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Ay, beautiful nights here in southern
California just gets better as we talk some

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Dodgers baseball over the next hour.
Hi everybody, and welcome to off night

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Dodger Talk here on AM five to
seventy LA Sports Live Everywhere on the iHeartRadio

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app. Hope you're enjoying your Thursday
evenings. The sun gets ready to set

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here on the West Coast. The
Dodgers back on the West Coast after a

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six game East Coast road trip,
and what a road trip it was.

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We'll die sect it. We'll get
into it in just a couple of minutes.

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Eight sixty six nine eight seven two
five seventy is your telephone number eight

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six six nine eight seven two five
seventy your phone calls between now in the

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bottom of the hour, coming up
at about seven forty. We've got a

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farm report for you. I like
to give you an update on the Dodgers'

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top minor league prospects as we're now
two months into the minor league season.

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What's happening in TRIPLEA, Oklahoma City
with guys like Dalton Rushing and Tulsa Double

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A. What happened with Diego Kartaya? How about names like Peyton Martin and

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Kendall, George Maddock, Bruns,
Justin Robleski, just to name a few.

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Hosuay Depala, who's out in Rancho
Kuca Manga in a top three Dodger

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prospect and a top fifty overall prospect
in all of Major League Baseball? What

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are they up to? How are
they doing? We'll also get an update

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from Michigan with one of the voices
of the Great Lakes Loons. Looking forward

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to catching up later on this hour
to the Farm Report with John Vacari,

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one of the voices of the Loons. Get an update on some of the

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Dodgers' minor league prospects at high A
Ball, because there are several of them

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there now. Guys like Jared Carross
Alex Freeland started this season in Great Lakes

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and they've now been promoted to Double
A toll. So that's coming up at

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seven forty. But between then and
now, we got a lot to get

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to again, including your phone calls. At eight sixty six, nine eighty

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seven, two five seventy, the
Dodgers back home safe and sound after a

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six game East Coast road trip.
Before we get to what happened in Cincinnati,

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it what happen in New York against
the Mets the last three days.

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I got to tell you about the
world win last twenty four hours for this

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Los Angeles Dodgers team. In case
you missed it earlier on Petrosen Money,

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David Vassa, who has enjoyed a
night off tonight, well deserved after a

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six game East Coast road trip in
the start tomorrow at a brief three game

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homestand against the Colorado Rockies, David
Vassa called into Petrosen Money and it has

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been a long twenty four hours for
David vass part of the Dodgers traveling party,

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the only embedded reporter outside of Kirston
Watson who works for Sports in LA

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that gets to travel with the team. Of course, we're your home with

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the Dodgers here on the radio AM
five to seventy LA Sports. And last

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night, after the Dodgers finished off
the sweep of the New York Mets with

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a ten to three win, the
team got ready headed to the airport Newark

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Airport to head back home to the
West Coast, and obviously, with the

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time difference, they wouldn't be getting
back to what two o'clock in the morning,

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probably right around there. They got
to Newark and according to David Vassay,

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they got on the plane and waited
and waited weather lightning, a storm

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in the Northeast. What happens this
time of year. It only gets worse

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during the summertime with those summer storms. But they had to wait out a

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weather delay, not for a game, but for a flight back from Newark

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and New York. This is the
Dodger team plane last night. David Vassa

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told this this just a few hours
ago here on I seven E LA Sports.

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After the weather delay, the pilot
and co pilot they had to wait

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for because they were coming from an
international flight, would then take over the

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controls of the Dodgers team charter from
New York to LA. The only problem

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was they had expired their a lotment
of time and needed to take a break.

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You're only allowed to work so long
a shift as a pilot makes sense,

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it's a safety issue. You want
your pilot to be rested and ready

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to go. They had to wait
for backup pilot and co pilot to get

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to Newark. That was another two
hour delay to get pilots who weren't scheduled

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to work, call them in in
essence on overtime on an off day to

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come fly the Dodgers charter flight from
Newark Airport in New York to Lax here

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in southern California. In all David
vassa our Dodger reporter, telling Petros some

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money and all of you. Earlier
seven hours the Dodgers waited on a plane

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to come back to Los Angeles,
did not get wheels up from New York

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till almost five thirty in the morning
Eastern Standard time, that's two thirty in

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the morning. They didn't get back
and land at lax till almost seven forty

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five this morning. What a night
for the Dodgers. Finish off the sweep

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of the New York Mets, head
to the airport, get ready to celebrate

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a happy flight home. As Dave
Roberts always says, they get a win

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on the final leg of a road
trip. It's a happy flight for the

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Dodgers as they make their way back
to southern California. The only problem is

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they had a seven hour delay,
did not land until this morning when the

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sun was already up here in southern
California. And for many of you listening

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right now, driving home, still
in traffic on the ninety one, on

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the two ten, head into Santa
Carino. Wherever you're heading and driving around

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on this Thursday now night, you
were getting ready for work. Maybe he's

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getting ready to have finals, take
the kids school for the last week of

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school, if you're still in school
and the Dodgers were just touching down at

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LAX. Thankfully, a day off
for the Dodgers today. Thankfully, the

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Dodgers didn't have to turn around and
start a series to night at Dodgers Stadium.

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Thankfully, a built in off day
for the Dodgers allowed them to get

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some rest, recoup, recoup sleep, hopefully get back on track health wise,

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and get ready tomorrow night to start
a brief three game home series against

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the Colorado Rockies. Now, the
schedule makers didn't do any favors for the

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Dodgers because not only did the Dodgers
have to deal with all this travel issue

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last night this morning, coming back
from a six game East Coast road trip.

