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Talk. Like back David Vasse. We are live at Dodgers Stadium. After
the Diamondbacks put it on the Dodgers tonight twelve to four. The final score
we have phone lines open at eight, six, six, nine, eighty
seven two five seventy. The Diamondbacks scored eleven unanswered runs and the last three
games the Dodgers have allowed twenty nine runs. That will not get it done.
The Dodgers talked about pitching and proving their pitching, and they did,
but things have started to fall apart a little bit here, especially with the
injury to Yoshi Yamamoto. Since then, the Dodgers starting pitchers ERA is for
eighty four and that include dudes. Gavin Stone's complete game shutout last Wednesday,
So they got a clunker from Glass now in San Francisco, a clunker from
Paxton in San Francisco, and young Gavin Stone, the rookie, did not
have his best start tonight. Three innings, seventy seven pitches, and the
Dodgers Fall twelve to four. Christian Walker. I know you may laugh,
for get a chuckle when I call him the Dodger Killer. Well, that's
exactly what he is. In forty one games at Dodger Stadium in his career,
he said seventeen home runs. He is now homered in four straight games
at Dodger Stadium. In eight games alone this year, he has seven home
runs and eleven RBIs. That is a Dodger killer right there. You know,
back in the early two thousands or late nineties, there was a player
for the Phillies and Marlins by the name of eisen Reich. I feel like
Christian Walker is putting him to shame with the way he has been owning the
Dodgers This year just has been incredible what he's doing. And with his seventeen
home runs and forty one career games at Dodger Stadium, he's on pace if
he were to play one hundred and sixty two games at Dodger Stadium for sixty
one home runs. That's how dominant he's been tonight, four for five,
two home runs, four RBIs. I mean, the list goes on and
on. What I could say about Christian Walker and let's not forget what he
and the Diamondbacks did to the Dodgers' last NLDS when they swept him. And
right now the Dodgers have split the first eight games against the Arizona Diamondbacks.
And yeah, I know the guys down there remind me how big of a
lead they had and how it's all about October. But you got to put
yourself in the right mental spot to perform in October. And you also have
to put yourself in the best position to run the table in October. And
if you're playing in the first round of the postseason. I know wildcard teams
have run the table all the way to the World Series. I know the
Diamondbacks did it last year. I know the Phillies obviously did it the last
couple of years. But that's an uphill climb, and the Dodgers would not
be a wildcard team. But right now they're in a race not with just
the Padres to just maintain their lead, but more importantly, they're in a
race with the Milwaukee Brewers because the Dodgers are only a game better in the
lost column than the Brewers. The Brewers lead the NL Central with a fifty
two and thirty five record. They won again tonight and they're coming to town
for a three game series. The first three games the Dodgers and Brewers will
see each other this year. Now, if I had to money on it,
I would say the Dodgers have a better chance of continuing leading the NL
West at this pace than the Brewers do because their pitching is starting to fall
apart as well. But nobody ever thought the Brewers would even be in first
place in the week n now Central, but here they are fifty two and
thirty five, a game behind the Dodgers for the second seed in the National
League postseason. The Phillies right now have the best record in the National League
by five games over the Dodgers six over the Brewers. I don't see that
changing. It may, but I don't see it changing. So what you
have here is the Dodgers trying to win out to have that buy in the
first round, and I know it hasn't worked out. With the five days
off, that's an excuse. Andrew Freeman has said it. Dave Roberts has
said it. That's an excuse. You want those five days to just get
everything in order rather than having to play the best of three. And that's
why I keep talking about not allowing complacency to set in. You have to
still play with some sense of urgency. I know the Dodgers are really talented.
I understand Max Months. He's been out since May fifteenth. I understand
Mookie Bets is out now since Father's Day and won't return until the first or
second week of August. I understand Yoshiyamamoto's out. I understand all that.
But the facts are, the Dodgers have a really good team. But what's
happening now is you're having players that they were now conning on to play every
day and getting regular at bats against righty's and lefties. I'm talking about Chris
Taylor, I'm talking about Key k Hernandez, and even to a certain extent,
Jason Hayward is getting run out there a lot more than I'm sure Dave
Roberts would ideally like, which I believe should start to change a little little
bit here, because the fact is, Miguel Vargas, when he has had
an opportunity to start games, he has delivered. He has a nine or
ten game hitting streak when he's in the starting lineup. Vargas this year albeit
in limited opportunities, is hitting three oh six. Jason Hayward is scuffling a
little bit right now. Uh, he's hitting two o five. His ops
is is seven oh three. Key A Hernandez is hitting two o six.
