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Tim Case, Hi, everybody, and welcome in to Morongo Casino Dodgers on Deck if you're enjoying your Saturday afternoon. Los Angeles Dodgers eighty seven and sixty on this season, first place, the top the NL West, the lead in the Division four and a half games with fifteen games remaining in the regular season. After dropping the series opening game to the Braves last night in Atlanta, the Dodgers look to

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A lead off walk, Gie or Schello two run home run, Braves up three to nothing. Very next batter infield single. Two batters later, another mistake from Nakis, jorgees Hilaire took him deep to left for a two run home run. The second in the inning for the Braves is they were up five to nothing. Land and Knack would last just the two innings, five run, seven hits. The six outs that he got two of them deep fly balls to the wall in center field. He got out of

It comes the pitch on the way from Spencer schwelling back. This one's hit well the left field heading back.

To the wall.

It is gone home run Miguel Rojas for Miguel home run number five on the season, and the Dodgers.

Get on the board. It is five to one.

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Dodgers down five to one, they get a little closer in the fourth thanks to Tommy.

Edmund scratch on the one to two pitch.

Edmund swings lines are in the right field of base at te Oscar's gonna get waved around, so layer up and throwing. It'll be cut off by Olson and the Dodgers pick up another run here with two down on a single by Tommy Edmund, scoring to Oscar Hernandez, it is five to two.

RBI's single Dodgers cut the deficit to three. However, they'd get no closer. In fact, Michael Harris the second and RBI double in the eighth. Braves go on and beat the Dodgers yesterday in the series opener six to two. Spencer Schwellenbach out pitches Land and Nag. That didn't help that Otani, Betts, Freeman, and Muncie were combined zero for

Guys, Hi, Tim, thank you very much as we get set for baseball tonight here in Atlanta, still overcast skies. Some weather might be hanging around the area, and we are hopeful that mother Nature will not interfere with this one tonight. The Dodgers start tonight eighty seven and sixty, four and a half games up on San Diego, five games up on Arizona. The Braves meantime third place in the National League East eighty and sixty seven. They're a game back in the wild card race to the Mets.

Yeah, it was scheduled to have a sim game yesterday here in Atlanta. He was warming up in the bullpens and he still felt discomfort in the elbow, So it looks as if he is going to be shut down and tim the situation continues with big question marks and the Dodgers starting pitching. If glass Now is there, kershump, that's the kind of day to day updates we're getting. What about Walker Buehller, What about Bobby Miller? Both ber Miller and Bueller are back and throwing, but they're not

Pitching absolutely Freddy Freeman has had great success in the ballpark in terms of home runs and on base percentage and and OPS as well. He owns a nine thirty seven OPS at Truest Park. Has been flipped in the order from the third spot into the fourth spot. So the Dodgers are going to have Freeman, a left handed batter, bat clean up against the left hander.

Chris said, yeah, I saw that it came out a little bit earlier, and in my mind, what Dave Roberts is attempting to do sail a left handed pitcher and a very good win trying to break up Otani, and then two batters later having Freeman. So you've got Bett's second, the Oscar Hernandez batting third, Den Freeman. The one guy that has moved back up was Will Smith, who was dropped down to the sebath spot last night, but he had a couple of base hits, two hits and three

So Otani, Betts and Freeman oh four last night Otani's been oh for the last two games, same with bats and Freddie Freeman OH for twelve in his last three. So all three of them are due.

Yeah, they're due. And the Dodgers only had four bats last night a total of ford bets would runners in scoring positions, so the offense it has been challenged. They've lost three of the last four games in the last ten. Well, they've been a five hundred team. They're a better team than that. In knocking on the doors San Diego trying to close the gap. They start four and a half back Arizona, five games behind the Dodgers leading the Western Division.

Magic number is eleven to clinch the division. In the scenario is if the Dodgers go seven and eight, one game under five hundred the rest of the way, they'll finish ninety four and sixty eight, But the Padres would have to go eleven and three to tie the Dodgers. They owned the tiebreaker, so they just need to tie. The Diamondbacks would have to go thirteen and two to

And why not wrap it up at home with their fans right there and they can enjoy the celebration themselves.

Gotta win here tonight, try to even this series up with a game apiece. Dodgers Braves Jack Flaherty against Chris Sale.

That's the pitching matchup, tim.

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Hey, Kirston now joins us from Atlanta on the field and Kirsten whether we knew was going to be an issue all weekend there in Atlanta.

How are we looking right now as we get closer to first pitch.

Yeah, the turf is still on the field, but seems like the weather was kind of passed.

I mean it was raining and drizzling this morning, a little bit this afternoon, even a little.