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The Dodgers will be off on Monday
as they head back to the East

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Coast. What in the world,
Yeah, I've talked about for the last

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week here on Dodger Talk. How
the Dodgers here in late May early June

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have a brutal scrat schedule of back
to back East Coast road trips with three

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games Sandwich at home against the Rockies. They'll go back to Pittsburgh next Tuesday,

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Wednesday, Thursday, and then back
to New York against the Yankees in

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the Bronx for three games next Friday, Saturday, and Sunday against the Yankees.

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And it's three nationally televised games,
and it's a Sunday night baseball game

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for the Dodgers, who then will
have to turn around and return home again

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late into the morning to Los Angeles. Now, nobody's gonna cry about travel

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proms. Certainly, you deal with
your own travel proms. I deal with

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my travel proms. We've all been
through there. It only seems to get

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worse. Delays, canceled flights,
having to then wait on tarmax gates not

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ready. It's a problem. It
is a problem. But for the Dodgers,

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they had a massive problem getting home
last night from New York. They

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eventually did, but not after a
seven hour delay. Our own David Vassay

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with the team as it happened last
night, how worse would have have been

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having to sit there for seven hours
after a loss. It would have been

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even worse if the Dodgers would have
lost the series or continued the long losing

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streak they had before heading to Queens, New York for that three game series.

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Thankfully, the Dodgers players and team
were in a good mood, a

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celebratory mood after a sweep of the
New York Mets, so the seven hours

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maybe didn't feel as bad as it
could have, but certainly feeling it this

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afternoon after landing this warning night off
tonight, and the Dodgers back at it

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tomorrow night against the Colorado Rockies.
Walker Bueler, by the way, scheduled

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to get the start on Military Appreciation
Night. We salute all those who have

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served it continue to serve our fine
country. Drone show Tomorrow night, Yamamoto

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on the mound, Saturday night for
Tyler Glasnew Bobblehead Night, and then Sunday

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Gavin Stone on the mound against the
Rockies in the finale. So it'll be

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a fun weekend out at the Ravine. Dodgers back home, and wouldn't you

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know it, the Dodgers left on
this six game East Coast road trip to

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Cincinnati and New York against the Mets
with a six and a half game lead,

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they lost all three games to the
Cincinnati Reds and quite frankly, got

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out played in all three games by
the Cincinnati Reds. They get rained out

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in New York a Memorial Day and
then win three straight in New York against

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the Mets, including a ten inning
win to get it all started in the

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first game of a doubleheader on Tuesday, and blew out the Mets yesterday with

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a six run eighth inning and a
ten to three win. They flipped it

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just like that, a five game
losing streak, a three game sweep in

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Cincinnati, but they turn it around
winning three in a row in New York,

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and they sit atop the division still
with this six and a half game

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lead. The Dodgers hit the road
for six with a six and a half

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game lead, and they return to
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with a six and a half game
lead in the division. The Dodgers will

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take that all day long. A
five game losing streak, losing three in

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a row to start an East Coast
road trip. The Dodgers could have seen

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this spiral out of control. The
Dodgers could have seen that lead dwindle because

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the Padres and Giants, don't look
now, are playing better baseball. They're

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nipping at the heels of the Dodgers. They've closed the gap from eight to

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seven, six and a half and
it got down to five and a half,

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and it could have gotten worse and
closer, but the Dodgers stopped that

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with the three game sweep in New
York, and it's back to a six

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and a half game lead going into
action tonight eight sixty six nine eighty seven

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two five seventy. So the world
is right now with the Dodgers back home

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and still with a six and a
half game lead. But last week when

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the Dodgers were on this five game
losing streak, I don't know about you,

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I don't know about your friends who
are Dodger fans, but they started

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to become some panic amongst Dodger fans
out there, and people covering baseball started

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to pick up on I think this
panic and watch this Dodgers team because quite

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frankly, what they were doing on
the field offensively wasn't very good. The

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numbers were tanking as far as production. What you see in front of you

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is pretty obvious. Can't score runs, cat string together hits, flying out,

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striking out more than a hits,
Losing ball games, not getting great

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starting pitching, bullpen, not picking
you up like they did in Cincinnati.

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You can see with your own eyes. You can hear it with your own

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ears right here on seventy LA Sports. Ken Rosenthal of The Athletic and Fox

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Sports Baseball wrote a piece as the
Dodgers were in the midst of this five

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game losing streak and heading to New
York, and he wrote, the Dodgers

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are discovering that one point four billion
cannot buy you a full twenty six man

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roster. Even after their lucrative offseason, adjustments still will be necessary in LA's

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quest for a World Series title.
The long piece on The Athletic that posted

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just before the Dodgers swept the New
York Mets in queens A City Field and

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talked about the struggles of the outfield, the lack of production from James Altman,

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Keith ky Hernandez, Chris Taylor,
seeing Taoscar Hernandez's numbers start to come

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down, Andy Pajus's great start for
the first two weeks. He cooled off,

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The Dodgers are need of an outfielder. Can Mookie Betts continue to play

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shortstop and produce at the top of
the lineup? Or is he get a

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falter and come down as far as
the great offensive numbers that he had put

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up the first two months, can
he keep it up at this pace?

