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Speaker 4: Hi, everybody, and good afternoon.
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Speaker 6: back World Series champion Los Angeles Dodgers sit atop the
Speaker 6: NL West all alone at forty nine and twenty nine.
Speaker 6: The Dodgers with a nine game lead in the division
Speaker 6: going into play tonight. After a four and two homestand
Speaker 6: and saw the Dodgers sweep the Raisin drop two of
Speaker 6: three to the Baltimore Orioles. The Dodgers take the show
Speaker 6: on the road nine games three cities, first up three
Speaker 6: game series against the Minneapolis Twins. As they take on
Speaker 6: Minnesota today, Will Klein will be the opener. Yes, Will
Speaker 6: Klein will serve with the opener, followed by Eric Lauer,
Speaker 6: who will come on in relief. First pitch from Target
Speaker 6: Field in Minneapolis is coming up at four forty. Between
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Speaker 6: Dodgers team. Is the embark on this road trip and
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Speaker 6: the opener. David Vase checks him throughout the hour. He'll
Speaker 6: go one on one with Alex Call. We got your
Speaker 6: Dodgers magical moment. Shortly we'll visit with Kirsten Watson. Charlie
Speaker 6: Steiner will stop buying it just a few minutes. We'll
Speaker 6: head out to Tim Never and Rick Monday at the
Speaker 6: gallpin Ford Broadcast booth.
Speaker 4: Well, yesterday, Emmett.
Speaker 6: She and got the ball and well the Baltimore Orioles scarred,
Speaker 6: scored early and scored often against the Dodgers right right hander.
Speaker 6: First four batters reached base, then after the sixth batter
Speaker 6: that image she In faced, the Orioles had a two
Speaker 6: to nothing lead before the Dodgers could even bat. In
Speaker 6: the bottom of the first, though, the Dodgers with a
Speaker 6: little magic thanks to Max Munsey.
Speaker 7: Well Tany off of second base Freeman off of first,
Speaker 7: three ball, one strike pitch to Monseion swings lines at
Speaker 7: the left. That's down for a base hit. We're gonna
Speaker 7: send out Tony Hall. There comes the throw that goes
Speaker 7: all the way through. Oh Tony slides. Who's safe and
Speaker 7: it's two to one. Little two out RBI sendo for
Speaker 7: Max Monson.
Speaker 6: Dodgers cut the deficit in half, just down two to
Speaker 6: one after one inning. Image Shean needed him to go
Speaker 6: out and put up zero's the rest of the way.
Speaker 6: See that Dodger offense could get back into this game,
Speaker 6: maybe take the lead. Unfortunately, gave up a solo home
Speaker 6: run in the top of the second as the Orioles
Speaker 6: led three to one. Then in the third, Colton Cowser
Speaker 6: was at it again.
Speaker 7: Now a payoff pitch as she and pours at home.
Speaker 7: Bauls swung on hit well to center field, going back Piez,
Speaker 7: He's at the track. Handy at the wall, he leaps,
Speaker 7: it's gone. It's a home run for Colton Kowser is
Speaker 7: eighth of the year, second one giving up by Shean.
Speaker 7: This afternoon, it is four to one Baltimore.
Speaker 4: Colton Cowser goes deep.
Speaker 6: So after giving up a home run to Taylor Ward
Speaker 6: in the second, Colton Kowser has solo home run the third,
Speaker 6: and all of a sudden, the Orioles with a four
Speaker 6: to one lead, and it got worse. In the fourth,
Speaker 6: Colton Kowser a two run single. Both runs accounted to
Speaker 6: Image Shean, who was gone. Jack Dryer gave up the single.
Speaker 6: He Image Shean three and a third, six runs, eight hits,
Speaker 6: a couple of home runs. The Dodgers bullpen came in
Speaker 6: didn't fare much better, as the Baltimore Orioles were up
Speaker 6: six to one. They scored four more in the seventh,
Speaker 6: then two more in the eighth on the Blaze Alexander
Speaker 6: two run home run. Pete Alonso had a three run
Speaker 6: home run before that. Part of that four run seventh inning.
Speaker 6: The Baltimore Orioles erupted for twelve runs on fifteen hits.
Speaker 4: Yesterday.
Speaker 6: Meanwhile, the Dodgers offense just the one run on the
Speaker 6: Max Months the RBI single in the first, then zero's
Speaker 6: the rest of the way as the Dodgers loose to
Speaker 6: the Orioles twelve to one. They fall to two of
Speaker 6: the three games of the Baltimore Orioles, losing for the
Speaker 6: season series for the second time in two years. As
Speaker 6: the Dodgers, though, finish off the homestand four and two.
Speaker 6: They're forty nine and twenty nine now hit the road
Speaker 6: for a nine game road trip. First up, the Minnesota
Speaker 6: Twins as the inter league play continues.
Speaker 4: It'll be Will kleinb serving as the opener.
Speaker 6: Eric Louerd to follow first pitch at four to forty
Speaker 6: and with more we head out to the galpin Ford
Speaker 6: broadcast booth as we say hello to Tim Neverett and
Speaker 6: Rick Monday.
