DodgerHeads: Dodgers win, Shohei Ohtani ties Mookie Betts’ record, Clayton Kershaw season high
It’s time for Dodgerheads. [Music] High fly ball into right field. Hey, Dodgers have won it all in 2020. So Tony 50 club [Music] hits the ball. She is gone. Los Angeles. Your Dodgers have won the World Series. [Music] Happy Sunday, Dodgers fans. Welcome into Dodgerheads Live presented by DodgerBlue.com, part of the medium large sports network. My name is Jess Beagle, joined today by Anthony Watrado to, wait for it, celebrate a Dodgers victory. It’s been a while since we could say that, but Anthony, happy Sunday to you, my friend. NFL is back. Happy Sunday to you. Uh, they are back in the W column. Uh, season starts today, I heard. Right. So, here we go. One and0, baby. undefeated one game win streak. Got to give a shout out to my guy Boston Blake. Uh his Pats got whooped by the Las Vegas Raiders today. So, shout out to Blake and shout out to the Raiders for making my day happy. I was in the group chat and I was like, I don’t know what to do with myself. The Raiders win. The Patriots lose. Mookie hits a home run. Kershaw is dealing. Robleski, one of my guys dealing out of the bullpen. Jack Dryer, my bold prediction at the beginning of the season, gets the save. It’s like Conorto reach base three times. Anthony, today like nearly could not have gone any better. I mean, it’s a it’s a big Sunday. That’s a big Sunday. Uh Blake was noticeably absent from the chat today. Yeah. Uh some people some people are saying that. I hear my audio is weird. That’s probably just me screaming. So, uh apologies to people. I’ll try and I’ll try and keep my audio levels to a normal rate coming out of my mouth now. Uh let lots to talk about tonight. Yeah, people say Jess voice is tired from screaming for Conford all morning. That and the Raiders. My my daughters look at me when the Raiders are on and it’s just delusional. Uh Ducks won 69 to3 yesterday by the way. So Mike Gundy talking a little smack. He gets smacked right back by the Ducks. Good weekend for me. But here’s the plan for tonight. We’re going to talk about yesterday, the last 24 hours, a little bit of perspective. I know you were on live after the game. I was I was I don’t I think grateful is the right word that I was at an event and saw parts of that game and then uh was not on the live show last night. But we’re going to talk that we’ll talk today. Muki and Otani producing on the offensive side. Some positive injury news. Muny, Edmond, Vesia, DW back. How much does that help? We’re going to talk bullpen like update check in. Who do we trust? Who don’t we trust? Uh, do we trust anybody? And then we’ll talk Tyler Glass now. Injury update as well. So, uh, Jedi Engineer with the super chat right off the top. I’m glad the team won so Anthony can end his hunger stunk strike, I mean fasting test. Were you not going to eat until the Dodgers won again? Was that a threat? It it it just happened to coincide with last night’s game, but uh I’m doing the 36-hour fast, which started last night around, uh 6 PM Pacific. Okay. Uh so hour 22ish or so, right? Yeah. You’re already at the finish line, baby, because you get to fall asleep here in a little bit. So, Right. Right. Right. It might be an earlier uh sleep night than normal uh for for these reasons, but uh but yeah, I I think I think we’re close. Uh, we got another super chat here from Payton says, “Love seeing Dryer take us home.” Absolutely. Uh, Dryer and Robleski. They those two guys did their jobs today for a group that uh had not been doing their jobs. So, shout out to them. Uh, Big Mac with the super chat. Uh, nothing in there. Big Mac, if you want to throw a comment in the chat, we’ll get to that. Uh, Dr. V, love that we dude. Love that we won. Show dogging it on the bases in the ninth. Reflects why this team has been so bad. Thoughts? I love Stephen Nelson on the broadcast. Like, show read the room, buddy. Um, that was kind of a funky one because my g I I’m trying to tell the best story about everybody, right? Like there was a world for for most of that fly ball where it feels like it’s either going to be a home run or potentially caught. And so you don’t want to get too far off of your bag. That said, at some point the guy basically stopped running and went to play the carum and Otani went from first base to second base on that play. Rorfett, by the way, ended up scoring. So, shout out to Ben who played what good defensively and scored on that play. Uh, how bad was was that mistake by Otani? I didn’t think it was huge. Uh, he didn’t have a good read on the ball. Uh, I’m not saying that he should not have scored. Let me put that out there first because I know with sometimes with the chat it’s either you’re on one side or the other. It’s no there’s no context here. Um, but uh it’s very possible he thought that ball might get caught and was kind of not sure where to go. just ended up sort of in between. Um it looked like kind of a homer off the bat, but I think everyone’s reaction on the field said that like it had a chance to stay and I think that’s what he was reacting to. Um still not great base running, but like the guy hit two homers today and like the the the fan base just piled on him for that mistake. It was and that’s the thing, right? You can separate those two things, I think, and say, “Hey, he hit two home runs. He was incredible. he was the largest reason for them winning today um or at least in the top two or three. On the flip side, for a team that has been finding catastrophic ways to lose games and for which there is no such thing as too big of a lead, that was actually kind of a critical play because it ended up instead of having second and third, you have first and second. The next ball is a deep fly ball to left to to left field. That would have been a sack fly that would have scored him. And then the next one is Conforto hits into a double play that only happened because Muki was still standing on first. And so yeah, the domino effect of at least one run that that decision cost them and potentially two because it would have extended the inning. So yeah, I mean I don’t I don’t like to play that part of the game. I don’t like to go I mean because I want to say this, Ben scored from second. So like he’s reading the same ball that show Otani is No, totally. Totally. But that is there’s there’s a big difference there. a guy going halfway from third. I’m sorry, from second on that ball after it hits the wall. So, he’s he’s walking in still. Yeah, but he could tag all the way up to second base because if that ball gets caught, they’ve they’re not going to pick him off first. No. And that part of the your point is is fair. It was bad base running is I I’m not defending the decision. I’m just saying I think he did not read the ball while it wasn’t a lack of hustle. That That’s my point. Yeah, that’s a good We agree there. We agree there. It was a boneheaded mistake. I don’t think he was lolly gagging on that one. Uh, Big Mac Super Chat, by the way, says, “Thank you to Anthony for a tough night last night.” So, uh, doing the Lord’s work, uh, by, uh, by coming into that postgame show. Uh, LLM said, “Some advice. Football is on. Do the shows after Sunday Night Football. I’ll check the replay later tonight. Go Dodgers.” Uh, fair enough. We always, we Sundays are always the trickiest one, especially when it’s a 10:40 game. We tried to find this window in between the one:00 slate and the the PM slate. Obviously, some of those games are still going on. So, thanks for watching later. And that’s the other piece, too. We know that we love when people can hop in live, but we also know there’s a large percentage of people for these Sunday shows that either watch YouTube live or listen to the podcast later. So, we appreciate the feedback, and we will uh we’ll do our best. It’s going to change potentially week to week. We’re we’re we’re figuring this out as NFL season is upon us, or as some people said, you know, try your best to have football on one place uh and uh and do your heads on the other. Um, before we talk about today’s game, Anthony, I do want to just kind of recap the last 24 hours because sometimes perspective is helpful. Um, 24 hours later, I’ll start here. Was that the worst regular season loss that you can remember from a Dodgers team? I was trying I you know, I called it that it was last night. I’ve been trying to think of other ones throughout the day that like, you know, and and maybe some of this is recency bias, sure. But a no hitter with one out to go. Yeah. and then you still have a two-run lead with nobody on base and you you cough it up and I think the context here matters of what the team is going through and all of that kind of stuff too. I couldn’t think of one not not in the regular season at least. Yeah, I I was just jotting down, not to like give people PTSD, but the the the um confluence of events that that led to them losing last night, right? You’ve got the three-game losing streak coming in. You’ve got the eight and two/3s no hit. You have a three nothing lead with one out to go. You have a home run that gets out by like a foot that that you know again the wind blows a tiny bit and that’s a fly ball at the warning track. Yeah. Uh you’ve got double hit by pitch walk run for Trinan who by the way had had nine consecutive scoreless appearances before last night. So maybe there’s one guy you felt decent about in Trinan and he’s the one crapping all over himself and then they bring Tanner Scott in and all the PTSD that comes with him and then he gives up the game-winning hit. I think if you would have given me half of those things, it still might have been the worst lost in recent memory. But you tack all those things on top of each other, Anthony. And I think that why to me, I can’t imagine how it could get worse from a vibes feeling, gut punch, kick to the groin perspective than it was. Yeah, totally. Totally. Uh and and I think I think part of it too was it it brought everyone to such a a high high of like things have been so bad and it’s this isn’t just you know you didn’t win 4-1 you know like it wasn’t it wasn’t that kind of game. It was like we are going to break out of this thing in the most amazing way possible by our our stopper going out and throwing a no hitter. Yeah. And then that ended and like, “All right, man. Still a fantastic outing. Still a stud. Get out of here with the win. Have a chance to win the series tomorrow.” And then in 10 minutes that mood was completely gone. Yeah. Um and so I think I think when you factor in all of that too is just like whoa. Like that it was it was a it was a gut punch. It was shell shock. It was you know PTSD. It was all of that stuff. and and you know if if they were rolling through this thing and they had a seven game lead in the division and they were cha they were chasing down 105 106 wins or something like that it would have just been a bad loss as opposed to what we’re talking about now. Totally. Absolutely. Uh and I want to clarify because I see some people in the comments that are pissed off about the things I said about Otani a minute ago. Like I I don’t think anybody on this team is completely above being questioned and critiqued for individual moments in play. So, like if you want us to just sit here with a guy like Otani or Freddy Freeman or whoever and just say like, “Hey, it’s all good. He can never make a mistake. He’s it’s he’s he’s perfect. It’s impossible for him to screw up.” Then