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Talking like back, David Basse.
Welcome the Dodger Talk. David Vasse with

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you until the bottom of the hour. After the Dodgers default to the Rockies

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tonight by a final score of seven
to six. Eight sixty six nine eight

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seven two five seventy is the phone
number. We will check in with Jose

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Mota in fifteen minutes. We will
let you hear from Max Monsey coming up

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as well, because he joined us
on the pregame show and gave us an

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update on where he's at and how
he's staying connected to this team. And

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I know the loss of Mookie Bets
is huge, but not having Max Munsey

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in the middle of this order is
certainly just as significant in different ways.

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Eight six nine eight seven two five
seventy is the phone number. How about

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show Hao Tani? Speaking of missing
Mookie Bets, he has gotten red hot

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since Sunday afternoon when he hit two
home runs at Dodgers Stadium. Since Sunday's

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game or including Sunday's game. He
is now nine for his last eighteen with

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three doubles, three home runs,
and eight RBIs. He came up big

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in the second inning against the Rockies
starter tonight, Ryan Feltner. I was

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gonna say Austin Gomber he was last
night's starter, but Ryan Feltner tonight.

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He came up with the bases loaded
and cleared the bases with a double and

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got the Dodgers even and that's when
Freddy Freeman drove him in and the Dodgers

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scored four runs in the second inning
after Bobby Miller gave up a very frustrating

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three run home run to Michael Tolia, who is now hitting one ninety one.

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And what's frustrating about it. Obviously
you don't want to give up home

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runs. It's going to happen at
Corsfield. But what really kills pitchers at

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Corsfield are the dings and dunks of
the base hits and also walks, and

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that's exactly what happened to Bobby Miller
in the very first inning. He gave

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up a two out single to Ryan
McMahon and then walk the catcher Jacob Stallings

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in front of Tolia. That's something
you can do. And unfortunately for Bobby,

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seems like it always happens this way. He's going great, two outs,

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dominating the first two hitters, and
then all of a sudden it falls

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apart really quickly. And that's what
happened in the first inning tonight. Let's

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head back to course Field and here
from Bobby Miller. Jnllen was pretty high

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in the first inning. I got
a couple of quick ayls, two out

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walk. I just didn't really like
that. But and then the next guy,

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I just missed a fastball down the
middle. I'd like to think if

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I just throw it in a different
spot, I only let up two runs

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instead of more, and it's a
completely different ball game. So it really

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just comes down to that one pitch
pretty much. You know, fastball is

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a little flat today, but that
doesn't give me an excuse when I throw

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it fastball down the middle like that
first one. Yeah, that one really

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just kind of kind of bit me. Were you looking for the groundouts or

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just how beneficial was the defense behind
you and how they supported you today.

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I was getting a lot of grund
balls, so I sort of leaning more

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towards the two seam four seam wasn't
too great today, so I leaned a

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lot more towards the two seam,
and it was It's getting a lot of

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success, besides a couple of times
I just missed it down the middle.

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But other than that, chained up
was really good today. Curveball insider weren't

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great, but you know, it's
pretty efficient and I'm still glad to go

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into the seventh inning and save our
bullpen a little bit. Some of those

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missus down there that will, like
you attribute that to rest at all coming

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back or just kind of mis executing
on a few pros. No, I

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felt great. I don't really think
rest is the issue there. I really

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just try to throw an elevated fastball
and did a little too much on it

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and and just pulled it a little
bit down the middle instead of focusing on

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execute the pitch and not try to
throw it too hard. Test was that

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when you give up the three early
runs and you have as much traffic as

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he did, to kind of,
you know, try to get deep in

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the game and get out of some
of those jams you had later. Yeah,

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I mean I've dealt with a lot
of that before, and I was

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getting a lot of ground balls of
the two seams. So I use that

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with a lot of traffic today and
worked out a lot. Yeah, the

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defense had my back today as well, turn a lot of double plays and

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that was nice as well. All
Right, there's Bobby Miller, who obviously

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is very happy to be back.
He would have liked a different outcome,

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But like I was saying at first
inning, it's kind of like when innings

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get away away from Bobby all of
a sudden, after dominating the first part

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of an inning, a single,
a walk, and then all of a

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sudden, kind of the it falls
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that in bigger games than this one, and that's something he's going to have

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to figure out. Eight six six
nine, eight seven two five seventy is

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the phone number. The Dodgers fall
to the Rockies tonight, seven to six.

