Speaker 1: We know this is an older team, but I think
Speaker 1: the age the experience will eventually shine through. We have
Speaker 1: seen this team do this kind of just about every
Speaker 1: season around this time.
Speaker 2: Hello everybody, and welcome to the live episode, a brand
Speaker 2: new episode of Dodgers Territory. Katie Wu, Clint Pasias, Alana Rizzo.
Speaker 2: We're your hosts for the next thirty plus minutes. Great
Speaker 2: to be with you, guys. Get those comments in the chat.
Speaker 2: I'm sure you guys have a lot to talk about.
Speaker 2: The Dodgers have scuffled mightily. Don't worry, it's going to
Speaker 2: be great, but they have struggled, guys, a lot to
Speaker 2: get to.
Speaker 3: Let's get to the big ticket, all right.
Speaker 2: So they have avoided the sweep with a Saturday night
Speaker 2: extra innings win, but it took extra innings to get
Speaker 2: a win.
Speaker 3: But they lose the series to the Diamondbacks.
Speaker 2: They've lost eight of their last nine, ten of their
Speaker 2: last thirteen. I am not willing to panic yet, but
Speaker 2: I guess it does show guys that they're not going
Speaker 2: to go one hundred and sixty two and oh and
Speaker 2: sometimes you can hit these lulls in the season. Clint,
Speaker 2: I don't know what you make of the skid. But
Speaker 2: they're starting to show their age a little bit. Is
Speaker 2: that fair to say?
Speaker 1: Yeah, we know this is an older team, but I
Speaker 1: think the age the experience will eventually shine through. We
Speaker 1: have seen this team do this kind of just about
Speaker 1: every season around this time. Older folks, you got the heat,
Speaker 1: you know, it's a little more difficult maybe to stay
Speaker 1: up all day through the sun. I was day drinking
Speaker 1: yesterday in like ninety nine degree weather and my ass
Speaker 1: was kicked. I had to come back home, have myself
Speaker 1: a good little like three hour Napski helped helped your
Speaker 1: boy out there. But we've seen him do this. They
Speaker 1: will figure it out. You still, this is why you
Speaker 1: build up that equity early in the season. When it
Speaker 1: comes to the the NL West lead, they still have
Speaker 1: a seven and a half game lead. Despite the struggles,
Speaker 1: they have lost a lot of ground. But the thing
Speaker 1: I know a lot of people are worried about is
Speaker 1: the fact that they don't currently have a grasp of
Speaker 1: the first round by Dave said, he's not panicked. I
Speaker 1: don't think I'm panicked. I can guarantee you Katie Wu
Speaker 1: is not panicked about this team. How you feeling, Wu?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I picked a great weekend to be off.
Speaker 5: I don't know about you guys, but I was checking
Speaker 5: back it on Sunday and I was like, oh, shout
Speaker 5: out Bobby and doing all the heavy lifting from that series.
Speaker 5: I'm not panicking, but I will say if the Dodgers
Speaker 5: do not have a good series against the Kansas City Royals,
Speaker 5: who had a soft cell at the deadline, and they're
Speaker 5: gonna have their Dodger Stadium debut of Trek's Google Blake
Speaker 5: Snell's coming back Tuesday, if they don't take two or
Speaker 5: three against Kansas City, then I'm gonna start looking at
Speaker 5: the long term, I think, longevity of this team, and
Speaker 5: then what they need to do to make sure that
Speaker 5: they get that first round by because like you said, Clint, today,
Speaker 5: if playoffs started today, they would not have that first
Speaker 5: round by.
Speaker 4: They're playing a wildcard round against the Phillies. I believe.
Speaker 5: So not panicking, yet, every team is allowed to go
Speaker 5: through a stretch like this. Dodger fans, Dodgers in general,
Speaker 5: aren't accustomed to stretches as brutal as this. They usually
Speaker 5: lose to and step back right into it, losing the
Speaker 5: last eight of nine.
Speaker 4: I think has shown some legitimate I.
Speaker 5: Wouldn't say fears, but concerns things to monitor going down
Speaker 5: the stretch of the regular season. Not hitting that panic
Speaker 5: button yet. Let's see what they do against Kansas City.
Speaker 5: They're back home, Schooble day, Snell day tomorrow, get some
Speaker 5: morale up against an AL Central team that's not really
Speaker 5: all that competitive this year, and see where we go
Speaker 5: from there.
Speaker 2: Maybe they're not too old. Maybe they just hit a slump, right.
Speaker 2: I mean, we love to love on them when they
Speaker 2: do a great job, which is the majority of the time.
Speaker 2: But maybe it's okay to have a slump now in August,
Speaker 2: the dog days of summer, if you will. Then it
Speaker 2: is going to be obviously when the postseason starts. Thank
Speaker 2: goodness they have the cushion that they have because they've
Speaker 2: really scuffled last eight games.
Speaker 3: But I mean, this is such a long season.
Speaker 2: I would much prefer they go through this now then
Speaker 2: go through it at the wrong time of the year.
