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Everybody loo come in to Morongo Casino Dodgers on deck. I hope you're enjoying your Friday afternoon. You're world champion Los Angeles Dodgers off to one of their best starts in franchise history, a perfect eight and oh here in twenty twenty five, only the nineteen fifty five Brooklyn Dodgers have had a better start. After a dramatic comfort behind win over the Breys on Wednesday, the Dodgers had a day off yesterday. Now they hit the road for a three
game series in Philadelphia. Yoshinobu Yamamoto on the mound, the series opener from Citizens Bank Park. First pitch coming up at three forty five. Between now and then, we got a lot to get to here on Moranggo Casino Dodgers on deck. You were gonna hear from the manager of himself, Dave Roberts will dive deeper into this series opening pitching matchup.
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One on one with Blake Trining. We've got your Dodgers magical moment, your prize picks double play of the Day. Shortly we'll hear from Kirsten Watson and show hey Otani and at just a few minutes we'll send it out to Tim Neverett and Rick Monday at the Galloping Motors Broadcast booth. Well on Wednesday night at the Ravine, the Dodgers closed out the opening homestand of the season after taking three from the Detroit Tigers. The Dodgers looking to
close out for the Atlanta Braves. Blake Snell on the mount. He went four innings, five runs, five hits, four walks, two strikeouts. Got into trouble early, but it wasn't his faults. He had a couple of pitches out of the zone for control issues. But Max Bunsey throwing air opened the door for two runs in the first then a throwing air and a miss cue in the second inning opened the door for three more Atlanta runs. The Braves are
up five to nothing, all runs unearned against Blake Snell. Finally, in the bottom of the second, down five nothing, the Dodgers got on the board.
So Edmond in a driver's seat. Dodgers trying to chip away at this five nothing deficit here with the runner on and one out at the bottom of the second inning one, Edmund swings and drives the ball right center field, going back white.
He's at the wall, He's out of here. Tommy tanks alive and well to begin twenty twenty five, a two run blast, his fourth of the season, and the Dodgers right back in it.
It's now five to two.
Tommy Edmund with his fourth home run of the season. He leaves the Dodgers by the way in dingers.
Dodgers down five to two, Michael Can four to oh his first home run at a Dodger uniform, solo home run of the fourth. Dodgers down five to three. Now, Blake's that would go four innings. Give up those five runs in the first two innings, but the Dodgers' bullpen was big, keeping the Braves at just five runs. Benki Sperry has two shutout innings, Kirby Yates to inning a relief,
and then Jack Dryer pitched a scoreless eighth. In a scoreless ninth, the Dodgers were down five to three going to the bottom of the eighth inning.
They had runners on.
The sixth the seventh, but couldn't get that big base hit to get more runs on the board. Finally, the eighth two to on, two out for Max Munsey.
Dodgers are zero for five with runners in scoring position. Tonight can Max change that in a big way the one two months he swings.
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We are tied at five after the two run double from Monzie. The game didn't start well for Max Munsey, but certainly pay made dew in the eighth inning with the two run double that tied the game at five, all the way back from a five to nothing deficit. The Dodgers tied the game in the eighth and then in the ninth. It's set up perfectly for show Hey Otani a walk off home run. Dodgers beat the Braves six to five on Wednesday Night. Otani with the home run his second walk off home run of his career.
The Dodgers there's six come from behind win already this Sea. They're eight and o after the sweep of the Atlanta Braves, as the Dodgers, the best start by defending World Series champs in MLB history. Jack Dryer against the winning and relief for the Dodgers' bullpen, which put up zeros over five innings of a combined work. Dodgers now hit the road for a six game East Coast road trip, first up a three game series in Philadelphia against the Fight
in Phills. Yoshinobu Yamamoto on the mount and with more we head out to the Galpos Motors broadcast booth as we say hello to Tim Nevertt and Rick Monday.