His ops is five eighty. I just feel like you got to do something
to change things up and get a kid that obviously has worked hard to make
adjustments and has earned, in my opinion and many others, an opportunity to
get more at bats. Eight six nine eighty seven two five seventy is the
phone number. The only bright spot for the Dodgers tonight was Freddie Freeman and
Taoscar Hernandez hitting back to back home runs in the first sinning. Freddy was
on base all four times today and drove in three with one swing of the
bat in the first inning. Let's head downstairs right now to here from Freddy
Freeman on sports in at LA. I mean lost the three innings. I
think that's good planned by us as an offense to get the starters out and
get to their bullpen. But first inning for big leave start, it's really
hard to put it into words. I'm sure he had a lot of nerves
out there A lot of excitement, just so I was falling behind hitters in
that first time we were able to jump on him, but steadled down a
little bit, got through a couple more innings, and you know, the
bullpen, we just didn't have anything for it. Recity drinking. Feel like
it just kind of dragged a little bit. I look, definitely, it
was like nine to fifteen. It was like the fifth ending. I was
like, whoa pre pitchcloth. But yeah, just a longer game, but
I wish we would have won. Is that something that like can impact you
guys with the plate at all? When it is no, no, not
at all. That sounds like a tired beat rider at the baseball game having
to sit through ooh, a three hour, twenty three minute game. We're
at a baseball stadium watching a baseball game. I mean, there are worse
things to be at. Do you think Freddy Freeman cares about being on the
field for three hours and twenty three minutes. He wants to win the game.
He wants more hits, he wants more at bats. He doesn't care
about that. I mean, I will say this about guys like Jason Hayward,
Guys like Miguel Rojas, being on your feet in long innings obviously is
going to take its toll. But as far as asking a player about,
you know, how long the game went, obviously abnormal these days with the
pitch clock. But if you look at what three or two of the last
four games for the Dodgers have gone over three hours, that eleven inning win
in San Francisco went three hours and forty five minutes tonight, nine inning affair
that saw the Diamondbacks score twelve runs on sixteen hits. The Dodgers four runs
on six hits and did not after the first inning. Uh, that's a
little bit different. But hey, when you're giving up hits and you're walking
hitters and you're not getting outs, the game is going to go a little
bit longer pitch clock or no pitch clock, and that's what's alarming. Eleven
unanswered runs for the Diamondbags tonight just not a great showing by the Dodgers.
Eight six, six, nine, seven, two five seventy is the phone
number. Let's go out to topanga. Ronnie lead us off on Dodger Talk.
Hi, Ronnie, Hey David, thanks for taking my call. Man.
You could not be more spot on with that postgame press conference and hearing
the praise being heaped on Christian Walker after the seemingly like I don't know,
five or six years, he's done this to us. We just don't need
it right now. That's first thing. I think. That's a reflection of
what I see in the pitching staff versus the lineup, and spare with me
here. We have some we have some dogs in the pitching staff, like
these guys like Bobby Miller when he got out of that jam yesterday. I
think Spectrum Sports that could do a better job of not panning in on what
he's saying. It's pretty obvious what he couldn't do. But that guy run
through the wall glass now, same thing, Gavin Stone. I thought,
that's what fans want, by the way, you know, they might got
players of it. Fans want to be inside the game. That's what everybody
tells us, So that's what they're doing. Yeah, that's getting to my
point though, you know the pitchers they want it right And I was kind
of worried coming into this game because Stone, did you know, going nine
innings, granted it with the White Sox, you might as well be thrown
to like dummies at this at that point. But our lineup and like I
think our position players is just so docile and they and they take on the
energy I think of the manager of like, hey, you know, it's
not every game isn't life or death, but like these games against the Dinonbacks
are frustrating because they have treated the blueprint of how to stretch us out these
long games kind of wind you know, wear down our bullpen, they taxed,
the starters are deep, kind of shows wearing hair here and there.
We're making, you know, massive substitutions in the middle of the game.
It just worries me, David, going into the latter half of the season.
