April 17, 2025 • 30 mins
Tim Cates takes your calls after the Dodgers beat the Rockies, 8-7. Dave Roberts talks to the media. Clayton Kershaw talks to reporters after his rehab start in OKC.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
And now your host of Dodger Talk. Tim Kakes.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Dodgers explode for seven runs in the first inning, Bobby
Miller gave a lot of it back in the third
with the Dodgers hang on and get the win over
the Colorado Rockies eight to seven. Hi, everybody, and welcome
in to postgame Dodger Talk here on a five to
seventy LA Sports Live Everywhere on the iHeartRadio apps. For
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being with us late night on this Wednesday night. Eight
six six nine eighty seven two five seventy is a
number jump on board if you're leaving Dodgers Stadium. Enjoyed
the game tonight, eight sixty six nine eighty seven to
two five seventy A lot to digest from this game tonight,
and really this six game Homestand the Dodgers dropped two
to three over the weekend to the Chicago Cubs and
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come back against a Colorado Rockies team that had just
gotten swept and didn't score a run in twenty seven
innings in San Diego. And the Dodgers do what they're
supposed to do. They beat the Rockies in a three
game series. They sweep the Rockies in a three game series,
a little close form my comfort here tonight in an
eight seven win over the Rockies. Bud Nonetheless, you get
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the w, you get the sweep, you feel good about
how the way you're playing. Some of the bats are
starting to pick up at the bottom of the lineup
for the Dodgers, and you head off now for a
five game road trip beginning Friday in Texas. Tonight, in
that first inning, the Dodgers down one to nothing, shoey
Otani was behind in the count to lead off the
bottom of the first and show he extended his hands
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and crushed the ball four hundred and forty eight feet
almost near the roof of the right field pavilion. He
hit that ball so far. The Dodgers put up seven
runs in the first Freddie Freeman goes deep. They batter around.
They had twelve different batters go to the plate in
the first inning, and shoey Otani goes two for two
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in the inning alone with two ribbies, as the Dodgers
were up seven to one. The only problem tonight Bobby
Miller gave back uns, Michael Talia a grand slam, Mickey
Moniac a home run. The Rockies came back with a
five run third inning, and that leads us now to
what the Dodgers do moving forward with this spot in
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the rotation. They have given Justin Robleski, Landon Knack, and
Bobby Miller now all opportunities to seize a spot in
the rotation to be a part of the big league
rotation for however long they need to be until the
injuries bring back Clayton Kershaw and Blake Snell off the il.
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But none of these three have really said, Okay, I'll
be the guy. I want that spot in the rotation.
Landonnack got a second opportunity last night. Justin Robleski's been
given an opportunity tonight. Bobby Miller, who's pitched okay in Tripa,
Oklahoma City, came out, gave up a run of the
first through twenty nine pitches not ideal. Came back in
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the second and he got a couple of punchouts, worked
around a two out single. All right, looked better. His
off speeds pitches tonight looked really good. He was throwing
them for strikes. He just threw too many pitches eighty
four in three innings of work. The pitch count was
too high after three innings. That's what a twenty nine
pitch first inning will do. And quite frankly, did Bobby
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Miller do enough to go back out when the next
spot and there his rotation comes up Wednesday in Chicago.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
I mean, we'll find out.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
I don't know how many more options the Dodgers have
in Tripa, Oklahoma City, because Tyler Glass now is going
to go out there this weekend and pitch. Yoshi Yamamoto
is gonna go out and pitch on Friday. Rookie Sazaki
is gonna go out and pitch on Saturday. But the
Dodgers don't have Blake Snell. The Dodgers don't have Clayton Kershaw.
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They're searching for a fifth start in this rotation, and
they've desperately looked for one of these young arms to
grab that and run with it, and none of the
three have. And speaking of young arns, thank goodness for
Ben Casparius, who was not only big in October last
year for the Dodgers after getting called up, Ben Casparrius
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has been big this season already, and tonight is a
prime example of that.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
He gets the win. He gives up.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
One run on two hits, strikes out three and three
innings of work. He was huge tonight, bridging the gap
from a short three innings from Bobby Miller to get
it to the seventh inning and the high leverage relievers
Vessia Tanner Scott able to come out and pitch for
the Dodgers. What Ben Casparius did was huge, bridging that
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gap to Vessi and Tanner Scott to close it out.
If not, it's a long night for the.
Speaker 3 (04:54):
Dodger pitching staff.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
Another one, Well, you've seen too many of them early
on because of the lack of depthness from the starting pitchers.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
I brought it up with Jose.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
It's something, at least in my mind, I'm starting to
look at It's April sixteenth, and we're seeing a lot
of bullpen usage. We're seeing a lot of arms being
asked to go and save the butts of the starters.
Seeing a lot of Jack Dryer, seeing a lot of
Ben Casparius. We're seeing a lot of Louis Garcia in
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low leverage, blowout type situations. But still he's pitched nearly
ten innings already. Luis Garcia, if you had him on
your Bengo board for a guy that'd be on this
roster In the first place, you're lying, we're seeing a
lot of innings already from the Dodger bullpen and we
haven't been seen yet. Evan Phillips, Bruce degraderol In, Michael Kopek. Yes,
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I get it. Those three high leverage relievers are working
their way back from excess usage last year, forcing them
to start the year this year on the injured list,
working their way back from LB situations. And for Bruce Darcgradral,
really everything has been hurting him. But the innans are
starting to mount up for this Dodgers' bullpen and it's
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April sixteenth.
Speaker 3 (06:12):
Just something to keep an eye on.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
The Dodgers need to see longer outings from their starters.
They need to see guys go at least five innings
for him. Now, this this three innings, two and a
third having to go to the bullpen, having to see
guys bail them out. The last road trip Washington, DC, again,
the bullpen in the closeout game had to carry this
Dodgers team because Land and That couldn't get out of
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it out past the third inning. That can't last. That
is not a good recipe for any pitching staff to
have a bullpen have to pitch five and a third
six innings constantly. You've got to get more out of
your starting pitching. And again, three young arms have been
given opportunities here in the first three weeks of the
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season to grab on with tart starting spot, Bobby Miller,
Tonight Landon Nax has been given twice now opportunities, and
Justin Robleski, and none of the three have seized the opportunity.
So again, it'll be interesting to see what the Dodgers
do next Wednesday. Could Tony Gonslim be an option We'll
see he's still down in TRIPLEA Oklahoma City returning from
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a back injury. I mean, Landon Nax had three audings
this year with an ERA near seven and a half.
Justin Robleski has given up eight runs in his lone
start last week. He's already been optioned, so the Dodgers
are gonna have to figure out what they're gonna do
for another starter. The next couple spins around the rotation
until at least Blake Snell gets back eight sixty six
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nine eight seven, two five seventy. It gets overlooked, it
gets kind of brushed to the side. On a night
like tonight when the Dodgers put up seven runs in
the first. When the Dodgers win eight to seven over
a bad Colorado Rockies team, we raised the w We
get excited about the victory, the sweep over the Rockies.
