July 27, 2025 • 39 mins
DV takes your calls after the Red Sox beat the Dodgers 4-2 in the second game of a three-game series. Postgame audio from Clayton Kershaw and Dave Roberts, and DV shares an update on the return of Blake Treinen.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
One thing about this gene is the invisible and tangibles
that they have.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
This team is really becoming a family.
Speaker 3 (00:09):
Let's not play one on Tom.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Let's I love writing me these guys after the show.
So just thank you, give me are.
Speaker 4 (00:15):
Your attention, your fire and not a pissess. This is
world champion Dodgers, world championing.
Speaker 5 (00:21):
For a small soft time. They get up people what
they want to die to in a row two is special.
I'm like, yeah, it's not a headache one of a con.
This ball's gone. You ready to go? Sure, held time
to the sud Grab your phone to get in.
Speaker 4 (00:36):
On the show called eight six six nine eighty seven
two five seven.
Speaker 5 (00:40):
And go to the show.
Speaker 4 (00:41):
And now your host of Dodger Talk, David Vasse.
Speaker 5 (00:47):
We are live at Fenway Park after the Red Sox
defeat the Dodgers tonight by a final score of four
to two. Welcome the Dodger Talk. David Vass with you
until eight thirty tonight and nine eight seven two five seventy.
We will hear from Clayton Kershaw, we will hear from
Dave Roberts. We'll get into more mind numbing trade talk
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as the trade deadline is coming up next or this
upcoming Thursday, three o'clock Pacific time. The Dodgers have a
day off in Tampa, Florida before they finish up this
extended East Coast road trips, so guys will have a
lot of time to pay attention to all the rumors
and everything that's surrounding Major League Baseball as we get
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to the trade deadline at three o'clock Pacific time. So
we'll get to that. We also will give you an
update on Blake Trining and Blake Snell, good news for
both blakes tonight. We'll get to that in a while,
but first, just want to talk about this game tonight.
You know, four to two game. You might say, all right,
that's baseball. You're not gonna win every game four to two,
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but this was a game that the Dodgers could have
made a lot c I know, Kershaw didn't have his
best stuff. That was an issue. Dave Roberts was getting
ready to take him out of the game before Roman
Anthony doubled to right center or left center field. Just
didn't work out for him. Kershaw doesn't have the fastball
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anymore to overcome not having his secondary pitches. So that's
the issue, and that was the issue tonight. But like
I said during the Clubhouse show, Andy Paez had fits
tonight out there in center field. He had no idea
how to play the ball coming off the monster. He
took a really bad route to that whatever they call
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in center field, right center field out there on the
Duran Triple. It just wasn't a good night for him.
And there have been many outfielder that has had nights
like Andy Paez at Fenway Park tonight. I just haven't
seen it in a while. And a lot of times
you'll see a guy that's never played here before go
out early and the coaches will hit balls off the
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monster and just so they could see the bounces. I
believe he did that yesterday, but nothing like real action,
game time. And that's why it's important you hear coaches
talk about how it's important for players to go out
there in center field during batting practice to see the
ball come off the bat, see how it plays in
real time. But nonetheless, it just didn't look right. And
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that ball that Roman Anthony hit with two outs in
the fifth inning, you heard Jose Mode. He gave us
a great tip on how to play the wall. That
Garret Anderson relay to him having your body kind of
facing left field. Piez was nowhere close to facing left field.
He was trying to play it straight up and the
ball went over his head, and that's where Hystereus Ruiz,
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who doesn't have a great arm, had to throw it
to the relay guy and Hayesan Kim who made a
nice throw to Will Smith to make it close. But
Alex Bregman should have been at third base on a
ball hit that way, shouldn't have been scoring from first base,
especially with a quad issue, So that was problematic, and
the Dodgers did not have a challenge after they challenged
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Freddie Freeman being safe for out at third base. They
wasted their challenge after the first inning, which is a
big gamble no matter what early in the game, and
they had a two nothing leader, I believe, yeah, they
had a two nothing lead at that time. There was
no urgency to use your challenge right there, and you
didn't have any opportunities to challenge the play at the
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plate there in the fifth inning, where Will Smith thought
Alex Bregman may have slid over home plate or his
foot was up as he made the tag, So that's
the danger of using your challenge. I did not like
that one, but that's not the reason why the Dodgers lost.
And speaking of Will Smith, head scratching base running play
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by Will Smith in the seventh inning, you're down two runs,
there's two outs. You hit the ball hard out there
in left center field, again close to the wall. You
got to know there's a shorter distance for them to
make the throw. You don't want to make the last
out on the basis when you're down two runs. So
that was just a case of doing too much, trying
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to do too much right there. And how about in
the fourth inning, shoe Hey Otani had a great at
bat against Garrett Crochet in the first inning. He had
a horrible at bat against Crochet in the fourth inning.
Two on, two out. Crochet was somewhat vulnerable there and
he's chasing a pitch that's five inches off the plate.
So I just didn't like that. And after that home run,
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Ohtani struck out three times. He's on pace to strike
out almost two hundred times this year. By the way,
eight six six nine, eight seven two five seventy is
the phone number. Let's head downstairs to the manager's office,
and here from Dave Roberts.
Speaker 6 (05:51):
On Kim Kim's battling. I like the way he showed
up by then I brought the infield in the first
basement in got a basic base it. And you know,
Haysn's been battling a shoulder in a situation, so it's
it's been affecting. I think it's been affecting his swing
a little bit. It's that left shoulder. So he's, you know,
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doing everything he can to be out there, be available,
and so I think that's some of the reason why
there's a little bit more sling and miss than it
has been. But he'll be down tomorrow and hopefully kind of,
you know, get that shoulder back back feeling a little
bit better. Do you know how long it's been. It's
been probably, you know, five six days something like that.
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But he he's a competitor. He wants to be out there.
Speaker 7 (06:40):
Using the challenge on Freddy's play, how much were you handcuffed?
Speaker 8 (06:45):
Later there were a couple other.
Speaker 6 (06:46):
Clothes, Yeah, there were, there were a couple of the
close plays. But I think that in that situation with
one out, if he is safe, then it's it's it's
worth that challenge, and we thought it was close enough
worth it. But yeah, I don't know how the game's
gonna play out, but to use a challenge in the
first inning and you look back and it sort of
bit us life.
Speaker 5 (07:07):
All right, there's manager Dave Roberts down in the Dodgers' clubhouse.
We'll hear from Clayton Kershaw in a moment. But also
Mookie Betts. He did join the Dodgers today. Rickmunday spotted
him in the Dodger dugout in the sixth inning. Bets
came up in the ninth inning, struck out, looking to
end the game against Eraaldis Chapman, who was struggling to
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throw strikes. But that was a fastball right down the middle.
And you've heard Dave Roberts talk about the indecisiveness of
Mookie Bets. It was right there for everybody to see
here in Boston, how indecisive he was about swinging or
not swinging. And he strikes out, looking but happy. Mookie's
back with the Dodgers and hopefully he can get past
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this family personal issue. I guess Dave Roberts alluded to
it before the game that it was the death in
the family not really sure who in his family passed away.
I know it's not his mom or dad, so an
extended family member. So we'll get more details from Mookie tomorrow.
He did not speak to the media tonight. Eight six
six nine eighty seven two five seventy is the phone
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number Dodgers fall to the Red Sox four to two.
Let's go out to Marshall, who was at Fenway Park tonight?
Hi Marshall, you're on Dodger Talk. Hey Marshall, where are
you at? Where are you at? I'm on Mastha, I
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mustn't okay, Okay, you were at Fenway Park tonight. So
you're keeping the party going tonight, I guess.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
Yeah. Yeah, it'll be a good night tonight. Well not
as good as it should have been. I was really
looking for a little Kershaw love tonight. But either way,
it was a great night at the ballpark.
Speaker 5 (08:53):
Where were you sitting?
Speaker 2 (08:55):
So we were sitting like right back behind the Dodgers
got killers killer tickets tonight And there just a ton
of Dodgers fans there tonight, A ton.
Speaker 5 (09:04):
Yeah, there really was. And uh, it's it's special to
come to Fenway Park.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
Yeah, I got I live here, so I come to
you know, probably good five or six or seven games
a year, and there's always a lot of road fans
that come. But tonight there were more Dodgers fans there
tonight than especially you saw him in the first inning
than you really see in almost any in any game
at Fenway. And I just have to mention, I don't
know if it I don't know if this is exactly
right or if it came off on on the broadcast,
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but in the second inning, I think second or third,
well it wasn't the third, but in the second inning,
there was a very big cheer that started out with
a huge batch of Dodgers fans sitting out in the
right field bleachers of Yankee suck. And it was a
I heard that away.
