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thirty three on this season, first place to top the NLS. After a four and two road trip to saw the Dodgers sweep the White Sox in Chicago, then dropped two of three in San Francisco, the Boys in Blue are back home for the start of his six game homestand first up three game series against the Arizona Diamondbacks tonight. Bobby Miller on the mount of the series opener, first pitch at seven ten. Between now and then, we got a lot to get to here. On Morogo Casino Dodgers on Deck, we'll hear

from the manager, Dave Roberts. We'll preview this pitching matchup. David Basse goes one all one with Josh Rawich, Dodgers former PR Maven Now he is the executive of the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York. We'll hear from Showy Otani shortly, we'll check in with Kirsten Watson. In just a few minutes, we'll check out Rick Monday and Steven Nelson out at the Gallpin Motors Broadcast booth. Well, the Dodgers were off yesterday before that Sunday

in San Francisco, they wrapped up their series against the Giants. James Paxton, Well, not good. Four innings, nine runs, twelve hits. He gave up. He threw eighty nine pitches before Dave Roberts saw enough. He gave up a sack fly in the first. He gave up two more in this second, and David Laar rbi double on the third give the Giants a four to nothing lead. And then the wheels really fell off in the

fourth inning, give it up five runs. Matt Chapman, a two run home run capped off that five run fourth to give the Giants a nine nothing lead. Yes, the Giants were up big until the fifth inning, when the Dodgers finally got on the board thanks to CT three. Chris Taylor in the air center field hit pretty deep ramos on the warning track. He looks up and it's gone, okay, So somebody change seats. Somebody helped change

up the vibes. But Dodgers are on the board with Chris Taylor's second home run of the year, hit that one four hundred and nineteen feet the left center field into the Giant bullpen, and now the Dodgers are within eight. That is the top tier play of the game sponsored by Arco Quality, top tier gas for less number two on the season for Chris Taylor, ford or

nineteen feet. Dodgers on the board nine to one. There trailing though the Giants, and the seventh Chris Taylor back at it again with an RBI double. At least he came to play and provide the offense. Dodgers, though down ninety two, they were down ten to two in the ninth when Austin Barnes delivered with a double. Perhaps Bob Melvin not won to mess around. Dodgers have the last two aboard. As Barnes spray the ball fair down the

right field line into the corner, Taylor's gonna score. Keith Ky's being waved around dugout by Slater, there won't be a player at the plate, say two run double Crosstin Barnes here at the top of the ninth inning, it's now ten to four. Why not Dodgers with two in the ninth, but they'd get no closer. Giants winning on Sunday ten to four as Spencer Bivens gets the win, James packs and the loss. Ten doubles by the Giants, and that game the most given up by the Dodgers since April eleventh,

nineteen twelve, against the same Giants. Chris Taylor went two for three, a double, a home run, a couple of ribis. The seven eight nine hitters for the Dodgers came through with six hits, drove in all four runs, but in a losing effort, as the Dodgers dropped two of three in San Francisco. They go four and two on the road trip. The Dodgers now fifty two and thirty three overall in this season, and they're rested and ready to go. After a day off yesterday, back home to start

a six game homestand first up three against the Diamondbacks. First pitch tonight coming up at seven to ten, and with more we head out to the Galvin Motors broadcast booth as we welcome in Rick Monday and Steven Nelson. Guys, thank you, Tim goodness Rick Monday. Is it amazing to be back home at Dodger Stadium. What a beautiful day, Not that we didn't have great weather in San Francisco, but it was not a great finish to the road

trip for the Dodgers. Yes, they went four and two through the South side of Chicago and through the series against the Rivals, but dropping two of three to the Giants. In the way that series ended, they got to be looking at shops after the off. Did he get back at it? And I think we can both agree, is that the road trip, the record, while it was four and two, should have been better. Yeah, five and one at the very least, but that was not the case.

