Speaker 1: For the back to back World Champions of Baseball.
Speaker 2: One of the greatest runs in the history of baseball.
Speaker 1: Immortality is within their reach. Incredible and while others make excuses,
Speaker 1: the only reason the Dodgers are doing this because they
Speaker 1: can't they print money. The Dodgers just can't continue.
Speaker 3: It's not fair.
Speaker 1: Are making plans.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's a singular focus on controlling what they can control.
Speaker 1: Now your pregame host of the world champion LA Dodgers,
Speaker 1: tam Cats.
Speaker 5: Hi, everybody, and good morning. Welcome in to Morongo Casino
Speaker 5: Dodgers on deck on this Wednesday, August the fifth, twenty
Speaker 5: twenty six. As your Dodgers are first place atop the
Speaker 5: NL West. However, the Boys in Blue have lost five
Speaker 5: in a row. They're longest losing streak of the season,
Speaker 5: Dodgers said. At sixty nine and forty five on this season,
Speaker 5: first place atop the NL West, their lead is nine
Speaker 5: games over the Erason the Dime Backs. The Dodgers looking
Speaker 5: to salvage this series in Chicago. In the final game
Speaker 5: of this three game set from Wrigley Field, Eric Lower
Speaker 5: on the mound, the left hander will go first pitch,
Speaker 5: coming up at eleven twenty between then and now, we
Speaker 5: got a lot to get to. Here on Morago Casino,
Speaker 5: Dodgers on deck, you're gonna hear from the Dodger manager
Speaker 5: Dave Roberts will preview this pitching matchup. David Vase is
Speaker 5: gonna go one on one with Terrek Schoolball. Yes, the
Speaker 5: newest Dodger left hander will be joining dv coming up
Speaker 5: at about fifty minutes. We got your Dodgers magical moment.
Speaker 5: Shortly we'll visit with Kirsten Watson and in just a
Speaker 5: few minutes we'll head out to the Galloping four broadcast booth.
Speaker 5: And here from Tim Nevertt and Rick Monday. Well, last
Speaker 5: night the Dodger debut of school Ball. Unfortunately not much
Speaker 5: run support. It is the Dodgers lost again. Trek Scooble
Speaker 5: on the mound for the first time since coming over
Speaker 5: from Detroit the deadline. The left hander was solid, a
Speaker 5: quality outing six innings. He would go the Dodgers offense. Oh,
Speaker 5: there was a little bit last night. They gave scoobl
Speaker 5: to early lead. Kyle Tucker, the former Cub boot every
Speaker 5: time he came to the play so far in this series,
Speaker 5: he said boot this to.
Speaker 2: One pitch, Tucker slings hits a high drive the left
Speaker 2: center field.
Speaker 4: Caring this ball headed back, it is gone and up.
Speaker 6: As the field home run Kyle Tucker.
Speaker 2: He comes back to Wrigley Field and picks up his
Speaker 2: tenth pome run of the season, getting the Dodgers on
Speaker 2: the board, and it.
Speaker 4: Is won to nothing.
Speaker 5: How about that tenth home run of the season for
Speaker 5: Kyle Tucker. That was a solo shot in the top
Speaker 5: half of the second inding. However, the Cubbies, like they
Speaker 5: have done in the first game of this series and
Speaker 5: did it again last night, answered back in the bottom
Speaker 5: of the third Swanson Dansby Swanson a home run to
Speaker 5: left center field off of Trek Schooble, and that tied
Speaker 5: the game at one. Scooble would pitch really well for
Speaker 5: five plus innings. They got to the sixth last night
Speaker 5: when the Dodgers left tender got a little unlucky. A
Speaker 5: one out walk, then Bregman a one out double put
Speaker 5: runners on second and third. Michael Bush grinded into a
Speaker 5: fielder's choice, so runners on first and third with two
Speaker 5: outs for Nico Horner.
Speaker 2: So be the eightieth pitch of the night for scoobl
Speaker 2: his one one to Horner swings HiT's a high chopper
Speaker 2: over the mind.
Speaker 4: It could be trouble. It's gonna be a base hit.
Speaker 2: Coming in to score is pregnant and the Cubs lead
Speaker 2: at two to one.
Speaker 1: On the ball.
Speaker 4: It hit off the front edge at home plate and
Speaker 4: acted like a fly ball.
Speaker 5: Oh the old Baltimore chop. That thing just hung up
Speaker 5: in the air. Tommy Edmund could not make a play.
Speaker 5: Run came across the score and the Cubbies had a
Speaker 5: two to one lead.
Speaker 3: But still the.
Speaker 5: Dodgers, right there, right, where's the offense only had four
Speaker 5: hits the entire game. One of them was the Kyle
Speaker 5: Tucker home run way back in the second inning. Meanwhile,
Speaker 5: the Dodgers' bullpen came in and gave up more runs
Speaker 5: two in the seventh Alex Vesia credited for giving up
Speaker 5: both of those. Pete Crow, Armstrong and RBI singles Suzuki
Speaker 5: and single to center, and just like that, the Cubbies
Speaker 5: had a four to one lead. Then in the eighth inning,
Speaker 5: Nico Horner, who hit the Baltimore chopping the six, came
Speaker 5: back in the eighth with a solo home run to
Speaker 5: left center field as the Cubbies extended their lead to
Speaker 5: five to one, and they would go on and win
Speaker 5: by that final score as Trek Scouogle gets headed the loss,
Speaker 5: his first as a Dodger. Despite going six innings, allowing
Speaker 5: two runs on four hits, he struck out six. He
Speaker 5: gave up that home run through eighty five pitches. He's
Speaker 5: now seven to six on this season. The Dodgers offense
Speaker 5: again last night, just four hits in the entire game.
Speaker 5: What has happened to this Dodgers lineup, especially since the
Speaker 5: All Star Break? With this Dodgers team as a five
Speaker 5: hundred team and he pot has zero for four last night.
Speaker 5: Max Muntsey was oh for three with a couple of strikeouts.
Speaker 5: Freddie Freeman extended his hitting streaking out of fourteen straight games.
Speaker 5: Kyle Tucker had two of the Dodgers four hits, but
Speaker 5: Mookie Bets's struggles they're real. Oh for three again last night.
Speaker 5: He's now hitting two twenty three on the season. Ta
Speaker 5: Oscar hernandez An Oh for Night, Tommy Edmond and oh Fornight.
Speaker 5: The Dodgers offense just disappeared last night and has been
Speaker 5: non existent in the last five games, and thus the
Speaker 5: Dodgers had their longest losing streak of this season at
Speaker 5: five games. Now they've already lost the series at wrig
Speaker 5: Lee Field, and now they're looking just as salvage this series,
Speaker 5: but avoiding a sweep as they go in the finale
Speaker 5: today from Wriggley Field. Eric Lauer on the mound, trying
Speaker 5: to snap the losing streak, first pitch at eleven twenty
Speaker 5: with more, let's head out to the Gallop and four
Speaker 5: broadcast booth, so we say good morning to Tim Neffett
Speaker 5: and Rick Monday.
