September 12, 2025 • 46 mins
Tim Cates gets you ready before the Dodgers start a 3-game series in San Francisco. Dave Roberts gives an update on Will Smith's bone bruise. Charlie Steiner and Rick Monday talk about the rivalry against the Giants. DV chats with Freddie Freeman on Freddie's birthday.
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Now your host walking you up to first pitch, Tim Kiss.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
Hi everybody, and welcome to Morongo Casino Dodgers on Decades,
You're a world champion. Los Angeles Dodgers eighty two and
sixty four on this season. Down the stretch they come.
Sixteen games remain in the twenty twenty regular season. Dodgers
currently first place atop the NL West, a two and
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a half game lead over the San Diego Padres. After
a three game sweep of the Rockies, the Dodgers have
now won four straight overall. After a day off yesterday,
They're back at it tonight in San Francisco as they
take on the surging Giants, who are still in the
fight for a National League wildcard spot. Yoshinobu Yamamoto on
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the mound for the Dodgers. Justin Verblander will go for
the Giants tonight first pitch coming up at seven fifteen.
Between then and now, we got a lot to get
to here on Morongo Casino Dodgers on deck, including hearing
from the birthday boy himself, Freddie Freeman. It's his birthday today,
David Vesego's one on one with the Dodger All Star
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first baseman. We'll hear from the Dodger manager, a lot
to get to from the Dodger manager as far as
an injury update on rookie Sasanki and Will Smith and
his thoughts going into this three game series against the Giants.
Dive deeper to this great pitching matchup. TV of course
checks in throughout the hour. We got your Dodgers magical moment.
Shortly we'll head live to Oracle Park onto the field
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where Kirsten Watson is from Sports Net LA, and in
just a few minutes we head out to the gallopin
Motors Broadcast Booth and check in with Tim Neverett and
a Rick Monday Well, theo Dodgers were lasting action on
Wednesday night. Blake Snell was fantastic, picking up where the
other Dodgers starters had left off. Blake Snell six shutout innings,
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scattered just two hits while striking out eleven, a season
high for snell Zilla. Meanwhile, the Dodgers offense A couple
of crooked numbers they put up in the second in
the eighth was all the offense they needed On Wednesday night.
Andy Poez got the fun started in the second with
an RBI double, Keiky Hernandez a sack fly. Dodgers up
two to nothing, and they weren't done. In the second inning,
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show Hey Otani with an RBI single. Dodgers led it
three to nothing, and they still weren't done. Went up
came Mookie Bets won.
Speaker 5 (03:01):
One pitch from Kyle Freeland, sway on hammer deep to left.
This ball heading back toward the wall. It's off the
track and off the wall. Oh Tane is gonna touch third.
He's on his way to the play. Here comes the throw.
Speaker 3 (03:13):
It's late.
Speaker 5 (03:14):
He scores Mookie Betts with an RBI double, It's four
nothing Dodgers.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
Mookie Bets with the RBI doubles. Dodgers with four runs
in the second. That's all they would need. The way
Blake Snell was pitching the six shutout innings, he turned
it over to the bullpen. Michael Kolpek got the seventh.
He got a ground ball out and then walked three
straight batters to load the basis. Dave Roberts said, I've
seen this movie before. I don't want to see this finale.
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As Alex Vessier came in, struck out the pair to
get out of the seventh inning, get out of the
jam without any runs, putting put up on the board.
Kirby Yate got the top half of the eighth inning.
Kirby a Tona won two to three inning as the
Dodgers remained up for it and nothing. In the bottom
of the inning, the Dodgers busted it open with one
swing of the bat from Kill.
Speaker 5 (04:01):
It's totally a playing way off the bag for the
right handed hitter, so otomy can get way off. Here's
the pitch and Mookie swings hits a drive deep left center,
hit his back.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
It is a grand Slam for Mookie Betts.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
O mooky moment here.
Speaker 5 (04:19):
Mooki Betts on a three to zero pitch, hits it
over the three seventy five marker into the left field
pavilion and the Dodgers open it up.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
It is eight to nothing.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
Mookie Bets with the grand slam, his seventh of his career.
Dodgers up eight to nothing, and they weren't done to
Oscar Hernandez that a solo home run, his twenty fourth
of this season, that would be it. Dodgers put up
a ninth spot on the board on Wednesday night as
Mookie Betts had four hits, four for five, a grand
slam of double five ribbies, his twenty sixth career four
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hit game. Dodgers do it without Will Smith, who was
scratched before first pitch with his sole in right hand.
As a Dodgers get great offense, some great pitching from
Blake Snell. And how about the Dodgers starting rotation. They've
posted a one point one eight eerra over the last
six games, striking out fifty four the last time the
Deli Dodgers have And then in this period, the Dodgers
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have limited hitters to a one to zero five batting average. Impressive,
and they look to keep it going tonight as they
passed the baton to Yoshinobu Yamamoto. Dodgers winners of four
in a row after that nine to nothing win over
the Rockies on Wednesday. They're eighty two and sixty four
on this season, and tonight they started a huge three
game series in San Francisco, and with more we head
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up to the Galpamotors broadcast booth as we say hello
to Tim Neverett and Rick Monday.
Speaker 5 (05:40):
Guys, Tim, thank you very much. It's a cool evening
here in San Francisco. Is the ballpark, Oracle Park, right
on the bay, looking across to Oakland from where we sit,
but a little breezy today and the temperatures a little
lower than the Dodgers have been accustomed to in Los
Angeles recently. The Dodger two and a half up on
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the Padres to start action tonight. They've won four in
a row, eighty two and sixty four, fifteenth consecutive winning season,
tying a National League record, and the Giants seventy two
and seventy four. They're eight and back of the Dodgers. However,
they are creeping up and getting very very close to
the New York Mets for that third and final wild
card spot. A resurgence in the last few weeks by
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the Giants has them moving up the standings. Pitching matchup
the veteran Justin Verlander in his twentieth Major League season,
starting against right handed Yoshinobo Yamamoto. Yamamoto eleven and eight
while Verlander is three and ten, but he's been pitching
much better lately. And mo, as we look at the
lineup tonight, there is somebody missing, and that's Will Smith.
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He was scratched just prior to the last home game.
The right hand issue he's got was a problem. He
couldn't play, and even with the day off, not able
to go today. They're going to see about tomorrow tomorrow.
Speaker 6 (07:00):
On Wednesday, we found out a little less than five
minutes before first pitch that he had been withdrawn from
the lineup. So for Ben rot Vett, he has a
chance to it to be in the ball game again.
You know, he's done a remarkable job. You talk about
a fast study to begin with learning all the new
pictures and then, by the way, here's the name tag.
You got to learn the names, and you got to
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learn the positions and then figure out what you're going
to do behind the Pladi's also come up with a
couple of good bunts to move people over it. Came
up with a good bass hit the other day on
top of it, just basically, Hi, how are you pressed
into action?
Speaker 5 (07:33):
So he caught Yamamoto on Saturday eight and two thirds
no hit innings, the first time they'd ever been together,
a pitcher and catcher. And that was the time when
Yamamoto put the PitchCom device on his hip. And I
just a few moments ago, was visiting with Ben and
I said, how many pitches did you call? How many
did he call? He said, I would make the first one.
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He said about seventy five percent of the time, I'd
make the first offer on the call. And there were
a couple of times we just looked at each other
and said, what do you want? So he said he
did most of the work. He did all the work,
but he said Ben gave him suggestions seventy five percent
of the time.
Speaker 6 (08:08):
And I think it shows also the Dodgers did their
homework because they've got a guy to back up the
catcher has a very good feel for the game and
had to learn in a hurry. So the Dodgers, yep,
kind of changing things around Max Munsey in that lineup.
He'll back in the fourth spot tonight. And if you
look at the Dodgers, you know, one of the things
that they have done numbers looked at earlier today the
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last twelve games, they're starting to really kind of fulfill
avoid and that's with runners in scoring position. They've hit
three sixteen. That's a positive end on the offensive side.
Here's the positive side in the last twelve games. If
you look at the pitching staff opposing hitters runners in
scoring position last dozen games hitting below one p eighty,
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the pitching staff has really tightened up.
Speaker 5 (08:53):
Well, here we are game one of this three game
weekends that Dodgers will play the Giants four times next week,
seven times in a ten day span. And these are
meaningful games now in September, and this is what this
rivalry needs.
Speaker 6 (09:05):
This is fun because every game means something in the
standings to both of these teams. Dodgers are trying to
get in and not have to play a wild guard series,
which puts extra stress and strain on the team, especially
the pitchy staff and for the Giants, they're just hoping
they can get into wild guard round. And you know,
you start to look at San Francisco. Remember they've won
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seven of their last ten, and since the twenty third
of August they've gone thirteen and four. This is a
different Giants team, the way they're playing and what the
Dodgers are seeing so far this year.