Speaker 9 (09:49):
It was.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
It was a Fenway wide Yankee suck cheer with everyone.
There a lot of unity among all of the fans there,
and that was a pretty entertaining moment.
Speaker 5 (09:59):
Was that because they showed the score that the Yankees lost?
Or was it just hey, we both disliked the Yankees
so we can agree on that.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
Yeah, I think it was that. I mean, it's not
unusual to hear a Yankees sucks here, and I think
it was the it was the Dodgers fans doing their
homework and realizing that that's a good a good move
to show a little unanimity among everyone at the Paul Park.
Speaker 5 (10:22):
All Right, Marshall, thanks for thanks for the insight on
all that appreciated. Eight sixty six nine eighty seven two
five seventy is the phone number. I even heard let's
go Dodgers before first pitch was thrown, and that kind
of got drowned out by Red Sox fans. So yeah,
it was a good spirited fun out here at Fenway Park.
Let's go out to Charles in San Diego. You're on
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Dodger Talk with David vasse Hi.
Speaker 1 (10:45):
Charles, Hey, Dave, Yeah, it was a really unnecessary lost
in my book.
Speaker 10 (10:53):
I just wanted to comment.
Speaker 1 (10:54):
I noticed that Fredd he's been really aggressive at running
on the basis and he's leading to poor base running decisions.
Speaker 10 (11:02):
Just one of your input on that.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
Also, I you know, you know that earlier that Will
Smith really made a really bad decision after getting that long,
hard single off the wall, especially with the shortin outfield
in Boston, you know, trying to go for second base
and I think two or earlier tonight got thrown out
too as well, So I just wanted your input on that.
Speaker 5 (11:24):
And yeah, yeah, not great base running tonight, that's for sure.
And you know, I was thinking the same thing. There's
been some bang bang plays with Freddie Freeman on the
bases recently. He's got to remember that, you know, he's
on a on a wheel that is still not one
hundred percent and he's thirty six years old. And I
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know he's a really good base runner and he takes
really good routes base running wise, but I think somebody's
got to remind Freddy that he's not as fast as
he was even two years ago. So I'm with you.
I think way too many gambles on the basis by Freddie.
Speaker 1 (12:04):
Yeah, yeah, he's Yeah, I was just thinking the same thing.
He's I don't know if he really realizes he's not typically.
Speaker 5 (12:12):
A fast runner.
Speaker 10 (12:13):
So and and again taking a chance on that angle
is basically he looks really really like a wabbling you know,
just really you know, comfortable.
Speaker 5 (12:24):
You're gonna get me in trouble again, just like when
I raised Adrian go and Zalez and I said, when
I watch him run, it was like in slow mo
I feel like you're starting to bait me, and I
and Freddie may challenge me to a race here soon,
So we'll just leave it at that. We agree. We
agree that Freddie uh maybe needs to realize that maybe
he's lost to half a step the last couple of years.
Speaker 10 (12:47):
Kudos on that, all right?
Speaker 5 (12:50):
True that Charles, thank you for the phone call. Eight
six six seven two five seventy is the phone number.
Dodgers fall to the Red Sox tonight, four to two. Uh.
And by the way, this is the time of year
that I really start looking at the standings, and I'm
sure you do as well. The Dodgers are sixty one
and forty four as far as best record in the
National League. They have the second best record to the
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Cubs and Brewers, who both have forty three losses. The
Dodgers and Mets have forty four losses. But when you
look at the standings, even with the Dodgers five hundred
in their last ten games, the Padres and Giants have
missed a golden opportunity to really close the gap in
the NL West. The Dodgers are still five games ahead
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of San Diego, and they're six and a half games
ahead of the Giants despite being playing at very average
at best the last fifteen to twenty games. So, I mean,
if the Giants and Padres weren't going to catch the
Dodgers during this stretch, I don't know when they are.
And as far as the wild card standings go, it's
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something to keep an eye on because right now, if
the postseason started, the Dodgers, even though they're a division
winner a game behind the Brewers and Cubs, they would
be the third would be the wildcard team or the
third division winner. And right now, when you look at
the wildcard standings, it's the Mets and Phillies in one
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of those NL Central teams that would be the three
wildcard teams. And the Padres are not only five games
behind the Dodgers for first place in the NL West,
they're five games back of the last wildcard spot in
the National League. That's a lot of ground to catch
up on. And the Reds are just a game back
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of the Padres chasing that last wildcard spot as well.
So you know, even though you got three teams in
the Padres, Reds, Giants, and kind of Cardinals, those teams
are really far behind the last wildcard spot. So you know,
when you talk about who's a seller and who's not
a seller, I think you got to start being realistic
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if you're some of these teams that not only are
you five games back, but you got to leap frog
you know, four or five teams. But yeah, right now,
the Padres, who want to be in the postseason some way, somehow,
are five games back of the Dodgers and five games
back of the last wildcard spot. Let's go out to
Jerry in La. You're on Dodger Talk. How you doing,
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Jerry Hey? David Hey?
Speaker 9 (15:28):
I was that fits? Any kind of was a microcosm
of why people don't like Dave Roberts, Kevin Cash, Frankcona,
anybody else would have pulled him after Bregman filed off
ten pitches and then got to hit and allowed Roman
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Anthony and we lost the game four to two. Dave
Roberts could manage the Elsigunda Little League and one other.
Come on, Jerry, you use a gas mask at home
because you have to breathe through your nose because your
nose is so far up the players.
Speaker 5 (16:03):
Took Okay, Jerry, thank you for the phone call. Yeah,
I see what you were doing there, you were trying
to deliver that line and you started to stumble, and
I saw where it was going. So thank you for
the phone call, Jerry. And yeah, I guess everybody doesn't
like a two time World Series manager. Look, I can
feel the momentum. I mean, number one, you try to
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you try to take a shot at me, Jerry, which
I'm fine with. I can handle that. But you know, people,
you know what I know I'm doing my job well
is because people like you think I just kiss butt
twenty four to seven. And then the players and the
team thinks that I'm too critical. So you know that's
that's a win for me when both sides think I'm
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doing a bad job. Okay, one side thinks I'm too critical.
The other things I'm too much of a softy. So
I feel like I'm doing a great job when that happens.
Eight sixty six, nine eighty seven two five seventy. I
was actually gonna try to answer his his insults seriously.
But why would I do that? Why would I do that?
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All Right, we're gonna take a time out here on
Dodger Talk. When we come back. More of your phone
calls at eight sixty six nine eight seven two, five seventy,
we'll hear from Dave Roberts about Blake Trining. We'll give
you an update on snail Zilla, who is very close
to returning. And also you'll hear from Clayton Kershaw as
he is the losing pitcher tonight as the Red Sox
beat the Dodgers and Kershaw four to two on A
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Speaker 4 (17:44):
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Speaker 11 (17:58):
Fellas sixty five and Oltani hits the ball high and
deep the center fam way back. It goes toward the
wall and it will be gone. That's a run for
Oltani to lead up the game. Oltani with his thirty
eighth home run of the season, his tenth leadoff home
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run of the season, in the twelfth one he's had
in the first inning this year.
Speaker 5 (18:25):
Shoe a Otani on the third pitch of the game
from Garrett Crochet gave the Dodgers an early one nothing lead.
Ta Oscar Hernandez also at homer in that first inning,
and the Dodgers were feeling good after leading two to
nothing against Crochet. Kershaw gave three back in the second
inning and then Roman Anthony doubled for the fourth run
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and the Dodgers fall to the Red Sox tonight four
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five seventy is the phone number. And just to clarify
the National League Wildcard race, yes, I am aware. Three
teams make the wildcard. So there's a logjam right now
in the NL Central and the NL East because the
Meds and Phillies are tied for first place. The Cubs
and Brewers are tied for first place. So basically, between
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the Cubs and Brewers, whoever doesn't win that division is
going to be one of the wildcard teams. Same between
the Mets and Phillies, whoever doesn't win the NL East
is going to be a wildcard team. And the Padres
right now are the third wildcard team. Just a game
I had a Cincinnati and they're five games back of
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trying to move up to the second wildcard position, be
behind either the Mets or Phillies right now. It's right now,
it's very clustered at the top for the NL Central
and the NL East. But whoever doesn't win those divisions
more than likely are going to be the wildcard team,
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whether it's the Cubs or Brewers, or Mets or Phillies.
