Speaker 1: But the big thing was just finding a way to
Speaker 1: make sure that the Dodgers kept nine players on the field.
Speaker 1: Kyle Tucker left the game with fact spasms and Dalton
Speaker 1: rushing percussion protocol.
Speaker 2: Hello everybody, and welcome to the live postgame edition of
Speaker 2: Dodgers Territory on this June twenty second. I'm Alana Rizzo.
Speaker 2: That is Katie Wu and Clint Pisias. We are psyched
Speaker 2: that you guys are here. Get your comments in the chat.
Speaker 2: I always appreciate you guys being here, and we want
Speaker 2: to know what you think about this game. A two
Speaker 2: to one victory over did we just play twins? The
Speaker 2: Minnesota Twins? Good for us. It was all about the
Speaker 2: home run today. Obviously, our guys get two, the Twins
Speaker 2: get one. We will take that every single time. Good
Speaker 2: to be with the two of you as well. It's
Speaker 2: the first team to hit fifty wins. Katie, you've been
Speaker 2: there for the majority of them. You'll take a two
Speaker 2: to one ball game at the pace in which they played.
Speaker 2: What's your biggest takeaway in this one?
Speaker 1: The fact that they were able to get a win
Speaker 1: with two hopefully not critical injuries, but very important players
Speaker 1: right now, given the state of the Dodgers roster. Lose
Speaker 1: Kyle Tucker in the second inding and then Dalton Rushing
Speaker 1: almost immediately after that. So Dodgers playing with a super
Speaker 1: thin bench. I'm sure we'll get into later in the show.
Speaker 1: But some clutch moments came up with roughners in scoring position.
Speaker 1: They still weren't able to cash in on those opportunities.
Speaker 1: But the big thing was just finding a way to
Speaker 1: make sure that the Dodgers kept nine players on the field.
Speaker 1: And we'll hopefully find more information about Kyle Tucker left
Speaker 1: the game with backspasms and Dalton Rushing concussion protocol throughout postgame.
Speaker 3: Yeah, a lot of different big storylines in this one.
Speaker 3: You got the injuries, you got Eric Lauer. The offense
Speaker 3: seems to be the like I would say, least invasive.
Speaker 3: I don't know, my words are going to be shitty tonight.
Speaker 3: But they tried. They had enough. They put enough points
Speaker 3: on the board. Here with a leadoff Homer from Show Hey,
Speaker 3: Freddie Homer's later in the game. You know what, I
Speaker 3: want to get it out of the way early because
Speaker 3: I'm happy with Shoe Hey atani Shocker Show. Show Hey
Speaker 3: is going to be today's FanDuel Daily Dinger pick because
Speaker 3: he hit a dinger today. How about this dude. He's
Speaker 3: hit seven homers now in his last thirteen games. Show
Speaker 3: Hay is starting to crank up the power a little
Speaker 3: bit more as we get into summer. The swing, I
Speaker 3: wouldn't say, I won't say it's bad, show Hey. Swing
Speaker 3: is never bad, but he was a little bit off
Speaker 3: with the swing for a good stretch there early in May.
Speaker 3: He's finding some things. The on base is great, the
Speaker 3: bath to ball is a lot better, and you're starting
Speaker 3: to see him really show out for a little bit
Speaker 3: of power. So we love that from messer Otani there.
Speaker 3: The you know, the knee is is not a problem apparently, Katie.
Speaker 4: And also you know new dad strength helps.
Speaker 5: Yeah, two time Dad strength, Clint.
Speaker 1: Hello strength, two time power. So given that this game
Speaker 1: went very nice to see, show Hey. I mean that
Speaker 1: was obviously I'm in Minnesota, but I felt like I
Speaker 1: heard it from here with one of those ty swings
Speaker 1: tany contact, so they really needed given that another one
Speaker 1: run ball game, six of their last seven.
Speaker 4: We're just not going to talk about Sunday's game.
Speaker 1: We're just going to eliminate that from our memories six
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Speaker 1: fire here.
Speaker 4: In Los Angeles.
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Speaker 2: Some more offensive talk. Guys entering the game. Can the
Speaker 2: sluggish offense get back on track? Can you tell us
Speaker 2: a little bit more about the column that you just had,
Speaker 2: because we just talked about the woe that was Sunday.
Speaker 2: But this is a you don't often hear Dave Roberts
Speaker 2: speak ill. And it's not that he was putting anybody down,
Speaker 2: but he did not like the at back quality of
Speaker 2: his team.
Speaker 5: Tell us more.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you guys know this. Dodgers fans know this.
