July 19, 2025 • 34 mins
Tim Cates takes your calls and talks to Jose Mota after the Dodgers are shutout by the Brewers, 2-0. Tim shares Mike Scioscia and Ron Cey's speeches before the game to celebrate Cey's induction to the Legends of Dodger Baseball.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
One thing about this gem is the invisible and tangibles
that they have.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
This team is really becoming a family. Let's not play
one on Tom.
Speaker 1 (00:10):
Let's I love writing these guys. After the show, just
thank you, give me are.
Speaker 3 (00:15):
Your attention, your fire and not a pisson.
Speaker 4 (00:17):
This is world champion, Dodgers, world champion.
Speaker 3 (00:21):
Put a small soft time they get up people. What
they want to die in a row two is special.
I'm like, yeah, it's not a headache. One of the
this ball's gone. You ready to go old time.
Speaker 4 (00:34):
To the sound grab your phone to get in on
the show called eight six six, nine eighty seven two
five seven.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
And go to the show.
Speaker 4 (00:41):
And now your host of Dodger Talk, Tim Kakes.
Speaker 5 (00:46):
Well, the Dodgers broke for the All Star break on Sunday,
we were talking together on postgame Dodger Talk and said, wow,
this Dodgers team got back on track on the road trip.
On the final two games in San Francis, let's go
a win in eleven innings thanks to Freddie Freeman, then
a couple of blue hits. The Dodgers scored three runs
in the eleventh and they beat the Giants five to two.
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On Sunday, going into the All Star breaks, some time off,
some rest physically mentally, and this Dodgers team was gonna
be right back at it to start off the second
half of the season against the Brewers on Friday Night. Well,
Friday Night is here, and the Dodgers got shut out
at home two to nothing by the Milwaukee Brewers, who
have the Dodgers number. And there is no ends as
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or butts about it. The Milwaukee Brewers have owned the
Dodgers this twenty twenty five season. Four games. They are
four to zero against the Boys in Blue, with a
two to nothing win tonight. Two runs on nine hits
the Dodgers and zero runs on three hits three hits
for this Dodgers offense. Tonight they struck out ten times
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against Quinn Priester, who had only one other game in
which he had double digit strikeouts. Make it two now
for the young Quinn Priester, who improves to eight and
two on this season. The Dodgers were over nine with
the runners on base hit into a couple of double plays.
I'llbe a one of them was a line drive from
Will Smith that was right at the third basement who
doubled up Freddie Freeman at second base. That's just one
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of those things that happens. You can't do anything about it.
You hit it right at the guy, you square it up,
you hit it one hundred plus off the bat, and
you hit it right to the third baseman who couldn't
go anywhere but put his glove up to make the catch.
But there are some just glaring issues right now with
this Dodgers team, and first and foremost it's the offense.
The offense for the most part, has disappeared. And those
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on social media, those who all of a sudden want
to jump on the Max Munsey bandwagon again, are all
pointing to Max Munsey and say, when Max Munsey went
down with that knee injury on that Wednesday night at home,
on the night in which Clayton Kershaw got his three
thousand strikeout, the Dodgers' offense hasn't been the same since.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
Well, you know what.
Speaker 5 (02:58):
This is a Dodgers lineup, folks, that is still stacked.
This is the Dodgers lineup that on paper still got
three MVPs put in the lineup.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
Every day by Dave Roberts.
Speaker 5 (03:09):
And one of the three MVPs, Freddie Freeman, is producing
He did it Sunday. He did it tonight with a
double in the fourth inning. He was on bas with
a walk as well. Shohey Otani has very quietly cooled off.
Oh for four tonight. Mookie Betts got some rester in
the All Star break. You heard him on the pregame
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show with David Vase, went back to Nashville, did just
a little rest and relaxation. Well, he came back tonight
zero for four with a couple of strikeouts. Will Smith
was one for three. He squared the ball up though
two of those three times. Will Smith and Freddie Freeman
are carrying this Dodgers offense, and by carrying it, the
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Dodgers lost seven to nine going into the All Star Break,
and they lose the second half opener tonight and get
shut out two to nothing. Ti Oscar hern oh for
three with two strikeouts and grounded into a double play.
And in right field, tay Oscar Hernandez looks like he's
still bothered by that adductor groin injury, even after a
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week off and didn't have to go to the All
Star Game and a chance to get healthy. Andy Pajez
has cooled off. Tommy Edmund whoa Tommy Edmond has falling
off the face of the earth. Offensively hitting two twenty
now on the season, zero for three at the plate
with a couple of strikeouts. This Dodgers offense that one
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point was so dominant top the bottom. It was one
of the old what Denver stops? It just keeps coming
and then it turns over and the next thing you know,
sho Hey Otani's leading things off again, and you felt
like you were just on a merry go round and
you couldn't get off if you were a pitcher. Well,
now you look at this Dodgers lineup and they're getting
carved up. And when they're not getting carved up, they're
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taking it to pictures what they should be doing it.
The problem is when they run into good pitching. And
let's look at it. They ran in to San Francisco
the opener, even Robbie Ray on Sunday pitched for Willie
Well against them, they just.
Speaker 3 (05:07):
Had Yamamodo pitch better. The Milwaukee series.
Speaker 5 (05:12):
They got dominated in Milwaukee in those three games by
really good pitching. And Dwayne McDonald brought it up Colin.
He was talking about it. This is the Brewers team
folks that the Dodgers have a good chance of seeing
they're gonna be in the playoffs. This is a good
Milwaukee Brewers team now fifty seven and forty, the Dodgers
fifty eight and forty, and they've given the Dodgers fits.
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And they've now won the season series against the Dodgers
four and zero with two games to go. Good pitching
has beaten this Dodgers team. The Dodgers have feasted on
bad pitching. The Dodgers are gonna see nothing but good
pitching come October.
Speaker 3 (05:52):
We all know that.
Speaker 5 (05:54):
So they better start figured out against really good pitching.
And it doesn't mean they have to hit five home runs,
you know, ten hits go crazy, but top to bottom,
there's just nothing. They can't string together hits. The second inning,
lead off runner on, sixth inning, lead off runner on,
seventh inning, lead off on runner on for the Dodgers,
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the fourth inning, a one out double from Freddie Freeman.
And they can't get any consistencies as far as hits.
They can't string together. Hits they can't string together at bats.
Go back to Sunday and with the Dodgers did to
get to Robbie Ray lead off walk to Otani, lead
off walk by Mookie Betts two batters later, Freddie Freeman
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the RBI double. That's stringing together at bats, quality of
bats and making something up offensively.
Speaker 3 (06:43):
There tonight, the Dodgers.
Speaker 5 (06:45):
Lead off runner on in three innings and couldn't get
a hit, couldn't get a walk, couldn't advance the runners.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
Shoey O'tani stole the base.
Speaker 5 (06:53):
It looks like you got the win knocked out of
him late in the game, and it gets stranded at
second base because Mookie Bets strikes out on the pitch.
There's just nothing that they're doing to string together anything offensively,
and that's a problem. And that means you're running into
good pitching, because good pitching can overcome a walk. Good
pitching could overcome giving up a base hit. Good pitching
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could overcome giving up the leadoff base runner in three
innings tonight, like the Brewers did with Quinn Priester in
the three relievers, you can get yourself out of a gym. Hey,
And speaking of get out of jams, credit to what
Anthony Bonda did tonight, coming in in that ninth inning
runners on Bass gets out of it, not giving up
any more runs kept it a two to nothing game,
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kept it within distance for the Dodgers to get back
into it, but they go quietly in the ninth inning.
I don't have an issue with the Dodger pitching right now. Sure,
Kirby Yates giving up a home run with two outs
in of the seventh, it's not ideal. And you know,
long ball is really done in the Dodgers bullpen, certainly
from Tanner Scott to Luke Trevino to tonight Kirby Yates
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give up another home run.
Speaker 3 (08:01):
Okay, that's the season problem.
Speaker 5 (08:03):
But right now they're in this stretch in which the
Dodgers struggled going into the All Star Break and lost
tonight in their first game back. I can't point the
finger at the pitching. It is the offense and it
is nowhere to be found right now. Eight sixty six,
nine eighty seven, two five seventy, and it's top to bottom.
