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Speaker 1: your host, Here's Tim Kakes.
Speaker 2: Dodgers wrap up a great homestand with a nine to
Speaker 2: one win over the Philadelphia Phillies. Hi, everybody, Tim Kates
Speaker 2: with you here on Dodger Talk Live from Dodgers Stadium.
Speaker 4: On this absolutely glorious.
Speaker 2: Sunday afternoon as the Dodgers flex their muscles and pound
Speaker 2: the Philadelphia Phillies today nine to one in the series finale.
Speaker 2: After winning the opener on Friday night, the Dodgers game
Speaker 2: one away last night, giving up three runs in the
Speaker 2: eighth inning to lose to the Phillies. But they answer
Speaker 2: back today with nine runs on thirteen hits. They did
Speaker 2: not score in the bottom of the first, but had
Speaker 2: traffic on the bases against Andrew Paynter. And then the
Speaker 2: Dodgers scored a run in the second, a run in
Speaker 2: the third, two in the fourth, two in the fifth,
Speaker 2: a run in the sixth, a run of the seventh,
Speaker 2: and then.
Speaker 4: A run in the eighth.
Speaker 2: They were up nine to nothing before the Phillies got
Speaker 2: a Bryson Stotts home run in the top half of
Speaker 2: the ninth inning. The Dodgers offense today top the bottom
Speaker 2: was really good, and today in particular, the Dodgers bottom
Speaker 2: half of the lineup was excellent. Six through nine, Max Munsey,
Speaker 2: Ryan Ward, Dalton rushing, Alex Frieland and then he could
Speaker 2: throw Alex Calling there as well, who came off the
Speaker 2: bench for Ryan Ward after Andrew Paynter came out of
Speaker 2: the game.
Speaker 4: The six through nine hitters today drove in six of
Speaker 4: the nine Dodgers runs.
Speaker 2: Alex Frielan the nine hitter today, two for three with
Speaker 2: the double in a home run, Alex Call a two
Speaker 2: run single off the bench in the fifth inning. Max Munsey,
Speaker 2: the sixth hitter, his fourteenth home run in club leading
Speaker 2: fourteenth home run of the season. Ryan Ward his first
Speaker 2: major league home run in the Big leagues. When the
Speaker 2: Dodgers bottom half of the lineup produces like they did today,
Speaker 2: Odds are the Dodgers are gonna win a baseball game
Speaker 2: because then you factor in, you've got Otani, Pohez, Freeman, Betts, Tucker,
Speaker 2: the first five hitters, and they're gonna do something. Either
Speaker 2: collectively or one or two of those guys is gonna
Speaker 2: have a good game. And if you throw in the
Speaker 2: bottom half of the Dodgers lineup, more times than not,
Speaker 2: they're gonna win a ballgame. And today they scored nine
Speaker 2: runs on thirteen innings, and good for them. How about
Speaker 2: some support for old Yoshinobu Yamamoto, who has been the
Speaker 2: victim the last two plus seasons of zero run supported times.
Speaker 2: How many times have we seen him go out, pitch
Speaker 2: six or seven innings, give up a run and lose
Speaker 2: a game or get a no decision?
Speaker 4: Too many times?
Speaker 2: Today that was not an issue because the Dodgers scored early,
Speaker 2: they scored offen and Yamamoto.
Speaker 4: Went out and.
Speaker 2: To his credit, didn't have dominant stuff, didn't have swing
Speaker 2: and miss stuff for the entire outing, even though he
Speaker 2: did have ten strikeouts. He had a one two three
Speaker 2: first inning, helped out by Dalton Rushing. More on that
Speaker 2: in a second, but then in the second a leadoff
Speaker 2: walk in the third, he hit the first batter of
Speaker 2: the inning to put a runner on in the fourth,
Speaker 2: and infield single in the fifth and infield single in
Speaker 2: the sixth.
Speaker 4: He walked the lead off batter.
