Speaker 1: The quest for the three peat has begun. Only four
Speaker 1: teams in Major League Baseball history have won three consecutive titles.
Speaker 1: The Dodgers are the favorites to become the fifth.
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Speaker 2: vaseas day.
Speaker 4: Freddie Freeman the hero tonight as he walks off the
Speaker 4: Dodgers with a one nothing win against his former teammate
Speaker 4: Kirby Yates and the Angels in Game one of the
Speaker 4: Freeways series here in Los Angeles. Eight six six nine
Speaker 4: eight seven two five seventy is the phone number. David
Speaker 4: Vasse live at Dodger Stadium with you until eleven o'clock
Speaker 4: after everybody went home, forty eight thousand plus stuck around
Speaker 4: for Freddie Freeman to hit a walk off home run
Speaker 4: against his former teammate Kirby Yates and the Dodgers get
Speaker 4: the win after losing last night on a walk off
Speaker 4: home run by Cotel Marte. Eight six six nine eight
Speaker 4: seven two five seventy is the phone number. Just looking
Speaker 4: at the great photos that John Sue who took as
Speaker 4: Freddie Freeman was crossing home plate, you see Mookie Beds
Speaker 4: in the front row. You see Keith Hernandez in the
Speaker 4: front row. You see Dalton rushing, Maximuncy, Santiago Espinal and
Speaker 4: shoj Otani all there as he is getting ready to
Speaker 4: touch home plate after his walk off home run. And
Speaker 4: just in case you missed it earlier, this was Freddy
Speaker 4: Freeman's eighth career walk off home run. As you know,
Speaker 4: two for the Dodgers when he hit a walkoff Grand
Speaker 4: Slam in twenty twenty four, and of course his walk
Speaker 4: off home run and last year's eighteen inning affair. But
Speaker 4: in the regular season, this was the first walk off
Speaker 4: home run Freddie Freeman has hit in the one sixty
Speaker 4: two Marathon wearing a Dodger uniform. He hit five of
Speaker 4: those in the regular season for the Atlanta Braves. And
Speaker 4: we had a chance to catch up with Freddy after
Speaker 4: he was done with the in stadium interview and the
Speaker 4: fans were still chanting Freddy's name.
Speaker 5: No, I mean I faced Kirvy in the past, but
Speaker 5: I didn't face him. Then you know, I gave Kirby
Speaker 5: a little smile, But then you gotta go to work
Speaker 5: against Kirby with his fast one splitters. You gotta go.
Speaker 5: You gotta look up so you don't swing at the
Speaker 5: switter down. So that's what I was trying to do.
Speaker 5: When I missed a three one fastball, I kind of
Speaker 5: just kind of brought it closer, a little.
Speaker 6: Bit higher and was able to get a fish to
Speaker 6: hit Freddie not only the walk off home run, but
Speaker 6: you and Miguel Rojas teamed up for what maybe the
Speaker 6: defensive play of the season in baseball when he robbed
Speaker 6: Nick Madrigal and your Daddy Longe eggs were from first
Speaker 6: base to shortstop.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I think obviously that was a good play. But overall,
Speaker 5: just defensively all night, you got San Tago diving in
Speaker 5: the whole, Mookie's making good plays at short all over
Speaker 5: the place. When Roki's pitching the way you did, you
Speaker 5: want to do the best you can to get all
Speaker 5: the outs for him, And as a whole, the defense
Speaker 5: played a really good game tonight.
Speaker 4: Before I let you go, you were doing an in
Speaker 4: stadium interview just moments before, and this entire stadium, forty
Speaker 4: eight thousand plus stuck around.
Speaker 3: And chanted your name. How does that make you feel?
Speaker 5: That's told curious and it's special. Ever since I got here,
Speaker 5: they've been doing it and it never gets old. It
Speaker 5: really doesn't. It's an incredible feeling. So it makes you
Speaker 5: want to come through when you get those some moments
Speaker 5: and to be able to come through in front of them.
Speaker 5: They support us every night, so it's definitely special. It's
Speaker 5: nice to get the first win of the series and
Speaker 5: hopefully gets serried win month.
