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Speaker 2: on X. Well, the Dodgers lose again. They fall to
Speaker 2: the Diamondbacks by a final of four to two, a
Speaker 2: game in which they again fell in a hole and
Speaker 2: not able to get out of it offensively. And today
Speaker 2: Justin Robleski, for his third straight start, gives up the
Speaker 2: home run ball he had given up four against the
Speaker 2: Seattle Mariners four against the Cubbies at Wrigley Field, and
Speaker 2: gives up a two run home run to Ka Tell
Speaker 2: Marte in the first inning. Today. That's now nine home
Speaker 2: runs in his last three games. I love Justin Robleski.
Speaker 2: You've heard me talk about him. I love his story.
Speaker 2: I love everything about his makeup, how he pitches, how
Speaker 2: he's aggressive, how he attacks his own how he works quick.
Speaker 2: Right now, Justin Robuski is struggling, and Justin Roblesky's gonna
Speaker 2: get more starts. They're not gonna take him out of
Speaker 2: the other rotation by any means, But certainly we're gonna
Speaker 2: start seeing Justin Robuski and his role for October be
Speaker 2: established here. I think soon is it gonna be out
Speaker 2: of the bullpen? Is it gonna be as a long reliever?
Speaker 2: What is it gonna be come October? And I think
Speaker 2: that's gonna be established by him moving forward, because the
Speaker 2: Dodgers right now still have the question mark and show, Hey,
Speaker 2: Otani still have a question mark in Tyler Glass now
Speaker 2: and with the Blake Snell returning on Tuesday, the Dodgers
Speaker 2: got Yamamoto, Snell, schoobl and Eric Lauer again. Otani and
Speaker 2: Glass now in my mind right now are still question marks.
Speaker 2: So Tani he's gonna throw apparently when the Dodgers get
Speaker 2: back to Dodger Stadium this homestand win, and for how
Speaker 2: long and what exactly he does we don't know, but
Speaker 2: he suspected to throw again like he did yesterday playing
Speaker 2: long toss in the outfield. What about Tyler Glass now?
Speaker 2: Now he's throwing in Oklahoma City tonight in a rehab
Speaker 2: started in TRIPLEA. But Tyler Glass now has made a
Speaker 2: wopping seven start this year and has missed all the
Speaker 2: time since May sixth with back spasms two years ago.
Speaker 2: Wasn't there for the team in October in that run
Speaker 2: in the twenty twenty four season. Was with the team
Speaker 2: in a big part of twenty twenty five, no doubt
Speaker 2: about it. But what are you gonna get in Tyler Glass? Though?
Speaker 2: To me, you don't know. He's a question mark until
Speaker 2: you get there, just because of the injuries that seem
Speaker 2: to pop up with Tyler Glass now. So for that
Speaker 2: reason alone, Justin Robleski is still in the mix to
Speaker 2: be a starter September and into October. But Justin Robleski
Speaker 2: is not the same Justin Robleski the first half of
Speaker 2: the season. And I mentioned this in the Clubhouse show
Speaker 2: and maybe you've noticed it as well. I don't have
Speaker 2: the numbers sitting in front of me. I'd have to
Speaker 2: dive really deep into that and figure that out. But
Speaker 2: my eyes and ears tell me that he's not getting
Speaker 2: the chase and swinging missus anymore that he got in
Speaker 2: his first half of the season. There were games in
Speaker 2: which he'd get the up the fastball up in the
Speaker 2: zone and get a swinging miss for a strikeout or
Speaker 2: swinging miss for a strike and get ahead in the count.
Speaker 2: It's a ball up and out of the zone, but
Speaker 2: he's getting swinging to missus on a chase or an
Speaker 2: off speed pitch low and away from a right handed
Speaker 2: hitter out of the strike zone, getting a swinging miss
Speaker 2: And he was very effective in getting guys at the
Speaker 2: plate to swing it pitches that weren't strikes and chase.
Speaker 2: That has appeared to change, and just from the eyeball test,
Speaker 2: he's having to zero in a little bit more, be
Speaker 2: more aggressive in throwing pitches, and instead of throwing pitches
Speaker 2: that are just outside the zone and getting swinging missus,
Speaker 2: he's now nibbling on the corners and missing pitchers, missing
Speaker 2: pitches over the heart of the plate. And what happens
Speaker 2: to you miss pitches over the heart of the plate
Speaker 2: in the major leagues, folks, I don't care who it is,
Speaker 2: you're gonna get hit, and you're gonna get hit hard.