Speaker 5 (09:37):
Justin Berlander for the Giants. It'll be Yoshinobu Yamamoto for
the Dodgers, game one of the three game weekends set
here in the City by the Bay.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
All Right, thank you guys, as we count you down
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one with Freddie Freeman, whose birthday is today. We'll dive
deeper into this pitching matchup. But up next your Otani
rewind and sports an LA's Kirsten Watson live on the
field in San Francisco. That's all coming up as we
lead you up to Dodgers and Giants on this Friday
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Here's the pitch and he swings and hits the ground
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card spot in the National League. Kirson, I imagine this weekend.
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Why know this series is a big one for both teams.
Speaker 7 (12:15):
It's going to be a huge one, and especially because
right now the Giants are playing excellent baseball. They're one
of the hottest teams in the league right now. Even
for Justin Burlander, he's gotten back on track as of
late and of course being healthy. So this is going
to be a fun one. Both teams are something to
play for. For the Dodgers, they're still looking to win
the division, they're trying to kind of extend the lead
over the Padres or even just secure their current lead
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over the Padres. And then you have, as you mentioned,
the Giants team that's looking to get into the wild cards.
So these are going to be some meaningful baseball games.
And even when you look at how well the Dodgers
have been playing this past weekend against or i guess
this past week against the Rockies, and even coming off
of that road trip in which they were struggling, right now,
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the team's playing really good team baseball, really good just
Dodgers baseball. So it's also a continuation of that now
against a really good team in the Giants. So it's
going to be a fun one. As it is, there's
a whole bunch of fans on the field right now
just for batting practice. We know it's going to be
an electures feeling just in the stadium. It always is,
so the fans are going to bring it. The Giants
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are going to bring it, and both teams definitely have
I'm going to play for right now.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
Will Smith not in the lineup tonight he didn't play
the other night scratch right before first pitch. What's going
on with that right hand?
Speaker 7 (13:33):
Yeah, so right before our first pitch, Dave Roberts had
shared that it had flared up with him. It flared
up on him, excuse me, on Wednesday. So coming into
this one, there was a thought with the off day yesterday,
he could be back in the lineup. He did undergo
some more testing, actually had an MRI on that hand,
and all of the scanning has come back clear, but
it's clear that it is a deep bone bruise on
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that right hand of taking the style ball off of
it in Pittsburgh's And so right now it's still kind
of just day to day. He is getting better, but
unfortunately it is still bothering him. So for today, Dave
Roberts just say he's available off the bench in some
kind of capacity. He is still available to be like
the emergency catcher if need be. So they don't feel
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like they have to put him on the il or anything,
but they are going to keep an eye on him
moving forward. And if you know, it calls for maybe
a little shutdown for ten days. That might make sense,
but of course they also have Adulton rushing on the
il and he's likely not eligible until early next week.
So for Will, they're still just kind of giving it
some time to heal. He's still day to day. But
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the hope is just you can kind of get he
has more strength in that hand. But the hope is
that it's just kind of that pain relief can come
a little bit sooner. But he is getting better each
and every day. It's just still bothering him a little bit.
Speaker 1 (14:48):
Kirson, We appreciate it. We'll check in with you after
the game is still to come. Here, I'm wrong Goo
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Speaker 2 (16:14):
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Speaker 1 (16:17):
Can you talk about the pressure in.
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Speaker 7 (16:23):
Well, Dave, First, just Will Smith still not in the lineup.
How is he doing today with that hand in that
bone bruise.
Speaker 8 (16:29):
It's still there, doesn't feel great. He's available, He'll be
available tonight in some capacity and we'll see where he's
at tomorrow. But yeah, just it's getting better today, but
still with.
Speaker 7 (16:49):
Any bone, Bruce, we know that it takes time. Is
this taking a little bit longer than you expected for him?
Speaker 5 (16:55):
Yeah?
Speaker 8 (16:55):
Yeah, I think that after his first game back and
just feeling that, you know, all the testing that we've
done and for it to come up, you know, negative
and the swelling has dissipated, so it felt like we'd
be in a better spot. But yeah, at least they're
still improvement each day.
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Speaker 1 (18:14):
We heard a little bit from the manager, Dave Roberts
there just a couple of minutes ago. Will Smith not
in the lineup. We're gonna play it day by day.
When did it start hurting again on Wednesday? For the
Dodger catcher Well.
Speaker 9 (18:25):
I talked to Will Smith earlier this afternoon in the clubhouse,
and he told me that when he was warming Blake
snell up, that's when his hands started to really swell up.
He took batting practice early in the day he thought
he was going to be able to play through it,
it started to be a little bit sore, and an
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hour before first pitch Wednesday night is when he realized
he was not going to be able to play that night.
And he even caught Blake Snell warming up in the
bullpen for that start, and that's when he realized, Okay,
things are not going my way. I'm gonna have to
say something here. And that's when Ben Whurtfitt found out
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about ten minutes before first pitch he was going to
have to catch Blake Snell, and the first pitch that
he caught from Blake Snell was when Snell was warming
up on the Major League mound as he was getting
ready for that first inning. Now, it seems like the
Dodgers have taken all the scans possible on Will Smith's
right hand, but when we were in the clubhouse today,
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he was still on some stem machine trying to, you know,
do whatever he could to try to get that swelling down.
And it feels like they may have to go see
a hand specialist maybe to be able to see exactly
what's going on and check those scans out since the
swelling is not dissipated. So it's a tough spot.
Speaker 1 (19:53):
Yeah, no doubt about a lot of bones in that hand,
and hopefully they can continue just to get better. Dam
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What's changed?
Speaker 3 (20:09):
Yeah?
Speaker 9 (20:09):
Can you believe Mookie Bets has his batting average up
to two sixty and his ops is at seven thirty
seven when it was below seven hundred a month ago.
There are a couple of factors on what changed with
Mookie Bets.
Speaker 3 (20:23):
First and foremost his outlook and.
Speaker 9 (20:26):
Stop putting so much pressure on himself to try to
regain hits that we're not going to come back from
the previous three months.
Speaker 3 (20:34):
So that was first and foremost.
Speaker 9 (20:36):
Remember in Tampa, the final day of that extensive East
Coast road trip, he basically said, I have no more
answers and I'm gonna stop trying to put so much
pressure on the mechanics of my swing. And in Tampa
he did work with Jad Martinez, his former teammate that
we all know as some sort of a really good
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relationship to be able to help Mooki find his swing.
So him not trying to collect the previous fifty hits
that he missed out on was the first and foremost
part of it. And also some of the mechanical swings
and going back to just competing have changed his season
and look couldn't come at a better time as the
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Dodgers are still trying to secure the NL West and
probably are going to have to win thirteen games now
in the postseason to repeat his champions.
Speaker 1 (21:27):
Yeah, I canna have to plan that wild card round, David.
We appreciate. We'll check back in with you in just
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All right, Tim, the Dodgers now down to their sweet
little sixteen. Sixteen games remain in the regular season. They
are two and a half games in front of the
podres the Pod. He's at home this weekend with the
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games the Dodgers play against the Giants. And once again, Moe,
we're reminded what a great rivalry, historic rivalry this is.
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Yeah, and you mentioned the sixteen games, and also keep
in mind, folks, that seven of those games are going
to be against the San Francisco Giants. But here's the
even more important part about that matchup. The Giants are
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Even a month ago they were they were really kind
of struggling. Well, that's not the case anymore. And for
the New York Mets, they are in kind of a tailspin.
The Mets are one of the three wild card teams
right now in the National League, and the Giants, along
with the Cincinnati Reds, they're knocking on the door right now.
Speaker 10 (25:58):
So here are the Dodgers at eighty two and sixty four.
The big question about the Dodgers all year has been, well,
they've been great at home, but on the road there
are four games under five hundred, and this weekend they're
on the road.
Speaker 6 (26:10):
Yeah, they're on the road. And you can get a
flavor of what is going on because if we look
at parking across the street. I noticed this. In fact,
they sent you. I took a photo and I sent
you a copy of it if you want to know
what the interest is here, And they have fireworks night
coming up too. To park your car across the street
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from the stadium, it's two hundred dollars tonight, So even
the parking, hey go ahead, bring three or four cars in. Well,
we're fine.
Speaker 10 (26:39):
And tonight, of course Yamamoto goes for the Dodgers. Justin Verlander,
who's very good down the stretch this year despite his
elder Statesman status. He's going tonight against Yamamoto. Tomorrow, Kershaw
and Webb Sunday it is Tyler Glass now and Robbie
Ray and so here are the Giants try to figure
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them out. They couldn't hit at all the first half
of the season. They've been red hot down the stretch,
and the Dodgers now their rotation is getting stronger and
healthier as they get ready for this big three game series.
Speaker 6 (27:14):
And I think all you have to know about this
matchup as you look at both of these managers, they
made sure that they positioned themselves with the very good
starting pitching that you just rattled off. Keep them buying two.
Is that the Giants, even though they're just two games
above the five hundred mark, they've won seven of their
last ten games. And this is a ball club that
understands the clock is really ticking loudly for them, and
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they feel confident the way they've been playing recently.
