09:25.960 --> 0:09:27.720 I'm Tim kase Is the back to back World Series 0:09:27.800 --> 0:09:29.480 champion Dodgers Audio Network. 0:09:32.559 --> 0:09:37.839 This is Morongo Cassino Dodgers game on your home for 0:09:38.200 --> 0:09:39.760 LA Dodgers Baseball. 0:09:40.800 --> 0:09:44.480 It's the Dodgers in Diamondbacks from Phoenix, start of a 0:09:44.520 --> 0:09:47.280 four game series. Dodgers first place atop the NL West 0:09:47.920 --> 0:09:51.720 Sheen and Guardo Rodriguez. The pitching matchup, first pitch, coming 0:09:51.800 --> 0:09:52.960 up at six forty. 0:09:54.280 --> 0:09:57.840 This is the Otani Rewind. 0:09:57.600 --> 0:10:00.800 Painters OH one pitch, Tani so base. 0:10:00.640 --> 0:10:03.199 Sit in the right field, over the leaping Bryce and 0:10:03.280 --> 0:10:06.400 Stott at second base and so the on Bay streak 0:10:06.440 --> 0:10:11.439 now sixteen games and in this sixteen game stretch, specifically 0:10:11.520 --> 0:10:14.440 leading off the game show, Hey is now seven for 0:10:14.600 --> 0:10:17.680 thirteen a one to one. Otani pulls it on the 0:10:17.679 --> 0:10:20.520 ground through the right side, a base hit in the 0:10:20.559 --> 0:10:22.720 right field, his second hit of the ball. 0:10:22.600 --> 0:10:27.480 Game show, Hey Otani yesterday two for five with two singles, 0:10:27.960 --> 0:10:31.719 as Nelly mentioned, extending that on Bay streak to sixteen 0:10:31.840 --> 0:10:34.839 straight games, part of a Dodgers nine to one win 0:10:34.920 --> 0:10:35.840 over the Phillies. 0:10:36.040 --> 0:10:39.960 This is Kirston's corner with Kirston Watson. 0:10:40.400 --> 0:10:42.520 Hey Carrison now joins us from the desert. Brought to 0:10:42.600 --> 0:10:44.840 by Cars for Kids. Donate now at Cars for Kids 0:10:44.880 --> 0:10:47.160 dot Org. All right, Kirson, here we go, Im and 0:10:47.240 --> 0:10:49.560 Sheen on the mound and she and one of these 0:10:49.600 --> 0:10:53.280 young arms. The Dodgers have inserted this rotation this start 0:10:53.320 --> 0:10:55.440 of the season because of injuries, and you look at 0:10:55.480 --> 0:10:57.640 what the starting staff has done, it's been pretty good. 0:10:57.960 --> 0:10:59.400 Yeah, if we look at just the month of May, 0:10:59.440 --> 0:11:02.280 and really since May thirteenth, the group is eleven and two. 0:11:02.320 --> 0:11:04.400 They've got a two point two three ERA, and so 0:11:04.559 --> 0:11:07.640 the group really has been excellent. With talking to Dave Roberts, 0:11:08.000 --> 0:11:10.880 he called out. He said, you know, yes, the entirety 0:11:10.960 --> 0:11:13.400 of the starting rotation has been in a really good spot. 0:11:13.640 --> 0:11:16.080 But what's allowed the group as a whole to be 0:11:16.120 --> 0:11:19.280 so successful. It's not the guys like sho Hey and Yoshinobu, 0:11:19.320 --> 0:11:20.800 who we know what they're going to do when they 0:11:20.840 --> 0:11:24.719 take the ball. It's the younger guys who have come in, 0:11:24.800 --> 0:11:27.480 like you mentioned, stepped up when needed. That's Emmit she 0:11:27.640 --> 0:11:31.000 and that's rookie Sasaki and that's Justin Robleski. And what 0:11:31.200 --> 0:11:33.600 those three have really been able to do for the group, 0:11:33.840 --> 0:11:36.559 Dave Roberts has said, has been excellent, which is allowed 0:11:36.600 --> 0:11:38.680 for the success that this group has seen in May. 0:11:38.760 --> 0:11:39.400 So four m men. 0:11:39.440 --> 0:11:42.079 He's coming off of, you know, a strong outing in 0:11:42.120 --> 0:11:43.959 which he fought to stay in there. If we recall, 0:11:44.040 --> 0:11:46.760 he was hit by a comebacker off his like kind 0:11:46.800 --> 0:11:50.680 of bicep tricep part of his arm, and it was 0:11:50.720 --> 0:11:52.480 a hard hit ball that came back at him, but 0:11:52.520 --> 0:11:54.240 he wanted to stay in there. It always took some 0:11:54.240 --> 0:11:56.720 time for Dave Roberts and Thomas Upward to check on him, 0:11:57.040 --> 0:11:58.959 but he fought to stay in and was able to 0:11:59.000 --> 0:12:01.440 get their six innings of work. So he feels like 0:12:01.520 --> 0:12:04.600 he's in a good spot and really building on each 0:12:04.640 --> 0:12:08.080 outing to continue to find success and just to feel 0:12:08.080 --> 0:12:09.720 like a complete picture where he wants to be. 0:12:09.960 --> 0:12:13.040 Speaking of continuing to find success, it's a daily grind 0:12:13.080 --> 0:12:15.360 for every hitter at the big leagues, for Kyle Tucker, 0:12:15.600 --> 0:12:17.920 he's really been working hard off the field. 0:12:18.360 --> 0:12:21.440 He has, so you know, he's someone who's similar to Shohotani. 