Guys, Tim, thank you very much. It is very pleasant here in Philadelphia. You never know what you're gonna get in early April in Philly, but we've been pretty fortunate. Temperatures are in the low sixties right now as we get set to start this ballgame between the Dodgers and the Phillies. Dodgers eight and oh, off to their best start in Los Angeles Dodger history all time. It's ten and oh. The nineteen fifty five Brooklyn Dodgers had the best start, and the Phillies five and one. They're three
and oh at home. The Phillies won seven of their last nine against the Dodgers, sweeping them here last year. But that was last year and this is this year. Tonight. Haesus Lizarda, the left hander at one and zero. We'll pitch for the Phillies against the right handed Yoshinubu Yamamoto, who is also won and oh and Mota. Dodgers just keep on finding ways to win. They've won eight games, and six of them they've come from behind to do it.
Yeah, it's amazing what they've been able to do. And when the stage is set in the later portions of ball games is when they have really been able to shine. So they come in first place team half game in front of San Diego. His action got underway today San Diego in Chicago against the Cubs and for the Phillies again game and a half lead in front of the surprising Miami Marlins. Oh, it is early yet as far as the Marlins, it doesn't matter if it's earlier late.
With the Phillies, they have a very good team. So yeah, it's West versus the East. The other part about starting off this Dodger ball club eight and oh, they're the first of one hundred and twenty defending world champion teams to begin the season with eight consecutive victories. So you put it into perspective, we've already seen history made with this Dodger Balklub.
Well, they passed the nineteen thirty three New York Yankees, who started defense of their title seven and zero in thirty three with a guy hitting in the middle of their order named Babe Ruth.
Yeah, it's amazing. The Dodgers have their own version of Babe Ruth that may show Hey Otani the walk off home run to end things in that series against the Atlanta Braves and swept that series. The Dodgers said, Tim just find ways right now to get things done. Their bullpen has shut things down. And speaking of bullpen, you need a good bullpen against the Phillies because they have absolutely been feasting upon bullpens of opposing teams. That's why
they entered this this game tonight. Five wins, only one loss.
When you look at the Dodgers starters Era two fourteen so far, the bullpenny ra one point eight threes. So the Dodger bullpen has been getting it done. And you know the veteran guys you expect to get it done, guys with a track record, guys with a long list on the back of their baseball card. But you've got Ben Casparius and Jack Dreyer rookies who are getting it done.
Yeah, they're getting it done. There is when blemish is the Dodgers move in. And for those that have not heard, Freddie Freeman put on the injured list for ten days. That right ankle very problematic, so he has been set down and Hunter Fidusia joins this ball club in the absence of Freeman, so.
They got a left handed bat here in Fidusha. Freeman would be eligible to come off the injured list on the eleventh, when the Dodgers would open a series at Dodger Stadium against the Cubs. But first things first, first of a six game road trip here to Philadelphia and to Washington, d c the eight to no Dodgers taking on the five and one Phillies.
Tim all right, thank you guys, as we count you down to first pitch.
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Wid All right, well, well this would be fitting if there were an end right here and everyone on their feet at Dodger Stadium.
Show, Hey old Tony on his bubblehead night first piss swinging tie drive glass center.
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Oh my goodness, so he Old Tony a sallo, not a swing. He's headed home and once again the Dodgers walk off winners.
Show Hey O'tani with the walk off home run on Wednesday night on his Bobblehead Nights, a solo shot in the ninth Inna. Dodgers come all the way back and beat the Atlanta Braves six to five. Dodgers now start a six game East Coast road trip. But what a night it was for show Hey Otani on Wednesday night, the three for five, the home run, the ribbie and afterwards caught up with Kirsten Watson.
So hey for you to have that moment to walk up home run, to come back being fat down five in this game, because what did it mean to pull that one out and get the win?
Jack showpecial.
Box and.
Everybody's there a ball.
I think the bullpen did a fantastic job bringing us back into the game. Max Munsey's timingly hit and all the guys really contributing today.
That walk off though, that home run, What did you see in that app that allows you to get that swing?
Sagon does a god takus on disco.
But we're standing out almost on this kirdoo.
