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regular season. Yoshinobu Yamamoto on the mound. First pitch from Coors Field is set for five to ten. Between then and now, we got a lot to get to here on Marongo Casino Dodgers on Deck, including hearing from the manager himself. Dave Roberts will dive deeper into this pitch heat matchup David Vesse. He'll join us throughout the show. He'll go one on one in landing Neck. Shortly, we'll check in with Kirsten Watson live on the field at
Corus in Denver. That's coming up and in just a few minutes, we'll head out to the Gallpin Brewers Broadcast booth with Rick Monday and Tim never Well. Last night in Denver, it was an offensive onslaught as the Dodgers rolled the Rockies.
It was a bullpen game for Dave Roberts.
Ryan Brasier was the opener, followed by Benksparius, who ate up a bulk of the innings. In all, five different Dodgers came out of the bullpen. They allowed just four runs on eight hits while striking out of combined thirteen. Meanwhile, the Dodgers' offense scored early and scored offen. In the first Taascar Hernandez got it started.
We'll count to Tascar Hernandez, as Quantrill deals, there goes Loucks bitch a swing out at hammer Deep till I failed way back in gone a home run ta Oscar Hernandez two outs in a three to two pitch for Taoscar his thirty.
Second home run.
He nows ninety.
Six runs batted in.
The Dodgers strike first two more two out runs for this Dodger bold club, and they lead it to nothing.
Two run shot for tay Oscar, number thirty two ties a career high Dodgers up two to nothing. In the second, three more from the Dodgers, including a show Hey Otani RBI single Dodgers then up five to one. In the fourth, Andy Pot has a solo blast four hundred and thirty three feet to left Dodgers with a six to one lead. Then in the sixth show Hey Otani up to bat two to on, nobody out in a three to one.
Count, Hey off pitcher three two to show Hey Otani. He swings hits a drive deep to right field, way back upper deck, home run show Hey o tany with home run number fifty four.
He's driven in three more.
And the Dodgers add on.
It's nine to two show.
Hey Otani is absolutely incredible.
He's three for four in the game.
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night for tay Oscar. Dodgers pound the Rockies eleven to four, and with the win now ninety six and sixty four, with the Phillies already losing today, the Dodgers have sewed up the best record in the National League for the regular season.
Yes, they have clinched it.
They will have home field advantage throughout the World Series as it stands right now, as the Dodgers look to finish out this regular season on a winning note. Today and tomorrow tonight, Yoshinobu Yamamoto on the mount in his final start of the regular season.
First pitch coming up at five to ten.
And with more.
Let's head out to the Gallpin Motor Broadcast booth as we welcome in Rick Monday and Tim never guys.
Thanks very much. Tom. We've got another perfect evening for baseball in the lower downtown section of Denver, Colorado. Here at cors Field the Dodgers and the Rockies, Game two of this three game set. The Dodgers ninety six wins sixty four losses, the best record in Major League Baseball and right now the number one seed heading into the postseason, in which they would have home field throughout. They can make sure they clinched that on their own with a
win tonight or a Phillies lost to Washington. Meantime, Rockies are sixty one and ninety nine, trying to avoid back to back one hundred lost seasons. Yoshinobu Yamamoto on the mound for the Dodgers six and two in a two nine six, makes.
His eighteenth overall start for.
The Dodgers this year. Antonio sends a Tela will make his second start in a week or so against the Dodgers and his third start. Sin's coming off of Tommy John surgery, sends a tele of no decisions in a three to three to eight Eri moh Last Night Show, Hey Otani doing Show Hey O Tani Things. He steals his fifty seventh pace and hits his fifty fourth home run, and he's still mathematically has a chance at the Triple crown.