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But back of my mind, I'm looking at this bullpen.
Say six more innings of work for Dodger relievers, three
more innings asked by Ben Casparius. You know these guys
were huge in October. You're gonna need these arms in October.
I don't want to burn these guys out by the
All Star break, and I understand you have high leverage
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arms coming back, and it's gonna take more than just
what we are seeing now.
Speaker 3 (08:32):
And there's gonna be.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
Guys added to this bullpen roster like we saw a
year ago, Brent Honeywells of the world, who you don't
even know who they are yet they're gonna join this
Dodgers team and be asked to soak up innings in
July in August to get through one hundred and sixty
two games.
Speaker 3 (08:48):
But it just kind of.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
Feels like early on here calling on the bullpen an
awful lot to come in and pitch games, and the
sixteen nothing loss to the Cubs over the weekend. Sure,
we all had fun watching Miguel Rojas pitch two innings,
but we also saw the bullpath to come in and
pick up and pitch more than they were asked to do,
you know, on the next day, and then the next day,
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and then tonight has to pitch six more at combined
innings of relief eight sixty six, nine eighty seven, two
five seventy. Ben Casparius gets the winning relief. Tanner Scott
gets his sixth save already that is top three in
the major leagues as the Dodgers finish off the Rockies
eight to seven. Coming up, we'll hear from Clayton Kershaw,
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who today was in Oklahoma City on a minor league
rehab started.
Speaker 3 (09:35):
Don't get too excited.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
He's on the sixty day il I mean, he can't
come back any time soon, but he has started at
least the progress of working his way back and building
himself up to be a starter again on this Dodgers team.
With a aging Clayton Kershaw, You're not looking for him
to nessily pitch in April, May and June, at least
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I'm not. If I'm the Dodgers, and I'm looking at
it long term here for a six month season, I
want my future Hall of Fame closer to forty left
handed starter available the second half of the season, sort
of like what we're seeing for shoey O TAWNI probably
could come back and start right now and be a
part of the rotation.
Speaker 3 (10:19):
But why waste those bullets, so to speak, right.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
Now where you could save them for the second half
of the season, so you can ramp them up and
he's ready to go and really lathered up by September,
you get it, staggering his starting time. Same with Clayton
Kershaw to fit in to the All Star break and
beyond when it really gets into crunch time over the
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course of the season, not the April, in May, doesn't matter.
But you're able to get win still because this team
is so talented with the rash they have this early
in the season and not have all their starting pitching
when they need it. But again, something to keep in
mind the bullpen.
Speaker 3 (10:58):
A lot of.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
Innings starting to mount up on this bullpen staff for
Dave Roberts eight sixty six nine eight seven two five
seventy James in North Hollywood start things off here on
this Wednesday night postgame Dodge Talk.
Speaker 4 (11:08):
How you doing doing great? Tim doing great? Great to
be on Dodger Talk for the first time this season.
I'm a regular from past seasons. Hey, I want to
say I want to talk about Casparrius and Tommy Evan,
but first I want to say, big picture, I think
the Dodgers are handling this right with their primary focus
being on, you know, having all their starting pictures healthy
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for when it matters most. I think that's a you know,
it's a bigger priority than the bullpen usage currently. I'm
not disagreeing with you. I think that the bullpen usage
is already an issue, But I think as far as
keeping their eye on the ball, I think the Dodgers
are doing exactly that. And we do know we're going
to get Gonsolin back relatively soon. Snell will be back
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relatively soon, So I think that's going to bring some
normalcy to the situation that that we're seeing. But going Casparius,
here's a not so wacky idea. In my opinion, this
is going back to his performance in the postseason and
last year Wednesday, right, They're going to have to figure
out who's going to start for them. Well, today's Wednesday.
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Why not have Casparius just throw a pen between now
and then and let him take the ball. I mean,
he went forty seven pitches three innings. He is a
starter by trade that was put in the pen, you
know initially, And I mean you could even piggyback Dryer
off of Casparius and they could give you five or
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six right there, and then you know, without making a
roster move, you can simply put Bobby Miller in the
pen until he figures out how not to completely lose
command of half of his pitches after two innings. You
know that that way you've got you still got a
long man in the pen who can you know, come
in and eat up innings in a blowout, whether it's
the Dodgers up with the Dodgers down, And I think
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that gives us a better chance to win ballgames. So
that's what I would like to say about Casparraus And
if I may, on Edmund, what an unbelievable start he's had,
And I would love to see Dave move him a
little further up in the lineup, even if it's just
one spot above Conforto, let's say, because Conforta's got a
lot of swing and miss and flyout, and Edmund's got
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great bat to ball skills. I'd like to see him
right behind ta Oscar because I think sometimes you might
see Edmund leading off an inning more often than not,
and he on any other team would be a heck
of a leadoff guy with his speed and back to
ball skills.
Speaker 3 (13:33):
Interesting theory. I appreciate the phone call, James.
Speaker 2 (13:35):
You're right about being conspiraus and he's somebody that I've
talked about well really all of last year until his
call up at the end of the season. Was what
he was able to do in the minor leagues and
how quickly he moved up in the minor leagues. I
mean it was just twenty twenty two. He started the
year in Rancho Kucamonga. Twenty twenty three, he started the
year in High A ball Great Lakes with the Wounds.
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Last year, he's already in Double A before getting called
up to Triple A. And his professional career in the
minor leagues was as a starter sixteen starts in twenty two,
twenty one starts in twenty three, and keep in mind
the Dodgers used him last year when he got called
up as a long reliever like he did tonight, forty
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seven pitches, three innings. He made nineteen starts last year.
He threw eighty eighty eight and two third innings as
a starter in Double A in Triple A last year
with a three thirty five ERO. The Dodgers put him
in a bullpen because they needed him at that spot
in October. But you're right, he is a starter by trade.
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I wouldn't I wouldn't be mad if you wanted to
build him up three innings, forty seven pitches. I know
he's fitting really nicely into that middle relief, bridged the
gap between the starters inabilities and the high leverage bullpen relievers.
He's done very nicely in that. Okay, it's a nice
role for a guy in the major leagues, especially a
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young arm like Benk Casparius, who's twenty six.
Speaker 3 (15:07):
Not so young.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
But I wouldn't be mad if you said, Benk Caspirius, Yeah,
let's build him up, let's have him go out. Maybe
he goes four innings in a start next Wednesday in Chicago.
I'd be okay with that, I would, you know, especially
since you've given three other arms and Bobby Miller, Landon
Neck and Justin Robleski every opportunity here in the first
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month of the season and in spring training to get
a spot in this rotation. Benk Casparius has earned that
right to possibly be a starter if the Dodgers see fit.
Speaker 3 (15:41):
That's the role that they want to have him.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
And again, what he's doing right now is working and
has been beneficial and has been the times game saving
for this Dodgers team. They may not want to take
him out of that role. Let's go back out to
Dodger Stadium. Let's get some thoughts here from the Dodgers
skipper Dave Roberts talking to the media.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
End of the day, you have to stake a miss
getting straight down.