Speaker 2: Guys, Tim, thank you very much. It is an overcast
Speaker 2: day right now. Supposed to clear up a little bit
Speaker 2: some rain dew in the Chicago area later today, but
Speaker 2: it shouldn't affect the ball game as the Dodgers and
Speaker 2: Cubs get set for Game three of this three game
Speaker 2: set and the Dodgers trying to solve a game here.
Speaker 2: Eric Lauer six and five and a four to fifty ERA,
Speaker 2: facing left hander Showta Imanaga. Imanaga seven and nine for
Speaker 2: the Cubs. Three sixty seven is his earned run average.
Speaker 2: Cubs are sixty five and forty nine, the Dodgers sixty
Speaker 2: nine and forty five. That seventieth win has been elusive.
Speaker 2: In fact, Milwaukee picked up the seventieth last night, becoming
Speaker 2: the first team to get to seventy. The Dodgers have
Speaker 2: had five straight chances to do it. They have lost
Speaker 2: a season high five in a row. And Moa is
Speaker 2: a player. When the team gets in these kind of slumps,
Speaker 2: how do you get out of them?
Speaker 6: Well, weather's coming into Chicago. The Dodgers could use some
Speaker 6: lightning right now from an offensive standpoint, because the numbers
Speaker 6: aren't with the numbers are now losing five in a row,
Speaker 6: how about seven of nine, twelve of twenty and the fact,
Speaker 6: talking about offense or lack thereof, just one run has
Speaker 6: been scored in the last twelve and a third innings.
Speaker 6: They're not helping themselves. Also by the bats that they're having.
Speaker 6: They hit into two double plays, yes Dad, three in
Speaker 6: the first two games. And if we look at the
Speaker 6: last couple of years, no team in baseball is hit
Speaker 6: into more ground bowl double plays than the Dodgers had
Speaker 6: by a considerable margin. And right now they cannot afford
Speaker 6: to eliminate themselves. And maybe the possibilities of scoring runs
Speaker 6: in innings.
Speaker 2: Other than that, how are things going?
Speaker 6: Yeah, other than that everybody's saying, well, the sky is falling.
Speaker 6: The sky is falling, and still they have the lead,
Speaker 6: but don't rest on the lead because they leave here.
Speaker 6: Tomorrow's an off day and then they take on the
Speaker 6: Arizona Diamondbacks, and the Diamondbacks are trying to close the gap,
Speaker 6: no question about that. And if the Dodgers don't continue
Speaker 6: to kind of pick things up as they had most
Speaker 6: of the year and seventy percent of the game have
Speaker 6: been played, now you know they could be in the
Speaker 6: first round of playoffs. Have to go into wild Card
Speaker 6: playoff in the first round again this year.
Speaker 2: Well, a bright spot last night was the debut of
Speaker 2: Trek Scruball. Now, yes, he did get the loss in
Speaker 2: the game, he gave up the second run. It was
Speaker 2: a tough luck run on a high chopper off the
Speaker 2: front edge of home plate that a runner a third
Speaker 2: round underneath and scored the go ahead run. Dodgers couldn't
Speaker 2: get him any more runs. So other than that, I mean,
Speaker 2: he pitched very well. In four of the six innings
Speaker 2: he pitched, He retired the side in order, he struck
Speaker 2: out six.
Speaker 4: He commanded the ball. He looked very good.
Speaker 6: Yeah, and the Dodgers need him. We talked about lack
Speaker 6: of offense, but let's look at the last fifty five
Speaker 6: games overall, the era collectively, the tire pitching staff is
Speaker 6: over four and a quarter, the relievers are close to
Speaker 6: three and three quarters. In the last sixty games, that
Speaker 6: era is right at five. So there's a lot of
Speaker 6: different areas that need to be tightened up. And we're
Speaker 6: seeing a different lineup as far as the positioning today
Speaker 6: because if we look at Mookie Benz, he's been moved
Speaker 6: down to the number six spot, and a little surprising
Speaker 6: with lefty on the mound, Bets is hitting behind Kyle Tucker,
Speaker 6: the left handed hitter and Hunter.
Speaker 2: Fiducia will make his first start this year with the Dodgers,
Speaker 2: more than a year after he made his major league
Speaker 2: debut with the Dodgers before being traded to Tampa Bay
Speaker 2: and playing fairly.
Speaker 4: Regularly with the Rays.
Speaker 2: Eric Lauer and Showta the pitching matchup Cubs and Dodgers,
Speaker 2: third game of this three games, sent right around the corner.
Speaker 5: Tim all right, thank you very much. As we count
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Speaker 5: down with Trek Scoogle. That's coming up. In about thirty
Speaker 5: five minutes. You'll hear from the Dodger manager, Dave Roberts.
Speaker 5: Who's the latest on the injury front? What's up with
Speaker 5: Dalton Rushing? We got your Dodgers magical moment. We'll break
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Speaker 5: Out Dodgers and Cubs fin the game of this three
Speaker 5: game sent for Wrigley Field. Eric Lower, the stopper for
Speaker 5: the Dodgers, is there right in a five game losing
Speaker 5: streak that's got to come to it and today first
Speaker 5: pitch coming up at eleven.
Speaker 1: Twenty, this is the Otani rewide all in one to Otani,
Speaker 1: well swing and hit it down the left field Shige,
Speaker 1: that's a fair ball.
Speaker 2: Otani will jog around first and hold there with a single.
Speaker 2: That side of the infield was vacated and O'toni got
Speaker 2: a cutter on the outside half and took it that way.
Speaker 5: Great piece of hitting from Shoey Otani going to love
Speaker 5: field with the solo the base hit last night one
Speaker 5: for four he went in the game as the Dodgers
Speaker 5: only had four hits offensively as a team in a
Speaker 5: five to one loss to the Cuppies.
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Speaker 5: needs a win, and they need a win now, and
Speaker 5: it looks like they have the right guy on the mound.
Speaker 3: To do it.
Speaker 8: You know what they do as much as we all
Speaker 8: thought it was gonna be Terrek Schouobl yesterday, who I
Speaker 8: should preface with. He was excellent in his Dodgers' debut,
Speaker 8: able to get through six Yes they were in that
Speaker 8: sixth in name, just a little hiccup with that Baltimore chop,
Speaker 8: but he was in fact excellent and he did what
Speaker 8: he needed to do to help get the Dodgers into
Speaker 8: the win column. But today, little did we know the
Speaker 8: stopper could really be Eric Lauer. He is someone who
Speaker 8: since he's come over from the Toronto Blue Jays, he
Speaker 8: has been nothing but excellent. And really what the Dodgers
Speaker 8: needed was they have key arms on the il and
Speaker 8: Blake Snell as well as Tyler Glass. Now, so whenever
Speaker 8: Eric has taken the ball, whether it's a start or
Speaker 8: the one time in which we saw him come in
Speaker 8: with an opener, this team has won so nine and zero.
