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of this season as the Dodgers beat
the Red Sox four to one thanks to

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Freddie Freeman's grand slam in the eighth
inning. Hi, everybody, and welcome

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in eight sixty six nine eighty seven
two five seventy. If you're one of

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the fifty one thousand, five hundred
and sixty two who enjoyed a Dodgers win

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and then enjoyed the drone show tonight
at Dodgers Stadium, I want to hear

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from the eight six six nine to
eighty seven two five seventy. The first

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seven innings were sort of like the
way the first half of the season ended,

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just kind of blah, and the
Dodgers had two hits, couldn't really

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do anything in the runners at scoring
position, oh for four that category.

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Couldn't string together any hits in the
first seven innings in the game, and

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Nick Povetta looked really good against the
Dodgers, struck out eight for the first

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six batters that he faced. He
struck out in the first two innings.

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The Dodgers offense looked lethargic, and
then the eighth inning, whether they got

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a spark or not, I think
they did in the top half of the

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inning for Miguel Vargas. Yeah,
they had a miss cute earlier in the

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game out in the outfield, but
Miguel Vargas made up for with a great

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play, a shallow left field catch
and then he back picks the runner O'Neill

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at first base to double them up. It wasn't a hard hit ball into

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the alley. It was a shallow
hit, routine fly ball to left field,

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and he saw Tyler O'Neil just kind
of non shalanning his way back to

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first base and Miguel Vargas, who's
got a really good arm, an eighty

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nine mile an hour laser from left
center field to first base to double up

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Tyler O'Neill at first, and it
got the crowd. I think back into

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this game. Yeah, the Dodgers, you know, saw the Red Sox

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challenge and it was kept. That
was great. He was out. The

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momentum then carried into the bottom half
of the eighth inning. And this game

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of baseball is all about momentum,
especially in the course of nine innings.

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Certainly momentum from game to game.
You know it's next day's pitcher, right,

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But in a game like tonight where
you get a little bit of buzz

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back inside Dodger Stadium on a great
defensive play from Miguel Vargas, and then

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he leads off the bottom half of
the eighth inning with a walk. It's

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not sexy, it's not like a
home run to tie the game, but

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he got on base, and the
Dodgers looked like maybe they were gonna strand

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him. There after, Chris Taylor
struck out looking, but Shoeotani hits a

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ball down the line and one hops
into the stands for a ground rule double.

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All right, got something going,
runners on second and third, Tye

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runs ninety feet away, go ahead, runs standy at second base, and

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the Dodgers have Will Smith up to
bat, who you know can drive the

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ball. When he makes contact,
he hits the ball far and it takes

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a fly ball to the outfield.
And this game was tied at one.

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That's all they needed, and Alex
Korra rolled the dice. Now, if

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you look at the career Freddie Freeman
with the bases loaded in this kind of

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situation, he's like well above a
three fifty hitter. Okay, with that

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being said, I understand a little
bit what Alice Korr is doing because if

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I got second and third, a
one nothing game, eighth inning, if

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Will Smith's gonna make contact, more
chances than not, he's gonna probably drive

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the ball, fly ball to the
outfield, sack fly. We got a

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tie game and possibly Shoeyotani tagging and
go to third. I'm gonna take my

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chance with the guy who maybe he's
not gonna hit the ball deep for a

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sack fly in Freddie Freeman, and
maybe a guy I can get to roll

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over a ground ball lefty on lefty
when they bring Barondino in kind of got

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an awkward delivery. Maybe I can
get him to roll over on a ball

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or pull a ball to first or
second base and doesn't have a lot of

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speed. We can double them up
for a double play and get out of

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the inning, no damage done.
I get the thinking from Alice Corra,

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I do it absolutely backfired though on
the former Dodger and now Boston Red Sox

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skipper and Freddie Freeman saw an OH
one curveball right over the middle of the

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plate, and as he told David
Vasse as he walked off the field just

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a little bit ago, he was
looking for something that he can drive to

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the outfield, and he did more
than that. He said, it over

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the field the wall in the right
center field and the Dodgers get a grand

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slam, take the lead, and
then turn the ball over to one of