If we're breaking down now and we don't have let's say, reinforcements coming
up in triple A and we don't have the arms in triple A to come
up and help starting. What do you mean by breaking down? Well,
it's just today was a micro last night and tonight to meet or a microcosm
of what we run into every single postseason is a team that feels like an
upstart and we just kind of like our engine is like always you know,
always at five thousand RPMs and they're always at eight thousand and eventually it's gonna
like we're gonna run into a snag, like we're gonna have a breakpad,
you know, go bad, or like we're gonna have a guy. We
got to get better than that. I understand to a certain extent what you're
saying, but during a long one sixty two, uh, the players have
cannot be as emotional as you are or sometimes I get doing the show.
They just can't do that and be successful through the peaks and the valleys of
a season. But I will say this, and this is what I've been
trying to convey the last two or three nights. If you remember, Tim
Grover showed up at Dodger camp in spring training on the invitation by Jason Hayward.
Tim Grover was the personal trainer for Michael Jordan, Kobe Bryant, Dwayne
Wade, and now is a motivational speaker. And what he preached was not
flipping the switch on and off, but not dimming the switch. Right,
you have a dimmer in your house, or I'm sure you've been to somebody's
house where they don't have the straight switch. It's a dimmer, and that's
what he warned against. And that's what I'm seeing right now. I'm seeing
the Dodgers dim the lights and then turn them back on. And I feel
like in September, especially the last few years, the Dodgers have dim the
lights and then all of a sudden they can't bring them back up. I
am warning against that again this year. And that's what you're spot on.
That's what compelled me to call that. I haven't called ever, but it
was what you said after the postgame show, or yeah, during the postgame
show, when it was like, we're heating praise on the opponent, who's
our division rival, who kicked our butt last year and the year before.
Nobody wants to hear Nobody wants to hear anybody in a Dodger uniform tonight say,
Hey, I really enjoyed Christian Walker or admire Christian Walker. Nobody wants
to hear that tonight. I understand where Dave's coming from, and he's a
great ambassador for the game of baseball, but that's not what anybody. That's
not what Ronnie and Tapega wants to hear. Hey, Ronnie, you want
to come out to one of the big games against the Brewers. I got
two tickets for Sunday. Oh my god, well I can't say no to
that, all right, then don't hold on. You got those tickets,
a pair of tickets to Sunday's game against the Brewers. And look, I
know I don't want to overhype series in July or April or May, but
we're past the halfway point in the season and now the standings mean something,
and seeding in the postseason means something. So the Dodgers not only have a
big three game series against the team that they're only one game better than to
earn that second seed in the postseason as it stands right now, but also
when they leave Dodgers Stadium on Sunday, they travel to Philadelphia for a three
game series against the Phillies. And you don't think that place is going to
be a playoff atmosphere. That's where you can't just turn the dimmer up again.
You gotta be ready for that before you get on that plane. Eight
six six nine eight seven two five seventy is the phone number Dodgers get routed
by the Diamondbacks tonight, twelve to four. Also, in case you missed
it, only show Heo Toime was voted as an All Star starter in the
National League's on the National League side of things for the All Star Game,
but ta Oscar Hernandez more than likely will be the replacement for Fernando Tattis Junior,
who has a stress fracture in one of his legs. And Freddie Freeman
should and more than likely will replace Bryce Harper at first base, who has
an injury as well. And by the way, for all of you that
were concerned about Freddie Freeman when he was hitting two to eighty, I don't
think you should be concerned anymore. He's hitting three to zero two. He
had a tremendous month of June. His OPS now is nine to twenty.
He not only tied the game last night with a double, he scored the
winning run last night. And tonight hit his thirteenth home run of the season
off of the Diamondbacks starter Christian Minya, a three run home run. So
I would be it's safe to say you gotta trust the resume and the track
record, and Freddie Freeman is that guy. And by the way, after
Dodger Talk on a five to seventy LA Sports, Ben Mallard comes on and
for the first time ever, I actually learned something from Ben Maller. Last
night, Freddie Freeman's game time double in the ninth inning gave him twenty five
doubles on the season, and he has now doubled twenty five times or more
in thirteen straight years. Only Jeff Bagwell has done it more in consecutive seasons.
So if Freddie doubles twenty five times next year, him and Jeff Bagwell
will have that distinction as far as Major League history goes eight six six nine,
eight seven two five seventy is the phone number. Let's go out to
the gouna, Miguel, Paul, you're on Dodger talking. Hi, Paul,
Hello, David, thank you. I have a suggestion. Why did
you bring Autman back up for the Milely Platoonum with Pies and Senna and platoon
platoon Vargas and right with Hayward and send bgo down? Maybe why not do
that? Well, we'll see what happens at the trade deadline. I feel
like maybe that could be an option, Paul. I'm not going to rule
it out. I think we all have to see where the dust settles after
July thirtieth. Well, why wait till why wait four weeks? Why don't
you just bring out and back up and platoon them with pies, great lefty
righty matchups and platoon Vargas now with with with Haywood. Now is now?
