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one hundred pitches. The Dodgers fell into the early hole top of the third inning, Jock Peterson with an RBI single as the Snakes took a one to nine in lead. But the Dodgers got it back, and they got it back in a bunch in the bottom of the third, getting it started. Key ky Hernandez, you know, three and one. Key k trying to lead this inning off the right way, hits it hard center field. Carol
pushed back. He will look up and watch it fie. Keith k Hernandez with a laser to straight away center field, leads off the third inning with his third hole run of the season, and it ties the game at one. Key k Hernandez ties the game with that solo home run and the Dodgers are just getting started. Miguel Rojas has single to right. Mookie Bess as their order turned over a single to write first and second nobody out show Hey o'tani then drew a walk to load the bas is. Still nobody out for
Freddy Freeman. Two balls, one strike, so Cony to Freeman high in the air center field, hit deep Carrel's at the wall. It is gone, Hey Graham swing for Freddy Freeman. Home run number five four. Ribbis added to his total four hundred and fifteen feet to center field for Freddy Freeman. With the grand slam Dodgers of five to one, and they still weren't
done. The very next batter of Will Smith solo home run to the Love Center that gave the Dodgers a six to one lee that is the top tier of the clear to Play the Game sponsored by Arco Quality top tier gas for less. The Dodgers exploded in the bottom half of the third inning six runs, five hits, three of those home runs incruiting the Grand Slam from Freddie Freeman. As the Dodgers were up big six to one, and last night, Yamamoto would go the six in a thirty eightings. He gave up the
two runs. The Dodgers would give up two more on their way to a six to four win. Yamamoto now five and one on this season. Daniel Hudson picks up his third save of this season as the Dodgers whin they're fourth in a row. They're now thirty three and seventeen on this season. What a start for the Dodgers, who have an eight and a half game lead over the San Diego Padres, nine games up on the Giants, ten games up on Arizona, and the Colorado Rockies are sixteen games back in the NL
West. As we sit here on May twenty first, and the Dodgers looked to keep the winning going to night with Gavin Stone on the mound. First pitch is seven to ten and with more we head out to Dodgers Dandium in the Gallpin Motors Broadcast booth as we say hello to Rick Monday and Steven Nelson. Guys, thanks Tim All right back at it, beautiful Tuesday afternoon,
so far set in the stage for Game two of this series. The Dodgers are trying to make it five in a row in eight series in nine if my math is correct, and after last night, who knows, but we roll on. What are you looking forward to tonight? As the Dodgers face Brandan fought for the first time since Game three of the Division Series. We talked about it last night and we've been talking about it really for a couple
of weeks. Is that if you leave this Dodger lineup has been the top part of the lineup has been doing most of the pulling of the wagon, and we're now beginning to see some better swings from the six, seven, eight, and nine spot. That's exactly what we saw in last night's ball game as well, and tonight always looking forward to you know, Gavin Stone on the mound. They're gonna figure things out. And for this Dodger ball club, I mean, the other part that we've really enjoyed and it makes
the postgame show so much better for us to be able to do. But Dodgers have won twenty one in the last twenty seven games, and so far in the month of May they've won fourteen and lost only four. And when you're winning like that, I gotta tell you what, the sun shines brighter, the food tastes better, and the baseball is a lot more enjoyable. We can confirm that. So the Dodgers fifty games into the season now well
thirty three and seventeen. Only the twenty twenty club and the two thousand and nine Dodgers have had better fifty games starts in the wild Card era for the Dodgers. So it has been a fun season so far. If we are to split hairs with this team, because I think that's what we all tend to do, fans and media like on a day to day basis with a team that has I expectation is split hairs. They have scored in just three
of their last eighteen offensive innings. Is that something that bothers you or is that more natural during the course of a season that most than some might think. No, it doesn't bother me at all, because many of the people on the outside looking in. The question is if it should be when, and by that i'm talking about when guys go into a little bit of a slump. It's not if they're going to so it's win. You just hope
that everyone doesn't go into that slump. At the same time, the offense is there, and again we're beginning to see something from the bottom part of the order. And it's not only from a pitching standpoint, from the starters, but it's also the bullpen, because if you look at the bullpen the last twenty seven games, their collective vra is under one and a half runs and every nine innings that they have work. This is a ball club, I think, if we're looking at it, if they remain healthy or get
guys that are injured, get them healthy and get back in there. This is a team, if we're being honest, could play even better baseball. It's going to be more difficult because I think if you look at the schedule, they're going to be playing teams that quite frankly, are doing better in the standings than some of the teams that they played recently. Got to get fat? Why you can you know? Well? They getting's good. I suppose the Dodgers will try and make it twenty two out of twenty eight.