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Ken Rosenthal wrote, do the Dodgers
need to go out and get a shortstop

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and move Mooki over to second base
because of the toll that it's taking on

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Mooki? Do they need an outfield
help on an everyday basis in left field?

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And how about this bulp and all
the injuries Joe Kelly, Evan Phillips.

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Well, they got Blake Trining back, Daniel Hudson's back, They're gonna

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get Joe Kelly back. Evan Phillips, who I just mentioned it's hurt,

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is hopefully coming back this weekend.
But at a point last week the Dodgers

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had four high end relievers on the
injured list. They're getting healthy, thankfully,

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But Ken Rosenthal, National Baseball Pundit
wondered, did the Dodgers need a

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closer and could that closer that they
go out and get via trade be a

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veteran who's maybe on the last year
of his contract in Boston and ken Lee

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Jansen. Could maybe William Thomas be
that shortstop in Milwaukee that the Dodgers need

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to go out and get. Could
Tommy fam be that left fielder who signed

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a one year deal in Chicago?
I believe with the White Sox that double

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check that matter positive. Could he
be the answer for the Dodgers in left

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field? Yep? In Chicago.
Ken Rosenthal writing all these possible scenarios for

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the Dodgers and making a trade looking
to bolster an already good team that pumped

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the breaks fans five games that's it
at five game losing strenk and all of

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the sudden Nationally, it's calling for
a trade to add a reliever in Kenley

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Jansen, trade possibly for William Dominson
short stop to help out and alleviate the

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stress of Mookie Betts and the struggles
of Gavin Lux at second base, and

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acquiring Tommy Famin veteran who can produce
in October and a presence in the locker

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room, but more importantly, can
play every day in left field and produce.

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Oh yeah, what about Boba shed
Could he be a possibility in a

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trade with the Toronto Blue Jays.
All this was thrown out there by Ken

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Rosenthal and other National Baseball riders after
the Dodgers dropped five in a row and

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then they proceeded to then win three
straight in New York against the Mets.

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It's funny how a little losing a
rut for an offensive team that has been

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really good for two months, the
struggles of the bottom half of the lineup

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and some bullpen hiccups, all of
a sudden, it's panic time, and

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how do we fix these problems immediately? Let's just go out and make trades

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and trade the farm. Well,
as I'm gonna tell you in the Farm

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report coming up at seven to forty, Dodgers are rich with talent in the

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minor leagues. They're one of the
better baseball organizations top to bottom. Their

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minor league system is stacked. They've
got three catchers who are really good,

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and how he thought of two of
which are still considered top one hundred prospects.

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They got pictures that at different levels
a ball to double A. They

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are really good right now as far
as talent and rich with talent. That

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talent could be used for trades.
But as we sit here having not even

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flipped the calendar to June, and
it's already panic time. No, no,

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no, pump the brakes, Pump
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losy streak turned into seven to eight
to nine and they just couldn't find any

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way to get out of it,
then yeah, maybe some changes is necessary.

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But they figured it out in New
York. They got the bats going

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again, they got really good starting
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Now yesterday they got three solid innings
from James Paxson, who was on his

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short leak because of a short rest
that he was on, and then the

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bullpen game is basically what it became
after that. Once they get healthy at

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the back end with Joe Kelly,
Evan Phillips, Bruce Dark Gratterol, hopefully

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soon I think the Dodgers will be
all right. But it's just interesting to

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see a little bit of a rut
offensively and a five game losing streak and

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the wheels have fallen off. Panic
time in baseball eight sixty six nine,

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eight seven two five seventy your phone
calls when we come back. Appreciate you

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being with us on this Thursday night. Your phone calls, We're gott a

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farm report, busy show, busy, busy show. Love talking Dodgers baseball

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with you. Appreciate you. Listening
on the iHeart radio app. Got people

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texting right now. They're out about
running errands in a store. They got

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it on the phone walking around shopping
love that. I was over at Whole

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Foods here in Burbank last Friday because
I had pre im post grabbing a little

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pizza for me and Colin. Ye. The guy making the pizza the Whole

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Foods was watching the Dodger game on
TV. I had it on my iPhone

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on the iHeartRadio app. The guy
goes, hey, you listen to the

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Dodger game. I said, yep. He goes yeah, I listened on

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the iHeart Radio app all the time. Said we appreciate that. He goes

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we I said, hey, work
at A five seven YLA Sports. We

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appreciate you. We're right across the
street. Didn't get a free pizza,

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but starting good. Your phone calls
when we've come back, Tim Kate's,

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Ronnie Fossio and you on this Thursday
night Dodger Talk on a FFI seven YLA

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Sports Live everywhere. Yeah, on
that thing called the iHeart Radio app Off

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night Dodger Talk continues. Tim k
with you here until the top of the

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hour. Coming up in fifteen minutes. We'll get you a farm report,

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the latest on the Dodgers' top prospects
from Oklahoma City all the way down to

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Rancho Cucamonga. In case you missed
it. David Vadsay on with Petro some

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Money earlier relaying what happened and the
Dodgers travel struggles home last night after their

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game in New York, they went
to Newark Airport, sat for seven hours

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in a plane waiting the weather and
then waiting for a pilot and co pilot

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to get to the airplane. They
had to get a crew that was on

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call to arrive. Took a couple
more hours after the weather delay. Seven

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hours and all the Dodgers sat on
a plane at Newark Airport waiting to leave

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the East Coast and come back home. Didn't arrive till almost seven forty five

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this morning. So thankfully, the
Dodgers no game tonight and off nights,

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and they'll be back at it tomorrow
night against the Colorado Rockies. With Walker

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Rueler on the mount. Let's go
out to the phones. Thanks for being

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patient, John, Advice. Tell
you're starting things off here on this Thursday

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night. Welcome John. How are
you? John? Go ahead? John?