Bit while some of the guys are playing pitch.

But it seems like looking at the forecast, we're in the clear.

The turf is still on.

But I think they're going to remove it pretty soon.

So yeah, it's looking like on time first pitch.

They often talk about the window. I don't even think it's the window.

I think we're just in the clear for this evening.

That's certainly great news.

Forecast for Tyler Glass now though doesn't look good for the rest.

Of the year.

Yeah, it doesn't.

So yesterday he was schedule to take part in a Sam game. Everyone was looking forward to it. He threw a little in the bullpen and then kind of felt something so decided that it it just wasn't the right decision.

Ended up going back into the club house.

Dave Robert said that they had some scan done it. He is feeling now with an elbow sprain. So originally it seems like it was more elbow than the nighted. Maybe it hinted out of sprain, but now it's truly showing that sprain there in his elbow. So it's unfortunate news. They're of course, it's going to have to shut them down, considering what the season now looks like, considering that eighties date in September and October is going to be in

The rotation is a big blow to his team.

Obviously, they signed him in the off season with the intentions of, you know what he could bring to this team come October. Now, that's not going to be the key score this year. Unfortunately.

I was going to ask you what the mood is around this team with this injury. But you know what, they've been hit by injuries all season long, and this rotation is right now currently been hit by injuries. I imagine these guys, this is just another day, another arm going down.

Right, Yeah, I honestly I think that's fair. Really does feel like that, and it's another reminder of that next man out mentality and who is going to be the ones who set up We've seen and I can't even say step up for jact Clarity.

We've seen him come to this organization and he's been everything they could.

Have asked for and more being acquired at the trade deadline.

Govin Stone obviously has been lighted out all year.

Because he's down with injury.

He's hopefully going to be playing catch this weekend.

In Miami, so we'll see what that means for him. And there's someone like Clayton Kershaw, they got to kind of see what the next time they're going to look like for him. He's been kind of chingering and kind of doing a few things in the bullpen, not necessarily really getting off the mound just yet. His return for the regular season, I think there's still a question mark. Doesn't feel too likely, but they're hoping for October he

It's what Bobby Miller.

Kind of figure out. What can layman that potentially do. So if some of those other guys they're cool or who's going to be the ones who can really up to the troops right now?

So we're gonna kind of all find out together. But Dave Roberts good say that he still feels he feels confident that with the talent that they have, they can make a really solid and a really.

Good time come off to us. That's ultimately what they're hoping to.

Do with Kirsten is brought to you by Cars for Kids. The easiest way to get rid of your old car. Donate today your car if you picked up tomorrow, donating now at Carsfrokids dot org. That's cars with a K. For a long time, you could have put the Dodgers front three hitters in sharpie every single day with Otani, Betts and Freeman. But I looked at the lineup. It's a little different tonight, Kirsten.

Yeah, So I'll tell you Dave Roberts about that. So he's split payofsk Hernandez and Freddie Freeman's a Payosk, a batting third, Freddie batting clean up. And what are you looking to do with that is they're facing a very talented letty with Chris Dale today on the mound, and then they're going to be facing another like talented ustee

So that's going to get Freddy a really good chance to get to him. So it's just about adding a little excess pass to the starting the picture.

And so Dave was saying that we're going to see that like I mentioned today and then again on Monday against the Free and then there is chances that.

We could be seeing it again the Talented.

Pictures on October, so we could be seeing more of what the call of the order looks like right now.

Interesting. We'll see how it works tonight, Christen. We appreciate it. We'll talk to you after the game. Still to come here on Dodgers on Deck will dive deeper into this pitching matchup. David Vesse goes one on one with Kevin kier Meyer. But I'm next. We'll get you an injury report and we'll hear from the manager himself, Dave Roberts. It's the Dodgers and Braves on this Saturday, first pitch of four twenty. I'm Tim Kasi's Los Angeles Dodgers Audio Network.

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Report, presented by UCLA Healthy official medical partner the Los Angeles Dodgers. As we've been talking about Tyler Glass now right elbow tendonitis. Looks like he's done for the least the rest of the regulars season and possibly beyond. Clayton Kershaw still has the left turf toe in his big left toe. Looks like he won't be ready until at least October. Joe Kelly on the eye eel at the right shoulder inflammation, Gavin Stone on the I L with

The questions for Dave, Dave, can you just describe Dave? Can you talk about the pressure in.

The dugouts with Dave Roberts.

I think all along that's sort of been what it is, I mean without getting too specific, and I don't know all the specifics, and I think that saying it's the spraying sort of encompasses a lot. And right now, he can't. He's not going to be phone in baseball for a while.

