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And now your host for Marongo Casino Dodgers on Deck, Tam Kase, Hello everybody, and welcome to Marongo Casino Dodgers on Deck. Hope you're enjoying this hot Saturday afternoon in Los Angeles. Dodgers fifty four up, thirty five down, first place to top the nl wes a six and a half game lead in the division. After a comeback win last night over the Brewers, the Dodgers look to get a win again against Milwaukee. James Paxton on the mound

this afternoon. First pitch from Dodgers Stadium is coming up at four fifteen. Coming up over the next hour here on Maronggo Casino Dodgers on Deck. We got a lot to get to. We're gonna hear from the Dodger manager, Dave Roberts. We're gonna dive deeper into this pitching matchup. David Veasse goes one on one with Jason Hayward, who's hurt but still very much a part of this Dodgers team with the knee injury. We got your Dodgers magical moment.

We'll hear from Will Smith, who had a big night last night and at just a few minutes, we'll head out to the Gallpin Motors Broadcast booth and visit with Rick Monday and Tim never Well. Last night, Will Smith provided the power, Freddie Freeman delivered the big hit. Tyler Glass now got to start. The big right hander was perfect through three innings, looked real good, nine up, nine down. He'd ended up going six innings, but not before giving up five runs on only three hits, strike it out

seven along the way. The Dodgers bats while they gave Glass Now some early run support. How about the first inning, will Smith two balls and two strikes, one out nobody on no score. Bottom of the first, Aaron Savali the pitch and Will hits a high drive to right center field and deep. This bott heading back toward the wall and has got a home run. Will Smith with home run number twelve and the Dodgers jump on the board first. That's one nothing, solo home run for Will Smith. Dodgers up one

to nothing. And the third Will Smith would do it again, this time a solo shot to left center field, his second of the game, thirteenth of this season. Dodgers rubbed two. Tyler Glass now got into trouble in the fourth, gave him five runs a grand slam de Reee Hoskins. As the Brewers took a five two lead, the Dodgers Zo would chip away that deficit. Miguel Vargas a laser down the left field line, two run home run Dodgers cut it to a five to four Brewers lead. Then in the

seventh, Will Smith really again. Will Smith two home runs tonight, two for two of the walk five four Dodgers trailer. Will swings hits a drive down the left field line and has done. It's gone. A three home run night for Will Smith, and he ties the game. Where there's a Will, there's a ways and Will is finding his way home five to five. Oh my goodness, what a night for Will Smith. Third home run

of the game for Will Smith that tied the game at five. For Will he becomes a fourth catch sure in franchise history that they hit three home runs in a game, joining Roy Campanella, Mike Piazza, as Moni Grandal as the others. With the game tied five to five, in the eighth, Dodgers got something going. They load the bases with two outs for Freddy Freeman, who delivered in the two twos slang on and the ground ball up the middle of base hit. Hargas scores here comes ten or around third he roll

score. Freeman's done it a two outs, two run base hit and the Dodgers lead at seven to five, two runs single for Freddie Freeman. That's the top tier playing the game, sponsor by Arco quality, top tier gas for less. Dodgers up seven to five. The very next batter te Oscar Hernandez and RBI single Dodgers with three runs in the eighth. They go on and beat the Brewers last night, eight to five. Daniel Hudson gets the winning relief. Evan Phillips picks up his fourteenth save. Dodgers now fifty four

and thirty five. This afternoon, game two of this three game weekend, said James Paxton on the mound, first pitch at four fifteen, and with more we head out to the Gallpin Motors broadcast booth as we welcome in Rick

Monday and Tim than ever, guys, Thanks very much, Tim. Beautiful afternoon for a ballgame at Dodgers Stadium as the Dodgers and Milwaukee Brewers get set for game two this three game weekend set Dodgers winning last night, coming from behind and getting three runs in the bottom of the eighth inning to take an eight to five lead and hold on to that for their fifty fourth win of the season. Dodgers start today fifty four and thirty five, six and a

half up on the Padres in the National League West. As far as the Brewers aren't concerned, they've lost a couple of games in the last couple of days. They've lost back to back games. Meantime, the Cardinals have one back to back game, so the lead in the division for Milwaukee has shrunk to five games. Their record is fifty two and thirty seven, and moll