Speaker 2: Guys, thank you very much, Tim.
Speaker 7: Beautiful night of the Twin Cities as the Dodgers get
Speaker 7: set to start another interleague series, this time with the
Speaker 7: Minnesota Twins.
Speaker 2: The Twins come in with a record of thirty eight
Speaker 2: and forty one.
Speaker 7: They're three and a half out in the American League Central,
Speaker 7: just the game out of the wild card in the
Speaker 7: American League. As far as the Dodgers go twenty games
Speaker 7: above five hundred forty nine and twenty nine nine up
Speaker 7: in the division. They are six and four in their
Speaker 7: last ten twenty three and fifteen on the road. Tonight,
Speaker 7: the Dodgers will start an opener. Right hander Will kleinb
Speaker 7: will pitch the first inning and that's it, and then
Speaker 7: left hander Eric lower will come in for the second
Speaker 7: inning and pitch the bulk of the innings. Tonight, they
Speaker 7: will oppose Zebbie Matthews. The right hander is three and
Speaker 7: four in a four to seventy eight earned run average.
Speaker 7: Not much talk about yesterday's game at Dodger Stadium because
Speaker 7: the Dodgers are trying their very best to put that
Speaker 7: game behind them.
Speaker 2: Flush it, wipe it off the board, forget about it.
Speaker 7: Tonight's the most important game of the season, as it's
Speaker 7: the only one they're play.
Speaker 8: It's already gone. In fact, for the Dodgers, I'd like
Speaker 8: to have the last two already gone. But of one
Speaker 8: run loss on Saturday and then blow out in yesterday's
Speaker 8: Bowl game, those games happened. The Dodgers did not hit well,
Speaker 8: in fact, in that series did not hit particularly well
Speaker 8: in the run production area, just four hits in twenty
Speaker 8: advanced with runners in scoring position.
Speaker 9: That's got to change. That will be changing.
Speaker 8: And for this Dodger ball club still in searched him
Speaker 8: of victory number fifty of the season.
Speaker 7: Well, tonight, they've got to take care of business, especially
Speaker 7: in the first inning, because the Twins' bats have been
Speaker 7: very hot lately. They've won five to the last six
Speaker 7: on the road they come home. In their last seven games,
Speaker 7: they've outscored their opponents eleven to nothing in the first inning.
Speaker 8: Well, how about the fact they've won seven of the
Speaker 8: last nine and they've outscored the opposing teams by seventy
Speaker 8: to forty seven. So this is the ball club being
Speaker 8: the Twins feeling very good about themselves. Little surprising with
Speaker 8: all the numbers you can throw out there. They're only
Speaker 8: one game above five hundred at home. You would expect
Speaker 8: that to be changing, and they feel that in the
Speaker 8: right direction, having won seven to ten. In fact, the
Speaker 8: Twins the only team in the Central Division of the
Speaker 8: Perica League with a winning record in the last ten games. Also,
Speaker 8: the Dodgers fallow in that category, only record above five
Speaker 8: hundred the last ten in the Nashleague West, I.
Speaker 7: Don't suspect a different approach to hitting in this ballgame.
Speaker 7: I know Dave Roberts after the game yesterday was not
Speaker 7: really happy with how the Dodgers approached there at bats
Speaker 7: during the Baltimore series, that they chased a lot of
Speaker 7: spin and took a lot of fastball.
Speaker 8: Yeah, and they're going to see a lot of spin tonight.
Speaker 8: And we talked more about it the opposing pitchers, Zmbie Matthews.
Speaker 8: Because he has a very good slider, he's not afraid
Speaker 8: to use it. He is going to use it, and
Speaker 8: the Dodgers abused the sliders thrown to them yesterday.
Speaker 7: Otani has been pretty good still. He'll lead off three
Speaker 7: seventy six over his last thirty two games with twenty
Speaker 7: extra base hits.
Speaker 2: Half of those home runs.
Speaker 8: Yeah, man, for Atani just sets the stage at the
Speaker 8: top of the order. Annie Pie has has struggled if
Speaker 8: you look at the last number of games, the last
Speaker 8: fifteen in particular, hitting just a buck eighty eight in
Speaker 8: that category. One bet that is coming lives in Mookie Benz.
Speaker 8: That's a good sign. A couple of the guys kind
Speaker 8: of swinging the bets here and there, but from top
Speaker 8: to bottom. I think the Dodgers understand. Hey, look, this
Speaker 8: is a nine game road trip. They do not want
Speaker 8: this trip to get out of hand in a negative way.
Speaker 7: Great night for a ballgame in downtown Minneapolis, Dodgers and Twins.
Speaker 2: More interleague baseball coming your way, Tim, all right.
Speaker 4: Thank you very much.
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Speaker 4: It's coming up at four forty. Thanks for being with us.
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Speaker 6: Dodgers in Minnesota to take on the Twins. Will Klein
Speaker 6: will be the opener, follow by Eric Lawers. Zebbie Matthews
Speaker 6: will go for Minnesota first pitch. Coming up at four forty.