How about these numbers. In the month of August O'tani had twelve home runs fifteen stolen bases. So far in September, ten home runs, fourteen stolen bases. But how about the last eight games. He's hitting seven oh six. In the last eight games, he's had twenty four hits and thirty four bats, six doubles, six home runs, twenty runs batted in, fourteen runs scored, eight stolen bases. He has raised his
average in the last eight games. And mind you, this is at the end of the season where it's difficult to raise your average. He's raised it twenty two points in eight games. Is that any good? It's off the charts. I mean you look at it and say, no, this must be a misprint to begin with, But we know it's not because we've been witnessing it. And every time
he comes to home plate. You want to have both eyes on the game, and you want to have one hand reaching for a record book because that is turned into silly numbers.
Now, Otani starts the night with a three to nine batting average. Luisa Rise is ahead of them with the Padres at three point fourteen, and we understand a Rise is sitting out the ballgame tonight as the Padres are in Arizona taking on the Diamondbacks. In the meantime, Max Monsey back in the lineup and Kevin Kiermeier will get a start before he calls it quits after tomorrow's.
Gayah and for kier Meyer getting the start to room around the center field in this big, big ballpark out here on top of it. Kick a Hernaniz again is at first base. We've not received any official updates on Freddy Freeman as far as his progression from the sprained ankle, but from top to bottom, this is pretty much a lineup that Dave Roberts is going to be looking at, obviously, with the exception of Freddy Freeman. And we'll find out exactly how long Mookie Betts stays in the game. I
would imagine this show. Hey Otani is going to be in there for nine innings and one as many advanced as he can get depending on what he does. You know, if he goes five for five to start this game up, does he remove himself from the lineup. We're going to find out. There's all kinds of things in different combinations. Who finishes the best record in Major League Baseball as far as the National League, What happens with the batting crown?
What happens with the all kinds of things right now exist signing and the Dodgers need to get some healthy players back on the field.
Just one more note on the triple crown the batting title race. All o'd Towney has to do is tie Arise doesn't even have to pass him. So he's got to tie him. And if you share the batting title, that will be enough to give him the triple crown. He's easily going to win the home run title in the RBI title.
Yeah you know. It was on this date in nineteen forty one, the season's final day that year. Ted Williams entered the ball game hitting three ninety nine, nine to fifty five. He elected to play against the A's rather than finish at round up four hundred. What he wound up doing. He went six for eight in the double header. He finished at a four to five seven mark upgraded to four seven.
Too bad for the splendid splinter, that's for sure. Dodgers and Rockies. The penultimate game of the regular season. It's game number one sixty one. Coming up. Yoshinobu Yamamoto starting for the Dodgers, Antonio sin Stella for the Rockies.
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Dodgers and Rockies Game two. There's three game set. Yoshinobu Yamamoto on the mound. First pitch, coming up at five ten, This is.
The Otani rewide two one.
Otani hits it on the ground right Sonny Got's throw a sing I base it in the right high is around third. He's coming to the plate. He will score around second and into third is Taylor. It is now four to one. Show hey Otani gets a basin and drives in his one hundred twenty seventh run of the season. No one's ever landed on number fifty five. There goes Otani for second throw down by Stallings. Otani's gonna have it stolen. Here comes Tanner underscore. Paul goes into center
fielding down to third base, goes Otani. Show Hey Otani in a quest for sixty stolen bases. He's now at fifty seven. Payoff pitch a free too to show hey Otani. He swings hits a drive deep to right field way back upper deck.
Home run.
Show Hey Otani with home run number fifty four. He's driven in three more and the Dodgers add on.
It's nine to two.
Shai Otani is absolutely incredible.
He's three for four in the game.
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Hey, Kirston now joins us from the field there in Denver before game two of his three game set to wrap up the regular season, and Kirson Tonight, Yoshinobu Yamamotol on the mound and again another Dodger starter. They're looking to see a little something out of before the postseason.
Yeah, it's gonna be a final tune up. But obviously when you give a playoff, you want to have some good things. But add having a final tune up here in Denver, Colorado, it does make it a little bit trickier at the altitude. He's also coming off of feeling a little bit under the weather. So Dave Roberts said that they are going to keep an eye on him just kind of the stress of the innings things like that. But the hope is for him just to kind of
continue to get stretched out a little bit. Obviously, we know that he's relatively recently coming off of the il from that shoulder inflammation, and so they do want to make sure that he's in a good spot to be ready for October in regard to being able to pick necessarily deep into games, but having the endurance to get through games and stuff like that.