the beat goes on. I guess as far as the Dodgers are concerned over the Brewers here at Dodgers Stadium, the Dodgers have won twelve of the last thirteen games against the Brewers here at the stadium and overall, winning fourteen of the last eighteen in the last six in a row. Yeah, I've done a very good job. But the Dodgers a very good job, especially with Will Smith. I mean, he went the trifecta three home runs in last night's ball game. He also had a couple of walks, so on base

all five times, and also a home run by Miguel Vargas. But the Dodger ball club coming on Tim, you know, eight runs on ten hits, and they say, okay, that's really good, and especially in the eighth inning, especially good when he started the consenter. They entered last night's game having scored just two runs over the previous seventeen innings. Only guy on the board the second batter, Will Smith, the first of the three home

runs in last night's game. How about Will Smith? Also, he had gone ninety nine at bats with two home runs, and within three official at bats last night, it's three of them out of the ballpark. About that he's got thirty three extra base hits this season, which leads all major league catchers. He's not starting in the All Star Game. The guy on the other side of the lineup today, William Contreras, is Yeah, Conterras has

earned it. And we'll talk more about Terres actually once the game gets underway. But for the Dodgers, I think also it's a different look today obviously because first of all, James Outman is in the lineup. He returns the Dodgers, He's starting in center field, and Autman will bat in the number six spot in this lineup, so a little bit different change including Pies moves over to right field, and Pies has been very comfortable in right field throughout

his career. View hasn't looked uncomfortable in centerfield, hasn't looked overmatched or anything. But for Outman, that's his best position. It's his best position. And for James Outman, the return now to the Dodgers ball club and we're going to find out more consistent contact was really kind of the element that he wanted to go down to Triple A and work on. We'll see how that

works out. Chris Taylor again to start at third base. He's going to be pressed into action a lot, swinging the bat much better, making better contact on top of it. Mcgil Rojas a short stop, Gavin lux Is at SACA base and Freddie Freeman, who came up with that huge two run single on a one to two count last night in that eighth inning. Lord, that was the bread and butter, and for Freeman also one other base hit in the ballgame. So Freeman, you start to look at the last

ten games, his average is well over three hundred. Again, he's got four multi hit games Over his last six overall, and since June first Mall he's hitting three thirty with seven home runs and twenty five runs back. Not a not a bad stretch at all, one stretch that needs to change. Show hey Otani, oh for his last eleven with seven strikeouts in that process, six of those consecutive. For Otani, he's only one pitch away from

the longest hitting streak he's had in his career. Well, somebody's gonna pay the price exactly soon enough. We don't know if it's today tomorrow, but someone's gonna pay the price when Otani starts to get hot again. Just one at bat closer to getting hot, Dodgers and the Brewer is coming up. Freddy Peralta the a, so the Brewers will pitch. He is six and four and a three eight three earned run average. James Paxton looking for another

victory coming off a really rough start against San Francisco. He'll to bounce back today. Seven to two for Paxton in a four to eight earned run average. Lineups in first pitch, not that far away from Dodgers Stadium. Jim all right, thank you guys, as we count you down to first pitch, Dodgers fans, get your game day meal on at Shaky's Pizza Parlor. What are your Shaky's Pizza checking a Mojo's right now at Shaky's dot Com.

Coming up here on Wrongo Casino Dodgers on neck Gill Here from the manager Dave Roberts. We'll check in with David Vesa. Of course throughout the show, he'll go one on one with Jason Hayward. We'll break down this pitching matchup up next though, you're Otani. Re Ryan Abill here from the Mad last night who had three home runs. Will Smith to lead you up to Dodgers and Brewers on this Saturday afternoon first pitching four to fifteen. Thanks for being

with us. I'm Tim Kass, Los Angeles Dodgers Audio Network. This is Lorongo Casino, Dodgers on Dodgers on deck y'all on the official home of LA Dodgers Baseball. It's a Dodgers and the Brewers. James Paxson, Freddie Perrault to the pitching matchup Game two. There's three games set first pitch coming up at four fifteen. This is the Otani Rewhy Show. Hey, Otani, last night struggled at the play, but the Dodgers came back collectively to win

the game eight to five. Otani rewind bot to you by eto in Oocha, Japan's number one green tea and the tea that show Hey Otani loves and drinks available at local diso stores, Amazon and eto win dot com. That's it t o e n dot com. Last night, Will Smith hit not one, not two, but three home runs. His third one tied things up in the seventh at five. The Dodgers would score three runs in the