Speaker 3: Thanks a lot for stopping Freddie.
Speaker 4: Freddie Freeman a first class guy and a guy that's
Speaker 4: on his way to the Hall of Fame. What a
Speaker 4: clutch player won A great hitter he is and he
Speaker 4: never lets the game get too fast. Freddie Freeman hits
Speaker 4: a walkoff home run on the sixth pitch of the
Speaker 4: at bat against Kirbyates, who earlier this year when the
Speaker 4: Dodgers played in Anaheim had Freddie Freeman in the rest
Speaker 4: of the Dodgers present him with his World Series ring
Speaker 4: and Kirby Yates. Last year, during the postseason, even though
Speaker 4: he wasn't active, he would throw as one of the
Speaker 4: pitchers to keep the Dodgers sharp in between series, in
Speaker 4: between games, and that's what I was asking Freddy about
Speaker 4: whether or not he faced Kirby during those type of
Speaker 4: nights in October. But obviously Kirby and Freddy have been
Speaker 4: around a while and they have locked up many times
Speaker 4: during the regular season. Eight six six nine eight seven
Speaker 4: two five seventy is the phone number. Also, with Freddie
Speaker 4: Freeman hitting that walk off home run in the bottom
Speaker 4: of the ninth inning, the Dodgers now are still the
Speaker 4: only team in Major League Baseball this season to not
Speaker 4: have played in extra inning game. Tonight was the sixty
Speaker 4: fourth game of the season that the Dodgers have played.
Speaker 4: They are tied for the seventh longest streak of not
Speaker 4: playing an extra innings game to open up the season.
Speaker 4: The nineteen ninety two Mariners also opened up the year
Speaker 4: playing sixty four consecutive games without going extra innings. The
Speaker 4: team that has the record for the most games to
Speaker 4: start a season without going extra frames the two thousand
Speaker 4: and five Boston Red Sox, which opened up the season
Speaker 4: with ninety eight straight games without playing a tenth inning.
Speaker 4: Eight six six nine eight seven two five seventy is
Speaker 4: the phone number.
Speaker 3: Roki Sasaki. We can't forget him.
Speaker 4: He was phenomenal tonight, career high ten strikeouts dominated the
Speaker 4: Angels for the second time this season. Remember a couple
Speaker 4: of weeks ago in Anaheim, he also went seven innings,
Speaker 4: allowed just one earn run. He had eight strikeouts that
Speaker 4: day in Anaheim and the Dogs Rodgers did not make
Speaker 4: it as dramatic. He got the win after a ten
Speaker 4: to one blowout over the Angels, who last year beat
Speaker 4: the Dodgers all six times they faced them. Well, the
Speaker 4: Dodgers have returned the favors so far and won the
Speaker 4: first four games of this head to head freeway series,
Speaker 4: with two more to go here at Dodgers Stadium. All right,
Speaker 4: we have two lines open at eight six, six, nine, eight, seven,
Speaker 4: two five seventy. Jose Motor will check in in ten minutes.
Speaker 4: But let's hear from the fans tonight. Let's go out
Speaker 4: to Torrance. Kate, you're on Dodger Talk. How you doing, Kate?
Speaker 2: Oh great, that was an awesome win.
Speaker 3: It sure was my question.
Speaker 7: You know, you've talked to Freddy Freeman a lot. Have
Speaker 7: you ever asked him how he does it with his
Speaker 7: defense where he's practically doing the splits to make a play.
Speaker 3: I think he's just that flexible.
Speaker 4: He's just that flexible, and he's been doing it for
Speaker 4: a long time. If you ever see Freddy right, that
Speaker 4: was a perfect example. How you know his torso's a
Speaker 4: little higher, he's a lot of legs.
Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, all.
Speaker 4: Right, Kate, thank you for the phone call. Let's go
Speaker 4: out to Nick in Long Beach. You're on Dodger Talk
Speaker 4: with David vasse Hi.
Speaker 3: Nick.
Speaker 2: Hey, David, thanks for having me on.
