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everybody, and welcome in to of
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hope you're well on this Saturday and
night. You're Los Angeles Dodgers forty three

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and twenty eight on this season first
place a top the NL West after coming

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back in beating the Royals last night. In this series opener, the Dodgers

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look to make it too straight over
Kansas City. Yoshinobu Yamamoto on the mound

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for the Dodgers tonight, first pitch
coming up at six ten. Between then

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and now, we got a lot
to get to here on Morongco Casino Dodgers

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on Deck, we're gonna hear from
the Dodger manager Dave Roberts will dive deeper

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into this pitchip matchup David Vase in
forty five minutes, is gonna go one

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on one with one of the young
superstars of the game. Royal shortstop Bobby

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went Junior, the second overall pick
in the twenty nineteen MLB draft, made

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his major league debut in twenty twenty
two. He is one of the young

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stars we'll hear from him coming up
at about five forty five. We'll also

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check you with Kirsten Watson. We
got your o Tani rewind. Then in

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just a few minutes we'll hear from
Rick Monday and Tim Neffert out the Gallpin

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Motors Broadcast booth. Well last night, the Dodgers fell behind early, tied

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it up, and then won it
late thanks to Freddie Freeman. Gavin Stone

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got the start seven innings, three
runs, only four hits along the way,

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struck out three, but he got
into trouble in the fourth inning.

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Salvador Perez hit a four hundred and
thirty seven foot three run home run to

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left to give the Kansas City Royals
a three to nothing lead. Meanwhile,

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Cole Reagan's pitched pretty well for the
Kansas City Royals until the fifth, when

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the Dodgers finally got to him.
Miguel Rojas a two run home run down

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the left field line that made it
a three to two Royals lead. Then

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later in the inning, Chris Taylor
home run tied it to one. Pitch

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hits, a drive to left field
and deep. This ball headed back to

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the wall. It's gone. The
first came run of a season for Chris

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Taylor and it ties the game at
three. Two home runs of the inning

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for the Dodgers. It's a three
to three ball game. It's been a

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while since Chris Taylor is able to
circle the bas as his first home run

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of the year. That one the
left center three hundred and ninety six feet.

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top tier gas for less. That
tied the game at three. Gavin Stone

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would end up going seven innings.
Daniel Hudson would pitch the eighth. In

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the bottom of the eighth inning,
the Dodgers got a little something going against

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the Kansas City bullpen. Mookie Betts
got on the base. Freddie Freeman came

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up and gave the Dodgers the lead. Smith sat at the bell, looks

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at second. Now Kicks comes to
the plate and Freeman Benson in the center

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field of base hit Rookie around third
already he's on his way to the plate.

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He stores Freddie Freeman with the go
ahead run down It in at the

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bottom of the eighth. That's four
to three Dodgers lead. What hit by

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Freddy Freeman, who's at two eighty
six with runners in scoring positions, so

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that mistake you give the Dodgers a
little bit of gamp, then they will

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take advantage of it. Freddy Freeman
drives in Mookie Betts to an advanced on

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a wild pitch that scores the go
ahead run at the bottom of the eighth

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with two outs, Dodgers up four
to three. Alex Vessio will walk a

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little bit of a tight rope in
the ninth inning, but get out of

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it with the same Daniel Hudson gets
the win. He's now three and one.

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Dodgers get the victory four to three
over the Royals to improve to forty

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three and twenty eight on this season. The Dodgers last night also able to

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pick up a game on the San
Diego Padres. Padres, by the way,

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have already lost again today, so
the Dodgers at the moment a seven

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and a half game lead over the
San Diego Padres eight and a half games

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over the Arizon. The Diabacks the
chance to pick up a half game more

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tonight. Yoshinobu Yamamoto on the mound
game two of this three game sent first

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pitch is six to ten and with
more let's head out to the gaping Motors

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Broadcast booth, as we say hello
to Rick Monday and Tim Never guys,

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well, thank you Tim very much, as we get you ready for Game

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two between the Dodgers and the Royals
here at Dodgers Stadium. It is an

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absolutely picture perfect evening here once again, temperatures will be in the low eighties

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as we get ready to start this
ball game tonight. Meantime, the Dodgers

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come in with forty three wins twenty
eight losses. They are currently seven and

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a half up on the Padres,
the Mets beating the Padres earlier today five

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to one, so the Dodgers leading
the division by seven and a half.

