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Talk Up like Back, David Vasse. Welcome to Dodger Talk David Maasse live

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at Dodgers Stadium. After the Dodgers
beat the Giants for the second straight night,

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five to two. The final score
in front of a sellout crowd eight

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six six nine eight seven two five
seventy is the phone number. Jose Moto

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will join us at eleven fifteen.
We do have a pair of tickets for

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tomorrow night's game on Keike Hernandez Bobblehead
Night to give away between now and the

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bottom of the hour. Andre Ethier
joined us yesterday on the pregame show,

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and we'll share his thoughts and passion
for the Dodger Giants rivalry. Andre one

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of the few players in the last
twenty five thirty years to play his entire

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career with the Dodgers and do it
in a big way, so we'll share

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that with you as well. Can
you believe the Giants have now lost seven

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in a row dating back to last
year Here at Dodgers Stadium. That's remarkable

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and really proves my point on how
the Giants are a different team in their

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home ballpark, because if you remember
just three weeks ago, the Giants were

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playing much better than they are right
now and took two out of three from

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the Dodgers. They look like a
shell of that team we saw in San

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Francisco right now, and they are
six games under five hundred, They are

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thirteen games back of the Dodgers.
They are fading fast in the wildcard race,

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and you have to wonder whether or
not they're going to start selling off

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pieces like Blake Snell. I don't
feel like they're treating him to the Dodgers,

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but there are some interesting decisions for
the Giants and other teams as they

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get closer to the July thirtieth trade
deadline. We'll get to what I'm hearing

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regarding the Dodgers in a little bit
about the trade deadline, but first we

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got to talk about tonight's game,
and I said, after the Dodgers won

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the first two games against the Red
Sox, they can't just be satisfied with

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winning the series, especially the way
they had been playing, not only going

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into the break, after that last
road trip. But frankly, the last

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fifty games going into the All Star
Break, they were playing five hundred baseball.

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So you can't just be satisfied with
winning the series if you want to

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really be rolling into October. And
I love the Dodgers kind of put their

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foot on the Red Sox throat.
On Sunday Night, Baseball swept the Red

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Sox. They've won the first two
games of this series, and they can't

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be with winning three out of four. They're in a great spot to sweep

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the Giants in this four game series. They got Tyler Glass now back on

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the mount tomorrow night. They got
Kershaw on the mound against the Giants,

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who are not a good fielding team. They're not a good hitting team,

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and they're not a good team away
from their home ballpark, and they're not

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playing very good right now. So
the Dodgers are catching them at a great

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time, and I feel like this
could turn into not just a seven game

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winning streak, this could turn into
a nine or ten game winning streak for

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the Dodgers against a Giants team that
is twelve games under five hundred away from

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Oracle Park. The Giants are twenty
and thirty two on the road this season

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eight six six, eight seven two
five seventy is the phone number. Part

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of the reason why the Dodgers are
doing so well is Gavin Lux, who

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is swinging the bat really well coming
out of the All Star break. We

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had him on the pregame show today
and it seems like the mental break was

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very important to Gavin Lux during the
All Star break because, look, he's

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been underwater since day one because of
the reconstruction basically of his right leg after

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last spring's devastating injury. It feels
like he was getting frustrated that his body

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was not responding to what he wanted
it to do. And doctor Neil Elatrosh,

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who performed that surgery, told him
it's going to take twelve to sixteen

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months to be able to feel like
yourself again, and maybe he came to

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terms with that during the All Star
break. But nonetheless, the confidence is

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growing and he certainly looks like the
Gavin Lux the Dodgers have been waiting for.

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Gavin spoke to the media after tonight's
game after driving in two runs in

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the first inning. Here he is
sports and at LA. I think a

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lot of it's more mental, uh, you know than physical, just trying

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to be a little more aggressive and
uh told, curious in the same thing.

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Once you get a decent pitch to
hit and zone, try to end

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the a bat there and then move
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And I think overall, just trying
to be more aggressive and my swinging,

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my load, and just trying not
to be safe. And I think that's

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kind of the big takeaway I've had
so that hardly than you have all season.