Speaker 7: Whenever Eric has bitched in a game, which means maybe.
Speaker 8: He is the perfect guy to reset things for this
Speaker 8: team today, so they get them back into the wind column,
Speaker 8: to have them leave Chicago on high note, just get
Speaker 8: back on track before heading into Arizona against a division rival.
Speaker 8: So you know Eric is teased He's like, I just
Speaker 8: want you guys to know whenever I take the ball,
Speaker 8: good things happen. And so now we are like, well,
Speaker 8: you know what, Eric, the odds are very much in
Speaker 8: your favor.
Speaker 7: So let's keep it going. Let's go to ten and
Speaker 7: oh for him on the year, that would be nice.
Speaker 3: No doubt about it.
Speaker 5: To looking at this Dodgers team coming up in the
Speaker 5: next few weeks, maybe Will Smith is going to be
Speaker 5: coming back to get behind the plate, but that's still
Speaker 5: a ways off, and Dalton Rushing news is certainly not good.
Speaker 8: Yeah, So unfortunately last night we found out that Dalton
Speaker 8: Rushing is dealing with a slight UCL tear in his elbow.
Speaker 8: And so you know what does that mean moving forward?
Speaker 8: Does that mean that surgery is needed. It's a chance,
Speaker 8: there's a possibility for that. There's no decision made just yet.
Speaker 8: But Dave Roberts was saying is right now, they're trying
Speaker 8: just to manage him. So they're shutting him down completely
Speaker 8: for just a bed four to six weeks, especially on
Speaker 8: the throwing side. Even Dave rob a minute today that
Speaker 8: it's unclear as if he will be able to return as.
Speaker 7: A catcher this year.
Speaker 8: They're hoping to keep his bat moving with that slight
Speaker 8: UCL terry is something that you can hit through, so
Speaker 8: they're hoping to keep his bat going as just a
Speaker 8: potential lefty bat off the bench if need be. In
Speaker 8: the hope, really with will Smith, he is continuing to progress.
Speaker 8: He's stacking good days, he's still swinging the bat.
Speaker 7: He has not.
Speaker 8: Taken VP on the field just yet or face live pitching,
Speaker 8: and once he does that they'll have a better idea
Speaker 8: of an exact timeline as to when he can get
Speaker 8: on a rehab assignment. But they are looking at him
Speaker 8: returning in September, so they feel confident about that. So
Speaker 8: in the meantimes because now you know that Dalton likely
Speaker 8: not returning as a catcher. So for Ben Roartvett, for
Speaker 8: Hunter Fidusha, this is their time to shine because they
Speaker 8: are going to be needed come October. This wasn't a
Speaker 8: move just to kind of fill in the blank here
Speaker 8: and there. It's become clear that this is a move
Speaker 8: that was required because they do need some more support
Speaker 8: in the catcher position now with his news that Dalton
Speaker 8: could would be shut down as the catcher moving forward
Speaker 8: for the rest.
Speaker 7: Of this year, So for these guys, we saw Ben.
Speaker 8: Yesterday, Trek Scoogle said he was excellent behind the plate.
Speaker 8: We know what he's capable of doing for what we saw.
Speaker 7: From him last year. And then Hunter Vadusha obviously.
Speaker 8: Very familiar with this organization, has had some Big league
Speaker 8: time with the Rays and did very well with the
Speaker 8: Rays this year. So for him coming over, he's behind
Speaker 8: the plate this afternoon. And so for these two guys,
Speaker 8: they really do have a runway ahead of them, and
Speaker 8: they have a great opportunity ahead of them as well.
Speaker 5: Real quick. This team's not used to losing, certainly not
Speaker 5: losing five games in a row being a five hundred
Speaker 5: team since the All Star break. What's this team like
Speaker 5: being around them on the field in the clubhouse the
Speaker 5: last forty eight hours.
Speaker 8: You know, it's kind of that weird thing. There's something
Speaker 8: of something's got to give. There's very much there are positives.
Speaker 8: The starting pitching was excellent yesterday. We saw Kyle Tucker
Speaker 8: have a two hit game. You know, Freddie Freeman has
Speaker 8: continued to have a hot bat. So you're seeing there's positives.
Speaker 8: And then if you look at the game one of
Speaker 8: this series in which they were able to get to
Speaker 8: Justin Robleski who has been so he's working through a
Speaker 8: few things. So you know it's it's if it's not
Speaker 8: one thing, it's something else that's causing to be the
Speaker 8: issue for them. So right now they're just looking to
Speaker 8: get a complete game going. I will say, this is
Speaker 8: a team, there's a bunch of professionals, a lot of
Speaker 8: veterans in this league, and so they understand that things
Speaker 8: are going to happen in a course of one's sixty two.
Speaker 8: Even Mookie Bett's last night he just described it as
Speaker 8: it's just clear we're.
Speaker 7: In a little bit of a rut right now. So
Speaker 7: now it's just how do they dig themselves out.
Speaker 3: Of that rut.
Speaker 8: There is obviously the off day tomorrow that's a great
Speaker 8: way to reset. So the hope is just used today
Speaker 8: as kind of like that launching pad.
Speaker 3: No doubt about it.
Speaker 5: No better day to get a win than today. Here, Sin,
Speaker 5: we appreciate what check out with you after the game
Speaker 5: is still to come here on Morago because you know
Speaker 5: Dodgers on Deck will dive deeper to this pitching matchup.
Speaker 5: David Vat say goes one on what with Trek Schooble
Speaker 5: fresh off his first start with the Dodgers last night,
Speaker 5: but up next at injury report, and we'll hear from
Speaker 5: the manager, Dave Roberts Dodgers and Cubs on this Wednesday.
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Speaker 1: It's the LA Dodgers Injury Report.
Speaker 5: Presented by UCLA Health, the official medical partner of the
Speaker 5: Los Angeles Dodgers. Dalton rushing on the il with the
Speaker 5: slight tear in his ucl at his elbow, Blake trying
Speaker 5: on the il with the right elbow inflammation. Will Smith
Speaker 5: on the il working his way back from that neck inflammation.
Speaker 5: Tyler Glass now two innings at a minor League rehab
Speaker 5: start yesterday with the tower buzzers, He'll continue to ramp up.
Speaker 5: Blake's now yesterday final rehab start in Oklahoma City, three
Speaker 5: and two third innings, three runs, five hits, including two
Speaker 5: home runs. He walked four, struck out three, throwing seventy
Speaker 5: three pitches. Asparious Gavin Stone, two names we haven't heard
Speaker 5: in a while. Both the report to Oklahoma City to
Speaker 5: try to salvage their injury riddled twenty twenty six seasons.
