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We are live on the South side of

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Chicago, I guaranteed Rate Field where
the Dodgers defeat the White Sox tonight by

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a final score of four to three. Welcome the Dodger Talk. David Vasse

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with you until nine thirty tonight on
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have phone lines open at eight sixty
six, nine, eight seven two five

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seventy. We will hear from Landon
Nack, who joined us on the pregame

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show. Landon Nack will start Friday
night in San Francisco for the Dodgers,

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his first taste of Dodgers giants up
there in the Bay Area. Also,

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we will let you know which Dodgers
top prospect was promoted today officially. And

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I know we had a caller last
night asking me about a couple of different

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Dodger pitchers. Well, I did
some homework. Talked to one of the

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members of Andrew Friedman's staff, Jeff
Kingston, out here at a guaranteed rate

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field, and he gave me the
lowdown on these guys more than just what

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you're seeing in the box scores and
online. So got some information on that

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once we get to the minor league
portion of the show. But tonight obviously

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a disappointing night for my guy,
Bobby Miller. He had thirty two family

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and friends. That was what I
got from Joe Davis before the game,

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and he is from Illinois, just
outside of Chicago. He's a huge Bears

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fan, and you know he wanted
to perform well. But I thought jose

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Motas said it perfectly. He missed
a month with right shoulder inflammation. When

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you come back, you're trying to
get your velocity back, and I guess

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it's similar to when guys come back
from Tommy John surgery, even when it's

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just a month, and even though
it's your shoulder, the command is the

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last thing to catch up to everything
else. So tonight Bobby Miller did not

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have command. That's the reason why
he threw sixty pitches in two innings,

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and that's the reason why Dave Roberts
had to scramble and go to six different

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relievers for the Dodgers. Tonight,
how about Michael Peterson out of Riverside Community

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College. Two scoreless innings in relief. He picks up his second career major

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league win, both with the Dodgers. Joan Ramirez came in, Anthony Banda

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came in and really helped the Dodgers
out in the fifth inning when Ramirez allowed

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two on with two out and Dave
Roberts went to the lefty Anthony Banda.

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I thought that was a really great
move for two reasons. Number One,

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he got the lefty Nicky Lopez out
of the game. He forced the White

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Sox to make that choice, and
they brought in Danny Mednick, who I

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have never heard of before tonight.
I'm sure you have never heard of Danny

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Meddick tonight. He's hitting one ninety
three on the season, and Banda delivered

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for Dave Roberts. He was able
to get out of that two on,

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two out jam and the Dodgers were
holding on to that four to three lead.

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From there, it was Blake Trinan
who went an inning and a third

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tonight. Daniel Hudson pitched the scoreless
eighth and Evan Phillips faced the Big Boys

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again. Luis Robert and Eloy Jimenez
to get the final three outs of the

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game. If you remember last night, Evan Phillips took down Andrew Vaughn,

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Luis Robert and Eloy Jimenez. Tonight
he had to do it in the ninth

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inning. Eight six, six,
nine eighty seven two five seventy is the

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phone number. Dodgers win their fiftieth
game of the season. They are on

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pace to win another one hundred games
in their fifth consecutive full season. The

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Dodgers won one hundred plus games in
nineteen twenty one, twenty two, twenty

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three, and now looking to do
it again. They're on pace for exactly

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one hundred wins this season. Let's
head downstairs right now to hear from Freddie

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Freeman after his game, tying to
run a home run in the third inning.

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Show hey, for a few years
first half of the season here,

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is he another player entirely an even
higher level. Yeah, I mean it's

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hard to even I don't know what
more we can really say about about him,

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And I think we've said everything we
can since he's entered this league about

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what an amazing player he is.
But when you come over here, you

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just never know how first year is
going to go in any team, But

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I mean this is you just sometimes
you just gotta step back and just appreciate

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a player like this. You're swing
tonight. Are you kind of finally at

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peace with where you're at right now? Or looking for more? I've always

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I mean, I'll never say it's
good, unfortunately, but much better,

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like I've said over the last few
weeks. There's still a few cut swings

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here and there, but better overall, more quality than not over the last

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few weeks. So hopefully that keeps
the trend going. Looking sinker away on

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that pitch strikes, that's all.
Yeah, hopefully that continues. It's just

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trying to get strikes and hit them. Don't matter what the pitches, just

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what's working best for you right now
during this good stretcher in or what would

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you kind of attribute to Yeah,
I don't ever think that much. I

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just kind of see strikes and hit
it and sometimes they fall and sometimes they

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don't. Right now their fall impressed. It was a seven scoreless from the

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bullpen. Yeah, that's what I
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Seven innings from pretty much almost everyone
except for what Vest and Yard. It's

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a lot of guys. That's got
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But they stepped up. We I
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made it count. Cover seven endings
is a lot, especially you know Bobby.