Speaker 2: And I don't think it's a coincidence. Of the last
Speaker 2: three games he's given up nine home runs on pitches
Speaker 2: over the heart of the plate. When we were seeing
Speaker 2: Justin Robleski be a different pitcher the first half of
Speaker 2: the season. Now I don't know how he gets back
Speaker 2: to getting swing and missus. I think that's part of
Speaker 2: the cat and mouse game of Major League Baseball teams,
Speaker 2: hitting philosophies, strategies going into an outing start to change.
Speaker 2: The game plan changes when you see enough sample size
Speaker 2: on a guy. Now, I imagine the hitting philosophy going
Speaker 2: into a start against Justin Robleski by the teams is
Speaker 2: don't chase pitches outside the zone. Force him to throw
Speaker 2: pitches over the heart of the plate. If you do that,
Speaker 2: you're gonna get pitches you like you're gonna get hit
Speaker 2: a bull pitches. Because that seems to be the case
Speaker 2: of what's happening. He's not getting the swing and missus.
Speaker 2: He's not getting the weak contact, and he was never
Speaker 2: a guy Justin Robleski that's striking out nine, ten to
Speaker 2: eleven guys. You know, there was a start early in
Speaker 2: the season, right he had what one or two strikeouts,
Speaker 2: that was it. But he getting weak contact and retiring
Speaker 2: guys and getting outs, that's his game. But now he's
Speaker 2: getting squared up more. The balls flying out of the
Speaker 2: ballpark eight six, six, nine, eighty seven, two five seventy.
Speaker 2: So he's not going anywhere, but justin Robluski. They need
Speaker 2: to just clean it up for wherever the issue is mechanically,
Speaker 2: if there, they figure there's something there, I don't know.
Speaker 2: He doesn't seem to think there is. You heard him
Speaker 2: in the Clubouts show postgame talk about how he feels right.
Speaker 2: He's just not executing well. That's certainly not the case.
Speaker 2: The first half of the season he was executing well.
Speaker 2: But in the second half of the season, outside that
Speaker 2: Philadelphia start, he hasn't got a win. He's been hit
Speaker 2: around in his last three outings by the Mariners, the Cubbies,
Speaker 2: and then today by the Arizona Diamondbacks. Having to tax
Speaker 2: the bullpen today in the final game of a series,
Speaker 2: in a stretch in which the Dodgers don't have a
Speaker 2: day off coming up this week, you force your bullpen
Speaker 2: to have to pick up for four and two third innings,
Speaker 2: and Edgardo Enriquez, Evan Phillips, Kylo Hurt, Jonathan Hernandez thankfully
Speaker 2: were able to do that, and quite frankly, they were
Speaker 2: really good. Four and two third, no hit innings, four strikeouts,
Speaker 2: I think a key stat zero walks amongst the four relievers,
Speaker 2: and they retired all fourteen batters they faced. That's the
Speaker 2: pitching side of it, that's the Joe Justin Robleski side
Speaker 2: of it. But the offense, folks, let's not get it confused.
Speaker 2: The offense is just not there. And I don't know
Speaker 2: if it's a sense of urgency. I don't know if
Speaker 2: it's just going through the dog days of summer. I
Speaker 2: don't know what it is. I mean Miguel Rojas til
Speaker 2: David Vassa yesterday and you heard it on the pre
Speaker 2: game again today about how he sent a group text
Speaker 2: about how they need to be focused and dialed in
Speaker 2: and get back on track. They just didn't look like
Speaker 2: it today. They just didn't look like a team aggressive
Speaker 2: at the plate. I mean tasker Hernandez taking cuts and
Speaker 2: missing on three different fastballs that were ninety three and
Speaker 2: ninety four over the middle of the plate from Edgardo Rodriguez.