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Yeah, so if you remember kind of the conversations as he was building up to fifty home runs and fifty stolen bases, was you know, the chase the change rate
had gotten a little bit high. You could see that it seemed like he was going he was looking to swing for power and trying to get those home runs and even you except when we were talking to him about achieving this goal, he would say, yeah, I'm trying to get it over with, you know, and David saying as soon as he did reach fifty, he did know that the shift and his approach and his at back and how you could see him hitting more for average.
And so now there's also maybe a shifting goal and a shift in mindset as well as he's looking to go for the triple crown. So when you look at his batting average, he's had three h nine right now, Luisa Rice's number one and he is at three fourteen, and so he's actually going to be down today. He's not in the lineup. So Joe Hansani's playing today, He's
playing tomorrow. And Dave Roberts say he's gonna He's giving him that opportunity to go for it, and he thinks that if Joe Hayes can catch up, he is going to do everything it has power to do just that. But also when it comes to that change and approach and his that it's really important for him to be doing this right now, preparing for October because some postseason
you don't need to be swinging your home run. Sometimes we be singing to get a player over or to make a difference in the game, and it's not always just the home run. So he said that he's been really sees this is what he's been seeing from his at bat, and it comes to another goal and another thing to achieve. I think for show Hayes, he's going for that triple crowd next.
It is amazing.
If he sends his mind to it, there's nothing this guy cannot do.
Kirsten.
We appreciate it.
We will check in with you after the game. Still to come here on Dodgers on Deck. We got a lot to get to. Still, we'll dive deeper to this pitching matchup. David vat sag goes one on one with landin neck.
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We'll get you an injury report and we'll hear from the manager himself.
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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.
I do think that coming back, there's been a heightened focus. Rightfully, so there hasn't been a consistent pitch making, but I just like where his head's at, and I think he really understands that this is going to be his last tune up, and you know, I expect big.
Things from him over that illness.
He's I mean, it's kind of I don't think he's one hundred percent, but he's better than he was. You know, a couple two three days ago he was he wasn't great, just I mean under the weather, and obviously then you start feeling a little bit of weakness. So not ideal to be pitching at altitude, but it's kind of the schedule.
Do you know how you're going to line up at least him and Jack at the start.
Of the yet, No, but my guess is probably Jack then Yamamoto.
Though just with their days off.
Yeah, the rest of you yes, he would probably.
Go on sense right, Otani going for the triple ground. Luisa Rise is sitting today. Do you have any thoughts on how ARII should handle these last two days?
No, No, I don't. I think that he's certainly got his ample share of plate appearances, Luis, and they just kind of, I think clinched the where they're at in the wild card or whatever it is, so really they're not playing for anything. I'd be shocked if he doesn't play tomorrow. And yeah, I mean hopefully he plays tomorrow. Goes over and Showhy has another fourhead game.
We will see. Hopefully that is the case.
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All right, DV is the Dodgers wait to finish this regular season? Get ready for the NLD. Couple of guys. Dodger fans are worried about Miguel Rojas. Freddy Freeman, what's the latest.
Miguel Rojas stayed back in Los Angeles. The original plan was for Rojas to play tomorrow, the final day of the regular season, but with the Dodgers clinching the NL West before they left for this road trip. They obviously have the luxury of allowing Rojas to get that left groin injury ready to go for Game one of the NLDS, which is a week from today at Dodger Stadium. The Dodgers expect Rojas to be ready for that Game one, and they also expect Freddie Freeman to be starting at
first base a week from today. As you know, a pretty bad looking ankle sprain, right ankle sprain. Freddie stayed back. He's getting treatment every single day, and just talking to his teammates, they have no doubts Freddie Freeman will be starting at first base come next Saturday. But at what level that's the question everybody has. I find it hard to believe that it's going to be more than seventy
percent of Freddy Freeman for next Saturday. But seventy percent of Freddie Freeman is much better than some at one hundred percent. And look, if he's not able to go for some reason next Saturday, the Dodgers will have a decision to make about whether or not months he starts in first space or keyk Hernandez, I'm hearing it's going to be key k if Freddy Freeman cannot go as of now, but talking to his teammates, they all expect
Freddy to be in the lineup. He wants to be in there, but I believe it's a little unrealistic to expect more than seventy to eighty percent of Freddy Freeman.
