Speaker 1: The quest for the three peat has begne.
Speaker 2: Only four teams in Major League Baseball history have won
Speaker 2: three consecutive titles. The Dodgers are the favorites to become
Speaker 2: the fifth.
Speaker 1: This is World Champion Dodger Talk.
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Speaker 1: On the show called eight six six, not eighty seven
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Speaker 1: Last day.
Speaker 2: What a night in San Diego, an electric playoff like
Speaker 2: atmosphere tonight as the Dodgers come from behind to beat
Speaker 2: the Padres five to four. Welcome the Dodger Talk David
Speaker 2: Vase with you until eleven o'clock tonight here on AM
Speaker 2: five to seventy LA Sports. We will get postgame reaction.
Speaker 2: You will hear from Eric Lower, the newest Dodger and
Speaker 2: the former Padre, and we'll share with you part of
Speaker 2: our pre conversation with Miguel Rojas, who is leaving the
Speaker 2: door a crack open. It sounds like to maybe come
Speaker 2: back and play next year if things line up the
Speaker 2: right way. So we'll get to all that, but let's
Speaker 2: start with this game because the first two matchups between
Speaker 2: these two teams picked up where it left off last year.
Speaker 2: It's playoff like atmosphere. I know it's may. I know
Speaker 2: there's one hundred and ten games left, but thirty nine
Speaker 2: thousand plus made it seem like there was fifty thousand
Speaker 2: plus at Peco Park tonight. And I there are a
Speaker 2: few different labels I can give this game. When Freddy
Speaker 2: Freeman hit his second home run of the game off
Speaker 2: of Jeremiah Estrada in the sixth inning to tie the game,
Speaker 2: I was going to label this the Freddie Flu game.
Speaker 1: You know me.
Speaker 2: You know how many times I tell you in October
Speaker 2: in the playoffs, how many regular season games do you remember? Well,
Speaker 2: this would have been one of them, and this will
Speaker 2: be one of them for a lot of different reasons,
Speaker 2: especially that ninth inning. But I was gonna call this
Speaker 2: the Freddy Flu game because I feel like I can
Speaker 2: say this now. Freddy told me before the game that
Speaker 2: he had a fever the last two days and the
Speaker 2: fever broke today and he was still dealing with some
Speaker 2: chills and not really feeling great, but feeling better than
Speaker 2: what he did the previous two days. So I was
Speaker 2: going to call this the Freddy Flu game with two
Speaker 2: home runs tonight, a two run shot off of Griffin
Speaker 2: Canning in the first inning and a game tying home
Speaker 2: run against Jeremiah Estrada. And then we saw what happened
Speaker 2: in the ninth inning tonight, and before we got to
Speaker 2: the ninth inning, not only Freddy's to a game tying
Speaker 2: home run, but how about Tanner Scott coming in with
Speaker 2: men on base in the seventh inning with two outs
Speaker 2: and he gets the Dodgers out of that jam and
Speaker 2: then comes back to pay a scoreless eighth inning, And
Speaker 2: it just showed that Dave Roberts understood the game was
Speaker 2: on the line in the seventh inning. If the Padres
Speaker 2: take the lead right there, it's lights out with this bullpen,
Speaker 2: you would have to believe. But that's why Dave Roberts
Speaker 2: brought in his highest leverage relief pitcher in that spot,
Speaker 2: and Tanner Scott delivered in the seventh inning to get
Speaker 2: them out of that jam and then pitched a scoreless
Speaker 2: eighth inning. And you're wondering, Okay, who's pitching the ninth
Speaker 2: Is it Kyle Hurt or is it Will Kline. Well,
Speaker 2: it turned out to be Will Klein, who picked up
Speaker 2: his first career saved tonight, retiring the Padres in order.
Speaker 2: So Tanner Scott wins his first game since last June.
Speaker 2: And by the way, this is only Tanner Scott's second
Speaker 2: win in relief for the Dodgers since he joined them
Speaker 2: last year. We all know it was a disaster last year.