Speaker 1: Dave Roberts is by nature a very patient manager. He
Speaker 1: trustes veterans to figure things out, and he is very
Speaker 1: very patient with her younger guys and experienced guys on
Speaker 1: the lineup, kind of going through the ebbs and flows
Speaker 1: of learning to adjust to major League pitching. But he
Speaker 1: did not like the quality of the bats against that
Speaker 1: in that Oriel series, and rightfully so. Dodgers left a
Speaker 1: lot of men on base. There didn't seem to be
Speaker 1: an overall collective approach. I'll go ahead and read that
Speaker 1: full quote from Dave Roberts after Sunday's loss. Dave said,
Speaker 1: the mindset of being offensive and scaring pictures out of
Speaker 1: the strike zone.
Speaker 4: I think for us it's been it's very in between pictures.
Speaker 1: Just start to get that rhythm, that comfort, and that
Speaker 1: just shouldn't be the case with our lineup. There's passivity
Speaker 1: at the wrong time. I think that the mindset of
Speaker 1: scaring guys out of the hitting zone, we're.
Speaker 4: Just not doing that right now.
Speaker 1: And that's an approach that you can kind of see
Speaker 1: one through nine with these Dodgers' hitters. It's more of
Speaker 1: a like, when you have the star power of the Dodgers,
Speaker 1: you want to make pictures get you out, So you
Speaker 1: shouldn't be given them strikes were you know you're going
Speaker 1: out in the zone and you're chasing, they don't have
Speaker 1: to come attack you. We saw this, and I don't
Speaker 1: want to make this all about Kyle Tucker because he's
Speaker 1: not the only problem, but that at bat Saturday night and.
Speaker 4: Which the Dodgers lost three to two, where he took.
Speaker 1: A splitter in the dirt for ball one and then
Speaker 1: three straight splitters from there that he swung on a
Speaker 1: mist out of the zone that to me was a
Speaker 1: kind of in a bat that Dave Roberts was like
Speaker 1: a microcosm level that he does not want his hitters
Speaker 1: to be doing.
Speaker 4: And I thought it was.
Speaker 1: Interesting because obviously there's no Will Smith, no Tiascar Hernandez
Speaker 1: guys that really helps solidify that lineup, and you're looking
Speaker 1: at a lot of relatively inexperienced players with rushing Ryan
Speaker 1: war at Alex Freeland. So I asked Dave, you know,
Speaker 1: is this a combination of the inexperience and he actually
Speaker 1: said that he thought those three guys were actually taking
Speaker 1: some of the better advaths collectively. So it's on really
Speaker 1: the top of the lineup for me, and again hard
Speaker 1: to evaluate if they got better because a big chunk
Speaker 1: of that is Kyle Tucker.
Speaker 4: Obviously did not play.
Speaker 1: Most of this game, but it's clear Dodgers still have
Speaker 1: the best offense in terms of stats and production in baseball.
Speaker 4: But Dave Roberts not happy with the overall approach from
Speaker 4: its hitters lately.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and it is funny. We are seeing better sometimes
Speaker 3: better approaches, better at bat you know, just quality later
Speaker 3: in the game. But riz it feels like probably once
Speaker 3: a month, especially for a team like the Dodgers, you're
Speaker 3: coming off back to back World Series. They were talking
Speaker 3: about it a pregame on SNLA you know, you know,
Speaker 3: I think it was snl A. But the regular season
Speaker 3: is a formality for the Dodgers, even if they have
Speaker 3: to pretend like it's not. At some point it seems
Speaker 3: like it's real easy for your head to get elsewhere.
Speaker 3: And maybe I'm not going to say they're not putting
Speaker 3: in the work, but maybe just you know, the mind
Speaker 3: wanders a little bit during during a baseball game, or
Speaker 3: during a series, or during a particular series. And I
Speaker 3: know you've seen it. You've covered this team.
Speaker 5: There's there is no question about that.
Speaker 2: I mean, think about the fact that you know, we
Speaker 2: do however many shows, three or four shows a week,
Speaker 2: and not every single show is at the ultimate level
Speaker 2: where we're gonna win Emmys. Whatever, the podcast whatever, the
Speaker 2: podcasting whatever, the podcasting award is, but honestly, it is
Speaker 2: hard to be you know, one hundred percent all the
Speaker 2: time and every single thing that you do. And to
Speaker 2: your point, the Dodgers are built for October, right if
Speaker 2: they can continue to tread water. I mean, we're really
Speaker 2: getting into the dog days of summer. We're about five
Speaker 2: weeks away from the trade deadline, and then it's even
Speaker 2: a week after the All Star Game for the trade deadline,
Speaker 2: so they're all kind of waiting for that, and then
Speaker 2: you really get into it.