I mean unlikely any.

Yeah, I don't, I don't. I mean, you know, if something drastically changes. But from what I understand, you know, you're talking about a shutdown of any time of throwing right now cuts into you know, how much time we have left to play in the season. So, like I said, I think it's very unlikely.

They give a blow. Is this tier rotation you signed him to be able to help you guys in October?

Yeah, it's a big blow, you know, looking at you know, what he meant for our ball club, what he's done for us, what we expected him to do, certainly is going to be a cost. But we've got to move on and we will, and we have a lot of capable people. And I feel bad for Tyler because he did everything, you know, to stay healthy and to get back and it just wasn't gonna happen.

Is that mean a spring pretty confident that they won't need anything in the off seasons.

I don't think that we're thinking that far ahead. I think that right now we're just gonna shut him down for a little bit and see where we go from there.

How much does that then add to the importance of with Gadenstone playing catch next week and then even with Clayt Kirch, I believe he was in the bullton today.

Yeah, Clayton has continued to do what he does and trying to get back and so I'm hopeful that, you know, we feel confident that he can take the mound for us this year. As far as Gavin, We're not going to know until he starts playing catch, and then we'll know more once he does that.

With the bullpen today, was it a traditional bullpen for Clayton kersha are still kind of one that he's been kind of doing the last couple of days.

Yeah, I don't think it was a normal convention. It was a little makeshift pen for.

Any chance for him to kind of come back, Like when I was given where we are in the calendar, like when do you want him to get off the mountain and see how you can kind of progress from there?

Well, I just for the for the regular season. I just don't see that as a possibility. So you know, when you start talking about down the road that I don't think anyone can answer right now, but I think you know it's safe to say that the regular season is not going to be on the table.

Years power.

It's difficult, it's manageable. We're doing it. I think the main thing is that we have to just continue to stay focused on the players that are available to us and winning a baseball game that night. And to the guys credit, that's what they've done. And we've put ourselves in a good spot, you know, given all that we've gone through this year, but still got a pretty good ball club.

Confident argue, and how the staff might look, you know, to be able to make the kind of running out over you guys want to kind of as it's shaping up.

Now, I'm still confident. I don't think that there's one way to win a championship. I think you can look back at the teams recently and how their staffs came together and who stepped up for each team's you know, staff, and so you know, we're gonna have the guys that we have, and I feel confident whoever we run out there, But certainly, you know, losing Tyler for any length of time, Clayton for any length of time, Gavin Stone, what he's done, it's certainly a hit, no.

Doubt, Kevin still expected to start throwing the screen.

Kim, I think that's the plan.

Yeah, all right.

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It kind of feels like Dave Roberts has been hinting that Glassnew may not be as healthy as we thought and may not come back, and today we find out he's not coming back.

Well, yeah, obviously it was a big red flag when he felt something in his right elbow warming up in the bullpen yesterday for a simulated game. And it's been mixed messages from glass Now himself ever since he went on the I Allen Saint Louis remember the day that he went on the IL. He was fighting up until a half hour before first pitch to try to make that start and avoid the IL. And here we are now where Dave Roberts said, the scans that he took

All right.

With that being said, David, what does this pitching staff, the rotation look like down the stretch of the last fifteen games getting into October.

The only certainty right now is tonight's starter, Jack Flaherty, And you know you have to go off Yamamoto's last start. Right now, it's Flarity and Yamamoto and maybe Gavin Stone. He's gonna start throwing on Monday, and we'll see where that goes. But right now, those are the only two starting pitchers that you can count on when the NLDS

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Yeah, another bullpen session today. The last one was twenty pitches. Today was twenty five pitches. I walked myself all the way to the Dodger bullpen in the left field corner to get a first glance at Otani. This was his sixth bullpen session. No word on when Otani is going to throw to hitters, but in the plan rehab from his second elbow surgery, the word was that he was

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Rick, the Dodgers and Braves got a marquee pitching matchup tonight, Chris Sale going up against Jack Flaherty. Run should be at a premium tonight.

Yeah, And do you go ahead and run your defense differently with you get the runners on base? Do you think about the offense a little differently? And these are one of the games that you look at and you say this is something special and you're looking at I mean for Sale, no question about it. I mean, he's he's basically the fore runner for the nationallygue Cy Young Award.

You talk about thinking through the game and when there are two really good pitchers on the mound and thinking runs are gonna be hard to come by. Dodger third base coach Dino E Bowl was taking me through a couple of things and looking at the braves dh that is playing right field, and that's rage sol Laire. He said he's going to be aggressive, especially with the wet grass, if Soilaire gets the ball.