Speaker 5 (16:03):
What do you think is lead that part contact today?
Speaker 6 (16:07):
I think yeah, there was. There was some strikeouts in
there certainly, which was good. But you know, when you
get a seven to one lead, you've got to be
able to go deeper in the game. You have to
You've got to be able to chip outs, You've got
to get count leverage. They're young, aggressive ball club swinging
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the bat and you just can't keep behind. And you know,
when you start running deep counts certain then you're going
to make mistakes, and case in point was a totally
ad bat hanging breaking ball with count leverage, and you've
just got to you know, Bobby's just got to learn
to navigate innings better and to go to brant games.
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But the stuff is good. The curveball is good today,
the command of the fastball was good. The change up
and the slider were just non competitive, and so that's
something that we got to get back to. But it's
a learning lesson. I think there were some encouraging things
in the sense of the strikeouts that we talked about.
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You know, he's trying his tail off, he's competing. He
didn't run from it. But yeah, you do have to
understand how to navigate hitters and innings to go deeper
in games.
Speaker 5 (17:25):
As much as we swings at the top of the
order now encouraging to see.
Speaker 6 (17:29):
The bottle when we were really joying today years it
was really good to see. I think what stands out obviously,
I thought Andy the last couple of days is swinging
the bat a lot better. Max is taking really good
at bats. I thought that bad versus par Alta was
his best at bat of the season, missing a homer,
hitting at foul, lining a ball, taking some good pitches.
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So him getting on base certainly is very helpful for
our ball club and the bottom of the order and
just some good things. But obviously what sho Hey and
Freddy did tonight was, you know, really stood out.
Speaker 4 (18:07):
All right.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
There's Dave Roberts his post, same thoughts with the media.
As yeah, Bobby Miller was given a seven to one lead,
and as he mentioned, count leverage is huge for Bobby
Miller the control issues last year. Tonight, he just needed
to get ahead in the count and get those swing
happy Rockies to start chasing after pitches. But when you
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fall behind, you got to zero in a little bit more.
They're hunting you, and they love to swing the bat.
They're a free hitting team, the Colorado Rockies, and tonight
a grand slam, a home run the third five spot
got them right back in the game. Thankfully, the Dodgers
able to get the go ahead run in the fifth
inning and proved to be the winning run an eight
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to seven win over the Colorado Rockies. Will continue with
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Speaker 7 (19:23):
Wow, nobody on. Freddy Freeman hammers one, this one is deep,
this one is gone of the Dodgers have the lead.
Two solo home runs in the bottom of the first
Otani and now Freddy Freeman h's two to one.
Speaker 2 (19:41):
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here on Dodger Talk as the Dodgers improved now to
fourteen and six on this season. Ben Casparius gets to
win and relieve three impressive innings out of the bullpen
for Caspirius. After Bobby Miller went just three innings, giving
up six runs on eight hits. He was given a
seven to one lead, but gave up five runs in
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the third inning to get the Rockies back in it.
Andy Potter has an RBI single in the fifth gave
the Dodgers an eight six lead, and that would prove
to be the game winning run for the Dodgers as
they win it eight to seven. Well here from Clayton
Kershaw coming up in just a couple of minutes. Manny
in La joins us here on Dodgers talk.
Speaker 3 (20:41):
How you doing many?
Speaker 1 (20:43):
What's going on?
Speaker 7 (20:43):
Tim?
Speaker 4 (20:44):
Just leading the stadium.
Speaker 1 (20:45):
I was with my son.
Speaker 8 (20:45):
It was our first game this year. Kind of a
roller coaster of a game. Sat down, first pitch, was awesome,
lost the first in shots to all the guys who
put up all those runs. It was great to see
a couple of tames. I'm gonna talk about. The first
is a very unpopular opinion. I am just not sold
on Bobby Miller. I haven't been since the beginning, but
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you know, they keep trying him out there. You know,
we're rooted for him. He throws too many pitches, gets
into many jam that loves to throw that long ball.
So unfortunately, that's a recipe for disaster. And I'm going
to be in Chicago this week supporting our boys out
there nice and I'm praying that we don't get to
see him. I'd love to see anybody, Hey throw Migo
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Rohas back out there. I'll root hard, but I think
Bobby Miller showed us what he's made of and it's
not really big level stuff. So I'm gonna keep rooting
for him.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
Tim.
Speaker 8 (21:39):
You know, I have a lot of faith in this team.
But we saw what we saw tonight and the writing's
on the wall. So that's all I gotta say about.
Speaker 3 (21:47):
That, all right, Manny, I appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (21:48):
It wasn't a good performance from Bobby Miller overall, and
Dave Roberts alluded to it. He used the phrase count
leverage a couple of times, meaning you've got to get
ahead in the can. You can't keep having three to
two counts against a team like the Colorado Rockies. You've
got to attack them. You've got to throw strikes. You
got to have the ball put in play. Let your
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defense take care of you. Behind you, you're not going
to get punch out after punch out. You got some
swinging and missus when you got a head on two
strikes and you fought your way back to two strike
counts and you got swinging misses against Colorado because they're
a swing happy team. They're a young team that loves
to swing the bat. You can get them to chase
when you get ahead, but when you fall behind the count,
like Bobby Miller did, then you got to zero in
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a little bit more.
Speaker 3 (22:33):
You're forced to throw strikes. They know that, and so
they're attacking you.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
And that was what Dave Roberts was alluding to about
count leverage and needing to get ahead, and needing to
be better with his off speed pitches, in particular his
change up in his slider tonight. He had a fastball
and a curve ball. That was it that he was
able to throw for strikes tonight. The other two pitches
just didn't have a grasp on it. And again you're
giving a seven to one lead. Close the door, help
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out this bullpen. Get to the fifth, sixth, seventh inning,
maybe and help out this Dodgers team, because they helped
out you with the seventh spot in the first inning.
The last thing you want to do is go out
there and give up runs, especially at five run third inning,
and all of a sudden, it's a one run game again,
and the Rockies have some confidence and the Dodgers' offenses
needed to do more, and Andie Pott has delivered with
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that RBI single in the fifth inning, and that was
proved to be big because the Dodgers end up winning
eight to seven. Greg at Harbor City has been winning patiently.
Welcome to Dodger Talk.
Speaker 3 (23:29):
Greg. How you doing.
Speaker 9 (23:31):
I'm doing pretty good. I just uh, it's kind of
an irony I've seen now. The Dodgers just really loaded
it up in the preseason, you know, bringing in these
arms and spending money and everything is looking so good,
and the only thing you could think is is, you know, well,
injuries could derail it up just a little bit. It's early,
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but you know, there was talk from the talking heads
on sports that they're going to trade a pitcher since
they have a surplus and all this stuff, and then
you see what starts happening. It kind of reminds you
when the Lakers got you like Gary Payton and Carl
Malone and they're like, they're gonna win the championship now,
and then they got hurt and down went there, down
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went their championship hopes. And you know it's early, but
it and they're above five hundred five bunch. They're playing,
you know, pretty decent there in the pack. But pitching
is such a premium. And if Smell is out much
longer and he's really actually hurt somehow, and and uh,
you know, maybe Jnslin could come up and get some innings,
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but this is the big leagues. Those even though Colorado's
with three wins, them guys hit the ball, you know this,
Bobby Miller came up and there's a big step from
the league blow up to this one. And he does okay,
But these are big league hitters. Everybody's up here for
a reason. And they were teeing off too. So it's
it's a hard game. Not you know, not everybody can
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play baseball, but it's like you you're hoping through for
the Dodgers. I'm a Dodger fan for sure, but it's
like it's almost like a curse. They stacked it so heavy.