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They have one more game in Denver
and then come back home for a

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short two game homestand again to the
Angels. So, Dodgers Angels, starting

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Friday night at Dodgers Stadium, we
hope to see you out there. Let's

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go out to the phones Austin in
upland you're on Dodger Talk with David vasse

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Hi Austin, Hey, Dave,
how's it going tonight? It's going?

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Well? What do you got for
us? Thank you, thank you for

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taking my call. I wanted to
honestly talk about the infield situation a little,

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you know, I hear him and
and Rick talked about it all the

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time with McGee Rojas with the fourteen
to oh, I think when he scores

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a run and some then twenty or
twenty one to oh when he gets a

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hit, and I think I've just
seen enough of Vigeo with that error tonight,

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I mean zero and three. I
know he got a run, but

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I'm kind of frustrated with that.
I can feel more comfortable with key k

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being there and McGee being there more
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But wanted to get your feedback,
especially with the first six games that

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Vigio has brought with us. Yeah, I've been underwhelmed by Calvin Vigio.

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The Dodgers obviously saw a way that
he could possibly help them at the end

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of the roster, fill in for
Max Munsey at third base, a left

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handed hitter, a guy that does
have a higher on base percentage via the

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walk, but also the fact that
this guy does not swing the bat when

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it's called for. That's frustrating.
You just can't have that if he's not

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hitting ninth. So yeah, I
haven't been thrilled with Calvin Vigio. I

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mean, Tao said it earlier,
you can't waste your at bats, and

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I feel like that's a little bit
of what he's been doing with and he's

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been given to opportunities. But other
than that, I mean, it's one

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game. I can understand. I'm
not one of those, oh my gosh,

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go crazy people, but I was
also excited to hear the news of

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Kershaw in Rancho today. Pitched pretty
well, a lot of strikes thrown,

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and I'm definitely excited to see him
back. He was one of my favorites

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growing up. So thank you again, David. Hey, no problem,

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Austin appreciated. Yeah, a couple
of things there. I'm not sure how

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much longer the Cavin Bigio experience experiment
is going to go on, maybe until

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Max Munsey returns or there's a better
option and you reference ta Oscar Hernandez.

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I still I can't believe Dave Roberts
would take him out of the game for

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quote rest with just a two run
lead in the seventh inning. That's not

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an inning or a situation where you
pull one of your better right handed hitters

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out of a game at corps Field. And I know the Dodgers are about

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the long game and load management for
the long haul, but really, you're

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gonna take ta Oscar Hernandez out at
that point in time and you're just saying

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it's rest. I personally believe maybe
it was dehydration, maybe cramping, but

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come on, rest, I'm not
buying that. Eight six six nine,

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eight seven two five seventy is the
phone number. Speaking of Clayton Kershaw,

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you're right. He was out there
in Rancho Kucamonga tonight making his first official

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rehab start. Think of this as
Kershaw's first or second spring training start.

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He went three innings tonight, He
allowed one earned run, had five strikeouts,

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and by some tweets out there,
they said the radar gun clocked his

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fastball at ninety miles an hour.
Sports net LA had coverage of it and

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brings us Kershaw's postgame reaction to his
first rehab outing of the season. I

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think it was good. Yeah,
I mean checks off a lot of boxes,

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got through three, so you know, first time in a game,

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setting and all those things. So
it was it was fun to get back

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out there. You know, I
hadn't done that in a while. So

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as long as you know, everything
comes out tomorrow, fine, I think

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I'm on for the next one and
three. Your five strikeouts coming to be

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that curve ball. So how would
you says kind of the feel for that

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page in particular? Process, Yeah, it felt felt fine today. You

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know, I think probably three more
strikes and I probably expected honestly, but

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yeah, I thought it went on
considering the decision you've had to make last

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year, what you've been through,
was their significance and getting back on my

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own in the game. For you, well, I think I think the

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significance will be making it back to
the big leagues. You know, I

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think this is just another step in
the process. It doesn't mean it's not

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important, but ultimately all this is
for nothing if you know, I don't

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make it back. So it's a
good it's a good another step I'm not

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getting, you know, too high
or too low, just you know,

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trying to make it through, you
know, make it through three or four

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more starts and kind of see where
I'm at. Where are you going to

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be satisfied dissatisfied, so you had
to you know me or as far as

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your stuff and where you are with
that. Honestly, I was just more

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focused on getting it done tonight,
you know, going out there and getting

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up and down for three inks and
trying to make some pitches when I needed

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too, and you know, stuff's
okay, it's getting better. So hopeful

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that you know over time you start
working wrong pitching and less about health and

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get ready to go. All right, there's Clayton Kershaw. Well, not

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a lot to say after a first
rehab start, but certainly significant, as

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you heard Bill plunkt ask him,
because he decided to go with surgery.

