WEBVTT - Dodgers on Deck (5-31-26) 0:00:00.480 --> 0:00:03.480 For the back to back World Champions of Baseball. 0:00:03.640 --> 0:00:06.000 One of the greatest runs in the history of baseball. 0:00:06.040 --> 0:00:08.520 Immortality is within their reach. 0:00:08.880 --> 0:00:12.719 Incredible and while others make excuses. 0:00:12.280 --> 0:00:14.440 The only reason the Dodgers are doing this because they 0:00:14.440 --> 0:00:15.400 can they print money. 0:00:15.440 --> 0:00:17.280 The Dodgers just can't continue. 0:00:17.320 --> 0:00:18.120 It's not fair. 0:00:18.280 --> 0:00:19.400 Are making plans. 0:00:20.000 --> 0:00:25.200 Yeah, it's a singular focus on controlling what they can control. 0:00:25.560 --> 0:00:29.320 Now your pregame host of the world champion LA Dodgers, 0:00:29.800 --> 0:00:31.120 tam Cats. 0:00:31.160 --> 0:00:36.000 Hi, everybody, and welcome in to Morongo Casino Dodgers on 0:00:36.159 --> 0:00:40.680 deck on this Sunday, May thirty first, a beautiful day 0:00:40.800 --> 0:00:44.480 in Southern California, as your Los Angeles Dodgers thirty seven 0:00:44.520 --> 0:00:46.840 to twenty one on the season. After taking the series 0:00:46.880 --> 0:00:49.760 opener on Friday night, the Dodgers let one get away 0:00:50.000 --> 0:00:53.240 late last night, inning their six game winning streak. Today 0:00:53.479 --> 0:00:56.520 the rubber game of this three game weekend series against 0:00:56.560 --> 0:01:01.120 the Philadelphia Phillies. Yoshinobu Yamamoto on the mound first pitch 0:01:01.120 --> 0:01:04.080 from Uniclo Field that Dodger stinium is coming up at 0:01:04.160 --> 0:01:06.360 one ten. Between then and now, we got a lot 0:01:06.440 --> 0:01:09.080 to get to here on Marongo Casino Dodgers on deck, 0:01:09.080 --> 0:01:12.480 you're gonna hear from the manager Dave Roberts on his 0:01:12.680 --> 0:01:16.440 birthday today. Happy birthday to Doc as he celebrates his 0:01:16.480 --> 0:01:20.039 fifty fourth birthday today and as the Dodger manager is 0:01:20.720 --> 0:01:23.280 getting here from him. Coming up at about twenty minutes later on, 0:01:23.319 --> 0:01:26.119 we'll hear from Adrian Gonzalez, former Dodger, now with sports 0:01:26.160 --> 0:01:29.240 net LA. David Vassi joins us throughout the hour. We 0:01:29.319 --> 0:01:33.480 got your Dodger's magical moment. Kirsten Watson from sports net LA. 0:01:33.560 --> 0:01:35.280 We'll stop buying just a little bit. We got your 0:01:35.280 --> 0:01:40.840 Otani rewind latest injury news, including the Dodger reliever activated today. 0:01:40.480 --> 0:01:41.440 So that is some good news. 0:01:41.480 --> 0:01:43.080 In just a few minutes, we'll head over to the 0:01:43.120 --> 0:01:46.360 gaping Ford broadcast booth with Steven Nelson and Rick Monday. 0:01:46.400 --> 0:01:48.320 Well, last night, Sasaki had. 0:01:48.200 --> 0:01:53.320 Another strong outing, unfortunately nothing to show for it. Rokie 0:01:53.320 --> 0:01:55.640 Susaki five and a third innings. He allowed one run 0:01:55.680 --> 0:01:58.640 while scattering just three hits, striking out seven along the way. 0:01:58.680 --> 0:02:01.520 The only mistake Sasaki made was in the second again 0:02:01.640 --> 0:02:03.960 a solo home run to Alec Baum, and the Phillies 0:02:03.960 --> 0:02:06.240 had an early one to nothing lead in the bottom 0:02:06.240 --> 0:02:08.880 of the second, Dodgers got that run right back. Will 0:02:08.880 --> 0:02:12.880 Smith