Speaker 8: First off, I want to say shout out to pitching staff,
Speaker 8: especially Peter Scott. Great night, tonight, Ellie, love you, Dodger
Speaker 8: fans love you.
Speaker 9: Ignore the people so called fans that.
Speaker 3: Are negative Scott, great job.
Speaker 9: I wanted to ask with Sataki, fourth time.
Speaker 3: In a row.
Speaker 9: It's had a great start. Do you push him to
Speaker 9: the pen with Snell and possibly Glass now coming back
Speaker 9: off the shelf?
Speaker 3: What did you say, push? Push Rokie to the pen.
Speaker 8: With snap with Snelling Glass now possibly coming back.
Speaker 3: They're not coming back anytime soon.
Speaker 4: Nick Snell just started playing catch for the first time
Speaker 4: since his nano procedure, and Tyler Glass now is still
Speaker 4: not picking up a baseball. So those guys are not
Speaker 4: coming back for at least two months, So you're way
Speaker 4: ahead of the game here. That's not a decision that's
Speaker 4: even at the forefront of anybody's mind right now. Nick,
Speaker 4: I think you need to just sit back and enjoy Rokie.
Speaker 9: Yeah, he looks great about Fitz. Consecutive start, he's like amazing.
Speaker 9: The slitter looks unbelievable. He's spawning it.
Speaker 4: Well, he's a lot stronger, He's a lot more athletic,
Speaker 4: Dave Roberts said. Travis Smith, the Dodgers' strength coach, has
Speaker 4: been working with him since he's signed with the Dodgers,
Speaker 4: trying to get him bigger, stronger, more athletic. And we're
Speaker 4: starting to see the fruits of all that labor that
Speaker 4: Roki has put in, because he's put in a lot
Speaker 4: of work and also he's going exclusively out of the stretch.
Speaker 4: That's something we saw in the postseason last year. He
Speaker 4: hit one hundred miles an hour for the second straight start.
Speaker 4: So the lower half is a lot more stable. I
Speaker 4: know that's something that Oral Herscheizer has pointed out, but
Speaker 4: the reality is, it feels like Roki Sasaki has gone
Speaker 4: back to being true to himself and he has a
Speaker 4: lot more confidence and a lot more round presence. And
Speaker 4: I know his teammates, guys like Dalton Rushing have tried to,
Speaker 4: you know, get him fired up before they come out
Speaker 4: of the bullpen gates for a start. So it really
Speaker 4: has taken a village to get this version.
Speaker 3: Of Roki Sasaki.
Speaker 4: And this is development right before your eyes at the
Speaker 4: major league level. That's not something you see often, especially
Speaker 4: with the team like the Dodgers, but you have seen it.
Speaker 4: And I remember when Alexanthopolis left the Dodgers front office
Speaker 4: to go to the Braves, and the one thing that
Speaker 4: he answered when asked about what he learned from and
Speaker 4: Freeman or the biggest takeaway working with Andrew Freeman, was
Speaker 4: that Andrew Freeman believed he could get one percent better
Speaker 4: out of a player. He can get one percent every
Speaker 4: day better out of a player every day. He had
Speaker 4: so much faith in even just getting a guy one
Speaker 4: percent better every day, and certainly that was kind of
Speaker 4: applied to Roki Sasaki at this level. You have to
Speaker 4: give a lot of credit to the Dodgers pitching coaches
Speaker 4: Mark Pryor, Connor McGinnis, Andrew Friedman, and Dave Roberts along
Speaker 4: with Travis Smith and the rest of the Dodgers staff
Speaker 4: that you know, never gave up on this guy. Yeah,
Speaker 4: it might have been frustrating at times, but they kept
Speaker 4: going and kept believing and understood that this is this
Speaker 4: is the task at hand, and they should be very
Speaker 4: proud of themselves for sticking behind him and working with him,
Speaker 4: and Rokie should also be very proud of himself. I
Speaker 4: wonder also if something was unlocked in a conversation that
Speaker 4: he had with you, Darvish in San Diego. I walked
Speaker 4: by as I was entering the ballparking around one thirty
Speaker 4: in San Diego, one of those days that the Dodgers
Speaker 4: played down there, and I walked by a conversation of you,
Speaker 4: Darvish and Roki Sasaki. You, Darvish is certainly one of
Speaker 4: the most respected Japanese pitchers and a guy that Japanese
Speaker 4: players pitchers still, you know, lean on for advice and
Speaker 4: respect the heck out of I wonder if something mentally
Speaker 4: click for Roki during that conversation as well with you, Darvish.
