Speaker 1: The quest for the three peat has begne.
Speaker 2: Only four teams in Major League Baseball history have won
Speaker 2: three consecutive titles. The Dodgers are the favorites to become
Speaker 2: the fifth.
Speaker 3: This is World Champion Dodger Talk.
Speaker 1: Here we go again.
Speaker 3: We're going to running back to get him on the
Speaker 3: show called eight six six eight seven two five seven,
Speaker 3: and be sure to follow Dodger Talk wherever you get
Speaker 3: your podcasts. Here's your host, David Vase.
Speaker 1: We are live at Oracle Park.
Speaker 2: After the Giants defeat the Dodgers tonight in Game one
Speaker 2: of this three game series, three to.
Speaker 1: One the final score.
Speaker 2: The Dodgers are now sixteen and seven, tied with the
Speaker 2: San Diego Padres for first place in the NLS. The
Speaker 2: Padres beat the Rockies earlier tonight and they're playing hot.
Speaker 2: They've won ten of their last eleven. They have a
Speaker 2: good team in the first month of the season. Let's
Speaker 2: see whether or not the season will be too long
Speaker 2: for them and their pitching staff. But right now, the
Speaker 2: Dodgers and Padres are tied atop the nl West sixteen
Speaker 2: and seven. Both teams have the same record. David Vasse
Speaker 2: Dodger Talk with you until the bottom of the hour.
Speaker 2: Phone lines are open at eight six, six, nine, eight
Speaker 2: seven two five seventy And look, this game is pretty simple.
Speaker 2: The Dodgers are hitting one eighty eight with runners in
Speaker 2: scoring position through the first five games of this road trip.
Speaker 2: Their swings seem to be really big on this road trip. Maybe,
Speaker 2: like Jose Motives said, it was corsefield, But where is
Speaker 2: the situational hitting? And unfortunately for the Dodgers, their best
Speaker 2: option tonight are their best opportunity I should say to
Speaker 2: get back into this game was in the fourth inning
Speaker 2: when Land and Roup really didn't have much command at all.
Speaker 1: He was missing quite a bit.
Speaker 2: In that fourth inning, the Dodgers loaded the bases, they
Speaker 2: had one run in and Alex call who got the
Speaker 2: start in center field tonight, at the plate and he
Speaker 2: grounded into an inning ending double play. The pitch was
Speaker 2: right down the middle. He just missed it and missfired
Speaker 2: on the swing and it was a five to four
Speaker 2: to three inning ending double play.
Speaker 1: And that was that.
Speaker 2: And Yamamoto deserved a better fate because he pitched really
Speaker 2: well tonight seven innings. He gave up those three runs,
Speaker 2: but didn't get great defense behind him. In that first inning,
Speaker 2: Hayesung Kim made an errant high throw way over the
Speaker 2: head of Freddie Freeman on the very first batter of
Speaker 2: the Giants sent up there in the bottom of the
Speaker 2: first and Willie Adamis and that just kind of opened
Speaker 2: up a little dinks and dunks to score three runs
Speaker 2: for the Giants. And also Alex Calling not really communicating
Speaker 2: taking charge in center field on all that was hit
Speaker 2: to center field or left left field in that first inning,
Speaker 2: Taoscar Hernandez, he didn't read it correctly. He went back
Speaker 2: on the fly ball by Casey Schmidt to left center field,
Speaker 2: and Alex Call jumped all over it. But Taoscar recovered
Speaker 2: and Alex Call was not communicating and screaming I got it,
Speaker 2: and they collided. And that was a scary collision because
Speaker 2: it looked like Alex Call's head hit Oscar Hernandez's jaw,
Speaker 2: and that is concussion type of stuff. I mean, ta
Speaker 2: Oscar was rubbing his jaw, opening and closing his mouth,
Speaker 2: and he also could have taken out Tao Oscar's left knee.
Speaker 2: Alex Call a big center field out here in San Francisco.