Speaker 5: All right, let's head back out to Wrigley feel that
Speaker 5: check out the Dodger skipper A.
Speaker 3: Questions for Dave Dave? Can you just describe Dave?
Speaker 4: Can you talk about the pressure in.
Speaker 9: The dugouts with Dave Roberts, with Dalton, I think it's
Speaker 9: just kind of shut down the throwing for four to
Speaker 9: six weeks. You know, there's a rest period for just
Speaker 9: the activity and then kind of try to resume hitting
Speaker 9: and try to keep the bat alive all the while,
Speaker 9: you know, seeing how the arm feels, the elbow feels.
Speaker 9: So that's one piece. And with Will, it's just a
Speaker 9: continued I have everything keeps moving forward, which is a
Speaker 9: good thing. There's no timeline as far as when he
Speaker 9: faces pitching, let alone, when he goes out on or rehab,
Speaker 9: you know, then we'll have more clarity on a you know,
Speaker 9: projected date of return.
Speaker 7: But right now I don't know is he still swinging
Speaker 7: in the cage.
Speaker 9: Yes, yes, and hasn't taken at bats on the field yet.
Speaker 3: Or that Dalton catches at any point the rest of
Speaker 3: this year.
Speaker 9: Personally, I would say it's a very small I hope
Speaker 9: I'm wrong, but just kind of you know, he's a
Speaker 9: tough kid and so for him to you know, go
Speaker 9: through this speaks a lot. So I think that would
Speaker 9: be great if he can certainly a possibility with the time,
Speaker 9: but we're certainly trying to keep the battle alive for sure, which.
Speaker 10: That like you guys want to have some left handed
Speaker 10: options down the stretch.
Speaker 9: That's a part of it, just kind of like looking
Speaker 9: at the roster and having a you know, potential left
Speaker 9: handed bat could be really helpful or not Dalton.
Speaker 7: Will have to go on undergo surgery.
Speaker 6: How much of this is just kind of waying If
Speaker 6: you rest him for four to six weeks, he might not.
Speaker 4: Are you as willing to take that risk?
Speaker 9: I think that fair question. I think that over the
Speaker 9: next couple of weeks, I think that we'll have a
Speaker 9: better idea of how he's responding with time, and then
Speaker 9: I think, obviously that's a Dalton question too. You know,
Speaker 9: it's an organizational but it's a doctor and it's kind
Speaker 9: of laying all the variables out and then make a decision.
Speaker 9: But I do think that there's really not much cost
Speaker 9: outside of two weeks or whatever to kind of wait
Speaker 9: and see how he responds to some treatment and some
Speaker 9: kind of stuff that they decide to do.
Speaker 11: Is you understanding just that it's an overuse injury like
Speaker 11: has been kind of fraying over time.
Speaker 9: Or I think that it is it was something that
Speaker 9: was there and then it just showed itself whatever whatever
Speaker 9: day was Sunday.
Speaker 12: I know, you can swing with that as a something
Speaker 12: that like heat's a swing and anyway there's a particle
Speaker 12: you guys kind of have to see over the next
Speaker 12: couple of weeks with him.
Speaker 9: That's part of it.
Speaker 11: Yeah, Yeah, talk about the growth that he's done this
Speaker 11: season and the growth that he has yet to do.
Speaker 11: How disappointing is it to see this happen when he's
Speaker 11: in the middle of kind of finding his rhythm here.
Speaker 9: Yeah, it's it's a bummer because he has made a
Speaker 9: lot of strides and then you know, even just this
Speaker 9: right here, I mean you're you're talking about one hundred
Speaker 9: over one hundred and one hundred and twenty five plate
Speaker 9: appearances that you're missing out on it and also opportunities
Speaker 9: to catch major league innings. So you know, yeah, I
Speaker 9: mean I feel for Dalton.
Speaker 5: Yeah, all right, there's a match to Dave Roberts. Certainly
Speaker 5: a lot of talk about Dalton rushing. Will he be
Speaker 5: able to come back? Won't he be able to come
Speaker 5: back with the elbow injury? When we continue here on Morongo,
Speaker 5: because you know, Dodgers on deck, we will check in
Speaker 5: with David bad Say as we lead you up to
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Speaker 5: All right, David, looking at the Dodgers lineup of today
Speaker 5: in the finale against the Cubbies. They need some offense,
Speaker 5: no doubt about that. Looks like a little different lineup today.
Speaker 9: Yeah.
Speaker 4: And the one thing that stood out to me, Tim
Speaker 4: was who was hitting behind Freddy Freeman. Mookie Bets has
Speaker 4: been dropped in the order. Tommy Edmond is hitting behind
Speaker 4: Freddie Freeman, batting cleanup against the left hander at Amanaga.
Speaker 4: Kyle Tucker is hitting fifth, and Mookie Betts has been
Speaker 4: dropped to the sixth spot. Mooki has had a Nightmaragh
Speaker 4: type of season, not taking walk's lowest walk rate of
Speaker 4: his career, on base percentage well below three hundred. And
Speaker 4: here's the one thing that has stood out to me
Speaker 4: the most. Freddy Freeman, who has a fourteen game hitting
Speaker 4: streak coming into today, has been on base forty five
Speaker 4: times since the beginning of July. He has only scored
Speaker 4: eight times. He's only been driven in eight times being
Speaker 4: on base that many times, and to me, that's a
Speaker 4: symptom of who's hitting directly behind him and they have
Speaker 4: not gotten the job done.
Speaker 5: Blake Snell last night shocking to give him a couple
Speaker 5: of home runs, but it was a rehabit Sibmon in TRIPLEA,
Speaker 5: Oklahoma City. Is that the final one for snell Zilla
Speaker 5: and when can we see him return?
Speaker 4: Yeah, that is the final one. He will be back
Speaker 4: with the Dodgers when they return home on the homestand
Speaker 4: likely one of the first two games against the Royals.
Speaker 4: Even though he couldn't get out of the fourth inning,
Speaker 4: he got the pitch count close to seventy five pitches
Speaker 4: he threw seventy three, so he's ready to go. I
Speaker 4: feel like he needs a challenge of major league hitters,
Speaker 4: and I think you're gonna see a really good snail
Speaker 4: Zilla that we didn't even see last year. Because he
Speaker 4: told reporters last week that he hasn't felt this good
Speaker 4: with his arm and range of motion in three years,
Speaker 4: and he actually has a feeling in his fingertips again,
Speaker 4: and that is the result of that nanoscope procedure that
Speaker 4: he went with earlier this year.
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Speaker 5: So what about the others in Detroit? What are they
Speaker 5: saying about this trade?