Speaker 10 (27:39):
The Dodgers, of course two and a half games in
front of San Diego, so they've got to win to
keep some distance between us and them, and the Giants
of course need to win to stay in the race
for that wildcard spot. So again, it's such a great
rivalry year after year after year, and tonight it's the
first of three. It's interesting looking at the Dodger lineup tonight,
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for instance, Munsey at third base, hitting cleanup, and Tommy
Edmon is in the lineup at second base and batting eighth.
Speaker 6 (28:10):
Yeah, and it's another game that also Will Smith is
not in there. On Wednesday, he was originally in that lineup,
and we got word maybe three or four minutes before
the Dodgers took the field that he had been scratched
the right hand, that he had been hit on with
the foul ball in the most recent road trip, has
just all of a sudden flared up. Don't know if
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he's available for tonight's game or not. We will find
out a little bit later.
Speaker 10 (28:36):
On a month ago, on August fourth, Mookie was hitting
two thirty one, and since then he's hitting three point
fifty two. Quickly is there anything that you have seen,
your discerning eye after all these years. What's the difference
between Mookie then and now.
Speaker 6 (28:53):
I think he has been more selective of pitches, and
I think at the same time it sounds weird he's
been more selective, but I think he's also been more aggressive.
And the reason I think has been more aggressive now
he's believing in himselves. And what we're also seeing, Charlie,
very quickly, we're seeing the ball jump off the bat
much more than we did the first three or four
months of the year.
Speaker 10 (29:13):
Well, here we go the first of three, the Dodgers
and the Giants at Oracle Park. Giants come back with
the Dodgers the last four games next week. In between
this sandwich, the Phillies will be at Dodger Stadium. A
lot of important baseball games coming up in the next week.
Sixteen remain in the regular season.
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Speaker 4 (30:39):
And now what will likely be vast fielding insults from
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Speaker 1 (30:44):
It's an engagement of endearment.
Speaker 2 (30:45):
This is high and Tight.
Speaker 3 (30:48):
It's a great day at Oracle Park.
Speaker 9 (30:50):
It's a beautiful birthday day at Oracle Park in San Francisco,
and I'm here with one of my favorite Dodgers. It's
his thirty sixth birthday. He announced it in San Diego.
Septem number twelfth is my birthday, and September twelfth is
the first day I scoreboard watch and that's the great
Freddie Freeman. Happy birthday, Freddiecia.
Speaker 11 (31:09):
Thank you, David.
Speaker 1 (31:09):
We do get the scoreboard.
Speaker 3 (31:10):
Watch it.
Speaker 11 (31:11):
It's three and a half games up. Even though it's
two and a half. We go in the tiebreaker, so
it's three and a half. Now we can start looking
at the boards.
Speaker 9 (31:17):
I have a lot of life rules, but I feel
like I make a lot of exceptions for people that
I really like, like you I don't like. And I
don't really celebrate people's birthdays when they announce it, especially
on TV in a clubhouse after a game. But I
will for you, Freddie, I will celebrate you.
Speaker 1 (31:35):
I appreciate it.
Speaker 11 (31:36):
I only said that is because I kept getting asked
about if I'm following the scoreboards, and I never do,
and so I just came up with the like, well,
we could do it on my birthday, So I didn't
really announce it, but I figured my birthday is a
couple of weeks away from the end of the season,
and I felt like that was a good time to
maybe actually start paying attention to the other teams because
at that time we did not need to pay attention
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that we needed to focus on ourselves. And we've been
played really good baseball of late, so now we can
start winning ball games and seeing if the other teams
have lost.
Speaker 9 (32:04):
Was your birthday always a big day in the Freeman
household for you and your dad?
Speaker 11 (32:09):
It's more of growing up in the Freeman's. We never
did like a friend birthday. It was always just family birthday.
So yeah, so my dad FaceTime me today, My oldest
brother called me and sang me happy birthday. My middle
brother just texted me kind of how I knew how
that would work. But my dad is trying to figure
out when I'm coming home on Sunday because he wants
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to come over and see me.
Speaker 1 (32:32):
So it's more of.
Speaker 11 (32:33):
A family birthday for me growing up, and then as
I've gotten kids, it's more of a friend So with
Charlie's birthday, you want me to announce too, Yeah, when
is Charlie's birthday. This is Monday. He goes day, that's
your ring Day, though I said, no, it's your birthday,
not my promotional giveaway from my ring day. He has
it all misconstrued. But yeah, so I haven't done anything.
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Charlie gave me his card that he made for me
yesterday before I left, but we didn't really do anything
else because the other kids, the other boys, were at school.
So I think we're gonna wait till Sunday night when
I get home.
Speaker 9 (33:06):
I love that speak it up your ring night. For
bibblehead days, you usually have one of your kids throughout
the first pitch. Same situation on Monday.
Speaker 1 (33:13):
Oh, I don't think so.
Speaker 11 (33:14):
I think this is just like a promotional kind of
giveaway thing. And I think I never got asked for
any of that, so I think they might have already
since it's the last home I'm saying. I think they
have other people set up for first ceremony, first pitches,
which is which is okay. So Charlie gets one a year.
He did a good job this year, so we'll ended
on that one. And if I get a bubblehead next year,
we'll see. I'm gonna we're gonna have a problem though,
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because the other boys just start a t ball like
three days ago, and so I don't know if I'm
gonna be able to keep it to one. Might I
have to do like Kursh does you know, multiple first
pitches or maybe Chelsea catches one with the other boys,
my dad catches another one. So maybe it'll be three
first pitches next year.
Speaker 9 (33:50):
I think that's a great plan, and you will have
another bobblehead. Trust me, I've seen some of the Yahoo's
they give bibbleheads two.
Speaker 11 (33:56):
I'm not answering that one.
Speaker 3 (33:59):
Freddy free Man is our guest. Freddie.
Speaker 9 (34:01):
You just mentioned you feel like the team is playing better.
Do you feel like getting back to the West Coast
has helped or do you feel like getting Munsie back
and just MOOKI being Mookie again.
Speaker 11 (34:12):
I think it's I mean, I don't think it's where
we are like in the country is how we're playing.
I think it's what you alluded to, and getting a
couple of guys back, getting Tommy back to But I
mean it's hard not to say it's our starting pitching.
Our starting pitching has been absolutely incredible, and as an offense,
when you see that you just want to help them
out and it doesn't matter who you're playing, you want
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to get as many runs in the board as you can.
And the last four games, we've been able to play
better baseball as a whole, you know, not like pitching
good one day and not hitting, and then hitting one
day and not pitching. And I think as a whole,
much better baseball has been being played by us over
the last few days.
Speaker 3 (34:51):
You talked about the starting pitching.
Speaker 9 (34:52):
That's gonna make a huge difference for an offense not
to be down early or multiple runs when you have
that type of tone being said.
Speaker 11 (35:00):
Yeah, definitely, and I think I think everybody in the
game of baseball, no start, good pitching is always going
to be good hitting. And that's just the case as
an offensive player. You know, if if a pitcher's locating pitches,
it's you're not going to really get hits that night.
And when you have guys that we have in our
starting rotation, it's I mean, you can argue that four
or five, six of them could be number ones on
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every other team. So when you have number one after
number one going and going, and then they're feeding off
each other and they're throwing up zeros you got. Seems
like we have a no hitter going into the fifth
or sixth inning every single night lately. It feeds and
then it carries over to the offensive, Like, hey, guys,
we got to get going. So I think we're getting
going at the right time. We've been playing good baseball.
So if we can play good baseball the next couple
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of weeks leading into October, I think we're gonna be
in a really good spot.
Speaker 9 (35:43):
Speaking to number ones, you got another one of those
number one ones on the mount tonight.
Speaker 1 (35:48):
H Yeah.
Speaker 11 (35:49):
I mean, Yoshi's been incredible all season long. What he
did last start in Baltimore was amazing, so we're counting
on him to give us another good start. But you know,
facing justin Verlander, we got they're big boys lined up
this weekend with Webby and Robbie Wade too, So I
think it's gonna be a wonderful pitching matchups this whole weekend.
But hopefully we come out on top on all of them.
Speaker 9 (36:09):
Hey, by the way, triples, Alley, you had a triple
on the last road trip.
Speaker 1 (36:13):
It's easy their day.
Speaker 11 (36:15):
I mean, I will go for it if the right
situation is I usually pick the spots like there's one
out and I'm leaving and I'm up with going on
and I hit one in the gap, that's where you
push it. I usually go on situational so I can
get get the third and get a sacrified. So if
I do hit one in an alley, I will go
for it. But I'm not gonna put with if no
outs and two outs, there's certain situations where if I'm
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not going to be standing up at third, that's where
I don't really go for it, knowing my speed is
not the quickest of them, but we never know. I
seem to only average like two a year, and I
got my two already.
Speaker 3 (36:48):
So we'll see what happens.
Speaker 1 (36:50):
I just I hope I just get it.