Speaker 10: This is the Otani rewhy whatkow He's played in the
Speaker 10: last month, so the last thirty two games, twenty extra
Speaker 10: base hits, ten home runs, is slugging percentage seven thirty nine,
Speaker 10: which is the highest in Major League Baseball.
Speaker 2: Swings hits the ground ball toward the.
Speaker 7: Middle, that's who for a base yet thrilling around second,
Speaker 7: he's on his way to third and Otani has a
Speaker 7: two hot base hit and the Dodgers have a time
Speaker 7: run a board show.
Speaker 6: Hey Otani yesterday one for two on base twy including
Speaker 6: a walk, now hitting two ninety seven on this season.
Speaker 4: A four to eighteen on base percentage.
Speaker 6: Unfortunately, the Dodgers got clobbered by the Baltimore oils yesterday
Speaker 6: twelve to one.
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Speaker 6: supposed to get the start. We're still gonna see him.
Speaker 6: But the Dodgers go with an opener today.
Speaker 11: They are going with an opener. And of course once
Speaker 11: the lineup came out, that was the big thing because
Speaker 11: when Eric came to the Dodgers organization, when he was
Speaker 11: talking to the media, he talked about some of the
Speaker 11: frustrations and the experiences he had with the Blue Jays.
Speaker 11: It was clearly documented and reports how when the Blue
Speaker 11: Jays would go with an opener it was something he
Speaker 11: did not like. He said, quote unquote that he hated it.
Speaker 11: And so when you see an opener then for the Dodgers,
Speaker 11: that led to a lot of questions as to why
Speaker 11: they decided to go with one. What was his feelings
Speaker 11: in re gard to this, And with speaking to Mark
Speaker 11: Pryor as well as Dave Roberts, they said that when
Speaker 11: Eric joined the organization. When he came over, they made
Speaker 11: it very clear to him that he's going to start games,
Speaker 11: but there will also be times in which they will
Speaker 11: use an opener in front of him, and he said,
Speaker 11: as long as that they're as long as there's clear
Speaker 11: and open communication, then he has no issue with that
Speaker 11: and he's willing to do what the team needs. And
Speaker 11: so they had a conversation with him yesterday after the
Speaker 11: game against the Orioles and they shared that they wanted
Speaker 11: to go with an opener for this one. They shared
Speaker 11: their reasoning as to why the cat and house behind it,
Speaker 11: and he said, okay, So the plan is that Will
Speaker 11: Klein is going to open this game. He's only going
Speaker 11: to do the first inning, and then Eric Lawer is
Speaker 11: expected to come in to open that second inning of work.
Speaker 11: And that's something that Eric has been very clear with
Speaker 11: and we've been seeing just signs after his starts if
Speaker 11: he's pulled in a certain situation. He and Dave Roberts
Speaker 11: are always communicating with each other, and Dave has always
Speaker 11: been very transparent as to the decision, the reasoning as
Speaker 11: to why they chose to go with this, and Eric
Speaker 11: has shared in the past with being with the Dodgers
Speaker 11: that he's been very grateful and he appreciates that communication
Speaker 11: because that's all that he wants, and so that's everything
Speaker 11: that went into this one, and so hopefully it'll play out.
Speaker 11: But ultimately it was they've got some real empowered they
Speaker 11: have some strong writings, and so if you look at
Speaker 11: the lineup today, by going with the writing and will climb,
Speaker 11: they were able to manipulate the top of the Twins lineup,
Speaker 11: having it go left right, left, which then puts Eric
Speaker 11: in a better position being a lefty to hopefully take
Speaker 11: down more out and get deeper into the game.
Speaker 6: The offense for the Dodgers here, there's no secret they
Speaker 6: need to get something going. The last two days just
Speaker 6: have not been Dodger baseball.
Speaker 11: No they haven't. They only have three runs in the
Speaker 11: last two games, and we know that any team that
Speaker 11: faces the Dodgers they're going to bring in We've seen
Speaker 11: excellent pitchings again for the opposing teams, even for the Dodgers.
Speaker 11: You know, we saw Yoshi Nobu. Yes, you have the
Speaker 11: three runs, but he's been putting the team in a
Speaker 11: position to win. Yesterday a little bit of a different story,
Speaker 11: but ultimately like you said, the offense has been silent,
Speaker 11: and Dave Roberts last night, when he spoke about the offense,
Speaker 11: he said, what he's been seeing is there's just been
Speaker 11: this passivity to them. You know, they usually this group
Speaker 11: is so talented and so aggressive that they can scare
Speaker 11: the pictures out of the strike zone, and we're not
Speaker 11: seeing that at the moment. We're seeing the pictures being
Speaker 11: confident in the strike zone. And so what he wants
Speaker 11: to see is them be the aggressor a little bit
Speaker 11: more match that energy that he knows the Twins are
Speaker 11: going to bring. But talking to some of the guys
Speaker 11: on the offense, you know, it's hard because for them
Speaker 11: it's just they have to stick to their approach. They
Speaker 11: can't get out of themselves. But they do know that
Speaker 11: they want to get back on track. They have talked
Speaker 11: about how this is. You know, all these last two losses.