I don't want you to hit there and point a
finger at one guy, because you can start pointing the
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finger at three or four guys in this lineup. They
just aren't producing eight sixty six, nine eighty seven, two
five to seventy. And it's one thing to go through
a week stretch, a ten game stretch. But we're starting
to get into long stretches here offensively, in which the
Dodgers offense and the numbers for the Dodgers players are
not very good. Freddie Freeman, taoscar Hernandez, Mookie Betts hitting
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below two hundred is what last thirty games show?
Speaker 6 (08:52):
Hey?
Speaker 5 (08:52):
O Tani love show Hey, his last two plus weeks
of the season hitting under one fifty. It's it's struggle
right now. They say it's a struggle bus for the
Dodgers offensively to get something going. Eight sixty six nine,
eight seven, two, five seventy. Jose Moti will join us.
Coming up in just a little bit. Don't forget. We're
gonna hear from Ron say in his pregame ceremony that
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he was honored tonight. In case you missed it, he
was honored as the ninth Dodger in the Legends of
Dodgers Baseball. So they're a little bit of the penguin,
Ron say, coming up in just a little bit, all right,
Ken in Newport Beach, Ken, welcome, How are you doing,
an buddy?
Speaker 1 (09:32):
Well, let me see, I wonder if Fran's sake can
so play short after third base?
Speaker 5 (09:38):
Maybe the defense was the problem tonight though, Ken a
nice play coming home. Uh, Tommy had been seehim at
the ball, found him all night.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
I got the stats for you. Dodger to two and
eight or left. Then they have a team batting average
of one ninety five in those ten games. Talking about
Otani last fifteen games, he's hitting one forty five, Luki
one ninety ti Oscar won sixty four. It's absolutely impossible
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to win when the middle of your lineup is doing
that bad, and when you've got a team batting average
for ten games one ninety five. Maybe you need to
take a look at the batting coaches who are relatively
new and see if something could change, because they may
never beat Milwaukee. Milwakee has got their number, and I'll
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tell you what I'd like to have some of the
some of the guys that are following the teams around
that Milwaukee asked. Because whatever they're doing, they're now what
sixteen and four the last twenty Holy.
Speaker 3 (10:53):
Man, they've been hot. They've been hot.
Speaker 7 (10:54):
Ken.
Speaker 5 (10:55):
Great to hear from you, my friend. I appreciate it.
Thank you for the numbers. It's struggle right now for
the Dodgers offensively. I wish there was an answer. I
wish that and I appreciate it. I wish there was
an All Star break they could take a breather. Oh wait,
they just had the All Star break to get right
mentally and physically. And again, it's one game tonight. They'll
be back at it tomorrow. But Freddy Peralta doesn't get
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any easier against him, and the Dodgers will send out
Image Sheean in game two of this three game set
against the Milwaukee Brewers. But you look at what Milwaukee
did today. Nine hits, they scored two runs. The eight hitter,
Caleb durban was the one that provided the damage with
the RBI double in the fifth, and then they solo
home run with two outs in the seventh off Kirby eight.
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It was Caleb Durbin doing in the Dodgers. Wasn't Contrere's,
wasn't Yelich. It was Durbin that did him in and
a two nothing Brewers win. Dodgers, by the way, now
zero to four against the Milwaukee Brewers, and they get
shut out for just the fifth time this season, first
time since June sixth, when they lost in Saint Louis.
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I think Sonny Gray was the starting pitcher in that
game back at Bush Stadium on that hot afternoon in St.
Speaker 3 (12:06):
Louis.
Speaker 5 (12:07):
Eight sixty six nine eight seven two five seventy is
our phone number. Let's continue on the phones as Jose
Moti will join us after the bottom of the hour
bill in mission via Ho Bill, Welcome to Dodger Talk
on this Friday night.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
How you doing, Yeah, thanks for kicking my call.
Speaker 8 (12:20):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (12:20):
Why isn't he Imamoto pitching tomorrow instead of Sunday? So
he pitched last Sunday against the Giants.
Speaker 3 (12:29):
I'm not sure.
Speaker 5 (12:29):
I'm sure they went to Yamamoto and said, when would
you like to pitch? Give Hi an extra day off
when you get to the All Star break bill. I
appreciate the phone call. It's a chance to reset your rotation.
Just because he pitched on Sunday doesn't mean you look
at your calendar say he's got to pitch this next
XT day. No, he's reset and she and will go tomorrow.
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Yamamoto will go on Sunday and then show hey, Ho Tani,
We'll pitch on Monday night, followed by Dustin May as
the piggyback starter so tonight you saw Tyler Glass, now
who he knew was gonna be the starter in their
first game of this series, in this first game back
from the All Star break. But for Yamamoto again, pitched
on Sunday. Pitches tomorrow, or excuse me, you'll pitch on Sunday. No,
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Yamamoto's not pitching. Claytonkershaw's pitching on Sunday. So it'll be
Clayton Kershaw on Sunday and Saturday image And so I'm
not sure. Dave Roberts didn't answer why he's not pitching tomorrow,
So I'm going to just chalk it up to give
him a couple extra days rest. Why not, he deserved
it after the first half of the season, and because
he went to Atlanta in the All Star Game, did
not pitch certainly, but was there for the festivities. Give
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him a couple extra days off and getting ready for
Minnesota next week.
Speaker 3 (13:39):
And maybe something to do.
Speaker 5 (13:40):
With the fact that he struggled against the Brewers last
time they saw him in Milwaukee. He didn't get out
of what the first inning against the Brewers. Maybe that
was a bad taste in his mouth, and he's went
and faced the Giants in San Francisco, the Milwaukee Brewers
come to town again. Maybe you give him an extended
rest and getting ready for Minnesota, a team he hasn't faced.
Eight six six nine eight seven two five is the
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phone number. David in Long Beach is next up here
on Dodger Talk after the Dodgers get shut out at
home to nothing by the Brewers.
Speaker 3 (14:07):
How you doing, David?
Speaker 1 (14:09):
Good tim?
Speaker 6 (14:09):
How are you? Thanks for taking my call?
Speaker 1 (14:11):
Buddy?
Speaker 3 (14:11):
Absolutely, thank you. What's going on?
Speaker 2 (14:15):
Well?
Speaker 6 (14:15):
You know you I think you hit you know, you
hit the nail on the head because you're talking about
the Big Three not coming through. I mean, yeah, you
know you're saying, oh, Tommy, Betts and Freeman. But I'm
throwing you know, taoskar Hernandez in there, and you know
my feeling is, and I don't know what you think.
I know we won the World Serves in twenty twenty four,
but I really really hope that they're not stuck in
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twenty twenty four because they're just not producing. And you
know you said that Milwaukee did us in. I think
we did ourselves in tonight because we just couldn't get
the timely hits. We had three hits. You know, Will Smith,
haysunk Kim and Freddie Freeman. Freddie you can count on,
you know, But it's just like the Big three don't.
I don't know what the problem is. They're they're taking
too many steps backwards instead of taking too many, you know,
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so many steps forwards. It seemed like for every step
they take forward, they're taking two backwards. And it's just
it's getting very frustrating.
Speaker 3 (15:07):
Yeah, and it is. And I appreciate the phone call.
Speaker 5 (15:09):
It's it's a big three that when all three aren't producing,
that's a problem. And we've seen it in the past
in games and series and stretches in which the big
three aren't producing, but the bottom half of the lineup
and I would throw Max Months into that group when
he was healthy, would.
Speaker 3 (15:25):
Pick up the Dodger offense in a victory.
Speaker 5 (15:28):
The problem is when guys like Tommy Edmond aren't hitting
and the bottom of the lineup is just not producing.
Whether it's a Michael confordo or if it's a I
sunk Kim or Miguel Rojas, they're just not constantly giving
you the offense that you need. And then you throw
in the struggles of Mookie Betts. The struggles of show
Hey o Tani right now and the up and down
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real stretches of Freddie Freeman. It is what you call
a perfect storm. You know, you don't see it all
so often. What is Haley's comments every seventy six years.
I was young when I saw it. I know Dwayne
was not even born yet and Colin Ee was not
even born yet. But I was alive when Haley's comment came.
And you see it every seventy six years or whatever
it is, It's quite infrequent that we see Dodgers' offense
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struggle this bad tonight.