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The Royals are six in back of
the Cleveland Guardians in the American League Central

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at forty and thirty one. The
Royals, meantime, we've lost five of

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their last six games, and they
are twelve and twenty against teams that are

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five hundred or better. So perhaps
their schedules catching up with them a little

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bit. And the meantime, the
Dodgers looking to string a few wins together.

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Yeah, and for this Dodger ball
club, I mean a thrilling win

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last night, as Freddie Freeman delivered
the game winning what proved to be the

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game winning base hit to score Mookie
Benz in the bottom of the eighth inning.

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But you know, we keep talking
about the bottom part of the Dodger

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lineup has really been a challenging no
question about it. But Miguel Rojas,

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batting seventh last night, hit a
two run home run. This was after

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the Dodgers were down three to nothing. And then two batters later, Chris

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Taylor, batting the nine spot,
his first home run of the season,

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and that was on a changeup and
he went yard. So this Dodger ball

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club, they come from behind victory, which is needed because if you look

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at the Dodgers season tim you know
they began thirty three and seventeen. Well

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since the twenty first of May,
they're one game below five hundred, ten

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wins, eleven losses. So maybe
turned things around last night with a winning

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imagined that last night. This was
the time of year it's called the June

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swoon. They're game under five hundred
right now in the last twenty one as

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you mentioned, But again, a
chance for a series victory here if they

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can beat Kansas City tonight. They
have had very good success against Kansas City

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at Dodgers Stadium. Seven career meetings
here, the Dodgers have won six of

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them. Yeah, and for the
Royals, they're feeling pretty good about themselves,

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and they should. I mean,
they're forty and thirty one. It's

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been quite a turnaround if you look
at the Kansas City rules, because remember

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last year they were fifty six wins
and one hundred and six losses. So

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they're kind of, you know,
shooting to the moon as far as what

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they're doing right now. They're within
striking distance, but like you were saying

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earlier, they need to put together
a string of wins to kind of close

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the gap. Trailing now Cleveland by
six. Rookie bats has quietly put together

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an eight game hitting streak. Freddie
Freeman's hit in four straight. Freeman with

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the game winning RBI last night.
Sho Heltania a couple of hits in the

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game last night, and last night's
at bats looked much better than previous at

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bats in recent days where he didn't
appear to be expanding the strike zone.

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It all, yeah, better balanced, because the previous dozen games for sho

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hey Otani had hit below two hundred
one. He was nine for forty seven,

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but last night the balance was much
much better that we saw, in

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particular the last road trip. So
the Dodgers and the Kansas City Royals Game

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two of this three game interleague series. The way the schedule goes, these

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two teams will play every year,
but in each other's ballparks every other year.

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So that's the way the new schedule
goes. That went into play last

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year, so we can expect to
see Kansas City and the Dodgers playing a

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lot more often than they have in
the past. The Dodgers eleven and eight

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all time against the Royals. Counting
it down to the first pitch here at

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Dodgers Stadium on a beautiful night,
it's the Dodgers and the Royals coming up,

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David Vassa. We'll check in throughout
the show. He'll go one on one

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with the Royal superstar Bobby Wit Junior
will break down I'm this pitching matchup,

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but up next the Dodgers superstar Otani
and the Otani ree one plus we'll visit

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with Kirsten Watson as we lead you
up to Dodgers and Royals on this Saturday

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night. First pitch of six ten. Thanks for being with us. I'm

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in Kansas City Royals, Game two
of this three game set Yoshanoba Yamamoto on

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the mound, Seth Lugo, the
veteran will go for Kansas City. First

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pitch coming up at six ten.
This is the Otani rewinde and a two

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two pitch from the left handed Reagans
swung. I'm pulled to the right side.

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That's him the right field past the
diving second baseball lofton and that's a

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base hit for Otani. Man that
ends the string of ten straight set down

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to start the ballgame for Cole Reagan. Reagan's wines there is two to one.

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Swung Island hit it a center field. That's a base hit for Otani.