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Okay, I'm here, go ahead. Hey. How you doing?

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Then? Doing good? What's going
on? Hey? Hey man? I

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just I've been a Dodger fan for
forty years and what I'm kind of getting

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frustrated with is hearing about the weather
delays and the travel delays of these players.

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And I understand it's a legitimate deal, but I'm making a fraction of

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what the league minimum is paying these
players right now. And I have weather

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delays, I have trouble trouble delays, but my boss still expects me to

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show up. And I know that
you you know, I know that you

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might have producers and there, but
it's just it's kind of difficult when you're

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like a normal person. Yeah.
Well, nobody's complaining. Nobody complained about

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it at all, as David pointed
out, and I appreciate the phone call.

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Nobody wants complaining. David mentioned that
on that team flight, everybody was

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calm, everybody was cool and took
it in stride because there's nothing you can

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do so it's not like anybody was
up on arms. Never said that once.

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It was just pointed out that thankfully
there's no game tonight because they had

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a seven hour a wait on a
plane, and I mentioned, you have

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travel issues. I've got travel issues. It's part of the norm now,

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and I'm just clearly pointing out that
the Dodgers team plane had travel issues last

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night. David Vasse was on the
plane, talked about it with Petro some

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money earlier. He said it.
I'm repeating what he said. There was

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no issues. Nobody was complaining.
Nobody was throwing a fit, not at

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all. Nobody was feeling like,
oh, how can this happen to us?

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That wasn't the case at all.
Obviously you want to get home a

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little bit of frustration, but nobody
made it known. There was no player

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or staff that got upset and made
it known and made a big deal about

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it. Because there's nothing you can
do. You have to wait it out.

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But the point is, hey,
they got travel issues, just like

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everybody else does. You tried going
coast to coasts, weather issues, delays,

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layovers, it's part of traveling now, and the Dodgers were the victims

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of that last night with a seven
hour delay weather and then waiting to get

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a pilot and co pilot to show
up to the team charter. So again,

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thankfully they didn't have to play a
game tonight, because their job is

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to play and perform, and to
have to fly overnight and land at seven

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and forty five in the morning and
come back and play less than twelve hours

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later, it would have been tough. No matter what you're doing, I

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have to do that to your job. So I get it. It's a

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different world. They're flying differently,
they live a different lifestyle, but hey,

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weather and flying still delays, even
them, the Los Angeles Dodgers.

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That's the whole point of it.
Nobody once ever said there was complaining at

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all on that team charter what was
happening, because again, there's nothing you

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can do. Joe in La Joe, how you doing. How many times

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did you travel lately? Joan had
problems? Let me tell you, I

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played professional baseball. We had fifteen
hour overnight bus trips from Danville to Wisconsin

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Rapids. That's at fifteen hours out
of bus. That's a long time.

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Okay, I know travel is not
a problem. All the players want to

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play. They don't care how long
it takes to get there. Okay,

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that's the end of story. What
I call about is this, I know

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the family. I know the kid. His name is Lane Thomas. He's

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twenty seven. He's a five tool
player, and if you check him out,

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you understand any of the contract that
is not that expensive. And that's

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the guy that could be your center
fielder of the future. So he is

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the war Sends going nowhere. The
Nationals are going nowhere. This is the

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guy forget Tommy fam and all these
wash up these guys that are looking for

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a job. Lane Thomas. It's
twenty seven. Please check them out.

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Dodgers, if you're listening, this
is the kid you want to trade for,

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whether it's at the deadline or before
or after Getty. I've been trying

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to get him someone to do it
in the off season. Now we're just

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coming off an mcl a sprained mcl
but he's back in the lineup. The

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other night he was two for three
and hit a home run. This kid

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can play. He can run,
feel throw, hit for power, and

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he can hit for average. Check
him out, all right, I appreciate

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it. I appreciate Lane Thomas.
Yeah, the twenty eight year old now

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in right Fiel hitting two twelve,
three home runs, thirteen home runs.

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Not sure that's the direction they're necessarily
going to go right now in Joe,

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but I appreciate it. They're looking
for a guy who is a veteran left

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fielder with power, can hit lefty's
and righty's. And again they've given opportunity

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after opportunity to Kicky Hernandez Chris Taylor
task Hernandez is now back over and left

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field, and now that Jason Hayward
is healthy again and in right field,

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you're gonna see Teoscar Hernandez play a
lot more in that left field spot.

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So maybe it's a mute point looking
to go out and get a veteran like

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a Tommy Fam that was suggested by
Ken Rosenthal. And this thing Tommy Fam

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has been brought up for two years
at least as a possible, you know,

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outfield that the Dodgers could go out
and get and put it in the

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left field. But again, the
Dodgers right now have a pluthora of outfielders.

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They're just not overall producing. Yeah, Pat has got hot, James

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Outman struggled, went back to Triple
A and that's where he's at right now.

