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Well, last night it was a dramatic end for the Dodger. There's
a walk off win in the ninth inning. Bobby Miller got the start.
By the way, It's Bobby Miller. Bobblehead night out at Dodger Stadium tonight.
Bobby Miller five innings, two runs, four hits, four strikeouts.
He had a two to nothing lead after ta Oscar Hernandez infield choice in the
third to give the Dodgers a two to nothing lead, but that lead was
evaporated in the fourth inning. Christian Walker, the Dodger Killer, a two
run home run to the center in the fourth that tied the game of two.
The Diambacks took a three to two lead in the top half of the
seventh inning, only to see the Dodgers grab it right back and more on
Showy Otani's home run to right center field the two run shot and the Dodgers
led four to three. However, in the eighth inning, the Diamonbacks would
tie it up, and the ninth they'd take the lead on a Jock Peterson
a home run, So the Dodgers down. Going to the bottom of the
ninth inning, they had two outs when a little two out magic happened for
Freddy Freeman. Here we go, Freddy with a base hits for right center.
Mit splits the gap. It'll get all the way to the wall.
Smith stores. Freddie Freeman clutches up. In the ninth We are tight at
five. Freddie Freeman with the RBI double to right. That tied the game
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So now Freddy standing on second, still two out for Taoscar Hernandez Raymond
on second, see you wall out of the stretch. Hernandez quells the ball
basement on the field. Freddy's gonna be waved around. The throw in from
Gurriel hits off the play tail the hero again. The Dodgers walk off the
b backs. He's being not between second and third, six five to the
final. The Dodgers score two runs with two out on the bottom of the
ninth inning. With their last breath, they take the series opener from Arizona
tay Oscar Hernandez a walk off RBI singles scoring Freddie Friedman. Dodgers went two
out in the nine score two runs they win at six to five. Evan
Phillips gets your win in relief. Dodgers take the series opener in a dramatic
win. They are now fifty three and thirty three on this season. The
Dodgers now look to make it two straight over the Snakes tonight with Gavin Stone
on the mound, first pitch coming up at seven to ten. With more,
we head out to the Gallpin Motors broadcast both as we say hello to
Rick Monday and Steven Nelson. Guys, thank you Tim. With Rick Munday
here and mo. Last night, it was a gorgeous night to kick off
the six game homestand and it looked like at the very end it was going
to begin with one of more frustrating losses of the year. But they snatched
victory from the jaws of defeat three consecutive two out hits. They were down
to their last strike and the big four, the top four, I should
say, in the lineup without Mookie Betts, of course, I mean,
they were terrific last night. Yea, it was one of those games.
And I got a couple of phone calls today and they were angry. They
were angry at me because they were listening as they were driving out of the
stadium in the ninth inning, when I said, if you're in your car
and in the stadium and you're leaving, you may have left too soon.
Well, they left too soon, and they missed a heck of a curtain
call. It was one of those games that you look at and say,
Okay, wait a minute. You're down in the ninth inning and you're down
by a run. You have two outs. Freddy Freeman is going to be
coming up, and Will Smith is the hitter. Now he gets the double
to begin with. And I proposed the idea, if you're a manager,
which way you're going to go? You have first base that is open,
you have Freddy Freeman is the hitter. Freeman has one of the higher batting
averages in baseball. With two strikes on him, what happened on an O
two pitch, He gets the the RBI double that knocked in the tying run.
He's at second base. Now you pitch the TI Oscar Hernandez or do
you walk in and get to the rookie and de Paes. Well, they
decided to pitch to him. That didn't work, as Hernanus gets the RBI
single. The Dodgers, they walk off victory and it's one of those moments
too, and especially with the big Crown almost fifty three thousand in the house,
a lot of people were stunned. But boy, it was almost like
Happy New Year here Dodgers. It really was. We talked about it yesterday
all day. Hey, this is a big game in a big series for
the Dodgers against the Diamondbacks. Given the last month and a half malaise at
the whole division, but the Dodgers, really they've been hovering around five hundred
and for them to find a way to pull it out in that sort of
fashion, picking up the bullpen, which has picked them up time and again
throughout this year. You know, all their high leverage guys came in and
gave up runs. Basically, for the Dodger offense to wake up with their
last out was a really big sign. Now you talk about your friends and
many fans who who wanted to get a head start and beat the traffic left
too early. Well that kind of ties into the pregame festivities tonight. Eric
Gangne twenty year anniversary of his streak. He was one a game over.