And you got the Padres there, just a game ahead
of Cincinnati for the third and final wildcard spot. As
far as the Red Sox go, after winning their fifty
six game of the year, they're a half a game
ahead of the Rangers for the third and final wildcard spot,
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as they are seven and a half games back of
the Blue Jays in the AL East. Eight six six
two five seventy is the phone number I want to
head downstairs to hear from Clayton Kershaw. A rough night
for him, did not have great defense behind him either,
and he's speaking to the media downstairs.
Speaker 8 (20:54):
Yeah, yeah, it was a second thing. Especially, he's needed
to figure it out a little bit better. Yeah. The
last last Yevening's actually felt pretty good with everything, just uh,
you know, I couldn't make the adjustment of that second ending,
and that's what cost us. You know, obviously, when you're
facing a guy like Crochet, there's not gonna be a
ton of runs. So our guys did a good job there,
you know, getting the lead there early and you know,
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really having good at bats and you know, just frustrating
not to be able to hold the.
Speaker 7 (21:19):
Lead with those two strike counts in the second and
just kind of executing the slider.
Speaker 8 (21:24):
Just like the general second thing was just kind of
generally not what I needed it to be. Having a
tough time, you know, with a lot of different things.
But honestly, after that, the third, fourth, even the fifth,
even though I gave up that run there, I felt
felt pretty solid with everything. So go look at it
tomorrow and kind of figure out what was going on
there in the second. But could have been super frustrating
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day and now it's only like super mildly frustrating. Just uh,
you know that that's still in there. I can still
get people out. There's just that second ending got to me.
Speaker 7 (21:58):
That that second and after but like the adjustments is
that kind of what you've been talking about this year,
just kind of when you are fighting through stuff, trying
to get things dialed back in as quickly as possible.
Speaker 8 (22:07):
In the middle of the start, Yeah, I would say so.
I mean I think every starts a different, but I
would say typically I've had been been pretty solid at
you know, making the adjustment, pitch the pitch, and you know,
some starts are better than there's this. This start obviously
took an ending too long.
Speaker 12 (22:27):
Did that ten pitcher bad type right and take a
little out of you at four?
Speaker 5 (22:31):
The double?
Speaker 8 (22:32):
I know, yeah, I didn't think you hit it. Yeah,
I didn't think anything. He hit it that good but
carried well. Yeah, it's that was a good swing.
Speaker 5 (22:46):
With it being two years until the team comes back
to this ballpark, did you poached this thing any differently
for any reason?
Speaker 8 (22:53):
No, Uh, it's obviously a cool ballpark, fun to come
to Fenway, and crowds have been awesome. Dodger fans traveled
really well here, so every then was the fun to
be here. But I'm good to leave for that.
Speaker 5 (23:08):
Did you notice the home fans seemed to give you
a nice game.
Speaker 7 (23:10):
When he left as well?
Speaker 5 (23:12):
Seem like a very nice both leeks.
Speaker 8 (23:14):
Yeah, I'm sure the Herd Sox fanser happy there win,
so they're good.
Speaker 5 (23:19):
All right, All right, there's Clayton Kershaw down in the
Dodger Clubhouse, and he's right in that second inning. The
first four batters that he faced, he had two strikes on,
and the first one I'm sure really bothers him the
most because he gave up a leadoff walk to Trevor's story.
After being ahead O two, he threw four consecutive balls
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and that started the second inning where the Red Sox
scored three runs. But he had two strikes on Trevor's story,
he had two strikes on Carlos Narves, and he had
two strikes on Jaron Duran and he wasn't able to
get them out. So yeah, he knows how to self
diagnose himself of really well, eight six six two five
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seventy is the phone number. Dodgers fall to the Red
Sox tonight, four to two. Let's go out to Laguna Neguel, Ralph,
you're on Dodger Talk Live from Boston.
Speaker 3 (24:14):
Thanks Dave, doing a great job. I've been a Dodger
fans force nineteen fifty five. Please let me get this out.
You might want to slam my opinion, but let me
get this out please MOI.
Speaker 5 (24:24):
Yeah, of course, why would it not. You have all
the time in the world. Tell us what you want
to say.
Speaker 3 (24:29):
Thank you, sir Molkey betch he's betting two thirty eight.
And you know you're an an expert baseball fan and
you know what you're talking about. No championship baseball team
has a legal of bat at batting two thirty eight.
Nobody does. Nobody does. He should go to Davey Robins
and say, listen, I'm a team player. And when Munsey
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comes back, Moki Best should be batting seven, Pajes' first,
Frey Feman second, Will Smith thirds, o, Tommy's fourth, Fernando's fifth,
Monthy sixth, Bets seventh, Edmunds eighth, and whoever plays shortstop
rotating shortstop. Bet you go better that lineup.
Speaker 5 (25:12):
So he knew I wouldn't like your lineup. I don't
like your lineup. That's fine, that's fine if you don't
want Mookie betting leadoff. But I don't like I don't
like your lineup. I don't like not being able to
hit until the fourth spot in the lineup.
Speaker 3 (25:26):
Well, Tommy is trending.
Speaker 5 (25:28):
I like him hitting in the first inning, just like
he did tonight when he hit a home.
Speaker 3 (25:32):
Run, right right, right. But he's like, he's trending to
finish the season below two fifty. He's now that the
Adam Dunn of the National League.
Speaker 5 (25:40):
A home run is only going to hit. Ralph, how
about this, let's make a bet, gentleman's bet here. I
will send you a bobblehead if show Hao Tani hits
below two fifty to end the year.
Speaker 3 (25:53):
Well, you know, you know what you know, you know,
you know, you know he's a home run every game. Okay,
he shot shot times every game, so you know he doesn't.
Speaker 5 (26:03):
He's striking out a little bit more than than what
I like. Ralph. You're right, he's on pace to strike
out on hundred and ninety times. That's fine, that's fine.
His betting average right now, it's well above two fifty, Ralph,
do you really want to know what?
Speaker 3 (26:18):
Is he below seventy three?
Speaker 5 (26:21):
It's two seventy three?
Speaker 3 (26:22):
Okay, well you know a mookie bet?
Speaker 5 (26:25):
All right, Ralph, what are you gonna give me if
he hits above two fifty? I'm gonna send you a bobblehead,
what are you gonna do for me?
Speaker 3 (26:31):
Okay, okay, all right, I'll take that back. He should
be batting, all right, Ralph, and I shouldn't.
Speaker 5 (26:37):
I don't like I don't like your lineup. I don't
like your lineup. I'll come up with my own and
I'll let you know. All right, Ralph, thank you for
the phone call. I do not like that lineup, but
I understand what he's saying. And look, Mookie Betts has
not had a good season. It was. I mean, it
hits you at Fenway Park because their scoreboard is so
big and they have the player's stats and straight away
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center field and that two thirty eight when he was
at the plate in the ninth thing, I mean, that
just blinded me. And his three zero three on base percentage,
that blinded me. And I'm sure people in Boston are thinking,
what what's going that's our Mookie Bets. Yeah, it hasn't
been a great year, and every year is unique to itself.
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I've learned that talking to players every year is unique
to itself. But you know, the whole season numbers may
not look great for Moki, but he's got two more
full months of the regular season before October. That's all
he should care about. That's all he should care about.
Don't worry about what the season totals are going to be.
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Show me the last two months and make them Mookie
Betts esque. Eight six six, nine eighty seven two five
seventy is the phone number, Dodger Joey, You were at
the game tonight? How you doing, Dodger Joey.
Speaker 12 (27:57):
Hey, Dave, Yeah, we were. I'm the car right now
with my wife, and yes, we were at the game.
We had a great time. I understand that it's just
a little bit past the all stuff break, so we're
not freaking out about anything. I was actually glad you'd
be able to see VOOKI uh, you know, getting that bat,
regardless of you know, how it turned out in the moment.
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I think everything is fine there. I had two questions
for you. One was early in the game when Freddy
stretched into third base there and they did the review
and he immediately motions for the review. And I've seen
him do that before and I always trust him. I
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think he's probably right, but it was hard to see
whether or not he really was safe. I just wondered,
I know, that's just you know.
