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But on Sunday afternoon, Gavin Stone threw a gem, but it was a mooky moment late that won it. Gavin Stone a great outing on the mound. Seven innings, seven strikeouts, allow just one run. The Dodger offense, meanwhile, needed a few times through the lineup to get going. Finally, in the fifth inning, it belonged to Keike Hernandez who got the Dodgers on the board.
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It won nothing that was off the lefty from Granada Hills, Jacob Lopez. The Dodgers had an early one nothing lead. Gavin Stone put up zeros on the board. However, in the seventh inning, his only mistake was to former teammates Johnny de Luca, who even the score. The Dodgers and Rays remained tied in the bottom of the eighth inning when Sho he Otani got hit by a pitch on his left hand to put a runner at first base. A scary moment, but x Rays came back negative the very next batter, Mookie Bets.
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Wildcard race. Tonight, Like I mentioned Jack Flaherty on the mound in the series opener, first pitch coming up at seven to ten, and with more we go down a couple of booths to the Galpin Motors broadcast booth to check in with Rick Monday and his old buddy Charlie Steiner.
All right, David, after an off day yesterday, the first of three between the Dodgers and the Orioles and remarkably similar records. The Dodgers at seventy eight and fifty three have a three game lead on Arizona San Diego in third plays in the West, four games behind the Dodgers. Then you've got the Orioles at seventy and fifty six. There are two games behind the Yankees in the American
League East. And the Dodgers, more than anything else in all, have been playing very good baseball of lay, and.
They want to be able to continue that. I mean, the best record in baseball, as you're alluding to, but not only winners of seven of the last ten. They've won twelve of sixteen in the month of August fourteen and seven. And also they've got some very good pitching, even though they've got a banged up starting rotation, a three point four Era in that period of time. So the Dodgers know full well that both Arizona and San Diego maybe playing the best baseball of the season for them,
no question about it. The Dodgers don't look in the backyard, look in that front windshield and just keep driving down the road and continue to win ball games.
And the Oriols just two behind the Yankees. They've been a very good team all year long.
Yeah, but they've had difficulty, Charlie recently, I mean since the All Star break their five hundred team and their ERA has been above four and a half. They're trying to turn that around. They've had some offense, but they have I've not really had enough help out of the bullpen, and that's something that they need to address and do it in a hurry in order to move up that ladder in the American League East.
On paper, they've got two of the best catchers on the field tonight Will Smith and Atlie Rutchman, but they have both been struggling offensive Leo late.
Yeah, they have, and for Will Smith, we're beginning to see some better swings, but it's not been back to back games back the last thirty one games for Will Smith, hitting just won seventy seven, but again he has been a big force. He keeps drawing runners out at second base and at a very good rate. The question is Baltimore is not afraid to try and steal at all? Will the arm of Will Smith shut down that possibility tonight?
Jack Flaherty gone for the Dodgers tonight, Cole Irvin for the Orioles, And we'll detail that pitching matchup a little later on in the hour.
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All right Show. Heyt on Sunday was zero for three.
He was hit by a pitch on his left hand, but X rays were negative. Dodgers and everybody else in baseball a big sire relief right there. Then he scored in the bottom of the eighth inning after he was hit by the pitch on Mooki's go ahead two run home run. On the season, Otani is hitting two ninety two, sitting on forty one home runs and forty stolen bases, still on pace to become the first player in baseball
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Mookie, you've had three home runs. It's coming off the il. When you think about just keeping it consistent at the plate, what's.
Been the biggest focus for you as a plate.
I don't know.
I mean I feel like I've been very inconsistent.
So I don't know.
I'm just here to win, here to do what I can to help show hey carry us to the finish line.
Can you think about that at bat against love Lady?
What were you seeing from him?
What allowed you to get that swing?
I was just ready to swing. I mean, I know they've been attacking new with strikes the whole series, and so I just try to get a good swing off.
It's not your show, it's you as But when you think about just coming in the clutch for certain situations, how important was that at that not only for you but also for this team to get that win?
You know, I think eg and never had bet is super important. But definitely coming down there, show gets all all on base there and you just got to find a way to Bill's some momentum and we fortunately did it.
Gavin Stone today, how impressive was he?
Oh?
He's been amazing all year. I mean he's given us a chance to win easing every game. I mean he's going six seven, eight innings consistently, and so he's been huge for the Dodgers for sure.