Speaker 11: There are two losses in one sixty two. You know,
Speaker 11: there's still so much of baseball to be played. But
Speaker 11: they do want to get back on track, and so
Speaker 11: hopefully you'll start with this one today.
Speaker 4: Need to get back on track. No better place to
Speaker 4: do it than tonight against the Twins.
Speaker 6: Kearson. We appreciate it. Well, check out with you after
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Speaker 6: back out to Minneapolis and check out the Dodger skipper.
Speaker 9: Any questions for Dave Dave?
Speaker 1: Can you just describe Dave?
Speaker 3: Can you talk about the pressure in the dugouts with
Speaker 3: Dave Roberts.
Speaker 12: I think it was just more of giving Eric the
Speaker 12: best chance to take down more out in the game. Uh,
Speaker 12: you know, you see the you know, first four out
Speaker 12: of five hitters, are you know, Beefy right hand hitters,
Speaker 12: and just to kind of open, uh, you know, with Klein,
Speaker 12: we feel good about to pitch one inning and then
Speaker 12: Eric will be in there in the second inning.
Speaker 11: With Eric, when he came over to organization, he talked
Speaker 11: about just the importance of communication. What has it been
Speaker 11: like building that relationship with him and put allowing yourself
Speaker 11: to have these types of conversations when you do want
Speaker 11: to go with an opener.
Speaker 9: I think it's been great. We've been very forthright.
Speaker 12: I think I know he's appreciated that, and for me
Speaker 12: just telling him the thought behind it, why, the why,
Speaker 12: and still you know, giving him confidence to know that
Speaker 12: we expect him to take down the most outs in
Speaker 12: the game and he's all in.
Speaker 9: He's all in on winning.
Speaker 12: But I do think that just getting ahead of it,
Speaker 12: being honest with him he appreciates.
Speaker 5: Do you foresee this to be every time he starts?
Speaker 5: Where is this a one starter or start to start
Speaker 5: type of situation.
Speaker 12: I wouldn't say it's every time, And it's more of
Speaker 12: just kind of what team, what line up the first
Speaker 12: four hitters if they're kind of beholden to that versus
Speaker 12: any starting pitcher, if it makes sense, So I don't know.
Speaker 9: I don't know the answer to that one.
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Speaker 4: I know there's interleague play.
Speaker 6: We play everybody in baseball now, but man, it feels
Speaker 6: like the Dodgers are an American League team now.
Speaker 4: They've been playing so many America League teams.
Speaker 5: Yeah, this will be the fourth series that the Dodgers
Speaker 5: play an American League team, going back to their last
Speaker 5: road trip against the White Sox, and I asked Dave
Speaker 5: Roberts about that, and this feels like another one of
Speaker 5: those series of one of those American League teams like
Speaker 5: the White Sox and more recently the Orioles on this
Speaker 5: past homestand that took two out of three, including blowing
Speaker 5: the Dodgers out yesterday, that they are going to treat
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Speaker 2: It, the Twins are going nowhere.
Speaker 5: This is basically the biggest series of their season for
Speaker 5: a lot of those players, the young White Sox, a
Speaker 5: few of those Dodger players told me it felt like
Speaker 5: they were playing a college baseball team. That type of energy,
Speaker 5: that type of approach, that type of you know, jubulant
Speaker 5: type of attitude in that dugout, and Dave Roberts.
Speaker 9: Conceded the same thing.
Speaker 5: He said, we gotta be ready because those guys, they
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Speaker 4: What's the latest on ta Oscar Hernandez.
Speaker 5: David, Well, he's out with Oklahoma City. They will start
Speaker 5: a series tomorrow. As you know, the minor leagues have
Speaker 5: an off day on Mondays, so he will play probably
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Speaker 5: good chance t Oscar Hernandez may meet the Dodgers in
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Speaker 5: and we'll see how these three games go in Oklahoma City.
Speaker 5: But yeah, him coming back Friday in San Diego is
Speaker 5: not out of the realm of possibility.
Speaker 6: David was show he Otani's scheduled to get the start
Speaker 6: on Wednesday in the finale of this three game series.
Speaker 6: Are we in fact going to see him pitch a
Speaker 6: target field on Wednesday?
Speaker 1: Well?
Speaker 5: Yes, today he went out and threw a bullpen session.
Speaker 5: He threw thirty eight pitches in his bullpen session today.
Speaker 5: And the reason why that's important news today, Tim, is
Speaker 5: because before each of his last two starts, because of
Speaker 5: the left knee, because of the blister, because of the
Speaker 5: travel days, Otani had to throw his bullpen sessions the
Speaker 5: day before he started. So him throwing a bullpen session
Speaker 5: today means that he's back on regular schedule in his
Speaker 5: rating Wednesday.