Speaker 2: I mean at Ardo Rodriguez. He doesn't throw ninety nine, okay,
Speaker 2: he throws a fastball in the low nineties and a
Speaker 2: really good changeup, and he pumped three fastballs, which maybe
Speaker 2: when the changeup's coming out of the way it is
Speaker 2: ninety three looks a lot faster than it is because
Speaker 2: he threw it right by Teoscar Hernandez. The Dodgers offense
Speaker 2: not stringing together hits. The Dodgers offense, we know it.
Speaker 2: They rely on the slug the home run ball. But
Speaker 2: today they're able to produce a couple of runs without
Speaker 2: having to hit the home run ball. But you know,
Speaker 2: Mookie bets Oh for three with the strikeout today, show
Speaker 2: hey Otani oh for fourth the strikeout. You know, you
Speaker 2: look at what the middle of the lineup did, Tommy Edman,
Speaker 2: oh for four, Mookie bets Oh for three, you know,
Speaker 2: tay Oscar for Hernandez, oh for three. It just wasn't
Speaker 2: a great date to play it offensively, and just has
Speaker 2: not been the case the last month. And it's no
Speaker 2: secret that when this team is not producing offensively, not
Speaker 2: getting good pitching and the defense and base running, the suspect.
Speaker 2: Look at the record. They've dropped five of six, eight
Speaker 2: of nine, and fifteen of their last twenty four. It's
Speaker 2: not a secret, folks. The Dodgers just need to somehow
Speaker 2: get back on the winning track. And maybe it's the
Speaker 2: Kansas City Royals that'll be that answer. For the next
Speaker 2: three days when they come to Uniclo Field the Dodger Stadium.
Speaker 2: We'll get out to the phones in just a second.
Speaker 2: One other note, Justin Robleski is, as I mentioned, is
Speaker 2: not going anywhere in this rotation with the uncertainty still
Speaker 2: of show. Hey Otani pitching, and really you're still at
Speaker 2: least two weeks away, maybe longer from Tyler Glass now
Speaker 2: coming back. He's making his second minor league rehabs start tonight.
Speaker 2: In fact, that game gets underway in fifteen minutes in
Speaker 2: Oklahoma City. For the comments, all right, you're down two
Speaker 2: starting pitchers there, You're a six man rotation. So Justin
Speaker 2: Roblesky's not going to go anywhere, so you hope he
Speaker 2: can figure it out. But let's let's push the fast
Speaker 2: board forward butt here real quick to September. And let's
Speaker 2: assume everybody but Yamamoto is excuse me, a Otani is
Speaker 2: pitching and back in the rotation. Let's assume Snell's back
Speaker 2: and doing great, and Tyler Glass now is back by
Speaker 2: the early part of September. In this rotation is Yamamotos, Schooble, Snell,
Speaker 2: Glass now Robleski lower. It's a lot of starting pitchers,
Speaker 2: one or two of those guys is not going to
Speaker 2: be in the rotation anymore once Snell gets back and
Speaker 2: glass Now finally gets back, even not counting OTAWNI, it's
Speaker 2: time for Snell and glass Now, folks, to pull it
Speaker 2: up and lead this Dodger rotation. Like the Cy Young
Speaker 2: Award winners. They are well outside of glass Now. I
Speaker 2: didn't win to side Young, but Blake Snell's two say
Speaker 2: Young's it's time for Tyler glass Now to be a
Speaker 2: guy they can rely on. It's time for Blake Snell
Speaker 2: to really step it up here the final seven weeks
Speaker 2: of this season between the two of them, they've made
Speaker 2: eight starts all year. Tyler glass Now has not pitched
Speaker 2: since May sixth He's thrown thirty nine plus innings in
Speaker 2: seven starts. He has got to come back and be
Speaker 2: ready to go. Blake Snell made one start, win three
Speaker 2: innings before going back on the injured the list with
Speaker 2: the loose bodies in his elbow. When Blake Snell gets
Speaker 2: back on Tuesday, folks, Blake Snell needs to be Blake
Speaker 2: Snell from that start moving forward. Cy Young Award winner,
Speaker 2: dominant left handed pitcher, he should be rested and ready
Speaker 2: to go. He should be as fresh as it is
Speaker 2: April first, starting the season. And for the guys who
Speaker 2: have carried this rotation, Yamamoto, Robleski, Eric Lower the last
Speaker 2: two and a half months, and in particular Robleski, Justin
Speaker 2: Robleski has literally helped carry this team and this rotation
Speaker 2: with the injuries to the big paid, superstar arms that
Speaker 2: the Dodgers have. So now that Snell is back and
Speaker 2: class now is a few weeks away from coming back,
Speaker 2: time for Justin Robleski to pass the Batona say tag,
Speaker 2: you're it boys. Time for you guys to now carry us.