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He's two for three, a leadoff
single for Show hit and the go

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ahead run. It's on base Showey
Otani. Couple of base hits last night,

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two for four, now hitting three
oh nine on this season. Dodgers

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come back and beat the Royals last
night in the series opener four to three.

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Hey, Kirston now joins us from
the stadium on this Saturday night before the

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Dodgers and the Royals. Yoshinobu Yamamoto
gets to start tonight. Kirson on extended

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rest too. Yeah, Yoshioba is
coming off of I would say his best

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outing of the year so far.
He was absolutely fantastic at Yankee Stadium.

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That obviously is a very good lineup, and how he just controlled not only

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himself his stuff. He was absolutely
fantastic and so coming out of it,

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his pitch count was hying out up
to one hundred and six pitches, so

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Dave Roberts he originally was supposed to
pitch in the Ranger Series, but Dave

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felt that because of the emotions,
the intensity of playing at Yankee Stadium in

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that matchup, and just what it
required. We saw quite the uptick in

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velocity for Yoshiobu when it came to
his just his pitches and stuff, so

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they wanted to give him an extra
day so that he could feel better.

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From talking to him, he said
that his body felt really good, but

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he did have just a little bit
of feeling tired coming out of it.

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So he actually had a conversation with
the coaches and they just felt like it

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made more sense to give him an
extra day and run him out here in

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this Ranger series. So hopefully he
can continue just kind of carrying over that

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momentum. He does believe that the
uptick in velocity was due to not only

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the environment but also some mechanical changes. So yeah, so hopefully he'll be

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able to keep it going. I
don't think we'll see as you know,

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at like ninety eight and we saw
Yankee Stadium, but I do think it'll

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be a little bit higher, especially
if the mechanical changes we've been working on

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does lean that way. Speaking of
keeping it going, this Dodger's bullpen leads

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to keep it going as a collective
unit, they've been really good. Yeah,

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they've been really good. They've been
best in baseball since April twenty first,

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So the numbers for them have been
just fantastic. And with talking to

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Blake China a couple of minutes ago, he was saying he really believes that

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it's due to quite a few things. One, there's a lot of veteran

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leadership in the bullpen and these are
guys who have been around this Dodge organization

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for a while, so that definitely
helps. But then you have there's so

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much support not only from each other, but from the coaches. He was

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saying that between Josh Bard, Connor
McGinnis, Mark Pryor, they put them

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in this situations to be very successful. And by doing that, whether it's

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you know who, they're looking to
be matching up again, the lanes are

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going to go out and having multiple
high leveraged arms available, is that because

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of that they can have a lot
of success because they're put into positions to

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be successful. So I think it's
very telling. He even also added,

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he said, you know, he
with different organizations that he's been a part

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of, he truly believes that when
it comes to preparing the pictures, and

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it's not just those three guys I
mentioned. There guys behind the scenes that

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also have a lot of impact,
but he felt that the Dodgers they do

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that the best. And so you're
just seeing kind of a representation of all

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of the support they have that they
can go out there, they know what

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they can do, they can be
effective, and so we're getting the results.

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And a guy like Blake Trinon,
who had an interesting kind of start

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to the season, came back healthy, but then for spring training took that

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comebacker off of his ribs and then
was down for a while. They're hoping

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it won't be able to play in
South Korea. He wasn't able to,

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and so because of that, you
know, that was a little bit challenging

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for him. So he's just happy
to be back and healthy and playing some

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really good baseball. And he's got
a zero ear right at the moment.

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Yeah, Hey, what else could
you ask for? It? You can't

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ask much more from him. He's
been fantastic here so we appreciate it.