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Jason Hayward has been up and down, certainly been hurt with the back

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injury, and it's been a rotating
door in left field. Chris Taylor,

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who hopefully starting to get hot,
Key k Hernandez, who's played left,

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short third, second base already this
year for the Dodgers. So they've thrown

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multiple players out in left field to
see what sticks, who can get hot,

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and I think maybe moving forward,
that'll be the way it goes with

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left field. And you know,
the whole lefty righty rotation thing determines whether

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or not Jason Hayward plays right field. If that's the case, tay Oscar

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moves over to right and they need
to plug in somebody in left field,

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and they got multiple players they can
plug in with Chris Taylor, Keky Hernandez.

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They can find guys to play left
field. Miguel Rojas has been playing

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at second and third and playing different
positions outside of shortstop. Miguel Vargas,

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who they called back up, has
been playing left field. And Miguel Vargas

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looks really good in that series against
the New York Mets. Maybe he can

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catch fire. Miguel Vargas was really
good last to start the year in Triple

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A Oklahoma City. Now we remember
he got to start in the major leagues

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last year as the everyday second baseman
and then just couldn't get it going after

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the wrist injury or the hand injury. Excuse me, and I think that

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affected him. They're messing with this
swing, trying to get him right,

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and by messing with it, trying
to tinker with it, get him right,

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get him back on course. He
just never did. And he got

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sitting down to Triple A at the
All Star break and never got back to

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the major leagues. Broke camp and
he was in Triple A, went to

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South South Korea with him. But
started the year in Triple A and got

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going offensively and got called up and
has played really well and the bats there

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in the series against the Mets,
and I think you're gonna start, hopefully

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getting seeing him get some more at
best, because he hasn't gotten a ton

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of playing time, but when he
has been out there, he's been really

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good. Eight sixty six, nine
eighty seven, two five seventy. Mitch,

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Mitch, how you doing by your
Mets? Got beat by the Dodgers

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in three games. I know you're
out there in the East Coast, but

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how about the Dodger You ran in
to New York, the to Newark Airport

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there in New Jersey. How bad
of an airport is that, Mitchy,

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It's been a while. How you
doing. I'm a little fears of flying

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traveler, you know what my daughters
said. But anyway, you know it

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was a screw. Why couldn't he
play the Yankees? They're coming back to

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York, sig do over again,
hopefully goes. I mean that's something they

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could have played a consecutive series with
the day of in between. Yeah,

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I would love to see after Bichetty
move Mookie back to second and I'm dying

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can similarly bring up some of the
young players. Always hear his talk about

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it. I want to be playing
with La Dodgers at street bat. I

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appreciate think about it. Yesterday the
Dodgers were in New York playing the Mets,

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and I looked at Colin he because
the game was on TV and I

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was doing post game, and I
said, look at the outfield is Jason

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Hayward, who a year ago they
took a flyer on and he got back

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to the Jason Hayward of ten years
ago, and they bring him back this

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year as an everyday right fielder.
Andy pa Has was in center field and

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Miguel Vargas was in left field.
Both players started the year in Triple A

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Oklahoma City. So when you say
let's give some of the young guys an

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opportunity, that's exactly what we saw
yesterday. Vargas and Pahz two were the

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three Dodger outfielders yesterday in a game
against the Mets. So they're getting their

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opportunities, no doubt about it.
And it's not like they're just filling time

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and space until somebody else comes off
the injured list and his back starting every

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day. Andy Pajez I think is
here to stay. Hopefully he's turned it

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around after the last two weeks of
having a lull at the plate and that

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whole cat and mouse game of pitchers
figuring him out. He needs to figure

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out pitchers and adjust that back and
forth. It's his turnout to make the

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adjustments, and hopefully he has because
he swung the bat a lot better the

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Dodgers' offense in the three games in
New York. Really after that spark of

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that seventh or eighth Indian Game one
of the double hitter, they've looked different.

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They've looked like a team that's not
anxious at the plate, jumping and

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swinging at bad pitches early in the
count, swinging for the fences, not

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trying to just put the ball in
play and you know, pass it on

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to the next guy, drawing walks. They weren't doing that against Cincinnati.

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They got away from what they were
really good at to start the season,

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and they did that late in that
opening game of the double header. They

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certainly did a really good job of
that in Game two and yesterday that six

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run eighth inning. That's what we're
used to seeing. Bookend to buy home

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runs from Will Smith, Miguel Rojas, RBI single, Vargas a two run

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double down the right field line,
went with the pitch and hit a flare

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down the right field line, didn't
try to pull it, didn't roll over

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on a ground ball, the shorter
second for an out, went with the

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pitch, Zach, like you're supposed
to do to run double and then show

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hey, o Tani the two run
home run to left center field, going

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with the pitch and his power he
can hit it out any part of the

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ballpark, anywhere, left right center, anywhere he can hit it out.

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He's so strong outside fastball goes with
it, hits a nearly four hundred feet

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out of the park to left center
field. That's what the Dodgers are really

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good at. And when they're playing
well and they're scoring and they're clicking good

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pitching and the offense is producing top
to bottom, and we saw that in

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this New York series. So I
hope they've maybe flipped it back to what

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they were doing right and got rid
of those bat at bats and maybe got

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that rut offensively at least, I
hope eight sixty six nine eight seven two

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five seventy. Yes, I'm aware
that Newark Airport is in New Jersey.

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I get that. Yes, there
is an airport closer. I understand that.

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But they flew out of Newark yesterday
seven hour delay, got back home

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safely, and no nobody whined and
complained about it. There wasn't an uproar.

