Speaker 1: For the back to back World champions of Baseball.
Speaker 2: One of the greatest runs in the history of baseball.
Speaker 1: Immortality is within their reach.
Speaker 3: Incredible and while others make excuses.
Speaker 4: The only reason the Dodgers are doing this is because
Speaker 4: they can. They print money.
Speaker 1: The Dodgers just can't continue.
Speaker 4: It's not fair.
Speaker 1: Are making plans.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's a singular focus on controlling what they can control.
Speaker 3: Now your pregame host of the World champion LA Dodgers,
Speaker 3: tam Cats.
Speaker 6: Hi, everybody, and welcome to Morongo Casino. Dodgers on Deck,
Speaker 6: your official pregame show for the back to back World
Speaker 6: Series champion Los Angeles Dodgers on this Sunday, April twelfth,
Speaker 6: twenty twenty six. Raining in southern California all morning long.
Speaker 6: The clouds are still here, but the rain is gone
Speaker 6: for now. Dodgers eleven and three on this season. After
Speaker 6: a comfort behind win on Friday ended with the walk
Speaker 6: off home run another comfort behind wind last night, the
Speaker 6: Dodgers go for the sweet today of the Texas Rangers.
Speaker 4: Roki Sasaki on the mound.
Speaker 6: First pitch from Uniclo Field the Dodger Stadium is coming
Speaker 6: up at one ten. Between then and now, We got
Speaker 6: a lot to get to here on Morago Casino. Dodgers
Speaker 6: on deck coming up in twenty minutes. You're gonna hear
Speaker 6: from the manager himself, Dave Roberts. Coming up in forty
Speaker 6: five minutes, you're gonna hear from Dodger reliever Jack Dryer.
Speaker 6: Had a little bit of a bumpy outing in Toronto
Speaker 6: on Wednesday in the series finale, but bounced back last night,
Speaker 6: striking out the side in the seventh. Inny, we'll dive
Speaker 6: deeper into today's pitching matchup. We got your Dodgers magical moment. Shortly,
Speaker 6: we'll visit with Kirsten Watson from Sports and at LA
Speaker 6: and in just a few minutes we will head out
Speaker 6: to the gallopin Ford broadcast booth and check in with
Speaker 6: Tim Neffertt and Rick Monday. Well, last night, Immate Sheehan
Speaker 6: got the start and it was a rocky start, says
Speaker 6: he gave up a solo home run to the first
Speaker 6: batter that he faced, Brandon Nemo, second pitch of the game,
Speaker 6: solo home run to center, and just like that, the
Speaker 6: Rangers led one to nothing. Bottom of the first inning.
Speaker 6: Joey O'tadi said, hold my beer I got you two.
Speaker 6: He went deep, a home run to right three hundred
Speaker 6: and ninety feet that tied the game at one, and
Speaker 6: then the Dodgers got after Jack Lider still in the
Speaker 6: bottom of the first inning, too odd for Tao.
Speaker 2: One one, ty Oscar hits a high fly ball to
Speaker 2: left in deep, heading back on it as Duran he.
Speaker 7: Looks up at has got a home run.
Speaker 2: Tay Oscar Hernandez a three run shot that gives the
Speaker 2: Dodgers the lead.
Speaker 1: It is four to one Los Angeles.
Speaker 2: The third home run of the season for Teoscar Hernandez.
Speaker 7: He now has eleven runs bad.
Speaker 6: It is te Oscar Hernandez goes deep. He hit a
Speaker 6: three run home run as the Dodgers put a four
Speaker 6: spot up on the board on Jack Lighter in the
Speaker 6: bottom half of the first inning. Him and she and
Speaker 6: would get into cruise control the next few winnings. Toaskar,
Speaker 6: Hernandez grinded into a double play, but not before Will
Speaker 6: Smith scored to make it a five to one Dodgers lead.
Speaker 6: Brandon nemo at Immachine again. He homered it with a
Speaker 6: two run shot in the top half of the sixth
Speaker 6: off of Imachean. He'd give up three runs over six innings,
Speaker 6: four hit, struck out six, the damage all done by
Speaker 6: Brandon Nemo Dodgers of five to three when they turned
Speaker 6: it over to the bullpen. Jack Dryer struck out the
Speaker 6: side in the seventh, his first time doing so in
Speaker 6: the major leagues. Tanner Scott put up his zero in
Speaker 6: the top half of the eighth inning. In the bottom
Speaker 6: half of the eighth inning, the hottest hitter in baseball,
Speaker 6: Andy Paz.
Speaker 2: The pitch one two stroke to left. That's a base hit.
Speaker 2: Pay Oscar on the move. He's gonna get way up
Speaker 2: around by Diana Reebel. Here comes the throat of the plate,
Speaker 2: not in time, and tay Oscar scores standing up. It's
Speaker 2: an RBI base hit for Randy Pie and the Dodgers
Speaker 2: lead hit six to three.
Speaker 8: And Pie has just continues to get it done. And
Speaker 8: he had to stay with that. Pitch went down and
Speaker 8: went out and got it on the ball. It looked
Speaker 8: like was a change up, but the Pie has stayed
Speaker 8: right on top of it.