Speaker 4: Let's go out to Emma in Long Beach. You're on
Speaker 4: Dodger Talk. How you doing, Emma?
Speaker 7: Hey, David how you been feeling you better now all
Speaker 7: I've been.
Speaker 3: Good the ball.
Speaker 4: No, I'm feeling good, Emma. I'm feeling good after playing
Speaker 4: some tennis in Arizona.
Speaker 7: Awesome, David. I wanted to make a comment about what
Speaker 7: you said about Roki. I think that young man is
Speaker 7: an awesome player, and the best thing about it is
Speaker 7: he is in an organization that is a family oriented.
Speaker 7: They all, you know, back each other up and give
Speaker 7: each other props and help each other out. And that's amazing.
Speaker 7: These guys are superstars and there is no ego working
Speaker 7: at Los Angeles Dodgers. That is not happening there.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and I think that's on purpose, that's by design.
Speaker 4: The guys that Andrew Freeman has brought in character guys
Speaker 4: that are superstars. And you're right, Emma. When you have
Speaker 4: these many superstars and great players on one team, it
Speaker 4: doesn't always come together this way, but they certainly have
Speaker 4: come together since the beginning of last year. Let's go
Speaker 4: out to Fallbrooks. Steve, You're on Dodger Talk with David
Speaker 4: vasse Hi.
Speaker 9: Steve, Hey, David, thanks for taking my call. First one,
Speaker 9: I want to say, I think both starting pitchers did
Speaker 9: a great job. My question is about umpires checking the
Speaker 9: pitcher's glove. I understand why they do it and why
Speaker 9: it's necessary, but my question is what triggers the Empire
Speaker 9: to decide to do it when they do it. I
Speaker 9: noticed it happened that after rookie fish first inning and
Speaker 9: again in the seventh inning. What makes the Empire decide
Speaker 9: does he suspect something foul? Does he suspect No, that's
Speaker 9: not right.
Speaker 4: It's being checked after at the end of every inning.
Speaker 4: They check every picture that comes off the mound at
Speaker 4: the end of every inning, and when a reliever is
Speaker 4: coming into the game, before they hit the dirt, the
Speaker 4: Empire will meet them out there and check the glove.
Speaker 4: And look, there was a few years ago some extra
Speaker 4: substance that Major League Baseball wanted to eliminate in police
Speaker 4: because Major League Baseball is very much advocate of more offense,
Speaker 4: and the spin rates astronomical because pictures were getting a
Speaker 4: little extra something on the seams because of that stick.
Speaker 4: And that's the reason why they have the umpires out there.
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Speaker 4: slash events. Speaking of umpires, how about the home plate
Speaker 4: umpire tonight Gen Powell? From what I understand, it's the
Speaker 4: first time she has umpired a game at Dodgers Stadium
Speaker 4: in here young umpiring career, So congratulations to Jen Powell.
Speaker 4: She did a great job behind the plate tonight, and
Speaker 4: there weren't too many abs challenges, but when there was,
Speaker 4: she was not wrong. And we've seen like yesterday, Dalton
Speaker 4: Rushing call four challenges and he was four for four
Speaker 4: to get those overturned. We're gonna take a time out
Speaker 4: here on Dodger Talk. When we come back, we'll check
Speaker 4: in with Jose Mota. We'll get you an update on
Speaker 4: Blake's now and Tommy Edmond and more of your phone calls.
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Speaker 3: We're at the wall and we're going home. Freddie Freeman
Speaker 3: with a walk.
Speaker 9: Off home run here in the bottom.
