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And now your host for Morongo Casino
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everybody, and welcome in to Morongo
Casino Dodgers on Deck. Hope you're

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doing well on this Monday and night. You're Los Angeles Dodgers thirty two and

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seventeen on this season, first place
atop the NL West after taking three or

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four from the Cincinnati Reds. The
Dodgers continue their homestand tonight with the start

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of a three game series against the
Arizona Diamondbacks. Yoshinobu Yamamoto on the mound.

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First pitch from Dodger Stadium is coming
up at seven to ten. Between

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then and now, you got a
lot to get to here on Marongo Casino

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Dodgers on Deck, including hearing from
the Dodger manager. Dave Roberts will dive

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deeper into this pitching matchup, while
your magical moment of the day an injury

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report. David Veasse goes one on
one with Walker Reviewler. Shortly, we'll

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hear from Kirsten Watson. In just
a few minutes, we'll check you in

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with Rick Monday and Steven Nelson out
at the Galvin Motors Broadcast booth. Well

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yesterday at the Ravine. It was
a little walk off magic for show Hay.

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In order to beat the Reds,
the Dodgers sent out Landing Neck to

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the mount. He went four and
two third innings, allowed one run on

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three hits while striking out five.
The Dodgers game the early lead. At

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bottom of the fourth inning, Freddie
Freeman on base for Andy Pies. One

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out Freeman at first, no score. Pitch win I drilled down the left

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field line. It is hooking and
that's gone. That's gone, wrapped around

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the left field foul poll A line
drive out of here. A laser beam

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the left by Andy Pies for his
fifth major league home run, and the

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Dodgers lead it two to nothing.
Two run home run for Andy Pajes.

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That thing was a laser down the
left field line three hundred and fifty seven

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feet. It got out in a
hurry, two run shot, and the

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Dodgers r ubb two to nothing.
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land and Neck would give up a
run. It was a two to

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one Dodgers lead. Ryan Yarborough took
over for an inning. In two thirds.

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He would give up a run to
walk in a run in the seventh

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inning, we were tied at two. It didn't get anybody across in the

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top or bottom half of the ninth
inning, so it was free baseball.

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At Dodger Stadium yesterday, top half
of the tenth inning. Bonda comes on,

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shuts it down, prevents the Reds
from scoring a run. Dodgers come

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back in the bottom half of the
tenth Any runners on first and second for

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show, Hey Hey, we're looking
to get a good jump on contact.

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Won two pits. Oh Tony Swag's
base hit right field. Here comes Heyward

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around third, He'll score Emma.
Dodgers win it three to two. The

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second career walk off hit for show, Hey Old Tony Emma show rolls on

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at Dodgers Stadium. Show Hey Otani
with the walk off RBI single to right.

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Dodgers winning in ten innings yesterday three
to two. Anthony Bonda gets the

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win in relief. Show Hey o
Tani drives in a run. Pajes hits

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the two run home run. That's
all the Dodgers would need is they take

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three or four from Cincinnati. After
dropping the series, they win three in

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a row. They're now thirty two
and seventeen on this season. They've got

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control of first place atop the Western
Division of the National League, and tonight

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they continued the home stand with the
first of three against the Arizona Diamondbacks.

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Yoshinobu Yamamoto on the mound, first
pitch at seven to ten, and with

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more we head out to the gallopin
Moters broadcast booth as we say hello to

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Rick Monday and Steven Nelson. Guys, thanks Tim. All right, most

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of the Dodgers, coming off a
seventh series win their last eight series,

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going to try and finish up the
seven game homestand by getting another one against

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the visiting Arizona Diamondbacks. Arizona back
at Dodgers Stadium for the first time since

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last year's Division series. Yeah,
and trying to right the ship. I

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mean, you start to look at
what happened last year, Arizona won the

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first two games here and then the
complete of the sweep over in Arizona.