Speaker 3 (16:14):
Three hits and that was it.
Speaker 5 (16:17):
The stretch going into the All Star break, the Dodgers
just couldn't get anything going offensively. They've scored four runs
against the Brewer starters now in four games.
Speaker 3 (16:27):
That's it.
Speaker 5 (16:28):
And with the Brewers win tonight, folks, the two ninhing victory,
they're four and zero against the Dodgers and have clenched
the season series against them the first time, the first
time the Brewers have clenched the season series against the
Dodgers since twenty fourteen, eleven years ago. This is a
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much different Brewers team, folks, and they did it tonight
with Quinn Priester and Caleb Durbin. That's who beat the Dodgers.
Look out, it wasn't even the it is out. There
wasn't even Freddie Peralta, you know those. We won't see
the mizz in this series. And we'll see Freddy Perlta
tomorrow in the second game six o'clock. Start out here
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at Dodgers Stadium with Fernando Valenzuela babo ed. We'll take
a break, we'll come back, we'll hear from Jose Moda.
We'll get to more of your phone calls. And in
case you missed it, if you weren't out here at
Dodger Stadium for the pregame festivities, you missed a good one.
Former Dodgers on hand to honor Ron Say the Penguin
because he was the ninth Dodger to be now included
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in the Legends of Dodgers Baseball fraternity. We'll hear a
little bit for the Penguin coming up as well. Tough
one for the Dodgers tonight, just no offense. Good pitching,
but no offense. Brewers take Game one of this three
game set, a two to nothing shutout over the Dodgers
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Speaker 3 (18:04):
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Speaker 4 (18:05):
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Speaker 5 (18:14):
Tim Kate's back with you live from Dodgers Stadium on
this Friday nights along with Dwayne McDonald Colin Ye till
the top of the hour as the Dodgers lose to
the Milwaukee Brewers to nothing. As Quinn Priester gets the win,
struck out ten to improve to eight and two on
the season. Tyler Glass noow win six innings, one run
on four hit, struck out six, but gave up a
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run in the fifth inning.
Speaker 3 (18:36):
He takes the loss. He's now one in one.
Speaker 5 (18:38):
Trevor McGill came in and closed the door with a
one two three ninth inning. He's twenty second save of
the year. As the Dodgers get shut out for just
the fifth time this season. Last time they got shut
out was June sixth, that Bush Stadium in Saint Louis.
Eight sixty six, nine eighty seven, two five seventy is
our number.
Speaker 3 (18:54):
Let's check in with Jose.
Speaker 4 (18:56):
It's time to go around the horn with.
Speaker 5 (18:59):
Jose, all right, Jose lot to get to first and
foremost the offense, and this offense struggled down the stretch
into the All Star Break, even though they won two
in a row in San Francisco. After the break, after
the rest, they come back tonight an overnight for Mookie Betts,
an overnight from shoey Otani ta Oscar Hernandez looks like
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he's lost at home plate right now. And I know
he's working hard and he's struggling at home plate. This
Dodgers' offense is just in a rut top to bottom.
Speaker 2 (19:29):
Yeah, it's crazy to think just a few weeks ago
and for a couple of months we're talking about the
best offense, unstoppable and the bottom of the order waking up,
and all of a sudden, it's like, where's the top
of the order. Where's everybody at?
Speaker 1 (19:40):
Right?
Speaker 2 (19:41):
Here's one thing I noticed with the Milwaukee Brewers have
done the best job. And your caller was absolutely on
the money, they have done the best job adapting and
adjusting to what they see in game. So what I'm
talking about is you go out there with a plan.
Speaker 1 (19:56):
So while the.
Speaker 2 (19:57):
Dodgers say it what they don't hate, who do you
want to face the situation? What pitch should I go to?
But do the flaw they just I mean, you know
this kid today, Quinn Priest is not supposed to be
struck out. Guy, he got ten punch outs like nothing.
Made it look very easy. And I think the Dodgers
at times are getting to a point where I'm telling
you to him, there's so much information nowadays. They sometimes
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you get so cut up and being proactive and okay,
he might throw this this percentage at the time and
discount and they're not being reactive. And it's got to
be a game of reaction when you go through something
like this. In fact, there's tumbling, which a hitting coach
will tell you know what, guys, we've got to go
out there and take a two strike approach from from
pitch number one. It doesn't mean you try to just
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punching Judy to the ball, but you're going to be
more selective. We're gonna punt, you know, you're going to
cover the play a little bit more, especially our half
where pictures make their money, and just simplify your mentality.
It's not so much about the physical thing. It's not
about extra hitting, it's not about mechanics so much. It's
about simple pinting your approach. Because of what I see
is there's a lot of chasing going on and also
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a lot of swings where they're not decisive to go
this is my pitch, let me go swing at so
well I've seen there's a lot of hard contact and
hot outs. Thus turns into less productive you know, opportunities
when you have at tension score and get a couple
runs on the board.
Speaker 5 (21:16):
Jose I looked at the field tonight and to see
how Sun Kim at second base. He makes great plays.
He covers a lot of ground, glove side, backhand up
the middle. To see him and Freddy Freeman over on
the right side of the endfield makes me feel pretty
good about the Dodgers defensively what they got over there.
Speaker 2 (21:33):
Yeah, you know, it makes me feel good about with
Freddy because Louis Curuz and I we were talking about
it during the game. You know, sometimes when we're playing
like a bass. You have somebody who's a little gobbled
up in his legs, like Freddy Freeman, you go out
there and alleviate some of the pain by covering ground
to your left. And Freddie knows he can see very
obvious to say that he knew that twins right, things
are going to be covered. And Hitsam made a couple
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of nice plays, routine plays, but were your first base
and sometimes has a break four or stop and stopping
going You don't want to see that, or you know,
go after the ball and then stop and have to
race back to the bag. But Hitsim has so athletic
he is really getting a good understanding of how the
staff works in terms of how guys are missing, how
pitchers are being swung at and anticipating. You know that
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we call it cheating and baseball on the defensive side,
but you're pretty much anticipating. And I think it's it's
like a real bee for Freddy to have him, because
I know it takes a lot of his line when
it comes down to covering through his right and I
think it's something that perhaps the Dallions could benefit love from.
Afreid Freeman and hits Him on that side of the infield.
Speaker 5 (22:34):
Tonight, it was a very cool night as the ninth
member of the Legends of Dodgers Baseball was inducted here
before the game, ron Say the Penguin gets inducted. Is
it was nice to see a lot of his former
teammates and Dodger greats here at the stadium.
Speaker 1 (22:49):
Oh, it was so good. It was great.
Speaker 2 (22:50):
I mean, the sea most messages up on the board.
To see all the legends with their beautiful thousand blue
jackets on blazers, It's remarkable.
Speaker 1 (22:59):
And remember about.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
Ron Say is his toughness, the fact that he didn't
have to be the prettiest looking athlete on the field,
but man, he could play, and he wanted to be
on that field and just short everybody with guts that
he wanted to be a winner. And consider that he
actually replaced Steve Gallery who had issues at third base,
and he gets moved up to the first base and
Ronnie just went over and took over. And one more
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thing about Ronnie is the fact that you know, in
years past, your blockers were installed just by your number,
So it was a miracle. So it was always ten
eleven my father and then sid Day Kert, So it
was always like that big, big trio. So we grew
up seeing a lot of Ron Say and he was
certainty marvelous to us as children and as family members,
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and for sure a winner, said time All star, and
a guy that really understood what it was really to
build camaraderie in ahouse culture, collhouse winning and not being
the rail by anything but the fact that it's not
about how you look how you run, is about your
heart on the field. And I'm glad to he's now
a Dodger legend.
Speaker 3 (24:03):
No doubt about it.
Speaker 5 (24:04):
Well, Dodgers back at it tomorrow night on Fernando Valenzuela
Bobblehead Night, and they've got Freddy Peralta on the mound,
So it doesn't get any any easier for this Dodgers offense,
which I'm confident we'll turn things around. Whether it's one, two,
three at a time or top the bottom, this lineup
will eventually get back on track, no doubt about that.
Speaker 2 (24:21):
Hose Yeah, better at bat tomorrow. Freddy is a good picture,
but also have a lot of good hitters that just
need a little break here and there, a little blooper
here and there before they get rolling.
