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Speaker 3: Oh and welcome to Off Night Dodger Talk here on
Speaker 3: this Thursday nights, August the six. Thanks for being with us,
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Speaker 3: Off Night Dodger Talk on a five seventy LA Sports
Speaker 3: phone lines wide open at eight six six nine eight
Speaker 3: seven two five seventy Jump on board. There's a lot
Speaker 3: to get to here on Off Night Dodger Talk. Even
Speaker 3: though the Dodgers with a much needed night off, a
Speaker 3: lot to dive into, a lot to break down, including
Speaker 3: a farm report coming up in about forty five minutes.
Speaker 3: The Major League Baseball Trade deadline has come and gone,
Speaker 3: a little bit of a shakeup, and the Dodgers' top
Speaker 3: ten of their minor league prospects will tell you what
Speaker 3: has changed where they're at and how they're doing here.
Speaker 3: As we flipped the calendar to the month of August,
Speaker 3: and the trade deadline has coming gone, with Zayer Hope
Speaker 3: the only real casualty along with River Ryan going into
Speaker 3: Trek Scoople trade to the Detroit Tigers. As the Dodgers
Speaker 3: saw Terrek School will make his Dodger debut on Tuesday
Speaker 3: night at Wrigley Field in Chicago. He came up with
Speaker 3: the loss, a game in which the Dodgers' offense struggled,
Speaker 3: and man, haven't We've been saying.
Speaker 2: That a lot lately.
Speaker 3: The Dodgers' offense just sputtering, and as a whole, this
Speaker 3: Dodger t really struggling and having lost six in a row,
Speaker 3: eight of their last ten, and what was a fourteen
Speaker 3: game lead in the NLS has dwindled down to eight
Speaker 3: and depending on what happened tonight over an Arizona game
Speaker 3: that is underway a Chase Field between the Diamondbacks and
Speaker 3: the Padres, a Snake's win and that lead is down
Speaker 3: to seven and a half leading up to what has
Speaker 3: now become a big three game series Friday, Saturday and
Speaker 3: Sunday over in the Desert between the Dodgers and the
Speaker 3: Arizona Diamondbacks. Eight sixty six nine eight seven two five seventy.
Speaker 3: We got a lot to get to, including looking back
Speaker 3: at the trade deadline, what the Dodgers did with getting
Speaker 3: Trek school Ball, and when you really kind of sit
Speaker 3: back and look at what that trade meant for the Dodgers,
Speaker 3: it was a big one. Not only do they keep
Speaker 3: them away from the Brewers and the Tampa Bay Rays
Speaker 3: and any other team that was sniffing around and made
Speaker 3: an offer to the Detroit Tigers, but at this point
Speaker 3: of this season, where the rotation sits, where guys are
Speaker 3: currently on the injured list or coming off the injured list,
Speaker 3: quite frankly, the Dodgers needed another arm. And it's surprising
Speaker 3: to say that. It's kind of laughable if you're not
Speaker 3: an in LA and you're not a Dodger fan and
Speaker 3: you're looking in the out think outside and thinking, wow,
Speaker 3: this Dodger team, the last thing they need is more pitching.
Speaker 3: Come on, Well, when you look at it, though, show
Speaker 3: hey Otani not pitching right now. We may not see
Speaker 3: him start another game for the Dodgers this year. He's
Speaker 3: not ramped up. He's been shut down for a few weeks.
Speaker 3: It's going to take him a few weeks and a
Speaker 3: few starts to ramp back up. So where does he
Speaker 3: sit as far as being a part of this rotation
Speaker 3: the remainder of the season and the postseason, show hey
Speaker 3: Otani is a question mark. Tyler Glass now still a
Speaker 3: few weeks away, so he's not close to returning. You've
Speaker 3: got Blake Snell hasn't pitched much for this Dodgers team.
Speaker 3: He's set to come off the injured list next week
Speaker 3: when the Dodgers return home. But let's be honest, we
Speaker 3: haven't been able to count on Blake Snell here in
Speaker 3: twenty twenty six. So you assume he's healthy and you
Speaker 3: assume he's good to go coming off the injured list,
Speaker 3: but you know, this season just hasn't been a season
Speaker 3: where you can count on him. You look at Yoshanoba,
Speaker 3: Justin Robleski, the two really pillars of this rotation here
Speaker 3: at twenty twenty six, taking the ball every single week
Speaker 3: when asked upon them. Justin Robleski's now had back to
Speaker 3: back really bad starts, giving up a total of eight
Speaker 3: home runs, four in his each starts against the Mariners
Speaker 3: and the Chicago Cubs at Wrigley Field this week. He
Speaker 3: has come back down to earth what was a magical
Speaker 3: first half of the season, an all star first half,
Speaker 3: and rightfully so, he was really good. The numbers don't lie,
Speaker 3: but he's now reaching that part of the season where
Speaker 3: he has surpassed his number innings in his career. He
Speaker 3: has surpassed a career high and starts. We're in an
Speaker 3: uncharted territory here for a young pitcher in this Dodger's rotation.
Speaker 3: So what do we get from Justin Robleski moving forward?
Speaker 3: Eric Lower keeps him at the trade deadline, has a
Speaker 3: really pour outing yesterday in Chicago and what it would
Speaker 3: have been a fairy tale run since coming over from
Speaker 3: the Blue Jays. So there's been a lot of ups
Speaker 3: and there's a lot of the gain power on this
Speaker 3: Dodger rotation. But quite frankly, as we sit here on August,
Speaker 3: the six injuries and question marks are a big part
Speaker 3: of this rotation. So picking up Terrek Scooble was not
Speaker 3: just a defensive move, was not just a let's add
Speaker 3: to a superior rotation to everybody else and just play
Speaker 3: keep away. This was at a necessity at this point
Speaker 3: of the season because of the question marks and because
Speaker 3: of the unknowns moving forward. Now, if we talk here
Speaker 3: in a few weeks and Blake Snell's back and dominating,
Speaker 3: and Justin Robleski gets back into form, and we're close
Speaker 3: to getting Tyler Glass now back, certainly it's a different conversation.
Speaker 3: But as we sit here on August the sixth, writing
Speaker 3: a six game losing streak, eight of the last ten
Speaker 3: Dodgers Lee's been cut in half.
Speaker 2: It's a different story. It's a different song we're singing
Speaker 2: right now.
Speaker 3: As far as the Dodgers is are concerned, eight sixty six,
Speaker 3: nine eighty seven, two five seventy is the number. And
Speaker 3: then you look at what is out there as far
Speaker 3: as the Dodgers were turning, Besides Blake Snell and besides
Speaker 3: Tyler Glass. Now there are two Dodger who, quite frankly,
Speaker 3: I didn't think we see again in twenty twenty six.
Speaker 3: We may not, but certainly they are now ramping back
Speaker 3: up and could be a factor here the final month
Speaker 3: and a half of the season. How much of a
Speaker 3: factor we'll find out. I remember last year, Rookie Sasaki
Speaker 3: was basically written off injuries, just inconsistent, seemed like the
Speaker 3: major leagues were too big for him. He wasn't even
Speaker 3: in the conversation this time last year, and all of
Speaker 3: a sudden, Rookie Sasaki was in TRIPLEA Oklahoma City, flipped
Speaker 3: his confidence around, became a closer, a shutdown closer. In September,
Speaker 3: the last week of the season. They're still trying to
Speaker 3: figure out a role for him. So he was able
Speaker 3: to come back right around the same time last year.