Speaker 2: Nobody knows it more than Tanner Scott. He's acknowledged that
Speaker 2: different times. But for the Dodgers to come back, Okay,
Speaker 2: full disclosure right here. When Dave Roberts brought in Alex
Speaker 2: Call to pinch run for Max Munsey, I was thinking
Speaker 2: I wouldn't have done that because Max Munsey is one
Speaker 2: of the best Dodger base runners. But obviously Dave Roberts
Speaker 2: had something else in mind where he was going to
Speaker 2: force the issue to have Alex Call run. I don't
Speaker 2: see Max Munsey stealing any bases and Call obviously he
Speaker 2: has a lot of spirit, but I would say sometimes
Speaker 2: maybe not the best base runner. And you saw him
Speaker 2: kind of get hung out to dry going first move,
Speaker 2: but he forced Mason Miller to make a mistake and
Speaker 2: Ty Frantz, who's only five to ten couldn't grab an
Speaker 2: er and throw and Call was off to the races
Speaker 2: and then Call made a great base running play. By
Speaker 2: the way he slid at home plate on the sacrifice
Speaker 2: fly from Andy Pie haz and Pie has. What can
Speaker 2: you say about him? What a tremendous year. He's on
Speaker 2: his way to the All Star Game with gold Glove
Speaker 2: defense in center field, being one of the best hitters
Speaker 2: in the National League as far as RBIs go, he's
Speaker 2: right at the top top two. Coming into tonight a
Speaker 2: ninth pitch at bat against Mason Miller, Keyky Hernandez all
Speaker 2: the way in Oklahoma City, posting on his Instagram story
Speaker 2: saluting Andy Pajez for fighting off eight pitches to get
Speaker 2: the one he could drive to the outfield. So can't
Speaker 2: say enough about how the Dodgers came from behind and
Speaker 2: Max Munsey give him a lot of credit because last
Speaker 2: night the inning change, when Mason Miller was able to
Speaker 2: get the abs on his side against Will Smith, it
Speaker 2: would have been a two to le count.
Speaker 3: Instead it was one to one.
Speaker 2: Well, Max Munsey worked a full count, a slider down
Speaker 2: and away was called strike. Three months he was on
Speaker 2: his way to first base and tapped his helmet and
Speaker 2: he was right and that got the ninth inning rally
Speaker 2: going eight six six eight seven seventy is the phone number.
Speaker 2: You've heard enough from me. We'll get to Alex call
Speaker 2: again and uh, certainly a great win for the Dodgers
Speaker 2: tonight against a very good and scrappy Padres team. Let's
Speaker 2: go out to Marcos who is at Petco Park tonight.
Speaker 2: Hi Marcos, you're on Dodger Talk.
Speaker 4: Hey Dave, thanks for taking my call.
Speaker 3: A pleasure. Where were you sitting, Dave?
Speaker 4: I was sitting on the top deck.
Speaker 3: I was top TechDay.
Speaker 4: Yeah, behind no plate.
Speaker 3: Atmosphere with the top deck, I would imagine.
Speaker 4: Oh electric. That's one thing that I do have to
Speaker 4: give it to Peco Field. They do have a great
Speaker 4: did They do do a good job of keeping the
Speaker 4: fans engaged electric tonight. But two things, Dave, I have
Speaker 4: to say. I have to give a shout out to
Speaker 4: Dave on that call to have Alex call no no
Speaker 4: pun intended uh to pinch run for for Max Monty.
Speaker 4: I think that without Alex call being base that play,
Speaker 4: that run wouldn't have happened. And also that long app
Speaker 4: that's for sure, Andy payees do you think that because
Speaker 4: of that long at bat, Mason Miller is pretty much
Speaker 4: not gonna be available tomorrow.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I don't see him pitching tomorrow because he threw twenty
Speaker 2: two pitches last night and then had to really work
Speaker 2: in tonight's game as well. Let's see how many pitches
Speaker 2: he threw intnight's game. Mason Miller threw twenty two pitches
Speaker 2: tonight as well, So I don't I don't see him
Speaker 2: pitching tomorrow.
Speaker 3: And that's a great point.
Speaker 2: You take Mason Miller out of the equation tomorrow night,
Speaker 2: but you hope that the Dodgers have the lead in
Speaker 2: the ninth inning and he's not even He wouldn't have
Speaker 2: been a factory either way. But yeah, I don't see
Speaker 2: him pitching tomorrow night with the number of pitches twenty
Speaker 2: two each of the last two nights. Great call by you, Marcos.
Speaker 2: Thank you for the phone call. Eight six six seven
Speaker 2: two five seventy is the phone number.
Speaker 3: Let's go out.
Speaker 2: Downtown, Manny. You're on Dodger Talk. How you doing, Manny.
Speaker 3: DV.
Speaker 5: It's always a great day when we beat the little
Speaker 5: Brothers from down South, So it's I'm loving it. So
Speaker 5: a couple of honorable mentions. Tonight Freddy two home runs
Speaker 5: he had you know, he had the flu. Tipping my
Speaker 5: cap to him, my Dodger cap. Freddy, You're the man.
Speaker 4: We love you.
Speaker 5: My second honorable mention is gonna have to be Andy Paez.