Speaker 2: Time for the two of you to come in the
Speaker 2: final seven weeks of the season and be dominant, put
Speaker 2: up zeros, keep us in games. You know what I
Speaker 2: did the first half of the season. This reminds me
Speaker 2: a lot of a few years ago with Gavin Stone
Speaker 2: and going out there every five days like he did
Speaker 2: in twenty twenty four, making twenty plus starts, and when
Speaker 2: his name was called, he went out there and pitched,
Speaker 2: and he pitched his butt off so much so it
Speaker 2: got to Labor Day weekend in twenty twenty four and
Speaker 2: his arm literally fell off and he couldn't pitch the
Speaker 2: rest of September or all of October. And he's just
Speaker 2: now pitching in TRIPLEA, Oklahoma City, seven hundred days since
Speaker 2: he last pitched. That's how much he gave to this
Speaker 2: Dodgers team in twenty twenty four. Go back to what
Speaker 2: twenty twenty two and the catman Tony gonsolin what he
Speaker 2: did pitching for the Dodgers, taking the ball even when
Speaker 2: he had a dead arm. Tony Gonsolm was never the
Speaker 2: same pitcher after that. Those guys, when asked to go
Speaker 2: and pitch and carry the rotation and pitch for the
Speaker 2: Dodgers every five days, did it when they were sore,
Speaker 2: when they weren't feeling good, and it costs those guys injuries.
Speaker 2: Now that Justin Robleski has basically done that here in
Speaker 2: twenty twenty six, it's time for these two guys, Glass
Speaker 2: now and Blake Snell combined seven starts eight starts between them.
Speaker 2: It's time for these guys to now carry this rotation.
Speaker 2: It's time for Glass now when he comes back and
Speaker 2: Snell on Tuesday, to say, all right, boys, I got
Speaker 2: it here. Let me help you out, Yamamoto, let me
Speaker 2: help you out, Robleski. You guys have done a great
Speaker 2: job carrying this rotation. Eric Lauer, appreciate it, buddy, been
Speaker 2: great since you came over in May. I'm here to
Speaker 2: help you. The Calvary is coming to help out this
Speaker 2: Dodgers rotation. That's how it's got to be. These guys
Speaker 2: have to be ready and have to come back dominant
Speaker 2: because they're not only paid to be dominant, but the
Speaker 2: back of their baseball card says they've either won Cy
Speaker 2: Young's in the case of Blake Snell, or have been
Speaker 2: really good when healthy in the case of Tyler Glass.
Speaker 2: Now over the course of their ten years in the
Speaker 2: baseball eight six six, nine eighty seven to two. Will
Speaker 2: take a quick time out. We'll come back. We'll get
Speaker 2: to your phone calls. We'll hear from, of course the manager,
Speaker 2: Dave Roberts as well. Dodgers lose in Arizona four to
Speaker 2: two to the Diamondbacks. As the Dodgers drop two of
Speaker 2: three in Chase Field, they go one and five on
Speaker 2: this road trip. We'll take your phone calls, we'll hear
Speaker 2: from the manager when we turn here on Dodger Talk
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Speaker 2: on this hot Sunday afternoon. Hope you're staying cool wherever
Speaker 2: you may be. As the Dodgers offensively, it cooled off. Overall,
Speaker 2: they have cooled off. They have now dropped fifteen their
Speaker 2: last twenty four, going back to right before the All
Speaker 2: Star break. They have to go one in five on
Speaker 2: this road trip. After getting swept in Chicago by the
Speaker 2: Cubbies in three games, they come to the Desert and
Speaker 2: drop two of three to the Diamondbacks, a four to
Speaker 2: two loss. Today. Eduardo Rodriguez, a season high nine strikeouts,
Speaker 2: gets the win. He's now eleven and four. Justin Robleski
Speaker 2: gets the loss. He couldn't get out of the fourth inning,
Speaker 2: gave up his ninth home run and his last three starts.