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At least he gave us one more
after the first There's a lot of

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pictures in the first inning, so
that's nice. Said that he was able

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to give us the second win.
So hard to do and got a good

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credit to bullpen. That's why we
went Hey club house. Shout out by

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Freddie Freeman on Sports and at LA. I appreciate it, Freddie. And

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the story goes a little bit deeper
as far as the home run Freddie Freeman

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hit to left field to tie the
game in the third inning. Freddie always

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comes out early for his pregame routine. He had his son Charlie out here

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today and once he had everything done
with Charlie was playing with the other kids.

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Freddie was talking shop with me before
the game and he noticed the wind,

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the wind blowing out to right field
or doing something the right field,

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and he pointed to left field and
he said, I'm going to hit one

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there tonight. I said, you
can do it, and top of the

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third inning one on and Freddie Freeman
ties the scorer with a two run home

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run to left field. So I
know that's not like Babe Ruth pointing,

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but I'm going to blow that up. As Freddie Freeman calling his shot.

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I'm the witness. There was nobody
else there, but I feel like you

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can trust me that Freddie Freeman did
point to left field and said I'm gonna

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hit one there tonight. So that's
what he did, and it was a

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big one in the third inning to
tie the score at two, And Freddie

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Freeman and show Heyotani combined to drive
in all four Dodger runs tonight. Show

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Heyotani with a leadoff home run,
his second of the season and the eighth

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time in his career that he has
hit a leadoff home run. And Otani

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now with the Dodgers in this role
leading off since Mookie Betts went on the

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injured list, Otani is hitting three
seventy one with five home runs. This

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goes back further than him just starting
to lead off when Mookie Betts broke his

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left hand. This goes back fifteen
games. It doesn't just go back nine

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games or eight games or seven games. His hot streak goes back fifteen games.

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In his last fifteen games, show
Hao Tani is hitting three sixty four

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with a nine to twenty seven ops. He has nine home runs and nineteen

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RBIs. And I guess the most
striking thing after what we heard Jose Mota

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talk about and also what Dave roberts
has said, the difference is is controlling

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his strike zone. Sho Hao Tani
in his last fifteen games has twelve walks

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and nine strikeouts. That's a complete
one point eighty from what we saw when

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he was in that big slump for
twenty five games. Eight six six nine

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eight seven two five seventy is the
phone number. We have two lines open.

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After the Dodgers defeat the White Sox
for three, let's go out to

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Lahabra. Lorenzo. You're on Dodger
Talk with David vasse Hi. Lorenzo,

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Dave, how you doing, Hey, great win for the Dodgers, great

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job by the Bullpen's got a question, uh kainn. I want to preface

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this by saying that I'm a Dave
Robertson, I'm a bruin. I appreciate

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the way he played baseball, but
I'm perplexed because he manages the opposite way

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he played. He played small ball, he manufactured runs, and when it's

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now that he's managing, he's doing
I mean, quite the opposite. Like

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tonight. The a perfect example.
You have Miguel Vargas at first or no,

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actually had lucks at first, and
they have Vargas at bet and then

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perfect opportunity right for a hint,
run or do something, and there's been

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plenty, plenty of opportunities, and
he just doesn't do it. So,

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I mean, it's hard to convince
me not to say that this is right.

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This comes from treatment and from upstairs
that that we have to wait for

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a two run shot or three run
shot. We cannot play small ball because

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that's not Dave Roberts. I don't. I think you're making a lot of

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a lot of statements that are just
not true. Number One, the game

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has changed tremendously since Dave Roberts was
playing. That's that's number one. Number

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two, I'm all for putting runners
in motion. And Miguel Vargas, as

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I mentioned during the Clubhouse show,
is swinging the bat much better, and

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his last nine starts he has a
hit in all nine of them. Sure,

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there's an argument to be made you
could put lux in motion, but

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it worked out. You had runners
at the corners for Cavin Bigio with one

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out, he flew out to left
field, and you still had Otani who

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was coming up, and he delivered
the go ahead base hit. So I