Speaker 11 (36:51):
If you're saying I hit a triple, it means I
got a hit.
Speaker 3 (36:53):
So that's a good day.
Speaker 9 (36:54):
I think you will. I think you will. You got
you got that birthday mojo going today?
Speaker 3 (36:58):
Freddy?
Speaker 6 (36:59):
I like that.
Speaker 3 (36:59):
I like that.
Speaker 1 (37:00):
Maybe I should be my birthday every day.
Speaker 9 (37:02):
Hey, before I let you go, what from what I understand?
To help yourself get out of slumps as a hitter,
you have to know what you're doing well when things
are going good. Is that true or is there to
a certain extent, Yeah, I don't. I just have heard
guys that don't know when they're going good and what
they're doing right. It's hard to help yourself when things
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aren't going right.
Speaker 11 (37:25):
Yeah, I mean there's little of that. Like some when
you're going hot and you're on a on a heater,
you go in the box and you just stand in
there and you can swing and it seems like you
just barrel it and goes into the gap and you're
not really thinking about what you're doing when you're going
through it. That's when you start thinking about like, oh,
in my hands, this and that, and that's kind of
when things can spiral like today. I mean the last
couple of weeks I've been I've hit some balls hard
where guys have been making some great plays on me,
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but overall the swings has been more cutty. Again, so
I already have a plan of what I'm going to
do today. I'm not a big machine guy, not a
big VP on the field guy, but I'm going to
do my normal routine and then we're gonna.
Speaker 1 (37:57):
Hit curveball machine today.
Speaker 11 (37:59):
So if I spin off that, I'm gonna hit a
ground ball every single time off that machine. So that's
gonna help me stay through the baseball and hopefully lead
to more success. And I think like all you can
really do every single day is have a plan and approach
and the process of how you're gonna go about your work,
and you do your work, and then when the game comes,
you kind of just the game comes and whatever happens,
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you can lay your head on your pillow and said,
you did everything you possibly could to give yourself to
the best chance that day. And my plan is to
do my normal routine, hit some hit, some curve all machine,
do my normal routine again in the game, and we'll
go give Justin Rolander a try. So I know what
I'm doing wrong. It's kind of been what I've been
battling for two years now, but somehow I still managed to,
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you know, sneak some hits in there here and there.
You know, I threw a double that chopped over first base.
Somehow I hit a home run with that swing. So
hopefully I can correct this swing pretty quick, and I'm
hoping the curve all machine helps it and we can
get really hot going into the in October.
Speaker 3 (38:53):
Do you still use the tea, Freddy, I do.
Speaker 11 (38:55):
I do use the tea when it's really bad. I
go back to the basics. My dad always wants me
to tea, but I'm more of a flip guy, front
flip guy, and then the net drill where I put
an armslength the way I'm I'm more in that being
able to because I cann you can manipulate a baseball
off a tea when it's not moving and your swing,
but you can still top balls off of that, so
you can tell. But that's why I'm gonna go over
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the curveboll machine today and if that doesn't work, I'll
see on the tea tomorrow.
Speaker 9 (39:22):
Thanks a lot for the time, Freddy, I really appreciate it,
and great to be with you and share you on
your birthday September twelfth.
Speaker 3 (39:28):
It's in my calendar forever. Thank you.
Speaker 1 (39:31):
David.
Speaker 3 (39:31):
There he goes.
Speaker 9 (39:32):
Freddy Freeman is our guest and he'll receive two gift cards,
one birthday, one professional for Javier's night out to celebrate
his birthday, Javier's Finest Foods opening a new location in Pasadena.
We'll send it back to the studio.
Speaker 3 (39:47):
Tim all right.
Speaker 1 (39:48):
I wonder if Javiers gives him like a free little
birthday cake, A little some of the candle on there,
I sing, well, happy birthday to Freddie Freeman, who is
thirty six years young today, September twelfth, twenty twenty five.
Thanks to Freddie Fear, thanks to David. As we lead
up to first pitch, Dodgers and the Giants from San Francisco.
Up next, we'll dive deeper into this pitching matchup. Don't
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That's right. Today the day is the day that officially
reaches twenty years of service time. Congratulations to him. Nine
time All Star, three time Cy Young Award winner, two
time World Series champion, one of those was in twenty
seventeen with the Houston Astros. Making his twenty six start
of this season, fastball slider at curveball last time out,
six shotout innings, three hits, six strikeouts. Over his last
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nine starts, He's pitched pretty well. He's got a two
sixty one ERA. He enters tonight having not allow to
run in his last twelve innings, dating that back to
the final inning of his August twenty six start against
the Cubs. Tonight marks the fifth career regular season start
against the Dodgers. He's three and one with a three
thirty eight ERRA. Of course, two World Series starts against him,
when the Astros cheated in the twenty seventeen World Series.
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Yoshinobu Yamamoto on the mound for the Dodgers eleven and
eight two seventy two Era, twenty seven year old right
hander making his twenty eight start. He ranks amongst the
National League leaders in ray Whip opponent's batting average, which
is one ninety one, and strikeouts. He's top ten and
that with one hundred and seventy seven. Last time out,
he was awesome eight and two third Indians. He had
a no no going with one out away from a
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no hitter until Jackson Holiday broke that up with his
solo home run in Baltimore a week ago. Facing the
Giants for the fourth time in his young career in
the Big leagues, he is zero to one against them,
with seventeen strikeouts. In his last start against the Giants
as well, July thirteenth at Oracle Park, he fired seven
scoreless Indians, allowing just three hits. Yoshinobu Yamamoto justin Verlander,
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from Oracle Park in San Francisco, Dodgers looking to keep
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It's the Dodgers and the Giants, you know. Chinobu Yamamoto,
Justin Verlander the pitching matchup, first pitch of Oracle Park
in San Francisco, coming up at seven to fifteen. Before
first pitch, we had back out to the booth one
final time. Tim Neverettrick Monday, Guys.
Speaker 5 (43:13):
Tim, thanks again. We catch you down to the first
pitch tonight here in San Francisco. It's nice night for
a ballgame, typical San Francisco evening. Cool temperatures and a
little bit of a breeze blowing out. Temperatures expected to
dip somewhat as the sun goes down here tonight. Yoshinobo
Yamamoto takes on Justin Verlander for Verlander. He had a
horrible start to his season, but his last few starts
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he seems to be back on track. Dave Roberts was
talking about it in Maduga a little while ago. He
said he talked to Verlander sometime during the season and
he said, yep, he goes I'm going to go on
a heater pretty soon, and he's on that heater. Right now. Yeah,
he is.
Speaker 6 (43:50):
The last outing that was a Saturday against Saint Louis,
went six innings, did not allow a run. However, to
start before that, well he went five innings. It took
him one hundred and twenty one pitches to get through
the five. He understands how to pitch very very well,
good control. When he's on, he's going to change speeds
a lot. And speaking of changing speeds in eye levels
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for Yamamoto, I mean he has been terrific on the
road in particular eight and four and the sixteen starts
and on the road just a one to seventy five
batting average against him.
Speaker 5 (44:21):
Well, his last start against Baltimore on Saturday, he did
the job. He did. He certainly did his job eight
and two thirds no hit innings before being relieved after
throwing a career high hundred and twelve pitches. Now, he
did have two no hitters in Japan. That was obviously
the closest he'd come here in the major leagues, but
without question his best major league starts.
Speaker 6 (44:42):
Yeah, this is going to be a good night too. Yes,
as you mentioned earlier, you know, the conditions a little
bit colder than what the Dodgers normally playing in but
the wind is blowing out, at least in the early goings.
We're going to find out. Yamamoto has given up fourteen
home runs, and for Ferlander in his twenty five starts,
he's given a twelve home home runs. Ferlander, by the way,
you talked about struggling earlier this year, he did not
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pick up his first victory this year until his seventeenth start.
Speaker 5 (45:08):
Berlander eighth all time in strikeouts. He begins the game
three thousand and five hundred thirty six strikeouts, and he's
looking to add to that total tonight. Yamamotos looking to
keep him hitless and scoreless if he can. Here in
San Francisco, Dodgers and Giants Game one coming up.
