WEBVTT - Offday Dodger Talk (8-6-26) 0:00:00.160 --> 0:00:02.600 This is world champion Dodger Talk. 0:00:02.680 --> 0:00:03.440 Here we go again. 0:00:03.520 --> 0:00:06.400 We get a running back hosted by Dodger Saint signer 0:00:06.559 --> 0:00:07.360 David Bassi. 0:00:07.480 --> 0:00:09.039 How are three peat in the mix? 0:00:09.440 --> 0:00:12.360 Dodger Talk is brought to you by La County Public 0:00:12.440 --> 0:00:17.560 Works Champions Recycle Beverage Containers, make the play Recycle Today, 0:00:17.800 --> 0:00:21.680 and by Children's Hospital LA from Colds to Cancer. We 0:00:21.880 --> 0:00:24.200 got this to get in on the show called eight 0:00:24.280 --> 0:00:27.040 six six nine eighty seven two five seven days and 0:00:27.120 --> 0:00:30.560 be sure to follow Dodger Talk wherever you get your podcasts. 0:00:31.040 --> 0:00:35.879 And now your host, here's Tim Kakes. 0:00:35.880 --> 0:00:39.880 Oh and welcome to Off Night Dodger Talk here on 0:00:39.960 --> 0:00:43.479 this Thursday nights, August the six. Thanks for being with us, 0:00:43.520 --> 0:00:46.640 Tim Kates, and you for the next hour here on 0:00:46.760 --> 0:00:49.680 Off Night Dodger Talk on a five seventy LA Sports 0:00:49.720 --> 0:00:52.199 phone lines wide open at eight six six nine eight 0:00:52.240 --> 0:00:55.600 seven two five seventy Jump on board. There's a lot 0:00:55.640 --> 0:00:58.440 to get to here on Off Night Dodger Talk. Even 0:00:58.440 --> 0:01:01.600 though the Dodgers with a much needed night off, a 0:01:01.720 --> 0:01:04.959 lot to dive into, a lot to break down, including 0:01:05.000 --> 0:01:08.000 a farm report coming up in about forty five minutes. 0:01:08.040 --> 0:01:10.759 The Major League Baseball Trade deadline has come and gone, 0:01:11.160 --> 0:01:13.479 a little bit of a shakeup, and the Dodgers' top 0:01:13.840 --> 0:01:16.480 ten of their minor league prospects will tell you what 0:01:16.640 --> 0:01:19.399 has changed where they're at and how they're doing here. 0:01:19.680 --> 0:01:22.120 As we flipped the calendar to the month of August, 0:01:22.160 --> 0:01:24.800 and the trade deadline has coming gone, with Zayer Hope 0:01:24.959 --> 0:01:28.240 the only real casualty along with River Ryan going into 0:01:28.280 --> 0:01:31.640 Trek Scoople trade to the Detroit Tigers. As the Dodgers 0:01:31.640 --> 0:01:34.920 saw Terrek School will make his Dodger debut on Tuesday 0:01:35.040 --> 0:01:37.959 night at Wrigley Field in Chicago. He came up with 0:01:38.000 --> 0:01:40.560 the loss, a game in which the Dodgers' offense struggled, 0:01:40.560 --> 0:01:42.400 and man, haven't We've been saying. 0:01:42.120 --> 0:01:43.000 That a lot lately. 0:01:43.040 --> 0:01:46.280 The Dodgers' offense just sputtering, and as a whole, this 0:01:46.400 --> 0:01:50.200 Dodger t really struggling and having lost six in a row, 0:01:50.520 --> 0:01:54.040 eight of their last ten, and what was a fourteen 0:01:54.360 --> 0:01:58.559 game lead in the NLS has dwindled down to eight 0:01:58.720 --> 0:02:02.200 and depending on what happened tonight over an Arizona game 0:02:02.200 --> 0:02:04.960 that is underway a Chase Field between the Diamondbacks and 0:02:05.000 --> 0:02:08.240 the Padres, a Snake's win and that lead is down 0:02:08.280 --> 0:02:11.040 to seven and a half leading up to what has 0:02:11.080 --> 0:02:16.480 now become a big three game series Friday, Saturday and 0:02:16.720 --> 0:02:19.840 Sunday over in the Desert between the Dodgers and the 0:02:19.880 --> 0:02:23.919 Arizona Diamondbacks. Eight sixty six nine eight seven two five seventy. 