Speaker 1: For the back to back World champions of Baseball.
Speaker 2: One of the greatest runs in the history of baseball.
Speaker 1: Immortality is within their reach.
Speaker 3: Incredible and while others make excuses.
Speaker 4: The only reason the Dodgers are doing this because they
Speaker 4: can't they printing money.
Speaker 1: The Dodgers just can't continue.
Speaker 5: It's not fair.
Speaker 1: Are making plans.
Speaker 6: Yeah, it's a singular focus on controlling what they can control.
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Speaker 3: twenty twenty six.
Speaker 5: You're back to back World Series.
Speaker 3: Champion Los Angeles Dodgers sixteen and six on the season.
Speaker 3: After leaving Denver with the split, the Dodgers now head
Speaker 3: to San Francisco for the start of a three game
Speaker 3: series against the Giants. Yoshinobu Yamamoto on the mount in
Speaker 3: the series opener, first pitch from Oracle Park. He is
Speaker 3: coming up at six forty five. Between then and now,
Speaker 3: we got a lot to get to here. Amarago Casino
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Speaker 3: Dave Roberts. Coming up in a little over twenty minutes,
Speaker 3: we'll dive deeper to this pitching matchup. Charlie Steiner will
Speaker 3: join us. Coming up in about thirty plus minutes. David
Speaker 3: Vas is gonna go one on one with Alex Call.
Speaker 3: We've got your Dodgers magical moment. Shortly, Kirsten Watson will
Speaker 3: join us live from the field in San Francisco on
Speaker 3: what was a rainy day this morning, mid morning until
Speaker 3: about noon, and then the clouds have started to blow
Speaker 3: away and now there's sunny skies in San Francisco. Coming
Speaker 3: up in just a few minutes, we'll head out to
Speaker 3: Steven Nelson and Rick Monday and the Galloping Ford Broadcast
Speaker 3: Booth with more details. Well, last night in Denver, the
Speaker 3: Dodgers needed a win to get the split of the
Speaker 3: four game series. No Bets, no Freeman, no Kyle Tucker
Speaker 3: in the lineup, no problem for the Dodgers offense, Justin Robleski. Meanwhile,
Speaker 3: in the mount seven innings, one run, eight hits, three strikeouts,
Speaker 3: ninety seven pitches, seventy two for strikes. Coming off eight
Speaker 3: scoreless innings against the New York Mets. He was fantastic
Speaker 3: last night. Got into a little bit of a trouble
Speaker 3: early in the first Breton Doyle and RBI double, but
Speaker 3: it was Zeros after that. In the second, Max Munsey
Speaker 3: home run tied the game at won. Then Miguel Rojas
Speaker 3: gave the Dodgers the lead.
Speaker 2: Of his seven home runs of the season, three of
Speaker 2: them have now come against left handed pitching, and swings
Speaker 2: and drills.
Speaker 7: One deep to left.
Speaker 2: This pass back back to back home runs, Rojas gives
Speaker 2: the Dodgers.
Speaker 7: A two to one lead. Oh, he did not wait
Speaker 7: a round.
Speaker 2: He got a pitch that was on the inner half
Speaker 2: but right in the wheelhouse, and.
Speaker 1: He turns on it for his.
Speaker 2: First home run of the season.
Speaker 3: Dodgers with back to back home runs in the second
Speaker 3: of two to one. Then they just kept tacking on
Speaker 3: Will Smith groundball the third misplayed by Kyle Caro so
Speaker 3: Tany scored. Dodgers up three to one to Oscar Hernandez
Speaker 3: grinded into a double play, Will Smith scored, I made
Speaker 3: it four to one. Then Mounsey scored on a bock
Speaker 3: Dodgers up five to one. Alex Call drew a bases
Speaker 3: loaded walk Monsey scored. Dodgers up six to one. Miguel
Speaker 3: Rojas sack, but Andy Pie has scored. Dodgers up seven
Speaker 3: to one. In the eighth, it was home run city again,
Speaker 3: Dalton rushing a home run, his six of the season.
Speaker 3: Dodgers up eight to one. Tay Oscar Hernandez in an
Speaker 3: RBI single, finally a traditional winn to score a run
Speaker 3: Besides the home run.
Speaker 5: Dodgers up nine to one.
Speaker 3: They're up ninety two in the ninth inning when Max
Speaker 3: Munsey did it again.
Speaker 2: Think Roberts sending a Ward up there to follow Munsey
Speaker 2: get him another at bat after he had a couple
Speaker 2: last night. Pitch swung, I'm well hit till lot field
Speaker 2: indep this Paul heading back toward the wall. This ball
Speaker 2: is gone. That's a home run per month. See it
Speaker 2: is his second one tonight. It is his twenty second
Speaker 2: career multi home run game. It is his second multi
Speaker 2: home run game.
Speaker 7: Of this series. Home run number eight.
Speaker 1: On the season from month mile high.
Speaker 3: Monsey with two home runs last night. He had four
Speaker 3: home runs in this series. That one a solo shot
Speaker 3: of the ninth Dodgers I've tended to Dalton, Russian said yeah,
Speaker 3: I want to do some more crushing as well. He
Speaker 3: hit a home run, a two run shot. Dodgers a
Speaker 3: twelve to two win over the Rockies, a lineup with
Speaker 3: no bets, no Freeman, no Kyle Tucker, twelve runs, fifteen hits,
Speaker 3: five home runs.
Speaker 5: Justin Robleski gets the win.