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But if you start to look at
the bigger picture, and this was then

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and right now is now. But
the Dodgers here in this ballpark against Arizona

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have've had pretty good ways of it, winning thirty one of the already eight

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regular season games at Dodgers Stadium.
But one thing about it, Arizona knows

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full well that they have not been
running at all cylinders. Tonight could be

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the night, and they need to
do a very good job in this three

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game series to cut in to that
nine game deficit that they're really trailing this

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Dodger blanklub right now, who's leading
the Western Division by seven and a half

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in front of the second place San
Diego Andres. If you look at Arizona's

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year so far, they have really
struggled against teams above five hundred. They

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don't have a series win against a
team more of five hundred yet. The

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starting pitching does have some injuries,
but it's been what's buoyed them this recent

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stretch. I think nine in the
last twelve starts three or fewer runs of

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problem. The offense has been non
existent. They got a lot of big

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name players or young players who are
expected to become big names a La Corbyn,

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Carrol, a La Gabriel Moreno Allah
Lordis Cariel, who are all scuffling

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right now. So the Dodgers,
whose pitching staff has been rolling, and

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to try and continue that trend fore
exactly and if you look at Corbyn Carroll.

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I mean, here's a guy that
took a baseball really by a big

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whirlwin last year. I mean the
National League Rookie of the Year. But

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he comes in hitting this one ninety
one the last eleven games, even lower

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than that, barely one twenty.
Well, he's the guy that once he

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gets going and Arizona hoping he gets
going very very soon, he can really

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help set the table. And you
look at the Dodgers. One of the

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things that they're able to do.
You look at Mookie betts Bett's hitting a

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three thirty seven, he sets the
table. Show Hey Otani hitting a three

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fifty three, He helped set the
table. Then Freddie Freeman and Will Smith

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have a lot of it bats with
runners in scoring position, along with ti

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Oscar Hernandez. So if you look
at the first five offensively, this Dodger

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buck but they're doing a lot of
damage. We're beginning now to see six

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through nine in the lineup beginning to
hold their own and both that's a welcome

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sight. You think about the Dodger
offense on the whole, leading the National

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League in batting average, hits,
walks, on base, slugging ops,

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you name it, and that is
despite having a six through nine that on

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the season and has the lowest batting
average in all the National League, the

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second lowest ops in the National League. So all that to say that if

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that bottom half gets going, lookout
you will look out for most preview of

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tonight's pitching matchup and play more as
we get closer to first pitch. TC.

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All right, thanks a lot,
Nelly appreciated Dodger just celebrating a big

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win yesterday, taking three or four
from the Cincinnati Eras, and that walk

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off home run was something special for
show hey Otani, his first walkoff in

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and seventeen on this season. They
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game lead in the NL West,
with a chance to open that up at

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least over Arizona, who's in town
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here from the manager Dave roberts Well, check in with David vets A.

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DV goes one on one with a
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pitching matchup. But I'm next.
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Kirson Watson. So we leads up
to Dodgers and Diamondbacks on this Monday night.

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First pitch at seven ten. Thanks
for being with us. I'm Tim

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Diamondbacks. Yoshanobi Yamamoto on the mound
for the blue Joe Manniply will go for

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Arizona as the opener. First pitch
coming up at sevent ten. This is

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and it goes outside of he rips
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the first base when they got no
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An nfield single. Hey, we're
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one two pitch Otani swagspace hit right
field. Here comes Heyward around third,

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He'll score and the Dodgers won at
three to two. The second career walk

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off hit for show hell Otani and
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Show he Otani with the infield single
and the biggest hit of the day.

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This is Kirston's Corner with Kirston Watson. Hey, Kirson now joins us

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from the stadium before the series opener
with the Arizona Diamondbacks and Kirsen. You

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can kind of feel like you can
see the finish line a little bit with

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these thirteen games in thirteen days.
Listen, I might be counting down to

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the finish line just maybe because look, this has been it's been a long

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stretch. Thirteen straight no off days. That's not a usual thing in the

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schedule, so for a lot of
the guys. Dave Roberts was talking about

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it today. First and foremost,
he's really pleased with how the guys have

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handled these last ten with now one
more series against Diamondbacks left. He said

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that the biggest thing has been the
bullpen and just kind of not only how

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they've managed themselves being available, but
also with arms that have come in and

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stepped up for kind of once who
are injured are just kind of giving other

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guys a day here and there.
So he's been really pleased and also his

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fine seeing how this team has put
together wins. How this thirteen straight started

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in San Diego and they lost that
series, but to come back and win

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the next two, just for them
to kind of get back and kind of

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back to their winning ways has been
really big for them. So he's been

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pleased and how everyone's kind of in
a good spot. But he did say

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that most of those bullpen arms are
probably begging to get to that off day.