Speaker 1 (45:26):
Tim all right, thank you guys. Keeping an eye on
what's happening at Petco Park in San Diego as the
Padres playows to the Colorado Rockies. They're in the bottom
of the second inning and already the Padres with a
one to nothing lead over the Rockies. Dodgers looking to
keep pace two and a half game lead going into
play tonight. Giants fighting for their postseeds and lives as
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they are just a game and a half back in
the wild card standings. They are one of the hottest
teams in baseball. Dodgers need to keep it going. They've
won four in a row, included game sweep of the
Colorado Rockies and tonight's it's Yoshinovu Yamamoto on the mound
last time out last weekend. We saw what he did
in Baltimore, flirting with a no hitter one out of
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way against the Oriels at Camden Yards, says his first
time backup on the mound, Dodgers need another great performance
out of him. Keep this offense rolling. They put nine
runs up on the board Wednesday night and Mookie Betts
get it going. Freddie Freeman, Happy birthday to him the
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Sixteen games remain in the twenty twenty regular season. Dodgers
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a half game lead over the San Diego Padres. After
a three game sweep of the Rockies, the Dodgers have
now won four straight overall. After a day off yesterday,
They're back at it tonight in San Francisco as they
take on the surging Giants, who are still in the
fight for a National League wildcard spot. Yoshinobu Yamamoto on
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Dive deeper to this great pitching matchup. TV of course
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Shortly we'll head live to Oracle Park onto the field
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a Rick Monday Well, theo Dodgers were lasting action on
Wednesday night. Blake Snell was fantastic, picking up where the
other Dodgers starters had left off. Blake Snell six shutout innings,
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Andy Poez got the fun started in the second with
an RBI double, Keiky Hernandez a sack fly. Dodgers up
two to nothing, and they weren't done. In the second inning,
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three to nothing, and they still weren't done. Went up
came Mookie Bets won.
Speaker 5 (03:01):
One pitch from Kyle Freeland, sway on hammer deep to left.
This ball heading back toward the wall. It's off the
track and off the wall. Oh Tane is gonna touch third.
He's on his way to the play. Here comes the throw.
Speaker 3 (03:13):
It's late.
Speaker 5 (03:14):
He scores Mookie Betts with an RBI double, It's four
nothing Dodgers.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
Mookie Bets with the RBI doubles. Dodgers with four runs
in the second. That's all they would need. The way
Blake Snell was pitching the six shutout innings, he turned
it over to the bullpen. Michael Kolpek got the seventh.
He got a ground ball out and then walked three
straight batters to load the basis. Dave Roberts said, I've
seen this movie before. I don't want to see this finale.
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As Alex Vessier came in, struck out the pair to
get out of the seventh inning, get out of the
jam without any runs, putting put up on the board.
Kirby Yate got the top half of the eighth inning.
Kirby a Tona won two to three inning as the
Dodgers remained up for it and nothing. In the bottom
of the inning, the Dodgers busted it open with one
swing of the bat from Kill.
Speaker 5 (04:01):
It's totally a playing way off the bag for the
right handed hitter, so otomy can get way off. Here's
the pitch and Mookie swings hits a drive deep left center,
hit his back.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
It is a grand Slam for Mookie Betts.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
O mooky moment here.
Speaker 5 (04:19):
Mooki Betts on a three to zero pitch, hits it
over the three seventy five marker into the left field
pavilion and the Dodgers open it up.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
It is eight to nothing.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
Mookie Bets with the grand slam, his seventh of his career.
Dodgers up eight to nothing, and they weren't done to
Oscar Hernandez that a solo home run, his twenty fourth
of this season, that would be it. Dodgers put up
a ninth spot on the board on Wednesday night as
Mookie Betts had four hits, four for five, a grand
slam of double five ribbies, his twenty sixth career four
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hit game. Dodgers do it without Will Smith, who was
scratched before first pitch with his sole in right hand.
As a Dodgers get great offense, some great pitching from
Blake Snell. And how about the Dodgers starting rotation. They've
posted a one point one eight eerra over the last
six games, striking out fifty four the last time the
Deli Dodgers have And then in this period, the Dodgers
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have limited hitters to a one to zero five batting average. Impressive,
and they look to keep it going tonight as they
passed the baton to Yoshinobu Yamamoto. Dodgers winners of four
in a row after that nine to nothing win over
the Rockies on Wednesday. They're eighty two and sixty four
on this season, and tonight they started a huge three
game series in San Francisco, and with more we head
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up to the Galpamotors broadcast booth as we say hello
to Tim Neverett and Rick Monday.
Speaker 5 (05:40):
Guys, Tim, thank you very much. It's a cool evening
here in San Francisco. Is the ballpark, Oracle Park, right
on the bay, looking across to Oakland from where we sit,
but a little breezy today and the temperatures a little
lower than the Dodgers have been accustomed to in Los
Angeles recently. The Dodger two and a half up on
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the Padres to start action tonight. They've won four in
a row, eighty two and sixty four, fifteenth consecutive winning season,
tying a National League record, and the Giants seventy two
and seventy four. They're eight and back of the Dodgers. However,
they are creeping up and getting very very close to
the New York Mets for that third and final wild
card spot. A resurgence in the last few weeks by
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the Giants has them moving up the standings. Pitching matchup
the veteran Justin Verlander in his twentieth Major League season,
starting against right handed Yoshinobo Yamamoto. Yamamoto eleven and eight
while Verlander is three and ten, but he's been pitching
much better lately. And mo, as we look at the
lineup tonight, there is somebody missing, and that's Will Smith.
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He was scratched just prior to the last home game.
The right hand issue he's got was a problem. He
couldn't play, and even with the day off, not able
to go today. They're going to see about tomorrow tomorrow.
Speaker 6 (07:00):
On Wednesday, we found out a little less than five
minutes before first pitch that he had been withdrawn from
the lineup. So for Ben rot Vett, he has a
chance to it to be in the ball game again.
You know, he's done a remarkable job. You talk about
a fast study to begin with learning all the new
pictures and then, by the way, here's the name tag.
You got to learn the names, and you got to
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learn the positions and then figure out what you're going
to do behind the Pladi's also come up with a
couple of good bunts to move people over it. Came
up with a good bass hit the other day on
top of it, just basically, Hi, how are you pressed
into action?
Speaker 5 (07:33):
So he caught Yamamoto on Saturday eight and two thirds
no hit innings, the first time they'd ever been together,
a pitcher and catcher. And that was the time when
Yamamoto put the PitchCom device on his hip. And I
just a few moments ago, was visiting with Ben and
I said, how many pitches did you call? How many
did he call? He said, I would make the first one.
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He said about seventy five percent of the time, I'd
make the first offer on the call. And there were
a couple of times we just looked at each other
and said, what do you want? So he said he
did most of the work. He did all the work,
but he said Ben gave him suggestions seventy five percent
of the time.
Speaker 6 (08:08):
And I think it shows also the Dodgers did their
homework because they've got a guy to back up the
catcher has a very good feel for the game and
had to learn in a hurry. So the Dodgers, yep,
kind of changing things around Max Munsey in that lineup.
He'll back in the fourth spot tonight. And if you
look at the Dodgers, you know, one of the things
that they have done numbers looked at earlier today the
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last twelve games, they're starting to really kind of fulfill
avoid and that's with runners in scoring position. They've hit
three sixteen. That's a positive end on the offensive side.
Here's the positive side in the last twelve games. If
you look at the pitching staff opposing hitters runners in
scoring position last dozen games hitting below one p eighty,
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the pitching staff has really tightened up.
Speaker 5 (08:53):
Well, here we are game one of this three game
weekends that Dodgers will play the Giants four times next week,
seven times in a ten day span. And these are
meaningful games now in September, and this is what this
rivalry needs.
Speaker 6 (09:05):
This is fun because every game means something in the
standings to both of these teams. Dodgers are trying to
get in and not have to play a wild guard series,
which puts extra stress and strain on the team, especially
the pitchy staff and for the Giants, they're just hoping
they can get into wild guard round. And you know,
you start to look at San Francisco. Remember they've won
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seven of their last ten, and since the twenty third
of August they've gone thirteen and four. This is a
different Giants team, the way they're playing and what the
Dodgers are seeing so far this year.
Speaker 5 (09:37):
Justin Berlander for the Giants. It'll be Yoshinobu Yamamoto for
the Dodgers, game one of the three game weekends set
here in the City by the Bay.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
All Right, thank you guys, as we count you down
to the first pitch. Dodger fans, what's your plans for dinner
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deeper into this pitching matchup. But up next your Otani
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field in San Francisco. That's all coming up as we
lead you up to Dodgers and Giants on this Friday
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Why know this series is a big one for both teams.
Speaker 7 (12:15):
It's going to be a huge one, and especially because
right now the Giants are playing excellent baseball. They're one
of the hottest teams in the league right now. Even
for Justin Burlander, he's gotten back on track as of
late and of course being healthy. So this is going
to be a fun one. Both teams are something to
play for. For the Dodgers, they're still looking to win
the division, they're trying to kind of extend the lead
over the Padres or even just secure their current lead
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over the Padres. And then you have, as you mentioned,
the Giants team that's looking to get into the wild cards.
So these are going to be some meaningful baseball games.
And even when you look at how well the Dodgers
have been playing this past weekend against or i guess
this past week against the Rockies, and even coming off
of that road trip in which they were struggling, right now,
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the team's playing really good team baseball, really good just
Dodgers baseball. So it's also a continuation of that now
against a really good team in the Giants. So it's
going to be a fun one. As it is, there's
a whole bunch of fans on the field right now
just for batting practice. We know it's going to be
an electures feeling just in the stadium. It always is,
so the fans are going to bring it. The Giants
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are going to bring it, and both teams definitely have
I'm going to play for right now.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
Will Smith not in the lineup tonight he didn't play
the other night scratch right before first pitch. What's going
on with that right hand?
