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September 19, 2025 • 38 mins
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and dot your Baseball History. The final regular season start
by one of the old time greats, Clayton Kershaw eighteen

(01:07):
seasons and tonight first pitch at seven to ten pm
with a Dodgers on deck at six pm will be
his final regular season start. May he start a playoff game,
appear in a playoff game and march toward a World
Series championship. But for right now, his last start of
his career will be tonight, and it's a reason why
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(01:28):
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first three thousand strikeouts, So yeah, you're gonna get a
little bit of a celebration for him. Do we know

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Speaker 2 (01:55):
Do we know?

Speaker 3 (01:55):
Is that a forty k? Or is that a fifty five?
That's the first forty thousand? Yeah, that's a forty k.

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last night. It was beautiful.

Speaker 3 (04:14):
Effy DearS played you you can.

Speaker 2 (04:20):
Oh you you you go you go go go you?

Speaker 5 (04:27):
Oh yeah, do you do you?

Speaker 1 (04:30):
Oh?

Speaker 5 (04:30):
You you you?

Speaker 2 (04:42):
Oh? We did it right? And Kershaw, I'm retired and
we had littwell yesterday on the air a little.

Speaker 3 (04:55):
Earlier came asked the question and Kershaw's not back at him,
but it was a term.

Speaker 7 (05:03):
I'm going to the game. Not really emotional about it. No,
maybe I'm not sure.

Speaker 3 (05:09):
Yeah, you did it.

Speaker 2 (05:15):
You're gonna go to the game, Caates, You're gonna dust
off your boots.

Speaker 3 (05:20):
Yeah, it's like get done with Marona, going on your
media pass or are you taking a family?

Speaker 8 (05:24):
Uh?

Speaker 3 (05:25):
They're going out there, but I don't got my media.

Speaker 2 (05:27):
A lot of the time, Tim Kates likes to on
a big night. He likes to skulk in there like
a skulky skulker and skulk in and not tell anybody
and take it all in for himself and have his
own private moment.

Speaker 3 (05:43):
His own private idohol. Yeah, well tonight. I mean I
don't get done with the pregame show until one after seven.

Speaker 2 (05:48):
Slipping on the ground like a wild potato. Well, it'll
only take you nine minutes to get there, right, Why
don't you do the pregame from there?

Speaker 7 (05:57):
Like baby Jesus, there's no room in the end for
Tim Kates to do the pregame show if I'm out there,
So I'll do it from the studio. Then I'll drive
out there. I'll park somewhere by Chinatown and then watch
the game from the manger. Yeah, I get my steps
in and walk to Dodger Stadium because parking is going
to be probably full.

Speaker 3 (06:11):
By then, and I would assume the salty scribes set
up in the press box have no room for you.
So do you watch it from the broadcast booth?

Speaker 2 (06:21):
No?

Speaker 3 (06:21):
No, No, I'll just float around. I'll float around the
press box.

Speaker 7 (06:24):
I'll stand, you know, in the back row behind somebody
and just kind of watch the game.

Speaker 3 (06:29):
So it sounds terrible.

Speaker 7 (06:30):
I just want to be there and observe, you know,
I just want to be there and say I was
there when Clayton Kershaw through that final home game in
the regular season in twenty twenty five. I mean, in
nineteen ninety three, I was at the Big A and
Anaheim to see Nolan Ryan his last game as.

Speaker 3 (06:43):
A Texas range.

Speaker 2 (06:44):
That's pretty good.

Speaker 3 (06:45):
So here we are at twenty twenty five to see
Clayton Kershaw throw his last game.

Speaker 2 (06:48):
What was the last thing that you went down there for?
You went down there for something and hung.

Speaker 3 (06:52):
Around around.

Speaker 2 (06:57):
Darn it? Well, it was that.

Speaker 7 (06:58):
It was a few weeks ago, and I went down
there and did the pregame show from down there and
got booted out of where I was at and told
to leave, and so I came back here to do
the postgame show.

Speaker 3 (07:07):
That was a few weeks ago though. Yeah, last homes dawn.