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their high leverage relievers and Daniel Hudson
to get the save. It worked out

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perfectly for the Dodgers. The bottom
of the lineup gone on base in the

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bottom of the eighth, the top
of the lineup got them into scoring position,

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and then the meet in the lineup
with Freddie Freeman delivered with a grand

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slam worked out perfect for the Dodgers. It did not work out for Alex

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Cora in the Boston Red Sox and
their game plan of trying to bypass Will

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Smith, get to Freddie Freeman,
get a double play ball and get out

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of the inning. But that didn't
happen. Want to mention quickly, Gavin

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Stone. Gavin Stone. Where would
this Dodgers team be without Gavin Stone?

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Every five or six days, eighteen
starts on this season could have been an

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All Star if not for this last
couple of starts in which he had a

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couple of hiccups and didn't get to
ten wins. Gavin Stone Tonight, first

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game back after the All Star break
for the Dodgers, gets to start against

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the Red Sox. Lead off batter, first pitch double. I don't know

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you, but I was driving back
to the Petros some money summer tour in

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El Segundo, and I'm on the
four or five thinking, oh my gosh,

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this game is gonna take forever.
The Dodgers are in trouble. A

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leadoff double from Jaron Duran out of
Cyprus High school one pitch into the game.

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Goodness gracious. The season starting in
the second half, just like an

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in in the first half, and
to Gavin Stone's credit, he goes out

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there and pitched himself out of trouble. He did that in three of the

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first four innings. Duran double line
out, line out, line out to

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get out of the jam. Had
a one two three second lead off single

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in the third, then a strikeout, ground out, ground out, got

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out of the jam about the fourth
inning, leadoff infield single devers another infield

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single first and second fourth inning.
Uh oh, Gavin Stone on the ropes,

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Yoshida flies out a bray you struck
out and Smith grounded out. He

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had traffic on the base pass in
three the first four innings and got out

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of the jams. Pitched himself out
of trouble. Gavin Stone, to me

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tonight looked like a guy who's got
pos a poise and is not afraid of

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it. Gets a little bit of
adversity on the mound. And you saw

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that in full effect tonight. For
Gavin Stone handed it over the bullpen after

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five innings allowing one run and needed
the bullpen. This is important keeping this

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in mind, Dodger fans in a
one nothing game in which Gavin Stone keeps

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it a one nothing game through five
innings, and your Dodgers' offense is sleep

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walking through the first four five and
you get to the sixth inning, it

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is imperative that the Dodgers' bullpen Bonda
Vesia Yarborough. They've got to come up

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and put up zeros. You've got
to keep it a one nothing game.

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You can't allow the Red Sox to
tack on run. You can't allow the

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lead to extend for Boston. You
can't allow the game to get away from

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the Dodgers, especially a team that
lost six to seven going into the All

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Star Break a one to five road
trip. They needed to keep it close

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and hope that the bottom of the
lineup late would spark the top of the

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lineup. And that's exactly what they
did. Credit to Gavin Stone keep it

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in a one nothing game. Credit
to the bullpen for keeping it a one

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nothing game until the eighth. And
then Miguel Vargas getting it started. Show

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hey, o'tana you paying big bucks
to get it big hits. He delivered

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with the double. And then you
pay Freddy Freeman to be an All Star

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first baseman to deliver, and that's
exactly what he did with the Grand Slam,

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the Dodgers winning four to one.
Let's go back out to Dodgers data.

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Before we get to your phone calls, let's check in with the Dodger

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manager Dave Roberts. Get some of
his postgame thoughts. Stay, Yeah,

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that was play, just to bounce
back from that miscommunication out there in left

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center and come back and make a
big play, huge play, and then

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lead off that next inning with a
big walk to kind of get that rally

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started. Really good to see him, you know, write the ship right

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there. It was just more of
just kind of appreciating the fact that he's

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got to continue. He's still gathering
repetitions out there in left field and you

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know, use his ears, but
when once it gets loud, you got

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to use your eyes as well.
And a corner outfielder, you got to

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be mindful of that center fielder too, who's using his hands. So it's

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one of those things that he's getting
better and more confident, and I wanted

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to make sure that we keep that
confidence and he doesn't start to, you

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know, get some anxiousness when he's
out in left field. The fascinated,

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well, it started with Vargie and
I thought CTI had a really good at

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bat right there, and you know, got called out on a borderline,

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pitched down and then obviously Show got
to pitch up in the zone and doubled

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right there, and they have to
make a decision, you know, with

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Will versus Freddy, and you know, to bring Tayale in the conversation.