You guys, you know, just looking for a really good picture head.
But one of the fans was telling.
Me, you know, it's your bubble head nice so you better get a hit.
So I'm glad I was able.
To do that.
The bubblehead night's a special one. But to see all these fans here and part of you, what is this moment? What do these moments mean to you?
Scott?
I'm just ecstatic that the fans got to see this really good game today and was able to perform in front of these fans.
Tonight.
Guys are now at eight and no on this season. A terrific start to the year. What does it say about this group and how you guys have maintained your focus from last season?
Freaky?
Do you know.
Second table for.
I think really good.
You know, overall ways of winning, even though we may give up some runs, like we find a way to come, you know, come back and win. And you know, when we're winning these games or we're scoring early, I think our pitching staff does an amazing job keeping the win.
I sure did tonight. Congratulations on the win. Thank you minness.
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Evan Phillips on a minor league rehab assignment as well in ok Ce Clayton Kershaw Michael Kopek working their way back from early season injuries. All right, let's ted back out to Citizens Bank Park and check out the Dodger skipper.
Any dad questions for Dave?
Dave?
Can you just describe Dave?
Can you talk about the pressure in.
The dugouts with Dave Roberts, What changed in what led to the decision to have Freddy stay back and go on the IL.
Yeah, I thought, I think the thought was he could He could have played, but we just felt that even in talking to Friday the training staff, there was potential downside if we played them to make it worse. And given the time of year, the off days that we had, we built in some days that he missed off day coming up, just made sense for him to stay back, not travel fly, increased swelling and then be ready to go, hopefully when we get home for the Homestand.
I know you're always thinking big picture, but how much of the luxury of having an aid to no start and as many good players as you have factored into being able to absorb a loss of a player like him.
I think the having the depth certainly allowed us to absorb it, But I still believe that that's a separate decision which what is best for Freddy and given him more time, putting him on the IL made the most sense, and he wasn't too thrilled about it, as we would all expect, but understood it.
Do you think he would have been having to play into the season with the ankle bothering even before this sort of should shower thing happened.
You know, I think that if we wouldn't have done anything, I think it could have lingered all year. And not to say that we expected to be one hundred percent when he comes off, but I just think that it's something that we give it a chance to kind of maintain versus continually go backward as the season progressed, And that's something we just didn't want him to fight all year long.
You have to go to any more like testing after the shower thing happened, or yeah.
He took We got an MRI scan and there was nothing. Nothing. It came back the way we wanted to.
All Right, there's Dave Roberts, says Freddie Freeman goes to the ill. Yeah, when you're eight and O, you have the luxury, uh, putting a guy on the il to get really healthy and rested for the long season.
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All Right, David, Freddie Freeman goes on the IL yesterday, and when you're as good as the Dodgers.
Are, right, so it's better to get this guy healthy without a doubt to him. And that's what Dave Roberts expressed when I asked him about it. As you heard earlier. But Freddy didn't even make the trip to the East Coast, and he's going to miss out on being with his team at the White House. That's part of the perks of winning the World Series. So you know, this has got to be really tough for Freddie not to be able to play games and to even go on the IL.
But the facts are Freddie, even before he slipped in the shower and reaggravated that right ankle, was telling us that he was going to have to manage this right ankle extensively until July. So this only makes matters worse when you reaggravate it the way he did. And this is the smart play. And even if Freddy doesn't agree, this is the smart play for the Dodgers. And they have a lot of good players and they're off to an eight and zero start. That all contributed to it,
and Hunter Fiducca got called up today. He just came from Oklahoma City where he was telling me that team is stacked as well. It's like a major League team, he said, in Triple A. So the Dodgers have a lot of good players, not only on the twenty six man roster, but even in Triple A and Double A for sure. So this the Dodgers need Freddie Freeman healthy and that right ankle healthy when it counts the most.