knock yourself off. But we’re talking about a game where they blew a three to nothing lead like 24 hours earlier with two outs in the ninth. I think it’s fair to ask about why a guy doesn’t advance to third, why he doesn’t score on the sacrifice fly, why he doesn’t break up a double play. So again, if you can’t handle the the la the nuance of like he was awesome today and he made one mistake and we’re going to talk about both of those things, then um I I don’t know, maybe this isn’t the show for you. We’re going to try and do both. We’re going to try and be nuanced and try and be able to say both of those things. So, uh, and if you don’t think we’ve been consistent about calling guys out for making boneheaded mistakes, like go Google Andy Pahes when it comes to our show feed and tell me if we haven’t been consistent about Tasks Hernandez hustling or Pahes being an idiot because, uh, yeah, we’re going to talk about that here in just a moment as well. Um, let’s talk because I know Pahes is a thing that’s had you fired up on social media today. the home run that’s allowed yesterday. Uh there has been a lot of discourse about Pahes’s approach to that ball which was run towards the wall and then play the carum. Uh there’s multiple layers to this but I’ll I’ll just hand the ball off to you and say what has your reaction to Pahes’s effort, his approach 24 hours later. Yeah, it didn’t change from last night. Um and I’ve seen a whole bunch of hot takes and you know I mean the do it seeped into the Dodgers clubhouse because they talked to Andy about it. I don’t I don’t know that they have that conversation with him if if it isn’t a buzz and uh Kristen Watson asked Dino about it and all of that kind of stuff. So the my my feeling on it is still the same. He should have made the effort at the very least for optics considering what the situation was. Um I he had no chance to catch that ball. And I think I think people are are sort of wearing uh uh not understanding descent angle and how that is a a real real factor here where I thought back to when Raone Lauraniano robbed Teao in San Diego. Okay. Um and we I was like I think I even asked in our chat like man was that ball actually going out? Do we do we know? And it looked like it was going to be a home run when you saw the other angles, right? But because of the descent angle, it was coming down in a way that it was getting close to Lauriano’s glove before it even got to the wall. He was able to make that play. Had Lauriano not been there, it clears the fence for sure. But because of the way it came down, he was able to get a glove on it. Where this ball came down, you over that ledge, looks like threeish feet maybe until you get to that rail in Baltimore. The ball’s trajectory was not coming down in the same way that that ball did with Teao in San Diego. It was coming down essentially straight down, which is what typically happens on a high-fly ball. It doesn’t descend in the at the same angle that it that it ascends. It’s it it basically you can see if you look at my hand, it kind of it’ll go up like this, right? And it doesn’t go down like that. It goes up and then it goes down. And that’s what this that’s what this ball did. That wall, I think, is about seven feet. Let’s let’s call Pah six foot. If he’s going to make a play and get the glove to where that ball landed because he didn’t have a chance to get to it before it landed in that spot, you’re looking at probably the pocket of his glove would have had to be about 12 13 ft in the air for him to clear the wall, get across that ledge and get the glove to where that it’s just basically an impossible catch. and or his shoulders got to be eight feet and then his arms got to be fully extended. Right. Right. And so, um, that that was my whole point of the thing last night is like, look, he he wasn’t going to catch the ball, but I totally agree with the folks and my my my annoyance here is with the people who said he would have caught it if he tried. Yeah, I do agree wholeheartedly with the folks. Maddie and Norm were in here before the before the stream started saying that he should have just tried for the optics of it given the no just for your pitcher sake. One million% agree with that. And I also saw people saying he didn’t play today because of that. There’s no because it wasn’t a hustle play. It was a a judgment call on his part that he looked up and and they even called they talked about it on the broadcast today. He looked up, realized that the ball was way too high for him to have a chance and so he backed up just in case it did happen to hit the wall. Um it was a judgment call. It was that was not an effort call. Yeah. No, I I agree. And and it it just fits the narrative I think with Pah, which is incredible player, but like sometimes the mental side of the game and I’m not even talking like I’m not saying he’s dumb. I’m saying some of the highle mental side of baseball as far as reading angles, reading the moment, being able to put all those things together because from a strictly like out of context baseball perspective, he did the right thing which is try and limit that from being like a triple to maybe it’s a double kind of a thing if you can play the carum because you’re not going to catch it anyway. It just was it was the moment of like bro you’ve just got to pretend to put your body on the line in that moment. you’re not going to catch it. But in this moment, that’s not what’s important because even if it’s a triple doesn’t really kill you any more than a double or a home run does in that spot. Absolutely. Absolutely. And in standing out there and playing that inning out in your mind, visualizing if the ball’s hit to me, if I have a chance to take away a home run, I got to go get it. And at that point, before he realizes he doesn’t have a chance, just go climb that gate and do what you can, man. Like I mean no one’s going to fault you for that effort, right? Um and I get like in the moment it’s it’s you know it’s tougher but um yeah you you gotta I think the fact that he sort of backed off the wall looking for in case it cared like it was just it all all of it looked bad so I understand the frustration there but he was not going to catch the ball if he tried to get up there. Totally agree. Uh Phil by the way if it was Bo Jackson he would have run up the wall stood there and caught it. At least we know Pahes isn’t Bo Jackson. We have established that. just high jumped the entire 7 foot wall and stood there and waited for the ball to come down. Well, that that was the one that Steven Nelson kept referencing both on social media and during the game was a a game from I I don’t know exactly the league that it was being played in, but they they told the story of the guy who basically stood up on top of the wall and caught it. That’s what Bahes needed to do there. So, I saw on Reddit, too. I saw uh someone in right field in Baltimore this it must have been this season. I think it was Arizona maybe did did bring back a home run. It was a completely different play, but they they cut out that player and put it in that in the situation last night where PZ was and was and they were totally serious. If he would have done this, look at where look at where this guy’s glove is now. It is like what you it doesn’t work like that, dude. Crazy. Uh baseball geek. I was wrong. Miguel Rohos is a leader. He played hard. Grad Roberts benched Pahes and Tejo again. Did did they He benched them. Uh, very much up to interpretation, I suppose. Um, heard Clayton’s interview. He ended by saying, “Put on your big pants and just play.” So, there you go. Um, look, I I’ve said about Miguel Rohos that I was wrong about Miguel Rojos. Uh, he’s been incredibly valuable to this team. Obviously, defensively, but also offensively, and I would say being able to play as many games lately as he has, I mean, that was one of the concerns was he’s not an everyday player. He’s basically been an everyday player for a little while there. So, um, kudos to him. And again, shout out to Clayton Kershaw. We’re going to talk about him in just a moment, but um the Dodgers needed a stopper and he was that guy today. Yeah. Uh they got two stops in this series. Uh they just couldn’t close out the first one. Glad they were able to do it today. And yeah, a good call out here for Miggy Grow is because he had to fill the same sort of posed thing after Muki got hurt and all of that and he did it well. Um and he’s doing it again. So kudos to him. uh you know, he we’ve we’ve both commented in the past of like how he’s a valuable player, but you don’t want him have having to be out there every day because he gets on pace for 500 plate appearances, and you’re going to see why he’s not a star player or, you know, a regular. Um, but he’s he’s held his own and and he’s been one of the more consistent offensive players on the roster right now. So, so big shout out to him because, you know, he’s he’s living it and he’ll be an interesting one. We’re going to talk in a moment about what happens when Tommy Edmond comes back uh later this week and and Rojos is going to be right uh firmly in the midst of that. Uh Gabriel with the $10 super chat. My dad wanted to break something after last night’s game. I told him go get your weed and relax. He felt a whole lot better. So uh I you know there you go. Everyone coach differently. Yeah. Cole said, “No lie. When Dryer gave up the single in the ninth today, I thought, oh no, not again. Uh I tweeted Dodgers handshake with uh giving up hits with two outs in the ninth.” Look, there’s not a single Dodgers fan that that didn’t clench a little bit, Anthony, when that when that two out single went, right? I I had the same thought as Cole. Yep. Well, and then it got worse, right? Because they panned to the bullpen and Kirby Yates was wearing Kirby Yates was going, “Yeah, I’m like, buddy, I will die with Jack Dryer on the mound. He could walk the next four in a row and I would trust him more in the fifth batter than I would for Kirby Yates.” Thankfully, our guys saved us from any of that. Uh Wayne said, “I took my kids to the Friday and Saturday games. It was a good life lesson and disappointment. Yikes, Wayne. Yikes. Dodgers games. I still see life lessons and disappointment. I’m still optimistic about the season due to Muny coming back. Um, that’s kind of per a perfect segue into sort of the next question that I wanted to ask you is is the game last night. It feels like it’s the type of thing that is either going to spark a team and wake them up smelling salts to the nth degree or it’s like the last four shovels of dirt that just puts them firmly under the ground to where they can’t come back up. Like based on what you saw today, do you have any degree of confidence that it’s going to be the former and not the latter? Uh yeah, I think it’s I think it’s the former. I I think this team’s too talented and the pitching is still healthy enough and good enough that like they’re not going to just on pure talent alone, it won’t fold. The tent won’t fold like that. Yeah. Uh and and that’s not a huge endorsement. Uh I I think again like you’re going to get an outing where Snell or Glass Now or Otani or somebody gives you six or or or like um like Yamamoto did, right? he’s going to give you seven shut out innings, seven one-run innings, something like that where like you just Yeah. You know, on that day you score and you know it’s so I think they’re just too talented for it to totally collapse. Um, but