Speaker 2: He falls to eleven and four on the season as
Speaker 2: the Dodgers now a seven and a half game lead
Speaker 2: in the NL West. Dodgers Baseball is brought to by
Speaker 2: Medello Modello the mark of a final well here from
Speaker 2: the manager Dave Roberts coming up in just a couple
Speaker 2: of minutes. Tristan and Michigan start things off here on
Speaker 2: this Sunday on Dodger Talk. How you doing, Tristan?
Speaker 3: Not bad with two weeks school well making this how
Speaker 3: we anticipated home debut tomorrow and Blake's now returning Tuesday.
Speaker 3: Can the offense do enough to en should these a
Speaker 3: week arms actually get run support?
Speaker 2: I hope, so, Tristan, I hope. So this is a
Speaker 2: Dodgers team. Over the last couple of years, we've seen
Speaker 2: Yamamoto go out there and been the victim of no
Speaker 2: run support, even though he'll go out there and pitch
Speaker 2: six seven innings and you know, give up no runs
Speaker 2: or one run or two runs. Keep this Dodger team
Speaker 2: in the game and just the victim of no run
Speaker 2: support while other guys have gone out there and got
Speaker 2: a ton of run support. Jusse Robleski has been the
Speaker 2: recipient of a lot of run support this year. I
Speaker 2: appreciate the phone call, tryst and we'll find out and
Speaker 2: hopefully a return home a Dodger Stadium for a week,
Speaker 2: you know, and not having to get back up on
Speaker 2: the road like they have been seems like, you know,
Speaker 2: this second half of this season, I mean the nine
Speaker 2: games and ten days on the road, you come back
Speaker 2: home for a quick six game homestand and then you're
Speaker 2: back out on the road for six games without a
Speaker 2: day off. After that Sunday night game against the Red Sox,
Speaker 2: I mean, then twenty four hours later, you're already in
Speaker 2: Chicago playing a start of a three game set. They
Speaker 2: had a day off in Arizona on Thursday. I fully
Speaker 2: thought that would wake things up for the Dodger offense.
Speaker 2: I fully thought that off day in the hot sun
Speaker 2: of Arizona, where they were enjoying the nice cool air
Speaker 2: indoors or the pool outside, just getting away from baseball
Speaker 2: in Arizona on Thursday would be something that would kind
Speaker 2: of catapult this team into a weekend series against the Diamondbacks.
Speaker 2: And it just really didn't. They scored seven runs in
Speaker 2: three games, and today, you know, they fell behind for nothing.
Speaker 2: Justin Robleski struggled the Dodgers offense. Run here, run there,
Speaker 2: made it a four to two game in the six
Speaker 2: but you know, hit into another double play with the
Speaker 2: leadoff runner getting on base. Freddy Freeman hits into a
Speaker 2: double play to really you know, deflate the inning. So
Speaker 2: not a lot of opportunities for this Dodgers offense. And
Speaker 2: you hope a return home to Uniclo Field, the Dodgers Dadium,
Speaker 2: having Trek Scouble on the mound and Blake Snell returning
Speaker 2: on Tuesday, those guys can put up zeros and at
Speaker 2: the same time, the Dodgers offense could give them some
Speaker 2: run support because the Dodgers pitchers, you know, you look
Speaker 2: at the back of their jerseys and it says Schooble
Speaker 2: and it says Snell, and you see Cy Young Awards,
Speaker 2: and you know, you see dominance and Yamamoto. You know,
Speaker 2: these guys are really good. It's the best rotation in baseball,
Speaker 2: hands down. But they still got to get some run
Speaker 2: production in order to win games. And it just seems
Speaker 2: like losing fifteen of the last twenty four we haven't
Speaker 2: seen it very often where the offense is there, the
Speaker 2: defense is there, and the pitching is all there. When
Speaker 2: it is, they win games. And that's how they've been
Speaker 2: successful the last couple of seasons. Really good defense, smart
Speaker 2: base running, timely hitting, and pitching. That's been their recipe.
Speaker 2: That's the recipe to win games for everybody but the Dodgers.