the leadoff single, Then Miguel Rojas walked, then Alex 0:02:13.000 --> 0:02:14.400 Call answered the call. 0:02:14.960 --> 0:02:18.080 Another one to two call. With the ground ball base 0:02:18.160 --> 0:02:21.679 heading in the center field, will Smith has the green light, 0:02:22.120 --> 0:02:26.400 throw home cut off and Alex Call ties the game. 0:02:29.680 --> 0:02:32.240 A two strike single right up the gut. 0:02:33.240 --> 0:02:36.239 Harbi single from Alex Call that tied the game in one. 0:02:36.360 --> 0:02:38.480 Then the fourth Call was at it again. He doubled, 0:02:38.480 --> 0:02:40.880 advanced to third on an air and scored on a 0:02:40.919 --> 0:02:45.320 fly ball sackfly from Santiago Espinal, and the Dodgers had 0:02:45.360 --> 0:02:48.079 a two to one lead. The Phillies chased Sasaki in 0:02:48.160 --> 0:02:51.040 the sixth, loading the bases with the one out before 0:02:51.520 --> 0:02:55.040 Alex Vesier came in struck out. Sosa got boomed to 0:02:55.080 --> 0:02:59.040 ground out to Espinal at third. Dodgers avoided disaster there. 0:02:59.200 --> 0:03:02.079 Then the sevenths would add to their lead. Andy Pot 0:03:02.120 --> 0:03:06.320 has a one out double. Two batters later, Mookie Betts. 0:03:05.800 --> 0:03:09.000 Yo two pitch. Mookie flips one toward right field. 0:03:09.040 --> 0:03:09.880 It's a base hit. 0:03:10.360 --> 0:03:11.200 Here comes Pot. 0:03:11.639 --> 0:03:17.600 Here's Garcia's throw the play. Besides Bet, he safe. Mookie 0:03:17.680 --> 0:03:21.040 Betts with an opposite field RBIs single and a two 0:03:21.160 --> 0:03:24.880 strike chunt. It's three one Dodgers, but the Phillies are 0:03:25.000 --> 0:03:28.680 going to challenge, gonna get. 0:03:28.520 --> 0:03:29.239 The call Thurge. 0:03:29.320 --> 0:03:33.799 The call on the field stands runner a safe well 0:03:33.880 --> 0:03:34.160 not to. 0:03:34.280 --> 0:03:38.680 Loc a tell so the call stands in. Mookie Betts 0:03:38.760 --> 0:03:40.400 with a big insurance knock. 0:03:41.080 --> 0:03:44.040 Phillies challenged the outcoll or the safe call at home. 0:03:44.160 --> 0:03:47.920 He was continued to be called safe. Unsuccessful challenge. Mookie 0:03:47.920 --> 0:03:50.320 Betts drives in POZ. That's the top tier play the game, 0:03:50.400 --> 0:03:52.600 brought to you by Arco quality, top tier gas for 0:03:52.720 --> 0:03:55.240 less Dodgers. With a three to one lead, the Dodgers 0:03:55.280 --> 0:03:57.800 bullpen given the task to hang on to that lead. 0:03:57.840 --> 0:04:00.600 Tanner Scott, riding a twelve and a third scoreless any streak, 0:04:00.840 --> 0:04:03.680 got the eighth inning leadoff single. Three batters later, Bryce 0:04:03.720 --> 0:04:05.560 Harper two strike, two out single. 0:04:05.680 --> 0:04:07.360 Scoring a run made it three to two. 0:04:07.400 --> 0:04:10.720 Then the next batter, Tanner Scott had ed Mundo Sosa 0:04:10.960 --> 0:04:14.120 one and two, but left a fastball down the middle 0:04:14.160 --> 0:04:17.240 of the plate. Sosa crushed it for a two run 0:04:17.279 --> 0:04:20.960 home run. The Phillies, with three runs in the eighth inning, 0:04:21.040 --> 0:04:24.239 took a four to three lead. The Dodgers' offense, looking 0:04:24.240 --> 0:04:26.920 for some late inning magic of their own, win quietly 0:04:26.960 --> 0:04:29.760 in the eighth, in quietly again in the ninth as 0:04:29.760 --> 0:04:32.599 the Dodgers last night last night four to three, their 