what I said last night is I’ve I’ve lost a massive amount of confidence that this team can consistently put it together enough when it counts next month uh to to support the the starter the starters enough, the starting rotation enough because I I had been saying they got a puncher chance. They got the best rotation going into October if it’s healthy. And now I’m starting to believe that even with that, even if they are healthy going into October, I I just don’t like the way the things have looked so far. And I don’t I can’t it’s hard to trust that it’s going to turn the corner uh just because the calendar changes. Yeah, Kershaw had similar sentiments after the game uh saying we’re too good for it not to turn around was Clayton Kershaw’s quote. Um and again, he goes out there and pitched really, really well today, so that’s helpful. Um, I think we can set the rotation aside as something we feel good about. Are you more concerned about the offense or the bullpen right now? That might seem like a dumb question, but it’s a genuine one. Yeah. Uh, I know that I know the bullpen is is gotten all the heat and it’s it’s in the spotlight. Um, it’s under the those heat lamps, but for me, the bigger concern is the offense. Um because it’s it’s a lot of guys that should be producing more that aren’t producing enough. Uh and it’s been a significantly long enough sample size where they’ve been this way. Yeah. To think, man, the help that they have coming, is it enough? Yeah. Because they’re they’re facing bad teams and bad starting pitchers and there’s just nothing there. there’s nothing there. You know, even when they get guys on the days that they’re able to to put runners on base, um you know, they’re scratching across two runs and it’s just it’s it’s not it’s not enough to win in October, it’s not enough to support the rotation. Um, and even if the bullpin is good, uh, or or even like good enough, if you if every single game in October that you every situation you put them in is a one-run tie game, high leverage situation because you can’t score, eventually any bullpen is going to fall. They’re going to falter. Someone’s going to give up that run that loses the game. Uh, it’s, you know, it’ll happen to the best of them and regardless of if you’re taxed or tired or hurt or whatever. Uh, so the the bigger concern right now for me is definitely the offense, especially because it was supposed to be one of the things that carried this team. Yeah. And we’re going to talk in a little bit about obviously you’ve got two guys coming back that could be a boost to that group, but I think it’s fair to say, hey, we might need to see a week of Muny and Edmond and and see how things shake out. Obviously Will Smith, what happens with him as he comes back from this hand injury. um you know, losing Daltton Rushing who hasn’t been very good, but I think it’s safe to say offensively at least he’s an upgrade over Ben. And so, uh just figuring out kind of the rotation of of guys offensively and who plays when and whether they can find some consistency is going to be an interesting one. And that’s that is that is part of little of the frustration, too, is some of the guys who happen to be producing could have their playing time cut because these guys come back. Yeah. Yeah. Absolutely. Um, a couple guys offensively that I just want to shout out real quick because they have not been the problem. Uh, is Mukie Betts and Show Otani. Over the last two days, they are seven for 17 with three walks. They have seven RBI’s, three home runs, a triple um, as well. And so th this is a duo at the top of the lineup that when the offense has started to struggle, if you want to talk about guys who kind of put their big boy pants on and stepped up for this team, Yamamoto one, Kershaw two, Otani and Bets three and four. like not in order, but those four guys have not they they’ve stepped up to the plate over the last couple of days. And again, baseball’s a team sport. Four guys can’t carry you. Um even if it’s three at a time, but those two offensively at least have been in a different gear the last couple of days. And that’s crucial, right? Because as important as it is to get Tommy Edmond or Miguel Rohos or whoever at the bottom of the lineup producing, the most important thing is show Otani and Mukie Betts being right, Freddy Freeman being right. And so at least the good news right now, Anthony, is those two dudes, two games, I get it. But the last two backs against the wall, it feels like the fire turned on underneath him. Yeah. Um hopefully this can sustain. Um you know, we we talked about two weeks ago or so about, okay, the schedule is light now. It’s it’s eased up like fatten up on these bad teams and it’s been the opposite. I think they have a probably a losing record since then. Um, and they got the Rockies coming into town now. And so, I mean, that’s those are, you know, I I don’t want to say it’s like a must sweep, but it’s it feels like a must-win series at the very very least. Uh, and and maybe against that that pitching staff again, the offense can kind of get going. We saw some guys sort of get going in Colorado. Um, maybe part of that was being in Denver and not so much the Rockies, but uh, we’ll get a chance to see, you know, which was which this week. Yeah, absolutely. Payton with the super chat. Positives to take away for this last stretch for the upcoming stretch. Will Muny, Edmund, Dalton, Glass, now Vessia, all expected back. Two big series against the Phils and San Francisco are home games. And third, we’re still ahead of the Madres. Uh so, but I I mean that middle part, because we’re going to talk health in a second, three against Colorado, and then they’ve got a 10ame stretch where it’s seven games against the Giants and three games against the Phillies. So, on one hand, you get three games against the Phillies, which is the team that you need to catch if you want to not only win the division, but hopefully get yourselves into a buy situation, but then it’s seven games against the Giants, who are basically the hottest team in baseball over the last two or three weeks. And so, um, that that’s a stretch of games that those seven that I think we looked at very differently a month ago, Anthony, because those seven against the Giants are going to be no joke. Yeah, absolutely. Um Trey Turner went down today for the Phillies. It’s a hamstring thing. So even if it’s not long-term, it looks like he’s probably going to at least miss, you know, I would I would imagine that series against the Dodgers. We’ll see if if it’s if it’s more if he’s back before that, but it didn’t sound great. Um if he goes on the IIL at all, he would be gone for that. He would be gone. Yeah. And I can’t imagine them keeping him dayto-day. Um he had a he had a really bad hamstring injury last season that kind of took him out for a while. So, I would imagine they’d be cautious, which would probably mean an IIL stint and and getting him healthy for October. So, we’ll see. But, um, yeah, they become massive series. Uh, you know, be one because the Dodgers have played so poorly and they they haven’t gotten the separation they need and they’re still chasing the Phillies. Uh, and then also because the Giants are suddenly playing like a good team and so, you know, th these these games against them aren’t so much uh, you know, they’re not the Rockies. Yeah. No, you’re absolutely right. And I mean that the Giants were a team that, you know, I think a lot of us, everybody probably rode off a little bit, but as we sit here now, I mean, they’re four games back of the Mets for the final wildcard spot. And, uh, the way they’re playing lately and the way everybody else in the National League seems to be playing, uh, who knows? I wouldn’t say that’s completely unattainable. People were talking about the Giants being spoilers in this stretch for the Dodgers. It might be the Dodgers being spoilers for the Giants. Now, let’s go. Uh, Matthew Moreno just sent us this stat. Dodgers are seven and 14 against sub 500 teams since July 28th. So, there you go. Seven and 14 against under 500 teams. Uh, Among Us Academy uh, super chat. And what about the op uh, on the optics of Pahes not trying on the home run robbery? What about the optics of defensive sub Justin Dean airmailing Scott’s hit so that there was no play at home on the winning run? Uh, it was definitely not a great play for the center fielder. It looked like he struggled to get the ball out of his glove and then the throw was terrible. Um, I don’t know if it’s a perfect throw, if there even is a play at the plate. I was going to say there was two outs. The guy was running on contact and it was a it was hit so softly that Dean had to come in from essentially a longer way than if it was, you know, kind of barreled up a little more. Yeah. Um, yeah. I just I I think the air mail part of the throw was because he knew if I this thing has to be 100 miles an hour for me to have a chance and so he just let it fly. Yeah. Uh David with the super chat. The big highlight today. The bullpen didn’t f it up. There you go. Uh Cole said, “I don’t like thinking this way, but Sagano, three innings, seven hits, four runs. Maybe his foot injury wasn’t that bad. We will see if he makes his next start.” Um yeah, you never know. Uh Payton says, “Is it time to try Bobby Miller in the bullpen?” We’re going to talk bullpen here in a second. And let’s table this. We’ll we’ll come back to this P, I promise. Uh, and then Rod says, “Why don’t base runners pay more attention to their third base coach? I’m not just talking about Otani’s mistake, but base runners in general.” Um, I don’t know. I I’ve joked a little bit here about Dino and and how much I trust him at third base to make some of those decisions. So, I I think I mean, even Rohos today, he scores on that play where he’s halfway between third and home on, you know, the the safety squeeze. And I don’t know what the heck he was thinking because he started running towards the plate when the catcher threw the ball. So, he was basically asking for a pickle. He got lucky there. But just base running’s been a mess all over the place. Yeah, the base running has been really bad this season. Um, and I think it just goes to the overall like feeling of lack of focus and lack of attention to detail with this club. Um, there was some chatter early in in the chat here before the stream got started about uh the interview David Vasset did with uh Buster Oley and Buster Oley who was uh a different Buster only at that time. he was a beat writer when the Yankees repeated um and talking about what what that season looked like for the Yankees and drew some comparisons to what this one looks like for the Dodgers, you know, and you know, I think gave some people who are looking for uh some some of it because it was like, you know, that that it was a trudge through that regular season for the Yankees and you know, Joe Tori called them out for their lack of play and you know, all of that kind of stuff. Um, yeah. So, it happens and there is such thing as a championship hangover and and uh, you know, I think that it’s very natural for teams to like sort of lose some of that edge and sense of urgency a year after they win it. Not to say that like they’ve, you know, that they’re tanking or, you know, giving it up or whatever. It’s just like a natural like, all right, do I need to score from first here on this ball in the gap with less than two outs or, you know, can I kind of