May 26, 2025 • 41 mins
Tim Cates get you ready before the Dodgers start a 3-game series in Cleveland on Memorial Day. Dave Roberts talks about the offense's recent struggles. DV catches up with Max Muncy.
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Do you think you can beat this team in a series?
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Speaker 5 (00:36):
Welcome to Dodgers on Deck. Now your host walking you
up to first pitch.
Speaker 6 (00:41):
Tim kays well, Hi everybody, and welcome to Morongo Casino.
Dodgers on Deck. You're a world champion. Los Angeles Dodgers
thirty two and twenty one on this season, first place
atop the NL West. After dropping two of three in
New York over the weekend to start the road trip,
the Dodgers now in Cleveland for a.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
Three game interleague series with the Guardians.
Speaker 6 (01:03):
Yoshinobu Yamamoto on the mound on this Memorial Day. First
pitch from Progressive Field is set for three ten coming
up over the next hour here on Morongo Casino, Dodgers
on Deck, you're gonna hear from Dodger third Basement, Max Munty,
David Vasseur, Dodger insider, joins us. Throughout the hour we
preview this pitching matchup. We'll hear from the manager, Dave Roberts.
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Coming up in about fifteen minutes. We've got your Dodgers
magical moment coming up in thirty minutes. Shortly we'll visit
with Sports and at Las Kirsten Watson, and in just
a few minutes we will head out to the Galpin
Motors broadcast booth. And here from Tim Neverett and Rick Monday. Well,
last night in New York, it was Sunday Night baseball,
the rubber game between the Dodgers and Mets. He got
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off to a good start for the Dodgers. The second
pitch of the game. Show Hey win.
Speaker 7 (01:53):
Deep singa at the letters, kicks and deals, and Otani
with a smash.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
Soaring into the Sunday Night Hey leadoff home run. First
Show Hey old Tony to the upper deck. He goes
torching a fest ball and giving the Dodgers oh one
nothing lead.
Speaker 6 (02:11):
Number eighteen on the season for show, Hey Otani. Just
like that, the Dodgers had a one nothing lead over
the Mets. In the bottom of the first, a couple
of strikeouts for Landon Nack, two outs, A ground ball
from Juan Soto near shortstop Max Munsey could not field
it cleanly, one hopted to Freddie Freeman. Soto beats out
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the throw, so he with two outs. A runner aboard
on the air and the next batter, Pete.
Speaker 7 (02:39):
Alonzo, two outs, Soto on after the E five. Now
Pete Alonzo first pitch belt to the left field, way
back and gone. And so just like that, the air
is so costly, Hey go ahead, two run home run
for Pete Alonzo, and it's two to one New York.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
A laser to.
Speaker 7 (03:03):
Left field for the Mets. Slugging first baseman snaps the
longest home run draft of his seven year career, sixteen
games without one until that two to one Mets.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
An air opened the door for the Mets.
Speaker 6 (03:18):
Pete Alonso a two run home run as a Mets
grabbed a two to one lead. Dodgers just didn't play
clean baseball last night. Four airs, including an air in
the bottom half of the third from Mookie Betts trying
to flip the ball over the head of Tommy Emmit
at second for a forest play.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
Francisco Lindoro went to third on the overthrow.
Speaker 6 (03:37):
Juan Soto, then a ground ball fielder's choice scored Lindor
and that gave the Mets a three to one lead.
Landon Neck just didn't get a lot of help. He
pitched well. In fact, after giving up the three runs,
retired in eleven in a row, he would go a
season high six innings for the Dodgers last night. He
allowed the three runs, only one of which was earned.
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Four hits, five strikeouts, zero one, no offense. So outside
of the show, hey Otani home run of the first,
Dodgers had opportunities in the fourth, in the fifty at
the bases loaded with two outs and couldn't score. In
the sixth, inn Max Montia went out walk Andy pot
Has grounded into a double play. That was a theme
all series long, as the Dodgers hit into eight double
plays in the three games at City Field. They lose
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the finale last night three to one Code II single
the win. Landon Knack gets the loss as the Dodgers
dropped two of three at City Field. They're thirty two
to twenty one on the year, and now they head
to Cleveland on this Memorial Day. Yoshinobu Yamamoto on the
mount of the series opener from Progressive Field. Then with
more we head out to the Galloping Motors broadcast booth
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as we welcome in Tim Neverett and Rick Monday.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
Guys.
Speaker 8 (04:43):
Thanks very much, Tim, A nice cool evening here in Cleveland,
Ohio at Progressive Field as the Dodgers begin this three
game set with the Cleveland Guardians on this Memorial Day,
Monday packed house is expected here tonight to see the
Dodgers and the Guardians. Yoshinobu Yamamoto will have the start,
looking for his sixth win. He is grad ERA second
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of the National League at one point eighty six. Gavin
Williams will be the mild opponent. He's four and two
with an urn run average of three point nine to four. Well,
the Dodgers coming off a rough weekend in New York.
Even though they won on Friday, it took him a
long time to get that one, and then losses on
Saturday and again last night.
Speaker 9 (05:23):
Yeah, and I think of the manner in which they
lost ball games and after the game last night before
the Dodgers boarded their charters and headed to Cleveland, Dave
Roberts is saying, look, we've just got to play clean
baseball and have some good offensive approaches, and that has
not really been the case from top to bottom. In fact,
if you look at last night, four errors were committed
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in that three game series. The Dodgers hit into eight
ground bowl double plays. That really ended some big threads.
So yeah, they got to tighten the belts from a
defensive standpoint, and now we're beginning to see a little
bit more length out of the starting pitching. And that's
really been the case with Yama Mota recently.
Speaker 8 (06:01):
When you look at the numbers, on average, the Dodgers
average the fewest number of pitches from their starters in
all of Major League Baseball at seventy seven pitches. Everybody
else is higher. In fact, Cleveland's in the top five
eighty nine pitches. But when you look at that, you
hope that you're started to see more and more length.
We did see that out of yama Mota when his
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last start. Hope to see that out of dustin May
tomorrow and landon thatc In spite of the loss last night.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
He had a pretty good game, Yeah, you did.
Speaker 9 (06:30):
And coming into that series in New York, as you're saying,
you know, the bullpen's been overworked. There's no offens and
butts about it. We can kind of sugarcoat it, but
it's not going to work. But the Dodgers, they're starting pitching,
the only team in baseball that's averaged less than fourteen
outs per starts, and that has really been the burden
of this bullpen. So you combine that with the fact
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that they get to tighten the belts defensively. Too many
opportunities for other ball clubs, whether to be stealing a base,
whether it be taking an extra base or play just
not being made.
Speaker 8 (07:00):
Tommy Edmond out of the lineup tonight. Dave Roberts still,
you know, nursing him a little bit coming off the
injured list, did not want him playing six straight games.
So Hassan Kim gets the start at second base, Michael
Confordo hitting eight and Dave Roberts saying, Michael will play
in all three games here in Cleveland.
Speaker 9 (07:16):
Yeah, and trying to get it going. He's had some
better swings and I think better approaches. He's not swinging
at pitches really out of the strike zone. So it's
not really terrible at bats, it's just been terrible results
to this particular point. He's hitting at one sixty three
in the eight spot in tonight's lineup, so trying to
get it going, and if you're sitting on the bench
and not playing, there's no way to get it going.
Speaker 8 (07:36):
Well, news out of Orange County regarding a former Dodger,
Chris Taylor, apparently has signed with the Angels and is
in the lineup to play center field against the Yankees
tonight at Anaheim.
Speaker 9 (07:46):
Well, that's good news because Taylor meant a lot to
this Dodgers organization, obviously with a winning on the teams.
Is a good guy and we wish him nothing the best.
It just did not work out if we're looking the
last couple of years from an offensive standpoint, and Chris
Taylor and aod Dodger uniform.
Speaker 8 (08:01):
On this Memorial Day Monday evening here in Cleveland, Yoshinobu
Yamamoto takes on Gavilan Williams Dodgers and Guardians Game one.
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This is the Otani Rewide Senga at the letters, Kicks
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Speaker 3 (09:18):
Soaring into the Sunday night Hey lead off home run
for show. Hey Otani to the upper deck. He goes,
torching a fastball and giving the Dodgers oh one nothing lead.
Speaker 6 (09:31):
Show Hey Otani his eighteenth home run of this season.
Yesterday in New York, Otani leading things off for the Dodgers. Unfortunately,
nobody followed them as the Dodgers lost to the Mets
yesterday at City Field three to one.
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leave New York having dropped two of three. You a
little momentum going and the perfect guy to have it
on the mound, Yoshinobu Yamamoto.
Speaker 4 (10:09):
Yeah.
