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at eighty nine and sixty one.
Speaker 4 (00:21):
After a split in Atlanta.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
That included back to back wins, including a victory last night. Well,
now they head to South Beach and a three game
series against the Miami Marlins. Dodgers start the night with
a three and a half game lead over the San
Diego Padres in the division, with twelve games to go,
and tonight in the series opener. Bobby Miller on the mound,
first pitch coming up at three forty. Coming up over
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the il right now. Could he come back to help
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deeper in today's pitching matchup DV will join us. Throughout
the show, We'll hear from the manager, Dave Roberts. We
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And here from Rick Monday and Tim never Well.
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Last night in Atlanta, Yoshinobu Yamamoto made his second start
since coming off the IL. A right hander, would go
four shutout innings, allowed four hits, three strikeouts, two walks.
Speaker 4 (01:33):
He through seventy two pitches. He had the.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
Leadoff batter on in all four innings that he would pitch,
but he was able to walk the tightrope and get
out of it in all four innings.
Speaker 4 (01:44):
In the third he got out of it thanks to
some great.
Speaker 5 (01:47):
Defense swung out and belt to the center and deep
going back after that, but he won't get it.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
It's over its head.
Speaker 6 (01:53):
He bounce us off the track of.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
The wall Harris.
Speaker 5 (01:55):
Around third, he will come to the plate.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
The relay throw will be to get him.
Speaker 5 (02:01):
Oh kk Hernandez with a rocket shot from Tommy Edmund
straight to Will Smith and they get Harris at the plate.
Speaker 4 (02:10):
What a great defensive play.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
They double off the wall from solaer Harris on his
horse from first Tommy Edmund to the relay man keyk
Hernandez who turned spun and through a ninety three mile
an hour ball to home plate to Will Smith, tag
on to Harris and the out at home plate. A
great defensive play to keep it scoreless at zero zero
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and the Dodgers, though they would score in the third
to take a one to nothing lead, in the fifth
they would tack on two more showy Otani grinded into
a fielder's choice Miguel Rojas and RBI single Dodgers up
three to nothing. Then in the seventh day, the Dodgers
busted a wide open a six run inning shoe. Hey
Otani grounded into a fielder's choice, scoring Miguel Rojass yet again,
Mookie Betts as sackfly tay Oscar Hernandez with an RBI
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single that brought up Freddie Freeman with two on and
the bread the fresh air moment of the game.
Speaker 5 (03:01):
Stretch by bomber and the pitch to Freddy Freeman. These
swings hits a fly ball to the left fairly deep.
It is caring going back toward the wall. It is
off the wall and over the wall to the home run.
Freddie Freeman with a three run opposite field homer hit
the top of the left field wall and carry them down.
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And the Dodgers have opened it up with a seventh inning.
As Freeman comes across the score it is nine to
nothing Dodgers.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
Home run number twenty two for Freddy a six run
seventh inning. As the Dodgers go on and shut out
the Braves last night nine to nothing. The bullpen combined
for five shutout innings. Evan Phillips gets the win. Totches
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Dodgers nine to nothing win over the Braves as they
get the split in Atlanta, they're now eighty nine and
sixty one. The magic number is nine with twelve to go,
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and now they are in Miami for the start of
a three game series. So let's head out to the
Gallpin Motors broadcast booth as we now welcome in Rick
Monday and Tim Neverts.
Speaker 5 (04:26):
Tim, thank you very much. At Long Deepot Park in Miami,
the roof has closed. It is sunny and warm and
humid outside, but they're expecting to have the roof closed
for the ball game tonight, as the Dodgers play Game
one against the Miami Marlins. Coming off a win against
the Braves last night nine nothing, the thirteenth shutout victory
of the season for the Dodgers, and now the magic
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number to clinch the division is in single digits. It's
been trimmed down to nine. The Dodgers begin to day
eighty nine and sixty one, three and a half in
front of the San Diego Padres. The Diamondbacks have fallen
to six back meantime, the Marlins fifty five and ninety
five begin their final home stand and they're coming off
a road trip to Pittsburgh and Washington where they lost
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six out of seven. Bobby Miller looking for a redemption
start here two to four in an eight seventeen era,
he will go against Long Beach States Darren mckackin. Mkacken
was a two time Big West Conference Pitcher of the
Year no decisions since being called up a month ago,
seven point zero six his earn run average and mall.
