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Speaker 5: continues after a sweep in Minneapolis with a three game
Speaker 5: weekend series and San Diego against the Padres Roki Sasaki
Speaker 5: on the mat of the series opener against former Dodger
Speaker 5: Walker Buehler, first pitch from Petco Park is coming up
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Speaker 5: Coming up in forty five minutes, we'll hear from Mookie Betts.
Speaker 5: You're gonna hear from Max Monsey. We'll get your Dodgers
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Speaker 5: Steven Nelson and Rick Monday.
Speaker 1: Well.
Speaker 5: After a day off yesterday in San Diego the Dodgers
Speaker 5: before that, we're in Minnesota to finish off their three
Speaker 5: game series against the Twins. On Wednesday, it was Otani Day.
Speaker 5: Otani the pitcher and Otani the hitter. What should have
Speaker 5: been a great pitching matchup against the right hander Joe
Speaker 5: Ryan O'tani win six in hees allowed three runs, two
Speaker 5: of which were earned, gave up five hits while striking
Speaker 5: out eight along the way, and he got some early
Speaker 5: offense from Mookie Betts.
Speaker 2: Three to two pitch to Bets, he swings and hammers
Speaker 2: won left center and team this ball heading back to
Speaker 2: the wall.
Speaker 3: It has gone a home run.
Speaker 2: Uokie Betts home run number nine and the Dodgers strike first.
Speaker 2: It's one nothing and Rookie got a four seamer a
Speaker 2: little bit up in the zone and he put the good.
Speaker 6: Part of the barrel on it.
Speaker 5: Mookie Betts with his ninth home run of the season,
Speaker 5: but his three hundredth of his career, now one of
Speaker 5: only thirty Major leaguers all time who have hit at
Speaker 5: least three hundred home runs, four hundred doubles, and one
Speaker 5: hundred and fifty stolen bases.
Speaker 6: The Dodgers had a one to nothing elite.
Speaker 5: However, the Dodgers would run into trouble in the bottom
Speaker 5: half of the second inning. It was Dalton rushing and
Speaker 5: shoey Otani miscommunicating couple base hits and pass ball some
Speaker 5: frustration from show hey Otani on the ABS system and
Speaker 5: not challenging pitching.
Speaker 6: The Dodgers were down.
Speaker 5: Three to one, going ahead into the top half of
Speaker 5: the third inning when things flipped again in favor of
Speaker 5: the Dodgers. Show hey Otani got it started RBI single
Speaker 5: that made it a three to two game, and then
Speaker 5: Max Munsey tied.
Speaker 2: It once he waits in the one to zero pitch,
Speaker 2: swings in, hits it on the ground right side up,
Speaker 2: basic Otani will score. They'll hold Freeman a third. That
Speaker 2: tie is the game at three, and Monthly is two
Speaker 2: for two.
Speaker 5: Tonight, Max Munsey with the RBI singles six ribbies in
Speaker 5: his last six games, none of which have come off.
Speaker 5: The home run for Max Munsey. Then Alex call with
Speaker 5: a sackfly gave the Dodgers a four to three lead.
Speaker 5: So just that, like that, the Dodgers answer with three
Speaker 5: runs in the top half of the third to take
Speaker 5: a four to three lead and then showe a. Otani
Speaker 5: did it the rest of the way six solid innings.
Speaker 5: Kyle hurtpitched his seventh, Alex Vesia struck out three and
Speaker 5: the eighth ten Or Scott love him or hand him
Speaker 5: eleven save of the season.
Speaker 6: He pitched the ninth.
Speaker 5: Then he put up a zero as the Dodgers get
Speaker 5: out of Minneapolis with the three games sweep. They went
Speaker 5: at four to three on Wednesday. They take all three
Speaker 5: games as their seventh series sweep of the year, as
Speaker 5: they improved a fifty two and twenty nine on this
Speaker 5: season and now They're in San Diego for a three
Speaker 5: game weekend set against the Padres, who are nine games
Speaker 5: back in the NL West. Rokie Susaki Walker Buehler the
Speaker 5: pitching matchup in the series opener, first pitch of six
Speaker 5: forty five and with more.
Speaker 6: We head out to the.
Speaker 5: Galloping four broadcast booth as we say hello to Steven
Speaker 5: Nelson and Rick Monday, guys.
Speaker 7: Thank you Tim. It's great to be back in America's
Speaker 7: finest city. It seems like we were just here mode
Speaker 7: the Dodgers at Petco Park taking on the Padres, the
Speaker 7: first of three games here, in the first of seven
Speaker 7: games between these two rivals over the next ten days.
Speaker 7: But as we come off an off day, we're halfway
Speaker 7: home in twenty two TWI.
Speaker 8: Yeah, eighty one games, they're already in the book, and
Speaker 8: the Dodgers and nine games in front of San Diego
Speaker 8: to lead the Nation League Western Division, ten and a
Speaker 8: half in front of Arizona. But you come in here,
Speaker 8: don't think the Pandres lightly. They're gonna have to make
Speaker 8: a move sometime and do it soon. And they feel
Speaker 8: good about themselves just having swept the three game series
Speaker 8: against the Atlanta Brains, so for the pres they've got
Speaker 8: to kick it into gear. I'm surprised looking at San
Speaker 8: Diego that they are as low as they are that
Speaker 8: many games we have the Dodgers, in particular, just twenty
Speaker 8: two and nineteen at home.