Speaker 6: That is certainly exciting and good to hear that he'll
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Speaker 6: This pitching matchup so much to get to. So lead
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Speaker 6: Here's the Dodgers and the Twins on this Monday afternoon,
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Speaker 6: Klyi will be the opener. Ericlauer will follow, as Zebbie
Speaker 6: Matthews will go for Minnesota Time. Now for the Verizon startup,
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Speaker 13: All right, Tim, the Dodgers hit the road. This is
Speaker 13: the first of a nine game road trip against the
Speaker 13: Minnesota Twins. It's this seventy ninth game of the season
Speaker 13: for the Dodgers. They're twenty over, five hundred, forty nine
Speaker 13: and twenty nine, a nine game lead over the Padres
Speaker 13: nine and a half over Arizona.
Speaker 9: The Twins at.
Speaker 13: Thirty eight and forty one are in third place in
Speaker 13: the American League Central, trailing first place Cleveland by three
Speaker 13: and a half. One behind in the wildcard race. But
Speaker 13: there are eight teams in the American League involved in
Speaker 13: a wildcard race. They're all within just a handful of
Speaker 13: games of one another, So that's where the race is.
Speaker 13: Starting pitchers today, Zebby Matthews goes for the Minnesota Twins,
Speaker 13: Will Climb will be the opener for the Dodgers, and
Speaker 13: then Eric lower i gather is going to be doing
Speaker 13: the bulk of the pitching today, at least that's what's
Speaker 13: on paper ball.
Speaker 8: Yeah, we found out today that it is going to
Speaker 8: be Will Clined to be the opener. If that means
Speaker 8: of one inning most probably if they're maybe two, don't
Speaker 8: really know. But for Merik lower I find it interesting too,
Speaker 8: is if you're starting pitcher, how much does it really
Speaker 8: change your routine? Because termly, what we see is starting
Speaker 8: pitchers are very clock oriented. Certain number of minutes before
Speaker 8: they start there in the outfield, getting loose, certain number
Speaker 8: of innings or minutes before the first pitch they're in
Speaker 8: the bullpen, and they throw a certain amount of pitches. Well,
Speaker 8: now it's going to be a little different situation. And
Speaker 8: for lower remember too, he did not particularly care to
Speaker 8: be the bulk inning guy. In the preceding club that
Speaker 8: he was with, So we'll find out how it works
Speaker 8: here tonight.
Speaker 13: Not making the start it would have been his fifth,
Speaker 13: the Dodgers have won each of his first four starts,
Speaker 13: one to oh on a three twenty two er. He's
Speaker 13: pitched much better with the Dodgers than certainly he had
Speaker 13: been up in Toronto before.
Speaker 1: He was jettisoned.
Speaker 13: What do we know about Zeddy Matthews other than the
Speaker 13: fact that he made a start last Tuesday, giving up
Speaker 13: a couple of runs down in Texas. He's giving up
Speaker 13: seven runs in two of his starts, but in another
Speaker 13: five starts just a two forty five ra.
Speaker 14: Yeah.
Speaker 8: Well, first of all, Charlie, very good slider. In fact,
Speaker 8: the last two years just a one fifty eight batting
Speaker 8: average against on the slider. The other part, too, is
Speaker 8: he's like two different guys. Why do I say that? Well,
Speaker 8: on the road is ERA seven point three to three.
Speaker 8: At home it's one point eight, So he has really
Speaker 8: been tough with home cooking. We'll find out how it
Speaker 8: works out in tonight's ballgame, But again, a very low
Speaker 8: percentage of walks and the Dodgers are gonna have to
Speaker 8: make an adjustment with that very good slider that he throws.
Speaker 9: What did you come away with this weekend?
Speaker 13: The Dodgers getting pounded by the Oriels, which on paper
Speaker 13: should never have happened, outscored twenty to nine, and yesterday,
Speaker 13: of course got you shall lacked them twelve to one
Speaker 13: and lost by eleven.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I think it was just a hiccup, quite frankly,
Speaker 8: and I think the Oriols obviously were motivated to try
Speaker 8: and do something is they had lost coming into yesterday's game,
Speaker 8: Oriols had lost nine to the last fourteen. They were
Speaker 8: feeling very good about the fact that he won Saturday night.
Speaker 8: Then they then double up on it with the victory
Speaker 8: in yesterday's bowl game. And again, I think it was
Speaker 8: just a hiccup. I don't think that there's anything to
Speaker 8: worry about. The good thing against I said in the
Speaker 8: post game yesterday. The only good thing about yesterday's bowl
Speaker 8: game there were no injuries for the Dodgers.
Speaker 13: After this nine game road trip, off to San Diego
Speaker 13: following Minnesota and then off to West Sacramento face the A's.
Speaker 13: Then the Dodgers come home for the July fourth weekend
Speaker 13: against the Padres.
Speaker 9: The Padres.
Speaker 13: In the meantime, they're at a point of the season
Speaker 13: where it could.
Speaker 1: Go all awry in a hurry.
Speaker 13: Their next thirteen games at home against the Braves, then
Speaker 13: the Dodgers come to San Diego, then they hit the road,
Speaker 13: come back to the Los Angeles, then play the Cubs.