Speaker 2 (07:10):
So here's what we're gonna do today in the world
of great sports Talk. Great sports Talk, we have David Vassy,
who did a great job yesterday with all the information
coming up in the very next segment, we will know
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It's posted on a five seventy LA Sports on Instagram.

(07:34):
He did an Instagram live and ken Lee Jansen called
in and chimed in and talked about Kershaw. Dave had
some great sound yesterday from Freddie Freeman and Max Munsey,
and I will say that Tim Kats, I thought, who
has produced a lot of shows, so you know it
all can kind of blur together, you know, like special

(07:55):
teams in a championship game. Sometimes it's a wash shows.
I'll ce Baseball nine six everybody was. But yesterday when
when Kershaw's retirement announcement came down, Tim Kats did not

(08:15):
like a bad customer and all you can eat lobster restaurant,
grab like thirty lobsters and take him to his table
and use all the sound bites. He cut up a
lot of the interview we did with Kershaw about the
two and a half weeks ago that was really good,
and we had that, and then he had a lot
of Kershaw highlights that included two Vincecully highlights from Kershaw's career,

(08:41):
and then Matt was tickled by the other announcers were
scattered over the more recent highlights we had David Vassa
on who was very good, and we had Oral Hersheiser
on who was very good, and we covered the press conference,
which I thought reflected exactly what Clayton Kershaw is all about,

(09:02):
his faith, his family, and his teammates, not necessarily in
that order, and taking a dig at Dave which helped
him bring levity back to what was a heavy and
emotional thing for him. You're lucky to have Dave Kershaw,
and I think he's now figured that out. But kudos

(09:23):
to Tim Kats for being I mean, Matt, it's all
about big events and breaking news, and yesterday was both
of those, and Tim Kats the wall stepped up to
the plate and slapped a double into the center field
and Tom hoo Farth went spank Day shows CEM, everybody

(09:54):
was Jim.

Speaker 5 (09:56):
Well.

Speaker 3 (09:57):
Tip of a cap to Tim a for letting us
play soundbites from our own show on our show.

Speaker 2 (10:03):
But somebody has to cut up those soundbites.

Speaker 3 (10:05):
Somebody has to cut him up, and he did. Tip
of the cap, Tim Kates for giving us the milestone
moments one thousand, fifteen hundred, two thousand and three thousand
strikeout from Clayton Kershaw Man I know you liked fifteen
hundred the most.

Speaker 9 (10:19):
One two pinch, there's a curveball strength, three audiosa ribadercha
and for snubs with twenty nine advance eighteen strike apps.
Now that's four for Kershaw. And that's that overhand curveball
that hitters just don't look for.

Speaker 3 (10:30):
Her step, that's it. That was strikeout fifteen hundred audiosa ribitch.
Fantastic And never in a million years did we think
we would get a Mo and Skipper highlight, because damn
did we like listening to games when Moe was on
the play by play and Skipper was in the analyst.

Speaker 9 (10:45):
One two pinch, there's a curveball strength, three audiosa ribadeencha
and for snubs with twenty nine advance eighteen strike apps.
Now that's four for Kershaw, and that's that overhand curveball
that hitters just don't look for.

Speaker 3 (10:57):
But I may ask, we're sure that that's fifteen hundred? Yeah, okay,
pretty you know what I'm just asking, like the other
ones are like the two thousand, you know, to.

Speaker 2 (11:11):
Cool that those two were cooler for a cucumber.

Speaker 3 (11:13):
Matt, You sorry with air Chae, just I think it's a, Yeah,
he struck out Drew stubs on a cold strike three
and on a curveball.

Speaker 7 (11:24):
I looked it up on chat GBT because that's apparently
what we do now wear a chat GPT show May tenth,
two thy fifteen.

Speaker 3 (11:31):
So yeah, you got Drew stop.

Speaker 9 (11:33):
Two pitch, there's a curveball strike three audiosa rived air
check and for snubs with twenty nine advance eighteen strike
ass Now isn't.

Speaker 2 (11:41):
Going to be brought over here. Curveball just don't look.