just ease into third base? like it’s, you know, sometimes it’s that kind of stuff, too. So, uh, but yeah, it’s one of the things we talked about, Jeff, I think it was last week, uh, you know, the five things that we want to watch over this last at that time 25 games or so was does this team sort of get their focus back? Yeah. So far, no. Yeah. Yeah. Absolutely. Some guys, right, some guys, you’ve seen improved focus. Yeah. On the whole, it still feels like it’s a little sloppy at times. Um, let’s talk injury updates. Uh, Msia and Vessia due back tomorrow at the start of this Colorado series. Tommy Edmund is due back at some point later in the week, it sounds like, or at some point in the Colorado series, maybe is a better way of putting it. Um, let’s start on the offensive side. How many problems in your mind get fixed with Muny and Edmond do back on that side of things? Yeah, I said a little earlier, this is my biggest concern. This is the side of the ball that I’m that I’m most worried about. Uh it’s going to help for sure. Uh even if Edmond still, you know, can’t find the pop that he had early in the season, but he’s able to have better, more competitive at bats, uh that’s going to be a plus. And then Muny, you know, bringing the Maxy stuff that we saw after he came back from the knee injury. Uh you know, that’s that’s a huge huge lynch pin in the middle of this lineup, which is going to for sure help. Um, so you you take away probably two spots in the order that were unproductive and you replace them with like one and a half because we’ll see what Edmond does, but who are probably going to be productive. Yeah. Um, I just don’t know if these two guys are enough to fix the problems that the offense has had over the last I mean, pick a time frame. Like in all honesty, it’s been a long time now. uh well before the All-Star break. And so so I I think that um it’s they’re they’re a sight for sore eyes, both of them. Um but, you know, when we’re talking about the offense, while it’s going to help, I’m going to have to see more from the rest of the lineup to be like, “Okay, now now this is an offense that I can trust going into the playoffs.” Because right now, you just you plug in one more productive guy, maybe even two more productive guys, and it’s like, okay, well, where where are they at now? They’re they’re not 28th in the league anymore. Maybe they’re like 17th, and it’s like, is that a good enough offense to win? Yeah. No, I think it’s an interesting point. I mean, because to your I think that Muny, let’s separate these two. Muny is going to help the offense. He’s going to be a massive upgrade over whoever he replaces in the lineup. Uh, and I think it’s a safe bet that he will be a guy that you can trust now as much as anybody else, right? Like he was producing. He was one of their better hitters right before he went injured. Obviously, he’s missed some time, but Muny is is used to unfortunately coming back from injuries, settling settling into a rhythm and finding his way. Edmond is the interesting one because I think there’s a defensively of course like I’m setting aside defense. Tommy Edund defensively will be a huge help to this group. Yeah, Tommy Edmund was really bad right before going on the injured list. Like I’m not comparing these players as if to say they are equal, but to put things in perspective, his overall season weighted runs created plus is an 86. Yeah, Michael Conforto is an 80. To put those things in context, Edmond is a much better offensive player than Michael Conforto. So don’t misar what I’m saying. I just think we have to ask like what version of Tommy Edmond are we getting? I don’t think it’s 25 30 home run Tommy Edmond we saw at the beginning of the season. Yeah. But it’s like dude I just need like 100 weighted runs created plus version of Tommy Edmond because if we get that then I think it becomes a differencemaker when you’re replacing Hessen Kim or Michael Conforto or Alex Freeland or whoever gets replaced it’s like there’s a big enough gap to say this is an upgrade. I I 100% agree with you and and he just has to be that guy. you know, back in the day when we were begging for Mookie to just be that league average player, you know, it would have been a big help then and and you know, he’s turned it around, you know, since then. But for Edmond, I think it’s the same now. Um, and and part of the part of his struggles happened after he had gotten hurt and we found out he clearly was not completely healthy. And I think that’s why they’ve been so cautious with him this time around is because for as bad as they need him, I think they saw what a diminished version of Edmond looks like and they’re like that does us no good. We need to get you as healthy as as possible, as close to 100% at this point as possible. Um, you know, and then maybe you are a contributor again offensively and also able to play in the outfield where he’s needed right now. And so, um, yeah, that that is my hope with Edmond is that he’s healthy enough now that he can return to some of that form that we saw early in the season. We’ll see. Um, again, the jury is going to be out for me on that. I’m not going to just come in and say, you know, yeah, he’s going to be that guy because I did that the first time and then come to find out he was still he wasn’t right. Um, and he was bad. Like really bad. And so, I’m with you. Muny is an instant impact kind of guy. Um, but again, with with all of the the stuff that has ailed this offense in the last few months, yeah, one guy like that isn’t going to turn it around. It like if you just dump Showi into this lineup, I don’t think it completely turns it around. Like you need a lot more than this. Uh, including the stuff like the focus stuff, the bad base running and, you know, the hitter, the hitting with runners and the situational hitting, all that kind of stuff. And all of that has to improve now. Yeah. The interesting thing will be obviously Muny comes back. The We’ve been talking about Tommy Edmond playing center field and that’s the goal. It it strengthens things. It it builds out this lineup, right? And yet, like now that we’re actually talking about it, are we positive that Tommy Edmond in center field, which essentially takes Conforto out of the lineup versus Tommy Edmond potentially playing second base and taking somebody like Hessen Kim out of the lineup? Like I I do the math on where this goes and I think the Dodgers have two choices. You’re basically deciding like do you want Tommy Edmond in the outfield and Miguel Rojos at second base or do you want Tommy Edmond at second base and Michael Conforto in left field? And I think the easy answer is is Miguel Rojos to me but I’m curious if you land in the same place that Edund plays center field, Miguel Rohos moves from third base to second base and Hessen Kim is kind of the the odd man out alongside Michael Conforto. Yeah, I I think you you you pick spots for Kim and Rohos to probably get at bats because you want to keep Rohos fresh also. Yeah. Uh or you know or fresh enough that he still has some production in that in that bat and he’s not just an all glove guy. Um but it’s a good question to have because when the when it was a no-brainer, you need Edmond in the outfield more than anything. Yeah. Alex Freeland was still looking. He had a semblance of some offensive light there and that obviously has gone away and so has he because he couldn’t hit enough. And so, um, you know, that was a big part of that that, you know, him being in, you know, Edmond being in center field. Now, Michael Confor has hit well enough to maybe keep himself in the lineup enough. He has he has a knack for just waiting until waiting until the back is not just against the wall, but he’s halfway through the wall. I mean, he’s hanging on to the ledge with one finger, right? And then all of a sudden he he figures it out for a while. Um, but no, so yeah, I I think it’s less dire that Edmond for the moment it’s less dire that he’s needed in the outfield. Um, and probably they can start to move him around. So on days that, you know, maybe they want to give him a little bit little bit of a break, he can play second or something like that. But um yeah, I think it is it’s going to be a question now. It wasn’t it’s not the the surefire thing that it was a couple of weeks ago probably. Where are you at on Hess Kim in this? Uh I think yeah, I mean I want us to get get him some at bats. I want to see if the offense now that he appears to be healthy. I want to see if the offense that he had when he was healthy can return. He played well in in in the rehab stuff. Um, you know, so let’s see. Let’s see where he is from the high of highs early in the season to the low of lows before he got hurt. Yeah. Does he end up somewhere in the middle? Because if he does, that’s probably a guy you can run out there on a pretty regular basis. Yeah. It was interesting. Oral Hershiser is typically a pretty positive guy. And when he was talking about Hessen Kim offensively, I wouldn’t describe what he was talking about as uh positive. He framed it as like this guy could be a gold glover tomorrow. Absolutely. But he was basically like offensively seems like we need a little bit of work. And I mean he’s so he’s one for 10 since coming back from injury and the one was a ground ball that the pitcher stuck his foot out today. That was the one hit Kim has had. And look, everybody’s going to crap on me because they think I hate Hessen Kim. I just haven’t seen competitive at bats. I haven’t seen a real threat offensively. It’s 10 g. It’s 10 at bats. It’s a few games. But as I look at this and I look at like where are the continued at bats going to come from because it’s not going to be over Miguel Rojos if we’re talking about somebody on the infield right and I actually think I know that our admin posted hey maybe it’s a Rojos and Kim platoon um I think it’s going to be Rojos and Conorto and people aren’t going to want to hear that but like Rojos against right left-handed pitching this year is 850 ops so Rojos is going to play against lefties and they probably don’t want him being an everyday But like Kim is a massive upgrade defensively over Conorto. Kim at second base, Conforto in left field. Yeah. But like again, I’m the guy that’s been riding Confordto all year. So people are going to take this with a grain of salt. That’s why I’m asking you somebody who’s way more unbiased. But like I just think the at bat quality of Confordto that he gives you. And he’s not killing you in left field. He’s not good, but he’s not killing you out there either. Uh I don’t know. You can tell me I’m crazy if you want. Yeah. No, I think it’s going to be a combination of all of this. Uh, I really do because again, I don’t think they want Miguel Rojos playing out there every single day. Like I I I don’t I think they will want to get him off of his feet and give him breaks here and there. Um, you know, and and that means then Kim’s at second base. Uh, I’d be curious to see if they also just say, you know what, uh, Kim is going to be an outfielder for a while, too. Yeah. Um, you know what I mean? And I think there’s part of that that’s probably still in play at least in like the third page of plans or something like that. Yeah. You know, I think it still exists. So, I do I I I hear what you’re saying and it’s a really it’s a good point. I think it’s going to be for for lack of a better answer. I do think it’s going to be, excuse me, a combination of