Speaker 3: So there is precedent for a Dodger pitcher post All
Speaker 3: Star Break early August to still be a contributor on
Speaker 3: the postseason roster. And those are two guys that are
Speaker 3: really kind of opening my eyes. It's still early on
Speaker 3: in their return, but Bobby Miller and Gavin Stone, and
Speaker 3: I'll even throw a third one in there in Ben Casparius.
Speaker 3: All three have been just absolutely just destroyed by injuries
Speaker 3: this year. And you go back to last year for
Speaker 3: Gavin Stone and Bobby Miller, Gavin Stone hasn't thrown since
Speaker 3: August is September twenty four. That's been a long time.
Speaker 3: Was right around the end of August early September twenty
Speaker 3: twenty four. It's the last time we saw Gavin Stone.
Speaker 3: But how good was he?
Speaker 2: Then?
Speaker 3: Shoulder problems have just really shut him down since then.
Speaker 3: Ben Casparius is in Triple A Oklahoma City. Bobby Miller
Speaker 3: is back in Triple A Oklahoma City. Gavin Stone tonight
Speaker 3: made his first appearance in over seven hundred days. Gavin Stone,
Speaker 3: who was so good in twenty twenty four. I think
Speaker 3: people forget how good Gavin Stone was two years ago
Speaker 3: when he led the Dodge with twenty five starts, one
Speaker 3: hundred and forty innings pitched, three point fifty three era
Speaker 3: struck out one hundred and sixteen batters. Remember twenty twenty
Speaker 3: four Dodgers beat the Yankees, and that whole postseason it
Speaker 3: was bullpen games. The Dodgers had two healthy starters and
Speaker 3: Jack Flaherty. Yeah, that was a decimated rotation showing a
Speaker 3: tiny culdn't pitch still making his way back from Tommy
Speaker 3: John surgery. That was a rotation decimated by injuries and
Speaker 3: it was all bullpen In twenty four but getting him
Speaker 3: through the regular season was Gavin Stone. Gavin Stone, twenty
Speaker 3: five starts, literally laid it all out there for the
Speaker 3: Dodgers until his shoulder gave out at the end of August,
Speaker 3: first week of September and they shut him down and
Speaker 3: he needed a complete shoulder reconstruction surgery. Missed all of
Speaker 3: last year and has missed the first half of this year.
Speaker 3: And he's been over at Campbell Back Ranch along with
Speaker 3: Bobby Miller, getting healthy, strengthening their arms and shoulders and
Speaker 3: throwing on the backfields there against minor leaguers, and they
Speaker 3: both this week have gone back to Triple A tonight,
Speaker 3: Gavin Stone making his first appearance and again seven hundred
Speaker 3: days as he starts his rehabit signment in Triple A
Speaker 3: Oklahoma City. Gavin Stone wasn't out there long, but Gavin
Speaker 3: Stone in inning in two thirds. He gave up one
Speaker 3: run on two hits, struck out three, and through thirty
Speaker 3: three pitches his average fastball velocity about ninety five miles
Speaker 3: an hour through a change up about forty two percent
Speaker 3: of the time. This is just a first step for
Speaker 3: a Gavin Stone, but wouldn't he be a welcome addition,
Speaker 3: possibly to this Dodgers team, Bobby Miller, if he can
Speaker 3: get back into form, He's an interesting arm to think
Speaker 3: about in the last month of the season.
Speaker 2: Now, is there room for them come October?
Speaker 3: That remains to be seen, because I think between now
Speaker 3: and October, first, we're gonna see guys competing again for
Speaker 3: postseason spots, postseason spots in the back end of the rotation.
Speaker 3: And then when there's not enough spots in the rotation
Speaker 3: because of the length of series and how many starting
Speaker 3: pitchers you really do need, where does the bullpen come about?
Speaker 3: In all this, there's only a certain amount of spots.
Speaker 3: Who's gonna be in, who's going to be out. It'll
Speaker 3: be interesting to see who makes a push, who's pitching strong,
Speaker 3: who's reliable, and who Dave Roberts feels comfortable with in
Speaker 3: October baseball at that point the season, everybody should be healthy.
Speaker 3: Class now should be back, Snell should be back. We
Speaker 3: don't know about Otani, but outside of him, everybody else
Speaker 3: should be back and good to go. And with all
Speaker 3: cards on the table, we're gonna see whose game who's
Speaker 3: ready for October baseball, And I think that's gonna been
Speaker 3: a part exciting part of this Dodger Finals seven weeks
Speaker 3: of the season. Just two weeks ago, all I would
Speaker 3: get hearing from Dodger fans like, Ah, this thing's over,
Speaker 3: this season's over. This team is running away with the
Speaker 3: They are gonna just, you know, ease their way into October.
Speaker 3: This thing is done. They have just wrapped up the
Speaker 3: division already in July.
Speaker 2: Well, I don't know.
Speaker 3: If that's the sentiment they've had in the last couple
Speaker 3: of weeks, but they've certainly played like it the last
Speaker 3: six in losing six straight and getting swept by the
Speaker 3: Red Sox and the Cubs. But the Dodgers League has
Speaker 3: gone from fourteen to eight and you look at the
Speaker 3: National League top two spots. Dodgers no longer hold on
Speaker 3: to one of the top two spots of the National League.
Speaker 3: And what does that mean, Well, you don't have to
Speaker 3: play in the wildcard round if you're the top two
Speaker 3: teams in the American League and the top two teams
Speaker 3: in the National League, top best records in both leagues,
Speaker 3: avoid the wildcard round and go right to the DS.
Speaker 3: Wouldn't a nice week off be good for this aging
Speaker 3: Dodgers team full of veterans that has been grinding. I
Speaker 3: had a conversation with Rob Parker today on his podcast
Speaker 3: over Fox Sports Radio and Point. I heard Jerry Harrison
Speaker 3: Junior say this on Sports and at LA as well
Speaker 3: Adrian Gonzalez yesterday after the game. This is a Dodgers
Speaker 3: team with a lot of guys who have played a
Speaker 3: lot of baseball, and they played a lot of baseball
Speaker 3: in the last two and a half years. And again
Speaker 3: I don't want to hear well, they got a lot
Speaker 3: of off season time, and these guys get paid a
Speaker 3: lot of money and they're playing a sport to grind.
Speaker 3: These guys are the best of the best. In twenty
Speaker 3: four you start the year in Korea, you go all
Speaker 3: the way to October and you win the game. You
Speaker 3: win the World Series almost near to November first, and
Speaker 3: then you come back after a short and offseason and
Speaker 3: you got to go play in Japan weeks before everybody
Speaker 3: else starts their season. That means you start before everybody else,
Speaker 3: and you start the season in Japan and you ended
Speaker 3: in Game seven of the World Series in Toronto, Canada.
Speaker 3: It's a long season, folks. That's back to back seasons,
Speaker 3: short and off season, and they're back at it. And
Speaker 3: for a lot of them, it was an early start
Speaker 3: to spring training because of the World Baseball Classic this year,
Speaker 3: they didn't have to start overseas, but you had the WBC,
Speaker 3: which several Dodger players and their stars played in that WBC.
Speaker 3: So another early.
Speaker 2: Start, and here we go August.