And now the Dodgers seven and a half game lead in the Western Division over the San Diego Pandres Arizona. Trying to make a statement, they've had kind of ups and downs so far, but they're ten and a half back. In reference to that series in San Francisco, you begin to look at the last two games, and I preface this by which Bobby Miller, who we see on the mound tonight for the Dodgers, Because the last two games the starting pitching for the Dodgers went just seven innings, fourteen earned runs,

nineteen hits. Well, on the positive side, if they look at the bullpen, who had to cover a lot of innings. In fact, they had to cover twelve innings in the last two games. They allowed just two earned runs on only ten hits. So it's kind of the the ying and yang of the pitching, and the ying wasn't very good. I think we also have to have an honest, fair conversation about where this team right now. Yes, number two seed in the National League, though the Milwaukee Brewers

right on the Dodgers heels. Yes, the same Brewers that will be here in a few days. And I can understand some fans looking ahead to the weekend when Milwaukee comes to town. But the fact is that they've been playing just above five hundred ball. They're nineteen and sixteen with their last thirty five

games played, and they've split the first six games against the Diamondbacks. And if not for like a general malaise throughout the rest of the division with teams not being able to figure out who they are when it's the Padres, these d Backs, the Giants, this seven and a half game lead might not be as big as it if not for that, you know, you know what I'm trying to say. So I think this is a highly important series of the dodge. I'm in a complete agreement. Here's the other part.

Let's look at the other ball clubs. For example, San Diego seven and a half out. You look at Arizona ten and a half ount, Okay, fine, Arizona going off the slow start. Then they started to get hot, they got back to five hundreds, look like they're going to really make a move, and then they ran out of some problems again. However, you know, they win three games and they sweep this series. Now there's seven and a half out, and I think you look at San Diego.

I always felt as a player, if you can get within five games, if you're way back and you can close the gap within five, now there's a different flavor every day that you have taken five six exactly. The problem in trying to make up a sizeable deficit is the fact you've got reduced games within the division now because of the new rules. In fact, for example, we just played the last trip up in San Francisco this year, and then of June don't go back again. So again we're not trying to

insight panic or fear. We are just saying that this three game series tim that is about to begin against the Diamondbacks is not one to overlook. The Dodgers certainly won't. First pitch approaching. We'll be back in a little bit to talk more about tonight's pitching matchup. Back to you, all right, thank you. Nelly has been carying down to first pitch. Dodger fans, get that game day meal on. It's Shaky's Pizza Parlor. What are your

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That's it o e N dot Com. This is Kirston's Corner with Kirston Watson Hey Kirson now joins us before this series opener against the Diamondbacks. It's a big series Kirson as the Diamondbacks come in trying to catch up. So the Dodgers in the division and Bobby Miller gets to start, and the Dodgers really need Bobby Miller to give him some length and have a good outing. Yeah,

you know what Dave Roberts was saying today. The most important thing for Bobby this is an important start for him because it's going to be a confidence builder. The last two since coming off of the IL, haven't been the best. There's been times where you know, the change up has been in a good spot, but the rest of his pitches just haven't been there.

The command has been lacking. So today is hopefully just going to not only be a confidence builder for him in which he can have some success against his Diamondbacks team, a team that he is familiar with, but just in a way to kind of reset. Also, considering the amount of arms and usage we saw from the bullpen in San Francisco and even just on the road trip, the hope is that he can go deeper into this game to just allow everyone else to get on a good track, but also just to set up

this team to be in a good spot moving forward. Clayton Kershaw we got an update on the big left hander. Yeah, so he played catch today. He been shut down for the last week, experienced a little bit of just lingering soreness in that shoulder coming out of his rehab start, and actually tried to throw a bullpen but it was limited only about five pitches before they

shut him down. But the good news is that Dave said the stuff today, even though it was just catch play, was looking really really good. He is scheduled to have a bullpen tomorrow, so he is moving in the right direction. And even he spoke to the media briefly and said that when he looks at what this last week looked like he did have an MRI, it showed nothing new, just kind of the usual wear and tear that he's

