July 13, 2025 • 32 mins
Tim Cates takes your calls and talks to Jose Mota after the Dodgers beat the Giants in 11 innings, 5-2. Tim shares Rick Monday's open for the 2025 MLB Draft. Brady Ebel is picked 32nd overall by the Milwaukee Brewers.
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about fifteen minutes.
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Also coming up in a few minutes.
Speaker 6 (01:28):
Today is the MLB Draft and Rick Monday. Of course,
our own Rick Monday, nineteen seasons in the Big League's
World Series champ, now Dodger broadcaster for the last three decades.
Heard him on the game today right here on AM
five seventy LA Sports Well. Rick was the first pick
in the nineteen sixty five MLB Draft, which was the
first ever the inaugural year of the amateur draft. He
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was the first ever selection. A MLB network Today, kicking
off their coverage at three o'clock this afternoon, had a
great start to their coverage with our own Rick Monday.
We're gonna play for you. That's coming up in just
a couple of minutes eight six six nine eight seven
two five seventy. But I know a lot of you
Dodger fans based on social media reaction, certainly taking a
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deep exhale after the Dodgers almost let this one get away.
Tanner Scott give a two run home run to Luis
Matos with two out with one out in the ninth inning.
That tied the game at two and really reset everything
for the Dodgers and Giants in this series finale, a
game in which Yoshinobu Yabamoto was cruising out pitching Robbie Ray.
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Robbie Ray made a mistake in the fourth, and like
good teams do, the Dodgers jumped on that show Heyo
Tani a lead off walk in the top of the fourth.
This was the second time through the lineup facing Robbie Ray.
Robbie Ray walked show Heyotani, then walked Mookie Betts.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
Uh huh.
Speaker 4 (02:56):
You cannot do that. And if you are.
Speaker 6 (02:58):
Gonna do it, the team they had those walks has
to make you pay, and the Dodgers did exactly that
because two batters later, Freddie Freeman delivered with an RBI
double to give the Dodgers a one nothing lead. I
wish the Dodgers would have been able to tack on
more in that fourth inning. Really jumped and pounced on
Robbie Ray. I feel like they let him up just
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a little bit for air and he got out of
that fourth inning. In the fifth, Miguel Rojas a solo
home run. Again, a mistake pitch on a slider over
the middle of the plate on a three to two pitch.
And I guess at that point, if you're Robbie Ray
and it's a three to two pitch and you're facing
Miguel Rojas towards the bottom of the lineup for the Dodgers,
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I guess it's not really then a bad pitch. I mean,
you've just struck out Tommy Edmond, Miguel Rojas is up,
you fell behind three and zero. He takes two strikes, fouls,
two pitches off, and then on the eighth pitch of
the bat, I guess, you know, thinking about it, it's
not really a bad pitch. You're gonna challenge Miguel Row
if you're Robbie Ray and say, here's a three to
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two pitch. It's a slider, And even if I missed
over the heart of the plate, it's gonna take you
muscling up and barreling up a ball to get it
out of the ballpark. I like my odds in this case,
Robbie Ray against Miguel ROAs. But Miguel Rojas said, uh uh,
I'm gonna barrow his ball up, and that's exactly what
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he did. The mistake or the pitch that thrown by
Robbie Ray to challenge Miguel Rojas, challenge accepted. Miguel Rojas
made him pay with a solo home run, his fourth
home run in his last sixteen games, by the way,
and he's only got five on this season. That gave
the Dodgers a two to nothing lead, and again, Yamamoto
was fantastic. If you watch the game on Roku, which
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I mean I know a lot of you didn't because
you don't have Roku, so you're able to listen to
it right here with Tim Neverd and Rick Monday on
the call, and what a great call it was. He
had life on the fastball, he had bite on the
split finger, the cutter was working for him big. I mean,
this is a Yamamoto who looked completely different then the
Yama Moto we saw at Milwaukee to start this road
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trip where he couldn't get out of the first inning
and threw forty one pitches. I mentioned it in the
Clubhouse show that's what you get with Yoshi Nobo Yamamoto.
If that split finger is working and dancing and it's
got the bite on it and looks like a strike
and then just falls out of the zone, which the
split finger does. If that's what it's doing and it's
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working and you're getting swinging missus and getting guys to chase,
most times you're gonna be very successful, and Yoshi Yamamoto
has been. But there are those rare occasions, yeah, and
Milwaukee was one of them where that pitch just is
not getting the swing and missus. That pitch is not
in the zone, and so it's not even a challengeable
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pitch as far as to the hitter to even want
to swing at it.
Speaker 4 (05:54):
And then they're teeing off of the fastball.
Speaker 6 (05:55):
And when you don't have come out of the fastball
like he did in the outing against the Brewers, the
wheels kind of fall off like they did in two
thirds of an inning of work against the Brewers.
Speaker 4 (06:04):
But he comes back today.
Speaker 6 (06:06):
Fastball got a little giddy up today, didn't He hit
ninety five, ninety six, ninety seven, getting a little four
seen fastball, little tailing up on it, and guys swinging
out of their shoes, that the split finger had the bite,
that split finger had the dip on it, the cutter
were too big as well, getting swinging missus. His pitches
were alive, his pitches were working, and that's what we're
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used to seeing from Yamamoto. Thus, the seven shutout innings,
seven strikeouts, I mean he threw seventy seven pitches through
six innings. I mentioned it earlier. One inning, the second.
He threw nineteen pitches every other inning, no more than
twelve pitches in an inning. That is efficient. That is
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a pitcher attacking the zone and getting swinging misses and
getting the ball put in play on soft contact. I
really feel bad for him because he was aligned to
get the win. Alex Vesia looked just filthy in the
eighth inning, striking out the side in the eighth and
then Tanner Scott gives up the home run with one
out in the ninth inning and a two run shot.
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Now I'm not sure what is the deal with Tanner Scott,
but certainly the Tanner Scott a year ago who gave
up three home runs all season, not the same Tanner
Scott who this year with the home run today has
now given up eight home runs before the All Star
Break a Tanner Scott, who yes, has nineteen saves on
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this season, top ten in baseball. Okay, great, but you
counter that was seven blown saves before the All Star break.
Seven blown saves. It's a lot for the Dodger reliever
Jack Dryer Ben Casparius come in tenth and eleventh inning,
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put zero's up on the board.
Speaker 4 (07:56):
Sure they were flirting a.
Speaker 6 (07:57):
Little bit of danger there on the Devers fly ball
to center that James Aubu made a great catch on
in the tenth inning off Jack Tryer. But leave it
to the two young pups, Jack Dryer, Benk Caspirius. Oh yeah,
the two guys who last year at the end of
the season and Caspirius in the playoffs including the World Series,
came up huge for the Dodgers.
Speaker 5 (08:19):
Huge.
Speaker 4 (08:21):
These two young arms were for the Dodgers last fall.
Speaker 6 (08:24):
And have been this first half of the season going
to the All Star break, So I'm not surprised to
see when the Dodgers tied the two extra innings go
to these two young guys. Left handed Jack Dryer, right
hander BNK Caspirius. Not surprised at all. That's how much
confidence Dave Roberts, Mark Pryor, Connor McGinnis and this coaching
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staff having these two young arms to go to them
in a tie game, tenth inning, eleventh inning with the
lead and getting the win over the Giants today in
San Francisco, five to two, eight sixty six ninety seven,
two five seven.
Speaker 4 (09:01):
All right, we'll go out to the phone. Jose Mode
is gonna join us. It's just a little bit.