Speaker 3 (11:43):
For it, checks the boxes, curveball stubs. Okay, can we play? Okay,
let's let's sandwich it. Can we play two thousand and
one thousand? And hear how those sound?

Speaker 2 (11:53):
All right?

Speaker 3 (11:53):
Here's one thousand. Okay, the three to two picks swung
on and missed, and there it is.

Speaker 10 (11:59):
The ball is rolled over to the god you dugout
one thousand strike douts, well, Clayton Kershaw.

Speaker 3 (12:06):
Okay, so you know you acknowledge the pretty special Grady
special ball rolled to the dugout. Give us a little
view outside the frame.

Speaker 2 (12:13):
That's a fifteen hundred. That's exactly we got two thousand and.

Speaker 10 (12:19):
That just like two thousand strike out for Clayton Kershaw
eighteen hundred and thirty eight innings. Clayton Kershaw with two
thousand strikeouts.

Speaker 2 (12:33):
Okay, what I'm getting at here, Kate, you're trying to
say that the fifteen hundred just came and win. Those
guys had no idea what was going on?

Speaker 3 (12:40):
Or maybe unfair for Kate's to pull fifteen hundred because
it's not one thousand, two thousand or three thousand. We
didn't pull five hundred, but we have fifteen hundred.

Speaker 2 (12:49):
Play it. I wanted to hear we got twenty five
hundred right.

Speaker 4 (12:52):
Here, curve ball for his third strikeout of the night,
strike out number twenty five hundred, and Clayton Kershaw's curl.

Speaker 3 (12:59):
Wearing there's twenty five. Don't know if I'm the one
wearing it now. If that's how twenty five hundred sounded,
I don't know if I'm wearing it. When you try,
there's a curveball strength free audiosa ribadir chack. You try
for snubs with twenty pants eighteen strike apps. Now you're
trying to attack Rickmont just a guy asking questions.

Speaker 2 (13:16):
You want to go over to venture up in the
yard and go routes the skipper out of a steakhouse
and yell at him about it.

Speaker 3 (13:22):
Matt, if every other highlight we play is and there
it is struck out number twenty five hundred or you know,
there it is. I got one thousand.

Speaker 2 (13:33):
Two picks swung on and missed, and there it is, right,
I mean, I would never.

Speaker 3 (13:39):
And then we've got the fifteen. I'm like, wait a minute,
what's going on here?

Speaker 9 (13:43):
There's a curveball strength free audiosa ribadir chack and for
snubs with twenty nine advance eighteen strike apps. Now that's
four for Krushaw and that's that overhead curveball that hitters.
Just don't look for me.

Speaker 2 (13:54):
I've got more of my guys snubs, yeah or smubs.
So you know what Matt's serious? SI corrections and retractionot.

Speaker 3 (14:05):
Eighteen times.

Speaker 2 (14:07):
The agenda and the situation is clear. I don't care
about Kershaw. I want to know about this guy's stops.

Speaker 3 (14:16):
I want to know how many times he struck out
in this window of time that he stepped into a
batter's box. Now, to be fair, I'm trying to be fair.
That's why I.

Speaker 2 (14:29):
Asked you've done. I think what you've done here is embarrassing.

Speaker 3 (14:34):
It's not, it's not. I was thinking about it last night.
I was like, huh, I don't think that if I
remember that, you know, you.

Speaker 2 (14:46):
Just want every one of these guys to freak out
every time this guy gets a strikeout. You just want to.
You just want them to blow their whole wad every
time they he want them to pop a bunch of streamers.

Speaker 3 (14:54):
In the book, we played five highlights one thousand, fifteen
hundred two twenty five hundred, three thousand.

Speaker 2 (15:01):
All right, now, okay, one last time.

Speaker 3 (15:04):
One of these calls is doing its own thing, Like
one of these calls sake.

Speaker 2 (15:08):
Like Sam Farmer talks about, there's it'd be a special
Easter egg. If we listen again, I'm sure there'll be
some acknowledgment of the milestone somewhere. Maybe you could hear
the spot her in the background.