Speaker 4: Yeah, everybody keeps talking about how the Tigers may not
Speaker 4: have taken the best package presented to them, and there's
Speaker 4: so many conspiracy theories out there. I thought it was
Speaker 4: interesting though, what the Tigers GM Scott Harris had to
Speaker 4: say to kind of squash all those conspiracy theories. That
Speaker 4: Scooble wanted to come to the Dodgers, so they made
Speaker 4: it happen, or you know, Major League Baseball wanted Schooble
Speaker 4: to be in a Dodger uniform. The Brewers, they're trying
Speaker 4: to say they offered better, but they won't say exactly what.
Speaker 4: Here's what the Tigers GM Scott Harris had to say
Speaker 4: yesterday regarding the Schooble trade.
Speaker 5: The market was the market.
Speaker 10: The teams that were in were in, and the teams
Speaker 10: that weren't weren't in. We're not in and unfortunately, in
Speaker 10: those situations with a player that is truly at the
Speaker 10: top of the market, that is truly one of one,
Speaker 10: you know, we had the steering wheel and we could
Speaker 10: steer it as fast or as slow as we wanted to,
Speaker 10: and we felt like we put ourselves in a position
Speaker 10: on Saturday night where he was abundantly clear what every
Speaker 10: organization was going to be able to do, and we
Speaker 10: laid down all the offers.
Speaker 5: In front of us and we chose one.
Speaker 10: So I'm very confident that we absolutely maxim suit return
Speaker 10: that we could get for Trek school Boy.
Speaker 4: Yeah, And I think that is the one thing everybody's
Speaker 4: forgetting about Tim. It seems like from what I've gathered,
Speaker 4: the Tigers really wanted Zayre Hope and they really wanted
Speaker 4: River Ryan. The reports are that the Brewers offered three
Speaker 4: of their really good position players, but not one of
Speaker 4: their young starting pitchers. But the Tigers we're looking for
Speaker 4: all along that's been reported going back to spring training
Speaker 4: is a young, controllable pitcher. River Ryan is really talented.
Speaker 4: He fits that. Zayer Hope was a person of interest
Speaker 4: for the Tigers. So you know, you could say that's
Speaker 4: right or wrong, but those were the players they wanted.
Speaker 5: No doubt about it, and they're the ones who wanted
Speaker 5: to pull off this training and they get what they
Speaker 5: getting back in return. David, great stuff. We will check
Speaker 5: back you with you a little bit, Dason to go
Speaker 5: one on one with Trek Scoogle coming up in fifteen minutes,
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Speaker 13: All right, Tim, we get ready for game one hundred
Speaker 13: and fifteen, forty eight games remaining. The Dodgers looking to
Speaker 13: get out of Chicago with a win. They've lost five
Speaker 13: in a row for the first time this season. They've
Speaker 13: lost seven of their last nine, and now suddenly the
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Speaker 13: and a half behind the Brewers, and now just a
Speaker 13: half a game ahead of the Braves. Tied in the
Speaker 13: lost column with the Dodgers, the Braves have the third
Speaker 13: best record in the game, the third best record in
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Speaker 6: Well, they need to turn around and for return school,
Speaker 6: he pitched better than do you be tagged with the
Speaker 6: loss yesterday six two runs on four hints. Yes, gave
Speaker 6: up a home run, but If you look at Schoogle,
Speaker 6: you know he kept waiting for some runs to be scored.
Speaker 6: The one ball that really hurt was that high bouncer
Speaker 6: hit off the mound. Really no chance to make the
Speaker 6: play on top of that, But the Dodgers have multiple
Speaker 6: issues going on right now. First of all, they've eliminated
Speaker 6: opportunities to score runs. You look at the double play
Speaker 6: balls the last two years, it's the most of any
Speaker 6: team in Major League Baseball. They've hit into seven ground
Speaker 6: bowl double plays in the last five games, ten in
Speaker 6: the last eight games. And then you start to look
Speaker 6: at the disparity in running across home plate to score.
Speaker 6: They've been able to manage just one run over the
Speaker 6: last twelve and the third innings, and that's got to change.
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Speaker 13: There is a trend developing. In the first fifty four
Speaker 13: games this year, the Dodgers had an ERA of three ten,
Speaker 13: the starters in the er of three to twenty three,
Speaker 13: the relievers to eighty seven. In the next fifty five games,
Speaker 13: through Game one hundred and fourteen, the Dodgers have an
Speaker 13: ER of four to twenty six. The starter's ER is
Speaker 13: still a decent three seventy five the bullpen er in
Speaker 13: the last sixty games is over five. So it's not
Speaker 13: just a recent slump less two thirds.
Speaker 3: Of the season to this point, it's.
Speaker 1: Been a downward progression.
Speaker 6: Yeah, and let's put in perspective, this is game number
Speaker 6: one hundred and fifteen.
Speaker 4: What does that mean.
Speaker 6: Well, it means that seventy percent of the season has
Speaker 6: been completed, so you're looking at thirty percent left. And
Speaker 6: for the Dodgers, they have to play much much better
Speaker 6: than they have played so far. I mean, the only
Speaker 6: thing that's been somewhat consistent has been the defense. The
Speaker 6: offense has been sputtering, even though you've got some guys
Speaker 6: that have just really been knocking the cover off the ball,
Speaker 6: Freddie Freeman in particular. But for Freeman, as many times
Speaker 6: as he's been on base, he's not been knocked in
Speaker 6: very very many times by other bats. So, you know,
Speaker 6: Dave Roberts changing that lineup around today, and the first
Speaker 6: thing we notice is that Mookie Bess has been moved
Speaker 6: down to the sixth spot, batting behind Kyle Tucker. And
Speaker 6: keep in mind this is against a left handed pitcher
Speaker 6: and showed Imanaga, so he's on the mound and yet
Speaker 6: Dave Roberts has it's really been able to trust his
Speaker 6: lineup offensively, and now Hunter Fiducia.
Speaker 4: Is going to get the start this afternoon.
Speaker 13: Again, the Dodgers, you don't know when or if Will
Speaker 13: Smith is going to be back, and you don't know
Speaker 13: when or if Dalton Rushing is going to be back,
Speaker 13: and so it's going to be they're going to be
Speaker 13: juggling three catchers and trying to figure out who can
Speaker 13: actually step up.
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, I think if we look at the loss
Speaker 6: of Will Smith, and again there's no timetable at all
Speaker 6: to have any idea on projection and when he may
Speaker 6: be back, if he's going to be back for that matter,
Speaker 6: they're optimistic, but until we see him, he's not here.
Speaker 6: But that is a huge loss for a lot of
Speaker 6: different reasons. First of all from his catching and working
Speaker 6: with the pitching staff, but more importantly, if you look
Speaker 6: at the the fizzle if you will, of the offense,
Speaker 6: obviously they miss his bat terribly.
Speaker 13: All Right, So Scoogle did great last night. Can't pin
Speaker 13: the rap on him. Quality start, six innings, two runs,
Speaker 13: four hits, just eighty five pitches fifty one for strikes.