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will I understand that part. And
look, the one thing that Dodgers and

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a lot of teams don't want to
do is give up outs, and a

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lot of their philosophy is to bunt
and give up and out is not something

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that they're in favor of. I
there are certain situations where I disagree with

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that, but I will say this
Dave Roberts, I'm sorry being long winded,

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Lorenzo. I feel like Dave Roberts
puts on the safety squeeze more than

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any other manager I've seen in the
last nine years. So that's a little

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unfair. And he's not telling anybody
not to bunt. In fact, he's

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trying to tell more of his players
if they see the third basement playing back,

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lay down a bunt like Calvin Bigio
did on Saturday night at Dodgers Stadium.

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Right Like, again, I'm not
trying to nippick, you know,

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this is first game, but a
cool we're talking baseball game postseason. That's

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something like I'm thinking postseason. Yes, I know you are. The last

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couple of years, you know,
I mean, our bats have been dead

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and we needed to manufacture and in
all fairness, there hasn't been anybody on

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base to really manufacture runs, right, Lorenzo, the last two postseasons.

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And it's gonna come down to the
big three, right, Mookie Beds,

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Freddie Freeman, show Aotani. Two
of those three guys have to be hot

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in the postseason or come up with
some big hits for the Dodgers to run

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the table. I feel like that's
fair, right, right, right,

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But we also but then I understand
the bottom third guys, the bottom third

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of the order has to do the
little things. And I'm with you.

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So it's not that it's making the
right play, it's making the right play,

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Lorenzo. Yeah, yeah, Lorenzo, Do you want to talk betting

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averages or do you want to talk
about what I'm trying to agree with you

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on you If you have a runner
at second base less than two outs,

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one of those bottom three guys has
got to find a way to get that

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runner to third base with less than
two outs. If there's a runner at

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third base less than two outs,
you're gonna have to find a way to

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get that run home. The Dodgers
have not been able to do that the

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last two postseasons. Can we just
say we agree, we agree, We

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agree on that for sure, David. Let's go Dodgers, all right,

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thanks, Lorenzo, appreciate it.
Eight six six seven, two five seventy

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is the phone number. And look, let's look at the Dodger roster construction

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the last four years. By the
way that they've won one hundred plus games,

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Let's not forget that they the way
they do it is working in the

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regular season. They have mastered the
regular season. But you're right, in

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the postseason, you can't just wait
for a three run home run. You're

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gonna have to find a way for
these lesser players in the lineup to do

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the little things to get the runner
over or to get a run home.

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I think back to the twenty nineteen
NLDS Game five. Matt Batty had an

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opportunity to hit the ball to the
right side and get the run home from

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third base. Instead, he's trying
to launch a home run. That's not

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what you need from Matt Beatty.
That's not what you need from Gavin Lux

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or Cavin Bigio. So we all
agree on that. But the roster construction

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is a slugging team, and luckily
the Dodgers have been able to find superstars

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that don't just try to swing for
the fences. They're looking for hits.

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Mookie Betts, shoey O, Tawni, will Smith, Freddie Freeman, all

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those guys are great hitters that in
the process will hit home runs. Eight

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six, six, nine, eight, seven, two, five seventy is

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the phone number. The Dodgers win
their fiftieth game in the season, by

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the way, beating the White Sox
tonight four to three. They're on pace

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to finish the season with one hundred
wins for the fifth consecutive year. Let's

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go out to the Palis Sades.
John, You're on Dodger Talk Live from

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Chicago. Hi, John, Hey
David. You know I must say that

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as Dodger fans, don't if we
realize how fortunate we are. I mean,

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we have one of the best organizations. I mean, and you know,

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a game like tonight especially, there
should be no complaints. I don't

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know why there's one call, even
not even one, will we complain when

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you have Vigio, who I don't
think is a big league player, but

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you know he did his part,
Taylor, Vargas, Rojas and Luck and

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you win a game like that where
Bobby is impatient as the best ball,

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right, And I mean we I'm
glad you're saying that, John, because

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you know, we go around the
league now we're seeing other teams. Man

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the Dodger fans, if they look
around the league and for the last eleven

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twelve years, they should be very
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hasn't taken a break from funneling resources
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players like Otani Yamamoto. I mean, he's spent what a billion dollars this

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offseason. Some teams don't spend that
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one. Number two, they should
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infrastructure to support these players. And
you know what, it's a pretty well