Speaker 5 (28:45):
He was safe. I thought he was safe. I thought
he was safe.
Speaker 6 (28:49):
Thought that.
Speaker 5 (28:50):
Here's the here's the deal with the review. It's got
to be conclusive to overturn it. So they have so
many different angles, and that's the that's the issue. If
the call on the field is safe, it's gonna be hard,
or it's out, it's gonna be hard to overturn it.
There's gotta be a super conclusive evidence that there's no
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there's no doubt. So that's it's not so much whether
or not we think he's safer out. You just got
to play you know, the rules games with the replay system.
But you know the Dodgers were ahead to nothing. Freddie
shouldn't have gone there, even though Duran dropped the ball.
It's a short throw and Durantz has a pretty good arm.
Shouldn't have gone right there. Any other ballpark, I can
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understand it, but not here. That's a short throw in
left field and you're ahead two to nothing. It's not
like it's a scoreless tie. I understand that you want
to extend the inning and that's maybe your best chance
to tack on against Crochet, But using your challenge in
the first inning, that's a gamble.
Speaker 12 (29:54):
Yeah, I agree on all of that. And you know,
obviously the body positioning when those cameras are being looked at, really,
if you can't get the right angle, you can't really
see it and all that. The second question I had
for you was Kirby Yate's coming up. You know, they're
late in the game. You know he you know he
got out of it, but he had three I think three. Yeah,
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I wondered what you thought about? Yeah, so did you
What did you see that? Is he on its way
back at all? Is he's trending in a positive direction
or not not so much?
Speaker 2 (30:27):
What do you think?
Speaker 5 (30:27):
Well, he's still throwing hard, which is good. But I
feel like once the Dodgers get back Blake Trinon who
they're supposed to get back tomorrow, and they get back
Bruce Star Gradorol hopefully in August, and who knows who
they acquire at the trade deadline, Kirby Yates, that will
make your bullpen deeper. Kirby HS should be the guy
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that comes in to to keep a game where it's
at if you're down a run or two, or if
it's a tied game in the sixth or seventh inning,
that's where he should be. He shouldn't be trying to games.
He shouldn't be trying to close games, because he's given
up a lot of home runs lately and guys are
hitting the ball hard off of him. So I just
feel like once the you know, once these guys get back,
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he'll he'll be in a better spot to you know,
kind of be in the Ryan Brasier role that Brazier
was in when he was at his best a couple
of years ago.
Speaker 12 (31:25):
Okay, all right, cool, thanks so much, Dave. I love you, buddy.
Speaker 5 (31:29):
Thanks Joey, drive safe wherever you're going. Eight six six
nine eight seven two five seventy is the phone number
Dodgers beat or Dodgers fall to the Red Sox tonight
four to two. And I mentioned Blake Trinan. He will
rejoin the Dodgers tomorrow. Here's what Dave Roberts had to
say before the game, not only about trying and when
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he may be activated, but also whether or not Tryning's
going to be the Dodgers closer when he comes back.
Speaker 6 (31:56):
He's on his way. I just don't know, you know,
if he's going to be activated tomorrow or Monday, but
it's safe to say that tomorrow or Monday, he'll be activated.
Speaker 5 (32:06):
When he does come back, whenever he is activated, are
you planning on using him as the closer?
Speaker 6 (32:14):
I think that it'll be a clean inning, it'll be
a leverage inning. I think that kind of given where
we're at. I don't know if he's going to be
just dedicated to the closer role, because there might be
some times where I feel that, you know, we need
the highest leverage guy for a particular spot, then we'll
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use him there too.
Speaker 5 (32:36):
All right, well that makes sense. So like last night,
Alex Vesia came in to face the top of the
Red Sox order in the eighth inning, and then Ben
Casparius was brought in to face the bottom of the
order of the Red Sox in the ninth inning. I
could see the same type of deal happening between Vesia
and Blake Trinen. But considering how big of a challenge
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it's in recently for the Dodgers to get the last
three outs, why not have Blake trying to be your
exclusive closer until we see who the Dodgers acquire or
don't acquire on July thirty first. Right now, if you're
asking me, Blake trying coming back. Yeah, he's the best
option to close out games. There's nothing more deflating in
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a baseball game than your closer blowing the save. There's
nothing more deflating. Ask any player that. And if it
happens over and over again, or it happens a lot
in a span of two weeks, there's been some cases
where it could really divide a team offense versus bullpen
versus closers. That's not happening with the Dodgers, but I'm
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just saying that's an example. Even here in Boston. You know,
everybody talks about how the Red Sox won the World
Series and four because no more Garcia Para was traded.
That wasn't the case. They got a closer and Keith
Folk in two thousand and four. They did not have
a closer in O three, and that bullpen was blowing
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lead after lead after lead after having a really good offense. So, uh,
I'm just saying, Blake Trining, I know he's been out
for a couple of months. He would be my number
one option tomorrow night if there is a game that
needs to if it was a safe situation, I'm going
to Blake trining eight six six nine eight seven two
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five seventy is the phone number Dodgers fall to the
Red Sox tonight four to two. I want to give
you an update on Blake Snell. He made what probably
is his last rehab start tonight for Oklahoma City at Reno,
which is not an easy place to pitch because of
the thin air, similar to Albuquerque, New Mexico. But Blake
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Snell through four and two thirds of no hit baseball
tonight for Oklahoma City. He did not allow a hit
and four and two thirds innings he had seven strikeouts
and four walks. So Blake Snell's ready and with him
pitching tonight, that lines him up to pitch Friday in
Tampa if the Dodgers decide to go that route. And
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how fitting would it be for Snell to make his
return to the Dodger rotation against his former team, the
Rays in Tampa at George Steinbrenner Field. That would be
pretty special Friday night in Tampa. So that's what it's
lined up to be. With him pitching tonight, he's ready
to go. Yeah, and he's got that look, and I
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definitely believe now the Dodgers' pitching staff is in a
great spot rotation wise. You got Glass now back, who's
look dominant in his first three starts. You're gonna get
snell back in the next turn. You got Kershaw as
your fifth starter. You got Otani, who is now being
stretched out. Dave Roberts said in his next start in
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Cincinnati will be four innings, So at some point you're
not going to need a Roblast or is she in
or a Casparius to piggyback Otani probably after one or
two more starts. So you're in a really good spot.
Not to mention Yamamoto, I mean you're you have the
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rotation that they were hyping before the season in front
of you. Now they just got to get their bullpen healthy.
And I would you know, everybody keeps talking about the
Dodgers going after a right handed reliever, and yes, I'm
sure they're looking for one. But I would say if
the Dodgers had to use their trade assets, their trade
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capital to get either a right handed reliever or an
outfield bat, I would say that that would be one A,
one B. I. I don't think they're mutually exclusive. I
would say this, the Dodgers would like to continue to
have roster flexibility in their outfield and not lock themselves
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into a play that's kind of mediocre for more than
one year, because there's some pretty good outfield free agents
on the market this winner, if you're keeping tabs on it,
Cody Bellinger could be one of them. Kyle Tucker certainly
will be one of them. And if you believe what's
out there that the Dodgers went after Jan Soda this winner,
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why wouldn't we believe that they wouldn't go after a
player like Kyle Tucker, who's a better all around player
than Juan Sodo. So just keep that in mind as well.
Eight six six ninety seven two five seventy is the
phone number. That's the phone number for tomorrow, because we're
wrapping things up now. Walker Buehler is going to be
on the mound tomorrow for the Red Sox, facing his
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former team for the first time after last year's World
Series finish. Bueller this year for the Red Sox is
six and six with an ERA of five seventy two.
He's going up against Dustin May, who has the same
record six and six with an EER just to run
less four to seventy three. I'm not gonna say this
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possibly could be Dustin May's last start for the Dodgers,
because even when I say possibly or could be, everybody
takes it and aggregates it like it's definitive and an absolute.
It's not. But this will be Dustin May's final start
before the trade deadline, that's for certain. Morongo Casino Dodgers
on Deck begins at nine point thirty. First pitch from
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Fenway Park with Rick Monday and Tim Neverett at ten
thirty five. Thanks to Dwayne McDonald here at Fenway Park
in Boston. Thanks to Daniel West filling in for Colin
Yee in Burbank, and thanks to you for listening. In
case you missed any of the show, you can find
it on the iHeartRadio app. That's also where you can
hear our pregame conversation with Boston College, his own Emit Shehan,
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who was last night's winning pitcher for the Dodgers. Coming
up next Fox Sports Radio once again the final score
from Boston, The Red Side expat the Dodgers four to two.