Speaker 13: Blake Snell in his rehab start. His fourth went three
Speaker 13: and two thirds last night seventy three pitches, struck out
Speaker 13: three walk four to three runs on five heads, and
Speaker 13: so Snell getting closer. But again today it's going to
Speaker 13: be up to Eric Lauer, who, if nothing else, he
Speaker 13: has been a model of consistency when.
Speaker 4: They give him the ball.
Speaker 13: The Dodgers haven't lost.
Speaker 6: Yeah, and they need desperately to have a very good
Speaker 6: outing there. One other addition to coming back, Tyler Glasnow
Speaker 6: went two innings plus he pitched a third inning in
Speaker 6: the bull pen last night at Rancho, sixteen pitches, twelve
Speaker 6: in the strength zone. He had one pitch violin on
Speaker 6: the clock. But he's getting a little bit closer. But
Speaker 6: it's the old line about until they're here, they're not here.
Speaker 6: So the Dodgers meanwhile, have to figure out ways to
Speaker 6: play much better baseball than what they're currently doing.
Speaker 13: And the Dodgers over there last ten have really struggled
Speaker 13: beyond the losing streak. They've lost seven of ten, twelve
Speaker 13: of twenty, and they're just a five hundred team over
Speaker 13: the last thirty games. So they're looking to straighten up.
Speaker 13: Fly right, fly out of town. Tomorrow and then have
Speaker 13: the three game series with the Diamondbacks who are hot
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Speaker 4: where Terrece Scooble had never pitched before before last night,
Speaker 4: making his Dodger debut, and we're joined right now by
Speaker 4: the Dodgers left hander. Thanks a lot for the time,
Speaker 4: appreciate it. Yeah, of course, thanks for having What's it
Speaker 4: been like last night? I know, opening day, your major
Speaker 4: league debut. Were there any butterflies when you took the
Speaker 4: mound last night?
Speaker 3: Yeah, no doubt, no doubt.
Speaker 12: I mean even just going to bed the night before
Speaker 12: and you know, waking up, you know, super excited to
Speaker 12: kind of start this journey, you know, a different chapter
Speaker 12: in my story. So you know, excited to be a
Speaker 12: Dodger and you know, give everything that I have to
Speaker 12: this city, end of this team, and you know, try
Speaker 12: to win as many baseball games as I can.
Speaker 4: It's so strange. You haven't been on the Dodgers more
Speaker 4: than a couple of days, but it seems like you
Speaker 4: have connections and relationships with so many guys through your
Speaker 4: time with the All Star Games and the World Baseball Classic. Yeah.
Speaker 12: No, I mean I try to get to know everybody
Speaker 12: throughout the league.
Speaker 9: You know.
Speaker 12: It's kind of this fraternity, right, all these guys throughout
Speaker 12: the league, and there becomes a lot of familiar faces
Speaker 12: and playing guys just you know, and I got a
Speaker 12: lot of respect for everybody in this league.
Speaker 8: You know.
Speaker 12: It's it's really hard to be a big leaguer, and
Speaker 12: then you know, when you get to establish some time here,
Speaker 12: it's really cool to know some guys and get to
Speaker 12: know guys, you know, not just on the field, but
Speaker 12: off the field a little bit. So you know, I
Speaker 12: try to, you know, get to know everybody. You know,
Speaker 12: everyone's unique in their own way, and you know, I
Speaker 12: really enjoy that part of the game.
Speaker 4: Clayton Kershaw reaved about you after the World Baseball Classic experience.
Speaker 4: How much did you pick his brain? How much did
Speaker 4: you get to connect with him?
Speaker 12: Yeah, quite a bit, you know, quite a bit. We
Speaker 12: talked spoke about everything you know about his career. Obviously
Speaker 12: you don't, you know, just go to Baseball Reference and
Speaker 12: you'll understand that he's probably, you know, the best left
Speaker 12: hander to ever do it. So to be around him
Speaker 12: and just you know, and embrace greatness obviously at a
Speaker 12: different point in his career, right, but it was a
Speaker 12: ton of fun just to talk to him about baseball,
Speaker 12: about pitching, about how he goes about his business, any
Speaker 12: advice you know that he would have told his younger self,
Speaker 12: you know, all that stuff, you know, I think, and
Speaker 12: he's an open book. Credit to him, you know, he
Speaker 12: doesn't have to be. And then he's an open book.
Speaker 12: And when I was traded over here, he texted me
Speaker 12: and you know, kind of gave me the lay of
Speaker 12: the land, the people here, you know that he works with,
Speaker 12: and everything like that, and where to live, all that
Speaker 12: good stuff.
Speaker 3: You know. So I really appreciate that, you know, appreciate
Speaker 3: that from Kursh Do.
Speaker 4: You remember what he told what he would have told
Speaker 4: his younger self.
Speaker 3: I'll keep those between me and him.
Speaker 12: You know, I think there's some conversations that should probably
Speaker 12: stay a little private, and that's probably one of them.
Speaker 4: You know, one thing that he's very public about is
Speaker 4: his change up envy. Never could get the feel for
Speaker 4: the change up. So did he share with you how
Speaker 4: much change up envy he had?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think he didn't need a change up.
Speaker 12: First off, I don't think he ever needed a change up,
Speaker 12: so I don't know if there should be any envy there.
Speaker 12: He had the best curveball in the history of the game,
Speaker 12: and his execution with his forcem and slider were great,
Speaker 12: so you know, he didn't need a change up, so
Speaker 12: I think that the envy probably shouldn't be there. But yeah,
Speaker 12: I mean if I could swap some pitches out with him,
Speaker 12: I would. I would take his slider and curveball and
Speaker 12: a heartbeat.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that curveball, even at this stage of the career
Speaker 4: that you saw, how impressed were you with how he's
Speaker 4: able to still get over that front leg and be
Speaker 4: able to snap it.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 12: No, I mean, his his curveball, everything about it, execution,
Speaker 12: you know, for him, it's kind of like a change
Speaker 12: up because it's so much slower than his heater. So
Speaker 12: that's kind of how he I feel like he regulated
Speaker 12: lineups and regulated guys swings, you know, when they want
Speaker 12: to get aggressive and.
Speaker 3: Swing at the first pitch.
Speaker 12: You can go right after a you know, a curveball,
Speaker 12: and you're either going to be way out in front
Speaker 12: or it's going to be a lazy fly ball. And
Speaker 12: I think he used that to his advantage, you know,
Speaker 12: just watching from afar, so yeah, I mean it's really
Speaker 12: impressive to watch him do what he does.
Speaker 4: Terry Scoogle is our guest to head a first pitch
Speaker 4: between the Dodgers and Cubs. Just looking at your season, yeah,
Speaker 4: I've noticed that you're getting speaking of Chase more Chase
Speaker 4: this year than you ever have before in your career.