This wind tonight, you guys have won this here is this homestand so far is not to a really great start. How important though, was this just knowing what the division looks like at the moment.
I mean it's his crunch time now, you know, we got to win every game, and not that it's not crunch time all year, but especially now, and those other teams are playing really well, and so we have to just keep playing Dodger baseball and we should be okay.
All right, we'll congratulations on this one tonight, Uki, Thank you hey.
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This Dodger Injury Report presented by UCLA Health, the official medical partner of the Los Angeles Dodgers. Well, Freddie Freeman is not in the starting lineup tonight. Kei k Hernandez is at first base. Max Mounsey stays at third base because Dave Roberts said they wanted to get Freddy Freeman out of the lineup for not only today but possibly tomorrow to let the inflammation in that hairline fracture in
his right middle finger to cool down. He's been playing through it, but the bat, the bats, the wings haven't been there.
Also, Yoshiyama Moto who went.
On the IL after his first two months in the big leagues is going to make a rehab start tomorrow for Oklahoma City. So that's good news for the Dodgers and Yama Moto. Let's head downstairs right now into the dugout with Dave Roberts.
Anything else, Dave?
Do you think the questions for Dave?
Dave? Can you just describe Dave? Can you talk about the pressure.
In the dugouts with Dave Roberts a.
Conversation with only ils for ten days.
To sort of let us no, I don't think so. I think that obviously he could have played today, wanted to play. So I just don't think that the IL right now makes a whole lot of sense because it's something where even in ten days, it's not going to the fracture is not going to heal in ten days.
Is there a chance that he sits out tomorrow.
Or the rest of this series.
There's a chance. But I still think that having them potentially available off the bench makes sense. We'll see what that looks like each day, though, and we'll kind of read and react.
Is that that's not being the same because the middle finger is that part of this equation too.
I think it's part of it. I think that for me, I think that it just doesn't look the same. But hitting's hard. That could be a separate point, and it
could not be because of the finger. Freddy could argue that, which is completely fine, But I still believe that, you know, giving it some time to kind of calm down and not be inflamed, there's only benefit you guys, just like how tough talking to you know, I think he understands he wants to play well, everybody knows, you know, what he means to the ball club, being able to post, be in the lineup. All that stuff matters. But also it's still matters to feel that you feel good, that
you your swing feels good. And I just again, I just don't think that taking a couple of days off, whatever the days it ends up being, is going to be too costs.
I really don't.
Why did you.
Choose a GT at first and once heet there instead of vice versa.
It's short term munchies our third basement, So in a vacuum you could argue the other way, But for Max to go over there, it hasn't taken ground balls over there in two years to just say he's played first base, doesn't.
Make sense.
Any new one class.
Slow moving.
He was lined up to play catch today, so I don't know if he ended up playing catch today. But given the time that he's been down the potential build up, there's going to be a rehab assignment. He's got to get back on the mound. So I just don't know what that looks like. But not surprising for me that it's taken longer than we initially.
Thought getting fully built up altober.
I think that the coming days will be telling. So I don't think anyone can sit here today and say that because if he played catch today it went great and he does the same thing, yes, But if he doesn't, then it's probably a different.
Answer that what has God changed and.
Better?
Not getting better? So he's just still not throwing free and easy, and so when you're not, then you've got to kind of make some concessions and slow down the process. So that's kind of what it.
Is, all right.
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When you look at the umpire and crew tonight, it's kind of a younger one. Andy Fletcher is the crew chief. Yesterday we had an off day Dodger talk and we had a chance to catch up with the man that caught more games than any other Dodger in franchise history. And with this being a series of two really good young catchers and Will Smith and Adalie Rushman, we thought it would be great to share part of our conversation with the one and only Mike Soshow.
David. Great to be with you, and boy did I learn a lot from Sandy. You're right about that. It was just a great experience to be around a lot of those great Dodgers, and Sandy was at the top of the list.
Mike, Is it true.
I've heard stories from as reporters that told me Sandy Kofax would throw BP to you guys in Vero Beach. Is that true?
Yes?
He would, and he still got us out. He was throwing VP. Last time I remember was nineteen eighty five. I remember hitting off of him on the lower fields and he started that curveball. You could hear it was unbelievable, and he'd really enjoyed it.
He loved it.