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Certainly probably not happy about it,
but as David Vassay mentioned, the

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struggles are real for everybody traveling,
no matter if you're a Major League baseball

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team or a family out and about
just making your way through a vacation and

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an airport going from one city or
another. It's real. The travel struggles

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00:32:05.160 --> 00:32:08.519
are real out there with all the
delays and the weather issues, and uh,

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it's just bad. Easy. You
gotta get to you easy before we

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get to the farm report. Sorry
for keeping you on a hold. Is

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he happy? Uh? Soon to
be birthday party for you this week?

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I just saw your tweet about the
invitation Saturday, but I don't have the

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details. I'll I don't know.
You can make it. You gotta do,

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dog? Did they have? Yeah? I got the pie away.

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Listen before before I forget, I
did listen to the creked iHeart radio,

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and I become a big click,
big click thing. So anyway, but

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anyway, I'm so so hard to
give them from rest we can they said,

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now they they're gonna be. I
am gonna forgive them. They're a

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long. Oh you're back, now, you're back. Now, I'm sure

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done again. But oh wait,
you know what I'll get all right?

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Way they will. I feel like
they've turned it around. I feel like

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they're gonna start going on a run
here. I feel it in my bones.

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Is he and I appreciate it yeah, you mentioned the Quakes game that,

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like, can you listen to Dodger
games on the iHeartRadio app, but

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you can listen to Quakes game.
Our buddy Mike Linscott, who's the voice

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of the Quakes, he was on
the Farm Report a couple of weeks ago

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00:33:37.039 --> 00:33:39.480
here on Dodger Talk. He does
a great job as the voice of the

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00:33:39.519 --> 00:33:44.079
Quakes. You can hear those games
for free. Just type in RC Quakes,

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00:33:44.119 --> 00:33:46.920
Rancher Kukamuk Quakes and you can listen
to all those games for free on

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the iHeartRadio app. So we'll take
a break, we'll come back and we'll

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get you your Farm Report. Yeah, we'll get you updated. What's happening

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from Triple A all the way down
to a ball Also gonna be joined by

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John Vaccari, one of the voices
the Great Loons, the high A ball

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team for the Los Angeles Dodgers.
When you go to Rancha Coucamonga at a

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young age, you get promoted to
the Great Lakes, and then you go

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to Double A Tulsa, and then
you go to Triple A Oklahoma City,

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and then you come to Dodger Stadium
in Southern California. We'll get your Farm

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Report. We'll try to squeeze in
some calls if we can after that.

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Tim Kates, Ronnie Fossio on you. Off Night Dodger Talk here on an

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FI seventy LA Sports Live everywhere on
the iHeartRadio app. Off Night Dodger Talk

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00:34:25.840 --> 00:34:30.639
continues here on your Home of the
Dodgers AM five seventy LA Sports Live everywhere

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00:34:31.199 --> 00:34:37.840
on the iHeartRadio app. Dodgers Back
added tomorrow when they start a brief three

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game homestand a three game series against
the Colorado Rockies. Marogo Casino Dodgers on

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Deck will get started at six pm, first pitch at seven to ten.

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Walker Bueller on the mound, Yoshi
Yamamoto will go on Saturday night, and

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then Gavin Stone scheduled to go in
the series finale on Sunday. David Vasse

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our Dodger Insider with all with Petros
some Money earlier this afternoon, and four

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everybody, what happened last night On
the Dodgers' return flight from New York City

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after the three games sweep of the
New York Mets. They had to sit

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in a plane for seven hours on
the tarmac waiting for the weather to clear

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up, and then waiting for multiple
sets of pilots to come in and fly

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the plane from New York to Los
Angeles. The team did not arrive until

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this morning, after sunrise here in
Los Angeles. So thankfully a day off

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today to rest sleep, get ready
now for a three game series beginning tomorrow

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night against the Rockies. All right, I promise you, I get you

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a farm report. Let's get you
updated on what's happening from Oklahoma City all

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the way down to Rancho Cucamonga.
Let's go down on the farm. The

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Dodgers number two overall prospect, Dalton
Rushing, number forty three overall in Baseball

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America's Top one hundred list, second
round pick in twenty twenty two out of

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Louisville, the twenty three year old
catcher, first baseman, designated hitter,

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00:35:53.679 --> 00:35:58.679
the left handed hitting slugger is in
Double A Tulsa and he is tearing it

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00:35:58.800 --> 00:36:02.119
up. Nobody out rushing it to
play, and he's swinging off high five

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00:36:02.159 --> 00:36:07.440
ball. The right turnit is back
to defense. It is gone. A

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00:36:07.519 --> 00:36:14.360
crass slam. Dunton Rushing clears the
basis, Hey grim slam and the Drillers

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take a seven to three leads Tulsa
Drillers Radio Network with the call. Thirty

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six games, two fifty eight average, six doubles, seven home runs,

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twenty five walks. He's got eight
to seventy six ops. Host Way de

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Pala. He's nineteen years old.
He's the number forty two overall prospect in

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Baseball America, top three for the
Dodgers. In the organization, he's six

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three, one eighty five and he's
in Rancho Cucamonga through thirty seven games,

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two forty six average, ten doubles, ten triples, twenty four ribies,

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00:36:46.079 --> 00:36:50.760
and last week he added the long
ball all the way. There goes George.

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The pitch his belt, it deep
to right, to hate his turns.