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oiled machine, absolutely, and Dave
Roberts is doing an incredible job. I

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mean, we the only complaint And
like I said, this shouldn't be any

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but we play a little more small
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to be working well, and we
had one of the best players to ever

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play the game. I mean his
plate discipline, because of course he's an

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incredible power hitter, but Otani's plate
discipline. To have that kind of power

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and that kind of discipline is just
phenomenal to watch, no doubt, John,

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thanks a lot for the phone call. Appreciated. Eight sixty six nine

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eight seven two five seventy is the
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where many of you are coming from. You're thinking about October and you've been

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disappointed the last few octobers, more
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far as disappointments go. But there's
a lot of teams out there that are

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saying good night to their season,
like the White Sox are in May and

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June. So it's great to want
to win the World Series and have the

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expectations of winning the World Series.
But let's not take for granted these great

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teams that we've been able to see
since twenty twelve without taking a season off.

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Because teams take seasons off. Ask
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ask the Chicago Cubs. They got
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that much. They're not adding,
they're taken back, and I think we

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all should be very thankful because who
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Right, The Dodgers have a great
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superstars will show up in October and
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other World Series champions. Yes they
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they're big boys. Seem to come
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and starting pitching. Pitching. Pitching
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that's the reason why the Dodgers are
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and Tyler Glass. Now let's go
out to Joe in San Diego. You're

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on Dodger Talk. Hi, Joe, Hey, Dave, thanks for taking

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a call. I think you hit
the nail on the head about why a

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lot of Dodger fans are frustrated,
because, yeah, you know, this

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is going to be the fifth year
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games. But you're right, I
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Now, I will say, you
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we do have one of the best
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all the organizations in the league,
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mean, you look at Atlanta,
you look at the Giants. We've got

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guys from the front office in those
in those teams now, so that tells

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you how quality you know, our
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that we're talking about potentially going into
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thoughts on if we are going to
try to pull this deal for for Crotchett

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and Robert, which are parents don't
talk like money and Petros it's Crochet,

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Crochet, Okay, Crochet, what
do you think is going to be what

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we got to give up to to
get those guys? Obviously starting pitching,

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you can never have too much of
it, especially with Kershaw being shut down

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after his his rehab starts and then
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we never know what's going to happen. Given the amount of innings he's

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pitching now, I think he's going
to go over what he normally pitches in

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the last couple of years. Get
Crochet. To get Crochet, you're going

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to have to give up one of
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Land and or whether it's Justin Robleski
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give up something really good for Garrett
Crochet because he's under team control for two

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more years. And I would imagine
it wouldn't just be for Crochet. The

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Dodgers probably would trade for Luis Robert
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So it's gonna take. It's gonna
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to the White Sox to be able
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those other two players to go along
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it takes. I mean, you
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have enough you know, good pitching
in the start because obviously pitching wins in

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the postseason. Well there's another layer
to that too, because Garrett Crochet has

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never pitched these many innings in Major
League Baseball and he did have Tommy John

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surgery four years ago. So,
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with the Dodgers and other teams out
there as well. My understand and I

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learned this today that the Padres are
still very much in to try to trade

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for Garrett Crochet as well. Thanks
for the phone call appreciated. Joe eight

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sixty six eighty seven two five seventy
is the phone number. We're gonna take

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a time out here on Dodgery Talk. When we come back, more of

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your phone calls. We have almost
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at eight six six eighty seven two
five seventy after the Dodgers defeat the White

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Sox four to three on AM five
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This is Dodger Talk with David Bassan the

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two to one offering the Shan Hitch. It's a left field pretty well,

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it's kring Gon attend me back to
the wall. Let's got a hold on

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Honey framing an opposite field homer ties
the game at three. Home run numbers

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twelve for Freeman. Hey, the
Dodgers have come back to tie it in

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the top of the third three to
three. Freddie Freeman had his eyes on

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those left field bleachers earlier in the
afternoon. He delivered in the third inning

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with a game tying two run home
run. As the Dodgers go on to

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beat the White Sox tonight four to
three. David Vassey live at Guaranteed Raid

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Field in the South Side of Chicago
as the Dodgers win their fiftieth game of

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the season. They are on pace
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two five seventy is the phone number. Last night I mentioned that the Hollywood

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Chamber of Commerce announced that our very
own Oral Herscheiser is going to get a

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star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. I mentioned that Vince Scully had a

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star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, but today I was informed that also