those things where sometimes it’s going to be when you take those three guys, it’ll be a carousel of all of them of the two of two of those three playing on the same day just kind of in rotation. I don’t think it’s going to be a strict anything with those three. Well, and it’s only one of the three. If Edmond is playing every day and Muny is playing every day, uh it’s Rojos, Kim, and Conorto as the three guys for one spot will be the interesting sort of how they bounce. And and again, Rojos against lefties makes a ton of sense because he’s been the best hitter of those three by far and is solid defensively. Uh it’s against right-handed pitching that will just something to keep an eye on is what I would tell people. Uh is it going to be Conferto? Is it going to be Kim? Or are they going to trot Rohos out there where his OPS is like 200 points lower against right-handed pitching compared to left-handed pitching? Uh on the other side of things, Alex Vessia also do back tomorrow. Um let’s talk impact in a second. My first question is whose spot on the roster does does Alex Vessia take? Because on the pitching side of things right now, um I’ll just read the list. It’s Bond, Kasparius, Drier, Glassnau, Enriquez, Kershaw, Copek, Scott, Shien, Snell, Trinan, Robleski, Yamamoto, and Yates. And I know everybody’s going to jump to Yates and Tanner Scott. I would be shocked if one of those two guys is off of this roster tomorrow. Uh, I know people would love a Phantom IL. The Dodgers, I’m sure there’s a lot of policing going on to make sure that doesn’t happen. Which basically means Edgardo Enriquez, Justin Robleski, and Ben Kasparius are kind of the three names of guys they could just option down. EMTT Sheen as well. They could option down to Triple A and then figure it out from there. The The problem is a couple of the names I just mentioned are in my top four or five guys I trust right now. So, whose spot does Vessia take, do you think? Yeah, I think it’s going to probably end up being one of the optional guys. Um, I could see it being Kasparius. Not that he’s not back. The I say all these names here come with the caveat that I think they’re all back at some point and possibly on the playoff roster still. I think for now, for like the day Vessia comes back, um, I could see it being conspirious. I know people don’t like this, but I could even potentially see it being Enriquez. I think Enriquez would be my guess. I I think he was really good to start. He’s been a little shakier the last few. And I just feel like if I had to choose between Kasparius, Robleski, and Enriquez, I think he’s still at the bottom of those that the list of those three guys given what Robleski offers you, given what he did today. Like I I just think there’s more value in Robleski and I think Kasparius I just trust more than Enriquez right now. Yeah, and that’s fair. Um it’s it’s interesting. I think the trust there is just because Ksparius has the longer track record for this season. Uh cuz Enriquez has been good. Hasn’t been as good lately, but the swing and miss stuff needs to improve, right? Like so they I think they could make a case like, “Hey, we’re going to send you down. We want you to work on a couple of things here. You know, we still see you as part of our October plan. if you can if we can get this right. Um I I think at the moment it’s probably going to be something like that. Uh but these numbers games in a bullpen, especially in a Dodger bullpen have a way of working themselves out. Yeah. Real quick, by the way, I don’t know. Says Conforto in the four spot, the Dodgers just don’t care. None of it makes sense. I’m glad you brought this up. Dodgers 5-0. 5-0 in games when Michael Conforto’s batting cleanup in case anybody was wondering. So, um it’s true. They have no regard for the rest of the league. Anthony, when they put that guy in, they are undefeated. They literally never lose and that’s not fair. So I agree with I don’t know that the Dodgers need to care more about the rest of the league and they need to start paying attention to that because let me let me ask you this Jeff are well well okay we still have our who do we trust in the pen segment to go right that’s that’s next on my agenda. I’ll save I’ll save my question to you. Okay. So, my question was with Vessia back tomorrow, um, again, we we let let’s just use the entire group of pitching that includes Vessia and the guy that they’re going to send down because we don’t know who that is. Um, I have four names that I would say I trust right now. And I I’m curious how many of those four names are on your list or if your list is smaller than four as far as guys in the bullpen that if they come out in a two-run game in the ninth, I feel good about it. I have four names on the list. Who do you have on your list? Okay, I’m looking at the active roster right now. And you don’t have to go in order. You could just go down the Let me Let me do this. I’ll read I’ll I’ll just read straight down the reliever list and you tell me trust or don’t trust for right now. Uh Bond. Yes. And and I’ll give you three categories. I’ll I’ll give you don’t trust eh and trust. Okay. And and this is all assuming they’re used in the situations that are mo most advantageous to them, right? No. Just ninth inning, you’re up by two. This guy comes out of the bullpen. Like getting thrown into the same cat situation as Tanner Scott or whoever else. That’s fair. Okay. If Bonda comes in, is that a thumbs up, thumbs down, or sideways? Me. Okay. Sideways. Uh, Kasparius. Sideways. Okay. Drier trust. Okay. Uh, Enriquez, sideways. Copek, trust. Okay. Thumbs up there. Tanner Scott. Easiest one I’m going to give you all day. Thumbs down. Damn right. If you didn’t say that, the chat might hate you more than they hate me right now. Way to throw the softball in there. Shining. Uh, sideways. Okay. Robleski Trust. Okay. And Kirby Yates. How many thumbs do I get? Yeah. Is there a is there a further down? Okay. So, just to recap. So you’ve got Drier Trust, Copac Trust, uh what did you said? Sideways on Trinry. Yes. So and then Robleski was a trust. I I trust Robleski. Yeah. Okay. So Dryer, Copc, and Robleski are the three guys in your It’s not inspiring. Yeah. Oh, and the one guy I didn’t mention is Alex Vessia. Vesia and Vasia’s trust. Okay. So you’ve got four guys in your trust category. We have two of the same four in your in our list. So, we agree on Drier and we agree on Vessia as guys that like if it’s two-run lead in the ninth and they come out, I trust them. Yeah. Um, so talk me through uh Copek because I have COPEC in my sideways category. I have COPEC and Robleski and Enriquez. Those are my three sideways guys on my list. So, talk me through Copek and Robleski as thumbs up guys. It’s not a great case. Okay, I’m I’m going to put that out there right now. It’s not a great case. Um, but it’s trust right now. It’s almost by a process of elimination. Um because I don’t want to say I don’t trust anyone. Um even though that is an option, but he’s looked okay so far. He’s looked like the command has been sort of commandable and I think if he can stay there, um I’m fine. And he’s a guy who’s done it on a big stage just last fall. So, for those reasons, I’m I’m okay with him right now until he proves otherwise essentially. He’s he’s kind of on he’s on that you got my trust until you break the rules. Okay. Sort of situation with him. Okay. Uh and then what about Robleski? I’ve got him sideways. I know he was really good today, so it might be a little recency biased. He had had a couple up and down appearances like a week or so ago. So, the last five innings have been good. A few struggles before that. I obviously love Robleski, so it hurts me to that that somebody else on here has more of a thumbs up attitude than me, but you’ve got him in that that group. And and and you’re right, it there’s recency bias here that I’m willing to admit. Uh and it’s it’s I’m I’m counting it because there’s other guys who like because of recent failures, I’m like, I can’t trust this person. Yeah. In that kind of situation. So, for Rebleski, I think that uh I think he’s a guy who can handle it. And like even even when he’s faltered this season, um it doesn’t it hasn’t ever really looked like the moment was too big for him. And I kind of I like that makeup in him. Yeah. Um I I love it. I love it. I’m not going to argue. Um the two guys that I So again, Dryer and Vessia, we both agree on. I have Trinan in this group. And I know that’s sounds crazy because he literally melted down last night in a game that they needed and in a big spot and yet prior to that he had nine consecutive scoreless appearances and he’s been through the wars. So that’s why I’m a little surprised that you have Copek in this group and Trinan out of this group because I feel like Trinan has both the track record historically as well as bar outside of last night has actually been successful at the major league level recently. Yeah. and everything you say is is absolutely correct. Um the thing the a couple of things here last year he didn’t have these meltdowns. Yeah. And and the other part of this is last night is the perfect example is he can be rolling and he looks like he is the guy, right? And you can sometimes tell with him in the first batter and we Matt and I talked about this last night. when it’s going to go bad, you know, it’s going to go bad quick. Yeah. And I think Dave tries to ride with him because I think the hope here is he’s going to figure it out mid outing and he has not been able to do that this season. When the command is gone, he it’s just gone and it does not come back. Uh you know, and he’s got no idea where it’s going and it’s any pitch. It’s the sweeper slider. It’s the fast ball. He had no idea where the fast ball was going last night. He missed in every direction. That’s always a bad sign when you miss wide and you miss high and you miss low. Yeah. Yeah. He looked like he looked like me and and my friends hitting the driver. Uh it was going all over the place. But uh so and that’s where you say trust. Now if you’re like it’s a one-run game, it’s the ninth inning. We’re going to go with Tryan. I’ll go okay. Let’s do it. I understand that. But if you’re asking how much I trust it, I’m like, man, this is tough because and it’s because he has not been able this season to get himself right in the middle of an outing that’s going badly. And I think the reason I like this exercise is because as we were texting to set up for the show, I kind of had the realization, and it’s something I’ I’ve talked about briefly on here, that part of the reason I think people are down so bad on this Dodgers bullpen is because they’re still envisioning a bullpen in which Tanner Scott and Kirby Yates are at the back end of it. And if and if you’re like if if I told you, hey, Tanner Scott and Kirby are your eighth and ninth inning guys in the NLDS, NLCS, like you would have every right to be horrified. Yeah. But if we flip things and we just take the names off of it and we say, “Hey, we know what the track record is. We know what the contract says. However, actually once we get to nutcrunching time, it’s actually going to be Drier and Vessia and Trinan and Kasparius and Copek. like those are going to be the guys that are actually pitching leverage and Tanner Scott like might be involved in the seventh or he might not be involved at all and Kirby’s probably off the roster. Like I guess I just get to a point where I mean