He kind of inspired fans to stay through the end. Well, today,
fans are gonna want to get here early to see Ganye's first pitch. Yeah.
I thought it was interesting too, because Dave Roberts saying with the media
a little bit earlier that Eric Ganye asked the manager who was the former teammate
of Eric Kanye and made a wonderful catch in Houston's he did down on tals
Hill out in center field to keep a streak. Alian asked Roberts if he'd
like to catch the first pitch, and Roberts declient only for the reason,
he goes, I saw the pitches that the hitters could not hit, and
I do not want to embarrass myself, but trying to catch one of those.
So we will see who does have the catching duties for the ceremony.
First pitch for Eric Ganya. Can't believe it's been twenty years since a save
number eight eighty four in a row. The Dodgers going to take the series
against the visiting Dbacks tonight Game two. Gavin Stone will start. We'll talk
more about that the next time we talk to you. Tim. All right,
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Why Show. Hey, coming off an outstanding month in June twelve homers and
twenty fours are of an end fly ball left field. Running after at Guriel
on the warning track, he drops the ball as he slid to the dirt.
So show hey O'tani will take second base. He's in agreement as is
two to one pitch. He steps and fires home and Otani fights at the
center field over Perdomo and down in front of Glek Thomas. So Otani has
his second hit of the game. Martinez has the ball at the bell,
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on this Wednesday night, Kirston Kevin Stone on the mound for the Dodgers.
He's had a really good first half of the season. Should be an All
Star. We'll get into that three minutes. But for Gavin Stone, important
for him to have another good outing. Yeah, and he's coming off of
the best one of his career of this year, of his rookie season.
He is someone who this year he has been everything that this starting rotation has
needed and more. Coming off of a complete game shutout which was amazing in
Chicago. So as much as that is not the expectation for the game tonight,
Dave said that it's just to go out there and can continue to be
really competitive with with his pitches, which we have been seeing thus far.
So he said that there's not They're not going to keep him on a pitch
count. They feel like he's in a really good spot. They will be
mindful of the stress of each inning just against Diamondbacks. But the hope is
for him just to continue being himself and continuing to show why he truly does
deserve to be an All Star this year, this big of the All Stars.
Gavin Stone deserves it, Tyler Glass now deserves it. The Dodgers could
have a good representation, even though starter wise, it's only Showingo Toni.
Yes, so as you mentioned, starter wise, only Shoho Tani got the
fan vote, So we're excited to see him representing the National League, representing
the Dodgers in the All Star Game. He actually told the media last night
that he is not going to partake in the home run derby just because he
wants to be mindful that his elbow is still coming back from having that surgery
in the off season, still rehabing in regard to his throwing progression. So
we know he's going to be in starter as the DH in the game,
which is very exciting. Dave Roberts is optimistic that Freddie Freeman's gonna get in.
Of course, with the Mookie Betts, he should get in. He's
not gonna play, as we know, but he should be named as an
All Star. Tasker Hernandez should also be named as an All Star. And
then when it comes to, like you mentioned, the arms, the hope
is that Gavin Stone as well as Tyler Glass now and maybe if we get
lucky, Alex Vessia could be an All Star as well. We'll see,
but the hope is that there's a lot of representation for the Dodgers in this
game. Mookie Betts. I know David beattst had a chance to talk to
him Shavi Instagram. But now we're seeing him out of Dodgers Stadium, cures
in a positive feelings about him coming back soon. You know what, It's
kind of crazy when you see him out there, and to be fair,
because it is a hand injury, he can continue doing a lot of normal
things. He was out here running, working with the trayer, he's throwing
the ball. There is just so many things that he's still able to do,
which is a really good sign because he's keeping his body going and is
keeping him in somewhat of a baseball activity. He cannot catch the ball or
field per se. But he can throw in and so he's definitely in a
good spot. He's still healing, he still has a brace on his hand,
but the hope is that, you know, he's got some time.