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Yeah, I think just trying not
to be safe and everything, you

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know, just be more aggressive,
try to hit the ball hard and then

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not you know, worry about chasing
and all this. Like, just be

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aggressive and then your guys will tell
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And that's just kind of the approach
I've go with it. It's just

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five wins in a row since the
break. What did you guys do during

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the break to come back like that? I don't know, man, I

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think just everyone it was a good
mental reset. Obviously, I don't think

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we finished uh uh, you know, that week before the break wasn't great.

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So I think we all just had
a nice little reset and you're playing

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a good team baseball top to bottom. And it's been fun the last five

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games, so baseball's momentum. So
just try to keep on off these ones.

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What's take few the kind of a
mentorships start happening for you, I'd

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probably say three four weeks ago,
you know, just trying to be more

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aggressive and get your legs back under
you. And that's really it, man

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Like, it's there's nothing really crazy
different with the swing. Just trying to

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use the ground better with my legs
and just be aggressive. That's really about

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it. Nothing crazy. Hey,
all the good hitting coaches say you have

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to be connected to the ground,
and that's exactly what Gavin Luck said.

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Eight six six nine two five seventy
is the phone number. Also, Gavin

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told me during the All Star Break
he worked with his uncle in the hitting

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cage, and his uncle has been
his lifelong personal hitting coach, so maybe

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getting with his uncle during the All
Star break certainly helped him as well.

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

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beat the Giants five to two tonight
to win their fifth straight game. I

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mentioned uh doctor Neil Elatrosh, who
was in the house tonight and will be

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back here Thursday afternoon because he performed
the shoulder surgery on Clayton Kershaw eight months

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ago and did an unbelievable job authroscopically
to allow Kershaw to come back or have

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a chance to come back this quickly. If it was anybody else, they

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probably can't thread the needle the way
doctor Neil Elatrosh did with Kershaw and so

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many others. And I feel like
we're all taken for granted. Blake Trining,

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Doctor Elatrosh performed the rotator cuff repair
and shoulder labram surgery on Blake Trining,

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and that's why we haven't seen him
in a couple of years. But

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here he is again, and it
looks like he never left. I feel

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like we're taken for granted how serious
his shoulder and rotator cuff repair surgery was.

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And doctor Elatrosh is certainly really proud
of what Blake has been able to

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accomplish, he was telling me,
because he has been the Blake Trinan of

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old Trinan is holding hitters to a
one ninety six batting average. He pitched

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another dominating scoreless eighth inning Trining this
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He has been unbelievable this season,
and that's something that I felt like,

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I think we should all be reminded
of. This guy had major shoulder

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surgery just a couple of years ago, less than two years ago, and

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here he is on the mound looking
like the Blake Trinon of old. So

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certainly a big boost for this Dodger
bullpen. Let's go out to the phones

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for the first time tonight, Bobby
was at Dodger Stadium, part of the

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sellout crowd. How are you doing, body, I'm doing great. It's

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great to talk to you. It's
the first time I'm calling in. Welcome,

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Thank you, thank you. I
wanted to I wanted to give you

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some compliments. DV. I've been
listening to you for a while. I

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feel like the experience of of and
the love of baseball for me is through

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the voices like you and Charlie Steiner
and Rick Monday and uh yeah. I

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just find you to be a wonderful
baseball communicator and a sports communicator. I

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feel like I understand the team,
the stories, the underlying stories the the

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world. I feel like you hold
the the team accountable, you hold the

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fan base accountable when it's when it
should be and you also spread the love

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when it should be spread. And
uh yeah, just got a lot of

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lot of love for you and and
for everything that you do. I was

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at the game tonight. Awesome win, and yeah it was cool to see

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uh Lux gets some get some wind
in his sales. Been been a fan

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of his for a while, so
cool to see that. And uh also

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we had CT three you get a
hit, which anytime he gets a hit,

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I am so excited, so excited. I want to want to see

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him succeed as well. So yeah, anyway, thank you so much.

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I really appreciate it. Hey,
thanks for the phone call, Bobby,

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appreciate it. Eight sixty six nine
eight seven two five seventy is the phone

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number. Dodgers beat the Giants today
five to two for their fifth straight win.