Speaker 7 (13:33):
Yeah, so right before our first pitch, Dave Roberts had
shared that it had flared up with him. It flared
up on him, excuse me, on Wednesday. So coming into
this one, there was a thought with the off day yesterday,
he could be back in the lineup. He did undergo
some more testing, actually had an MRI on that hand,
and all of the scanning has come back clear, but
it's clear that it is a deep bone bruise on
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that right hand of taking the style ball off of
it in Pittsburgh's And so right now it's still kind
of just day to day. He is getting better, but
unfortunately it is still bothering him. So for today, Dave
Roberts just say he's available off the bench in some
kind of capacity. He is still available to be like
the emergency catcher if need be. So they don't feel
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like they have to put him on the il or anything,
but they are going to keep an eye on him
moving forward. And if you know, it calls for maybe
a little shutdown for ten days. That might make sense,
but of course they also have Adulton rushing on the
il and he's likely not eligible until early next week.
So for Will, they're still just kind of giving it
some time to heal. He's still day to day. But
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the hope is just you can kind of get he
has more strength in that hand. But the hope is
that it's just kind of that pain relief can come
a little bit sooner. But he is getting better each
and every day. It's just still bothering him a little bit.
Speaker 1 (14:48):
Kirson, We appreciate it. We'll check in with you after
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from the shoulder injury, but now a calf bothering him
and going to slow his progress down to help out
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and check out with the Dodgers skipper.
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Can you talk about the pressure in.
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Speaker 7 (16:23):
Well, Dave, First, just Will Smith still not in the lineup.
How is he doing today with that hand in that
bone bruise.
Speaker 8 (16:29):
It's still there, doesn't feel great. He's available, He'll be
available tonight in some capacity and we'll see where he's
at tomorrow. But yeah, just it's getting better today, but
still with.
Speaker 7 (16:49):
Any bone, Bruce, we know that it takes time. Is
this taking a little bit longer than you expected for him?
Speaker 5 (16:55):
Yeah?
Speaker 8 (16:55):
Yeah, I think that after his first game back and
just feeling that, you know, all the testing that we've
done and for it to come up, you know, negative
and the swelling has dissipated, so it felt like we'd
be in a better spot. But yeah, at least they're
still improvement each day.
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Speaker 1 (18:14):
We heard a little bit from the manager, Dave Roberts
there just a couple of minutes ago. Will Smith not
in the lineup. We're gonna play it day by day.
When did it start hurting again on Wednesday? For the
Dodger catcher Well.
Speaker 9 (18:25):
I talked to Will Smith earlier this afternoon in the clubhouse,
and he told me that when he was warming Blake
snell up, that's when his hands started to really swell up.
He took batting practice early in the day he thought
he was going to be able to play through it,
it started to be a little bit sore, and an
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hour before first pitch Wednesday night is when he realized
he was not going to be able to play that night.
And he even caught Blake Snell warming up in the
bullpen for that start, and that's when he realized, Okay,
things are not going my way. I'm gonna have to
say something here. And that's when Ben Whurtfitt found out
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about ten minutes before first pitch he was going to
have to catch Blake Snell, and the first pitch that
he caught from Blake Snell was when Snell was warming
up on the Major League mound as he was getting
ready for that first inning. Now, it seems like the
Dodgers have taken all the scans possible on Will Smith's
right hand, but when we were in the clubhouse today,
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he was still on some stem machine trying to, you know,
do whatever he could to try to get that swelling down.
And it feels like they may have to go see
a hand specialist maybe to be able to see exactly
what's going on and check those scans out since the
swelling is not dissipated. So it's a tough spot.
Speaker 1 (19:53):
Yeah, no doubt about a lot of bones in that hand,
and hopefully they can continue just to get better. Dam
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Yeah?
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Can you believe Mookie Bets has his batting average up
to two sixty and his ops is at seven thirty
seven when it was below seven hundred a month ago.
There are a couple of factors on what changed with
Mookie Bets.
Speaker 3 (20:23):
First and foremost his outlook and.
Speaker 9 (20:26):
Stop putting so much pressure on himself to try to
regain hits that we're not going to come back from
the previous three months.
Speaker 3 (20:34):
So that was first and foremost.
Speaker 9 (20:36):
Remember in Tampa, the final day of that extensive East
Coast road trip, he basically said, I have no more
answers and I'm gonna stop trying to put so much
pressure on the mechanics of my swing. And in Tampa
he did work with Jad Martinez, his former teammate that
we all know as some sort of a really good
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relationship to be able to help Mooki find his swing.
So him not trying to collect the previous fifty hits
that he missed out on was the first and foremost
part of it. And also some of the mechanical swings
and going back to just competing have changed his season
and look couldn't come at a better time as the
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Dodgers are still trying to secure the NL West and
probably are going to have to win thirteen games now
in the postseason to repeat his champions.
Speaker 1 (21:27):
Yeah, I canna have to plan that wild card round, David.
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Speaker 10 (24:50):
All right, Tim, the Dodgers now down to their sweet
little sixteen. Sixteen games remain in the regular season. They
are two and a half games in front of the
podres the Pod. He's at home this weekend with the
Rockies beat him last night. And then of course the
Dodgers three games in San Francisco, come home to face Philadelphia,
and then the Giants. So seven of the next ten
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games the Dodgers play against the Giants. And once again, Moe,
we're reminded what a great rivalry, historic rivalry this is.
Speaker 6 (25:19):
Yeah, and you mentioned the sixteen games, and also keep
in mind, folks, that seven of those games are going
to be against the San Francisco Giants. But here's the
even more important part about that matchup. The Giants are
a game and a half out of clinching a National
League wild card slot. Now, who would have thought that.
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Even a month ago they were they were really kind
of struggling. Well, that's not the case anymore. And for
the New York Mets, they are in kind of a tailspin.
The Mets are one of the three wild card teams
right now in the National League, and the Giants, along
with the Cincinnati Reds, they're knocking on the door right now.
Speaker 10 (25:58):
So here are the Dodgers at eighty two and sixty four.
The big question about the Dodgers all year has been, well,
they've been great at home, but on the road there
are four games under five hundred, and this weekend they're
on the road.
Speaker 6 (26:10):
Yeah, they're on the road. And you can get a
flavor of what is going on because if we look
at parking across the street. I noticed this. In fact,
they sent you. I took a photo and I sent
you a copy of it if you want to know
what the interest is here, And they have fireworks night
coming up too. To park your car across the street
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from the stadium, it's two hundred dollars tonight, So even
the parking, hey go ahead, bring three or four cars in. Well,
we're fine.
Speaker 10 (26:39):
And tonight, of course Yamamoto goes for the Dodgers. Justin Verlander,
who's very good down the stretch this year despite his
elder Statesman status. He's going tonight against Yamamoto. Tomorrow, Kershaw
and Webb Sunday it is Tyler Glass now and Robbie
Ray and so here are the Giants try to figure
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them out. They couldn't hit at all the first half
of the season. They've been red hot down the stretch,
and the Dodgers now their rotation is getting stronger and
healthier as they get ready for this big three game series.
Speaker 6 (27:14):
And I think all you have to know about this
matchup as you look at both of these managers, they
made sure that they positioned themselves with the very good
starting pitching that you just rattled off. Keep them buying two.
Is that the Giants, even though they're just two games
above the five hundred mark, they've won seven of their
last ten games. And this is a ball club that
understands the clock is really ticking loudly for them, and
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they feel confident the way they've been playing recently.
Speaker 10 (27:39):
The Dodgers, of course two and a half games in
front of San Diego, so they've got to win to
keep some distance between us and them, and the Giants
of course need to win to stay in the race
for that wildcard spot. So again, it's such a great
rivalry year after year after year, and tonight it's the
first of three. It's interesting looking at the Dodger lineup tonight,
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for instance, Munsey at third base, hitting cleanup, and Tommy
Edmon is in the lineup at second base and batting eighth.
Speaker 6 (28:10):
Yeah, and it's another game that also Will Smith is
not in there. On Wednesday, he was originally in that lineup,
and we got word maybe three or four minutes before
the Dodgers took the field that he had been scratched
the right hand, that he had been hit on with
the foul ball in the most recent road trip, has
just all of a sudden flared up. Don't know if
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he's available for tonight's game or not. We will find
out a little bit later.
Speaker 10 (28:36):
On a month ago, on August fourth, Mookie was hitting
two thirty one, and since then he's hitting three point
fifty two. Quickly is there anything that you have seen,
your discerning eye after all these years. What's the difference
between Mookie then and now.
Speaker 6 (28:53):
I think he has been more selective of pitches, and
I think at the same time it sounds weird he's
been more selective, but I think he's also been more aggressive.
And the reason I think has been more aggressive now
he's believing in himselves. And what we're also seeing, Charlie,
very quickly, we're seeing the ball jump off the bat
much more than we did the first three or four
months of the year.