Speaker 7: Their record, it's been in anemic offense really for most
Speaker 7: of the year, last in the majors in terms of
Speaker 7: runs per game, But it has been a better unit
Speaker 7: the last two and a half weeks or so as
Speaker 7: they've started to try try to turn their own ship around.
Speaker 7: Nine games separate the Dodgers and Padres as we sit
Speaker 7: here and now, and I think with this next two
Speaker 7: week stretch, so much activity between these two clubs, even
Speaker 7: though they're up nine games right now, the Dodgers have
Speaker 7: a chance to really throttle down and take a stranglehold
Speaker 7: on the division.
Speaker 8: To agree more. And if you look at the disparity
Speaker 8: talking about runs, well, the Dodgers have scored four hundred
Speaker 8: and twenty three. They've allowed only two hundred and seventy nine,
Speaker 8: So that's a plus plus. You know, San Diego's given
Speaker 8: up more runs than they've scored, which is really kind
Speaker 8: of crazy, not by a whole lot, but the fact
Speaker 8: that even an even balance is rather shocking.
Speaker 7: The Dodgers are the only team in the National League
Speaker 7: West that have a positive run deferential, let alone plus
Speaker 7: one four like they do on the year.
Speaker 9: Yeap.
Speaker 8: Then you start to look at other things too, I
Speaker 8: mean americaly say hey, we'd like to have those numbers too.
Speaker 8: You start to look at ten American League teams that
Speaker 8: are below the fine hundred mark.
Speaker 7: Yeah, the National League has been the superior league by
Speaker 7: far so far in twenty twenty six. Obviously it doesn't
Speaker 7: have any bearing when it comes down to the World Series.
Speaker 7: That's a long way off of the distance though. This
Speaker 7: first half has flown by, and so has time. Because
Speaker 7: now the Dodgers are playing a game and they're facing
Speaker 7: Walker Bueller. It's gonna be weird. I know they saw
Speaker 7: him when he was in Boston last year, but that
Speaker 7: was at Fenway Park and it was all right. He's
Speaker 7: in the American League. He's far removed.
Speaker 1: He was just the World Series shirt.
Speaker 7: But now he's back in the division pitching for the Padres.
Speaker 7: I think it's going to take some time for folks
Speaker 7: to get used to that.
Speaker 8: Yeah, And for Buehler, you know, he'll want to succeed,
Speaker 8: no question about it, and he's been doing that. You
Speaker 8: start to look at the four starts so far this month,
Speaker 8: his era is under two one point seven to one.
Speaker 8: To be exactly, This slider has been a very big
Speaker 8: pitch for him, and he's gone to the cut fastball
Speaker 8: a lot as well. So we'll find out what happens.
Speaker 8: Was really kind of crazy.
Speaker 9: What was it?
Speaker 8: Six weeks ago? The Padres had a half game lead
Speaker 8: in the Western Division over the Dodgers, and now the
Speaker 8: Dodgers come in with nine in front of San Diego
Speaker 8: as we get said to go officially beginning the second
Speaker 8: half of the season, Mamia.
Speaker 7: The tables have turned quickly, and the Dodgers want to
Speaker 7: keep the tables tilted in their favor against the Padres.
Speaker 7: First pitch a little bit later, but before then, mo
Speaker 7: we will have a key from you, Tim. Let's send
Speaker 7: it back to the studio.
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Speaker 2: This is the Otani three wide and half of those
Speaker 2: have come in the fifth inning of games. Swinging amiss,
Speaker 2: strike three, big sweeper cut on by Lewis. He makes
Speaker 2: quick work of Royce Lewis and there's one away in
Speaker 2: the Twins second. Derek Shelton did walk him the other
Speaker 2: night with a runner at first, but they're going to
Speaker 2: pitch to him now. As Ryan goes into the stretch,
Speaker 2: looks at second, comes home and Otani hits the ground
Speaker 2: ball up the middle. Freeland will round third, He'll come
Speaker 2: around to score and O'tani gets one of those runs
Speaker 2: right back.
Speaker 1: Ats three to two.
Speaker 2: Here's the two on the way to bell and he
Speaker 2: chased another splitter. He had no idea where that one
Speaker 2: of those. He strikes out on three pitches. Otani strikes
Speaker 2: out the side. He's got five in the game. Otani
Speaker 2: is three to two. Pitch swung on end miss strike three,
Speaker 2: a sweeper strikeout number eight for Otani. Tani shrugs his shoulders,
Speaker 2: kicks fires, swung on ground ball towards short, tightening stop
Speaker 2: by Bets. He gets up throws loader first dugout by Freemouth.
Speaker 2: Terrific play both ends and that is seven in a
Speaker 2: row set down by Otani as he retires the Twins
Speaker 2: in order in the bottom of the sixth. Then a
Speaker 2: eighty nine pitches for show Hey through six wors throws in.
Speaker 2: Otani hits a line, tried to write base hit, one
Speaker 2: hop to clements second hit for Otani. He's averaging getting
Speaker 2: on base at least twice a game, and he's done
Speaker 2: that here tonight.
Speaker 6: Busy night for show Hey.
Speaker 5: Otani goes two for five with an RBI single at
Speaker 5: the plate, now hitting two ninety five with a four
Speaker 5: to fourteen on base percentage. Show Hootani the pitcher six
Speaker 5: solid innings, give up three runs, two of which were earned,
Speaker 5: five hits, eight strikeout eighty nine pitches as he gets
Speaker 5: his eighth win of the season and a four to
Speaker 5: three Dodger victory over the Minnesota Twins. How about Mookie
Speaker 5: Bets was a triple away from the cycle. You went
Speaker 5: three for four in Wednesday's game against the Twins and
Speaker 5: afterwards got up with our Kirsena Watson Mookie.