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Yeah, And speaking of those,
some of those arms that are looking

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to get back ended up bullpen because
the Dodgers are doing it with guys they

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didn't think they'd be counting on at
this point in this season, but looks

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like the Calvary could be joining here
at least soon with Joe Kelly, Evan

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Phillips, even a Bobby Miller update. Yeah, so we'll start with Joe

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Kelly. So he played catch on
a flat ground for the first time today,

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So that's a really good sign for
him continuing just to progress. He

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of course is going to have to
go off the bullpen, so there are

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still steps in his progression, but
the fact that he played catch today for

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the first time is a good sign. Then you have Evan Phillips, he

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has thrown bullpens. He was playing
catch today as well, and Dave Roberts

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said that it's very realistic that he
could be back in the next week to

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ten days. So I think that's
just a really good sign as the closer

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of this team that he is continuing
to feel really well. They're not pushing

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him or anything. They're letting him
take his time make sure that a hamstring

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fully heals, but he's continuing to
show signs that he's feeling good and working

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his way back. Then, and
there's Bobby Miller, as you mentioned,

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so focusing out on the rotation.
He is going to throw in a game

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tomorrow here in LA at Dodger Stadium
and going to do three innings, basing

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some of the hitters on the team. And then Dave said that after that

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he will go on his rehab assignment. So he's progressing and he doesn't have

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as much of a build up as
someone like Walker Wheeler had, but he

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is going to have probably a couple
outings to get him in a good spot

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to make his way back. So
yeah, arms are they're coming, They're

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getting stronger. The arrow is pointing
up for some of these guys coming off

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the IL, and that is certainly
great news, Karsten. We appreciate it.

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on Dodgers on Deck, we'll preview
this bitching matchup. David vat Sang goes

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one on one with Walker Mueller.
But up next we'll get you more of

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an injury report and we'll get the
pregame Goddess of the Manager, Dave Roberts

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as well lead you up to Dodgers
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pitch at seven ten. I'm Tim
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first pitch on this Monday night. Dodgers

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playing host to the Arizona Diamondbacks.
Yoshinobu'm a moto on the mound, First

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pitch at seventen. This it's the
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Official medical partner of the Los Angeles
Dodgers. Max Mounsey Grade one oblique strain.

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Joe Kelly on the IL at the
shoulder strain. He is starting to

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get into baseball activities. Evan Phillips
as well, is progressing on the IL

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at the hamstring. Ryan Brazier on
the IL with the right calfstrain. Bobby

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Miller is gonna throw a three inning
sim game tomorrow. Connor Brogden on the

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the year. Spoke earlier today.
He talked about his surgery to have his

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elbow repaired. Also had an oblique
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out for twenty twenty four. The
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out with the Dodgers skipper Dave.
Do you think any questions for Dave?

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Dave? Can you just describe Dave? Can you talk about the pressure in

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the dugouts with Dave Roberts. I
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it was earlier on it was third
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I think he just got tired of
being mediocre, and I think all athletes

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expect a lot of themselves, and
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and you just saw way more.
I just think he got tired of it

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and decided that he was better than
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the better strike throwing. And also
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his mechanics that they worked on as
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tired of that sort of each each, that's each, that's each player.

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You know, some players just have
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latitude and running with it, and
some guys don't want it, don't need

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it, and expect greatness from themselves
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other dgs and so forth. Is
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whole season or just to be in
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season. I have been mindful on
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he can continue to build a foundation. But tonight, Yeah, if tonight

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goes well, uh, and it
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you know, pushing pas hundred pitches
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Yoshanobo Yamamoto, Joe manniply of the
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left hander for the Snakes. First
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Is Dodger insider David Bassei. All
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about the Big three on this Dodgers
offense. Will Smith is including when there's

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the Big four. But he had
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he's gotten out of it. Yeah, he actually brought that to my attention