Speaker 3: You know, in essence, two and a half years, this
Speaker 3: has been a grind in a run for this Dodger's team,
Speaker 3: and they've certainly celebrated two World Series championships. But here
Speaker 3: we are in August and they had a fourteen game lead.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna be honest, two weeks ago, three weeks ago,
Speaker 3: when they're up fourteen games, I can see it where
Speaker 3: your mentality is like, man, I've been grinding and we're
Speaker 3: running away with the division. It's time to exhale on
Speaker 3: life and baseball. I'm looking around and say, look, well
Speaker 3: we've accomplished now. With that being said, sometimes when you
Speaker 3: do that, it's hard to regain maybe your focus, regain
Speaker 3: that edge you had, regain that momentum that you've been
Speaker 3: riding that high, you've been riding that long road the
Speaker 3: last two and a half years that you've been on
Speaker 3: just grinding and the ups and downs and twists and turns,
Speaker 3: and when you exhale like that because you have a
Speaker 3: fourteen game lead, which is only human.
Speaker 2: The Dodgers have been a five hundred team.
Speaker 3: They get swept by the Arizona Diamondbacks going into the
Speaker 3: break fourteen games down to eleven. At the All Star break,
Speaker 3: you come out, you win all three series on the
Speaker 3: road trip.
Speaker 2: That's great.
Speaker 3: You know, you squeak by two or three against the
Speaker 3: marriage and then you get swept by the Red Sox
Speaker 3: and you get swept by the Cubs. And what has
Speaker 3: been the difference in the last few weeks for this
Speaker 3: Dodgers team, Well, to me, they've gotten away from who
Speaker 3: they are. This is a team that slugs for offense.
Speaker 3: There's no argument there is a team. It's a lot of
Speaker 3: home runs and drives the ball. Really good pitching, which
Speaker 3: we've seen from the starters and the bullpen. Remember I'm
Speaker 3: old enough to remember earlier this year when the Dodgers
Speaker 3: bullpen didn't give up earned run for like twenty eight innings. Combine,
Speaker 3: and good defense and base running. They play good fundamental
Speaker 3: baseball all the way around. That's what this team does.
Speaker 3: Slugs pitching, and good fundamentals on the base pass and defense.
Speaker 3: The defense has gotten a little sloppy, and the base
Speaker 3: running has not been good at all. And it's up
Speaker 3: and down the lineup from show Hey all the way down.
Speaker 3: You know, game thrown out at home on a base
Speaker 3: hitting the right center field like Alonso did on the
Speaker 3: last roadchup in Philadelphia. You know, trying to single into
Speaker 3: a double and getting thrown out at second base for
Speaker 3: the first out of an inning, just trying to stretch
Speaker 3: a double into a triple, getting picked off at first.
Speaker 3: You know, not smart on the base pass is something
Speaker 3: you can correct. That's mental, that's something you could control.
Speaker 3: You can't control a ball that hits a bag that
Speaker 3: goes up in the air. You can't control a Baltimore
Speaker 3: chop like the other night they saw in Chicago where
Speaker 3: it was a Nico Horner hit the ball off the
Speaker 3: front of the plate and it goes, you know, sixty
Speaker 3: five feet up into the air and just hangs there
Speaker 3: and hangs there and hangs there, and the go ahead
Speaker 3: run score and then all of a sudden the floodgates
Speaker 3: open against the dodge. You can't control that, but you
Speaker 3: can control base running, you can control on the mound,
Speaker 3: being under control and throwing strikes, not walking guys, not
Speaker 3: hitting guys, not throwing the ball right down the plate,
Speaker 3: and you know, tempting them to hit home runs like
Speaker 3: we saw in Chicago where they gave up a bunch
Speaker 3: of home runs in three with eight home runs in
Speaker 3: three games. I mean, Pete crow Armstrong could be named
Speaker 3: Player of the Month just what he did against the Dodgers.
Speaker 3: So the Dodgers have gotten away from what has been
Speaker 3: their mo slug pitching and defense, base running. That's what
Speaker 3: they do. And it sounds simple, and it sounds like, yeah,
Speaker 3: team should do that, but they don't. So the Dodgers
Speaker 3: have done really good. That's why they've won more times
Speaker 3: than not. And that's why they've won back to back
Speaker 3: World Series championships doing the small things against that series
Speaker 3: against the Blue Jays. Think about all those small moments,
Speaker 3: the catch and left center field, you know, the catch
Speaker 3: and throw from from Kyk, the one hopper to Rojas
Speaker 3: at the end of Game six to double up the
Speaker 3: runner at second base. Great defense, smarter than the other team.
Speaker 3: Bad base running by the Blue Jays in the World Series.
Speaker 3: Not good at a good jumping, they could have been
Speaker 3: the game winning run at home. Instead, Miguel Rojast makes
Speaker 3: a great play, throws home and Will Smith gets the
Speaker 3: guy at home by millimeters. Those are the kind of
Speaker 3: things the Dodgers have done and that's why they've won championships.
Speaker 3: But when you get away from that, you're not playing
Speaker 3: clean baseball and you're not slugging, and you know, pitchings
Speaker 3: give it up home runs and you're putting yourself in holes.
Speaker 3: That's why you lose six in a row. So the
Speaker 3: Dodgers need to fix it, and I'm confident they will.
Speaker 3: I'm confident this team is going to right the ship
Speaker 3: and they're gonna get back on the winning track, and
Speaker 3: I think it begins this weekend in Arizona. Now, the
Speaker 3: Diamambacks have all three of their guys. They're Merrill, Kelly, Brandon, Fott,
Speaker 3: ed Guardo and Rodriguez. They're all lined up ready to go,
Speaker 3: and I imagine there'll be a pro Dodger fan crowd
Speaker 3: in Arizona. I mean, just based on what we've seen
Speaker 3: there over the years, but baseball wise, between the lines,
Speaker 3: get ready for this Diamondbacks team because they are gonna
Speaker 3: come out and they saw what they happened in Chicago.
Speaker 3: I'm sure they saw what happened at Dodgers Stadium whe
Speaker 3: weekend by the Red Sox. How to beat the Dodgers,
Speaker 3: how to press them, how to force them to make mistakes,
Speaker 3: how to force them to make bad running decisions on
Speaker 3: the base pass. This is things other teams see when
Speaker 3: they scout. The Dodgers put the pressure on them, and
Speaker 3: the Dodgers just haven't played Cleyton Baseball eight sixty six
Speaker 3: nine eight seven, two, five seventy again is our phone number.
Speaker 3: So the Dodgers are back at it tomorrow and again
Speaker 3: just kind of looking back at this long three weeks
Speaker 3: here since the All Star break. You start on that
Speaker 3: Friday in New York, you go to Philadelphia, you had
Speaker 3: weather issues in all three cities. You had to rain
Speaker 3: out on a Saturday in New York against the Yankees,
Speaker 3: you had to play a doubleheader. I'm not giving excuses,
Speaker 3: but then you're throwing the day off where they have
Speaker 3: to go to the Nation's Capitol and they get celebrated
Speaker 3: for last year's World Series. All right, that cuts into
Speaker 3: your schedule and your time to get off your feed.