Maybe you know why wait a month. I'm not against the platoon of Vargas
and Hayward. I feel like Vargas should be getting more of those starts,
more opportunities, no doubt about it. And you could have tai Oscar Hernandez
play right field and Miguel Vargas play left field. Let's see what you have
in Miguel Vargas. He's here and last year he was. You're starting second
basement for the first half of the season. He's a better hitter this year.
Let's give him a little bit more opportunity. I'm with you on that,
Paul, as far as the outman PAJZ platoon not an outrageous thought.
I'm not sure what the Dodgers are thinking on that. Thanks for the phone
call. Let's go out to Ramone in Arizona. Ramone, are you a
Dodger fan in Arizona or are you one of those rare diamondback fans in Arizona?
No? No, I bleed Dodger blue and I was Actually I actually
met you opening opening series against the Cardinals in the stairway as you were going
up to the broadcast booth. I don't know if you remember that I shook
your hand, but remember that. No. I I attend Dodger games once
a month. I drive out to LA from Arizona. I want to be
heading out to the Boston series in a few weeks, all right, And
I was just there for the Angels series. But my question was, but
first off, I wanted to talk about Gavin Stone's performance. For some reason,
I had a hunch that he was going to have a bad outing after
the great performance he had in Colorado last week. And for some reason,
I didn't think he was gonna fare too well tonight. And I don't know,
I just had that hunt. Maybe that's just being negative. I mean
you're just being negative. No, not being negative. I just had that
feeling that he wasn't gonna come out and uh, you know, have a
good performance for some reason, and uh it turned out to be true.
Yeah. My other question was, I really haven't heard anything on what injury
that Yamamoto has. Have they announced what it actually is yet. Yeah,
they're they're saying publicly, it's a rotator cuff injury. So you know he's
not coming back anytime before August, is what Dave Roberts has been saying.
So we'll see. I feel like we'll get more details on yamamotos injury after
the trade deadline. That seems to be a good time on when the Dodgers
will give us a little bit more information on if they believe Yamamoto will return.
That's just the way it plays out. Thanks for the phone call,
appreciate it, Ramone. I feel like Ramone called in just to tell us
I told you so about Gavin Stone, even though he never told us publicly.
He felt that way. He could have called in last night and said,
hey, I don't have a good feeling about Gavin Stone tomorrow. But
he did not. That's not on the record, Ramone. I'm not counting
that I told you so. We're gonna take a time out here on Dodger
Talk. When we come back, Jose Mota will tell you something. He'll
check in after the Dodgers get blown out by the Diamondbacks tonight twelve to four
on a five to seventy LA Sports on air at AM five to seventy online
at amfive seventy LA sports dot com and available my podcast on the iHeartRadio apps.
He's Dodger Talk with David Bassi. He had more hits last night and
the previous six games combined. He swings again, Taot's off, this deep
left by the scoreboard, had another to the scoreboard. Back to back home
runs for Freeman in Hernandez and now a four to one. That's when Stephen
Nelson was happy. He was sad Stephen Nelson after that. The Diamondbacks score
eleven unanswered runs against the Dodgers after Freddie Freeman and Taoscar Hernandez hit back to
back home runs in the first inning as they routed the Dodgers tonight twelve to
four in Game two of this three game series. Daniels Jewelers they are the
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Let's hit out to our man, Jose, Moda, it's time to go
around the horn with Jose Mota. Man Jose, I hope the Dodgers Spanish
radio booth was not sad the last eight innings of the game or seven innings
of the game tonight. No, as Mike Soshi was said, we're a
little sloppy there ourselves too. So you know, it seems like we're far
removed from this very dramatic win last night, doesn't it what happened, it
really does. And what's concerning to me, Jose, including last night,
is in the last three games the Dodgers have played, their opponents have scored
twenty nine runs. I'll point out to the starting pitching. I think you
mentioned already passed in my glass. Now you know, a short start tonight.
Gavistone didn't have it. I sent you a little message in the first
inning where I just saw something that I just was not comfortable with with him.