Speaker 9 (15:20):
Something one two pinch. There's a curveball strength three audiosa
rivader chain and for snubs with twenty nine advance eighteen
strike aus. Now that's four krusha when pay wait, wait,
do we know what audios rivaderch means? It could mean
fifteen hundred.

Speaker 3 (15:37):
I think it does, right, I think you're right. I
don't thought it was good bye good bye. I think
it's no.

Speaker 2 (15:41):
I don't speak that weird language.

Speaker 7 (15:44):
I just asked chut gbt. They said it means fifteen
hundred good call, one two pinch.

Speaker 9 (15:50):
There's a curveball strength three audiosa rivader chain and for
Snubs with twenty nine advance eighteen strike aus. Now that's
four for Krushaw And that's that overhand curveball that hitters
just don't look for it.

Speaker 2 (16:01):
They don't look for it. Neither did we look for
the fact that this was his fifteen hundred strikeout his career.

Speaker 3 (16:08):
Now, Matta hell Is Snubs, by the way, what a
weird Drew Stubs, Yeah, Stubbs, Stubb, Matt.

Speaker 2 (16:14):
You you will have a job at Awful Announcing waiting
for you when you are done.

Speaker 3 (16:19):
Wait, I'm not the bad guy here. I am not
the bad guy. I think it is fair for me
to ask, considering what the other one sounded like, are
we sure we pulled the right clip.

Speaker 2 (16:30):
I didn't think it was a great day to embarrass
Skipper and Rick Mack.

Speaker 3 (16:33):
That's not what I'm trying to do. I was simply,
you know, Kate's was scrambling yesterday, you said it. He
ends up pulling all these soundbites for us. He cuts
up our interview with Kershaw. He's running the the presser live.
We've got him answering the phones for a winner every
single segment. Kate's was spinning plates yesterday. No, like, you

(16:55):
know what Kate's Were you not spinning plates yesterday?

Speaker 8 (16:57):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (16:57):
I was like the red panda. Yes, I was on
the I just spin in their plates broke just spinning man.
So I was like, maybe he missed it by a king.
Maybe maybe this wasn't fifty. Maybe it was you wanted
to pick mits off the cats?

Speaker 7 (17:11):
Oh waits like, okay, I just looked in our system here,
because this is where I pull it from our database
here at seventy LA Sports, and I just typed in
fifteen hundred strikeouts, So maybe I did pull the wrong one.
Here here's what's coming up, fifteen hundred strikeouts. This is
what it's labeled. Kursh Off fifteen hundred strikeouts one and
two Finch, there's a curveball strike, three audiosa rived air shot,
and the scombs with twenty nine advanced eighteen strikeouts.

Speaker 2 (17:32):
Now that's cool that's that overhead just don't work.

Speaker 3 (17:37):
This is what's labeled.

Speaker 2 (17:39):
It's what is. I swear to you, you can't take
it in. I swear to you, honestly can't take it.
I can't do this anymore. I can't this stuff.

Speaker 3 (17:52):
Well play Kates.

Speaker 2 (17:59):
A terrible perdon Why does it say I'm a terrible
person at the end, Hey, let me tell you so
those guys will those guys blew it. Those guys dropped
the ball. I'll tell you what. It's great. The Kirshaw's
retiring and all super emotional, but I'll tell you who sucks.

(18:21):
It was a fifteen hundred strikeout. These guys had a
gold mine on it.

Speaker 3 (18:24):
They didn't even know they played twenty five hundred Again, Kates,
give us the twenty five, not the one thousand, two
thousand and three, to give us twenty five.

Speaker 4 (18:31):
Hundred curveball for his third strikeout of the night and
strike out number twenty five hundred and Clayton Khaw's career.

Speaker 2 (18:42):
Congratulations Clayton. Actually, you know what, why does everything have
to turn into something like that?

Speaker 9 (18:55):
Here's fifteen hundred, here's the real fifteen hundred one two.
There's a curveball. Strength free out of you, so leave
it there for snubs. I'm not going to make teen strikeouts. Now,
that's four for Kurushaw. And that's that overhand curveball that
hitters just don't look for it.

Speaker 11 (19:09):
Congratulations Clayton. It is quite an accomplishment. The three man
booth there it is. I knew there was something in there.