Speaker 2: In five of the six innings he pitched the lead
Speaker 2: off runner was on base.
Speaker 4: He was pitching out of the stretch more.
Speaker 2: Times than not in this game today, and he still
Speaker 2: navigated himself through five and a third innings. The pitch
Speaker 2: count got up over one hundred or else he would
Speaker 2: have stayed in the game. No runs, four hits, including
Speaker 2: two infield singles, and ties a career high with ten strikeouts.
Speaker 2: I thought he did a great job without his best
Speaker 2: stuff on the mount to day.
Speaker 4: Didn't have his best control.
Speaker 2: I mean there was times where there was foul ball
Speaker 2: after floulball, three to two count foul ball. There was
Speaker 2: a lot of deep counts that Yamamoto was getting into today,
Speaker 2: and more times than not he was getting out of
Speaker 2: it with a strikeout or a ground ball out and
Speaker 2: was able to get it out out of it, but
Speaker 2: just having to just work at bad after at bat,
Speaker 2: seventy one pitches through four innings. The key moment to
Speaker 2: me was the fifth and at that point the Dodgers
Speaker 2: were up four to nothing. Okay, the games stilling within reach.
Speaker 2: You get the leadoff runner on in the fifth hit
Speaker 2: by our infield single. Two batters later a double, you
Speaker 2: got runners on second and third, and here comes Kyle
Speaker 2: Schwarber in a four to nothing in game. You're one
Speaker 2: swing of the bat away from it being four to three,
Speaker 2: and they're right back in the game.
Speaker 4: We saw it last night.
Speaker 2: In the eighth inning, Dodgers rub a couple of runs
Speaker 2: and that quickly changed with Tanner Scott on the mound,
Speaker 2: ended up being a Dodger losses.
Speaker 4: The Philly scored three runs in the eighth. Fast forwarded today,
Speaker 4: runners on second and third.
Speaker 2: Here comes Schwarber and Yamamoto just dealing fastball first pitch,
Speaker 2: gets him swinging, mixes in the cutter and finally gets
Speaker 2: him to strike out for the second out of the inning.
Speaker 2: And then facing Trey Turner, who's a threat, can put
Speaker 2: the ball in play, can find the gap. It's got
Speaker 2: speed still only a four nothing game, gets him called
Speaker 2: looking for a strike three and he tapped his helmet
Speaker 2: and he can see him almost laughing with Dalon rushing
Speaker 2: like probably a strike, But dude, I gotta challenge this
Speaker 2: just to see if it's not a strike so I
Speaker 2: can keep my head back going. It was a strike
Speaker 2: on the outside part of the play. Sean Barber didn't
Speaker 2: miss that one, even though it was challenged by Trey Turner.
Speaker 4: But Yamamoto got out of it.
Speaker 2: Second and third, one out, schwore Ber, Tray Turner four
Speaker 2: nothing game, strike out, looking, strike out, swinging, and he's
Speaker 2: out of the fifth inning.
Speaker 4: He came out the.
Speaker 2: Sixth, got a walk in the strikeout before Dave Roberts
Speaker 2: said enough's enough and went to Will Klein to get
Speaker 2: the final two outs of the inning and the bullpen.
Speaker 4: The rest of the way.
Speaker 2: But man, Yamamoto, I give a lot of credit. Was
Speaker 2: battling out there. I don't know any other way to
Speaker 2: describe it. A lot of two to two counts, foul
Speaker 2: ball after foul ball, a lot of three two counts,
Speaker 2: a lot of foul balls mixed in. He threw twenty
Speaker 2: pitches in the second inning. He threw twenty three pitches
Speaker 2: in the fourth inning, twenty three more than the fifth inning.
Speaker 2: Three of his five plus innings twenty plus pitches in
Speaker 2: those inns. That's a lot of pitches. That's sixty pitches
Speaker 2: and you know, almost three innings of work.
Speaker 4: That's a lot for Yamamoto.