had in his shoulder. He feels like this is not a setback, and so, you know, he knew that there were going to be some ups and downs with this recovery, but things have been pretty smooth for the most part. Just this minor shutdown, but Dave believes that he's still way ahead of schedule. He will resume his rehab assignment in the near future, but Dave didn't want to give a timeline if he believes that the return to the big leagues is ahead of the All Star break, is it after y'all start

break? What we do know is that it is soon and he's definitely ahead of schedule, though no doubt about that. That's good news to hear that he could be coming back here on the horizon, Kereston, We appreciate it. We'll check in with you after the game. Dodger fans and hans. You're listening and experience by downloading the iHeartRadio app and listening to Dodger games and HD. It's all powered by LA Care Health Plans serving all Angelinos lacare dot

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Dave and check out the Dodger Skipper. Anything else with questions for Dave, Dave, can you just describe Dave? Can you talk about the pressure in the dugouts with Dave Roberts Dave well with Bobby Miller today at just his last two outings, a couple of struggles in there. So how important just is this outing for him today? And I know we talked about just the need for him to be to go deeper into the game. It's an important start,

I think for obviously for many reasons. I think, just to go out there and have some success, get guys out, go deeper in a game, and that speaks just the confidence. I think that he knows how much we value him, the type of picture he can be has been, you know, but you still got to go out there and perform. So I think that this is going to be a good one for his confidence building. I know he's talked about how just the change up and the results of

it have been really good. But how do you want to see just the rest of his pitch mix come together today? You know, I just think that I just haven't seen his fastball commanded the way it needs to be. I think that's big to a little bit of an overthrow coming out of the delivery. The changeup, which has been a bread and butter for him, has been a ball out of hand when it's not right, and the breaking

ball just has been inconsistent. So certainly there's a lot of things that I'm looking for tonight, expecting that the side work was productive and he's in a good headspace tonight. He's certainly got a lot of bullets left to go. But yeah, it's more of just sinking all that up. You know, in one outing I'm gonna started the season, you caught him like a pretty big piece of the puzzle for you guys, Like, is that's kind of only grown as given you know where the rotation's at right now, and what

he can give you guys when he is right. Yeah, Yeah, you know, when you talk about a big piece of the puzzle, that's a lot of that is talent, and so he's got a lot of talent. He performed and so now looking at where we're at right now, with the uncertainty in our starting rotation, you have to have guys step up, and so you know, I'm expecting that from Bobby. He knows what's expected of

him. But at the end of the day, you gotta kind of know all that, but still then just focus on pitching and let everything else take care of itself. All right, there's Dave Roberts down the dug out, brought to my Service Titan. Dave Roberts is a Titan in his own right. He's got a plan before his team hits the field. You need one for your growing contracting business too. Let Service Titan help you implement it.

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great spirits. He actually had just finished throwing Tim. He was out there in left field throwing from about ninety feet, first time I've seen him do that. He was not catching the baseball because, as you know, he broke his left hand and has somewhat of a cast brace on there. So he had one of Dino Ebol's sons catching the baseball for him. Allah a quarterback warming up for a game and lossing him the baseball to throw. So here's what Mooki had to say about the healing process of that left hand.

Yeah. I didn't do anything. I can't. I can't do anything. I can move it though, but it just Uh so, when will you have it checked out again to see if the bones are coming together? I get it once a week, so today I'll go in and check again for this week. All right. Yeah, so it's healing up. Nice to Tim, and I thought that was interesting. He gets it scanned once a week to see how the bones are healing. Yeah, that is interesting.