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Speaker 4: has four home runs twelve RBIs hitting three twenty seven,
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Speaker 4: dream Now. I mentioned that the Dodgers lost last night's
Speaker 4: game because Cotel Marte hit a walkoff home run to
Speaker 4: beat them in the bottom of the ninth inning at
Speaker 4: Chase Field. Just to prove the point that certain teams
Speaker 4: get up for the Dodgers more than any other series.
Speaker 3: This is a great example of that.
Speaker 4: The Diamondbacks were acting like they eliminated the Dodgers in
Speaker 4: the postseason last night on ktel Marte's walk off home
Speaker 4: run in the ninth inning. Do you know what the
Speaker 4: Diamondbacks did tonight? They laid a complete egg. It is
Speaker 4: a complete letdown in Arizona tonight as the Washington Nationals
Speaker 4: beat Arizona fourteen to one. So there you go, these teams,
Speaker 4: like the Angels, the Diamondbacks beating the Dodgers means everything.
Speaker 4: Earlier this year, I had a GM four boosts down
Speaker 4: from the Dodgers radio booth, clapping, pounding the desk after
Speaker 4: the Dodgers were behind in a game. That's the reality
Speaker 4: of right now, and I just had to share that
Speaker 4: with you. After the Diamondbacks walked it off against the
Speaker 4: Dodgers last night. They come back tonight and completely let down.
Speaker 4: While the Dodgers, who should have been the team a
Speaker 4: little deflated after a late night home after playing a
Speaker 4: night game in Arizona to come back to play tonight,
Speaker 4: they were the team that hits the walk off home
Speaker 4: run to.
Speaker 3: Beat the Angels. All right, let's get to Jose Moda.
Speaker 2: It's tough to go around the horn with Jose Mota, all.
Speaker 3: Right, Jose Mota.
Speaker 4: Let's start with the starting pitcher who kind of got
Speaker 4: lost in the shuffle with the greatness of Freddy Freeman
Speaker 4: in the ninth inning, Rochi Sasaki seems to get better
Speaker 4: and better by leaps and bounds every start.
Speaker 10: Every single start. To go back to the last six starts,
Speaker 10: it's been about controlling the strike zone, Dave, and also
Speaker 10: about not using just one part of the strike zone.
Speaker 10: He used to be just a dominant arm side type
Speaker 10: fastball pitcher, and we miss when he missed. He missed
Speaker 10: a lot up in it against righties and leftives were
Speaker 10: always leaning out against the plate because he was not
Speaker 10: missing inside or even repeating pitches on the inside half.
Speaker 10: You gotta respect velocity, which is my idle number two.
Speaker 10: Now he has one hundred in his pocket, but now
Speaker 10: he doesn't force one hundred when he doesn't need to,
Speaker 10: which is just a smart way of saying yourself up
Speaker 10: to have some separation between your fastball, the books and slip.
Speaker 10: He can live at ninety seven, but now point number three,
Speaker 10: the splitter, Dave. He threw three splitters in the first
Speaker 10: thing at ninety three miles an hour. It's not his
Speaker 10: old forkball that's still there, but it's just an example
Speaker 10: of a guy that's just maturing with the patience of
Speaker 10: the Dodgers with the absorbancy because they could absorb this
Speaker 10: with him to develop them in the big leagues, as
Speaker 10: you've said to the last couple of seasons, but also
Speaker 10: applying himself to understanding that navigating a lineup at this
Speaker 10: level is not easy. One through nine. My fourth point
Speaker 10: is going to be this one. You and I talked
Speaker 10: about this a lot. You got to pay attention to
Speaker 10: seven eight nine, that lineup, and don't take it for granted.
Speaker 10: Every single start for the last six he has really
Speaker 10: done a good job taking care of seven eight nine,
Speaker 10: and those lineups are hurting him so much earlier in
Speaker 10: the season.
Speaker 4: What do you see from him just his mound presence.
Speaker 4: Is it as simple as saying that he altered this splitter?