Speaker 10 (10:09):
Look, he's been the ace of this ball club. He's
been the stopper before and yeah, it's okay, only coming
off of two losses, but still they want him to
be able to set the tone early.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
And you said it.
Speaker 10 (10:18):
He's coming off of his best start of the year
thus far, six no hit innings, seven shutout innings. He
was excellent. Even when he talked after that game, the
stuff wasn't a really good spot. He did say, of course,
it's hard to one just throw a complete game in general,
to throw a complete no hitter, that's a whole nother ballgame.
The pitch count did get up, he threw a career
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high one hundred and ten pitches, so obviously those were
some key factors for him. But the hope for today
is just to go out there set the tone in
this one. I mean, we did see some really strong
pitching performance to Milandon Nak yesterday, but for him to
get things going early in this one, that will be huge. Now,
it will be interesting because obviously there's not too much
familiarity between him and the Guardians. They are a really
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good splitter hitting team, though interesting enough, so that's obviously
his bread and butter. So we'll see how this matchup
faces out. But I don't know if I was on
the Guardians. You have to go from facing Turk spooball
one day to then Yoshinobi Amamoto does not sound fun if.
Speaker 4 (11:13):
You ask me.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
A good thing for the Dodgers. They have him on
the Mountain tonight.
Speaker 6 (11:17):
Speaking on the mount yesterday show, Hey Otani was on
the mound before the game at City Field. He threw
twenty two pitches and a live batting practice to some
players and coaches.
Speaker 1 (11:27):
How does he check out twenty four hours later?
Speaker 10 (11:29):
Hereson He's feeling good. He is feeling good of course yesterday.
Of course the live VP he mentioned in the leadoff
home run. The hope is just to keep the offensive
side of that going today. But for him on the
pitching side, he did feel really good coming out of it.
So Dave Roberts said, as well as show Hey moving forward,
he's going to be taking part of live vps once
a week. So we saw it yesterday, we'll see it
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again this weekend. He will still have his touch and
feel in between. So his usual schedule has been Wednesday
and then Saturday, so the two bullpens. The original schedule
for the live VP was supposed to be on Saturday.
It was of course, I've pushed to Sunday due to
the super late night in New York on Friday, So
we'll see how the exact scheduling will play out moving forward.
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Dave said that the touch and field bullpen could be
on Wednesday, but it is going to be a day
game here, so it could be Wednesday, it could be Thursday,
on the off day back in Los Angeles, So we'll see.
But the fact that even show Hey last night was
saying that, you know, he was kind of looking to
be more in that ninety three ninety four velocity range.
He was able to get up to ninety six ninety seven,
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so that was huge for him. He feels that the intensity.
As long as the intensity and the pitch count continues
to grow and just kind of increase moving forward, he'll
be in a really good spot where he's not going
to need to rehab assignment, so he'll be able to
continue being you know, that DH out there hopefully every day.
We'll kind of see moving forward how that continues to
play out. But he feels really good, so Hey, that's
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all you can ask for is the of course, the
twenty four hour check in.
Speaker 6 (13:00):
It's huge, absolutely step in the right direction for show.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
Hey, appreciate it.
Speaker 6 (13:04):
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we'll get you an injury report and we hear from
the manager himself, Dave Roberts. It's the Dodgers and Guardians
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Roki Sasaki on the I L.
Speaker 1 (14:04):
Kirby Yates on the I L. Evan Phillips.
Speaker 6 (14:06):
Dave Roberts said yesterday it's a little concerning his right
fore arm strain that is not getting any better and
he is not throwing. Tyler Glass now Blake Snell are
both on the men, as is Michael Kopek, who threw
a scoreless ending of relief in Triple A Oklahoma City
on a minor league rehab assignment yesterday. All right, let's
head back out to Cleveland and check out the Dodgers skipper.
Speaker 4 (14:27):
Any questions for Dave?
Speaker 2 (14:30):
Dave? Can you just describe Dave? Can you talk about
the pressure in.
Speaker 5 (14:34):
The dugouts with Dave Roberts.
Speaker 11 (14:37):
You know, this team, I don't know if they've seen him,
certainly haven't seen him much, but I think for me,
it's just heavy left handed lineup. I think he's going
to be you know, obviously command is going to be important.
I think that the split, the curveball mixing in, and
I think honestly just continuing to be Oshinobu and you know,
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our bullpen's in a decent spot, but for him to
still go deep and be who he is, is certainly
going to be helpful and give us a good chance
to win tonight.
Speaker 10 (15:07):
On the offensive side, we saw obviously the leadoff home
run from show Hey yesterday, but then the offense was
relatively limited yesterday. How do you want to see them
just kind of get back to whether it's quality of
a fence or just kind of more production as a whole.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
Yeah, you know, I think.
Speaker 11 (15:24):
It just kind of hasn't been synced up offensively. I
think there's some good at bats for some guys at times.
Speaker 2 (15:31):
I think other times that were kind.
Speaker 11 (15:33):
Of a little too aggressive, you know, chasing out of
the zone. But that's sort of baseball. But I think
that you know, today, this guy's got a big arm,
it's high velocity, and we've got to kind of lock
in our hitting zone and just try to continue to
take good swings. And yeah, there are times that we're
gonna hit balls at guys with quality contact, but that's baseball,
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all right.
Speaker 6 (15:58):
There's the manager, Dave Robbers. We continue here on Dodgers
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We're leading you up to first pitch in Cleveland. Dodgers
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Speaker 1 (16:42):
All right, DV.
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Speaker 6 (16:50):
Let's check in on the Dodgers on this Memorial Day.
How are they checking in so far?
Speaker 4 (16:53):
DV, Well, it's concerning.
Speaker 12 (16:55):
I feel like Memorial Day is a good first checkpoint
of the regular season. The Dodgers, despite having a lot
of injuries to their pitching and some inconsistencies with their offense,
are in a very good spot, one of the best
records in the National League along with the Phillies, but
part of the Dodgers' strength in years past has been
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their bullpen, and this year it hasn't been the case
because of a lot of injuries, including to Blake Trinan
and Evan Phillips, along with the fact that Michael Kopek
still hasn't thrown a single pitch this season. But that
doesn't change the fact the Dodger bullpen has given up
the second most home runs of any bullpen in Major
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League Baseball thirty two home runs given up by the
Dodger bullpen this year, only second to the Angels, who
have given up thirty three. We also know tim about
the workload of the bullpen two hundred and thirty innings
in their first fifty three games of the year.
Speaker 4 (17:57):
That's just not sustainable.
Speaker 12 (18:00):
And I know it's kind of playing catch up right
now if you're the Dodgers starting staff, but you can't
undo already the innings that were pitched, so the only
thing they can do is try to move forward and
minimize the workload to their high leverage believers. I also
forgot Kirby Yates. He's on the il right now with
the right hand string strains. So that's part of the
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reason why Dave Roberts is so intent on pushing his
starters in tonight. They have the right guy on the
mound to do just that, and that's Yoshi Yamamoto.
Speaker 1 (18:31):
David has driven by Ford.
Speaker 6 (18:32):
If this one thing we like, it's choices, of course,
finding yours at the Ford F one to fifty gas hybrid,
all electric tough. This mark can only be called the
F one fifty. Mookie Betts playing shortstop David in the past.
In the past being last year he talked about it mentally,
to get prepared to play shortstop every single day was
draining on him. You think it's taken away maybe this
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year from his offense.
Speaker 4 (18:55):
I really do? I mean?
Speaker 12 (18:56):
Can we say Mookie Betts has been a difference maker
offensively so far this year. He's hitting two sixty with
eight home runs. He's had flashes. But tim the facts
are and why so many teams were a little surprised
the Dodgers would make this move is that Mookie Betts,
one of the greatest athletes we have seen to play
Major League baseball, is still human. He's thirty two years old,
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and if you go back in the history of major
league shortstops, even in the last thirty years guys that
have played that position their entire careers. After the age
of thirty thirty one, the offense starts to decline because
of the demands of the position. Anybody from Jeter to
Tulowitzki to no mar Garciapara, they just don't age well
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at that position after thirty and their offense even right now,
look at Dansby Swanson with the Cubs.
Speaker 4 (19:50):
His offense has.
Speaker 12 (19:51):
Completely dropped off ever since he turned age thirty one
to thirty two. So you have to take it into consideration,
and you just can't ignore the fact that he is
trying to do something that no other player has ever done,
a go from right field to shortstop, but also do
it at age thirty two.
Speaker 6 (20:11):
Yeah, it's something that's been special to watch, but also
something to see his offense kind of take a tinker
down here this season, Dave.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
We appreciate it.
