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We are live at Dodgers Stadium. I'm

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after the Rockies defeat the Dodgers tonight
by a final score of four to one

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and spoiling Dave roberts fifty second birthday. Welcome the Dodger Talk. David Vasse

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with you until eleven o'clock tonight.
Here on a five to seventy LA Sports

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phone lines are open eight six six
nine, eight seven two five seventy.

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We will check in with Jose Mota
at ten forty. We will hear from

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Bobby Miller, who was our pregame
guest, to get an update on his

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rehab and where he's at. And
also Evan Phillips was activated today. We'll

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hear from the Dodger closer as well. But as far as this game goes,

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obviously Walker Bueller was not sharp,
but he's going to have nights like

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this, especially since he just came
back from his second Tommy John surgery.

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I know it's been two years,
but it's been two years since he's pitched

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in the major leagues, and I
didn't think he pitched that poorly. I

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know he's going to be his harshest
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I thought he was a lot better. I know he loaded the bases in

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the first inning, but you have
to give him credit for striking out the

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side. He got McMahon for the
first out of the inning. After back

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to back singles from Blackman in Tovar
and after a walk to the cleanup hitter

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Dias, he was able to get
Chris Bryant looking and strike out Brendan Rodgers

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to end the inning. So that
was impressive to see that he was able

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to do that with the bases loaded
in less than two outs, and from

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there I thought he pitched well.
Obviously, the third inning got a little

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shaky as well, but his defense
let him down. Andy Pa has misplayed

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to base it by Brendan Rodgers that
would have scored one instead of scored two,

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and it was a three run third
inning. All in all, that

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still should not have been enough to
beat the Dodgers. I still don't know

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how Dakota Hudson was fooling the Dodgers
tonight. You could say all you want

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about the sinker and that's the new
pitch now, yes, but it's the

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I guess retro is always coming back, is what they say in fashion,

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and the sinker. Pitching down in
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until the last seven eight years,
where teams thought they could get away with

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the high strike, and yeah,
you can, but if you make a

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mistake, it's going to be middle
middle. But nonetheless, the Dodgers were

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swinging at pitches that Dakota Hudson was
throwing that were outside of the strike zone,

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and if they were in the strike
zone, you know they were aren't

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pitches that they were doing much with. And the Dodgers, I don't care

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if they're playing the Sisters of Mercy. If their first four hitters go a

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combined one for fifteen, they are
not beating them. And that's what happened

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tonight. The Dodgers' first four hitters, the four Horsemen bets, Otani,

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Freeman, and Smith, were it
combined one for fifteen. Will Smith had

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the only hit of the four hitters
for the Dodgers, and in the eighth

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inning there was a golden opportunity for
the Dodgers to be able to maybe mount

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to comeback against this Rockies team.
And Mookie Betts came up with the bases

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loaded, nobody out and hit into
a double play. That's how the Dodgers

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scored their only run. And even
after that, Freddie Freeman came up after

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a two out walk by show Hey
Otani, put runners at the corners and

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struck out. That's not gonna get
it done against any team out there.

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And I don't know, you know, this is where Mookie Bets making himself

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vulnerable playing shortstop kind of opens the
door for questions like this, because Mooki's

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out there virtually every day, three
hours before first pitch, taking ground ball

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after ground ball, and making throws
after throw at first base. Has anybody

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realized the fact that Mooki Bets only
has two home runs in his last one

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hundred and sixty nine at bats,
two home runs in his last forty two

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games. This is a leadoff hitter
that hit thirty nine home runs last year

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playing right field and second base this
year, playing a much more demanding position

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and putting in a ton of work
before games and then going out and playing

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the most demanding position outside of catcher
on the field has two home runs in

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his last one hundred and sixty nine
at bats. That's right now, Mooki

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has eight home runs. He's hitting
three and is at the top of the

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most hits in baseball. But the
power, where has it gone? Are

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the lead legs a little wobbly because
of this new position that is very demanding

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on the body. Where has the
power gone? Because Mookie Bets right now

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is on pace for only twenty two
home runs. I'm not putting tonight's loss

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at his feet. I'm just bringing
that up that the fact that he only

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has two home runs in his last
one hundred and sixty nine at bats eight

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six six nine eight seven two five
seventy is the phone number. Let's go

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out to mission Viejo, brad You're
on Dodger Talk with David vasse Hi.