0:02:24.120 --> 0:02:26.320 We got a lot to get to, including looking back 0:02:26.320 --> 0:02:29.600 at the trade deadline, what the Dodgers did with getting 0:02:29.680 --> 0:02:31.919 Trek school Ball, and when you really kind of sit 0:02:32.000 --> 0:02:34.960 back and look at what that trade meant for the Dodgers, 0:02:35.720 --> 0:02:37.720 it was a big one. Not only do they keep 0:02:37.760 --> 0:02:40.360 them away from the Brewers and the Tampa Bay Rays 0:02:40.440 --> 0:02:42.600 and any other team that was sniffing around and made 0:02:42.639 --> 0:02:46.280 an offer to the Detroit Tigers, but at this point 0:02:46.320 --> 0:02:50.280 of this season, where the rotation sits, where guys are 0:02:50.440 --> 0:02:54.720 currently on the injured list or coming off the injured list, 0:02:55.120 --> 0:02:59.119 quite frankly, the Dodgers needed another arm. And it's surprising 0:02:59.160 --> 0:03:02.280 to say that. It's kind of laughable if you're not 0:03:02.400 --> 0:03:04.480 an in LA and you're not a Dodger fan and 0:03:04.520 --> 0:03:06.600 you're looking in the out think outside and thinking, wow, 0:03:06.600 --> 0:03:09.800 this Dodger team, the last thing they need is more pitching. 0:03:09.840 --> 0:03:12.720 Come on, Well, when you look at it, though, show 0:03:12.760 --> 0:03:16.079 hey Otani not pitching right now. We may not see 0:03:16.160 --> 0:03:18.519 him start another game for the Dodgers this year. He's 0:03:18.520 --> 0:03:20.919 not ramped up. He's been shut down for a few weeks. 0:03:20.919 --> 0:03:22.240 It's going to take him a few weeks and a 0:03:22.240 --> 0:03:24.680 few starts to ramp back up. So where does he 0:03:24.800 --> 0:03:26.720 sit as far as being a part of this rotation 0:03:26.880 --> 0:03:29.919 the remainder of the season and the postseason, show hey 0:03:29.960 --> 0:03:33.120 Otani is a question mark. Tyler Glass now still a 0:03:33.120 --> 0:03:36.360 few weeks away, so he's not close to returning. You've 0:03:36.360 --> 0:03:39.320 got Blake Snell hasn't pitched much for this Dodgers team. 0:03:39.760 --> 0:03:42.080 He's set to come off the injured list next week 0:03:42.280 --> 0:03:45.720 when the Dodgers return home. But let's be honest, we 0:03:45.760 --> 0:03:47.560 haven't been able to count on Blake Snell here in 0:03:47.560 --> 0:03:51.200 twenty twenty six. So you assume he's healthy and you 0:03:51.240 --> 0:03:53.800 assume he's good to go coming off the injured list, 0:03:53.840 --> 0:03:57.000 but you know, this season just hasn't been a season 0:03:57.040 --> 0:03:59.960 where you can count on him. You look at Yoshanoba, 0:04:00.840 --> 0:04:05.720 Justin Robleski, the two really pillars of this rotation here 0:04:05.720 --> 0:04:08.560 at twenty twenty six, taking the ball every single week 0:04:08.600 --> 0:04:11.960 when asked upon them. Justin Robleski's now had back to 0:04:12.040 --> 0:04:14.600 back really bad starts, giving up a total of eight 0:04:14.640 --> 0:04:17.760 home runs, four in his each starts against the Mariners 0:04:18.000 --> 0:04:21.200 and the Chicago Cubs at Wrigley Field this week. He 0:04:21.240 --> 0:04:23.480 has come back down to earth what was a magical 0:04:23.520 --> 0:04:25.880 first half of the season, an all star first half, 0:04:25.880 --> 0:04:29.400 and rightfully so, he was really good. The numbers don't lie, 0:04:29.720 --> 0:04:32.560 but he's now reaching that part of the season where 0:04:32.600 --> 0:04:35.760 he has surpassed his number innings in his career. He 0:04:35.839 --> 0:04:39.160 has surpassed a career high and starts. We're in an 0:04:39.240 --> 0:04:43.400 uncharted territory here for a young pitcher in this Dodger's rotation. 0:04:43.560 --> 0:04:46.920 So what do we get from Justin Robleski moving forward? 0:04:47.680 --> 0:04:50.599 Eric Lower keeps him at the trade deadline, has a 0:04:50.680 --> 0:04:53.800 really pour outing yesterday in Chicago and what it would 0:04:53.800 --> 0:04:56.520 have been a fairy tale run since coming over from 0:04:56.560 --> 0:04:59.160 the Blue Jays. So there's been a lot of ups 0:04:59.240 --> 0:05:00.919 and there's a lot of the gain power on this 0:05:01.000 --> 0:05:04.640 Dodger rotation. But quite frankly, as we sit here on August, 0:05:04.720 --> 0:05:08.720 the six injuries and question marks are a big part 0:05:08.760 --> 0:05:12.040 of this rotation. So picking up Terrek Scooble was not 