Speaker 5: He's obviously having just a breakout year. He's just continuing
Speaker 5: his dominance from last season and now he's actually going
Speaker 5: to carry over into the All Star Game. So it's
Speaker 5: good to see those guys clicking. But my main star
Speaker 5: of the night, the you know, doesn't get talked about
Speaker 5: too much, but you mentioned him. So I'm glad Kenner Scott.
Speaker 5: He received so much hate last year, and I get it.
Speaker 5: He didn't really show up and he wasn't that guy
Speaker 5: that we thought we signed, but comes into the game.
Speaker 5: Just something about him. When I see this guy pitching
Speaker 5: and he's like lining up to throw that ball, he
Speaker 5: just looks locked in and he just definitely bailed the
Speaker 5: Dodgers out tonight, Tenner. We love you, baby. I'm so
Speaker 5: glad to see what I'm watching. And Mason Miller first
Speaker 5: career throwing error, that's a huge one. That's the reason
Speaker 5: why we won the game.
Speaker 2: Yes, it is an unforced throwing error. No reason to
Speaker 2: even throw over there. Obviously, Call he had a feeling
Speaker 2: that Caul was going on first move and he was
Speaker 2: able to catch him and hang him out to dry.
Speaker 2: But he made a bad pickoff throw in Ty Frantz,
Speaker 2: who's not the best.
Speaker 3: I'll just say he's not.
Speaker 2: Freddy Freeman at first base couldn't grab that throw that
Speaker 2: went into right field. That's where Fernando Tatist Junior, after
Speaker 2: starting at second base, moved out to and he had
Speaker 2: no chance to get Call because the ball was like
Speaker 2: a Plinko chip down there off the wall and Alex
Speaker 2: Call was at third base.
Speaker 3: So a really good base running play by Alex Call.
Speaker 3: I guess. I mean, once you go first move, you
Speaker 3: don't freeze, you just go.
Speaker 2: And maybe when he froze it kind of made Mason
Speaker 2: Miller freak out a little bit and you know, think
Speaker 2: about his throat at first space a little bit too much.
Speaker 2: But closers like Mason Miller don't really throw over there
Speaker 2: too often. They're usually just focused on getting the guy
Speaker 2: at the plate. I had a chance to catch up
Speaker 2: with Alex Call after he scored the goal I had
Speaker 2: run in the ninth inning. Here's what the Dodgers pinch
Speaker 2: runner had to say about everything that took place in
Speaker 2: the ninth inning tonight.
Speaker 6: Yeah. Well, first credit to months great at back getting
Speaker 6: on base. They're coming in, you know, green light there,
Speaker 6: so you know we're willing to uh, you know, obviously
Speaker 6: you don't want to be stupid, but trust the scouting,
Speaker 6: trust the trust your eyes, and you know, got the
Speaker 6: look that we wanted and you know ended up. You know,
Speaker 6: there's a reason why. I guess he's only got a
Speaker 6: couple of picks in the last few years. But yeah,
Speaker 6: I mean, lucky when you work out in your favorite Alex.
Speaker 7: Let's go to the point where you scored the goal.
Speaker 7: I had run there in the ninth thinning, sacrifice fly
Speaker 7: by Andy Paez close plate the plate, the ball was
Speaker 7: cut off for some reason, and you got your foot
Speaker 7: on home plate emphatically when you're getting closer to home plate.
Speaker 7: Obviously with the new rules, what are you thinking there?
Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean I put my head down to try
Speaker 6: to get as fast as I could run a straight line.
Speaker 6: You know, I saw Tatis coming in charging the ball.
Speaker 6: I know he's got a great arm, so I knew
Speaker 6: he was gonna be close. I actually didn't see it
Speaker 6: get cut, and I didn't know it was cut until they,
Speaker 6: you know, told me in the in the dugout. But
Speaker 6: I had a lane to slide and was able to
Speaker 6: just kind of sneak my foot in there. So that
Speaker 6: was that was all I was thinking.
Speaker 2: Always ready. What a game for you guys to come
Speaker 2: back tonight.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean, awesome game and Freddy beautiful. It's a
Speaker 6: couple of swings, you know, getting this going, grinding and
Speaker 6: out and then yeah, just a total team effort. Bullpen
Speaker 6: did a great job, you know, great, great job by
Speaker 6: our boys.
Speaker 3: Thanks for stopping great base running.
Speaker 6: Thanks day.
Speaker 3: Once he's taking all the credit, I mean he can
Speaker 3: take it.
Speaker 2: You can tell you Alex call deserves the credit. I
Speaker 2: was just joking. And Miguel Rojas, I don't know if
Speaker 2: you heard him walking by saying talk about his wheels.