Speaker 2: And again Freddie Rieven talked about it. He said, listen,
Speaker 2: we're still a good team. There's no panic with the
Speaker 2: team itself, and there really shouldn't be any panic with
Speaker 2: us either. It's just a little bit more glaring when
Speaker 2: the team was doing so well and you know, kicking
Speaker 2: everybody's but to have this situation where there's so many
Speaker 2: back to back losses and then you have, you know,
Speaker 2: the blown save from Edwin Diaz and that type of thing.
Speaker 3: I think it's just magnified.
Speaker 2: More because we're accustomed to them winning more than they lose.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and you're watching a team also right now they
Speaker 1: don't have Will Smith, who is a captain for the
Speaker 1: pitching staff. Not the pitching has really been a terrible issue.
Speaker 1: We'll talk about Rableski. Obviously, the offense is an issue.
Speaker 1: We're going to talk about that in our second segment
Speaker 1: of the show. Robleski not having a great outing on Sunday,
Speaker 1: but not having Will in there, and then also his
Speaker 1: understudy not having Dalton in there. I think there is
Speaker 1: a pretty big well, we know offensively, there is a
Speaker 1: massive drop off when you're going from Will Smith and
Speaker 1: Dalton rushing two. As much as I love them, Ben
Speaker 1: Rourtvett and you know Hunter Fidusha, that's just a fact
Speaker 1: and that's a that's a big change. We talked about
Speaker 1: it a little bit, Katie, you know, as the trades happened,
Speaker 1: but right just after the trades happened. But that that's
Speaker 1: a big change just overall for the club, whether it
Speaker 1: be in the clubhouse or with the pitching staff. And
Speaker 1: then also having somebody with will could hit three, four
Speaker 1: or five in your lineup. Not having that dude around
Speaker 1: might be starting to see the effects of it.
Speaker 4: I think so too.
Speaker 5: And I think that's that's less on Mortvett and Fidusha
Speaker 5: and more of just the Dodgers offense in general, which
Speaker 5: I'm sure we'll get into. We heard Dave Roberts say it.
Speaker 5: Those two catchers are there to hit ninth, and any
Speaker 5: offense they get is a bonus. They're not counting on
Speaker 5: these guys to fuel the offense, and that should be
Speaker 5: fine given the names in this lineup. But the names
Speaker 5: in this lineup have not been hitting either. So when
Speaker 5: you go one through nine and you have someone in
Speaker 5: the nine hole that's there for defense only, it kind
Speaker 5: of can compartmentalize and even snowball into the rest of
Speaker 5: the lineup because when you do get those very scoring opportunities,
Speaker 5: let's just say your number nine hitter gets up and
Speaker 5: you know they don't really have the slug Maybe of
Speaker 5: adult and Rushing. Again, that's not their job, that's not
Speaker 5: why they're here. But it just kind of magnifies the
Speaker 5: offensive woes in general. And I think this was the
Speaker 5: exact situation the Dodgers were trying to avoid.
Speaker 4: Both of these guys are coming in.
Speaker 5: They were sought after for a reason, because the Dodgers
Speaker 5: needed someone who knew their staff at least a little bit.
Speaker 5: And this is a situation that I don't think either
Speaker 5: catcher was really looking at come August second, and to
Speaker 5: be fair, I don't think the Dodgers were looking at
Speaker 5: it either. The fact that Rushing's UCL injury happened the
Speaker 5: day before the trade deadline was a bit fortunate because
Speaker 5: it gave the Dodgers a chance to fix it, but
Speaker 5: not a lot of times. So this just seems like
Speaker 5: a kind of rushing all together. Let's patchwork it until
Speaker 5: Will Smith gets back. We'll talk to Dave Roberts today
Speaker 5: and get an update on where Will.
Speaker 4: Smith is at.
Speaker 5: But you know, I don't really think it's fair to
Speaker 5: I don't think you are Quinn at all putting all
Speaker 5: this on the catching spot because it is I think
Speaker 5: from the twenty six man roster perspective, just hasn't been
Speaker 5: good Dodger baseball over the last couple of weeks.
Speaker 2: Yeah, definitely, Rotvet and Fidusha. Managing a pitching staff and
Speaker 2: having that familiarity that's going to pay dividends even if
Speaker 2: the offense isn't where we would like it to be.
Speaker 2: But again, anything that they get offensively coming out of.
Speaker 3: The nine hole is a benefit.
Speaker 2: Let's address the Justin Rableski situation for a moment. Guys, Again,
Speaker 2: I don't think the pitching has been the widespread issue
Speaker 2: that's gone on with this team in the slump has
Speaker 2: been absolutely a lack of offense. But over the course
Speaker 2: of his last three starts, Clint and I.
Speaker 3: Know that you love to talk about pitching, so I'm
Speaker 3: going to.
Speaker 2: Defer to you on this fifteen earned runs over his
Speaker 2: last twelve and a third, he's given up nine home runs.
Speaker 3: Location command is not it? What do you make of it? Well,
Speaker 3: hear from Justin momentarily, but what do you make of it?