Speaker 6 (20:18):
We'll check back you with you in just a little
bit as Dave checks in with Max Munci that's coming
up in fifteen minutes up next, so we'll get your
Dodgers magical moment as we're leading you up to first
pitch on this Memorial Day. Dodgers and Guardians from Cleveland.
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Dodgers and Guardians on this Memorial Day. Yoshinovo Yamamoto and
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One ball and no strikes to show hey one nothing
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The right field line. That ball's gone home run?
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Show hey Tony number forty six? Oh what a monster
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Just to the right of the nineteen to fifty five
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Four hundred and fifty feet.
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Season long, Dodgers in Cleveland. As the road trip continue,
starting a three game set on this Memorial Day against
the Guardians Yoshinoba Yamamoto and Gavin Williams. The pitching matchup
in this series opener first pitch from Progressive Field is
coming up three.
Speaker 5 (23:11):
Ten and now joined by David Basse Here's la Dodgers
broadcaster there and World Series champion Dodger Rick Monday.
Speaker 12 (23:22):
Rick Monday, the traveling man with the Dodgers. Ricky Nelson
would be proud of you, Rick.
Speaker 9 (23:27):
I'll tell you what you should be here, David. We
have the window closed for a pretty good reason. We
have a infestation of little bugs that are flying around.
So yeah, we're keeping the window closed until a few
minutes before game time. And other than that, yeah, you're
missing a lovely day. We actually see the sun. There's
a little breeze coming in from center field at the
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present time. So yeah, one of the things that I
just have to do. You and I were talking briefly
off air. They've got to get their act together right
now because losing two out of three in the manner
in which they lost them into your against the Mets
is not going to get it done. And in that
series grounded into eight double plays, that's not going to
get it done. Three of them yesterday, So they had
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two of the three games they hit into three double plays.
The other one they hit into two. And for the Dodgers,
the theme song continues is that they need to get
some innings from their starting pitchers, and they've got the
right guy on the mound tonight, that being Oshinobu Yamamoto,
who is among the starters for this Dodger bulk club
that has been able to stretch out the length of
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his starts.
Speaker 12 (24:33):
Yeah, and you talk about Yamamoto being one of the
leading candidates for the cy Young so far this year.
He answered the bell when the Dodgers needed him the
last time, snapping a four game losing streak. They need
him just as much tonight as well.
Speaker 9 (24:48):
Yeah, And I think if you look at Yamamoto, he
clearly displays a command and a knowledge on how to pitch.
I've sent this about a lot of good pitchers. We've
said it a lot about Clayton, for example, in his
brilliant career, is that he's a good observer also while
he's pitching. About that, and I'm talking about observing and
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seeing what the swings are like does a hitter seem
surprised by a certain pitch. Are they late on a
certain pitch and being able to channel that into your
memory bank and be able to use it regardless of what.
Speaker 2 (25:22):
Your pregame scout report may be showing.
Speaker 9 (25:25):
Because hitters are you know, you have good days, you
have bad days, and some days you're just not clicking
on all cylinders or as rapidly as you might. And
for a picture to be able to observe that along
with the catcher, that's very observant too. That's where you
really see a pitcher do some surgery from the mountain
sixty feet six inches away from home plate.
Speaker 12 (25:44):
Does Yamamoto stand out to you more these days, Rick,
considering how many pitchers are throwers more than trying to
do surgical work like Yamamoto.
Speaker 9 (25:55):
Dyes, I think so, because now what we are beginning
to see, we have seen, at least in my estimation,
more curveballs.
Speaker 2 (26:03):
Than maybe the splitters.
Speaker 9 (26:06):
That may have been just against a couple of teams
that he did that, But I think that's an awareness
that he has and it goes with feel too, because
the last outing that we saw him on May twentieth,
and that was against Arizona you know, he threw a
lot of curveballs.
Speaker 2 (26:25):
And they were outstanding.
Speaker 9 (26:26):
In fact, I'm just looking at the score book and
I purposely wrote down the fact his curveball was excellent.
He went the seven innings, allowed no runs, only one hit. Yes,
the pitch count was rather high, one hundred and ten,
but I thought he was about as effective as we
have seen him, and consistent is what we've seen him
this year.
Speaker 12 (26:46):
The ballpark that the Dodgers and Guardians are playing yet
is not the same Cleveland ballpark that Rick Monday used
to play in. Do you have any fond memories of Cleveland.
Speaker 4 (26:57):
I'm sure they're far and few between.
Speaker 2 (27:00):
Fond memories, no memories.
Speaker 9 (27:01):
Yes, I mean that was a big ballpark, what they
referred to as the Mistake by the Lake. It seated
seventy thousand on opening day, you'd get a pretty good crowd,
and on the second day of the season not so big.
I remember one game I was talking to Dave Roberts
and Oral Herscheizer on the bust of the ballpark in
the short ride from the hotel today, and I said,
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you know, we played there years and years ago. At
the end of the season. May have been the last
series played of the year, and this was I think
with the Kansas City as it may have been with
the Oakland.
Speaker 2 (27:32):
A's not certain.
Speaker 9 (27:33):
But the crowd was so small that if a vendor
dropped any coins we could tell from the dugout it
was a nickel dimer quarter. I mean, it was just
that quiet and the crowd was very small. This is
also the new ballpark, but in the old one. This
is the anniversary nineteen ninety three that Jose Consico went
back on a fly ball that was hit by Carlos Martinez,
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and Conseko denied the fact that the ball hit his
head and then bounced over the fence for home run. However,
our friend Kevin Kennedy was the manager of the Texas Rangers,
and even though he said, Knseco came back into the
dugout and denied vehemently that the ballt ever hit him
in the head. We got a video that shows it,
and eventually Knseco did say he had the ball hit
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me on the head. He never touched it with the glove,
hit him on the head, bounced over the fence, and
he tried to say, no, it didn't hit me.
Speaker 4 (28:22):
The truth was always a challenge for Jose Canseco.
Speaker 2 (28:25):
Yeah.
Speaker 9 (28:26):
Well there was a great line also, I should say
a billboard in the old ballpark. If you remember, Leon
Wagner years and years ago, played with the Angels left
handed batter. He eventually went to the Cleveland Indians at
the time. Well, he had a sign because he had
a clothing store, and up on the sign it said.
Speaker 2 (28:45):
Buy your rags from Daddy Wags.
Speaker 9 (28:47):
And it gave the address and the phone number of
his clothing store.
Speaker 12 (28:51):
Well, I guess, like you said, Rick, not fond memories,
but memories in Cleveland.
Speaker 2 (28:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 9 (28:56):
Well that's when nerew jackets were just coming into fashion.
Fortunately they went out of fashion very quickly.
Speaker 4 (29:02):
Yes, thankfully, I don't even wear those.
Speaker 2 (29:05):
Rick. Oh, you probably have one somewhere in your closet.
Speaker 12 (29:09):
Thanks a lot, Rick. We'll check in with you and
Tim Nevertt a little bit later. A lot of things
going on early on there in Cleveland.
Speaker 2 (29:16):
Yeah, we'll send some bugs your way too.
Speaker 4 (29:18):
Appreciate it. We'll send it back to you at the studio.
Speaker 1 (29:20):
Tim, all right, thanks a lot, guys.
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This is high and tight.
Speaker 12 (30:52):
We're joining right now by a man that has been
part of two Dodger World Series championships. He continues to
be a guy they can lean on at the high corner,
and that is the one and only Max Monsy. Max
thanks a lot for the time. Appreciate it, of.
Speaker 14 (31:05):
Course, David, anything for you.
Speaker 4 (31:07):
I appreciate that you.
Speaker 12 (31:08):
Got those beautiful sunglasses on now and it feels like
the season is starting to go Max Monthsy's way.
Speaker 14 (31:15):
You know, all all I can do is just folks
on the positives that I've had, and you just keep
trying to build on that and move forward. And you
know the most important thing to me is the team's
playing well.
Speaker 2 (31:23):
I know we had a little bit of a skid.
Speaker 14 (31:25):
Last couple of games, but overall we're playing well, and
you know that's the that's the end goal is for
the team to do well.
Speaker 12 (31:30):
How big is it to get tom Yedman and Tioscar
Hernandez back. It feels like the lineup now is more
whole than when any of you guys are out of it.
Speaker 2 (31:39):
Yeah.
Speaker 14 (31:39):
Absolutely, it's a huge getting both them back. It feels
like we really haven't played all season with you know,
a full healthy lineup where guys are performing like themselves.
You know, early on Freddie was out, Mookie was sick,
and Tommy and too get hurt. I hadn't been playing
like myself. We're still you know, Mikey's still coming around,
and you know, we just we have not the full
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line of clicking on all cylinders yet and so you know,
we're waiting to get to that point and we know
once we do, we're really going to take off. But
you know, until then, we're still playing pretty well.