Speaker 2: Andy Paez in a little bit of a slump in
Speaker 2: those four games at cors Field, so Dave Roberts decided
Speaker 2: to give him the day off. But this center field
Speaker 2: is a lot different than playing center field at Dodger Stadium,
Speaker 2: and hopefully Alex Call learned some things that he can
Speaker 2: take with him moving forward. But he did make some
Speaker 2: nice plays towards right field because Kyle Tucker never seemed
Speaker 2: to really get a great jump on any of those
Speaker 2: fly balls to right field. And Kyle Tucker had a
Speaker 2: rough night too, struck out three times tonight, and Kyle
Speaker 2: Tucker's sitting two forty four with a seven H five ops.
Speaker 2: He just hasn't been very consistent. He's had a couple
Speaker 2: of good moments, but for the most part to start
Speaker 2: the season, he has not done much of anything for
Speaker 2: the Dodgers. Eight six six nine seven two five seventy
Speaker 2: is the phone number. Let's head downstairs right now to
Speaker 2: hear from Alex Call, who had a tough night tonight
Speaker 2: in San Francisco.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I was going after the ball. I didn't like
Speaker 4: fully know where Teyo was just because I was running
Speaker 4: after it. Bottom line is, you know, ball can't fall.
Speaker 4: As a center fielder, I was just trying to go
Speaker 4: get the ball. And you know, I think he said
Speaker 4: he was calling it. I didn't hear him. I started
Speaker 4: calling it. You know, he didn't hear me. So just
Speaker 4: kind of the way it goes. It's unfortunate. Glad he's okay.
Speaker 4: Glad we at least got it out. But yeah, you know,
Speaker 4: just tough. I mean, the stadium gets loud and things happen.
Speaker 4: But it's as my job to be vocal and loud
Speaker 4: and make sure that he hears me and make sure
Speaker 4: things like that don't happen.
Speaker 5: You just get like the wind knocked out there.
Speaker 4: I mean I gotta have a few bumps and bruises
Speaker 4: the wind knocked out. And although it's worth ending you.
Speaker 6: Bat, you see the four walks ahead of you. What
Speaker 6: do you take as the approach when you go up there?
Speaker 4: I mean, I'm ready to ready to hit, you know,
Speaker 4: I think bottom line is you got to get a
Speaker 4: good pitch to hit. I'm not certainly worried about expanding,
Speaker 4: not with how I you know, go about my bets. Normally,
Speaker 4: the ball that's in my zone, certainly that was the
Speaker 4: ball that was in my zone just snuck inside my barrel.
Speaker 4: I know I had the right approach, the right mindset,
Speaker 4: the right practice and didn't work out all right.
Speaker 2: There's Alex Call on sports and at LA. Good for
Speaker 2: him to stand up in front of his locker and
Speaker 2: answer those questions. He was our pregame guest and gave
Speaker 2: really insightful questions. He has a thought process. So that
Speaker 2: pitch was right down the middle. You have to swing
Speaker 2: at it. He just hit a ground ball to third base.
Speaker 1: It's baseball. That happens.
Speaker 2: And that was the opportunity for the Dodgers to get
Speaker 2: back into this game. And you know, some nights in
Speaker 2: this game, a lot of things pile up on the
Speaker 2: negative side, and it was just one of those tough
Speaker 2: nights of baseball for Alex Call because of the collision
Speaker 2: in the first inning with ta Oscar Hernandez. Good for
Speaker 2: him to hold onto the ball, by the way, at
Speaker 2: least get that out. And then in the sixth then
Speaker 2: Helia Ramos with two outs and Junghu Lee at first
Speaker 2: base hits a dumps a single into center and Alex
Speaker 2: Call was way too casual getting on that ball and
Speaker 2: getting it back into the infield. And that's why Jung
Speaker 2: Hu Lee and the Giants third base coach Barge Hector
Speaker 2: Borg sent him because Call was flat footed.
Speaker 1: He lobbed it in one.