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another Hall of Fame broadcaster for the
Dodgers has a star as well, and

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that is Haimi Hareen. So it
will be the third Dodger that will have

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a star on the Hollywood Walk of
Fame. Only one of those three actually

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played and that is oral Herscheizer and
Magic Johnson has won the uh well,

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magic is magic. Former Laker and
now part Dodgers owner I mentioned a Dodger

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prospect got promoted today, Diego Kartaya, who kind of leaked out his own

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news on his Instagram page. Today, the Dodgers made it official. Diego

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Kartaya is being promoted from Double A
Tulsa to Triple A Oklahoma City, and

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tonight he was in the Dodgers OKC
Baseball clubs starting lineup, batting sixth and

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dhing and the manager at Oklahoma City, Travis Barbery, said that the way

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they will balance and develop the two
catchers that are pretty good Hunter Fiducca and

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Diego Kartaya at the same level at
Triple A will be by having each guy

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catched three times a week, and
obviously the days that Cartaya is not catching,

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he will dh And my understanding is
is that Cartaya has started to find

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something here offensively that he lost the
last couple of years. Number One,

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his back is healthy. Number two, his swing is a little bit better,

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his approach is better. He's trying
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understanding was somehow some way. He
started to try to pull everything for slug

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and the Dodgers were were good enough
to help him understand you want to use

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the whole field, and that's what
he did when he first got to the

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lower levels of the Dodgers minor league
organization. So that's a good thing that

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he's been able to get back to
that. And he started the year slow,

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so for him to hit two thirty
six right now with five homers and

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twenty seven RBIs is pretty good because
he was sitting the first month and a

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half of the season in the one
hundred. So he's picked things up here.

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So he's a good kid, only
twenty two years old. I've know

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we've heard about him since the Dodgers
signed him out of Venezuela since he was

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sixteen, but he's only twenty two
and still developing. Eight six six nine

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eighty seven, two five seventy is
the phone number. Let's go out to

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Huntington Beach. Joyce, You're on
Dodger Talk with David vasse Hi. Joyce,

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Hi there, I just oh,
I love the Dodgers, everything about

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them, the organization, and I
just want to come him at Dave Roberts.

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What a skipper. He is.
You know, you can tell he

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loves his players and in turn,
they love him, and he gives them

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heart to decide back, you know, from a deficit and the Dodgers,

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oh wow, you know, and
he could and he's so wise. A

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six relief pitchers. He orchestrated that
to help, you know, shut them

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down. And I just say,
you know, he's such a good manager.

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All right, Joyce, thanks for
the phone call. I think,

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uh, if you're going to criticize
Dave Roberts and blame him, if you're

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a fan, you certainly have to
compliment him when I mean, he's been

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pretty successful. He's the most winningest
manager percentage wise in Major League Baseball,

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and you've got to give him credit. And I know there's always going to

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be discussions and questions on why he
decided to do certain things. Even I

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have those questions, and those are
valid. Just because he's the manager of

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the team and just because the Dodgers
have had a lot of success doesn't mean

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that we can't ask a question why
what went behind that decision? And I

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think it is unfair when people blame
when things go wrong on Dave, but

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they don't seem to give him the
credit he deserves when things go right.

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Eight six six seven two five seventy
is the phone number. Before we get

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back to the phone calls. Let's
head back downstairs to hear from Bobby Miller.

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I want to hear what Bobby had
to say about those two innings where

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he really didn't have his stuff tonight. Yeah, I mean they're following off

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a lot of good pitches as well
as much as bad pitch, as much

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as bad pitches as there were.
You know, obviously I've been a little

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tough spot lately. It's been a
little tough coming back from this rehab,

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which feels like I just went through
spring training again. But one thing I

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can say is every time I'm out
there, I'm giving it my all every

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single time. But you know,
all it takes is just one getting again

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just to get back into swing things. And I'm just not gonna doubt myself.

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And I know who I am,
I know who I can be,

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and I'm just gonna keep trusting my
stuff out there. I know I've talked

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about just how your shoulder is feeling
so much healthier in a really good spot

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right now. You just feel like
kind of looking for more better feel with

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your pitches or I guess what's kind
of the part where you realize you're kind

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of over that next time. Yeah, you know, shoulder feels great,

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body feels great. I think it's
just sometimes I'm trying a little bit too

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hard out there, doing a little
bit too much. But even the good

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pitches I was making today, it
feels like they were They had some really

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good takes filed off a lot of
pitches as well, which caused my pitch

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count to get really high and taken
out earlier in the game. You know,

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yeah, just lead off walk wasn't
really too good after an O two

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count. I'll be what could you
say about the pen, you know,

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picking you up with seven scoreless tonight? Yeah, I mean that's huge.