Speaker 5: I don't really.
Speaker 2: Ever worry about how they're doing at this time of year.
Speaker 2: To me, the time to truly ramp up. And let's
Speaker 2: not forget they still have a nine game advantage in
Speaker 2: the standings right so it's like you want to make
Speaker 2: sure that the first thing you want to do is
Speaker 2: win your division, and right now that's what the Dodgers
Speaker 2: are doing. They are winning their division by nine and
Speaker 2: a half games now nine and a half games, so
Speaker 2: they're still on pace to do exactly what they need,
Speaker 2: what we would like for them to do, but they're
Speaker 2: just trying to tread water right now with the amount
Speaker 2: of injuries that already are on the shelf to key
Speaker 2: pieces of this program obviously the Blake Snells of the world,
Speaker 2: the Tyler Glasnows of the world. And now we're going
Speaker 2: to wait and see what happens to Kyle Tucker. I mean,
Speaker 2: God bless chucki Robinson. But I mean, he's not the answer.
Speaker 2: I said this the other day when Will Smith, we
Speaker 2: knew it was going to miss some significant time, and
Speaker 2: now he's obviously not on the road trip. I said,
Speaker 2: what happens if something happens to Dalton because we don't
Speaker 2: have that depth at that position, and I'm not trying
Speaker 2: to manifest it. But obviously he had to come out
Speaker 2: of the game to make sure he didn't have a concussion.
Speaker 2: And Chucky Robinson, god bless him. He's just not major
Speaker 2: league ready catcher. He's just not that guy. So that's okay, though.
Speaker 2: They're just going to try to tread water and get
Speaker 2: the pieces back as they come, and they will be fine.
Speaker 2: You win the division by nine and a half games,
Speaker 2: you get home field advantage and you go from there.
Speaker 2: But no, to think that this team is going to
Speaker 2: play balls to the wall for one hundred and sixty
Speaker 2: two games is just not realistic.
Speaker 5: I mean, some guys live for October.
Speaker 2: This is a team that, like just they all you
Speaker 2: have to do is maintain and I'd say the first
Speaker 2: team to fifty wins and a nine and a half
Speaker 2: game lead than the division is even.
Speaker 5: Better than maintaining.
Speaker 2: So it happens, right, It's not every every series is
Speaker 2: not going to be Game seven. It just doesn't work
Speaker 2: that way. Look at what happened against the Orioles, and
Speaker 2: that seems terrible.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's the unrealistic expectations that come with watching and
Speaker 3: covering the Los Angeles Dodgers, and Katie, I know you've
Speaker 3: seen that difference since coming over here from your years
Speaker 3: with the Cards. It's just it's a different expectation the
Speaker 3: fan base. You lost too against the Orioles, and you know,
Speaker 3: all hell starts to break loose a little bit. Fine, Alana,
Speaker 3: it's gonna be great.
Speaker 5: It's gonna be great.
Speaker 3: And they won, and they won first fifty wins, a
Speaker 3: lot of really really good stuff. It's not always perfect,
Speaker 3: and they're battling with a lot of injuries. We'll talk
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Speaker 5: All right, a couple of other stories guys that I
Speaker 5: wanted to get to. Bad luck.
Speaker 2: Right when Kyle Tucker and Dalton Rushing go out, go
Speaker 2: out in the same game, basically back to back. So
Speaker 2: Tucker walks in the second and then advances to second
Speaker 2: on an Edmund single.
Speaker 5: Then he was removed.
Speaker 2: Now the team says that it was because of lower
Speaker 2: back spasms, and you hope that's.
Speaker 5: All it is.
Speaker 2: You hope it's just a backspasm or a cramp or whatever.
Speaker 2: He seemed to be walking around fine in the dugout.
Speaker 2: But again, that's not when you already have Taoscar out.
Speaker 2: You know, you already have all these other guys out.
Speaker 2: That's the last thing I know that Kyle Tucker hasn't,
Speaker 2: you know, been all world in terms of his offense.
Speaker 2: But Katie, this is not somebody that you can afford
Speaker 2: to lose, considering you still have guys that you're waiting
Speaker 2: to have them come back.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I completely agree.