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Watches go on, Can I get
a hat trick? Hust Paula over

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00:37:01.320 --> 00:37:08.440
less for the first fun plus of
the season. Suddenly it's easy, just

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00:37:08.639 --> 00:37:15.280
like that, three home runs in
three games. Rancho Kucamugga Quakes Radio Network

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00:37:15.320 --> 00:37:20.039
with the call, he would have
four home runs in three games when it

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was all said and done. As
they move on to Nick Frosso, the

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Dodgers top pitching prospect for the moment, twenty five year old right hander.

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He is out for the year.
Recovering from a labor of surgery on his

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00:37:30.360 --> 00:37:35.000
shoulder. River Ryan, twenty five
year old right hander. He's also started

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the year on the injured list.
Jackson Ferris, He's twenty years old,

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top ten Dodger prospect, a second
round pick of the Cubs in twenty twenty

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00:37:42.719 --> 00:37:45.239
two part of the Michael Bush trade. The Dodgers wanted to draft him in

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twenty twenty two. They get him
into trade last offseason, and they love

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this kid, left handed pitcher.
He's in High A Ball with the Great

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00:37:52.039 --> 00:37:57.440
Lakes Loons. Nine starts, one
in three five fifty nine ERA, but

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he's got forty four strikeouts in thirty
seven innings. With Moron Jackson Ferris,

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we bring in one of the voices
of the Great Lakes Loons, John Viccaris.

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He joins us year on the farm
report. John, what can you

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tell Dodger fans about Jackson Farris and
what you've seen from this young left handers

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so far this year? Farris I
think has been what the Dodgers have wanted

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00:38:16.039 --> 00:38:19.679
in more. I mean a twenty
year olds who's pitching at the High A

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00:38:19.960 --> 00:38:24.480
level and is getting swings and misses. The era is not where you'd want

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it. It's right now in the
mid five. But he's been great.

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All this stuff's been working. He's
been throwing the four pitch mixed and landing

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everything for strike. And again just
twenty years old, competing against what the

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average age is twenty three and twenty
four year old batters in the Midwest League.

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So he's been great. And I'll
tell you, I mean getting him

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from the CUB system, of course, there was going to be some hype

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and he's delivered. Diego cart tie
in twenty two year old venezuel And catcher.

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He was a Dodgers' top overall prospect
for the last two plus years.

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Now a top ten prospect, he
has fallen out of the top one hundred

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overall prospects in Major League Baseball.
He's in Double A Tulsa thirty games,

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two poh two average, two doubles, four home runs, eighteen ribis and

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a six to ninety one ops.
Theyron Lorenzo, twenty year old catcher at

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the Dominican Republic. He's a top
ten Dodger prospect. He's in number ninety

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two overall prospect in Baseball America.
He has one of three catching prospects that

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the Dodgers have in the minor leagues
Dalton Rushing, Diego Kartaya and Lorenzo.

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And right now in thirty eight games
in Great Lakes with the Loons hitting two

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thirty eight, eight doubles, five
home runs and eighteen RBIs, we bring

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back John McCary, one of the
voices of the Great Lakes Loons. Last

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year Dalton Rushing, Diego Kartaya.
This year theyroan Lorenzo. What can you

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say about the young Dodger catching prospects. Yeah, he's excelled. It's unique

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because you mentioned Cartaya, Rushing and
now Lorenzo. Each and every year,

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just the top catcher comes through Da
Diamond in Midland, Michigan, and they

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all will have a stretch that they
should go wow. And they all have

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and Lorenzo already has, even though
we're not even through the first two months

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of the season. And they each
went through very significant plumps. For Loronzo,

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he was the worst statistic, statiscal
offensive player for Great Lakes in the

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month of April, and it was
a struggle for him playing in the coldest

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conditions that he's ever played in in
the Midwest at Windy Weather and then once

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it got a little bit warmer.
His bat warmed up as well. Last

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two weeks have been really just his
big stretch run in Dayton two weeks ago

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he had three home runs, including
a multi home run game where it hits

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one from the right side of the
plate and the left side of the plate.

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And then last week in a home
series which was notable for a lot

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of reasons. The main reason four
consecutive ten inning games for the Loons to

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play. They won three of them
via a walk off. Loronzo had two

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of those walk off and again one
from the left side and one from the

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right side, both a single and
a double respectively. So he's been great

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offensively. The power's been there as
well, and the one thing that evaluator

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is new coming into this season would
be the thing he needs to pick up

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on is the defensive side of things
and trying to keep runners at bay.

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We've seen an improvement in the month
of May in that category from April as

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well, so he's mixing everything pretty
well in the overall play because his offense

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is going to steal the headline,
but those who know him, the defensive

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improvements what you're highlighting, and he's
been great and he's been great when playing

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first as well elsewhere. Peyton Martin, top ten prospect for the Dodgers,

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twenty year old right hander, seventeenth
round pick in twenty twenty two. He's

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in Rancho Cucamonga. Five starts,
zero to two, five fifty two ERA,

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twenty strikeouts in fourteen and two thirty
eightings. He was slow to start

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00:41:45.480 --> 00:41:50.400
this season out of Arizona. Kendall
George, first round pick of the Dodgers

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00:41:50.480 --> 00:41:53.800
last year, nineteen year old outfielder
low a ball with Rancho Cucamonga. Thirty

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two games, two sixty six average, eleven ribies, twenty one walks.