0:04:32.680 --> 0:04:34.599 six game winning streak comes to an end, with the 0:04:34.640 --> 0:04:37.280 Padres also losing, though the Dodgers remained four and a 0:04:37.320 --> 0:04:38.039 half games up in. 0:04:38.040 --> 0:04:38.760 The NL West. 0:04:38.800 --> 0:04:41.560 Today, New day, new game and a chance to win 0:04:41.600 --> 0:04:45.240 the series against Philadelphia. Yoshinobu Yamamoto on the mount in 0:04:45.240 --> 0:04:47.760 the series finale, first pitch at one ten and with more. 0:04:47.920 --> 0:04:50.159 We head over to the gaping Ford Broadcast booth on 0:04:50.200 --> 0:04:52.719 this Sunday afternoon as we welcome in Stephen Nelson and 0:04:52.880 --> 0:04:53.480 Rick Monday. 0:04:53.480 --> 0:04:54.200 Guys. 0:04:54.520 --> 0:04:57.919 All right, tim Series Finale, Home stand finale and the 0:04:58.000 --> 0:05:00.440 rubber match for the Dodgers today as they take on 0:05:00.480 --> 0:05:05.120 the Phillies. Yoshinobu Yamamoto against Andrew Painter, the touted rookie 0:05:05.680 --> 0:05:07.359 who's been off to a little bit of a rocky 0:05:07.400 --> 0:05:10.359 start in his rookie year. But the Dodgers got punched 0:05:10.400 --> 0:05:13.039 in the mouth last night. The bullpen was sort of 0:05:13.120 --> 0:05:15.480 due for a speed bump in Tanner Scott, who had 0:05:15.520 --> 0:05:19.000 been really terrific all season long had his first real 0:05:19.080 --> 0:05:22.359 hiccup last night, and now the season, or the series rather. 0:05:22.279 --> 0:05:24.600 Is even, and it really came out of the out 0:05:24.600 --> 0:05:27.560 of the blue. I mean, Scott, you look at it. 0:05:28.120 --> 0:05:31.599 He had the hitter zero to two at one point, 0:05:31.680 --> 0:05:33.760 then at one two and the fastball it was elevated 0:05:33.839 --> 0:05:36.000 hit out of the ballpark. But you know, the Dodgers, 0:05:37.080 --> 0:05:40.080 they came from behind to begin with, in order to 0:05:40.160 --> 0:05:42.400 tie the game in the second ending after the Phillies 0:05:42.440 --> 0:05:45.560 took the lead with an Alec Bohm home run in 0:05:45.600 --> 0:05:47.839 the second inning. Overall, I mean, this has been a 0:05:47.839 --> 0:05:50.039 good home stand the Dodgers in the Phillies. The Phillies, 0:05:50.080 --> 0:05:52.800 by the way, did not take them for granted. You know, 0:05:52.839 --> 0:05:54.800 they may be nine and a half behind the Atlanta 0:05:54.880 --> 0:05:56.719 Raised in the Eastern Division of the National League. You 0:05:56.760 --> 0:05:59.200 start to look at what they've done recently. They have 0:05:59.360 --> 0:06:02.760 won now eleven of the last thirteen is says Don 0:06:02.800 --> 0:06:06.440 Manningly took over the helm of the Philadelphia Phillies. 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For 0:06:28.760 --> 0:06:30.920 the Dodgers, you know, there's still four and a half 0:06:30.960 --> 0:06:33.800 games clear in the National League West and have still 0:06:33.839 --> 0:06:37.640 won thirteen of their last sixteen games entering today, and 0:06:37.720 --> 0:06:40.359 the fact remains moved that the series is still in 0:06:40.400 --> 0:06:42.440 front of them. Well, Tani's on bay streak now at 0:06:42.440 --> 0:06:45.360 fifteen games. Andy Pajis continues to swing a good bat. 0:06:45.400 --> 0:06:48.559 Mookie bats had a three hit night. I know last 0:06:48.600 --> 0:06:51.080 night's stung, but certainly not the end. 0:06:51.040 --> 0:06:52.680 Of the world given where the Dodgers are at No. 0:06:52.720 --> 0:06:54.800 And I thought there was also some good defense really 0:06:54.880 --> 0:06:57.720 on both sides of the playing last night. There's been 0:06:57.800 --> 0:07:00.719 a terrific series in the first two games. Games expected 0:07:00.720 --> 0:07:02.120 a little bit more and it's going to be a 0:07:02.160 --> 0:07:04.320 little bit different as far as Dave Roberts lineup, because 0:07:04.400 --> 0:07:07.159 Ryan Ward is going to start in left field today, 0:07:07.279 --> 0:07:10.000 Dalton rushing behind the plate doing the catching, So a 0:07:10.000 --> 0:07:12.760 little bit of a different look in the Dodgers lineup 0:07:13.480 --> 0:07:13.960 real quick. 0:07:14.280 --> 0:07:16.840 Any word of advice you would give to Ryan Ward 0:07:16.880 --> 0:07:19.080 in his second sent We saw him make his debut 0:07:19.280 --> 0:07:21.440 in Colorado in the middle of April, had a couple 0:07:21.480 --> 0:07:23.520 of hits and showed a good presence. Then he went 0:07:23.560 --> 0:07:26.160 back down to OKAC and kind of struggled a little bit. 0:07:26.160 --> 0:07:26.920 So what would you tell him? 0:07:27.240 --> 0:07:31.320 You can't get four hits with one swing, one swing 0:07:31.360 --> 0:07:33.440 at a time, one pitches at a time. 0:07:33.480 --> 0:07:34.080 On top of. 0:07:34.040 --> 0:07:36.160 It, he's gotten a taste of what it takes here. 0:07:36.160 --> 0:07:38.160 He's gotten a taste of what he needed to improve upon. 0:07:38.520 --> 0:07:40.880 Now just be yourself. 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Even 0:10:03.559 --> 0:10:06.880 Dave Roberts was saying that whenever he's out there, there 0:10:06.960 --> 0:10:09.520 is just a certainty of a performance that we have 0:10:09.600 --> 0:10:11.440 come to expect. We know he's going to get deep 0:10:11.440 --> 0:10:14.160 into the games. We know that he's going to find. 0:10:13.960 --> 0:10:14.920 Ways to be efficient. 0:10:15.160 --> 0:10:17.720 Even when he might have a tough first inning of work, 0:10:17.840 --> 0:10:20.240 he's going to bounce back. That's the tone that he 0:10:20.400 --> 0:10:22.600 has set for himself. That is the guy that he 0:10:22.640 --> 0:10:25.920 has shown us who he is. And so when you 0:10:26.000 --> 0:10:29.079 have a player who's looking at his numbers, he's now 0:10:29.200 --> 0:10:34.160 had thirteen appearances in which he has gone six or 0:10:33.840 --> 0:10:35.760 more in or seven or more innings of work, I 0:10:35.760 --> 0:10:38.240 should say he's done that four times this year already. 0:10:38.240 --> 0:10:42.240 And what that does is that just puts everyone in 0:10:42.280 --> 0:10:44.400 a really good spot when it comes to the rotation, 0:10:44.480 --> 0:10:46.600 when it comes to the pitching staff, it supports the bullpen, 0:10:46.760 --> 0:10:49.160 allowing for to see less guys come out of there 0:10:49.240 --> 0:10:51.680 to protect them, and so it just has such a 0:10:51.679 --> 0:10:54.360 bigger impact. And Dave was saying, you know, this is 0:10:54.400 --> 0:10:57.440 who Yoshinobu, who has made a name for himself as, 0:10:57.440 --> 0:10:59.200 and this is who he is moving forward. So The 0:10:59.200 --> 0:11:01.720 hope today is you can just set the tone seming 0:11:01.760 --> 0:11:03.920 up of a really strong outing in Milwaukee. He finally 0:11:03.960 --> 0:11:07.280 got that run support that we have been missing. But yeah, 0:11:07.360 --> 0:11:08.920 hopefully and keep it going today. 