Speaker 1 (24:30):
Again.
Speaker 2 (24:30):
That's gonna happen, no doubt.
Speaker 3 (24:32):
No doubt about it.
Speaker 5 (24:32):
Great to see you earlier tonight out here at the ballpark,
hose I.
Speaker 3 (24:35):
We'll talk to you later.
Speaker 5 (24:37):
The money all right there he goes, hose Mota joining
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tonight punch outs. He improves to eight and two on
the season with the win. Tyler Glass now six innings,
one run, four hits, six strikeouts. He gets the loss.
The Dodgers anemic offensively tonight, just three hits combined. They
struck out of combined ten times. You know, in four
games against the Brewers, I looked at this number. That
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can't be right, and then I heard Steven Nelson say
late in the game. I said, this is not right.
He's gotta be reading it wrong. In four games against
the Brewers, the Dodgers have strucken out forty seven times.
They have struck out forty seven times against the Brewers
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in four games. They've scored four runs, only one home run.
This is a slug team with MVPs one home run
in four games against the Brewers, hitting one fifty eight
and have it combined forty seven strikeouts in four games,
not fourteen games, not forty games four games. Forty seven
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strikeouts combined by this Dodgers offense ten more tonight against
Quinn Priester, who gets the win. As the Dodgers only
bright spot offensively tonight. Freddy Freeman on base twice. He
had a one out double in the fourth and he
walked as well. The one out double in the fourth
his twenty sixth home run of the season, number five
hundred and thirty four in his soon to be Hall
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of Fame career, number forty second all time, now tied
with Lou Garrick for forty second on the all time
doubles list in Major League Baseball history. So congratulations to
Freddie Freeman, who continues to move up that list. Eight six, six,
nine eighty seven to two five seventy is our number,
Ron Say. You heard Jose mo To talking about him
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the Penguin so many years in the Dodger uniform, come
up through the Dodger organization, went on the play course
with the Cubs in the A's tonight honored here at
Dodger Stadium, historic Dodger infield that he was a part of,
won four nationally pennants an MVP CO m VP of
the nineteen eighty one World Series. Ron Say tonight inducted
as the Legend of Dodgers Baseball's ninth member, joining Don Newcomb,
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Steve Garvey, Fernando Valenzuela, Moriy Wills, Kurt Gibson, Manny Mota,
Oral Hersheiser and Dusty Baker.
Speaker 3 (27:22):
By the way, Dusty Baker was here tonight. Pedro Guerrero
was here tonight.
Speaker 5 (27:26):
I saw Jerry Royce on the field and then walking
around the club level here at Dodger Stadium. Oral Hersheiser
here tonight. Saw Steve Garvey as well on the field.
Bill Russell was here at the game tonight, former infield
made there of Ron Say and also Mike Soosha, who
played with Ron Say late part of Ronseay's career before
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he left to move on and played in Chicago at
Mike Soshow, one of the speakers tonight at the pregame ceremony.
Here's a little bit of what Soshia had to say
about the Penguin.
Speaker 7 (27:55):
A lot of us who came up in nineteen eighty
and the spring that year, as you saw Ron, say
walk by, and you look and go, how does that
guy do it? It looked like his body wasn't finished.
Speaker 3 (28:10):
It looked like his legs.
Speaker 7 (28:11):
Weren't all as long as tall as they should be.
His arms were short. But I'll tell you what he
was short. He was small, but he played big, and
he played bigger than anybody on the field. So as
we came up and we were taught great lessons from
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the record setting infield which Ron was part of, and
he played both sides. He hit in the middle of
the lineup, he played flawless third base, and along with
the rest of the group, Dusty, Reggie Smith, Garb in
the middle, they formed one of the most formable lineups
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that you could ever see in Major League baseball. And
they taught us what it was like to be a dog,
what you needed to do. And Ron played every day.
He played his heart out a couple of things we
all get. Mulligan's in life, he tried to make a record.
I think he did make a record. Didn't you make
a record playing the third base bag or whatever it was.
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We will talk about that one penguin, but I want
everyone here to understand what a tremendous part of Dodger
history Ron is. I know it's a great day for
him and his family, and all of you have his
life size bobbleheads to take home tonight and enjoy. So Penguin,
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God bless you, Thank you very much.
Speaker 5 (29:44):
All right, there is Mike Soshia, former teammate Ron Say,
and one of the many Dodgers that was here on
the field to honor Ron Say the Penguin as the
ninth member of the Legends of Dodgers Baseball. He was
presented with a blue jacket, which that has now become
accustomed to when the newest members arrived into the Legends
of Dodgers Baseball, Steve Garvey and of course we saw
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orl Hirsheiser down there, Dusty Baker as well, and then
a plaque that we'll have Ron Say on it and
go next to the other eight in the legends of
Dodgers Baseball. Let's hear from the penguin himself, Ron say
the honoree tonight.
Speaker 8 (30:20):
In the spring of nineteen fifty seven, sixty eight years ago,
there was a nine year old boy who had an
epiphany at ten o'clock in the morning on a Saturday
on the number one Little League field at the South
End Boys Club in Tacoma, Washington.
Speaker 3 (30:36):
That was me.
Speaker 8 (30:39):
My dream was to play a Major League baseball and
like so many others who came before me with the
same dreams, mine became a reality. The Dodger teams that
I played on from nineteen seventy three through nineteen eighty
two carried the Dodger history and tradition forward by carving
out its own historic run.
Speaker 3 (31:02):
We had a swagger.
Speaker 8 (31:04):
We were the new kids on the block that had
to be dealt with, and we had our own private
playing and that created an even bigger blue bulls eye
on our forehead and we loved it. We had an
infield that played eight and a half years together with
four World Series, a World Championship, and is the most
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successful infield in Major League history by fact not opinion.
Speaker 3 (31:37):
We became household.
Speaker 8 (31:38):
Names to Dodger fans, the infield that infield. In nineteen
seventy seven, we became the first major league team to
have four players hit thirty home runs in one season.
We were the first team in Major league history to
draw three million people in nineteen seventy eight, sitting new
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all major league attendance records. There is a generational fans
support of Dodger baseball here tonight, so I would like
to thank you and your families for your support back
then as well as today, and for your love of
the Dodgers. I would like to thank my entire family
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and my wife Ran of fifty four years, my son Daniel,
my daughter Amanda for their support and love.
Speaker 3 (32:36):
Special kudos go out.
Speaker 8 (32:38):
To Fran who united the Dodger wives, who teamed with
the Dodgers through fundraising events for many years that went
on to benefit needy young women in this community. To
all of my Dodger teammates, thank you for your hard
work and dedication and your contributions to Dodger baseball as well.
I am honored. It's an honor and it's been a
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privilege to be a Dodger. I am eternally grateful. I
want to thank current management of the Los Angeles Dodgers
for honoring me tonight as a Dodger legend. In closing,
I hope all of you follow your dreams no matter
what career you pursue, you just might find what you're
looking for as I did.
Speaker 3 (33:23):
Thank you very much.
Speaker 5 (33:26):
All right there, he is the great Ronsea, the ninth
member of the Legends of Dodgers Baseball, inducted pregame today.
That was Ron's speech to the Dodger fans here at
the stadium. And of course you heard from Mike Sooshia
right before that, who spoke so great to see a
lot of Dodger greats here to be alongside of Ronsea
and his family as he is inducted into the Legends
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of Dodgers Baseball. On the field, the Dodgers didn't look
legendary at all. In fact, they looked very average offensively,
with just three hits in the game, and the Dodgers
get shut out at home by the Milwaukee Brewers two
to nothing in their first game back from the All
Star Break. That's gonna do it for Dodger Talk tonight.
Many thanks to Duyne McDonald for staying up late here
with us here at the stadium. Thank you for Colin
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Yee and everything he does, helping me out today with
Petro some money, and then of course running the mother
ship at am FI seventy l A Sports. Thanks to
all you for being a part of the show. Brad Paisley,
Sorry didn't have time for you tonight. Maybe another night
we'll get to you. Thanks for podcasting the show. All
those out there. We'll be back at it tomorrow with
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First pitch is at six ten. I have a great,
safe rest of your Friday night, and joy was left
of it. Dodgers lose to the Brewers tonight at home,
two to nothing.