Speaker 6 (09:04):
Also going to hear MLB networks open for the MLB
Draft with our own Rick Monday coming up in just
a couple of minutes. Let's go to David and San
Dimas's first up here on Dodger Talk. Oh, let's go
to Maxwell from Austin, Texas checking in from the five
to one too.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
How you doing Maxwell, I'm doing okay, Tim, howbo yourselves?
Speaker 6 (09:24):
I'm doing fantastic. I'm doing a lot better Maxwell. Now
that the Dodgers pulled out the win today, if they
would end up losing this game, it would have been tough.
It would have been a long four days going into
Friday and the restart of the season after the All
Star Break.
Speaker 4 (09:40):
I'll be honest with you, but they got the win,
so feeling good.
Speaker 7 (09:43):
Yeah, yeah, there might be a hundred percent chance that
we might get Texas right field of Max Blou from Texas.
So when I saw him play in Texas, he was
actually very good. He hit a home run, He's.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
Like a lot.
Speaker 4 (10:03):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (10:05):
Did the Dodgers end up picking him? Is that who
they select in the draft? I haven't been watching since
about pick twelve.
Speaker 7 (10:13):
Well, now it's Philadelphia, Phillies on the clocks, okay a little.
Speaker 6 (10:18):
Bit oh okay, so we got a little bit while
to go here for the MLB Draft. So yeah, we'll
see Max. Well, I appreciate it. You got a chance
to see one of those longhorns playing. Maybe he'll end
up a Dodger. Appreciate the phone call. Yeah, the MLB
Draft is underway, and we'll hear from that piece from
the MLB Network and Rick Monday, which Rick kind of
narrate narrates his experience as the number one overall pick
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in nineteen sixty five of the first ever draft. But
congratulations to all the young men who are being picked
today in the MLB Draft living out their dreams.
Speaker 4 (10:51):
To see these young men sitting at.
Speaker 6 (10:54):
Home with their family and friends and their inner circle
around them. Whether it's the NBA draft, the NFL draft,
the baseball draft, whatever, it's a moment that has a
lot of lead up for these young men. There's a
lot that gets poured into these young men around them
on a field or court or wherever they're a sport
they're playing. They don't just get there by just happenstance.
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They put a lot of work in a lot of
people helped them out to get there. And to see
these young men finally get drafted and become professional baseball players,
it's really cool. And the MLB Network does a great
job covering this draft. And for a lot of you,
it's not like NFL or NBA draft where you know
them because they're college standouts or they played in the
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SCC football and went to a national championship with the
college football playoffs or a final four went to a
duke or a UCLA fors up. No, college baseball is
a little bit lesser than obviously college basketball and college
football and popularity. So to see these guys live out
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their dream, whether the college or high school, is very cool.
And the Angels had the number two overall pick took
Tyler Bremner out of UC Santa Barbara. Kind of a
surprise pick. He was projected to go middle to late
first round, and the Angels took him with the other
number two overall pick, a guy who finally made it
into the rotation this year. Great change up, a great
young right hander and great backstory. I mean, just lost
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his mom a month ago to breast cancer and you know,
still dealing with that and here he is the second
overall pick of the Angels. I mean, that's a great story.
And to see him with his family and the emotions
pouring out to see what's happened here in southern California
with all the high school and college guys getting picked,
and you know, we're waiting to see where Brady Eble goes,
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Dino Ebles's son at of Corona High School. We do
know that his teammates Seth Hernandez, right handed pitcher out
of Corona High School, number six overall pick to the
Pittsburgh Pirates. Congratulations to him, and then Billy Carlson, the
shortstop on that Corona High School team, goes tenth overall
to the Chicago White Sox. So again, congratulations everybody.
Speaker 3 (13:05):
Uh.
Speaker 6 (13:05):
Gavin Fiene from Great Oak High School going his His dad,
Ryan was a quarterback at U C. L A and
a Valley product back in the day. So great to
see his son Gavin get selected twelfth over Wall by
the Texas Rangers at a great Oak High school, uh
here in southern California. So congratulations to everybody.
Speaker 4 (13:24):
It is a it's a.
Speaker 6 (13:25):
Big day and I love watching just a reaction and everybody.
Uh on on Draft day, Will long Beach, you're next
up here on Dodger Talk. After the Dodgers going to
the All Star break with that five to two win,
what's up?
Speaker 7 (13:38):
Will go ahead?
Speaker 4 (13:41):
Will Will? You're on the air.
Speaker 2 (13:44):
What's up?
Speaker 4 (13:47):
What's up? What's up? Will Dodgers?
Speaker 6 (13:51):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (13:51):
All right, man, appreciate the phone call, go Dodgers?
Speaker 3 (13:54):
Is right?
Speaker 6 (13:55):
Uh, certainly a happy phone call rather than a frustrated call.
Speaker 4 (14:00):
If this game would have got away from the Dodgers,
which it almost did. Tanner Scott gave up the.
Speaker 6 (14:05):
Two run home run in the bottom half of the
ninth inning to Luis Motto's but the Dodgers answered back
on the eleventh inning, and again credit to Jack Dryer
and Ben Casparius. In that tenth Dryer gets two outs,
comes in with two outs. Ben Casparius gets the final
ground ball out to end the inning, and then threat
they put up a zero, and those zeros made it
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able to go to the eleventh inning. And it doesn't
take one hundred and twenty miles an hour exit velocity
off the bat to drive in a run. Sometimes you
just got to find green out there in the outfield, somehow,
some way, And that's what Freddie Freeman did today, an
RBI single in the right center field, really no man's land,
and that scored the go ahead run.
Speaker 4 (14:43):
And then the Dodgers tacked on two more with balls
that weren't hard hit.
Speaker 6 (14:47):
Tioscar Hernandez hit an infield single to the right side,
picked up by the first baseman, and Bibbns was covering first.
The throw is low, he couldn't make a pick. Ti
Oscar's safe run scores and it's a four to two
game on the infield single from tay Oscar. And then
Andie pies the next batter inside out to the pitch,
and if he misses it by half an inch, that's
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a flyball out to the second basement instead, just enough
power on it to kind of find green in no
man's land down the right field line, which happened to
the Dodgers in Kansas City a couple of road trips ago.
It happened in their favorite today with the RBI single
from Pajes and the Dodgers scored three runs in the
top of the eleventh and they go on to win
it five to two. Coming up here from Jose Motive.
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But again, today's the MLB Draft and the first ever
draft was in nineteen sixty five. For those of you
who don't know, it's not like they've been doing this
since back in the start of baseball with admirer Double Day. Okay,
this didn't start until nineteen sixty five, the amateur first
year draft for college and high school players in the
United States. This isn't international players, this is United States
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nineteen sixty five, first ever MLB draft and a outfielder
from Arizona State who helped the Sun Devils win a
college baseball championship and it was the college player of
the Year, Rick Monday, our own Rick Monday, Yes, Moe,
was the first ever pick of the first ever MLB draft,
and today to kick off their coverage on the MLB Network,
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a nice start from Rick Monday to get.
Speaker 4 (16:15):
A going.
Speaker 1 (16:16):
Sixty years ago, I went first, the first pick of
the very first draft in Major League Baseball history. I
was the first to deal with the pressure and the promise,
the burden and the blessing, the expectations and the excitement
that came along with getting my name called before anyone else.
Speaker 3 (16:39):
Back then, you didn't even get a phone call.
Speaker 1 (16:42):
I honestly forget how I found out, but it did
shape my career forever.