Kasparius the guy I mentioned 13 and two/3 four earned runs. He’s got a 2.6 ERA dating back to July 25th. We’re going over a month with a 2.6 RA for him and he’s been used sparingly and I think they’re picking spots with Kasperius. Anthony Bond since July 18th. 1.59 RA like so, so that’s four guys plus Copek plus B plus, you know, you mentioned Robleski. That’s seven guys that I think are either sideways to thumbs up and and all of a sudden that that’s that’s your bullpen right there. Yeah. No, totally. And I think I think when you look at this that way, um it doesn’t look so bad. It doesn’t look so bad. The worry I think for everybody is does see it that way? Yep. Exactly. And is he going to keep sticking those guys into late inning high lever situations? Uh and and the answer is probably. And I want to read the quote. This was um yesterday. Uh said he was asked, “Do the Dodgers have to keep trusting Blake Try and Tanner Scott, Michael Copc, and hope they get it sorted out?” This is what Dave said. Uh that’s exactly right. And Kirby is the same thing. So the other person, the person who asked the question, I love, they were like, “Kirby sucks. Like get him out of here. Put up these other guys.” And Dave’s like, “Actually, Kirby, same bucket.” Like, “Dear God, Dave, give these guys up.” He said, “These are the guys we signed off on. We believe in.” And not to say that you’ve got to have blind faith forever. I understand that. But you’re talking about winning 11 games in October, getting there obviously, and guys that you can trust in that hot box of moments. There’s experience that certainly matters. It does, but talent and performance and the short-term and recency matters, too. It does. But I’m going to give these guys that have earned the opportunity and my trust that they deserve my trust. I’m going to keep giving it to them until I don’t. Your response to that was he’s saying both things and and it’s the last, right? He’s like, I’m going to trust these guys. I’m going to trust these guys. They’ve earned it until I don’t trust them. But like, but I’m going to trust them until I don’t trust them. It’s like, what are we even saying? So, uh, this this was before today’s game. So, I’m glad corrected me. So, this was pregame today after last night’s game, right? But what what are your thoughts on on this idea that Dave is basically saying after the Tanner Scott and Blake trying meltdown. These guys have a track record on one hand. Secondly, all I care about is October. And so the implication being if somehow we can get Tanner Scott and Blake Trinan right before October, that’s going to be a huge help. And third, but at some point I might stop trusting them. Like what do you make of all this? Right. Yeah. And and if you if they find a if they somehow get them right the last three weeks of the season and Tanner Scott goes into October and his last 12 innings are scoreless then sure. Yeah. I mean we’re already there like we’re already at the last three weeks of the season and so there’s not 12 more innings for Tanner Scott this year, you know. Yeah. And so I’m like I’m like sure, you know, if if if he doesn’t give up another run in, you know, for the rest of the the month, then sure. I’m I’m willing to to to say, you know, he might be a guy then. Uh, you know, and and you know, I know I said I I don’t trust Tryan like that, but like if you’re in the eighth inning or if you’re in the ninth inning and it’s the middle of somebody’s order like they, you know, they did against the Padres’s and and Trinan’s the guy. Yeah. I’m like, “Yeah, all right. I’m I’m I’m I can buy into this fight.” Um, but it’s it’s the fact that he’s like, “They’ve proven and well, they haven’t proven it with you. And also there are other guys in that bullpen who have who you’re placing them over because of contract or name recognition or whatever. Um but that that’s the part where I was like I mean you trust him till you don’t and you’re talking about track records and other guys have those track records with you with this team with this season and you’re saying I’m pushing them to the side for a Tanner Scott at the moment. I just I I don’t dig that and and that’s why I’m like I don’t know if Dave buys into like the stuff we were just talking about, right? Like he might still throw Tanner Scott out there. Yeah. Yeah. Uh Admin says Kyle Hurt, you are in the postseason bullpen and we’ll go back to the Bobby Miller conversation earlier. Like that’s what’s so interesting. Uh Kyle Hurt, by the way, has made two appearances down in Oklahoma City. His first one, one inning, uh a hit, a walk, and an earned run. his second appearance, two innings, two hits, no runs, one walk, four strikeouts for Kyle Hurt in that game. That was on September 5th, so a couple of days ago. Um, but this is what’s interesting, right? Is I think when you’re not really getting into specifics, you’re like, “Well, Tanner Scott sucks and Kirby 8 sucks and like, yeah, okay, but like unless those guys are going to be entirely off of the postseason roster, you’ve still got a crunch because we just mentioned seven or eight guys who have been pretty good. So, it’s like, hey, Kyle Herd, super impressive.” Like, is he better than Enriquez? Maybe. Is he better than Justin Rob Oleski? Maybe. Is he better than men? Like maybe. But like it’s not is Kyle Hurt better than Tanner Scott because Tanner Scott’s either going to be in based on reputation period. It doesn’t matter or he’s going to be off because he sucks. But it’s not going to be like man do we like Tanner Scott or Kyle Hurtmore. Like it’s either we believe in reputation and he’s in or we don’t believe in reputation and he’s out and Kyle Herd’s an entirely separate conversation. And so there are like again seven or eight guys that I think have been sideways to thumbs up over the last month of the season. The problem has been it’s the bigname high-profile closer Tanner Scott and Kirby Hates that’s been a disaster. Yeah. Yeah. Absolutely. And I’m with you there there is not going to be a Kyle Hurt Tanner Scott kind of debate, right? Unless like in like you know in those next 10 outings in September Tanner Scott gives up 13 runs like then maybe we’ll have that conversation like by we I mean the internal team at Dodger Stadium. Um but yeah, if if he’s, you know, if he goes out in those next 10 outings and gives up six runs, not great, Bob. Um he’s still going to be there. And and that won’t be a conversation. Also, for Hurt and Bobby Miller, those types to get on the on the playoff roster now, it’s going to have to be an injury situation to somebody else, too. It could be. Yeah, for sure. And again, we don’t know exactly what they think about Enriquez. We don’t know entirely like are they out on Kasparius? They haven’t really been using him in leverage spots. again, it was Yates warming up today, not Ben Kasparius. So, that tells me a little bit of something. Uh, we got some super chats back toback. This was a little while ago. Um, said, “Jeff, are there still five guys you like from the pen?” Uh, I I there are four guys I like from the pen right now. Uh, there’s four guys I like and then I would say there are five guys I don’t hate. So, there you go. I think I’m the same way. And that’s why I asked like, are they are what’s the situation we’re talking about here? and you and you you you laid down a fair gauntlet of ninth inning, one-run game with the lead, they’re going out there. Um, I think guys used in their situational advantages, Anthony Bond, that kind of thing, then he’s a thumbs up for me, right? Like, you know, so I think there are those kinds of situations, too. Yeah. And Kasparius, I think, is in the same boat. Like, if you’re just telling me he’s coming in to face one or two guys and they’re they’re good splits, then it’s a different thing. Uh Shelley asked, “What’s up with Teao?” Um we are all on the same page that we don’t think Teao was benched today. This was probably just a regular day off. Um again, like it or not, Conforto was in there, Alex Call was in there, Kik was in center field. It was like a bizarro outfield um alignment. But um yeah, there’s not really anything up with Tay Oscar Hernandez. He just hasn’t been very good. He hasn’t been good. Yeah, it’s it’s just it’s that um he has not been good. And I think now you just always have the magnifying glass on the defensive stuff and um even that ball, you know, that ball in Pittsburgh where he gave the effort on is just a he’s a bad outfielder so he didn’t get to it. Uh you know, and so it just all piles up and looks worse. But like the bottom line is um last year he hit and this year he’s not. And I don’t excuse me. I don’t think it’s a a a thing that like anyone’s really been able to pinpoint for sure with him. Uh it’s just been aside from the chase stuff and the and the lack of walks and those kinds of like those go hand inand I think they’re intertwined. Um that stuff has to change. I think I really think that’s the only way he starts to turn this thing around is if he can become more selective the way he was last season. And and I say that relative to hi to him because he’s always been a chase kind of a guy. Uh but he was he was much more selective at least last season and I think his his walk rate was is is maybe cut in half from last year or even more than that. Uh you know and it it’s bad. I think you’re seeing the results of that that big deficiency in his approach. Yeah, absolutely. Uh I’m having mic problems. I think they’re temporarily sorted out. So uh we’ll just go with this. Sorry if the quality isn’t that great from here on out. Um one more super chat here from Cole. Uh, Kik needs to be put on blast. He needs to be a professional and produce now. He shouldn’t get a pass. We cannot wait until October. Um, Kik has been really, really bad. I agree with everything on the first half of this except for the last sentence, which is Kik is literally the guy that I’m willing to wait until October for because somehow every single year he produces once the lights go on. And I know it seems crazy and I thought it was crazy for a while and I’ve just given up that argument. He just figures it out and he’s awesome in the postseason. So, I’m willing to wait. Yeah, that’s fair. Uh, for as much as they’re counting on him right now, I would like to see him have some better quality at bats. Um, but I think the hope is once my back, once Edmond’s back, then you’ll start to see Kik back in the role that he’s fit for and that he should have and then they’ll unleash him in October. Yeah, that’s the goal. That’s the goal at least. Um, one other note we should mention by the way, uh, news story from today. Show Otani tied Mukbett’s season record for leadoff home runs at 12. Uh, you know, a few weeks to go, Anthony. Safe bet that Otani gets one more leadoff home run and breaks this record with 13. I would think so. Yeah. Yeah, I’m with you. I mean, just just don’t bet against Shay Otani is the moral story here. Uh, last news note here. I know we’re past the hour mark. We’ll do a few minutes of questions here. Um, I want to talk about Tyler Glassnell’s back injury. Um, the latest that we have, uh, he was scratched the other day. He flew back to Los Angeles to visit with doctors regarding his back. Dave was quoted yesterday as saying, quote, “Nothing came of it, so I think we dodged a bullet. He was playing catch yesterday, so we expect to pencil him in soon.” Um, clarified today, I believe that the plan is for him to