Speaker 2: But he got around it, and he put up zeros
Speaker 2: and turned it over to the bullpen. And what turned
Speaker 2: out to them Bo Laffer as the Dodger scored again
Speaker 2: in innings two to three, eight every inning the Dodger
Speaker 2: scored there to take a lead nine to nothing. Then
Speaker 2: they go on to win it by a final of
Speaker 2: nine to one eight six six, nine eighty seven two
Speaker 2: five seventy. Is our number eight sixty six, nine eighty seven,
Speaker 2: two five seventy. We're gonna hear from the manager, Dave
Speaker 2: Roberts coming up in just a little bit. Well.
Speaker 4: Also here from Alex Freeland, who.
Speaker 2: Is back from TRIPLEA Oklahoma City and today in the
Speaker 2: ninth spot and RBI double in the second, and then
Speaker 2: Alex Freeland a solo home run in the fourth or
Speaker 2: just over the wall and just inside the foul pole
Speaker 2: down the right field line for a solo shot. He
Speaker 2: had a big day, going two for three from the
Speaker 2: play with a couple of RBIs. But how about the
Speaker 2: home plate umpire Sean Barber. Now we can all agree
Speaker 2: the changes that baseball has made over the last.
Speaker 4: Few seasons have all been perfect.
Speaker 2: Pitch clock Okay, maybe you didn't like it at first,
Speaker 2: but we can all agree speeds up the game makes
Speaker 2: it more interesting. The free runner at second base. You
Speaker 2: may not like it, but a Thursday game in May,
Speaker 2: it's three hours long and you want to get home.
Speaker 2: You want the game to be over. I'm alright with it.
Speaker 2: We don't see it in the postseason. We just see
Speaker 2: it during the course of one hundred and sixty two.
Speaker 2: The ABS the automated ball strike system, they have worked
Speaker 2: it to perfection in my book, and I think there
Speaker 2: is no need to take it in any further. Some
Speaker 2: of you are pro computers and pro AI, and let's
Speaker 2: just have the strikes and balls be called by a
Speaker 2: computer system and take it out of the hands of
Speaker 2: the human element of the umpire and let them call
Speaker 2: the strikes, and let the umpire just stand there and
Speaker 2: be a puppet for the computer. I'm out on board
Speaker 2: with that. I am not on board with a full
Speaker 2: computerized ball strike machine. I think what you have now
Speaker 2: is a checks and balances for a human being behind
Speaker 2: the plate in the homeplate umpire. I mean you look
Speaker 2: at the challenges we have seen, and the challenges now
Speaker 2: allow a hitter, a catcher and a pitcher to contest
Speaker 2: whether they think it's a strike or a ball, or
Speaker 2: the right call or the wrong call. Okay, they have
Speaker 2: now two of them per game to use, and you
Speaker 2: can choose when to use them. And we've seen some strategy.
Speaker 2: We've seen teams not use them early, use them late. Okay,
Speaker 2: using them early, as long as it's a really strong challenge.
Speaker 2: Today we saw two times in the first inning, Dalton
Speaker 2: Rushing challenge home plate umpire Sean Barber, and both times
Speaker 2: Yoshinobu Yamamoto recorded strikeouts off of overturn abs challenges. Brilliant
Speaker 2: strategy by Dalton Rushing that worked, and it favored the Dodgers,
Speaker 2: and it led to two strikeouts in the top half
Speaker 2: of the first inning, both of them called strike threes
Speaker 2: after the overturn call that was initially a ball worked
Speaker 2: in the Dodgers favor. But let's look at the game
Speaker 2: as a whole today. Dodger fans, if you were at
Speaker 2: Dodger Stadium in the sellout crowd, or if you were
Speaker 2: listening here on Anti seventy LA Sports. There was a
Speaker 2: lot of challenges by both teams. There were ten count
Speaker 2: the challenges to the automated ball strike system and home
Speaker 2: played umpire Sean Barber ten combined challenges. How many calls
Speaker 2: were overturned by the ABS eight of them. That is
Speaker 2: a lot. Not a great day for home played umpire
Speaker 2: Sean Barber certainly gotta be better than that. But I
Speaker 2: love it. Umpire misses a call. The hitter, the catcher,
Speaker 2: they know it to strike, they know it to ball.