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is. He threw a sim game today through three innings. Dave Roberts said he got up toot fifty one pitches, and so for him, he talks about how, look, this is his first SIM game, so as much as he was looking to see really positive things, he said, the command was there a little bit, but it was kind of blacking of sunspots. But that's something that's very realistic with your first SIM game. So he said
that everything is still on a good plan for him. His next outing will actually be on Sunday with Rancho and then he is going to have likely three rehab starts before he makes his way back. But today was a really good step, but just a really good sign that he's continuing to feel better. No inflammation anymore, all of that is in the past now, so he's moving forward and feeling good. What is his mean though, with his return getting closer for this rotation, Yeah, that's you know, that's a really
big question right now. That came up today and there's some thought of, you know, do you go to a six man rotation. We've been seeing for the most part, everyone, if not on regular rest, has gotten an extra day, and some of that has been due to just off days or a bullpen game, or whether it's been a spot start. Someone like Landon Nack we saw it come up or Elie ser Hernandez things like that.
So we've seen different situations. And so with Bobby returning, considering how well the rotation has been playing as of late, you know, there's some thought like maybe it makes sense just to go to a six man rotation, but Dave said, while it is something that is still on the table, they are considering it, it does, you know, come with a few things that you have to also consider. And that's one less arm in the bullpen.
What does that mean? You know, you have to have that conversation and take into consideration just how the rotator, all the arms in the rotation are they comfortable with, you know, sticking to a true six man rotation type thing. So a lot of it's definitely in the air. We'll see what they decide on. But as of right now, since I'm as I told you, there's still Bobby's gonna need three more outings, So there's still a couple more weeks before they have to make this decision. So as I
like to say, they will cross that bridge when they get there. Max Munsey, what's the latest on his oblique and how's he progressing. Yeah, he's doing well. He was actually doing some stuff today, playing some defense, doing some stretches with the training staff. He's said he's feeling better, he looks good out there. He's gonna start hitting in the cage here soon. And then Dave said that he will go out on his rehab assignment. So the hope is that in the next week or so he should be returning.
He's only gonna need like one or two rehab outings, and so they'll kind of go from there, but he should be returning relatively soon. That is certainly good news for the Dodgers, and they continue to get healthy and they continue to keep winning. Curs soon. We appreciate it. We'll check in with you after the game. Dodgers fans and hands. You're listening and experienced by downloading the iHeart Radio app and listening in HD powered by la Care
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on the I guess same timeline of next to meet his rehab assignment. We we got through three innings. I think he threw fifty one pitches and I think that what you would expect the first time out. The command of his pitches isn't going to be there, but I think the exercise of getting him up and down three times was accomplished and the next step is for him to
start his rehab assignment. For that Rancho team on Sunday next Monsie was also out there just doing some stuff on the fields and stretches and things like that. How is he continuing to progress just with He looks good. He's done some plio stuff. He took some grounders today through. I think he's going to hit probably tomorrow or Thursday in the cage and it will be one or two game rehab. I don't know when that's going to start, and hopefully
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were threatening. That's where Christian Walker hit a sinking line drive to Jason Hayward and he was able to make the catch. And from that point on it was a different Yamamoto. He stepped up to the challenge of being better the final three and a half innings. He finished with one hundred pitches into the set thinning, and I thought the most impressive part of his outing last night was a sequence in the sixth inning where he struck out Jock Peterson on three
ninety six mile an hour fastballs. That showed the competitive fire inside of him, considering Peterson got him earlier in the game for the first run. Keik Hernandez started at third base last night like he is tonight, and he had the best view of Yamamoto. You know, he's still great. Uh. You know, he had one tolf ending where they put up some really good at bats together, and you know, they scored some runs, and you know, overall he did a great job. He gave up that one run
early and then we uh, you know, he kept them there. We put a sixth spot and he did what he had to do to you know, kind of like Chrisntrol throughout the game, and Matt helped his manage the bullpend a little better second time in the last three starts. Tim that Yamamoto has pitched into the seventh inning, so he's starting to figure things out. David is driven by Ford, America's best selling truck for forty seven years in
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him earlier today. He is he participated in the live batting practice against Bobby Miller, and while he was there, I mean he seemed relaxed him And basically he has the mindset of saying, you know what, I've tried it a lot of other people's ways. I'm going to do it my way this
time. And he had a really good betting practice session earlier today. A lot of times that doesn't translate, but certainly it has been an indication of players being on point that day, and he was very locked in and determined to make the most of tonight's opportunity. David Dave Roberts said, well, they got three starts to worry about Bobby Miller when he comes back, what
they're going to do with the rotation. But really, what are the Dodgers going to do when Bobby Miller comes back, right, He's supposed to make three or four more rehabs starts starting on Sunday, And you know, I've asked a few people with the Dodgers front office and they said, when we get there, we'll assess who is healthy and who is not healthy. We're talking about a pitcher and Walker Bueller that's coming off as second Tommy John surgery.