Speaker 3: Dodgers now sixteen and six overall on the season, first
Speaker 3: place atop the NL West. And now the road trip
Speaker 3: continues in rainy San Francisco. But the good news is
Speaker 3: the rain has gone away, the sun is out. Yoshinobu
Speaker 3: Yamamoto on the mount first pitch at six forty five,
Speaker 3: and with the latest, let's head up to the galloping
Speaker 3: Ford broadcast as we say hello to Stephen Nelson and
Speaker 3: Rick Monday.
Speaker 5: Guys.
Speaker 8: All right, Tim Kates, it's always great when you get
Speaker 8: a chance to come up to Oracle Park and watch
Speaker 8: the Dodgers and Giants, one of the all time great
Speaker 8: rivalries in sports. Mo You are well aware of that,
Speaker 8: and teams at opposite ends of the standings in the
Speaker 8: early part of the season. Seven games already separating these
Speaker 8: two teams in the standings in twenty twenty six, but
Speaker 8: no games separating them in the all time standings against
Speaker 8: each other.
Speaker 9: No, it's head to head and the Winter tonight will
Speaker 9: have the series edge all time being able to do that.
Speaker 9: That being said, yeah, I agree with you. There's something
Speaker 9: magical I think the Doctors and Giants over so many
Speaker 9: different years, the fact that they both moved on to
Speaker 9: the West Coast from New York at the same time
Speaker 9: as well, And the story goes that, you know, the
Speaker 9: lay water O'Malley may have allowed the Giants to select Hey,
Speaker 9: wait a minute, Los Angeles or San Francisco, and they
Speaker 9: used to have in fact that they sent somebody up
Speaker 9: to kind of study where they might build the ballpark. Well,
Speaker 9: they built Candlestick Park, and they always took the representative
Speaker 9: from the Giants on to that point on Candlestick Point
Speaker 9: in the morning. Why, because the winds had not kicked
Speaker 9: up in the morning, they built that place and stood, Hey,
Speaker 9: the win kind of picks up about three o'clock in
Speaker 9: the afternoon.
Speaker 1: Oops.
Speaker 8: But here we are, all these years later, get to
Speaker 8: watch them again. The Dodgers going to experience a little
Speaker 8: different hitting environment here at Oracle, certainly different from Candlestick
Speaker 8: than what they just came from at Coors Field, they
Speaker 8: had to fight for that series split just really came
Speaker 8: up empty too many times with runners in scoring position.
Speaker 8: That big hit eluded them far too often, but they
Speaker 8: still were able to salvage they split up the series,
Speaker 8: but they got the big horses lined up finishing.
Speaker 9: And you bring up a good point too, because I
Speaker 9: look at runners in scoring position, it's not an absolute
Speaker 9: guarantee that you're going to win the ball game. But
Speaker 9: the facts are what the facts are. In that four
Speaker 9: game series where they split against the Rockies, that itself
Speaker 9: was kind of a disappointing, no question about it. But
Speaker 9: the Dodgers hit below two hundred with runners in scoring position. Meanwhile,
Speaker 9: the Rockies hit almost three hundred in those four games
Speaker 9: and picking up opportunities. So now we're going to find
Speaker 9: out tonight. And at first blushed little breeze earlier on
Speaker 9: during Bannic rad is blowing out towards center field, right center,
Speaker 9: if you will find out. But the ball is not
Speaker 9: going to carry nearly as well here as they just
Speaker 9: experienced in the four days in Denver, even though the
Speaker 9: weather was rather.
Speaker 8: Cool, and two of the main culprits of those baseballs
Speaker 8: carrying cors field, Max Munsey and Dalton Rushing combined MO
Speaker 8: with Munzi's eight and Rushing seven, they have fifteen home runs.
Speaker 8: That is more than the entire San Francisco Giants roster.
Speaker 9: Yeah, exactly. Well, if you look at Rushing, the numbers
Speaker 9: are again he's only had eight games. It's twenty seven advants.
Speaker 9: He's hitting four forty four and those twenty seven at
Speaker 9: bats seven home runs, thirteen RBIs. How about Max Bunsey
Speaker 9: comes on hitting a three to oh three. People may
Speaker 9: blink a couple of different times three oh three. Tonight
Speaker 9: when the Dodgers played their first game on this road
Speaker 9: trip in Denver, he was hitting two twenty two. It's
Speaker 9: still kind of an oddity with with Munsei eight home
Speaker 9: runs but only driven in nine runs.
Speaker 8: Well, hitting homer is going to be a little bit
Speaker 8: tougher tonight to Kates as Landing Roop is on the
Speaker 8: mound for San Francisco and he's been excellent. Four starts,
Speaker 8: twenty two and two thirds innings. He has yet to
Speaker 8: allow a single home run. We'll see if the Dodgers
Speaker 8: can change that. We'll talk to you a little bit
Speaker 8: later and get a key from mom.
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Speaker 3: We'll dive deeper in to this game one pitching matchup.
Speaker 3: We got your Otani Rewind coming up, and Kirsten Watson
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Speaker 3: one of the best rivalries in all of baseball. First
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Speaker 5: Freddy Freeman's back.
Speaker 1: With the team.
Speaker 11: He is back and he has the biggest smile on
Speaker 11: his face. He and his wife, Chelsea, they just welcomed
Speaker 11: their fourth child, a baby girl. Her name is London,
Speaker 11: Rosemary Joy Freeman London, after Chelsea's parents are actually from England.
Speaker 11: Then Rosemary Joy is the name of Freddy's late mother,
Speaker 11: so to pay tribute to her. So Freddy, he and
Speaker 11: Chelsea they are just over the moon. He did say
Speaker 11: that the boys are. They're really happy. They're still adjusting
Speaker 11: to having a little sister just like she is. He
Speaker 11: has shared with us, you know, he's the type of
Speaker 11: daddy wants to be on diaper duty. And he was laughing.
Speaker 11: He goes, it's a little bit different with the girl.