start one of the games against the Rockies Monday, Tuesday, or Wednesday with a guy like Glass. Now, on one hand, he’s playing catch expected to start. On the other hand, is Tyler Glass now. How concerned are you? That is the biggest part of this is that it’s Tyler Glass now because typically for a pitcher back tightness that can happen especially a guyy’s on the other side of 30, right? Sure. Yeah, I get it. Um and the fact that he’s playing catch already and they’re like, “Yeah, like we want to pencil him into the Rocky series.” Um I would typically be optimistic, but because it’s class now, I’m like, “Uh, well, I I just want to I want to see him out there and make the first pitch of the game before I’m going to say like before I believe he’s actually going to take the ball.” Um, and the the whole dodge the bullet stuff is like the kiss of death with Dave Roberts when when he gives injury updates. And so, uh, you know, I am I am very skeptical, um, that he’s going to be okay for the rest of the season. I think maybe, sure, maybe he takes the ball this next turn. He he makes that start. I even even if he gives six and you know he looks good. I’m just now for the rest of the seasons until we get to the playoffs going to be skeptical on if Tyler Glasnau is going to make his next start. Yeah. And I think it’s fair. I don’t think he’s earned the right to be above and beyond that unfortunately. So um Payton circling back. Are you going to get to my Bobby Miller question Jeff? We kind of touched on it but not directly. So fair Payton. I’m glad you brought this back up. Um, I I would put him in the same bucket as Kyle Hurt, but below him. Actually, I think Kyle Hurt has a better chance of being on the postseason roster than Bobby Miller does. And so, my answer to Bobby Miller would be, I think there are enough guys ahead of him um that aren’t in the superstar, we’re paying a bunch of money. Lost the mic. We’re back. Oh, you’re back. superstar sort of bucket but they’re just simply in the um young guy but has been productive like I think Robleski Kasparius Drier Bonda all those guys are going to be ahead of Bobby Miller Copek um you know you you could go Enriquez and again I think Kyle Hurt would be in that bucket as well so I have no expectations of Bobby Miller actually making it to a postseason I have zero expectations of Bobby Miller coming up to the Dodgers this season in any capacity Um, I had some little small hope uh a little while back, but I know I know not everyone gets to see some of, you know, what he’s doing down there. Um, Miller has now I’m reading from a a tweet from Dodgers Daily. Miller has now given up nine runs in his last four outings, which spans five and two/3. So, I think that that puts the Kaibos on any hope that some people might have had that Bobby Miller can make an impact that he’s he’s done. Yeah. Uh his last four outings, just to build off that, his last four outings he has allowed runs in. Uh those four outings starting on August 23rd, one and two/3s, two earned. August 27th, one and two/3s, two earned. August 31st, one and two/3, one earned. And then September 4th, twothirds of an inning, four earned. Um over that stretch, he is back to walking people. It’s seven walks over his last four appearances. Um, so you know, one home run allowed, but it it’s the walks and strikeoutwise he’s got six over that stretch. So, it just hasn’t been good enough for him to kind of make a dent. Again, I I think uh I think Kyle Hurt would be ahead of him is is what I would say. So, let’s get to some questions. All caps questions. Uh, if you’ve got any. I know our guy Manuel is in here hating our food questions. So, uh, we’ll see. David asks, “How how did the fasting go?” He is still fasting. David. Yes. Uh David, if you weren’t if you weren’t in here right at the start, I am in uh it’s it’s 5:00 pm Pacific now. So, I am in the 23rd hour. Uh started at 6 PM on Saturday night. Uh so, 36-hour fast. I’m I’m at hour 23. Okay, there you go. I’m hungry, but it’s not uh it’s not dire. I think I’m going to be all right until bedtime. Yeah, I love it. Fasting is like a an in thing now. I mean, obviously there’s religious people that have been doing it for thousands of years, but uh intermittent fasting and you know, that kind of stuff. Um, okay, let’s get to some of these questions. We’ll take five or six and then go from there. Uh, let’s see. Oh, Dodger sub. The talk about the lineup earlier. Will Kik be the everyday starter in October over Kim Rohos and Conorto? Um, I would lean yes. I think I think he’s at like the bottom of this list for the regular season and it’s him versus Rojos for the postseason, but I I just think they’re going to give Kik opportunities come October. Yeah, if Rojos continues to produce the way he is offensively, I think it’s going to be um you know, kind of a tossup and it’ll depend on what the lineup looks like on that night and who can play where. Um but Kim Conforto, absolutely. I I would think so. And I think Kim’s spot in October probably is more of the bench guy who comes in for pinch running or or maybe even a defensive replacement to kind of shift the infield around. Like if you know if they got a two-run lead in the ninth and they don’t want Maxy in there or something like that, they can kind of shift things. Um but yeah, I think I unless he just goes on an absolute offensive tear, I think the role for Kim that best fits him in October is coming off the bench. Yeah, I’m with you. Uh TQT, just last week you guys both said that you would choose the Dodgers roster over any other playoff roster. Are you still that confident? Uh yeah, I’ll go first here. Uh this is a good call out. So I appreciate the question. Um I said last night that my my trust and and basically to answer this question is is no more. I still say they have a chance to do some damage in October if this rotation is healthy as it currently is. Like let’s assume glass nails healthy. Um I think that gives them an opportunity to to make noise. But based on all the other stuff, uh, no, I I would say yeah, it’s it’s it’s a question on if they have the best roster because I think some of that is based on name recognition and those names aren’t producing Tanner Scott, like a guy like that. Um, the thing that they do have in their favor a bit is that there’s no other National League team right now that’s in the playoff picture that scares anybody. Yeah. Especially if Trey Turner’s hurt. Like I think the Phillies would probably be the best of that group. Um but yeah, I mean yes, my answer is yes. And I think what I would encourage people is like we get hyperfocused on the Dodgers and we obsess about one team and so we are so much more aware of their flaws. Like I almost joked with you today, Anthony, because you tweeted about the Dodgers lineup and you were basically like this is one of the saddest lineups of all time or something like that. And I almost responded with how many guys in the Orioles lineup today can you name? because it’s like and again it was a joke way more than anything else and I didn’t even send it. But I I think my point is like we get obsessed about who like our number six or seven hitter is and we probably don’t have any clue who the number six or seven hitter is on the Phillies right now or on the Brewers right now and what their flaws like who’s their seventh inning guy. Do they like their seventh inning guy? And so for me, I keep saying I think the rotation is going to be the best in baseball barring some crazy injury and honestly barring two injuries because even one injury this pitching staff could sustain. They’re still five deep and you don’t even need five in the playoffs 100%. So we got that going and then secondly like it’s still going to be Muki Otani and Freddy Freeman one through three at the top of this lineup. and you mix in a little Will Smith and you mix in a little Max Munzy and even if the rest of these guys stink, if Teayoscar never figures it out, if Miguel Rohos turns back into a pumpkin, if Tommy Edmonds like a 90 weighted runs, even if all that’s the case, if you’re just telling me I get four great starting pitchers and those five dudes at the top of my lineup, I’ll take that roster. I’ll take that group over anybody else. That group looks better than just about anybody else in the National League for sure. I see David Hugh says he’s scared of the Brewers. Um, oh gosh, that’s you just you just put a ball on a tea for our guy Anthony. Because if there is one team this man is not afraid of, it is the Milwaukee Brewers. I have Scott in here. Should I text Scott Gear? Scott’s on the on the boat, too. I’ve been saying for months that that team has been putting together runs with bubble gum and string. The starting pitching is legit, but those you think the Dodgers don’t go deep in games that those starters do not go deep into games. And um I think it was me and Matt either last night or the night before. We were talking about um I was having a conversation with one of their beat guys. And uh he was asking me, “Hey, what’s up with the Dodgers? Like, is this real? Is this just a fluke? What’s going on?” And we we got into what the Brewers look like right now. And he’s like, “They look like we have no we have no idea which team’s going to show up dayto day for them.” So they’re in the same kind of boat right now. Yeah. Um sign steeling says, “Scale of 1 to 10, how crazy am I? I woke up this morning and was relieved to see Conforto in the lineup against a righty over long-term commitment Tay Oscar. Uh here’s how I’m going to ask this question, Anthony. When you wake up and see the lineup, Tay Oscar Hernandez, Alex Call, Michael Conforto, rank those guys one through three on who you want to see in the lineup. And I’m going to just say you don’t even know if it’s a righty or a lefty pitching. Yeah. Okay. Is Tea Oscar still one on that list right now? It’s still Teao. Yeah, it’s Teao, Conforto, and then K. Um, and I will say the conformal call stuff is because of what they currently look like. Uh, and Teao I’m like I I still believe like Teao on any given day can go give you two extra base hits and one of them can be a home run. Yeah. Uh, a good question here from Rod. When it comes to putting together a pitching staff, should the Dodgers value durability more than they do? Um, my answer is no. And the reason is because if they get this group of dudes to the finish line and into October, then that’s the goal. It’s not to get guys that are throwing 200 innings. It’s to wake up on the first day of the playoffs and be like, “Oh, Yamamoto, Snell, you know, Otani, and Glass now. Those are our four dudes.” If you can get there, that makes all of the lack of durability worth it. It is simply the gamble that they will be healthy at the end. So for me, 2025 is the reason I would say no. 2024 would be the reason you would say yes that they should value durability more. But that’s the risk they take and they won in 2024 anyway. So maybe 2024 is the reason they shouldn’t give a crap about durability from starting pitchers. I don’t know. Yeah, totally. Totally. Uh look, I I think you again, you take this the these starters, this rotation into the postseason like that and um they’re they’re going to be scary to deal with just from a a pitching standpoint. Uh, Noah asks, “Were you impressed with the new catcher Ben? His bunts, situational hitting, catching, etc. You big Ben guy over there, Anthony.” He look man, he’s come and done the job. I