Speaker 2: So everybody happy in that Dodger clubhouse after a come
Speaker 2: from behind victory against the Padres five to four tonight
Speaker 2: at Peco Park, and the Padres came into this game
Speaker 2: with the best record in baseball in one or two
Speaker 2: run games. They were fourteen and five coming into the
Speaker 2: game tonight in games that were decided by one or
Speaker 2: two runs. Now their record is fourteen and six. Tonight's
Speaker 2: game brought to you by Modello Modello the mark of
Speaker 2: a fighter. Let's go out to see me, Valley Ben.
Speaker 2: Hope you're safe out there with the Sandy fire. So
Speaker 2: hopefully the Dodgers took some distraction away from all that.
Speaker 8: Yes, thank you. Yeah, I'm a good distance away from
Speaker 8: the fires, but I appreciate that.
Speaker 4: Get into.
Speaker 8: Thank you. Yeah. I could be mistaken, David, but I
Speaker 8: think I remember you saying, like earlier in the year,
Speaker 8: Pa has when he practices on like the virtual reality
Speaker 8: pitching machine, that like he puts it on the setting
Speaker 8: of Mason Miller. Is that correct.
Speaker 2: I don't know if it's specifically Mason Miller. That was
Speaker 2: not me that said that. Maybe Joe Davis talked about that,
Speaker 2: but I know in spring training and leading up to
Speaker 2: spring training, Andy Pa has worked on that virtual they
Speaker 2: call it the Project machine, where it simulates the picture
Speaker 2: on this big screen and then the pitching machine throws
Speaker 2: the pitch that is duplicating what you would see in
Speaker 2: a game from that picture. And he was working on
Speaker 2: not chasing pitches outside the strike zone. So not even
Speaker 2: trying to swing, just making sure he was being disciplined
Speaker 2: in the strike zone. And that's been the biggest difference
Speaker 2: from a year ago. We've seen a more disciplined pie
Speaker 2: Haz at the plate.
Speaker 8: Yeah, absolutely, I agree that at that was incredible. I mean,
Speaker 8: ten pitches, but he was filing off those one hundred
Speaker 8: mile an out plus heaters. I was impressed. He got
Speaker 8: the job done, didn't that sack fly? You know, it
Speaker 8: wasn't trying too hard to be the hero, but he
Speaker 8: ended up, you know, getting redemption from I think last
Speaker 8: night he struck out against Miller, so I don't.
Speaker 3: Say it's redemption.
Speaker 2: I mean, come on, a lot of guys strike out
Speaker 2: against Mason Miller. Be safe out there, Ben, But yeah,
Speaker 2: it was a good night for Andy pie Has And
Speaker 2: it's been a great first two and a half months
Speaker 2: of the season for Andy pi Has.
Speaker 3: He puts in a lot of work.
Speaker 2: Him and Alex call are usually the two position players
Speaker 2: I see out on the field before every game, working
Speaker 2: with Dino Ebol and Dino is definitely a guy that
Speaker 2: has played a big part in piz his growth and maturity,
Speaker 2: so as Teoscar Hernandez. So happy to see it for
Speaker 2: a guy that puts in a lot of work and
Speaker 2: has come from the minor leagues to the major leagues
Speaker 2: and made a big impact in his first two seasons
Speaker 2: in the big leagues. And Andy pa has and who
Speaker 2: could forget his catch against Ernie Clement knocking over Key
Speaker 2: k Hernandez in game seven to two eight six six
Speaker 2: seven two five seventy is the phone number. We have
Speaker 2: two lines open. We're gonna take a time out. When
Speaker 2: we come back, your phone calls. Plus you'll hear from
Speaker 2: Miguel Rojas about whether or not he's leaving the door
Speaker 2: open for next year. And you'll hear from the newest Dodger,
Speaker 2: Eric Lauer, who is going to be inserted into the
Speaker 2: rotation next week. Don't go anywhere more Dodger Talk live
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Speaker 2: from behind him beat the Padres five to four on
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Speaker 3: Freeman Swings It.
Speaker 1: Hits one high in the air to deep brightfield.
Speaker 3: This game is tied.
Speaker 9: Freddie Freeman with his second home run of the game,
Speaker 9: and now we got a brand new game tied at four.
Speaker 2: Freddie Freeman with two home runs tonight that was off
Speaker 2: of Jeremiah Estrada in the sixth inning. The twenty third
Speaker 2: time in Freddy's Hall of Fame career that he has
Speaker 2: hit two home runs in a game. And he had
Speaker 2: the flu and has had the flu, so it was
Speaker 2: the Freddie flu game that certainly he performed at a
Speaker 2: high level to help the Dodgers tie the game and
Speaker 2: be in position to come from behind to be the Padres.
