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The Dodgers. I Mets wrapping up
this three game series at City Field,

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and we're joined right now by Dodgers
second baseman Gavin Lux. Gavin, thanks

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a lot for the time, appreciate
it. We've found a corner in the

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clubhouse to get away from Walker Buehler
and Austin Barnes. Yeah, tough crowd

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over there, tough crowd. It's
all right. So hey, it feels

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like still with veterans like that,
you're still the younger brother. Yeah,

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no, I know, I've been
around since twenty nineteen and I still Yeah,

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we got an older team, so
I feel like a little kids.

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So what's it like being around these
group of players? I mean, like

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you said, you've been here since
twenty nineteen, but it feels like in

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a lot of ways it's a new
team. Yeah. Definitely a lot of

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guys you can learn from a lot
of you know, a couple guys that

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are probably gonna be in the Hall
of Fame one day, so you know,

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just that's always you never stop learning. So you know, day to

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day it's been great and even through
you know, a little rough patch here,

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you know, vibes are still good. Yeah, So it's just it's

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never it's never any learning process.
Really, it feels like the vibe has

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completely changed from the first day you
guys got to New York to where you're

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at right now after that doubleheader sweep. Yeah for sure. I mean,

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you get the monkey off your back
a little bit, you get a couple

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of wins, play much better baseball. But it's a long season. Man.

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You got one hundred and sixty two
of these on top of spring and

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postseason, so you're going to hit
a rough patch and you just kind of

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got to weather the storm and keep
moving. But yeah, I mean,

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you get the monkey off your back. Everyone's a little looser, everyone's a

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little more happy. So just keep
trying to ride that wave. What's the

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balance of that, knowing that it's
may knowing there's a long season, but

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obviously not getting used to losing.
Yeah for sure. I mean, you

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know, especially Dodgers and the team
we have, I think everyone expects us

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to win and compete, and we
expect ourselves to compete and win. So

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you know, when we're going through
rough patches like that, I don't think

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anyone's happy. You know, it's
part of baseball, and you know it's

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going to happen. But at the
same time, it sucks and we all

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expect ourselves to be better. So
and I think so to our fans.

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So does that everybody, And you
know, well deserved obviously with the roster

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we have so but yeah, it's
a long season. You just gotta kind

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of keep chipping away and grinding away. Gavin Lux is our guest here in

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the Big Apple at City Field.
I got to ask you about that first

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game ninth inning, Daniel Hudson up
to his hips and crocodiles, and you

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were the one that made the final
loud catching the pop up from Jeff McNeil.

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What did that say? And how
much of a lift did that give

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everybody? And then the shush emoji. Man. Yeah, he's a dog,

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hud He's got some big set of
nuts. Excuse my language, but

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yeah, I mean he just competes
his ass off, and you know,

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every time he goes out there,
he's gonna throw strikes, he's going to

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be in the zone, he's going
to compete, and he's got great stuff.

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I mean, he's back throwing ninety
eight after coming off of a knee

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surgery and he looks as good as
he ever has. But yeah, to

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shush the crowd. And then you
know, he came in said, sometimes

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you got to remind him that we're
the Dodgers. And I think that's kind

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of the motion energy that we needed
right there, and especially like we keep

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talking about us coming off like a
weird stretch we were playing good. Him

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to show that kind of emotion I
think has helped us all and pumped us

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up a little bit for sure.
Yeah, I feel like you guys need

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that alpha some of that swag back
totally totally, and I think you know,

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he did it. And then to
him him saying to his credit like,

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hey, sometimes you got to like
tell people, show people where the

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Dodgers, and and a veteran like
that to come in and do that and

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and get out of a huge jam
like that where you know, easily we

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could have lost and him to to
to fight out of it, and uh,

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I mean, yeah, that was
that was awesome. And then in

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the second game, you guys hit
two home runs, one of them from

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Miguel Vargas. As you know,
everybody's career is not linear. How happy

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were you for him? Yeah?
I mean I was pumped up. He's

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been working hard and and he's an
extremely talented hitter and you know, just

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more at bats. He's gonna he's
gonna keep figuring it out. And it's

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it's a tough league and and when
uh, you know, you're you're trying

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to fight for for at bats,
and it's it can get tough. And

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he's a he's a very talented player, and you know he's just gonna keep

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getting better and better, and people
forget he's still only twenty four with probably

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not even a full season of major
league at bats yet. So he's gonna

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keep figuring out and he's just too
talented, not too I feel like this

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is a great opportunity to remind Gavin
Lux how good you are. Are you

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starting to remind yourself that you are
that guy? Yeah, it's you know,

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there's there's always ups and downs.
Obviously the first two hundred at bats

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weren't great. So just continuing to
try to figure out where my body is

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and different cues and stuff that that
work for me that I may have forgotten

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about or stuff that used to work, and positions I would get into that

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I probably can't quite get into yet, just coming off the surgery, So

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just trying to piece it together and
compete, you know, you grind away

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in the cage and you keep working
on stuff, and then once the game

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starts, you just try to compete
and help the team win. But yeah,

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I think as the season goes you
get more at bets, you try

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to figure it out and just keep
trying to piece it together. You are

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that guy, Gavin Lux, thanks
a lot for the time. Really appreciate

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it. Glad Los Angeles could hear
your voice today. I love you.

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Oh yeah, my guy. The
Pride of Kenosha, Wisconsin