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This is series the Dodgers have to have here in Miami,
a team that has really been struggling and they're basically
letting some of their younger players play at this point
in the season.
Speaker 7 (05:41):
And tim one of the things that we've been able
to see not just in baseball, but you look at
professional sports, collegiate sports two for that better, the team
that has a very good record going in and playing
a team that's waiting for the season to end. This
is inspiring for that team that's waiting for the season
to end in a hurry because there's really not much
on the table except maybe some self pride. Spoiler, that's
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not the right word. It is just a team that
you can see them come together. I would imagine they're
gonna pull every stop out. Be alive, be looking for
double steel, be looking for delayed steel, be looking for
bunt and run, be looking for everything, because there's nothing
to lose as far as the Marlins are considered. And
I'm saying that from a demeaning standpoint, that's just a
fact when you're playing a very good team planning and
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hoping to get to the World Series versus a team
already looking to next year's spring training.
Speaker 5 (06:30):
Typically throughout his career, rookie Betts will heat up at
this time of the year heading into the off season.
Last year in anomaly, but for the most part, he
is a winning player in the off season. Right now,
he's two for his last nineteen overall, He's still flirting
with three hundred, but this could be a great ballpark
to get him going and against the Marlins. He is
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the all time leader in slugging percentage YEP with a
minimum of one hundred at bats, ahead of two Hall
of famers Larry Walker and Adrian Beltray. Move he betches
at the top of the list, slugging six't eighty four.
Speaker 7 (07:02):
He said, as best we turn up the lights. The
other part two is we're beginning to see a whole
lot of support from the bottom part of the Dodger
lineup a little different. Phase two. Hunter Fidushu will get
to start behind the plate doing the catching. He'll beat
in the nine spot. Other than that, pretty much what
we've seen of recent times. The big issue still remains
with the pitching staff. You look at the last seven games.
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We talked about it a lot, but for Bobby Miller tonight,
trying to get some innings under his belt. Because the
last seven games, starting pitchers have worked twenty eight in
the third innings, relief corps thirty two and two thirds.
Those numbers need to flip flop and do it in
a hurry.
Speaker 5 (07:40):
So the Dodgers and Marlins getting set for game one
of those three games set. The Dodgers swept the Marlins
in early May back at Dodgers Stadium, looking to continue
to win. They've won back to back games and again
trim their magic number to nine. Win the National League
Western Division Dodgers Marlins. First pitch coming up in a bit, Jim.
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Watson Hey Kirson now joins us from Miami. Is The
Dodgers are taking on the Marlins for a three game
series and Kirston coming off to split in Atlanta. The
Dodgers give the ball to Bobby Miller, who they really
need to see something from as we get closer to
the postseason.
Speaker 8 (09:56):
Yeah, with Bobby Miller, he is someone who look this
past this season has been very frustrating for him. It
seemed like how it started with his outing. He was
fantastic with his first startup the season the tents. Then
things have kind of gone down really. Yes, he dealt
with a little bit of injury here and there on
the il and our She's name was optioned, but also
with kind of working through a few injuries, and he
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has mentioned there's been a E've seen times in which
he's kind of been moving slightly gingerly due to his
mean it's landing me. So there have been some questions
about that, but he said that, you know, he feels good.
He's putting in the work to make sure that his
means are healthy and strong. But even Dave roberts Day
was saying, there is a possibility that some of that
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just me pain that he's dealing with could be leading
to the lack of results, the lack of execution, the
lack of delivery, and some of these pitches. So we'll
see what happens today. You know, it's a younger team
than the Marlins lineup, and they don't know, they're not
too familiar with any of those guys over there, so
we'll see how Bobby handles it. But ultimately, you know
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him to end this regular season on a high, not
with confidence, because he might be needed to come October.