It's like, you know what, there's gonna be some come
up ins here because look at the money they spent
and they this looks like no one could beat them
the way they built the team. And then you're like, well,
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I guess what, something's gonna something's not going to go
out right and and they'll work through it, I'm sure,
but they you know, the pitching no looks so a.
Speaker 4 (25:27):
Deep mal No.
Speaker 3 (25:28):
That's something that's interesting.
Speaker 2 (25:29):
You bring that up, Gregs because we knew that these
arms that are currently on the injury list outside of
Blake Snell, that they weren't going to be part of
the Dodger team the first month of the season, maybe
the first two months of the season. Evan Phillips, Michael Kopek,
Tony Gonsolin, Clayton Kershaw. These were all arms that didn't
get hurt, and it's like, oh, no, we didn't expect this.
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What do we do now? This was already known going
into the start of the season. With that being said,
the depth of this team is what a lot of
the things we talked about in spring training, in all offseason.
Why it's goodness, look at the starting pitching they have.
You know, even with the guys that were going to
be hurt to start the year or are coming off
of injuries, they're so deep and so many young arms
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that they can call up. They'll be okay, don't worry
about it. Well, we've mentioned it now, justin Robleski Land
and that Bobby Miller. Those are three young arms that
I don't know about you, but I was counting on.
Is okay, we need a couple of starts here. We'll
be all right because they got experience, they've showed some
success at times. They've had their ups and downs, certainly,
but I'll ride with them. I'm good with them going
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out and starting games. Well, now that you know, we're
still ways away from Clayton Kershaw and Showeyo Tani pitching,
and Blake Snell's injured and Tony Gonson's not ready yet,
and these three young arms have given gotten opportunities and
haven't taken it and.
Speaker 3 (26:48):
Ran with it. That's a little concerning.
Speaker 2 (26:51):
And the bullpen having to pick up and pitch as
many innings as they had so far because of the
lack of starting pitching.
Speaker 3 (26:57):
It's a little concerning. But and by no means is
it panic time?
Speaker 2 (27:00):
Is that no means a curse on this Dodgers team
for being as good as they are. I think it's
just disappointing and not what they expected from having this
depth and seeing guys not produced. Your depth has gotten
a little smaller. The arms that you can go to,
I've gotten a little smaller. That list of guys in
the triple A and double A level has gotten a
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little smaller for you to go to based on what
you've seen so far, and hopefully they'll get opportunities again.
I'm not writing off Bobby Miller. I'm not riding off
Landon Neck or Justin Robletski. They've been given opportunities, at
least early on here. They haven't seized the opportunities that
they've been given. Clayton Kershaw today in Oklahoma City, a
day game for the comments, pitched three innings, shut out baseball,
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a couple of strikeouts through thirty pitches, and afterwards here's Clayton.
Speaker 3 (27:49):
The future Hall of Famer, on his outing.
Speaker 4 (27:51):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (27:51):
I mean, I think anytime as we have you want
to feel healthy, which I do. I feel good today,
and then if you want to see your stuff obviously,
play and so you know, I got some wick outs,
which is good. Uh, you know, there's some things that
I need to work on still, but you know, for
the first one, overall, it was a It was a
good step forward for sure.
Speaker 3 (28:08):
And how's the toe feeling after climbing that bullpen gate?
It feels good. Yeah, it feels good.
Speaker 5 (28:12):
I think I broke the gate back there, so sorry
about that, but you feel good.
Speaker 8 (28:15):
There are a lot of sliders advance your go to
on that feeling day.
Speaker 5 (28:18):
Yeah, there's some that had the right bite on it
and some that you know, I don't want to have back.
But I think that was overall there's some some good
throws in there for sure, though right now at the
fastball I don't know, probably not. Yeah, big crowd every
time you come back here.
Speaker 8 (28:32):
What was it like being an Okay.
Speaker 5 (28:33):
See that was great. Yeah, it's a I like this ballpark.
It's fun to be here. Eleven AM's a little early, obviously,
I think the guys are still waking up. But yeah,
it was a fun game. A lot of kids, which
is great, and yeah it was fun. So you mix
in a couple of sinkers and change ups. Are you
gonna try to mix those in more this season or
I don't know, Yeah, I don't really. I want it
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to be more of a runner, not a sinker, you know,
just kind of go straight across the lefties. And then
right now my change up feels okay, So that's we'll
see if that lasts. But for right now, I feel
like I can at least throw it a little bit,
so I'd like to be able to, So we'll see.
Speaker 3 (29:08):
Yea, what do you think about just this week?
Speaker 1 (29:12):
Okay, Senior?
Speaker 3 (29:13):
I like these guys.
Speaker 8 (29:13):
There's a good, good group.
Speaker 5 (29:14):
Obviously a lot of talent, you know, a lot of
big leaders for sure, So a good group. Fun to
be around, and it's always fun to come down here.
Speaker 3 (29:21):
All right.
Speaker 2 (29:22):
There's Clayton Kershaw earlier today, three shutout Indians in his
first outence. That's coming back from offseason at toe surgery.
So the first step check for Clayton Kershaw as he
makes his way back at some point to join this
Dodgers' rotation. And when he does, it'll make him even better,
and this Dodgers team will get show Yo Tony pitching
at some point down the road here and the Dodgers
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will be off and running and even better than they
are right now, and they're feeling pretty good after a
win tonight over the Colorado Rockies in eight seven victory
over the Rocks as they finish off the three games
sweep and finish off this sixth game homes Dan, but
they four into record over all.
Speaker 3 (29:58):
The Dodgers now fourteen and six, still.
Speaker 2 (30:01):
Behind the Padres and the Giants in the NLS. Now
the Dodgers hit the road for a five game road trip.
First stop Arlington, Texas Globe Life Field Dodgers and Texas Rangers.
Old friend Corey Seeger. The Dodgers will see him Friday,
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Saturday and Sunday. Yoshi Yamamoto will get the start on Friday,
first pitch at five oh five. We'll have wrong with
Casino Dodgers on deck beginning at four o'clock in the
afternoon after Petro some Money. I'll be back with Off
Night Dodger Talk Tomorrow night, Thursday, right here on A
five seven Ela Sports from seven to eight pm.
Speaker 3 (30:40):
Thanks to Coliny.