Have a great rest of your Saturday. We'll talk to
you tomorrow. See ya,
One thing about this gene is the invisible and tangibles
that they have.
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So just thank you, give me are.
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And go to the show.
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And now your host of Dodger Talk, David Vasse.
Speaker 5 (00:47):
We are live at Fenway Park after the Red Sox
defeat the Dodgers tonight by a final score of four
to two. Welcome the Dodger Talk. David Vass with you
until eight thirty tonight and nine eight seven two five seventy.
We will hear from Clayton Kershaw, we will hear from
Dave Roberts. We'll get into more mind numbing trade talk
(01:10):
as the trade deadline is coming up next or this
upcoming Thursday, three o'clock Pacific time. The Dodgers have a
day off in Tampa, Florida before they finish up this
extended East Coast road trips, so guys will have a
lot of time to pay attention to all the rumors
and everything that's surrounding Major League Baseball as we get
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to the trade deadline at three o'clock Pacific time. So
we'll get to that. We also will give you an
update on Blake Trining and Blake Snell, good news for
both blakes tonight. We'll get to that in a while,
but first, just want to talk about this game tonight.
You know, four to two game. You might say, all right,
that's baseball. You're not gonna win every game four to two,
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but this was a game that the Dodgers could have
made a lot c I know, Kershaw didn't have his
best stuff. That was an issue. Dave Roberts was getting
ready to take him out of the game before Roman
Anthony doubled to right center or left center field. Just
didn't work out for him. Kershaw doesn't have the fastball
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anymore to overcome not having his secondary pitches. So that's
the issue, and that was the issue tonight. But like
I said during the Clubhouse show, Andy Paez had fits
tonight out there in center field. He had no idea
how to play the ball coming off the monster. He
took a really bad route to that whatever they call
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in center field, right center field out there on the
Duran Triple. It just wasn't a good night for him.
And there have been many outfielder that has had nights
like Andy Paez at Fenway Park tonight. I just haven't
seen it in a while. And a lot of times
you'll see a guy that's never played here before go
out early and the coaches will hit balls off the
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monster and just so they could see the bounces. I
believe he did that yesterday, but nothing like real action,
game time. And that's why it's important you hear coaches
talk about how it's important for players to go out
there in center field during batting practice to see the
ball come off the bat, see how it plays in
real time. But nonetheless, it just didn't look right. And
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that ball that Roman Anthony hit with two outs in
the fifth inning, you heard Jose Mode. He gave us
a great tip on how to play the wall. That
Garret Anderson relay to him having your body kind of
facing left field. Piez was nowhere close to facing left field.
He was trying to play it straight up and the
ball went over his head, and that's where Hystereus Ruiz,
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who doesn't have a great arm, had to throw it
to the relay guy and Hayesan Kim who made a
nice throw to Will Smith to make it close. But
Alex Bregman should have been at third base on a
ball hit that way, shouldn't have been scoring from first base,
especially with a quad issue, So that was problematic, and
the Dodgers did not have a challenge after they challenged
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Freddie Freeman being safe for out at third base. They
wasted their challenge after the first inning, which is a
big gamble no matter what early in the game, and
they had a two nothing leader, I believe, yeah, they
had a two nothing lead at that time. There was
no urgency to use your challenge right there, and you
didn't have any opportunities to challenge the play at the
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plate there in the fifth inning, where Will Smith thought
Alex Bregman may have slid over home plate or his
foot was up as he made the tag, So that's
the danger of using your challenge. I did not like
that one, but that's not the reason why the Dodgers lost.
And speaking of Will Smith, head scratching base running play
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by Will Smith in the seventh inning, you're down two runs,
there's two outs. You hit the ball hard out there
in left center field, again close to the wall. You
got to know there's a shorter distance for them to
make the throw. You don't want to make the last
out on the basis when you're down two runs. So
that was just a case of doing too much, trying
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to do too much right there. And how about in
the fourth inning, shoe Hey Otani had a great at
bat against Garrett Crochet in the first inning. He had
a horrible at bat against Crochet in the fourth inning.
Two on, two out. Crochet was somewhat vulnerable there and
he's chasing a pitch that's five inches off the plate.
So I just didn't like that. And after that home run,
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Ohtani struck out three times. He's on pace to strike
out almost two hundred times this year. By the way,
eight six six nine, eight seven two five seventy is
the phone number. Let's head downstairs to the manager's office,
and here from Dave Roberts.
Speaker 6 (05:51):
On Kim Kim's battling. I like the way he showed
up by then I brought the infield in the first
basement in got a basic base it. And you know,
Haysn's been battling a shoulder in a situation, so it's
it's been affecting. I think it's been affecting his swing
a little bit. It's that left shoulder. So he's, you know,
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doing everything he can to be out there, be available,
and so I think that's some of the reason why
there's a little bit more sling and miss than it
has been. But he'll be down tomorrow and hopefully kind of,
you know, get that shoulder back back feeling a little
bit better. Do you know how long it's been. It's
been probably, you know, five six days something like that.
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But he he's a competitor. He wants to be out there.
Speaker 7 (06:40):
Using the challenge on Freddy's play, how much were you handcuffed?
Speaker 8 (06:45):
Later there were a couple other.
Speaker 6 (06:46):
Clothes, Yeah, there were, there were a couple of the
close plays. But I think that in that situation with
one out, if he is safe, then it's it's it's
worth that challenge, and we thought it was close enough
worth it. But yeah, I don't know how the game's
gonna play out, but to use a challenge in the
first inning and you look back and it sort of
bit us life.
Speaker 5 (07:07):
All right, there's manager Dave Roberts down in the Dodgers' clubhouse.
We'll hear from Clayton Kershaw in a moment. But also
Mookie Betts. He did join the Dodgers today. Rickmunday spotted
him in the Dodger dugout in the sixth inning. Bets
came up in the ninth inning, struck out, looking to
end the game against Eraaldis Chapman, who was struggling to
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throw strikes. But that was a fastball right down the middle.
And you've heard Dave Roberts talk about the indecisiveness of
Mookie Bets. It was right there for everybody to see
here in Boston, how indecisive he was about swinging or
not swinging. And he strikes out, looking but happy. Mookie's
back with the Dodgers and hopefully he can get past
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this family personal issue. I guess Dave Roberts alluded to
it before the game that it was the death in
the family not really sure who in his family passed away.
I know it's not his mom or dad, so an
extended family member. So we'll get more details from Mookie tomorrow.
He did not speak to the media tonight. Eight six
six nine eighty seven two five seventy is the phone
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number Dodgers fall to the Red Sox four to two.
Let's go out to Marshall, who was at Fenway Park tonight?
Hi Marshall, you're on Dodger Talk. Hey Marshall, where are
you at? Where are you at? I'm on Mastha, I
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mustn't okay, Okay, you were at Fenway Park tonight. So
you're keeping the party going tonight, I guess.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
Yeah. Yeah, it'll be a good night tonight. Well not
as good as it should have been. I was really
looking for a little Kershaw love tonight. But either way,
it was a great night at the ballpark.
Speaker 5 (08:53):
Where were you sitting?
Speaker 2 (08:55):
So we were sitting like right back behind the Dodgers
got killers killer tickets tonight And there just a ton
of Dodgers fans there tonight, A ton.
Speaker 5 (09:04):
Yeah, there really was. And uh, it's it's special to
come to Fenway Park.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
Yeah, I got I live here, so I come to
you know, probably good five or six or seven games
a year, and there's always a lot of road fans
that come. But tonight there were more Dodgers fans there
tonight than especially you saw him in the first inning
than you really see in almost any in any game
at Fenway. And I just have to mention, I don't
know if it I don't know if this is exactly
right or if it came off on on the broadcast,
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but in the second inning, I think second or third,
well it wasn't the third, but in the second inning,
there was a very big cheer that started out with
a huge batch of Dodgers fans sitting out in the
right field bleachers of Yankee suck. And it was a
I heard that away.
Speaker 9 (09:49):
It was.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
It was a Fenway wide Yankee suck cheer with everyone.
There a lot of unity among all of the fans there,
and that was a pretty entertaining moment.
Speaker 5 (09:59):
Was that because they showed the score that the Yankees lost?