Speaker 3 (34:42):
So long, everybody,
One thing about this gem is the invisible and tangibles
that they have.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
This team is really becoming a family. Let's not play
one on Tom.
Speaker 1 (00:10):
Let's I love writing these guys. After the show, just
thank you, give me are.
Speaker 3 (00:15):
Your attention, your fire and not a pisson.
Speaker 4 (00:17):
This is world champion, Dodgers, world champion.
Speaker 3 (00:21):
Put a small soft time they get up people. What
they want to die in a row two is special.
I'm like, yeah, it's not a headache. One of the
this ball's gone. You ready to go old time.
Speaker 4 (00:34):
To the sound grab your phone to get in on
the show called eight six six, nine eighty seven two
five seven.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
And go to the show.
Speaker 4 (00:41):
And now your host of Dodger Talk, Tim Kakes.
Speaker 5 (00:46):
Well, the Dodgers broke for the All Star break on Sunday,
we were talking together on postgame Dodger Talk and said, wow,
this Dodgers team got back on track on the road trip.
On the final two games in San Francis, let's go
a win in eleven innings thanks to Freddie Freeman, then
a couple of blue hits. The Dodgers scored three runs
in the eleventh and they beat the Giants five to two.
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On Sunday, going into the All Star breaks, some time off,
some rest physically mentally, and this Dodgers team was gonna
be right back at it to start off the second
half of the season against the Brewers on Friday Night. Well,
Friday Night is here, and the Dodgers got shut out
at home two to nothing by the Milwaukee Brewers, who
have the Dodgers number. And there is no ends as
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or butts about it. The Milwaukee Brewers have owned the
Dodgers this twenty twenty five season. Four games. They are
four to zero against the Boys in Blue, with a
two to nothing win tonight. Two runs on nine hits
the Dodgers and zero runs on three hits three hits
for this Dodgers offense. Tonight they struck out ten times
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against Quinn Priester, who had only one other game in
which he had double digit strikeouts. Make it two now
for the young Quinn Priester, who improves to eight and
two on this season. The Dodgers were over nine with
the runners on base hit into a couple of double plays.
I'llbe a one of them was a line drive from
Will Smith that was right at the third basement who
doubled up Freddie Freeman at second base. That's just one
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of those things that happens. You can't do anything about it.
You hit it right at the guy, you square it up,
you hit it one hundred plus off the bat, and
you hit it right to the third baseman who couldn't
go anywhere but put his glove up to make the catch.
But there are some just glaring issues right now with
this Dodgers team, and first and foremost it's the offense.
The offense for the most part, has disappeared. And those
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on social media, those who all of a sudden want
to jump on the Max Munsey bandwagon again, are all
pointing to Max Munsey and say, when Max Munsey went
down with that knee injury on that Wednesday night at home,
on the night in which Clayton Kershaw got his three
thousand strikeout, the Dodgers' offense hasn't been the same since.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
Well, you know what.
Speaker 5 (02:58):
This is a Dodgers lineup, folks, that is still stacked.
This is the Dodgers lineup that on paper still got
three MVPs put in the lineup.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
Every day by Dave Roberts.
Speaker 5 (03:09):
And one of the three MVPs, Freddie Freeman, is producing
He did it Sunday. He did it tonight with a
double in the fourth inning. He was on bas with
a walk as well. Shohey Otani has very quietly cooled off.
Oh for four tonight. Mookie Betts got some rester in
the All Star break. You heard him on the pregame
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show with David Vase, went back to Nashville, did just
a little rest and relaxation. Well, he came back tonight
zero for four with a couple of strikeouts. Will Smith
was one for three. He squared the ball up though
two of those three times. Will Smith and Freddie Freeman
are carrying this Dodgers offense, and by carrying it, the
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Dodgers lost seven to nine going into the All Star Break,
and they lose the second half opener tonight and get
shut out two to nothing. Ti Oscar hern oh for
three with two strikeouts and grounded into a double play.
And in right field, tay Oscar Hernandez looks like he's
still bothered by that adductor groin injury, even after a
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week off and didn't have to go to the All
Star Game and a chance to get healthy. Andy Pajez
has cooled off. Tommy Edmund whoa Tommy Edmond has falling
off the face of the earth. Offensively hitting two twenty
now on the season, zero for three at the plate
with a couple of strikeouts. This Dodgers offense that one
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point was so dominant top the bottom. It was one
of the old what Denver stops? It just keeps coming
and then it turns over and the next thing you know,
sho Hey Otani's leading things off again, and you felt
like you were just on a merry go round and
you couldn't get off if you were a pitcher. Well,
now you look at this Dodgers lineup and they're getting
carved up. And when they're not getting carved up, they're
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taking it to pictures what they should be doing it.
The problem is when they run into good pitching. And
let's look at it. They ran in to San Francisco
the opener, even Robbie Ray on Sunday pitched for Willie
Well against them, they just.
Speaker 3 (05:07):
Had Yamamodo pitch better. The Milwaukee series.
Speaker 5 (05:12):
They got dominated in Milwaukee in those three games by
really good pitching. And Dwayne McDonald brought it up Colin.
He was talking about it. This is the Brewers team
folks that the Dodgers have a good chance of seeing
they're gonna be in the playoffs. This is a good
Milwaukee Brewers team now fifty seven and forty, the Dodgers
fifty eight and forty, and they've given the Dodgers fits.
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And they've now won the season series against the Dodgers
four and zero with two games to go. Good pitching
has beaten this Dodgers team. The Dodgers have feasted on
bad pitching. The Dodgers are gonna see nothing but good
pitching come October.
Speaker 3 (05:52):
We all know that.
Speaker 5 (05:54):
So they better start figured out against really good pitching.
And it doesn't mean they have to hit five home runs,
you know, ten hits go crazy, but top to bottom,
there's just nothing. They can't string together hits. The second inning,
lead off runner on, sixth inning, lead off runner on,
seventh inning, lead off on runner on for the Dodgers,
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the fourth inning, a one out double from Freddie Freeman.
And they can't get any consistencies as far as hits.
They can't string together. Hits they can't string together at bats.
Go back to Sunday and with the Dodgers did to
get to Robbie Ray lead off walk to Otani, lead
off walk by Mookie Betts two batters later, Freddie Freeman
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the RBI double. That's stringing together at bats, quality of
bats and making something up offensively.
Speaker 3 (06:43):
There tonight, the Dodgers.
Speaker 5 (06:45):
Lead off runner on in three innings and couldn't get
a hit, couldn't get a walk, couldn't advance the runners.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
Shoey O'tani stole the base.
Speaker 5 (06:53):
It looks like you got the win knocked out of
him late in the game, and it gets stranded at
second base because Mookie Bets strikes out on the pitch.
There's just nothing that they're doing to string together anything offensively,
and that's a problem. And that means you're running into
good pitching, because good pitching can overcome a walk. Good
pitching could overcome giving up a base hit. Good pitching
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could overcome giving up the leadoff base runner in three
innings tonight, like the Brewers did with Quinn Priester in
the three relievers, you can get yourself out of a gym. Hey,
And speaking of get out of jams, credit to what
Anthony Bonda did tonight, coming in in that ninth inning
runners on Bass gets out of it, not giving up
any more runs kept it a two to nothing game,
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kept it within distance for the Dodgers to get back
into it, but they go quietly in the ninth inning.
I don't have an issue with the Dodger pitching right now. Sure,
Kirby Yates giving up a home run with two outs
in of the seventh, it's not ideal. And you know,
long ball is really done in the Dodgers bullpen, certainly
from Tanner Scott to Luke Trevino to tonight Kirby Yates
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give up another home run.
Speaker 3 (08:01):
Okay, that's the season problem.
Speaker 5 (08:03):
But right now they're in this stretch in which the
Dodgers struggled going into the All Star Break and lost
tonight in their first game back. I can't point the
finger at the pitching. It is the offense and it
is nowhere to be found right now. Eight sixty six,
nine eighty seven, two five seventy, and it's top to bottom.
I don't want you to hit there and point a
finger at one guy, because you can start pointing the
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finger at three or four guys in this lineup. They
just aren't producing eight sixty six, nine eighty seven, two
five to seventy. And it's one thing to go through
a week stretch, a ten game stretch. But we're starting
to get into long stretches here offensively, in which the
Dodgers offense and the numbers for the Dodgers players are
not very good. Freddie Freeman, taoscar Hernandez, Mookie Betts hitting
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below two hundred is what last thirty games show?