Speaker 3: That's more time, you have to go do things. You're
Speaker 3: in a different city, you gotta travel, you gotta get
Speaker 3: out another plane, another bus. It's a lot of wear
Speaker 3: and tear again on guys who were in their early
Speaker 3: to mid thirties on this Dodgers team, and what five
Speaker 3: of them plus the coaching staff were all in Philadelphia
Speaker 3: also for the All Star break, so they didn't really
Speaker 3: get a chance to get away and decompress. You have
Speaker 3: one day off when you come back before the series
Speaker 3: against the Mariners and Red Sox. That's it in essence,
Speaker 3: they've had one day off up until today, over two
Speaker 3: and a half weeks. It's a long stretch, nine games,
Speaker 3: ten days East Coast Roady back home right away playing
Speaker 3: against the Mariners Red Sox. Quick turnaround of going to Chicago,
Speaker 3: you know, getting in at four o'clock in the morning
Speaker 3: on Monday morning and having to play in Chicago Monday night,
Speaker 3: and you got a hot Cubs team just licking their
Speaker 3: chops ready for you.
Speaker 2: And that's the other thing.
Speaker 3: Everywhere the Dodgers go now, teams are waiting for him.
Speaker 3: And that's what happens when you're the champs. That's what
Speaker 3: happens when you're the Dodgers, and again nobody feels sorry
Speaker 3: for him. But you have to be up and ready
Speaker 3: every single game because you get in at four o'clock
Speaker 3: in the morning. You got to go to Chicago and
Speaker 3: play that night, start three games after you just got
Speaker 3: swept by the Red Sox at home. Hey, sorry, no
Speaker 3: pity party here. You gotta get ready to go because
Speaker 3: they're waiting and there's Ranger Swarers waiting for you in Boston.
Speaker 3: And then you go to rickley Field and you know,
Speaker 3: you got a Cubs team waiting for you. You know
Speaker 3: that's that's the way it goes. And for the Cubs,
Speaker 3: sold out crowd, they were fired up. They take the
Speaker 3: first two. They come out yesterday, fall behind, PCA, hits
Speaker 3: a couple of home runs, drives in a bunch of runs,
Speaker 3: and Rickley Field singing their dumb song.
Speaker 2: I shouldn't say dumb song. They're singing their song. They're
Speaker 2: singing their song.
Speaker 3: Okay, they're singing their victory song there in Chicago, and
Speaker 3: they're feeling good about it. Hey, we got we got
Speaker 3: the Dodgers number. Well we'll meet up again in October. Boys,
Speaker 3: That's what happens when you're the champs. You get the
Speaker 3: best from everybody, and the Dodgers know that. But I
Speaker 3: think today a chance to just soak up the sun
Speaker 3: in Arizona, hang out at the pool, hang out in
Speaker 3: the air conditioning, play their video games, get their Uber eats,
Speaker 3: whatever they're doing. Just get off their feet in Arizona,
Speaker 3: relax and get ready for this three game weekend set.
Speaker 2: It's gonna be fun.
Speaker 3: Eight sixty six, nine eighty seven two five seventy is
Speaker 3: our number. We'll take a break, We'll come back on
Speaker 3: one line open if you want to jump on board.
Speaker 3: Dodgers have lost six in a row. Oh but it's
Speaker 3: not a time to panic. It's not a time to
Speaker 3: freak out. It's not a time to worry. This team
Speaker 3: is too good, too talented to continue their losing ways.
Speaker 3: Last year they lost seven in a row. Last year,
Speaker 3: they had played basically five hundred baseball for a stretch
Speaker 3: after the All Star Break. Dodgers blew a lead, saw
Speaker 3: the Padres come back, get within striking distance right there,
Speaker 3: neck and neck with the Dodgers late, and the Dodgers
Speaker 3: win the Division.
Speaker 2: Dodgers win the.
Speaker 3: World Series eight six six nine eighty seven two five
Speaker 3: seventy plus he got arms coming back. Blake Snell next
Speaker 3: homestand Snell's Zilla returns. Tyler Glasaus already made a rehabit
Speaker 3: signment in Ontario with the tower buzzer. He's ramping up
Speaker 3: in a couple of arms. He may have forgotten about him.
Speaker 3: Gavin Stone, benk Asparius, Bobby Miller. Could they be factors.
Speaker 3: We'll have a farm report coming up as well. Busy
Speaker 3: Hour be a part of it. Eight sixty six, nine
Speaker 3: eighty seven, two five seventy you're at ANFI seventy LA sports
Speaker 3: Charlton's UK, Ronnie with the poll. I saw Charlton's UK
Speaker 3: with my brother in.
Speaker 4: Gosh.
Speaker 3: Has to be early nineties mid at Ackerman Hall at UCLA.
Speaker 3: They were playing It's a long time ago, long long time.
Speaker 3: I remember standing outside waiting for him to open it
Speaker 3: up and getting in there and it's it's an auditorium,
Speaker 3: standing room, no seats and kind of funny. Years later
Speaker 3: I go back to UCLA as a student in KLA.
Speaker 3: The radio station there, student radio station was right there
Speaker 3: in the old Ackerman Union there. Crazy all right, Welcome
Speaker 3: back to Dodger Talk here at MFI seventy LA Sports
Speaker 3: Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. Dodgers with it on
Speaker 3: night off as they are in Phoenix, a chance to
Speaker 3: get off their feet, relax and get ready for what
Speaker 3: is going to be an exciting weekend in Arizona, a
Speaker 3: three game series between the Dodgers and the Diamondbacks, who
Speaker 3: are actually in action right now as we speak. Dodgers
Speaker 3: an eight game lead in the division and Padres won
Speaker 3: nothing lead over the Dodgers. The Diamondbacks in the third
Speaker 3: inning over a Chase Field, so we'll keep an eye
Speaker 3: on that until the top of the hour. So either way,
Speaker 3: the Dodgers will have a seven and a half game
Speaker 3: or eight game lead or eight and a half. I
Speaker 3: guess it will be what it will be if they
Speaker 3: lose in the division, which is going to be a
Speaker 3: fun series with rookie Sasaki getting the start on Friday,
Speaker 3: Yoshinobaiyamamoto to start on Saturday, and then Sunday it'll be
Speaker 3: Justin Robleski and what really needs to be a bounce
Speaker 3: back game for Justin Robleski. He has been absolutely fantastic
Speaker 3: the first half of the season, coming out of the
Speaker 3: All Star break, in which he got to, you know,
Speaker 3: be on full display there in Philadelphia. Justin Robleski has
Speaker 3: come out post All Star Break and he had the
Speaker 3: good outing in Philadelphia. Pitched into the seventh inning, allowed
Speaker 3: just the one run, struck out seven along the way.
Speaker 3: The game is against the Seattle Mariners back at Dodger Stadium,
Speaker 3: he gave it four home runs in six innings, and
Speaker 3: then the other night in Chicago on the Monday Night,
Speaker 3: couldn't get out of the fifth inning, gave up seven
Speaker 3: runs on seven hits while giving up four more home runs.
Speaker 3: The long ball has been a concern and leaving the
Speaker 3: ball up in the middle of the plate has been
Speaker 3: a problem recently for Justin Robleski, who I love. I
Speaker 3: like everything about him. I love his backstory. I love
Speaker 3: how he has worked to get here. He's not one
Speaker 3: of these first round bonus babies. He got hurt in college,
Speaker 3: was a low round pick of the Dodgers. They took
Speaker 3: a flyer on him, they developed him, and he has
Speaker 3: been absolutely fantastic the last two starts. You hope he
Speaker 3: gets it out of his system and can get back
Speaker 3: to being the Justin Robleski who was so good this year.