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Yeah, MOOKI felt compelled to hold some sort of pseudo media session in the dugout at about four h five Eastern time today just because he's been asked by so many reporters are you going? Are you going? So it put him in an awkward spot. So he felt like he had to make this announcement publicly. But Mookie Betts wanted to make it clear he doesn't want it to
be about himself. He felt like he did that when he skipped the Red Sox visit to the White House in twenty nineteen after beating the Dodgers in the eighteen World Series number two. He doesn't want to make this a political thing. This is not political, no matter how much anybody wants to make it. This is a tradition that goes back to the mid eighties where Ronald Reagan started inviting championship teams from California like the Lakers, to
the White House. This is not political, and Mookie Betts wanted to stress he's not trying to make this political. He wants to be with his teammates. He doesn't want to make this about him. So it was awkward that he even had to do something like this earlier today. But he's been asked about it so many times.
Well, I'm gonna ask about the Dodgers win in every game this year, DV. Are they gonna go one hundred and sixty two and zero.
No, But you know everybody talking about beating the Mariners two thousand and one record of one hundred and sixteen wins, that that looks realistic. Not just because they got off to this eight and zero start, but just the disparity and talent from other teams. The Tigers played really well, and I know talking to some of their players the final game of that series, they felt like they would have beaten twenty five other teams out there at least
two out of three. The Dodgers played their worst game of the season and the worst I could remember in a while, that last game against the Braves, and they come back after being down five to nothing and win the game. So they're gonna lose one game in this series in my opinion, but there's a good chance they could give the Mariners of OH One a run.
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Rick, it's great to be in Philadelphia with you. You had a lot of successful years with the Dodgers coming to Philly.
Yeah, the city, your brother Lulu up for the guy that used to be behind the dugout at the Vet Veteran Stadium.
So yeah.
Other than that, the guy yelling at me for eight years never turned around. For those never heard the story, I never turned around, but for the moment we came out to take batting practice. The guy was on me from the Cubs and then onto the Dodgers, and for eight years I never turned around. I never gestured to him. I never even turned to see who it was. I just knew it was coming somewhere within proximity of the
visiting third base dugout. And then finally one day I would come out to batting practice, and as you alluded to, I hit pretty well against the Phillies for whatever reason, and I came out on deck ready, I'm getting okay, this leather lung guy is going to get on me. And I heard nothing, and I had really a bad game. And the next day I come out and the guy's on me. Mondy, you bummed, you've did that. And I said, turn around for the first time, I see where the
guy is. And I see the first time who the guy is, and I went, where in the heck were you yesterday? He goes, well, my Dodger graduated from my docter graduated from high school. I said, well, good, don't do that again. I said, a bad game. Game started, came in the ondeck circles going, oh, come on, Rick, come on, Rick. But this is a very knowledgeable city
when it comes to the sport. Said this is a fun place to come in, even though fun because you know it's going to be competitive, and the Phillies leading the East, Dodgers leading the West, and Rick, you know, you.
Go back to the years that you played against the Phillies with the Dodgers. We always want to talk about the World Series against the Yankees, but it was the Phillies that you would always beat in the NLCS to get to the World.
And that was not an easy stepping stone either, because they had extremely good teams, not only the talent, but then when you come into this ballpark, you don't have to worry. Are we the visiting team?
No?
They tell you right out flat, Yeah, you're the visiting team. So yeah, the pathway to the World Series for a while is you had to get through the Philadelphia Phillies in order to win the nationally pennant to get to the World Series.
All right, Rick, fast forward to twenty twenty five. Are the Dodgers ever going to lose? Everybody wants to now.
Yes, eventually they will. I don't perceive it as being tonight if the Dodgers do not expand the strike zone. One of the things that you know, Tim Neverert and I talk about is that if you look at Lozardo, he had great success last year in getting hitters, in particular against the slider to expand the strike zone, and if they if they go chasing pitches out of the strike zone, it's going to be a long night for the Dodgers, and they've got to be a very disciplined as hitters.
Miguel Rojas gets the start at third base against the lefty Lozardo Munsey, who came up with a big two run double on the Otani heroic night.