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What does he have to say about this?
I wasn't expecting for him to take that opportunity yesterday to really lean into responding to all the critics about him hosting his podcast, which he has.
Done going back to last year.
Whenever the Dodgers play a team and there's a player of interest, Mooki tries to get them to come into studio and to host a podcast interview with them. He did Aaron Judge last year, and I guess he's been trying to get Fernando Tattis Junior but just hasn't been able to nail him down.
Well.
He was able to before the second game of the series, the day after the game ending triple play, and I guess he heard the criticism from the critics for even entertaining having a conversation with Tattis and Mooki when we talked to him yesterday. This goes back to him taking swings before the division clinching game and get getting himself prepared to deliver a big hit like he did. And from there, you know, he explained what his motivation was to do all that preparation.
I don't know where this narrative is, like a narrative that people think I don't care, or some me doing the podcast has something to do with me at work.
I don't understand how.
They correlate, but I mean, it's my job like this on wake up every morning.
Want to do this.
Of course, I have to establish a life doing podcasts and other things because you don't play this forever. And you know, sometimes you got to do both. But now I love that, like me going in there and take three on his swings. That means to me, I mean, this shows me how I want to win a World Series. But I don't know you know, and I don't know if everyone.
Else you know, Tim I, I kind of tend to side with Mookie Betts on this. Him recording a podcast interview hours before first pitch with Fernando Tattis Junior was not going to affect the way he played between the lines.
Was it a great look? The optics may have not been great.
He was zero for eight in the first two games of the series, but I mean, it's the regular season. The Dodgers were still in control of winning the division, and you saw he recorded the podcast and delivered a big two run base hit in that division clinching game, So I didn't feel like it was out of bounds.
But obviously Mookie took it to heart.
And I guess Dodger fans should pat themselves on the back because they gave him Boston like motivation to respond the other night.
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Rick the Dodgers and Rockies getting set for first pitch, and Otani is in the starting lineup chasing the batting title, but Luisa Rise is not in the starting lineup for the Padres. Dave Roberts said he had no issues with it. What do you say these last two games?
You know it's their ball club. Mike Schiltz is the manager at the Sandega and Andres. Let's go back and look at it realistically. Before the Dodgers series, Remember, Arise missed some games because of a risk, so that's an area. Andres do not have the luxury of the Dodgers that they have in a number of days off until they start playing postseason play. So he's trying to keep his ball club healthy. Yes, it just happens that he's leading it. How about these numbers, We'll bring it up again, but
how about these numbers for show? Hey Otani, and this is the end of season where it's really difficult to elevate your batting average. Right, So the last eight game for show, Hey o'toney has twenty four hits and thirty four bats that's a seven six batting average against. That's with six doubles, six home runs, twenty runs back at him, fourteen runs scored, eight stolen bases, and he's raised his batting average in eight games at this late stage of the season twenty two points in eight games.
And that's why we're talking about the triple crown and the batting title. You know, Dave Roberts even said that he thought it was out of reach a month ago when Otani kind of is chasing fifty home runs. But have you noticed a different approach, a different swing.
Since What I've just do. What I've noticed is all of us standing on the sidelines is just absolutely being amazed at what this man is doing, including the stolen bases, on how he is able to focus in. I mean, we're all caught up in on him. He looks calm, cool, and collective. You're around him and around the other players much more than we are because you're down in the dugout both before and during the game. Sometimes you're right by the dugout and doing some television do you sense
anything that is going on there. I mean, his teammates have to be also amazed to what he's doing.