Speaker 4: Is there a reason? Why are you just evolving as
Speaker 4: time goes on as well?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 4: I don't know.
Speaker 3: I don't know. I haven't really thought about it much.
Speaker 9: You know.
Speaker 12: I I kind of try to stay in the zone
Speaker 12: and beat guys in the zone. You know, that's kind
Speaker 12: of my mentality. I'm very confident in my stuff, so
Speaker 12: I want to go right after guys and getting leverage.
Speaker 12: And you know, I think when you're in leverage consistently,
Speaker 12: that's when Chase starts to happen, because they're you know,
Speaker 12: they think every pitch is going to be a strike,
Speaker 12: so you use that to your advantage. So yeah, I
Speaker 12: mean I haven't really looked at any of that stuff.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 12: I'm just I go out there and I try to
Speaker 12: put my team in a position to win a baseball game.
Speaker 3: And if I do that, good day. You know. That's
Speaker 3: how I think about it.
Speaker 4: Do you believe to not every start you're gonna have
Speaker 4: your best?
Speaker 3: Stuff?
Speaker 4: Which separates winning and losing and getting deep into game
Speaker 4: is competing, right, You've got to find a way to compete.
Speaker 3: No doubt.
Speaker 12: I think the best in the game are the best
Speaker 12: competitors in the game. Obviously the stuff is going to
Speaker 12: be really good. But I think the best hitters, best pitchers,
Speaker 12: doesn't matter, best relievers, they're the best competitors in the game.
Speaker 12: You know, they go after everybody. It doesn't matter if
Speaker 12: you feel good or if you you know, you got
Speaker 12: in at five am the night before or whatever. You know,
Speaker 12: you just go out there and give it everything you
Speaker 12: got every fifth or sixth day, and that's all you
Speaker 12: can ask for yourself, you know, and then slay it
Speaker 12: all out on the line and then you know. Results,
Speaker 12: I mean, they matter, but they don't really matter. I
Speaker 12: think how you compete and how you go about your
Speaker 12: business and keep you know, being relentlessly attacking hitters is
Speaker 12: what really matters.
Speaker 4: So just to let you know, I got I covered
Speaker 4: Kershaw for the last fifteen years of his career, and
Speaker 4: I do have like boundaries when it comes to starting
Speaker 4: pictures the day of their start. He has traumatized me.
Speaker 4: I look directly into the ground now to any picture
Speaker 4: that I come close to on start day. But Max
Speaker 4: Munsey told me yesterday as you were getting ready, you
Speaker 4: are so far from a Kershaw type of start day.
Speaker 4: Are you a guy that doesn't want anybody to talk
Speaker 4: to you? Am I allowed to make eye contact with you?
Speaker 4: Can you just set the ground rules?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 3: No, I'm very approachable.
Speaker 12: Obviously, I don't really want to talk a lot to
Speaker 12: the media in general on the day I'm going.
Speaker 4: Oh, trust me, I would never even come close.
Speaker 12: Good morning, how's it going? You know, good, good to
Speaker 12: see you. You know those are all good to go. Yeah,
Speaker 12: I just you know, as the game gets closer to
Speaker 12: gain time, I tend to kind of start to lock
Speaker 12: it in. But you know, five six hours before the
Speaker 12: game or four hours for the game, It's just like
Speaker 12: I used to do that early in my career, and
Speaker 12: I found myself very mentally exhausted before the game started.
Speaker 12: So I just want to be myself. You know, I
Speaker 12: think you know who I am is you know I'm
Speaker 12: I'm not outgoing, but I'm not an introvert by any means.
Speaker 12: I want to talk to everybody and have fun. I mean,
Speaker 12: we get to play baseball for a living.
Speaker 3: How awesome is that?
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 3: There's not that.
Speaker 12: Many people that have been able to say that. So
Speaker 12: I want to enjoy every minute of it. You know,
Speaker 12: you never know, how you know when my career is
Speaker 12: going to be done, I want to look back and
Speaker 12: say I had fun and enjoyed every single minute of
Speaker 12: it and worked my ass off to be the best
Speaker 12: player I can be. So that's kind of how I
Speaker 12: approach the game, not saying that anything is wrong. You know,
Speaker 12: each guy is different in each of their own you know,
Speaker 12: and it works. Obviously it worked really well for Kersh,
Speaker 12: but it didn't work for me. So I kind of
Speaker 12: just went back and resorted to just being who I am,
Speaker 12: and that's who I am.
Speaker 4: So next start day, when I see you laying on
Speaker 4: the ground doing your yoga, should I just give you
Speaker 4: a shooter? McGavin point, you can do whatever you want.
Speaker 12: I'm probably not going to do it back, but I'll
Speaker 12: acknowledge you for sure.
Speaker 4: All right, good, we got the ground rules. Here's another
Speaker 4: question for you. I heard you don't prefer being called
Speaker 4: by your first name. You rather me call you scoops.
Speaker 4: Is that true?
Speaker 9: Yeah?
Speaker 3: I think only my wife calls me by my first name.
Speaker 4: When she when you're in trouble or.
Speaker 3: Well, then I'll get my middle name too.
Speaker 12: It's kind of like my mother when she says my
Speaker 12: first and middle name, or first and last right back
Speaker 12: to back. I know I've done something wrong, which I'm
Speaker 12: not oblivious too. I probably knew I did something wrong
Speaker 12: to try to get away with it, but.
Speaker 4: I'm always in the doghouse too.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 12: I think everyone, uh everyone on the basement in the
Speaker 12: baseball roll just calls me Scoob or Scooby or Scoob
Speaker 12: something like that, And okay, that's just what I respond
Speaker 12: to I, you know, as when you're in season. I
Speaker 12: honestly I forget my first name a little bit because
Speaker 12: they don't really, you know, no teammate really has ever
Speaker 12: called me Terrek. It's kind of it's not a it's
Speaker 12: not an easy word to pronounce and kind of get
Speaker 12: off the tongue.
Speaker 4: Okay, all right, last one for you. Since you're in LA,
Speaker 4: it's a great food town. What does Scoobs like to eat?
Speaker 4: Are you Italian? Have you had in and out before?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 3: My god, I'm a West Coast guy. I love in
Speaker 3: and out.
Speaker 4: You're a azy guy, that's right.
Speaker 12: Yeah, I mean, I don't know. People say Waterburger. I
Speaker 12: don't even think it holds the same level.
Speaker 3: And that's so good, you know. But for food like Taco's, Italian.
Speaker 12: Steak, sushi, I'm into every type of food, you know.
Speaker 1: I love.
Speaker 12: I love eating good food, good quality food, and I'm
Speaker 12: sure La has plenty of it, and I look forward
Speaker 12: to exploring that.