Speaker 6: Andy po has delivering with the top tier play of
Speaker 6: the game brought to by Arco quality, top tier gas
Speaker 6: for less. Po Haz his RBI single. There his seventeenth
Speaker 6: RBI in now fourteen games. He leaves the major leagues
Speaker 6: in RBIs to start the season.
Speaker 4: Tanner Sky, as we mentioned, put.
Speaker 6: Up a zero in the eighth and ninth belong to
Speaker 6: Blake trying with Edwin Diaz down. He got two outs,
Speaker 6: but also had traffic on the base pass. Dave Roberts said, MP,
Speaker 6: I'm going to alex Psia on his thirtieth birthday to
Speaker 6: get the final out, and he struck out the only
Speaker 6: battery face for the save, his first save of the season,
Speaker 6: his thirteenth save of his career. Dodgers beat the Rangers
Speaker 6: last night six to three. Image Shean now two to
Speaker 6: zero to start this season. With the win, the Dodgers
Speaker 6: now eleven and three overall, and today they look to
Speaker 6: finish off the sweep of the Texas Rangers. Rokie Susaki
Speaker 6: on the mound, first pitch of one ten and with
Speaker 6: more we head out to the galpin Ford broadcast booth
Speaker 6: as we welcome in Tim Neverard and Rick Monday.
Speaker 4: Guys, Tim, thank you very much.
Speaker 2: It's an overcast Sunday afternoon at Uniclo Field at Dodgers Stadium.
Speaker 2: Dodgers and Rangers ready to wrap up this three game
Speaker 2: interleague set. Dodgers looking for a three game sweep too.
Speaker 2: By the way, Roki Sasaki will be on the mound.
Speaker 2: He's zero and one with an ERA of seven after
Speaker 2: two starts. Jacob de Grom, the twenty fourteen National League
Speaker 2: Rookie of the Year, is on the mound now for Texas,
Speaker 2: no decisions in an ERA of three seventy two. Last night, Maul,
Speaker 2: they got it going. In the first inning. Otani hit
Speaker 2: his first leadoff home run of the season, his first
Speaker 2: extra base hit at Dodgers Stadium, and then ta Oscar
Speaker 2: Hernandez pretty much put it away with a three run home.
Speaker 8: Run the first something we haven't seen a whole lot
Speaker 8: of in baseball histories that both leadoff men hit home
Speaker 8: runs for the respective teams, and Nemo went deep in
Speaker 8: the second pitch thrown to him by Emitt Shean, and
Speaker 8: then Otani took in four pitches to hit the home
Speaker 8: run off of their started Jack Lighters so again and
Speaker 8: went back and forth and back and forth to Askar.
Speaker 8: Hernanez also a big three run home run in that
Speaker 8: opening frame, So the Dodgers came out to full strength
Speaker 8: with four runs in the first and never really look back.
Speaker 8: And as you mentioned, I mean this Dodger bulk club.
Speaker 8: Tim has done just about everything imaginable from a hitting standpoint.
Speaker 8: When you look at the batting average, you look at
Speaker 8: the number of home runs they've been we'll go. And
Speaker 8: then on top of it, I think the bullpen has
Speaker 8: really stood tall coming out and Dave Roberts has had
Speaker 8: the luxury spreading around the workload in that bullpen, which
Speaker 8: has worked out beautifully.
Speaker 2: They spread it around. Last night, Edwin Diaz did not
Speaker 2: come out and try to close the game after blowing
Speaker 2: us say, picking up the win the night before in.
Speaker 7: The series opener.
Speaker 2: He was asked today, is there anything physical going on
Speaker 2: because his velocity has been down. He said, no, he
Speaker 2: feels fine, and that usually in the first month of
Speaker 2: the season, as velocity is down anyway, when you look
Speaker 2: at the numbers, that kind of bears out. As the
Speaker 2: season goes along, he picks it up.
Speaker 8: I've always been mystified by that, is that there's a
Speaker 8: start date to the season and when is that start date?
Speaker 7: Well, way, few weeks and we'll be able to do it.
Speaker 8: If you have a history of it takes you a
Speaker 8: while to get going and why not start a little
Speaker 8: bit earlier, but just one of the strange things that
Speaker 8: seems to happen. Also the case with a lot of hitters.
Speaker 8: They say, hey, look, normally they get off to very
Speaker 8: slow starts.
Speaker 2: You mentioned some categories earlier home runs, batting average. The
Speaker 2: Dodgers lead Major League Baseball in both right now as
Speaker 2: a team twenty seven home runs team batting average two
Speaker 2: ninety eight runs per game, also number one in Major
Speaker 2: League Baseball six point four runs per game so far.
Speaker 2: When you look at the Rangers, they have been run challenged.
Speaker 2: They have scored three or fewer runs in eight of
Speaker 2: their last nine game.
Speaker 9: Yeah.
Speaker 8: I came across the number about an hour and a
Speaker 8: half ago. That kind of surprised me. Okay, the Dodgers
Speaker 8: scored in the first inning last night. That's a big
Speaker 8: deal and it helps, there's no question about that. If
Speaker 8: we look back the last couple of years scoring in
Speaker 8: the first inning, the Dodgers are forty five wins and
Speaker 8: eleven losses. That's an eight ZHO four winning percentage. That
Speaker 8: didn't surprise me. What did surprise me, is it that
Speaker 8: second best? Who's the best team scoring in the first inning?