Speaker 10 (29:13):
Well, here we go the first of three, the Dodgers
and the Giants at Oracle Park. Giants come back with
the Dodgers the last four games next week. In between
this sandwich, the Phillies will be at Dodger Stadium. A
lot of important baseball games coming up in the next week.
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on Dodgers on Deck get you a preview this pitching matchup.
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Speaker 4 (30:09):
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Speaker 1 (30:19):
It's the Dodgers and the Giants from San Francisco Oracle Park,
Yoshinobu Yamamoto, justin Verlander. The pitching matchup Dodgers Baseball is
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Speaker 4 (30:39):
And now what will likely be vast fielding insults from
a Dodger player.
Speaker 1 (30:44):
It's an engagement of endearment.
Speaker 2 (30:45):
This is high and Tight.
Speaker 3 (30:48):
It's a great day at Oracle Park.
Speaker 9 (30:50):
It's a beautiful birthday day at Oracle Park in San Francisco,
and I'm here with one of my favorite Dodgers. It's
his thirty sixth birthday. He announced it in San Diego.
Septem number twelfth is my birthday, and September twelfth is
the first day I scoreboard watch and that's the great
Freddie Freeman. Happy birthday, Freddiecia.
Speaker 11 (31:09):
Thank you, David.
Speaker 1 (31:09):
We do get the scoreboard.
Speaker 3 (31:10):
Watch it.
Speaker 11 (31:11):
It's three and a half games up. Even though it's
two and a half. We go in the tiebreaker, so
it's three and a half. Now we can start looking
at the boards.
Speaker 9 (31:17):
I have a lot of life rules, but I feel
like I make a lot of exceptions for people that
I really like, like you I don't like. And I
don't really celebrate people's birthdays when they announce it, especially
on TV in a clubhouse after a game. But I
will for you, Freddie, I will celebrate you.
Speaker 1 (31:35):
I appreciate it.
Speaker 11 (31:36):
I only said that is because I kept getting asked
about if I'm following the scoreboards, and I never do,
and so I just came up with the like, well,
we could do it on my birthday, So I didn't
really announce it, but I figured my birthday is a
couple of weeks away from the end of the season,
and I felt like that was a good time to
maybe actually start paying attention to the other teams because
at that time we did not need to pay attention
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that we needed to focus on ourselves. And we've been
played really good baseball of late, so now we can
start winning ball games and seeing if the other teams
have lost.
Speaker 9 (32:04):
Was your birthday always a big day in the Freeman
household for you and your dad?
Speaker 11 (32:09):
It's more of growing up in the Freeman's. We never
did like a friend birthday. It was always just family birthday.
So yeah, so my dad FaceTime me today, My oldest
brother called me and sang me happy birthday. My middle
brother just texted me kind of how I knew how
that would work. But my dad is trying to figure
out when I'm coming home on Sunday because he wants
(32:31):
to come over and see me.
Speaker 1 (32:32):
So it's more of.
Speaker 11 (32:33):
A family birthday for me growing up, and then as
I've gotten kids, it's more of a friend So with
Charlie's birthday, you want me to announce too, Yeah, when
is Charlie's birthday. This is Monday. He goes day, that's
your ring Day, though I said, no, it's your birthday,
not my promotional giveaway from my ring day. He has
it all misconstrued. But yeah, so I haven't done anything.
(32:57):
Charlie gave me his card that he made for me
yesterday before I left, but we didn't really do anything
else because the other kids, the other boys, were at school.
So I think we're gonna wait till Sunday night when
I get home.
Speaker 9 (33:06):
I love that speak it up your ring night. For
bibblehead days, you usually have one of your kids throughout
the first pitch. Same situation on Monday.
Speaker 1 (33:13):
Oh, I don't think so.
Speaker 11 (33:14):
I think this is just like a promotional kind of
giveaway thing. And I think I never got asked for
any of that, so I think they might have already
since it's the last home I'm saying. I think they
have other people set up for first ceremony, first pitches,
which is which is okay. So Charlie gets one a year.
He did a good job this year, so we'll ended
on that one. And if I get a bubblehead next year,
we'll see. I'm gonna we're gonna have a problem though,
(33:36):
because the other boys just start a t ball like
three days ago, and so I don't know if I'm
gonna be able to keep it to one. Might I
have to do like Kursh does you know, multiple first
pitches or maybe Chelsea catches one with the other boys,
my dad catches another one. So maybe it'll be three
first pitches next year.
Speaker 9 (33:50):
I think that's a great plan, and you will have
another bobblehead. Trust me, I've seen some of the Yahoo's
they give bibbleheads two.
Speaker 11 (33:56):
I'm not answering that one.
Speaker 3 (33:59):
Freddy free Man is our guest. Freddie.
Speaker 9 (34:01):
You just mentioned you feel like the team is playing better.
Do you feel like getting back to the West Coast
has helped or do you feel like getting Munsie back
and just MOOKI being Mookie again.
Speaker 11 (34:12):
I think it's I mean, I don't think it's where
we are like in the country is how we're playing.
I think it's what you alluded to, and getting a
couple of guys back, getting Tommy back to But I
mean it's hard not to say it's our starting pitching.
Our starting pitching has been absolutely incredible, and as an offense,
when you see that you just want to help them
out and it doesn't matter who you're playing, you want
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to get as many runs in the board as you can.
And the last four games, we've been able to play
better baseball as a whole, you know, not like pitching
good one day and not hitting, and then hitting one
day and not pitching. And I think as a whole,
much better baseball has been being played by us over
the last few days.
Speaker 3 (34:51):
You talked about the starting pitching.
Speaker 9 (34:52):
That's gonna make a huge difference for an offense not
to be down early or multiple runs when you have
that type of tone being said.
Speaker 11 (35:00):
Yeah, definitely, and I think I think everybody in the
game of baseball, no start, good pitching is always going
to be good hitting. And that's just the case as
an offensive player. You know, if if a pitcher's locating pitches,
it's you're not going to really get hits that night.
And when you have guys that we have in our
starting rotation, it's I mean, you can argue that four
or five, six of them could be number ones on
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every other team. So when you have number one after
number one going and going, and then they're feeding off
each other and they're throwing up zeros you got. Seems
like we have a no hitter going into the fifth
or sixth inning every single night lately. It feeds and
then it carries over to the offensive, Like, hey, guys,
we got to get going. So I think we're getting
going at the right time. We've been playing good baseball.
So if we can play good baseball the next couple
(35:40):
of weeks leading into October, I think we're gonna be
in a really good spot.
Speaker 9 (35:43):
Speaking to number ones, you got another one of those
number one ones on the mount tonight.
Speaker 1 (35:48):
H Yeah.
Speaker 11 (35:49):
I mean, Yoshi's been incredible all season long. What he
did last start in Baltimore was amazing, so we're counting
on him to give us another good start. But you know,
facing justin Verlander, we got they're big boys lined up
this weekend with Webby and Robbie Wade too, So I
think it's gonna be a wonderful pitching matchups this whole weekend.
But hopefully we come out on top on all of them.
Speaker 9 (36:09):
Hey, by the way, triples, Alley, you had a triple
on the last road trip.
Speaker 1 (36:13):
It's easy their day.
Speaker 11 (36:15):
I mean, I will go for it if the right
situation is I usually pick the spots like there's one
out and I'm leaving and I'm up with going on
and I hit one in the gap, that's where you
push it. I usually go on situational so I can
get get the third and get a sacrified. So if
I do hit one in an alley, I will go
for it. But I'm not gonna put with if no
outs and two outs, there's certain situations where if I'm
(36:36):
not going to be standing up at third, that's where
I don't really go for it, knowing my speed is
not the quickest of them, but we never know. I
seem to only average like two a year, and I
got my two already.
Speaker 3 (36:48):
So we'll see what happens.
Speaker 1 (36:50):
I just I hope I just get it.
Speaker 11 (36:51):
If you're saying I hit a triple, it means I
got a hit.
Speaker 3 (36:53):
So that's a good day.
Speaker 9 (36:54):
I think you will. I think you will. You got
you got that birthday mojo going today?
Speaker 3 (36:58):
Freddy?
Speaker 6 (36:59):
I like that.
Speaker 3 (36:59):
I like that.
Speaker 1 (37:00):
Maybe I should be my birthday every day.
Speaker 9 (37:02):
Hey, before I let you go, what from what I understand?
To help yourself get out of slumps as a hitter,
you have to know what you're doing well when things
are going good. Is that true or is there to
a certain extent, Yeah, I don't. I just have heard
guys that don't know when they're going good and what
they're doing right. It's hard to help yourself when things
(37:24):
aren't going right.
Speaker 11 (37:25):
Yeah, I mean there's little of that. Like some when
you're going hot and you're on a on a heater,
you go in the box and you just stand in
there and you can swing and it seems like you
just barrel it and goes into the gap and you're
not really thinking about what you're doing when you're going
through it. That's when you start thinking about like, oh,
in my hands, this and that, and that's kind of
when things can spiral like today. I mean the last
couple of weeks I've been I've hit some balls hard
where guys have been making some great plays on me,
(37:46):
but overall the swings has been more cutty. Again, so
I already have a plan of what I'm going to
do today. I'm not a big machine guy, not a
big VP on the field guy, but I'm going to
do my normal routine and then we're gonna.