Make sure that bone starts to heal quickly. Mookie, all right, Another update, d David Clayton Kershaw. What's going on with Clayton? Yeah, Clayton kershe eyes. You know, when the Dodgers left for their last road trip, he was shut down from throwing because after his first rehab start and subsequent bullpen session, the shoulder was not cooperating. He had an MRI. It did not show any new damage, and it feels like he's about to

start the throwing progression a little bit more tomorrow a bullpen session. And after Clayton was done today throwing on Flatgram, he volunteered some answers to us. You know, I feel like it's been pretty the upward trajectory. He's been pretty steady, you know, up to this point. And I don't really want to call it a setback. I just think it's just like just getting your feet underneath you a little bit. And I don't feel like it'll delay

the process by that much. And you know, it today felt good, and I'll throw a bullpen here pretty soon and get right back at it. I don't know, you know, I don't know, so just it could be part of it. It could be just a little hiccup. I don't know, but you know I was able to get some shots and feel better

with it and kind of go from there. So Clayton Kershaw very candid with his answers on how his shoulder is feeling, including getting some shots, which means probably a quarterzone injection to calm down the inflammation in that left shoulder. As long as he continues to progress, head to your Southern California four dealers for great offers on a Ford Broncos Sport or any Ford model during Ford's fourth of July day celithon last nine days David Chris Taylor four point fifty average,

two home runs, four double a foro RBIs seven run scored. Dave Roberts said it in San Francisco, He's gonna have a long landing pad. I guess you'd say to runway, runway, runway. There you go to play a third base and he's back in the lineup again tonight. Yeah, so

I guess this is the beginning of the runway. Not sure which airport, but yeah, he's gonna get more time at third base because number one Tim the guys keyk Hernandez Kevin Bigio. They have combined for an ops of around four hundred in replacing Max Munsey, who has an ops of eight hundred, and they sorely miss Monthsey. So why not give Chris Taylor a try? And he said after the game on Sunday, he feels like he's back to himself. I like my mechanics are in a spot where I can have the

approach of one and a half. For the last couple of years, where you know, I've always thought about in the motor right center and that kind of puts me on everything. And before the last couple of weeks when I was thinking that I was underneath the missing and now I'm in a spot where

I can go back to my approach and I just feel like myself. The one thing I could say about Chris Taylor you mentioned how will he's sitting in the baseball recently, whether he's doing that or it was a month ago when things were not looking so great and his betting average was under one hundred. His personality, his demeanor has remained the same, very consistent and never doubted

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for conversation with that, I know that I need to buckle in. Okay, Well, it's just I'm putting my seatbelt on, I'm putting a crash helmet on, and I might even want a face mask on a helmet. So your your premises again, thirty five games pretty good sample size? Would you agree? It's a fair samples high fair sample size. It's about the

roughly one fifth of a major league season if you're looking at that. And I should preface this by saying the Dodgers are well in control at the moment of the NL West, seven and a half games ahead of the San Diego Padres. But I did remind Austin Barnes and Chris Taylor in the dugout today that they are only playing just about five hundred ball the last thirty five games.

The Dodgers are nineteen and sixteen in their last thirty five games. And then somebody else chimed in and wanted to know what their record was inside the NL West, and I said, well, the team across the way you split the first six games, and the Padres have beaten you five times already this year. So I'm just trying to preach urgency and not complacency. Oh okay, I just thought, maybe you're just trying to stir the pot. I didn't really know. I didn't really know the angle, but I knew

you came fire it up first of all to get it. You and I both agree, along with Steven Nelson, also with Dwayne McDonald, if we look at this last road trip, you would expect against the Chicago White Sox and the San Francisco Giants, with their records going into it, that the Dodgers would have had better than a four and two record we fought initially going into it five and one at the very worst scenario. Don't discount the Giants.