But he said that he's really open to whatever is asked of him when he
comes back. There's some conversation of does Miguel Rojas stay at shortstopp does he
move to second base? He said, whatever is asked of me. If
does Shohyo Tani stay as the lead off hitter, he said, whatever is
asked of me. He'll be more than happy to step in because he has
one goal, much like the rest of the team, and it's to wins
whatever it takes to win, and that is what he's going to do when
he gets back. So still has some time, but Dave zaid they'll kind
of start having those conversations as to what it's going to look like when he
returns when it gets a little bit closer, because he doesn't want to mess
with the psyche of any of the other players that it could involved with the
move going back to second Absolutely curist to appreciate it. We'll check out with
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Bruce dark Gratterol is a countback ranch in Arizona. He is working his
way back slowly as well. All Right, let's ted back out to Dodger
Stadium and check in with the Dodger Skipper. Questions for Dave Dave, can
you just describe Dave? Can you talk about the pressure in the dugouts with
Dave Roberts. You know he's, uh, he's just an a really good
spot. I think you know it was fun yesterday. You watch some guys
throw bullpens. He's there watching. Uh, you know, you see Clayton
do flat ground. Gavin's there watching. You're on the bench and you look
down at the end of the bench and he's there watching, and so it's
good. Because he's constantly trying to gain knowledge. But physically he's in a
good spot. Confidence wise, he's in a really good spot. So I
think for me it's like, you know, stay the course and just compete
and physically mentally he's in a good place. Meeting the ulstar starters, you
don't know just yet, just kind of when you think about this same co
sharing on the sad yeah, there, I think obviously there's a bias.
I think they're all deserving in their own right. You know, it's hard
to obviously debate show Hey and what he's done on the field, off the
field, and shoot, before Mookie was hurt got hurt, you know,
he was up there as far as leading you know, all of voting,
as far as it's a shortstop and they need to talk about Tao and his
production that he's had consistently all year long. And I think this would be
a second nomination, And so I think he's been representing the Dodgers really well.
And then you got a couple of pitchers, Tyler and the guy going
tonight, Gavin, I think certainly have a case. Will Smith, I've
always said that I think he's one of the top two catchers in baseball,
and then I'm probably missing someone else? Whom I missing? Am I missing
someone else? Oh? Of course Freddy, Freddie, Freddie should be starting.
I think now with Bryce down, I think Freddie's ultimately going to start
in that game. Yeah, Freddy should get to start. We'll find out
though, showyo Tony the only one that will start for the Dodgers taskar and
Andez misses out as a starter, and so does Mookie Bets, wh wouldn't
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Last night, what a game, down to their final out, down to
their final strike with Freddy Freeman, he doubles and then to Oscar they walk
off single. The Dodgers just did not die last night on him and look,
things were not looking good. Paul Sewalt's pitches were so nasty against Gavin
Lux and show hey o'tani. I talked to Lux about it. He just
said the pitch that he struck out looking on, there wasn't much he could
do. It froze them. It was one of the best pitches he's seen
all season long. Otani struck out swinging on a pitch up and in,
and then Will Smith jumped all over a pitch early in the count and the
Dodgers were on their way back to a two out rally, and Freddie Freeman
not only tied the games but He also scored the walk off run. And
we caught up with Freddy after the game. Yeah, you know, I
just we know he's got a good heater that a lot of rides, just
trying to be on top of it, straight to it. So likes heater
in certain counts, and she tried to be off talk of the ear.
I heard you in my head saying I'm looking for strikes. Yeah, I
was way of the first one. I would just strike two, but I
took that one. But uh no, overall, what a great heavy too.
We'll get it going, get it through it off for ending it.
Big win for the Dodgers tim as much as it can be in the middle
of July with a ten game lead. But the Dodgers did not play well
in San Francisco. They got blown out on Sunday afternoon at Oracle Park.