Speaker 4 (32:09):
Yeah, and your record's pretty good too.
Speaker 12 (32:11):
When you look at it, it might be kind of
scary for the rest of the league with everything that
you just said.
Speaker 1 (32:16):
Yeah, well, you know that is that is the hope.
Speaker 14 (32:19):
You know, hopefully we just get that lengthen there we
can start getting some guys some days off, you know,
keep us healthy in the long run. And you know
it's always an important thing is try to get to
October healthy.
Speaker 12 (32:30):
Can I take you back to the NLCS and your
Major league record of getting on base twelve consecutive times, Like,
when you're in that type of zone seeing the ball
as well as you were seeing it, does any of
that factor into you that hey, I might be doing
something here.
Speaker 14 (32:47):
Yeah, when when the ball slows down for you, that's
when you know you're you're in a good spot. You
know you're able to recognize everything, You feel like you're
able to get your swing off on everything. That's a
it's a really good spot to be in. There's not
many times at the course the season where you get
in that zone. And so for me, that was a
great time to be in it. Uh wish I could
have kept it going, but you know that's that's the
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nature of it. And you know, for me, it was
just important to be on basically that many times for
my teammates to drop me in and you know, help,
let's get that series win.
Speaker 4 (33:15):
Isn't that the value of max month?
Speaker 12 (33:18):
See, we always look at the results, but what you
do as part of this whole lineup, like in the NLCS,
how much pride do you take in knowing your value.
Speaker 14 (33:28):
I take a lot of pride in knowing that I
can be the guy that allows everyone else to be themselves.
You know, if guys want to swing first pitch, attack early,
they know they can do that if they got me
in front of them or behind them, knowing that if
I need to, I can work the bat make the picture,
throw a bunch of pitches. That way, the inning doesn't
get too lopsided in their favor. And it's something that
I've I've really taken a lot of pride in, and
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you know, I know that's what my value is here,
is to just be that guy that gives the lineup
so much length and you know, just doesn't make it
easy on the pitture. Even if it's now, it's still
not an easy out. And that's, you know, something I've
always always taken pride in.
Speaker 4 (34:01):
Yeah, there's a they called it a lineup for a reason.
It's not just you on an island.
Speaker 14 (34:06):
It feels like that when you're in the batters box sometimes,
but yeah, it is nine guys.
Speaker 4 (34:10):
You know, it's up and down.
Speaker 14 (34:12):
You know, you're you're really trying to get you know,
the opposing pitcher to throw a lot of pitches, get out.
Speaker 2 (34:17):
Of the game.
Speaker 14 (34:17):
You're trying to get some runs on the board. And
it is a group effort. It's not just one guy,
even though it does kind of feel like it sometimes.
Speaker 12 (34:23):
Max Munsey is our guest before I Let You Go.
I spoke to Joe Tory a couple of weeks ago.
He was the manager that led the Yankees to back
to back World Series championships twenty five years ago, and
you said, the biggest message he had to those teams
was not to admire what you had done the year before.
Do you feel like this group has done a pretty
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good job of not admiring what you did last year.
Speaker 2 (34:48):
Yeah.
Speaker 14 (34:48):
You know, part of that was going to Japan this year.
You you don't have a ton of time in the offseason.
You know, the whole point, the whole goal was to
be playing late until October November, and then that means
you have a really short offseason, and then for us
going to Span with and even shorter offseason. So I
don't think a lot of guys had a ton of
time to kind of sit there and reflect on, you know,
last year. It's always a little tough when you know
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you're you're you're playing teams that have guys from the
team last year, and you're doing ring ceremonies and you know,
you're wearing the jerseys you got all this other stuff,
and it's hard not to admire it sometimes. But I
think for a lot of us, we've just you know,
stay focused on taking it one day at a time.
And I think that's also the beauty of having an
older team that we know we have a lot of
guys that know how to just, you know, you take
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this season one day at a time, and you know
what what you did the day yes, you know yesterday,
the day before, that doesn't really matter what you think
you might do tomorrow, it doesn't matter. All that matter
is what you're gonna do today. And that was the
message we've always been trying to, you know, Preacher, is
what can you do today to help the team win?
And you know, when the day's over, you flush it
and you move on to the next day.
Speaker 4 (35:49):
Be where your feet are.
Speaker 12 (35:51):
Maximuncy always is thanks a lot for the time, and
you mean a lot to this team. And you mean
a lot to Los Angeles. So keep it going and
stay healthy.
Speaker 4 (36:00):
Appreciate David there.
Speaker 12 (36:01):
He is the man, Max Munsey, and he'll receive a
gift card to Javiers.
Speaker 4 (36:05):
Yes that Hobviers. He's not taking me.
Speaker 12 (36:08):
There's a new location in downtown you might see Monsey.
We'll send it back to you in the studio.
Speaker 1 (36:13):
Tim, all right, thanks a lot, Damn, thanks a lot.
Speaker 4 (36:15):
Max.
Speaker 6 (36:15):
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at City Field in New York, dropping two of three
over the weekend to the Mets. Is The road trip
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Dodgers and Guardians on this Memorial Day and leading him
to first pitching Cleveland in the series opener, first pitch
seven for three ten.
Speaker 2 (37:02):
Yeah.
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Gavin Williams on the Mount four and two with the
three to twenty nine ERA, twenty five year old right hander,
first round pick back in twenty twenty one. They nicknamed
him Big Rig because he's six six, two fifty said
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his third season in the big leagues this year, he's
becoming mostly a fastball as sweeper pitcher. Making his eleven
start this year in the month of May two to
zero with the two to twenty five ERA and four
starts last time outs six innings, one run, two hits,
six punchouts in a win over the Twins. This is
his third career start against the Dodgers. He's zero to
two with an eighteen Rora. Last time the Dodgers saw
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him last September at Dodger Stadium.
Speaker 1 (37:54):
He failed to make it out of the first in.
Speaker 6 (37:55):
He gave up five earned runs on two hits and
walk three in two thirds of an in his shortest
start of his career. Yoshinobu Yama Modo on the mound
for the Dodgers five and three, one eighty six ERRA.
The twenty six year old leads the National league and
opponent's Battian Average opponents slug opponents OPS and ranks amongst
the national leaders and ERA whip opponents OBB and strikeouts.
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Making his eleventh start of the season last time out
arguably his best. Seven shutout innings nine strikeouts. He took
a no hitter into the top half of the seventh inning.
He leave the game with a no decision after one
hundred and ten pitches. Yoshinobu Yamamoto Gavin Williams Dodgers Guardians
from Cleveland. We're fifteen minutes away from first pitch.
Speaker 1 (38:39):
Keys to the game. Our next, I'm Tim Kasey's the
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It's Dodgers and the Guardians on the Memorial Day. Yoshinobu
Yamamoto and Gavin Williams the pitching matchup in this series opener,
as the East Coast road trip continued through the Dodgers
after dropping two or three in New York over the
weekend to the Mets. Dodgers now in Cleveland, first pitch
coming up at three ten Before that, though, we head
back out to the booth. Two guys on the call
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for this one, Tim Nevertt and Rick Monday.
Speaker 8 (39:20):
Go ahead, Tim, thanks very much. We count you down
to the first pitch Here at Progressive Field in downtown Cleveland, Ohio.
The flags are at half staff on this Memorial Day
in remembrance of those who paid the ultimate sacrifice, and
we remember them here today as well. Dodgers will send
Yoshinobu Yamamoto to them on. He is the ace of
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the staff and the Dodgers looking for a lot of
length out of him after he took a no hitter
into the seventh in his last start against the Arizona Diamondback.
Speaker 9 (39:49):
One of the notes that I made after that start
the last time against Arizona's you're referring to is that
I wrote down he threw a very high percentage of
curb bows in comparison to what we normally see with
the split finger fastball.
Speaker 2 (40:02):
Is that something that he has believed in?
Speaker 9 (40:04):
Is that something we're going to see now continue on
and even build up a little bit more. One thing
about it for Yamamoto, he's allowed just a one seventy
two batting average against him. That's the best in the
National League of all starters. So if you're a hitter,
you'd better take opportunities if you get a pitch to
hit because he's not allowed too many of them.
Speaker 8 (40:21):
Especially if you're a lefty left he's only hitting one
twenty eight against him. The key tonight for Yamamotos going
to be the Dodgers need to get some runs for him.
His run support average is the second worst and major
League Baseball only two point one seven runs per game
when he's in the ball game.
Speaker 2 (40:36):
Yeah. Man.
Speaker 9 (40:37):
The other part too, is how to get runs. And
if you're looking at Gavin Williams, I mean the last
three starts, he's two and oh with an ERA barely
above one and a half. He's turned it around because
the first four starts that he had his ERA was
well over six. He's dialed it back in very well.