Speaker 2 (30:41):
Thanks to all you Dodger fans for being a part
of the show, podcasting and stand up late with us
on this Wednesday night. Until then, have a great, safe
rest of your evening, so everybody
And now your host of Dodger Talk. Tim Kakes.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Dodgers explode for seven runs in the first inning, Bobby
Miller gave a lot of it back in the third
with the Dodgers hang on and get the win over
the Colorado Rockies eight to seven. Hi, everybody, and welcome
in to postgame Dodger Talk here on a five to
seventy LA Sports Live Everywhere on the iHeartRadio apps. For
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being with us late night on this Wednesday night. Eight
six six nine eighty seven two five seventy is a
number jump on board if you're leaving Dodgers Stadium. Enjoyed
the game tonight, eight sixty six nine eighty seven to
two five seventy A lot to digest from this game tonight,
and really this six game Homestand the Dodgers dropped two
to three over the weekend to the Chicago Cubs and
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come back against a Colorado Rockies team that had just
gotten swept and didn't score a run in twenty seven
innings in San Diego. And the Dodgers do what they're
supposed to do. They beat the Rockies in a three
game series. They sweep the Rockies in a three game series,
a little close form my comfort here tonight in an
eight seven win over the Rockies. Bud Nonetheless, you get
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the w, you get the sweep, you feel good about
how the way you're playing. Some of the bats are
starting to pick up at the bottom of the lineup
for the Dodgers, and you head off now for a
five game road trip beginning Friday in Texas. Tonight, in
that first inning, the Dodgers down one to nothing, shoey
Otani was behind in the count to lead off the
bottom of the first and show he extended his hands
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and crushed the ball four hundred and forty eight feet
almost near the roof of the right field pavilion. He
hit that ball so far. The Dodgers put up seven
runs in the first Freddie Freeman goes deep. They batter around.
They had twelve different batters go to the plate in
the first inning, and shoey Otani goes two for two
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in the inning alone with two ribbies, as the Dodgers
were up seven to one. The only problem tonight Bobby
Miller gave back uns, Michael Talia a grand slam, Mickey
Moniac a home run. The Rockies came back with a
five run third inning, and that leads us now to
what the Dodgers do moving forward with this spot in
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the rotation. They have given Justin Robleski, Landon Knack, and
Bobby Miller now all opportunities to seize a spot in
the rotation to be a part of the big league
rotation for however long they need to be until the
injuries bring back Clayton Kershaw and Blake Snell off the il.
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But none of these three have really said, Okay, I'll
be the guy. I want that spot in the rotation.
Landonnack got a second opportunity last night. Justin Robleski's been
given an opportunity tonight. Bobby Miller, who's pitched okay in Tripa,
Oklahoma City, came out, gave up a run of the
first through twenty nine pitches not ideal. Came back in
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the second and he got a couple of punchouts, worked
around a two out single. All right, looked better. His
off speeds pitches tonight looked really good. He was throwing
them for strikes. He just threw too many pitches eighty
four in three innings of work. The pitch count was
too high after three innings. That's what a twenty nine
pitch first inning will do. And quite frankly, did Bobby
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Miller do enough to go back out when the next
spot and there his rotation comes up Wednesday in Chicago.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
I mean, we'll find out.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
I don't know how many more options the Dodgers have
in Tripa, Oklahoma City, because Tyler Glass now is going
to go out there this weekend and pitch. Yoshi Yamamoto
is gonna go out and pitch on Friday. Rookie Sazaki
is gonna go out and pitch on Saturday. But the
Dodgers don't have Blake Snell. The Dodgers don't have Clayton Kershaw.
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They're searching for a fifth start in this rotation, and
they've desperately looked for one of these young arms to
grab that and run with it, and none of the
three have. And speaking of young arns, thank goodness for
Ben Casparius, who was not only big in October last
year for the Dodgers after getting called up, Ben Casparrius
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has been big this season already, and tonight is a
prime example of that.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
He gets the win. He gives up.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
One run on two hits, strikes out three and three
innings of work. He was huge tonight, bridging the gap
from a short three innings from Bobby Miller to get
it to the seventh inning and the high leverage relievers
Vessia Tanner Scott able to come out and pitch for
the Dodgers. What Ben Casparius did was huge, bridging that
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gap to Vessi and Tanner Scott to close it out.
If not, it's a long night for the.
Speaker 3 (04:54):
Dodger pitching staff.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
Another one, Well, you've seen too many of them early
on because of the lack of depthness from the starting pitchers.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
I brought it up with Jose.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
It's something, at least in my mind, I'm starting to
look at It's April sixteenth, and we're seeing a lot
of bullpen usage. We're seeing a lot of arms being
asked to go and save the butts of the starters.
Seeing a lot of Jack Dryer, seeing a lot of
Ben Casparius. We're seeing a lot of Louis Garcia in
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low leverage, blowout type situations. But still he's pitched nearly
ten innings already. Luis Garcia, if you had him on
your Bengo board for a guy that'd be on this
roster In the first place, you're lying, we're seeing a
lot of innings already from the Dodger bullpen and we
haven't been seen yet. Evan Phillips, Bruce degraderol In, Michael Kopek. Yes,
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I get it. Those three high leverage relievers are working
their way back from excess usage last year, forcing them
to start the year this year on the injured list,
working their way back from LB situations. And for Bruce Darcgradral,
really everything has been hurting him. But the innans are
starting to mount up for this Dodgers' bullpen and it's
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April sixteenth.
Speaker 3 (06:12):
Just something to keep an eye on.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
The Dodgers need to see longer outings from their starters.
They need to see guys go at least five innings
for him. Now, this this three innings, two and a
third having to go to the bullpen, having to see
guys bail them out. The last road trip Washington, DC, again,
the bullpen in the closeout game had to carry this
Dodgers team because Land and That couldn't get out of
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it out past the third inning. That can't last. That
is not a good recipe for any pitching staff to
have a bullpen have to pitch five and a third
six innings constantly. You've got to get more out of
your starting pitching. And again, three young arms have been
given opportunities here in the first three weeks of the
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season to grab on with tart starting spot, Bobby Miller,
Tonight Landon Nax has been given twice now opportunities, and
Justin Robleski, and none of the three have seized the opportunity.
So again, it'll be interesting to see what the Dodgers
do next Wednesday. Could Tony Gonslim be an option We'll
see he's still down in TRIPLEA Oklahoma City returning from
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a back injury. I mean, Landon Nax had three audings
this year with an ERA near seven and a half.
Justin Robleski has given up eight runs in his lone
start last week. He's already been optioned, so the Dodgers
are gonna have to figure out what they're gonna do
for another starter. The next couple spins around the rotation
until at least Blake Snell gets back eight sixty six
(07:42):
nine eight seven, two five seventy. It gets overlooked, it
gets kind of brushed to the side. On a night
like tonight when the Dodgers put up seven runs in
the first. When the Dodgers win eight to seven over
a bad Colorado Rockies team, we raised the w We
get excited about the victory, the sweep over the Rockies.
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But back of my mind, I'm looking at this bullpen.
Say six more innings of work for Dodger relievers, three
more innings asked by Ben Casparius. You know these guys
were huge in October. You're gonna need these arms in October.