Speaker 1: But and some things that I want to notice again,
Speaker 1: just my observations from home watching on TV, Kyle Tucker
Speaker 1: was not visited by a trainer at Second Pace. Dave
Speaker 1: Roberts watched him and made the call to take him
Speaker 1: out immediately. No combo to me that suggests this is
Speaker 1: something that the Dodgers were aware of beforehand and just
Speaker 1: wanted to monitor. I'm sure we'll hear more from Dave
Speaker 1: on the postgame show. But if you're going to have,
Speaker 1: you know, just a look from your manager to see,
Speaker 1: you know, Kyle Tucker kind of crouching over a little
Speaker 1: uncomfortable and get him out of there without even a convo,
Speaker 1: that to me has been okay. Well, he's clearly talks
Speaker 1: about this with the medstaff and Dave Roberts and they
Speaker 1: were aware of it. And then television cameras showed Kyle
Speaker 1: Tucker and the dugout. You know, he went straight to
Speaker 1: the hitting coaches before the trainers. So all of these
Speaker 1: signs to me indicated that this is a problem or
Speaker 1: an issue that they were aware of and just didn't
Speaker 1: want to make it worse.
Speaker 4: Dalton Rushing a little bit of a different situation. Who
Speaker 4: comes in. I believe it was the first pitch of
Speaker 4: the game that he rocked on that foul t hit.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 4: Obviously welcome, Welcome to the game, Dalton.
Speaker 1: So I think with Kyle Tucker is kind of a
Speaker 1: wait and see, as we've seen with Tyler glassnew backspasms
Speaker 1: can be tricky, and with Dalton he just hope that
Speaker 1: he can pass concussion protocols. But this is clearly if
Speaker 1: this becomes more for Kyle Tucker, not what the Dodgers
Speaker 1: need right now. They can cover and I think Ryan
Speaker 1: wod has done a nice job filling in. Tommy Edmund
Speaker 1: has been pretty Tommy Edmund like since coming off the IL.
Speaker 1: He can play in the corners to uh. Dodgers should
Speaker 1: get tasker Hernandez back by this time next week. But
Speaker 1: if Kyle Tucker misses any time, that's seven days they
Speaker 1: got a fill and that can get a little dicey.
Speaker 3: You know, it's funny. I don't know if it's funny,
Speaker 3: but it's funny that you go on social media and
Speaker 3: the first thing people start you start seeing is people
Speaker 3: clamoring for Okay, now they get to call up James
Speaker 3: Tibbs because Tucker's gonna go on the IL, and you know,
Speaker 3: just there, everybody wants something else other than Kyle Tucker
Speaker 3: right now. Which, yeah, it's not a great season. I
Speaker 3: don't necessarily care. The Dodgers won a world last year
Speaker 3: with you know, Michael CONFORDO just being crap. It happens,
Speaker 3: you can survive it. But it is interesting to see
Speaker 3: the fan base. I wouldn't say turn on him quickly.
Speaker 3: It has been a few months, but showing signs of
Speaker 3: life at different points, and hopefully this is not one
Speaker 3: of those things it turns into a glass now situation
Speaker 3: where we know Dave. You know, I.
Speaker 2: Just don't even know if it was like turning on him.
Speaker 2: I don't think they were ever on really on board,
Speaker 2: you know what I mean, Like he hasn't had like
Speaker 2: a like a big Dodger moment yet. You know, I
Speaker 2: just think it's just like, I mean, I was excited
Speaker 2: that they signed Kyle Tucker, but to me, it wasn't
Speaker 2: like the oh my god, we got Kyle Tucker, not
Speaker 2: like not how I felt when they signed Edwin dis
Speaker 2: or how I felt when they signed Sho he o
Speaker 2: Tony Okay, like that kind of like wow, that's that's
Speaker 2: a that's a huge gut And Kyle Tucker just hasn't
Speaker 2: shown us the contract yet, not to say that he won't,
Speaker 2: but there has. To me, it's just kind of like
Speaker 2: just kind of vanilla in terms of that. Dalton rushing
Speaker 2: for me, guys with the whole situation that I was
Speaker 2: worried about. If he went down, Okay, Chucky Robinson, what
Speaker 2: are we gonna do? But it's like he came up
Speaker 2: two different times, two runners on and two outs already
Speaker 2: he struck out both times. We're gonna need more from
Speaker 2: that position, then we're getting with CHUCKI Robinson. If for
Speaker 2: whatever reason Dalton rushing does have a concussion, which hopefully
Speaker 2: he doesn't offer that foul tip off of the helmet,
Speaker 2: and obviously if Will Smith is out for longer than
Speaker 2: we expect, but they're gonna have to do something at
Speaker 2: that position because it's obviously uh you know that's that
Speaker 2: that's not the answer there, especially with little Smith out
Speaker 2: longer than expected.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well so we got we actually got an update
Speaker 3: here from Fabian Our of the Athletic on the rushing side.