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So it was good. So it
was a great inning, good at bats,

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and we just didn't have any answers
for Paveta tonight, but it was

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good for us to hang in there. And a credit to the pitching.

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You know, Gavin did a heck
of a job minimizing, you know,

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just one run, and then the
guys in the bullpen did a fantastic job

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to him. Yeah, Dave Roberts
echoing everything I just said as well.

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Great job by Gavin Stone the bullpen
keeping in a one to nothing game.

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Miguel Vargas great defensive play, leads
off the next inning with a walk to

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get the offense and to jump start
it in that bottom half of the eighth

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inning, and the Dodgers come back
and get the big hit from Freddie Freeman,

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a grand slam, and they beat
the Red Sox four to one,

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eight six, six, nine,
eighty seven two five seventy to go out

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to the folks to get things started
with Brad mission via ho Brad, your

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first up? Go ahead, man, Hi, how's it going. I'm

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doing good celebrating a big Dodger win, Brad. Yeah, me too.

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It's hard to believe that ninety eight
games played, only sixty four left,

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so it's almost like two fifths of
the season. So it's especially nice to

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you know who not as many games
left, you know, to get a

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good start. Yeah, it's a
great way to start the second half,

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Brad. I appreciate it, and
thanks for counting us down to how many

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games are left of the season.
Dodgers fifty seven and forty one. They

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maintained their seven game lead over Arizona
and San Diego. The Diabacks won earlier

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tonight, and the Dodgers keep that
delete in the division at seven games a

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game tonight. That Yeah, it's
it's only, you know, game one

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of the second half of the season, but it's a big game for the

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Dodgers in particular. You ended the
first half of the season playing really bad,

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and that's just honest. The offense
was terrible, the starting pitching was

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suspect they were trying to put together
games in Detroit just to get twenty seven

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outs, and the Dodgers get swept. In Philadelphia, dropped two of three

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to the Tigers, give up five
runs of the ninth inning, and I'll

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lose that game in all walk off
fashion. In Detroit, it was a

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bad finish to the first half of
the season. And to come out be

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down one to nothing, have no
offense for the first seven innings, the

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first twenty one outs of a game, you've got two hits, that's it.

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And the offense got jump started in
the eighth inning, they get a

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Grand Slam and you know, this
win. While it's only one of one

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hundred and sixty two, it gets
the Dodgers to fifty seven and forty one,

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seven game lead over the Diamonbacks.
Padres have a loss, so that

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they're now eight games back in the
division, and it gives the Dodgers something

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that's positive to look at and moving
forward to tomorrow because that's the next game.

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The Dodgers can hopefully ride a little
bit this momentum. With Justin Robleski

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on the mound getting the start for
the Dodgers' third start since getting called up

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from the minor leagues eight sixty six, nine eighty seven to two five to

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seventy eight sixty six, nine eighty
seven, two five seventy. Let's go

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out to Aaron and Portland. Your
next up on Dodger Talk on this Friday

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night, Hieron, Hi, thank
you for taking my call. I appreciate

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it. I'm just saying this momentum
might be a little bit different. Yeah.

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Ready, Freeman was kind of out
of a little bit of a slum

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and that, you know, maybe
like it might help the team be a

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little bit more cohesive at this point
and after after the Altar. Great,

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you know, we got some rest, we got some things, but this

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might be a team building point in
the uh on top of our players and

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Gavin some crush it today. I
think he really stepped it up. And

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that's a very good look. That's
very good look. Yeah, it was

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really good tonight. I appreciate the
phone call, Eric, And this is

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a way the Dodgers can you know, hopefully get some momentum going in this

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series, this home stand, start
to chalk up together some winning stream in

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the second half of this season,
and certainly you're playing for the long hole.