Speaker 3 (19:18):
I knew long enough.

Speaker 2 (19:19):
Playing it over and over, we would hear they hit
an easter rag of Congratulations.

Speaker 9 (19:25):
Exactly right one, and there's a curveball strike three. I'm
not gonna have twenty nine strikeouts. Now, that's four for Kershaw.

Speaker 11 (19:34):
Congratulations Clayton. That is quite an accomplishment right there, we go.

Speaker 2 (19:39):
Good job everybody, Good deal. David Vasse will join us
next we will celebrate Clayton Kershaw further. You know, we
can't just celebrate a guy and do a real sports show.
We can't.

Speaker 3 (19:53):
I think it was a fair commentary. If you want
to embarrass I did not mean to. I just said,
are we sure that's it.

Speaker 2 (20:03):
I haven't been this embarrassed since my dad walked into
a Mexican restaurant and told the guy that was putting
chips and sauce on the table, Hey Votto, how are
we gonna walk through that clubhouse? What if Kates goes
into that into that booth tonight, so he bunches of
square in the nuts.

Speaker 3 (20:24):
So my fault, say it was Matt and Petrol's fault.

Speaker 2 (20:28):
That punch of the nuts has brought to you by
Daniel's jewelers.

Speaker 3 (20:35):
Hey Kates, Audios, RIVADERCEA beat it. You're not welcome in
the booth.

Speaker 2 (20:41):
Then trip around your family jewels. It's brought to you.
What do I get a word? Hey play fifteen hundred A.
Yet you know they didn't mention it at all.

Speaker 9 (20:53):
One two there's a curveball strank free ADIOSA rivaderce.

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Speaker 2 (22:00):
All right, Dave, it's a big night the Home of
the Dodger day is with an inside look at the Dodgers.
This is the Vassi Report with David Vase. Dave providing
a little levity yesterday during the press conference in an
emotional moment for Clayton Kershaw, enabling him to pivot and

(22:22):
have a laugh and about that tonight is the night
and he plans to pitch. Well, Dave, David is with
us your great season scientistic pitching. Good Dave, Yeah, good,
my bad, All right, Dave, All right, there's only David
Vassa and then the rest of the LA media scientistic

(22:42):
pitching good Dave, MLB Network, Spectrum Sports Net, David vass
Is on the scene. Check it out on Instagram Live
on am FHI seventy. It's already up Tatley Jansen chiming
in about Clayton Kershaw's final start regular season start. That is,
we should say, at Dodger Stadium day, how are you?
How's it going out?

Speaker 8 (23:01):
There's beautiful day here at Dodger Stadium. We got some
clouds tottering the blue skies, a perfect day for Clayton
Kershaw's final regular season start at Dodgers Stadium. And look,
you know, even some of the LA Time scribes told me.
Bill Plashki came to my defense about that response by
Clayton Kershaw. But look, I mean, that was not him

(23:24):
being mean. That was him, like you said, bringing some
levity to the situation because he was showing too many
of his emotions, so he wanted to bottle those up
again and never let him out.

Speaker 2 (23:34):
Yeah, push him down.

Speaker 3 (23:35):
The answer was there because you guys get along, and
that's what people that get along do. Losers think that
he was being negative with you, how dare they, Dave,
What do you expect tonight from Kershaw? I mean, we've
seen him in emotional moments and some great some you know,
things have gotten away from him. What do you think
it's going to be like for him? As someone who's
watched him damn near his entire career up close.

Speaker 8 (23:55):
Yeah, it'll be similar to the night that he was
on the cusp of recording his three thousand strikeout. That
night when he came out to warm up for the
first time ever in his career, he acknowledged the fans
giving him a standing ovation as he was going out
to the outfield to do his pregame routine before the start.
So I'm curious to see if he allows himself that moment.

(24:19):
I will say this, during the course of this year,
he is allowing himself to enjoy the moments more than
he ever has in his career before. So that's something
to look for. And also the first inning. The reality
is Clayton Kershaw on twenty twenty five has had trouble
getting three outs in the first inning. His era in

(24:40):
the first inning of games this season is almost eight
seven sixty. So if he can get through the first
inning and control his emotions because it will be emotionally charged.
I feel like it should be a good night for him.