Speaker 3: He passed initial concussion testing. Dodgers are going to bring
Speaker 3: in an extra catcher in case. I don't even know
Speaker 3: who the hell that would be exactly.
Speaker 1: Elizae Alonzo was okay, see, but he's not on the
Speaker 1: forty man.
Speaker 4: Yes, that would be just based on.
Speaker 5: What is what is Sam doing? Does anybody I know that.
Speaker 2: I know that Austin Barnes was that Petros and Money
Speaker 2: the other day.
Speaker 5: Is he available?
Speaker 3: I I don't think so. Yeah. Anyways, and then yeah,
Speaker 3: the the Tucker backspas is not expecting any imaging or
Speaker 3: anything like that. They're they're not concerned about Tucker. So
Speaker 3: he has minutes to live, I would imagine at this point.
Speaker 3: But yeah, even everything is everything they listened, there is
Speaker 3: too much. Yo know, it's gonna be great. Everything is perfect, It's.
Speaker 4: Gonna be great.
Speaker 5: I've been saying that for three years. They've won World
Speaker 5: Series Championship too.
Speaker 3: You want from me, listen, I take it all back
Speaker 3: either way, you know, concussion or no. Notwithstanding here, they
Speaker 3: need to improve the Chucky Robinson part of the roster.
Speaker 3: I don't know how. I mean last year, you know
Speaker 3: when they traded for at the time the man I
Speaker 3: called Ron Rovertelt because I was like, what the fuck
Speaker 3: is this name? That's just putt in front Ben Rohart Vett.
Speaker 3: They need another Ben Roardvett to just fall gently into
Speaker 3: their arms again because not to laughs. You know, he's
Speaker 3: a big boy. They need something like that. They need
Speaker 3: someone like that. Of course, Bend is with the Mets,
Speaker 3: and I think he's on the IL, the minor league
Speaker 3: IL right now. He is not an option, but they
Speaker 3: need a different option. Again, with all due respect to
Speaker 3: Chuckie Robinson, seems like a nice enough guy, but they
Speaker 3: need a little help. There need a little help. We're
Speaker 3: gonna have to figure it out.
Speaker 4: I was, you know, I want Will Smith in the
Speaker 4: lineup as much as possible front of the show. But
Speaker 4: this was a really big opportunity for Dalton Rush.
Speaker 1: You to get consistent playing time work with some of
Speaker 1: the pictures he doesn't usually get because we know Will
Speaker 1: Smith is usually going to take the O Tanni Yamamoto
Speaker 1: starts and we've seen him. You know that that game
Speaker 1: on Friday was super telling with the three punch outs,
Speaker 1: and then he comes in and has a completely different
Speaker 1: approach against Ryan Helsley ends up winning the game. So
Speaker 1: Chuckie Robinson has brought in not necessarily to produce. He
Speaker 1: was quite literally brought in to be a backup catcher
Speaker 1: by definition basically start the day games after night games,
Speaker 1: and the Dodgers don't believe in day games during the week.
Speaker 4: So this was not a position or part.
Speaker 1: Of the Dodgers were like expecting for a lot of
Speaker 1: playing time. So it goes back to like the original
Speaker 1: point of if the Advats got better today, I want
Speaker 1: to you pointed out the runners on scoring position. Dodger
Speaker 1: grew over seven, but a lot of that was Chuckie Robinson.
Speaker 1: I would have loved to see what Doldon Rushian would
Speaker 1: have done in that role. But this is not a
Speaker 1: guy that the Dodgers were like, Okay, he needs to produce.
Speaker 4: It was he just needs to hear for an emergency.
Speaker 3: Yeah, maybe they haven't.
Speaker 5: They're in there, They're in the emergency.
Speaker 3: Maybe yeah, maybe wa I got used to having, you know,
Speaker 3: in the last year and change, ish used to having
Speaker 3: a backup that maybe has a little bit of There
Speaker 3: is just not a chance in hell. And I'm sorry, Chucky,
Speaker 3: if you're watching this, it's not a chance in hell
Speaker 3: that that man is gonna make contact with baseball and
Speaker 3: it's gonna fine. Grass I'm sorry.
Speaker 4: So maybe Borrow I want this clip on Twitter, so.