Speaker 8 (40:53):
Gavin Williams has reintroduced the two seamer into his repertoire.
Hasn't used it for most of the season, but he
plans on using it to night against the Dodgers. Gavin
Williams and Yoshanobu Yamamoto, the Dodgers and the Guardians coming
up from Cleveland.
Speaker 6 (41:06):
Tim all Right, Dodgers looking to get back on track
with Yoshinobu Yamamoto on the mound. But first things first,
they gotta get after Gavin Williams, a big right hander
for the Guardians who's been tough at home this season.
Speaker 1 (41:19):
That progressive field first pitch is next, Tim and Vassain's
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Speaker 6 (00:41):
Tim kays well, Hi everybody, and welcome to Morongo Casino.
Dodgers on Deck. You're a world champion. Los Angeles Dodgers
thirty two and twenty one on this season, first place
atop the NL West. After dropping two of three in
New York over the weekend to start the road trip,
the Dodgers now in Cleveland for a.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
Three game interleague series with the Guardians.
Speaker 6 (01:03):
Yoshinobu Yamamoto on the mound on this Memorial Day. First
pitch from Progressive Field is set for three ten coming
up over the next hour here on Morongo Casino, Dodgers
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David Vasseur, Dodger insider, joins us. Throughout the hour we
preview this pitching matchup. We'll hear from the manager, Dave Roberts.
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Coming up in about fifteen minutes. We've got your Dodgers
magical moment coming up in thirty minutes. Shortly we'll visit
with Sports and at Las Kirsten Watson, and in just
a few minutes we will head out to the Galpin
Motors broadcast booth. And here from Tim Neverett and Rick Monday. Well,
last night in New York, it was Sunday Night baseball,
the rubber game between the Dodgers and Mets. He got
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off to a good start for the Dodgers. The second
pitch of the game. Show Hey win.
Speaker 7 (01:53):
Deep singa at the letters, kicks and deals, and Otani
with a smash.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
Soaring into the Sunday Night Hey leadoff home run. First
Show Hey old Tony to the upper deck. He goes
torching a fest ball and giving the Dodgers oh one
nothing lead.
Speaker 6 (02:11):
Number eighteen on the season for show, Hey Otani. Just
like that, the Dodgers had a one nothing lead over
the Mets. In the bottom of the first, a couple
of strikeouts for Landon Nack, two outs, A ground ball
from Juan Soto near shortstop Max Munsey could not field
it cleanly, one hopted to Freddie Freeman. Soto beats out
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the throw, so he with two outs. A runner aboard
on the air and the next batter, Pete.
Speaker 7 (02:39):
Alonzo, two outs, Soto on after the E five. Now
Pete Alonzo first pitch belt to the left field, way
back and gone. And so just like that, the air
is so costly, Hey go ahead, two run home run
for Pete Alonzo, and it's two to one New York.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
A laser to.
Speaker 7 (03:03):
Left field for the Mets. Slugging first baseman snaps the
longest home run draft of his seven year career, sixteen
games without one until that two to one Mets.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
An air opened the door for the Mets.
Speaker 6 (03:18):
Pete Alonso a two run home run as a Mets
grabbed a two to one lead. Dodgers just didn't play
clean baseball last night. Four airs, including an air in
the bottom half of the third from Mookie Betts trying
to flip the ball over the head of Tommy Emmit
at second for a forest play.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
Francisco Lindoro went to third on the overthrow.
Speaker 6 (03:37):
Juan Soto, then a ground ball fielder's choice scored Lindor
and that gave the Mets a three to one lead.
Landon Neck just didn't get a lot of help. He
pitched well. In fact, after giving up the three runs,
retired in eleven in a row, he would go a
season high six innings for the Dodgers last night. He
allowed the three runs, only one of which was earned.
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Four hits, five strikeouts, zero one, no offense. So outside
of the show, hey Otani home run of the first,
Dodgers had opportunities in the fourth, in the fifty at
the bases loaded with two outs and couldn't score. In
the sixth, inn Max Montia went out walk Andy pot
Has grounded into a double play. That was a theme
all series long, as the Dodgers hit into eight double
plays in the three games at City Field. They lose
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the finale last night three to one Code II single
the win. Landon Knack gets the loss as the Dodgers
dropped two of three at City Field. They're thirty two
to twenty one on the year, and now they head
to Cleveland on this Memorial Day. Yoshinobu Yamamoto on the
mount of the series opener from Progressive Field. Then with
more we head out to the Galloping Motors broadcast booth
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as we welcome in Tim Neverett and Rick Monday.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
Guys.
Speaker 8 (04:43):
Thanks very much, Tim, A nice cool evening here in Cleveland,
Ohio at Progressive Field as the Dodgers begin this three
game set with the Cleveland Guardians on this Memorial Day,
Monday packed house is expected here tonight to see the
Dodgers and the Guardians. Yoshinobu Yamamoto will have the start,
looking for his sixth win. He is grad ERA second
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of the National League at one point eighty six. Gavin
Williams will be the mild opponent. He's four and two
with an urn run average of three point nine to four. Well,
the Dodgers coming off a rough weekend in New York.
Even though they won on Friday, it took him a
long time to get that one, and then losses on
Saturday and again last night.
Speaker 9 (05:23):
Yeah, and I think of the manner in which they
lost ball games and after the game last night before
the Dodgers boarded their charters and headed to Cleveland, Dave
Roberts is saying, look, we've just got to play clean
baseball and have some good offensive approaches, and that has
not really been the case from top to bottom. In fact,
if you look at last night, four errors were committed
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in that three game series. The Dodgers hit into eight
ground bowl double plays. That really ended some big threads.
So yeah, they got to tighten the belts from a
defensive standpoint, and now we're beginning to see a little
bit more length out of the starting pitching. And that's
really been the case with Yama Mota recently.
Speaker 8 (06:01):
When you look at the numbers, on average, the Dodgers
average the fewest number of pitches from their starters in
all of Major League Baseball at seventy seven pitches. Everybody
else is higher. In fact, Cleveland's in the top five
eighty nine pitches. But when you look at that, you
hope that you're started to see more and more length.
We did see that out of yama Mota when his
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last start. Hope to see that out of dustin May
tomorrow and landon thatc In spite of the loss last night.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
He had a pretty good game, Yeah, you did.
Speaker 9 (06:30):
And coming into that series in New York, as you're saying,
you know, the bullpen's been overworked. There's no offens and
butts about it. We can kind of sugarcoat it, but
it's not going to work. But the Dodgers, they're starting pitching,
the only team in baseball that's averaged less than fourteen
outs per starts, and that has really been the burden
of this bullpen. So you combine that with the fact
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that they get to tighten the belts defensively. Too many
opportunities for other ball clubs, whether to be stealing a base,
whether it be taking an extra base or play just
not being made.
Speaker 8 (07:00):
Tommy Edmond out of the lineup tonight. Dave Roberts still,
you know, nursing him a little bit coming off the
injured list, did not want him playing six straight games.
So Hassan Kim gets the start at second base, Michael
Confordo hitting eight and Dave Roberts saying, Michael will play
in all three games here in Cleveland.
Speaker 9 (07:16):
Yeah, and trying to get it going. He's had some
better swings and I think better approaches. He's not swinging
at pitches really out of the strike zone. So it's
not really terrible at bats, it's just been terrible results
to this particular point. He's hitting at one sixty three
in the eight spot in tonight's lineup, so trying to
get it going, and if you're sitting on the bench
and not playing, there's no way to get it going.
Speaker 8 (07:36):
Well, news out of Orange County regarding a former Dodger,
Chris Taylor, apparently has signed with the Angels and is
in the lineup to play center field against the Yankees
tonight at Anaheim.
Speaker 9 (07:46):
Well, that's good news because Taylor meant a lot to
this Dodgers organization, obviously with a winning on the teams.
Is a good guy and we wish him nothing the best.
It just did not work out if we're looking the
last couple of years from an offensive standpoint, and Chris
Taylor and aod Dodger uniform.
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leave New York having dropped two of three. You a
little momentum going and the perfect guy to have it
on the mound, Yoshinobu Yamamoto.
Speaker 4 (10:09):
Yeah.
Speaker 10 (10:09):
Look, he's been the ace of this ball club. He's
been the stopper before and yeah, it's okay, only coming
off of two losses, but still they want him to
be able to set the tone early.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
And you said it.
Speaker 10 (10:18):
He's coming off of his best start of the year
thus far, six no hit innings, seven shutout innings. He
was excellent. Even when he talked after that game, the
stuff wasn't a really good spot. He did say, of course,
it's hard to one just throw a complete game in general,
to throw a complete no hitter, that's a whole nother ballgame.