0:11:09.040 --> 0:11:09.560 Keep it going. 0:11:09.720 --> 0:11:12.640 What Rookie Sasaki did last night with his six plus 0:11:12.720 --> 0:11:15.520 innings was really strong. Had to lead left the game. 0:11:15.520 --> 0:11:18.000 The Dodgers bullpen gave it up. Unfortunately those three runs 0:11:18.000 --> 0:11:19.640 in the eighth inning. But you kind of feel like 0:11:19.760 --> 0:11:22.080 this rotation starting and getting into a groove. 0:11:22.040 --> 0:11:24.640 They are and what we were able to see from 0:11:24.679 --> 0:11:27.800 Rokie Sasaki not only has just his confidence evolved the 0:11:27.880 --> 0:11:30.840 last I think it's fair to say like four outings, 0:11:31.280 --> 0:11:35.079 but he's now in a position he's made some mechanical changes. 0:11:35.080 --> 0:11:37.400 He's worked through his pitch mix. He added the slider 0:11:37.480 --> 0:11:40.920 this offseason. 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Tyler Glasnow on the IL lower back spasms. 0:13:53.040 --> 0:13:56.000 Blake Snell sixty day il after surgery and removed the 0:13:56.040 --> 0:13:58.480 bodies from his elbow. Rock Stewart on the il with 0:13:58.559 --> 0:14:00.920 the left bone spur and and of course Edwin Dia 0:14:00.960 --> 0:14:03.200 is working his way back. Tommy Vans in Triple Oklahoma 0:14:03.280 --> 0:14:05.319 City now for almost a week playing in some minor 0:14:05.400 --> 0:14:07.800 league rehab the games as he is working his way 0:14:07.880 --> 0:14:10.719 back from that off season ankle surgery. All right, we 0:14:10.840 --> 0:14:13.640 head back downstairs. The birthday boy, the manager Dave Roberts. 0:14:15.160 --> 0:14:17.040 Dave, do you think questions for Dave? 0:14:17.160 --> 0:14:19.240 Dave? Can you just describe Dave? 0:14:19.320 --> 0:14:22.720 Can you talk about the pressure in the dugouts with 0:14:23.000 --> 0:14:23.800 Dave Roberts? 0:14:24.640 --> 0:14:28.600 You know what I like the prospects of winning a 0:14:28.640 --> 0:14:31.520 baseball game. Seems like I play all we always play 0:14:31.560 --> 0:14:34.560 on my birthday. Yeah, No, it's just like any other day. 0:14:34.600 --> 0:14:37.120 I think that it's kind of a little bit of gratitude, obviously, 0:14:37.280 --> 0:14:39.960 but I hope to win a series and then travel 0:14:40.000 --> 0:14:41.280 to travel to the desert. 0:14:42.400 --> 0:14:45.600 I should amount today when you look at what he's 0:14:45.640 --> 0:14:47.880 been able to do this year, as much as maybe 0:14:47.880 --> 0:14:49.640 he hasn't been a sharpest at times, but he's still 0:14:49.680 --> 0:14:51.720 able to provide quiet a lot of play. What does 0:14:51.760 --> 0:14:54.440 that just do not only on the start days before 0:14:54.600 --> 0:14:56.840 this rotation, and even especially when you're in a stretch 0:14:57.000 --> 0:14:58.040 like now, when you guys. 0:14:57.880 --> 0:14:59.040 Do have like test straight. 0:15:01.120 --> 0:15:05.280 You know, I think it's a certainty of performance. 0:15:07.360 --> 0:15:10.200 You know, it's uh, you know, having a guy like Yoshinobu, 0:15:10.800 --> 0:15:12.480 you know, take the ball, it just gives you that 0:15:12.640 --> 0:15:15.200 extra confidence. And you're trying to win a series against 0:15:15.200 --> 0:15:17.680 a good team in the midst of ten in a row. 0:15:18.040 --> 0:15:23.280 So there's just a lot of dependability with him. So yeah, 0:15:23.520 --> 0:15:26.240 I mean I think that just how he is as 0:15:26.280 --> 0:15:30.480 a person, how he is as a competitor, how he prepares. 