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Brad Hi, thanks for taking my
call. Yeah. And usually he's driving

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the ball to the deepest part of
the field when he's not homering, so

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to kind of well one into a
double play situation was unusual. And what's

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with Freeman. Freeman's not always clutched
these days. I know he's got a

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lot of doubles, but what do
you think of You think he's just gonna

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start hitting better. Yeah, you
know, he's kind of spoiled us,

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right the first two years with the
Dodgers, he's been on another planet.

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He's still doing really well. He's
sitting close to three hundred, Brad,

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But yeah, that was an inopportune
time for him to strike out in that

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spot. So I think Freddy's doing
a nice job. Is it to the

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level of last year's Freddie Freeman?
No, and he would admit that.

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So hopefully he still hasn't got hot
this season, so the Dodgers are winning

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for that. Once he does,
that'll help out a lot. But I

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guess that's scary for the rest of
the National League that Freddie Freeman has not

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gotten hot and he's still hitting three
hundred. I would be very concerned for

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other National League teams. And that's
a good thing for the Dodgers. Yeah,

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what was wondering the last three home
games, they've really been out Homer

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too when you go back to the
two Arizona losses. All right, Brad,

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Yeah, thank you for bringing up
all those things. Appreciate it.

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Six six ninety seven two five seventy
is the phone number. Dodgers fall tonight

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to the Rockies four to one in
their first matchup against the Rockies. And

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like I mentioned during the Clubhouse Show, it's about when you catch a team.

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And yes, the Rockies have one
of the worst records in Major League

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Baseball, but in their last two
series they have beaten division leaders. They've

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beaten the Phillies two out of three, who lead the National League with the

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best record, and they also beat
the Cleveland Guardians in their last series two

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out of three, and the Guardians
are in first place in the n AL

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Central. So something is working.
And Bud Black is not a guy that

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is going to give up on a
season in May, so you can expect

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his team to take on the personality
of his manager. I mean, he

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has not had a lot to work
with the last seven eight years, since

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basically twenty nineteen. You know,
seeing Walker Bueller on the mound against the

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Rockies at Dodger Stadium brings back memories
of Game one sixty three in twenty eighteen,

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and ever since then, these two
franchises have gone in different directions.

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The Dodgers kept on rolling and the
Rockies have gone down and taken many steps

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backwards. Eight six six nine,
eight seven two five seventy is the phone

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number. The Dodgers fall to the
Rockies tonight four to one, and with

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the loss tonight, the Dodgers lose
just their twenty third game of the year.

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They finish May seventeen to ten.
That's the second best record in the

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National League in the month of May, to only the Phillies. The Dodgers

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still hold a six game lead in
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San Francisco. San Diego won tonight, the Giants lost to the Yankees.

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Aaron Judge hit two home runs by
the Bay, so the Giants are at

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five hundred. The Padres a couple
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over five hundred as they trailed the
Dodgers. Eight six six nine eight seven

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two five seventy is the phone number. I was getting a lot of tweets

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tonight for those that were watching and
listening at home and those that were here

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at Dodger Stadium. They were asking
me, what's going on with the PA

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announcer, Todd Lights has the weekend
off, so uh. One of the

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in house people here at Dodger Stadium, Nancy Moritaia Chavez did a very nice

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job in her debut as the PA
announcer here at Dodger Stadium. Her day

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job is the broadcast traffic manager for
Dodger Spanish Radio. So great job Nancy.

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First time doing the PA at Dodger
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She did a very good job.
Eight six six nine eighty seven two

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five seventy is the phone number many
of you keep asking me about Bobby Miller.

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What's going on with Bobby Miller?
Woondsy coming back? Well? I

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got an update from Bobby Miller himself, and here's what he told us in

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our pregame conversation. I'm definitely interesting
to get back. You know, I'm

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just trusting the process at the same
time, but I feel ready to go.

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I feel ready to get back in
Major League games with where my stuff

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is at right now and health wise, I feel one hundred percent right now.

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But you know, I'm just here
trusting the process. During your rehab

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outing, can you gauge anything from
those or is it more about how you

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feel the next day. It's a
little bit of a mix of both.

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You know, I felt great that
day and the day after. I've been

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bouncing back really good, especially after
that LIVEVP here at Dodger Stadium. It

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seemed like right after that, like
I just started bouncing back really good health

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wise, and everything just seemed to
go away. And I'm feeling nothing at

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this point, like no pinch or
anything in the shoulder, even warming up.