Speaker 3: The first half of the season and really opened a
Speaker 3: lot of people's eyes because nobody expected him to be
Speaker 3: in this rotation. Quite frankly, he was going to be
Speaker 3: a guy who was either going to start the year
Speaker 3: in Tripa in the rotation there with Oklahoma City, or
Speaker 3: be again another bullpen arm for this Dodgers team in
Speaker 3: which he was so big last year twenty two appearances
Speaker 3: out of the bullpen, two starts as the opener, and
Speaker 3: this year has just absolutely burst on the scene. Nineteen
Speaker 3: starts already this year, eleven wins. So if Justica Roubeski
Speaker 3: can get back on track, it'll be just an absolute
Speaker 3: bonus for this Dodgers team, which is gonna get back
Speaker 3: Blake Snell, which is gonna get back Tyler Glass. Now
Speaker 3: and you look at the offense top to bottom, shoe
Speaker 3: Hao Tani has kind of gotten back into his groove.
Speaker 3: A couple of home runs yesterday, seems to be getting
Speaker 3: back on base. He has fixed his swing. You gotta
Speaker 3: wonder if the knees feeling better if he's not pitching,
Speaker 3: has helped him get healthier.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 3: It just seems like he's gotten back on track for
Speaker 3: whatever reason. Freddie Freeman has quietly put together a really
Speaker 3: good three month stretch.
Speaker 5: Here.
Speaker 3: He's right now, what a fifteen game hitting streak after
Speaker 3: he had a base hit yesterday. Mookie Betts has kind
Speaker 3: of been that question mark. It's just been to me
Speaker 3: the head scratcher. You know, from batting second to batting fifth,
Speaker 3: they've tried him a third in the lineup, sixth. I mean,
Speaker 3: they've basically tried him a multiples. And that's something Dave
Speaker 3: Roberts did with tay Oscar Hernandez and Andy Pajis, Max
Speaker 3: Munty as well. He's not afraid to move these guys
Speaker 3: around to find where their sweet spots are or get
Speaker 3: him back on track if they're struggling. And for Mookie
Speaker 3: the other night, after he hit the ball hard, I
Speaker 3: had nothing to show for it. On Tuesday, his post
Speaker 3: game was very interesting. I mentioned this on Dodgy Talk yesterday.
Speaker 3: He was asked, if you're frustrated, what's going on? Is
Speaker 3: it your swing, is her mechanics? What's wrong Muke? And
Speaker 3: he said, I don't know. I feel good at the plate.
Speaker 3: I feel like I'm hitting the ball hard. I'm just
Speaker 3: hitting it right at guys.
Speaker 2: I mean I.
Speaker 3: Feel the same. I feel good the plate, and sometimes
Speaker 3: that's just baseball. You get the ball one hundred and
Speaker 3: ten off the bat, but you hit it right at somebody.
Speaker 3: You know, you hit the ball hard on the line,
Speaker 3: but instead of less center field or over the wall,
Speaker 3: you hit it right to the left fielder who has
Speaker 3: lined up positionally for you in left field. You know,
Speaker 3: things like that happen. It's the game of baseball. You
Speaker 3: can't find the green grass sometimes if you threw it
Speaker 3: out there like you were fishing, and what happened the
Speaker 3: night after, he couldn't figure out what was happening, and
Speaker 3: feels good, comes back yesterday with the four hit game.
Speaker 2: That's just the funny part of baseball.
Speaker 3: One game you're scratching your head, and then the next
Speaker 3: game you got four hits and everything looks great, and
Speaker 3: that baseball looks like a beach ball like it did
Speaker 3: the day before. But all of a sudden, it's finding
Speaker 3: green grass and you're lining the ball into the gap.
Speaker 2: And you're getting base hits.
Speaker 3: And I don't know what's changed, nothing same approach at
Speaker 3: the plate, but whatever the reason is, I've got four
Speaker 3: hits today.
Speaker 2: When I had zero hits yesterday.
Speaker 3: You just hope he builds on that and Freddie Freeman
Speaker 3: yesterday you heard it with Petro some money talked about it.
Speaker 3: Doesn't seem to be too worried about this team, doesn't
Speaker 3: seem to be too worried about this six game losing streak. Again,
Speaker 3: these guys grind, They know the ups and downs of
Speaker 3: a season. Six games over the course of one sixty
Speaker 3: two is a blip on the radar as we live
Speaker 3: here in the moment and we don't know the unknown. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I think a lot of us are like, Okay, how
Speaker 3: long is this going to last? Is this just a blip?
Speaker 3: Is just going to be August? Is this going to
Speaker 3: be the end of the run?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 3: You start feeling that in the back of your mind
Speaker 3: as a fan. But you know, these guys have a lot,
Speaker 3: lot of confidence. These guys have a lot of success.
Speaker 3: And I'm not worried about it. If they're not worried
Speaker 3: about it, all right. Eighty sixty six, ninety seven two
Speaker 3: five seventy Paul and Elisa Viejo get us started here
Speaker 3: on off Night Dodger Talk on a five seventy.
Speaker 2: How you doing, yes, sir.
Speaker 6: Thank you, mister Cage.
Speaker 7: Ever since Moky Bets moved to shortstop. That's a very kinetic,
Speaker 7: neurotic position. It's takes a lot of energy, and in
Speaker 7: my opinion, Bets, is hear me out, please? Bets should
Speaker 7: Movie move back to rightfield where we can wressed The
Speaker 7: shortstop position could be adequately manned by a rotating trio
Speaker 7: Rojas Edmunds and Key Hanandez going back in second to
Speaker 7: short easily with no.
Speaker 6: Drop off in production.
Speaker 3: What about Kyle Tucker, Sir ninth Paul, what about Kyle Tucker.
Speaker 3: He's the second highest paid baseball player in the major leagues.
Speaker 7: I know he should be he should be benched.
Speaker 6: He should be benched easily. He should be benched.
Speaker 7: If Jaslina Hernandez did not resurrect his swing and become
Speaker 7: a little bit more productive than the last week or so,
Speaker 7: I would have said, put tune them both and left
Speaker 7: fee a right left bet at pitching matchups for the manager,
Speaker 7: better pitch hitting options off the bench. That that's why he.
Speaker 6: Should have gone.
Speaker 7: So Tucker should be benched. Y bet should be ninth.
Speaker 7: You can work hitter on the team in front of
Speaker 7: in front of Hotani.
Speaker 2: I'll agree with you on this.
Speaker 3: I'm okay with dropping Mookie in the lineup, and I'm
Speaker 3: okay with him not hitting second. I'm okay with him
Speaker 3: not hitting fifth or sixth. I'm okay with Mookie hitting
Speaker 3: seventh or eighth. The ninth spot, as we speak, is
Speaker 3: going to be the catcher spot. Now now that I
Speaker 3: think it out, what if you put catcher eight, mooking
Speaker 3: nine leading into a tani That way, you sandwich the
Speaker 3: catcher in between like taoscar Hernandez or Tommy Edmond and
Speaker 3: Mookie Betts. That way they get some pitches. And yeah,
Speaker 3: I can see that as well. You know, you hide
Speaker 3: the catcher in the eighth spot. And I say hide
Speaker 3: the catcher until will Smith comes back, Folks, at the
Speaker 3: end of the month or early September.