Speaker 10: You had things going on both sides of the ball.
Speaker 1: Tonight.
Speaker 10: But when we look at the numbers, offensively, you had
Speaker 10: three hits and one of them happened to be your
Speaker 10: three hundredth home run. You are hitting so many milestones
Speaker 10: here soon when you think about three hundred and when
Speaker 10: it comes to the home run, how special is that
Speaker 10: achievement to you?
Speaker 11: I'm in a special I guess I just mean that
Speaker 11: old you know, I've been in for a long time,
Speaker 11: but you know, I guess it kind of comes with
Speaker 11: the territory. I've been pretty good and just got to
Speaker 11: keep on helping the boys wins.
Speaker 10: You look at just the numbers right now, offensively, those
Speaker 10: three hits, you're a triple shy of the cycle. But
Speaker 10: how much confidence are you just feeling back at the
Speaker 10: plate right now considering the results you're seeing now?
Speaker 11: I mean, I'm feeling pretty confident, feeling pretty normal. I
Speaker 11: know I've said it before and then it didn't kind
Speaker 11: of pan out, but I felt like this is a
Speaker 11: little different. So we'll just ride the way.
Speaker 1: You look at how you guys won this game.
Speaker 10: I know it started with the show, hey, but to
Speaker 10: see this bullpen, how they thought through to pick up
Speaker 10: this win. What are you just seeing from the guys
Speaker 10: coming out of the bullpen.
Speaker 11: They did an amazing job and just keeping them off balanced.
Speaker 11: I know we got in a little bit of trouble,
Speaker 11: but they got themselves out of it.
Speaker 9: Show.
Speaker 11: Hey had a little misstep early, but he was able
Speaker 11: to kind of settle in. So the guys are just
Speaker 11: resilient and it showed.
Speaker 10: Do you think it was settling in for a show?
Speaker 1: Hare?
Speaker 10: Did you feel like there was another edge after that
Speaker 10: second ending of work.
Speaker 11: That's probably a little bit of both. I mean, once
Speaker 11: he was able to settle in, and when he gets
Speaker 11: fired up, you know he's he's already the best player
Speaker 11: in the world, but when he gets fired up, it's
Speaker 11: even better. And so at that point we were just
Speaker 11: kind of sitting back and watching the show.
Speaker 10: Now this is a the recenty road trip. How important
Speaker 10: is it for you guys to start on such a
Speaker 10: high note with the sweep of your first team against
Speaker 10: you guys you're be seeing.
Speaker 11: Super important, especially going into San Diego.
Speaker 6: Where we're going.
Speaker 11: We know they're going to be hungry and I'm ready
Speaker 11: to go, so at least we can go in with
Speaker 11: some good vibes.
Speaker 10: All right, MOOKI, congratulations on this win and congratulations on
Speaker 10: three hundred career home runs.
Speaker 12: Thank you.
Speaker 5: All right, there's Mookie with Kirson after the game. Three
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Speaker 5: Good news, Dalton Rushing and Kyle Tucker both in the
Speaker 5: lineup tonight for the Dodgers. Dalton Rushing back in the
Speaker 5: lineup as he was the other night behind the plate.
Speaker 5: Kyle Tucker has been out of the line up the
Speaker 5: last two games, but back in there, batting sixth and
Speaker 5: playing right field. Will Smith on the IL with the
Speaker 5: neck information. Ti Oscar Hernandez on the IL. He's in
Speaker 5: Triple A Oklahoma City on her minor league rehab assignment.
Speaker 5: Tyler glassnow just not progressing with those lower back spasms.
Speaker 5: Blake Snell is progressing. He is now throwing off the mount,
Speaker 5: expecting three to four bullpen sessions before he can go
Speaker 5: out on a minor league rehabit assignment. Edwin Diaz is
Speaker 5: throwing bullpen sessions, so that is good news. However, Evan
Speaker 5: Phillips appears to be the closest Dodger reliever.
Speaker 6: To making a return.
Speaker 5: Well, the Dodgers get the went on Wednesday night in
Speaker 5: Minnesota four to three over the Twins. Mookie Bets had
Speaker 5: a big game Showeotani got the win. But how about
Speaker 5: Max Munsey two for four and a big RBI single
Speaker 5: and afterwards talk with Davidvesse.
Speaker 4: Max, Let's start with the team. You guys come in here,
Speaker 4: you sweep this three game series. Who went two games
Speaker 4: again by one run? How good did it feel to
Speaker 4: kind of get back on track again?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 12: It was a you know, it's a good serious for us,
Speaker 12: good start with the road trip. Hopefully been carried momentum
Speaker 12: through the off day. You know, off day, wou get
Speaker 12: for one gear, little rest and you know, just keep going.
Speaker 4: You guys made Joe Ryan look pretty average tonight. Why
Speaker 4: were you guys so effective against him?
Speaker 12: Uh? You know, I think we had I think we
Speaker 12: had a good game plan and we were, you know,
Speaker 12: we were executing it well. And then you know, towards
Speaker 12: the end, he kind of shifted from from what he
Speaker 12: was doing and he kind of got a little got
Speaker 12: us a little off balance. But you know, coming out
Speaker 12: of the gate, we we did what we wanted to.