Speaker 11: I feel like with the boys, I could just you know, like, oh,
Speaker 11: they got it, they're boys, They'll be fine. And I
Speaker 11: was laughing with Freddick cause I said, oh, you already
Speaker 11: she is wrapped around or she has you wrapped around
Speaker 11: her fingers. So he is all smiles, but he's also
Speaker 11: excited to be getting back to baseball. And Teddy took
Speaker 11: a couple of swings off the tee yesterday in his backyard,
Speaker 11: so he feels good. And but yeah, all smiles because
Speaker 11: another We've got two more Dodger babies that are here
Speaker 11: and this time another baby girl.
Speaker 3: Welcome to the world of being a girl, Dad, Freddie Freeman,
Speaker 3: no doubt. Speaking of bag, it feels like we're getting
Speaker 3: closer to get Blake Snell back.
Speaker 11: Yeah, we are so. Blake Sells actually currently here in
Speaker 11: San Francisco with the team, so he is going to
Speaker 11: be starting his rehab assignment tomorrow. He's going to be
Speaker 11: playing with the Ontario Tower Buzzers, but they happen to
Speaker 11: be playing here in and San Jose again to the
Speaker 11: Giants minor league team, so it worked out perfectly.
Speaker 1: So he was out.
Speaker 11: You're kind of in the outfield this afternoon and talking
Speaker 11: to the guys. He'll start his rehabit time at tomorrow.
Speaker 11: Dave Roberts. It's a plan. It's for him to get
Speaker 11: through three innings, three innings of word start just continuing
Speaker 11: with his build up. So they did say the floor
Speaker 11: is going to be that five and seventy five when
Speaker 11: it comes to where they want him to be in
Speaker 11: regard to this build up. So if that's maybe three
Speaker 11: before rehab outings, they're not rushing him in his returns,
Speaker 11: but they just want him to continue to have a
Speaker 11: steady build up and continue to feel healthy, which he does.
Speaker 5: Kirsty, we appreciate it. We'll check in with you after
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Speaker 3: As we lead up to Dodgers and Giants first pitch
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Speaker 6: D questions for Dave?
Speaker 1: Dave? Can you just describe Dave?
Speaker 7: Can you talk about the pressure in.
Speaker 1: The dugouts with Dave Roberts?
Speaker 10: It does?
Speaker 12: It does, It's I think the expectation is for him
Speaker 12: to go three innings and then probably six days later
Speaker 12: do another three innings and go from there. But yeah,
Speaker 12: it's good to see him around and with the guys,
Speaker 12: and I know he's chomping.
Speaker 10: At the bed.
Speaker 13: What is the floor for him when it comes to
Speaker 13: his rehab assignment?
Speaker 12: I would say the floor is getting to five innings
Speaker 12: for sure, you know, And you know how we get
Speaker 12: there is obviously up. You know, we're gonna talk about
Speaker 12: that as far as you know the three four, repeat
Speaker 12: the three or I'm not sure you know how we
Speaker 12: have the progression, but you know the floor is getting
Speaker 12: to five innings for sure.
Speaker 13: Obviously, looking at this lineup today, you've got Dalton rushing catching.
Speaker 13: Is it part of that more just seeing Will Smith
Speaker 13: take down three or four in Denver or is it
Speaker 13: what you've been seeing from him at the play and
Speaker 13: wanting to get him some opportunity.
Speaker 12: Here combo, but more so just appreciating that Will caught
Speaker 12: three or four there in Denver, and you know, so
Speaker 12: Dalton will catch today and then Thursday, and then Will
Speaker 12: will catch Wednesday, and then he'll catch the two games,
Speaker 12: the first two games and we get home.
Speaker 14: It didn'tely get to this point even a little quicker
Speaker 14: than you guys were thinking initially.
Speaker 7: I think he's right on track.
Speaker 12: I think that we were very methodical about this whole process,
Speaker 12: and so I think even from the outset, we were
Speaker 12: pretty conservative as far as when he's going to come back.
Speaker 12: So this is kind of what we had hope.
Speaker 7: Hey, look at three or four appearances.
Speaker 12: Oh, it'll for sure be three, but most likely four. Yeah.
Speaker 9: This I just wanted to get him a break after
Speaker 9: Foreign Colorado.
Speaker 12: Yeah, I think this is his first day off, so
Speaker 12: we're in the middle of thirteen in a row. So
Speaker 12: I thought this would be a good time for in Colorado.
Speaker 12: Getting in late last night, and he was certainly trying
Speaker 12: to plead a case to play tonight. But it's still
Speaker 12: I just felt it was the right decision.
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Speaker 3: The Dodgers made to San Francisco and they got their
Speaker 3: first baseman rejoined them as well.
Speaker 7: That's right.
Speaker 6: Freddy Freeman is here in the starting lineup. As you know,
Speaker 6: Ryan Ward sent to Oklahoma City after making his major
Speaker 6: league debut, getting his first major league hit and run
Speaker 6: driven in. But it's great to have Freddy Freeman back
Speaker 6: and all as well with the family after receiving their
Speaker 6: first baby girl. And here's what Freddy had to say
Speaker 6: as far as the name of their brand new baby girl.
Speaker 7: Can you sure the meaning of her name and just
Speaker 7: honoring your mom?
Speaker 14: Yes, So London is her first name. Obviously, Chelsea. My
Speaker 14: wife my in laws are from England, born and raised there.
Speaker 14: She's always loved the name London. So ever since I've
Speaker 14: known Chelsea, it felt like we're gonna have a girl.
Speaker 14: The girl's name is gonna be London. And she has
Speaker 14: two middle names. Rosemary Joy. My mom's name was Rosemary
Speaker 14: Joy Freeman, so our daughter's name is London Rosemary Joy
Speaker 14: Freeman after my mom.