I don't want to burn these guys out by the
All Star break, and I understand you have high leverage
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arms coming back, and it's gonna take more than just
what we are seeing now.
Speaker 3 (08:32):
And there's gonna be.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
Guys added to this bullpen roster like we saw a
year ago, Brent Honeywells of the world, who you don't
even know who they are yet they're gonna join this
Dodgers team and be asked to soak up innings in
July in August to get through one hundred and sixty
two games.
Speaker 3 (08:48):
But it just kind of.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
Feels like early on here calling on the bullpen an
awful lot to come in and pitch games, and the
sixteen nothing loss to the Cubs over the weekend. Sure,
we all had fun watching Miguel Rojas pitch two innings,
but we also saw the bullpath to come in and
pick up and pitch more than they were asked to do,
you know, on the next day, and then the next day,
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and then tonight has to pitch six more at combined
innings of relief eight sixty six, nine eighty seven, two
five seventy. Ben Casparius gets the winning relief. Tanner Scott
gets his sixth save already that is top three in
the major leagues as the Dodgers finish off the Rockies
eight to seven. Coming up, we'll hear from Clayton Kershaw,
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who today was in Oklahoma City on a minor league
rehab started.
Speaker 3 (09:35):
Don't get too excited.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
He's on the sixty day il I mean, he can't
come back any time soon, but he has started at
least the progress of working his way back and building
himself up to be a starter again on this Dodgers team.
With a aging Clayton Kershaw, You're not looking for him
to nessily pitch in April, May and June, at least
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I'm not. If I'm the Dodgers, and I'm looking at
it long term here for a six month season, I
want my future Hall of Fame closer to forty left
handed starter available the second half of the season, sort
of like what we're seeing for shoey O TAWNI probably
could come back and start right now and be a
part of the rotation.
Speaker 3 (10:19):
But why waste those bullets, so to speak, right.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
Now where you could save them for the second half
of the season, so you can ramp them up and
he's ready to go and really lathered up by September,
you get it, staggering his starting time. Same with Clayton
Kershaw to fit in to the All Star break and
beyond when it really gets into crunch time over the
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course of the season, not the April, in May, doesn't matter.
But you're able to get win still because this team
is so talented with the rash they have this early
in the season and not have all their starting pitching
when they need it. But again, something to keep in
mind the bullpen.
Speaker 3 (10:58):
A lot of.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
Innings starting to mount up on this bullpen staff for
Dave Roberts eight sixty six nine eight seven two five
seventy James in North Hollywood start things off here on
this Wednesday night postgame Dodge Talk.
Speaker 4 (11:08):
How you doing doing great? Tim doing great? Great to
be on Dodger Talk for the first time this season.
I'm a regular from past seasons. Hey, I want to
say I want to talk about Casparrius and Tommy Evan,
but first I want to say, big picture, I think
the Dodgers are handling this right with their primary focus
being on, you know, having all their starting pictures healthy
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for when it matters most. I think that's a you know,
it's a bigger priority than the bullpen usage currently. I'm
not disagreeing with you. I think that the bullpen usage
is already an issue, But I think as far as
keeping their eye on the ball, I think the Dodgers
are doing exactly that. And we do know we're going
to get Gonsolin back relatively soon. Snell will be back
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relatively soon, So I think that's going to bring some
normalcy to the situation that that we're seeing. But going Casparius,
here's a not so wacky idea. In my opinion, this
is going back to his performance in the postseason and
last year Wednesday, right, They're going to have to figure
out who's going to start for them. Well, today's Wednesday.
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Why not have Casparius just throw a pen between now
and then and let him take the ball. I mean,
he went forty seven pitches three innings. He is a
starter by trade that was put in the pen, you
know initially, And I mean you could even piggyback Dryer
off of Casparius and they could give you five or
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six right there, and then you know, without making a
roster move, you can simply put Bobby Miller in the
pen until he figures out how not to completely lose
command of half of his pitches after two innings. You
know that that way you've got you still got a
long man in the pen who can you know, come
in and eat up innings in a blowout, whether it's
the Dodgers up with the Dodgers down, And I think
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that gives us a better chance to win ballgames. So
that's what I would like to say about Casparraus And
if I may, on Edmund, what an unbelievable start he's had,
And I would love to see Dave move him a
little further up in the lineup, even if it's just
one spot above Conforto, let's say, because Conforta's got a
lot of swing and miss and flyout, and Edmund's got
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great bat to ball skills. I'd like to see him
right behind ta Oscar because I think sometimes you might
see Edmund leading off an inning more often than not,
and he on any other team would be a heck
of a leadoff guy with his speed and back to
ball skills.
Speaker 3 (13:33):
Interesting theory. I appreciate the phone call, James.
Speaker 2 (13:35):
You're right about being conspiraus and he's somebody that I've
talked about well really all of last year until his
call up at the end of the season. Was what
he was able to do in the minor leagues and
how quickly he moved up in the minor leagues. I
mean it was just twenty twenty two. He started the
year in Rancho Kucamonga. Twenty twenty three, he started the
year in High A ball Great Lakes with the Wounds.
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Last year, he's already in Double A before getting called
up to Triple A. And his professional career in the
minor leagues was as a starter sixteen starts in twenty two,
twenty one starts in twenty three, and keep in mind
the Dodgers used him last year when he got called
up as a long reliever like he did tonight, forty
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seven pitches, three innings. He made nineteen starts last year.
He threw eighty eighty eight and two third innings as
a starter in Double A in Triple A last year
with a three thirty five ERO. The Dodgers put him
in a bullpen because they needed him at that spot
in October. But you're right, he is a starter by trade.
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I wouldn't I wouldn't be mad if you wanted to
build him up three innings, forty seven pitches. I know
he's fitting really nicely into that middle relief, bridged the
gap between the starters inabilities and the high leverage bullpen relievers.
He's done very nicely in that. Okay, it's a nice
role for a guy in the major leagues, especially a
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young arm like Benk Casparius, who's twenty six.
Speaker 3 (15:07):
Not so young.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
But I wouldn't be mad if you said, Benk Caspirius, Yeah,
let's build him up, let's have him go out. Maybe
he goes four innings in a start next Wednesday in Chicago.
I'd be okay with that, I would, you know, especially
since you've given three other arms and Bobby Miller, Landon
Neck and Justin Robleski every opportunity here in the first
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month of the season and in spring training to get
a spot in this rotation. Benk Casparius has earned that
right to possibly be a starter if the Dodgers see fit.
Speaker 3 (15:41):
That's the role that they want to have him.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
And again, what he's doing right now is working and
has been beneficial and has been the times game saving
for this Dodgers team. They may not want to take
him out of that role. Let's go back out to
Dodger Stadium. Let's get some thoughts here from the Dodgers
skipper Dave Roberts talking to the media.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
End of the day, you have to stake a miss
getting straight down.
Speaker 5 (16:03):
What do you think is lead that part contact today?