Speaker 2: Hopped it to Alex Freeland, who was very aware of
Speaker 2: what was happening, and got it to Dalton Rushing just
Speaker 2: in time, and jung Hu Lee was the last out
Speaker 2: of that sixth inning. That would have been even That
Speaker 2: would have made it an even worse night for Alex
Speaker 2: Call if Lee would have been safe on that type
Speaker 2: of play. And Lee had to leave the game after that.
Speaker 2: Not sure if it was his left knee that got
Speaker 2: caught underneath him, but he hurt something and was down
Speaker 2: a while after he was tagged out, and it wasn't
Speaker 2: just his feelings that were hurt. Six nine eight seven
Speaker 2: two five seventy is the phone number Dodgers fall to
Speaker 2: the Giants tonight, three to one. Let's go out to Valencia, OZ.
Speaker 2: You're on Dodger Talk Live from San Francisco. Lead us off.
Speaker 5: Hey, David, thank you for taking my call. I just
Speaker 5: want to say thank you for everything you do. It's
Speaker 5: a pleasure to listen to you every single night, day
Speaker 5: and day out. But I have a question for you,
Speaker 5: Daves how six of course, thank you? How how successful
Speaker 5: or rather, how limited are the Dodgers in terms of
Speaker 5: abs challenges, because I know Max Monsey came out and
Speaker 5: said they were going to leave it for the catchers,
Speaker 5: but especially for someone like some of the young guys
Speaker 5: like Alex Freeland. They look like the pitchers are way
Speaker 5: outside and that they should be challenging, and even Joe
Speaker 5: was suggesting it on the back broadcast a little bit.
Speaker 5: But they don't. As always just wanted to say thank.
Speaker 2: You, Okay, yeah, Well, Number one, the Dodgers do have
Speaker 2: a strategy. As I mentioned before that Monthcy has been
Speaker 2: public that their strategy is to leave as many of
Speaker 2: those two challenges for their catcher to help out the
Speaker 2: pitchings daft as far as the offense go, the way
Speaker 2: it's been explained to me is, uh, they don't want
Speaker 2: you challenging in the first or second inning if it
Speaker 2: isn't a high leverage situation or a big swing in
Speaker 2: the count in that In that case, Alex Freeland in
Speaker 2: the fifth inning was leading off, and I know which
Speaker 2: which I bet you're talking about, because Rupe was certainly struggling,
Speaker 2: struggling in the fourth inning and to start that fifth
Speaker 2: and that ball was high the replay showed it was
Speaker 2: out of the strike zone and Alex Freeland was just indecisive.
Speaker 1: He he wasn't.
Speaker 2: Sure whether or not to challenge or not, and uh,
Speaker 2: that was just him being indecisive.
Speaker 5: Gosh, thank you so much, Dave. Yeah, because I understand
Speaker 5: the way it looks. It could look like a ball
Speaker 5: out of the hand. So I was just christed. Thank
Speaker 5: you so much, Stave.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, you got to make your decision quickly. And
Speaker 2: he was just indecisive. And I would have said that
Speaker 2: would have been a challenge situation where the Dodgers would
Speaker 2: not have been upset, and that is to their game
Speaker 2: plan that he would have challenged that because he would
Speaker 2: have got on base for Otani. So that's one of
Speaker 2: those instances that, uh, the game plan is to challenge.
Speaker 2: But he was just indecisive in that situation. Eight six, six,
Speaker 2: nine eighty seven two five seventy is the phone number
Speaker 2: Dodgers fall to the Giants tonight three to one. Freddie
Speaker 2: Freeman was back in the Dodgers starting lineup. Remember he
Speaker 2: went on the paternity list. Him and his wife Chelsea
Speaker 2: welcome their first daughter, and Freddie was zero for to
Speaker 2: tonight with two Walks hitting third behind Otani and Tucker,
Speaker 2: and before the game, we had a chance to catch
Speaker 2: up with Freddy to share the news of his brand
Speaker 2: new baby girl and the name and the meaning behind
Speaker 2: the name they gave their baby girl.
Speaker 7: Yes, so London is their first name. Obviously, Chelsea, my wife,
Speaker 7: my in laws are from England, born and raised there.