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He gets on base and can.
He's got fourteen stolen bases already on this

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season. Maddix Bruns first round pick
in twenty twenty one, twenty two year

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old left hander now in Great Lakes
with the Loons. Five starts oh to

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one, one ninety eight ERA thirteen
and two third innings. He's got twenty

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three strikeouts. Maybe, just maybe, Maddix Brunns has finally figured it out.

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Number fifteen overall prospect for the Dodgers, Justin Robleski. He's twenty three

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years old left hander, eleventh round
pick in twenty twenty one out of Oklahoma

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State. He's in Double A Tulsa. Nine starts, two and two three

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ninety four ERA, and he's a
strikeout machine. Here's the delivery fastball in

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there. Strike three strikes him out, So Morales strikes out for the third

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00:42:40.239 --> 00:42:45.519
time. And to carve up a
really hot hitter like Morales, says something

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about Justin Robleski Tulsa Drillers Radio Network
with the call. He's got forty six

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strikeouts and only six walks in nine
starts. Justin Robleski, twenty three year

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old, hard throwing left hander number
sixteen overall prospect Ronan Cop twenty one year

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00:43:01.719 --> 00:43:06.320
old left hander in Double A Tulsa. Eight appearances out of the bullpen two

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and zero seven to fifty nine ERA
six and the third innings. He's got

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one save. He was late to
start the season as well. How about

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some guys outside at the top twenty
as far as Dodger prospects are concerned.

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Via Baseball America and MLB Pipeline and
MLB dot Com. Andre Lipsius, twenty

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six year old second baseman signed by
the Dodgers out of spring training after he

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was DFAD by the Tigers in March. He's in Triple A Oklahoma City forty

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nine games, a three twenty average, ten doubles, thirteen home runs,

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twenty two walks, thirty seven ribies. How about Ben Casparius, twenty five

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year old right hander, fifth round
pick in twenty twenty one out of Yukon.

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Started the year in Double A,
now in Triple A Oklahoma City four

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games, It's got eighteen strikeouts and
at two fifty seven erra, he could

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be a guy along with Jack Dreyer, twenty five year old left hander who

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started the year in Double A.
He too has moved up to Triple A

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Oklahoma City. In six appearances,
Jack Dryer six two third innings, nine

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strikeouts with a four ERA. Jared
Carrolls, twenty three year old son of

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Eric Carrolls, started the year in
Great Lakes with the Loons. Well now

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in Double A Tulsa. He's made
three starts. His first one when three

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and two third indings give us six
runs on seven hits, but his last

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two starts have been really good.
He's given up a combined three earned runs

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in eleven and a third innings in
those two starts. He's got fifteen strikeouts

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00:44:23.880 --> 00:44:28.360
in fifteen innings. One other player
to pass along, Alex Freelant, twenty

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two year old shortstop, started the
year in High A Ball. Now he's

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in double A third round pick in
twenty twenty two out of Central Florida.

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In twenty games so far in Tulsa, two ninety two average, two doubles,

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four home runs, and eight Ribby's
all right. One final time,

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we check in with one of the
voices of the Great Lakes Lons, the

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Dodgers High A Ball affiliate in Michigan, John Vaccari. John. Outside of

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some of the prospects we talked about, who are some of the loons that

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have stood out so far here in
twenty twenty four. Chris Nowles, the

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00:44:52.719 --> 00:44:57.519
guy's leading the Midwest League at home
runs by a large margin right now,

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has fourteen of them, had three
home run last week. He's in three

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instances had multiple games in a row
with the homer his latest one. He

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hit a homer in three straight games
at home again last week. And this

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isn't just a lefty who's okay tee
and on right teeing off on righty's on

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a short porch or anything like that
he's hit two to left, two to

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center, and then the bulk of
them two right field, and it's happened

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against righty's and lefties. Three of
his home runs of the fourteen have been

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against left handers, So he's been
fantastic. He's always been strong in the

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outfield, and he fell off the
rankings because he had elbow surgery last year

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that shortened his season. He's actually
healthy this year and he's thriving. And

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Noah Miller, who was acquired from
the Twins this past offseason, he's one

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of the best short ups defensively that
this league has seen. I've been in

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the league for three years. It's
just from a defensive side of things.

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Miller, Freelan, and then de
la Cruz obviously with Cincinnati, they're all

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in the mix. They all have
played during the course of the Midwest League

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season. That makes you go,
wow, that's a major league play that

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we're seeing at the high A level. So Miller is the top thirty guy.

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Maybe doesn't answer the question directly,
but it's been really intriguing to see

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what Ferris and Miller, two guys
who weren't in the Dodgers organization a year

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ago, are doing now. That's
Jon Facari, one of the voices of

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the Great Leagus Loons. Appreciate his
time on this Thursday and night as we

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give you a farm report, all
the latest news and notes for the Dodgers'

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top prospects from Rancho Kucamonga to Great
Legs to Tulsa all the way up to

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Oklahoma City, the Dodger stars of
tomorrow, and what they're doing today.

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All right, that's gonna do it, Minni. Thanks to Ronnie Fossio.

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Thanks to you for being a part
of the show. Thank you for listening.

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Thank you for downloading and podcasting the
show as well on the iHeartRadio app.

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We're back at it again tomorrow Moronco
Casino, Dodgers on deck, will

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get it all started at six pm, Dodgers playing host of the Colorado Rockies.

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First pitch at seven to ten,
Walker Bueller on the mound. Until

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then, have a great, safe
rest of your Thursday night. So long, buddy,