Speaker 8 (16:48):
Here you want picking the way a way back draft
that I hadn't the way.
Speaker 1 (16:57):
All the guys that followed could tell you the same thing.
How it's hard to ever be good enough to ever
live up to that first pick, the first round, Billy.
But really it's an honor to be in the club,
let alone the first member, with all those guys who followed,
And it's always exciting when draft day comes around and
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we get to see who comes next.
Speaker 8 (17:25):
Hello, I don't corect Number one, George Kenneth, Griffy.
Speaker 9 (17:32):
The Kid, New York Yank Yank right here, Harry Katt,
Chorge Top Central High School, Kum the zoom.
Speaker 8 (17:39):
Ischige, Michael Trump, Mike trop I'm not a spectacular rob,
you Patty smiling.
Speaker 3 (17:50):
The Pittsburgh Pirates pick Paul Skean's. The game is full
of youngsters today.
Speaker 1 (18:02):
Some of them went early, some didn't, but they all
have absolutely proven their worth because whether you go first
or a whole lot later, the truth is, whatever happens
today is.
Speaker 3 (18:19):
Just the start of all their stories.
Speaker 10 (18:22):
The rest is up to them.
Speaker 3 (18:35):
Welcome to the Major League Baseball Draft.
Speaker 6 (18:41):
Yes, how cool is that to kick off the MLB
Draft on MLB Network a little over two hours ago
our own Rick Monday, who was the first pick sixty
years ago in the first ever MLB draft, selected by
the Kansas City A's with the number one over We're
all picks, so that was very cool one to make
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sure we share that with you, our own Rick Monday
narrating that for the opening of the MLB Draft, which
is now twenty two picks in in the first round.
And I cannot believe this. This is this true. Ten
of the first twenty two picks in the MLB Draft.
I've been high school shortstops. So mom, dad, uncle, and coach,
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if you're listening right now driving around, you got a
son out there? Yeah, it looks like shortstops the spot
to be at least here in twenty twenty five. Ten
of the first twenty two picks have been high school shortstops,
so including Billy Carlson out of Corona High School. Congratulations
again to all the young men being drafted in the
draft today by Baseball. All right, we'll take a break,
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we'll come back, we'll check in with Jose Mota, and
we'll get you into your All Star break. Dodgers winners
today in San Francisco. The road chip didn't start very good,
losses to Milwaukee, a series opening loss to the Giants
on Friday night, with the Dodgers ended well on this
road trip. Winners yesterday and five, two victors over the
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Giants today and eleven innings Ben Cosperry's to win. Spencer
bibbns the loss. Dodgers fifty eight and thirty nine. They
go into the break with a five and a half
game lead in the NL West.
Speaker 4 (20:15):
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Speaker 6 (20:16):
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Speaker 9 (20:44):
Once again, this one hammer the left field way back,
it goes.
Speaker 8 (20:48):
This poll is gone.
Speaker 9 (20:49):
Miguel Rojas with a solo homer. Oh what on that
pack for Rojas? He makes it two to nothing with
his fifth home roll this season. He got a slider
on the inn half, turned on it and crushed it.
Speaker 6 (21:05):
Miguel Rojas, on the eighth pitch of his at bats,
a home run off Robbie Ray in the top half
of the fifth inning to give the Dodgers a two
to nothing lead. The Dodgers would go to extra innings
after the Luis Monto's two run home run in the
ninth and the Dodgers with three and the eleventh go
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with Jose. It's time to go around the horn with
Jose Mota. All right, Jose, it's the MLB Draft today,
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which I was just talking about. Sixty years since Rick
Monday became the first ever pick in the first ever
MLB draft, to see all the Southern California kids continue
to get drafted, year in and year out, no exception.
This year, ten of the first twenty two picks have
been short stops out of high school already.
Speaker 4 (22:05):
I love the MLB draft.
Speaker 6 (22:07):
Okay, I don't know if I'm a dork about that
or not, but I love the MLB Draft.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
It's great. I mean, you think about this, and we're
just talking to my wife about this. I go, there's
great celebrations for the families or the kids, the efforts,
the mom, the dad. But you know what, how about
the moms man? Huh, everything they have to go through
to get these kids to this point, all the support,
all the trips, all the money spent. I mean for families,
it's just wonderful to see them getting rewarded for all
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the work and their talent obviously, which is obviously outstands
but a very very happy day. And I can't believe
that I was drafted forty years ago. Oh my god,
and my agent forty years ago. I nineteen eighty five. Wow.
Speaker 4 (22:49):
Wow. What do you remember about that day?
Speaker 3 (22:51):
For you?
Speaker 2 (22:52):
I remember the first call I got and I was
going to Calcap for the time my junior year. And
the first phone call I got was about seven in
the morning, and it was a Milwaukee Brewers and they said,
we'll think about drafting me here very soon, and would
you take this amount of money. I said no, for
that amount of money, I'll go back to school. And
they're like, okay, thanks by. I said, please don't draft me,
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Please don't draft me, and then respectfully.
Speaker 5 (23:15):
And then uh.
Speaker 2 (23:16):
The second call I got like twenty minutes later, SA
Chicago White Sox said Dayne Schaeffer a wonderful scout and
a great friend. And then he goes, we had just
picked two and congratulations, here we go.
Speaker 3 (23:25):
How about that?
Speaker 2 (23:26):
Nice cooling to My first meeting was myself and my
dad at the Bottomventure Hotel. Dave dom Brownski mm hmm.
He was assistant GM for the White Sox and that
was the first meeting we had. The dogs were heading
to Atlanta on an off day, and the White Sox said, Manny,
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you know, just tell the story that you're not going
to be on that flight. You're going to come and
stay with us, as we talked to Jose for the
first time, and you and we'll get you on a
point to Atlanta after our meeting. And that's exactly what
I remember. It's like, wow, it is how fast did
that go? And then before you know, I'm like Dave Dombreska,
the same Dave Dombreska, I Midwi that guy just crazy man.
Great great, great times, great memories.
Speaker 6 (24:08):
Yeah, it's an awesome day for a lot of young
men having their dreams realize getting picked today. All right,
Dodgers get the five to two win over the Giants.
Speaker 4 (24:16):
Yoshinobu Yamamodo.
Speaker 6 (24:18):
It looked completely different than he did in that start
against the Brewers. I said it earlier, Hose when that
split fingers dancing and working and dropping off the table
like it does. He is an unhita litle picture. So
in the days he doesn't have it, it's just one
of those days like it wasn't Milwaukee, but today, gosh,
he was on.
Speaker 2 (24:35):
He was on it and I'll tell you what a
couple of things really cut my eye. Number one is
the urgency to go out there and get up to
a gets start. You know, don't don't pace yourself. There's
no need at this level to pace yourself.
Speaker 5 (24:46):
I know.
Speaker 2 (24:46):
The mentality is, I want to be a guy that
azoors innings. He goes out there and gives you six, seven,
eight innings, But you cannot pat yourself. I mean, this league,
they're gonna.
Speaker 3 (24:54):
Have a ship.
Speaker 2 (24:54):
They're gonna get to you so quick before you know
what happened to Milwaukee and happened to win last season
and in Korea. You gotta go out there and just
have your best immediately out of the bullpen. That was
the number one thing that'll come my mind. Number two is,
as you mentioned, the splitter, which is a wonderful pitch.
But today I love how you use different lanes. Here's
what I mean. Different lanes means that he usually uses
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the inner half on the righty down and end to
get the punch out on the splitter, and the left
the obviously down and away, and guys, when they see
it a couple of times, they just take it right.