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I can't say I'm surprised either.
That's something that they've always been doing.

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It is holding it down. So
really thankful for that, and you know,

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that's something I always take pride in, as well as putting the bullpen

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in against spot and keeping them fresh. But you know, just didn't have

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my best stuff today and they held
it down like they always do. All

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Right, there's Bobby Miller thanks to
Sports at LA and look he's very honest

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with himself. He's honest with us
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it just seemed like he said it
trying too hard, trying to do too

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much, and when he does that, things seemed to go sideways, just

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like they did at coors Field last
week where he got the first two batters

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out. He was he was looking
like he was cruising and all of a

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sudden things went sideways on him.
So kind of a similar thing that happened

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tonight. And Paul Deyong had an
amazing at bad against him as well tonight.

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Fought off what ten to eleven pitches
and that got his pitch count up

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as well. Eight six, six, nine eighty seven, two five seventy

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is the phone number. Despite Bobby
Miller only going two innings tonight, the

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Dodger bullpen, as you heard,
pitched seven scoreless innings. Michael Peterson got

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his second major league win tonight,
and can't say enough. Usually when the

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starting pitcher only goes two innings,
you don't win the game. And the

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Dodgers won this game tonight. They
got all four runs driven in by Freddie

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Freeman and show hey O Tani,
Let's go out to Rancho Kukamonga. Michael,

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you're on Dodger Talk. Hi,
Michael, Hey dv hardest working man

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in the sports industry right now.
Appreciate you staying up late on the East

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Coast to bring this Dodger talk.
So appreciate everything that you do. Thank

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you. Just appreciate that. Yeah, no problem, Salute to you.

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So, just interesting comment about Carteja. I know a couple of weeks ago

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called in another caller mentioned about our
catchers in the minor league, and I

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know that you mentioned, and at
that time, a couple of weeks ago,

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you know, they weren't really ready
the benefit of having Austin Barnes,

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his veteran presence, the way that
he can sometimes navigate younger pitchers through through

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a ballgame, and things like that. So do you think the promotion for

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Cartea is more about trade bait than
it is maybe about the success that he's

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having. I believe it might be
twofold. He's earned it. He's been

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at Double A for the last couple
of years, and obviously they felt like

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he deserved a promotion, So I
wouldn't rule that out, you know,

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to just put him back on everybody's
radar that he's doing good again. So

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I know for a fact as well
that the White Sox do have a scout

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or two watching Oklahoma City for the
next week or so and they'll get their

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eyes on Diego Kartaya. Thanks for
the phone call, Michael. Appreciate the

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love. Eight six nine seven two
five seventy is the phone number. Wasn't

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getting too much love today on the
way to the ballpark, so I always

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appreciate it from you. Let's go
out to Cherry Valley. Scott, you're

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on Dodger Talk. How you doing, Scott good? How are you?

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You know? I've read some stories
about Tyler Anderson in a possible trade.

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He's doing really well with the Angels. But one of the names that was

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brought up, and I really don't
want to see this guy traded for anybody

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is landon Nac. I think that
young man is quite a picture. I'd

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love to see him stay with you. You'll see him again on Friday.

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I love landon Nack as well because
he's a pitcher. I was talking to

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Mark prior yesterday. He's a pitcher. He's not going to overpower you,

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but he knows how to command all
four pitches, and he knows how to

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put more on take something off.
He is the true definition of a pitcher.

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Yes, I agree, all right, Scott, thanks a lot for

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the phone call. You don't want
to go anywhere, because I did catch

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up with Landon Nac on the pregame
show, and he was one of those

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Dodger minor leaguers during the COVID season
of twenty twenty that was at USC at

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what they called the Ultra its Sight. And I haven't talked to too many

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guys looking back on it, whether
or not it was good or bad or

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stunted their development. And Landon Nack
always a great answer from him, a

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thoughtful answer. Here's what he shared
about being part of those group of minor

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leaguers the Dodgers thought so much of
to have at USC during twenty twenty.