Speaker 8: Chicago Cubs have a slightly higher winning percentage than that area,
Speaker 8: So yeah, but it does help to get on the
Speaker 8: board and not wait till the seventh, eighth, or ninth,
Speaker 8: which quite frankly, that's what we saw a lot of
Speaker 8: in spring training.
Speaker 7: Dodgers scoring late.
Speaker 2: Teoscar Hernandez and Will Smith getting the day off, Dalton
Speaker 2: rushing behind the plate. Alex call Will be in left field.
Speaker 2: Rest of the lineup from last night in there, with
Speaker 2: Andy Paez moving up to the third spot in the
Speaker 2: batting order. Dodger's best record in Major League Baseball through
Speaker 2: this early portion of the season eleven and three the
Speaker 2: Rangers seven and seven.
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Speaker 6: You're gonna hear from the manager himself, Dave Roberts. We'll
Speaker 6: check in with David Vatsay he goes one on one
Speaker 6: with Jack Dryer, But up next we get your Tani
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Speaker 6: That is all coming up before first pitch as we
Speaker 6: lead job to Dodgers and the Rangers.
Speaker 4: First pitch coming up at one ten.
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Speaker 6: Cleaning up to Dodgers and the Texas Rangers. Rookie Sasaki,
Speaker 6: Jacin de Grom the pitching mash up in this series finale.
Speaker 4: First pitch at one ten.
Speaker 1: This is the Otani.
Speaker 2: Rewhy winding the two to one pitch and Otani swings.
Speaker 7: Hits a drive deep to right field.
Speaker 4: This ball is gone.
Speaker 2: Otani ties it up with one mighty swing in the
Speaker 2: bottom of the first home run number four for shure
Speaker 2: Hey Ol'tani. It's his first extravase hit a dit Drew.
Speaker 7: Stadium this year.
Speaker 2: One two well chopper swinging bunt to the right side.
Speaker 2: Lighter will field it, he will not field it cleaner.
Speaker 2: And Otani is a board. He picked it up and
Speaker 2: dropped a good lighter and Otane with his second hit
Speaker 2: of the ball game.
Speaker 6: Show Hey Otani too for full with the home run
Speaker 6: extended is on Bay Street to forty five games. With
Speaker 6: that home run in the first inning, he has the
Speaker 6: fifth longest on bastreak in Dodger history, two games behind
Speaker 6: Ron Say, who has got forty seven straight games for
Speaker 6: fourth place. He also smacked his twenty fifth leadoff home run,
Speaker 6: which ties him for thirty third all time with Hanley Ramirez,
Speaker 6: Matt Carpenter, Andrew McCutcheon, and Brian Downy.
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Speaker 6: The rain is going away. That's the good news. In
Speaker 6: Roki Sasaki man, it'd be nicely got a piggyback what
Speaker 6: Imma Sheian did last night.
Speaker 10: Kirsten, exactly when you look at just how the both
Speaker 10: of those guys have started the season, you know, have
Speaker 10: the en't fully been right When it came to Emmachi
Speaker 10: and he was working through a few mechanical things, he
Speaker 10: found that he was being a little too rotational on
Speaker 10: the mound and so he was flying open a little
Speaker 10: bit faster than he would have liked to yesterday with
Speaker 10: how the stuff was playing, getting to swing and miss. Yes,
Speaker 10: he did to give up those two home runs, but
Speaker 10: if you removed those two, he was in an excellent
Speaker 10: spot last night, and even he was sharing that this
Speaker 10: is the best that he's felt he was able to
Speaker 10: work on essentially like a mechanical or a mental cue
Speaker 10: in which for him he said it had to do
Speaker 10: with his glove tap. But he is in a much
Speaker 10: better position. So now he feels like, okay, you can
Speaker 10: kind of continue to build from yesterday. Then you mentioned
Speaker 10: Roki Sasaki. He is someone who there are times where
Speaker 10: it feels like the stuff is there. There are times
Speaker 10: it feels like he's just kind of the misses are
Speaker 10: bad misses, or there the splitter is not breaking like
Speaker 10: he would want it to and kind of leaving the
Speaker 10: ball up.
Speaker 4: Things like that.
Speaker 10: So with him today, I guess even when you look
Speaker 10: at his last outing, just quickly against the Nationals. There
Speaker 10: were times at the beginning of his start, and on
Speaker 10: that final inning of work in the fifth things did
Speaker 10: look good. But then if you look at the two
Speaker 10: innings that were kind of in between, they were the walks,
Speaker 10: the home run, the just it started to pile up
Speaker 10: and the pitch count got up, and so he truly
Speaker 10: was only limited to those five innings of work, and
Speaker 10: even that was a push. So coming into today, Dave
Speaker 10: Roberts was just saying, you know, he wants to continue
Speaker 10: to see him really moving in the right direction. There
Speaker 10: are times, as I mentioned, when the stuff has been excellent,
Speaker 10: but now it's just finding that consistency and how he's navigating,
Speaker 10: especially through this aggressive Rainery's lineup.