Speaker 4: Is that the real key to his success because all
Speaker 4: of a sudden, now, like we talked about earlier in
Speaker 4: the year, when he wasn't as dominant, he didn't have
Speaker 4: a lot of east west, he had a lot of
Speaker 4: north south. What can you put your finger on one
Speaker 4: pitch one thing that has changed his season?
Speaker 10: To me, it has to be the slider. I mean,
Speaker 10: you know, talking to Mike Trout over in Anaheimer for
Speaker 10: the outing the other day just convinced me. I mean,
Speaker 10: guy like seeing one thousands of sliders and he s goes, well,
Speaker 10: the scouting report that got was he rolled the slider,
Speaker 10: just rolled it. Now he's finishing it and at times
Speaker 10: he gets caught sometimes a little short arm with that pitch.
Speaker 10: But now it isn't the scouting report, Dave is part
Speaker 10: of the book. It's part of your chart and your
Speaker 10: car that you see he does have a slider that
Speaker 10: it's not just showing. He's wopping people out with it
Speaker 10: and using both sides of the play effectively. So if
Speaker 10: there's anything go to point to, is this ladder. Because
Speaker 10: guys have to be more aware of what's going side
Speaker 10: to side, including left of the batters that were not
Speaker 10: seeing anything on the inside half that was breaking against
Speaker 10: them with Sasaki. Now they know it's there. And on
Speaker 10: top of that is getting stronger. Velocity is there and
Speaker 10: the separation, which is a key with the same arm
Speaker 10: speed because he's always had good extension. It's really what
Speaker 10: separates what's happening with the swings, with the approach, and
Speaker 10: with his missus. He's he's missing near home plate now
Speaker 10: where used to be all over the place, He's just
Speaker 10: missing near the play. He kneels right back to getting
Speaker 10: into counts by not just you know, counting on one pitch.
Speaker 4: A lot of great defense behind Roki Society tonight. None
Speaker 4: better than the play of the Year by Miguel Rojas
Speaker 4: in the third inning, thirty seven year old Miguel Rojas
Speaker 4: and thirty six year old Freddie Freeman on the other
Speaker 4: end of it. Can you can you put into context
Speaker 4: how great and how difficult of a play that was
Speaker 4: to make?
Speaker 10: Having played second base, I can tell how difficult it was.
Speaker 10: At thirty seven, I wasn't playing second base. I was
Speaker 10: already broadcasting. But here's what happens. You have a love
Speaker 10: that you're starting from. You have Sasaki got Madrago was
Speaker 10: a pretty pretty decent runner. But the ball deflex the day,
Speaker 10: your first move is going to be towards the baseball
Speaker 10: in that direction that lined are you gonna want to
Speaker 10: get to? But then you got to take another three
Speaker 10: four steps because now he's got deflected and you know
Speaker 10: exactly where your short stup is playing.
Speaker 1: So he took the freed.
Speaker 10: Say I gotta go out there and cross over this
Speaker 10: line and over the middle of the the domin to
Speaker 10: make this play. But to do it in such a
Speaker 10: hurry and to have so much in that throw, I
Speaker 10: had never seen it before. Obviously, have Freddy at first base,
Speaker 10: who is always going to give you the best effort
Speaker 10: to cut down that distance. But Maggie is just I mean,
Speaker 10: he sees like you know, fine line man. Older he gets,
Speaker 10: the better he gets, the instincts are there, but a
Speaker 10: very difficult play when he considered that he's got to
Speaker 10: change directions twice and that have enough of instinct to go.
Speaker 10: If I go and catch you with the globe, I'm
Speaker 10: not gonna make a play. If I use my bare hand,
Speaker 10: I have a better chance. And he got it done, beautiful.
Speaker 4: Is there any other first baseman in baseball that can
Speaker 4: stretch as far as Freddy Freeman stretched on that throw?
Speaker 10: There's absolutely no way. I mean, look at the wingspan, plaws,
Speaker 10: the legs. Yeah, absolutely no way. We consider proportion of
Speaker 10: Opera body Torso and then the legs. Absolutely no chances,
Speaker 10: I tell you.
Speaker 3: All right, I don't say no chance.