Do you notice what happened also before that double was hit and knock into two runs late in the game. Here's my point. We keep hearing about these torpedo bats, right, which in my mind is a little bit of well, it's you're trying to go a mental placebo Okay, to a certain extent, I understand the dynamics of it. But Max Munsey used a torpedo bat the first three at mats in that ballgame. He went back to his original bat, the silver sword, if you will. That's right, the last
time up and he got the double. I listened to your postgame show. I meant to ask you this on the plane yesterday. Did I perceive Max Munsey in your interview the postgame getting a little emotional super emotional.
A tear coming from his right eye. That's how emotional today.
From a defensive standpoint, The reason I bring that up is that this is not just show up and play a game and no go home. These guys care about what they do and it hurts them to not be able to present themselves the best manner to their teammates because they want to be there for their teammates, because they know those guys are there for them.
Hey, Rick cared a lot too. You wren't on your sleeves and that's why La still loves you.
Rick.
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We are in the city of brotherly love, and I'm joined right now by a man that considers me a little brother, maybe a big brother, and that is Dodger reliever Blake Trining. Great to see you, brother, Goode's it's it's moderately good to.
See you today.
Hey, I saw you just come back from this new revamped bullpen in Philadelphia.
They got the.
Slunning glass doors. What do you think about that situation?
It's great, but don't no fool yourself. And we got it is because I think there's some type of rule where if you upgrade.
One, there has to be competitive balance.
We can't be sitting in the elements if they But thank you Philadelphia for taking care of that.
So it's nice. They did a good job.
I heard, with the reputation of a city that boots Santa Claus, it was a little distracting to have the fans here that close to the visiting bullpen.
Fans are fans, I mean there's places just as bad, if not worse at times, you know, like for the percentages and population that filled the entitlement to say whatever they want because they bought a ticket. You know, like that's fine. I mean, we're professionals. We get paid to make sure we can block it out. So you know, that was only the handful of people across the league that want to be ignorant and do stupid stuff that weren't being ejected.
So tread tread lightly.
You know, like if you come to the bullpen, We've got guys that have a quick trigger.
It's not me.
I'm not going to tell you who it is, so but there are quick triggers down there.
Blake Trening is our guest as the Dodgers and Phillies are getting set for first pitch. Blake, here's something I've never asked you before. How do you continue to get better with age? Because it feels like you're not only maintaining, but you're getting better every year.
Was that a mild backhanded compliment?
Blake?
With as old as you are, can you teach an old dog new tricks?
You know?
The reason I'm even in this game still is by the grace of God, and I've been very blessed with good people around me to try to, you know, learn me some new stuff. And you know, for what it's worth, Trevor Bauer helped me with my sweeper back in twenty one and spring training, Connor mcguinnis and Mark and Bard, they all helped me stay locked in on certain cues with my pitches. So my success is a culmination of plenty of good people around me keeping me dialed in.
We are about as good as those who are around us. You know, if I was on my own, you know, you always think like, man, if I was somewhere else, could I repeat what I'm doing? Maybe, if that's what God wants me to do. But I like to think that the people here have really helped bless my career, and hopefully I've been able to bless you know, the
organization on the backside of it too. But you know, learning new pitches certainly helps lengthen your career, and you know, I like to think that I'm doing something right and maybe the Lord has favor over my career too.
It's to me, it's evident and.
No more obvious than the fact that I'm here for another two years of the Dodgers.
Yes, that news was broken by a TV reporter in Houston somewhere. Blake, as far as that sweeper goes, you're a great person to ask this. Can you define what a sweeper is? Because us mere mortals hear these different terms of pitches and don't really understand. Is it just another name for a slider or is it a unique shape of a pitch.