Speaker 6: Edwin he has last night not there in the ninth inning,
Speaker 6: Dave Roberts said, he was down for the night.
Speaker 4: What about today, hearson.
Speaker 10: You know, they're kind of looking at him as like
Speaker 10: a day to day situation. So when they look at
Speaker 10: his outing on Friday night, in which he did blow
Speaker 10: his first day, if you're in Dodger blue, he gave
Speaker 10: up four hits, three runs, and everyone noticed that the
Speaker 10: velocity was about two miles for hours down, which is
Speaker 10: quite significant when it comes to a pitcher. And so
Speaker 10: Dave Roberts even immediately after the game said he noticed it.
Speaker 10: He said that he was gonna have a conversation with
Speaker 10: Edwin and just kind of see how he's feeling. Checking
Speaker 10: in Edwin said that he says that he feels fine,
Speaker 10: but they're just gonna keep kind of seeing. So he'll
Speaker 10: play some catch this afternoon how he comes out of that.
Speaker 10: So they're really just kind of following Edwin's lead. But
Speaker 10: due to just that drop off in below, it's something
Speaker 10: that they do want to keep an eye on. Dave
Speaker 10: Roberts would make it clear that it is a low
Speaker 10: concern for him. It's yeah, it's a low level concern,
Speaker 10: and they're just more of they got to play the
Speaker 10: long game, not the short game, and if Edwin needs
Speaker 10: a few days to rest, then he should have those
Speaker 10: days and then continue to allow his body to heal
Speaker 10: at that's what it needs to do.
Speaker 7: No doubt about it.
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Speaker 6: great outing last night, striking out the side of next.
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Speaker 6: the pregame thoughts of the manager, Dave Roberts. So he
Speaker 6: leads up to Dodgers and Rangers on this cloudy rain
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Speaker 7: Any questions for Dave Dave? Can you just describe Dave?
Speaker 7: Can you talk about the pressure.
Speaker 1: In the dugouts with Dave Roberts.
Speaker 9: I think Rochy's in that same em at bucket as
Speaker 9: far as training in the right direction and uh, you know,
Speaker 9: cleaning up some things with the delivery and then you know,
Speaker 9: translating that pitch execution. So you know, hopefully we can
Speaker 9: you know, he can keep building off that, and I
Speaker 9: feel good with the work that he's put in before
Speaker 9: this start and go from there.
Speaker 8: Lost out.
Speaker 10: Yes, there was the two home runs, but he was
Speaker 10: able to finish.
Speaker 1: Honestly, start on a higher note.
Speaker 10: Are you just looking now more for the consistency of.
Speaker 1: His step thrown out?
Speaker 7: And yeah, I think that.
Speaker 9: You know, with any starting pitcher, obviously, you know, the
Speaker 9: mindset has got to be in a good spot where
Speaker 9: I think he's in as good a spot as he
Speaker 9: has been with us. And then you know, the physical,
Speaker 9: the mechanical part that's got to be in line. And
Speaker 9: then I think then it just for me, the execution
Speaker 9: has been a lot better the last couple outings. The
Speaker 9: misses have been near misses versus egregious misses, So it's
Speaker 9: just been more consistent. And I think that if he
Speaker 9: can continue to do that, you know, this is an
Speaker 9: aggressive team, clearly they're they're they're aggressive. And if he
Speaker 9: can you know, pitch off that split presented as a strike,
Speaker 9: shorten it when he needs to, you know, mix in
Speaker 9: the fastball things like that, you know, we should have
Speaker 9: a good day.
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Speaker 4: All right, David, what in the world is going on
Speaker 4: with Edwin Diaz?
Speaker 5: Well, you heard from Dave Roberts earlier today. It just
Speaker 5: seemed like a lot of mixed messages because he said
Speaker 5: it's not mechanical. He also said Edwin Diaz is not
Speaker 5: going on the injured list, so we're wondering what it is. So,
Speaker 5: I mean, Edwin Diaz told us earlier this morning that
Speaker 5: every April since he injured his knee in the World
Speaker 5: Baseball Classic, the velocity hasn't been where it will be
Speaker 5: the rest of the season. So it makes you wonder
Speaker 5: if the answer is pretty simple, maybe a little bit
Speaker 5: of dead arm, because the fastball velocity is not that
Speaker 5: far off from where it has been in the past
Speaker 5: two or three Aprils. In fact, the real issue with
Speaker 5: Diaz has been a flat slider. I mean, he isn't
Speaker 5: locating a slider well and that's what's being hit. So
Speaker 5: you just wonder if it could be as simple as
Speaker 5: dead arm and something that the Dodgers don't want to disclose,
Speaker 5: and maybe something DS doesn't want to disclose. But around
Speaker 5: this time of year, there's two parts of a baseball
Speaker 5: season when you hear about dead arm, and that's usually
Speaker 5: at the end of spring training, sometimes bleeds into the
Speaker 5: beginning of the regular season for pitchers, and the other
Speaker 5: part is in August September after a long season. So
Speaker 5: it could be just as simple as that from what
Speaker 5: we gathered and try to dissect from what Dave Roberts
Speaker 5: and Edwin Diaz said.