Speaker 6: Preddy, 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 14: Unfortunately, London was born at eleven fifty two, so no,
Speaker 14: I was not watching the game. I did not see
Speaker 14: any visual game on Sunday. I did watch the game
Speaker 14: last night, London's first game she got to watch with me.
Speaker 14: But I I am happy. I've got to know Ryan
Speaker 14: over the last few years, and he's an.
Speaker 10: Incredibly hard worker.
Speaker 14: He's worked so hard for that moment and to go
Speaker 14: out there and get two hits and RBI and his
Speaker 14: big league debut, I was special, So we all know
Speaker 14: he can do it. So I'm sure there'll be another
Speaker 14: opportunity at some point for him to get back here.
Speaker 7: Did you hear about Dalton giving up that start for him?
Speaker 14: I just heard about it, yeah, so I for me,
Speaker 14: I thought Dalton was starting Sunday, So when I heard
Speaker 14: that he wasn't, I did have a smile and I
Speaker 14: faced was like, oh good because Ryan will get to play.
Speaker 14: But awesome for Dalton to do that, and dalton'sent off
Speaker 14: to a great start, So I'm just happy they both
Speaker 14: got to play. Because he played the next day and
Speaker 14: hit to him run, so first face was well taken
Speaker 14: care of.
Speaker 6: So everybody's happy. The Freeman family, the Dodger family. And
Speaker 6: if you remember over the weekend, Tim when we spoke
Speaker 6: to Dave Roberts, I asked him, how did the Dodgers
Speaker 6: have all these really good players yet everybody checks their
Speaker 6: egos at the door. He said, it starts with Freddie Freeman.
Speaker 6: So certainly Dalton Rushing was following his example.
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Speaker 7: Yeah, last night, two more home runs.
Speaker 6: He has seven home runs in his first twenty seven
Speaker 6: at bats. And we talk about the game rewarding you. Well,
Speaker 6: we just talked about the karma he had giving up
Speaker 6: a start that he doesn't rarely get at first base
Speaker 6: and hits two home runs last night in Denver and
Speaker 6: Will Smith gets the day off. In the first game
Speaker 6: of this series in Dalton, rushing behind the plate, and
Speaker 6: Dave Roberts said, when he went to rushing, Rushing finished
Speaker 6: his sentence when he was explaining to him that Ryan
Speaker 6: Ward was going to have the start on Sunday afternoon.
Speaker 10: I did he was.
Speaker 15: He came up from approached me and said, Hey, this
Speaker 15: is what I'm thinking. And before he even told me
Speaker 15: what he was thinking, I was like, I know where
Speaker 15: your head's at, and he deserves it. And he was like,
Speaker 15: I appreciate you being so open minded about it and
Speaker 15: obviously giving him that opportunity. And like I said, he
Speaker 15: made the most of his opportunity. And I was just
Speaker 15: so happy for him to be able to see him
Speaker 15: get his first one at this level. Every single first
Speaker 15: one at this level is pretty special, and uh, just
Speaker 15: for him to get it after so many years of
Speaker 15: grinding in the minor leagues was pretty special.
Speaker 7: How well do you know Ryan Ward?
Speaker 10: I've played.
Speaker 15: I've played a good hand but or a handful of
Speaker 15: games with him. He's one of my favorite teammates that
Speaker 15: I've actually got to play with. He's such a good dude,
Speaker 15: same guy on the field off the field, always down
Speaker 15: to have a good time, whether we're on.
Speaker 10: The field or off the field.
Speaker 9: Uh.
Speaker 15: I think that's what you love most about players, the
Speaker 15: openness to just be themselves regardless of how the game's going,
Speaker 15: how things are going personally. And that's something I'll never
Speaker 15: forget about him as a teammate.
Speaker 6: That's so great to hear from a young player like
Speaker 6: Dalton Rushing, who's a bat up right now, despite having
Speaker 6: seven home runs in his first twenty seven at bats.
Speaker 6: We'll see if he can get number eight tonight. It
Speaker 6: is raining here at Oracle Park, but it is expected
Speaker 6: to let up at first pitch, which is coming up
Speaker 6: at six forty five.
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Speaker 3: Well the Dodgers taking on the Giants. We go back
Speaker 3: to April third, twenty twenty four, Dodger Stadium, Dodgers taking
Speaker 3: on the Giants. Tyler Glass Now would go six innings,
Speaker 3: allowed three runs on four hits while striking out seven.
Speaker 3: The Dodgers would score one in the second, two more
Speaker 3: in the third, a run in the fourth. Dodgers were
Speaker 3: up four to three going to the bottom of the
Speaker 3: seventh inning when show Hailed Tani hit his first home
Speaker 3: run in Dodger Blue three and.
Speaker 2: One to Otani. Rogers set the pitch one hot a trilled.
Speaker 7: Deep right field.
Speaker 10: There it is the.
Speaker 2: First home runners a Los Angeles Dodger for show Hal
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Speaker 1: Show Hey showed.
Speaker 3: Him solo home run for show Hey and the seventh
Speaker 3: inning against the Giants back in twenty twenty four. Dodgers
Speaker 3: would go on and win the game five to four.
Speaker 3: Show Hey Otani would go on to have.
Speaker 5: An MVP season.