respect that. Like, he’s been put into kind of a no-win situation. Uh, and he’s gone out there and he’s done exactly what’s been asked of him. Like, props for that, man. Like, absolutely. Uh, I think you have to say something about the fact that the two starts he’s caught have been good ones. Yamamoto and then Kershaw. Uh I mean I just like his demeanor behind the plate. I’ll say that. Like even last night when things were falling apart. Like he was kind of giving guys positive feedback when they actually threw a strike. He’s like, “Hey, there you go. You got this.” Kind of a thing. Uh look, he stinks at hitting. He stinks at hitting. And good for him for being willing to lay down a bunt. Uh he gets in front of the ball. We don’t have five pass balls or wild pitches like Dalton rushing allowed. So, look, I mean, he’s not the worst third catcher in the history of the world. Like, I don’t think he’s a good third catcher, but he’s not the worst one either. Um, Manuel wants to know, “My food question is when will we stop talking about food?” Manuel, we’re we’re a show of the people. At the hour 18 mark here, if people want to ask us food questions, and we’ve got two ones lined up for you here, Manuel, uh, we’re going to answer them. And so, apologies if people are not into the food things. There seem to be a number of people that enjoy them and we save it to the very end so that if you’re not interested you can turn it off. Uh Iris asks, “What are people having for dinner?” I’m having Zenu Chicken. Sorry if I mispronounced that. Anony’s having nothing for dinner. Having water. He’s having water. I think Iris threw this in on purpose. Yeah, it’s true. Um I picked up a bag of frozen buffalo wings from Costco yesterday. Like just Tyson Buffalo wings. But if you throw those bad boys in the air fryer, they are incredible. Like I’m talking if you handed me these at a restaurant, I would be perfectly happy with them. So, uh, I had a lot of Buffalo wings yesterday and there’s still a bag of them in the freezer downstairs. Your boy might be going back for more. So, Buffalo wings is probably my answer. Uh, last one here. Back toback wants to know, Anthony, if you had to eat one meal for the rest of your life, every single meal, what would you pick? H man, it might be street tacos or probably steak. Steak. Steak’s a good one. Um I I was going to say breakfast burritos is one one that kicks around because I just love I just love breakfast burritos. Steak, I think, is a great one. Um yeah, I think I I’ll go breakfast burritos just for the sake of it. Um, David wants to know, “Has Manuel ever eaten before?” Uh, not sure, Manuel. Hopefully, we need to get Maybe he eats like Blake. Maybe that’s the problem here. You know, it’s hard to say. Uh, Ethan says, “Water with a quarter tablespoon of salt if you get headaches, Anthony from a fellow faster.” So, there you go. Good to know. Good to know. Thank you, Ethan. Uh, Noah, last super chat. Food questions are great. I’m sure you’ve seen my posts. Uh, yeah, absolutely. Look, again, I I think I think a majority of people are somewhere between thumb sideways and thumbs up to the food questions. So, uh, apologies. Uh, Dong wants to know, “Lemonade or fruit punch Gatorade?” Uh, definitely fruit punch Gatorade. I’m not a big lemonade guy. The lemonade in that story was for my daughters. It’s definitely the lemon line for me. Yeah, there you go. There you go. Uh, okay. Well, everybody, that’s going to do it for us. Again, the headline here, uh, the Dodgers on a one-ame winning streak after beating the Orioles. Watch out now, folks. This team has not lost in a long time. Some people are saying almost 24 hours since the last time they lost. So, shout out to the Dodgers. Uh, Padres’s won as well. So, one game lead in the division. The Phillies did lose, so they gained one game up on or inched closer towards the Phillies as far as for the number two seed in the National League. But, uh, we appreciate everybody joining us as always on the Sunday night show. We mentioned it at the beginning. Stay tuned for timing on this. We’re going to try and time this sort of postgame. Do we do it late? Do we do it after football games, during football games, before football games? So, stay tuned on Sunday night timing. We’re going to work on that and uh we’ll announce that right here on the YouTube channel uh DodgerBlue 1958 on social media as well. So that is Anthony Watrado. I am Jeff Spiegel folks. Enjoy the rest of your Sunday. As always, go Dodgers and yes, still champs.
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43 comments
Ichiro would of climbed that wall and caught it.
Interesting dodgers finally get a win and two of the regulars Teo and Pages were both not playing. Coincidence or not.?
They Bench Teoscar and Dodgers win.
I believe be could’ve caught that ball but apparently this guy he’s right and all of us are nuts😂
We should be blaming Robert’s for pulling Yoshi yesterday, I’m still upset from yesterday we should’ve have won.
Can we get Ben to chewing gum, it’s looks so bad on TV
I'd turn Ohtani into a high leverage relief pitcher and let him get his feet wet by pitching in the 8th or 9th inning in four or five regular season games to warm up for the playoffs.
That ball was catchable to an outfielder that gives 110% !! Its a no hitter and Pages jogs to the warning track and then stop to play it off the wall ??? If he would have sprinted to the wall, climbed it and at least attempted to catch it there would be no question he gave it his best. He did NONE OF THAT !!!!!!!!! Roberts has lost control of this team. he needs to be fired !!!!!
Baseball is torture because you can't really know for sure. Will the dodgers win the division? Probably. How about the 2nd seed? Probably not. Will the dodgers season end in the wild card round? Maybe. Or will the dodgers win it all? Also, not out of the realm of possibility. Dodgers could get hot in October. Or they could fizzle out in the wild card. Right now, it sure seems like it's gonna be a short post season. But we just don't know.
I saw the play many many times. With maximum effort Pages could've made it close.
A couple of thoughts;
1. Pages have been learning too much from Teo. He looks lazy, both at the plate and on the field. (I’m with you guys, there is zero chance he is catching that, but he looks lazy).
2. I’m mildly positive about this team, but any chance of going far in the postseason will depends on the starting rotation and the top 3 batters. I have little confidence with pages, teo, Conforto to do anything meaningful. And hopefully Muncy and Edman to prop up the middle order a bit.
3. We gonna lose lost close games if we don’t score enough, this bullpen is horrific. Shoutout to Dreyer though, my favourite BP arm.
I'd shift Betts to either second or left field. Or split duties at second,and left field. And use a triad of shortstops for defense of Kim,Edman,and Rojas. And I'd push for this to free up Mookie's full offensive potential by taking the energy required to play shortstop and transforming it into his hitting . And now's the perfect time to do it!
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Watch Ohtani’s 2 HRs – Dodgers WIn – then go watch my 49ers and Rams win !!! As Ice cube said, it was a good day!!
Jeff- I get you – nobody is above it but Ohtani gets the most grace considering all he does for this team – but you’re going to lose alot of viewers and fans for overly critical of Ohtani. 😅😂
Still Champs!!
Ohtani should be called out when warranted, so thank you Jeff and Anthony for keeping it real. I believe in Pages but I agree that he doesn't always see the bigger picture and has not the best baseball IQ. Finally, we need to appreciate Miggy Ro, and I loved what Kersh said after the game. In Kersh, I trust.
What? Kim was hitting way over 300 when he was healthy. But Dave refused to play Kim in the lineup consistently. You're an idiot still on the Conforto bandwagon. You and Dave hate Kim for god knows what reason.
39:27 Jeff hoping to keep Conforto in line up at all cost. He is a huge reason for this teams downfall.
Scott to IL
Let's use some of the superchat 💰 and buy Jeff a new mic! 😉
드라이어 베시아 이 두투수가 트라이넨 테너스캇 보다 10배는 좋은 투구합니다 스캇 트라이넨 중간계투 용 마무리 투수는 절대 아닙니다 제구력 배짱 모든게 부족합니다 로버츠 스캇이 날려먹은 승리를 생각해라 그것은 우연이 아니다 스캇의 공은 중심에 맞으면 무조건 장타다 명심해라 트라이넨 자기공에 자신이 너무없다 두려움이 많다 볼넷은 실패다
Ben is the new Barnsey– soon-to-be captain 😂
Yaye, Raiders win!! Dodgers win!! A great day for us Dodgers-Raiders fans!! 🎉👏👏
Has Anthony ever played baseball? His comments on the Shohei baserunning blunder make me wonder. It is precisely these mistakes that make Dodger fans angry. You can't always control getting hits, making errors, etc., but the mental mistakes cannot keep happening. It was the same thing with defending Pages not trying to make that catch last night.
Jeff, I am sorry but you got it wrong here. If Ohtani is reading the ball, he wouldnt be on second because that leads to issues if Ben needs to go back. He didnt get to third not because of a mental mistake but rather because the outfielder quite literally played the bounce percectly, and the throw from left to third is a lot shorter than left to home. If he gets thrown out at third and makes the first out of the inning there, you guys would pile on him for that too. Its a lose lose situation and he picked the safer option. Also are we sure Mookie wouldve been at second? He was pimping that out of the box so lets pump the brakes on these assumptions.
Pages should have gone for it. Absolutely.
Have to say, I really enjoy Anthony's opinions. I find his views are the most well thought out.
I'm happy the Dodgers didn't get swept, but I'm still not over yesterday's loss. Just a colossal collapse.
Needed Blake's perspective that the playoffs are random, so just because the team's offense and bullpen are struggling now doesn't mean the team is doomed in the playoffs. Have faith. Go Dodgers!
Jeff you're crazy an idiot, Conforto has the lowest bat in mlb and you're making a case to play him? Dumbest take ever and u really should think before talking
Over the last 7 games, Shohei Ohtani Avg .333 / OBP .438 / OPS 1.216 + one emergency start;
Mookie Betts Avg .333 / OBP .355 / OPS .988;
Freddie Freeman Avg .222 / OBP .300 / OPS .744.
Ohtani was on base all 5 times: HR, HR, BB, BB, BB. Well done!
Dodger stadium needs to boo Conforto …. Enough is enough.
Fans know there was no chance of Pages catching that ball, but at the same time, he could have shown some respect to the pitcher who threw over 110 pitches for the team. All dodger pitchers have been pitching through bad outfield defense behind them all season long. It was a miracle to have no hitters until 9th inning.
Ohtani is one of the worst Dodgers when it comes to reading fly balls.
how's this for nuance, white boy: don't go so hard on the dude that hit 2 HRs and drew 3 walks to will your team to victory for him playing it safe on a hard hit ball right off the wall. he could've easily got thrown out going to third base as well.
Manuel should stop watching this show.
Thanks guys. Jeff… maybe your main mic wasn't working during this show. Does have more echo than usual. Maybe it was using your computer/camera mic or something. Just FYI…
It won’t be Yates, but it should be. But probably Wrobleski. 😔
I trust Johan Duran……oh wait. Ugh
What else if Dave Supposed to say…bottom line Scott is pitching in the 8th/9th inning.
Going back a few years but Campos breakfast burritos egg bean and cheese!!!