They come back home. It would have been very disappointing to lose that game
last night and the fashion the Dodgers would have lost it, and also they
would have had a losing record coming into tonight against Arizona, so that would
have been problematic as well, especially when you consider it were these Diamondbacks that
swept the Dodgers in last year's NLDS, But all those bad feelings and the
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Talking to him in Chicago last week when he returned from being with his
family after his grandfather passed away, he said he was not going to self
promote, which he did not do. His teammates did it to a certain
extent. But there's a very good chance with the injury to Fernando Tatis Junior,
who was elected one of the three starting outfielders for the National League,
that could open up a replacement spot for Taoscar Hernandez and also Bryce Harper being
on the injured list may open up the door for Freddie Freeman to not only
be part of the team, but also be the starting first baseman for the
National League. Dave Real quick, what's the update on Max Munsey. I
talked to Munsei today. Tim. He is still swinging, but he is
not going to give a timeline. All he would say is that things are
trending in the right direction. That is certainly good news. David, appreciate
it. We'll check back you with you in just a couple of minutes.
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Rick Monday. Rick, I'm still riding a high from last night's dramatics.
In the ninth inning, the Dodgers came to life when it mattered the most.
I made a comment last night as they got to the ninth inning,
if you left too early and you're listening to us in the parking lot,
you left way too early and you never know what's going to happen. I
brought up the scenario in the ninth inning, when you get the double by
Will Smith, there's two outs. The Dodgers are trailing five to four,
so you got Will Smith the tying run at second base. Freddie Freeman,
is the batter in first base? Is open? I asked, is that?
Well, here's one question if you're the manager of the Arizona Diamondbacks.
Not to second guess him. He went and he said, after the ballgame,
you had one of the better hitters against one of the better relievers.
So they believed in their players. They just happened to work out. But
the present I made was, what if you walk Freddy Freeman. Now you
have a force out at any three of the bases. On the possibility of
a ground ball out, you're dealing with the guy Freddy Freeman that if you
look at what he has done with two strikes over the last number of years,
he has a very high percentage of base hits. In fact, the
numbers it he's in the top three in baseball. If you look at the
last couple of years with two strikes, Well, what was the count when
he got the tying base hit two strikes? In fact it was and two.
He fouled off the second pitch that made it oh and two, and
then got a pitch and hit it in the center field. Then you look
at Tascar Hernanas that comes on. He didn't waste any time. First bases
open again, You've got the rookie Andy Paz waiting on deck. Do you
pitch around Tascar Hernandez They elected not to, and a base hit came over
and for the Dodgers in front of fifty two thousand plus on end, it
was a lovely evening here in southern California. And I'm happy for Ta Sker
Hernandez Rick because he has been struggling at different points in time, but certainly
last night three RBIs and the last one was the biggest one. Yeah,
and the r Bay tripling, the first ending and then an infield out that
discored a run from third base. He's made a lot of adjustments. It's
still vulnerability with a slider away, But then again, who's not. Yeah,
there's a long list of guys. Yeah, I mentioned that from time
to time. That's like a lot of pitches up and end. Well,
the guy has trouble with the ball up and end. We'll name those guys
that don't. Right. I mean, if you position the pitch right,
that is a very difficult pitch to hit because of the location. So it
was the slider away, right handed pitcher to right handed batter Rick last night
as well. We've talked about this over the course of the last couple of
years since Freddie Freeman put on a Dodger uniform. How good of a base
runner he is. He went through the whole scenario after the game with us
last night, knowing that the second baseman might try to backdoor him, so
he couldn't get as big of a secondary lead initially. Yeah, and then
you match up as you have to trust your third base coach, and there's
nobody better to trust than Dino Evil coaching a third and Dino knows I heard
part of your postgame show last night, you were spot on about the fact
that if you look at Dino, he does his homework, understands who has
strong arms, who has accurate arms, because there's two different types of arms,
the strong arm in the accurate. We've seen a lot of strong arms
that maybe can't hit the broad side of a barn, but they have a
strong arm. If they can find the right barn, they might throw the
ball through this side of the barn. But he knows, and he also
knows the runners, those that immediately get off to a good start, because
some runners, David quite frankly, take three or four strides in order to
get up to speed. Freddie Freeman, even though he six' five,
does not take him in extremely long period of time to run the bases,
and he knows how to cut the corners. I'm not talking about not getting
to the third base bag, but how to approach the bag and get a
very good cut as you plant your foot on the bag, so you don't
have to go way way out of the baseline and cover more ground as you're
going to home plate. And I guess that's another layer to the Scotty report
for Dino Ebol not only the outfielders, but also your base runner. Yeah,
you have to know that as well. There's some guys that they have
a built in ropid dope. You don't want them to continue on. And
another guy says, hey, look, I remember Joey Malfatano told me once,
and do you know a very good student of Joey malfatana on how to
coach third base and all the different parameters that go into the thought process immediately
right then, But you've already analyzed it in your head before the game starts.