Speaker 4: Well, the Dodgers are going to have a good chance
Speaker 4: to get another win tomorrow with Yamamoto on the mound.
Speaker 4: We look forward to seeing you back out here at
Speaker 4: Dodgers Stadium.
Speaker 10: Of course, my friend Audios there he.
Speaker 4: Goes Jose Mota, part of the Dodgers Spanish radio broadcast,
Speaker 4: and he checks in every night here on Dodger Talk.
Speaker 4: Eight six six seven two five seventy is the phone number.
Speaker 4: Dodgers beat the Angels one to nothing tonight thanks to
Speaker 4: Freddy Freeman's walk off home run in the bottom of
Speaker 4: the ninth inning. Want to get you an update on
Speaker 4: a couple of key players that are injured right now.
Speaker 4: Is great to see key Key Hernandez and Taoscar Hernandez
Speaker 4: back in the Dodger dugout. Keike, as you know two
Speaker 4: games back, strains his left obleaque. He's not going to
Speaker 4: be back for a couple of months. Ta Oscar Hernandez
Speaker 4: out for a month after his hamstring got injured on
Speaker 4: the last homestand but Tommy Edmond, who had offseason right
Speaker 4: ankle surgery finally has started his rehab games for Oklahoma City,
Speaker 4: and tonight Edmund played his seventh rehab game in seven games.
Speaker 4: Edmund is seven for twenty four with a home run
Speaker 4: and two RBIs. Tonight for Oklahoma City, Tommy Edmund was
Speaker 4: zero for four with a walk. But it's the first
Speaker 4: game that he played all nine innings on that right ankle,
Speaker 4: so that's a good sign. And Tommy Edmund tonight played
Speaker 4: third base, so he's played a lot of second he's
Speaker 4: played some left field, he's played some center field, and
Speaker 4: he's played third base now tonight.
Speaker 3: So that's a good sign.
Speaker 4: Because the value of Tommy Edmond is his versatility that
Speaker 4: goes along with the offense that he brings. So that's
Speaker 4: a good sign that the Dodgers have him moving around
Speaker 4: on his rehab assignment. Also, as expected, Blake Snell, who
Speaker 4: just underwent surgery two and a half weeks ago, that
Speaker 4: nanoscope procedure that Trek Skouble had as well, and doctor
Speaker 4: Neil Elatrosh is the guy that perfected it and performed
Speaker 4: it on both those guys on both their left elbows. Well,
Speaker 4: Blake Snell today was thrown from about fifty feet for
Speaker 4: the first time since having that procedure only two and
Speaker 4: a half weeks ago. So that's a great sign as well.
Speaker 4: And Blake should be back within the next six to
Speaker 4: eight weeks and be ready for the stretch run the
Speaker 4: second half and October, because he pitched big for the
Speaker 4: Dodgers in October last year in the NLDS and certainly
Speaker 4: the NLCS. Eight six six nine, eight seven two five
Speaker 4: seventy is the phone number. Let's go back out to
Speaker 4: the phones, Frank and Pomona. You're on Dodger Talk.
Speaker 3: How you doing, Frank, I'm doing good.
Speaker 8: I just wanted to talk about I just want to
Speaker 8: pick your brain on the likelihood Dodgers are always retooling
Speaker 8: up grading during trade season. I was wondering what I
Speaker 8: wanted to hear your take on whether you'll trade guys
Speaker 8: like Dalton Rushing, Robleski Espinall, and even other players with
Speaker 8: draft picks to get the big fish like Trek Scuball
Speaker 8: or even bobbywit Junior. I just wanted to hear your
Speaker 8: opinion on that.
Speaker 4: Oh my gosh, Frank, Frank, this isn't the NBA, and
Speaker 4: I know we're all excited and caught up in the
Speaker 4: fact that the Rams pulled off a blockbuster trade for
Speaker 4: Miles Garrett's that's not realistic in baseball. And no, the
Speaker 4: Royals are not trading Bobby Wood Junior. And no, I
Speaker 4: don't see the Dodgers trading Robleski or rushing for Trek Schouoble.