Speaker 1 (37:57):
Hit curveball machine today.
Speaker 11 (37:59):
So if I spin off that, I'm gonna hit a
ground ball every single time off that machine. So that's
gonna help me stay through the baseball and hopefully lead
to more success. And I think like all you can
really do every single day is have a plan and approach
and the process of how you're gonna go about your work,
and you do your work, and then when the game comes,
you kind of just the game comes and whatever happens,
(38:20):
you can lay your head on your pillow and said,
you did everything you possibly could to give yourself to
the best chance that day. And my plan is to
do my normal routine, hit some hit, some curve all machine,
do my normal routine again in the game, and we'll
go give Justin Rolander a try. So I know what
I'm doing wrong. It's kind of been what I've been
battling for two years now, but somehow I still managed to,
(38:41):
you know, sneak some hits in there here and there.
You know, I threw a double that chopped over first base.
Somehow I hit a home run with that swing. So
hopefully I can correct this swing pretty quick, and I'm
hoping the curve all machine helps it and we can
get really hot going into the in October.
Speaker 3 (38:53):
Do you still use the tea, Freddy, I do.
Speaker 11 (38:55):
I do use the tea when it's really bad. I
go back to the basics. My dad always wants me
to tea, but I'm more of a flip guy, front
flip guy, and then the net drill where I put
an armslength the way I'm I'm more in that being
able to because I cann you can manipulate a baseball
off a tea when it's not moving and your swing,
but you can still top balls off of that, so
you can tell. But that's why I'm gonna go over
(39:16):
the curveboll machine today and if that doesn't work, I'll
see on the tea tomorrow.
Speaker 9 (39:22):
Thanks a lot for the time, Freddy, I really appreciate it,
and great to be with you and share you on
your birthday September twelfth.
Speaker 3 (39:28):
It's in my calendar forever. Thank you.
Speaker 1 (39:31):
David.
Speaker 3 (39:31):
There he goes.
Speaker 9 (39:32):
Freddy Freeman is our guest and he'll receive two gift cards,
one birthday, one professional for Javier's night out to celebrate
his birthday, Javier's Finest Foods opening a new location in Pasadena.
We'll send it back to the studio.
Speaker 3 (39:47):
Tim all right.
Speaker 1 (39:48):
I wonder if Javiers gives him like a free little
birthday cake, A little some of the candle on there,
I sing, well, happy birthday to Freddie Freeman, who is
thirty six years young today, September twelfth, twenty twenty five.
Thanks to Freddie Fear, thanks to David. As we lead
up to first pitch, Dodgers and the Giants from San Francisco.
Up next, we'll dive deeper into this pitching matchup. Don't
(40:09):
go anywhere. I'm Tim Kais is the world champion Los
Angeles Dodgers Audio Network.
Speaker 4 (40:16):
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Speaker 1 (40:24):
It's Dodgers and Giants on this Friday ninth, first pitch
from Oracle Park in San Francisco coming up at seven
to fifteen.
Speaker 4 (40:32):
And now before the Dodgers hit the dinat we look
at the pitching.
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three to ten with a four O nine eer RAY.
He's in his twentieth season now in the big leagues.
(40:59):
That's right. Today the day is the day that officially
reaches twenty years of service time. Congratulations to him. Nine
time All Star, three time Cy Young Award winner, two
time World Series champion, one of those was in twenty
seventeen with the Houston Astros. Making his twenty six start
of this season, fastball slider at curveball last time out,
six shotout innings, three hits, six strikeouts. Over his last
(41:20):
nine starts, He's pitched pretty well. He's got a two
sixty one ERA. He enters tonight having not allow to
run in his last twelve innings, dating that back to
the final inning of his August twenty six start against
the Cubs. Tonight marks the fifth career regular season start
against the Dodgers. He's three and one with a three
thirty eight ERRA. Of course, two World Series starts against him,
when the Astros cheated in the twenty seventeen World Series.
(41:42):
Yoshinobu Yamamoto on the mound for the Dodgers eleven and
eight two seventy two Era, twenty seven year old right
hander making his twenty eight start. He ranks amongst the
National League leaders in ray Whip opponent's batting average, which
is one ninety one, and strikeouts. He's top ten and
that with one hundred and seventy seven. Last time out,
he was awesome eight and two third Indians. He had
a no no going with one out away from a
(42:04):
no hitter until Jackson Holiday broke that up with his
solo home run in Baltimore a week ago. Facing the
Giants for the fourth time in his young career in
the Big leagues, he is zero to one against them,
with seventeen strikeouts. In his last start against the Giants
as well, July thirteenth at Oracle Park, he fired seven
scoreless Indians, allowing just three hits. Yoshinobu Yamamoto justin Verlander,
(42:28):
Dodgers Giants. We are fifteen minutes away from first pitch
from Oracle Park in San Francisco, Dodgers looking to keep
ground atop the NL West Giants fighting for their wild
card lives. He's to the game our next. I'm Tim
Kasey's the world champion. Los Angeles Dodgers Audio Network.
Speaker 4 (42:49):
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Speaker 2 (42:52):
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Speaker 1 (42:58):
It's the Dodgers and the Giants, you know. Chinobu Yamamoto,
Justin Verlander the pitching matchup, first pitch of Oracle Park
in San Francisco, coming up at seven to fifteen. Before
first pitch, we had back out to the booth one
final time. Tim Neverettrick Monday, Guys.
Speaker 5 (43:13):
Tim, thanks again. We catch you down to the first
pitch tonight here in San Francisco. It's nice night for
a ballgame, typical San Francisco evening. Cool temperatures and a
little bit of a breeze blowing out. Temperatures expected to
dip somewhat as the sun goes down here tonight. Yoshinobo
Yamamoto takes on Justin Verlander for Verlander. He had a
horrible start to his season, but his last few starts
(43:36):
he seems to be back on track. Dave Roberts was
talking about it in Maduga a little while ago. He
said he talked to Verlander sometime during the season and
he said, yep, he goes I'm going to go on
a heater pretty soon, and he's on that heater. Right now. Yeah,
he is.
Speaker 6 (43:50):
The last outing that was a Saturday against Saint Louis,
went six innings, did not allow a run. However, to
start before that, well he went five innings. It took
him one hundred and twenty one pitches to get through
the five. He understands how to pitch very very well,
good control. When he's on, he's going to change speeds
a lot. And speaking of changing speeds in eye levels
(44:11):
for Yamamoto, I mean he has been terrific on the
road in particular eight and four and the sixteen starts
and on the road just a one to seventy five
batting average against him.
Speaker 5 (44:21):
Well, his last start against Baltimore on Saturday, he did
the job. He did. He certainly did his job eight
and two thirds no hit innings before being relieved after
throwing a career high hundred and twelve pitches. Now, he
did have two no hitters in Japan. That was obviously
the closest he'd come here in the major leagues, but
without question his best major league starts.
Speaker 6 (44:42):
Yeah, this is going to be a good night too. Yes,
as you mentioned earlier, you know, the conditions a little
bit colder than what the Dodgers normally playing in but
the wind is blowing out, at least in the early goings.
We're going to find out. Yamamoto has given up fourteen
home runs, and for Ferlander in his twenty five starts,
he's given a twelve home home runs. Ferlander, by the way,
you talked about struggling earlier this year, he did not
(45:04):
pick up his first victory this year until his seventeenth start.
Speaker 5 (45:08):
Berlander eighth all time in strikeouts. He begins the game
three thousand and five hundred thirty six strikeouts, and he's
looking to add to that total tonight. Yamamotos looking to
keep him hitless and scoreless if he can. Here in
San Francisco, Dodgers and Giants Game one coming up.
Speaker 1 (45:26):
Tim all right, thank you guys. Keeping an eye on
what's happening at Petco Park in San Diego as the
Padres playows to the Colorado Rockies. They're in the bottom
of the second inning and already the Padres with a
one to nothing lead over the Rockies. Dodgers looking to
keep pace two and a half game lead going into
play tonight. Giants fighting for their postseeds and lives as
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they are just a game and a half back in
the wild card standings. They are one of the hottest
teams in baseball. Dodgers need to keep it going. They've
won four in a row, included game sweep of the
Colorado Rockies and tonight's it's Yoshinovu Yamamoto on the mound
last time out last weekend. We saw what he did
in Baltimore, flirting with a no hitter one out of
(46:11):
way against the Oriels at Camden Yards, says his first
time backup on the mound, Dodgers need another great performance
out of him. Keep this offense rolling. They put nine
runs up on the board Wednesday night and Mookie Betts
get it going. Freddie Freeman, Happy birthday to him the
birthday Boy, and the Dodgers coming up to bat when
we return. This has been Marongo Casino Dodgers on deck
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