Speaker 2: Should have been called the office away challenge it. Eight
Speaker 2: of the ten were overturned. It helps the game out.
Speaker 2: Certainly helped the Dodgers out with two strikeouts in the
Speaker 2: first inning. And sitting here at the stadium, whether you're
Speaker 2: listening to it or watching as well, it happens so quick.
Speaker 2: Umpire makes the announcement, the catcher is challenging the call
Speaker 2: on the field. Within the next five to ten seconds,
Speaker 2: we all look up at the JumboTron and we all
Speaker 2: see the AI yeap that should have to strike. We're
Speaker 2: going to overturn the ball, and that's a called strike three. Ah,
Speaker 2: he's out. That's the end of the first inning for Yamamoto.
Speaker 2: It's brilliant. It's absolutely brilliant, and I think they've hit
Speaker 2: it on the head. And the way it's used and
Speaker 2: how quick it is and how efficient it is and
Speaker 2: how it is I think changed the game.
Speaker 4: Completely now this year.
Speaker 2: It has made that strike zone so much smaller. It
Speaker 2: has made hitters more i think, more aware at the
Speaker 2: plate as far as what the strike zone is and
Speaker 2: having to take swings at pitches that are borderline pitches
Speaker 2: because you think it could be a strike, not sure
Speaker 2: about it, And it is completely taken away catch framing
Speaker 2: behind the plate, any kind of framing jobs done by
Speaker 2: catchers over the last ten years is out the door
Speaker 2: because no longer can you steal a strike as a
Speaker 2: catcher by snapping the glove back in on a ball
Speaker 2: that's a couple inches outside and at ninety eight miles
Speaker 2: an hour, the human eye can't see it and the
Speaker 2: umpire thinks it's a strike when reality it's off the
Speaker 2: plate and it's a ball.
Speaker 4: We haha. Now the hitter can challenge and it's called
Speaker 4: the ball.
Speaker 2: You can't steal strikes, whether it's an outside pitch, it's
Speaker 2: a pitch right the knees are lower and you snap
Speaker 2: the glove up as a catcher, that is done. The
Speaker 2: strategy of the game is completely different, and I love
Speaker 2: it and now being out at the stadium as often
Speaker 2: as I've been now and seeing it today.
Speaker 4: Ten times the challenge.
Speaker 2: To homeplate umpire Sean Barber, eight of which were overturned.
Speaker 2: It is a fun thing to watch and I think
Speaker 2: it has been one of the best additions in Major
Speaker 2: League Baseball, hands down, and it doesn't slow down the game.
Speaker 2: Don't give me this with a game was three hours
Speaker 2: and five minutes today.
Speaker 4: It was a long game. You know why it was
Speaker 4: a long game.
Speaker 2: It was a long game because there was a lot
Speaker 2: of three two counts. There was a lot of fouled
Speaker 2: off pitches in this game, including one that almost hit
Speaker 2: me in the booth here in the ninth inning. Thankfully,
Speaker 2: I got catlike reflexes and I moved to my right
Speaker 2: in the chair and it hit behind me and bounced
Speaker 2: to the floor and I grabbed it. Still got in
Speaker 2: my hand right now. But I love the ABS and
Speaker 2: it was on full display today. I know we've played
Speaker 2: what fifty nine games into a season, and you know
Speaker 2: we're used to it, Tim, we get it, all right,
Speaker 2: We're a third of the way through the year, dude,
Speaker 2: we get it. It was on full display today, guys.
Speaker 2: Ten challenges to the home played umpire Sean Barber. Guys,
Speaker 2: that's a lot of challenges. Eight of those ten were overturned.