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Speaker 2: The Dodgers beat the Padres tonight five to four, and
Speaker 2: they have show Hao Tani on the mound tomorrow night
Speaker 2: to try to go for the series win. And I
Speaker 2: would say they're in a very good position for that.
Speaker 2: Let's go back out to the phones, Heather in Utah.
Speaker 2: You're on Dodger Talk Live from San Diego. How you doing, Heather?
Speaker 10: So good, So good to hear your voice, Dave. I
Speaker 10: haven't told any of this season, so personally calling in
Speaker 10: it was such an epic game. I can resist. So
Speaker 10: good to hear your voice. I just kind of reiterating
Speaker 10: the you know, everything that's been said that that was
Speaker 10: just such a good team win, especially at the end
Speaker 10: when you've got Max Monkey Chell that look that call
Speaker 10: strike to line that up getting I mean, you've got
Speaker 10: to give Dave his flowers for putting Alex Collin. I
Speaker 10: know you said you didn't agree with that, and I
Speaker 10: was kind of with you. I was like, oh, hopefully
Speaker 10: that's a good call, and he's nuck in there and
Speaker 10: he he's poured off of that rare throw throwing her
Speaker 10: for Mason Miller and so one incredible playoff like game
Speaker 10: during May. And as much as I do not like
Speaker 10: the Padres, I got to give it to him for
Speaker 10: bringing this awesome playoff atmosphere and really letting these two
Speaker 10: rivals kind of elevate May baseball.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I love it.
Speaker 2: The Dodgers really haven't had anybody else pushed them in
Speaker 2: this division over the course of the last fifteen years
Speaker 2: outside of the Padres and one year of the Giants.
Speaker 3: So it's great for baseball.
Speaker 2: And I'm glad the Padres have a new owner that
Speaker 2: seems to be committed to continue to do what Peter
Speaker 2: Seidler started here in San Diego. So it's good for BA.
Speaker 2: But the Dodgers may just have a little too much,
Speaker 2: but certainly a great night here in San Diego. Great
Speaker 2: first two nights in San Diego. It came down to
Speaker 2: the final out each of the first two nights, and
Speaker 2: I wouldn't expect anything less tomorrow night. Let's take one
Speaker 2: more phone call before we hear from Eric Lauer and
Speaker 2: Miguel Rojas. Misa in Pasadena. You're on Dodger Talk.
Speaker 3: Hi, Misa, Hey, what's up DV.
Speaker 11: I just want to talk about Freddie Freeman his ad bat.
Speaker 11: I remember you just saying something about it. He was
Speaker 11: showing his age, but I disagree with that today. You
Speaker 11: know he was he took the ball deep and so
Speaker 11: happy to see that. And I also I want to
Speaker 11: give a big shout out to Mason Miller for throwing
Speaker 11: that pitch why to first base and having.
Speaker 8: Adx co advanced to therapase.
Speaker 4: Cool moment.
Speaker 3: Where are you at me? So you taking a late
Speaker 3: night walk listening to us?
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, definitely, I hear you a.
Speaker 3: Little out of breath right there, Misa.
Speaker 2: Yeah, thank you for sticking with us and certainly a
Speaker 2: big night all around. And look, Freddie Freeman had a
Speaker 2: big night tonight, even battling the flu. It was a
Speaker 2: good matchup for him tonight in Griffin Canning, but it
Speaker 2: was impressive for him to hit a ninety six fastball
Speaker 2: off of Jeremiah Estrada and the Dodgers, for whatever reason,
Speaker 2: have Estrada's number. That's not an intimidating guy for them.
Speaker 2: Must be a comfortable at bat, even though he does
Speaker 2: throw upwards of ninety six miles an hour, because they
Speaker 2: got to him last year as well. So that was
Speaker 2: a That was a big hit, the biggest of the
Speaker 2: two home runs for Freddie Freeman tonight in the sixth
Speaker 2: inning to tie the game. Eight six six seven two
Speaker 2: five seventy is the phone number. Speaking of having a
Speaker 2: team's number, Eric Lower former padre former Brewer and now
Speaker 2: former Blue Jay in his regular season career, has a
Speaker 2: record of seven and two with an elra have two
Speaker 2: ninety three against the Dodgers. Safe to say he was
Speaker 2: a Dodger killer in San Diego Milwaukee, and even in
Speaker 2: last year's World Series, the Dodgers couldn't do a lot
Speaker 2: of much of anything against him. He actually was going
Speaker 2: toe to toe or trying to go toe to toe
Speaker 2: with the Dodgers in Game three and that eighteen in
Speaker 2: an affair, and the Dodgers made the trade for Lower
Speaker 2: on Sunday after, you know, a disappointing start to his
Speaker 2: year with the Blue Jays.