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Speaker 6: Roki Suzaki's got one win in the last two years
Speaker 6: here in the Big League's looking to get his second
Speaker 6: win today. David, is this a good matchup against the
Speaker 6: Texas Rangers.
Speaker 5: Wow, when you put it that way, Tim, that's pretty
Speaker 5: so bring right there. And they have a lot of
Speaker 5: left handers in the lineup that are very aggressive with
Speaker 5: fastballs in the strike zone. I don't know if it
Speaker 5: is the best matchup for him, but it's his day
Speaker 5: to start, and if he doesn't have fastball command, cannot
Speaker 5: throw his fastball for strikes. The Rangers are not going
Speaker 5: to chase that split knuckler that he throws. So in
Speaker 5: his last start, Sasaki leaned on that cutter, slash slider
Speaker 5: pitch that he's learned over the course of the last
Speaker 5: few months. We may see a steady diet of that
Speaker 5: if he doesn't feel comfortable with his fastball, which was
Speaker 5: averaging around ninety six miles an hour in his last start.
Speaker 5: And quite frankly, we don't really know in Major League
Speaker 5: Baseball in the last two years what is Roki Sasaki's
Speaker 5: steady fastball velocity. Because it's ranged anywhere from one hundred
Speaker 5: miles an hour to ninety two miles an hour and
Speaker 5: now it's around ninety six miles an hour. There's really
Speaker 5: no real data point that tells us since he's joined
Speaker 5: the Dodgers what his fastball velocity should be because remember
Speaker 5: he had injuries before he signed in Major League Baseball.
Speaker 5: We don't know where his shoulders at since then. So
Speaker 5: this may be the new version of Rokie and part
Speaker 5: of the reason why he's searching to find this new
Speaker 5: way to pitch without that one hundred miles an hour.
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Speaker 6: the ninth inning, when Edwin Diaz gave up three runs
Speaker 6: to tie the game at seven. In the bottom of
Speaker 6: the ninth, little two out magic from Muncie.
Speaker 2: At the corner of this season intended bats against left
Speaker 2: handed pitching. Monsey hitting four hundred. Here's the old two
Speaker 2: these swings hits, a high.
Speaker 7: Drive to right fail, it's going back. It is gone.
Speaker 11: Were Max Monsey with two outs in a pout of
Speaker 11: the night. Maxwell swinging with silver hammer his second career
Speaker 11: three home run Dave Emma Dodgers victorious tonight eight to seven.
Speaker 11: Oh my goodness, what a shot by Monsei.
Speaker 2: Four hundred and one feet into the pavilion in lake Field.
Speaker 7: Mountsi. Was a four hit night. And I said earlier on.
Speaker 8: In the second inning, he said, Hey, the swing's getting better.
Speaker 7: He's getting close. Well, welcome aboard Max Mounsey.
Speaker 6: Max Mounsey with three home runs, including the walk off
Speaker 6: there in the bottom half of the ninth INNY. He
Speaker 6: had a bat flip to go with it as well,
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Speaker 12: All right, Tim, The Dodgers keep rolling right along eleven
Speaker 12: and three best record in baseball. They lead baseball in
Speaker 12: the following categories wins, winning percentage, run scored, batting average,
Speaker 12: on base percentage, slugging percentage, OPS, home runs, and extra basins.
Speaker 7: Well, that's all anything else.
Speaker 8: I think they're up there also with at least the
Speaker 8: City connect uniforms. We saw those last night. We've seen
Speaker 8: so many other teams are going what are they thinking?
Speaker 8: But the Dodgers that do it in style, especially when
Speaker 8: you start to consider the fact, as you know, everybody
Speaker 8: looking at well the Dodgers, can they come back and
Speaker 8: get off to a good start. Well, they've done that.
Speaker 8: Maybe the surprising team you and I were talking about
Speaker 8: this just off the air a few minutes ago. Surprising
Speaker 8: team at least to this point, maybe in the Western Division,
Speaker 8: San Diego hanging tough. They're just two and a half
Speaker 8: back winners of four in a row in that category.
Speaker 8: But you know they've got tough customers in the Texas Rangers,
Speaker 8: who are tied with the surprising team in the American
Speaker 8: League West, that being the A's. Sacramento A's are now
Speaker 8: being worn on the front of the uniform. So there's
Speaker 8: some races early and if the Dodgers, as you mentioned,
Speaker 8: they had taken care of business in just about every
Speaker 8: category to this point.
Speaker 12: Rangers and Athletics, by the way, tied for first in
Speaker 12: the American League West, each had seven and seven Dodgers
Speaker 12: eleven and three. Look back at last night. Oh, that
Speaker 12: fellow O'tani got on base again, the leadoff home run,
Speaker 12: and he's been on base in every game so far
Speaker 12: this year.
Speaker 8: Yeah, here's the question that we proposed last night. When
Speaker 8: is the last time you saw both leadoff hitters in
Speaker 8: a ball game leave the ballpark with home runs? They
Speaker 8: did not take very long to do it. Brandon Nimmo
Speaker 8: led off with the Rangers in the top of the
Speaker 8: first the second pitch that was thrown to him by
Speaker 8: Emmitt Sheen, and then Otani says, okay, watch this. Well,
Speaker 8: it took him four pitches to be able to hit
Speaker 8: the home run and tie the game. So the Dodgers, Yeah,
Speaker 8: technically another come from behind victory last night. They've also
Speaker 8: hit very well with opportunities have been created because in
Speaker 8: this series they have seventeen advants with runners in scoring position,
Speaker 8: the Rangers just eight.