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the mountain, first pitch at six
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Max Munsey on the IL with the
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with the Dodger skipper. Questions for
Dave, Dave, can you just describe

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Dave? Can you talk about the
pressure in the dugouts with Dave Roberts David

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Yoshinobu today after his outing in New
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of velocity. I know, we
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but he also felt like there were
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led to it as well. What
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you think there can be some carry
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I can't really speak to the mechanical
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guys, I did certainly see the
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I think, you know, we
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to kind of get off that high
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Dodger Stadium, but he feels good
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which I was curious also with Gavin
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series against the Yankees, and how
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with flying colors, and I expected
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guys are going up against Seth Lugo. What have you been seeing from him

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this year? And how is he
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a guy I've always admired from the
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very methodical, very cerebral in how
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game, even when he's in the
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like a chemist or a scientist,
very methodical. All right, there's Dave

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in with the David Vessay as we
lead you up to first pitch Dodgers and

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Royals. I'm Tim Kas's Los Angeles
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Dodgers on Deck on your home for
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a Dodgers and Royals, Yoshinobo Yamamoto
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pitch coming up at six ten.
Joining Tim Kates on Dodgers on Deck,

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I accept everybody for who they are. This is Dodger insider David Basse,

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all right, DV. Last night, Chris Taylor did something he hasn't done

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all year, and that's hit a
home run. Can we see more of

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CT three now? Well, you'll
see him when the matchup is conducive to

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him having success or giving him the
best chance to have success. And I

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know there's been a lot of criticism
of Chris Taylor and a lot of questions

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about why the Dodgers still carry him
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Chris Taylor is the twenty fifth guy, twenty sixth guy on this roster.

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He plays once or twice a week
tim and he has come up with a

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lot of big hits for the Los
Angeles Dodgers since twenty seventeen. And last

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night, you know, in a
regular season context, was a big hit.

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Two outs. He ties the game
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since last September seventh. So I
know everybody's itching to get rid of Chris

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Taylor. But for a guy that
doesn't play every day, plays once or

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twice a week and has the history
of coming up with big hits, and

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the Dodgers have the big lead in
the NL West, there's no reason to

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make any emotional decisions. David is
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tough. Bobby Miller looks like he's

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gonna get a start on this next
road trip DV. How's he feeling after

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his last rehab appearance. I actually
talked to him earlier today, Tim,

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and I said, you know what, it's funny how everybody's trying to dissect

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your rehab assignments the last two,
especially because, as I told you three

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weeks ago, Tim, he was
ready to go, but the Dodgers were

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not ready to have him come back. He will pitch next Wednesday at Corsefield,

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and he just told me the adrenaline
adrenaline level was not there for him.

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The last couple of rehabs starts because
you know, obviously he's he's ready

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to go and wants to be pitching
in the Major League, So he's been

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itching for three weeks to get back, and obviously coursefield, no pitcher is

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looking forward to pitching there. But
in this case, Bobby Miller is why

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seven days rest for Yamamoto dv Well, the Dodgers are saying that after that

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emotional start a Yankee Stadium where he
threw harder than he has thrown all season

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long, topping ninety eight miles an
hour on the fastball and throwing one hundred

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and seven pitches, the Dodgers just
felt like, for the big picture,

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long term, let's play it safe
and have Yamamoto on seven days rest.

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Whether or not there was an underlying
issue that we don't know about remains to

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be seen. If ever we will
hear about it. Because he's pitching tonight,

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right, They're not just putting him
on the il, So the Dodgers

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must feel comfortable enough that all he
needed was a couple of extra days rest

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and really, tim that's the biggest
challenge for the Dodgers the rest of the

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season, not only how do they
keep glass Now and Yamamoto healthy, but

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how do they keep them at a
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peak in October because they especially need
Tyler glass Now to be that guy he's

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been the first three months of this
season. Yeah, you're playing for the

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long game. Not for the right
now, that is for sure for the

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Dodgers and the rotation. All right, time now for the Dodgers Dirty brought

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on this Saturday night, game two
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World Series Champion Dodger Rick Monday.
It's the Dodgers and Royals getting set for

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Game two and Rick coming up a
little bit later on the pregame show.

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Royal superstar shortstop Bobbywood Junior is going
to join us. That's a good find.

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How long did you wait in the
line to get that one? Wow?

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I guess the reason why I was
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cut him off at the pass.
But what a play in the seventh inning

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last night? Right? Yeah?
Well, he's just an outstanding player.