I don't think you had anything to do with what happened in the son
and three pitches against the White Sox, But you know we miss spots,
Dave, and I learned this a long time ago from like Rick Sutcliffe,
Like, hey, if I don't have a release point that's consistent with where
my body's going, and I'm losing my arm a lot. It's gonna cause
some problems. And that is the difference between two or three inches or foot
in or outside or hit able pitch. Well, lots of he's fun at
ninety six, but there's a way in which a player, a hitter,
can see the ball a little bit better antisipate what he might be throwing.
But mechanically, I just didn't see him where we saw him in Chicago.
And perhaps there's a second time the Dbacks I've gotten to him, so maybe
they have something on him that the other teams don't have. Yeah, very
good point. Jose Mota is joining us after the Diamondbacks beat the Dodgers tonight
twelve to four. All right, Jose, I know the easy answer is
to put up four fingers when Christian Walker comes to the plate, But as
Dave Roberts said a lot of times, the situation does not dick hate that.
What do the Dodgers do with Christian Walker? Because who's waiting behind him?
And say who's a better chance to get out? And usually the way
he's the baseball gainst the Dodgers is a guy behind him. The other thing,
too, is you know there's a pitch inside that he didn't like very
much from Michael Peterson, and it was doing the broadcast, I said,
I guarantee you the next pitch is not going to be inside, because pitchers
nowadays are not repeating inside or doubling up inside or tripling up inside, and
hitters what what they do nowadays is so many hitters have told me I see
a pitch inside and I know it's either an accident or a purpose pitch,
and I'm looking middle out the next pitch, and that's exactly what happened there.
So in short, I think at some times somebody who's that hot,
I'm not promoting or advocating for hitting somebody, but make him feel a little
uncomfortable, as teams have done to show Hal tany here this season. You
get him on his heels and there's a different ballgame. So there's nothing wrong
in his soul power within the playing a clean game to make a guy feel
a little uncomfortable. So maybe that miss stake pitch does not become a home
run. But then if you have choices, well you're gonna pitch him make
sure that if you're gonna miss, you're gonna miss by a lot. But
pitt your spouse. That's to what you're gonna do against it, because certainly
there's no stopping this guy. I mean, this guy was a go about
the Baltimore Orioles. He you know, he bloomed as an a result of
player, and he's not stopping. Besides that, he's a team leader in
the clubhouse, and he's a guy that plays a tremendous first base over you
know, as a go go of caliber first base. But you got to
at some point just pick your points. This is not gonna hurt me,
and I'm gonna go out there and make him uncomfortable. It's funny you say
that because unfortunately tonight in nineteen ninety three, Big d Don Drysdale passed away
when the Dodgers were in Montreal. What would Don Drysdale say about Christian Walker
and how to handle him? Very easy. I need to have a part
of the play, my son. That's a big deal with say son,
I need part of the play too, because I need to feed my family.
And I'm gonna give you one try, but you give me the other.
And that means I'm gonna get you off the play because I need to
eat outside too, So that's exactly how you try to fix that. Jose
Mode is joining us after the Diamondbacks score eleven unanswered runs against the Dodgers to
beat them tonight twelve to four. All right, Jose, what is the
state of Miguel Vargas on this roster? Are you with me and many others
that he needs or should get more at bats because there's a lot of guys
on this team that are getting a lot more opportunities and not doing a lot
with it. Big believer, And when I see a player that's not playing
every day and comes in and gives you a good game, the fact that
he's telling you with his actions you need to consider me a little bit more.
And I think it's gotten to the point now where Vargas has shown right
anders left enders that he's going to give you a pretty good at bat.
You know, Miguel last season on the record, was not playing with healthy
hands. He had a bad pinky, he had a bad index finger.