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All right, jose Mota is going
to join us in about seven minutes,

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so I just want to get to
the latest as far as the trade

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deadline and the Dodgers. Mark Finesand
of MLB dot Com is saying the Dodgers

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are quote in on Randy A Rose
Arena. If you've been listening to the

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show for the last month, you
have already known that the Dodgers have interest

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in Randyo rose Arena. I was
told last night or that the Dodgers may

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have some interest from the Chicago Cubs, because the Cubs have dispatch scouts to

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all three minor league levels of the
Dodgers organization, and I was wondering who

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could it be that the Dodgers are
interested in on the Cubs team because they're

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in last place. They lost again
to the Brewers one to nothing. The

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two guys I initially thought of was
Cody Bellinger and Ian Happ. It's not

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Cody Bellinger that would have been a
long shot. Ian Happ a possibility if

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the Dodgers are still looking for an
outfielder, but hey, if they have

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their eyes set on a guy like
Randio rose Arena, they don't need Ian

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Hap. What could be a possibility
where the Dodgers are checking or kicking the

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tires on is the Cubs infielder Nico
Horner. He's not a great hitter right

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now, but certainly can play second
base and shortstop. My understanding is his

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best position is shortstop. I mentioned
Louis Renhifo from the Angels being a possibility

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to add some infield depth as well
as far as Garrett Crochet and Trek Scoobele.

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From what I'm hearing or what I've
been told, is the Tigers at

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this point in time are not going
to trade Trek's Scoubale. So look,

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he's got two more years of control. The Tigers could change their entire franchise

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trajectory if they were to trade a
player like Schooble, because they would get

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a king's ransom for him. And
if they really wanted to resign Schooble when

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he became a free agent in two
years, they could do so. They

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could get the Hall for him now
and then bring him back in two years.

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But what are the chances the Tigers
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So at this point in time,
for what I'm being told, the Tigers

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are not really seriously entertaining any offers. They would have to be blown away

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with a trade offer, maybe a
guy. The only thing I could liken

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it to is from the Oriole standpoint, given Jackson holiday to Detroit, that's

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the only thing that could maybe get
them to move Schooble. So you know

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that's not going to happen. Another
team, and I've mentioned his name two

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or three weeks ago. Is Nathan
Avaldi. I actually mentioned his name during

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the All Star break shows. I
would love to see Nathan Avaldi back in

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a Dodger uniform. He's a two
time World Series champion. He is a

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tireless worker. He's one of the
ultimate competitors. And this is coming from

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his former teammates with the Red Sox
and current guys now with the Rangers,

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and even some of the Dodgers staff
knew him when he was coming up in

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the organization. If the Rangers have
decided they are going to sell off some

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pieces to get underneath the luxury tax
or shed some payroll, Nathan Avaldi would

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be a perfect fit for the Dodger. The Garrett Crochet thing, I know,

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he's a sexy name. I just
I'm not feeling it. I'm not

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feeling Garrett Crochet anymore. I'm feeling
Nathan Avaldi a lot. I would love

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to have Nathan Evaldi back with the
Dodgers. Also, I've told you Jack

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Flaherty is another name that we have
heard in connection to the Dodgers as well.

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So that's the latest on the trade
deadline. It is July thirtieth,

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and look everybody's acting like Andrew Friedman's
never made a big trade at the trade

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deadline. I know the last couple
of years they've been on the margin,

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but it feels like, even if
they don't get a guy like Garrett Crochet,

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you know, I just feel like
he is going to make an impact

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trade or two or three to really
help this roster. Kind of similar to

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when I believe it was the trade
deadline of twenty sixteen or twenty fifteen where

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he was able to bring in guys
like would and really make an impact.

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So I feel like, even if
it's not Garrett Crochet, uh, he's

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going to make an impact trade to
help this Dodger team. And when I

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say impact trade, it could be
one or two. And I'm wondering now,

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after what we've seen the last even
eleven, twelve, thirteen games,

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do the Dodgers need a closer?
Do they need ten or Scott from the

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Marlins? Do they need Carlos Estevez
from the Angels. I'm starting to wonder

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do the Dodgers need a closer?
Eight six six nine, eight seven two

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five seventy is the phone number.
We're gonna take a time out here on

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Dodger Talk. When we come back. We'll check in with Jose Mota,

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who did a great job again with
Steven Nelson on the call as the Dodgers

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beat the Giants five to two on
a five seventy LA Sports. Dodger Talk

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is available on AM five seventy LA
sports dot com, hand on the iHeartRadio

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app. Back to more Dodger Talk
with Dodger insider David Basse. The pitch,

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Otani holds it the right field.
It is gonna hook down and bounce

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off the warning track, one hop
off the cage in front of the Giant

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bullpen. Heywards toured the relay hole, not at time. Fijio Sake put

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two more on the board. Two
run double for Joe Hey Old Tani.