Speaker 4: Do in that third inning where you're able to score
Speaker 4: three runs. You tied the game with an RBI based
Speaker 4: it did you? Were you surprised he never threw you
Speaker 4: a fastball and any of your first two at bats.
Speaker 8: No, not at all.
Speaker 12: Uh, that's just you know, I understand who I am,
Speaker 12: and that's a you know, it's part of when I
Speaker 12: step in the box. You got to understand that there's
Speaker 12: not many times I'm gonna see a fastball, and so
Speaker 12: you know he's gotta be ready for the other stuff.
Speaker 4: I'll tell you who you are. You're an All Star.
Speaker 4: The Philly resume continues to build. We'll see thanks for stopping.
Speaker 6: Of course, David. All right, there's Max Munci.
Speaker 5: He is a finalist for the All Star Game, one
Speaker 5: of six Dodgers who are finalists in their positions. Showy
Speaker 5: Otani already going to the All Star Game. He has
Speaker 5: the most votes through the first two rounds, so he
Speaker 5: has automatically now punched his way to Philadelphia in the
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Speaker 5: All right, DV A lot of talk after Wednesday's game.
Speaker 5: What happened in the second evening with Dalton rushing and
Speaker 5: Showy Otani. Do we expect moving forward rushing to be
Speaker 5: behind the plate when Otani's on the mound.
Speaker 4: Dave Roberts told the media earlier today he hasn't fully
Speaker 4: decided yet, but he is leaning towards having rushing catch
Speaker 4: him Wednesday in Sacramento, and if that happens, or if
Speaker 4: it's Chuckie Robinson, I fully expect Otani to call his
Speaker 4: own pitches from the very first pitch, and that's the
Speaker 4: way it should go. Everybody I've spoken to, as far
Speaker 4: as his teammates go, believe that's the best route for
Speaker 4: him to go until Will Smith returns. Call your own pitches,
Speaker 4: so you have that conviction behind what you want to throw,
Speaker 4: and he obviously has a clear intention of which pitches
Speaker 4: he wants to throw. So don't leave any sort of
Speaker 4: window for something like Wednesday to happen again, David.
Speaker 5: The devastating earthquake down in Venezuela a couple of days ago,
Speaker 5: and I know it's affected several Dodger players.
Speaker 4: Well, first and foremost Miguel Rojas and Edgardo Enriquez. But
Speaker 4: Rojas specifically because his wife and kids are back in
Speaker 4: Venezuela and they were in Caracas when those two seven
Speaker 4: point one earthquakes hit that country three Venezuela. Luckily they're okay.
Speaker 4: The buildings around them collapsed, but they were able to
Speaker 4: escape the building they were in through the stairwell. We
Speaker 4: had a chance to catch up with Rojas in the
Speaker 4: Dodger Clubhouse earlier today to talk about the devastation in
Speaker 4: Venezuela to its home country.
Speaker 3: Because everything is okay with my family, that doesn't mean
Speaker 3: everything is okay with the country. We're going through really
Speaker 3: tough moments right now, and I just wish and hope
Speaker 3: for everybody to kind of like pray for us, because
Speaker 3: it's devastated seeing how many families are losing everything. And
Speaker 3: I'm not talking about things in general, it's just life,
Speaker 3: you know. It's really tough because I got a pretty
Speaker 3: close connection to the city where a lot of the
Speaker 3: things are happening right now, which is Lawaida. I play
Speaker 3: in that city for so many years, and it's really
Speaker 3: tough to see teammates of mine and players who I
Speaker 3: play with at some point in my career to lose
Speaker 3: family members and to lose kids, and it's really devastating.
Speaker 3: It's been really hard for me to go to sleep,
Speaker 3: and actually my family is in Mannesula right now. My
Speaker 3: kids and my wife are in Venezuela, and they have
Speaker 3: to go through that a couple a couple of days
Speaker 3: ago when it happened, and I just I just feel
Speaker 3: terry right now. I mean, they're they're in a place
Speaker 3: where they have power, they have connection, they have everything
Speaker 3: that we need to talk and stay in contact every
Speaker 3: single day. But it's still still really feel like I'm
Speaker 3: so far away from them.
Speaker 4: Obviously, another difficult moment for Miguel Rojas, who lost his
Speaker 4: father earlier this year when he was back in Venezuela
Speaker 4: and passed away. But the Dodgers and Padres are both
Speaker 4: wearing VZ on the side of their hats tonight, tim
Speaker 4: just to lend support, let the people of Venezuela know
Speaker 4: that they're not alone and that they're acknowledging that this
Speaker 4: is a devastating, uh natural disaster that has taken many lives.
Speaker 4: And there's many baseball players in the big leagues, not
Speaker 4: just Rojas and Enriquez, that are from Venezuela. So the
Speaker 4: Major League Baseball community, specifically the Dodgers and Padres tonight
Speaker 4: going to acknowledge that VZ on the side of their hats.
Speaker 6: That our thoughts are with everybody down there.
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Speaker 5: former team to nine.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Last year, before the Red Sox let Bueller go, the
Speaker 4: Dodgers were at Fenway Park and face Bueller. He didn't
Speaker 4: even get through the fifth inning. And the people I've
Speaker 4: spoken to on the Dodgers side believe that he does
Speaker 4: not want to give up any home runs. He'd rather
Speaker 4: walk the house than give up home runs. And that's
Speaker 4: kind of what we saw in Boston last year. So
Speaker 4: Bueller has been pitching much better for the Padres, but
Speaker 4: he's not going much deeper than five innings in games.