Speaker 6 (16:07):
I think yeah, there was. There was some strikeouts in
there certainly, which was good. But you know, when you
get a seven to one lead, you've got to be
able to go deeper in the game. You have to
You've got to be able to chip outs, You've got
to get count leverage. They're young, aggressive ball club swinging
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the bat and you just can't keep behind. And you know,
when you start running deep counts certain then you're going
to make mistakes, and case in point was a totally
ad bat hanging breaking ball with count leverage, and you've
just got to you know, Bobby's just got to learn
to navigate innings better and to go to brant games.
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But the stuff is good. The curveball is good today,
the command of the fastball was good. The change up
and the slider were just non competitive, and so that's
something that we got to get back to. But it's
a learning lesson. I think there were some encouraging things
in the sense of the strikeouts that we talked about.
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You know, he's trying his tail off, he's competing. He
didn't run from it. But yeah, you do have to
understand how to navigate hitters and innings to go deeper
in games.
Speaker 5 (17:25):
As much as we swings at the top of the
order now encouraging to see.
Speaker 6 (17:29):
The bottle when we were really joying today years it
was really good to see. I think what stands out obviously,
I thought Andy the last couple of days is swinging
the bat a lot better. Max is taking really good
at bats. I thought that bad versus par Alta was
his best at bat of the season, missing a homer,
hitting at foul, lining a ball, taking some good pitches.
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So him getting on base certainly is very helpful for
our ball club and the bottom of the order and
just some good things. But obviously what sho Hey and
Freddy did tonight was, you know, really stood out.
Speaker 4 (18:07):
All right.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
There's Dave Roberts his post, same thoughts with the media.
As yeah, Bobby Miller was given a seven to one lead,
and as he mentioned, count leverage is huge for Bobby
Miller the control issues last year. Tonight, he just needed
to get ahead in the count and get those swing
happy Rockies to start chasing after pitches. But when you
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fall behind, you got to zero in a little bit more.
They're hunting you, and they love to swing the bat.
They're a free hitting team, the Colorado Rockies, and tonight
a grand slam, a home run the third five spot
got them right back in the game. Thankfully, the Dodgers
able to get the go ahead run in the fifth
inning and proved to be the winning run an eight
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to seven win over the Colorado Rockies. Will continue with
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Speaker 7 (19:23):
Wow, nobody on. Freddy Freeman hammers one, this one is deep,
this one is gone of the Dodgers have the lead.
Two solo home runs in the bottom of the first
Otani and now Freddy Freeman h's two to one.
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here on Dodger Talk as the Dodgers improved now to
fourteen and six on this season. Ben Casparius gets to
win and relieve three impressive innings out of the bullpen
for Caspirius. After Bobby Miller went just three innings, giving
up six runs on eight hits. He was given a
seven to one lead, but gave up five runs in
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the third inning to get the Rockies back in it.
Andy Potter has an RBI single in the fifth gave
the Dodgers an eight six lead, and that would prove
to be the game winning run for the Dodgers as
they win it eight to seven. Well here from Clayton
Kershaw coming up in just a couple of minutes. Manny
in La joins us here on Dodgers talk.
Speaker 3 (20:41):
How you doing many?
Speaker 1 (20:43):
What's going on?
Speaker 7 (20:43):
Tim?
Speaker 4 (20:44):
Just leading the stadium.
Speaker 1 (20:45):
I was with my son.
Speaker 8 (20:45):
It was our first game this year. Kind of a
roller coaster of a game. Sat down, first pitch, was awesome,
lost the first in shots to all the guys who
put up all those runs. It was great to see
a couple of tames. I'm gonna talk about. The first
is a very unpopular opinion. I am just not sold
on Bobby Miller. I haven't been since the beginning, but
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you know, they keep trying him out there. You know,
we're rooted for him. He throws too many pitches, gets
into many jam that loves to throw that long ball.
So unfortunately, that's a recipe for disaster. And I'm going
to be in Chicago this week supporting our boys out
there nice and I'm praying that we don't get to
see him. I'd love to see anybody, Hey throw Migo
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Rohas back out there. I'll root hard, but I think
Bobby Miller showed us what he's made of and it's
not really big level stuff. So I'm gonna keep rooting
for him.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
Tim.
Speaker 8 (21:39):
You know, I have a lot of faith in this team.
But we saw what we saw tonight and the writing's
on the wall. So that's all I gotta say about.
Speaker 3 (21:47):
That, all right, Manny, I appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (21:48):
It wasn't a good performance from Bobby Miller overall, and
Dave Roberts alluded to it. He used the phrase count
leverage a couple of times, meaning you've got to get
ahead in the can. You can't keep having three to
two counts against a team like the Colorado Rockies. You've
got to attack them. You've got to throw strikes. You
got to have the ball put in play. Let your
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defense take care of you. Behind you, you're not going
to get punch out after punch out. You got some
swinging and missus when you got a head on two
strikes and you fought your way back to two strike
counts and you got swinging misses against Colorado because they're
a swing happy team. They're a young team that loves
to swing the bat. You can get them to chase
when you get ahead, but when you fall behind the count,
like Bobby Miller did, then you got to zero in
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a little bit more.
Speaker 3 (22:33):
You're forced to throw strikes. They know that, and so
they're attacking you.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
And that was what Dave Roberts was alluding to about
count leverage and needing to get ahead, and needing to
be better with his off speed pitches, in particular his
change up in his slider tonight. He had a fastball
and a curve ball. That was it that he was
able to throw for strikes tonight. The other two pitches
just didn't have a grasp on it. And again you're
giving a seven to one lead. Close the door, help
(22:57):
out this bullpen. Get to the fifth, sixth, seventh inning,
maybe and help out this Dodgers team, because they helped
out you with the seventh spot in the first inning.
The last thing you want to do is go out
there and give up runs, especially at five run third inning,
and all of a sudden, it's a one run game again,
and the Rockies have some confidence and the Dodgers' offenses
needed to do more, and Andie Pott has delivered with
(23:19):
that RBI single in the fifth inning, and that was
proved to be big because the Dodgers end up winning
eight to seven. Greg at Harbor City has been winning patiently.
Welcome to Dodger Talk.
Speaker 3 (23:29):
Greg. How you doing.
Speaker 9 (23:31):
I'm doing pretty good. I just uh, it's kind of
an irony I've seen now. The Dodgers just really loaded
it up in the preseason, you know, bringing in these
arms and spending money and everything is looking so good,
and the only thing you could think is is, you know, well,
injuries could derail it up just a little bit. It's early,
(23:52):
but you know, there was talk from the talking heads
on sports that they're going to trade a pitcher since
they have a surplus and all this stuff, and then
you see what starts happening. It kind of reminds you
when the Lakers got you like Gary Payton and Carl
Malone and they're like, they're gonna win the championship now,
and then they got hurt and down went there, down
(24:13):
went their championship hopes. And you know it's early, but
it and they're above five hundred five bunch. They're playing,
you know, pretty decent there in the pack. But pitching
is such a premium. And if Smell is out much
longer and he's really actually hurt somehow, and and uh,
you know, maybe Jnslin could come up and get some innings,
(24:35):
but this is the big leagues. Those even though Colorado's
with three wins, them guys hit the ball, you know this,
Bobby Miller came up and there's a big step from
the league blow up to this one. And he does okay,
But these are big league hitters. Everybody's up here for
a reason. And they were teeing off too. So it's
it's a hard game. Not you know, not everybody can
(24:57):
play baseball, but it's like you you're hoping through for
the Dodgers. I'm a Dodger fan for sure, but it's
like it's almost like a curse. They stacked it so heavy.