Speaker 2: We're looking.
Speaker 3: We had a rotation of hunter for Dousha and my
Speaker 3: guy Benny Biceps, Ben art Vett. That's where the catching
Speaker 3: spot is going to be and be handled by over
Speaker 3: the next three and a half four weeks until Will
Speaker 3: Smith is healthy and comes off the angel list. And
Speaker 3: he hasn't even gone on to minor league rehab assignment
Speaker 3: yet at that point, it's gonna be three weeks when
Speaker 3: that clock starts. So for the time being. It's Rart
Speaker 3: Vatt or Fradusia. They're about the eighth or ninth, and
Speaker 3: I can see Mookie Betts being whoever spot they're not in.
Speaker 3: He'd be into that spot, and that's okay. If he
Speaker 3: needs to get right in that spot, I'm okay with it.
Speaker 3: You're not benching Kyle Tucker. You're paying the guy a
Speaker 3: lot of money. You're not benching Kyle Tucker in right field.
Speaker 3: Mike and Corona, thanks for being patient. Welcome to Dodger
Speaker 3: Talk on I seventy LA Sports Dodgers Off the Night
Speaker 3: in Phoenix tomorrow.
Speaker 6: You doing, Mike a great here. Thanks taking my call. Sure, yes,
Speaker 6: I'm sorry. I just wanted to talk about I love
Speaker 6: the the charriff table trade. I won't get your opinion
Speaker 6: on next year's location. What do you think about the
Speaker 6: Dodgers Sindy Crystal Cat Space, the sign Eric stub before
Speaker 6: long term contract you Tray Blake Snow and Tyler Glasnow
Speaker 6: and machine for some prospects cast space. Well, what do
Speaker 6: you think about that? Because you still have a very
Speaker 6: good staff.
Speaker 2: I'm out on board. I'm out on board with that, Mike,
Speaker 2: I'm up on board. With that trade at all.
Speaker 3: I don't know what happens next year, and I don't
Speaker 3: think the Dodgers are in any hurry to get a
Speaker 3: deal done to re signenteric'schoogle. That's not even on the radar,
Speaker 3: I don't think at this point. And I say that
Speaker 3: nicely because we don't know what's going to happen in
Speaker 3: twenty twenty seven with the CBA, and you're not going
Speaker 3: to sign a guy to a deal and then find
Speaker 3: out that deal is going to hamstring you or handcuff you,
Speaker 3: I should say, moving forward with a salary cap or
Speaker 3: a luxury tax or however things play out.
Speaker 2: We don't even know.
Speaker 3: We have no clue what's going to happen with the
Speaker 3: labor dispute, and they're not going to sign a not
Speaker 3: knowing what the future holds, that is for sure, especially
Speaker 3: to a long term deal in Tarrek Scooble. The here
Speaker 3: and now twenty twenty six, That's what I'm focused on.
Speaker 3: August sixth, how do we get to September first, and
Speaker 3: then how do we get to the stretch run of
Speaker 3: October first and the start of the playoffs. Got to
Speaker 3: avoid the wild card round. You don't want to play
Speaker 3: there at this point of their career, and these guys,
Speaker 3: as much mileage as they got on them play in
Speaker 3: the last two and a half years.
Speaker 2: They need a week off.
Speaker 3: I truly believe that they need rest and get ready
Speaker 3: for the NLDS.
Speaker 2: And that's what I'm worried on.
Speaker 3: I'm not worried about twenty seven's rotation and what that
Speaker 3: looks like long term for Terry Scooble.
Speaker 2: There will be a.
Speaker 3: Lot of conversation about that moving forward. Bob and Malibu,
Speaker 3: thanks for being patient.
Speaker 1: Bob.
Speaker 2: Welcome to Dodger Talk. How you doing.
Speaker 8: Lets CC good to be on here talking with you.
Speaker 8: Listen to some Charlatan's UK, Tim Burgess and the boys.
Speaker 8: Good poll right there from Ronnie Matt.
Speaker 2: Was a great welcome, great poll.
Speaker 9: Tim.
Speaker 8: You know, first of all, real quick on the cub
Speaker 8: series after them that Pete the Pigeon Armstrong has made
Speaker 8: all year long in the press about the Dodgers. I
Speaker 8: had no doubt that he was going to be trying
Speaker 8: to put that whole series on his back to be
Speaker 8: the hero in front of his people. Good on the kid,
Speaker 8: go get them. Just don't forget where you came from. Buddy,
Speaker 8: My question for you. You know, during all the trade talk,
Speaker 8: there was some information that kind of seemed to think
Speaker 8: that the Dodgers might have been interested. And listen, I
Speaker 8: fully believe we won the trade deadline and Hunter and
Speaker 8: Ben coming back to this team. Good on them. I'm
Speaker 8: happy they're here. But I was a little interested to
Speaker 8: know whether the Dodgers had any serious consideration for Liam
Speaker 8: Hicks off the Marlins as a DH and catcher. Was
Speaker 8: there ever any interest in Liam.
Speaker 3: I don't know what the asking price for a Hicks
Speaker 3: would have been from the Dodgers, and I appreciate the
Speaker 3: phone call, you know, I think familiarity is something they
Speaker 3: looked at more over production and power and a spot
Speaker 3: in the lineup and whatever you get out one hundred produce.
Speaker 3: Ard Vett at this point, offensively, it's gravy right to
Speaker 3: Cherry on top. You're bringing both these two catchers back
Speaker 3: because they're familiar, for the most part with this Dodger staff.
Speaker 3: They're familiar with Connor McGinnis. They're familiar of course with
Speaker 3: Mark Pryor and Dave Roberts and the front office philosophies,
Speaker 3: and you know, all the numbers they throw at them.
Speaker 3: They they're familiar with the background, you know, the stuff
Speaker 3: we don't get to see every day, the preparation, the
Speaker 3: game calling, the preparation for hitters every series, that kind
Speaker 3: of stuff. They've been through it because they were in
Speaker 3: the organization, either came up like Hunter did, or with
Speaker 3: the Dodgers for last season like Ben Rohardfvett was. There's
Speaker 3: familiarity there. So at this point when you just need
Speaker 3: a catcher or catchers as it is, with both those guys,
Speaker 3: you're not looking for You're not looking for a ton
Speaker 3: of offense. You're looking for guys that can control a
Speaker 3: pitching staff, call a good game, be good defensive catchers,
Speaker 3: and be on the same page with.
Speaker 2: Your coaching staff. And that's what the Dodgers were able
Speaker 2: to get. Courtney in Long Beach, Welcome to Dodger Talk
Speaker 2: on a FI seventy LA sports. How you do act?
Speaker 9: Dam good dad? Talk to you, my friend. Hopefully I
Speaker 9: will see you out there tomorrow and coast Anisa, Yes,
Speaker 9: we'll see.
Speaker 10: That.