Speaker 3: We clip that. Vince. We need you, bro, we need
Speaker 3: you bro. All r We're gonna take another break, come back,
Speaker 3: and we're gonna talk about probably what should be the
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Speaker 3: want to get those plugs in there before we talk
Speaker 3: about Eric frickin' Lauer. What a pickup this guy has
Speaker 3: been in the screen here showing Will Klein because it
Speaker 3: shows the starter of the game, who was the opener,
Speaker 3: gives up the only run of the game on a
Speaker 3: Byron Buxton Homer a longtime future Dodger Byron Buxton, but
Speaker 3: six no hit innings following. Will Klein like, what a
Speaker 3: pickup Eric Lawer has been.
Speaker 4: Woo yeah, and this is someone that you know.
Speaker 1: We're talking to Andrew Friedman the other day and he
Speaker 1: was like, when when Blake SNeW and Tyberg Glasnow went
Speaker 1: down pretty consecutively. If River Ryan had not been just
Speaker 1: building back up after a his little right hamstring injury,
Speaker 1: they might have gone straight to River out of meat,
Speaker 1: but they couldn't because he wasn't built up at that time.
Speaker 1: So what do you do. You look at the other
Speaker 1: two other clubs obviously familiar with Eric Blawer, with Mark
Speaker 1: Pryor's connection, and they said, you know what, we're the Dodgers.
Speaker 1: We can fix that, and they have And they don't
Speaker 1: need Eric Blawer to go out and post six hit listennings,
Speaker 1: but they'll certainly take it. They just need him to
Speaker 1: be a certain, fiable, solid six starter, and he's done
Speaker 1: that and more for this club. It's allowed guys like
Speaker 1: Justin Erbleski to keep working. Roki Sasaki, we'll get to
Speaker 1: Emmett Shean there. It's bought him a little bit more
Speaker 1: extra time. But for Eric Lawer, we know how important
Speaker 1: the six man rotation is for the Los Angeles Dodgers.
Speaker 1: They've committed to it all season long. Shoho Tani does
Speaker 1: not get to do two way duties without a season
Speaker 1: long six man rotation.
Speaker 4: So for Eric Lawer, to come in and just fill
Speaker 4: that spot out of need.
Speaker 1: I think the Dodgers were planning on just giving him
Speaker 1: a couple and seeing where it goes. But he's been
Speaker 1: more than serviceable. He's been a very good addition to
Speaker 1: this club. He's fit right in in the clubhouse, and
Speaker 1: he's really helped keep a critical anchor of this Dodgers
Speaker 1: team afloat. They have the best starting rotation in baseball
Speaker 1: that is not by accident, is because they've remained committed
Speaker 1: to the six man.
Speaker 4: Eric Lawer very underrated.
Speaker 1: In that overall area because he's allowed them to be
Speaker 1: able to keep that up.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and Paul Penyon ninety five forty eight in our
Speaker 2: chat brings up a really good point that you don't
Speaker 2: have to smoke one hundred miles an hour.
Speaker 5: To have a successful outing.
Speaker 2: You know, you can pitch to contact, you can change
Speaker 2: up the speeds, you can, you know, use your off speed.
Speaker 2: There's other ways to do it than throwing one hundred
Speaker 2: and ten miles an hour, which is great as long
Speaker 2: as you can locate it.
Speaker 5: But Eric Lawer is more of a pitcher than a thrower.
Speaker 2: And what I like about the situation too, is like
Speaker 2: kind of the joke of you know, if you can't
Speaker 2: beat him, join him, obviously coming over from the Toronto
Speaker 2: Blue Jays, and it's like, you know, he is a
Speaker 2: guy among so many. Just add Eric Lawer to the
Speaker 2: list of guys that come over and kind of reinvent
Speaker 2: themselves or perhaps not even reinvent themselves, but are allowed
Speaker 2: to be who they are. The Dodgers don't try to
Speaker 2: force you to be something that you're not. And I've
Speaker 2: had many conversations, particularly with Relievers, and I know Eric
Speaker 2: Lawer is not one of those guys, but particularly with Relievers,
Speaker 2: that they have said to me that they knew who
Speaker 2: I was when they acquired me, and they allowed me
Speaker 2: to be that person. So not really trying to change
Speaker 2: things up. And these are guys, particularly that came over
Speaker 2: via Tree. These are not international signings like the Japanese
Speaker 2: guys or those types of things, or guys that came
Speaker 2: up through the Dodgers system. These were more guys that
Speaker 2: came over from other teams via a trade or in
Speaker 2: free agency, and they just have such a good way
Speaker 2: about them. And you've got to give Mark Pryor I
Speaker 2: think a tremendous amount of credit. Obviously and Bardo in
Speaker 2: the Dodgers' bullpen and Connor McGuinness and all of the
Speaker 2: guys obviously deserve a part in this, but they know
Speaker 2: what the guy is successful in doing that, you know,
Speaker 2: kind of go with what got you here and will
Speaker 2: help you hone in on that and be who you are.