Speaker 2: There was one of them that was two inches, you know,
Speaker 2: missed between a ball and a strike. But for the
Speaker 2: most part, hey, Sean, it's gonna get a lot of flak.
Speaker 2: You know, he's gonna be graded at a lower percentage
Speaker 2: than usual because of the eight overturned calls. But we're
Speaker 2: talking about what two tenths of an inch? A tenth
Speaker 2: of an inch when they show it on the jumbo
Speaker 2: tron here. I mean, we are talking about min minute
Speaker 2: space here, but the difference between a striking the ball
Speaker 2: and I get it, it's big in baseball. But this
Speaker 2: is where you can clean up the human element of
Speaker 2: the game. You can only make it better by having
Speaker 2: this AI technology, the ABS system to help everybody. Sure,
Speaker 2: and him not a great look for a homeplate. Umpire
Speaker 2: probably gets embarrassed, probably gets ticked off seeing a call
Speaker 2: being overturned that he made. But you know what, it
Speaker 2: perfects the game, and that's what you want. You don't
Speaker 2: want that large room of air. You don't want to
Speaker 2: leave a game, or you don't want to see an
Speaker 2: any man. And you're like, wait a second through that
Speaker 2: ball was three inches off the plate.
Speaker 4: How you kind of call that a strike? Three on
Speaker 4: a hitter? How are you gonna ring.
Speaker 2: Up a Max Muncie or an Anti pie Is on
Speaker 2: a ball that's you know, a foot low, but the
Speaker 2: catcher snaps back up and to make it look like
Speaker 2: a strike.
Speaker 4: No, no, no, that doesn't happen anymore. And I think
Speaker 4: that has.
Speaker 2: Absolutely changed the game this year. It has completely changed
Speaker 2: the strategy of pitchers and certainly hitters at the plate.
Speaker 2: Eight six six nine eight seven two five seven. Let's
Speaker 2: quickly hear from the manager Dave Roberts on his birthday.
Speaker 2: By the way, happy fifty fourth birthday to the manager
Speaker 2: Dave Roberts is a sung Happy birthday to him here
Speaker 2: at Dodger Stadium. Deed rule on the Dodger Stadium, Oregon,
Speaker 2: playing it in between innings. A happy flighting out of
Speaker 2: Phoenix after a five to one homestand and a nine
Speaker 2: to one win over the Phillies.
Speaker 4: Let's go downstairs and here for the manager.
Speaker 5: Excitement. You know, Wardo has has really excited for Ryan.
Speaker 5: You know, he's spent a lot of time in the miners.
Speaker 5: He's been a constant performer and got a little taste
Speaker 5: of it earlier Colorado. So to get him back family
Speaker 5: in town, hit a homer at Dodger Stadium, that's those
Speaker 5: are special moments. And with Alex it's good to see
Speaker 5: him kind of have some success. He's been going through
Speaker 5: it and being recalled and you know, contributing today on
Speaker 5: boat side of the ball were great. So yeah, it's
Speaker 5: always fun to see, you know, young players do their things,
Speaker 5: especially on a you know, a day game, and you know,
Speaker 5: a series like this when you're just a smunk a.
Speaker 1: Succession gris had over against teams that are doing very
Speaker 1: well on their own, right, what is a series like
Speaker 1: this team.
Speaker 6: Get this way today winning the series?
Speaker 1: What does that just kind of tell you as to where.
Speaker 2: He's group is right now?
Speaker 5: And also just applying base layers playing collective right now,
Speaker 5: I think it just speaks to how we're playing. You know,
Speaker 5: I expect to go out there, regardless of opponent and
Speaker 5: play well, you know, on the heels of last night.
Speaker 5: To be able to bounce back like we did was
Speaker 5: a good thing and a good sign for our club.