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a long season. This is the most he's
Speaker 1: ever pitched, like with out some sort of time off
Speaker 1: or without being kind of shifted in his roles and
Speaker 1: things in that sort of regard he's already he's just
Speaker 1: shy of the innings total that he threw last year
Speaker 1: combined between the minor leagues, major leagues, and the postseason.
Speaker 1: Through one hundred and twenty three innings, we are at
Speaker 1: one hundred and twenty in change right now, one hundred
Speaker 1: and twenty and a third. He also had two three
Speaker 1: more months to accumulate that inning total last year, So
Speaker 1: I do wonder if there's a little bit of fatigue
Speaker 1: in there, and you know, when you're tired, the arm
Speaker 1: maybe will be a little quick or lag behind. The
Speaker 1: mechanics are going to be a little bit off. And
Speaker 1: he talked about it. We'll listen to the shark right here,
Speaker 1: who is you know? The shark bites right now, and
Speaker 1: I think he'll tell you as much. It has been
Speaker 1: tough going and it's a location issue probably more than anything.
Speaker 1: But the location comes with command. So let's listen to
Speaker 1: what Rableski had to say after that last bad outing.
Speaker 6: I'm just not good enough right now. What it comes
Speaker 6: down to, it's it's really frustrating. It's you know, execution
Speaker 6: just hasn't been as good. I feel like today just
Speaker 6: wasn't good enough. And again I gotta be better, so
Speaker 6: you know, again move forward. I'm not the type to
Speaker 6: give up, so I'm I'm ready to bear down. And
Speaker 6: this is kind of where, you know, you can go
Speaker 6: two ways, and I'm excited to kind of keep working
Speaker 6: and I'm excited for my next one.
Speaker 2: Well what are you looking at though, just when you're
Speaker 2: kind of looking at the footage?
Speaker 1: Was there something you can point to today that you
Speaker 1: really want to focus on as you prepare for your
Speaker 1: next one?
Speaker 6: I mean, yeah, I mean I just wasn't executing the
Speaker 6: way I wanted to. You know, I got the ball
Speaker 6: into Marte, but just not you know where I wanted
Speaker 6: to in and you know, he got one and that
Speaker 6: was kind of the killer of the doubting really in
Speaker 6: my opinion, and then just left a couple of pitches
Speaker 6: up the middle where they could handle them. And yeah,
Speaker 6: just not good.
Speaker 1: Enough, not good enough. Didn't sound extremely happy with himself,
Speaker 1: and he shouldn't. You know, the numbers aren't good and
Speaker 1: this is a guy who you know, was just an
Speaker 1: All Star. Looked exceptionally that All Star Game, also looked
Speaker 1: really good against the Phillies. Coming out of that All
Speaker 1: Star Game, Katie, do you think there is kind of
Speaker 1: a little bit of a fatigue factor with this, or
Speaker 1: I know some people are worried about pitch tipping. I've
Speaker 1: heard people say get him of the bigger glove while
Speaker 1: they're at it. Is it just is it? You know,
Speaker 1: the league catching up to him. What's kind of your
Speaker 1: your view of mister Justin Ribleski, friend of the show.
Speaker 4: Yeah, now just go ahead and give him the Rokie
Speaker 4: special everything. We'll be fine. I think it's fair when
Speaker 4: you're looking.
Speaker 5: And this is something that I asked Dave Roberts after
Speaker 5: Justin Rableski's start in Chicago.
Speaker 4: You know, we know he's getting close to.
Speaker 5: His innings limit, and I'm looking at the stats right here.
Speaker 5: He's up to one hundred and twenty and a third
Speaker 5: on the season. Now, that's getting very close to a
Speaker 5: season high of last year. And I asked Dave Roberts,
Speaker 5: is that a concern going forward? And he said, no,
Speaker 5: not really because the stuff behind the scenes, the metrics
Speaker 5: they all metch up to being very consistent with how
Speaker 5: he's performed all season long. So you heard Rableski say
Speaker 5: it's execution more than anything. If the stuff was dropping,
Speaker 5: if the vila was dropping, and you know you're going
Speaker 5: to see a higher velo compared to twenty twenty five
Speaker 5: to twenty twenty six pe because a large chunk of
Speaker 5: his workload was in the bullpen.
Speaker 4: So the stuff is naturally going to play up anyway.
Speaker 5: But when you're looking at the stuff throughout the season,
Speaker 5: it's all been pretty even. It's just about location, command, execution,
Speaker 5: and that hasn't really been there in the second half
Speaker 5: for Rableski, and I think that can be a combination
Speaker 5: of two things the league could be catched up to him.
Speaker 5: I mean, this is a guy who is relatively new
Speaker 5: to a lot of major league hitters in the first half,
Speaker 5: and I think the book is kind of out on
Speaker 5: where he likes to attack, what he likes to do.
Speaker 5: And then I think, you know, location and command and
Speaker 5: that's all. That's all correlated obviously. But the big thing
Speaker 5: for me is justin Rabuski making sure he can get
Speaker 5: through the rest of the regular season.
Speaker 4: I know what that Indians limit is something they're going
Speaker 4: to be mindful of.