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He decided to come back and pitch, and so far, so good.

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No setbacks that we're aware of when
it comes to this process from coming back

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from shoulder surgery. So a very
good night for Clayton Kershaw at Rancho kucka

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Manga, and hopefully he will be
back sometime in July to help this rotation

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that all of a sudden now is
down two starters, Yoshi Yamamoto out probably

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until agus and now Walker Buehler taking
a breather because the Dodgers put him on

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the IL, and if you were
listening last night, Walker Buehler kind of

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intimated that they may take a reset
here because he's been searching. He's been

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frustrated and is trying to figure out
life after a second Tommy John surgery.

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So I know they're calling it hip
inflammation. I'm sure there's something going on

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in his hips, and that's a
big reason for a pitcher to not be

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firing on all cylinders. But I
also feel like this is a really good

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opportunity for Walker Buehler to just recalibrate
and try to find his confidence. More

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than anything, it feels like he's
not really believing in himself. He's not

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believing in the pitches he's throwing.
He's not believing in the pitches when he's

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throwing them. So he needs to
look in the mirror and remember that he's

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that guy and he's doing pretty well
with the fastball velocity, just needs to

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be patient to execute his other pitches. And you know, Walker Buehler has

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been known to be a guy that
tinkers with armslaught baseball shapes. Maybe that's

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working against him at times. So
hopefully he can reset and be a new

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version of Walker Buehler that and new
doesn't mean less than it just means a

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different version, and he can do
that. I fully believe that eight sixty

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six eight seven two five seventy is
the phone number Dodgers fall to the Rockies

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tonight, seven to six. Let's
go out to Laguna, Neguel, Paul,

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you're on Dodger Talk with David vasse
Hi. Paul, Yeah, how

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are you? Thank you for taking
my call. We're just telling you're a

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partner there. I've been a Dodger
fan since then. A little boy,

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I went to Ebbitts Field in nineteen
fifty five with my dad and we shot

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out in the center field underneath the
overhang. And I think Don John Zimaza

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beamed that game and was carried off
the field on stretch. I could be

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wrong about that, but I followed
the Dodgers since I'm little, so I'm

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out, you know. And so
I agree with the previous core about Vgio.

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Why not play Hernandez and Tailor?
No matter what the you know,

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right hand, left handed, what
do you got to lose at bat two

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hundred or less? I mean,
it doesn't really matter if they pltune him

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or not. The better feel is
in vg O. That's that's my opinion.

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You think they'll bring Landon Knackbacks in
the minor leagues to take a dueler's

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spot in the rotation. And what
about Dustin May? What do you hear

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about him? Dustin May won't return
until likely uh September. He's throwing bullpen

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sessions in camel Back Ranch, but
he could be a weapon out of the

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bullpen for the Dodgers in September.
Paul, thanks for the phone call.

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Love hearing old time Dodger fans.
Eight six two five seventy is the phone

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number. Let's go out to downy
Frank. You're on Dodger Talk with David

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Vassei. Hi Frank here, what's
up, bro, first time caller,

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love your show, tough loock today. I wanted to call him ut my

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questions about Schosko hernandez uh. Dave
Roberts said, because he wanted to get

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Chris Taylor an extra bat. But
I totally think and it's I just saw

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it on the game that he didn't
hustle enough for that when they tied the

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game at four to four, that
should have been a tear double and he

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kind of looked like he was jogging
out there, bro, and that's why

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he got taken out. That's what
I think. Uh well, you think

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he benched a veteran player like that? Oh? Yes, man, it's

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just straight out man. I mean
yesterday and yesterday's game, someone hit a

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double and then hit the side of
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was Was he starting in right field
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not sure, but they kind of
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I love Heroscar Hernandez. I love
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his charisma. He brings a lot
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hustle enough. And even Bobby Miller
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he was mad, but I could
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Bro. That should have been the
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in. Probably cost of the game, I mean, honestly, all right,

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I'll go back and look at it. You know, coursefield is not

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an easy outfield to play, despite
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did not get a good read on
it. Maybe he was playing it a