eight to go on to win at eight to five. As the Dodgers improved at fifty four and thirty five and afterwards, Will Smith talked to Davids a, Well, you're the big hero, but talk about the big league. Got back by Freddy Freeman to give you guys to win in the eighth and eight. Yeah that was huge. You know. Uh, I want to go to bass right before him, guys getting on base and then yeah, ready to do what he does, just driving guys in and uh, you know it's a big win, big big team win. Right there, I

thought it said a lot about you. Three home runs are on base all five times, two out walk to set up Freddy to deliver that two out base sick. It seemed like you were just as invested in that at bath as Freddy was. Yeah. Absolutely. You know, I've always been teammates want to you know, see everybody do well with us and uh and help us win ballgames. And uh, you know that's what Freddy does. It seems like he's always coming up clutch eight ninth inning and driving guys in,

putting us ahead. You've been working on things in the batting cage with your hitting coaches. How good does it feel to not only deliver, but obviously power your way to a win tonight? Yeah, it feels good. Uh that guy tomorrow get back in there and uh just keep working. Oh, by the way, you caught a pretty good game tonight too, Will by the pictures, Yeah, they all threw well, just one inning from last, but other than that, he threw really good to nighted. Yeah,

they both been coming in and shutting down. Congratulations, thanks a lot, Thank you. There he is Will Smith, a big night, three home runs, first three homer game by Dodger catcher since he has money. Grandall all right, thank you DV. That was him with Will Smith last night. Dodger fans and Hans. You're listening to experience by downloading the iHeartRadio app and listening in HD powered by LA Care Health Points serving all Angelinos Lacare dot

Or. Dodgers had four home runs total last night. Three from Will Smith. How about Miguel Vargas last night, a big two run home run, part of the Dodgers comeback. He's starting to heat up, getting more playing time. We come back, We'll get you an injury report, and we'll hear from the Dodger manager, Dave Roberts, which had a lot to say after a big win last night, ending in game two of this three game weekend series. The Dodgers first place in the NL West, the Brewers first

place in the NL Central. First pitch coming up at four fifteen. I'm Tim Kats's Los Angeles Dodgers Audio Network. This is Morongo Cassino Dodgers Hunted on your home for LA Dodgers Baseball. Bronggo Casino Dodgers on Deck continues as we lead you on to first pitch from Dodger Stadium, Dodgers and Brewers Maronggo Casino Resort and Spa. A grand slam for good times. James Paxon Freddy Peralta.

The pitching matchup, first pitch set for four fifteen. This it's the LA Dodgers Injury Report, presented by UCLA Healthy official medical partner the Los Angeles Dodgers. Jason Hayward, who you'll hear from coming up in just a little bit, on the injured list with the left and knee bone bruise, Mookie Bets on the IL at the fraction left hand, Yoshinoba Yamamoto on the IEL, the strained rotator Cruff Walker Bueller on the IEL, the sore hit,

Michael Gross still on the IL at the Latsorts. Maximunsey is well progressing slowly. He is not eligible to come off the IL until after the All Star break because of the oblique injury. Clayton Kershaw is starting to wrap it up. That is good news. Joe Kelly on a second minor league rehab assignment last night for Rancho kucka Manga. That is good news. Bruce dar Grattarol is starting to throw over in Arizona and do baseball activities. He is slowly

working his way back. Ryan Brazier Destin may All in the sixty day I L image and Tony Gonslan done for the season with arm surgeries. All right, let's head back out to Dodger Stadium and check out with the Dodger Skipper. Any questions for Dave Dave? Can you just describe Dave? Can you talk about the pressure in the dugouts with Dave Roberts. They do the reports on jer Kella Mashal results start, Yes, they do very efficient. Stuff's

good. So he's had two really hasn't been tested, but from all reports that I get, been positive. I'm not sure when his next one is, but I still stand by the four ish outs to then really have that conversation to get him back with us, because I think it was fifteen really for you know what, he likes being close to home. He likes being close to the nest. So I'm sure at some point we're going to get him to triple A. But I would assume the next one is still going

to be closer to the nest I mentioned yesterday. Think you're still flowing Back says he had any additional setbent. He has not. He's had additional skins and nothing has kind of come up. I wouldn't say set back. I would just say more, there's no progression. It just continues to remain stagnant as far as kind of this discomfort, soreness, soreness. So we just haven't been allowed to or continue to progress because he just has that same sensation.