Speaker 5: But it doesn't sound like it's a concern because the
Speaker 5: stuff matches what it's looked like all season. It's all
Speaker 5: about executing and you know you can sit there and
Speaker 5: be like, we'll just execute better.
Speaker 4: Much easier said than done.
Speaker 5: I think Rabuski is is definitely feeling the frustration of
Speaker 5: that right now.
Speaker 2: It kind of reminds me, guys, sorry Clint, but it
Speaker 2: kind of reminds me of the whole Ross strippling situation
Speaker 2: back in twenty eighteen. I almost love that was his
Speaker 2: call up year, but you corrected me. You're right, it
Speaker 2: was twenty sixteen when he got called up. But twenty
Speaker 2: eighteen is when he had so many innings pitched, right,
Speaker 2: I mean that is a career high in innings for Strip.
Speaker 2: It was an All Star year for Strip, so same
Speaker 2: type of situation where he didn't get even though it's
Speaker 2: only three or four days, it matters in the course
Speaker 2: of one hundred and sixty two game season, not to mention,
Speaker 2: you know, three or four starts in spring training and
Speaker 2: then obviously what you hope to get into in the postseason.
Speaker 2: But in twenty eighteen, Strip had a six four to
Speaker 2: one ERA over his final eight starts. Remember Alex Wood
Speaker 2: three point six four ERA in seven second half starts
Speaker 2: in two thousand and seventeen, So I mean, maybe that's
Speaker 2: what the situation is kind of chicken Strip two point
Speaker 2: zero for Justin Erbleski.
Speaker 3: I mean, these guys, there's.
Speaker 2: Always going to be a first time that somebody goes
Speaker 2: through this amount of innings. This is you know, you
Speaker 2: see it with all the rookies of all the other
Speaker 2: teams as well. You start to really get concerned about
Speaker 2: the amount of innings that these guys are having to throw.
Speaker 2: And maybe he's just kind of hit a blip and
Speaker 2: a little bit of fatigue, and he's he's got to
Speaker 2: train his body how to be able to get through
Speaker 2: a full season, which he hasn't had an opportunity to
Speaker 2: do so at this level, with this many high leverage innings,
Speaker 2: this many you know, pitches, this, that and the other things.
Speaker 2: So Connor reminds me it Connor reminds us rather of
Speaker 2: Ross strippling back in twenty eighteen.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and it happens. You know, you get tired, you
Speaker 1: get a little bit of dead arm in there, and
Speaker 1: you know, this is the next challenge now for Robo
Speaker 1: to kind of figure out how to get himself back
Speaker 1: on track, how to get the arm feeling good. As
Speaker 1: we mentioned, it's not just a Justin Rabuski problem. It's
Speaker 1: not It wasn't just an imachian problem before he was
Speaker 1: sent down. It's not terribly a pitching problem. You know,
Speaker 1: two blown saves where Edwin Diaz. Notwithstanding, it's an offensive
Speaker 1: problem for this team. You got to put more points
Speaker 1: on the board to beat the other team, and they
Speaker 1: are struggling about that. We are going to dive into
Speaker 1: all of that coming up and behind the scenes, behind
Speaker 1: the seams. But first a word from our friends over
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Speaker 1: We are kidding behind the seams, and the thing is
Speaker 1: with this team, the offense is bad. I know your
Speaker 1: colleague over at the Athletic Katie talked about some parts
Speaker 1: of the offensive woes. We have seen people mentioning a
Speaker 1: lot more how bad they have been against fastballs, particularly
Speaker 1: high fast balls this season, but just fastballs in general,
Speaker 1: and especially since July first. But what's kind of your
Speaker 1: view here and what can you help us extrapolate from
Speaker 1: Fabian's column there about where the offense is and hell
Speaker 1: help us figure out when it's going to wake up?
Speaker 5: Yeah, I think a lot of Dodgers fans would like
Speaker 5: to answer to that question. I think Fobbian does a
Speaker 5: great job of breaking it down the struggles against the fastballs.
Speaker 5: The Dodgers have seen the most fastballs in the league
Speaker 5: since July first, and they've had a lot of trouble.
Speaker 4: Timing it up and teeing it up.
Speaker 5: But if you can't time up the heater, you sure
Speaker 5: as heck are going to struggle timing up the secondary pitches.
Speaker 5: So you're a scene across the board just lin an offense,
Speaker 5: and to me, it looks like this team is pressing.
Speaker 5: I'll go ahead and just read some numbers from July
Speaker 5: first to August tenth, which I believe is today. Their
Speaker 5: average is they're hitting two twenty as a team. That's
Speaker 5: the twenty seventh in baseball. Their slugging percentage of three
Speaker 5: fifty nine is twenty eighth. So those are not numbers
Speaker 5: that you come to expect from this Dodgers offense. To me, though,
Speaker 5: looking at them collectively, it seems like an issue of pressing.
Speaker 5: And you can look at some of these numbers chase
Speaker 5: rates up, walk rates down. Those are the two things
Speaker 5: that you look at when a team is pressing collectively.