Speaker 6 (08:52):
Hey?
Speaker 5 (08:52):
O Tani love show Hey, his last two plus weeks
of the season hitting under one fifty. It's it's struggle
right now. They say it's a struggle bus for the
Dodgers offensively to get something going. Eight sixty six nine,
eight seven, two, five seventy. Jose Moti will join us.
Coming up in just a little bit. Don't forget. We're
gonna hear from Ron say in his pregame ceremony that
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he was honored tonight. In case you missed it, he
was honored as the ninth Dodger in the Legends of
Dodgers Baseball. So they're a little bit of the penguin,
Ron say, coming up in just a little bit, all right,
Ken in Newport Beach, Ken, welcome, How are you doing,
an buddy?
Speaker 1 (09:32):
Well, let me see, I wonder if Fran's sake can
so play short after third base?
Speaker 5 (09:38):
Maybe the defense was the problem tonight though, Ken a
nice play coming home. Uh, Tommy had been seehim at
the ball, found him all night.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
I got the stats for you. Dodger to two and
eight or left. Then they have a team batting average
of one ninety five in those ten games. Talking about
Otani last fifteen games, he's hitting one forty five, Luki
one ninety ti Oscar won sixty four. It's absolutely impossible
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to win when the middle of your lineup is doing
that bad, and when you've got a team batting average
for ten games one ninety five. Maybe you need to
take a look at the batting coaches who are relatively
new and see if something could change, because they may
never beat Milwaukee. Milwakee has got their number, and I'll
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tell you what I'd like to have some of the
some of the guys that are following the teams around
that Milwaukee asked. Because whatever they're doing, they're now what
sixteen and four the last twenty Holy.
Speaker 3 (10:53):
Man, they've been hot. They've been hot.
Speaker 7 (10:54):
Ken.
Speaker 5 (10:55):
Great to hear from you, my friend. I appreciate it.
Thank you for the numbers. It's struggle right now for
the Dodgers offensively. I wish there was an answer. I
wish that and I appreciate it. I wish there was
an All Star break they could take a breather. Oh wait,
they just had the All Star break to get right
mentally and physically. And again, it's one game tonight. They'll
be back at it tomorrow. But Freddy Peralta doesn't get
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any easier against him, and the Dodgers will send out
Image Sheean in game two of this three game set
against the Milwaukee Brewers. But you look at what Milwaukee
did today. Nine hits, they scored two runs. The eight hitter,
Caleb durban was the one that provided the damage with
the RBI double in the fifth, and then they solo
home run with two outs in the seventh off Kirby eight.
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It was Caleb Durbin doing in the Dodgers. Wasn't Contrere's,
wasn't Yelich. It was Durbin that did him in and
a two nothing Brewers win. Dodgers, by the way, now
zero to four against the Milwaukee Brewers, and they get
shut out for just the fifth time this season, first
time since June sixth, when they lost in Saint Louis.
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I think Sonny Gray was the starting pitcher in that
game back at Bush Stadium on that hot afternoon in St.
Speaker 3 (12:06):
Louis.
Speaker 5 (12:07):
Eight sixty six nine eight seven two five seventy is
our phone number. Let's continue on the phones as Jose
Moti will join us after the bottom of the hour
bill in mission via Ho Bill, Welcome to Dodger Talk
on this Friday night.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
How you doing, Yeah, thanks for kicking my call.
Speaker 8 (12:20):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (12:20):
Why isn't he Imamoto pitching tomorrow instead of Sunday? So
he pitched last Sunday against the Giants.
Speaker 3 (12:29):
I'm not sure.
Speaker 5 (12:29):
I'm sure they went to Yamamoto and said, when would
you like to pitch? Give Hi an extra day off
when you get to the All Star break bill. I
appreciate the phone call. It's a chance to reset your rotation.
Just because he pitched on Sunday doesn't mean you look
at your calendar say he's got to pitch this next
XT day. No, he's reset and she and will go tomorrow.
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Yamamoto will go on Sunday and then show hey, Ho Tani,
We'll pitch on Monday night, followed by Dustin May as
the piggyback starter so tonight you saw Tyler Glass, now
who he knew was gonna be the starter in their
first game of this series, in this first game back
from the All Star break. But for Yamamoto again, pitched
on Sunday. Pitches tomorrow, or excuse me, you'll pitch on Sunday. No,
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Yamamoto's not pitching. Claytonkershaw's pitching on Sunday. So it'll be
Clayton Kershaw on Sunday and Saturday image And so I'm
not sure. Dave Roberts didn't answer why he's not pitching tomorrow,
So I'm going to just chalk it up to give
him a couple extra days rest. Why not, he deserved
it after the first half of the season, and because
he went to Atlanta in the All Star Game, did
not pitch certainly, but was there for the festivities. Give
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him a couple extra days off and getting ready for
Minnesota next week.
Speaker 3 (13:39):
And maybe something to do.
Speaker 5 (13:40):
With the fact that he struggled against the Brewers last
time they saw him in Milwaukee. He didn't get out
of what the first inning against the Brewers. Maybe that
was a bad taste in his mouth, and he's went
and faced the Giants in San Francisco, the Milwaukee Brewers
come to town again. Maybe you give him an extended
rest and getting ready for Minnesota, a team he hasn't faced.
Eight six six nine eight seven two five is the
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phone number. David in Long Beach is next up here
on Dodger Talk after the Dodgers get shut out at
home to nothing by the Brewers.
Speaker 3 (14:07):
How you doing, David?
Speaker 1 (14:09):
Good tim?
Speaker 6 (14:09):
How are you? Thanks for taking my call?
Speaker 1 (14:11):
Buddy?
Speaker 3 (14:11):
Absolutely, thank you. What's going on?
Speaker 2 (14:15):
Well?
Speaker 6 (14:15):
You know you I think you hit you know, you
hit the nail on the head because you're talking about
the Big Three not coming through. I mean, yeah, you
know you're saying, oh, Tommy, Betts and Freeman. But I'm
throwing you know, taoskar Hernandez in there, and you know
my feeling is, and I don't know what you think.
I know we won the World Serves in twenty twenty four,
but I really really hope that they're not stuck in
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twenty twenty four because they're just not producing. And you
know you said that Milwaukee did us in. I think
we did ourselves in tonight because we just couldn't get
the timely hits. We had three hits. You know, Will Smith,
haysunk Kim and Freddie Freeman. Freddie you can count on,
you know, But it's just like the Big three don't.
I don't know what the problem is. They're they're taking
too many steps backwards instead of taking too many, you know,
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so many steps forwards. It seemed like for every step
they take forward, they're taking two backwards. And it's just
it's getting very frustrating.
Speaker 3 (15:07):
Yeah, and it is. And I appreciate the phone call.
Speaker 5 (15:09):
It's it's a big three that when all three aren't producing,
that's a problem. And we've seen it in the past
in games and series and stretches in which the big
three aren't producing, but the bottom half of the lineup
and I would throw Max Months into that group when
he was healthy, would.
Speaker 3 (15:25):
Pick up the Dodger offense in a victory.
Speaker 5 (15:28):
The problem is when guys like Tommy Edmond aren't hitting
and the bottom of the lineup is just not producing.
Whether it's a Michael confordo or if it's a I
sunk Kim or Miguel Rojas, they're just not constantly giving
you the offense that you need. And then you throw
in the struggles of Mookie Betts. The struggles of show
Hey o Tani right now and the up and down
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real stretches of Freddie Freeman. It is what you call
a perfect storm. You know, you don't see it all
so often. What is Haley's comments every seventy six years.
I was young when I saw it. I know Dwayne
was not even born yet and Colin Ee was not
even born yet. But I was alive when Haley's comment came.
And you see it every seventy six years or whatever
it is, It's quite infrequent that we see Dodgers' offense
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struggle this bad tonight.
Speaker 3 (16:14):
Three hits and that was it.
Speaker 5 (16:17):
The stretch going into the All Star break, the Dodgers
just couldn't get anything going offensively. They've scored four runs
against the Brewer starters now in four games.