I was just going to bring up, you know, there's a possibility. Neither team took batting practice. The infield was covered up with the tarp. We've had light rain on and off. The rain is supposed to hold off for the most part until about nine or ten o'clock local time, but in between, yes, challenge the throws, especially right down. And as you brought up, it could if everything comes to fruition, it could be a low scoring game. So the premium of trying to stretch things out, which also

Rick.

We got the news from Dave Roberts earlier today that Tyler Glass now season is likely over with the sprained right elbow. How big of a blow is this for the Dodgers.

I think is very big. I don't know what the percentage was to him possibly being healthy, but the fact that he was on this trip, he started warming up in the bullpen yesterday afternoon early going and was going to throw the simulated game, but did not come out and throw that sim game. It's a big, big blow to this Dodger block club because you look at Okay, he's injured. We don't know what's happening with Clayton Kersham.

Pitching, and in that Dodger clubhouse, those players are not blind to what's going on. The names that you mentioned, they're very aware of how much the Dodgers need you.

Because these are not guys that just happened to full off the turner truck. And say, hey, you have them. I mean, these are guys that you understand what they've been able to do in their ability, and that is a huge void at the present time. But then you start to look at things. Landon Ak did not have a good game last night, and I thought Dave Roberts

And the Dodgers only scored two runs last night. Rick and a lot of people were talking about some of the bad show. Hey o Tani was having. Do you feel like he's pressing the chase fifty home runs?

It might be, but here's the other part. Other people are understanding what's happening and listening to the television reports, picking up the paper, going on social media. They know what a monster, as far as an offensive threat Otani has been. How many guys want their names associated with Hey, I'm the guy that through the forty ninth home run, I'm the guy that through the fiftieth home run or allowed even a stolen base clubs, especially Atlanta Braves. Braves

No doubt. And the Dodgers certainly don't have things wrapped up in the NL West either, Rick, I feel like we can't take that for granted.

And Dave Roberts said that a couple of days ago. So look, we had not nailed down a playoff berth exactly yet, not right now. That's still at some point in time. You can talk magic numbers all you want until you get there. It's something out of hit. Dodgers have to look at this ballgame right here tonight, and they look at two more before they go down to Miami, and don't take the Marlins for granted either when they're down there for the three game series in the back end to this road trip.

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Thank you. David.

Hey, I'm trying to figure you out. On Saturdays, you get really into college football. Last week you were pumped for Central Illinois or some school that beat Notre Dame, and today you're watching Oklahoma Northern Illinois. So I'm trying to figure out where your loyalties lie.

My loyalty lies with the Purdue Bulletmakers, who are getting trounced right now by Notre Dame.

So a lot of ball left.

But yeah, I'm a Purdue Bulletmaker fan. But they're backs against the wall right now. Yeah, there we go.

See in Tampa Bay, they know all about you, but in LA we don't know a lot about you. You're an Indiana kids, So why did college take you to Champagne, Illinois.

Well, I didn't have any offers hardy for I wanted.

I knew it. I was going to play baseball or football.

Had a gross spurt my senior year, and none of those were looking really good. But I grew and had a really good senior year football and then baseball as well.

We won state championships in both.

And where I got scouted by my junior college, I was in Champan, Illinois park on junior college is what they're called, and I took a visit there and I said Okay, I'm going to do the baseball route and made a good choice. But yeah, I didn't really have many offers at all and made the best of junior college, and two years later I was drafted.

Wait a minute, you mentioned football and baseball but not basketball. How could that be for a kid from the Hoosier State.

Yeah, I was. I was small.

I was really small, and our high school was very talented, really good players, and playing time wasn't going to be really a thing. And it got to the point my senior year. I played all the way up until my senior year, and then it got to the point where I'm okay, I'm gonna be on a college campus somewhere next year. I gotta start getting some things figured out. So I decided not to play basketball and devote all my time to baseball and to try to have the best senior year I could.

And you know, everything worked out.

Yeah, I did, no doubt a great career for Kevin Kiirmeier. But when you talk about not being scouted, going to a junior college, and then being drafted, do you feel like you've played with a chip on your shoulder, Maybe not in a bad way, but in a good way.

Yeah, for sure.

I was selected in the thirty first round. I was a nine hundred and forty first pick overall in the twenty ten draft, and for me, I was a little upset with how late I went, but at the same time, like you just said, it motivated me and all I needed was an opportunity, and I said that from the get go, and I knew I had to play good quick and got off to a good start and rookie ball, and then I feel like I solidified myself and showed everyone the raised what I could do, and then they

So it's u and you know, here we are towards the end of it. Now.