Speaker 12: To this point where he mentioned she and he gives
Speaker 12: up the leadoff home run. He'd been rocky in his
Speaker 12: first couple of starts, but then he settled down, and
Speaker 12: so the Dodgers certainly have to feel good about that.
Speaker 8: Yeah, and I think the way that he did it too,
Speaker 8: because the very next batter after Nemo's leadoff home run,
Speaker 8: he strunk out Duran on four pitches, including went up
Speaker 8: and away with a good fastball. Then he got Seeger
Speaker 8: to strike him out to follow Duran and that's when
Speaker 8: he started to introduce the slider, and the slider along
Speaker 8: with the fastball and the chine up worked very well
Speaker 8: last night. He went six innings and that gave the
Speaker 8: bullpen a little bit of a breather.
Speaker 12: On top of it, And another word or two about
Speaker 12: Andy Pahez, who is batting third today in the lineup.
Speaker 8: Yeah, and move him up in the lineup. I mean
Speaker 8: he's done everything as have dragged the infield from an
Speaker 8: offensive standpoint, He's played great defense on top of it.
Speaker 8: He's a young guy, Charlie that we have talked about
Speaker 8: a lot, and to watch his development along with his confidence,
Speaker 8: has really made him into the one of the players
Speaker 8: that now we're hearing a lot of scouts talking and
Speaker 8: talking in very positive action about how he has taken
Speaker 8: control now of things. Hopefully that's going to be a
Speaker 8: sign of very good things in his career come forward.
Speaker 12: Pa has so far this year with men on base
Speaker 12: he's hitting six forty is on base for saying six
Speaker 12: point fifty four and oh, by the way, with two
Speaker 12: men on base, he's six out of ten and oh,
Speaker 12: by the way, leading the nation of the league in hitting,
Speaker 12: and he's he has done nearly everything right and you
Speaker 12: can judge.
Speaker 7: It better than anybody.
Speaker 12: Defensively, how he's upgraded his game and center Yeah, and oh,
Speaker 12: by the way, he's coming to bat a lot with
Speaker 12: runners on.
Speaker 8: Base, if not in scoring position too. It's going to
Speaker 8: be interesting because we've continued to talk about the job
Speaker 8: the bottom part of the lineup has been doing in
Speaker 8: getting on base and setting the stage for the top
Speaker 8: of the lineup. Well, now we're moving Paz Dave roberts
Speaker 8: Is to the number three spot with the Oscar Hernandez
Speaker 8: getting a breather at least from the get gos. It'll
Speaker 8: be Alis called playing in left field. Everything else kind
Speaker 8: of remains the same, including with Hasan Ki gets the
Speaker 8: start at shortstop this afternoon.
Speaker 12: And he's played very well since his call up. Trinan
Speaker 12: has pitched very well out of the bullpen struggled last year.
Speaker 12: Tanner Scott has pitched well out of the bullpen so far,
Speaker 12: this year, struggled last season, Jack Dryer a scoreless relief
Speaker 12: appearance last night won two three, and Alex Vesio on
Speaker 12: his thirtieth birthday was great. So the depth of the
Speaker 12: bullpen seems about as strong as it's.
Speaker 7: Been a year.
Speaker 8: Yeah, the depth, and I think the balance too, and
Speaker 8: that ballance is really key because Dave Roberts does not
Speaker 8: have to continue calling the same names over and over
Speaker 8: and over out of the bullpen, get kind of spread
Speaker 8: it around and not increase the workload in one area
Speaker 8: versus another.
Speaker 12: Question today, which Roki Sasaki will show up against Jacob
Speaker 12: de Grom.
Speaker 8: Well, hopefully it's going to be the competitive Brokie Sasaki
Speaker 8: because that's exactly what Dave Roberts has been talking about
Speaker 8: the last couple of outings that he's had, and he
Speaker 8: was more aggressive, he attacked the strength zone better his
Speaker 8: life last doubting and hopefully that's a stepping stone to
Speaker 8: what we see today.
Speaker 12: So the Dodgers looking for the sweep against the Rangers
Speaker 12: on this Sunday afternoon. The Mets come in tomorrow night.
Speaker 12: Whin up some first pitch coming up soon, Tim.
Speaker 4: All right, thank you, Charlie.
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Speaker 1: This is high and tight.
Speaker 5: Last night on Dodger Talk, I explained the rules of
Speaker 5: approaching relief pitchers when they don't perform well, everybody's at
Speaker 5: their locker. But when you strike out the side in
Speaker 5: the seventh inning the first time in your career, I
Speaker 5: expect everybody to be in front of your locker. Nobody
Speaker 5: was there. That's why I'm here with Jack Dreyer. Jack,
Speaker 5: thanks a lot for the time, appreciated.
Speaker 13: Thank you for having me.
Speaker 10: I know the.
Speaker 5: Rules of relief pitching and media dealings.