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And also I think he understands the
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his athletic ability and what he means
this Royals team and the fact that he

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also, you know, second generation
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thing is he's good enough to where
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you know, they say, oh, hello, that's about it. By

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the way, speaking of hello,
I was talking to you yesterday. I

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said, Hey, the night before
the Dodgers will lose, and I thought

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you needed a helmet to do the
postgame show last night. Is like,

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nobody called and that was a heck
of a ballgame, and you were asking

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for phone calls to be made to
postgame Dodger Talk. I mean, you're

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better off doing the show after they
lose. Unfortunately. Yeah, it's okay

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to call in to celebrate the accomplishments
of the players. What a difference twenty

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four hours make, right, Rick, Because the last three games the Dodgers

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were involved in, it came down
to the eighth inning and the three best

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hitters. Yeah, and that's the
big deal. I'm glad you brought that

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up because looking at some numbers today, we have been talking for a long

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time about, well, the top
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the bottom part of the order,
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until about two and a half weeks
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wasn't pulling much of the wagon at
all. How Over, here's some numbers

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that I think are worth mentioning because
since May twenty eighth, so the last

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sixteen games, the numbers seven,
eight, and nine hitters combined in this

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Dodger lineup are now hitting at two
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we're beginning to see now a lot
more production at the bottom, which just

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really kind of enhances what happens at
the top. Guys at the top we

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set up before David, they cannot
stay hot the entire season. Mookie Bets

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cooled off a little bit. Show
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Freddie Freeman came through with the game
winning hit last night in the bottom

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of the eighth dunning, but that
was after Bets got the single with two

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outs. For some reason, there
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and pick him up. A huge
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team tames, you know, an
extra out if you will, or allowed

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them to get someone at the scoring
position, and it wound up being a

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big, big deal for the Stander
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that to light Rick about the bottom
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like we've been bombarded with the fact
that they have not produced, but all

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of a sudden now when they performed
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hear that too often. No,
And again that date goes back the last

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sixteen games. The seven eight to
nine hitters combined are hitting at two to

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ninety. Also in a period of
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sixteen games, including six home runs, and for Chris Taylor finally connected last

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night, Miguel Rojas also hit a
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those home runs coming in the third
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to zero at that particular time.
So again, bottom third of the order

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stood large last night. I'm sure
you could appreciate the feeling Chris Taylor shared

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after the game. He was very
candid by saying, I'm so happy to

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hit that home run. I thought
I would never experience that again. Yeah,

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well he was going to at all
hard work he's been putting in,

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including this afternoon. Again, really
happy for Chris Taylor. You know one

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thing about it, he does not
make alibis. He says, Hey,

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look, it is what it is. He works hard each and every day,

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and I hope that that's a big
stepping stone for Chris Taylor who hit

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that home run. Here's the other
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two strikes the last thirty six at
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not had a base hit. So
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on his mind as well. And
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little bit to try and put it
into play more often? And hopefully that

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that's going to be the case.
We'll see how the Dodgers do today against

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Seth Lugo. It is Barnes Day
at Dodgers Stadium. Yeah. I hope

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you get some phone calls in the
postgame show tonight, David, even after

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a win. Okay, thanks,
Rick, appreciate it. We'll check in

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with you and Tim Neverett a little
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it to Tim in the studio.
Kates, all right, thanks a lot,

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set for game two of this three
game series, and we're to join right

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now by Bobby widd Junior. Bobby, thanks a lot for the time,

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and welcome to Los Angeles. Yes, thank you, thank you, and

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happy belated birthday. I guess that
was not the greatest birthday. You guys

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did not get the win, but
it was the first time you played at

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Dodgers Stadium. Did you have a
chance to take that all in? Yeah,

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it was pretty It was pretty special. Just the weather out here,

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the fans, I think there was
almost fifty thousand here last night, and

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just the atmosphere was great. Stadium
is great and just kind of there's a

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history here and so even with my
dad playing playing here and I think he

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hit his one and only home run
here, so which is pretty special to

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be able to kind of play here. And yeah, do that. Do

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you know who that home run was
off of? Pretty sure as ishmael Valdez.