Speaker 7: He's always loved the name London, so ever since I've
Speaker 7: known Chelsea, I felt like, if we're gonna have a girl,
Speaker 7: the girl's name is gonna be London. And she has
Speaker 7: two middle names, Rosemary Joy. My mom's name was Rosemary
Speaker 7: Joy Freeman, so our daughter's name is London Rosemary Tooy
Speaker 7: Freeman after my mom.
Speaker 6: Pretty you going on the paternity list kind of set
Speaker 6: a chain of events that allowed Ryan Ward to have
Speaker 6: his first major league start and hit and all that.
Speaker 6: Were you watching?
Speaker 7: Unfortunately, London was born at eleven fifty two, so no,
Speaker 7: I was not watching the game. I did not see
Speaker 7: any visual game on Sunday. I did watch the game
Speaker 7: last night, London's first game she got to watch with me.
Speaker 7: But I am happy I've got to know Ryan over
Speaker 7: the last few years, and he's an incredibly hard worker.
Speaker 7: He's worked so hard for that moment and to go
Speaker 7: out there and get two hits and RBI and his
Speaker 7: big league debut, that was special, So we all know
Speaker 7: he can do it. So I'm sure there'll be another
Speaker 7: opportunity at some point for him to get back here.
Speaker 6: Did you hear about Dalton giving up that start for him?
Speaker 7: I just about it. Yeah, so I for me, I
Speaker 7: thought Dalton was starting Sunday, So when I heard that
Speaker 7: he wasn't, I did have a smile on my face.
Speaker 7: That was like, oh good because Ryan will get to play,
Speaker 7: but awesome for Dalton to do that, and Dalton's went
Speaker 7: off to a great start, so I'm just happy they
Speaker 7: both got the play because he played the next day
Speaker 7: and hit to him run. So first face was well
Speaker 7: taken care of.
Speaker 2: Freddie Freeman all smiles and why shouldn't he be. He's
Speaker 2: a girl dad and now have four kids. He said
Speaker 2: that's it for him and Chelsea. Four kids is enough.
Speaker 2: So congratulations to Freddie and Chelsea Freeman. And it was
Speaker 2: great to have Freddie back around the ball club and
Speaker 2: certainly a leader that the Dodgers need, not only by
Speaker 2: example but just the way he carries himself.
Speaker 1: On and off the field.
Speaker 2: All right, we're gonna take a time out here on
Speaker 2: Dodger Talk. When we come back, you'll hear from Dave Roberts,
Speaker 2: who responded to what Craig Council had to say out
Speaker 2: of nowhere questioning the Otawni roster rule.
Speaker 1: Huh Yeah.
Speaker 2: You'll hear from Dave, and we'll give you an update
Speaker 2: on Blake Snell.
Speaker 1: He joined the.
Speaker 2: Dodgers here in San Francisco after six hours at Coachella
Speaker 2: last week. Dodgers I mentioned that to snow Dodgers fall
Speaker 2: to the Giants tonight three to one on a five
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Speaker 2: David Vasse live in San Francisco at Oracle Park. After
Speaker 2: the Dodgers fall to the Giants tonight by a final
Speaker 2: score of three to one. What a sports night for
Speaker 2: Los Angeles. The Lakers beating the Rockets. I believe we're
Speaker 2: about to beat the Rockets to take a two to
Speaker 2: zero lead in the first round. The LA Kings are
Speaker 2: up one nothing in the third period right now against
Speaker 2: the Avalanche, and the Dodgers and Giants are hooking up
Speaker 2: here for a three game series the first time this season.
Speaker 2: The Dodgers are up here in San Francisco and playing
Speaker 2: the Giants, and with the Giants winning tonight, they take
Speaker 2: an all time series lead one two hundred and eighty
Speaker 2: nine wins for San Francisco to twelve hundred and eighty
Speaker 2: eight wins for the Dodgers. And oh, by the way,
Speaker 2: back in the early nineteen hundreds, they tied nineteen times,
Speaker 2: So that's how close this all time rivalry has become.