Speaker 2 (24:53):
Are there any former teammates? I mean, he was there
talking about the current team because they were all standing
in the room. You of course know that better than us.
But any former teammates coming tonight.

Speaker 8 (25:06):
Yeah, I know about a handful, including his first catcher,
Russell Martin. He'll be here. Him and Andre Ethier, who
was one of his first teammates when he got called up,
will be here. Trace Thompson is going to be here
as well. Clayton and Trace got along really well because
Clayton respected, you know, TRACE's work, ethic and dedication to

(25:29):
the game. And my understanding is even Austin Barnes may
make the cold drive from Riverside.

Speaker 3 (25:36):
Well, that would be something. I hope he listens to
the radio on the way out to get the sea.

Speaker 8 (25:44):
Dave, I don't know what says.

Speaker 3 (25:47):
That's exactly right, Dave. We are still here, Austin. Maybe
a little too soon for a dig like that, but whatever, Dave.
The just sort of we were discussing this throughout the show,
the idea that not only is it Laighton Kershaw's last
regular season start, and he alluded to this in the
press conference. Do you think this is his last start?

Speaker 8 (26:08):
No, He's got one more next Saturday in Seattle, so
that will be his final regular season start in his career.
And as far as the postseason goes, I'm not going
to rule it out because you don't know how a
series is going to unfold in a seven game series.
And yes, I do expect the Dodgers to be in
the NLCS, but looking ahead, the way things are constructed

(26:31):
right now, the way he's going to help the Dodgers
the most is coming out of the bullpen and providing
them some long relief when necessary. You know, I'm not
going to put him in Brent Honeywell in the same sentence,
but if there is a blowout game where they don't
want to have to overtack certain arms, he can be
very valuable. He could be valuable coming out of the bullpen,

(26:53):
bridging a start if a starting pitcher gets in trouble
or the pitch count gets too high. So right now,
with how good their starting staff is, it feels by
Kershaw will be most needed out of the bullpen.

Speaker 2 (27:08):
You had some fortuitous conversation with Clayton Kershaw last weekend,
didn't you, Dave.

Speaker 8 (27:15):
Yeah, yeah. I asked him to reflect on the fact
that last weekend, you know, now we know was his
last start against the Giants at Oracle Park, a place
where he had a one sixty nine ERA in thirty
previous starts before last Saturday, and then here he is
tonight against the Giants, fitting that his last start at
Dodger Stadium is against the Giants. But him and Justin

(27:37):
Verlander are doing something that we don't see too many
great pitchers do, and that's evolved over time and be
really good in their late thirties and in Verlanders case,
early forties. And I asked Clayton last Sunday morning in
San Francisco if the reason why he's been so successful
this year is because similar to guy like Jamie Moyer

(28:01):
or Greg Maddix at the end of their careers having
the arrogance to take advantage of the over aggressiveness of hitters.
These days, I don't.

Speaker 12 (28:10):
Really look at it as like taking advantage of a
hitter or you know, somebody being aggressive or not aggressive
or whatever it is. I just look at it as
you have to have some type of call it arrogance, confidence,
belief that you can you're better than the hitter. You know,

(28:30):
you just have to believe that, and obviously when it's
not going good, it's harder. But at the end of
the day, I think that's the mentality you have. That's
the mental side of the game that's so fun. Is
like you see a lot of guys that have the
best stuff in the world, but they don't have any belief,
and that that manifests itself on the field.

Speaker 3 (28:49):
It really does.

Speaker 12 (28:50):
So you got to believe that you can get everybody
out every single pitch, that you're going to make the
right pitch, and then you just move on to the
next one. You keep doing it and sometimes it works,
sometimes it doesn't, but the belief has to be there,
and I think that's maybe that's what you're talking about
as far as like confidence arrogance. You you just have

(29:12):
to believe that you're better than the hitter, no matter
what you got.

Speaker 2 (29:15):
It, no matter what you got, there we go, There
we go.