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Oh yeah, mister blister. He
had a lot of blisters back in

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the day. Yeah, that's awesome. Were you here when your dad hit

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that homer? No? No,
his last year was in two thousand and

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one, and I was born in
two thousand, so I can't remember what

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year he hit the homer, but
it was before. They might have been

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nineteen ninety five or something. So
yeah, oh man, you're making this

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all feel old. Yesterday was Bobby's
twenty fourth birthday. And I guess when

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you come to a stadium like this
or Fenway Park or Yankee Stadium, there's

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a lot of history on this field. Some players are not able to really

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appreciate it. What's the balance there? Yeah, that's that's It's something huge.

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You got to enjoy every moment and
just take it all in because once

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your career's done, once baseball's over
with, the game is going to keep

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going and so really it's just to
take it, take it all in.

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That's even what kind of talked to
Dave Roberts a little bit just now.

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You just said, just take it
all in and enjoy it, go out,

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venture out, and just be where
your feet are. And so that's

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pretty much a big thing for me
is just to enjoy everything that I do,

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because you never know when your last
day is going to be playing baseball,

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and once it's done, it's gonna
keep going. So enjoy every moment

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and just have a lot of fun. Bobby, we know where your feet

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were last night in the seventh inning. That was one of the most incredible

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catches A that I've ever seen,
and b one of the most incredible baseball

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IQ plays I've ever seen. How
did you have the presence of mind to

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not try to make that play by
yourself, but to find your second basement.

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Yeah, it's just one of those
reactionary plays you just kind of just

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happens, and then next thing you
know, we get a double play.

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And so yeah, I just knew
that try to make a play on the

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ball first, or try to help
help our pitchers out. And then once

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that happened, I knew that if
I try to make a play towards first,

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someone's gonna be there. And I
loften was there and you made a

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great throw and make it quick transfer
and everything got to double play and so

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it was great. So it's another
case of you trusting your teammates that they

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would be in the right spot no
doubt. Yeah, one hundred percent.

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And that's kind of what we're doing
here. We do our work where you

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try to get prepared each and every
day. But then we got to pull

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for each other. That's how we
got to do it and just to the

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next guy, and that's our mentality
and that's it's been working a lot and

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just got to keep getting better every
day. It feels like you're a rover.

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I know this is not softball,
but it feels like the Royals have

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three outfielders on the left side.
You get to a lot of fly balls,

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pop ups and shallow left field.
Yeah, it's just kind of just

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try to some of the stuff we
do in the offseason. Just put your

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body in crazy, crazy movements and
just try to get good jumps on that.

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And then I had a little bit
of a football background. I was

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a wide receiver just going after the
football and try to catch touchdowns, and

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so that's baby had something to do
with it. Just I just want to

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try to make plays in the ball. Yeah, we saw that. It

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looked like you were a wide receiver
in the seventh inning last night. Yeah.

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Yeah, just those are the fun
ones for sure. Bobby Witt Junior

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is our guest driving in. I
was listening to Buster Only's podcast and he

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had JJ McCullough on, and he
was describing just the conversations you had with

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the team on wanting to stay long
term in Kansas City, and it wasn't

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about you, it was about the
team. How are they going to build

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a winner. It feels like you
guys are taking that step this year.

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Yeah, definitely. That was something
that was huge that JJ and the whole

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front office did and the moves they
made, the veterans we brought in with

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the core group that we have here
is a lot of fun and we got

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a great team here and that is
why the reason I call this place my

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home now. And so it's just
one of those things where it's just got

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to keep getting better every day and
just keep vibing with the team and enjoy

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it. We know your name,
we know your dad, Cavin Bigio's now

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with the Dodgers. There seems to
be more players in Major League Baseball right

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now than ever before that had dads
that played before them. Can you put

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your finger on why that is?
I don't know. I just fell in

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love with the game at such a
young age. And I don't know if

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it's just because of how much passion
my dad has for the game, just

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because of he growing up. That's
every day we had baseball on, We're

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talking about baseball, whatever it was, and so it's just it's one of

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those things where I just loved it
ever since I was growing up, and

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I wanted to follow his footsteps in
a way, and so that's definitely like

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a dream of mine. But then
also just didn't I was playing at every

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other sport too, but baseball was
just where my heart was at shortstop spend

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your life, I assume for a
very long time. Do you have an

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appreciation for what Mookie Betts is trying
to do? Yeah, definitely. It's

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incredible just to see his work ethic
that he does to put in the work.