Speaker 2: And the Dodgers over the last thirteen fourteen years have
Speaker 2: made up a lot of ground in that category and
Speaker 2: in the last ten fifteen twenty years now have matched
Speaker 2: the Giants world Series win total. The Giants were so
Speaker 2: happy about their miracle three championships about ten years ago, Well,
Speaker 2: the Dodgers have outdone them by winning back to back
Speaker 2: World Series championships. And that's what separates this Dodger team
Speaker 2: other World Series champions. They are one of just a
Speaker 2: handful of teams to ever win back to back championships
Speaker 2: and are looking to become just the third franchise in
Speaker 2: baseball history to have a three peat winner, and right
Speaker 2: now things are looking good for the Dodgers, even with
Speaker 2: the injury to Edwin Diaz, who is expected to return
Speaker 2: in two or three months. The Dodgers and Padres are
Speaker 2: tied for first place in the NL West sixteen and seven,
Speaker 2: and the Bait have baseball's best record at sixteen and seven,
Speaker 2: So things are going well for the back to back
Speaker 2: champions tonight, though they fall to the Giants three to one. Now,
Speaker 2: I wanted to bring this up because we talked about
Speaker 2: it two nights ago in Denver when I saw a
Speaker 2: tweet from a satellite radio commentator, and then out of
Speaker 2: the blue, the very next day, Craig Council of the Cubs,
Speaker 2: who are coming to town by the weekend on Friday
Speaker 2: night at Stadium for a three game series out of Nowhere,
Speaker 2: which is interesting great Council told the media in Chicago
Speaker 2: he believes the Dodgers have an unfair roster advantage by
Speaker 2: having Sho Haotani as a two way player and also
Speaker 2: allowed to carry thirteen pitchers. Now, remember the rule changed
Speaker 2: where Major League Baseball did not want bullpen games, so
Speaker 2: they put a limit on how many pitchers you could
Speaker 2: carry on your roster during the regular season before September,
Speaker 2: and that's thirteen. So the Dodgers have thirteen designated pitchers
Speaker 2: plus the most unique and best player in the game
Speaker 2: in show Heotani, So technically, I guess you could say
Speaker 2: they have fourteen pitchers. Otani is starting tomorrow, so tomorrow
Speaker 2: the Dodgers will have fourteen pitchers on their active roster.
Speaker 2: But tonight there was thirteen because Otani is not starting.
Speaker 2: And by the way, why now, Because Tani's on the
Speaker 2: best team in baseball, the defending back to back champions.
Speaker 2: He's won two World Series in his first two years
Speaker 2: with the Dodgers. This rule has been in place since
Speaker 2: twenty twenty two, when Otani was on the Angels. I
Speaker 2: never heard Craig Council when he was in Milwaukee complain
Speaker 2: about any sort of roster advantage for the Angels. But
Speaker 2: all of a sudden, now there's a roster advantage because
Speaker 2: Otani's on the Dodgers. Just doesn't make a lot of sense.
Speaker 2: And after last night's game, Dave Roberts was asked about
Speaker 2: Craig Councils out of the blue comments about this so
Speaker 2: called roster advantage.
Speaker 8: The thing is is that it certainly benefits us because
Speaker 8: we have the player. But that's something that regardless of
Speaker 8: any team that would have Otani would have that player,
Speaker 8: and you know, we're more than willing to have other teams,
Speaker 8: you know, go out and find a player that can
Speaker 8: do both. So he's an exception because he's an exceptional player.
Speaker 8: So yeah, I mean, it's it's kind of it is
Speaker 8: what it is.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no apologies from the Dodgers or show hey Otani,
Speaker 2: and there shouldn't be. It's not like the Dodgers were
Speaker 2: the ones that appealed to Major League Baseball to have
Speaker 2: this rule where Otani is designated as a two way
Speaker 2: player because he is. This was a rule that was
Speaker 2: put in place in twenty twenty two when Otani was
Speaker 2: on the Angels. Eight sixty six nine eight seven two
Speaker 2: five seventy is the phone number. Here's my other issue
Speaker 2: with create Council. Okay, you're whining about the Dodgers having
Speaker 2: the best player and the most unique player and they've
Speaker 2: won back to back championships. Okay, but what's your solution.