It's like, you know what, there's gonna be some come
up ins here because look at the money they spent
and they this looks like no one could beat them
the way they built the team. And then you're like, well,
(25:18):
I guess what, something's gonna something's not going to go
out right and and they'll work through it, I'm sure,
but they you know, the pitching no looks so a.
Speaker 4 (25:27):
Deep mal No.
Speaker 3 (25:28):
That's something that's interesting.
Speaker 2 (25:29):
You bring that up, Gregs because we knew that these
arms that are currently on the injury list outside of
Blake Snell, that they weren't going to be part of
the Dodger team the first month of the season, maybe
the first two months of the season. Evan Phillips, Michael Kopek,
Tony Gonsolin, Clayton Kershaw. These were all arms that didn't
get hurt, and it's like, oh, no, we didn't expect this.
(25:50):
What do we do now? This was already known going
into the start of the season. With that being said,
the depth of this team is what a lot of
the things we talked about in spring training, in all offseason.
Why it's goodness, look at the starting pitching they have.
You know, even with the guys that were going to
be hurt to start the year or are coming off
of injuries, they're so deep and so many young arms
(26:10):
that they can call up. They'll be okay, don't worry
about it. Well, we've mentioned it now, justin Robleski Land
and that Bobby Miller. Those are three young arms that
I don't know about you, but I was counting on.
Is okay, we need a couple of starts here. We'll
be all right because they got experience, they've showed some
success at times. They've had their ups and downs, certainly,
but I'll ride with them. I'm good with them going
(26:32):
out and starting games. Well, now that you know, we're
still ways away from Clayton Kershaw and Showeyo Tani pitching,
and Blake Snell's injured and Tony Gonson's not ready yet,
and these three young arms have given gotten opportunities and
haven't taken it and.
Speaker 3 (26:48):
Ran with it. That's a little concerning.
Speaker 2 (26:51):
And the bullpen having to pick up and pitch as
many innings as they had so far because of the
lack of starting pitching.
Speaker 3 (26:57):
It's a little concerning. But and by no means is
it panic time?
Speaker 2 (27:00):
Is that no means a curse on this Dodgers team
for being as good as they are. I think it's
just disappointing and not what they expected from having this
depth and seeing guys not produced. Your depth has gotten
a little smaller. The arms that you can go to,
I've gotten a little smaller. That list of guys in
the triple A and double A level has gotten a
(27:22):
little smaller for you to go to based on what
you've seen so far, and hopefully they'll get opportunities again.
I'm not writing off Bobby Miller. I'm not riding off
Landon Neck or Justin Robletski. They've been given opportunities, at
least early on here. They haven't seized the opportunities that
they've been given. Clayton Kershaw today in Oklahoma City, a
day game for the comments, pitched three innings, shut out baseball,
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a couple of strikeouts through thirty pitches, and afterwards here's Clayton.
Speaker 3 (27:49):
The future Hall of Famer, on his outing.
Speaker 4 (27:51):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (27:51):
I mean, I think anytime as we have you want
to feel healthy, which I do. I feel good today,
and then if you want to see your stuff obviously,
play and so you know, I got some wick outs,
which is good. Uh, you know, there's some things that
I need to work on still, but you know, for
the first one, overall, it was a It was a
good step forward for sure.
Speaker 3 (28:08):
And how's the toe feeling after climbing that bullpen gate?
It feels good. Yeah, it feels good.
Speaker 5 (28:12):
I think I broke the gate back there, so sorry
about that, but you feel good.
Speaker 8 (28:15):
There are a lot of sliders advance your go to
on that feeling day.
Speaker 5 (28:18):
Yeah, there's some that had the right bite on it
and some that you know, I don't want to have back.
But I think that was overall there's some some good
throws in there for sure, though right now at the
fastball I don't know, probably not. Yeah, big crowd every
time you come back here.
Speaker 8 (28:32):
What was it like being an Okay.
Speaker 5 (28:33):
See that was great. Yeah, it's a I like this ballpark.
It's fun to be here. Eleven AM's a little early, obviously,
I think the guys are still waking up. But yeah,
it was a fun game. A lot of kids, which
is great, and yeah it was fun. So you mix
in a couple of sinkers and change ups. Are you
gonna try to mix those in more this season or
I don't know, Yeah, I don't really. I want it
(28:55):
to be more of a runner, not a sinker, you know,
just kind of go straight across the lefties. And then
right now my change up feels okay, So that's we'll
see if that lasts. But for right now, I feel
like I can at least throw it a little bit,
so I'd like to be able to, So we'll see.
Speaker 3 (29:08):
Yea, what do you think about just this week?
Speaker 1 (29:12):
Okay, Senior?
Speaker 3 (29:13):
I like these guys.
Speaker 8 (29:13):
There's a good, good group.
Speaker 5 (29:14):
Obviously a lot of talent, you know, a lot of
big leaders for sure, So a good group. Fun to
be around, and it's always fun to come down here.
Speaker 3 (29:21):
All right.
Speaker 2 (29:22):
There's Clayton Kershaw earlier today, three shutout Indians in his
first outence. That's coming back from offseason at toe surgery.
So the first step check for Clayton Kershaw as he
makes his way back at some point to join this
Dodgers' rotation. And when he does, it'll make him even better,
and this Dodgers team will get show Yo Tony pitching
at some point down the road here and the Dodgers
(29:44):
will be off and running and even better than they
are right now, and they're feeling pretty good after a
win tonight over the Colorado Rockies in eight seven victory
over the Rocks as they finish off the three games
sweep and finish off this sixth game homes Dan, but
they four into record over all.
Speaker 3 (29:58):
The Dodgers now fourteen and six, still.
Speaker 2 (30:01):
Behind the Padres and the Giants in the NLS. Now
the Dodgers hit the road for a five game road trip.
First stop Arlington, Texas Globe Life Field Dodgers and Texas Rangers.
Old friend Corey Seeger. The Dodgers will see him Friday,
(30:22):
Saturday and Sunday. Yoshi Yamamoto will get the start on Friday,
first pitch at five oh five. We'll have wrong with
Casino Dodgers on deck beginning at four o'clock in the
afternoon after Petro some Money. I'll be back with Off
Night Dodger Talk Tomorrow night, Thursday, right here on A
five seven Ela Sports from seven to eight pm.
Speaker 3 (30:40):
Thanks to Coliny.
Speaker 2 (30:41):
Thanks to all you Dodger fans for being a part
of the show, podcasting and stand up late with us
on this Wednesday night. Until then, have a great, safe
rest of your evening, so everybody
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