So the approach they are taking is, we find it hard to believe that everybody is going to be healthy at the same time or won't need a break in the season. So we'll see how it goes. But right now the Dodgers are not getting too far ahead of themselves with that. I guess first class problem, have no doubt about it. DV appreciate it. We'll check back you with you in a few minutes. Dave's conversation with Clayton Kershaw
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mound. He may not have been one of the most talked about young pitchers, but he's certainly's making a name for himself now. Yeah, and I think you start to look as night start he's making here tonight. Four and one is the record. You know, what are the things that he's really
been able to do. I think I found some numbers today. The last couple of starts that he's had, he's given up just an forty eight batting average when he gets two strikes, and I bring that up because Dave Robertson talking to media today was talking about command of the fastball, in particular with Gavin Stone. So if he gets that fastball gets ahead in the counts. I mean, this unbelievable numbers. The last two starts again with two strikes
as a forty eight banning average against He's got good stuff. And you know what was really enjoyable last night obviously the victory, no question about it, and the performance of yeah, Shinobu Imamoto who picked up the win, going six and a third, and you go into the summit inenning the bullpen goes, hey, we really like that. But I think from top to bottom
the lineup of putting some offense in there as well. Kick k Hernandez with a home run, obviously, the big blast was with Freddie Freeman with a grand Slam, and then the very next batter, Will Smith, I don't
know two count hit a home run on top of it. So we're beginning now to see because we talked for a long time about one through four in the batting order really kind of pulling most of the wagon occasionally one through five, but now we're beginning to see it filtering down a little bit more to give support because the guys up at the top are not going to stay hot all year long, and Jason Hayward's a big part of that equation to help the bottom third of the order. Yeah, from both sides of the ball,
from an offensive standpoint and from a defensive standpoint. We saw a catch again last night as he comes in. I think that you look at Hayward and right field, I think he makes now. He's a left handed thrower, which means he has the globe in the right hand, but he makes that backhand dive catch. Yeah, I think as well as anyone in baseball right now. Miguel Vargas gets the starting left field tonight, rick only the
second start since he got called back up with the month see injury. He feels like this is now or never, and he's got to be himself to make an impression. Yeah, and I hope he's thinking only now, and you kind of fight to let that filter in never. You can't have that as a player. So it's got to be now, and he's worked hard to be there. I'm gonna be watching closely on what he does with the reading the ball off the bat when he moved out to left field last year.
He had some difficulty in getting to the baseball off the bat, in other words, of breaking back on the ball that was hit in front of him, maybe not getting a good jump going to his left and to his right. I thought he went to his left last year better than he went to his right. And we'll see what it is now, all right, Rick. Earlier today we were talking about some of the young arms for the Dodgers. Bobby Miller back out there today throwing the hitters, and he's going
out on a rehab assignment on Sunday. Yep, what did you see today? Well, we saw it, we heard I told you so. We heard a few things because he was irritated himself with the command of a couple of pitches, bounced a few breaking balls in front of the plate, airmailed a few fastballs on top of it. Overall, I think it's a work in progress, and I think that he has to be able to face live hitters in game situations instead of just having as he had today on the field
pitching from the mound. Yes, he had different hitters in there, both right handed and left handed, but there's no real pressure from a standpoint is that, oh, there's a scoreboard, there's runners, there's this, there's that that's going on. I thought it was a good stepping stone. It could have been better, more consistent with the quote unquote command as we hear
that word of luck talking about pictures. But it was again, it was a big step for Bobby Miller. We also heard him vocalize his displeasure a couple of times all the way up in the press box, which I think is really a good thing because he was into it. It wasn't like, Hey, I'm just going to go out there and throw. No, he was into it and committed. I think the next down would be even better. I was wondering for the hitters that were facing him, what does it
do for them, if anything, because they were Chris Taylor. Again, I'm glad you asked that because the first who's the first name you mentioned, Chris Taylor. I will say this, Chris Taylor hit a home run at the left field off of Bobby Miller, and I looked at the location of the pitch. It was not really a bad location. It was a better swing. So there was two things that came out of a positive that I saw. One to Bobby Miller, and he gets into it and he's going
to make a couple of rehab starts, as you were alluding to. But the other part is Chris Taylor to me, had much better or swings today. Off a guy that throws. I mean he's in the upper nineties. Uh, didn't see him hitting breaking balls. Don't know how many got for strikes, but I did see the one home run that he yet. All right, Rick, thanks a lot. Clayton Kershaw forty pitch bullpen today. He's going to join us in a little bit here on the pregame show.