Speaker 3 (16:27):
That's it.
Speaker 5 (16:28):
And with the Brewers win tonight, folks, the two ninhing victory,
they're four and zero against the Dodgers and have clenched
the season series against them the first time, the first
time the Brewers have clenched the season series against the
Dodgers since twenty fourteen, eleven years ago. This is a
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much different Brewers team, folks, and they did it tonight
with Quinn Priester and Caleb Durbin. That's who beat the Dodgers.
Look out, it wasn't even the it is out. There
wasn't even Freddie Peralta, you know those. We won't see
the mizz in this series. And we'll see Freddy Perlta
tomorrow in the second game six o'clock. Start out here
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at Dodgers Stadium with Fernando Valenzuela babo ed. We'll take
a break, we'll come back, we'll hear from Jose Moda.
We'll get to more of your phone calls. And in
case you missed it, if you weren't out here at
Dodger Stadium for the pregame festivities, you missed a good one.
Former Dodgers on hand to honor Ron Say the Penguin
because he was the ninth Dodger to be now included
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in the Legends of Dodgers Baseball fraternity. We'll hear a
little bit for the Penguin coming up as well. Tough
one for the Dodgers tonight, just no offense. Good pitching,
but no offense. Brewers take Game one of this three
game set, a two to nothing shutout over the Dodgers
here on five seventy LA Sports Live everywhere on the
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Speaker 5 (18:14):
Tim Kate's back with you live from Dodgers Stadium on
this Friday nights along with Dwayne McDonald Colin Ye till
the top of the hour as the Dodgers lose to
the Milwaukee Brewers to nothing. As Quinn Priester gets the win,
struck out ten to improve to eight and two on
the season. Tyler Glass noow win six innings, one run
on four hit, struck out six, but gave up a
(18:35):
run in the fifth inning.
Speaker 3 (18:36):
He takes the loss. He's now one in one.
Speaker 5 (18:38):
Trevor McGill came in and closed the door with a
one two three ninth inning. He's twenty second save of
the year. As the Dodgers get shut out for just
the fifth time this season. Last time they got shut
out was June sixth, that Bush Stadium in Saint Louis.
Eight sixty six, nine eighty seven, two five seventy is
our number.
Speaker 3 (18:54):
Let's check in with Jose.
Speaker 4 (18:56):
It's time to go around the horn with.
Speaker 5 (18:59):
Jose, all right, Jose lot to get to first and
foremost the offense, and this offense struggled down the stretch
into the All Star Break, even though they won two
in a row in San Francisco. After the break, after
the rest, they come back tonight an overnight for Mookie Betts,
an overnight from shoey Otani ta Oscar Hernandez looks like
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he's lost at home plate right now. And I know
he's working hard and he's struggling at home plate. This
Dodgers' offense is just in a rut top to bottom.
Speaker 2 (19:29):
Yeah, it's crazy to think just a few weeks ago
and for a couple of months we're talking about the
best offense, unstoppable and the bottom of the order waking up,
and all of a sudden, it's like, where's the top
of the order. Where's everybody at?
Speaker 1 (19:40):
Right?
Speaker 2 (19:41):
Here's one thing I noticed with the Milwaukee Brewers have
done the best job. And your caller was absolutely on
the money, they have done the best job adapting and
adjusting to what they see in game. So what I'm
talking about is you go out there with a plan.
Speaker 1 (19:56):
So while the.
Speaker 2 (19:57):
Dodgers say it what they don't hate, who do you
want to face the situation? What pitch should I go to?
But do the flaw they just I mean, you know
this kid today, Quinn Priest is not supposed to be
struck out. Guy, he got ten punch outs like nothing.
Made it look very easy. And I think the Dodgers
at times are getting to a point where I'm telling
you to him, there's so much information nowadays. They sometimes
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you get so cut up and being proactive and okay,
he might throw this this percentage at the time and
discount and they're not being reactive. And it's got to
be a game of reaction when you go through something
like this. In fact, there's tumbling, which a hitting coach
will tell you know what, guys, we've got to go
out there and take a two strike approach from from
pitch number one. It doesn't mean you try to just
(20:39):
punching Judy to the ball, but you're going to be
more selective. We're gonna punt, you know, you're going to
cover the play a little bit more, especially our half
where pictures make their money, and just simplify your mentality.
It's not so much about the physical thing. It's not
about extra hitting, it's not about mechanics so much. It's
about simple pinting your approach. Because of what I see
is there's a lot of chasing going on and also
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a lot of swings where they're not decisive to go
this is my pitch, let me go swing at so
well I've seen there's a lot of hard contact and
hot outs. Thus turns into less productive you know, opportunities
when you have at tension score and get a couple
runs on the board.
Speaker 5 (21:16):
Jose I looked at the field tonight and to see
how Sun Kim at second base. He makes great plays.
He covers a lot of ground, glove side, backhand up
the middle. To see him and Freddy Freeman over on
the right side of the endfield makes me feel pretty
good about the Dodgers defensively what they got over there.
Speaker 2 (21:33):
Yeah, you know, it makes me feel good about with
Freddy because Louis Curuz and I we were talking about
it during the game. You know, sometimes when we're playing
like a bass. You have somebody who's a little gobbled
up in his legs, like Freddy Freeman, you go out
there and alleviate some of the pain by covering ground
to your left. And Freddie knows he can see very
obvious to say that he knew that twins right, things
are going to be covered. And Hitsam made a couple
(21:55):
of nice plays, routine plays, but were your first base
and sometimes has a break four or stop and stopping
going You don't want to see that, or you know,
go after the ball and then stop and have to
race back to the bag. But Hitsim has so athletic
he is really getting a good understanding of how the
staff works in terms of how guys are missing, how
pitchers are being swung at and anticipating. You know that
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we call it cheating and baseball on the defensive side,
but you're pretty much anticipating. And I think it's it's
like a real bee for Freddy to have him, because
I know it takes a lot of his line when
it comes down to covering through his right and I
think it's something that perhaps the Dallions could benefit love from.
Afreid Freeman and hits Him on that side of the infield.
Speaker 5 (22:34):
Tonight, it was a very cool night as the ninth
member of the Legends of Dodgers Baseball was inducted here
before the game, ron Say the Penguin gets inducted. Is
it was nice to see a lot of his former
teammates and Dodger greats here at the stadium.
Speaker 1 (22:49):
Oh, it was so good. It was great.
Speaker 2 (22:50):
I mean, the sea most messages up on the board.
To see all the legends with their beautiful thousand blue
jackets on blazers, It's remarkable.
Speaker 1 (22:59):
And remember about.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
Ron Say is his toughness, the fact that he didn't
have to be the prettiest looking athlete on the field,
but man, he could play, and he wanted to be
on that field and just short everybody with guts that
he wanted to be a winner. And consider that he
actually replaced Steve Gallery who had issues at third base,
and he gets moved up to the first base and
Ronnie just went over and took over. And one more
(23:23):
thing about Ronnie is the fact that you know, in
years past, your blockers were installed just by your number,
So it was a miracle. So it was always ten
eleven my father and then sid Day Kert, So it
was always like that big, big trio. So we grew
up seeing a lot of Ron Say and he was
certainty marvelous to us as children and as family members,
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and for sure a winner, said time All star, and
a guy that really understood what it was really to
build camaraderie in ahouse culture, collhouse winning and not being
the rail by anything but the fact that it's not
about how you look how you run, is about your
heart on the field. And I'm glad to he's now
a Dodger legend.
Speaker 3 (24:03):
No doubt about it.
Speaker 5 (24:04):
Well, Dodgers back at it tomorrow night on Fernando Valenzuela
Bobblehead Night, and they've got Freddy Peralta on the mound,
So it doesn't get any any easier for this Dodgers offense,
which I'm confident we'll turn things around. Whether it's one, two,
three at a time or top the bottom, this lineup
will eventually get back on track, no doubt about that.
Speaker 2 (24:21):
Hose Yeah, better at bat tomorrow. Freddy is a good picture,
but also have a lot of good hitters that just
need a little break here and there, a little blooper
here and there before they get rolling.
Speaker 1 (24:30):
Again.
Speaker 2 (24:30):
That's gonna happen, no doubt.
Speaker 3 (24:32):
No doubt about it.