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when he was oh for his last
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into this homestand it actually reached oh
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has come out of it six for
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just looking at his season, he's
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in scoring position. He's the guy
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But if there's one kind of flaw
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of power. We're talking about a
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twenty five home runs and ever since
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twenty five to twenty four to nineteen
last year and this year Will Smith only

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has four home runs and tonight will
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He is on pace for, you
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but the home runs are starting to
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So we'll try to find the answer
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Our teams are always built touch just
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for tough LRDV. Michael Grove,
here's a guy who was a starter,

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kind of a bullpen long reliever.
He's really immerged as a weapon now of

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the bullpen. Yeah, and it
was starting to show signs that his days

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in major league baseball, his future
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a starter. When he came out
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right handed hitting teams and was trusting
his slider, that's really when things clicked

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for him and also for the Dodgers
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what, this guy might be a
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Michael Grove's era out of the bullpen
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one zero sixty one. He has
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He's using that slider. He's got
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getting more swing and mess more than
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is a great weapon against left handed
hitters. So Michael Grove has emerged with

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all these injuries to Brazier and Joe
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the biggest thing is he has finally
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this season in spring training, he
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but you can make big money and
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right now, real quick, Dave. Jock Peterson back at Dodger Stadium.

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Yeah, Jocktober back at Dodger Stadium. When he tried to enter the stadium

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today, he was wearing a hat
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getting in, but finally made his
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fans though, what he has meant
to them in the postseason when they went

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to the World Series and back to
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Jack Peterson and Hall of Famer Gil
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runs for the Dodgers. That says
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In October. It is a real
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from Cincinnati now start a three game
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Series champion Dodger Rick Monday. Rick. The Dodgers are running a three game

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winning streak into this series against the
Arizona Diamondbacks, who happened to be the

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defending National League champions yep. And
I think they come in and they would

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like to have that the banner being
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not the case. I mean,
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that the Arizona Diamondbacks, the defending
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Dodgers, really trying to righte the
ship. And you know they've had a

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lot of guys they just had not
been hitting. But one thing about it,

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we know the competition is going to
be there, and there's some numbers

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you need to disregard. I think
anytime you go into a series. And

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yes, it was Arizona sweeping the
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they won the first two games here
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But putting aside postseason, the Dodgers
have been victorious now in thirty one

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of the thirty eight regular season games
have been played between these two ball clubs

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here at Dodgers Stadium. That's thirty
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aside, that was then, this
is now, And for Arizona they were

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like nothing better obviously than to gain
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Division the National League. All right, Rick, we're starting to get into

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the point of the season where pitchers
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the Division. Yamamoto now is going
to face the Diamondbacks for the second time

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in two weeks. So is this
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to teams are seeing him now for
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I think it depends on which side
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talking about. He went six shutout
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a couple of series ago. That
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the Dodgers won that game by eight
to nothing score. But the way that

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he commanded the strength zone with all
of his pitches was really something that the

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next outing was also very good.
Dave Roberts eluding this afternoon that you know,

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the pitch count may be increased with
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that same command of the strength zone
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possibly go up to one hundred pitches. We'll find out on that end of

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it. But I agree with you, you do learn more about hitters and

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pitchers by seeing them and face hid
them. We can get all the information

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that we do. I mean,
I'm holding up about a half inch thick,

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you know, reams of paper that
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asses and therefores who hits the fastball, who does this? Who does that?

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But there are some times that you
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of a certain pitcher's hand that maybe
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you're going to see, maybe the
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and maybe you don't hit them for
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know, it's a learning situation,
and I've always that it's easier for pitchers

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to find out about hitters and their
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to find out about the pitchers,
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and I think from the picture you
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oh, David Bassey handles the low
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ball that's away, don't handle the
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pitchers to look at the breakdown and
understand about the hitters more so than it

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is for hitters to understand about the
pitchers. That makes sense, Ricky,

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before we back out of here.
Yesterday, an exciting finish to the game,

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Otani with his first career walkoff hit
as a Dodger. What did you

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think about that at bat and just
what he was able to do? The

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bat was obviously terrific because it ended
with something that was going on. But

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I think overall, if you look
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to do, David, I mean
winning twenty the last twenty six ball games,

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it's not just the hitting. The
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overlooked, and it shouldn't be a
look because in winning twenty the last twenty

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six the Dodgers overall had the lowest
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one during that span. The pitching, the starting pitching two point five eight.