Okay, good do you ever stand in against him? Is he warming up? Offered? And Uh, I think they want it too badly. They don't want to They don't want to subject me to that. Well, if you do, make sure you were catcher's gear, a helmet and everything else. I talked trash to Bobby Miller. You talk trash to everybody, not you, Rick, I respect you too much. Yeah, Stephen Nelson, that's another off. Yeah, Sen it back to you in the studio now.
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good day for you. Yeah because I get to wear a sleeveless shirt or no, yeah, through another pin today and it's it's still getting better. Yeah, so it's great. Still I'm kind of trending upward and through forty pitches today and yeah, so it's going good. It's going great. I'm always curious to know the patience meter. Where is it for you? Well, you know, this is a new territory for me, so you typically
I just push it until I'm stupid. But now, like you know, with surgery, there's kind of like, hey, you gotta you can't push surgery, you know. So I think that's I think it's teaching me some things about how to how to work and how to figure out what's good pain, what's bad pain, what's like you need to slow down or hey, you need to work through it, and just all kind of new territory for me really, But you know, I would say overall, the process has
been great. Everybody here back on all. Everybody's helping me out a lot, and I'm getting closer it really. I know last year it was a grind for you to just do what you're doing now, throw every day in between starts. Is it refreshing to know that you don't have that pain anymore to go out there? Well, I think you just take it for granted, you know. I think, you know, health is something that you don't care about until you don't have good health, you know, And that's
the true in life as well. So for me to be able to, you know, throw a baseball and have it feel great, it's a huge blessing. I love it. I love throwing a baseball. It's a lot of fun and especially when it doesn't hurt. Yeah. So what are you doing in between the Dodgers being at home and you being in Texas? Yeah? So, you know, rehaving Texas is good, you know, obviously
it gives me some more family time. But thankfully school is winding down and we'll get to be out here full time here and next week or so, which is awesome. But it's been good. You know, obviously not playing is no fun, but being able to be home and have the kids stay in school, and you know, Cali's in third grade now, so school kind of like is important to her and she wants to be around and I think they're actually learning stuff. So it's been it's been a blessing to be
able to be home with them for a while. At this stage of your career, What is the motivation? I mean, because I know you care so much about being the best dad you possibly can, and it hurts when you're not with them, But what is the motivation to keep going with the Dodgers and pitching? Well, I mean to win obviously, that's that's the motivation on the field, is you know, we're we have a special group
of guys and a special team and have the opportunity to win. And so I think that that's the motivation on the field, and then off the field, like my kids are just now getting old enough to like kind of think this is cool, you know, and so for Calli and Charlie to kind of be around. Even Cooper who's four now, like I took him to
the field for the first time this year. So some of that stuff dad life like, you know, letting them know that their dad did have a job at one point and like able to like show them kind of this stuff is important and like I want them to know, you know, what La has meant to our family. And so yeah, I mean there's a motivation there too. That's amazing. Yeah, your kids are very young. If you would have called it quits, they never would have known what dad did.
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No, you know, my my wife's family has had a place in East Texas for a long time and we found some we bought some land next to him last year and you know, one of long story, but anyway, one of one of when somebody in our family said, hey, I think I think we could do the beef business. And so we started trying it and send a few preliminary boxes over Christmas and the results were great, and I think the beef tastes really good and it's kind of a fun thing to
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don't I don't have a lot of farm experience or anything like that. But to be able to get out of the city every once in a while, I think it's good for me, good for the kids. And once again, I don't really know what I'm doing, but it's kind of fun to be a part of it. Kurshowbeef dot com is where you can get your box kurshot. Throwing up baseball is right on the cover of it. But no curveballs is what they say. Yeah, a good slogan. All you like that one. It feels like you came up with that one. I
didn't actually tell me all right before I let you go. When you do come back, you're coming back to a really great team. What have you seen so far? Well, I think I think the big not a surprise, but I think the biggest thing for us right now is the depth of our starters, like how many innings they're eating, and you know, even the guys that are coming up, whether it be Landon Knack or you know, Elia's art, like Yamamoto is going deep glasses, going deep into games.