0:12:21.679 --> 0:12:25.160 When he takes the field to take batting practice world stop, 0:12:25.520 --> 0:12:27.600 it is a very big deal when he is doing 0:12:27.640 --> 0:12:29.679 that because he is looking for something. So when we 0:12:29.679 --> 0:12:32.200 were back in Los Angeles during this past homestand and 0:12:32.280 --> 0:12:34.120 only did we see him come on the field early 0:12:34.360 --> 0:12:37.360 to take some hits off of the velocity machine, off 0:12:37.360 --> 0:12:40.320 the jugs machine, I should say, but he also was 0:12:40.360 --> 0:12:42.719 on the field for the traditional batting practice ahead of 0:12:42.760 --> 0:12:45.680 the game, taking some swings, trying to feel something. And 0:12:45.679 --> 0:12:47.920 when I spoke to him this afternoon just as to 0:12:48.000 --> 0:12:49.960 what that was for, he was saying, he was like, 0:12:50.000 --> 0:12:52.360 you know, he's been putting in a lot of work 0:12:52.440 --> 0:12:54.959 right now, trying just to feel something at the plate 0:12:55.000 --> 0:12:56.880 to swing through it, to make sure that he's getting 0:12:56.880 --> 0:12:59.720 the results. He's felt like, you know, yes, he's making contact, 0:12:59.760 --> 0:13:02.320 but he's not making the contact in which he wanted 0:13:02.360 --> 0:13:04.120 to be doing. When we were in Milwaukee, he shared 0:13:04.160 --> 0:13:06.480 with me that he felt like he was hitting when 0:13:06.480 --> 0:13:09.640 he had the two triples. He was pulling. Yeah, he 0:13:09.720 --> 0:13:11.840 was pulling the ball, hitting it down the foul line, 0:13:12.080 --> 0:13:14.160 and as much as he was able to get results, 0:13:14.440 --> 0:13:16.400 that's not where he wanted to. He felt like there 0:13:16.480 --> 0:13:18.640 was just too much backspin on it. He's trying to 0:13:18.679 --> 0:13:22.000 go more to that center field, left center, right center 0:13:22.080 --> 0:13:24.240 is fine. He just wants to put the ball forward 0:13:24.320 --> 0:13:26.440 or as Dave Roberts likes to say, move the ball forward. 0:13:27.040 --> 0:13:29.600 And so that's something he's trying to do right now. 0:13:29.679 --> 0:13:31.520 So it meant there was a lot of swings. There 0:13:31.600 --> 0:13:34.600 was swings before he took VP on the field. There 0:13:34.600 --> 0:13:37.760 were swings the night or the yeah after the game, 0:13:37.840 --> 0:13:40.080 and that night before the night after the game. There 0:13:40.160 --> 0:13:41.719 was just he was like, yeah, there's a lot of 0:13:41.720 --> 0:13:43.760 swings right now, but ultimately I'm just trying to get 0:13:43.800 --> 0:13:45.960 back on track. But he does feel like he's getting closer. 0:13:45.960 --> 0:13:48.440 He did say the two hits yesterday aren't enough of 0:13:48.520 --> 0:13:50.600 a sign, but it's a good sign for him. 0:13:50.960 --> 0:13:53.599 Well, certainly the production will be there, no doubt about it. 0:13:53.640 --> 0:13:55.640 Kyle Tucker is one of the guys the Dodgers need 0:13:55.920 --> 0:13:57.599 this season to get going. Still to come here on 0:13:57.679 --> 0:13:59.760 Wrongo because you know Dodgers on that nank you curious, Well, 0:13:59.800 --> 0:14:02.640 dive deeper into this pitching matchup, David Vasseg goes one 0:14:02.640 --> 0:14:05.959 on one. Ryan Ward, who hit a home run yesterday, 0:14:06.040 --> 0:14:08.240 his first in the big leagues. 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Can you talk about the 0:15:44.160 --> 0:15:48.040 pressure in the dugouts with Dave Roberts. 0:15:48.640 --> 0:15:51.200 I think we're still learning. I think that you know, 0:15:51.240 --> 0:15:54.520 there's certain things that about a player that you kind 0:15:54.560 --> 0:15:58.800 of know, but you don't really know until you see 0:15:58.800 --> 0:16:03.400 it in action and see some adversities and how they respond. 0:16:03.560 --> 0:16:06.840 So I think that you know, with Emmett, he's responded 0:16:06.960 --> 0:16:11.760 some adversities. He's responding to now feeling better, the uptick 0:16:11.760 --> 0:16:16.320 in velocity. So this whole kind of growth for Emmett 0:16:16.360 --> 0:16:18.040 has been fantastic. 0:16:18.720 --> 0:16:21.480 Have you seen signs of will Smith starting to hit 0:16:21.480 --> 0:16:23.840 the fastball better than he was, you know, for the 0:16:23.880 --> 0:16:26.320 majority of the season. 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Usually guys go viral 0:18:17.520 --> 0:18:20.000 for not so great moments, but on the last homestand 0:18:20.040 --> 0:18:23.960 you had two very pure, fun viral moments. You're trying 0:18:24.000 --> 0:18:25.960 to get Kyle Carros to look up at his dad, 0:18:26.000 --> 0:18:28.520 and then you playfully kick some dirt at JT real 0:18:28.560 --> 0:18:32.199 mudo yesterday. Where does that all come from? I don't know. 0:18:32.400 --> 0:18:33.639 I don't know. 0:18:33.640 --> 0:18:36.680 I love playing the game in baseball. I know we're 0:18:36.680 --> 0:18:39.680 in a tense battle of competing h to, but during 0:18:39.680 --> 0:18:42.440 the game, I like to find fun things. 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