Now the situation dictates what's the score, what ending is it, who's
on deck, who's the runner that you're dealing with, How hard the ball
was it? Is it hit to the left or the right of the fielder?
Does he charge the ball well? Does he field ground balls well?
Does he get the ball out of the glove quickly? Some guys take four
steps to throw the baseball. Well, those are all things that you're computing,
and you have about, oh maybe a second and a half to think
about it to implement it. Fair to say that a third base coach controls
the game second to only the manager. Yeah, if you get runners.
Otherwise it's like the loner repair man. Well, hopefully he's got more business
tonight. See. Thanks Rick, That's how it works out. So yeah,
I listen, along with everybody else that listens to you in the postgame.
I appreciate it. I'm glad you listen. Some people only hear,
but you listen, and some people selective hearing. Yes, no doubt about
it. Thanks Rick. Well check in with you and Steven Nelson a little
bit later. I had a first pitch, Eric Ganne throwing out the ceremonial
first pitch. In a matter of moments, we'll send it back to you
in the studio. Tim, all right, thanks a lot, DV.
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Miguel, thanks a lot for the time, Thank you, thank you for
inviting me here. Hey always, not only do you look good, you
feel good and you're practicing hard. Yeah, always always, you know,
that's that's why we do going here, practice hard, looking good, you
know, and win games. Yes. Indeed, earlier today you were throwing
the football around. Are you more of a wide receiver or a quarterback?
Do you think I think, well, like wide receiver. I don't have
that feed though, But yeah, I'm working out there with the football,
you know, trying to put it into baseball terms a little bit, you
know. Now then I'm in the outfield, so I think it really helped
me. So I'm I'm keep doing it. What does that help you with?
Yeah, I mean, you know, like a lot of time with
the balls, like trying to see the uh how do you say trajection of
them? And then you said it great? Yeah, yeah, trying to
you know, like you speak better English than Gavin Luks. Yeah that's true.
That's true too. Yeah, but you know, like trying to be
there and you know, like makes the plays and you know, trying to
be soft in the outfield. Thing that helped me a lot. How big
we always hear on the infield, we talk about the hands, soft hands.
How big are hands in the outfield? You know, I mean it's
pretty the same. I think that obviously the speed on the outfields little bit
lower, but you know, like you need to be ready for you know,
like every time the ball is getting there is a hardline driver or you
know some like that. So I and they keep you know, give your
legs moving and your hands be ready. Do you feel like you're more comfortable
now in left field than you were even two weeks ago? Yeah, one
hundred of things. I feel. I feel every every time. Every day,
I feel, you know, some progress, and then I'm happy about
it. And then, you know, trying to be the best I can
be out there, and you know, trying to help we get an opportunity.
The great Miguel Vargus, a big fan favorite, is joining us in
front of first pitch between the Dodgers and Diamondbacks. The one thing that I
shared with fans while we were in San Francisco, I think it was perfect
for every player. You put your feelings inside the locker, and when you
put on that uniform, it's about the name on the front. How that
seems like a very mature Miguel Vargas, You know obviously, you know,
I mean we all grew up minds here. You know, we had a
job to do every time to you know, we put the uniform. Anything
else modeled than within a baseball game. Yeah, it feels like you've handled
everything well, whether it's not playing every day or being called upon off the
bench, is your mind. The reason why your bat is as good as
it is. Yeah, obviously, you know, uh, feel good,
feel great if you're heafly. You know. Obviously my mindset, he's being
ready for any situation of the game. So you know, any opportunity that
I can get, I need to be ready one hundred percent. Do you
feel like your mind and your body is more mature than last year? Obviously
you know it's about a year, so I hope, I hope he's grew
up. There will be more so yeah, definitely, definitely I am more
you know, ma, sure, you know, being more around big league
guys, spend more time with them, and you know that's very helps.