Speaker 5: So you know, shout out to front of the show,
Speaker 5: doctor cujuskiper sending me these numbers, because I certainly didn't have.
Speaker 4: Them off the top of my head. He breaks it
Speaker 4: down really well.
Speaker 5: Since July tenth, which was the series the Dodgers were
Speaker 5: swept by the d Backs.
Speaker 4: Heading into the All.
Speaker 5: Star Break, their chase rate is thirty one point two percent.
Speaker 5: That's pretty high. Their walk rate six point eight percent
Speaker 5: pretty low. That's the fifth worst walk rate in MLB
Speaker 5: in that time. And when you are really trying to
Speaker 5: press as an offense and you're trying to score runs,
Speaker 5: it's difficult. When you're starting pitching for as good as
Speaker 5: they've been, have give up runs in the beginning of
Speaker 5: the game.
Speaker 4: I think we saw that yesterday.
Speaker 5: Rarebusco goes out there, slaps up two runs in the
Speaker 5: first and the second.
Speaker 4: All of a sudden, you're trailing.
Speaker 5: By a crooked member and you're pressing again because you're like, Okay,
Speaker 5: we have to score.
Speaker 4: It's been so.
Speaker 5: Hard, we're already trailing, and it can be kind of
Speaker 5: a mental mind game. So I'm looking at the Dodgers
Speaker 5: and it's again not very helpful to just say stop pressing,
Speaker 5: but to kind of go back to what they were
Speaker 5: doing earlier in the season, which is working counts, being
Speaker 5: very selective with their pitching, working their walks.
Speaker 4: They're a very athletic team.
Speaker 5: They have some slug when they can actually, you know,
Speaker 5: put the bat or the barrel on the ball and
Speaker 5: just I don't know, make this this Royals pitching staff.
Speaker 5: I know, we don't know who's gonna start. We might
Speaker 5: know who's going to start. I think they did list
Speaker 5: their probables. There we go, Well, Noah Cameron, tonight, make
Speaker 5: them work, get deep intoccounts, and stop pressing so much
Speaker 5: to the point where you're essentially giving a bats away.
Speaker 4: So many of these ad bats look like to.
Speaker 5: Me that you know, they're downh one or one two
Speaker 5: early and these bats are over. So it's the chase
Speaker 5: that's up, the wall, grate that's down. Those are two
Speaker 5: sides that an offense is not feeling good. Collectively, God
Speaker 5: has those numbers turn around.
Speaker 2: It's almost like they should do less, right, I mean
Speaker 2: it sounds silly to say that, but do less kind
Speaker 2: of just get back to just the basics in terms
Speaker 2: of things. I mean, they're doing things that are very uncharacteristic.
Speaker 3: Of a team as good as the Dodgers are.
Speaker 2: I mean, it's it's the base running blunders, right, It's
Speaker 2: running yourselves into outs, it's running yourselves into inning ending
Speaker 2: out and those types of things. The big swing, kind
Speaker 2: of exactly what Katie was saying. It's just they're chasing
Speaker 2: outside of the zone. They're chasing at pitches that are
Speaker 2: not strikes. They're they're not within their own their own
Speaker 2: strike zone. They're massive swings in situations that don't count
Speaker 2: for massive swings. It's just kind of like they're going backwards.
Speaker 2: It's almost as if, you know, going back to Game
Speaker 2: five against the Yankees, when the Yankees had all of
Speaker 2: those crazy blunders that allowed the Dodgers to tie the
Speaker 2: game and then all t stimately go on to win.
Speaker 3: The World Series.
Speaker 2: But it's like it's it's the lack of fundamental baseball
Speaker 2: and just making like stupid mistakes. That's very unlike what
Speaker 2: this team does to have the success that it's having.
Speaker 1: So do less, do the same. Le oh Mark is
Speaker 1: here watching. You must be excited about less more less
Speaker 1: more mentality. But yeah, we hear. We've heard for so
Speaker 1: long the Dodgers over use the cliche of staying within ourselves,
Speaker 1: trying not to do too much. But it feels like
Speaker 1: this is a team to you know, pairt again the idea, Yeah,
Speaker 1: this is a team that is pressing one hundred percent
Speaker 1: and that is not necessarily the Dodger way of doing things.
Speaker 1: And and you know, to borrow from Dave, we're not
Speaker 1: seeing them use a lot of different clubs in particular situations.
Speaker 1: You know, everybody's got the driver or or driving iron
Speaker 1: out or something like that, when you might maybe be
Speaker 1: better suited for a lab wedge, maybe a nine iron.
Speaker 1: Something you choke down kind of check up, gets something
Speaker 1: the green set up for let's say it's a partner
Speaker 1: and to scramble set up for the next guy to
Speaker 1: have a nice you know, three foot put in. Everybody
Speaker 1: wants to hit the hole in one right now. Now,
Speaker 1: I'm just really stuck on Dave's golf adage. I think
Speaker 1: I want to go play some golf. But yeah, it's interesting.