Speaker 5: But I just like the way we go about things
Speaker 5: and to be able to give guys days off and
Speaker 5: you know, backfill with other guys and for those guys
Speaker 5: to step up that was great. And you know, even
Speaker 5: you know Dalton, the way he's caught the ball and
Speaker 5: you know, built the relationships with the pitchers that can't
Speaker 5: be you know, you know, not talked about.
Speaker 4: The five series in a row is just a consistency.
Speaker 7: That you expect that now.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, you know you're gonna get beat at times.
Speaker 5: It's going to happen. But I do think with the
Speaker 5: talent that we have, if we you know, focus and
Speaker 5: play like we're capable of, we should win series regardless
Speaker 5: home road. So this next is going to be a
Speaker 5: good one. Diamonbacks always play us tough, and so play
Speaker 5: at their place is always difficult, So this is going
Speaker 5: to be a fun series coming up.
Speaker 2: All Right, there's a manager Dave Roberts, certainly happy with
Speaker 2: the way his team played today and all series long,
Speaker 2: and quite frankly, the way they've been playing the last
Speaker 2: three weeks is the Dodgers now on fourteen of the
Speaker 2: last seventeen. The Dodgers winners of five in a row
Speaker 2: as far as series are concerned. As they finish off
Speaker 2: the Phillies today with a nine to one victory, Let's
Speaker 2: go out to my guy Blake in Colorado.
Speaker 4: Blake, welcome to Dodger Talk. How you doing today.
Speaker 1: I'm doing really, Wally good.
Speaker 7: How are you doing today?
Speaker 4: I'm doing fantastic.
Speaker 2: After a nine to one win, after Yamamoto gets the win,
Speaker 2: Dodgers take two or three from the Phillies. They've built
Speaker 2: their lead even bigger now in the Division. Five and
Speaker 2: a half up on San Diego, six and a half
Speaker 2: up on Arizona.
Speaker 4: Things are right right.
Speaker 1: Now, Blake, Yes, yes they all.
Speaker 2: What did you think about Ryan Ward hitting his first
Speaker 2: home run in the big leagues?
Speaker 4: What a big moment?
Speaker 7: Yes, it is a big moment.
Speaker 2: It is Yeah to see Alex frielan come back from
Speaker 2: triple A and you know, start to stack together better
Speaker 2: and better games today two for three, the double, the
Speaker 2: home run. He played some really good defense as well,
Speaker 2: made a couple of fancy plays in the ninth inning.
Speaker 4: Yes, yeah, I saw that. Now have you ever been
Speaker 4: to Arizona.
Speaker 2: Blake in the Chase field with the retractable roof and
Speaker 2: the pool and right center field and being in downtown Phoenix, Sarah,
Speaker 2: have you ever been to that stadium?
Speaker 1: That was my very postasium I went to.
Speaker 4: Actually, yeah, wows what'd you think about? What was your
Speaker 4: experience like over there?
Speaker 3: It was really fun?
Speaker 2: Yeah, a lot of Dodger fans when you went to
Speaker 2: that game? Was it a Dodger Diamondbacks game? What that
Speaker 2: you went to?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Game?
Speaker 2: Yeah, there's always a lot of Dodger fans in Arizona.
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 2: The joke is that it's La East Dodger Stadium East,
Speaker 2: just like Petco Park has become a second home for Dodger.
Speaker 4: Fans down in San Diego.
Speaker 2: Kind of feels like, well all the transplants over in
Speaker 2: the desert. There's a lot of Dodger fans at these
Speaker 2: games the next four nights, I imagine. Yeah, all right, Blake,
Speaker 2: great to hear from you, my friend.
Speaker 4: Anything else?
Speaker 1: I have one question? Why do you think up.
Speaker 3: Wine will over Alex Thomas?
Speaker 2: Uh, well, he's on the fourth I appreciate the phone call, Blake.
Speaker 2: Ryan Ward's already on the forty man roster. So it
Speaker 2: made it easier to bring him up. And I think
Speaker 2: the bigger question is James Tims the third, why didn't
Speaker 2: he get called up? And he hit another home run today.