Speaker 9: Being said, you know, everybody does talk about these dark
Speaker 9: age like dark ages of Dodgers being you know, sixteen
Speaker 9: back and this shat and the other. But I don't
Speaker 9: think that anybody is really remembering ten fifteen years ago
Speaker 9: when we were in the true dark ages, when we
Speaker 9: were going to get slow fifteen twenty dollars to just
Speaker 9: get people's in, people in the stands, in the Franklincourt era,
Speaker 9: And really we have it so good right now, and
Speaker 9: that's what we have to remember. We have the best
Speaker 9: team that I can remember, and I'm forty years old
Speaker 9: that I can remember in years really truly, And that
Speaker 9: being said, I'm an eternal optimist. I believe in us
Speaker 9: whether or not it is another world Series, which I
Speaker 9: refuse to believe it's not, but that or is, you
Speaker 9: know we're gonna win. That being said, I really it's
Speaker 9: a very long season in the sixteenth stretches nothing yep.
Speaker 3: When it shows me, Courtney, and I look forward to
Speaker 3: seeing you tomorrow out there at the Petros of Money
Speaker 3: show remote out there the Van's headquarters or kind of
Speaker 3: got up against the break here. What it shows me though,
Speaker 3: is and it's something to kind of put in the
Speaker 3: back of your mind, Courtney, and to think about. If
Speaker 3: the Dodgers get swept in back to back series over
Speaker 3: six games, that shows me that when you get to
Speaker 3: the postseason. This can't happen because you get to the
Speaker 3: postseason and you lose two or three games, all of
Speaker 3: a sudden, you're gonna lose a series. So certainly, you
Speaker 3: get swept into series, you know, three games, your your
Speaker 3: odds are gonna get you're gonna lose that series. My
Speaker 3: point is, if you play bad over a stretch of
Speaker 3: a week, anything could happen, and you play like this
Speaker 3: in October, you're gonna get bout the offense, defense, pitching,
Speaker 3: sloppy base running. This happens in October, it's a problem.
Speaker 3: We're not talking about a three p real quick, Isabelle, Isabelle, welcome,
Speaker 3: how you doing.
Speaker 2: We're gonna see tomorrow, right, yeah, I'll being dead tomorrow.
Speaker 10: Yeah, you guys, doege you think they'll be okay? They did,
Speaker 10: They're not forget they've been to this that two years.
Speaker 10: Yeah and yeah, okay, they go ahead, they did do okay,
Speaker 10: don't start kyl Yeah right, they ain't. That ain't gonna happen,
Speaker 10: right right, God be fine, Ye'll be fine, And let's
Speaker 10: talk more about it tomorrow.
Speaker 3: You will, Isabelle, Yeah, don't hang in there, is he
Speaker 3: Isabelle Fromannaheim. Will be out to Petro some money summer
Speaker 3: too or tomorrow be out there as well. Van's Headquarters.
Speaker 3: Two to five thirty. I'll do Morongo Becauseino Dodgers on
Speaker 3: deck at five thirty. Coming up next, We're gonna try
Speaker 3: to get to more of your phone calls. We've got
Speaker 3: the farm report. Been a little bit of a shakeup
Speaker 3: in the Dodger's top ten list as far as the
Speaker 3: prospects are concerned with the trade of are hoping the
Speaker 3: deal for Terrek Scoople will tell you what the lineup
Speaker 3: looks like as far as the top ten prospects and
Speaker 3: what they're doing down the minor.
Speaker 2: Leagues on the farm.
Speaker 3: Tim Kates, Ronnie Fossu you It's Dodger Talk on an
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Speaker 2: Thanks for being with us on this Thursday night.
Speaker 3: As the Dodgers a much needed night off, they are
Speaker 3: in Phoenix and join the Heats. They're back at it
Speaker 3: tomorrow for the start of a three game series against
Speaker 3: the Arizona Diamondbacks. Who don't look now, our eight games
Speaker 3: back could be seven and a half games back as
Speaker 3: they are taking on the San Diego Padres as we
Speaker 3: speak in the finale of their series over at Chase Field.
Speaker 3: The Dodgers will be there Tomorrow night, Friday, Saturday, and
Speaker 3: Sunday for what has turned out to be a pretty
Speaker 3: important series for the Dodgers, as the Arizona Diamondbacks have
Speaker 3: picked up now six games in the standings. Dodgers had
Speaker 3: a fourteen game lead a month ago going into the
Speaker 3: All Star Break. They got wept by Arizona. That was
Speaker 3: down to eleven at the break, and now it is
Speaker 3: down to eight or seven and a half, depending on
Speaker 3: what happens here over in Arizona with his outcome of
Speaker 3: this game tonight. So we'll keep an eye on that
Speaker 3: for the remaining time here on Dodger Talk. We'll try
Speaker 3: to get back out to the phones if we got time,
Speaker 3: But right now, let's go down the farm. Let's get
Speaker 3: you an update on the Dodgers' top minor league prospects.
Speaker 3: There's been some shuffling around. Yes, was Zyeer Hope getting
Speaker 3: traded to the Detroit Tigers. That means there's been some
Speaker 3: shuffling in the top ten as far as the Dodgers'
Speaker 3: top prospects in the minor leagues, host Sway to Paula.
Speaker 3: No doubt about it, he's still number one, the twenty
Speaker 3: one year old outfielder, number four overall in Major League
Speaker 3: Baseball's Top one hundred list.
Speaker 2: He is in Tulsa in Double A and tearing it up.
Speaker 11: Catches is swinging a fly ball to right field, deep, going,
Speaker 11: going co on Homrod and the public loads. His eighteenth
Speaker 11: to homer of the year is a swinging off high
Speaker 11: fly ball hit chief to right and it is gone home.
Speaker 2: Rode A two Humber Night host Sway.
Speaker 3: To Palla, Tulsa Drillers Radio Network with the call twenty
Speaker 3: one home runs on this season. He had five home
Speaker 3: runs in the span of six games. He's now hitting
Speaker 3: three to sixteen on the season, the twenty one bombs,
Speaker 3: eighty two RBI. He's got a nine to seventy six ops.
Speaker 3: It's just a matter of time before he gets moved
Speaker 3: up here in the final weeks of the season to
Speaker 3: Triple A Oklahoma City. Mike Saroda, the number two Dodger prospect,
Speaker 3: number eleven overall in Major League Baseball twenty three year
Speaker 3: old outfielder in Tulsa as well. He's one of these
Speaker 3: top outfield prospects the Dodgers held on toes I here
Speaker 3: hope he went to Detroit for Trek Scoble. Mike Serota
Speaker 3: stays and he's crushing it.
Speaker 12: Here's the pitch, swinging a high drive deep left field,
Speaker 12: way back, cool to Singum at the warning track, at
Speaker 12: the wall, he says for kenn It hits a home
Speaker 12: run deep left center field. Mike Sarota with his ninth
Speaker 12: home run of the season, hits a two run shop
Speaker 12: and the Drillers now lead fourteen to seven.
Speaker 3: Another moonshot Tulsa Drillers Radio Network with the call. His
Speaker 3: tenth home run of the season in Double A. He
Speaker 3: started the year in Great Lakes thirty five games there,
Speaker 3: now fifty five games in Double A, three seventeen average,
Speaker 3: ten home runs, thirty six rbi in Double A.
Speaker 2: He's got an ops over one thousand.
Speaker 3: About another Dodger top outfielder they kept at the deadline,
Speaker 3: Eduardo Kintaro.
Speaker 5: Here's a hind rid to left well hit that's trouble
Speaker 5: way back, and that one is out of here. Home
Speaker 5: run home run Kintaro, and it's a three to nothing game.
Speaker 5: That was a fastballbot ninety four miles an hour, and
Speaker 5: Kintaro hit that a long long way. Four hundred eleven
Speaker 5: feet is the estimated distance.