Speaker 1: And to the people in the comments, who are gonna
Speaker 1: say fire Rob van Skoyak, fire Aaron Bates, even though
Speaker 1: you guys probably don't even know Aaron Bates is the
Speaker 1: other hitting coach. It's not the hitting coaches, because who's
Speaker 1: there to say thank you to Rob van Skoyak when
Speaker 1: the Dodgers are doing what they usually do, when they're
Speaker 1: hitting a bunch of dingers and winning fifteen games in
Speaker 1: a row. Even though it feels like it's been a while,
Speaker 1: so it's been that, you know, it's it's suddenly. It's
Speaker 1: not the hitting coaches being like, yeah, whatever, just do
Speaker 1: what you want. No, it happens, and slumps are contagious,
Speaker 1: and we're seeing that offensively right now, and you're seeing
Speaker 1: one guy trying to go up there and be like,
Speaker 1: you know what, I'm gonna help the boys out here.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna hit a Grand Slam. Problem is there's one
Speaker 1: runner on base, you know, all right now, I'm just
Speaker 1: going to have too much fun with it. But yeah,
Speaker 1: just he's detention baby. As soon as you get one
Speaker 1: inning where they score four or five, I think that
Speaker 1: is going to be the dam that takes that pressure off.
Speaker 1: And I had mentioned on my Friday postgame show on
Speaker 1: All Dodgers Subscribe that I think that game was one
Speaker 1: that maybe it doesn't call for a closed door meeting.
Speaker 1: It's not Dave throwing shit or anything, but somebody was
Speaker 1: gonna step up and say something. Miguel Rojas ended up
Speaker 1: texting the team saying, this is the start of our
Speaker 1: sprint right now. They did win the next day barely
Speaker 1: Sunday did not win, but I think it is that time.
Speaker 1: They are feeling the pressure and they're trying to find
Speaker 1: something that has worked in the past. But yeah, less
Speaker 1: is more, and once it starts happening, the team's gonna
Speaker 1: go back to having a lot of fun. We're all
Speaker 1: going to go back to having a lot of fun.
Speaker 2: That's also this game, right, I mean, baseball is such
Speaker 2: a weird game. If the season ends today, the Chicago
Speaker 2: White Socks have a first Round by and the Dodgers,
Speaker 2: don't you know, like the Red Sox have gone on
Speaker 2: this unbelievable, ridiculous tear. They went from the worst team
Speaker 2: in the American League to one of the best teams
Speaker 2: in the American League and they're chasing the Yankees and
Speaker 2: they might win the division. Tampa Bay is playing incredibly well,
Speaker 2: and they have been all season long.
Speaker 3: But you never know what can happen.
Speaker 2: I mean, yes, in eight games, when you have that
Speaker 2: many losses and that type of stretch, it seems like
Speaker 2: the world is ending.
Speaker 3: You know, Pet's heads are falling off, as Clinton always
Speaker 3: likes to say.
Speaker 4: But it's just.
Speaker 2: It's just a small stretch in a very, very long season.
Speaker 2: This team is too good. They have been for too
Speaker 2: long to let this, you know over. I mean, I'm
Speaker 2: more concerned about the number one seed than I am
Speaker 2: about anything. But should I be concerned on August tenth
Speaker 2: about the number one seed?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 2: But I mean if we're gonna, if we're gonna freak
Speaker 2: out about something, I guess that's what I'm freaking out
Speaker 2: about today.
Speaker 1: Yeah, because we need things to freak out about during
Speaker 1: the you know, over the course of a long one
Speaker 1: hundred and sixty two games. If not, what we do
Speaker 1: isn't fun. But that's part of being a fan, you know,
Speaker 1: like that you expect this team to go one hundred
Speaker 1: and sixty two and oh, it's just not a reality.
Speaker 1: And you know me, I'm always that guy who likes
Speaker 1: to look at Oh, well, this next series is gonna
Speaker 1: be big because they're they're gonna have an off day
Speaker 1: or they're going to a different city. Now they're back
Speaker 1: home where they just left when the last time they
Speaker 1: left Dodger Stadium wasn't pretty, did not have a great series.
Speaker 1: But I feel like right now, you got seven games
Speaker 1: at home, then another quick three roadie and then they're
Speaker 1: gonna spend some time at home. I think after something Utah,
Speaker 1: I think you had mentioned on Foul last week, Katie,
Speaker 1: like the fact that and in a column they have
Speaker 1: been grinding coming out of the All Star break, a
Speaker 1: lot of East Coast games, a lot of on the road.
Speaker 1: These are but humans. They would like to be home.