Speaker 3: He won a Silver Slugger Award, and of course set
Speaker 3: a record with a fifty to fifty season, fifty four
Speaker 3: home runs and fifty nine stolen basis. As the Dodgers
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Speaker 16: All right, tim, a change of venue for the Dodgers
Speaker 16: after splitting four in Denver, now the first of three
Speaker 16: with the Giants in San Francisco. The Dodgers at sixteen
Speaker 16: and six, winners of seven of the last ten, a
Speaker 16: one game lead over second place San Diego, and they
Speaker 16: are playing the Rockies tonight. Now, the Dodgers had a chance,
Speaker 16: now at least in the last twenty four to forty
Speaker 16: eight hours, to take a deep breath and figure out
Speaker 16: who's closing, what's going to be next. Out of the
Speaker 16: bullpen where it appears that Diaz is going to be
Speaker 16: out for not weeks.
Speaker 9: But months exactly undergoing a surgery is we understand tomorrow
Speaker 9: to remove loose bodies. And I think it caught most
Speaker 9: of us by surprise too, Charlie, because we kept reading
Speaker 9: as well with Diaz, maybe a drop off the velocity
Speaker 9: because of a knee issue. Well, all of a sudden
Speaker 9: the knee went to the elbow and the elbow is
Speaker 9: going to be surgically repaired tomorrow. And meanwhile everybody else
Speaker 9: understands is look, we need to pick up the slack
Speaker 9: in the bullpen. Interesting note, very quickly found this a
Speaker 9: note earlier today. If we look at the bullpen, they
Speaker 9: have four different relievers that they have used. You know,
Speaker 9: combine those four relievers just to one point three era.
Speaker 9: And here's the other part too. Some people say, well,
Speaker 9: too many lefties in the bullpen right handed batters against
Speaker 9: the Dodgers. Lefties out of the bullpen are just four
Speaker 9: hits and fifty one at bats. So they're really taking
Speaker 9: care of business on that end.
Speaker 16: All right, the old question who's on first, who's the
Speaker 16: first out of the bullpen? Or perhaps the last last year,
Speaker 16: the Dodgers used twelve different picture to earn a save,
Speaker 16: not including Sasaki. Of course, it was great in the postseason.
Speaker 7: So who do you go to?
Speaker 10: You go to Vesio, you go to Scott.
Speaker 16: Of course, twenty twenty three and twenty four we had
Speaker 16: up in Phillips twenty twenty two Cid Kimberl. Ten years
Speaker 16: before that ken Lee Jansen, So there was some sense
Speaker 16: of continuity. But now a flip of the coin, I guess.
Speaker 9: I would think that it could be Alex Vesi. And
Speaker 9: it's particular right now because he's not been overused. Unfortunately,
Speaker 9: the guys in a bullpen have not been overused in
Speaker 9: the early goings of this season. So yeah, and the
Speaker 9: other part two is who's throwing the best? I think
Speaker 9: that's gonna been. Then, of course the situation the ballgame,
Speaker 9: who threw up against? In what the opposing lineup is
Speaker 9: going to be when it comes down to the end
Speaker 9: of a ball game trying to wrap up a victory.
Speaker 16: Last night, the old question who's up well bottoms up
Speaker 16: last night. The first five hitters in the lineup of Tani,
Speaker 16: Carl Smith, Pey Oscar and Pie has combined to.
Speaker 7: Go four for twenty four.
Speaker 16: The bottom four in the lineup went eleven for sixteen months.
Speaker 16: E four for four, couple of home runs, Rojas three
Speaker 16: for three, a home run and two rbiss Alton Rushing
Speaker 16: continues to hit and that's been all had a big night.
Speaker 7: So the Dodgers.
Speaker 16: The offense is there and what's been fascinating and really
Speaker 16: through the first twenty two games of the year, it's
Speaker 16: been the bottom half of the lineup that has really
Speaker 16: done most of the damage.
Speaker 9: Yeah, they've gotten on base to kind of set the
Speaker 9: stage for the tough part of the lineup. It Two,
Speaker 9: how about these numbers on rushing as you were alluding to.
Speaker 9: First of all, he's hitting a four to forty four.
Speaker 9: It's only in eight games twenty seven advanced. But in
Speaker 9: those twenty seven at bats, how about seven home runs
Speaker 9: and thirteen RBIs. The other guy that you mentioned is
Speaker 9: Max Munsey, who comes on hitting at three oh three
Speaker 9: tonight the batting ends.
Speaker 1: Yes, this is.
Speaker 9: Only April, but if you look at the beginning of
Speaker 9: the road trip Max Munsey was hitting two twenty it
Speaker 9: gives you an indication that he too, has been red
Speaker 9: hot in recent days.
Speaker 1: Here's a question about Russian.
Speaker 7: What do you do with him?
Speaker 1: Where do you play him?
Speaker 16: He's hitting unbelievably well. How long do you stay with him?
Speaker 16: How often does he go out? Every team would like
Speaker 16: to have a problem like that.
Speaker 1: To solve, but you thinking about it, you got to.
Speaker 16: Get him some time somewhere somehow.
Speaker 9: Yeah, just watching him very closely in Denver. He was
Speaker 9: working just about before every ball came during battic practice.
Speaker 9: Is working at first base, on the footwork, receiving throws,
Speaker 9: taking ground balls. That is an area I don't think
Speaker 9: we'll ever see him in the outfield by any chance.
Speaker 9: And he's in there doing the catching tonight, will Smith
Speaker 9: will get a breather to begin with, and he can't
Speaker 9: just automatically say well, we'll put Rushing as the designated hitter. Hey,
Speaker 9: they've got a pretty good one already in show. Hey, Otani,
Speaker 9: the DH who.
Speaker 16: Was one for four last night.
Speaker 7: A couple of walks.
Speaker 16: Extending is on Bay Street to fifty two. He's been
Speaker 16: on base ninety eight times in those fifty two games.
Speaker 16: By the way, the all time record for on base
Speaker 16: streak Ted Williams eighty four straight in nineteen forty nine.