Speaker 2: He is red hot right now as far as what
Speaker 2: he's doing in Triple A. But in order to bring
Speaker 2: up James Timms the third, who we had on Dodger
Speaker 2: Talk a week ago, on the off night, they would
Speaker 2: have to clear a spot on the forty man roster,
Speaker 2: and it was just easier at this point to bring
Speaker 2: up Ryan Ward. He's a left handed bat, He's a
Speaker 2: guy who can play left field, and Tims can do
Speaker 2: that as well.
Speaker 4: But Ryan Ward's already on the forty man roster.
Speaker 2: So it was just an easier roster maneuver for Andrew
Speaker 2: Freeman and the Dodgers. And certainly Ryan Ward should be
Speaker 2: rewarded for what he has done at the minor league level.
Speaker 4: And look what he did today.
Speaker 2: His first major league home run, a solo shot in
Speaker 2: the bottom of the fourth in the Dodgers went it
Speaker 2: nine to one over the Phillies. Dodgers baseball is brought
Speaker 2: to my Medello. Medello the mark of a fighter. We'll
Speaker 2: take a break, we'll come back We'll continue here with
Speaker 2: your phone calls. Eight sixty six, nine eighty seven, two
Speaker 2: five seventy is the Dodgers beat the Phillies nine to one.
Speaker 2: Yoshinobu Yamamoto goes five and a third shut out Indians
Speaker 2: to get the victory. Brian Ward his first career Big
Speaker 2: league home run. Alex Frielan drives into pair. Freddy Freeman
Speaker 2: drives into pair. Max Monty now his team leading fourteenth.
Speaker 4: Home run of this season. Good day for the Dodgers.
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Speaker 5: No.
Speaker 4: Ward in the right.
Speaker 8: Field, Ryan Ward worth the wait, his first major league
Speaker 8: home run in his first game at Dodger Stadium. He's
Speaker 8: running around the bases, but MO, he may as well
Speaker 8: be floating.
Speaker 6: I guarantee you he does not feel his feet hit
Speaker 6: the ground. After seven hundred plus games at the minor
Speaker 6: league level. He has been here, he's been down, He's
Speaker 6: been back up, and welcome aboard.
Speaker 2: Welcome to Dodger Stadium. Ryan Ward, his first major league
Speaker 2: start at Dodger Stadium turns into his first major league
Speaker 2: home run, and he hits a solo shot in the
Speaker 2: bottom half of the fourth inn. He congratulations to him
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Speaker 2: and the Philadelphia Phillies bullpen today nine runs on thirteen hits.
Speaker 2: They almost scored in the first had traffic on the
Speaker 2: bass pass but could not push across a run, but
Speaker 2: then scored a run in the second, or running the
Speaker 2: third two more and the fourth two more and the fifth,
Speaker 2: a run of the sixth and run the seventh and
Speaker 2: running the eighth as they win it by final of
Speaker 2: nine to one. Alex Freeland drives into pair. He had
Speaker 2: a solo home run in the fourth. Two batters after
Speaker 2: Ryan Award, Alex call comes off the bench with the
Speaker 2: two run single. Max Munsey goes deep, Freddie Freeman, a
Speaker 2: couple of RBIs as well as the Dodgers get the
Speaker 2: win over the Philadelphia Phillies eight six six nine eighty
Speaker 2: seven two five seventy. Speaking to Alex Freeland, what a
Speaker 2: day he had. He has come back to the big
Speaker 2: league level, played really good defense at second base, and
Speaker 2: today two for three, a double, at a home run.
Speaker 2: Let's go back downstairs real quick, and let's hear from
Speaker 2: the Dodgers second baseman.
Speaker 3: I'm just uber excited for Ryan Moore and on if
Speaker 3: there's anybody that deserves it more than him, So to
Speaker 3: share that moment with fam, it's kind of.
Speaker 1: Special for you personally, just being able to come back
Speaker 1: up here, get the back going pretty quickly.