All these things happened early. He couldn't grip the bat. He's a different
hitter, his shorter swing. He understands the game in the zone a little
bit better. And besides that, what else do you want from a young
player that not play him? And then when he gets in there, he
gives you a pretty good at bat and produces for you. Plus the ball
is playing off his back pretty nicely too, and it's time. It's time
to give him a better look. He works hard every single afternoon with Clay
McCollen deno evil out there in the outfield. He's throwing the ball better from
the outfield, better routse, and he's only going to get better with a
rouse the more he plays. But I agree with you and the listeners,
so you know, Jason Heyward, at this point, Tom playing more than
was expected. Last year, He played more than the DoD Usic fit to
him to play. And at some point you got to consider all that,
and I'll ta Gavin Lucks to me, Dave is a guy that you got
to consider, where's this production and where are you going with him? Because
certainty from him you need way more than you're getting from him. And obviously
I'm not promoting or advocating viguas play second base. By the same time as
you got to be in that liner for a reason and right now from Gavin
Lux you need way more and Vargas to God that can challenge you out there
the outfield and hopefully some production in the bottom lineup righters and lefty that it
doesn't matter. Well, that's the thing. Right last year, Vargas was
the Dodgers starting second baseman. He played only left field, and only has
played left field this year in the minor leagues. And here with the Dodgers,
would it be out of the question to play him at second base if
the Dodgers want to keep the same outfielders out there against certain matchups at this
point, yes, because the reps have not been there and he's been told,
hey, you're going to be an outfielder this time. And remember this
kid has gone from third base so little first base to the outfield, and
I saw that happen with my previous team, and for young players it becomes
quite confusing. So wherever he is right now in the outfield, he's progressing.
It feels comfortable. That's where he needs to be at this point because
then you don't want to be a liability at second base defensively, because you
know the pitching staff depends on guys you know catching the Baseball's Dodgers overall,
even though they did not play a very good defensive game today they are one
of the best, most solid baseball teams defensively. You consider everything he comes
out on the week with reports on the defensive side. Did you, speaking
of defense, did you believe ta Oscar Hernandez had a few defensive lapses out
there tonight. I can count three of them. There's a ball that he
was going to leave the ballpark. There's a caught off throw to the cutoff
man that was not made, and you know we have thrown out of the
lines. There's three cutoffmen by the way in that play to left field,
and all three of them were not able to play. And then obviously with
Corbyn Carroll challenging him and saying, I know, I'm going to see how
he charges baseball. I'm going to stop at second base and take off because
I know you're gonna be on your heels, and that's exactly what happens.
So we're going to tell this one. But for sure he knows he makes
a couple of mistakes and he needs to get over that. But over the
team needs to play better because obviously there's some bats missing, and the offense
has been very inconsistent. All right, Jose, thanks a lot for stopping
by. Appreciate the insight, and we'll see who's in the starting lineup tomorrow
against Zach Gallen. Shake it up a little bit, nothing wrong with that.
There's a lot of games left. Thanks, Ose, appreciate it.
Audios. There he goes Jose Mota, part of the Dodgers Spanish radio broadcast
with Pep Bee and Ningez and the great Fernando of Alnezuela. And by the
way, in case you're wondering which Dodger has had success against Zach Gallen,
there aren't too many. I'm looking right now. Show hey, Otani only
three at bats, zero for three. Maybe the guy that has had the
most success against Gallen is Miguel Rojas three for six, Will Smith six for
nineteen. In case you're wondering about Jason Hayward, He's only one for ten
with four strikeouts against Zach Gallen. So maybe Dave Roberts says, you know
what, Miguel, you want to be in the starting lineup. Tomorrow's the
day against Zach Gallen. So you know there's nobody tearing the cover off the
ball against Gallen, and you know, especially outfielders. If that's what we're
looking at here, so why not why not give it? Give him a
chance. A kid that is eager for an opportunity is going to do the
most with it. So we'll see who Dave Roberts has in his starting lineup
tomorrow night against Zach Gallen. He'll be going up against Landon Knack, who
does not lack confidence. So you may say Landed nac against Zach Gallen.
Well, I thought Gavin Stone versus whoever the Diamondbacks were throwing out turned out
to be Christian Menya favored the Dodgers. So we'll see where it goes.
But like I said, it's not a division race right now, but it
certainly is a playoff seeding race between the Dodgers and Brewers. They are separated
by one game for the second seed in the National League playoff picture. As
it stands right now, Landon Knack this year is one and one with an
ERA of two zero eight going up against Zach Gallen, who I mentioned,
He's six and four with an ERA of two eighty three. Morongo Casino Dodgers
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is fourth of July, so the Dodgers will put on a spectacular fireworks show
following the game tomorrow, So if you're showing up, be ready for a
great show, hopefully with the Dodgers offense and then the fireworks on fourth of
July. Thanks to Colinie back at our Burbank studios, Thanks to Dwayne McDonald
out here at Dodgers Stadium, and thanks to you for listening. In case
you miss any of the show, you can find it on the iHeartRadio app
once again. The final score tonight from Dodgers Stadium, the Diamondbags route the
Dodgers twelve to four. Have a great rest of year. Fourth of July.
Happy fourth of July. Four minutes away. We'll talk to you in
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