And then I think he finally his shoulder gave out, but he loved it. You know, anything he could do to make us a little better, he put his time in and just a tremendous man.
You feel like, who makes you this manager now that Team USA wants? Was was kind of built as a catcher as a young catcher in the Dodger organization with all these guys being around like Sandy.
Oh, there's no way, I mean, excuse me, there's no doubt that. You know. The way that I took through the Dodger organization was special. And to get so many great baseball minds around you at at such a young age and just being smart enough to shut up and
listen was really important to my development. Is not only a player, but getting opportunity to manage, and you know the great the great guys like Roy Campanella, Sandy Kofax, Del Krandle playing for Time Ofless Order for all those years, Joel Malfatano, Monty basketballin on a whole list you know of of of coaches that I had, and that just that just had a huge impact on me.
All right, So all these years of managing and playing and all the knowledge and experience you've gained has brought you to Team USA. You manage in the Olympics and now here you are back again managing this premiere twelve team. Can you explain the type of players that you'll be managing and is this a qualifier necessary to be able to have Team USA here in LA in twenty twenty eight.
Well, since we're the home country, we will get an automatic bid into the twenty eight Olympics. But this is important tournament, David. It's it's really for world seeding and world ranking. We're gonna be playing really tough teams. There's twelve teams around the you know globe that are really, uh that just excel in baseball. You know teams teams from you know, Mexico and Venezuela and Cuba and Japan, Korea. Uh, these these, these these it's gonna be a tough tournament.
So we'll play a series of Mexico to get going, hopefully get through that and then head to Tokyo. And the quality of players and the caliber players is going to be very high. We can't use forty man roster guys, but we can use a lot of guys that have major league experience that aren't attached to a to a team when we play and uh, and then some of the young guys coming up that are in Double A and Triple A that haven't hit forty man rosters yet.
So we're excited about the group. We're putting the rosters together as we speak through these last this last month and moving forward getting ready for the tournament. So we're we'll be ready to go.
We hear about when uh, these plays I just want to play in the World Baseball Classic that are on the forty man roster, Mike. Obviously, the team has a lot of say and how many innings the pitchers can pitch and just the restrictions on them. Will you have the same type of challenges managing this premiere twelve tournament.
If a player is with an affiliated team in an organization, most likely yes, if there's but there's a lot of guys that are are pitching an independent ball a lot of guys that are pitching you know, overseas right now that aren't really affiliated with uh, with an organization, So uh, they'll be able to you know, we'll be able to use them probably, you know a little in some of the roles we want, but certainly every organization wants to protect their players, and we'll be looking at the guys
that are in the Fall League, they'll be hopefully ramped up or ready to go, and if they can come, we'll We'll live with whatever restrictions the organization gives us.
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Rick, the Dodgers and Orioles hooking up and I always think back to the nineteen sixty six World Series. I obviously was not here to witness it, but I heard stories about that world series.
Is that a nice way of saying, Oh, hi, old guy, how are you?
No?
No, Yeah, did you enjoy your off day? Well?
I had a busy, very busy off day.
Yeah. Well I also did the off day DODG. You talk too.
We had two big guests, Joe Kelly and former two hemate Mikesosha. Yeah, yours not mine.
Yeah. Yeah. Well it's one of those things. So here's an interesting question. I did not listen last night. I had other obligations. So did you talk a lot about catching?
Yeah?
I felt like I had to get it in there. Well, he said, and this is a direct quote. The catching position is changing, and not necessarily for the better. He is not a fan of catchers down on one knee. He's not a fan of catchers not giving a target to the picture to try to steal a low strike. He feels like guys like Bob Boone and himself were able to do that fairly well without having to go to one knee and move their glove around.
There's not a lot of quiet catchers these days.
Well, yeah, it's and you're speaking of catching. You know, today's kind of an odd day to begin with. It was in the late eighteen hundreds. Now this is going back. Yeah, you weren't there for that, but Roger Bresnahan and I bring his name up in relationship you talked about with Mike Soshi with catching, who was a marvelous catcher and a wonderful teammate. And he's one of those guys too.
Someone asked me about two guys in particular, Dusty Baker and with Mike Sooshi, and I was asked, well, did it surprise you at all that they became a managers? And I said, immediately before they could even continue the question, I said, no, it didn't surprise me either. One I said, it also did not surprise me that they became very good managers. It's one thing to be a manager, that in itself is really something, but to be a good manager to the level that both Baker and Soshia really
became accomplished was really something to watch. And they were good for the game of baseball on top of it.
