The Dodgers have a MASSIVE problem on their hands...

The Dodgers have a massive problem on their hands, man, and if you don't agree and you think the Dodgers don't have a massive problem on their hands, I don't care where they are in the standings, but if you are still one of those guys or girls out there that do not think the Dodgers have a major problem on their hands, what's going on? You're a denier, man. You're denying what's going on. I've been saying this for the last month. About the Dodgers, and you know what I'm talking about? I'm talking about starting pitching, and for a month I've been saying we need to take notice at the velocity drop of none other than Roki Sasaki, right? The guy supposedly has had a fastball at 100 miles an hour, which the Dodgers have never seen a fastball at 100 miles an hour for him, because he's not produced that. He has been at 94.5 at best. And I was saying this a month ago. Should we start noticing that it is six miles an hour or five miles an hour or less? Should we start noticing this, right? And people called me out and said, I'm just worrying for nothing. And I'm Chicken Little. And I was called Drama Queen. I was called so many different names because I brought this up. And Brad Nostradamus was right again. How am I always right? Can you answer me that, somebody? Okay, maybe I'm not always right, but I definitely was saying this a month ago on Roki, and it's just not good, man. It's not a good look for what is going on. All right, Los Angeles rookie Roki Sasaki landed on the injured list Tuesday because of right shoulder impingement. I do not know what that means, an injury similar to the one he had in Japan last year. Oh, reoccurring? He told the team his arm was sore after his last start, in which he pitched on five days rest for the first time in the majors. Sasaki threw for four innings and gave up five runs on 61 pitches Friday at Arizona. Okay. Now, you heard me on the live show with Mike Nelson. You've heard my videos. I was saying the same thing. I was saying the exact same thing. He's had less rest. And both of them, Yamamoto and Roki, both had trouble with the one day less of rest. Five days, not six days. And that caused a big hiccup. And look, he's on the IL. Are the two combined? Are the two, do they mean anything? See, that's the whole thing about it. Like, when you're talking about it, and you're falling on deaf ears, and people aren't listening, and then this happened. All right. So here's what Mr. Dave Roberts has said. What we gather is he felt some discomfort for the last few weeks. He said this after the 11-1 loss against the Sacramento Athletics. I love calling him that. But given where we're at, the pitching staff, he wanted to continue and go and persevere and fight through everything until he felt that his performance was going to be compromised. That's when he let us know where he was at physically. So he kept his mouth closed. He didn't want to say anything because he's a tough dude. He wants to play through it. That doesn't help. Your ERA was near five. So that's a problem. So underwent scans on Monday. It revealed the problem from the scans. Robert said there is no timeline for his return. Hey. Here we go again. No timeline for Snell. No timeline for Glasnow. No timeline for Sasaki. What is going on? Are you kidding me? What the heck? Am I in an alternate reality or something going on here? Because that's not good. Okay, so we look at it. Let's do the math here. So Snell's out. Glasnow's out. We don't know when they're coming back, but they are out. You got May, who's got a 4.08 ERA. You got Knack, who got lit the heck up. He did have some bright notes last night, but he did get lit the heck up. So he's now in the fives with his ERA. You had Sasaki was already in the high fours. I mean, we got one pitcher right now, Yamamoto, and that is our only guy we got right now. What are the numbers for yesterday? Let's take a look at what went down for our pitching staff yesterday. Landon Knack, okay, 4.2 innings, seven hits in four innings, five earned runs, ouch, and walked one. If there is one bright note in Landon Knack's score or his numbers, you've got to give him the eight strikeouts. In four innings, that's pretty darn good. Now, if he could just limit those earned runs to maybe one, that would be much better, but he did not. You see what Garcia did. You see what Banda did. And then you see JP. He came in there and immediately gave up six hits in two innings. He wasn't fooling anyone. So it was garbage time after that. And so Miggy Rowe has to come in, and he has to pitch. One inning, gave up two hits, two earned runs. I think his ERA is down to 20 right now for Miggy Rowe. But that is what went down yesterday. And not good. Not a good look for the Dodgers. And once again, I hate to harp on it, but think about it. We don't have pitching. And