0:05:12.200 --> 0:05:15.800 just a defensive move, was not just a let's add 0:05:15.800 --> 0:05:18.360 to a superior rotation to everybody else and just play 0:05:18.440 --> 0:05:22.080 keep away. This was at a necessity at this point 0:05:22.120 --> 0:05:24.240 of the season because of the question marks and because 0:05:24.279 --> 0:05:26.920 of the unknowns moving forward. Now, if we talk here 0:05:26.920 --> 0:05:29.839 in a few weeks and Blake Snell's back and dominating, 0:05:29.920 --> 0:05:32.479 and Justin Robleski gets back into form, and we're close 0:05:32.520 --> 0:05:35.839 to getting Tyler Glass now back, certainly it's a different conversation. 0:05:35.960 --> 0:05:38.200 But as we sit here on August the sixth, writing 0:05:38.200 --> 0:05:40.320 a six game losing streak, eight of the last ten 0:05:40.600 --> 0:05:42.520 Dodgers Lee's been cut in half. 0:05:42.480 --> 0:05:45.120 It's a different story. It's a different song we're singing 0:05:45.200 --> 0:05:45.520 right now. 0:05:45.560 --> 0:05:47.680 As far as the Dodgers is are concerned, eight sixty six, 0:05:47.880 --> 0:05:50.599 nine eighty seven, two five seventy is the number. And 0:05:50.640 --> 0:05:53.720 then you look at what is out there as far 0:05:53.760 --> 0:05:57.200 as the Dodgers were turning, Besides Blake Snell and besides 0:05:57.240 --> 0:06:01.200 Tyler Glass. Now there are two Dodger who, quite frankly, 0:06:01.640 --> 0:06:04.679 I didn't think we see again in twenty twenty six. 0:06:05.480 --> 0:06:09.800 We may not, but certainly they are now ramping back 0:06:09.880 --> 0:06:15.599 up and could be a factor here the final month 0:06:15.640 --> 0:06:18.080 and a half of the season. How much of a 0:06:18.120 --> 0:06:22.920 factor we'll find out. I remember last year, Rookie Sasaki 0:06:23.080 --> 0:06:28.039 was basically written off injuries, just inconsistent, seemed like the 0:06:28.080 --> 0:06:30.840 major leagues were too big for him. He wasn't even 0:06:30.880 --> 0:06:33.440 in the conversation this time last year, and all of 0:06:33.480 --> 0:06:37.159 a sudden, Rookie Sasaki was in TRIPLEA Oklahoma City, flipped 0:06:37.200 --> 0:06:42.400 his confidence around, became a closer, a shutdown closer. In September, 0:06:42.520 --> 0:06:44.200 the last week of the season. They're still trying to 0:06:44.200 --> 0:06:46.239 figure out a role for him. So he was able 0:06:46.279 --> 0:06:49.200 to come back right around the same time last year. 0:06:49.600 --> 0:06:53.840 So there is precedent for a Dodger pitcher post All 0:06:53.880 --> 0:06:58.000 Star Break early August to still be a contributor on 0:06:58.040 --> 0:07:01.600 the postseason roster. And those are two guys that are 0:07:01.960 --> 0:07:04.680 really kind of opening my eyes. It's still early on 0:07:04.760 --> 0:07:10.520 in their return, but Bobby Miller and Gavin Stone, and 0:07:10.560 --> 0:07:12.880 I'll even throw a third one in there in Ben Casparius. 0:07:13.360 --> 0:07:18.080 All three have been just absolutely just destroyed by injuries 0:07:18.520 --> 0:07:20.520 this year. And you go back to last year for 0:07:20.560 --> 0:07:23.239 Gavin Stone and Bobby Miller, Gavin Stone hasn't thrown since 0:07:23.520 --> 0:07:27.040 August is September twenty four. That's been a long time. 0:07:27.160 --> 0:07:29.240 Was right around the end of August early September twenty 0:07:29.240 --> 0:07:31.480 twenty four. It's the last time we saw Gavin Stone. 