Today he was using the outer half on the righty
to set it up and also up in the zone
a little bit more so. Remember you don't want to
missle the splitter up up top a lot. But it
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is still a differential type pitch, meaning that if you
have ninety six, you go ninety one with a splitter.
Even if it's up you have to be so perfect
with your swintering timing. And today a couple of times
he actually baffled a couple of players hitters by throwing
it a little bit higher in the zone and is
they're like telling them, so, okay, if it starts and
the knees, let it go with this. This time it
didn't start the knees, it started the show. They're in
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a dropdown for a strike, so I think smartly Will
Smith didre a very good job behind the plate setting
up with a curveball. The founs lost of life. Good
sinker inside just to keep guys honest. But DESI shows
you how much this guy knows how to pitch in
the fact that he can have just on the fly
so quickly.
Speaker 6 (26:16):
I was texting with a buddy about this Dodgers team,
the All Star break and where they kind of sit
right now, and I was thinking about it. The injuries
to the staff, the pitching staff, the rotation and the bullpen.
Guys are going to come back healthy. The fact that
they go into the break with guys banged up, ta
Oscar Hernandez, Keiky Hernandez on the IL, Max Munsey on
the IL, Tommy Evans just doesn't look right. Freddie Freeman,
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maybe he's turned the corner the last two games. Today
he had a couple of RBIs, hit the ball a
lot better. With that all being said, they still got
it a five and a half game lead, and they
you can make a great argument Hose haven't even scratched
the surface yet on being a team that we thought
they were going to be for long stretches of time
in the first half of the season. In the second half,
I think it's scared when they get healthy what their
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potential could be.
Speaker 2 (27:03):
It is quite scary thinking about all the things that
they've gone through and never use an excuses. I mean,
the valuers again, with so many guys missing days most
of baseball and because of the IL. But we have talent.
There's a lot of things that can overcome. And also
we have smart you know, these guys are talented and
smart players that know understand how to support each other
and moving the right piece is also very important. Now,
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I think for the second half of the season, with
all that's coming in, all the talent is gonna be reacquire.
Listening to the roster, the Dodgers are going to be
a team that with all the prowds about scoring runs,
they're gonna have to pitch. They're gonna have to pitch better.
They're gonna win those closed ball games. Something needs to
be done about Tanner Scott to get him straightened out.
He is not the right guy for the spot today
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right now until he makes adjustments to break them all.
But I look forward to having these guys back at
Max months, who was actually knocking around the around the
corner too, is going to be another influx for this team.
And you know it got at my guys. I grow
use himself like today. You know he probably should thinks
the umpire on the plate that he called a couple
of strikes that he liked John Bacon because he ended up,
you know, getting without fastball with a breaking ball later
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on with his bat to the whole nunth But in general, yes,
this is a team that has played in good in spurts,
but I cannot wait to see it all come together.
And if it doesn't come together, you know what, still
keep on this pace because you're doing pretty good right now.
Speaker 4 (28:26):
Yeah, you mentioned Tanner Scott. How does he get right?
Speaker 10 (28:29):
Well?
Speaker 4 (28:29):
What are you seeing out of him? And what you know?
Speaker 6 (28:32):
Has led him to give up eight home runs already
a year ago he gave up just three in the
entire year.
Speaker 2 (28:38):
A lot of mislocations. I don't know what's happened with
him in the armslaught release point, but I know one thing.
If he looked at Baseball Savant and go look at
twenty four and twenty five comparisons on the location of
the slider is night and day. I invite you to
go do that, and that is the answer right there,
he spins the slider is quite flat. That's what left
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he's gonna miss him. I mean, look at the numbers
against lefties, and you know he needs to be better
for the job that he was about to do.
Speaker 3 (29:07):
Right now.
Speaker 2 (29:08):
He is his pitching also without confidence. You know, it
seems like the confidence is now. Look at his face.
Sometimes the guy has such great stuff, but it needs
a little tweaking. We had just even proinading that sly
a little bit more to get on top, to go
out there and be more consistent, because the Dodgers need
the issue. In the addition, they say in the version
of that sign at tann of Scott him so far
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we haven't seen it, by the.
Speaker 6 (29:30):
Way, as we're talking right now. Congratulations to Dino Ebel.
Nice son Brady Ebel was just selected with the thirty
second pick in the twenty twenty five MMLB drafted by
the Milwaukee Brewers.
Speaker 4 (29:43):
Congratulations, that is awesome.
Speaker 2 (29:46):
Oh tiger, my god, how you talk about I mean,
going back with flashing memories spring training. These two kids
in Tempe, Arizona. I think there's two. I mean, I'm like,
who are these two little guys banging the ball around
in right field and their swings and their speed and
their instincts and like those Aretino's kids, And here we are, congressulates,
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the entire family Shunnon and the entire family. Dino will
earn now to see the assistant come because I know
he's also a pretty good student and he's got some
options about signing on there.
Speaker 6 (30:17):
Yeah, yeah, he's got a scholarship to LSU, and I know,
some nil money coming his way if he wanted to go,
there was he was slated to go in like the
fifties or sixties, certainly a top one hundred prospect. But
he goes thirty second overall to the Milwaukee Brewers. So yeah,
decision time now in the Ebel household. Jose, great to
catch up, but we'll talk to you after the All
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Star break here on postgame Dodger Talk, and it'll be
fun to see what this Dodger team does after the break.
Speaker 2 (30:44):
He pupped the great work and get some Russ thank you.
Speaker 6 (30:48):
There he goes, Jose Mota. Yeah, congratulations to Dino Ebel,
Dodger third base coach. His son Brady Ebel picked thirty
second overall in the MLB drafts just now by the
Milwaukee Brewers out of Corona High School.
Speaker 4 (31:01):
So cool.
Speaker 6 (31:02):
How about that three first round picks out of Corona
High School Seth Hernandez, Billy Carlson, and now Brady Ebel.
Very cool again, It's just awesome to see young men
and being here in southern California, being in Los Angeles,
to see these guys get picked and to see their
dreams right there in front of them and to get
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drafted and now start that next chapter and try to
become a big league baseball player. So again, congratulations to
all those out there who are getting drafted. Doesn't matter
if in the first round or the fifteenth round, twentieth round,
it doesn't matter. Living out the dream of getting picked
and being a big leaguer is what it's all about.
Speaker 4 (31:42):
All right.
Speaker 6 (31:42):
That's going to do it for postgame Dodger Talk. Many
thanks to Colin Ye. Many thanks to you for listening
being a part of the show, podcasting it on the
iHeartRadio app. We'll be back at it with some off
day Dodger Talks this week with David Vasse looking forward
to those also back at it on Friday to start
the All Star run for the Dodgers, who win it
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today five to two over the San Francisco Giants that
took eleven innings, but they get the win.
Speaker 4 (32:07):
Ben Casparius gets the victory. Spencer Bibbins gets the loss.
Speaker 6 (32:10):
Freddy Freeman drives in three runs two runs today, including
an RBI double in the fourth and then an RBI
double to give them the lead in the eleventh inning.
As the Dodgers going to the All Star break, on
a winning note, Dodgers fifty eight and thirty nine overall,
five and a half game lead going into the Midsummer Classic.
They'll be back at it, ready to go, reset and
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ready for a twenty twenty five repeat championship. Until Friday,
enjoy off dight Dodger Talk this week. We're back out
in Moronco Casino. Dodgers on deck on Friday, Dodgers and
brewers from the Ravine. So long, everybody,
One thing about this gene is the invisible and tangibles
that they have.