Speaker 4: So uh for at the very least, you're gonna see
Speaker 4: Bueller in there for five innings and we'll see whether
Speaker 4: or not, his emotions will be in check enough to
Speaker 4: be effective against this former team.
Speaker 6: Very emotional out there on the mount. All right, David,
Speaker 6: great stuff.
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Speaker 14: All right, Tim, it's the Dodgers and the Padres. It
Speaker 14: is game one of the second half of the season.
Speaker 14: On May the eighteenth, the Dodgers trailed by one half
Speaker 14: game to the Padres. But since then the Padres have
Speaker 14: gone thirteen and nineteen, while the Dodgers have gone twenty
Speaker 14: three and ten. And that is how the Dodgers find
Speaker 14: themselves nine games in front of San Diego in the
Speaker 14: National League West and most of the Padres.
Speaker 6: This is really a do or die series.
Speaker 14: Not necessarily that they're going to be catching the Dodgers,
Speaker 14: not the way the Dodgers have been playing at this point.
Speaker 14: But they've got a lot of company in that wildcard race.
Speaker 14: And then again, as we mentioned, they're going to be
Speaker 14: playing the Dodgers quite a bit, seven times in the
Speaker 14: next ten days.
Speaker 8: Yeah, and on the home turf. These are the final
Speaker 8: three games this year during their regular season. Dodgers have
Speaker 8: already been here once and you only make two trips
Speaker 8: to your division, so yeah, time is not really in
Speaker 8: the favor of San Diego. Then you start to look
Speaker 8: at what the Dodgers have done. Not only three and
Speaker 8: zero on this road trip, Charlie, but you go back
Speaker 8: over the bigger home. They've won twenty one of the
Speaker 8: land thirty games, and they've done it in very fine fashion.
Speaker 8: This is a team right now that we're looking at
Speaker 8: with this Dodger team. Oh, they have a couple of
Speaker 8: clunckers here and there, but they have just not taken
Speaker 8: their foot off the accelerator.
Speaker 14: At fifty two and twenty nine, they've got the best
Speaker 14: record in baseball. In fact, they're the only team over
Speaker 14: fifty wins. So they're sitting pretty with a run differential
Speaker 14: of one hundred and forty four in a pace to
Speaker 14: win one hundred and four games this year. The Padres
Speaker 14: just trying to hang on for dear life. They haven't
Speaker 14: been able to hit a leg all year and try
Speaker 14: to turn it around to night against Roki Sasaki, Walker Bueller,
Speaker 14: the old Dodger will be facing the Dodgers tonight.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I mean, I think one thing to look for
Speaker 8: in this series and based upon what you were just saying,
Speaker 8: and I agree one hundred percent, is that the Pondres
Speaker 8: have to make a move sometime if they're going to
Speaker 8: make a move at all, and do it very soon.
Speaker 8: My point being is that I think they're going to
Speaker 8: force the issue.
Speaker 9: They can force the.
Speaker 8: Issue on the bases if they can get on. Pondres
Speaker 8: have stole it eighty two bases already this year, what
Speaker 8: about the Dodgers thirty three. There's a big disparity right there.
Speaker 8: So I think they're going to try and run some rabbits.
Speaker 8: If they can get on tonight against Sasaki, I mean,
Speaker 8: if they can get on during this series, I think
Speaker 8: they're going to push the button to try and steal bases.
Speaker 14: They're gonna have to. The Dodgers have a better road
Speaker 14: record at twenty six and fifteen, then the Padres have
Speaker 14: a home record, which is twenty two and nineteen. But
Speaker 14: as offensively, the Dodgers are first in the National League
Speaker 14: or second in batting average, hits, runs on base percentage,
Speaker 14: home runs, and RBI's. The Padres, on the other hand,
Speaker 14: are last in all those categories, with the exception of
Speaker 14: home runs, where they rank twelfth. So the Dodgers can hit,
Speaker 14: the Padres can't. The big question is can the Padre
Speaker 14: pitching keep the Dodgers at bay? And the way things
Speaker 14: have been going as hot as the Dodgers have been,
Speaker 14: that's a tall order.
Speaker 8: It's a tall order. And for the and Andres said
Speaker 8: their bullpen has been doing a very good job. But
Speaker 8: what do they inherit along the way is Walker Brueler
Speaker 8: has been on a roll the four starts in the
Speaker 8: month of June. His era is very low, one point
Speaker 8: seven to one and he's allowed just one home run
Speaker 8: here so far in the month of June. So he's
Speaker 8: making a fifth start and he has really depended upon
Speaker 8: the cunt face ball and particular the slider.
Speaker 14: Mooki Betts Boy, he's finally turned it on that his
Speaker 14: three hundredth home run of his career on Wednesday in Minneapolis.
Speaker 14: Became the seventeenth active player with three hundred since the
Speaker 14: thirteenth of June the last eleven games. Mooki is seventeen
Speaker 14: for his last forty five and a three seventy eight
Speaker 14: clip and that fellow Otani in his last thirty five games,
Speaker 14: he's hitting three sixty four with eleven home runs thirty RB.
Speaker 14: I's had a four to seventy two on base percentage.
Speaker 8: Yeah, for bets, he's doing it not only with the bat.
Speaker 8: He made three just absolutely terrific plays in that series,
Speaker 8: just completed as they were in Minneapolis against the Twins
Speaker 8: where they swept all three games in that particular area.
Speaker 8: And Ben's also if you go, eleven hits in his
Speaker 8: last twenty nine advanced three seventy nine average in the
Speaker 8: last seven games.