Speaker 2: What is CREK Council's solution? Should the Dodgers be at
Speaker 2: a disadvantage and only have twelve pitchers on their roster
Speaker 2: because Otani is a two way player. Should the Dodgers
Speaker 2: taxi a pitcher for the days that Otani is only
Speaker 2: the dh You tell me, Crey Council, what should What
Speaker 2: is the solution? Why are you whining so much about
Speaker 2: a team that you're not even gonna see in the postseason.
Speaker 2: You didn't see them last year because the Brewers beat you.
Speaker 2: Do you really believe you're gonna see them this year?
Speaker 2: I mean, I just don't understand why. Now out of nowhere,
Speaker 2: Craig Council is talking about an unfair roster advantage for
Speaker 2: the Dodgers. Whoever signed sho Heotani not only gets the
Speaker 2: best player and most unique player, but they do get
Speaker 2: that advantage. It is an advantage because there's nobody else
Speaker 2: like him. If all of a sudden, let's say Saya
Speaker 2: Suzuki decided to pitch, then the Cubs would have fourteen
Speaker 2: pitchers on their roster.
Speaker 1: If Ian happ decided to become a pitcher, then you
Speaker 1: would have that. But you don't.
Speaker 2: The Angels had Otani, they let him go. The Giants
Speaker 2: tried to sign Otani. He didn't sign here, he signed
Speaker 2: with the Dodgers. I just think Craig Council comes off
Speaker 2: very petty and jealous and whiney, uh, talking about this
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Speaker 2: to the Giants tonight three to one in San Francisco.
Speaker 2: Eight sixty six nine eighty seven two five seventy is
Speaker 2: the phone number. And speaking of show hey Otani. In
Speaker 2: his last at bat tonight, he beat out an infield single,
Speaker 2: a ground ball to shortstop. And now he has reached
Speaker 2: base in fifty three consecutive games, tying Sean Green for
Speaker 2: second on the all time Dodger franchise record. Dukes Nider
Speaker 2: reached on base fifty eight consecutive games, so it's not
Speaker 2: like a hitting streak, but since we're keeping score here,
Speaker 2: that's what's happened. Otani now has reached base in fifty
Speaker 2: three consecutive game after beating out a groundball to shortstop
Speaker 2: in the last at bat that he had tonight, the Dodgers,
Speaker 2: they'll go down three to one, leave eight men on
Speaker 2: base tonight and are hitting one eighty eight on this
Speaker 2: road trip with runners in scoring positions. So they're gonna
Speaker 2: get back on track. And look, the reality is the
Speaker 2: Dodgers are in the middle of playing thirteen in a row,
Speaker 2: most consecutive games that they have played to start the season.
Speaker 2: They'll have this again, but this is the first time,
Speaker 2: so I think we have to take that into account. Also,
Speaker 2: we talk so much about what they're doing with the
Speaker 2: players that are on the injured list. I think that
Speaker 2: should be part of the equation as well. And you
Speaker 2: don't have Kyle Tucker swinging the bat well, he's not
Speaker 2: playing well to start the season. Sho Heo Tani admittedly
Speaker 2: said April is not usually the best month for him.
Speaker 2: He feels like he's really gonna take off in the
Speaker 2: month of May as a hitter. And they don't have
Speaker 2: Mookie Betts, they don't have Tommy Edmond, they don't have
Speaker 2: keyk Hernandez to play center field tonight. If they wanted
Speaker 2: to give Andy has a rest. They don't have Edwin
Speaker 2: Diaz now, they don't have Evan Phillips. Brock Stewart's on
Speaker 2: a rehab assignment. Blake's now, by the way, is going
Speaker 2: to make his first rehab start tomorrow for Ontario in
Speaker 2: San Jose, and he's expected to go three innings eight six, six, seven,
Speaker 2: two five seventy is the phone number. Let's go back
Speaker 2: out to the phones. Robert in Chino, You're on Dodger Talk.