Speaker 3: Six starts Elray over six.
Speaker 2: But here's an interesting connection that we found out today
Speaker 2: between Eric Lower and the Dodgers. There's one guy, Mark Pryor,
Speaker 2: the Dodgers pitching coach, who really started his coaching career
Speaker 2: as a pitching coordinator with the Padres. That's when Lower
Speaker 2: was coming up with the Padres. So they know each
Speaker 2: other really well. And Eric Lawer talked about just the
Speaker 2: seamless transition or the transition being made easier with prior
Speaker 2: part of the Dodgers' coaching staff.
Speaker 12: Is it bizarre to be in San Diego, but being
Speaker 12: part of the Dodgers after so many years being on
Speaker 12: that side.
Speaker 9: A little bit, A little bit, that's what That's what
Speaker 9: me and Pryor were joking about because he was my
Speaker 9: first pitching coordinator when I was with San Diego. So yeah,
Speaker 9: we were laughing that it was kind of like a
Speaker 9: full circle moment for us where it's like, of all places,
Speaker 9: I come to the team he's with in San Diego,
Speaker 9: so it was it's it's cool.
Speaker 12: So that's an added plus, right, he might know you
Speaker 12: better than most going to a new team.
Speaker 9: Yeah, I think we definitely have a history and you know,
Speaker 9: he's he's shared things with me that he thinks that
Speaker 9: can help me, and we've been I think he knows
Speaker 9: me pretty well as far as I'm not I'm not
Speaker 9: twenty two anymore, but I think I think I think
Speaker 9: he still has a good grasp on, you know, what
Speaker 9: makes me good and what can make me better.
Speaker 2: All right, So that's interesting something that we all didn't
Speaker 2: know or how tight Mark Pryor and Eric Lawer are.
Speaker 2: They obviously have the trust. Prior has Lower's trust, and
Speaker 2: that's big when you're trying to make some tweaks to
Speaker 2: a pitcher that was pretty successful last year with the
Speaker 2: Blue Jays and has had success in different years.
Speaker 3: But the one thing for.
Speaker 2: Eric Lower is that he will be part of a
Speaker 2: six man rotation with the injuries to Snell and Glass.
Speaker 2: Now no Gavin Stone, no River Ryan available right now.
Speaker 2: And that's the reason why the Dodgers saw him defade
Speaker 2: by the blue Jays. And I'm sure Mike Mark Pryor
Speaker 2: endorsed the move to bring in Lawer because he's confident
Speaker 2: that he can help him get back on track, because
Speaker 2: Lawer was pretty good for the Blue Jays last year.
Speaker 2: Now here's something that everybody was wondering in Toronto whether
Speaker 2: or not Lower was deafade because he spoke out against
Speaker 2: having an opener when he pitched there, and he was
Speaker 2: asked about that, and he tried to set the record
Speaker 2: straight about whether or not he was really that upset
Speaker 2: over the Blue Jays having an opener on the days
Speaker 2: that he pitched.
Speaker 9: Some of that, all right, a lot of that was
Speaker 9: kind of taken out of context. There was no there
Speaker 9: was no ill will, there there was no hurt feelings.
Speaker 9: It was it was a very simple question. I thought
Speaker 9: was like how do you feel about an opener? And
Speaker 9: I just I think if you ask most starters in
Speaker 9: the league, they would probably have the same response that
Speaker 9: they don't like it. But it doesn't mean that I'm
Speaker 9: not willing to do it. It doesn't mean that I'm
Speaker 9: not a team player. I'm not gonna I'm not gonna
Speaker 9: have a problem if there is somebody in front of me.
Speaker 9: It's it's part of the game. It's become part of
Speaker 9: the game, and you know, like we're all here to
Speaker 9: win ball games. It's not about any individual player.
Speaker 10: So yeah, that was.
Speaker 9: That was a lot more than I expected that to
Speaker 9: turn into. And I think I got a lot of
Speaker 9: hate for that, and I like I cleared it up
Speaker 9: with the pitching coach. I cleared up with Pete and
Speaker 9: Schneids right away, Like it was. There was no ill
Speaker 9: will there, there was no crap talking or anything about
Speaker 9: them to them, like we all understood where it came from.
Speaker 9: And yeah, there was.
Speaker 3: It was.
Speaker 9: It was just a little more blown up than I
Speaker 9: expected it to be and I ever wanted it to be.
Speaker 9: So yeah, there's there's no there's no problem with an opener.
Speaker 9: I'll say that, dude.