The pitch count did get up, he threw a career
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high one hundred and ten pitches, so obviously those were
some key factors for him. But the hope for today
is just to go out there set the tone in
this one. I mean, we did see some really strong
pitching performance to Milandon Nak yesterday, but for him to
get things going early in this one, that will be huge. Now,
it will be interesting because obviously there's not too much
familiarity between him and the Guardians. They are a really
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good splitter hitting team, though interesting enough, so that's obviously
his bread and butter. So we'll see how this matchup
faces out. But I don't know if I was on
the Guardians. You have to go from facing Turk spooball
one day to then Yoshinobi Amamoto does not sound fun if.
Speaker 4 (11:13):
You ask me.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
A good thing for the Dodgers. They have him on
the Mountain tonight.
Speaker 6 (11:17):
Speaking on the mount yesterday show, Hey Otani was on
the mound before the game at City Field. He threw
twenty two pitches and a live batting practice to some
players and coaches.
Speaker 1 (11:27):
How does he check out twenty four hours later?
Speaker 10 (11:29):
Hereson He's feeling good. He is feeling good of course yesterday.
Of course the live VP he mentioned in the leadoff
home run. The hope is just to keep the offensive
side of that going today. But for him on the
pitching side, he did feel really good coming out of it.
So Dave Roberts said, as well as show Hey moving forward,
he's going to be taking part of live vps once
a week. So we saw it yesterday, we'll see it
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again this weekend. He will still have his touch and
feel in between. So his usual schedule has been Wednesday
and then Saturday, so the two bullpens. The original schedule
for the live VP was supposed to be on Saturday.
It was of course, I've pushed to Sunday due to
the super late night in New York on Friday, So
we'll see how the exact scheduling will play out moving forward.
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Dave said that the touch and field bullpen could be
on Wednesday, but it is going to be a day
game here, so it could be Wednesday, it could be Thursday,
on the off day back in Los Angeles, So we'll see.
But the fact that even show Hey last night was
saying that, you know, he was kind of looking to
be more in that ninety three ninety four velocity range.
He was able to get up to ninety six ninety seven,
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so that was huge for him. He feels that the intensity.
As long as the intensity and the pitch count continues
to grow and just kind of increase moving forward, he'll
be in a really good spot where he's not going
to need to rehab assignment, so he'll be able to
continue being you know, that DH out there hopefully every day.
We'll kind of see moving forward how that continues to
play out. But he feels really good, so Hey, that's
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all you can ask for is the of course, the
twenty four hour check in.
Speaker 6 (13:00):
It's huge, absolutely step in the right direction for show.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
Hey, appreciate it.
Speaker 6 (13:04):
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Speaker 5 (13:54):
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Speaker 6 (14:00):
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Roki Sasaki on the I L.
Speaker 1 (14:04):
Kirby Yates on the I L. Evan Phillips.
Speaker 6 (14:06):
Dave Roberts said yesterday it's a little concerning his right
fore arm strain that is not getting any better and
he is not throwing. Tyler Glass now Blake Snell are
both on the men, as is Michael Kopek, who threw
a scoreless ending of relief in Triple A Oklahoma City
on a minor league rehab assignment yesterday. All right, let's
head back out to Cleveland and check out the Dodgers skipper.
Speaker 4 (14:27):
Any questions for Dave?
Speaker 2 (14:30):
Dave? Can you just describe Dave? Can you talk about
the pressure in.
Speaker 5 (14:34):
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Speaker 11 (14:37):
You know, this team, I don't know if they've seen him,
certainly haven't seen him much, but I think for me,
it's just heavy left handed lineup. I think he's going
to be you know, obviously command is going to be important.
I think that the split, the curveball mixing in, and
I think honestly just continuing to be Oshinobu and you know,
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our bullpen's in a decent spot, but for him to
still go deep and be who he is, is certainly
going to be helpful and give us a good chance
to win tonight.
Speaker 10 (15:07):
On the offensive side, we saw obviously the leadoff home
run from show Hey yesterday, but then the offense was
relatively limited yesterday. How do you want to see them
just kind of get back to whether it's quality of
a fence or just kind of more production as a whole.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
Yeah, you know, I think.
Speaker 11 (15:24):
It just kind of hasn't been synced up offensively. I
think there's some good at bats for some guys at times.
Speaker 2 (15:31):
I think other times that were kind.
Speaker 11 (15:33):
Of a little too aggressive, you know, chasing out of
the zone. But that's sort of baseball. But I think
that you know, today, this guy's got a big arm,
it's high velocity, and we've got to kind of lock
in our hitting zone and just try to continue to
take good swings. And yeah, there are times that we're
gonna hit balls at guys with quality contact, but that's baseball,
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all right.
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Speaker 1 (16:42):
All right, DV.
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Speaker 6 (16:50):
Let's check in on the Dodgers on this Memorial Day.
How are they checking in so far?
Speaker 4 (16:53):
DV, Well, it's concerning.
Speaker 12 (16:55):
I feel like Memorial Day is a good first checkpoint
of the regular season. The Dodgers, despite having a lot
of injuries to their pitching and some inconsistencies with their offense,
are in a very good spot, one of the best
records in the National League along with the Phillies, but
part of the Dodgers' strength in years past has been
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their bullpen, and this year it hasn't been the case
because of a lot of injuries, including to Blake Trinan
and Evan Phillips, along with the fact that Michael Kopek
still hasn't thrown a single pitch this season. But that
doesn't change the fact the Dodger bullpen has given up
the second most home runs of any bullpen in Major
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League Baseball thirty two home runs given up by the
Dodger bullpen this year, only second to the Angels, who
have given up thirty three. We also know tim about
the workload of the bullpen two hundred and thirty innings
in their first fifty three games of the year.
Speaker 4 (17:57):
That's just not sustainable.
Speaker 12 (18:00):
And I know it's kind of playing catch up right
now if you're the Dodgers starting staff, but you can't
undo already the innings that were pitched, so the only
thing they can do is try to move forward and
minimize the workload to their high leverage believers. I also
forgot Kirby Yates. He's on the il right now with
the right hand string strains. So that's part of the
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reason why Dave Roberts is so intent on pushing his
starters in tonight. They have the right guy on the
mound to do just that, and that's Yoshi Yamamoto.
Speaker 1 (18:31):
David has driven by Ford.
Speaker 6 (18:32):
If this one thing we like, it's choices, of course,
finding yours at the Ford F one to fifty gas hybrid,
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F one fifty. Mookie Betts playing shortstop David in the past.
In the past being last year he talked about it mentally,
to get prepared to play shortstop every single day was
draining on him. You think it's taken away maybe this
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year from his offense.
Speaker 4 (18:55):
I really do? I mean?
Speaker 12 (18:56):
Can we say Mookie Betts has been a difference maker
offensively so far this year. He's hitting two sixty with
eight home runs. He's had flashes. But tim the facts
are and why so many teams were a little surprised
the Dodgers would make this move is that Mookie Betts,
one of the greatest athletes we have seen to play
Major League baseball, is still human. He's thirty two years old,
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and if you go back in the history of major
league shortstops, even in the last thirty years guys that
have played that position their entire careers. After the age
of thirty thirty one, the offense starts to decline because
of the demands of the position. Anybody from Jeter to
Tulowitzki to no mar Garciapara, they just don't age well
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at that position after thirty and their offense even right now,
look at Dansby Swanson with the Cubs.
Speaker 4 (19:50):
His offense has.
Speaker 12 (19:51):
Completely dropped off ever since he turned age thirty one
to thirty two. So you have to take it into consideration,
and you just can't ignore the fact that he is
trying to do something that no other player has ever done,
a go from right field to shortstop, but also do
it at age thirty two.
Speaker 6 (20:11):
Yeah, it's something that's been special to watch, but also
something to see his offense kind of take a tinker
down here this season, Dave.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
We appreciate it.
Speaker 6 (20:18):
We'll check back you with you in just a little
bit as Dave checks in with Max Munci that's coming
up in fifteen minutes up next, so we'll get your
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broadcaster there and World Series champion Dodger Rick Monday.
Speaker 12 (23:22):
Rick Monday, the traveling man with the Dodgers. Ricky Nelson
would be proud of you, Rick.
Speaker 9 (23:27):
I'll tell you what you should be here, David. We
have the window closed for a pretty good reason. We
have a infestation of little bugs that are flying around.
So yeah, we're keeping the window closed until a few
minutes before game time. And other than that, yeah, you're
missing a lovely day. We actually see the sun. There's
a little breeze coming in from center field at the
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present time. So yeah, one of the things that I
just have to do. You and I were talking briefly
off air. They've got to get their act together right
now because losing two out of three in the manner
in which they lost them into your against the Mets
is not going to get it done. And in that
series grounded into eight double plays, that's not going to
get it done. Three of them yesterday, So they had
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two of the three games they hit into three double plays.