So it's time away, time off. Everything he does, you know, turning and rotating is good, except swinging a bat. And so that's the kind of the weird thing. He stops swinging. He has stopped swinging a Batthili played the faces. Yes here, he's going to do it here. I think, you know, right around ten thirty something tomorrow morning, and I think it's two or three innings something like that. He has to

move to three or to be four. I think it could be a I could see a three and then a four, and then I think for us, you know, depending on where we're at, have a conversation if it makes sense for him to join us. So yeah, I think that's fair. So he threw He's at CBR. I knew he. I know he threw a simulated game, and I don't know the results of it. So assuming that, I think it went well, and so Graderol is progressing as I understand it. Don't have a timeline, but I do think that he

is trending in the right direction. See what about Michael Grove. Michael is in town right now. He is not going to travel with us this next road trip. I don't know where he's at right now. Eric, I still think that that lad just trying to make sure that we you know, he's interesting because he was still pitching with some soreness, but then there was a point that we had to a l him and so just trying to if we're going to run the exercise of putting on the al, let's really put

it to bed. And so that's what we're trying to do. So I just don't know right now exactly where he's at in his rehab. Is there anything new with Yamao. He is supposed to be playing catch next week. I don't know which day, but he's paying for you right now doing a lot of plyo stuff. So it's going to be a big step for him next week. Update on Rookie, No, not really. I mean I was out here with him yesterday taking ground balls as short running. I saw

him running, I saw him throwing. He looks stronger, feels good. The bones are healing. Properly, excuse me, properly, so he's doing everything except swing a bat. All right. There's Dave Roberts with more of an in depth injury reported update on basically everybody it's on the injured list, and some timetables on a few, including Michael Grove and sounds positive about Yamamoto pain free right now and doing plyometrics. Dave Roberts down the dugown. Brought

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season long. It's a Dodgers and Brewers on this Saturday afternoon. James Paxson gets the start first pitch at four fifteen, joining Tim Kates on Dodgers on deck. I accept everybody for who they are. This is Dodger insider David Basse. All right, David. Yesterday James Outman gets recall from TRIPLEA Oklahoma City and today gets to start. Yeah, he does. And uh, It's been a long road for James Outman. He came to spring training as

the Dodgers center fielder. Obviously did not get off to a great start. And honestly, Tim, if you go back to the beginning of spring training games, James Outman looked like a show of himself from a year ago. And he had a chance in TRIPLEA Oklahoma City to get away from the bright lights, to reset, to be able to you know, work on his swing, to get it back to where it was at times last year. And the Dodgers were not going to call Autman back up to sit on the

bench. They needed him to get at bats, they needed him to get better. And if injuries, you know, compelled them to call him up like they did with Hayward's injury, he would get that opportunity again. And here he is, and he is going to be part of the outfield mix, probably until the Dodgers and Major League Baseball's trade deadline, David, Joe Kelly, it's made a couple of minor league rehab appearances, now, what's

the latest. He was actually with Rancho Kuckamonga again yesterday tim in Visalia, and he pitched an inning of scoreless baseball through only thirteen pitches. And Dave Roberts has said it's going to take at least four rehab appearances for Joe Kelly to return. He also wants to see Joe Kelly pitch on back to back days. My understanding is Rancho Cucamonga has a day off tomorrow and maybe even on Monday, so he probably won't pitch again until next week unless he goes

to another minor league affiliate. But because he is the king of Rancho Cucamonga, I'm sure he wants to stay out there. Yeah. We heard Dave Roberts kind of needling him in a little bit about not wanting to leave too far from home. Yeah, David is brought to you Ryan, You're Southern California Ford Dealers for great offers on a Ford Bronco Sport or any Ford model during Ford's fourth of July Dale Day. Selithon Miguel Vargas not in a lineup

today. David played really well last night. The two run home run was a key part of the Dodgers come back win. When can we see him maybe at third base? Well, he's been taking ground balls at third base the last couple of days and I actually thought he was going to take more today. Instead, he was working more in the outfield. So it's an

option for the Dodgers. I saw yesterday being close to the Dodger dugout in the first inning, Max Munsey and Dave Roberts having a long conversation, and look, you know, I'm not going to say that the managers not accurate, but sometimes players can surprise you with what they can do. And Max Munsey did not make it seem like it was going to be too far after the All Star break that he was going to return to the Dodgers, and Dave Roberts is on the record now as saying that, yeah, it may