Speaker 5: And it has proven time and time again.
Speaker 2: Eric Lauer just another in the mix that the Dodgers
Speaker 2: don't force.
Speaker 5: You to be what you're not.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and you mentioned the McGinnis part. I think even
Speaker 3: Lauer mentioned that Connor McGuinness speaks his language when he's
Speaker 3: talking about pitching. And you know, you're seeing a lot
Speaker 3: more of the curveball usage. And now I'm gonna put the
Speaker 3: lower stats back up on the screen here, because how
Speaker 3: good this dude has been in his now five appearances
Speaker 3: for the Dodgers capped with this one six no hit innings.
Speaker 3: This is this is the type of stuff that the Dodgers,
Speaker 3: that this pitching staff does. You mentioned Mark Pryor. I'm
Speaker 3: just in a piggyback on what you already said there
Speaker 3: is like they are so good at often maximizing and
Speaker 3: this is what you see with guys like River Ryan
Speaker 3: who was kind of a nobody when they acquired him.
Speaker 3: You know, you've seen it with I mean machine was
Speaker 3: a drafty reviving the career of somebody like Tyler Anderson
Speaker 3: a couple of years ago, making him into an All star.
Speaker 3: This is what they do. They they identify something you
Speaker 3: could do just a little bit better without, like you said,
Speaker 3: is without changing everything without you know, oh well, let's
Speaker 3: drop an arm slot or let's let's you know, change
Speaker 3: where you're at on the rubber. Maybe they might do
Speaker 3: something like that. It's like, no, you already have good stuff.
Speaker 3: You aren't good enough to have made it to the
Speaker 3: big leagues. Why not just maximize your best qualities for
Speaker 3: five six innings if you can get that far, and
Speaker 3: you know, we got the best of Eric Lauer here,
Speaker 3: and shit, where would this team be without Eric Lawer.
Speaker 2: I also think that it's a matter of you don't
Speaker 2: always have to be the guy because there's twenty five
Speaker 2: others around you. So you really do have the opportunity
Speaker 2: to kind of just be yourself and continue to obviously
Speaker 2: improve on what you have, but use what got you
Speaker 2: there in the first place. And he knows his role,
Speaker 2: And I think that's another thing about Dave Roberts in
Speaker 2: particular and the Dodger staff is that I think they're
Speaker 2: very good at communicating. They're very good at knowing, letting
Speaker 2: guys know the expectations of what their role is. I mean,
Speaker 2: Santiago Espinal knew it was going to be a two
Speaker 2: month stint, you know.
Speaker 5: Like that, that type of thing.
Speaker 2: And I think they're very good about letting guys knows
Speaker 2: as much as they can, letting guys up know, out front,
Speaker 2: up front, what the expectation is of them and kind
Speaker 2: of the role on the team. And that's I think
Speaker 2: that's all you can ask for, right is open communication
Speaker 2: and honesty and transparent garancy and then anything beyond that.
Speaker 2: I mean, you know, I think that's as as an
Speaker 2: adult and as a human being.
Speaker 5: But that's all you can ask for.
Speaker 3: Yeah, So to say Connor McGinn Connor m Madie Man's
Speaker 3: in the chat saying Connor McGinnis is one of the
Speaker 3: greatest A moments MMA fighters ever. But you know, it's
Speaker 3: just a dicking around here in the chat. The final
Speaker 3: thing is you kind of mentioned the Shean factor in there, Katie.
Speaker 3: Not a good start for ammit, Sheen. I've been on
Speaker 3: the send Sheen to triple a train for maybe longer
Speaker 3: than most. It feels like maybe we might be getting
Speaker 3: a step closer to that. What can you tell us
Speaker 3: about Shean's status?
Speaker 1: Yeah, not a good start and not really a good
Speaker 1: month for Emmitt Sheen. He had a really good start
Speaker 1: against the Diamondbacks on the very I believe it was
Speaker 1: due first and then three clunkers in a row.
Speaker 4: Even against the White.
Speaker 1: Sox those five score listenings, he looks more like Emmett
Speaker 1: Sheen and then just ran into traffic obviously in the
Speaker 1: sixth inning there.
Speaker 4: We don't need to rehash that. We know it.
Speaker 1: I think important about Emma she and going forward is
Speaker 1: I as we know, I'm more of the exercise patient
Speaker 1: person on this show, where I'm like, hey, you know what,
Speaker 1: Like a lot of said, they're nine games up, they're
Speaker 1: the first team to fifty wins. We can give some
Speaker 1: of these guys a bit of a lasha figure it out.