Speaker 13: This is a Padres team that's been flirting with five
Speaker 13: hundred all year, and the Dodgers with the nine game lead,
Speaker 13: it's make or break time for them.
Speaker 8: Well, it's make or break time for a couple of clubs,
Speaker 8: Arizona nine and a half out. In fact, the Dodgers
Speaker 8: we mentioned earlier, the only team in the Western Division
Speaker 8: of the National League that has a winning record over
Speaker 8: the last ten games. Everybody else is either at five
Speaker 8: hundred or two games fallow five hundred. At what point
Speaker 8: in time did the and Andres say to themselves, Hey, guys,
Speaker 8: we've got to get it into gear. They've not been
Speaker 8: able to get it together to this point.
Speaker 13: And so it will be Zebbie Matthews three and four,
Speaker 13: four and three quarters Era facing will climb the opener.
Speaker 13: The bulk pitcher today is supposed to be Eric Lauer,
Speaker 13: and we'll detail that is this game goes on lineups
Speaker 13: at first pitching just a little bit.
Speaker 4: All right, thank you, Charlie.
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Speaker 1: This is high and tight.
Speaker 5: People try to come between us, but Alex call will
Speaker 5: never allow that to happen. The day after Father's Day
Speaker 5: at Target Field, Alex joins us, thanks a lot for
Speaker 5: the time.
Speaker 9: Alex appreciate it.
Speaker 14: Yeah, Dave, have it to be here.
Speaker 5: See that's when you know you started to arrive when
Speaker 5: other media people try to be a wedge between us.
Speaker 14: Whatever, whatever you say.
Speaker 5: Day, how did you enjoy Father's Day yesterday at Dodger Stadium?
Speaker 5: Being there with your son, being able to you know,
Speaker 5: have that moment before the game.
Speaker 14: Yeah, it's nice.
Speaker 15: You know, it's kind of tough on a travel day
Speaker 15: you didn't, you know, kind of up before he wakes up,
Speaker 15: and then having to leave after the game before we
Speaker 15: can really have like a full day. But to have
Speaker 15: him out on the field and my wife and my
Speaker 15: daughter to just special, you know, it makes it you
Speaker 15: know a little bit extra that day and just so
Speaker 15: grateful to be a dad. I love those I love
Speaker 15: my family, love my kids, you know, and hope everyone
Speaker 15: had a happy Father's Day.
Speaker 5: How do you balance being a dad of two young
Speaker 5: kids and being able to focus on being part of
Speaker 5: the world champion Dodgers.
Speaker 15: Yeah, it's a real task. I mean, first and foremost,
Speaker 15: you know, I am a father, you know, a Christian,
Speaker 15: someone who just wants to be a blessing to others,
Speaker 15: you know.
Speaker 14: But also I get to the opportunity to.
Speaker 15: Play baseball, a game that I love, and just have
Speaker 15: fun with it. So and with being a baseball player there,
Speaker 15: it's it's a job.
Speaker 14: It's a job.
Speaker 15: You gotta work, you gotta you gotta prepare, you gotta
Speaker 15: be ready, and that takes a lot of time and
Speaker 15: effort and discipline.
Speaker 14: But so does being a dad.
Speaker 15: So does being a husband, and so does anything with
Speaker 15: life that you want to be good at.
Speaker 14: So there's a balance.
Speaker 15: I try to leave the baseball at the field as
Speaker 15: much as I can and take care of business there,
Speaker 15: and then when I'm at home, it's just full dad mode.
Speaker 5: I remember back when Adrian Gonzalez was playing for the Dodgers,
Speaker 5: he gave me some tips on how to balance all that.
Speaker 9: When you're in the hotel room.
Speaker 5: He said, just FaceTime your kids, your family and leave
Speaker 5: it by the TV. And while you're just hanging around
Speaker 5: in the hotel room. You FaceTime your family. Have you
Speaker 5: ever given that a shot?
Speaker 9: Yeah?
Speaker 15: Sometimes it's just like you just want to know that there,
Speaker 15: you know their presence is there.
Speaker 14: And yeah, I've done that where we just FaceTime.
Speaker 15: Sometimes there's not a whole lot of conversation where it's
Speaker 15: just like, hey, we're just kind of living our life
Speaker 15: and I'm doing what I'm doing. But yeah, anytime you
Speaker 15: can connect the family, that's what it's the most important.
Speaker 9: Alex call is our guests.
Speaker 5: In front of first pitch between the Dodgers and Twins
Speaker 5: in Minneapolis, Alex your manager Dave Roberts voice some of
Speaker 5: his frustrations with the entire group as far as the
Speaker 5: plan and the approach of the offense.
Speaker 9: Do you feel like you guys can be better at that?
Speaker 15: I mean, I think overall there's always room to improve.