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little bit too carefully, But I
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bit longer. So that's interesting,
Frank, I'll check on that. I'll

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check on that and let you know. That's good observation by I love your

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show man, and good luck and
keep up the good work man, Hey,

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thank you appreciate it. Eight six
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on y Teoscar Hernandez was out of
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it because Dave Roberts was not happy
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comes lust score, Here comes Busyo
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The Biography on Clayton Kershaw, The
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out to Jose Mota in Denver.
It's time to go around the horn with

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Jose Mota. All right, Jose
Mota, Let's start with our last callers

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observation. He believed that Taascar Hernandez
was not running hard on the basis he

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was not chasing after doubles with enough
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Dave Roberts sat him down. Was
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on in his legs? It had
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In my opinion, Taska didn't seem
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out. He was singing out on
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player, believe me, the one
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you know, be around his manager. That happens a lot now. Out

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of respect to his teammates, he
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him, But I don't think it
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what it was really was. If
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whatever else it might be. I
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a key player for you, and
he's already tussled first, the third,

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and the fifth, and so apparently
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And sure, even though you know, the outfields have done a lot of

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running, it's at a pleasure for
everybody here today. So I just didn't

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see anything wrong with Hernandez today.
Yeah, that was really strange. A

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two run lead late in the game
and you take out one of your best

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power hitting right handed hitters. So
we'll try to figure and sort through that

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tomorrow, Jose. As far as
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indicative of his short major league career, you think he's going great, and

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then all of a sudden, bam, it falls apart for a three four

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run inning. I know. I
mean, you can look at it two

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ways, and that one first in
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this might be a very short outing, but Bobby Miller actually loves pitching

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here. Marvel is here last September
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But you're right, David, you
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glad he was quite honest and transparent
about this. It was about trying to

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make a pitch better when the truth
is for young players to understand this,

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how about you make a better pitch
And that was pretty much it. One

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pitch got away Polia, another guy
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first inning. And when you think
about Bobby Miller getting you to the seventh

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inning, to me, that is
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and saying, well, you know
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that he's feeling his own that change
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again defensively, they got to do
a better job supporting him, and that

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was the case again with that would
beat you. But I will get Bobby

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at passing Gray today because he got
you through the seventh inning. But I

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was talking to Cunor McGinnis about this, and it seems like a lot of

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the young pitchers have gotten through this
before or still go through this. Even

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Landam Necket like this wanted thing that
I cannot get through. Let's try to

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just find a way so to something
else needs to happen for you guys to

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make a better pitch and not to
try to make something even more special when

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it comes out to executing. Yeah, no doubt. Bobby's very much into

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the analytics and checking the stats of
his pitches, so it seems to get

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the best of them at times,
even when he's not having the iPad in

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his hand. Now you know one
thing too, to real quick, Dave

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is I've talked to a lot of
players pitchers coming back from injuries, and

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this is a plus with Walker Biler. Two is you have to pitch what

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you have, and you got to
be very careful on scouttery reports with guys

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returning back from injuries, because remember, your stuff is not quite there yet

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right. So in other words,
you might saying that because you have four

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pitches and the scouting says one thing
about this particular player or lineup, that

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you're going to have all of them
right away, and you're not. And

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I think you know for Walker Billa's
applies to is forget the scouting reports sometimes

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and pitch to what you have,
what's been working better for you along with

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your catcher, and find out exactly
scout report or not this is working for

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me. I'm watching reaction from the
hitters and applies to ble the young pitcher

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in the veteran pittchure come back from
injury, because you can't think you're full

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war and full bodied right when you
come back from injury, you're not.

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Jose Mota is joining us. After
the Dodgers fall to the Rockies tonight seven

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to six, Calvin Bigio, Jose, I know he's not the reason why

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the Dodgers lost tonight, but he
is coming up with men on base,

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and he's striking out looking two more
times tonight, and fifty two percent of

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his strikeouts this year have been looking. How much longer is this experiment going

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to go on? For? Well, it's not working on the offensive side

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and it's not working on the defensive
side. And Calvin brings an aspect of

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the values we're actually looking for and
guys that can get on pace. But

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teams know this now. It's not
like Toronto let him go be for this

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reason too, is they want to
pitch him. Teams are finding a way

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to pitch him, and he's got
to be more aggressive here. And here's

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another indication here, Dave that guys
that take a lot of pitches, and

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going back to the Mike Social years, he said, Jose. When we

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see a lot of guys that take
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They work counts now, look at
it, three two averages when they may

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contact three to two career Calvin Bide
coming into two days ago, one sixty

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eight, okay, this year he
committ one forty three. So that is

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usually account where you're deciding swim or
not or he pray good to see a

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pretty decent strike to hit, and
it just has not worked for him.