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Miguel Rojas, what a game he had in Atlanta last night,
Stealing bases, coming home on a wild pitch, base hits,
great defense.
Speaker 4 (11:23):
And now he's back home in Miami.
Speaker 8 (11:25):
Yeah, he's back home in Miami, and you know, I
was talking to about his performance last night. I love
what he said is he obviously loves this game so much.
We see it on him with how he before from
the field, we see how he interacted with teammates, from
the club house leadership he has with this group. But
for him last night that was that was a clinic,
that was fundamental baseball. And so he was telling me today,
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you know, yeah, like there's not going to be every
game where he has opportunities like that where he's running
off the first pitch or things like that and getting
over feeling third and then coming home on the wild pitch.
But he said that yesterday. He it is that he
attributed a lot of his success was not only to
the game that he played and how he wants to
be a big league player, but also the support he's
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ha from the coaching staff is putting him in a
situation in which he was very much prepared, in which
on the first move from Max Street he knew like, okay,
he could go a situation there was one out and
so things like that. For him to be so excellent
with that base running yesterday, you know, he teased. He's like, yeah,
it's not I have it all the time. However, just
to know that he was prepared as a good spot
and felt really good about that. And then now to
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be able to come home. His son Aaron is here
of course, running around. He's had a baseball bat in
his hands, and so it's nice to be able to
be back with his kids, he said, even with his wife.
They haven't seen the family because they live out here
and on school has started, so it's been a little
bit of time, like five weeks to see them, and
so just to be back with them and have so
many friends and family here in Miami. He've got seventy
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friends and family coming to many seventy tickets was crazy,
and then tomorrow is going to be ninety. He said
that his son's base all team and some classmates they're
gonna come, So that'll be a lot of fun to
under be able to see him out there. But my
I was like, wow, this is truly a homecoming. So
it came out a good time for him. And he's
obviously been linked out at the play in a huge
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force defensively just in the clubhouse.
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Do you think questions for Dave Dave can you just
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Can you talk about the pressure.
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In the dugouts with Dave roberts.
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Sonan and he's named to rehab started swifts to play
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Speaker 10 (15:00):
He's gonna make another one. I think it's I'm not
sure what day, you know, whatever it is, he's going
to get an extra day. He's gonna make another one,
and I think the plan is for him to go
four innings and then you know, if that goes well,
you know, there could be a conversation about him joining us,
which for me, I think would be a fantastic outcome.
Speaker 6 (15:21):
This is still kind of a long shot to factory.
Speaker 10 (15:24):
Yeah, he's still a long shot, but I think given
you know, I was talking about you know, Tony a
couple of weeks ago, and still the landscape's changed since
we talked about Tony, So I think that with that,
it's still a longer shot. But I'm really impressed that
Tony is really taking this really seriously as a potential opportunity.
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So he's gonna he's gonna take another.
Speaker 2 (15:49):
One and we'll see from there. I guess still be
to have him come back as a reliever.
Speaker 11 (15:53):
If you guys come back or now that would be
built up to four innings. Would that be more starting
option for you?
Speaker 10 (15:58):
I think the beautiful thing about is he'll do anything
we ask. He's pitched in both roles to the length point.
I think that that gives us a little bit of flexibility,
which is a good thing. But I just really don't
know how it's gonna be right now.
Speaker 3 (16:15):
All right, there's the manager, Dave Roberts, giving an update
on Tony Gonsolin and some of the injuries. And interesting
to see if Tony Gonsolin could return next schedules rehabs
start four innings if he continues to progress. It's only
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This is Dodger insider David Basse.
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All right, DV.
Speaker 3 (17:40):
The mood of this team, I imagine must be pretty
good after the last two games in Atlanta.