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Big night for show Hey Otani.
He drove in three runs tonight and that

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was his twenty sixth double of the
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baseball this year with thirty home runs
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twenty sixth of the season. O'tani
and Gavin Lox drove in all five Dodger

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runs tonight in a five to two
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Own the Dream. We do have
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tomorrow Night's game, which is Key
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honor of Key K's first jersey number
with the Dodgers, will win a pair

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of tickets for Tomorrow Knight's game.
Seven to ten. Tyler Glass now against

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Robbie Ray. It's tough to go
around the horn with Jose Mota. Jose

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Mota did a great job again filling
in for Rick Monday tonight, his partner

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with Steven Nelson and Jose. On
the pregame show, you talked about how,

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yes, Evan Phillips is struggling,
but there's a balance for Dave Roberts

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to keep him relevant and keep him
ready and keep his confidence. Oh dev

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I'm glad you brought the subject up
because I've seen so many situations I played

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with guys where you know they're the
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and you want them to earn a
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off those high person situations. But
sometimes you can't, and he can just

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allow the situations to dictate when you
use it. And I'm glad that Evan

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came through the day. As he
told you, he knew that the fatal

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needed to play today. He trusts
that he can go out there and manage

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at best according to his stuff in
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my mind that between Dave Roberts and
Evan Phillips, knew exactly that if he

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got to that situation, he was
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a confidence boost for him. When
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he was trying to give Evan Phillips
another night off to maybe figure whatever mechanical

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issues he's having and bring him back
tomorrow. But when that ninth inning goes

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sideways on Alex Vessio, what's Dave
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and you present the best option right
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much as I wanted to go away
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the guy right now. And I
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and sometimes the fault to not use
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got to throw them out there.
I mean, there's no doubt. I

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mean I recall talking to Bobby talks
about this years ago, and he goes,

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you know what, Jose, when
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the thing I want to do is
throw them at the the next day,

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right away, right away, bull
Wark and BP on whatever you gotta work

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on. But I need to rude
away because the only way you're going to

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get fixed is not throwing the bullprint
and watching videos but watching reports, is

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by being in the game and the
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execute pitch it, because that is
where the pressure is. Jose Mode is

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joining us after the Dodgers win there
fifth in a row by beating the Giants

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tonight five to two. Gavin Lux, We've been talking about him all night.

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You and Stephen were talking about him
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not sure if you heard what he
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when he went back home to Wisconsin, he worked with his uncle who has

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been his lifelong hitting coach, and
then after the game tonight he referenced being

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connected to the ground. Sounds like
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And sometimes it's a different voice,
Dave, And I've got that.

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You know, coaches in the big
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minor leagues and managing themselves in front
off his personnel, understand that there's some

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voices that get to players a lot
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his father for example, that's one
of them. You know, outside hitting

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coaches are welcome now because their exact
connection. Now you have your everyday guys

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to see you every single day and
can talk more about chain situations and habits

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you're creating. But man, sometimes
it's the familiar voice is just simplify it

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for you and to tell you from
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you're not being judged, but somebody
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is the case of the coaches too. But you see coaches every single day,

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and sometimes the messages does not come
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connected to the ground and I didn't
hear what you said about this, you

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think about this day. You got
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we're not going to ground on his
heels. That's you're not going to

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think to the ground, right.
And have you ever seen a good hitter,

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a good player, you know,
a solid hitter, slugger or slap

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guy that is hitting on his heels
or on his toes. No, you

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have to be connected as much as
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part of your swing. Your base
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get a little tired, your swing
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you need your legs to hit,
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load up on time and allow your
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makes it much smoother. Jose seeing
doctor elatrosh tonight just reminded me about Blake

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Trining and how maybe we're taking for
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been for this Dodger Bullpen with all
the injuries and be the fact that he

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had not own rotator cuff surgery but
also labrum surgery, and he's been as

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dominant as he has been this year. It's really remarkable what he's been able

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to do. Yeah. Plus,
I mean consider you know the connection with

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doctor Elatrosh and Dodger. You guys
think, guys all over baseball they have

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thanked him and all him sometimes their
careers. But for god like Brake trying

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to consider you know, he's a
big guy. He's a guy that throws

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hard, through hard before the injury
and the surgery and found himself by being

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patient. You have to understand too, doctor Latrosh, he's a big believer

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in allowing the time clock to be
the time clock. Don't. It's not

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gonna speed up because you want to
compete or because you feel ready. But

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time is your best healer. It
is your best teacher, the best comforter.