0:15:30.600 --> 0:15:33.840 I mean, this guy is. You can't write up a 0:15:33.960 --> 0:15:36.440 person or an athlete any better, you really can't. You know. 0:15:36.680 --> 0:15:41.760 There's enough softness and discipline, but the toughness and the 0:15:41.920 --> 0:15:43.040 killer that we talk about. 0:15:43.160 --> 0:15:45.960 So I could go on for a long time about him. 0:15:46.200 --> 0:15:48.920 Do you think you saw or you learn a dependability 0:15:48.960 --> 0:15:49.440 about him? 0:15:51.680 --> 0:15:59.440 I think it happened a little bit a little bit 0:15:59.560 --> 0:15:59.960 last year. 0:16:00.360 --> 0:16:02.400 I started somewhere in the middle of last year where 0:16:02.480 --> 0:16:05.280 you could just I didn't have to I didn't feel 0:16:05.280 --> 0:16:07.200 like I had to protect him, you know, when it 0:16:07.320 --> 0:16:12.920 got hot third time through you know, stressful early and 0:16:13.000 --> 0:16:16.400 then stress again. Felt like he could get through it 0:16:16.480 --> 0:16:18.720 and weather it and keep going. And so I don't 0:16:18.760 --> 0:16:21.240 recall which moment it was, but at that point in 0:16:21.240 --> 0:16:23.080 time he felt like, Okay, you know, you can take 0:16:23.120 --> 0:16:23.960 the training moves off. 0:16:24.560 --> 0:16:26.520 All right, there's a manager, Dave Roberts down to the 0:16:26.600 --> 0:16:29.480 dugout talking to the media again. Happy birthday fifty four 0:16:29.600 --> 0:16:32.320 years old to Dave Roberts. So we continue here on 0:16:32.400 --> 0:16:35.200 Wrongco Casino Dodgers on deck. 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This season, 0:17:49.760 --> 0:17:53.560 including spring training, he made five starts. He threw twenty 0:17:53.640 --> 0:17:58.520 eight innings and hitters only hit two hundred against Roki Sasaki, 0:17:58.960 --> 0:18:02.640 and the strikeout to walk ratio was phenomenal. He had 0:18:02.760 --> 0:18:07.320 twenty four strikeouts only six walks. Last night was indicative 0:18:07.400 --> 0:18:11.639 of that. Sasaki had seven strikeouts and one walk. 0:18:11.680 --> 0:18:16.040 And through eighty four pitches. Here's another part of the equation. 0:18:16.840 --> 0:18:19.480 The pace that he's pitching with is a lot better 0:18:19.560 --> 0:18:21.600 than where it was at the beginning of the year. 0:18:21.720 --> 0:18:24.480 Because I don't know if you looked into this the 0:18:24.520 --> 0:18:27.840 way we did, Tim, but early on in this season, 0:18:28.040 --> 0:18:32.080 virtually every Sasaki start was three hours long for a 0:18:32.160 --> 0:18:35.920 couple of reasons. He couldn't throw strikes, and his pace 0:18:36.040 --> 0:18:40.560 to pitch, even with a pitch clock, was extremely slow. 0:18:41.160 --> 0:18:44.440 Dave Roberts actually told Sasaki to look at some game 0:18:44.520 --> 0:18:47.760 tape of Kevin Gossman of the Blue Jays to be 0:18:47.920 --> 0:18:50.520 able to see how he pitches at a pace of 0:18:50.640 --> 0:18:53.800 play that is better for himself and the rest of 0:18:53.880 --> 0:18:54.240 the team. 0:18:54.680 --> 0:18:55.679 Part of the reason why. 0:18:55.640 --> 0:18:59.000 Dave told me that he had Gossman on his mind 0:18:59.119 --> 0:19:04.000