Speaker 6 (17:45):
Without a doubt, Tim and I know everybody's talking about
the team meeting the Dodgers had before Game three of
the four games series in Atlanta. Obviously, when something like
that happens, it hits more. It resonates with some more
than others. So I'm not sure I would point to
that as the turnaround in Atlanta. What the turnaround was
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was the Dodgers getting better starting pitching. The first two
nights in Atlanta, it was Landon Nack and Jack Flaherty
combining for five innings. Well, the last two games you
got a solid start from Walker Bueller who went six
innings and also from Yamamoto yesterday who did his job.
So that's the encouraging sign. And also the Dodgers being
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able to beat a really good pitcher in Max Fret.
So now the Dodgers have set themselves up to be
in a very good spot to have not only a
winning road trip, but return home with their sights set
on closing out this division, whether it be on the
last day against the Rockies or in that head to
head matchup against the Padres. What is tangible on the
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plane last night and today in Miami is that the
Dodgers can taste they are very close to winning this
division and hopefully securing themselves a second seed at least
in the National League playoff picture.
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Speaker 6 (19:18):
Well I had a chance to talk to Kershaw after
watching him throw again off a flat round without any
sort of support for his left foot. Here's what Clayton
Kershaw had to say about where he's at and how
much that left big toe has improved over the course
of the last couple of weeks.
Speaker 4 (19:36):
This is making progress.
Speaker 12 (19:37):
You know, I think able to throw off the mound
a little bit.
Speaker 1 (19:42):
Now.
Speaker 12 (19:42):
It's just trying to keep my arm going as best
I can, you know, the endurance part of it. So
I'm throwing a lot of throws, just not at you know,
max intensity, just because I can't quite push off the
way I want to yet.
Speaker 11 (19:53):
But there's definitely some improvement.
Speaker 12 (19:56):
I think it's getting there, not as fast as I like,
but it's definitely getting there. And I think the good
news is, you know, the rehab part should be short
since I'm able to keep my arm going pretty good.
Speaker 11 (20:07):
And I'm hopeful, you know.
Speaker 12 (20:08):
I know we don't have a lot of time left,
but I'm hopeful that, you know, in these next twelve
days there's a chance that I could get back out there,
so it's gonna be close. But I'm I'm I'm not.
I'm remaining optimistic, I guess.
Speaker 6 (20:24):
And the biggest reason why he's optimistic is because he
continues to throw. The arm has not been stationary, Tim,
and that's been part of the thinking behind him forcing
the throws.
Speaker 4 (20:36):
That is great to hear, David appreciate.
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Were a little bit closer, but still it was a
long night. David. Yeah, yeah, I don't know what time
you turned off the lights, So the rest of the
guys turned off the lights. But my wife, Barbarley came
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in the next couple of days, but it's just really
nice to come down and see some friends and obviously
kind of see the family and see what's going on.
Speaker 6 (24:51):
Rick, we all have a great emotional attachment to Dodger
Town in Vero Beach. Could you share with us what
is Dodgertown now?
Speaker 7 (24:59):
Well, now it's the Jackie Robinson Training Center, and for
a number of years Peter O'Malley actually leased that area,
which is city and county owned. It's not owned by
a private entity, and they would they leased it along
with the Chinhae Park was also in that. I think
Cadeo Noma was also in that, which, by the way,
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today's the anniversary of Hedeo Noma throwing the no hitter
and you were there against the Rockies. I believe it
was nineteen ninety six. But they continued in having a
lot of different things football, a college, high school, they
would have soccer. They really fixed up the facilities and
now Major League Baseball has taken over and now they
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lease it from the city and the county and they
have added new buildings, an indoor infield and batting areas.
They're just completing now another two story building that attaches
to it. And they also have the World Series, the
RBI program Reviving Baseball and Inner Cities that is all
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around the country and they run some great tournaments there.
And it's a facility very nostalgic for those of us
that have seen it, and it's been declared as a
historic site and certainly is for baseball.