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The All Star break as your Dodgers fifty eight and
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get some rep in, the time to reset for this
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Jump on board at eight six six nine eighty seven
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Speaker 4 (01:26):
Also coming up in a few minutes.
Speaker 6 (01:28):
Today is the MLB Draft and Rick Monday. Of course,
our own Rick Monday, nineteen seasons in the Big League's
World Series champ, now Dodger broadcaster for the last three decades.
Heard him on the game today right here on AM
five seventy LA Sports Well. Rick was the first pick
in the nineteen sixty five MLB Draft, which was the
first ever the inaugural year of the amateur draft. He
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was the first ever selection. A MLB network Today, kicking
off their coverage at three o'clock this afternoon, had a
great start to their coverage with our own Rick Monday.
We're gonna play for you. That's coming up in just
a couple of minutes eight six six nine eight seven
two five seventy. But I know a lot of you
Dodger fans based on social media reaction, certainly taking a
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deep exhale after the Dodgers almost let this one get away.
Tanner Scott give a two run home run to Luis
Matos with two out with one out in the ninth inning.
That tied the game at two and really reset everything
for the Dodgers and Giants in this series finale, a
game in which Yoshinobu Yabamoto was cruising out pitching Robbie Ray.
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Robbie Ray made a mistake in the fourth, and like
good teams do, the Dodgers jumped on that show Heyo
Tani a lead off walk in the top of the fourth.
This was the second time through the lineup facing Robbie Ray.
Robbie Ray walked show Heyotani, then walked Mookie Betts.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
Uh huh.
Speaker 4 (02:56):
You cannot do that. And if you are.
Speaker 6 (02:58):
Gonna do it, the team they had those walks has
to make you pay, and the Dodgers did exactly that
because two batters later, Freddie Freeman delivered with an RBI
double to give the Dodgers a one nothing lead. I
wish the Dodgers would have been able to tack on
more in that fourth inning. Really jumped and pounced on
Robbie Ray. I feel like they let him up just
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a little bit for air and he got out of
that fourth inning. In the fifth, Miguel Rojas a solo
home run. Again, a mistake pitch on a slider over
the middle of the plate on a three to two pitch.
And I guess at that point, if you're Robbie Ray
and it's a three to two pitch and you're facing
Miguel Rojas towards the bottom of the lineup for the Dodgers,
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I guess it's not really then a bad pitch. I mean,
you've just struck out Tommy Edmond, Miguel Rojas is up,
you fell behind three and zero. He takes two strikes, fouls,
two pitches off, and then on the eighth pitch of
the bat, I guess, you know, thinking about it, it's
not really a bad pitch. You're gonna challenge Miguel Row
if you're Robbie Ray and say, here's a three to
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two pitch. It's a slider, And even if I missed
over the heart of the plate, it's gonna take you
muscling up and barreling up a ball to get it
out of the ballpark. I like my odds in this case,
Robbie Ray against Miguel ROAs. But Miguel Rojas said, uh uh,
I'm gonna barrow his ball up, and that's exactly what
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he did. The mistake or the pitch that thrown by
Robbie Ray to challenge Miguel Rojas, challenge accepted. Miguel Rojas
made him pay with a solo home run, his fourth
home run in his last sixteen games, by the way,
and he's only got five on this season. That gave
the Dodgers a two to nothing lead, and again, Yamamoto
was fantastic. If you watch the game on Roku, which
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I mean I know a lot of you didn't because
you don't have Roku, so you're able to listen to
it right here with Tim Neverd and Rick Monday on
the call, and what a great call it was. He
had life on the fastball, he had bite on the
split finger, the cutter was working for him big. I mean,
this is a Yamamoto who looked completely different then the
Yama Moto we saw at Milwaukee to start this road
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trip where he couldn't get out of the first inning
and threw forty one pitches. I mentioned it in the
Clubhouse show that's what you get with Yoshi Nobo Yamamoto.
If that split finger is working and dancing and it's
got the bite on it and looks like a strike
and then just falls out of the zone, which the
split finger does. If that's what it's doing and it's
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working and you're getting swinging missus and getting guys to chase,
most times you're gonna be very successful, and Yoshi Yamamoto
has been. But there are those rare occasions, yeah, and
Milwaukee was one of them where that pitch just is
not getting the swing and missus. That pitch is not
in the zone, and so it's not even a challengeable
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pitch as far as to the hitter to even want
to swing at it.
Speaker 4 (05:54):
And then they're teeing off of the fastball.
Speaker 6 (05:55):
And when you don't have come out of the fastball
like he did in the outing against the Brewers, the
wheels kind of fall off like they did in two
thirds of an inning of work against the Brewers.
Speaker 4 (06:04):
But he comes back today.
Speaker 6 (06:06):
Fastball got a little giddy up today, didn't He hit
ninety five, ninety six, ninety seven, getting a little four
seen fastball, little tailing up on it, and guys swinging
out of their shoes, that the split finger had the bite,
that split finger had the dip on it, the cutter
were too big as well, getting swinging missus. His pitches
were alive, his pitches were working, and that's what we're
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used to seeing from Yamamoto. Thus, the seven shutout innings,
seven strikeouts, I mean he threw seventy seven pitches through
six innings. I mentioned it earlier. One inning, the second.
He threw nineteen pitches every other inning, no more than
twelve pitches in an inning. That is efficient. That is
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a pitcher attacking the zone and getting swinging misses and
getting the ball put in play on soft contact. I
really feel bad for him because he was aligned to
get the win. Alex Vesia looked just filthy in the
eighth inning, striking out the side in the eighth and
then Tanner Scott gives up the home run with one
out in the ninth inning and a two run shot.
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Now I'm not sure what is the deal with Tanner Scott,
but certainly the Tanner Scott a year ago who gave
up three home runs all season, not the same Tanner
Scott who this year with the home run today has
now given up eight home runs before the All Star
Break a Tanner Scott, who yes, has nineteen saves on
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this season, top ten in baseball. Okay, great, but you
counter that was seven blown saves before the All Star break.
Seven blown saves. It's a lot for the Dodger reliever
Jack Dryer Ben Casparius come in tenth and eleventh inning,
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put zero's up on the board.
Speaker 4 (07:56):
Sure they were flirting a.
Speaker 6 (07:57):
Little bit of danger there on the Devers fly ball
to center that James Aubu made a great catch on
in the tenth inning off Jack Tryer. But leave it
to the two young pups, Jack Dryer, Benk Caspirius. Oh yeah,
the two guys who last year at the end of
the season and Caspirius in the playoffs including the World Series,
came up huge for the Dodgers.
Speaker 5 (08:19):
Huge.
Speaker 4 (08:21):
These two young arms were for the Dodgers last fall.
Speaker 6 (08:24):
And have been this first half of the season going
to the All Star break, So I'm not surprised to
see when the Dodgers tied the two extra innings go
to these two young guys. Left handed Jack Dryer, right
hander BNK Caspirius. Not surprised at all. That's how much
confidence Dave Roberts, Mark Pryor, Connor McGinnis and this coaching
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staff having these two young arms to go to them
in a tie game, tenth inning, eleventh inning with the
lead and getting the win over the Giants today in
San Francisco, five to two, eight sixty six ninety seven,
two five seven.
Speaker 4 (09:01):
All right, we'll go out to the phone. Jose Mode
is gonna join us. It's just a little bit.