Hey, I joke with you, but I do feel our time in Korea
really changed you. Yeah, one a good time. Hey, change me
for the better. I want to move in with Miguel Vargas. Yeah,
you got a really good, nice place to do you so I trust you.
Hey, love it. Miguel, thanks a lot for the time.
Continued success, stay healthy and we'll see you soon. Yeah, thank you.
The great Miguel Vargas has been our guest. We'll send it back to
you in the studio, Tim All right, thanks a lot. DV Dodgers
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in the rotation for Arizona because Jordan Montgomery went on the injured list earlier this
week with knee inflammation. He was three and two with a four to ninety
ERA over sixteen starts in Triple A Reno this year. He was acquired from
the White Sox in the trade this past offseason. He's made seventy nine starts
over four minor league seasons. Tonight his first ever in the big leagues.
Gavin Stone a young right hander for the Dodgers. Twenty five year old nine
to two with a two to seventy three RORA. He has been fantastic and
we saw this coming Minor league pitcher of the Year in twenty twenty two.
Fifth round pick in twenty twenty at a Central Arkansas, highly totted right hander
for the Dodgers last time out a complete game, four hitter in Chicago against
the White Sox in which he struck out seven. He has gone six or
more innings in nine of his fifteen starts, so he has given the Dodgers
everything they need as far as length in games. He has faced the Diamondbacks
just one time in his career. He's zero to one with a six RRA.
That previous start against him came May twenty first this year, just a
couple of months ago. Six innings, he gave up four runs on eight
hit and struck out five. That was in a losing effort to the Diamondbacks.
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head back out to the booth Rick Monday, Stephen Nelson, Guys, thanks
TC MO. Let's get us set for Gavin Stone his sixteenth start of the
year. I'm gonna be honest, I don't know if he's gonna be able
to top start number fifteen on the South side of Chicago. That complete game,
shutout one hundred and three pitches. I don't care who it was against.
We know who was against, but the fact that he did it as
a rookie, as a guy who barely won a spot in the rotation is
now on the cusp of being an All Star in twenty twenty four. Yeah,
how about that? And that was the first complete game shutout by a
Dodger pitcher since Walker Buehler did in April of twenty twenty two. Happened to
be against the Arizona Diamondbacks. But that complete game shutout, no runs,
four hits, did not walk a bat or had seven strikeouts. So for
Gaven Stone a chance to pick up victory number ten of the season. Who
would have been projecting that end of it because of the necessity of going to
the the minor leagues and bringing some people up because of injuries, here's Gavin
Stone. Roberts also had a great comment, and I say this many many
times. When you look at some pitchers, they're also very good observers.
And by that I'm talking about, hey, the guy's not catching up with
the fast bowl, or hey he's on the breaking ball, not only throwing
the pitch, but observing what the reaction of the hitter is. And for
Dave Roberts said, Stone uses his eyes very well besides using his arm and
he seems wise beyond his twenty five years as Gavin Stone. I mean doing
games with oral that Gavin starts in between breaks. Bulldog will say he's like
Connor, reminds me of me sometimes out there. Wouldn't you like to know
sometimes if there was a hurricane meter where he could get inside the head or
the body of a pitcher or a player, and wonder is he really well?
Is he adrenaline overloaded? Because of that moment he looks calm, cool
and collective on the outside. I totally agree. It could be cat five
wins. You would not know it by looking at Gavin Stone. He's unflappable.
And if you think he's young at twenty five, the guy he's starting
against tonight is even younger. The twenty one year old Christian Mena, one
of the top pitching prospects of the Diamondbacks, was acquired from the White Sox
in the offseason. He is making his major league debut again at the age
of twenty one. That's gonna do it for us, tim for our pregame,
so segments will stop yapping at you and get it back to you,
and we will see you for first pitch, all right? Thank you,
Nelly. Dodgers start the night first place, a top the NL West,
looking to get to win fifty four and catch those Phillies. Who's got fifty
six wins most in baseball right now? Dodgers going to play with an eight
and a half game lead over the Padres, eleven and a half games up
on both the Giants and the Diamondbacks, twenty three and a half games up
on the Rockies. S don't forget David bat Staints got you cover with post
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