The teammates are certainly amazed, but when it comes to Otani Rick, it's just another day at the ballpark for him. And as I was coming up to talk to you, who did I see throwing a heavy ball against the wall? None other than Shohei Otani as he is still trying to come back to pitch next season.
Yeah, I'm not sure I'm buying in the heavy on the heavy balls being thrown.
I'm not all in on that, but I'm just saying he is still you know, people think he's only hitting, he's preparing to hit in a game, but he's also working to come back to pitch.
I go back, David to the offseason where I was talking to some of the Dodger executives via telephone and they were telling me about they were amazed at the workouts that O'tani would would put in at the stadium. It wasn't just show up and have a little workout and go have lunch somewhere. No, it was a full blown workout. And when you get professor shows that are seeing it from day in and day out, and we see guys work and work really hard for them to
take notice. So the guy that just came in and signed a huge contract, but he wants to earn it and he wants to win, and he was dedicating himself from a day one we signed a contract.
That's what I believe we take for granted, right, Rick, you know this better than most to do what he has done this season. You don't just show up and play.
And we have the advantage of seeing a lot of that.
Now.
He stays away, he hits a lot indoors. Underneath, he works out a lot indoors. We don't see that end of it, but we do see the work that goes in every day before the gates even open and the public has a chance to come in. We see these guys. I mean, this is this is a long, long deal. This is game one sixty one plus you look at the exhibition games. A lot of these guys are tuckered out.
I mean they're flat out, but they train for it, and they've also trained their mind to be here because they're great expectations in Los Angeles, not just to win, but the win big. And they've got a chance to do that this.
Year, and those are Otani's expectations as well.
Thank you, Rick.
We'll check back with you and Tim Nevert a little bit later. Altitude getting to me as well. We'll send it to you Tim.
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What a season for Landon Neck making his major league debut, winning his first major league game, and being part of this Dodger starting staff as they head into October.
Landon, thanks a lot for the time, appreciate it.
Yeah, I always love hopping on with you.
Hey, Landon, I actually wanted to ask one of you guys. You're wearing a fifty to fifty oh tawny shirt. The entire team has been wearing it ever since he accomplished that. In Miami, you usually only see fans wear this shirt.
But he must mean.
A lot more to this team for everybody to continue to wear this shirt.
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Absolutely, yeah, No, he's a heartbeat the lineup absolutely like just brings the energy every timing it out there right now, right now, He's he's so hot, swinging it. Every time he gets on base, he's fired up, and so yeah, no, you can't help.
It but love the guy and and want to support.
Is there some sense with all the great players on this team all of you are looking to him to not only lead you on the field, but maybe emotionally.
Yeah. Absolutely, him, Him and Mookie and Freddie and them.
Of course, they're like you look at them as kind of the leaders of this team, and so absolutely, you know you look towards him as kind of the energy, the the mindset you see him going in with out there where he's just ready to attack as soon as he gets in the box.
So yeah, no, absolutely he is. He's just bringing the energy for us.
Landon Dave Roberts said yesterday you are one of his four starting pitchers for the NLDS.
What does that mean to you?
It means a lot.
Yeah, No, obviously, I've been very excited.
Over the course of the year.
You know, it's been kind of back and forth between here and OK see and kind of just battling through things, trying to stay as consistent as possible, and so getting that kind of not right there from him means a ton to me, and I'm just excited to contribute and to where it's our ultimate goal.
Of World Series.
Can you look back at where your season started and where it's going headed to the playoffs, do you feel like you're starting to get some traction to your season, some regularity to it again.
Yeah, And I think kind of being able to get up here this last time and just kind of being able to settle in for the last month and kind of stick around up here and kind of get back into a normal routine instead of the kind of back and forth and starts moving around to kind of fit with the needs here and being able to just kind of have that consistency being part of the team and just getting to stay here. It's made everything.
Feel a lot easier.
Landed Neck is our guest.
Let's go back to the celebration of the NL West Championship. What was it like for you to be part of that since you obviously have had a big part of this second half.
It was surreal.
Yeah, the getting to be here and actually be around for when we clinch, get into pop bottles with these guys and kind of celebrate this entire season where the work, I mean, it meant a ton to me.