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Even I got a chance, I
had the opportunity to play with him

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and with the WBC whenever. Yeah, and so just the work he was

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putting in because he knew he wasn't
gonna be playing short for that team but

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he was just still put in the
work because he knew that there was a

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chance he'd be playing short last year, and then just the work that he

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puts in just to become a shortstop. And I know, I think he

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said on a podcast something that's one
of the most toughest things they ever done,

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but he's I think doing a great
drum. Did you feel like you

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grew a lot as a baseball player
being part of that team USA Team?

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Yeah, definitely, just being around
those guys, seeing their routine, seeing

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their work ethic. There are a
reason why those guys are All Stars every

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year in the way that they handle
themselves, They take care of their body,

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and just it was great to pick
their brains and just be a part

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of that team. Hey, Bobby
Wood Junior, way to introduce yourself to

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Los Angeles. It was awesome to
share you with Dodger fans and you certainly

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are a champion of a per so
thank you for the time. I really

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appreciate it. Yes, thank you, thank you for having me there.

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It's the Dodgers and Royals on this
Saturday and night, Game two of this

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the two thirty six ERA veteran right
handed thirty four years old, ninth season

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in the Big Leagues, his first
with the Royals with with the Padres last

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year seven years with the Mets he
came up with. He primarily throws a

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fastball on a sinker about forty seven
percent of the time. He's not going

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to overpower the Dodgers tonight. A
fastball this sits about ninety one to ninety

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two miles per hour. Making his
fifteenth start this year last time out,

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seven innings, four runs, eight
hits, four strikeouts in a loss to

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the Yankees. In twelve career appearances
to starts against the Dodgers, Seth Lugo

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is two and two at a six
thirty ERA. Yoshinobu Yamamoto on the mound

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for the Dodgers six and two three
ERA, twenty five year old right hand

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in his first season out of Japan, making his fourteenth start this season last

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time out, he was fantastic over
one hundred pitches, seven shutout innings,

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two hits seven strikeouts in a no
decision at Yankee Stadium last weekend. He

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was absolutely fantastic, ranked second on
the Dodgers in strikeouts, tied for second

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in games started, and second in
innings pitched. Tonight his first career start

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are next. I'm Tim Katson.
This's the Los Angeles Dodgers audio number.

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As we were saying, this is
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game two of this three game interleague
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last night. Yoshinobu Yamamoto seth Lugo
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Two guys on the call tonight,
Rick Monday and Tim Nevers. Tim thanks

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again, we get you ready for
tonight's ball game. Dodgers Royals schame two

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of this three game set. Yoshinovo
Yamamoto at six and two with an ERA

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of an even three, going against
Seth Lugo. Lugo nine and two with

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a two three six ERA. One
of the best pitchers in baseball right now.

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Last year with the San Diego Padres, prior to that with the New

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York Mets, signed with the Royals
as a free agent in mid December.

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Lugo has been a tough customer and
he is looking to become just the second

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pitcher in Major League Baseball this year, along with Ranger Suarez of the Phillies,

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to get to the ten win mark. Tim just looking at the numbers

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of the this should be a long
night for hitters and for Yamamoto. You

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start to look at the two stars
that he's made already in the month of

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June. While he's one to oh, era is below one and the batting

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average against is below two. However, once this the first inning has been

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somewhat problematic for him this year,
over a three hundred batting average that ERA

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over five and a half in the
first frame. Yamamoto is scheduled to pitch

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Thursday night here at Dodgers Stadium.
However, the Dodgers decided to push him

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back a couple of days give him
even more rest, and tonight he is

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pitching on seven days rest. Yeah, and so how long he'll go,

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we'll be able to find out.
And for Lugo, he's one of those

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guys once he gets runners on base, in particular runners in scoring position,

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just a one eighty batting average.
Signed as a free agent in December,

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and boy, the Royals really enjoying
having his presence seth Lugo on the hill

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for Kansas City. Joshinobo Yamamoto looking
for his seventh win of the season,

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making his fourteenth start for the Dodgers
Royals. Coming up from Dodgers Stadium.

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Lineups. First pitch right around the
corner. All right, thank you,

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guys, first pitch coming up.
Don't forget after the game, David Massey

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