Or was it just hey, we both disliked the Yankees
so we can agree on that.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
Yeah, I think it was that. I mean, it's not
unusual to hear a Yankees sucks here, and I think
it was the it was the Dodgers fans doing their
homework and realizing that that's a good a good move
to show a little unanimity among everyone at the Paul Park.
Speaker 5 (10:22):
All Right, Marshall, thanks for thanks for the insight on
all that appreciated. Eight sixty six nine eighty seven two
five seventy is the phone number. I even heard let's
go Dodgers before first pitch was thrown, and that kind
of got drowned out by Red Sox fans. So yeah,
it was a good spirited fun out here at Fenway Park.
Let's go out to Charles in San Diego. You're on
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Dodger Talk with David vasse Hi.
Speaker 1 (10:45):
Charles, Hey, Dave, Yeah, it was a really unnecessary lost
in my book.
Speaker 10 (10:53):
I just wanted to comment.
Speaker 1 (10:54):
I noticed that Fredd he's been really aggressive at running
on the basis and he's leading to poor base running decisions.
Speaker 10 (11:02):
Just one of your input on that.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
Also, I you know, you know that earlier that Will
Smith really made a really bad decision after getting that long,
hard single off the wall, especially with the shortin outfield
in Boston, you know, trying to go for second base
and I think two or earlier tonight got thrown out
too as well, So I just wanted your input on that.
Speaker 5 (11:24):
And yeah, yeah, not great base running tonight, that's for sure.
And you know, I was thinking the same thing. There's
been some bang bang plays with Freddie Freeman on the
bases recently. He's got to remember that, you know, he's
on a on a wheel that is still not one
hundred percent and he's thirty six years old. And I
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know he's a really good base runner and he takes
really good routes base running wise, but I think somebody's
got to remind Freddy that he's not as fast as
he was even two years ago. So I'm with you.
I think way too many gambles on the basis by Freddie.
Speaker 1 (12:04):
Yeah, yeah, he's Yeah, I was just thinking the same thing.
He's I don't know if he really realizes he's not typically.
Speaker 5 (12:12):
A fast runner.
Speaker 10 (12:13):
So and and again taking a chance on that angle
is basically he looks really really like a wabbling you know,
just really you know, comfortable.
Speaker 5 (12:24):
You're gonna get me in trouble again, just like when
I raised Adrian go and Zalez and I said, when
I watch him run, it was like in slow mo
I feel like you're starting to bait me, and I
and Freddie may challenge me to a race here soon,
So we'll just leave it at that. We agree. We
agree that Freddie uh maybe needs to realize that maybe
he's lost to half a step the last couple of years.
Speaker 10 (12:47):
Kudos on that, all right?
Speaker 5 (12:50):
True that Charles, thank you for the phone call. Eight
six six seven two five seventy is the phone number.
Dodgers fall to the Red Sox tonight, four to two. Uh.
And by the way, this is the time of year
that I really start looking at the standings, and I'm
sure you do as well. The Dodgers are sixty one
and forty four as far as best record in the
National League. They have the second best record to the
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Cubs and Brewers, who both have forty three losses. The
Dodgers and Mets have forty four losses. But when you
look at the standings, even with the Dodgers five hundred
in their last ten games, the Padres and Giants have
missed a golden opportunity to really close the gap in
the NL West. The Dodgers are still five games ahead
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of San Diego, and they're six and a half games
ahead of the Giants despite being playing at very average
at best the last fifteen to twenty games. So, I mean,
if the Giants and Padres weren't going to catch the
Dodgers during this stretch, I don't know when they are.
And as far as the wild card standings go, it's
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something to keep an eye on because right now, if
the postseason started, the Dodgers, even though they're a division
winner a game behind the Brewers and Cubs, they would
be the third would be the wildcard team or the
third division winner. And right now, when you look at
the wildcard standings, it's the Mets and Phillies in one
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of those NL Central teams that would be the three
wildcard teams. And the Padres are not only five games
behind the Dodgers for first place in the NL West,
they're five games back of the last wildcard spot in
the National League. That's a lot of ground to catch
up on. And the Reds are just a game back
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of the Padres chasing that last wildcard spot as well.
So you know, even though you got three teams in
the Padres, Reds, Giants, and kind of Cardinals, those teams
are really far behind the last wildcard spot. So you know,
when you talk about who's a seller and who's not
a seller, I think you got to start being realistic
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if you're some of these teams that not only are
you five games back, but you got to leap frog
you know, four or five teams. But yeah, right now,
the Padres, who want to be in the postseason some way, somehow,
are five games back of the Dodgers and five games
back of the last wildcard spot. Let's go out to
Jerry in La. You're on Dodger Talk. How you doing,
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Jerry Hey? David Hey?
Speaker 9 (15:28):
I was that fits? Any kind of was a microcosm
of why people don't like Dave Roberts, Kevin Cash, Frankcona,
anybody else would have pulled him after Bregman filed off
ten pitches and then got to hit and allowed Roman
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Anthony and we lost the game four to two. Dave
Roberts could manage the Elsigunda Little League and one other.
Come on, Jerry, you use a gas mask at home
because you have to breathe through your nose because your
nose is so far up the players.
Speaker 5 (16:03):
Took Okay, Jerry, thank you for the phone call. Yeah,
I see what you were doing there, you were trying
to deliver that line and you started to stumble, and
I saw where it was going. So thank you for
the phone call, Jerry. And yeah, I guess everybody doesn't
like a two time World Series manager. Look, I can
feel the momentum. I mean, number one, you try to
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you try to take a shot at me, Jerry, which
I'm fine with. I can handle that. But you know, people,
you know what I know I'm doing my job well
is because people like you think I just kiss butt
twenty four to seven. And then the players and the
team thinks that I'm too critical. So you know that's
that's a win for me when both sides think I'm
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doing a bad job. Okay, one side thinks I'm too critical.
The other things I'm too much of a softy. So
I feel like I'm doing a great job when that happens.
Eight sixty six, nine eighty seven two five seventy. I
was actually gonna try to answer his his insults seriously.
But why would I do that? Why would I do that?
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All Right, we're gonna take a time out here on
Dodger Talk. When we come back. More of your phone
calls at eight sixty six nine eight seven two, five seventy,
we'll hear from Dave Roberts about Blake Trining. We'll give
you an update on snail Zilla, who is very close
to returning. And also you'll hear from Clayton Kershaw as
he is the losing pitcher tonight as the Red Sox
beat the Dodgers and Kershaw four to two on A
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five seventy LA Sports.
Speaker 4 (17:44):
Dodger Talk is available on AM five seventy LA sports
dot com, hand on the iHeartRadio app. Back to more
Dodger Talk with Dodger insider David basseying.
Speaker 11 (17:58):
Fellas sixty five and Oltani hits the ball high and
deep the center fam way back. It goes toward the
wall and it will be gone. That's a run for
Oltani to lead up the game. Oltani with his thirty
eighth home run of the season, his tenth leadoff home
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run of the season, in the twelfth one he's had
in the first inning this year.
Speaker 5 (18:25):
Shoe a Otani on the third pitch of the game
from Garrett Crochet gave the Dodgers an early one nothing lead.
Ta Oscar Hernandez also at homer in that first inning,
and the Dodgers were feeling good after leading two to
nothing against Crochet. Kershaw gave three back in the second
inning and then Roman Anthony doubled for the fourth run
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and the Dodgers fall to the Red Sox tonight four
to two. Daniel Jewelers presents the home run Forecast. Go
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five seventy is the phone number. And just to clarify
the National League Wildcard race, yes, I am aware. Three
teams make the wildcard. So there's a logjam right now
in the NL Central and the NL East because the
Meds and Phillies are tied for first place. The Cubs
and Brewers are tied for first place. So basically, between
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the Cubs and Brewers, whoever doesn't win that division is
going to be one of the wildcard teams. Same between
the Mets and Phillies, whoever doesn't win the NL East
is going to be a wildcard team. And the Padres
right now are the third wildcard team. Just a game
I had a Cincinnati and they're five games back of
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trying to move up to the second wildcard position, be
behind either the Mets or Phillies right now. It's right now,
it's very clustered at the top for the NL Central
and the NL East. But whoever doesn't win those divisions
more than likely are going to be the wildcard team,
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whether it's the Cubs or Brewers, or Mets or Phillies.