I think it's more or less. You're you're clipping at higher rate with lateral spin to get it to turn. So if you were to put it more north and south, it'd be a curveball. But since it's east and west, the idea is that you're catching the seams just right to get a lateral curveball. And that's why you don't really see him higher than truthfully, like a big sweeper, you don't really see bigger than like, you know, sixteen to twenty and then uh lateral uh and then you
know the vlo. I. There might be a couple of guys and there's a lot of talented arms out there, but most most sweepers are you know, no harder than eighty eight and that's pretty that's pretty elite to get. Usually when it's that hard you get you're flirting around like ten to fourteen lateral. When it's a little bit slower, you have time for it to catch more and you know you can get more more lateral with it. But yeah, it's just it's just a lateral curveball.
Okay, good to know. See I was confused. We're all confused about the sweeper.
And I would have never known to describe it as that, and unless I had talked with Connor mcguinnis and he kind of worried it that way because I you know, I'm not a big fan of reinventing different terms. I mean, people have thrown lateral sliders for a long time. The idea now that it's a new pitch is just that we've got more information. We've got kenn of tracts, we've got mo cap, we've got all these things that can teach guys how to throw these pitches at a quicker
turnaround instead of learning it for years. That now the whole league can learn to throw them. And so you know, the next pitch, who knows what it is. Maybe it's the kick change, maybe it's something else. I don't know, which is another weird term to me. We've got a ghost for it, or kick change a splinker, which is just a split fastball that sinks, and I you know, we can call it and have fun with it, and it's it's good for fans. But at the end of the day that a lot of the pitches are still
the same. But old timers never really called him new pitches. There's I asked my slider, ask my curveball. It's my sinkers, my splitter. So yeah, here's a we'll see with the next new pitches in baseball.
All right, Thank you Blake Trennon, who's been very kind with his time, and he seems to be a big brother to some of these younger relievers. Your catch partner today, Ben Caspirius, how much are you mentoring him?
I will only mentor as much as they allow me or want me to. I'm not going to force any of my stuff on anyone. I think it's hard to try to press who you are on someone else. Leading by examples, the biggest thing, he might get something from me, he might get something from Tanner or Kirby or Vessia Banda, whoever.
I mean, it's just you.
You You're gonna have to pick and choose what version of yourself you want to be out there as a competitor, as a as a guy who prepared, as a guy who executes, and how to stay healthy. There's so many
factors in being successful in this game. And you know the guys who stay around for a while or fortunate enough to have the right information and hold on to the right information throughout the course of their career to linking out, you know the innings they pitch and you know, is this is this where he's supposed to be long term? I like to think so is this?
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Is his body gonna stay healthy? Is his preparation gonna get dialed in? And you know, like every he's doing a lot of great things right now. And for being a young guy, he's one of the more polished arms I've seen come up as a rookie, with the amount of pitches he has that are plus probably that I can think of, maybe only Luke Trevino is about the only guy that I could think of that came up with three plus polished pitches as a rookie, and he's one of them.
He's very lucky to have Blake Trenton in his life and as his catch partner, Blake. Always love catching up with you. It's always fun and let's do it again soon.
Yeah, and one last note is Dave. Dave's my favorite interview to do in baseball.
Also, well send it right there.
On a good note, Blake Trining has been our guest and he'll receive a gift card for Caanansunglasses. Visit them at caanaan dot com. Tim, we'll send it back to you in the studio.
All right, Thanks Lot DV, Thanks Lot, Blake.
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and a sinker. The seventh season in the Big Leagues the A's Marlins, and I was first season in Philadelphia after getting traded over in the offseason. In his first start this year, five innings, two runs, five hits a career high eleven strikeouts, he becomes the third Philly and franchise history of notch ten plus strikeouts in their debut at the club, joining Garrett Stevenson in nineteen ninety seven and Jim bunning Back in nineteen sixty four. This is
his fifth time facing the Dodgers in his career. His fourth career start, twenty and two, third innings, three forty eight ERA, nineteen walks, eight e runs, one Dodgers homeward off from Shoeotani. Yoshinobu Yamamoto on the mound for the Dodgers, twenty six year old right hinder his second season with the Dodgers, making his third start this year. He got the opening day start in Tokyo, fired five innings of one run ball well, giving up only three hits and
striking out four in a win. Last start five innings last Friday against the Tigers in his first home outing into twenty twenty five. He gave up two runs on five hits, two home runs, two walks, while striking out a career high ten. Yoshinobu Yamamoto on the Mountjesus Lozardo two guys that get a lot of strikeouts. It's the Dodgers and Phillies were fifteen minutes away from first pitch.