You know what Mike Sooshi said, And Dusty said this as well when he was here for his honor. He said and both men said growing up in the organization and being there in spring training, Sandy Coefax, Johnny andres Roy Campanella, all those guys helped them rick to become the managers that they became.
So we're talking about catching, right. So Bresnahan, he came on in the late eighteen hundreds, actually as a pitcher in the major league level, didn't last that long as a pitcher, didn't hit too well or it came up with a sore arm basically, but he could catch well. Bresnahan is the gentleman who came up with the modern day catcher's shin guard. And when he first came up with, I mean it was leather, you know, it wasn't the
hard plastic, it was leather. He was the one that thought this up and how to scrap it on your leg. In reading a biography of Bresnahan, he really caught a lot of grief from major league players because they figured that he was a little soft if he had to have shin guards on. But it was Roger Bresnahan who played at one time he was a catcher, became the catcher for the Chicago Orphans in the Nation League in nineteen hundreds.
So what a name?
Yeah, so we look at the catchers gear. How did it originally start? But it was Roger Bresnahan that that invented what is now the modern day sh guards.
It's used in baseball, and they called it when I was growing up, the tools of ignorance. Rick Monday referred to catchers and catching.
Yeah, I don't say that. I also didn't think that. During super teams competition years and years ago, the Dodgers and Super Teams, and we were in Hawaii competing and one of the events was the tandem bicycle race, the four forty bicycle race, and Yager and I were teamed up on this same bike. Well, the bike kept breaking because the chains would break. We were putting so much pressure on them. But in the interview, they said, well, what's it like to ride behind Steve Jeger? And I turned.
I said, well, let me put it this way. I'm riding blind behind the guy that wears the tools of ignorance. But I have total trust in it.
Well said Rick.
Thanks a lot for sharing that story in History of the Catching good show last night.
Thanks, Rick, appreciate it.
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Appreciate it.
Yeah, I made it easy on you there being on the IL that whole time.
But well, it is a technicality, but I'll take it for sure. How does it feel to be back and to get a start tonight against the lefty Cole Irvin.
It feels good to be back. You know, anytime around the IL you're itching to get back in the lineup and you know, or just get on the field and you know what plan two days ago. It was just refreshing to get back out there and you know, compete again. And yeah, I'm excited.
Cet.
Even before you got injured, you were starting to find your rhythm to the season. Strikeouts were down, batting average was up, and you even told me that you made some noticeable swing changes. Do you feel like you carried the momentum from before the injury into you know, your rehab assignment.
Yeah, it's kind of been a constant progression. You know, I think probably a few weeks before I got injured, I was feeling pretty good and some of my feels were starting to get a little too extreme. And when I got hurt, I wasn't I was feeling okay. You know, I was still getting hits, but I wasn't really driving the ball and kind of just like not really barreling much.
But I was still, like you said, I was getting on base, and you know, I thought the the injury, you know, trying to take advantage of the downtime and you know, tune some things out. And right now I feel much better and feel like even two days ago, you know, I had a couple of swings where I actually drove it, one foul and the other one was a line out. But you know, I felt like I hadn't really barreled the ball or driven the ball to the outfield in a while, So that was a good sign for me.
You're a guy that has a pretty good head on his shoulders to stand the moment. Do you just approach this as saying, this is my new season because we are getting closer to the time of year where Chris Taylor thrives.
Yeah, I think as baseball players, you have to especially when you have a slow start, you kind of have to approach every day like a new season, and you have to find those short little periods. You can't dwell on your numbers for the year. Especially for me this year, getting such a bad start, it's just not a good
head place to be in. So yeah, it kind of gives you a fresh start mentality, and I'm really just trying to, you know, help us get to the playoffs and you know, hopefully win at a Vision and win a World Series, and you know, trying to look forward.
Chris Taylor is our guest.
The Dodgers have the best record in baseball, including yourself. Your lineup is healthy. Does it feel like you guys are on the verge or in the middle of playing your best baseball of the season.
Yeah, as you said, I think health is the biggest thing. You know, we got some guys back that we've really been missing, and finally having everyone on the field, almost everybody on the field, is huge for us.