Speaker 15: I think baseball there's ebbs and flows, and whenever you're
Speaker 15: you know, not performing the best, sometimes you have to
Speaker 15: just keep going number one. But too sometimes you have
Speaker 15: to look in the mirror and say, hey, what can
Speaker 15: we do better? And you know, anytime you want to
Speaker 15: just take the focus level up a couple extra notches,
Speaker 15: not try harder by any means, because that doesn't always work,
Speaker 15: but just hey, just have a little bit of extra focus.
Speaker 15: I mean, we were approaching the halfway point of the season.
Speaker 15: You know, guys are grinding, guys are working through things, injuries.
Speaker 14: You know, it is what it is.
Speaker 15: We play a lot of baseball and we have to
Speaker 15: do it every day, so it just happens. But at
Speaker 15: the end of the day, we want to be our
Speaker 15: best and we want to bring our best out every night,
Speaker 15: and so just ratching it up one extra notch, can
Speaker 15: you know, maybe just kind of get things going back
Speaker 15: in the right direction.
Speaker 9: How much?
Speaker 5: Knowing that you guys have a little extra room margin
Speaker 5: of error because of the standings and how far you're
Speaker 5: ahead right now plays into all that.
Speaker 15: Yeah, you know, I don't think about it too much
Speaker 15: because at the end of the day, we want to
Speaker 15: play our best ball at all time. You know, we
Speaker 15: want to go out there and give a great effort.
Speaker 15: We want to go out there and win these games
Speaker 15: because they matter. You know, we want to have home
Speaker 15: field advantage. And you know, I think it is nice
Speaker 15: like when things go bad, you can still kind of
Speaker 15: be like, wow, I mean, we still got a nice cushion,
Speaker 15: but you know, things change quick in baseball.
Speaker 14: You know, injuries happen.
Speaker 15: Yeah, you know, teams get hot teams can you know,
Speaker 15: But the same thing goes for us, So a lot
Speaker 15: of things can change, so if you never want to
Speaker 15: be complacent in it. But there's also like, hey, we're
Speaker 15: a great team, we got great players, we know how
Speaker 15: to put it all together, and we've shown that many
Speaker 15: times this year, and you know, just the way up sometimes.
Speaker 5: Before I let you go, Alex call I always love
Speaker 5: to share with fans just how you use the technology
Speaker 5: to prepare for each and every at bat. Which twins
Speaker 5: left hand or have you put the VR set on
Speaker 5: for today?
Speaker 15: Yeah, it's a little bit early for that, but be
Speaker 15: assured that will happen. I'll watch. I'll watch my friend Banda.
Speaker 15: You know, played with him in Washington, and I played
Speaker 15: with him with the Dodgers obviously, so I had I
Speaker 15: think I had a double against him last year, so
Speaker 15: hopefully we can do again this year. But rest assured,
Speaker 15: all the lefties and all the bullpen they'll be covered.
Speaker 14: I'll take a look at him and we'll be ready.
Speaker 5: All right, Alex, thanks a lot for the time. Happy
Speaker 5: day after Father's Day. And we look forward to a
Speaker 5: great road trip for you and the Dodgers. Thanks Dave,
Speaker 5: and don't let any media members come between us, all right, Never,
Speaker 5: those gift cards are gonna work, especially at Capitol Grill
Speaker 5: and Burbank Fine Dining for the Call family to celebrate
Speaker 5: Father's Day when he gets back to La, specifically the
Speaker 5: Burbank location.
Speaker 9: We'll send it back to you in the studio.
Speaker 6: Tim, all right, thank you, DV, thank you, Alex calls.
Speaker 6: He leads out to first pitch, Dodgers and Twins from Minneapolis.
Speaker 6: I'm next, I'm gonna dive deeper into this pitching matchup.
Speaker 6: Dodgers going with an opener. Yeah, we'll get into it next.
Speaker 6: I'm Tim Keats.
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Speaker 6: First pitch from Minneapolis's coming up at four forty.
Speaker 3: And now before the Dodgers hit the Dina, we look
Speaker 3: at the pitching matchups.
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Speaker 6: Zebbie Matthews on the mound for the Twins three and
Speaker 6: four four seventy eight. Erora, a twenty six year old
Speaker 6: right hander eighth round pick of the Twins back in
Speaker 6: twenty twenty two out of Western Carolina, made his major
Speaker 6: league debut in twenty twenty four. Has been up and
Speaker 6: down the last two and a half seasons. After starting
Speaker 6: this year in Triple A's making his eight start now
Speaker 6: in the big leagues. It's got a fastball in the
Speaker 6: mid nineties, the slider curveball change up last time out
Speaker 6: seven innings, two runs, eight hits, four strikeouts in a
Speaker 6: win over the Rangers. In three starts in June, he
Speaker 6: is two and one with a four ninety five RORA.
Speaker 6: Tonight will be his first career start against the Dodgers
Speaker 6: ninth career start against an NL West opponent. Will Climb
Speaker 6: will be the opener, follow by the left hander Eric
Speaker 6: lawer Clin will make his second start this season after
Speaker 6: serving as an opener back on May fifteenth against the
Speaker 6: Anaheim Angels.
Speaker 4: This season, will Climb.