Speaker 5: I mean, what does that just say as to where
Speaker 5: you're at right now at the plate?
Speaker 3: I feel confident. I mean it's a sigh of relief
Speaker 3: to see some success, but yeah, just keep it wrong.
Speaker 3: What was that moment like in the dug gap between
Speaker 3: you and Ryan We're just just happy. I mean it's
Speaker 3: been a long time coming for Ward, So, like I said,
Speaker 3: I was just really store for him. But yeah, it's
Speaker 3: a moment wheel chairsh So what's.
Speaker 7: The what's the key to?
Speaker 5: You know, when you start up here, you play well,
Speaker 5: you go down, come back up and keeping that momentum
Speaker 5: and that confidence up to when you.
Speaker 4: Get that the call back up here to perform.
Speaker 7: You just got to be in the right headspace. A
Speaker 7: lot of stuff can't go your way and it's all
Speaker 7: about how you respond. So I think if you have
Speaker 7: the the right mindset and they take care of itself,
Speaker 7: what was.
Speaker 3: What was your focus when you went down there?
Speaker 1: What kind of allowed you to have some success?
Speaker 5: A cary over coming back up here?
Speaker 7: So we go down there and get reps. Feel comfortable
Speaker 7: with my swing? She gets some success.
Speaker 4: All right.
Speaker 2: There's Alex Freeland, and good on him. You know he
Speaker 2: was sitting down a lot of people thought it would
Speaker 2: be I Sung Kim at the time. Instead it was
Speaker 2: Alex Freeland and couldn't have been happy with it. You know,
Speaker 2: he was the opening day second baseman.
Speaker 4: The last thing you.
Speaker 2: Want to do is be sent bent down a triple
Speaker 2: A because you're just not producing at the playoffensively. But
Speaker 2: that was the case, found his right headspace, as he said,
Speaker 2: goes back to Oklahoma City, gets right offensively, feels good
Speaker 2: about his swing, and he's come back and he's had
Speaker 2: some success, and today certainly a big example of that success,
Speaker 2: going two for three with a double on the home run,
Speaker 2: his fourth career game with two or more extra base
Speaker 2: hits as he finished the day two for three and
Speaker 2: a big part of the Dodgers bottom half of the
Speaker 2: lineup that scored six of their nine runs today in
Speaker 2: route to a nine to one win over the Philly
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Speaker 2: Dodge to talk on this Sunday afternoon. Many thanks to
Speaker 2: Colin Ye for all his help today all day long,
Speaker 2: all game along as the Dodgers get to win over
Speaker 2: the Phillies, a weekend in which they take two to
Speaker 2: three from Philadelphia could have been a clean sweep if
Speaker 2: not for the eighth inning letdown last night from Tanners
Speaker 2: got but hey, Dodgers.
Speaker 4: Bounce back today. The Dodgers' bullpen will climb at. Guardo
Speaker 4: Enriquez put up Zeros. Jonathan Hernandez give up a.
Speaker 2: Solo home run in the ninth, but that was it
Speaker 2: as a Dodgers cruise to a nine to one victory.
Speaker 4: They take two to three from the Phillies.
Speaker 2: They go five to one on the homestand they finished
Speaker 2: a month of.
Speaker 4: My May eighteen and ten.
Speaker 2: As the Dodgers now thirty eight and twenty one overall
Speaker 2: on this season. They have now won five series in
Speaker 2: a row and now they're on their way to Phoenix
Speaker 2: for a four game series against the Snakes. What Morongo,
Speaker 2: because you know Dodgers on at Getting our cover started
Speaker 2: at five thirty Pacific tomorrow, first pitch six forty mm.
Speaker 2: Shean and Eduardo Ronriguez, the left hander, the pitching matchup
Speaker 2: in the series opener. Until then, have a great safe
Speaker 2: rest of your Sunday afternoon
Speaker 4: And join out there Dodger fans song