0:07:31.760 --> 0:07:32.520 But how good was he? 0:07:32.600 --> 0:07:32.880 Then? 0:07:33.040 --> 0:07:36.760 Shoulder problems have just really shut him down since then. 0:07:37.680 --> 0:07:41.560 Ben Casparius is in Triple A Oklahoma City. Bobby Miller 0:07:41.880 --> 0:07:45.680 is back in Triple A Oklahoma City. Gavin Stone tonight 0:07:46.160 --> 0:07:51.920 made his first appearance in over seven hundred days. Gavin Stone, 0:07:51.920 --> 0:07:55.200 who was so good in twenty twenty four. I think 0:07:55.240 --> 0:07:58.800 people forget how good Gavin Stone was two years ago 0:07:58.840 --> 0:08:02.520 when he led the Dodge with twenty five starts, one 0:08:02.640 --> 0:08:06.400 hundred and forty innings pitched, three point fifty three era 0:08:06.720 --> 0:08:09.880 struck out one hundred and sixteen batters. Remember twenty twenty 0:08:09.880 --> 0:08:13.240 four Dodgers beat the Yankees, and that whole postseason it 0:08:13.320 --> 0:08:18.280 was bullpen games. The Dodgers had two healthy starters and 0:08:18.440 --> 0:08:23.560 Jack Flaherty. Yeah, that was a decimated rotation showing a 0:08:23.600 --> 0:08:26.040 tiny culdn't pitch still making his way back from Tommy 0:08:26.080 --> 0:08:30.840 John surgery. That was a rotation decimated by injuries and 0:08:30.920 --> 0:08:34.200 it was all bullpen In twenty four but getting him 0:08:34.200 --> 0:08:38.960 through the regular season was Gavin Stone. Gavin Stone, twenty 0:08:39.000 --> 0:08:42.160 five starts, literally laid it all out there for the 0:08:42.200 --> 0:08:45.280 Dodgers until his shoulder gave out at the end of August, 0:08:45.480 --> 0:08:48.560 first week of September and they shut him down and 0:08:48.600 --> 0:08:52.880 he needed a complete shoulder reconstruction surgery. Missed all of 0:08:53.000 --> 0:08:55.880 last year and has missed the first half of this year. 0:08:55.880 --> 0:08:57.760 And he's been over at Campbell Back Ranch along with 0:08:57.800 --> 0:09:02.280 Bobby Miller, getting healthy, strengthening their arms and shoulders and 0:09:02.360 --> 0:09:06.240 throwing on the backfields there against minor leaguers, and they 0:09:06.400 --> 0:09:09.400 both this week have gone back to Triple A tonight, 0:09:09.520 --> 0:09:13.400 Gavin Stone making his first appearance and again seven hundred 0:09:13.480 --> 0:09:16.319 days as he starts his rehabit signment in Triple A 0:09:16.320 --> 0:09:21.680 Oklahoma City. Gavin Stone wasn't out there long, but Gavin 0:09:21.720 --> 0:09:24.800 Stone in inning in two thirds. He gave up one 0:09:24.880 --> 0:09:28.760 run on two hits, struck out three, and through thirty 0:09:28.800 --> 0:09:32.439 three pitches his average fastball velocity about ninety five miles 0:09:32.480 --> 0:09:34.920 an hour through a change up about forty two percent 0:09:34.920 --> 0:09:37.280 of the time. This is just a first step for 0:09:37.320 --> 0:09:40.439 a Gavin Stone, but wouldn't he be a welcome addition, 0:09:41.000 --> 0:09:43.920 possibly to this Dodgers team, Bobby Miller, if he can 0:09:43.960 --> 0:09:46.600 get back into form, He's an interesting arm to think 0:09:46.640 --> 0:09:48.959 about in the last month of the season. 0:09:49.320 --> 0:09:52.840 Now, is there room for them come October? 0:09:54.280 --> 0:09:57.280 That remains to be seen, because I think between now 0:09:57.440 --> 0:10:01.640 and October, first, we're gonna see guys competing again for 0:10:01.920 --> 0:10:06.920 postseason spots, postseason spots in the back end of the rotation. 0:10:07.080 --> 0:10:09.000 And then when there's not enough spots in the rotation 0:10:09.120 --> 0:10:11.400 because of the length of series and how many starting 0:10:11.440 --> 0:10:15.880 pitchers you really do need, where does the bullpen come about? 0:10:15.880 --> 0:10:18.400 In all this, there's only a certain amount of spots. 0:10:19.320 --> 0:10:21.240 Who's gonna be in, who's going to be out. It'll 0:10:21.280 --> 0:10:24.640 be interesting to see who makes a push, who's pitching strong, 0:10:24.800 --> 0:10:28.880 who's reliable, and who Dave Roberts feels comfortable with in 0:10:28.960 --> 0:10:33.200 October baseball at that point the season, everybody should be healthy. 