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I get that, and for those
of you texted me and tweeting me,

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it's one of one hundred and sixty
two. Pump the brakes again for

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the psyche of this Dodgers team.
For some of these guys individually, to

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have some success at the plate,
to have some positive results on defense,

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to have a positive outing like Gavin
Stone did, to put up zeros in

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a positive way like this Dodgers bullpen
did. It's something to build on.

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It's something this Dodgers team can see
positive results and build on that tomorrow when

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Justin Robleski goes out there, and
then on Sunday when James Paxton goes up

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against Cutter Crawford. You start stacking
the wins, stacking series wins. It's

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big and I think this Dodgers team
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well. Just real quickly about Freddie
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texts tweets about that. Excuse me
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over Will Smith? Well, that's
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Will Smith was potentially walked to get
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bases loaded this year, is now
five for nine at the plate. Freddie

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Freeman in his Dodger career since coming
over is now nineteen for thirty seven with

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the bases loaded. Now they know
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I understand what Alice Cora was doing. A guy who can slug drive the

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ball in Will Smith, and when
he hits the ball, you know more

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times than not he's driving the ball
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that's what the Dodgers were looking for. And Alice Cora, playing with

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a one nothing lead with five outs
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eighth inning, was looking at what
he had in front of him in a

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possible double play ball, Freddie Freeman
at the plate. He's gonna roll the

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dice with Freddie Freeman at the plate
rather than Will Smith and see if we

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can get out of it with no
runs for the Dodgers. And it absolutely

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backed fired him and the Dodgers get
to win four to one on the Grand

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Slam. I'm gonna give you a
quick injury update because tonight we saw Clayton

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Kershaw get an outing for the Oklahoma
City Baseball Club, the Dodgers Triple A

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affiliate in ok C and tonight Freddy
Clayton Kershaw went out and did okay and

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was probably gonna be his last rehab
assignment, So I think we are getting

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really close to seeing Clayton Kershaw.
He threw sixty seven pitches tonight for OKC

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on the road in Round Rock.
Four innings, three runs, six it,

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no walks, two strikeouts, sixty
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and afterwards, Clayton Kershaw spoke to
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and said, ultimately, it's just
where the team is at, because obviously

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I'm not built up to one hundred
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whenever they need me, but don't
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spot. When asked about if he's
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because of injuries, I think we're
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and pitch for the Dodgers real quickly. Mookie Betts broken hand said he's progressing

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but not fully healed. He spoke
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He said his grip strength is at
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so he's still got a ways to
go. Mookie Betts has been taking ground

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balls, but no backhanders. It
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to backhanded baseball and not swinging anything
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So it's a slow recovery for Mookie
Bets right now. He is nowhere near

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returning, nowhere near close to join
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This is not a timetable that he's
behind. This is right on par

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as far as where they thought he'd
be in his recovery. Tyler glassnew put

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on the eel before the All Star
break with stiffness in his back, spoke

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to the media before the game today
and said, it's quote tall man back

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then. He just had some some
aches and some tightness because he's a big

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guy, and they rested him.
He went to the All Star Game,

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they skipped and start. He threw
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and he is tracking to make his
return against the Giants, most likely on

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Wednesday, in the third of the
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So there you go. Clayton Kershaw
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not on this let's see five dation
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if I'm doing my math correctly,
but certainly could be coming back to this

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Dodgers team in the next week or
so. Mookie Vetts training in the right

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direction, but still not close.
And Tyler Glass now looks like he'll be

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activated just the ones start skipped before
the All Star break and he'll be back

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in the rotation later on this homesteed
eighty six six nine, seven, five

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seventy it's going to Ryan leaving Dodgers
Stadium and saidnight after a four to one

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dot Ch win with the Red Sox, h Ryan, I'm doing great,

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doing great now that Freddie Freeman came
in and hit that Grand Slam that was

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absolutely spectacular. Being that night,
I was hoping something like that would happen,

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and it did happen. I mean, Alex Coora used to be a