Speaker 6 (09:04):
Also going to hear MLB networks open for the MLB
Draft with our own Rick Monday coming up in just
a couple of minutes. Let's go to David and San
Dimas's first up here on Dodger Talk. Oh, let's go
to Maxwell from Austin, Texas checking in from the five
to one too.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
How you doing Maxwell, I'm doing okay, Tim, howbo yourselves?
Speaker 6 (09:24):
I'm doing fantastic. I'm doing a lot better Maxwell. Now
that the Dodgers pulled out the win today, if they
would end up losing this game, it would have been tough.
It would have been a long four days going into
Friday and the restart of the season after the All
Star Break.
Speaker 4 (09:40):
I'll be honest with you, but they got the win,
so feeling good.
Speaker 7 (09:43):
Yeah, yeah, there might be a hundred percent chance that
we might get Texas right field of Max Blou from Texas.
So when I saw him play in Texas, he was
actually very good. He hit a home run, He's.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
Like a lot.
Speaker 4 (10:03):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (10:05):
Did the Dodgers end up picking him? Is that who
they select in the draft? I haven't been watching since
about pick twelve.
Speaker 7 (10:13):
Well, now it's Philadelphia, Phillies on the clocks, okay a little.
Speaker 6 (10:18):
Bit oh okay, so we got a little bit while
to go here for the MLB Draft. So yeah, we'll
see Max. Well, I appreciate it. You got a chance
to see one of those longhorns playing. Maybe he'll end
up a Dodger. Appreciate the phone call. Yeah, the MLB
Draft is underway, and we'll hear from that piece from
the MLB Network and Rick Monday, which Rick kind of
narrate narrates his experience as the number one overall pick
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in nineteen sixty five of the first ever draft. But
congratulations to all the young men who are being picked
today in the MLB Draft living out their dreams.
Speaker 4 (10:51):
To see these young men sitting at.
Speaker 6 (10:54):
Home with their family and friends and their inner circle
around them. Whether it's the NBA draft, the NFL draft,
the baseball draft, whatever, it's a moment that has a
lot of lead up for these young men. There's a
lot that gets poured into these young men around them
on a field or court or wherever they're a sport
they're playing. They don't just get there by just happenstance.
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They put a lot of work in a lot of
people helped them out to get there. And to see
these young men finally get drafted and become professional baseball players,
it's really cool. And the MLB Network does a great
job covering this draft. And for a lot of you,
it's not like NFL or NBA draft where you know
them because they're college standouts or they played in the
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SCC football and went to a national championship with the
college football playoffs or a final four went to a
duke or a UCLA fors up. No, college baseball is
a little bit lesser than obviously college basketball and college
football and popularity. So to see these guys live out
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their dream, whether the college or high school, is very cool.
And the Angels had the number two overall pick took
Tyler Bremner out of UC Santa Barbara. Kind of a
surprise pick. He was projected to go middle to late
first round, and the Angels took him with the other
number two overall pick, a guy who finally made it
into the rotation this year. Great change up, a great
young right hander and great backstory. I mean, just lost
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his mom a month ago to breast cancer and you know,
still dealing with that and here he is the second
overall pick of the Angels. I mean, that's a great story.
And to see him with his family and the emotions
pouring out to see what's happened here in southern California
with all the high school and college guys getting picked,
and you know, we're waiting to see where Brady Eble goes,
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Dino Ebles's son at of Corona High School. We do
know that his teammates Seth Hernandez, right handed pitcher out
of Corona High School, number six overall pick to the
Pittsburgh Pirates. Congratulations to him, and then Billy Carlson, the
shortstop on that Corona High School team, goes tenth overall
to the Chicago White Sox. So again, congratulations everybody.
Speaker 3 (13:05):
Uh.
Speaker 6 (13:05):
Gavin Fiene from Great Oak High School going his His dad,
Ryan was a quarterback at U C. L A and
a Valley product back in the day. So great to
see his son Gavin get selected twelfth over Wall by
the Texas Rangers at a great Oak High school, uh
here in southern California. So congratulations to everybody.
Speaker 4 (13:24):
It is a it's a.
Speaker 6 (13:25):
Big day and I love watching just a reaction and everybody.
Uh on on Draft day, Will long Beach, you're next
up here on Dodger Talk. After the Dodgers going to
the All Star break with that five to two win,
what's up?
Speaker 7 (13:38):
Will go ahead?
Speaker 4 (13:41):
Will Will? You're on the air.
Speaker 2 (13:44):
What's up?
Speaker 4 (13:47):
What's up? What's up? Will Dodgers?
Speaker 6 (13:51):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (13:51):
All right, man, appreciate the phone call, go Dodgers?
Speaker 3 (13:54):
Is right?
Speaker 6 (13:55):
Uh, certainly a happy phone call rather than a frustrated call.
Speaker 4 (14:00):
If this game would have got away from the Dodgers,
which it almost did. Tanner Scott gave up the.
Speaker 6 (14:05):
Two run home run in the bottom half of the
ninth inning to Luis Motto's but the Dodgers answered back
on the eleventh inning, and again credit to Jack Dryer
and Ben Casparius. In that tenth Dryer gets two outs,
comes in with two outs. Ben Casparius gets the final
ground ball out to end the inning, and then threat
they put up a zero, and those zeros made it
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able to go to the eleventh inning. And it doesn't
take one hundred and twenty miles an hour exit velocity
off the bat to drive in a run. Sometimes you
just got to find green out there in the outfield, somehow,
some way, And that's what Freddie Freeman did today, an
RBI single in the right center field, really no man's land,
and that scored the go ahead run.
Speaker 4 (14:43):
And then the Dodgers tacked on two more with balls
that weren't hard hit.
Speaker 6 (14:47):
Tioscar Hernandez hit an infield single to the right side,
picked up by the first baseman, and Bibbns was covering first.
The throw is low, he couldn't make a pick. Ti
Oscar's safe run scores and it's a four to two
game on the infield single from tay Oscar. And then
Andie pies the next batter inside out to the pitch,
and if he misses it by half an inch, that's
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a flyball out to the second basement instead, just enough
power on it to kind of find green in no
man's land down the right field line, which happened to
the Dodgers in Kansas City a couple of road trips ago.
It happened in their favorite today with the RBI single
from Pajes and the Dodgers scored three runs in the
top of the eleventh and they go on to win
it five to two. Coming up here from Jose Motive.
(15:29):
But again, today's the MLB Draft and the first ever
draft was in nineteen sixty five. For those of you
who don't know, it's not like they've been doing this
since back in the start of baseball with admirer Double Day. Okay,
this didn't start until nineteen sixty five, the amateur first
year draft for college and high school players in the
United States. This isn't international players, this is United States
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nineteen sixty five, first ever MLB draft and a outfielder
from Arizona State who helped the Sun Devils win a
college baseball championship and it was the college player of
the Year, Rick Monday, our own Rick Monday, Yes, Moe,
was the first ever pick of the first ever MLB draft,
and today to kick off their coverage on the MLB Network,
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a nice start from Rick Monday to get.
Speaker 4 (16:15):
A going.
Speaker 1 (16:16):
Sixty years ago, I went first, the first pick of
the very first draft in Major League Baseball history. I
was the first to deal with the pressure and the promise,
the burden and the blessing, the expectations and the excitement
that came along with getting my name called before anyone else.
Speaker 3 (16:39):
Back then, you didn't even get a phone call.
Speaker 1 (16:42):
I honestly forget how I found out, but it did
shape my career forever.
Speaker 8 (16:48):
Here you want picking the way a way back draft
that I hadn't the way.