Speaker 2: We've seen sloppy base running. We've seen some bad defense,
Speaker 2: extending innings, extending plays, and that leads to more runs,
Speaker 2: that leads to crooked numbers from the other team, and
Speaker 2: then that turns out to be losses. Blake, my guy, Colorado,
Speaker 2: Welcome to Dodger Talk. Blake. Certainly, certainly not the road
Speaker 2: trip the Dodgers had wanted going one in five. Oh gross,
Speaker 2: what's up, Blake?
Speaker 4: Yeah, and you forgot about Bobby Millow. It's who we
Speaker 4: have a lot of business down now.
Speaker 2: Yeah, benk Asparius, Gavin Stone, Bobby Miller, They've all pitched
Speaker 2: in the last couple of days. Gavin Stone, to me
Speaker 2: is the big question mark. If he can come back
Speaker 2: and build up to a couple of innings, maybe you
Speaker 2: found something, but again it's going to be a numbers issue. Blake.
Speaker 2: When everybody assume gets help healthy, and again we assume
Speaker 2: once Blake Snell's back, he's gonna be good to go
Speaker 2: the rest of the year. Tyler Glass. Now a few
Speaker 2: weeks after that, these guys are here for the rest
Speaker 2: of the year. So barring injuries, there's just not a
Speaker 2: lot of room in the rotation anymore. And there's not
Speaker 2: gonna be a lot of wiggle room for the bullpen.
Speaker 2: So you know, there's the old game of musical chairs, Blake.
Speaker 2: There's only so many chairs for so many people. Somebody's
Speaker 2: gonna get left out.
Speaker 4: Yeah, tough lots for the Dodgers. Do you think the
Speaker 4: Dodters just call up somebody from to blate just stop
Speaker 4: still offense?
Speaker 2: Well, I don't know who is. I mean, it's a
Speaker 2: good question, Blake. When you look at this Dodgers roster,
Speaker 2: you know, all these guys any team in baseball would
Speaker 2: love to have in their lineup, you know, from all
Speaker 2: Stars and Paz to future Hall of Famers and Freeman
Speaker 2: and Betts to the second highest paid player in baseball
Speaker 2: and Kyle Tucker to mister reliable Max Munsey to Keiky
Speaker 2: Hernandez mister October. I mean, this is a lineup that
Speaker 2: other teams around baseball would love to have any one
Speaker 2: of these Dodger hitters. So to look down into Triple
Speaker 2: A and say what is down there that is better
Speaker 2: that the Dodgers already have at the major league level.
Speaker 2: You know, maybe a guy like James Tibbs, the third
Speaker 2: can provide a spark. But outside of Tibbs, I don't
Speaker 2: know if there's a hitter that's electric enough that can
Speaker 2: come up and just provide that spark. This is already
Speaker 2: a just a dynamic roster and a lineup that they
Speaker 2: throw out there every day. With a guy named Shoeotani
Speaker 2: leading off, and you know Max Munsey hitting seventh or
Speaker 2: eighth in ta Oscar Hernandez hitting seventh or eighth. I
Speaker 2: mean it is already deep, Blake. I don't know who
Speaker 2: else could help this team, but he.
Speaker 4: Can cut the Asco Hernandez and in the Arizona sil
Speaker 4: he did nothing for us.
Speaker 2: That is a great point by you, Blake. He went
Speaker 2: oh for three today with three strikeouts, now hitting two
Speaker 2: forty nine on the season with just eleven home runs.
Speaker 2: He went one for four on the game last night,
Speaker 2: and he went oh for four with two strikeouts on
Speaker 2: Friday nights. So yeah, not a great weekend series. In fact,
Speaker 2: you go back to two of the three games he
Speaker 2: was also hit list in Chicago, the series opener, he
Speaker 2: went to for fourth. That home run that he hit
Speaker 2: into Waveland Avenue there behind Wrigley Field, you're right, he
Speaker 2: didn't do much this weekend, Blake, You're right about that, boss.
Speaker 2: What do else you got?
Speaker 4: Are not doing great?
Speaker 2: No, they're not. They got to turn it around and
Speaker 2: hopefully the Kansas City Royals are the team the Dodgers
Speaker 2: can feast on and get right and get ready for
Speaker 2: this big four game series against the Brewers beginning on Thursday. Blake.
Speaker 2: I appreciate the phone call as always great to hear
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Speaker 2: Hi is he? How you doing?