be a while after the All Star Game. So it feels like the Dodgers are leaving their options open, especially with having Vargas take round balls at third base. But I've learned tim you don't bet against players as good as Max Munsey, and look, he's been out for two months plus. Now. I know he's concerned about re injuring the oblique, but at some points you've

got to let it go and find out whether or not it works. Day final thing, any concern about show he Otani last night three punch outs, OH for five, the night before, and the fourth of July OH for three with three punch outs seems to be striking out an alarming higher rate here. Well, when he does that, tim our understanding is he expands the strike zone, and what pitchers are trying to do to him is throw fastballs inside and then spin him away. When he doesn't chase that spin, he

goes on the tear that we saw since Father's Day. When he starts chasing those pitches outside the strike zone, we see this version of show Hey Otani. So he's got to get back to not swinging at pitches outside of the strike zone. David, great stuff. As always, We'll check back in with you in just a little bit. Coming up here on Marago Casino Dodgers on Deck, we'll hear from Jason Hayward, will dive deeper into this pitch, he mad Chubb. We'll check back in with Rick Monday, of course.

But up next your Dodger's Magical moment on this day, nineteen forty two. Cool moment you're not gonna want to miss. Dodgers Brewers, don't miss this one. First pitch come up at four fifteen. I'm Tim Katsi's Los Angeles Dodgers Audio Network. As we were saying, this is Marongo Casino Dodgers on Jack on the official home of La Dodgers Baseball. It's Dodgers and Brewers

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anniversary of the nineteen forty two Major League Baseball All Star Game. At the now World War Two had started, Guys like Hank Greenberg, Bob Feller, Cecil, Travis, Buddy Lewis, all American leaguers had already announced they were over there serving our country. Fellow players like Ted Williams and crew would follow a year later, But in this nineteen forty two All Star Game, the

game was delayed almost an hour because of rain in New York. There was a curfew at the time during World War Two after dark, but the game was able to get played. Dodgers had seven All Stars on the team, three of them which were starters. In a game in which Mickey Owens went deep al Benton is all set again. Here's the next one to all on. Owen swings. There's a high fly ball going to toward right field. It may be a whole run. Fit few they hold hundred plan. There's

a whole run from the all and into the right field stands. Yes, sir, This National League team is still battling here in New York in this All Star Game. It's three to one now in favor of the American League. Bob Elson on the call. Mickey Owen played one hundred and thirty three games for the Brooklyn Dodgers that year in nineteen forty two. The only home of run he hit all year came right there in the Mid Summer Classic. The American League, though, would beat the National League three to one.

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Dodger Rick Monday. Rick, the Dodgers got a big win last night, coming off two series losses to come from behind and beat the Brewers last night,

I felt like as big as it can be in July. It was well, I think, there's no question about it, and especially when you start to look at the fact Dodgers had the lead on the first inning home run, the first of three by the way by Will Smith, so it was one to nothing, and then they stretched it out to two to nothing on the second home run that was hitting the third inning, also by Will Smith. But then things got to the little rocky road. Five runs for

the Brewers. They took the lead, and then the Dodgers are running the seventh and then three runs in the eighth inning, and I start to analyze that eighth inning last night. I mean, we talked about some very good advanced including Will Smith. He'd already had three home runs, he'd had one walk, so then he moves the count to three and two and he drew the walk, and that was with two outs. And then Freddy Freeman comes

on. He's behind in the count one and two, and he took a couple of self protection swings, filed off a couple of pitches, then the big two run double to Oscar. Her name is folowed also with the base hit to knock in another run. Comfort behind victory, if you will.

But I think also this Dodger ball club maybe beginning to catch the flow of a, hey, guys, we can play better baseball than that rut that they were in, particularly the last road trip, because okay, they swept the series in Chicago against the White Sox, but then lost two out of three to the Giants, and the Giants were not really playing that well.