Speaker 16: In forty nine he hit three p forty three. His
Speaker 16: on base percentage was four ninety. His career on base
Speaker 16: percentage splendid splitter Ted Williams was for eighty two. So
Speaker 16: Toddy's got some work to do with a base hit
Speaker 16: tonight or a walkie gets on base He'll get up
Speaker 16: there right with Sean Green at fifty three consecutive games.
Speaker 16: Whole lot to watch tonight, the first of three Dodgers
Speaker 16: in the Giants.
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Speaker 6: The Dodgers are in San Francisco and we're joined right
Speaker 6: now by today's starting center fielder. No, not Andy pae Has,
Speaker 6: but the versatile Alex Call.
Speaker 7: Thanks a lot for the time. I appreciate it always.
Speaker 6: They always great to have Alison Chains in the background
Speaker 6: when we're doing this interview too. And why not, Hey,
Speaker 6: the first seven games of the season, you did not
Speaker 6: get a single at bat, but Dave Roberts has started.
Speaker 7: To incorporate you more and more.
Speaker 6: How did you look at the first week of the season,
Speaker 6: and how did you stay ready?
Speaker 10: Yeah, well, of course you want to play.
Speaker 4: I love to play baseball, you know, and praise God,
Speaker 4: I'm blessed the opportunity to play the game that I
Speaker 4: love and also beyond, you know, the one of the
Speaker 4: best teams ever. So you know, I I know I'm
Speaker 4: a great player. I know that I am capable of
Speaker 4: playing in the major leagues, you know, even on a
Speaker 4: on a on a daily basis.
Speaker 10: I believe that.
Speaker 4: But this is where I'm at right now, and I
Speaker 4: couldn't be happier to be here and in the role
Speaker 4: that I'm in, doing whatever Doc needs me, whatever the
Speaker 4: Dodgers need me to do, whether it's just being ready
Speaker 4: every night to come in or to give guys a
Speaker 4: blow or whatever it may be. You know, I'm just
Speaker 4: extremely grateful to be here and to be playing Major
Speaker 4: League baseball. And yeah, it's all about being ready. I mean,
Speaker 4: it's the name of the game. You have to make
Speaker 4: sure that you're ready to perform whatever your name is called.
Speaker 4: Because this is major League Baseball. Everybody wants your spot.
Speaker 4: You know, everybody would die to be in the position
Speaker 4: that I'm in. And so, you know, just remembering that
Speaker 4: and just making sure that I'm focused and prepared to
Speaker 4: be the best Major League Baseball player that I can
Speaker 4: be on a nightly basis, whether I'm in the lineup
Speaker 4: or not.
Speaker 6: Is the mindset to be able to perform when you
Speaker 6: are called upon? Does it have to be a certain
Speaker 6: level of embracing this role.
Speaker 7: If you don't embrace this role, can you excel?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 4: I mean it's you know, it's interesting because it's like, yeah,
Speaker 4: obviously you want to play every day, like it to
Speaker 4: everybody's goal. Everybody wants to play every day, be an
Speaker 4: All Star, win a World Series like whatever. Like for me,
Speaker 4: right now, this is what I've been given.
Speaker 10: And when not what you're.
Speaker 4: Given, just do it and execute it to the best
Speaker 4: of your ability. And so all that comes in with
Speaker 4: just like understanding the innate like pressure that there is
Speaker 4: with playing major League baseball. Like I just said, like
Speaker 4: every little kid wants to take my job. They want
Speaker 4: to be where I'm at, playing the game that I
Speaker 4: love that they love. So there's only so many spots though,
Speaker 4: and if I want to hold onto that spot, it
Speaker 4: doesn't matter whether I get to play every day or
Speaker 4: whether I get to play it once a week, like
Speaker 4: you got to go out there and perform and show
Speaker 4: that you are a major league baseball player, that you're
Speaker 4: an asset for the team and that you make the
Speaker 4: team better and that you you know, do the thing
Speaker 4: little things the right way. So that's my focus and
Speaker 4: that's my mindset every day.
Speaker 6: How much of a badge of honor is it when
Speaker 6: Dave Roberts calls upon Alex's call, you know you're going
Speaker 6: to get a quality at bat. That picture knows he's
Speaker 6: not going to get a three pitch at bat when
Speaker 6: he's facing Alex call.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean it's I think why they they went
Speaker 4: out and got me. You know, they said they wanted
Speaker 4: guys that are just gonna grind the pitcher.
Speaker 10: You know, I think.
Speaker 4: About my first at bat the other day in Colorado,
Speaker 4: you know against Lorenzen was a you know, three to two,
Speaker 4: you know, seven to eight pitch at bat with two outs,
Speaker 4: nobody on base, two outs, nobody on base, and the
Speaker 4: I think his second inning, you know, grind.
Speaker 10: It out, had a good at bat, took some good swings.
Speaker 4: You know, I ended up putting the ball in play
Speaker 4: to right field. You know, that wasn't super significant but
Speaker 4: it's just like that's a great at bat, Like that's
Speaker 4: a that's exactly. I just made him a little bit
Speaker 4: more tired and made him have to exert a little
Speaker 4: bit more energy. And then the next inning, sure enough,
Speaker 4: we we go out there and put runs up on
Speaker 4: the board. And you know that doesn't happen every time.
Speaker 4: But it's just like that mindset of of of making
Speaker 4: the picture, grind it out.
Speaker 10: But also I'm ready to hit, you.
Speaker 4: Know, so like if I get a cookie, if I
Speaker 4: get I'm looking for a first pitch, you know, like
Speaker 4: it all goes into it. So like I'm ready to hit,
Speaker 4: you know, especially with kind of the more aggressive mindset
Speaker 4: that I've had this year.