You're into other teams too, because there's such a long history, meant, one hundred and thirty seven years they've been playing against one another, and whether you were playing against them at the minor league level, which used to be the case before the free agency and players moving around much more often than what we see at the present time, there is still something special about the Dodgers and the Giants when they square off, and especially if it's up there

no doubt about it. You could throw, as you like to say, throw the records out whenst the Dodgers and Giants. But I still feel Rick, the Dodgers are in great control of this division. But as we have seen in years past with other teams and even some Dodger teams, leeds can evaporate in the second half. I thank you, and I agree, and I think most people look into this ball clubs if they are a better team

than what we have seen over the last thirty five games. Oh, we can look at injuries, and yes, they've got a lot of injuries. Mookie Benz the most of recent Munsey is still out. Munsey's been out forty plus games, and in his absence, you look at the third baseman that

had been replacing Max Munsey total just to one sixty seven batting average. So you look at it and say, well, the average of Max Munsey is right around two hundred if you look at the last three years to begin with, slightly above that, but the production level has dropped off significantly with Max

on the injured list. And Dave Roberts kind of let us in that he was going to give Chris Taylor more time at third base, and here he is tonight starting at the hot corner, and in fact, he used the words in San Francisco, We're going to give Chris Taylor a longer runway. And then you came up with I thought was a wonderful question. I just wanted some definition to what a runway is, and Dave Roberts wouldn't commit to how long that runway is. John W. Burbank, is it lax?

Well, it's an honest response because if you look at the Bigio, he's basically not played well on both sides of the baseball, offensively and defensively. He's taken. If you look at the last two years, he's taken over forty percent of the strikeouts have been not swinging the bat. And Dave Roberts and the coaching staff has addressed him on that end of it. And if you look at Chris Taylor, he's beginning to swing the bat better and he's

beginning to have I think a better idea. What's happening in fact, since the fourteenth of June Chris Taylor. This may be shock a few people. He's hitting at four fifty. Yes, a small sample size within that stretch of time, but it's a much better sample size than what the preceding combination of third basement have been. And let's be honest, Rick, at least Chris Taylor has a resume that you can go off of. He has a lot of big hits for the Dodgers. He's performed in years past that some

of these players have not. But if we look at it realistically, the last two years now, we've had a lot of swing and miss In fact, he's up there and something we may talk about during the ballgame, his percentage of swings and missus is extremely high. In fact, it's in the top ten in Major League Baseball if you look at that period of time. So I go back to what Taylor was saying before the spring training began. He felt that he had bought into the launch angle theory a little bit too

much and he needed to get back to the line drive theory. Hopefully that's the change we're seeing now, but it's taking him a long time to get there. The good news for the Dodgers, the one shining light for the Dodgers on the infield has been Miguel Rojas and Freddie Freeman. Rojas, we know he brings the glove every night, but almost an eight hundred ops, Ricky. Yeah, and I get a good indication what your postgame Dodgor talk

is going to be tonight. Let's see how it goes. The thirty five game scenario is going to come up open for conversation of it, Oh for sure, Rick, and I'll relay my my presentation to the boys from the dougaus exactly. We'll be listening. Thanks, Rick, we'll send it back to you in the studio, Tim, Thanks a lot. DV Dodgers Baseball is brought to you by Speedy Cash, official sponsor of every LA Weekend find out more a Speedy Cash dot com or stop in in LA area Speedy Cash

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Thanks Dave. It's great to be here. And you also came with gifts and also kind of spreading the word of baseball not just here in the States, but a great new exhibit at Cooperstown, the Transpacific Exhibit that incorporates a lot of Japanese born players that have brought their talents to the States. Yeah, what we're really excited about is next summer. It lines up with the same time that Ichiro is going to be eligible for the first time to

be on the ballot. We're gonna be opening up an exhibit called Yaku Baseball, and Yaku means baseball in Japanese. So we're focusing on basically the history of the two countries. Players that have played that went from America to Japan and vice versa. Teams that went in both directions, and obviously the Dodgers are a huge part of that. And here at Dodgers Stadium, not only did you spread the word about that exhibit, but also you had players that

obviously have made a huge impact on Major League Baseball. Yeah, so we actually brought with us some artifacts, which was really cool. We had a baseball from a no hitter from Hideo Nomo. We had an amazing autographed plate that Peter O'Malley is loaning us because the O'Malley family is great supporters of the