Speaker 1 (16:57):
All the guys that followed could tell you the same thing.
How it's hard to ever be good enough to ever
live up to that first pick, the first round, Billy.
But really it's an honor to be in the club,
let alone the first member, with all those guys who followed,
And it's always exciting when draft day comes around and
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we get to see who comes next.
Speaker 8 (17:25):
Hello, I don't corect Number one, George Kenneth, Griffy.
Speaker 9 (17:32):
The Kid, New York Yank Yank right here, Harry Katt,
Chorge Top Central High School, Kum the zoom.
Speaker 8 (17:39):
Ischige, Michael Trump, Mike trop I'm not a spectacular rob,
you Patty smiling.
Speaker 3 (17:50):
The Pittsburgh Pirates pick Paul Skean's. The game is full
of youngsters today.
Speaker 1 (18:02):
Some of them went early, some didn't, but they all
have absolutely proven their worth because whether you go first
or a whole lot later, the truth is, whatever happens
today is.
Speaker 3 (18:19):
Just the start of all their stories.
Speaker 10 (18:22):
The rest is up to them.
Speaker 3 (18:35):
Welcome to the Major League Baseball Draft.
Speaker 6 (18:41):
Yes, how cool is that to kick off the MLB
Draft on MLB Network a little over two hours ago
our own Rick Monday, who was the first pick sixty
years ago in the first ever MLB draft, selected by
the Kansas City A's with the number one over We're
all picks, so that was very cool one to make
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sure we share that with you, our own Rick Monday
narrating that for the opening of the MLB Draft, which
is now twenty two picks in in the first round.
And I cannot believe this. This is this true. Ten
of the first twenty two picks in the MLB Draft.
I've been high school shortstops. So mom, dad, uncle, and coach,
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if you're listening right now driving around, you got a
son out there? Yeah, it looks like shortstops the spot
to be at least here in twenty twenty five. Ten
of the first twenty two picks have been high school shortstops,
so including Billy Carlson out of Corona High School. Congratulations
again to all the young men being drafted in the
draft today by Baseball. All right, we'll take a break,
(19:45):
we'll come back, we'll check in with Jose Mota, and
we'll get you into your All Star break. Dodgers winners
today in San Francisco. The road chip didn't start very good,
losses to Milwaukee, a series opening loss to the Giants
on Friday night, with the Dodgers ended well on this
road trip. Winners yesterday and five, two victors over the
(20:06):
Giants today and eleven innings Ben Cosperry's to win. Spencer
bibbns the loss. Dodgers fifty eight and thirty nine. They
go into the break with a five and a half
game lead in the NL West.
Speaker 4 (20:15):
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Speaker 9 (20:44):
Once again, this one hammer the left field way back,
it goes.
Speaker 8 (20:48):
This poll is gone.
Speaker 9 (20:49):
Miguel Rojas with a solo homer. Oh what on that
pack for Rojas? He makes it two to nothing with
his fifth home roll this season. He got a slider
on the inn half, turned on it and crushed it.
Speaker 6 (21:05):
Miguel Rojas, on the eighth pitch of his at bats,
a home run off Robbie Ray in the top half
of the fifth inning to give the Dodgers a two
to nothing lead. The Dodgers would go to extra innings
after the Luis Monto's two run home run in the
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with Jose. It's time to go around the horn with
Jose Mota. All right, Jose, it's the MLB Draft today,
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which I was just talking about. Sixty years since Rick
Monday became the first ever pick in the first ever
MLB draft, to see all the Southern California kids continue
to get drafted, year in and year out, no exception.
This year, ten of the first twenty two picks have
been short stops out of high school already.
Speaker 4 (22:05):
I love the MLB draft.
Speaker 6 (22:07):
Okay, I don't know if I'm a dork about that
or not, but I love the MLB Draft.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
It's great. I mean, you think about this, and we're
just talking to my wife about this. I go, there's
great celebrations for the families or the kids, the efforts,
the mom, the dad. But you know what, how about
the moms man? Huh, everything they have to go through
to get these kids to this point, all the support,
all the trips, all the money spent. I mean for families,
it's just wonderful to see them getting rewarded for all
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the work and their talent obviously, which is obviously outstands
but a very very happy day. And I can't believe
that I was drafted forty years ago. Oh my god,
and my agent forty years ago. I nineteen eighty five. Wow.
Speaker 4 (22:49):
Wow. What do you remember about that day?
Speaker 3 (22:51):
For you?
Speaker 2 (22:52):
I remember the first call I got and I was
going to Calcap for the time my junior year. And
the first phone call I got was about seven in
the morning, and it was a Milwaukee Brewers and they said,
we'll think about drafting me here very soon, and would
you take this amount of money. I said no, for
that amount of money, I'll go back to school. And
they're like, okay, thanks by. I said, please don't draft me,
(23:12):
Please don't draft me, and then respectfully.
Speaker 5 (23:15):
And then uh.
Speaker 2 (23:16):
The second call I got like twenty minutes later, SA
Chicago White Sox said Dayne Schaeffer a wonderful scout and
a great friend. And then he goes, we had just
picked two and congratulations, here we go.
Speaker 3 (23:25):
How about that?
Speaker 2 (23:26):
Nice cooling to My first meeting was myself and my
dad at the Bottomventure Hotel. Dave dom Brownski mm hmm.
He was assistant GM for the White Sox and that
was the first meeting we had. The dogs were heading
to Atlanta on an off day, and the White Sox said, Manny,
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you know, just tell the story that you're not going
to be on that flight. You're going to come and
stay with us, as we talked to Jose for the
first time, and you and we'll get you on a
point to Atlanta after our meeting. And that's exactly what
I remember. It's like, wow, it is how fast did
that go? And then before you know, I'm like Dave Dombreska,
the same Dave Dombreska, I Midwi that guy just crazy man.
Great great, great times, great memories.
Speaker 6 (24:08):
Yeah, it's an awesome day for a lot of young
men having their dreams realize getting picked today. All right,
Dodgers get the five to two win over the Giants.
Speaker 4 (24:16):
Yoshinobu Yamamodo.
Speaker 6 (24:18):
It looked completely different than he did in that start
against the Brewers. I said it earlier, Hose when that
split fingers dancing and working and dropping off the table
like it does. He is an unhita litle picture. So
in the days he doesn't have it, it's just one
of those days like it wasn't Milwaukee, but today, gosh,
he was on.
Speaker 2 (24:35):
He was on it and I'll tell you what a
couple of things really cut my eye. Number one is
the urgency to go out there and get up to
a gets start. You know, don't don't pace yourself. There's
no need at this level to pace yourself.
Speaker 5 (24:46):
I know.
Speaker 2 (24:46):
The mentality is, I want to be a guy that
azoors innings. He goes out there and gives you six, seven,
eight innings, But you cannot pat yourself. I mean, this league,
they're gonna.
Speaker 3 (24:54):
Have a ship.
Speaker 2 (24:54):
They're gonna get to you so quick before you know
what happened to Milwaukee and happened to win last season
and in Korea. You gotta go out there and just
have your best immediately out of the bullpen. That was
the number one thing that'll come my mind. Number two is,
as you mentioned, the splitter, which is a wonderful pitch.
But today I love how you use different lanes. Here's
what I mean. Different lanes means that he usually uses
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the inner half on the righty down and end to
get the punch out on the splitter, and the left
the obviously down and away, and guys, when they see
it a couple of times, they just take it right.