0:10:33.520 --> 0:10:36.320 Class now should be back, Snell should be back. We 0:10:36.400 --> 0:10:39.040 don't know about Otani, but outside of him, everybody else 0:10:39.040 --> 0:10:41.480 should be back and good to go. And with all 0:10:41.520 --> 0:10:45.079 cards on the table, we're gonna see whose game who's 0:10:45.120 --> 0:10:47.160 ready for October baseball, And I think that's gonna been 0:10:47.160 --> 0:10:50.199 a part exciting part of this Dodger Finals seven weeks 0:10:50.200 --> 0:10:53.400 of the season. Just two weeks ago, all I would 0:10:53.440 --> 0:10:55.880 get hearing from Dodger fans like, Ah, this thing's over, 0:10:57.040 --> 0:11:00.520 this season's over. This team is running away with the 0:11:00.520 --> 0:11:04.839 They are gonna just, you know, ease their way into October. 0:11:05.120 --> 0:11:08.760 This thing is done. They have just wrapped up the 0:11:08.760 --> 0:11:10.079 division already in July. 0:11:10.640 --> 0:11:12.360 Well, I don't know. 0:11:12.280 --> 0:11:14.080 If that's the sentiment they've had in the last couple 0:11:14.120 --> 0:11:16.319 of weeks, but they've certainly played like it the last 0:11:16.320 --> 0:11:19.240 six in losing six straight and getting swept by the 0:11:19.280 --> 0:11:23.200 Red Sox and the Cubs. But the Dodgers League has 0:11:23.200 --> 0:11:26.880 gone from fourteen to eight and you look at the 0:11:27.040 --> 0:11:30.679 National League top two spots. Dodgers no longer hold on 0:11:30.720 --> 0:11:33.000 to one of the top two spots of the National League. 0:11:33.160 --> 0:11:35.600 And what does that mean, Well, you don't have to 0:11:35.600 --> 0:11:37.839 play in the wildcard round if you're the top two 0:11:37.840 --> 0:11:39.560 teams in the American League and the top two teams 0:11:39.559 --> 0:11:42.440 in the National League, top best records in both leagues, 0:11:42.679 --> 0:11:46.000 avoid the wildcard round and go right to the DS. 0:11:47.320 --> 0:11:51.080 Wouldn't a nice week off be good for this aging 0:11:51.160 --> 0:11:54.560 Dodgers team full of veterans that has been grinding. I 0:11:54.600 --> 0:11:57.040 had a conversation with Rob Parker today on his podcast 0:11:57.040 --> 0:12:01.360 over Fox Sports Radio and Point. I heard Jerry Harrison 0:12:01.400 --> 0:12:03.199 Junior say this on Sports and at LA as well 0:12:03.280 --> 0:12:06.960 Adrian Gonzalez yesterday after the game. This is a Dodgers 0:12:06.960 --> 0:12:09.319 team with a lot of guys who have played a 0:12:09.320 --> 0:12:11.640 lot of baseball, and they played a lot of baseball 0:12:11.640 --> 0:12:15.360 in the last two and a half years. And again 0:12:15.400 --> 0:12:16.839 I don't want to hear well, they got a lot 0:12:16.840 --> 0:12:19.360 of off season time, and these guys get paid a 0:12:19.400 --> 0:12:23.800 lot of money and they're playing a sport to grind. 0:12:24.120 --> 0:12:27.040 These guys are the best of the best. In twenty 0:12:27.080 --> 0:12:28.800 four you start the year in Korea, you go all 0:12:28.800 --> 0:12:31.280 the way to October and you win the game. You 0:12:31.360 --> 0:12:35.680 win the World Series almost near to November first, and 0:12:35.720 --> 0:12:39.040 then you come back after a short and offseason and 0:12:39.080 --> 0:12:41.720 you got to go play in Japan weeks before everybody 0:12:41.720 --> 0:12:44.520 else starts their season. That means you start before everybody else, 0:12:44.720 --> 0:12:47.160 and you start the season in Japan and you ended 0:12:47.200 --> 0:12:49.760 in Game seven of the World Series in Toronto, Canada. 0:12:49.920 --> 0:12:52.680 It's a long season, folks. That's back to back seasons, 0:12:52.920 --> 0:12:55.080 short and off season, and they're back at it. And 0:12:55.080 --> 0:12:57.000 for a lot of them, it was an early start 0:12:57.040 --> 0:13:00.680 to spring training because of the World Baseball Classic this year, 0:13:00.840 --> 0:13:03.319 they didn't have to start overseas, but you had the WBC, 0:13:03.480 --> 0:13:07.640 which several Dodger players and their stars played in that WBC. 0:13:07.880 --> 0:13:08.920 So another early. 0:13:08.720 --> 0:13:12.040 Start, and here we go August. 