Speaker 2: Wow, controversy Canada over an opener for Eric Lower, and
Speaker 2: I've never met a starting pitcher that was okay with
Speaker 2: an opener, so I understand what he's saying. But Eric
Speaker 2: Lower is a Dodger after being a Dodger killer for
Speaker 2: his entire career. I mentioned what he's done in his
Speaker 2: career with the Padres and the Brewers Padres, especially being
Speaker 2: in the same division. For whatever reason, he always pitched
Speaker 2: really well against the Dodgers. But he is available out
Speaker 2: of the bullpen tomorrow if the Dodgers need Lower, but
Speaker 2: he will be making his first Dodgers start on Tuesday
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Speaker 2: Snell last night. The reason why the Dodgers had to
Speaker 2: trade for Lour is because Snell had to have surgery
Speaker 2: on his left elbow. Today, doctor Neil Elatrosh was able
Speaker 2: to successfully perform the nano procedure that he has perfected,
Speaker 2: he invented, perfected, and what it is, it's a less
Speaker 2: invasive scope to remove the bone chips in Snell's left elbow.
Speaker 2: He was able to remove three bone chips out of
Speaker 2: Snell's left elbow and from what Dave Roberts said, he
Speaker 2: believes that this procedure can shave off at least a
Speaker 2: month of recovery time, which hopefully it's snailed back in
Speaker 2: August and gets him ramped up and ready to go
Speaker 2: for the postseason. So that's good news. As far as
Speaker 2: Tyler Glass now goes, he probably's not going to pitch
Speaker 2: for another month, and that's the reason why the Dodgers
Speaker 2: needed some help in Eric Lower and I mentioned last
Speaker 2: night River Ryan pitched for the first time in a
Speaker 2: month after coming off the IL in Oklahoma City with
Speaker 2: a left hamstring strain. So he's not built up quite yet,
Speaker 2: but certainly two more starts, maybe in Oklahoma City, and
Speaker 2: if the Dodgers needed him, he would be ready to
Speaker 2: be called up. Eight six six eight seven two five
Speaker 2: seventy is the phone number David Vasse live at Peco
Speaker 2: Park in San Diego. After the Dodgers come from behind
Speaker 2: to beat the Padres five to four, Tanners Scott with
Speaker 2: the win in relief after getting the Dodgers out of
Speaker 2: a jam in the seventh inning, pitched the scoreless eighth inning.
Speaker 2: Will kleinb retired the Padres in order to take up
Speaker 2: his first career save, and Mason Miller suffers his first
Speaker 2: loss of the season and in the process committing his
Speaker 2: first career air throwing a ball away trying to pick
Speaker 2: off pinch runner Alex Call, who would come around on
Speaker 2: a sacrifice fly from Andy Pajaz and the Dodgers beat
Speaker 2: the Padres.
Speaker 3: Tonight five to four.
Speaker 2: Now, when I was talking to Alex Call, one of
Speaker 2: the team leaders, Miguel Rojas, came by and he was
Speaker 2: excited and he was jokingly saying to ask Cal about
Speaker 2: his wheels. And before today's game I had a chance
Speaker 2: to catch up with Rojas because there's been some mixed messages.
Speaker 2: He spoke to the athletic and said, you know, he
Speaker 2: may consider coming back to play next year if the
Speaker 2: Dodgers three peat. And then on his last Instagram post
Speaker 2: at the end of it, he wrote, last dance Miggy Rowe.
Speaker 2: So we wanted to find out is Miguel Rojas leaving
Speaker 2: the door open for twenty twenty seven or is he
Speaker 2: sticking to the plan to retire at the end of
Speaker 2: this year.
Speaker 3: This is my last year.
Speaker 13: That's that's something that I that I always that I
Speaker 13: said last year, this is going to be my last
Speaker 13: year playing professional baseball, and kind of like that's the
Speaker 13: way that I want to see it, you know, I
Speaker 13: want to see it us coming every single day knowing
Speaker 13: that that was my last time playing an Angel stadium
Speaker 13: or or this is my last time playing in this
Speaker 13: series for you know, for for my career. Uh, there's
Speaker 13: one possibility, and it's like winning another championship. I'm gonna
Speaker 13: have to sit down with my wife and realize and
Speaker 13: see what is out there for me, especially with this organization,
Speaker 13: because I would I wouldn't play for any other team
Speaker 13: that is not the Dodgers. At this point of my
Speaker 13: life and my career, my decision is already made that
Speaker 13: I wanted to go. I wanted to go home, and
Speaker 13: I want to start pursuing the next chapter of my
Speaker 13: life and my my professional career, which is helping this
Speaker 13: team from another standpoint or from another role. So that's
Speaker 13: that's a sign, you know. The only way that I
Speaker 13: will have a conversation and this is not one hundred percent,
Speaker 13: and it have to be both ways kind of like
Speaker 13: one in the same thing, you know, because I don't know.