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And to have that connected to the
Dodgers, it's only a huge asset.

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And players understand more and more because
there have been so many injuries as

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of late. Now the shoulder injury
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be. But boy, that's one
we have to be very, very careful.

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And I'm so glad to see a
big band like trying and bounce back

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the what he has. All right, Jose, thanks a lot for checking

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in tonight. After nine innings of
work again, we will see you out

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the ballpark tomorrow night. As Tyler
Glass now makes his return to the mound,

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It's time, Yeah, it is
time, for sure. There he

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goes. Jose Mota, part of
the Dodgers broadcast crew, slid over from

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the Spanish radio booth over here to
fill in for Rick Monday. Rick will

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rejoin us when the Dodgers head out
on the next road trip to Houston,

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San Diego and Oakland. Eight six
six nine seven two five seventy is the

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phone number we do have, Caller
fourteen. Jose in Londale. Congratulations,

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you won a pair of tickets to
Keike Hernandez Bobblehead night. Yeah, right

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on, go Dodgers. All right, do you want to say thank you?

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No, thank you? Of course. You guys are awesome, man,

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David awesome from the game. I
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me specifically, I'm awesome, right
you you you Dodgers, you know you

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and the Dodgers both awesome. I'm
just kidding. Hey, you were at

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the game tonight. Wow, back
to back games. Congratulations, Jose,

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thank you, thank you. Yeah, we took my daughter's boyfriend who was

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a Giants fan. So I love
the misery. I loved it. Wait

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a minute, you're allowing your daughter
to date a Giants fan. What's going

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on over there, Jose? Where
it's a work in progress. It's a

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work in progress, David. I
hope you don't allow him to wear that

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Giant's hat in your house. No, no, I have standard. I

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love it. I love it,
Jose. Enjoy the game tomorrow night,

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and thanks for calling. Appreciate it
of course. Man, you guys are

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awesome. Thanks Jose, congratulations.
Wow, daughters dating a Giants fan?

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Who that's tough. If you try
to put his foot down and say hell

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no, she would rebel even more. Maybe, uh, bring in a

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whole Madison Bumgarner uniform or something.
Eight sixty six nine eighty seven two five

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seventy. Speaking of the Dodger Giant
rivalry, Andre Ethier was back at Dodger

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Stadium yesterday and joined us on the
pregame show. Here's what Andre remembered about

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the Giant's rivalry when he played and
owning maccain during his career. Yeah,

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I don't know. That's a weird
thing, right. You can face a

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guy and I think I forgot the
guy who was these either these are either

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Marquis or someone else who I felt
like I struggled really badly against. But

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then there's guys like li'sa come,
I hit well, you know, guys

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who were dominant pitchers. I hit
well. And you see a guy like

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Matt Cain and for some reason,
it was just that one person. It

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didn't matter what he threw. Uh, you were able to get hits off

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of my tolm. I said.
I think it was like towards the end

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of our career when I had,
you know, all these at bats,

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sixty seventy at bats against them,
and you know, everyone had been making

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a big thing about it, you
know, about us face and you get

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each other for maybe what might be
the last time ever, you know,

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after all these years. And I
remember one of that bats in that game,

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he threw a really good cutter in
off my fists. I hit it

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jam shot. It barely landed over
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and the pitcher for a base hit. And I you know, that probably

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sums up that pretty much sums up
that whole uh, you know, matchup

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all those years. I was gonna
get a hit no matter what he threw

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in the quality of pitch, it
was going to work out to be a

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hit for me. And I remember
just shaking his head at me and laughing

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because, uh, you know,
it doesn't matter off the barrel, off