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It's not taking me a long time
to get loose anymore. It's just

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like coming out good right away.
But your takeaways from the game, I

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mean, it's hard, like really
to know what to expect. You know,

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you don't know if there's gonna be
guys like really really excited to face

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a major leaguer and start swinging a
lot. But you know, some of

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a couple of them put together some
good at bats. That's really just an

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execution standpoint for me, like showing
them something good or not. But my

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takeaways were really good, you know, after a decent amount of strikes.

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Fastball was really good, chained up
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still needs a little bit of work, but I learned that everything's going good.

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Well, there you have it.
Bobby Miller himself giving us an update

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on how his rehab is going and
how the right shoulder is feeling great to

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hear number one, he's not feeling
a pinch in that right shoulder. And

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I know he said when he went
on the il. Ever since spring training,

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it was taking him a little bit
longer to warm up, and that's

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the reason why he said that it's
just taking the normal amount of time to

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warm up to come into that game. And Dave Roberts said that Bobby,

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even though he is feeling ready to
go, is still going to have to

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make two more rehab starts, one
for Rancho Cuckamonga, the other will be

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for Oklahoma City before he returns to
the Dodger rotation. And quite honestly,

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everybody's wondering who's the odd man out
when Bobby Miller comes back. A A

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lot can happen between now and then
b If everybody is healthy and feeling good

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and the Dodgers are feeling good about
the way they're managing their innings, then

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they probably will go to a six
man rotation in the near future with Bobby

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Miller coming back to it, because
they have a more favorable schedule than what

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they've had in the month of May
heading into the month of June. Once

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the Dodgers get passed this stretch of
game, so this weekend and into next

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weekend where they have to fly back
to the East Coast. Thank you tooever,

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made the schedule by the way,
in Major League Baseball, it made

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complete sense to send the Dodgers to
the East Coast last week, have them

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come to LA for three games,
and then head back out to the East

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Coast again, make complete sense.
That the Dodgers did not play the Mets

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and Yankees during their time in New
York last week in complete sense, right

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wrong, horrible job by the schedule
maker this year. Anyway, once they

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get past the series in New York
against the Yankees, it seems like the

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schedule kind of favors them a little
bit more so. Look, it hasn't

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been easy for the Dodgers, and
it hasn't been easy for any team in

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Major League Baseball my understanding, talking
to other teams, players, broadcasters,

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their schedule has made as much sense
as the Dodgers schedule has. So I

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don't know what went on this season, but think about this, how ridiculous

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the schedule make was this offseason.
You got the Dodgers going to Yankee Stadium

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next weekend. That is the most
anticipated regular season matchup this entire year,

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not just Dodgers. Name another bigger
series than Freddie mooki Otani in a Dodger

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uniform going to Yankee Stadium to take
on the Yankees, who are back in

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first place, a possible World Series
preview right, three nationally televised games next

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weekend from Yankee Stadium. Do you
know? Major League Baseball scheduled their Jewel

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International Series in London Phillies Mets next
weekend as well. So if they want

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attention that they're taking the game to
London and they want all the lights on

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at Yankee Stadium for Dodgers Yankees,
why would you schedule it the same weekend?

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It makes no sense Anyway. The
Dodgers will be at Yankee Stadium starting

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next Friday night. Before they get
there, they'll be in Pittsburgh for a

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three game series, and the way
it's lined up right now, the Dodgers

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will see rookie sensation Paul Skens out
of El Toro High School during that three

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game series. Hey, tomorrow,
between twelve and one, you can meet

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Miguel Vargas and Austin Barnes at the
Montabello Dodgers Clubhouse store any purchase of fifty

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dollars or more at the Montabello Dodgers
Clubhouse store, you will receive a qualifying

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risk band to participate in the meet
and greet with Austin Barnes and Miguel Rojas.

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Limited risk bands available. Reach out
to the store for more details.

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That's tomorrow, twelve to one Austin
Barnes and Miguel Rojas. And they asked

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me if I was showing up.
I said, I haven't seen my kids

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in a while, so I'm gonna
spend some quality time there. And my

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daughter tonight was playing Baby Simba in
the school play, so she did a

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great job by all accounts, I
mean biased opinion. Her mom texted me

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and said she did great, so
I'll take her word for it. Anyway.

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Speaking of the Dodgers last road trip, not sure if you heard,

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but on the way back from New
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and did not arrive in Los Angeles
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because of multiple issues weather, pilots, pilot rules, and you know,

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some mechanical issues. So the Dodgers
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on the ground five in the air, and it was nobody on the team's

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fault. There was just unfortunate circumstances, and the Dodgers director of Travel,

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Scott Akasaki, does a great job. Outside of pushing the plane and trying

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to get it going in the sky, there was not much he could do.