It's been a heck of a ride, but I will always go back and just knowing, you know how hard I worked and junior college, you get that opportunity and

I guess when you're in the grind, you can't really reflect on your accomplishments as a baseball player. But at this stage of the of your career, even though you're in a pennant race and you're going to the postseason with the Dodgers, have you had more time to reflect on the way your career has gone.

Yeah, this whole year has.

I feel like I've done a lot of reflecting and just know and that you know, every time I go to certain ballparks it's most likely going to be my last time going there. So I've taken so many things in and uh, just a lot of a lot of memories replaying throughout this whole year, but thankful, grateful for everything thrown my way, and I just I want to

Kevin Kiirmeier is our guest just in front of first pitch between the Dodgers and Braves. Since you brought up all these different ballparks that you feel a little nostalgic about, are there some that you enjoyed playing center field in more than others? And we you know, we always hear about in field dirt, how about the warning tracks and just the dimensions of some of these stadiums.

Yeah, there is different and unique in its own different way. But for me, you know, I uh, you know, the Rays obviously, I love playing at Tropicana Field, Uh, played there more in anywhere. Roger Center awesome in Toronto as well. I mean, I just I appreciate when when fans appreciate me, especially at your home place, and even going out to

I made some really good catches there over the years. But uh, I liked. I like thinking I could run them down anywhere.

So for me, that's kind of a tough question because I enjoy playing everywhere. But for me just Detroit, Kansas City. I like the big, the big outfields where I can run around and show everybody what I can do. As I've gotten older, I appreciate the smaller ones a little bit more.

But you know, I love going out there.

Making plays in defense has been what I've been best at throughout my whole career, not even close.

And I like making plays no matter where I'm playing.

Kevin, I feel like your validation for another center fielder means a lot. Are there other center fielders in the game right now that you are impressed by the way they handle center field?

Yeah? The first thing that comes to mind is Pete crow Armstrong.

We just we just saw him with the Cubs and I knew he was good, but watching him in person, he's elite and he's he's gonna be elite for years to come. He he's impressed me. A ton Byron Buxton when he's healthy, is very special out there. But Pete Kroh Armstrong, I mean, he put on a show against us this past week, and me and all the other guys had tip our hats to him because he was he was special out there. And I I always appreciate good defense, whether you're on my team or not.

When you're special as an elite defender like yourself, it's got to be a compliment. When a guy like pie Crow Armstrong, he's compared to Kevin Kiermeyer. People are saying that was a Cure Myer type of play or plays that he made in that series.

Yeah, you know, just thankful that my name is even you know, thrown to to be in the uppression lot of centerfielder type of guys out there. But uh, you know, if I were to tell him something, I would have said, hey, I had the last ten years, you can you can have the next ten because he's he's unreal. And I just said when I when I talk about that solely centerfield defense, and I love defense more than anything, So I appreciate and I uh, you know, game recognized his

Well for this generation, Kevin, you're the bar. You set the bar for the way center field can be played, how elite it can be played. And certainly you're in that conversation when somebody makes a play, they say that was a keer Meyer type play. So thanks a lot for the time, and this will not be our last conversation. I look forward to talking to you when you got champagne all over your face.

There we go. I can't wait. Thanks David.

There he is the man. Kevin Kiermeyer will send it back to you in the studio, all right.

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Tim, Thanks again. We're counting it down to the first pitch here at Truest Park in Atlanta. Overcast skies, some weather in the area. Hopefully it will hold off and this game will be played without delay. We'll see Jack Flaherty on the hill for the Dodgers twelve and six overall five and one since joining the Dodgers with an ERA of two to sixty one. He will oppose left handed Chris Sale. Saale making a bid for the Cy Young Award in the National League, also the Triple Crown.

A brave Yeah, he's had just a remarkable season. One of the things that de look four for Sale they had a no decision his last outing. That was on Sunday against Toronto, where threw one hundred and thirteen pitches. The reason I bring that up he's had a slight drop in velocity if you look at a couple of starts in he's hands so far in the month of August.

It's a good one and the delivery is a little bit different. I asked a few hitters in the past what it's like to face Sale. They said, it's like the first basement's throwing the pitch. I mean, he comes from Laredo and the slider and the fastball are almost indiscernible when they come out of the hand.

Initial yeah, I asked a hitter. I said, what's more uncomfortable facing Sale or hitting your finger with a hammer on purpose? He goes, well, maybe hitting your finger well.

Sale sixteen and three against Jack Flaherty twelve and six. Rific pitching matchup here in Atlanta. First pitch just around the corner. Dodgers Braves Game two Jim.

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