Speaker 5: Julie? Has you ask me how I'm doing? Now? Hi?
Speaker 5: I don't know what to say. I'm just I don't know.
Speaker 5: Is so depressed?
Speaker 2: What's frustrating you the most? Isabelle? Is it the hitting?
Speaker 2: Is it a player? Is it? Everything? What's bothering you
Speaker 2: the most? About this Dodgers team?
Speaker 5: Everything? Everything? And let me get Kioskar. I love the guy.
Speaker 5: But the seventeen three three pitches strikeout that was really unnecessary. Tioscar,
Speaker 5: I love somebody, guy, give me. I just wanted to
Speaker 5: spread the team right now, you know I would so EdWay.
Speaker 5: But yeah, I'm did everything. But it was nineteen you
Speaker 5: on Friday. Team, it was nineteen you, guys.
Speaker 2: I was seeing you on Friday and you got to
Speaker 2: meet Sean Green. That was cool.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and thank you for the pitchers too, and spec
Speaker 5: if anything, specifan send it to my friends. They were
Speaker 5: all killing me. But anyway, it's okay.
Speaker 2: But yeah, you know.
Speaker 5: What, you know what. The Dodgers be fine though, but
Speaker 5: just selfless maybe, so I just can't well, I guess
Speaker 5: we expected. I'm trying to win this championships. I guess
Speaker 5: we expected. So I don't know. I don't know what
Speaker 5: to say, all right.
Speaker 2: I hear you, I hear you. I feel your frustration,
Speaker 2: and I know Dodger fans are right there with you. Well,
Speaker 2: thanks for the phone call. We'll talk to you soon.
Speaker 2: Dodgers lose to the Diamondbacks. Forwarded to Dodger frans frustrated.
Speaker 2: Interesting to hear Freddy Freeman's comments in the clubouts show
Speaker 2: not too concerns the ups and downs of the season.
Speaker 2: I get it, but the sample size is starting to
Speaker 2: get a little bigger than just a series or a
Speaker 2: road trip or a two week stretch. The Dodgers one
Speaker 2: and five on this road trip, lost eight of their
Speaker 2: last nine. They are sub five hundred since the All
Speaker 2: Star break at nine and twelve. You go back to
Speaker 2: the three games before the All Star break in which
Speaker 2: they got swept at a home by the Diamondbacks. You
Speaker 2: include those three games. The Dodgers have dropped fifteen of
Speaker 2: their last twenty four. I imagine somebody who's just as
Speaker 2: frustrated as Dodger fans as the manager, Dave Roberts. Let's
Speaker 2: head back out to Phoenix and get the postgame thought
Speaker 2: to the Dodger skipper.
Speaker 6: Well, the bullpen was fantastic. I thought they gave us
Speaker 6: a chance. We had, you know, a few guys that
Speaker 6: we wanted to stay away from, so to see what
Speaker 6: they did today. Like I said, they gave us a
Speaker 6: chance to one a baseball.
Speaker 1: Game, justin to start this one. What are you continuing
Speaker 1: to see from him?
Speaker 6: Yeah, you know, I think obviously there was a lot
Speaker 6: of hard contact. I don't think that he had command
Speaker 6: of his pitches. There were some balls up that I recall,
Speaker 6: you know, the double from Moreno misfire on the Marte homer,
Speaker 6: and just again some balls hit pretty hard and the
Speaker 6: pitch count got up quickly, and then you know that
Speaker 6: fourth inning or to see the velocity dip down and
Speaker 6: just felt right there, you know, to give us a
Speaker 6: chance in that game, we had to you know, start
Speaker 6: the carousel.
Speaker 2: The first couple of things just looked like you might
Speaker 2: have had a double play ball in the first and
Speaker 2: then obviously Robleski's in the crown.
Speaker 6: Well, Robleski, Yeah, that's a play that he's got to make.
Speaker 6: And then the other one was you know, I guess
Speaker 6: you can put it in the category of a heady
Speaker 6: play by Perdomo because he was running inside the baseline.
Speaker 6: Freddie made a great throw and then he crossed Mookie's
Speaker 6: eyesight going to the outside the bag. So it was
Speaker 6: one of those very weird play but it's not obstruction.