Speaker 8 (29:19):
That was last Sunday morning in San Francisco, and that
was a really candid answer by Clayton on how he's
been able to sustain over eighteen seasons Dave.

Speaker 3 (29:30):
To the rest of the team, and you know last
night after you know, logging some heavy innings and high
pitch coowns Yamamodo going seven nearly a complete game with
that no hitter seven I think or eight, and his
other start is last three ends up being a little
bit of a short start coming out in the sixth inning.
What do you make of kind of how the bullpen
has pitched these these last two games. I know it

(29:51):
wasn't entirely clean for Copek and and for Blake trying in,
But going back to that last game against Philadelphia as well,
because you know Layton said it there, confidence, right, is
it arrogance? Is it confidence? Do you feel like they're
getting a little bit of that back yet?

Speaker 8 (30:06):
Well, it's it's hard to just lump it all into
one because individuals are going through different things right now.
Michael Kopek is coming off you know, right knee surgery
or left knee surgery and had a shoulder injury and
he's still trying to find it. Even Dave Roberts was
pretty clear about that after the game that he doesn't
feel like Kopek's right Blake Trinan had a shoulder arm

(30:31):
issue missed two months. His sweeper has not been the
same this year. His fastballs have not been the same
this year. Is he protecting because talking to other pitchers
around the league, they've talked about how when their arm
is maybe not one hundred percent healthy or they're protecting it,

(30:51):
they don't fire their back leg the way they would
because they know that their arm can't handle the force.
That's a question that only Blake Trying can answer. Sir,
If you're asking me, who are the four guys that
I trust the most right now? If I'm Dave Roberts
going into the postseason, I'm looking at two lefties. I'm
looking at Banda, I'm looking at Vessia. I'm actually looking

(31:11):
at three three guys in Tanner Scott because he's looked
good and he seems to have his head a little
bit in a better spot, and the Dodgers are more
than likely going to continue to help get his confidence up.
And also Blake Trinon now giving up on Blake Trinon,
that's for sure, he's been there before, and who knows,
he may be saving his best for the postseason.

Speaker 2 (31:34):
Is Rokie Sasaki going to be part of the postseason?

Speaker 8 (31:38):
He might he pitched an inning in relief last night
through ninety nine one hundred miles an hour, had two strikeouts.
Petros and Dave Roberts intimated yesterday that they are going
to give Sazaki a look here. I we got corrected, Yeah, yeah,
And honestly, guys, you're not going to find anything out

(31:58):
about whether or not Rokie can pitch out of the
bullpen in Oklahoma City. You've got to do it here.
And the way Dave Roberts discussed it was one more
time in Oklahoma City and then he'll join the team
on the road trip. And I don't know if that's
enough time to figure it out. I mean, it's one
thing to be pitching in Arizona at the end of

(32:18):
the season. It's another to be coming in and being
in the bullpen in Philadelphia and an NLBS situation.

Speaker 3 (32:26):
All right, Dave, just real quick, let's say, best case scenario,
Kershaw goes seven scoreless walks off the field, do a
standing ovation. You're gonna get a little misty.

Speaker 2 (32:38):
You know what I am.

Speaker 8 (32:39):
Everybody's asked me if I'm emotional, if I'm sentimental, and
I am all of those things, but I'm not those
at this point because it's not his last game. There's
still a lot more baseball left for the Dodgers, and
he's got a lot more innings left to help the
Dodgers try to win back to back World Series championships.
So I'm not feeling melancholy at all right now.

Speaker 2 (33:03):
That's why I'm emotional. Thank you, Dave.

Speaker 8 (33:07):
Okay, guys, thanks David Vass.

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at Dodgers Stadi as it is Clayton Kershaw's final regular
season start at Dodger Stadium, announced his retirement yesterday.

Speaker 2 (34:07):
We found it, we got it well.

Speaker 12 (34:10):
I mean.