Speaker 10: I'm ready to hit, but I'm only gonna hit my pitch.
Speaker 4: And uh so that's the bottom line, and that's kind
Speaker 4: of how I go about it.
Speaker 7: What do you mean having a more aggressive mindset this year?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think when you look at Alex called the
Speaker 4: baseball player, uh you know, you're getting basically one of
Speaker 4: the best two strike hitters in baseball, and I that
Speaker 4: is something that I work on, I train on. You know,
Speaker 4: two strike is the worst average count for everybody, but
Speaker 4: for me, I'm I take I'm comfortable there. I'm comfortable there.
Speaker 4: I know that I can put the bat on the ball.
Speaker 4: I know what I can put the ball in play,
Speaker 4: And so when you do that, there's just a comfort
Speaker 4: level with that. So that's ultimately you know what you're
Speaker 4: getting without it's called but the first couple pitches, the
Speaker 4: oh count, the two oh count, the one oh count,
Speaker 4: the three one count, that is where I believe as
Speaker 4: the Dodgers came to me and I as I look
Speaker 4: at myself from last year, that's like, hey, we can
Speaker 4: improve there, Like we can improve there, Like that's a
Speaker 4: time for you to sit on that heater and take
Speaker 4: a great swing at it, like be ready for it,
Speaker 4: be ready to rip it. And if you can just
Speaker 4: do that and you know, add a little bit more
Speaker 4: slug to your profile, well that just improves my value
Speaker 4: as a player, my value for the team, and just
Speaker 4: you know helps helps in any way possible. So when
Speaker 4: you look at like what do I do best and
Speaker 4: where can we improve, we identified like if I can
Speaker 4: be just a little bit more aggressive on pitches that
Speaker 4: I can handle, expect them, expect to drive them, then
Speaker 4: there's opportunity for me to have more production, which is
Speaker 4: good for the for everybody.
Speaker 6: And that's a mindset, right, you have to go up
Speaker 6: to the plate with that type of preparation exactly.
Speaker 4: It's that type of preparation, the approach with that, and
Speaker 4: then also the staff and the team being on the
Speaker 4: same page, like, hey, this is what Alex is trying
Speaker 4: to do.
Speaker 10: This is where he's trying to improve.
Speaker 4: We worked on that through spring training and the results
Speaker 4: are pretty solid. So we're taking it into the season
Speaker 4: and I've had the aggressive mindset to be ready on
Speaker 4: pitch one. That doesn't mean that I, you know, take
Speaker 4: a week swing like no, I'm trying to get my
Speaker 4: best swing off. And you know, at the same time,
Speaker 4: if I end up chasing a pitch or if like
Speaker 4: you know, it doesn't look great, well, who cares because
Speaker 4: I'm still the best two strike hit or there is
Speaker 4: is how I think in my head, And so that's
Speaker 4: just kind of building myself as a player in a
Speaker 4: way to help our team get better. If every individual
Speaker 4: can get better, then therefore the team gets better by default.
Speaker 6: Alex calls our guest in front of first pitch Dodgers
Speaker 6: Giants Game one of this three game series, alex is
Speaker 6: starting in center field. You're a great guy to ask
Speaker 6: this question too, because yesterday you're hitting second behind Shoeyotani
Speaker 6: at Corus Field, and then today and some other days
Speaker 6: you're hitting more towards the middle third, bottom third of
Speaker 6: the order. Do you believe that every spot in lineup
Speaker 6: has a certain responsibility or do you believe you just
Speaker 6: have to be everything that you describe.
Speaker 10: Yeah, it's a good question.
Speaker 4: At the end of the day, my objective is to
Speaker 4: get to first base. Like the name's baseball, you got
Speaker 4: to get on base. So however I can get on base,
Speaker 4: however I can take it good at bat.
Speaker 10: It's kind of my mindset.
Speaker 4: Yeah, there's some other intricacies and nuances to where you
Speaker 4: hit in the order, but for the most part, the
Speaker 4: objective is just gonna stay the same and get on
Speaker 4: first base.
Speaker 9: Now.
Speaker 4: In a unique situation like yesterday when Rushing was up
Speaker 4: with one out and runners on second and third, nobody
Speaker 4: was on first. I was thinking in my head, I'm
Speaker 4: in the hole right now. But if Rushing gets out here,
Speaker 4: they are walking, show hey to pitch to me, and
Speaker 4: so like being ready for that is really important because
Speaker 4: it can happen really quick. It's like, Oh, all of
Speaker 4: a sudden, I'm in the hole. Well now I'm not
Speaker 4: on deck. I'm up because they're putting it right on,
Speaker 4: so I don't have any you're ready, So like yesterday,
Speaker 4: I switched my mindset to Okay, I'm preparing for this
Speaker 4: situation to go out if rushing gets out right here,
Speaker 4: they're walking show ay, So I'm on deck right now
Speaker 4: and I'm getting ready to walk up to the plate.
Speaker 4: And it sounds very small, but like the psychology of
Speaker 4: that is something that's unique and doesn't happen a lot.
Speaker 4: So it actually just having that extra three four five
Speaker 4: seconds of realization of prep actually puts you in a better,
Speaker 4: more prepared mindset. And then I was able to do
Speaker 4: that and have a good at bat yesterday and get
Speaker 4: the walk walk a guy in.
Speaker 10: Yeah.
Speaker 6: Hey, that's amazing because some of the best hitters have said,
Speaker 6: you're at bat doesn't start when you're in the batter's
Speaker 6: box or even on the on deck circle. It starts
Speaker 6: in the dugout. It sounds like you've already won that game.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 4: No, definitely, from understanding what the pitcher's doing, what he's throwing.