Speaker 13: Yeah, no comment on that.
Speaker 5: Hey. As a relief picture though, you have to have
Speaker 5: a short memory. Have you learned that part of this?
Speaker 7: Yeah?
Speaker 4: Absolutely.
Speaker 13: I think at the end of the day, you know
Speaker 13: your job is to go and give your team a
Speaker 13: chance to win every time you go out there, and
Speaker 13: so regardless of what happened last time, you just have
Speaker 13: to go out there and do it every time.
Speaker 5: How did you reset? Did the day off help you reset?
Speaker 5: I heard you were looking for a new dog?
Speaker 4: Wow through the grape fine?
Speaker 7: I guess No.
Speaker 4: I think it's just a.
Speaker 13: Combination of, you know, going back to my preparation and
Speaker 13: you know, all of the work that we put in
Speaker 13: on a daily basis to be ready to go, and
Speaker 13: then just having that conviction in yourself.
Speaker 5: Yeah, sometimes you have to remind yourself that you're really good.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 5: It feels like there's that cat and mouse game between
Speaker 5: hitters and pictures where the hitter seems to give pictures
Speaker 5: too much credit and the pictures sometimes give the hitters
Speaker 5: too much credit.
Speaker 13: Yeah, I think so. I think that with the Dodgers,
Speaker 13: everybody does a really good job of kind of communicating
Speaker 13: from the offense and defensive side, so we kind of
Speaker 13: have a good idea of what is going through the hitters'
Speaker 13: minds and vice versa. So I think the communication between
Speaker 13: the two sides is really good.
Speaker 5: Can you believe I was shocked, because you were so
Speaker 5: good last year that you hadn't struck out the side
Speaker 5: in an inning before in your short career? Are you
Speaker 5: when you heard that. Did you realize that?
Speaker 13: No, I mean it crossed my mind because it always
Speaker 13: feels good, you know, but no, I hadn't really realized
Speaker 13: that it was the first time.
Speaker 4: So so that was pretty cool.
Speaker 5: Jack Dryer is our guest. Last night, the Dodger bullpen
Speaker 5: put up zeros again. How rewarding is it on a
Speaker 5: night like last night where it's not just you, but
Speaker 5: it's for other relievers that are big time parts of
Speaker 5: this team.
Speaker 13: Yeah, I mean, I think it's awesome. Our offense has
Speaker 13: been outstanding lately as well as the starting pitching, and
Speaker 13: so for us as the bullpen being you know, third
Speaker 13: cog in the in the gears, to be firing on
Speaker 13: all cylinders was pretty special.
Speaker 5: What do you believe it is with Tanner Scott this year?
Speaker 5: You were just playing catch with him, You're walking in
Speaker 5: with him. It feels like he's a new man this season.
Speaker 4: I don't think anything's changed.
Speaker 13: I think he has the belief in himself and we
Speaker 13: all have the belief in him. So, you know, for
Speaker 13: him to be healthy and helping us and have everybody
Speaker 13: kind of, like I said, firing on all cylinders. We're
Speaker 13: just in a good spot right now.
Speaker 5: I remember last year during the regular season, Alex Vesia
Speaker 5: really kind of took you under his swing. You guys
Speaker 5: have a lot of shared interests and he was your
Speaker 5: catch partner. What's it like for you to have him
Speaker 5: back in the bullpen.
Speaker 13: Oh, it's outstanding, not only from a leadership perspective, you know,
Speaker 13: behind the scenes actually talking, but the leadership that you
Speaker 13: see and feel when he's on the mound in the
Speaker 13: game really goes a long way. And you know, the
Speaker 13: crowd feels it. You can hear it in the crowd
Speaker 13: that when he's coming in the game, they're like, oh,
Speaker 13: we're good to go. So it's really cool to see
Speaker 13: and you know, something that you aspire to be as
Speaker 13: another bullpen arm.
Speaker 5: What kind of energy has he brought to the bullpen?
Speaker 5: Is it the same energy or is it a little
Speaker 5: extra with that beard?
Speaker 13: Oh, the beard is great, but he's always brought the energy,
Speaker 13: you know, in terms of when I when I talk
Speaker 13: about preparation, nobody does it better than him. And so,
Speaker 13: like I said, when he goes out there, we know
Speaker 13: that he's putting us in the best spot to win
Speaker 13: the game. And so it's just really really cool to see,
Speaker 13: like how much success he's been.
Speaker 5: Having in Toronto. It was his first opportunity to be
Speaker 5: there after the World Series. Obviously, was it as emotional
Speaker 5: as it was portrayed for him?
Speaker 13: I think that Ves does a good job of separating
Speaker 13: those things, you know, whatever it is that he's feeling
Speaker 13: under the surface. I think that he did a great
Speaker 13: job of, you know, keeping the emotions in check when
Speaker 13: he was on the mound, and you know, the energy
Speaker 13: was always the same, and how he talks is always
Speaker 13: the same. And you know, for that being his three
Speaker 13: hundredth perent as a Dodger, that's an incredible milestone. And
Speaker 13: so I think overall it was just just a really
Speaker 13: cool experience to see Jack.
Speaker 5: Congratulations on getting it back on the rails last night.