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Dodgers eight and oh to start this season, hit the road for a six game East Coach road trip. They'll go to Washington, DC next week. Not before this three game series though, in Philadelphia. Yoshi Yamamoto, Hey suth Le Zardo. The pitching matchup of the series opener, first pitch of three forty five. Before that, let's have back out to the booth one final time before first pitch. Tip Neverrettrick Monday, guys.
Ten, thanks again, we count you down to the first pitch between the Phillies and the Dodgers. Weather is very good here in Philadelphia, and the Dodgers and Phillies pretty lucky about that tonight is temperatures will probably get to the high fifties by the time the game is done. So recent Dodger Stadium weather, I guess you could say they'll have here in Philadelphia.
Yah, this is a lot better than Denver, where they had snow at the beginning of their game tonight, So yeah, this is not bad at all. They're expecting you could get a little bit wet tomorrow, but we'll worry about that when it happens. For Yoshinoba, Yamamoto is third start trying to make it two wins and no losses. And you look at Yamamoto, one of the big things is you'll hiss off speed pitch, as it's been absolutely amazing,
and especially when he gets ahead and counts. That's something he's been able to do.
The splitter is actually up in velocity, at least so far this year, about a mile and a half per hour, and that has helped to make it a little bit more effective. The opposition is only two for eighteen against his split fingered pitch. That's hitting just one to eleven, and he comes off an outing in which he had a career high ten strikeouts. Eight of those ten were on the splitter.
Yeah, about the fact ten innings he's worked already has fourteen walks, only three or make that fourteen strikeouts only three walks. On the flip side of the coin, Dodger hitters have to stay back and make Jesus Lozardo throw strikes. Here's the reason I say that last year, seventy percent of Lozardo's strikeouts were pitches that were out of the zone. Don't expand the zone. If you do, it's going to be a long night for Dodger hitters.
And with the left hander on the hill for the Phillies, Max Munsey sitting this one out at least for the start. Miguel Rojas will start at third base.
Eight.
A couple of guys with some hitting streaks right now. Tommy Edmond has hit in all eight Dodger games. Will Smith has also hit in all eight games.
Yeap, and the offense just continues to go. And I think if you look at this Dodger offense so far, it's not been one area. It's been top two, bottom, including the mid part. And you don't know really which guy is going to be hot on a given day so far.
So the Dodgers have been relying on the long ball too. They lead the National League in home runs with eighteen. There are a couple behind the Yankees for the major league lead, but they have scored a good percentage of their runs on the long ball. This is a very home run friendly ballpark three twenty nine down left three thirty four and then it juts out the three seventy four in the alley and left center. But this has been a very home run friendly ballpark in the past.
We'll see what happens here tonight in Game one as jesus Lozardo, the left hander takes on Yoshinobu Yamamoto, Yamamoto making his third start of the season for the Dodgers.
Tim all right, just a reminder, no Freddie Freeman on the end list.
With the right ankle keiky Hernandez gets to start at first base. Yeah, yet again, and with the left hander on the mound, there is no Maximunzi at third base, as Miguel Rojas of course getting the start at third base because of Hayes Susi Losarto. What it starts, Studded weekend. It is Dodgers and Phillies, these two rosters, all Star appearances, Dodgers thirty four Phillies twenty seven MVP awards between these
two teams, seven between the Dodgers and the Phillies. How about Silver Slugger Awards between these two lineups Dodgers and Phillies, A combined twenty six Silver Sluggers. So offense and pitching is gonna be on full display in Philadelphia, and it starts with this series opener. Yoshinobu Yamamoto, Hey sus Lozardo, the pitching matchup. When it's all over, David Vasse will be back with all the post game highlights festivities in post game Dodger.
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