The other one they hit into two. And for the Dodgers,
the theme song continues is that they need to get
some innings from their starting pitchers, and they've got the
right guy on the mound tonight, that being Oshinobu Yamamoto,
who is among the starters for this Dodger bulk club
that has been able to stretch out the length of
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his starts.
Speaker 12 (24:33):
Yeah, and you talk about Yamamoto being one of the
leading candidates for the cy Young so far this year.
He answered the bell when the Dodgers needed him the
last time, snapping a four game losing streak. They need
him just as much tonight as well.
Speaker 9 (24:48):
Yeah, And I think if you look at Yamamoto, he
clearly displays a command and a knowledge on how to pitch.
I've sent this about a lot of good pitchers. We've
said it a lot about Clayton, for example, in his
brilliant career, is that he's a good observer also while
he's pitching. About that, and I'm talking about observing and
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seeing what the swings are like does a hitter seem
surprised by a certain pitch. Are they late on a
certain pitch and being able to channel that into your
memory bank and be able to use it regardless of what.
Speaker 2 (25:22):
Your pregame scout report may be showing.
Speaker 9 (25:25):
Because hitters are you know, you have good days, you
have bad days, and some days you're just not clicking
on all cylinders or as rapidly as you might. And
for a picture to be able to observe that along
with the catcher, that's very observant too. That's where you
really see a pitcher do some surgery from the mountain
sixty feet six inches away from home plate.
Speaker 12 (25:44):
Does Yamamoto stand out to you more these days, Rick,
considering how many pitchers are throwers more than trying to
do surgical work like Yamamoto.
Speaker 9 (25:55):
Dyes, I think so, because now what we are beginning
to see, we have seen, at least in my estimation,
more curveballs.
Speaker 2 (26:03):
Than maybe the splitters.
Speaker 9 (26:06):
That may have been just against a couple of teams
that he did that, But I think that's an awareness
that he has and it goes with feel too, because
the last outing that we saw him on May twentieth,
and that was against Arizona you know, he threw a
lot of curveballs.
Speaker 2 (26:25):
And they were outstanding.
Speaker 9 (26:26):
In fact, I'm just looking at the score book and
I purposely wrote down the fact his curveball was excellent.
He went the seven innings, allowed no runs, only one hit. Yes,
the pitch count was rather high, one hundred and ten,
but I thought he was about as effective as we
have seen him, and consistent is what we've seen him
this year.
Speaker 12 (26:46):
The ballpark that the Dodgers and Guardians are playing yet
is not the same Cleveland ballpark that Rick Monday used
to play in. Do you have any fond memories of Cleveland.
Speaker 4 (26:57):
I'm sure they're far and few between.
Speaker 2 (27:00):
Fond memories, no memories.
Speaker 9 (27:01):
Yes, I mean that was a big ballpark, what they
referred to as the Mistake by the Lake. It seated
seventy thousand on opening day, you'd get a pretty good crowd,
and on the second day of the season not so big.
I remember one game I was talking to Dave Roberts
and Oral Herscheizer on the bust of the ballpark in
the short ride from the hotel today, and I said,
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you know, we played there years and years ago. At
the end of the season. May have been the last
series played of the year, and this was I think
with the Kansas City as it may have been with
the Oakland.
Speaker 2 (27:32):
A's not certain.
Speaker 9 (27:33):
But the crowd was so small that if a vendor
dropped any coins we could tell from the dugout it
was a nickel dimer quarter. I mean, it was just
that quiet and the crowd was very small. This is
also the new ballpark, but in the old one. This
is the anniversary nineteen ninety three that Jose Consico went
back on a fly ball that was hit by Carlos Martinez,
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and Conseko denied the fact that the ball hit his
head and then bounced over the fence for home run. However,
our friend Kevin Kennedy was the manager of the Texas Rangers,
and even though he said, Knseco came back into the
dugout and denied vehemently that the ballt ever hit him
in the head. We got a video that shows it,
and eventually Knseco did say he had the ball hit
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me on the head. He never touched it with the glove,
hit him on the head, bounced over the fence, and
he tried to say, no, it didn't hit me.
Speaker 4 (28:22):
The truth was always a challenge for Jose Canseco.
Speaker 2 (28:25):
Yeah.
Speaker 9 (28:26):
Well there was a great line also, I should say
a billboard in the old ballpark. If you remember, Leon
Wagner years and years ago, played with the Angels left
handed batter. He eventually went to the Cleveland Indians at
the time. Well, he had a sign because he had
a clothing store, and up on the sign it said.
Speaker 2 (28:45):
Buy your rags from Daddy Wags.
Speaker 9 (28:47):
And it gave the address and the phone number of
his clothing store.
Speaker 12 (28:51):
Well, I guess, like you said, Rick, not fond memories,
but memories in Cleveland.
Speaker 2 (28:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 9 (28:56):
Well that's when nerew jackets were just coming into fashion.
Fortunately they went out of fashion very quickly.
Speaker 4 (29:02):
Yes, thankfully, I don't even wear those.
Speaker 2 (29:05):
Rick. Oh, you probably have one somewhere in your closet.
Speaker 12 (29:09):
Thanks a lot, Rick. We'll check in with you and
Tim Nevertt a little bit later. A lot of things
going on early on there in Cleveland.
Speaker 2 (29:16):
Yeah, we'll send some bugs your way too.
Speaker 4 (29:18):
Appreciate it. We'll send it back to you at the studio.
Speaker 1 (29:20):
Tim, all right, thanks a lot, guys.
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Dodgers and Guardians Yoshinobu Yamamoto and Gavin Williams to pitching
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David, and now what will likely be vasse fielding insults
from a Dodger player.
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It's an engagement of endearment.
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This is high and tight.
Speaker 12 (30:52):
We're joining right now by a man that has been
part of two Dodger World Series championships. He continues to
be a guy they can lean on at the high corner,
and that is the one and only Max Monsy. Max
thanks a lot for the time. Appreciate it, of.
Speaker 14 (31:05):
Course, David, anything for you.
Speaker 4 (31:07):
I appreciate that you.
Speaker 12 (31:08):
Got those beautiful sunglasses on now and it feels like
the season is starting to go Max Monthsy's way.
Speaker 14 (31:15):
You know, all all I can do is just folks
on the positives that I've had, and you just keep
trying to build on that and move forward. And you
know the most important thing to me is the team's
playing well.
Speaker 2 (31:23):
I know we had a little bit of a skid.
Speaker 14 (31:25):
Last couple of games, but overall we're playing well, and
you know that's the that's the end goal is for
the team to do well.
Speaker 12 (31:30):
How big is it to get tom Yedman and Tioscar
Hernandez back. It feels like the lineup now is more
whole than when any of you guys are out of it.
Speaker 2 (31:39):
Yeah.
Speaker 14 (31:39):
Absolutely, it's a huge getting both them back. It feels
like we really haven't played all season with you know,
a full healthy lineup where guys are performing like themselves.
You know, early on Freddie was out, Mookie was sick,
and Tommy and too get hurt. I hadn't been playing
like myself. We're still you know, Mikey's still coming around,
and you know, we just we have not the full
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line of clicking on all cylinders yet and so you know,
we're waiting to get to that point and we know
once we do, we're really going to take off. But
you know, until then, we're still playing pretty well.
Speaker 4 (32:09):
Yeah, and your record's pretty good too.
Speaker 12 (32:11):
When you look at it, it might be kind of
scary for the rest of the league with everything that
you just said.
Speaker 1 (32:16):
Yeah, well, you know that is that is the hope.
Speaker 14 (32:19):
You know, hopefully we just get that lengthen there we
can start getting some guys some days off, you know,
keep us healthy in the long run. And you know
it's always an important thing is try to get to
October healthy.
Speaker 12 (32:30):
Can I take you back to the NLCS and your
Major league record of getting on base twelve consecutive times, Like,
when you're in that type of zone seeing the ball
as well as you were seeing it, does any of
that factor into you that hey, I might be doing
something here.
Speaker 14 (32:47):
Yeah, when when the ball slows down for you, that's
when you know you're you're in a good spot. You
know you're able to recognize everything, You feel like you're
able to get your swing off on everything. That's a
it's a really good spot to be in. There's not
many times at the course the season where you get
in that zone. And so for me, that was a
great time to be in it. Uh wish I could
have kept it going, but you know that's that's the
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nature of it. And you know, for me, it was
just important to be on basically that many times for
my teammates to drop me in and you know, help,
let's get that series win.
Speaker 4 (33:15):
Isn't that the value of max month?