The Dodgers weren't even playing that good. Rick. There wasn't a lot of There wasn't a lot to cheer for here at Dodgers Stadium during that Diamondback series. But it was electric when Freddy Freeman came up in the eighth inning, I felt like the stadium was shaking, yeah, and they were waiting for something to happen, and Freddie Freeman made it happen. And for Glass, now, you know, you start to look at his Dodgers starting pitching is

their concern. Glass noow goes the six innings, only gave up three hits, five runs, including one home run that was the Grand Slam. But if we look at the starting pitching, you know, the last seven games they worked thirty innings, is all, and then you look at forty two hits, they've walked thirteen and give it up thirty runs. That's the starting pitching over the last seven ballgames. So hopefully that's going to turn around.

And for James Paxston, who's getting to start today, hopefully that's going to be good enough to pick up his eighth victory. I guess they say styles makes fights. How about the matchup today with Paxton against the Brewers, Rick, I guess the Brewers are known to be a contact type of offense. How does James Paxton navigate well, carefully and because of you know, he's given up nine home runs. But on the other side of the coin, freddie Beralta, who's going to go for the Brewers, is given up twelve

home runs in spite of a very low batting average against. Speaking of banning average against, something that Tim and I will talk about a little bit later on Paxson with runners in scoring position, it's over a three hundred batting average. That has to change, and he can change speeds well enough, how does he kind of maneuver through this Brewers lineup? Miguel Vargas a big game last night break. He's not in the starting lineup today, but he's taking

more ground balls at third base. I guess anywhere he can get four at bats is all he cares. If you want playing time and you have a couple of different gloves, use them and a new face returns. James Autman will start in centerfield. By the way, before we go away, this was a historic day in Dodger history, and I think in broadcasting history,

because we go back the year two thousand. This was the day that our friend Vin Scully was voted and accurately so voted the number one sportscaster of the twentieth century my members of the American Sportscasters Association, And every time we tune in the ballgame from those years, we hear the magical voice of our friend Vin Scully, who's dearly missed, no doubt, Rick, and feel like your voice is pretty familiar these days with Dodger fans, going back to nineteen

ninety three being in the broadcast, We've seen a lot of baseball here, David, Yeah, you have. Do you feel like you see something? Nine more innings to go today, hopefully only eight and a half. Well, you see something? You never seen before. Ray possibly Okay, we'll send it back to you in the studio. Tim all right, thank you guys. Dodgers Baseball is brought to you by Speedy Cash, official sponsor of every LA Weekend. Find out more at Speedy Cash dot com or stoping in

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of endearment. This this high and tight. When I got to the ballpark today, there were cars lined up outside of Dodgers Stadium because they're here to celebrate Jason Hayward, who has only been here for a couple of years but certainly has made his impact on the Dodgers and this community. And tonight is his bibblehead night. He's making the city connect uniforms look as a classy as they possibly can in this bibblehead Jason, thanks a lot for the time.

I appreciate it. I say, what a cool night to have a biblehead, you know, historic franchise and the Los Angeles Dodgers. You know, honored to be a part of that collection. Always collected them as a kid. And I was just telling you, you know, before we got on that this is probably the first time I take THEE out of the box in a long time, because such a special thing as a baseball fan, so cool to be a part of it. And then as you said to where

the City connects. I think it looks pretty good. It felt like Christmas standing next to you when you were pulling it out of the box. Are you happy with the way it turned out? No, I think they did a really great job. I was just telling Lon Rosen that, you know, thanking him for making this bobblehead look like me. You know, it's a pants down version, which is you know, cool to see. I think it's cool like as a as a difference because sometimes I go pants up,

pants down, whatever. But they got the armsleeve, they got the risk band, the white white cleats, white batting glove, the you know, the the black finished maple bat and the cool cool navy helmets with the with the new City to Connect logo. No, I think they did a great job. And nice smile right there about a young guy. Hey, great smile in real life too, man, You and taoscar Hernandez got the two best smiles on this team. Oh, I appreciate it. I appreciate

it. How many bubbleheads have you had in your career? I want to say this is four or five? You know, playing a long enough, you know, fortunately you get to get to have a few. But again, like you know, I played first, you know, historic franchises, been lucky enough to say I've done that. And this is another cool when I added the collection. And this one's cool because I get to do it as a dad, you know, and you have Messi throwing out the first

pitch. It must be cool that he may kind of know what's going on. Yeah, I think he really has no idea other than where Tata's job. This is where to works. He knows baseball, and so he'll say, all right, like, you know, maybe I throw this to dad, Maybe maybe I don't right now exactly. So that'll be interesting to see in itself. But it'll be really cool to show him video and pictures of that day. But looking forward to having him and him and V out there