Speaker 2: Great Lakes looms radio with the call.
Speaker 3: The twenty year old outfielder number three Dodger prospect, number
Speaker 3: nineteen overall on the MLB Top one hundred list. Eighty
Speaker 3: six games in high A ball, three h five average,
Speaker 3: ten home runs, fifty three ribies, He's walked sixty six times.
Speaker 3: He's got a four to thirty three on base percentage
Speaker 3: and a nine to twenty five ops Emial Morales.
Speaker 2: The dodgers number four overall prospect. He's only nineteen years old.
Speaker 3: He's a big guy, sixty three one ninety five, number
Speaker 3: twenty four overall prospect on MLB's Top one hundred list,
Speaker 3: and he's having a great season with the Great Lakes
Speaker 3: lose and the right handed.
Speaker 13: Deal tide blind ball upfield, packing up his friend all
Speaker 13: the way back at the fence, looks up and it's
Speaker 13: gone home run Morales a three run shot, and Great
Speaker 13: Lakes breaks this one open at four nothing.
Speaker 3: Morales started in Ontario with the Tower Buzzers, thirty six
Speaker 3: games now fifty five games and high A ball with
Speaker 3: the Great Lakes loans two to seventy average, fourteen home runs,
Speaker 3: fifty eight RBI. It's got an eight to ninety five ops.
Speaker 3: You combine the two levels of eight ball and a meal.
Speaker 3: Morales has hit twenty home runs, twenty seven doubles, and
Speaker 3: has driven in ninety three three runs. Christian Zazwet the
Speaker 3: right handed pitcher, twenty one years old out of Mexico.
Speaker 3: He is number sixty six on the MLB Top one
Speaker 3: hundred list. He's in Tulsa with the Drillers. He started
Speaker 3: the year in Great Lakes ten starts, got moved up,
Speaker 3: now six starts in Double A. So far it's been
Speaker 3: a tough transition ZH to one with the four to
Speaker 3: thirteen era. In twenty four inning, it's got thirty nine strikeouts.
Speaker 3: It's a strikeout machine. You combine the two levels. One
Speaker 3: hundred and five strikeouts between Great Lakes and Tulsa. James
Speaker 3: Tims the third. I've heard his name a lot. He's
Speaker 3: been a guest here on Off Night Dodger Talk. Number
Speaker 3: seven overall prospect for the Dodgers, Top one hundred, number
Speaker 3: eighty nine overall on MLB's list. Plays outfield, first base,
Speaker 3: DA twenty three year old slugger. He is in Oklahoma
Speaker 3: City with the comments two ninety six average, twenty five doubles,
Speaker 3: twenty one home runs, seventy nine ribbies, seventy six walks.
Speaker 3: He's got a four eighteen on base percentage, a nine
Speaker 3: to sixty three ops. Start to see a trend these
Speaker 3: Dodger top prospects. Not only can they slug, but they
Speaker 3: just get on base. Be a walk as well. You
Speaker 3: got high on base percentages, high openess. Zach Root, Yes,
Speaker 3: he is now in the top ten in the Dodgers
Speaker 3: minor league prospect list. Twenty two year old left handed pitcher,
Speaker 3: former first round pick fortieth overall out of Arkansas last year.
Speaker 2: He is in Tulsa with the Drillers.
Speaker 14: Swung on it miss ninety five, swinging a miss, ripping
Speaker 14: amiss here for Lewis.
Speaker 2: Root makes quick work of him.
Speaker 14: Swung on and missed, belt tip to the mit, swinging
Speaker 14: a miss from Stowball, packing a.
Speaker 2: Miss eleven for Root.
Speaker 3: Zach Root was in great legs, made fifteen starts, including
Speaker 3: that one, with six scoreless sitting it's just a few
Speaker 3: weeks ago.
Speaker 2: Eleven strike counts. He was promoted last week.
Speaker 3: Made his first start in Tulsa in Double A two
Speaker 3: and two thirty eight's gave it four runs on four heads.
Speaker 3: He is set to make his second start tomorrow. Jackson Ferris,
Speaker 3: left handed pitcher in Oklahoma City with the Comics, twenty
Speaker 3: two year old.
Speaker 2: He struggled.
Speaker 3: He was really good in a ball Double A this
Speaker 3: year in twenty twenty six, it's been an adjustment for
Speaker 3: Jackson Ferris. Seventeen starts in Triple A one and five
Speaker 3: with an erray near six and a half in sixty
Speaker 3: eight and a third innings, he's got sixty four strikeouts.
Speaker 3: Adam Serwanowski, left headed pitcher in Double A Tulsa, twenty
Speaker 3: two year old, twenty one starts eight and five, five
Speaker 3: twenty two r ray and one hundred innings. It's got
Speaker 3: one hundred and twenty three strikeouts.
Speaker 2: All right.
Speaker 3: A couple of players outside the top ten. As far
Speaker 3: as the Dodgers minor league prospects, we'll stay here right
Speaker 3: here in southern California. Two guys with the Ontario Tower
Speaker 3: Buzzers ching Sanko co Belts one high and deep out
Speaker 3: to right field.
Speaker 15: This one is on its way and gone. Didn't get
Speaker 15: away with that hanging slider. Jin shen Co deposits it.
Speaker 6: Over the wall.
Speaker 3: The nineteen year old via Taiwan and outfielder's six three, two,
Speaker 3: fifteen and eighty seven games with the tower buzzers two
Speaker 3: sixty average, fourteen doubles, sixteen home runs, sixty eight harbi,
Speaker 3: sixty nine walks and eight sixty one ops. How about
Speaker 3: Kellen Lindsay in Ontario with the tower buzzers, he can slug.
Speaker 4: There's a shot to right center. That ball's hit pretty well.
Speaker 4: Going back, that ball is gone a home run. Kelln
Speaker 4: Lindsey hits a home run to right center over the
Speaker 4: corps lights sign. Just after we make note that no
Speaker 4: hosts has been pitching well. That makes the score now
Speaker 4: three to nothing. Ontario over Lake Elsinor.
Speaker 3: The twenty year old former first round pick is shortstop.
Speaker 3: Thirty five games, three thirteen average, four to twenty nine
Speaker 3: on base percentage. He has got thirteen home runs. He
Speaker 3: has got five home runs, thirteen RBI, twenty six walks. Again,
Speaker 3: another guy who gets on base with a nine to
Speaker 3: thirty six ops. Kellen Lindsay started the year over a
Speaker 3: camelback ranch and so far in the last six weeks
Speaker 3: has turned it on with the Tower buzzer. So there
Speaker 3: you go, a recap on what's happening with the Dodgers'
Speaker 3: top minor league prospects post trade deadline, as we say
Speaker 3: goodbye to Zaire Hope and River Ryan and we say
Speaker 3: hello to a new top ten in the Dodgers minor
Speaker 3: league farm system.
Speaker 2: So there you go.
Speaker 3: Host Suada Paula, keep hearing his name. It's just a
Speaker 3: matter of time before he gets up to Triple A
Speaker 3: and who knows to the major leagues. All right, that's
Speaker 3: gonna do it for offnight Dodger Talk Mini. Thanks to
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Speaker 2: Foscio as well.
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Speaker 3: six in a row as they take on the Diamondbacks.
Speaker 3: Until then, have a great, safe rest of your Thursday
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