Speaker 14: And Freddie Freeman just keeps motoring along. But on the
Speaker 14: other hand, the Padres Manny Machada. Manny Machado's hitting one
Speaker 14: hundred and eighty four lowest batting average in the BIGS,
Speaker 14: fourteen home runs forty three RBIs Tatis finally beginning to
Speaker 14: heat it up a little bit. He's been on base
Speaker 14: eighteen consecutive games. But the Padres all, you just have
Speaker 14: not been able to hit a lick.
Speaker 8: No, they've had trouble offensively. In fact, you start to
Speaker 8: look overall, they have allowed more runs scored against them
Speaker 8: than runs that they hit put up on the board,
Speaker 8: and that is not going to be really playing very
Speaker 8: well in their division. However, if you look at it,
Speaker 8: Padres feeling good about this, Charlie. They just swept the
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Speaker 1: This is high and tight, all right.
Speaker 4: We're in his hometown. We are in slam Diego, that's
Speaker 4: what they used to call it. But the Dodgers are
Speaker 4: back here at Petco Park. The last time they were here,
Speaker 4: they had a game and a half lead in the
Speaker 4: NL West. Now a nine game lead over the San
Speaker 4: Diego Padres, and I'm in the office, the managers off
Speaker 4: of the man that has three World championships as the
Speaker 4: manager and in twenty twenty six the best record in baseball,
Speaker 4: and that is the one and only Dave Roberts brought
Speaker 4: to a spy downy Hunday. Dave, thanks a lot for
Speaker 4: the time.
Speaker 9: Appreciate it. Dave.
Speaker 15: Always fun catching up with you, having a conversation, and yeah,
Speaker 15: coming off and off day got in the late a
Speaker 15: couple of nights ago, guys reset did what they could do.
Speaker 15: And then today, you know, just kind of going around
Speaker 15: the clubhouse, everyone seemed recharged.
Speaker 4: Were you surprised even on the day off, just how
Speaker 4: whatever took place in Minnesota took on a life of
Speaker 4: its own with social media. I mean, it just seems
Speaker 4: like there's no controlling some of these things.
Speaker 9: No, I get it.
Speaker 15: And when you're the Los Angeles Dodgers, everything is certainly
Speaker 15: more magnified. And I guess the off day came at
Speaker 15: the right time, and you know, just seeing the guys
Speaker 15: right now. Ultimately we won three games there, and you're
Speaker 15: always trying to get better with communication amongst staff, players, staff,
Speaker 15: our players, among play players, and so that's part of it.
Speaker 9: So nothing is always easy.
Speaker 15: But you know, coming in here today, I feel really
Speaker 15: good about, you know, communication, where we're at.
Speaker 4: You got Walker Bueller on the mound for the padres today.
Speaker 4: Obviously he's meant a lot to you, a lot to
Speaker 4: the Dodgers. What do you expect tonight as far as
Speaker 4: his emotions. Do you feel like that may get the
Speaker 4: better of him tonight?
Speaker 15: Well, I think it's going to bring out the best
Speaker 15: in him in the sense of his motivation to want
Speaker 15: to pitch well against us. He means a lot to me, obviously,
Speaker 15: means a lot to the Dodger fans. Considering what he's
Speaker 15: done for all of us. I think who he is now,
Speaker 15: he has sort of reinvented himself. The fastball is not
Speaker 15: ninety seven ninety eight. You're going to see fours and
Speaker 15: threes and three to five. There's be a lot of cutters,
Speaker 15: a lot of curveballs, you know, some two seamers, and
Speaker 15: kind of just mixing and matching, more of an even
Speaker 15: distributed pitch mix.
Speaker 9: But he's still as competitive as ever.
Speaker 4: I'm always interested with what you're seeing from the dugout
Speaker 4: because you've had so many really good players come through
Speaker 4: this clubhouse that have moved on to other teams. Just
Speaker 4: when you're watching a guy like Walker who does feed
Speaker 4: off emotion, will what will you know early in the game.
Speaker 15: You know, I think for me is he's not going
Speaker 15: I know Walker in big games, and this is going
Speaker 15: to be a big game for him. He's going to
Speaker 15: try to minimize slug. He's not afraid to walk guys.
Speaker 15: You know, when it gets hot, he's going to go
Speaker 15: to his secondary pitches. You know, he's going to be emotional.
Speaker 15: I think that this is something that he's always you know,
Speaker 15: wanted to stay a Dodger and it just didn't work out.
Speaker 15: So his first crack at US, I think he's going
Speaker 15: to be pretty emotional.
Speaker 4: What did you love the most about him when he
Speaker 4: was pitching for you? We think back to twenty eighteen
Speaker 4: Game one sixty three, obviously the last out in the
Speaker 4: twenty four World Series. What did you love the most
Speaker 4: about him being on your side?
Speaker 15: I think that I think the main thing I loved
Speaker 15: about him is that you knew that he was going
Speaker 15: to compete. He was going to make pitches when he
Speaker 15: needed to make pitches. He was prepared, he wasn't afraid.
Speaker 15: I think that you know, you said Game one sixty three.
Speaker 15: There's been a lot of postseason games, you know, the
Speaker 15: clinching game coming back in New York in game six.
Speaker 15: There's just a lot of things that this guy has
Speaker 15: just got a huge heart and compete.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'll ever forget the post at Yankee Stadium. I
Speaker 4: think that's the lasting image.
Speaker 15: I think he was just looking right at me, Dave saying,
Speaker 15: I told you, Doc, I could do this.