Hall of Fame, both financially and with artifacts. And then of course at the news conference, Otani san was there, Yamamoto son, and then Dave Roberts who's obviously born in Japan, and Tory Leavello who played in Japan. So it was a perfect combination of guys. What struck you the most about Otani and Yamamoto and understand nam the history of what you're presenting at the Hall of Fame. Well, Otani has been incredibly generous over his whole time in

the Big Leagues and donating artifacts to the Hall. I think we have Cleat's a helmet, a hat, a jersey today. He donated a bat. Yamamoto, I think saw that and said I want to give them a globe from spring training, from his first spring training here. And then you have someone like Ichiro who's been to Cooperstown seven eight times. He has always understood what we do there, which as we preserve the history of the game,

we honor the greatest of all time, and we connect generations. And I think these guys clearly recognize that, or they wouldn't have wanted to be a part of today. Hey, that's the voice of Chatsworth's own now Major Baseball's Hall of Fame president, the one and only Josh Rawitch. And when you look back at this transpecific exhibit that is going to be on display. Heydeo Nomo, that's who I grew up on. He was kind of a barrier breaker in a lot of ways and won the Rookie of the Year. What's

it like to hold a baseball from as no hitter? Prey crazy because that was actually the year I interned at the Dodgers. I started in nineteen ninety five, and none of us knew what Nomo was going to do. I

think all Dodger fans thought this guy he changed the game forever. Really prior to that, it had been forty years since anybody had come from Japan, and nobody knew how successful he'd be, and obviously came right out the gate, was so dominant through a no hitter, both multiple no hitters in the big leagues, and to have a baseball in your hands, that's from that.

Frankly, anytime you're holding a piece of history, I think anybody who loves the game of baseball recognizes how insanely special that is, no doubt. And this summer, just in a matter of weeks, a former Dodger is going to be inducted into the Hall of Fame class, and that is Adrian Beltra. He obviously is going in as a ranger, but his career started

with the Dodgers. Yeah, I mean he was obviously signed at a very young age and was able to make an impact at a very young age, and in two thousand and four, I think nobody can forget it, he was really truly MVP caliber player forty eight homers, really took off and had the first of what wound up being a Hall of Fame career his first big season. So he's really excited to get there. We've gotten some early eyes on his speech. He's a little nervous to give it, but he's he's

gonna do amazing. He's gonna have all sorts of Dodger fans there, Mariners fans, Rangers fans, and maybe some Socks fans too. From his year in Boston. No doubt he has span quite a few teams, but not as big as the world as the trans Pacific exhibit at Cooperstown will be unveiled during each euro's first year eligible for the Hall of Fame. We've been joined by the president of Cooperstown and the Baseball Hall of Fame, the one and only Josh Rawich. Thanks a lot for the time, Josh. Great to

have you back in Sokol. I appreciate you. David, Thanks so much, buddy. All right, Tim, we'll send it back to you in the studio. All right, Thanks loud DV. Great to hear Josh's voice when the Dodgers' PR staff then went to Arizona Diamondbacks and now the president of the Baseball Hall of Fame. Very cool. If you get out to Cooperstown, New York Dodgers Baseball is brought to by Shaky's Pizza Parler, the official

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Dodgers Diamondbacks start up a three games series. First pitch coming up at sevent ten and now before the Dodgers hit the dining we look at the pitching matchup presented by your Southern California Toyota Dealers. Turn your trail dominating off roading dreams into a reality in All New twenty twenty twenty four Tacoma. See your Toyota Dealer today. They make it easy. Joe manniply is the opener for the Diamondbacks. Thirty three year old left hander, fifth season in the Big

leagues after a cup of coffee in twenty sixteen and twenty nineteen. Primarily a reliever, It's three in all at the four eleven ear right. Last time you pitch was on Sunday, one shoutout inning against the He's a sinker change curveball pitcher. Second career opener against the Dodgers. He did that back on May. He's held the Dodgers scoreless in thirteen to the fifteen games at Dodger