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core Dodger player, but for him
to walk Will Smith to face Freddie Freeman,

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I'm glad it happened the way it
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Ryan, I appreciate it. I
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Is I've explained a couple of times. I understand his thinking behind wanting

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to get to Freddie Freeman as opposed
to will Smith, just because of the

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slug and the ability of Will Smith
more times than not to drive the ball

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to the outfield. And that's all
it was going to take to tie that

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game up at one. So I
understand the move. It just absolutely backfired

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on Alex Cora and the Boston Red
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seventy. I talked about it before
the all start breaking. The Dodgers had

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lost five or six on the last
road trip, and I think it's well

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worth addressing tonight and will be a
topic on Dodger Talk after every game moving

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forward until the trade deadline. And
our buddy John Fuller, formerly of Coffee

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Teen, Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf
now with Wallberger's the great Big John Fuller,

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who's on his way to Tommy's right
now as we speak. He said,

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what's the most important need? Starting
pitching, relief pitching, or a

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big time bat. He says big
time bat. I say starting pitching.

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You're gonna get Joe Kelly back here, he's back. You're gonna get hopefully

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bruised our graderol Ryan Brazier sometime in
the future. You're gonna get arms back.

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But I think the Dodgers with the
question mark of the future of Clayton

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Kershawn, how much you're gonna get
him here in the second half of the

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season as he builds up. Still, you don't know the extent of Bobby

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I mean Bobby Miller's and trip awake. Can he come back and be affected

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Bobby Miller, You just don't know. Walker Bueller somewhere in Florida trying to

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figure out where his fastball and his
command is gone. When will he return?

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You just don't know. Yamamoto shoulder, You don't know when he's returning.

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He's throwing, but he's not close. So I think starting pitcher,

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a big time starting pitcher, is
what the Dodgers need to be focusing in

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on right now. As far as
the trade deadline here at them into July

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eight, six, sixth ninety seven, two five seven. We'll take a

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time out, we'll come back.
We'll get to your phone calls and Jose

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Mota as well. Dodgers beat the
Red Sox tonight, thankster Freddie Freeman's Grand

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Slam in the eighth inning. They
come back and beat the Red Sox four

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curtain call and all a Grand Slam
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Freddie Freeman delivers tonight after Alice Cora decides

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to intentionally walk Will Smith to load
the bases and get to Freddie Freeman with

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the left hander on the mound,
and it backfires as the Dodgers get the

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four to one win. Let's check
in with Jose. It's time to go

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around the horn with Jose Mota.
All right, Jose, great John Tonight,

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you and Tim never on the call. We'll start with the decision by

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Alice Cora. I've said it a
couple of times. I get it.

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I understand one nothing game, second
and third, and you got a guy

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in Will Smith who likes to drive
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or just the ball out into the
outfield that would have tied the game and

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won. And Otani moves over to
third, still with the runner and chance

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to win it for the Dodgers.
I get the decision by Alice Gordon want

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Freddy Freeman. Tim McKay, thank
you very much. It was a fun

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time to be on the boots again, replacing the great Rake Monday and with

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Timmy Wilson does a great job.
But yeah, I mean Alex Corey cannot

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lose that game with Ellot, with
will Smith hitting, he cannot lose that

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game. The thinking is pretty much
logical as you would expect. And in

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baseball today you play more on the
book than anything else. And he did

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what his team was requiring, but
which was to take a chance on Freddy

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maybe rolling over something, get in
the out with a leap runner or something

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like that. But I know one
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you know, throughout the night after
the strot cut, I kept saying,

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you know, friendship making good passes
at the baseball, and Freddie hicks the

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ball the other way. It's a
great sign. It doesn't mean that he's

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gonna get based HiT's only the other
way, but it just aligns his body

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so nicely. And he saw how
he flipped that switch and not break the

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ball and just was able to deposit
it. But Dodgers could not have asked

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for a better situation right there,
to the bottom go out there and lead

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it off after a strock cout on
Taylor and to pitch it. You know,

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he should have been at least protecting
the plate. But to have Shohale

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Tony Cei a LEFTI there. To
me, it was important to get him