I'm looking at your left wrist. Do you have a few risk bands on there? And one was hashtag Dalton and the other one is for Kai. Can you explain those two wristbands and why you wear them.
Yeah, I have one is Dalton, He's one of my He lives in my parents neighborhood. He lost his life you in sarcoma. Kai is currently fighting brain cancer. And the other one is the letters war Off, But that's for my one of my best friends growing up, call Profile he lost his fight with ostio sarcoma. So yeah, just kind of reminders, you know, keep those those guys in my thoughts, and I definitely puts things into perspective, like this is just a game, and you know, there are bigger things in life.
How much do you think about them when you're standing at second base pre pitch or maybe in between innings when you're warming up, or is it just something that you keep with you throughout the day and just know they're there.
Yeah, you know, I think it's you know, I don't know if I'm thinking about them like while I'm playing, or it's more just something you know, when I look down and see it, it's just a reminder, and you know I like to have that, you know, keep those keep those kids, and you I keep them in my thought.
Love it.
Thanks Chris, thanks for sharing, and we'll look forward to seeing you at second base.
Tonight.
Yeah, looking forward to be back.
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They move Irvin to the bullpen. Eflyn on the il, so Irvin.
Is back in the rotation for the injury riddled Orioles rotation, only his second start since June thirtieth. He actually has one of the lowest walk rates among active pitchers in Major League Baseball, so we'll see if the Dodgers are aggressive early in the count tonight. For the Dodgers, they have Jack Flaherty on the mound. He's ten and five this season with an ERA of three. He's making his twenty third start of the year, his fifth as a Dodger, and he's three and oh this year with the Dodgers
since being traded from Detroit. His ERA is three twenty two. Jack has said he feels like he could pitch much better than he has already, and certainly the one thing he could say about flarity he is the ultimate competitor, something the Dodgers have sorely needed. This will be Jack Flarerty's first career start against the Baltimore Orioles, a team he pitched for the second half of last year when he was traded from Saint Louis to Baltimore. So Jack
Flarerty against Cole Irvin. You're pitching matchup tonight, Dodgers and Orioles, fifteen minutes away from first pitch from Dodgers Stadium.
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We are getting closer to Dodgers and Orioles here at Dodgers Stadium. Jack Clarity against left handed Cole Irvin. First pitch right around the corner at seven ten. Dodger fans and hands your listening experience by downloading the iHeartRadio app and listen NHD powered by LA Care Health Plans serving all Angelinos lacare dot org. Before first pitch, Let's check in once more with Rick Monday and Charlie Steiner.
All right, David, as the Dodgers and Orioles get ready for the first of this three game series. The Dodgers, of course, the best record in baseball currently Baltimore, just two games behind the New York Yankees in the American League East. And we've got a good pitching matchup going tonight. Cole Irvin lefty six and five before eighty two going for the Birds. Jack Clarity ten up and five down an ERA of three. And he's been terrific since coming to the has he ever?
Dave Roberts alluding to it a little bit earlier today, this afternoon four starts with the Dodgers. He's two and oh the other part two is both these guys tonight throw a lot of off speed, a lot of breaking stuff, and for Flarity, he has been able to get ahead in a lot of counts. So look for that tonight. In fact, you start to look at the local product. I mean, here's the team that he looked at as
a kid watching the Dodgers. Born in bird Bank, went to Harvard Westlake in the high school area, and Roberts is saying he is about the most well prepared pitcher since joining his ball club right alongside Clayton Kershaw.
What can you tell us about Cole Irvin?
Well Again, he's a local product, born in Yorba Linda and for Urban. One of the things he's able to do, much like Flaherty, throw a lot of off speed stuff, but he's given up a two to ninety batting average against him. The Nighters only have two left handers strictly lefties. Edmunds in there. He's a switch hitter, but from Munsey and Otani. One of the things that Ervin has not been able to do. He's gone the last thirty four
at bats lefties without having bigg a strikeout. We'll find out how that breaking bow is going to work against the lefties tonight.
Two of the better teams in baseball this season, the Dodgers and the Orioles. Dodgers seventy eight at fifty three and the Orioles at seventy six, up fifty six down lineups at first pitch coming up?
All right, Thank you guys. Great to have Charlie stop by today. Dodgers and Orioles first pitches. Next after the game, we will have postgame Dodger Talk for you with all the highlights and postgame reaction.
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