Paxton's been really really good as well. And so I think when you have that, and then I mean Gavin Stone what he's doing the last month, and we'll see him tonight. But I don't know if anybody expected that, Like the innings eating, which is really important over the course of a
long season. It saves your bullpen, it resets it. And you know, obviously our stars are doing what they're supposed to do, and it's been pretty incredible to watch, you know, the top four or five in our lineup, but to see our starters do what they're doing, it just sets everything up for the bullpen to have success, and a huge shout out to Huddy too. Daniel Hudson and what he's doing, and obviously with Evan being out like just such a cool story, as many obstacles as he had to
overcome, just couldn't be happier for him. He's just the best, and so all to say, it's been a lot of fun to watch and I'm excited to be a part of it. Three out of four for Daniel Hudson Kershaw. He hasn't done that before recently. No, it's it really is amazing to watch and we've needed it. I mean, we've needed every bit of it, so I'm just super happy for him. All right, can't
wait for you to come back. I love seeing you out there, even if it's in the bullpen session settings right now, but it doesn't definitely gives hope that you'll be back out there soon. Yeah, it's almost time to stop practicing, stop playing. Get ready, Kershop Beef is going to the side, pitching his back on the front burner. We'll send it back to
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a no hitter into the fifth inning against the Reds. Finished with seven innings of work, one run on two hits, two walks in nine strikeouts. He retired thirteen of the first fourteen batters that he faced. This is his third career start against the Dodgers. He's zero to two with a nine to thirty five RRA. Gavin Stone on the mound for the Dodgers four and one
three twenty seven ERRA twenty five, your old right hender. He too, was a fifth round pick in twenty twenty out of Central Arkansas for the Dodgers. Making his ninth start this season last time out, six innings, one run, five hits, two strikeouts in a winner with the Giants up in San Francisco. He's got four straight starts, does Gavin stone O six innings of more. He's won now two straight decisions three of his last four.
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lacare dot org. Before first pitch, let's head back out to the booth, Rick and Steven guys, all right, TC, getting closer and closer and closer to first pitch at Dodger Stadium, and that first pitch will be thrown Rick Monday by Gavin Stone, who was really starting to find himself at the major league level. Boy he is. And I start to look back at the last five times that he has been out there, He's gone at
least six innings in each of those games. So you know, Dave Robertson was talking earlier about Gavin Stone is a look fastball command needs to get that over a little bit more consistently. And he has a terrific changeup. So you combined getting strikes and then using the change up the off speed with two
strikes, very high percentage of strikeouts against hitters. And speaking of hitters, Dodgers have to figure out for Brandon fodt On what they're going to be doing if I'm a hitter, There's one number I really want to look at, and that's the percentage of first pitch strikes that Fought has thrown, because it's the leading percentage of starting pitchers in the National League. He's thrown first pitch strike seventy four percent of the time. My point being, I'm going to
home plate and I'm hunting a fastball first pitch. That just reminds me of one of the dodgers more aggressive first pitch hitters in Freddie Freeman, and you look at Freddy's career line against Brandon Fott. He's got four hits in Adab's three of them for extra bases, a couple of doubles and home runs. So that is something for everybody to monitor when the first inning roll is around.
Getting back to Gavin Stone on one more point, mo, you know his last four starts especially, he is giving up what one or fewer runs in four straight and he's done a good job of his pitch mix. He's got six offerings and we know the changeup is coming a lot, but we're seeing this slider more and more. Yeah, he's gone to that slider. Here's the other part too, very quickly. Of the twenty nine s Frankounts, thirteen of those have come on changeups. He's got one of the best
in the business and we look forward to seeing it again. Hopefully Gavin Stone stays sharp and pitches the Dodgers to a series victory. Game two coming up, tim, Yeah, Gavin Stone four and zero with a two eerra in his last six stars Dodgers thirty three and seventeen on this season. Good news is Padres already lost today, Giants already lost today. So the Dodgers of will win tonight could be nine games up on San Diego and ten games up
on San Francisco. Also would be eleven games up on Arizona with the win over the Diamondbacks, so the lead can keep expanding if the Dodgers can keep winning to make their fifth win in a row tonight, with Gavin Stone on the mound, first pitch when we come back, Dodgers and Diamondbacks, I'm Tim Kasey's been Brono Casino Dodgers on deck on the Los Angeles Dodgers Audio No there t