Stadium that he has pitched with a one to seventy four ERA. Bobby Miller on the mound, twenty five year old right hitter from her first round pick out of Louisville, making his six start this season, his third since coming off the IL. Last time out two innings, three runs, four hits, no decision against the White Sox. Facing the Divebacks with a third time in his career, he's one to oh the three ERA and two career starts.

Last started against him August of last year at Dodger Stadium, six innings. He gave up four runs on seven hits while striking out four, but getting the win. Bobby Miller Joe Man apply the opener for Arizona Dodgers and Diamondbacks. We are fifteen minutes away from first pitch. Keys to the game.

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lakare dot org. All right, before first pitch, we head back out to the booth Rick Monday, Steven Nelson, Guys, thanks DC. All right, mo, So, the last thing that we talked about how this series is pivotal for the Dodgers overall as a team to create further separation between them and the Diamondbacks, and of course trying to keep pace with the Padres

who have suddenly gotten going. If you hone it in to a micro level, this is a big start for Bobby Miller because he had a clunker in his hometown, basically his hometown picturing it it's the White Sox last week and he's struggling to find himself off the entry list. Yeah, and I think if we're looking at Bobby Miller, I go off of a comment that he made after that outing in Chicago, and here's the quote, I feel like

I'm going through spring training again. So he's still searching for whatever it is. He's not had really control of the strength zone. If we look at Miller in particular the first inning he went just two innings the last outing, but in the first inning since he has been back a three point thirty three average, an ERA of over twelve and a half runs, and he did

not fare very well in those two innings. Last Tuesday in Chicago. He made sixty pitches and he was searching for the strength zone instead of pitching like he owned it, especially that first inning. But it was something like thirty eight pitches in the first inning when the White Sox scored three runs on him. On the other side, Ryan Nelson going for the d Backs, who

was undefeated against the Dodgers. Yes, not up a huge sample size, but two and zero with a one point five to nine ERA in three appearances. We saw him back in May and he put you out. Well, we'll see him a little bit later. But I think Arizona also they're starting to look at something that we may see more of. If you're using an opener, because Joe Mantufly is going to be the opener if you will a left hander, and why not, because you've got O Tony the left he

gonna lead it off. Danny's got Will Smith, and then you've got Freddy Freeman the lefty again, so you can kind of, in theory, reduce two of the lefties in the very first inning and reduce the game maybe the eight innings. Right man, we saw that strategy and plug by Tory Leavello when the Dbacks were here the last time around. Some injury notes for Arizona. They got a couple guys back. The catcher Gabriel Moreno and Alec Thomas's

center fielder speed centerfielder are both activated today. Jordan Montgomery, who was slated to start later in the series, the left hander who signed Layton spring training. He hits the injured list with the inflammation, so he will not go for Arizona in this three game set. We will go to break or back to you, I should say, Tim, and the next time you hear us, we'll be watching the first pitch of the game, thrown by Bobby

Miller. Yeah, first pitch is next. It's the start of a three game series against the Arizona Diamondbacks, start of a six game homestand for the Dodgers, keeping an eye on what the Padres are doing in Arlington against the Texas Rangers Giants and NA taking on the Braves as Colorado's at home against Milwaukee.

That wraps up the NL West. Dodgers start the night seven and a half game lead over the Padres, ten and a half games up on these Arizona Diamondbacks, eleven games up on the Giants in twenty two and a half games up on the Colorado Rockies. So after the game is over, David Vas Saints got you covered with all the postgame festivities, including Dodger talk as well. First pitches next, Bobby Miller on the mound, Dodgers Diamondbacks enjoy

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