0:13:12.240 --> 0:13:14.400 You know, in essence, two and a half years, this 0:13:14.440 --> 0:13:17.560 has been a grind in a run for this Dodger's team, 0:13:17.559 --> 0:13:21.000 and they've certainly celebrated two World Series championships. But here 0:13:21.040 --> 0:13:23.000 we are in August and they had a fourteen game lead. 0:13:23.040 --> 0:13:25.400 I'm gonna be honest, two weeks ago, three weeks ago, 0:13:25.400 --> 0:13:28.120 when they're up fourteen games, I can see it where 0:13:28.160 --> 0:13:31.400 your mentality is like, man, I've been grinding and we're 0:13:31.480 --> 0:13:34.600 running away with the division. It's time to exhale on 0:13:34.800 --> 0:13:37.560 life and baseball. I'm looking around and say, look, well 0:13:37.600 --> 0:13:41.480 we've accomplished now. With that being said, sometimes when you 0:13:41.559 --> 0:13:44.640 do that, it's hard to regain maybe your focus, regain 0:13:45.000 --> 0:13:48.440 that edge you had, regain that momentum that you've been 0:13:48.520 --> 0:13:51.439 riding that high, you've been riding that long road the 0:13:51.520 --> 0:13:53.240 last two and a half years that you've been on 0:13:53.720 --> 0:13:56.200 just grinding and the ups and downs and twists and turns, 0:13:56.320 --> 0:13:58.160 and when you exhale like that because you have a 0:13:58.160 --> 0:13:59.880 fourteen game lead, which is only human. 0:14:00.640 --> 0:14:02.240 The Dodgers have been a five hundred team. 0:14:02.559 --> 0:14:05.360 They get swept by the Arizona Diamondbacks going into the 0:14:05.360 --> 0:14:08.040 break fourteen games down to eleven. At the All Star break, 0:14:08.280 --> 0:14:10.000 you come out, you win all three series on the 0:14:10.040 --> 0:14:10.440 road trip. 0:14:10.480 --> 0:14:10.920 That's great. 0:14:11.800 --> 0:14:13.720 You know, you squeak by two or three against the 0:14:13.720 --> 0:14:15.480 marriage and then you get swept by the Red Sox 0:14:15.640 --> 0:14:17.920 and you get swept by the Cubs. And what has 0:14:17.920 --> 0:14:20.960 been the difference in the last few weeks for this 0:14:21.000 --> 0:14:24.320 Dodgers team, Well, to me, they've gotten away from who 0:14:24.360 --> 0:14:28.400 they are. This is a team that slugs for offense. 0:14:29.000 --> 0:14:30.720 There's no argument there is a team. It's a lot of 0:14:30.760 --> 0:14:34.440 home runs and drives the ball. Really good pitching, which 0:14:34.440 --> 0:14:37.320 we've seen from the starters and the bullpen. Remember I'm 0:14:37.320 --> 0:14:39.560 old enough to remember earlier this year when the Dodgers 0:14:39.560 --> 0:14:42.920 bullpen didn't give up earned run for like twenty eight innings. Combine, 0:14:44.800 --> 0:14:47.880 and good defense and base running. They play good fundamental 0:14:47.920 --> 0:14:50.920 baseball all the way around. That's what this team does. 0:14:51.160 --> 0:14:55.640 Slugs pitching, and good fundamentals on the base pass and defense. 0:14:56.520 --> 0:14:59.440 The defense has gotten a little sloppy, and the base 0:14:59.520 --> 0:15:03.160 running has not been good at all. And it's up 0:15:03.160 --> 0:15:05.600 and down the lineup from show Hey all the way down. 0:15:06.040 --> 0:15:08.080 You know, game thrown out at home on a base 0:15:08.120 --> 0:15:10.040 hitting the right center field like Alonso did on the 0:15:10.120 --> 0:15:13.520 last roadchup in Philadelphia. You know, trying to single into 0:15:13.560 --> 0:15:15.760 a double and getting thrown out at second base for 0:15:15.840 --> 0:15:17.600 the first out of an inning, just trying to stretch 0:15:17.640 --> 0:15:19.800 a double into a triple, getting picked off at first. 0:15:20.160 --> 0:15:23.040 You know, not smart on the base pass is something 0:15:23.080 --> 0:15:26.920 you can correct. That's mental, that's something you could control. 