Speaker 4: By the way, Trek Scooble hasn't pitched in a game.
Speaker 4: Everybody's acting like the trade deadline is next week. It's
Speaker 4: not until August second. It's not even in July this year.
Speaker 4: The trade deadline is August second. Before we keep on
Speaker 4: hyping up Terrek Scuuble to the Dodgers, can we at
Speaker 4: least see this guy pitch coming off off elbow surgery.
Speaker 4: And let's not forget he's a free agent at the
Speaker 4: end of the year, so he's a rental. Do you
Speaker 4: believe that Trek Scooble is going to put his free
Speaker 4: agency in any sort of jeopardy, especially with his agent
Speaker 4: being Scott Boris. I don't see him pitching on three
Speaker 4: days rest is is what I'm getting at.
Speaker 3: I could be wrong.
Speaker 4: Obviously, he's one of the great competitors, one of the
Speaker 4: great guys that you would want to have on your team,
Speaker 4: especially in the postseason. But can we at least see
Speaker 4: the guy pitch and look, the Dodgers do have the
Speaker 4: draft the prospect capital to be able to pull off
Speaker 4: a trade for Schooble, because going back to the offseason,
Speaker 4: I was hearing that the Tigers were looking for major
Speaker 4: league ready players and pitchers, and the Dodgers have that.
Speaker 4: So there might be teams that have prospects, but they
Speaker 4: don't have players young players under team control that are
Speaker 4: major league ready the day after they trade Trek Scooble.
Speaker 3: So there's a long way to go.
Speaker 4: And let's not forget the Tigers are in maybe the
Speaker 4: worst division in Major League Baseball. I guess I would
Speaker 4: say the AL West is pretty bad, but the AL
Speaker 4: Central is not much better, So I wouldn't rule it
Speaker 4: out of the possibility of the Tigers. I don't know
Speaker 4: somehow someway rattling off some wins and making themselves believe
Speaker 4: they can be in a race for the AL Central.
Speaker 4: So Trek Scooble's not being traded tomorrow. The trade deadlines
Speaker 4: not until August second, so I think we all need
Speaker 4: to pump the brakes on that all right, Tomorrow, Nothing
Speaker 4: to pump here at Dodgers Stadium, or you don't need
Speaker 4: to pump the breaks at Dodgers Stadium. Yamamoto is on
Speaker 4: the mound for the Dodgers in Game two of this
Speaker 4: three game series. He's five and four with an ERA
Speaker 4: of two to eighty six, going up against Jack Kohanowitz
Speaker 4: of the Angels, who's two and four with an ERA
Speaker 4: of five twenty three. Our coverage begins at six o'clock tomorrow,
Speaker 4: with first pitch at seven ten. And speaking of Miles Garrett,
Speaker 4: the newest ram, the reigning defensive Player of the year,
Speaker 4: one of the biggest monsters that you would never want
Speaker 4: to see coming at your quarterback, is going to be
Speaker 4: here tomorrow throwing out the ceremonial first pitch.
Speaker 3: So that should be exciting if you're.
Speaker 4: Getting here, get here early so you can enjoy Miles
Speaker 4: Garrett's first venture in public in Los Angeles. And where
Speaker 4: else would it be other than Dodgers Stadium. So we
Speaker 4: look forward to welcoming Miles Garrett, part of the Ramilly
Speaker 4: here at Dodgers Stadium tomorrow night before Dodgers and Angels
Speaker 4: get Game two of the Freeway series going at seven
Speaker 4: to ten thanks to Colinie back at our Burbank studios.
Speaker 4: Thanks to Dwayne McDonald out here at the ballpark, and
Speaker 4: thanks to you for listening. In case you missed any
Speaker 4: of the show, you know where to find it on
Speaker 4: the iHeartRadio app. That's also where you can find our
Speaker 4: pregame conversation with Alex Vesia once again. The final score
Speaker 4: thanks to Freddie Freeman. The Dodgers beat the Angels one nothing.
Speaker 4: Have a great rest of your night.
Speaker 3: Seal so brand wily looking at it's true time, Send
Speaker 3: it away Times