Speaker 1: Hi, Robert, Hey, how's it going?
Speaker 9: Does want to talk about Craig Council and what he
Speaker 9: was talking about. It just didn't make sense. Again, thirteen
Speaker 9: pitchers are tiny's exceptional. Doesn't you know he's pitching every
Speaker 9: seven days, so it doesn't you know what you know,
Speaker 9: what's he going to do with, you know, another picture
Speaker 9: on the on the roster when he's pitching every seven days,
Speaker 9: so it doesn't really make sense. Also, Yamamoto, just want
Speaker 9: to give a shout out to Alamamoto pitching. Mike Kershaw,
Speaker 9: you know, gave up, you know, a few runs early,
Speaker 9: but held it down. Just needs the bats to wake up.
Speaker 2: Hey, Robert, everybody talks about Mason Miller. Paul Skeins, even
Speaker 2: O Tawani, I think more people need to start giving
Speaker 2: Yamamoto his due. To me, he is definitely in the
Speaker 2: conversation for the cy young in the National League again,
Speaker 2: just like he was last year he finished in the
Speaker 2: top three. I mean, Yamamoto is a warrior in more
Speaker 2: ways than one after what we saw in the World
Speaker 2: Series last year.
Speaker 9: Most definitely he's just picking up the baton with Kershaw,
Speaker 9: you know from Kershaw. So you know he's going to
Speaker 9: be that, you know, every fifth day, every sixth day,
Speaker 9: he's going to give us seven He's going to give us,
Speaker 9: you know, seven solid you know, three runs like that's
Speaker 9: a hiccup. You know, it's just nothing. You know, we
Speaker 9: just needed the bats to come through. I guess, you know,
Speaker 9: the flight, you know, the travel from Colorado. Maybe he
Speaker 9: heard us, you know, but.
Speaker 2: Five days at the altitude and landing at one am
Speaker 2: doesn't do anybody any favors. So yeah, I would imagine
Speaker 2: the Dodgers bounce back tomorrow. Robert, thank you for the
Speaker 2: phone call and appreciate it. And by the way, Yamamoto
Speaker 2: starting to incorporate his cut fastball more than he did
Speaker 2: last year. Tonight it was the third most pitch that
Speaker 2: he used, even more than his curveball. The curveball was
Speaker 2: not great. I don't feel like he had a great
Speaker 2: feel for the curveball tonight. But his split fingered fastball
Speaker 2: was outstanding. And you know, he got the most swings
Speaker 2: and misses on his split fingered fastball tonight. But look
Speaker 2: out for that cutter. He's starting to use that cutter
Speaker 2: against left handed hitters more and more. So interesting, you
Speaker 2: know cat and mouse that he's playing with with hitters
Speaker 2: this year and coming off being in the league for
Speaker 2: two full seasons. Now Tomorrow show, hey, Otani will be
Speaker 2: on the mound for the Dodgers. Sorry, Craig Council. He's
Speaker 2: pitching tomorrow. Sorry, yeah, no, apologies. He's going up against
Speaker 2: Tyler Mallley, who's win list this year with an ERA
Speaker 2: of seven to twenty three. Morongo Casino Dodgers on deck
Speaker 2: begins at five thirty tomorrow with first pitch at six
Speaker 2: forty five, and by all accounts, Otani is expected to
Speaker 2: start tomorrow and be leading off as the Dodger DH
Speaker 2: And maybe after the game tomorrow night, we could get
Speaker 2: into that conversation. Should Otani not hit when he's pitching.
Speaker 2: I think it's a It's a good conversation to have,
Speaker 2: and we'll see whether or not Dave roberts what he
Speaker 2: said before his last start. We'll follow through and have
Speaker 2: him as the DH tomorrow night here in San Francisco.
Speaker 2: So thank you for sticking with us. In case you
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Speaker 2: The final score tonight the Giants beat the Dodgers three
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