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Absolutely, I mean it was something
that not many people kind of got to

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go through, and so the guys
that did and where we were kind of

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all kind of just away from everything. It was just hotel field and back,

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and so it was just kind of
those were your only group of people

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you really got to be around during
that time. And so yeah, of

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course you kind of create a bond
with those guys and have that shared experience

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that you'll be able to remember for
the rest of your life. Do you

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feel like it helped your development or
do you feel like you were a year

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behind because of that. I think
it helped a lot just being able to

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be around some of the older guys. I think it kind of got us

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a little bit more comfortable in kind
of being able to like talk with them

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and understand like professional hitters. Like
obviously getting to jump straight into facing really

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Triple A and big league hitters for
your kind of your first taste of professional

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baseball was a huge help, just
kind of getting that step ahead of like

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what you're working towards, Like they
immediately show you where you're missing things and

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what you need to work on.
It feels like maybe the game slowed down

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a little bit where you know,
during the minor league season you're competing obviously

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against other teams and you're trying to
impress. Feels like that was somewhat of

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a controlled environment with competition, but
also giving yourself the grace to grow.

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Absolutely, yeah, it's it's obviously
it's a different situation than most people get

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to go into, but of course, Yeah, the just kind of the

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being able to control the environment of
like how many innings you get, like

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kind of making it more of it's
not quite an intersquad, but it's like

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more just like an intersquad type fields
where they can control the game and really

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like let you work on different stuff
while still getting to compete against guys.

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So yeah, no, it was
absolutely it was a great experience. All

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right. There's part of our conversation
with landon Nac, great insightful answers about

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his experience at USC during the twenty
twenty COVID season in that alternate site where

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that's where the Dodgers' minor leaguers convene, the ones that the Dodgers felt were

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close to the big leagues, that's
where they wanted them, and landon Nac

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was part of that group. If
you want to hear the full conversation or

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listen, there's a lot of people
hearing these days and not listening. If

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you'd like to listen to the landon
Nac conversation, you can find it on

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the iHeartRadio app. Eight six six
nine eight seven two five seventy is the

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phone number on a night Bobby Miller
only goes two innings and throws sixty pitches.

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The Dodger bullpen was used quite a
bit six different relievers tonight, and

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Michael Peterson at a Riverside Community College, picks up his second major league win

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tonight. He was followed by Johann
Ramirez, Anthony Benda, Blake Trinan,

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Daniel Hudson, and Evan Phillips locked
down his thirteenth save of the season.

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As I mentioned earlier, the Dodgers
are on pace now for one hundred wins

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after winning their fiftieth of the season, and on the flip side, the

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White Sox lost their sixtieth game of
the season. The White Sox are twenty

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one and sixty on the season,
which puts them on pace to tie the

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expansion nineteen sixty two Mets for the
most losses in baseball history. The White

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Sox are on pace right now to
finish with one hundred and twenty losses.

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One hundred and twenty losses the Mets
in nineteen sixty two went forty and one

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twenty. You might say, wait
a minute, that does not add up

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to one sixty two. You're right, because two games were not made up

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that season, and we actually here
heard an announcement and during the game that

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the White Sox and Braves are going
to play a makeup game. Maybe they

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want to take a cue from the
sixty two season and just say, you

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know what, we don't need to
play that game. Maybe the Braves do,

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but the White Sox certainly don't.
The Dodgers will look for the sweep

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Tomorrow night here at Guaranteed Rate Field, another night game for the primetime Dodgers.

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Gavin Stone will be on the mound. He's eight and two with an

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ERA of three zero four, going
up against Eric Fetti, who is five

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and two with an ERA of three
zero six. Morongo Casino Dodgers on Deck

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begins at four o'clock with first pitch
at five to ten. I know I

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did not get to the scating report
on some of the pitchers I was asked

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about last night. We'll get to
that in San Francisco after a Friday night's

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game. Tim Kates will have Dodger
Talk tomorrow night on Getaway Day, and

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I'll be filling in again for Kusten
Watson on Sports net LA. Thanks to

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Dwayne McDonald out here on the South
side of Chicago. Thanks to calling back

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at our Burbank studios and thanks to
you for listening. Listening is important.

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Hearing is not listening. You might
hear Hendrix, but I listen to Hendrix.

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I want you to listen to Dodger
Talk. In case you missed any

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of the show, you can listen
on the iHeartRadio app once again. The

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final score tonight from Guaranteed Rade Field, the Dodgers defeat the White Sox four

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to three. Have a great rest
of your night. Seal it