Speaker 9: Just give me the baseball.
Speaker 4: Dave Roberts is our guest in front of first pitch
Speaker 4: between the Dodgers and Padres. Dave, just take an inventory
Speaker 4: of the first half of the season. You have the
Speaker 4: best record in baseball and your team hasn't been whole yet.
Speaker 4: How have you been able.
Speaker 2: To do it?
Speaker 15: Yeah, I mean I think that we haven't been whole.
Speaker 15: It doesn't feel like we have the best record in
Speaker 15: and I think that's a good thing. You know, we're
Speaker 15: always striving to get better and on the margins get better.
Speaker 15: Guys have stepped up, certainly in the bullpen. The bottom
Speaker 15: half of the rotation has been fantastic.
Speaker 9: You know.
Speaker 15: The defense has been very consistent, even with what Muki
Speaker 15: did in Minnesota. On the defensive side, was huge. How
Speaker 15: have we done it? I think for us it's just
Speaker 15: really not worrying about the guys that aren't with us
Speaker 15: and just focusing on the guys that are with us
Speaker 15: and trying to you know, just collect wins, keep stocking
Speaker 15: wins and so and also just trying to get better
Speaker 15: every day.
Speaker 4: How much higher can the ceiling be for you guys
Speaker 4: this year?
Speaker 9: Yeah?
Speaker 15: I mean we expect to win another championship. We have
Speaker 15: a long way to go, even from June twenty sixth
Speaker 15: to you know, to the postseason. But I think for us,
Speaker 15: you know, getting guys back, you know, getting Blake back,
Speaker 15: getting Eddie ds back, getting Will Smith back, getting Taoskar back,
Speaker 15: guys like that Evan Phillips are going to make us,
Speaker 15: you know, raise that ceiling for us. But for me, honestly,
Speaker 15: seeing the younger guys play another guy's good opportunities, that's
Speaker 15: been a big takeaway up to this point.
Speaker 9: Yeah.
Speaker 4: So you mentioned Tommy Edmunds back ta Oscar Hernandez. Is
Speaker 4: he still coming back when you get to Sacramento.
Speaker 15: Yeah, that's the plan is he's going to play again
Speaker 15: the next two nights and then Sunday. I think he'll
Speaker 15: be down and he'll meet us in Sacramento on Monday.
Speaker 4: I remember a couple of weeks ago you had mentioned
Speaker 4: around the fourth of July for Evan Phillips. Is that
Speaker 4: still trending in the right direction?
Speaker 9: I think so. Yeah.
Speaker 15: Right now, I think he's going to take a couple
Speaker 15: of days off from pitching back to back, and so
Speaker 15: I think that that July fourth kind of timeline still
Speaker 15: looks to be you know where we're at.
Speaker 4: Yeah, when you look at your team now, you're starting
Speaker 4: to get your bullpen looking like you wanted it to
Speaker 4: until Diaz comes back. With Brock Stewart back, it feels
Speaker 4: like some of these younger guys, Kyle Hurt have really
Speaker 4: seized their opportunity.
Speaker 15: No, Kyle Hurt is a guy that you know, we
Speaker 15: traded for him a couple of years ago and just
Speaker 15: always liked his stuff, but just couldn't stay on the field.
Speaker 15: But now the body is strong, he's healthy, he's got
Speaker 15: a lot of real confidence, and we've I've referenced that
Speaker 15: with Robleski with that real confidence. Now Henriquez, you know,
Speaker 15: Guarda is another guy that I think that he's come
Speaker 15: of age. And so with Kyle Hurt and Guarda Henriquez.
Speaker 15: Doing what they're doing allows me to you know, put
Speaker 15: Vessia and Tanner Scott in their rightful spots and having
Speaker 15: trying and down, so we still really haven't lost much.
Speaker 4: You know, I love when you talk about your trust tree.
Speaker 9: Yeah, you know what.
Speaker 15: But the great thing is that it's not a plan,
Speaker 15: it's a trust tree. And that's a good thing for
Speaker 15: a manager when you've got a lot of different good branches.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Mookie Betts, you mentioned him and his defense, the
Speaker 4: trust tree has always been there with him. Do you
Speaker 4: feel like he's kind of turned the corner on his season?
Speaker 15: I do, I do, and and I think the thing
Speaker 15: is for me is that the defense has been consistent,
Speaker 15: you know, from the outset. But I think the thing
Speaker 15: is that you know, we all have to wrap our
Speaker 15: heads around, is that he's not Mookie from from Boston.
Speaker 9: He's not playing right field, and so you.
Speaker 15: Know, people, I think, and even Mookie I'm sure has
Speaker 15: that expectation have a nine hundred ops, but you know,
Speaker 15: you're playing shortstop. And for me, it's you know, dominate
Speaker 15: the defense, which he has, help us win baseball games,
Speaker 15: which he has, And for me, I just don't look
Speaker 15: at the numbers. I really don't. I just want him.
Speaker 15: I still believe he's a productive player, but it's not
Speaker 15: something as shooting for a certain standard of an ops
Speaker 15: to kind of validate who he is as a ballplayer
Speaker 15: right now.
Speaker 4: Does he understand that? Do you feel like he has
Speaker 4: that outlook for himself?
Speaker 15: I think so, you know, And we've had numerous conversations
Speaker 15: about that, about expectations and still you know, telling him,
Speaker 15: you know, how much I believe he is a great player,
Speaker 15: but understanding you know, expectations, I think manager expectations is
Speaker 15: something really.