Speaker 6 (26:15):
Rick, we hear about former Dodger pitchers and catchers talk
about Dodger Town. But for you, when you joined the
Dodgers in nineteen seventy seven, what were your impressions of
Dodger Town?
Speaker 1 (26:27):
For me?
Speaker 7 (26:28):
And I put it in perspective and having grown up
in sunny California, someone asked me about this and I said,
it was basically I thought the Disneyland of baseball. It
is a full blown destination with the living quarters that
are there, with the dining room and everything else that
goes with at the full kitchen and including for after
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hours for adults. You know, there's a bar area of
pool tables. That has always been the case, so you know,
and from time to time I dropped by theres right
by the airport in Vero Beach, so yeah, by there occasionally.
Speaker 6 (27:01):
Hey, Rick, speaking of living quarters, the Hall of Fame
manager Tommy Lasorda also lived on the grounds, and I
heard there were a few practical jokes made towards Tommy Lasorta,
and he never knew who was behind it.
Speaker 7 (27:16):
Yeah, Yeah, it's amazing the stories that I heard what
some guys had done at various times, including well, we
knew when Tommy was going to come in at night,
and Tommy was he was not a go to bed
early guy. He was afraid that he was going to
miss something, right, he always got up early in the morning.
But we knew that Tommy would never be back before
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twelve thirty, maybe a quarter one, very rare, so we
knew what time he would be back. And then somebody
after they knew that he was in here, and Tommy
had a standard wake up call very early in the morning. Well,
on this particular evening, it was the evening before we
were going to take bus rides across the state and
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play EXHIBI game against I don't remember who it was,
but on the other side of the state. So they
knew that Tommy was in the room, and someone had
previously gone in the room and unscrewed the mouthpiece on
his telephone and took out that little amplifier that's in
there right in the old telephones. So when the phone
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call came in the next morning for his wake up call,
elod MISTRESSORTA, it's you know, seven point fifteen. Okay, fine,
He hangs up, He showers, he gets dressed, goes to
the door, and the door won't open. Someone had tied
somebody tied a yellow ski rope to the door handle
and it was attached to a palm tree right outside
the door. So he picks up the phone to call, Yes,
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mister DISSORTA, what can I do for it? Somebody locked
me in the room, yes, misressorder because the amplifier didn't
remove well. Tommy eventually got out of the room and
he got on the bus, and we were on the
bus waiting for Tommy, and Tommy looked at every one
of us and he knew that one of us or
some of us had something to do with the fact
that he got tied up into the room that morning.
Speaker 6 (29:03):
I'm sure little Ricky Monday had nothing to do with that.
Speaker 5 (29:05):
Nothing to do with it.
Speaker 7 (29:06):
That is my story and statue limitations as well come
and gone. And I do know a couple of guys
who were maybe involved do.
Speaker 6 (29:14):
You want to share?
Speaker 1 (29:15):
No?
Speaker 6 (29:15):
Okay, no, taking it with you? Love it Rick, great
great memories, great stories.
Speaker 7 (29:20):
So if you wake up tomorrow morning and there's a
yellow ski rope tied to your doorknob, I want you
to know I had nothing to do with.
Speaker 6 (29:26):
All right, I'll be aware. Thanks Rake. We'll check back
in with you and Tim Nevertt a little bit later.
Great stories of a great place and a great time
in Dodger history. We'll send it back to you in
the studio.
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Tim, all right, thanks a lot, DV. Thank you, Mow.
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Speaker 6 (30:49):
Well, this free game interview is going to cost me
a lot, maybe even a fantasy football player, because Gavin
Stone is in the same fantasy football league as yours. Truly, Gavin,
thanks a lot for the time, even after a tough
loss in fantasy this week.
Speaker 11 (31:04):
Yeah one got me?
Speaker 2 (31:06):
Did you win? I did win.
Speaker 6 (31:08):
I beat Adrian Gonzalez.