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straightened out. And then the intention
of walking Freddie who else. That's that's

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why they chant his name. You
brought up Miguel Vargas, and I go

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back to the half inning before which
he doubled up O'Neill on the fly ball

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to shallow left field to end the
top half of the eighth inning with a

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little bit of excitement and a little
bit of buzz back in Dodgers Stadium on

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a great defensive play from Miguel varguson
as the baseball guys would have it,

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he'd lead off the bottom half of
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the time. And he draws a
lead off walk to get the lineup turned

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over eventually, and a chance to
turn that lineup over and get to the

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big boppers, and a chance for
the Dodgers to put themselves on a chance

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to win it, and they did. All those things matter a looted to

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him, because we consider a young
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made a couple of mistakes out there
the same pretty much a manner in which

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this one happened. But to stay
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You want young guys and burying guys
to stay in the game no matter

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what happened before. And you're aware
of situations. You're aware of how much

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it means to eliminate a base run
or to at least keep him honest,

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like hitting a cutoff man. So
he did all that, stay in the

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game, firing all ways. You
mentioned there's eighty nine dont all fast ball

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and then Tyler O'Neill. I mean, first Lase coach, somebody's gonna be

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saying get dirty here because it's always
coming right. But hey, give it

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to Vargas for completing the play and
give them the Dodgers a chance here because

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all they needed was one swing to
get it done and it did happen.

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Do you believe in momentum game to
the game, Jose? Is this something

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that positive results, whether it's from
the bullpen, Gavin Stone, Freddie Freeman,

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you mentioned shoo Tani facing the left
and have it a positive result.

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Miguel Vargas, great defensive play,
a walk in the bottom half, of

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the eighth Inny. These positive things
that are happening for the Dodgers and they're

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seeing positive results. Is that part
of momentum that can carry over to the

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next day, Do you believe?
Because when you're not playing the game as

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you expect to play the game of
the highest level, and you know,

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pouring out a lot of runs a
night after night, getting to starting pitching

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every reason lined up, Boy,
you gotta go out there and celebrate small

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victories. And sometimes that means a
good at bat that ended up with an

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out and things like that. So
that's the way you can survive through one

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sixty two because you know that tom
October you better be celebrating this balls of

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things because you're gonna be facing the
best of the best, right, so

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might as well get used to it, not wish for the big moment.

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So oh that was good. No, No, all these little things apply.

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And also, you know, as
I mentioned during the broadcast, two

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tim when you're not hitting, all
the mistakes look bigger, all of them.

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I mean, a guy doesn't make
a pitch, a god doesn't cover

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our base, mental mistakes, best
running mistakes, everything looks bigger when you

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don't hit well. You hit you
know what you got to eight in the

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world. Oh yeah, a little
mistakes here, and they're great. He's

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gonna address it and talk about it. No, No, it should matter

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a whole lot because all those things
add up. And at the same time,

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when you're trying to become a championship
caliber team, will you be able

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to pay attention to all those things. But anything he can build from one

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at bat, one inning, whatever
it takes to say, hey guys,

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we're not out of this. We
still have the same you know, drive,

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same hunger. It's just not going
our way. You can build off

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of that and know that the mental
part takes over and you forget about what's

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happened physically and the four days off
and all those kinds of things to say,

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we got something going and we out
there and believe it. Before you

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know it, your mind changes and
things change around you too. With some

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results, Let's hope it carries over
to tomorrow, game two of this three

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game series and to start off the
second half of the series, Jose,

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we appreciate it, and we'll hear
you're on the call tomorrow. We'll get

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it started tomorrow with Morongo Casino Dodgers
on deck at three o'clock. First pitch

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at four fifteen. Have a great
rice here to night, but great now,

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but let's hope that doesn't take as
long as score again. Right,

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absolutely, there he goes Ose.
Alright, Dodgers get the win four to

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one. They wait until the eighth
inning, and Jose mentioned, let's get

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some of the runs earlier. Eighth
Inny Grand Slam from Freddie Freeman. The

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Dodgers beat the Red Sox four to
one. Trey west La, You're next

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up here on Dodger Talk. Hi
doing Trey? All right? All right,

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all right, hello Tim, thank
you sir for taking my call.