That was so much fun. Kind of just getting in there and celebrating with everybody.
It was just a moment I'll never forget, kind of the first time popping bottles up here.
I'm sure you envisioned that the last few years watching this team do exactly what you were a part of. To be part of it this time, do you feel like that's another box you've checked in your career.
Yeah? Absolutely, guy.
There's a lot of people who play baseball around this league that don't get to experience that for a long time if ever, And so getting to be a part of that in my rookie year, getting able to kind of be able to come up here and experience popping bottles and celebrating in nl WES championship, I mean is it is absolutely an amazing feeling and it's just something I definitely don't take for granted.
During that celebration, Gavin Stone was in there twenty five starts, the most on the team. He pitched the most innings of any pitcher on this staff all year. Unfortunately the shoulder injury. What was it like celebrating with him?
It was great. I'm so glad he was able to be there be a part of that.
He's been such a huge part of this team the entire year, seeing the way he went out there and just took such a massive step forward established himself here this year. It was a lot of fun obviously coming up with Gavin, like it's somebody that like you want to see do well, you want to see succeed, and you just care about him, and so it's been. It was awesome for him to be able to be there celebrate everything that he helped us accomplish this year because he was such a big part of it.
And uh, and it was just great.
Landon Neck is our guest, all right, before I let you go. We all saw it the standoff yesterday before the game after the national anthem Dodger fans, I've seen that before between Joe Kelly at the time a Cardinal and Scott van Sli like a Dodger.
How did that all come about? Did you arrange that?
No?
I actually had no plan of doing that at all. And then uh, the color guard here, I was gonna I just always wait for them to get off the field, and instead of they were starting behind second and had to walk all the way to the left field corner and so it was taking a long time, and I just kind of half peeked over there there Aline and saw Freelan just eyeing me down. And so as soon as I saw him staring at me, I was like, well, I have to say, yes, I can't just not accept that.
Like you're you're clearly challenging me. All right, let's do it. And uh so yeah that was fun.
Yeah.
I mean obviously, uh I hate that.
Uh the umpire came to me first, of course to get me out of there.
But uh yeah, that was that was fun.
I feel like that was the rookie thing to do by the umpire, right, not go to the veteran in his home ballpark, but to come to the rookie.
Yeah.
I think he knew exactly what he was doing. He knew that, uh he could he.
Could get the rookie a little bit more, just like being with it, like hey, it's an ejection and some other stuff.
If you don't get off, I'm like, ah, you're right, all right, I'll get I'll go, I'll go.
But yeah, so it was that was that was fun one all right, Landed, thanks a lot, love seeing your personality and these type of games, and very happy for you to be part of this uh October roster.
Yeah, absolutely can't wait.
There he is the man Landing nac, good guy, easy to root for. Bat you in the studio, Tim, all right, thanks a.
Lot, DV.
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Thanks again. We're counting you down to the first pitch here at Corsfield in Denver on a gorgeous evening for baseball game number one sixty one, with one to play, the Dodgers looking for win ninety seven, the Rockies trying to avoid one hundred losses. Yoshanoba Yamamoto on the Hill will be his final start of the regular season, his fourth since coming off the injured list, and when he came off, he won eight innings, didn't allow an earn run until he faced the Rockies last Sunday, and that
was a much different story. Only three innings, seventy nine pitches, he allowed four runs. So today the Dodgers are hoping to get up to ninety pitches and he certainly needs a longer route.
Yeah, because it pitch the last outing was really above what we normally see with a guy that has good command of the strike zone. I would think that they're going to really stretch out yama Moto as much as they can, because if you're looking aheadto the Dodgers postseason play, they're not going to play for a while. So for yama Moto, he needs a good work on the mound tonight and needs to find the striketh zone obviously with more consistency the last outing.
Antonio senz Attela second start in about a week against the Dodgers, but he has had thirteen career starts against LA. He is three and five with an ERA of five point six zero. Dodgers and Rockies second game of this three game set coming up.
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