Speaker 1 (31:10):
Kind of.
Speaker 11 (31:12):
Catches that last ball right there, then I'll win.
Speaker 6 (31:14):
But one one pulled it Outuon broke a lot of
hearts last night.
Speaker 11 (31:19):
A lot of hearts, a lot of hearts.
Speaker 6 (31:21):
So what do you think about my team? Do you
feel like, uh, you might be crawling back for some
players on old Vasas team.
Speaker 11 (31:28):
No, your team is pretty trash.
Speaker 6 (31:31):
I like to call it with a lot of death.
That's a lot of death. You say trash, I say stacked.
Speaker 11 (31:37):
Hey, one man's trash is another man's treasure.
Speaker 6 (31:39):
Damn right. Gavin Stone is our guest as the Dodgers
and Marlins are getting set for first pitch. All right,
fans want to know how Gavin Stone is feeling, How
is the shoulder feeling and do you feel like you're
close to giving this a try?
Speaker 2 (31:52):
Yeah?
Speaker 11 (31:53):
I think that the plan is to throw at some
point later this week.
Speaker 9 (31:56):
Uh, you know, just trying to get that inflemmation to
go down a little bit, take the pain out of
the back of the shoulder. But you know, it feels
a lot better, It feels stronger in a lot of positions,
and so hopefully, you know, whenever I start throwing again,
there's no pain.
Speaker 6 (32:09):
So is that really the biggest check? You might be
throwing from sixty feet and figure out where you're gonna
go from there.
Speaker 9 (32:16):
Yeah, I mean, as long as there's no pain that
I'm gonna throw, So that's really the only issue is
just cleaning that up in the back of the shoulder
and then seeing where that is right now. I really
don't have many answers right now, but hopefully like whenever
I start throwing, there's no pain.
Speaker 6 (32:30):
You've been so dependable this entire year, more starts, more
innings than any other picture on the staff. How have
you dealt with being on the.
Speaker 11 (32:37):
I l it's tough.
Speaker 9 (32:39):
It's tough watching and then not know or knowing that
you're not gonna get to get a chance to go
out there relatively soon. I was talking to NAC earlier,
I was like, being on the aisle, I have no
idea what day it is anymore, just because I was
so used to knowing what day I pitched and then
basically in the week off that.
Speaker 11 (32:56):
But yeah, it's tough, it's tough.
Speaker 9 (32:58):
Watching, but you know, these guys are really good, so
it makes it even more enjoyable.
Speaker 6 (33:02):
How have you been able to cope with all that?
What are you doing during games? What are you doing
during your off time to keep your mental health in
a good spot.
Speaker 9 (33:11):
Just trying to stay positive. That's the biggest thing. Is
just being positive, being positive for our guys. You know,
we're in a close race right now, so that's the
biggest thing, is just you know, trying to stay upbeat.
Speaker 6 (33:21):
You're a good buddy and roommate Bobby Miller is on
the mound tonight. What does he need to do to
kind of get back to the Bobby that we know
he can be.
Speaker 9 (33:29):
Yeah, I think it's just you know, throwing his aw
speed for strikes and getting ahead and counts.
Speaker 11 (33:33):
That's really it. You know, he looks more comfortable up there.
Speaker 9 (33:37):
I think it's just you know, just getting ahead of
hitters and then sequencing, right, That's pretty much it.
Speaker 11 (33:42):
But you know he's gonna pull through. I have a
lot of confidence and what he's able to do.
Speaker 6 (33:46):
How much do you guys talk about pitching, even at
this stage with you not being out there. Does he
lean on you? Do you lean on him? Yeah?
Speaker 9 (33:55):
I mean, and we don't really even talk a lot
about pitching. I think it's more about mentality more than anything,
because I mean, Bobby's so good and and I mean
if you just clean up the mentality then then he'll.
Speaker 11 (34:06):
He'll show it for sure.
Speaker 9 (34:07):
But yeah, we don't relatively talk a lot about pitching wise,
just like you know, the mentality part of it.