Speaker 6: But you know, next time, I think we just got
Speaker 6: to just you know, throw through because you know, it
Speaker 6: wasn't impeding, but it sort of was intentional.
Speaker 7: Freddy said that there's no concern in there, and I
Speaker 7: would say there's a spectrum between panic and concern. Where
Speaker 7: would you be on that spect from right now?
Speaker 6: Well, I don't think there's concern. We've still got a
Speaker 6: really good ball club. They're certainly not panic. I think
Speaker 6: for us, it's just finding a way to win, win
Speaker 6: a game, and win consistently. And I think that's the
Speaker 6: focus versus you know, what type of emotions you're feeling.
Speaker 6: That doesn't it's just not helpful anyway, regardless, And.
Speaker 7: I think stended stretch, we nine to fifteen in the
Speaker 7: last twenty four, twenty one, twenty one in the last
Speaker 7: forty two. Why aren't you playing the kind of baseball
Speaker 7: you're capable?
Speaker 6: I think it's just when you're losing, like we're losing,
Speaker 6: it's always a combination. It's some days it's the starters,
Speaker 6: some days it's the relievers, some days it's the offense.
Speaker 6: And when you can sync those up, you have a
Speaker 6: better chance to win. And when you don't, which we
Speaker 6: haven't in that kind of expansive time you talked about,
Speaker 6: you lose more than you win, and so yeah, we're
Speaker 6: certainly not playing up to our capabilities.
Speaker 2: All right, there's a match of Dave Roberts, echoing what
Speaker 2: I just said a few minutes ago. You know, it's
Speaker 2: some days it's starting pitching that's really good. Some days,
Speaker 2: starting pitching has not been very good. The other days
Speaker 2: it's been the bullpen then has been the problem. Some
Speaker 2: days it's the lack of offense, and that's been the issue.
Speaker 2: When the Dodgers are lacking one or two or three
Speaker 2: of those, they're not winning games. But when they put
Speaker 2: it all together, good defense, timely hitting, and good pitching,
Speaker 2: they're winning baseball games. And that's a secret. You know,
Speaker 2: it's not really it's a secret at all. Actually, when
Speaker 2: you do those things, you're gonna win games more times
Speaker 2: than not. As Dave Roberts said, And unfortunately, the Dodgers'
Speaker 2: offense has been up and down, the Dodgers starting pitching
Speaker 2: has been up and down. And when the starting pitching
Speaker 2: has been there, the bullpen hasn't been there. When the
Speaker 2: bullpen's been there, the starting pitching hasn't been there. So, yeah,
Speaker 2: Dave Roberts, echoing everything I just said just a few
Speaker 2: minutes ago here on Dodger Talk. All right, that's gonna
Speaker 2: wrap things up here. Thanks to call. They saw you
Speaker 2: Dodger fans for being a part of the show. Certainly
Speaker 2: a frustrating afternoon for the Boys in Blue as they
Speaker 2: wrap up a one to five road trip. They got
Speaker 2: swept in all three games in Chicago, and they dropped
Speaker 2: two to three in the Desert to the Arizona Diamondbacks,
Speaker 2: including today falling to the Snakes four to two, and
Speaker 2: Wardo Rodriguez strikes out of season high nine to get
Speaker 2: the win. He wins seven innings, Justin Robleski gets touched
Speaker 2: up by the home run ball again, could not get
Speaker 2: out of the fourth inning three and two thirty three
Speaker 2: to a third, four runs, six hits, a home run.
Speaker 2: He gets. The loss is the Dodgers faul to seventy
Speaker 2: and forty eight, But the good news back home tomorrow
Speaker 2: to start a seven game homestand and the lowly Kansas
Speaker 2: City Royals come to town for a three game series.
Speaker 2: Turks Google gets to start Blake Snell scheduled to come
Speaker 2: off the injured list finally on Tuesday night. Eric Lauer,
Speaker 2: another left tender, scheduled to go on Wednesday night. All
Speaker 2: three games against Kansas City at seven to ten out
Speaker 2: at Uniclow Field at Dodger Stadium. We'll get our cover
Speaker 2: start tomorrow at six pm with Morongo Casino Dodgers on
Speaker 2: deck after the Petros and a money show. Have a great,
Speaker 2: safe rest of your Sunday afternoon and evening. So long, everybody,