Speaker 13: I don't know what the what the team is gonna
Speaker 13: want for next year in my position and all that.
Speaker 13: And it's not just me saying that, yeah, I want
Speaker 13: to come back if we win, because they might have
Speaker 13: a different, you know, a different way to go. So
Speaker 13: for me, it's just like, if we win this year,
Speaker 13: it will be really hard not to have a conversation
Speaker 13: with my family to try and to get something for
Speaker 13: next year. But I'm focusing on on this year and
Speaker 13: enjoying my last time playing baseball because something that I know,
Speaker 13: as hard as we want, as hard as we work,
Speaker 13: nothing is guaranteeing this four and we have to earn
Speaker 13: everything that we that we accomplished. So I'm really humble
Speaker 13: about that because I mean, even though we won the
Speaker 13: last couple of Wars years, in one of them, we
Speaker 13: were one out away from losing it, and it will
Speaker 13: be a different versation. I might not have a job,
Speaker 13: you know, like if I if I didn't hit the homer.
Speaker 13: So I'd rather wait until like the season is over
Speaker 13: and then make conclusions after after the year's old.
Speaker 3: Okay, so the door is open.
Speaker 2: It sounds like for Miguel Rojas to consider to come
Speaker 2: back and play next year depending on how this season ends.
Speaker 2: But the one thing he made clear, and if you
Speaker 2: want to, I shouldn't say. If you want to to
Speaker 2: listen to the full conversation of Miguel Rojas and myself
Speaker 2: before the game, you can find it on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 2: But what he was saying is it has to be
Speaker 2: mutual for him to come back to play next year.
Speaker 2: The Dodgers would have to need him to come back
Speaker 2: to play. He would have to evaluate how the body's feeling,
Speaker 2: how his family's feeling. But yeah, the door seems to
Speaker 2: be cracked open if everything lines up for him to
Speaker 2: maybe have one more last dance. But right now it
Speaker 2: sounds like that's the original play that he's sticking with,
Speaker 2: But then maybe not. So I'm glad we could kind
Speaker 2: of set the record straight that he is leaving the
Speaker 2: door open a crack in case some things line up
Speaker 2: for next year. And look, he looks phenomenal. In fact,
Speaker 2: kind of feel like he's playing better right now than
Speaker 2: he ever did during the regular season last year. And
Speaker 2: you know, He's a valuable piece to the bench and
Speaker 2: a veteran and an energy guy and a leader.
Speaker 3: You need that.
Speaker 2: A lot of teams around baseball that don't succeed don't
Speaker 2: value having veterans like Miguel Rojas on their team. So
Speaker 2: Miguel Rojas is taking every day as it's his last
Speaker 2: in the game, and that's.
Speaker 3: A good way to go about it, all right.
Speaker 2: Tomorrow, shoe Heo Tani is on the mound for the Dodgers.
Speaker 2: He is three and two with an ERA of zero
Speaker 2: eighty two. He's going to hit as well. He'll be
Speaker 2: the Dodgers DH tomorrow, going up against Randy Vasquez, who
Speaker 2: is five and one with an two sixty eight. Our
Speaker 2: coverage begins at four point thirty tomorrow because first pitch
Speaker 2: is at five forty, and then the Dodgers will head
Speaker 2: to Milwaukee for a three game weekend series beginning on Friday.
Speaker 2: Thanks to Colin Ee back at our Burdbank Studios, Thanks
Speaker 2: to Dwayne McDonald out here at Peco Park in San Diego,
Speaker 2: and thanks to you for listening. And like we said
Speaker 2: last night, thinking about all the firefighters out there in
Speaker 2: Seami Valley fighting the Sandy Fire. Stay strong, and thank
Speaker 2: you for trying to save lives, trying to save homes
Speaker 2: and putting out this fire. So hopefully mother nature cooperates
Speaker 2: as well. And to those firefighters in Riverside County fighting
Speaker 2: a blaze that broke out earlier today as well, thinking
Speaker 2: of you as well. So thank you to all our
Speaker 2: firefighters because they do a hero's job. They are the
Speaker 2: real heroes, not the guys that play the game of baseball.
Speaker 2: And even the guys that play the game of baseball
Speaker 2: would agree with me. So thank you to all of
Speaker 2: you out there, and please be safe if you're in
Speaker 2: Seami Valley and hopefully they get this fire contained in
Speaker 2: Seami Valley and in Riverside County all right. In case
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