Speaker 1: They would like to spend time in their own bed
Speaker 1: with the families, getting that routine, go to their coffee
Speaker 1: shop and all of that. I think this is finally
Speaker 1: the home stand where it's like, all right, let's just
Speaker 1: we're home, let's breathe, and you know, let's go win
Speaker 1: some damn ball games.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's subtle in right, and I think there is
Speaker 5: something to be said. Again, every single team goes through
Speaker 5: a brutal travel stretch, but this team had I think
Speaker 5: I think it's fair to say some trouble rebounding and
Speaker 5: recovering from that almost two week East Coast stretch to
Speaker 5: kick off the second half of the season. And you
Speaker 5: look at how this lineup and this active roster is
Speaker 5: currently constructed. We've talked about this very right handed heavy Basically,
Speaker 5: no outside of a backup catcher that you're not going
Speaker 5: to sub int to pinch it anyway, there's no way
Speaker 5: to really balance that lineup out, there's no really to play,
Speaker 5: no way to really play the platoons. Dave Roberts is
Speaker 5: kind of stuck playing his regulars and doesn't really have
Speaker 5: a way to work in consistent rest the way that
Speaker 5: this older roster might need to. I think that's something
Speaker 5: else to monitor. Again, maybe we're nepicking here, but something
Speaker 5: to look at down the stretch is how can Dave
Speaker 5: make sure that this team is winning enough to lock
Speaker 5: down that first round by and also resting his regular
Speaker 5: so that at the time that postseason does come, they
Speaker 5: are actually able to play to the potential or the
Speaker 5: ability that they.
Speaker 4: Need to be successful in October.
Speaker 5: Lots of moving parts here. You're going to try to
Speaker 5: get right against the Royals. Again, this is a very
Speaker 5: winnable series. You got big schoobl home debut tonight that
Speaker 5: we're going to talk to talk about in the next segment.
Speaker 5: Blake Snell returns Tuesday. Gotta get right because we have
Speaker 5: four game our Dodge. Of the four games against the
Speaker 5: Brewers at the end of the week, that's a big series.
Speaker 5: That's a really big series, and I think a good
Speaker 5: test to see where the Dodgers are.
Speaker 4: Competing against some of the best in the National League.
Speaker 2: Yeah, one thousand percent. That could be a playoff preview
Speaker 2: come this weekend. All right, much more to come. We're
Speaker 2: going to talk a little bit more about Schooble two
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Speaker 2: All right, guys, I want to introduce you once again
Speaker 2: to Dodger fan favorite.
Speaker 3: This is not cho not Choe is being uh is
Speaker 3: being fustered? Is the word I'm looking for?
Speaker 2: In La Puente, which is close to Clint's house, and
Speaker 2: Clint's not the one fostering him, although I think.
Speaker 3: Clint should have him.
Speaker 2: He is about two months old or excuse me, two
Speaker 2: years old.
Speaker 3: He's a good boy.
Speaker 2: He's learning some leash manners. He's healthy, vaccinated because it
Speaker 2: gets along great with other dogs, wonderful with kids. Would
Speaker 2: really love for him to be with an active family,
Speaker 2: somebody that can do like short little runs with him
Speaker 2: or some good walks. He's a sweetheart and he is
Speaker 2: ready for his forever home. If you're interested in adopting Nacho,
Speaker 2: please hit me up at Gidrey's guardian dot Org or
Speaker 2: certainly through the d MS.
Speaker 3: He's a good boy. His mom, Millie, was adopted, so
Speaker 3: now it's his turn.
Speaker 1: I love that hat. I asked you earlier too, when
Speaker 1: when you're texted Nacho to us like can he hit.
Speaker 4: Base?
Speaker 3: Maybe he can hit the fastball. I don't know. They
Speaker 3: need some help.
Speaker 2: I can try to get him trained to do that,
Speaker 2: but he does definitely need a forever home. All right,
Speaker 2: before we say goodbye here, guys, the thought about Eric
Speaker 2: Scooble playing or pitching rather at home for the first
Speaker 2: time as a Dodger, Katie, you will be there. He
Speaker 2: had a decent outing in his first outing, but that
Speaker 2: was on the road.
Speaker 3: What do you hope to see?
Speaker 5: I think there's no better person than for the Dodgers
Speaker 5: to look to to stop the skid than there.
Speaker 4: I mean, it's hard calling him an ace.
Speaker 5: He is an ace, obviously, but they have so many aces,
Speaker 5: so one of their aces, their newest ace, is perhaps
Speaker 5: more accurate.
Speaker 4: And I think this is it's been a.
Speaker 5: Whirlwind for school, and I'm sure we'll talk about it
Speaker 5: in a second, but for him to come back and
Speaker 5: pitch it home and to really see. You know, I'm
Speaker 5: sure it's very hard to have left the only organization
Speaker 5: that you've ever known as a trait, something he didn't
Speaker 5: have a say in. For him to come to Dodger
Speaker 5: Stadium and pitch in one of the best stadiums in
Speaker 5: all of baseball and to feel I think, hopefully the
Speaker 5: Dodger fan reception. I think that might unlock a different
Speaker 5: level of competitive nature for I'm not to say that
Speaker 5: he wasn't competitive against the Cubs, but there was just
Speaker 5: so much that had happened in the last seventy two
Speaker 5: hours for him. He's had about a week to say
Speaker 5: this new organization, he's going to pitch in his new
Speaker 5: home ballpark for the first time. They need him to
Speaker 5: go out there and set them straight. So I would
Speaker 5: love to see some school dominance tonight.