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A couple of things. I want
to start off with just a big congratulations

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to Taoscar Hernandez for a hell of
a home run derby championship. I don't

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think that was mentioned, and agreeing
with Jose and the previous caller Aaron,

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even if that doesn't matter in the
grand scheme of things in the season.

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You call it morale, you call
it motivation. I call it mojo.

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I really felt when I saw that
was watching the derby, I said,

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this is going to be a positive
thing. And like Jose was saying,

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these positive things, you can build
on that. The team would, you

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know, really take that in and
we saw that tonight. I'm not going

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to, you know, Monday morning
cornerback COR's decisions. It's picked your poison

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at that point. But I will
say this, with Freddy at the plate,

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I mean, I don't know there's
anybody I'd rather have at the plate

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with the game on the line.
The guy's calm, cool and collected.

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Chef Freddy comes up and so it's
one of my favorite entres, a grand

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salami alfredo slightly, i'lldentated with a
little sprinkle of swag, and he takes

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what he can get. You know, he's going to get a single or

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he's going to put it out.
And we got the game, and he

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just made it happen. And I
do think this is an important win.

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You say it's one out of one
sixty two. This is a huge win.

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First game coming back after the break, everybody rested up. It's positive

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all the way around. We should
be round around this team. Everybody should

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be positive and optimistic. It was
a hell of a wand it was a

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great win. And just congrats to
the Dodgers tonight, and let's just look

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forward to a great second half.
All right, well said trade Mike Glendora,

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wrap things up here on Dodger Talk
on this Friday night. How you

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doing, Mike, I'm doing great, Sam, Thanks for sarving Mark call.

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I had a couple quick questions for
you. Chris Taylor. What do

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you expect from him? Do you
think he's gonna be around in the bottom

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of that order? I mean we're
pretty top heavy man, the bottom half

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of the order. We need to
get a couple of bats on lineup to

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go face the Phillies. And one
more thing, what are your thoughts on

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Dave if he doesn't do this year? Is either the Dodgers are gonna get

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rid of him or you think he's
gonna stick around. So I don't think

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that's the time or place to be
talking about that right now, but I

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appreciate the phone call, Mike.
I will talk about Chris Taylor real quickly.

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I think CT three has been given
every opportunity here, and I think

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they'll continue to give him that landing
pad there to try to figure things out

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offensively. They need somebody to step
into third base. If they don't address

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it with the trade deadline, that's
going to be more of a platoon situation

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with Keith and Cavin Veigio and Chris
Taylor at third base. One of these

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guys has got to raise their hand
at some point and say I want to

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be the everyday third baseman until Max
months he gets back, or the Dodgers

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are gonna have to address it at
the trade deadline. Well, one of

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those two things is gonna have to
happen here before the deadline at the end

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of July, so we'll see what
happens. But certainly Chris Taylor has been

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given every opportunity to try to produce
offensively and play every day. All right,

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that's gonna do it. Mini.
Thanks to all you Dodger fans for

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being a part of the show.
Thanks to Colin Yee back in the studio.

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Appreciate that big win for the Dodgers
tonight. They were trailing one to

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nothing until the eighth inning when the
magic started thanks to Miguel Vargas to get

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it going show Hey Otani a double
and then a grand slam Freddie Freeman his

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second of this season, his seventh
of his career, and the Dodgers come

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back and beat the Boston Red Sox
tonight four to one. They start the

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second half of the season on a
winning note with a win. They're now

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fifty seven and forty one and maintain
their seven game lead over Air Arizona in

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the NL West. We'll be back
at it tomorrow, Morocco Casino, Dodgers

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on Decades and I all started at
three pm, first pitch at four fifteen,

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Justin Robleski on the mound. That'll
be a nationally televised game. The

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only place you can hear it,
though, of course, right here on

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your home of the Dodgers am I
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app until tomorrow. I'm a great
safe rest of your Friday night. Thanks

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for listening, Kim and everybody out
there so long. Let's just