Speaker 9: Important for all of us.
Speaker 15: But you know, for people to expect him to, you know,
Speaker 15: be superman, that's sometimes unrealistic, but it is an ultimate compliment.
Speaker 15: But again, at the end of the day, to put
Speaker 15: a ball on this day, we've got the best record
Speaker 15: in baseball.
Speaker 9: We're not whole.
Speaker 15: There's still a lot of good things that we're doing,
Speaker 15: and we got a fun series this week and ahead
Speaker 15: of us, no.
Speaker 4: Doubt, before we back out of here, Kyle Tucker is
Speaker 4: back in the starting lineup. It seems like that back
Speaker 4: issues behind him.
Speaker 15: Yeah, I think so, you know, getting him a few
Speaker 15: days to kind of reset, he took swings the other
Speaker 15: day in Minnesota. He feels good and it'll be good
Speaker 15: to get him back in right field tonight.
Speaker 4: Thanks a lot for the time, Dave. Always great to
Speaker 4: catch up with you. I know it's a busy time
Speaker 4: when you're in San Diego, but it's always great to
Speaker 4: share you with the fans.
Speaker 15: No love the conversation, and it's I enjoy kind of
Speaker 15: giving the fans this insight.
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Speaker 6: The thirty one year old right hander.
Speaker 5: Spent almost seven seasons in a Dodger uniform. He was
Speaker 5: hurt a couple of years last year, though he was
Speaker 5: with the Red Sox with the Phillies. Signed a minor
Speaker 5: league deal with the Padres during spring train this year,
Speaker 5: made the rotation, making his sixteenth start this year last
Speaker 5: time out five and a third innings, a one run,
Speaker 5: five hit, seven strikeouts and a no decision. In fact,
Speaker 5: his last four starts here in the month of June,
Speaker 5: he's one to zero with a one to seventeen rara,
Speaker 5: twenty two strikeouts, only five walks, only one home run
Speaker 5: given up. This isn't the first time the Dodgers have
Speaker 5: seen Walker Buelly. They saw him last year in Boston,
Speaker 5: as David Vasse alluded to earlier. Four to two third innings,
Speaker 5: three runs, four hits, five strikeouts in a loss at
Speaker 5: Fenway Park. Roki Sasaki on the mound for the Dodgers,
Speaker 5: twenty four year old right hitter, making his fourteen start
Speaker 5: this year last time out five and two third inning's,
Speaker 5: three runs, four hits, two home runs, six strikeouts. That
Speaker 5: was a no decision against the Baltimore Orioles. Believe it
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Speaker 7: Guys, all right, TC counting down the first pitch at
Speaker 7: pet Cole Park, a gorgeous Friday night here in San Diego.
Speaker 7: To open up this series in Mo it is Rookie
Speaker 7: Sasaki for the Dodgers against Walker Buehler, the old friend
Speaker 7: now pitching for the Padres. The two time World Series
Speaker 7: champ recorded the final out of the twenty twenty four
Speaker 7: World Series victory in the Bronx in New York and
Speaker 7: now in San Diego City. Connect uniforms starting against La
Speaker 7: give me a key or a player to watch tonight.
Speaker 8: I think with Sasaki, let's start right off the top.
Speaker 8: When he's ahead in the count, it's only a one
Speaker 8: seventy batting average against. Why is that important? Well, when
Speaker 8: he's behind in the count this year, it's a three
Speaker 8: eighty nine batting average and he's also been hit over
Speaker 8: three twenty five with runners in scoring position. So for Susaki,
Speaker 8: go ahead and challenge hitters. I've seen him do. I
Speaker 8: think two of the last three outings he's had he
Speaker 8: has challenged hitters instead of pitching like he's trying to
Speaker 8: avoid the hit or even hitting the base.
Speaker 7: Some I'll tell you, I think we're both looking out
Speaker 7: for tonight. Is him later in the outings because he
Speaker 7: has been so good to start outings. I know we've
Speaker 7: had so many conversations about guys like Yoshinobyamamoto or she
Speaker 7: struggling in the first inning. Well for Sasaki innings one
Speaker 7: through four, he is great. But you saw it last
Speaker 7: time out against Baltimore. After five scoreless five shoutout innings.
Speaker 7: You could see the breathing was heavier, the sweat was
Speaker 7: more evident and obvious, and he seemed to be laboring more.
Speaker 7: It was like, Okay, he's running out of gas, and
Speaker 7: it was clear that the end of his last two outings,
Speaker 7: teams have taken.
Speaker 1: It to him.
Speaker 8: Yeah, in spite of the fact that his velocity has
Speaker 8: remained relatively high. It hasn't been like he's run out
Speaker 8: of gas and all of a sudden i drop off
Speaker 8: in velocity that has been there. Just the effectiveness now
Speaker 8: has been proved.
Speaker 7: All right, Tim, It'll be Sasaki and Bueller, the Dodgers
Speaker 7: against the Padres. The Dodgers have done well against San
Speaker 7: Diego the last couple of years, really since that twenty
Speaker 7: twenty four Division Series, and they want to try and
Speaker 7: keep it that way and continue this hot stretch where
Speaker 7: they've won twenty eight of thirty nine games since the
Speaker 7: thirteenth of May.
Speaker 6: Send it back to you, all right, thanks a lot, Nelly.
Speaker 6: First pitch is next.
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Speaker 6: Enjoy everybody.
Speaker 5: I'm Tim Kass, the back to back World Series champion
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