Speaker 4: All right, Thanks Scoops. Thanks for the time. Great to
Speaker 4: share you with Dodger fans. Obviously you're a human being.
Speaker 4: You're not just an ultimate pitcher in baseball right now.
Speaker 4: So I love showing fans what you're all about. And
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Speaker 4: lives at the One in Newport Beach, so enjoy Hobby
Speaker 4: Airs when you're in LA.
Speaker 3: I appreciate it. Thank you.
Speaker 4: There he is the man, Trek Scooball aka Scoobs. Don't
Speaker 4: look at him directly on start day. That's my message.
Speaker 4: We'll send it back to you.
Speaker 5: Tim, all right, Thank you Scooby and thank you DV.
Speaker 5: Appreciate that. Leading me up to first Bitch Dodgers incomes.
Speaker 5: That was certainly cool to kind of see a different layer,
Speaker 5: kind of pulled back the curtain there on Who Trek
Speaker 5: Scooball is up next? Though, we'll dive deep into this
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Speaker 5: Show Tay Minaga on the mound for the Cubbies seven
Speaker 5: to nine with a three sixty seven r Ray thirty
Speaker 5: two year old left hander in his third season in
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Speaker 5: Making his twenty third start this season last time out
Speaker 5: six to two, thirty innings, two runs, four hits, six strikeouts,
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Speaker 5: two point h nine ERRA in his last nine starts
Speaker 5: since June tenth. Today will mark his sixth career start
Speaker 5: against the Dodgers. He is one and one at four
Speaker 5: point fifteen RRA. Dodgers saw Hi already once this year,
Speaker 5: back on April twenty sixty Unico Field at Dodger Stadium,
Speaker 5: five and thirty innings, five runs, six hits as he
Speaker 5: took the loss to the Blue How about Ericlauer and
Speaker 5: the job he has done on the mound for the
Speaker 5: Dodgers since coming over from the Blue Jays. The thirty
Speaker 5: one year old left hander is six and five overall
Speaker 5: this season with the four point fifty ERRA. He's making
Speaker 5: his fifteenth start here in twenty twenty six, his ninth
Speaker 5: since coming over for the Blue Jays. He's also got
Speaker 5: an outing as a bulk inning guy, coming in after
Speaker 5: an opener, fastball, cutter, change up, curveball. Eric Lauer has
Speaker 5: been fantastic and the good thing the Dodgers did not
Speaker 5: trade him at the deadline. He is five and oh
Speaker 5: with the two to ninety six erras since coming over
Speaker 5: to the Dodgers. The team itself is nine to zero
Speaker 5: when he pitches. Yeah last time out, six shutout innings,
Speaker 5: one hit, four strikeouts, just one walk in a win
Speaker 5: over the Mariners. In ten career games nine starts against
Speaker 5: the Cubs, Eric Lower is three and two at the
Speaker 5: five sixty seven e R ray, but he has not
Speaker 5: faced the Cubbies since twenty twenty three and four games
Speaker 5: three starts at Wrigley Field. Eric Lower in his career
Speaker 5: is one to zero with eight four eighty six ERA
Speaker 5: and twenty five strikeouts. Dodgers need to win, they have
Speaker 5: lost five in a row. Eric Lawer, right guy, right day,
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Speaker 2: Tim, thanks again, getting ready for this one here at
Speaker 2: Wrigley Field Day Baseball in Chicago. As Eric Lauer the
Speaker 2: lefty at six and five overall, but he's five and
Speaker 2: oh with the Dodgers in a two nine six ERA
Speaker 2: with Toronto, he was one in five in a six six' nine,
Speaker 2: era so his results have been much much better obviously
Speaker 2: with The. Dodgers in, fact in his nine, appearances The
Speaker 2: dodgers are nine and.
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Speaker 6: Yeah then the other thing that the lower has done
Speaker 6: exceptionally well since he's come over to The. Dodgers don't
Speaker 6: know if the you, know if things have changed the
Speaker 6: way he, pitches but your runners in scoring positions since
Speaker 6: he'd put on The dodger, uniform just a one to sixty.
Speaker 6: Average we talked earlier about lack of. Runs well With,
Speaker 6: imaonaga he gives up a lot of. Runs in, fact
Speaker 6: over sixty percent of the runs he's allowed this year
Speaker 6: via the home run he served a twenty four that've
Speaker 6: been head out of the. Ballpark The dodgers don't need
Speaker 6: to hit home. Runs they need to get base hits
Speaker 6: and put runners in scoring position and then pick them.
Speaker 2: Up his opposition today show To emonaga the. Left he
Speaker 2: has had trouble keeping the ball in the. Ballpark he's
Speaker 2: given up twenty four home runs in his twenty two previous. Starts.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 6: Ben the other part, too is In, emanaga he's going
Speaker 6: to tantalize the hitters with that, splitter and it's a
Speaker 6: good one and he's allowed barely a two hundred batting
Speaker 6: average against. It it dies for the. Ground but make
Speaker 6: him get the ball up in the strike.
Speaker 2: Zone so it's The dodgers and The, cubs final game
Speaker 2: of this three game. Set dodgers looking to get off
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Speaker 2: Skid it'll win before flying To arizona for the day
Speaker 2: off tomorrow in a weekend series with The.
Speaker 5: Diamondbacks tim all, right thank you very. Much, Yeah dodgers
Speaker 5: need to snap this five year losing. String they have
Speaker 5: been a five hundred team since The All Star. Break
Speaker 5: they need to get it into gear sixty nine and forty.
Speaker 5: Five they've got a nine game lead over The, diamondbacks
Speaker 5: ten game lead over The, padres though two teams will
Speaker 5: tangle again later on tonight In, phoenix so The dodgers
Speaker 5: will pick up a half game before that game even
Speaker 5: gets underway this. Evening but if you look at the
Speaker 5: rest of The National, league The dodgers looking up at
Speaker 5: The Milwaukee, brewers who got the best record in baseball
Speaker 5: at seventy and forty. Three in The Atlanta, braves they've
Speaker 5: won six in a row seven of their last. Ten
Speaker 5: they are sixty eight and forty, Five so The dodgers
Speaker 5: in danger of falling into the third. Place as far
Speaker 5: as the top record in The National, league but a
Speaker 5: lot of baseball to be. Played it's Only august, fifth
Speaker 5: as we get ready for The dodgers In cubs one
Speaker 5: final time From Wrigley. Field, Show Hey, O, Tandy Andy,
Speaker 5: Pajus Freddie, Freeman Tommy, Edman Kyle, Tucker Mookie, Betts Max,
Speaker 5: Munsey Miguel, rojas and one hundred fidus of the Lineup,
Speaker 5: Tonight Eric lauer on the mound in this finale showtik.
Speaker 5: Ibnag we'll go for The cubs after the. Game dodger's
Speaker 5: day off tomorrow in the, desert enjoy the hot weather Of,
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