Speaker 4: How he's going to try to attack us to seeing
Speaker 4: is he is? You know, where's he throwing? What's his
Speaker 4: stuff that day? But then even your your mindset in
Speaker 4: the hole is different when it's on deck, and so
Speaker 4: there's just a whole bevy of things that go into it,
Speaker 4: and you know, everything is very important. It all contributes
Speaker 4: to having the best chance at success when you're up
Speaker 4: at the plate.
Speaker 6: I know you were loving and embracing hitting behind Otani yesterday.
Speaker 6: Did you get the lineup card by chance?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 4: I told Alex to say, give me that lineup card,
Speaker 4: and so he said, yeah, when we get to LA,
Speaker 4: I'll put it in your locker.
Speaker 10: So yeah, I mean, what are you gonna say?
Speaker 4: Hitting behind showho Tani at the top of the Dodgers
Speaker 4: lineup on the greatest team ever. It's like, there's Alex
Speaker 4: call you know, same thing when I was in Game
Speaker 4: five of the World Series.
Speaker 10: Starting lineup last year.
Speaker 4: It's just like just ultimate praise God moments, so grateful
Speaker 4: and super fun.
Speaker 7: Hey, fun to watch you play.
Speaker 6: We'll have fun watching you play center field tonight here
Speaker 6: at Oracle Park. They call it now another phone company.
Speaker 6: Thanks a lot, Thanks a lot for the time Alex
Speaker 6: and awesome talking baseball with you. I think you've opened
Speaker 6: up a lot of our eyes.
Speaker 10: Yeah, thank you, Dave, appreciate it.
Speaker 7: There he is the man.
Speaker 6: Alex call and he'll receive a gift card to Javieris.
Speaker 6: They have a brand new location in Pasadena. You never
Speaker 6: know who you might see there, Alex cal Miguel Rojas,
Speaker 6: you never know.
Speaker 7: We'll send it back to you in the studio.
Speaker 5: Tim, all right, thanks a lot. DV.
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Speaker 3: eight ERA, twenty seven year old right hander, twelfth round
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Speaker 3: of the UNC Wilmington. Third season out in the Big League,
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Speaker 3: as a starter after being a reliever back in twenty
Speaker 3: twenty four.
Speaker 5: Making his fifth start this season.
Speaker 3: Last time out five shutout innings while striking out six
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Speaker 3: to combine twelve innings, one ear in run, that's it,
Speaker 3: ten strikeouts.
Speaker 5: He's two to zero in those two starts.
Speaker 3: Yoshinobu Yamamoto on the mound for the Dodgers, two to
Speaker 3: one with the two ten ERA. The twenty seven year
Speaker 3: old right hander his third season with the Dodgers, making
Speaker 3: his fifth start, and so far, Yamamoto has picked up
Speaker 3: right where he left off. Last October, he went twelve
Speaker 3: and eight and twenty twenty five with a two to
Speaker 3: forty nine ERORA. Through four starts, the native of Japan
Speaker 3: has posted a two to ten Erora, striking out twenty
Speaker 3: one just three walks over twenty five and two third innings,
Speaker 3: and now his third year in the big leagues, he's
Speaker 3: seen the Giants already five times. This will be appearance
Speaker 3: number six ohen one with a three H three e
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Speaker 5: Four strikeouts against San Francisco.
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Speaker 3: refreshing loggers, including light and non alcoholic beers. Sapporo good
Speaker 3: with sushi great with baseball before first mentioned before the
Speaker 3: start of the game. Let's head back up to the
Speaker 3: booth one final time, Steven Nelson and Rick Monday, guys, all.
Speaker 8: Right, TC first pitch, fast approaching by the bay. Yoshinobu
Speaker 8: Yamamoto for the Dodgers, land and Roope for the San
Speaker 8: Francisco Giants. He has been really the ace of San
Speaker 8: Francisco's staff to start the year, as Logan Webb has
Speaker 8: struggled to get things going. But give me a key
Speaker 8: tonight or perhaps a player to watch them.
Speaker 9: Well, I think with Rufe, you've got to be able
Speaker 9: to a adjust to the curb ball. Why it's got
Speaker 9: the biggest horizontal break of any starting pitchers so far,
Speaker 9: and he throws it forty two percent of the time
Speaker 9: so far this season. The other part two is is
Speaker 9: he can just stayed the same pattern with two strikes.
Speaker 9: I mentioned that because so far in the four starts
Speaker 9: when he's had two strikes on the hitter, he's come
Speaker 9: up with a changeup over seventy percent of the pitches
Speaker 9: he's thrown.
Speaker 8: Will The Giants, coming off a tough road trip where
Speaker 8: they dropped five of nine games through Baltimore, Cincinnati, and Washington, DC.
Speaker 8: The Dodgers two and two on their current trip. You're
Speaker 8: going to try and take this opener against their longtime rivals.
Speaker 8: It's the Dodgers and the Giants, Game one. We'll see
Speaker 8: you shortly, all.
Speaker 5: Right, thank you, Nelly.
Speaker 3: Dodgers going to play tonight, sixteen and six overall first
Speaker 3: place atop the NL West of San Francisco Giants nine
Speaker 3: and thirteen. They are one game ahead of the Colorado Rockies,
Speaker 3: who are bringing up last place in the division. Dodgers Giants,
Speaker 3: first time they're meeting this season, the first to three
Speaker 3: from Oracle Park in San Francisco.
Speaker 5: Don't forget after the game is over.
Speaker 3: David Vassid's got you covered with all the postgame highlights
Speaker 3: and reaction in the Dodgers' Clubout Show, then of course
Speaker 3: Dodger Talk as well.
Speaker 5: Enjoy it. First pitch is next.
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