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But the good news was nobody freaked
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we all just rolled with it.
And also in New York, I had

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a very unique experience of taking the
seven train back to the hotel with Kirsten

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Watson, Steven Nelson, Eric Carrows, director Mike Levy, and the rest

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of the TV crew. The only
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Station, Fabio aka Eric Carrows did
not want the rain to mess up his

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beautiful hair, so he was a
little salty about having to walk half a

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mile from Grand Central Station to the
team hotel. And as he was pulling

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his rollaway bag, I was behind
him and all I heard him say was,

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I swear, I swear one time
in my life I did back cleanup

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for the Dodgers. So take it
easy, fab yo. We made it

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all right. We're gonna take a
time out here on Dodger Talk. When

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we come back, we'll check in
with Jose Mota and also we will hear

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from Dodger closer Evan Phillips, who
was active tonight if there was a safe

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situation. Unfortunately, there wasn't,
as the Rockies beat the Dodgers tonight four

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to one on a five to seventy
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on the iHeartRadio app. This is
Dodger Talk with David Bassa. What no

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highlight? Yeah, that should tip
you off. Not a great night for

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the Dodger offense, as they only
mustard one run and that came after Mookie

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Betts grounded into a double play with
the bases loaded and nobody out in the

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eighth inning. The Dodgers only one
run and five hits against THEA. COODA

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Hudson and the Rockies tonight as Colorado
comes into town and beats the Dodgers four

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I just want to let you in
on a Tommy Lasorda anniversary. In this

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day and age of load management for
pitchers, I thought it was very interesting

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that on this date, back in
nineteen forty eight, the Hall of Fame

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manager for the Dodgers was chasing his
pitching dreams in the minor leagues for the

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Dodgers' Triple A affiliate Montreal, Tommy
Lasorda. Listen to this, Tommy Lasorda

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on this date in nineteen forty eight
in the minor leagues through a fifteen inning

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complete game and struck out twenty five
batters, struck out twenty five amsterdamn rugmakers.

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To be exact, that's right,
true story. Fifteen inningcomplete game for

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Tommy Lasorda and he struck out twenty
five batters on this date in nineteen forty

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eight. Let's set out to Jose
Mota. Now it's time to go around

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the horn with Jose Mota. How
many times did you hear Tommy tell that

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story? Jose Moda. That is
exactly what I was thinking about. Oh

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my god. I heard it so
many times, going back to Dominican Republic

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winter Ball early seventies, when Tommy
would go, hey, Mota, if

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I was pitching today, you have
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That's what he told my father every
single time. Did you ever take

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batting practice when you were at cal
State Fullerton against Tommy? I took batting

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practice at Dodger Stadium against Tommy,
and it was not batting practice. It

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was I bet you can't hit this. Who knows what he did? So

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he had a tendency to go to
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you that nothing looks the same.
Tommy had so many tricks. It's good

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to recall these memories because what a
character and how many stories and how many

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meetings that we were allowed to be
and his kids. It's just an unreal

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experience for all the stuff been around
Tommy for that long. Great ambassador for

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the game and especially the Dodgers,
no doubt about it. Jose. Let's

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turn our attention to tonight's game.
I did not believe Walker Buehler pitched that

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poorly, but unfortunately U two out
base hits, two out home run in

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the fourth inning by Ezekiel Tovar kind
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There's a way I'm gonna be evaluate
Walker Bueler. Every time I seen to

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go to the mound, I want
to see if he took a step forward,

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and today he did again. His
line looks worse than he pitched.

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There's a ball that Row has missed
that to me, their basements. You

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got to make that play. And
you know that was after one out.

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The next hitter Watts and the next
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I'm sure that Miguel is the first
one to go. I have to make

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that play. It was not rule
an error. But Walker had to work

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through twenty eight pitches in the first
inning. He had to work the twenty

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three last time out, and to
get to the sixth inning. Dave tells

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you a lot about what this guy's
made of. Okay, he is,

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as you mentioned, a harsh critic
on what he does and the way he

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values himself. But let me tell
you something, man, there's something magic

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in that arm. Still at ninety
seven be able to flip the baseball at

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seventy eight to eighty miles an hour, get some swings and missus and you

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know, get through that lineup on
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he struggled in the third inning and
the defense didn't help, he showed me

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a lot as to what is happening
with his arm and not on the home

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runs is something he wants to keep
down. But I really do apply the