Speaker 5: It seems like you have a pretty good sense of
Speaker 5: yourself to be steady. Am I reading that correctly?
Speaker 7: Yes?
Speaker 5: I'd like to think, so, don't over analyze things, right Jack,
Speaker 5: that's right. By the way, your wife tipped me off
Speaker 5: that you were looking for a dog on the off day.
Speaker 13: Yeah, I figured it was her. I think she might
Speaker 13: have been looking for a dog. I don't know if
Speaker 13: we were looking for a dog and what happened. Nothing
Speaker 13: we didn't even talk about it. We went to the
Speaker 13: Huntington Gardens and enjoyed a day off and walked around
Speaker 13: the park. So it was nice.
Speaker 5: There we go. That's a good reset day. Thanks a
Speaker 5: lot for the time. Great to see you smiling. And
Speaker 5: don't forget I understand the etiquette with relievers.
Speaker 13: All right, thank you for having me.
Speaker 7: I appreciate it.
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Speaker 4: Tim, all right, thanks a lot, DV. Thank you, Jack Dryer.
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Speaker 6: Jacob de Grama on the mouth, thirty seven year old
Speaker 6: veteran right hander, World Series Champ, five time All Star,
Speaker 6: two time NLSI Young Award winner with the Mets last year,
Speaker 6: a l Comeback Player of the Year after going twelve
Speaker 6: to eight with a two ninety seven ERA over thirty starts.
Speaker 6: Making his third start this season last time out, he
Speaker 6: exited the game after five innings with a mild right
Speaker 6: knee discomfort. MRI came back clean, so he's back out
Speaker 6: there against the Dodgers. In his career one in five
Speaker 6: with the two fifty eight ERA, seventy six strikeouts in
Speaker 6: twelve starts. He hasn't pitched at Dodger Stadium since May
Speaker 6: of twenty nineteen, when he was with the New York
Speaker 6: metsman five innings, two runs in a no decision. Rookie
Speaker 6: Sasaki Ohen won with this seven r twenty four year
Speaker 6: old right hander. Last year up and down, spent nearly
Speaker 6: five months on the IL, came back as a closer
Speaker 6: in the postseason Sub one RRA was really good. Now
Speaker 6: as the starter again, making his third start this year
Speaker 6: last week in Washington d c agins the national Sasaki
Speaker 6: went five innings. He gave up a career high six
Speaker 6: runs while striking out five in a no decision. He
Speaker 6: did face the Texas Rangers last year early April, Sasaki
Speaker 6: threw his first MLB quality start, allowing two runs over
Speaker 6: six innings, four strikeouts.
Speaker 4: And a four to three Dodgers loss.
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Speaker 2: Heead are you ready for the finale of this three
Speaker 2: game interleague series between the Dodgers and the Texas Rangers.
Speaker 2: Jacob de Gram will be on the mound for the Rangers.
Speaker 2: Roki Sasaki makes his third start for the Dodgers, and
Speaker 2: one thing about Sasaki has.
Speaker 7: Been the walks.
Speaker 2: That's been a point of concern last year to this year,
Speaker 2: Sasaki has thrown forty five and a third innings combined.
Speaker 2: He's walked twenty seven, so that comes out to be
Speaker 2: five point four walks per nine innings.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 8: Well, he calls it the splitter. It's really a fork bowl,
Speaker 8: but one of the fork balls is hit for a
Speaker 8: home run. His last outing, that was in Washington, DC.
Speaker 8: It took him ninety pitches to go through five innings,
Speaker 8: but we did see some positive areas, including an uptick
Speaker 8: in the velocity. It was up to ninety eight miles
Speaker 8: an hour, but also stolen bases. There were two stolen bases.
Speaker 8: He wasn't really paying attention to runners. That's got to improve.
Speaker 8: So for Suzak, hopefully he's getting that splitter or fork
Speaker 8: bow over a little bit better, and especially now with
Speaker 8: the increase fastball.
Speaker 7: But Dave Roberts was saying before his.
Speaker 8: Last outing, he needs to attack the zone much more frequently.
Speaker 2: Jacob deGrom the opposition starter. When you look at what
Speaker 2: he's done in terms of era, he has prevented a
Speaker 2: lot of runs his career RA two fifty eight. That
Speaker 2: is the third lowest urn run average in the expansion
Speaker 2: era that since nineteen sixty one. Sandy Kofax number one
Speaker 2: at two nineteen, Clayton Kershaw number.
Speaker 5: Two at two point fifty three.
Speaker 2: Then there's Jacob de Grom next on the list at
Speaker 2: two fifty eight.
Speaker 8: If he stays on the pattern that he's established the
Speaker 8: last couple of years, first pitch he tries to go
Speaker 8: away with fast bows, and he does it with a
Speaker 8: very high percentage of going away sixty two percent. On
Speaker 8: top of that, the breaking stuff over forty percent, and
Speaker 8: the slider is a very big pitch for Jacob de Grom,
Speaker 8: Do not chase pitches out of the strike zone.
Speaker 2: Dodgers going for a three game sweep over at Texas lineups.
Speaker 2: First pitch, just around the corner, Tim.
Speaker 4: All right, first pitch is next.
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