Speaker 12 (33:18):
See, we always look at the results, but what you
do as part of this whole lineup, like in the NLCS,
how much pride do you take in knowing your value.
Speaker 14 (33:28):
I take a lot of pride in knowing that I
can be the guy that allows everyone else to be themselves.
You know, if guys want to swing first pitch, attack early,
they know they can do that if they got me
in front of them or behind them, knowing that if
I need to, I can work the bat make the picture,
throw a bunch of pitches. That way, the inning doesn't
get too lopsided in their favor. And it's something that
I've I've really taken a lot of pride in, and
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you know, I know that's what my value is here,
is to just be that guy that gives the lineup
so much length and you know, just doesn't make it
easy on the pitture. Even if it's now, it's still
not an easy out. And that's, you know, something I've
always always taken pride in.
Speaker 4 (34:01):
Yeah, there's a they called it a lineup for a reason.
It's not just you on an island.
Speaker 14 (34:06):
It feels like that when you're in the batters box sometimes,
but yeah, it is nine guys.
Speaker 4 (34:10):
You know, it's up and down.
Speaker 14 (34:12):
You know, you're you're really trying to get you know,
the opposing pitcher to throw a lot of pitches, get out.
Speaker 2 (34:17):
Of the game.
Speaker 14 (34:17):
You're trying to get some runs on the board. And
it is a group effort. It's not just one guy,
even though it does kind of feel like it sometimes.
Speaker 12 (34:23):
Max Munsey is our guest before I Let You Go.
I spoke to Joe Tory a couple of weeks ago.
He was the manager that led the Yankees to back
to back World Series championships twenty five years ago, and
you said, the biggest message he had to those teams
was not to admire what you had done the year before.
Do you feel like this group has done a pretty
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good job of not admiring what you did last year.
Speaker 2 (34:48):
Yeah.
Speaker 14 (34:48):
You know, part of that was going to Japan this year.
You you don't have a ton of time in the offseason.
You know, the whole point, the whole goal was to
be playing late until October November, and then that means
you have a really short offseason, and then for us
going to Span with and even shorter offseason. So I
don't think a lot of guys had a ton of
time to kind of sit there and reflect on, you know,
last year. It's always a little tough when you know
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you're you're you're playing teams that have guys from the
team last year, and you're doing ring ceremonies and you know,
you're wearing the jerseys you got all this other stuff,
and it's hard not to admire it sometimes. But I
think for a lot of us, we've just you know,
stay focused on taking it one day at a time.
And I think that's also the beauty of having an
older team that we know we have a lot of
guys that know how to just, you know, you take
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this season one day at a time, and you know
what what you did the day yes, you know yesterday,
the day before, that doesn't really matter what you think
you might do tomorrow, it doesn't matter. All that matter
is what you're gonna do today. And that was the
message we've always been trying to, you know, Preacher, is
what can you do today to help the team win?
And you know, when the day's over, you flush it
and you move on to the next day.
Speaker 4 (35:49):
Be where your feet are.
Speaker 12 (35:51):
Maximuncy always is thanks a lot for the time, and
you mean a lot to this team. And you mean
a lot to Los Angeles. So keep it going and
stay healthy.
Speaker 4 (36:00):
Appreciate David there.
Speaker 12 (36:01):
He is the man, Max Munsey, and he'll receive a
gift card to Javiers.
Speaker 4 (36:05):
Yes that Hobviers. He's not taking me.
Speaker 12 (36:08):
There's a new location in downtown you might see Monsey.
We'll send it back to you in the studio.
Speaker 1 (36:13):
Tim, all right, thanks a lot, Damn, thanks a lot.
Speaker 4 (36:15):
Max.
Speaker 6 (36:15):
Dodgers looking to bounce back after the loss last night
at City Field in New York, dropping two of three
over the weekend to the Mets. Is The road trip
continues now in Cleveland on this Memorial Day Dodgers Baseball
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to first pitch from Cleveland Dodgers and Guardians. Up next,
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we'll dive deeper into this pitching matchup. Don't go anywhere.
I'm Tim Kates is the world champion Los Angeles Dodgers
Audio Network.
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Dodgers and Guardians on this Memorial Day and leading him
to first pitching Cleveland in the series opener, first pitch
seven for three ten.
Speaker 2 (37:02):
Yeah.
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Gavin Williams on the Mount four and two with the
three to twenty nine ERA, twenty five year old right hander,
first round pick back in twenty twenty one. They nicknamed
him Big Rig because he's six six, two fifty said
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his third season in the big leagues this year, he's
becoming mostly a fastball as sweeper pitcher. Making his eleven
start this year in the month of May two to
zero with the two to twenty five ERA and four
starts last time outs six innings, one run, two hits,
six punchouts in a win over the Twins. This is
his third career start against the Dodgers. He's zero to
two with an eighteen Rora. Last time the Dodgers saw
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him last September at Dodger Stadium.
Speaker 1 (37:54):
He failed to make it out of the first in.
Speaker 6 (37:55):
He gave up five earned runs on two hits and
walk three in two thirds of an in his shortest
start of his career. Yoshinobu Yama Modo on the mound
for the Dodgers five and three, one eighty six ERRA.
The twenty six year old leads the National league and
opponent's Battian Average opponents slug opponents OPS and ranks amongst
the national leaders and ERA whip opponents OBB and strikeouts.
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Making his eleventh start of the season last time out
arguably his best. Seven shutout innings nine strikeouts. He took
a no hitter into the top half of the seventh inning.
He leave the game with a no decision after one
hundred and ten pitches. Yoshinobu Yamamoto Gavin Williams Dodgers Guardians
from Cleveland. We're fifteen minutes away from first pitch.
Speaker 1 (38:39):
Keys to the game. Our next, I'm Tim Kasey's the
world champion. Los Angeles Dodgers Audio Network.
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It's Dodgers and the Guardians on the Memorial Day. Yoshinobu
Yamamoto and Gavin Williams the pitching matchup in this series opener,
as the East Coast road trip continued through the Dodgers
after dropping two or three in New York over the
weekend to the Mets. Dodgers now in Cleveland, first pitch
coming up at three ten Before that, though, we head
back out to the booth. Two guys on the call
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for this one, Tim Nevertt and Rick Monday.
Speaker 8 (39:20):
Go ahead, Tim, thanks very much. We count you down
to the first pitch Here at Progressive Field in downtown Cleveland, Ohio.
The flags are at half staff on this Memorial Day
in remembrance of those who paid the ultimate sacrifice, and
we remember them here today as well. Dodgers will send
Yoshinobu Yamamoto to them on. He is the ace of
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the staff and the Dodgers looking for a lot of
length out of him after he took a no hitter
into the seventh in his last start against the Arizona Diamondback.
Speaker 9 (39:49):
One of the notes that I made after that start
the last time against Arizona's you're referring to is that
I wrote down he threw a very high percentage of
curb bows in comparison to what we normally see with
the split finger fastball.
Speaker 2 (40:02):
Is that something that he has believed in?
Speaker 9 (40:04):
Is that something we're going to see now continue on
and even build up a little bit more. One thing
about it for Yamamoto, he's allowed just a one seventy
two batting average against him. That's the best in the
National League of all starters. So if you're a hitter,
you'd better take opportunities if you get a pitch to
hit because he's not allowed too many of them.
Speaker 8 (40:21):
Especially if you're a lefty left he's only hitting one
twenty eight against him. The key tonight for Yamamotos going
to be the Dodgers need to get some runs for him.
His run support average is the second worst and major
League Baseball only two point one seven runs per game
when he's in the ball game.
Speaker 2 (40:36):
Yeah. Man.
Speaker 9 (40:37):
The other part too, is how to get runs. And
if you're looking at Gavin Williams, I mean the last
three starts, he's two and oh with an ERA barely
above one and a half. He's turned it around because
the first four starts that he had his ERA was
well over six. He's dialed it back in very well.
Speaker 8 (40:53):
Gavin Williams has reintroduced the two seamer into his repertoire.
Hasn't used it for most of the season, but he
plans on using it to night against the Dodgers. Gavin
Williams and Yoshanobu Yamamoto, the Dodgers and the Guardians coming
up from Cleveland.
Speaker 6 (41:06):
Tim all Right, Dodgers looking to get back on track
with Yoshinobu Yamamoto on the mound. But first things first,
they gotta get after Gavin Williams, a big right hander
for the Guardians who's been tough at home this season.
Speaker 1 (41:19):
That progressive field first pitch is next, Tim and Vassain's
got your cover for all the postgame.
Speaker 6 (41:24):
When it's when is over enjoyed everybody. I'm Tim Katson.
This is the world champion Los Angeles Dodgers. All you'll
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