0:15:27.320 --> 0:15:29.120 You can't control a ball that hits a bag that 0:15:29.160 --> 0:15:31.360 goes up in the air. You can't control a Baltimore 0:15:31.440 --> 0:15:33.840 chop like the other night they saw in Chicago where 0:15:33.880 --> 0:15:35.640 it was a Nico Horner hit the ball off the 0:15:35.640 --> 0:15:37.840 front of the plate and it goes, you know, sixty 0:15:37.880 --> 0:15:40.280 five feet up into the air and just hangs there 0:15:40.560 --> 0:15:42.920 and hangs there and hangs there, and the go ahead 0:15:43.000 --> 0:15:45.480 run score and then all of a sudden the floodgates 0:15:45.480 --> 0:15:49.320 open against the dodge. You can't control that, but you 0:15:49.320 --> 0:15:52.560 can control base running, you can control on the mound, 0:15:52.920 --> 0:15:56.800 being under control and throwing strikes, not walking guys, not 0:15:56.960 --> 0:15:59.600 hitting guys, not throwing the ball right down the plate, 0:15:59.640 --> 0:16:01.960 and you know, tempting them to hit home runs like 0:16:02.000 --> 0:16:04.800 we saw in Chicago where they gave up a bunch 0:16:04.840 --> 0:16:06.840 of home runs in three with eight home runs in 0:16:06.920 --> 0:16:10.160 three games. I mean, Pete crow Armstrong could be named 0:16:10.160 --> 0:16:12.680 Player of the Month just what he did against the Dodgers. 0:16:13.840 --> 0:16:16.640 So the Dodgers have gotten away from what has been 0:16:17.240 --> 0:16:23.400 their mo slug pitching and defense, base running. That's what 0:16:23.440 --> 0:16:26.440 they do. And it sounds simple, and it sounds like, yeah, 0:16:26.640 --> 0:16:28.880 team should do that, but they don't. So the Dodgers 0:16:28.920 --> 0:16:31.840 have done really good. That's why they've won more times 0:16:31.840 --> 0:16:33.600 than not. And that's why they've won back to back 0:16:33.640 --> 0:16:37.680 World Series championships doing the small things against that series 0:16:37.680 --> 0:16:40.320 against the Blue Jays. Think about all those small moments, 0:16:40.360 --> 0:16:43.480 the catch and left center field, you know, the catch 0:16:43.520 --> 0:16:46.400 and throw from from Kyk, the one hopper to Rojas 0:16:46.440 --> 0:16:48.360 at the end of Game six to double up the 0:16:48.440 --> 0:16:53.680 runner at second base. Great defense, smarter than the other team. 0:16:54.080 --> 0:16:56.760 Bad base running by the Blue Jays in the World Series. 0:16:57.080 --> 0:16:58.600 Not good at a good jumping, they could have been 0:16:58.640 --> 0:17:01.640 the game winning run at home. Instead, Miguel Rojast makes 0:17:01.640 --> 0:17:03.720 a great play, throws home and Will Smith gets the 0:17:03.760 --> 0:17:07.240 guy at home by millimeters. Those are the kind of 0:17:07.240 --> 0:17:10.480 things the Dodgers have done and that's why they've won championships. 0:17:11.560 --> 0:17:13.320 But when you get away from that, you're not playing 0:17:13.320 --> 0:17:16.480 clean baseball and you're not slugging, and you know, pitchings 0:17:16.640 --> 0:17:18.960 give it up home runs and you're putting yourself in holes. 0:17:19.800 --> 0:17:22.119 That's why you lose six in a row. So the 0:17:22.200 --> 0:17:25.240 Dodgers need to fix it, and I'm confident they will. 0:17:25.680 --> 0:17:28.679 I'm confident this team is going to right the ship 0:17:29.119 --> 0:17:31.320 and they're gonna get back on the winning track, and 0:17:31.400 --> 0:17:33.600 I think it begins this weekend in Arizona. Now, the 0:17:33.640 --> 0:17:37.320 Diamambacks have all three of their guys. They're Merrill, Kelly, Brandon, Fott, 0:17:37.600 --> 0:17:41.440 ed Guardo and Rodriguez. They're all lined up ready to go, 0:17:42.280 --> 0:17:45.600 and I imagine there'll be a pro Dodger fan crowd 0:17:45.800 --> 0:17:49.040 in Arizona. I mean, just based on what we've seen 0:17:49.040 --> 0:17:52.359 there over the years, but baseball wise, between the lines, 0:17:52.400 --> 0:17:55.160 get ready for this Diamondbacks team because they are gonna 0:17:55.160 --> 0:17:57.560 come out and they saw what they happened in Chicago. 