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So unfortunately we see that right now, at least until today. You know,

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on both sides, it just has
not worked. All right, Jose,

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We'll check in with you after the
game tomorrow. I predict a Dodger

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win with Gavin Stone on the mound. He's the guy you want right now.

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He's got that look right now and
he's had that belonging look too,

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presidents on the mound that the Dodgers
need tomorrow. Yes, all right,

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Jose, safe travels home to Los
ane Angelus. There he goes Jose Mota

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part of the Dodgers Spanish radio broadcast
with Pepe and Ninguez. When they are

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on the road, our guy,
uh Fernando Valezuela will rejoin the broadcast on

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Friday against the Angels. We have
a winner of Andy McCullough's biography on Kershaw,

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The Last of his Kind. Brian
Park gets the book. He did

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not want to come on the air. New rule. If you don't come

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on the air, you don't win
the prize. How about that, all

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right? Max Munsey joined us on
the pregame show. Obviously the Dodgers are

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missing him in the middle of the
order. He's missing being in the middle

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of the order, and he was
playing really good third base before he strained

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his oblique. Here's what Munsey had
to say earlier today. Where are we

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in this process to maybe see Max
Monsey back? Not entirely sure. You

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know, things just aren't rebounding as
well as we've been wanting them to.

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And you know, we're trying to
slow play it and you know, just

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make sure that we're we're good to
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we don't have any setbacks, we
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And it's just, you know,
it's taking longer than any of us

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expected, especially considering it was something
that at the beginning we thought might not

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even have to go on the il
for and it's just you know, it

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hasn't gone away, and it's uh, it's been extremely frustrating for me and

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everyone involved. We've been trying to
do everything that we can, and uh,

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you know, for for me,
that could be something along the lines

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of I've been trying to do too
much, you know. You know me,

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I fight through a lot of stuff
and I've been trying as hard as

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i can to get back, and
that could be something that's not allowing me

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to bounce back as as fresh as
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it's you know, we're we're doing
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the timetable is yet, but we're
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When you look at the game and
you're not playing, do you see

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it differently? You see a lot
of things, you know, you see

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a lot of things in the dugout, you see a lot of things on

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the field, see a lot of
things in the clubhouse, And it's always

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an interesting perspective. But uh,
you know, I like guys. I

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like where we're at, and you
know, we're struggling a little bit now,

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but you know, every team goes
through it, and I know that

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the talent and the character in this
clubhouse. It's just we're not gonna be

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held down for long. You know. I know everyone thinks it's here in

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the world out here, but it's
really not. We're still playing good baseball,

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and we're going to continue to play
good baseball, and we're gonna have,

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you know, a really good stretch
here before too long where we're just

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you know, tearing the cover off
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win a lot of games. All
Right, there's Max Munsey and you can

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hear the full conversation with Munsey on
the iHeartRadio app. He was super candid

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with how he's feeling, how he's
processing it, and how he's trying to

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help the team via these group text
messages as far as scouting reports against certain

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pitchers. So he's still trying to
be as plugged in as he possibly can

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be with the not being able to
do much of anything because as you know,

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the core muscle right there, you
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can't do any exercise. So he's
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And when he's coming back, I
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that once he starts swinging the bat. It's probably at least two weeks away

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until he returns. And Munsey has
been out of the Dodger lineup since mid

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May. And right now they're trying
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Key Hernandez and now Cavin Bigio.
That'll do it for us. On

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Dodger Talk tonight Tomorrow, Gavin Stone
will be on the mound for the Dodgers.

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He's seven and two with an ERA
at three zero one, going up

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against left hander Ty Block, who
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four sixty five. Morongo Casino Dodgers
on Deck begins at eleven am, with

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first pitch at twelve ten. Thanks
to Dwayne McDonald at Corsfield. Thanks to

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Colin ye back at our Burbank Studios, and thanks to you for listening.

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In case you missed any of the
show, you can find it on the

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Iheartraga once again. The final score
tonight from Corsefield. The Rockies defeat the

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Dodgers seven to six. Have a
great rest of your night. See you

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It's true. Sending away