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fact that you know, if we're
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quality stars, well there was again
quality soft for Walker villain. All right,

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maybe Jose Moto will represent Walker Buehler
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he's I think he's just fine as
a pre agent. He'll be a very

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rich man too, Yes he will, Jose. As far as the offense

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goes, Dakota Hudson came into the
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How did he do this tonight against
this offense? Well, he avoided barrels

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and that's exactly what you want to
do with a sinker ball guy who's going

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to go out there and see which
way the guys are thinking. And when

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you see a lot of guys in
the on the pull mode, guess what

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he's going to do. I'm going
to show inside soft I wanted to heel

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it off or swinging miss. He
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I'm also going to go out there
and stay in and out with my

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sinker and Dave. I mean,
you know, you and I have talked

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about this. The sinker is back, There's no doubt about it. It's

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it's still one of the best dishes
in the game, still one of the

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most waste, one of the best
way for you to be economical. And

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what I didn't see was hitters' adjustments. Again, and I know that we've

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talked about this before too, but
if you're not barreling balls up, there's

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gotta be a reason when the first
time, second time you see the same

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result and not make an adjustment.
Certainly he's gonna not change, and he

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did not change. He was not
changing strikeos, which is great. Fifty

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six percent ground balls coming into this
game just tells you about what he wants

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hitters to do is get the top
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And one thing very interesting I noticed
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Dave, and you don't see this
on defense anymore. They pinched the

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middle a lot. I mean,
they give away range on the left or

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right of the shortstop, but they
really take balls away up the middle,

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not just with one guy, with
two guys, and it was visible they're

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an adult played by Mulkibiz in the
a setting, they had two guys pinching

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and there was a result of an
easy go a play. Yeah, the

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Dodgers seemed to do that a lot
too, Jose. I know the shift

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has been eliminated, but a lot
of teams, like we saw tonight with

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the Rockies, and we see a
lot with the Dodgers, they pinch and

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they do take away that base hit
up the middle a lot of times.

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It's good to see, how you
know, the tendencies are changing depending on

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who you're playing, obviously depending on
who's on them. And they look compare

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hitter pitcher match up. What kinds
of swings am I getting? Where can

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I have all the most hits?
And I'm glad that they're paying attention to

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them because obviously is one of the
ways in which you're going to be able

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to go out to minimize damage,
you know, on the ground for you

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guys on the mount. Okay,
one one more question regarding tonight, Dakota

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Hudson against this Dodger offense, so
I know has not been perfect in the

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last couple of weeks, but still
Dakota Hudson is Dakota Hudson for a reason.

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Was it more the Dodger hitters chasing
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Jose, Or was Dakota Hudson kind
of David and taking down Goliath tonight?

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I think it was more David Goliath. He was on his game. You

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mentioned it quite clearly. Teams like
Cincinnati obviously, teams like Colorado I want

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to gun down and said Nationals,
this is our series. We need to

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show Buddy Black that we can play
against these big boys. And you know,

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they did it against Cleveland, they
did it against the Phillies and they

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got off to a good stars.
So, without taking much away from the

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door sitters, he did a very
good job not repeating pitches, not staying

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the same pattern, and not chasing
strikeouts, you know, not overthrowing,

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so allowing the ball at ninety one
to do his effect and go out there

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and full some hitters, reach some
swings. And Eli has did the same

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thing too, the way he positioned
himself and received and presented that sinker was

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also very favorable. Learr Veno were
buying the plate, Jose, Mota is

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joining us after the Rockies beat the
Dodgers tonight four to one. How about

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Mookie Bets in the power outage,
Jose, He's still at the top as

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far as hits leaders go in Major
League Baseball. He's hitting three point thirty

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but only two home runs in his
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What's going on with the power for
Mookie Betts. Well, we got

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to get Mooki back on pull vote. I mean, we saw a flash

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of that in San Francisco against Web
and we haven't seen it again. I

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mean, he's getting his bases,
there's no doubt about it. But LOOKI

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knows the way he serves his ball
club. He'll take his walks for twenty

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six on base coming into today,
but the power needs to be there.

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He's he's a true separator. Booki
Bets knows how to drive in runs.