on the field with me to celebrate the day, no doubt. Jason Hayward is our guest, and obviously you're on the injured list right now with the left knee injury. We were talking about this as well. How big of a relief is it that it wasn't more damage than you know what it could have been. Oh, yeah, it's there's a there's a quote unquote low point of the day, you know, for me it's not being able to go out there and play with the guys and and grind with them. Of

course, it's jababa head day. It's it's really fun day to have, so that that's that's unfortunate. But you know, looking at the bright side of things, you know, there there's no tear there, There was no

miniscus or anything like that structural damage. I hadn't had anything like that before, so I just really wasn't sure that day, and in real time when it happened, I just knew I hit the wall really hard, and then it kind of threw off my timing as far as landing and getting my feet set, and I came down quick, and I just knew something wasn't right, and I wanted to keep going, especially I know what we've been short guys, you know in that moment, but had to get out of there

and make sure that things were okay. And now getting those results, yeah, like bomb brwis, you know, swelling and all the natural stuff that's going to happen there. But with the All Star break coming up, take the time to take care of that and get back to helping us out as soon as I can and just being a part of this run we gotta make.

I know, you're a big brother one way or the other. I know James Outman really leaned on you last year and at the beginning of this year, have you had a chance to talk to him because of your injury, he gets this opportunity. No, we hadn't talked too much. Well, I mean, we talked something yesterday, but we hadn't talked too much, you know. I guess about like the whole situation. More than happy to see great seeing you, you know, glad to have him back.

I know he was, you know, he said likewise on great seeing me and grad to be back. You know this it's a silver lining thing, right because you hate to have anything be an injury or someone coming up or down. For that reason, the way I look at it is it's nice to have James out mean be the guy who's coming up, you know, to help us out and feel that void because you know, someone who obviously big part of our season last year still gonna be a big part of our

season this year. You never know what it's gonna look like. So I think it's it's kind of nice, in my opinion, to have to be a situation where with I'm saying, hey, we really need you to come up right now on a spot, you know, with with a whole lot of pressure, like you've been playing amazing, now let's go do it. It's like, hey, something actually happened, Like let's go play baseball. Don't think you know, do your best to go out here and win baseball

games, help the team win. And that's every bit of who he is. And hopefully he comes up and has fun with it. I think you will. And you know, we never take things for granted, you know, intentionally. I feel like when you go about I think it's the right way, which out he does. But I still think there's just that, you know, a little bit of you know, naturally somehow we kind of take things for granted. And I think he's gonna make the most of this

new opportunity. You don't know what you have until it's gone right every time, every single time. And you know, I think it's awesome to see him back. Jason. Something you said a couple of nights ago still sticks with me. A lot of these younger guys are getting opportunities because of the injuries, and you said, maybe try not to do too much isn't that the case in baseball when things aren't going your way. It's not that you're

not trying hard enough, you're trying too hard. Yeah, No, definitely, And that's it's so hard not to be trying too much, to do too much. It's it's very tough to mentally just say stay within myself and just go through the process compete. But that's the name of it. And you know, you get better with repetition. You take the feedback, you use that as going forward, and that's a beautiful thing about a season being

this long as a as a baseball player. So you know, our young guys, I think have done in our standing job taking their lumps, how they've handled those, even in their successes, they still want to get better, and you know, it's really fun to have them around. Think our bests really appreciate what they bring to the table. All right, Jason, thanks a lot for the time. Appreciate you celebrating your bobblehead with us. There's a photo between you and Freddie Freeman's locker. I feel like next year

we need a bobblehead of that photo. Hey, I can't control. I can't control next year. I could do my best of control right now. We wish you'll see how that goes. But all on no, I have said this before this year already. I hope hopefully next year, you know, we're all here celebrating something special, like a parade that we that we earn together as a group here in November, you know, at the at the end of the season, being the last last team standing. But you

know, we'll see what happens. We things got to play out, we got to take care of business. But that would be an amazing thing to see. It would be beautiful. I'd love to be there with you. Thanks a lot for the time and enjoy your family on a special day. Thank you, David, appreciate you. Mane there he is the man, Jason Hayward. Love this guy. Life coach to many, including myself. We'll send it back to you in the studio. Really good guys, DV