Speaker 4: But with EMMITTT.
Speaker 1: Sheen, it's been more of the same problems and not
Speaker 1: a lot of moving forward. And I think it got
Speaker 1: to a point yesterday. I'll read two quotes that I
Speaker 1: thought we're telling, one from Emmett Shean, and one from
Speaker 1: Dave Roberts. We talked to Emtt after the game and
Speaker 1: he said, straight up, execution was really bad at the
Speaker 1: start on Sunday.
Speaker 4: You out six earned and three and a third.
Speaker 1: And then Emmittt said, at this point, my coaches, teammates,
Speaker 1: fans all deserve better than what I'm putting out there.
Speaker 1: Dave Roberts followed up with just hasn't done where we
Speaker 1: need it to be, where Shean wants it to be,
Speaker 1: and I think right now he's probably searching a little bit.
Speaker 1: He'll get a start this next one and we'll see
Speaker 1: where it takes us. So that suggests you both parties
Speaker 1: are at least a line that this kind of pitching
Speaker 1: performance just can't continue because it's not like the starts
Speaker 1: there are getting better. Pictures are a lot to have
Speaker 1: a couple of bad starts throughout the course of the season.
Speaker 1: But for Emmtt, we just haven't seen a lot of
Speaker 1: progress there. So he will take his next start against
Speaker 1: the Padres. I believe that's going to be that Sunday
Speaker 1: series finale in San Diego, and if you know, it
Speaker 1: doesn't go the way that the Dodgers would like it
Speaker 1: to go, and EMTT doesn't see signs of progression.
Speaker 4: We've been very patient about River Ryan.
Speaker 1: We've discussed where you know, the Dodgers and where they
Speaker 1: stand on him. Maybe that's a solution, but I think
Speaker 1: it's fair to at least question what the long term
Speaker 1: look for Shean looks in the rotation right now, just
Speaker 1: because the last month or so it hasn't been you know,
Speaker 1: I think of the quality that both he and the
Speaker 1: Dodgers expected to be.
Speaker 3: Yeah, here's here's a final Uh you know, I guess
Speaker 3: lending itself to what you're saying, Patience Simmonson some aside,
Speaker 3: I don't even know how to say the name, but
Speaker 3: commenter saying on pace to win one hundred and four
Speaker 3: one hundred and nine games last year they won ninety three. Relax,
Speaker 3: everybody can relax, but at some point it does need
Speaker 3: to be about getting the job done, and she has
Speaker 3: not been exceptional at doing that. Also, before we sign off,
Speaker 3: I want to acknowledge we got a nine ninety nine
Speaker 3: super chat here from what is that LA eight two
Speaker 3: four dash ld R A lot in there talking about
Speaker 3: the Mooki factor here missing seeing Mookie in right field,
Speaker 3: he's done a good job at sorry, great job at shortstop.
Speaker 3: Maybe adding in some flexibility with Mooky. I don't see
Speaker 3: that happening.
Speaker 2: After not after all of the all of the uh
Speaker 2: the comments about him being short, and all of the
Speaker 2: work that he's done, and how the how the change
Speaker 2: is messed up his offense, and no, Mooky's.
Speaker 5: Our shortstop for the foreseeable future.
Speaker 1: Tommy I've been can play a very very strong right field,
Speaker 1: So let's just bounce him around. That's why he's back.
Speaker 1: Study out of your Swiss harm Knie whatever guys want
Speaker 1: to call it. Tommy Tanks apparently is what he's known
Speaker 1: as over here.
Speaker 3: It's Tommy Tanks. You gotta love the Tommy Tators as well.
Speaker 3: Gets a job done. Uh that's about it. I don't
Speaker 3: have much more to add. The Dodgers win. Dodgers the
Speaker 3: first team to fifty wins this season in baseball. They
Speaker 3: got a commanding lead in the NL West as well,
Speaker 3: So it's gonna be great. It's gonna be good. Chuckie
Speaker 3: Robinson won't be forever the back of catching. Let's just
Speaker 3: catch it strays, now, just catch it strays. Guys, We
Speaker 3: appreciate you hanging out with us, Risen, I will be
Speaker 3: back postgame Wednesday.
Speaker 4: Correct, that is correct.
Speaker 3: Do not believe we will have Katie there, but she
Speaker 3: will be back with us on Thursday for whatever that
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Speaker 5: All right, all right, guys, will see you Wednesday. Thanks
Speaker 5: for being here.
Speaker 4: Bye.