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That's why he said with better scholing
position too. But Muki goes well and

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everything turns on with him, and
there's a better flow to his offense when

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he's on pull mode opposed to other
hitters when they get in pullmot, they

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get in trouble. Mooki gets in
pull mote, he is a much better

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hitter. Yeah, Alex kra always
said that about Muki as well. His

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power is to the poll side.
If he's not pulling for power, it's

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going not the right direction for him. Hopefully it'll come. He'll get into

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a couple, you know, he'll
get under a couple of balls and just

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get the confidence going. That's one
thing about Mooki, you know, the

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hitter that when he gets into pull
mode, he doesn't shy away from make

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an adjustments middle deal the way.
But certainly when he's on pullmo that top

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ten is driving through man and then
we know it's a thing of beauty.

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So hopefully it'll happen soon and he'll
have our opportunities to capitalize on the guys

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in the bottom when they get on
to go out there, and I did

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it last season so well to drive
him in. The good news is Jose,

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there's a game tomorrow. We'll see
you out here at Dodger Stadium.

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His uncle Tommy would say, it's
over people, let's go out there and

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get it done. Gets Lasania to
die and beat the heck out of the

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next team tomorrow. Hey, that
sounds like a good plan. Thanks,

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Jose, we'll talk to you tomorrow. You got a mister sayer. There

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he goes Jose Mota, part of
the Dodgers Spanish radio broadcast. Fernando Venezuela

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back in the house tonight with Pepe
and Ningez and Jose Mota. The Dodgers

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fall to the Rockies tonight, four
to one. As I mentioned earlier,

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Evan Phillips, the Dodger closer,
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He missed a month with a strained
right hamstring and was available if there was

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a safe situation tonight. Obviously there
was not, but I had a chance

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to catch up with Evan Phillips,
who's mood was a lot brighter today than

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what I've seen the last month.
Very happy to be back, very excited.

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You know, not being able to
pitch and being on the injured list

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is definitely no fun. It's much
less fun than, you know, being

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a part of the team and trying
to win ball game. So very fortunate

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that my rehab journey was irrelatively quick
and fully healed. So very fortunate for

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that, and just happy to be
here again. Did you catch Daniel Hudson

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reminding the world you are the Dodgers? Yeah? Sure, did you know?

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That was really exciting? That was
actually that game of the doubleheader was

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what Sunday, right, Yeah,
So I had I had a rehab game

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that day, and I was just
getting ready for my game, and I

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had the Dodgers on in the background, and you know, watching that moment

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unfold and you know, think basis
loaded three to zero count, you know,

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winning run on third base. I
didn't have any doubt that Huddy could

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get through it. So it was
a super super awesome to see that come

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to fruition and the shushing of the
crowd of the end was just the icing

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on the cake. Man, I
could tell you're back. The smile is

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back. For Evan Phillips. It
feels like a weight's been lifted. Definitely.

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Yeah. I'm absolutely just super excited
to get back out there and you

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know, competing again. So been
it felt like a long road for me,

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just because it's been I think about
four weeks now since I've been in

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a game. So just super happy
to be back. There's Evan Phillips,

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the Dodgers super reliever who is back
inactive and certainly back to his normal self,

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because I know it pained him to
not be able to help the team

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over the course of the last month
with that right handstring strain. So the

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Dodgers got big reinforcement today with Evan
Phillips, and now their bullpen is that

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much deeper with Phillips, Trining Vesia
and of course Daniel Hudson at the back

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end of their bullpen. And Alex
Vessia tonight came in and pitched really well.

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Also, Anthony Bunda, who the
Dodgers picked up a couple of weeks

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ago, still has not given up
and earn run with the Dodgers. Tonight

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he pitched a scoreless seventh inning.
The left hander Anthony Bunda will be our

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pregame guest tomorrow, and he's a
very interesting arm that the Dodgers feel like

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could provide what he has already this
season. So good kid, and hopefully

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things work out with the Dodgers and
Anthony Bunda. That'll do it for us.

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Tonight on Dodger Talk Tomorrow, game
two of this short three game homestand

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against the Rockies, Yoshi Yamamoto will
be on the mound. He's five and

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two with an Era at three point
fifty one, going up against Cal Quantrell,

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who is four and three with an
ERA at three point fifty three.

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Marongo Casino. Dodgers on Deck begins
at six o'clock tomorrow, with first pitch

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at seven ten. Thanks to Colin
Yee back at our Burbanks Studios, Thanks

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to Dwayne McDonald out here at Dodgers
Stadium, and thanks to you for listening.

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In case you missed any of the
show or our pregame conversation with Bobby

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Miller, you can find it on
the iHeartRadio app once again. The final

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score tonight from Dodgers Stadium. The
Rockies defeat the Dodgers four to one.

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Fox Sports Radio is next. Have
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