And you got the Padres there, just a game ahead
of Cincinnati for the third and final wildcard spot. As
far as the Red Sox go, after winning their fifty
six game of the year, they're a half a game
ahead of the Rangers for the third and final wildcard spot,
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as they are seven and a half games back of
the Blue Jays in the AL East. Eight six six
two five seventy is the phone number I want to
head downstairs to hear from Clayton Kershaw. A rough night
for him, did not have great defense behind him either,
and he's speaking to the media downstairs.
Speaker 8 (20:54):
Yeah, yeah, it was a second thing. Especially, he's needed
to figure it out a little bit better. Yeah. The
last last Yevening's actually felt pretty good with everything, just uh,
you know, I couldn't make the adjustment of that second ending,
and that's what cost us. You know, obviously, when you're
facing a guy like Crochet, there's not gonna be a
ton of runs. So our guys did a good job there,
you know, getting the lead there early and you know,
(21:15):
really having good at bats and you know, just frustrating
not to be able to hold the.
Speaker 7 (21:19):
Lead with those two strike counts in the second and
just kind of executing the slider.
Speaker 8 (21:24):
Just like the general second thing was just kind of
generally not what I needed it to be. Having a
tough time, you know, with a lot of different things.
But honestly, after that, the third, fourth, even the fifth,
even though I gave up that run there, I felt
felt pretty solid with everything. So go look at it
tomorrow and kind of figure out what was going on
there in the second. But could have been super frustrating
(21:47):
day and now it's only like super mildly frustrating. Just uh,
you know that that's still in there. I can still
get people out. There's just that second ending got to me.
Speaker 7 (21:58):
That that second and after but like the adjustments is
that kind of what you've been talking about this year,
just kind of when you are fighting through stuff, trying
to get things dialed back in as quickly as possible.
Speaker 8 (22:07):
In the middle of the start, Yeah, I would say so.
I mean I think every starts a different, but I
would say typically I've had been been pretty solid at
you know, making the adjustment, pitch the pitch, and you know,
some starts are better than there's this. This start obviously
took an ending too long.
Speaker 12 (22:27):
Did that ten pitcher bad type right and take a
little out of you at four?
Speaker 5 (22:31):
The double?
Speaker 8 (22:32):
I know, yeah, I didn't think you hit it. Yeah,
I didn't think anything. He hit it that good but
carried well. Yeah, it's that was a good swing.
Speaker 5 (22:46):
With it being two years until the team comes back
to this ballpark, did you poached this thing any differently
for any reason?
Speaker 8 (22:53):
No, Uh, it's obviously a cool ballpark, fun to come
to Fenway, and crowds have been awesome. Dodger fans traveled
really well here, so every then was the fun to
be here. But I'm good to leave for that.
Speaker 5 (23:08):
Did you notice the home fans seemed to give you
a nice game.
Speaker 7 (23:10):
When he left as well?
Speaker 5 (23:12):
Seem like a very nice both leeks.
Speaker 8 (23:14):
Yeah, I'm sure the Herd Sox fanser happy there win,
so they're good.
Speaker 5 (23:19):
All right, All right, there's Clayton Kershaw down in the
Dodger Clubhouse, and he's right in that second inning. The
first four batters that he faced, he had two strikes on,
and the first one I'm sure really bothers him the
most because he gave up a leadoff walk to Trevor's story.
After being ahead O two, he threw four consecutive balls
(23:42):
and that started the second inning where the Red Sox
scored three runs. But he had two strikes on Trevor's story,
he had two strikes on Carlos Narves, and he had
two strikes on Jaron Duran and he wasn't able to
get them out. So yeah, he knows how to self
diagnose himself of really well, eight six six two five
(24:03):
seventy is the phone number. Dodgers fall to the Red
Sox tonight, four to two. Let's go out to Laguna Neguel, Ralph,
you're on Dodger Talk Live from Boston.
Speaker 3 (24:14):
Thanks Dave, doing a great job. I've been a Dodger
fans force nineteen fifty five. Please let me get this out.
You might want to slam my opinion, but let me
get this out please MOI.
Speaker 5 (24:24):
Yeah, of course, why would it not. You have all
the time in the world. Tell us what you want
to say.
Speaker 3 (24:29):
Thank you, sir Molkey betch he's betting two thirty eight.
And you know you're an an expert baseball fan and
you know what you're talking about. No championship baseball team
has a legal of bat at batting two thirty eight.
Nobody does. Nobody does. He should go to Davey Robins
and say, listen, I'm a team player. And when Munsey
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comes back, Moki Best should be batting seven, Pajes' first,
Frey Feman second, Will Smith thirds, o, Tommy's fourth, Fernando's fifth,
Monthy sixth, Bets seventh, Edmunds eighth, and whoever plays shortstop
rotating shortstop. Bet you go better that lineup.
Speaker 5 (25:12):
So he knew I wouldn't like your lineup. I don't
like your lineup. That's fine, that's fine if you don't
want Mookie betting leadoff. But I don't like I don't
like your lineup. I don't like not being able to
hit until the fourth spot in the lineup.
Speaker 3 (25:26):
Well, Tommy is trending.
Speaker 5 (25:28):
I like him hitting in the first inning, just like
he did tonight when he hit a home.
Speaker 3 (25:32):
Run, right right, right. But he's like, he's trending to
finish the season below two fifty. He's now that the
Adam Dunn of the National League.
Speaker 5 (25:40):
A home run is only going to hit. Ralph, how
about this, let's make a bet, gentleman's bet here. I
will send you a bobblehead if show Hao Tani hits
below two fifty to end the year.
Speaker 3 (25:53):
Well, you know, you know what you know, you know,
you know, you know he's a home run every game. Okay,
he shot shot times every game, so you know he doesn't.
Speaker 5 (26:03):
He's striking out a little bit more than than what
I like. Ralph. You're right, he's on pace to strike
out on hundred and ninety times. That's fine, that's fine.
His betting average right now, it's well above two fifty, Ralph,
do you really want to know what?
Speaker 3 (26:18):
Is he below seventy three?
Speaker 5 (26:21):
It's two seventy three?
Speaker 3 (26:22):
Okay, well you know a mookie bet?
Speaker 5 (26:25):
All right, Ralph, what are you gonna give me if
he hits above two fifty? I'm gonna send you a bobblehead,
what are you gonna do for me?
Speaker 3 (26:31):
Okay, okay, all right, I'll take that back. He should
be batting, all right, Ralph, and I shouldn't.
Speaker 5 (26:37):
I don't like I don't like your lineup. I don't
like your lineup. I'll come up with my own and
I'll let you know. All right, Ralph, thank you for
the phone call. I do not like that lineup, but
I understand what he's saying. And look, Mookie Betts has
not had a good season. It was. I mean, it
hits you at Fenway Park because their scoreboard is so
big and they have the player's stats and straight away
(27:00):
center field and that two thirty eight when he was
at the plate in the ninth thing, I mean, that
just blinded me. And his three zero three on base percentage,
that blinded me. And I'm sure people in Boston are thinking,
what what's going that's our Mookie Bets. Yeah, it hasn't
been a great year, and every year is unique to itself.
(27:20):
I've learned that talking to players every year is unique
to itself. But you know, the whole season numbers may
not look great for Moki, but he's got two more
full months of the regular season before October. That's all
he should care about. That's all he should care about.
Don't worry about what the season totals are going to be.
(27:42):
Show me the last two months and make them Mookie
Betts esque. Eight six six, nine eighty seven two five
seventy is the phone number, Dodger Joey, You were at
the game tonight? How you doing, Dodger Joey.
Speaker 12 (27:57):
Hey, Dave, Yeah, we were. I'm the car right now
with my wife, and yes, we were at the game.
We had a great time. I understand that it's just
a little bit past the all stuff break, so we're
not freaking out about anything. I was actually glad you'd
be able to see VOOKI uh, you know, getting that bat,
regardless of you know, how it turned out in the moment.
(28:18):
I think everything is fine there. I had two questions
for you. One was early in the game when Freddy
stretched into third base there and they did the review
and he immediately motions for the review. And I've seen
him do that before and I always trust him. I
(28:38):
think he's probably right, but it was hard to see
whether or not he really was safe. I just wondered,
I know, that's just you know.
Speaker 5 (28:45):
He was safe. I thought he was safe. I thought
he was safe.
Speaker 6 (28:49):
Thought that.
Speaker 5 (28:50):
Here's the here's the deal with the review. It's got
to be conclusive to overturn it. So they have so
many different angles, and that's the that's the issue. If
the call on the field is safe, it's gonna be hard,
or it's out, it's gonna be hard to overturn it.