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it's game day, it's group day at shakys dot com. Lady, you have to first pitch Dodgers and Brewers from the stadium. I'm next. We'll dive deeper into this pitching matchup. Don't go anywhere. I'm Tim Katesi's Los Angeles Dodgers Audio Network. This is MA Wrongo Casino Dodgers on tap on your home for the blue all season Law Law Law. It's the Dodgers and the

Brewers on this Saturday afternoon. Jason Hayward, bobblehead and give one first pitch coming up at four fifteen and now before the Dodgers hit the dining we look at the pitching matchup forres hited by your Southern California Toyota Dealers. Turn your trail dominating off roading dreams into a reality in an all new twenty twenty four Tacoma. See your Toyota dealer today. They make it easz Freddy Peralta on the mound. Six and four, three thirty eight ERA, twenty eight year

old right handerround of the Dominican Republic. It is seventh season now in the Big Leagues, making his eighteenth start this year. He's got seven quality starts, opponents hitting just two twelve against him. He is two and zero with a one fifty ER in his last three starts. Last time out seven innings, one run, two hits, eight strikeouts in a win over the Cubs. Now Freddy Paroltam is two and one in four career starts against the Dodgers

with a one eighty ERA. Hes only start at Dodgers Stadium came in twenty eighteen and he received a no decision in the Brewers five to t win. In that game, he went four innings, allowed one run on three hits, struck out six in a no decision. He has earned a nine to three win in his only started against Dodgers last year. That was a May start at America Field Family Field in Milwaukee. James Paxton on the mound for the Dodgers. They call him the Big Maple. The left hander, a

veteran in this league, bounced around the league. Now in his first season with the Dodgers. The thirty five year old making his sixteenth start this season last time out, four innings, nine runs, all of them earned twelve hits, and they lost to the Giants last weekend in San Francisco. So it's James Paxson and Freddy Peralta Dodgers Brewers. We are fifteen minutes away from first pitch. Keys to the game are coming up next. I'm Tim Katson.

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all Angelinos lacare dot org. Before first pitch, we head back out to the booth rick Monday tip never guys, thanks again as we count it out of the first pitch at Dodgers Stadium. It's the Brewers and the Dodgers, Game two, Dodgers taking the first one, looking for a series victory. Here this afternoon and this game time necessitated by this being the quote unquote a

game. Most of the country will see this game on national television. You'll hear it right here on radio, no matter where you happen to be on this very warm Saturday afternoon around the country. As far as James Paxton is concerned, a seven and two record, the left hander faces the Brewers for the very first time in his career. The only other team he's never faced the Marlins. He's been around a long time, so you figure he's going

to get to all of them eventually. But the last start career worst in terms of earn runs allowed, with nine hits allowed with twelve against the Giants and today looking for a big time bounce back. And that outing against the Giants that was only in four innings. A lot of damage was done. Twelve hits, one home run. He only had four strength as he threw eighty nine pitches in those four innings. You know he has really been spot on at home. He's three and oh in the five starts. Most of

the action for Paxston has been on the road. He's made ten starts on the road, where he's four and two and almost double the earned rent average when he's away from Dodger Stadium. One thing about Paxton, he's had trouble with runners in scoring position over a three hundred batting average. We'll find out about the curve ball. The reason I mentioned the curve ball tim he's allowed just a one ninety four against the hook and he throws at almost thirty percent

of the time. Freddy Peralta the number one starter for the Brewers, going for the eighteenth time. The Brewers are twelve and five when he starts. You look at his splits lefties and righties. Left handers hitting two fourteen against him, right handers hitting two to eleven against him, and those are in similar number of at bats. It's not at bat heavy one side or another. No, it's not one thing with Peralta. He likes to elevate the

fastball. One hundred and twenty strikeouts and seventy two of those are on the fastball. Again, he'll try and get you to chase it upstairs. He has some gidda up upstairs on top of it. Here's the other part too, a good change up. In fact, when you look at the hitters with two strengths, Peralta has them, oh for the last twenty five with two strengths. When he's thrown the off speed change up. James Paxton against

Freddy Peralta. That's the matchup here this afternoon in Game two from some splashed Dodgers stadium tim All right, don't forget after the game, David Bessay has got you covered with all the postgame highlights, reaction from the clubhouse manager Dave Roberts, and of course Dodger talk as well, Dodgers and Brewers. Dodgers taken on a first place team in the NLS Central Dodgers trying to keep their six and a half game lead in the NL West is the padres play host

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