Speaker 1: This is what you go out and acquire a guy
Speaker 1: like Terrek Scooble to be your stopper. He needs to
Speaker 1: be the stopper, and he needs to lay out the
Speaker 1: red carpet or the blue carpet for Blake Snow's return
Speaker 1: tomorrow for two wins in a row. But yeah, it's
Speaker 1: going to be interesting because of obviously the comments Trek
Speaker 1: Scooble made on that Barstool podcast last week. You know,
Speaker 1: some fans can can turn pretty quickly. I would hope
Speaker 1: the fan base is smart enough to understand everything you
Speaker 1: just mentioned there, Katie, like that that was dramatic thing.
Speaker 1: It's a traumatic thing for somebody who spent their entire
Speaker 1: life with that organization, did not necessarily want to be traded.
Speaker 1: All of a sudden, you're traded, and and you know
Speaker 1: you're a lot of things are moving pretty quick.
Speaker 2: The fact that he was, I mean, remember how how
Speaker 2: sad Freddy Freeman was when he got signed by the
Speaker 2: Dodgers when Atlanta didn't bring him back. I mean, that
Speaker 2: was a great That was a great sign for both teams.
Speaker 2: Matt Olsen's been tremendous for Atlanta. Freddie obviously probably goes
Speaker 2: into the Hall of Fame in a Dodger's cap. But
Speaker 2: you guys, their player, you know, they're people first. And
Speaker 2: I have no problem with what Tarek school said. It's
Speaker 2: been ten minutes. It's like when you break up with
Speaker 2: an X, and you you didn't want to be broken
Speaker 2: up with, and that X says, hey, maybe we can
Speaker 2: make this workout long term. I just need a couple
Speaker 2: of minutes. You're gonna want to go back with the X.
Speaker 2: I mean Trek Scooble. If he does get signed long
Speaker 2: term by the Dodgers, you know he's going to hit
Speaker 2: free agency because of Scott Boris.
Speaker 3: He may change his opinion, but I have no problem
Speaker 3: with what Tarek school said. He was just a Tiger
Speaker 3: seven minutes ago. That's all he's ever known.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and he's.
Speaker 4: Allowed to miss that.
Speaker 5: He's a you can miss your organization and be very
Speaker 5: thankful for what the Tigers did from you. Think about
Speaker 5: how he ascended throughout his career to where he is
Speaker 5: right now, back to back American League, say on the winner,
Speaker 5: one of the best pitchers unquestionably in the game. You're
Speaker 5: gonna feel a lot of gratitude and a lot of
Speaker 5: thanks and a lot of support for that organization. That
Speaker 5: doesn't mean that he's not committed to pitching for the
Speaker 5: Los Angeles Dodgers. And I think you know it's easy
Speaker 5: to be like, oh, we said he'd go back to
Speaker 5: Detroit or he said he misses it. Well, yeah, that's
Speaker 5: the only organization he's ever known. But that doesn't mean
Speaker 5: he's not one hundred percent committed to the uniform that
Speaker 5: he's in right now, and the Dodgers meet him, they
Speaker 5: need him tonight, So he's a human breaking news. Baseball
Speaker 5: players have feelings too. I'm excited to see how Scoople
Speaker 5: does with hopefully a pretty hardy Dodgers reception tonight.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we'll shout out Nancy Brown, who gave us the
Speaker 1: twenty dollars super chat saying, you know, here's the welcoming
Speaker 1: school Schoogle to Dodger Stadium to night, the same way
Speaker 1: we welcome Freddie. Obviously, Freddie got the Freddie Freddie Chanceer.
Speaker 1: You have standing ovation. Yeah, when you spend so much
Speaker 1: time with an organization, it's tough. Uh, But I think
Speaker 1: he's going to He's going to be great tonight and
Speaker 1: also it's going to be great great. Another five from
Speaker 1: Nancy San Nacho is the ball.
Speaker 2: Yes, thank you Nancy, and thank you so much for
Speaker 2: your help with the auction, the recent auction with the birers. Nancy,
Speaker 2: check your email because I actually have something to tell you.
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Speaker 4: Justice for Roki.
Speaker 1: Dodgers ace Roki Sasaki. I still can't buy in, though
Speaker 1: I won't do it.
Speaker 4: Because from my victory lap whenever, you guys.
Speaker 2: Just because the basis I just the next time he
Speaker 2: pitches the frickin' glove is gonna be like this. We're
Speaker 2: not even gonna it's gonna be like it's gonna be
Speaker 2: head to toe glove. We're not even gonna be able
Speaker 2: to see Roki. It's just like this glove that's coming
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Speaker 1: gonna be post gaming the Maminallana and then uh, then
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be drunk on the lake.
Speaker 2: Katie's back in the clubhouse, back in the dugout, all
Speaker 2: the things that reality back to reality, and then yes Clinton,
Speaker 2: I have Postgame, and then Clint is going to take
Speaker 2: some much needed vacation. You guys have no idea how
Speaker 2: much this guy does on this show, as well as
Speaker 2: so many of our other Foul Territory programs. He is
Speaker 2: very deserving of the upcoming vacate. All right, guys, we
Speaker 2: appreciate you Lake.
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