Today he was using the outer half on the righty
to set it up and also up in the zone
a little bit more so. Remember you don't want to
missle the splitter up up top a lot. But it
(25:39):
is still a differential type pitch, meaning that if you
have ninety six, you go ninety one with a splitter.
Even if it's up you have to be so perfect
with your swintering timing. And today a couple of times
he actually baffled a couple of players hitters by throwing
it a little bit higher in the zone and is
they're like telling them, so, okay, if it starts and
the knees, let it go with this. This time it
didn't start the knees, it started the show. They're in
(26:00):
a dropdown for a strike, so I think smartly Will
Smith didre a very good job behind the plate setting
up with a curveball. The founs lost of life. Good
sinker inside just to keep guys honest. But DESI shows
you how much this guy knows how to pitch in
the fact that he can have just on the fly
so quickly.
Speaker 6 (26:16):
I was texting with a buddy about this Dodgers team,
the All Star break and where they kind of sit
right now, and I was thinking about it. The injuries
to the staff, the pitching staff, the rotation and the bullpen.
Guys are going to come back healthy. The fact that
they go into the break with guys banged up, ta
Oscar Hernandez, Keiky Hernandez on the IL, Max Munsey on
the IL, Tommy Evans just doesn't look right. Freddie Freeman,
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maybe he's turned the corner the last two games. Today
he had a couple of RBIs, hit the ball a
lot better. With that all being said, they still got
it a five and a half game lead, and they
you can make a great argument Hose haven't even scratched
the surface yet on being a team that we thought
they were going to be for long stretches of time
in the first half of the season. In the second half,
I think it's scared when they get healthy what their
(27:01):
potential could be.
Speaker 2 (27:03):
It is quite scary thinking about all the things that
they've gone through and never use an excuses. I mean,
the valuers again, with so many guys missing days most
of baseball and because of the IL. But we have talent.
There's a lot of things that can overcome. And also
we have smart you know, these guys are talented and
smart players that know understand how to support each other
and moving the right piece is also very important. Now,
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I think for the second half of the season, with
all that's coming in, all the talent is gonna be reacquire.
Listening to the roster, the Dodgers are going to be
a team that with all the prowds about scoring runs,
they're gonna have to pitch. They're gonna have to pitch better.
They're gonna win those closed ball games. Something needs to
be done about Tanner Scott to get him straightened out.
He is not the right guy for the spot today
(27:48):
right now until he makes adjustments to break them all.
But I look forward to having these guys back at
Max months, who was actually knocking around the around the
corner too, is going to be another influx for this team.
And you know it got at my guys. I grow
use himself like today. You know he probably should thinks
the umpire on the plate that he called a couple
of strikes that he liked John Bacon because he ended up,
you know, getting without fastball with a breaking ball later
(28:12):
on with his bat to the whole nunth But in general, yes,
this is a team that has played in good in spurts,
but I cannot wait to see it all come together.
And if it doesn't come together, you know what, still
keep on this pace because you're doing pretty good right now.
Speaker 4 (28:26):
Yeah, you mentioned Tanner Scott. How does he get right?
Speaker 10 (28:29):
Well?
Speaker 4 (28:29):
What are you seeing out of him? And what you know?
Speaker 6 (28:32):
Has led him to give up eight home runs already
a year ago he gave up just three in the
entire year.
Speaker 2 (28:38):
A lot of mislocations. I don't know what's happened with
him in the armslaught release point, but I know one thing.
If he looked at Baseball Savant and go look at
twenty four and twenty five comparisons on the location of
the slider is night and day. I invite you to
go do that, and that is the answer right there,
he spins the slider is quite flat. That's what left
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he's gonna miss him. I mean, look at the numbers
against lefties, and you know he needs to be better
for the job that he was about to do.
Speaker 3 (29:07):
Right now.
Speaker 2 (29:08):
He is his pitching also without confidence. You know, it
seems like the confidence is now. Look at his face.
Sometimes the guy has such great stuff, but it needs
a little tweaking. We had just even proinading that sly
a little bit more to get on top, to go
out there and be more consistent, because the Dodgers need
the issue. In the addition, they say in the version
of that sign at tann of Scott him so far
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we haven't seen it, by the.
Speaker 6 (29:30):
Way, as we're talking right now. Congratulations to Dino Ebel.
Nice son Brady Ebel was just selected with the thirty
second pick in the twenty twenty five MMLB drafted by
the Milwaukee Brewers.
Speaker 4 (29:43):
Congratulations, that is awesome.
Speaker 2 (29:46):
Oh tiger, my god, how you talk about I mean,
going back with flashing memories spring training. These two kids
in Tempe, Arizona. I think there's two. I mean, I'm like,
who are these two little guys banging the ball around
in right field and their swings and their speed and
their instincts and like those Aretino's kids, And here we are, congressulates,
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the entire family Shunnon and the entire family. Dino will
earn now to see the assistant come because I know
he's also a pretty good student and he's got some
options about signing on there.
Speaker 6 (30:17):
Yeah, yeah, he's got a scholarship to LSU, and I know,
some nil money coming his way if he wanted to go,
there was he was slated to go in like the
fifties or sixties, certainly a top one hundred prospect. But
he goes thirty second overall to the Milwaukee Brewers. So yeah,
decision time now in the Ebel household. Jose, great to
catch up, but we'll talk to you after the All
(30:38):
Star break here on postgame Dodger Talk, and it'll be
fun to see what this Dodger team does after the break.
Speaker 2 (30:44):
He pupped the great work and get some Russ thank you.
Speaker 6 (30:48):
There he goes, Jose Mota. Yeah, congratulations to Dino Ebel,
Dodger third base coach. His son Brady Ebel picked thirty
second overall in the MLB drafts just now by the
Milwaukee Brewers out of Corona High School.
Speaker 4 (31:01):
So cool.
Speaker 6 (31:02):
How about that three first round picks out of Corona
High School Seth Hernandez, Billy Carlson, and now Brady Ebel.
Very cool again, It's just awesome to see young men
and being here in southern California, being in Los Angeles,
to see these guys get picked and to see their
dreams right there in front of them and to get
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drafted and now start that next chapter and try to
become a big league baseball player. So again, congratulations to
all those out there who are getting drafted. Doesn't matter
if in the first round or the fifteenth round, twentieth round,
it doesn't matter. Living out the dream of getting picked
and being a big leaguer is what it's all about.
Speaker 4 (31:42):
All right.
Speaker 6 (31:42):
That's going to do it for postgame Dodger Talk. Many
thanks to Colin Ye. Many thanks to you for listening
being a part of the show, podcasting it on the
iHeartRadio app. We'll be back at it with some off
day Dodger Talks this week with David Vasse looking forward
to those also back at it on Friday to start
the All Star run for the Dodgers, who win it
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today five to two over the San Francisco Giants that
took eleven innings, but they get the win.
Speaker 4 (32:07):
Ben Casparius gets the victory. Spencer Bibbins gets the loss.
Speaker 6 (32:10):
Freddy Freeman drives in three runs two runs today, including
an RBI double in the fourth and then an RBI
double to give them the lead in the eleventh inning.
As the Dodgers going to the All Star break, on
a winning note, Dodgers fifty eight and thirty nine overall,
five and a half game lead going into the Midsummer Classic.
They'll be back at it, ready to go, reset and
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ready for a twenty twenty five repeat championship. Until Friday,
enjoy off dight Dodger Talk this week. We're back out
in Moronco Casino. Dodgers on deck on Friday, Dodgers and
brewers from the Ravine. So long, everybody,
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