so if you even thought you would go back to a six-man, a six-day rest for the pitchers, you're not going to get that now. We'll get to the Kershaw story, Kershaw coming back for the Dodgers, but you know, with just the recent news, I thought I would share a Pete Rose story from Dodger Stadium, because I actually knew Pete Rose, and he's been taken off the Ban for Life list, him and the Shoeless Joe Jackson, so good news there, I think Pete, at some point, will hopefully make the Hall of Fame, but... Quick Pete Rose story for you. All right, when I was DJing for the Dodgers back in the day, Cincinnati was in town. Pete Rose was at the game, sitting behind home plate, and kind of where I sat at Dodger Stadium when I would DJ is right above the home plate area, so you could look right down on there. And so the cameraman and all the people working in the Dodger Vision area that I was working with saw Pete Rose, and they put the camera on him, and Pete waved to the fans, and I told all the guys in the booth, I went, hey, you guys, I know Pete Rose. And they looked at me like, Brad, you don't know Pete Rose. I go, no, no, totally. I know Pete Rose. Trust me on this. They go, well, prove it. I didn't know what to do. But I had Pete Rose's phone number in my phone because I'd interviewed him on my radio show a couple times in the late 90s. So I already had his phone number. And it was on my cell phone. I go, OK, I'll tell you what, guys. How about if I call Pete Rose right now on his phone. You guys can put the camera on him and see if he answers his phone. If he doesn't, he's avoiding my call, which I wouldn't, you know, a lot of people probably avoid my call. But so they're like, okay, bet, bet. And so that's how it went down. All right. So I grabbed the phone. Everybody's watching me. I dialed or hit the speed dial on the phone for Pete Rose's number. And sure enough, he's down there behind the home plate. Pete Rose picks up his phone, answers it, and I'm talking to him. I'm like, hey, Pete, how's it going? Brad Jay up here, DJing. He was a big Rockabilly fan, so he was always wanting to hear Rockabilly music. So he, like, told me to play a couple songs. But he was really nice to me, and I proved those guys wrong right there. Everyone doubted that I knew Pete Rose and had his phone number on my phone. I was able to call him at the game, so I'll never forget that. Good story there. Keeping things going. Hey, make sure you turn on your notifications, like, and subscribe to everything going on here at Dodgers Digest. Kershaw to take the mound Saturday versus the Angel, the GOAT. Man, we need Kershaw, don't we? Do we need Kershaw right now? I think we need Kershaw more than anything, right? Dodgers get routed by the A's, but the silver lining here is Kershaw will be back and he will start on Saturday for the Dodgers. And looking forward to that. Boy, do we need him. But still, I think the Dodgers need more than just Kershaw coming back. That's for sure. Well, he's had his rehab. He's done his part to make his season debut Saturday against the Angels. That's what Robert said. He tossed five minor league rehab starts. Which I thought was a little much for a dude of his age. Like, hey, don't waste those innings, man. We could use them. Kershaw tossed five minor league innings. three upstart, reaching six innings once during a game on May 6th. So he went six innings. It's hard for us to get that out of starters right now. All right, went against the Arizona Complex. He's been there. In Arizona, when Kershaw debuts, it'll be his 18th season with the Dodgers. tying Bill Russell and Zach Weidman's franchise record for seasons played with the team. And so you know Kershaw's going to try to come back another year. With that, he's got to take the record, right? He's got to go to his 19th season. So he is going to be back. Looking forward to seeing him back. And right now, I just don't think you need him any more than you need him right now. And there's a couple of hating comments yesterday when I was talking about Kershaw coming back. Somebody telling me Kershaw is trash. He's the GOAT. And when you don't have a choice, beggars can't be choosers at this point. And we don't have a lot of pitching, so we're really hoping that Kershaw can actually give us five, you know, solid innings on his outing. That's what we're all hoping for. So Yamamoto takes the mound tonight against Oakland. Yamamoto 1.80 on his ERA. He's got 53 strikeouts, so hopefully he gets some more Ks and we get back on track and get the win. Oakland's a .238 ERA with 10 Ks, so we'll look for Yamamoto to right the ship Get the win in the tie-up of the series for Dodgers against Sacramento Athletics. All right, that's going to do it. Dodgers Digest, Brad Jay, thanks for tuning in. Always, as you go through your most awesome day, just think Dodger Blue. Let's go.