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the fist, I'll still getting hits
off of him. You're a great student

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of the game. You know the
history of the game, and certainly you

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played your entire major league career wearing
a Dodger uniform. When did you start

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to realize how serious it was as
far as a rivalry between the Dodgers and

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Giants. It's day one day that
first time you go up there the first

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time. You know, I didn't
know anything about it. You didn't understand

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the intensity of it. First time
you probably go in there as a player,

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you're just like, wow, you
know, these fans really do not

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like the Dodgers. They really do
not the Dodger players. And we know

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some of the fun uh you know, shenanigans that were going on in the

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stadiums, you know, with the
fans and interactions with them when those series

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were going on. So yeah,
I learned from day one that it means

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a little bit more. It doesn't
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and both teams are out of the
playoffs, it still means a lot.

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There's Andre Ethier. Great to hear
the passion in his voice for this rivalry,

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Dodger Giants rivalry. If you missed
the interview, you can find it

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on the iHeartRadio app. The full
conversation with Andre Ethier, who was at

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Dodgers Stadium yesterday sitting in the left
field home run seats with his family and

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today Eighthier's Daddy daycare continued at Universal
Studios. A lifelong Dodger, Andre Ethier

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and so is senior direct of Global
Partnerships. The one and only Jenny o

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who threw out the first pitch before
tonight's game in honor of Women's Night here

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at Dodgers Stadium. Clayton Kershaw went
out to catch the first pitch from Jenny

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oh who is a queen around Dodgers
Stadium. She is one of the nicest,

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most genuine people that works here with
the Dodgers, and it was great

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to see her be honored tonight by
throwing out the first pitch. Everybody loves

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Jenny oh. If you don't love
Jenny oh Man, you don't love ice

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creamer. You know, Santa Claus. That's how nice of a person she

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is. Hey, before we say
goodnight, Miguel Rojas did not start again

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at shortstop. Remember on Sunday Night
Baseball, he left the game early with

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right forearm tightness. I've been watching
Miguel Rojas. He hasn't thrown the baseball,

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and maybe that's the reason why the
Dodgers are kicking the tires on a

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guy like Nico Horner or a Luis
Renhifo. I don't know what's going on

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with Miguel Rojas. Dave Roberts hasn't
said much, but man, I feel

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like the Dodgers are going to have
to make a decision on whether or not

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they're putting Miguel Rojas on the IL
and who would take his spot. I'm

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sure there's somebody on the waiver wires
I possibly could fill in for him.

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Trey Sweeney in minor in Triple A
A or Triple A Oklahoma City is a

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really good defensive shortstop. But yeah, I'm a little concerned about Miguel Rojas.

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I'll just put it that way,
and hopefully I'm just reading too much

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into it, as they say,
but I have not seen him throw the

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baseball, and I feel like the
Dodgers may have to make a move here

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in the next day or two regarding
Rojas and not letting Dave Roberts play a

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man down if Rojas is not available. Tomorrow night, Tyler Glass now will

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be on the mound for the Dodgers. It will be his first start since

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going on the with some back tightness. He's eight and five with an ERA

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at three forty seven, going up
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season and Giants debut tomorrow night.
He underwent Tommy John surgery last April.

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He is the former Diamondback, the
former Mariner, so it should be a

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fun night here at Dodgers Stadium,
Morongo Casino. Dodgers on Deck begins at

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six o'clock with first pitch at seven
ten on Keith a Hernandez Bobblehead Night.

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That'll do it for us. Thanks
to calling me back at our Burbank studios,

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Thanks to Dwayne McDonald out here at
Dodgers Stadium, and thanks to you

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for listening. In case you missed
our pregame conversation with Gavin Lux today or

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Andre Ethier yesterday. You know where
to find it the iHeartRadio App. Even

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if you're driving to Tesla, you
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Trust me. Mark McGuire was the
first guy that had a Tesla that

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was on the Dodgers coaching staff and
said I can't get your show. I

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said, Hey, there's an app. It's called the iHeartRadio App. Find

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it, download it, micro manage
me all you want on the way home.

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Second guest me like People's second guest
Dave Roberts. We have more alike

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me and Dave Roberts than he realizes. Once again. The final score tonight

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the Dodgers defeat the Giants five to
two. Have a great rest of your

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knight. See them