Speaker 6 (34:12):
The two most overlooked young pitchers that have come up
the last two years in my mind are yourself and
land and Knack. Why were you guys not as talked
about as some of these other pictures that are really
good as well?
Speaker 9 (34:26):
I mean, I think that's just because we have a
ton of guys in the minor leagues that are really good.
Like if you look at our our farm system, there's
you know, top to bottom pitching wise really good, top
to bottom hitting wise really good, and so there's just
a lot of prospects, uh you know that could possibly
come up and stuff like that, and so uh Nac,
you know, he's he's been a dog all year. He's
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he's he's pushed through. He's given us some big starts,
and so for him to come up and down that
that role is hard, going up and down and and
then coming up and having good starts, and so for
him to you know, be able to do that consistently,
that's that's pretty big.
Speaker 6 (34:58):
Why has Landon Knack been so good?
Speaker 9 (35:01):
Yeah, I mean he throws strikes, he's not scared of itters,
he believes in his stuff. He's really confident. Yeah, and
like I said, he's a dog and he just loves
to get people out.
Speaker 6 (35:11):
Sounds like you're describing Gavin Stone.
Speaker 11 (35:15):
I think that's the Dodger mentality.
Speaker 9 (35:16):
Basically, that's how they that's how they brought us up,
I guess, but yeah, I mean, it's been a lot
of fun to come up with those two guys.
Speaker 6 (35:23):
Thanks a lot for the time, and we're all pulling
for you. You talk about you're describing these other guys
as being great people, great family people. That's who Gavin
Stone is and certainly La is rooting for the best
for you. And if you need me to stand in
when you play catch that first time, let me know.
Speaker 11 (35:39):
Yeah, I'll play catch with you day you can stand
it in.
Speaker 6 (35:42):
I love it, love it. Thanks a lot for the time,
and thank you again for bailing me out one more
time this.
Speaker 11 (35:48):
Season anytime, Dave anything for you there.
Speaker 6 (35:50):
He is the best. Gavin Stone. We're all pulling for him.
We'll send it back to you in the studio, Tim.
Speaker 3 (35:55):
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Speaker 5 (38:42):
Dam thank you again. Rufe closed here in Miami, so
the conditions are controlled for this game tonight. As Bobby
Miller will take the hill for the Dodgers two and
four in an eight seventeen Era, making his thirteenth start
since coming back from TRIPLEA on the seventeenth of August.
Is he has been up there eight twenty eight He's
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allowed twenty three earned runs and twenty five innings pitched
ten home runs in that time, and he's got to
keep the ball in the ballpark. That's one of the
things about Bobby is he has eleven straight appearances in
the Big leagues where he has given up one or
more home runs. That ties a Dodger franchise record with
Rick Roadin back in nineteen seventy six.
Speaker 7 (39:24):
Yeah, and the second highest this year for home runs
consecutive outings is seven. But for Bobby Miller, one are
the areas also first pitching hitters put it into play.
It's the four to sixty four Banning average again, so
it kind of goes hand in hand with what you're
talking about. Since his return against the fastball, for Bobby
Miller throwing strikes, he has not had very many swings
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and misses because the breaking ball in particular has not
been thrown consistently for strikes.
Speaker 5 (39:50):
Has mom opponent Tonight, young Darren mckackin out of Long
Beach State Los Salamido's product, and of course a Southern
California and a Dodger fan growing up pitching in the
Big West Conference with the dirt Bags of Long Beach State,
two time Big West Pitcher of the Year, so he
gets his chance to pitch tonight against his hometown team.
Speaker 10 (40:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (40:10):
The other part too is look for slider. He throws
it over a third percentage of the times that he's
out there. All three starts have been this month in
September and trying to low an era. It's over seven
right now.
Speaker 5 (40:23):
Darren mccackin for the Marlins. For the Dodgers, it's Bobby Miller.
That's the pitching matchup as we get set for this one, tim.
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