Speaker 2 (34:12):
Tim Kats has been exonerated. That was the fifteen hundred strikeout. However,
as you know, most every single unless there's a samplecast
with Vin in the first three innings of our time
with the great Vin Scully that we all were not
worthy of, there usually is two different broadcasts, the radio

(34:33):
broadcast and the television broadcast. Tonight's radio broadcast is Tim
Neverett and Rick Monday. We're grateful for that, and you
got the Dazzler and Spilly. I think the Dazzler Wayne
Ran Dazzo is going to be on Apple TV tonight,
But it was Stubbs and his stubby legs. Audio Seriva dircee.

(34:56):
Here is the Charlie Steiner call of kersh shs fifteen
hundred strikeout and one ball and two strikes to Drew Stubbs.

Speaker 10 (35:04):
Kershaw deals call strike three and for twenty seven year
old Clayton Kershaw his career fifteen hundredth strikeout. It is
two hundred and sixteenth start. Yet another check bark on
the remarkable resume of Clayton Kershaw.

Speaker 11 (35:22):
And it comes on public Enemy number one, the world ball.
It just drops out of the sky.

Speaker 2 (35:31):
How about that?

Speaker 9 (35:34):
And here is the radio call one and two pitch,
there's a curveball, strike three, adiosa rivederchek and for snubs
with twenty nine advance eighteen strikeouts. Now that's four for Kershaw.
And that's that overhand curveball that hitters just don't look for,
and if they do, they usually wave at it anyway.
So if he took it for strike three, looking, tell
you what that was not just the ordinary curve ball.

(35:55):
That was the Clayton Kershaw nosed to toes. Uncle Charlie,
sure what they called it? A lot of different things,
and some of the things that we can actually say
that it has been called besides Uncle Charlie. The yellow
hammer is one of them. Yep, the big hook, Uncle Charles,

(36:18):
Sir Charles, here's RAPHAELI Noah, Lord Charles, Lord Charles.

Speaker 2 (36:22):
Somebody money, anybody wanted.

Speaker 3 (36:25):
We got a stack guy in here. It got a
stat guy.

Speaker 12 (36:28):
You know.

Speaker 2 (36:30):
The yellow hammer, I mean the yellow hammer.

Speaker 9 (36:37):
The yellow hammer is one of them.

Speaker 3 (36:43):
We're terrible, you know, you you furthered it.

Speaker 2 (36:47):
What did I do?

Speaker 3 (36:48):
I left it, left it, I left it. You played Charlie,
and you extended it.

Speaker 2 (36:53):
You stuck your whole face in the frozen Margharita blender.

Speaker 3 (36:57):
You're the one that brought the yellow hammer. So again,
So that was radio. That was the radio call of
Monday Bag and Skitch, Kevin Kennedy, TV call, Oral, Oral
and Arlener.

Speaker 2 (37:16):
We've all in two strikes to Drew Stock.

Speaker 10 (37:18):
They had Pshaw deals call strike three and for twenty
seven year old Clayton Kershaw his career fifteen hundredth strikeout,
it is two hundred and sixteen start. He had another
check bark on the remarkable resume of Clayton Kershaw.

Speaker 2 (37:37):
The yellow hammer, yellow hammer, the yellow hammer is one
of them. I can't take it anymore.

Speaker 3 (37:47):
Can we get all of them? By the way, can
we just se we got Uncle Charlie?

Speaker 9 (37:49):
No, I come on, and some of the things that
we can actually say that it has been called besides
Uncle Charlie, they will hammer is one of them. Yep, yep,
the big hook, Uncle Charles, Sir Charles, here's RAPHAELI Noah,
Lord Charles, Lord Charles.

Speaker 3 (38:12):
Yeah, you tell that booth.

Speaker 2 (38:14):
Yes we shall return, yep, yep. A big thank you
to David Vassa for joining us last hour.

Speaker 3 (38:20):
We'll do the college football whip around yellow Hammer.

Speaker 2 (38:24):
In the four o'clock hour.

Speaker 9 (38:25):
The yellow hammer is one of them.

Speaker 3 (38:29):
You know what, I'm doing my football picks for the
number of the day, and one of them is the
yellow hammer.

Speaker 2 (38:38):
I'm not touching it. We'll be right back with your
word number song of the day. Matt's got the yellow Hammer.
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