There's gotta be a super conclusive evidence that there's no
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there's no doubt. So that's it's not so much whether
or not we think he's safer out. You just got
to play you know, the rules games with the replay system.
But you know the Dodgers were ahead to nothing. Freddie
shouldn't have gone there, even though Duran dropped the ball.
It's a short throw and Durantz has a pretty good arm.
Shouldn't have gone right there. Any other ballpark, I can
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understand it, but not here. That's a short throw in
left field and you're ahead two to nothing. It's not
like it's a scoreless tie. I understand that you want
to extend the inning and that's maybe your best chance
to tack on against Crochet, But using your challenge in
the first inning, that's a gamble.
Speaker 12 (29:54):
Yeah, I agree on all of that. And you know,
obviously the body positioning when those cameras are being looked at, really,
if you can't get the right angle, you can't really
see it and all that. The second question I had
for you was Kirby Yate's coming up. You know, they're
late in the game. You know he you know he
got out of it, but he had three I think three. Yeah,
(30:18):
I wondered what you thought about? Yeah, so did you
What did you see that? Is he on its way
back at all? Is he's trending in a positive direction
or not not so much?
Speaker 2 (30:27):
What do you think?
Speaker 5 (30:27):
Well, he's still throwing hard, which is good. But I
feel like once the Dodgers get back Blake Trinon who
they're supposed to get back tomorrow, and they get back
Bruce Star Gradorol hopefully in August, and who knows who
they acquire at the trade deadline, Kirby Yates, that will
make your bullpen deeper. Kirby HS should be the guy
(30:48):
that comes in to to keep a game where it's
at if you're down a run or two, or if
it's a tied game in the sixth or seventh inning,
that's where he should be. He shouldn't be trying to games.
He shouldn't be trying to close games, because he's given
up a lot of home runs lately and guys are
hitting the ball hard off of him. So I just
feel like once the you know, once these guys get back,
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he'll he'll be in a better spot to you know,
kind of be in the Ryan Brasier role that Brazier
was in when he was at his best a couple
of years ago.
Speaker 12 (31:25):
Okay, all right, cool, thanks so much, Dave. I love you, buddy.
Speaker 5 (31:29):
Thanks Joey, drive safe wherever you're going. Eight six six
nine eight seven two five seventy is the phone number
Dodgers beat or Dodgers fall to the Red Sox tonight
four to two. And I mentioned Blake Trinan. He will
rejoin the Dodgers tomorrow. Here's what Dave Roberts had to
say before the game, not only about trying and when
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he may be activated, but also whether or not Tryning's
going to be the Dodgers closer when he comes back.
Speaker 6 (31:56):
He's on his way. I just don't know, you know,
if he's going to be activated tomorrow or Monday, but
it's safe to say that tomorrow or Monday, he'll be activated.
Speaker 5 (32:06):
When he does come back, whenever he is activated, are
you planning on using him as the closer?
Speaker 6 (32:14):
I think that it'll be a clean inning, it'll be
a leverage inning. I think that kind of given where
we're at. I don't know if he's going to be
just dedicated to the closer role, because there might be
some times where I feel that, you know, we need
the highest leverage guy for a particular spot, then we'll
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use him there too.
Speaker 5 (32:36):
All right, well that makes sense. So like last night,
Alex Vesia came in to face the top of the
Red Sox order in the eighth inning, and then Ben
Casparius was brought in to face the bottom of the
order of the Red Sox in the ninth inning. I
could see the same type of deal happening between Vesia
and Blake Trinen. But considering how big of a challenge
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it's in recently for the Dodgers to get the last
three outs, why not have Blake trying to be your
exclusive closer until we see who the Dodgers acquire or
don't acquire on July thirty first. Right now, if you're
asking me, Blake trying coming back. Yeah, he's the best
option to close out games. There's nothing more deflating in
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a baseball game than your closer blowing the save. There's
nothing more deflating. Ask any player that. And if it
happens over and over again, or it happens a lot
in a span of two weeks, there's been some cases
where it could really divide a team offense versus bullpen
versus closers. That's not happening with the Dodgers, but I'm
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just saying that's an example. Even here in Boston. You know,
everybody talks about how the Red Sox won the World
Series and four because no more Garcia Para was traded.
That wasn't the case. They got a closer and Keith
Folk in two thousand and four. They did not have
a closer in O three, and that bullpen was blowing
(34:05):
lead after lead after lead after having a really good offense. So, uh,
I'm just saying, Blake Trining, I know he's been out
for a couple of months. He would be my number
one option tomorrow night if there is a game that
needs to if it was a safe situation, I'm going
to Blake trining eight six six nine eight seven two
(34:26):
five seventy is the phone number Dodgers fall to the
Red Sox tonight four to two. I want to give
you an update on Blake Snell. He made what probably
is his last rehab start tonight for Oklahoma City at Reno,
which is not an easy place to pitch because of
the thin air, similar to Albuquerque, New Mexico. But Blake
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Snell through four and two thirds of no hit baseball
tonight for Oklahoma City. He did not allow a hit
and four and two thirds innings he had seven strikeouts
and four walks. So Blake Snell's ready and with him
pitching tonight, that lines him up to pitch Friday in
Tampa if the Dodgers decide to go that route. And
(35:10):
how fitting would it be for Snell to make his
return to the Dodger rotation against his former team, the
Rays in Tampa at George Steinbrenner Field. That would be
pretty special Friday night in Tampa. So that's what it's
lined up to be. With him pitching tonight, he's ready
to go. Yeah, and he's got that look, and I
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definitely believe now the Dodgers' pitching staff is in a
great spot rotation wise. You got Glass now back, who's
look dominant in his first three starts. You're gonna get
snell back in the next turn. You got Kershaw as
your fifth starter. You got Otani, who is now being
stretched out. Dave Roberts said in his next start in
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Cincinnati will be four innings, So at some point you're
not going to need a Roblast or is she in
or a Casparius to piggyback Otani probably after one or
two more starts. So you're in a really good spot.
Not to mention Yamamoto, I mean you're you have the
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rotation that they were hyping before the season in front
of you. Now they just got to get their bullpen healthy.
And I would you know, everybody keeps talking about the
Dodgers going after a right handed reliever, and yes, I'm
sure they're looking for one. But I would say if
the Dodgers had to use their trade assets, their trade
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capital to get either a right handed reliever or an
outfield bat, I would say that that would be one A,
one B. I. I don't think they're mutually exclusive. I
would say this, the Dodgers would like to continue to
have roster flexibility in their outfield and not lock themselves
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into a play that's kind of mediocre for more than
one year, because there's some pretty good outfield free agents
on the market this winner, if you're keeping tabs on it,
Cody Bellinger could be one of them. Kyle Tucker certainly
will be one of them. And if you believe what's
out there that the Dodgers went after Jan Soda this winner,
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why wouldn't we believe that they wouldn't go after a
player like Kyle Tucker, who's a better all around player
than Juan Sodo. So just keep that in mind as well.
Eight six six ninety seven two five seventy is the
phone number. That's the phone number for tomorrow, because we're
wrapping things up now. Walker Buehler is going to be
on the mound tomorrow for the Red Sox, facing his
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former team for the first time after last year's World
Series finish. Bueller this year for the Red Sox is
six and six with an ERA of five seventy two.
He's going up against Dustin May, who has the same
record six and six with an EER just to run
less four to seventy three. I'm not gonna say this
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possibly could be Dustin May's last start for the Dodgers,
because even when I say possibly or could be, everybody
takes it and aggregates it like it's definitive and an absolute.
It's not. But this will be Dustin May's final start
before the trade deadline, that's for certain. Morongo Casino Dodgers
on Deck begins at nine point thirty. First pitch from
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Fenway Park with Rick Monday and Tim Neverett at ten
thirty five. Thanks to Dwayne McDonald here at Fenway Park
in Boston. Thanks to Daniel West filling in for Colin
Yee in Burbank, and thanks to you for listening. In
case you missed any of the show, you can find
it on the iHeartRadio app. That's also where you can
hear our pregame conversation with Boston College, his own Emit Shehan,
(38:51):
who was last night's winning pitcher for the Dodgers. Coming
up next Fox Sports Radio once again the final score
from Boston, The Red Side expat the Dodgers four to two.
Have a great rest of your Saturday. We'll talk to
you tomorrow. See ya,
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