Speaker 6: Two and two at a two thirty seven rray and
Speaker 6: one save in twenty six appearances, just over thirty innings
Speaker 6: pitch total.
Speaker 4: After Will Klein opens the game.
Speaker 6: The left hander Eric Lawer, thirty one years old, will
Speaker 6: make his fifth outing as a Dodger after being traded
Speaker 6: to the club from the Blue Jays back on May
Speaker 6: seventeenth for cash considerations. Since joining the Dodgers, he's made
Speaker 6: four starts. He's one to zero with a three to
Speaker 6: twenty two RORA with Toronto to start the year. He
Speaker 6: was one in five with the six to sixty nine
Speaker 6: ERA in eight games. Last year, though real good and
Speaker 6: helping the Blue Jays get to the World Series. He
Speaker 6: was nine to two in the regular season with a
Speaker 6: three to eighteen RRA and five career appearances four starts
Speaker 6: against Minnesota. Eric Lauer is one in three with a
Speaker 6: nine to fifty eight. He's faced the Twins already this
Speaker 6: season when he's with the Toronto Blue Jays, went five
Speaker 6: and a third Indians, getting the loss as he gave
Speaker 6: up seven runs on five hits and walked five in
Speaker 6: that game. He had a best outing that as a
Speaker 6: reliever back on June sixth last year, where he earned
Speaker 6: the win, going two and a third Indians, allowing just
Speaker 6: one hit, one walk and two strikeouts against Minnesota. So
Speaker 6: it's been a mixed bag for Eric lower who will
Speaker 6: come in after Will Klein who will open things up.
Speaker 6: Zebbi Matthews, the right hander will go for Minnesota. As
Speaker 6: we are fifteen minutes away from first pitch. Keys to
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Speaker 2: Thanks again. We're getting you ready for the first pitch.
Speaker 7: Of this one tonight at Target Field in downtown Minneapolis.
Speaker 7: Right hander Will Klein will be the opener. He will
Speaker 7: go just one inning. Eric Lauer will come in after that. Now,
Speaker 7: Eric Lawer had an issue with the Toronto Blue Jays
Speaker 7: about coming in after an opener, and largely the issue
Speaker 7: is the fact that the Blue Jays didn't tell him
Speaker 7: whether he would be coming in in the second or
Speaker 7: third inning. They wanted to leave things open. He felt
Speaker 7: they didn't communicate with him as well as the Dodgers have.
Speaker 7: Dave Roberts telling Lauer after yesterday's game in Los Angeles
Speaker 7: that he would come in in the second inning for
Speaker 7: sure tonight.
Speaker 8: Yeah, because the starting pitcher the creatures of habit aren't
Speaker 8: we all for that matter. But you know, when do
Speaker 8: you start loosening up for a game when you could
Speaker 8: be coming into a game normally the starting pitcher is
Speaker 8: looking at game time. And that's a big, big adjustment.
Speaker 8: One thing that Lower's been able to do the last
Speaker 8: two years.
Speaker 9: He gets two strikes in a hitter.
Speaker 8: You know, he has the fourteenth lowest batting average against
Speaker 8: just one thirty seven. The trick is get ahead, get
Speaker 8: ahead early, and stay ahead.
Speaker 7: Dodgers have won all four of Eric Lower's starts since
Speaker 7: he joined the club, Zebbie Matthews is mind upon it,
Speaker 7: and Matthews is either all in or or not. I mean,
Speaker 7: he's been good for them at times, but at other
Speaker 7: times he's been hit around.
Speaker 8: Dodgers are going to have to make a better adjustment
Speaker 8: against the slider than they did yesterday. Why well, for
Speaker 8: Matthews seventh lowest average of any starting pitcher on the
Speaker 8: slider this year, in fact, the last two years against
Speaker 8: the slider, just a one fifty eight average against it.
Speaker 7: Right header Zebbie Matthews for the Twins, right hander Will
Speaker 7: Klein as the opener, to be followed by the lefty
Speaker 7: Eric Lauer. Twins and Dodgers lineups. First pitch, just around
Speaker 7: the corner.
Speaker 6: All right, first pitch indeed coming up in just a
Speaker 6: couple of minutes.
Speaker 4: Don't forget when this game is over.
Speaker 6: David Vessie's got you covered with all the postgame reaction
Speaker 6: of highlights and of course Dodger talk, as well as
Speaker 6: the padres in action later on tonight as they play
Speaker 6: host to the Atlanta Braves. The Arizona Diamondbacks will get
Speaker 6: under way in Saint Louis in about fifteen minutes. We
Speaker 6: tell you this because the Dodgers go into action. Tonight's
Speaker 6: nine games up on San Diego, nine and a half
Speaker 6: games up on Arizona in the Western Division of the
Speaker 6: National League. So a Dodgers win and a loss from
Speaker 6: the Padres and Diamondbacks would open up a double digit
Speaker 6: lead in the division. We'll find out though, We'll climb
Speaker 6: Eric Lower Zebbie Matthews the pitching matchup when we come back.
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