Speaker 5 (24:32):
Great to see you earlier tonight out here at the ballpark,
hose I.
Speaker 3 (24:35):
We'll talk to you later.
Speaker 5 (24:37):
The money all right there he goes, hose Mota joining
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tonight punch outs. He improves to eight and two on
the season with the win. Tyler Glass now six innings,
one run, four hits, six strikeouts. He gets the loss.
The Dodgers anemic offensively tonight, just three hits combined. They
struck out of combined ten times. You know, in four
games against the Brewers, I looked at this number. That
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can't be right, and then I heard Steven Nelson say
late in the game. I said, this is not right.
He's gotta be reading it wrong. In four games against
the Brewers, the Dodgers have strucken out forty seven times.
They have struck out forty seven times against the Brewers
(25:41):
in four games. They've scored four runs, only one home run.
This is a slug team with MVPs one home run
in four games against the Brewers, hitting one fifty eight
and have it combined forty seven strikeouts in four games,
not fourteen games, not forty games four games. Forty seven
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strikeouts combined by this Dodgers offense ten more tonight against
Quinn Priester, who gets the win. As the Dodgers only
bright spot offensively tonight. Freddy Freeman on base twice. He
had a one out double in the fourth and he
walked as well. The one out double in the fourth
his twenty sixth home run of the season, number five
hundred and thirty four in his soon to be Hall
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of Fame career, number forty second all time, now tied
with Lou Garrick for forty second on the all time
doubles list in Major League Baseball history. So congratulations to
Freddie Freeman, who continues to move up that list. Eight six, six,
nine eighty seven to two five seventy is our number,
Ron Say. You heard Jose mo To talking about him
(26:51):
the Penguin so many years in the Dodger uniform, come
up through the Dodger organization, went on the play course
with the Cubs in the A's tonight honored here at
Dodger Stadium, historic Dodger infield that he was a part of,
won four nationally pennants an MVP CO m VP of
the nineteen eighty one World Series. Ron Say tonight inducted
as the Legend of Dodgers Baseball's ninth member, joining Don Newcomb,
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Steve Garvey, Fernando Valenzuela, Moriy Wills, Kurt Gibson, Manny Mota,
Oral Hersheiser and Dusty Baker.
Speaker 3 (27:22):
By the way, Dusty Baker was here tonight. Pedro Guerrero
was here tonight.
Speaker 5 (27:26):
I saw Jerry Royce on the field and then walking
around the club level here at Dodger Stadium. Oral Hersheiser
here tonight. Saw Steve Garvey as well on the field.
Bill Russell was here at the game tonight, former infield
made there of Ron Say and also Mike Soosha, who
played with Ron Say late part of Ronseay's career before
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he left to move on and played in Chicago at
Mike Soshow, one of the speakers tonight at the pregame ceremony.
Here's a little bit of what Soshia had to say
about the Penguin.
Speaker 7 (27:55):
A lot of us who came up in nineteen eighty
and the spring that year, as you saw Ron, say
walk by, and you look and go, how does that
guy do it? It looked like his body wasn't finished.
Speaker 3 (28:10):
It looked like his legs.
Speaker 7 (28:11):
Weren't all as long as tall as they should be.
His arms were short. But I'll tell you what he
was short. He was small, but he played big, and
he played bigger than anybody on the field. So as
we came up and we were taught great lessons from
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the record setting infield which Ron was part of, and
he played both sides. He hit in the middle of
the lineup, he played flawless third base, and along with
the rest of the group, Dusty, Reggie Smith, Garb in
the middle, they formed one of the most formable lineups
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that you could ever see in Major League baseball. And
they taught us what it was like to be a dog,
what you needed to do. And Ron played every day.
He played his heart out a couple of things we
all get. Mulligan's in life, he tried to make a record.
I think he did make a record. Didn't you make
a record playing the third base bag or whatever it was.
(29:18):
We will talk about that one penguin, but I want
everyone here to understand what a tremendous part of Dodger
history Ron is. I know it's a great day for
him and his family, and all of you have his
life size bobbleheads to take home tonight and enjoy. So Penguin,
(29:40):
God bless you, Thank you very much.
Speaker 5 (29:44):
All right, there is Mike Soshia, former teammate Ron Say,
and one of the many Dodgers that was here on
the field to honor Ron Say the Penguin as the
ninth member of the Legends of Dodgers Baseball. He was
presented with a blue jacket, which that has now become
accustomed to when the newest members arrived into the Legends
of Dodgers Baseball, Steve Garvey and of course we saw
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orl Hirsheiser down there, Dusty Baker as well, and then
a plaque that we'll have Ron Say on it and
go next to the other eight in the legends of
Dodgers Baseball. Let's hear from the penguin himself, Ron say
the honoree tonight.
Speaker 8 (30:20):
In the spring of nineteen fifty seven, sixty eight years ago,
there was a nine year old boy who had an
epiphany at ten o'clock in the morning on a Saturday
on the number one Little League field at the South
End Boys Club in Tacoma, Washington.
Speaker 3 (30:36):
That was me.
Speaker 8 (30:39):
My dream was to play a Major League baseball and
like so many others who came before me with the
same dreams, mine became a reality. The Dodger teams that
I played on from nineteen seventy three through nineteen eighty
two carried the Dodger history and tradition forward by carving
out its own historic run.
Speaker 3 (31:02):
We had a swagger.
Speaker 8 (31:04):
We were the new kids on the block that had
to be dealt with, and we had our own private
playing and that created an even bigger blue bulls eye
on our forehead and we loved it. We had an
infield that played eight and a half years together with
four World Series, a World Championship, and is the most
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successful infield in Major League history by fact not opinion.
Speaker 3 (31:37):
We became household.
Speaker 8 (31:38):
Names to Dodger fans, the infield that infield. In nineteen
seventy seven, we became the first major league team to
have four players hit thirty home runs in one season.
We were the first team in Major league history to
draw three million people in nineteen seventy eight, sitting new
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all major league attendance records. There is a generational fans
support of Dodger baseball here tonight, so I would like
to thank you and your families for your support back
then as well as today, and for your love of
the Dodgers. I would like to thank my entire family
(32:27):
and my wife Ran of fifty four years, my son Daniel,
my daughter Amanda for their support and love.
Speaker 3 (32:36):
Special kudos go out.
Speaker 8 (32:38):
To Fran who united the Dodger wives, who teamed with
the Dodgers through fundraising events for many years that went
on to benefit needy young women in this community. To
all of my Dodger teammates, thank you for your hard
work and dedication and your contributions to Dodger baseball as well.
I am honored. It's an honor and it's been a
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privilege to be a Dodger. I am eternally grateful. I
want to thank current management of the Los Angeles Dodgers
for honoring me tonight as a Dodger legend. In closing,
I hope all of you follow your dreams no matter
what career you pursue, you just might find what you're
looking for as I did.
Speaker 3 (33:23):
Thank you very much.
Speaker 5 (33:26):
All right there, he is the great Ronsea, the ninth
member of the Legends of Dodgers Baseball, inducted pregame today.
That was Ron's speech to the Dodger fans here at
the stadium. And of course you heard from Mike Sooshia
right before that, who spoke so great to see a
lot of Dodger greats here to be alongside of Ronsea
and his family as he is inducted into the Legends
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of Dodgers Baseball. On the field, the Dodgers didn't look
legendary at all. In fact, they looked very average offensively,
with just three hits in the game, and the Dodgers
get shut out at home by the Milwaukee Brewers two
to nothing in their first game back from the All
Star Break. That's gonna do it for Dodger Talk tonight.
Many thanks to Duyne McDonald for staying up late here
with us here at the stadium. Thank you for Colin
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Yee and everything he does, helping me out today with
Petro some money, and then of course running the mother
ship at am FI seventy l A Sports. Thanks to
all you for being a part of the show. Brad Paisley,
Sorry didn't have time for you tonight. Maybe another night
we'll get to you. Thanks for podcasting the show. All
those out there. We'll be back at it tomorrow with
Morongo Casino Dodgers on deck beginning at five p m.
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First pitch is at six ten. I have a great,
safe rest of your Friday night, and joy was left
of it. Dodgers lose to the Brewers tonight at home,
two to nothing.
Speaker 3 (34:42):
So long, everybody,
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