0:17:58.000 --> 0:18:00.000 I'm sure they saw what happened at Dodgers Stadium whe 0:18:00.119 --> 0:18:02.760 weekend by the Red Sox. How to beat the Dodgers, 0:18:03.720 --> 0:18:06.639 how to press them, how to force them to make mistakes, 0:18:06.920 --> 0:18:09.199 how to force them to make bad running decisions on 0:18:09.240 --> 0:18:12.640 the base pass. This is things other teams see when 0:18:12.640 --> 0:18:15.359 they scout. The Dodgers put the pressure on them, and 0:18:15.400 --> 0:18:19.080 the Dodgers just haven't played Cleyton Baseball eight sixty six 0:18:19.200 --> 0:18:21.800 nine eight seven, two, five seventy again is our phone number. 0:18:22.040 --> 0:18:24.600 So the Dodgers are back at it tomorrow and again 0:18:24.680 --> 0:18:28.119 just kind of looking back at this long three weeks 0:18:28.160 --> 0:18:31.119 here since the All Star break. You start on that 0:18:31.160 --> 0:18:33.879 Friday in New York, you go to Philadelphia, you had 0:18:33.960 --> 0:18:36.560 weather issues in all three cities. You had to rain 0:18:36.600 --> 0:18:38.639 out on a Saturday in New York against the Yankees, 0:18:38.640 --> 0:18:41.520 you had to play a doubleheader. I'm not giving excuses, 0:18:42.000 --> 0:18:43.639 but then you're throwing the day off where they have 0:18:43.640 --> 0:18:45.560 to go to the Nation's Capitol and they get celebrated 0:18:45.600 --> 0:18:47.760 for last year's World Series. All right, that cuts into 0:18:47.760 --> 0:18:49.639 your schedule and your time to get off your feed. 0:18:49.920 --> 0:18:52.000 That's more time, you have to go do things. You're 0:18:52.000 --> 0:18:54.400 in a different city, you gotta travel, you gotta get 0:18:54.400 --> 0:18:57.040 out another plane, another bus. It's a lot of wear 0:18:57.040 --> 0:18:59.160 and tear again on guys who were in their early 0:18:59.200 --> 0:19:02.960 to mid thirties on this Dodgers team, and what five 0:19:03.000 --> 0:19:05.119 of them plus the coaching staff were all in Philadelphia 0:19:05.160 --> 0:19:07.360 also for the All Star break, so they didn't really 0:19:07.359 --> 0:19:09.919 get a chance to get away and decompress. You have 0:19:10.040 --> 0:19:12.320 one day off when you come back before the series 0:19:12.600 --> 0:19:15.680 against the Mariners and Red Sox. That's it in essence, 0:19:15.680 --> 0:19:18.880 they've had one day off up until today, over two 0:19:18.880 --> 0:19:21.800 and a half weeks. It's a long stretch, nine games, 0:19:21.840 --> 0:19:25.200 ten days East Coast Roady back home right away playing 0:19:25.240 --> 0:19:28.440 against the Mariners Red Sox. Quick turnaround of going to Chicago, 0:19:29.040 --> 0:19:30.960 you know, getting in at four o'clock in the morning 0:19:31.000 --> 0:19:33.520 on Monday morning and having to play in Chicago Monday night, 0:19:33.760 --> 0:19:36.320 and you got a hot Cubs team just licking their 0:19:36.400 --> 0:19:37.240 chops ready for you. 0:19:37.280 --> 0:19:38.040 And that's the other thing. 0:19:38.960 --> 0:19:41.199 Everywhere the Dodgers go now, teams are waiting for him. 0:19:41.240 --> 0:19:43.000 And that's what happens when you're the champs. That's what 0:19:43.040 --> 0:19:45.240 happens when you're the Dodgers, and again nobody feels sorry 0:19:45.240 --> 0:19:48.200 for him. But you have to be up and ready 0:19:48.280 --> 0:19:50.879 every single game because you get in at four o'clock 0:19:50.880 --> 0:19:52.320 in the morning. You got to go to Chicago and 0:19:52.320 --> 0:19:54.240 play that night, start three games after you just got 0:19:54.280 --> 0:19:56.560 swept by the Red Sox at home. Hey, sorry, no 0:19:56.640 --> 0:19:59.080 pity party here. You gotta get ready to go because 0:19:59.359 --> 0:20:03.080 they're waiting and there's Ranger Swarers waiting for you in Boston. 0:20:03.119 --> 0:20:05.239 And then you go to rickley Field and you know, 0:20:05.320 --> 0:20:07.800 you got a Cubs team waiting for you. You know 0:20:07.880 --> 0:20:10.280 that's that's the way it goes. And for the Cubs, 0:20:10.320 --> 0:20:12.639 sold out crowd, they were fired up. They take the 0:20:12.680 --> 0:20:15.480 first two. They come out yesterday, fall behind, PCA, hits 0:20:15.480 --> 0:20:17.720