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The bullpend in those last twenty six
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That's really off the charts. Chicks
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championships. Yes, thanks, Rick, this segment was the bridge to the

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rest of your life. Oh,
thank you, David. Thank for you

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to leave. Is it? I
think so? We'll send it back to

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you in the studio. Tim,
all right, thanks a lot of guys,

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next we go high and tight with
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World Series champion Walker Buehler, who's
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more drip than usual, so I
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more than usual. These are my
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on, I was telling people in
spring training there was a moment in time

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where I knew things were going the
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probably manufactured it for a while,
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there a moment in time in spring
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now I'm starting to feel like I'm
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I mean I had a couple of
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a step forward at that time.
But you know, I think this rehab

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thing, especially the second one,
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wanted it to be. And obviously
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I would want and so you kind
of reasss and and learn like that that's

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part of it. And now obviously
we're kind of a little bit back on

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the train. But you know,
at the same time, you got to

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think the same things and go and
and work the same way and do all

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those good things. I've heard players
say this in the past with less serious

405
00:29:00.599 --> 00:29:06.359
injuries than yours, that the physical
part is part of it, but mentally

406
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trusting your body to be able to
do things is the biggest hurdle. Did

407
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you experience that as well? Yeah. I mean, I think it's hard

408
00:29:12.599 --> 00:29:15.079
to know what a ball is going
to do or where it's going to go

409
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when you don't know how your arm's
going to feel in the way they're right.

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I think that's the biggest thing,
and kind of getting out of that

411
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rehab mindset. You know, everybody
says the rehab mindset. I think largely

412
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like when you're really good, like
when I've been good in this game,

413
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it's like there's no physical concern and
so, you know, you're concerned solely

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about yourself physically for two years,
and so it's a little bit of a

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transition, and you know, now
I can kind of get back to competing

416
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and trying to, you know,
do what I want with the ball instead

417
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of worrying about what the ball is
going to do to my elbow. Walker.

418
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I was one of the few that
was watching your podcast here in LA

419
00:29:52.880 --> 00:29:57.119
on a regular basis because you were
really candid with everything that you were going

420
00:29:57.160 --> 00:30:02.079
through. Did you feel like that
was kind of like a journal in some

421
00:30:02.119 --> 00:30:06.200
ways in a in a twenty twenty
four space, because you were you were

422
00:30:06.240 --> 00:30:10.440
really spilling your emotions and how you
were feeling and where things were going.

423
00:30:10.799 --> 00:30:14.599
Well, yeah, I think,
you know, it was important to me.

424
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You know, I think whether this
went good about or ugly, like,

425
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to be able to talk through it's
kind of cool. I think also

426
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we can blame the people of Buffalo
Trace for sending me stuff. I don't

427
00:30:25.160 --> 00:30:26.720
think I normally would say everything I
say on there, But that's kind of

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the fun of it, right and
getting to actually talk through you know,

429
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where you're at, and you know, I think we'll do another one of

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those here soon and kind of talk
through the the good, good parts of

431
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this thing. You said on that
podcast Just Baseball that May was kind of

432
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the month that you were circling and
you guys were working backwards, so I

433
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guess it was on schedule in some
ways. Yeah, I mean we actually

434
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probably well, my first May sixth, I think we probably beat it by

435
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you know, eight days or so, so we were pretty pretty close.

436
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We had always said May and then
kind of see through the season how we're

437
00:31:02.519 --> 00:31:07.240
holding up and if I need a
breather or blow or whatever, and you

438
00:31:07.279 --> 00:31:10.079
know, I think that's probably still
an option at some point. Obviously I

439
00:31:10.079 --> 00:31:14.240
feel really good right now, but
yeah, it's always good to kind of

440
00:31:14.359 --> 00:31:17.200
tick off, you know, beat
a goal. I guess in some way.

441
00:31:17.240 --> 00:31:18.920
But you know, my goal was
to get back last year. I

442
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didn't do that, so I'm glad
this one worked out a little bit better.

443
00:31:22.640 --> 00:31:26.880
Is it fair to repeat that last
start? The start before your next

444
00:31:26.880 --> 00:31:30.039
start is a bridge to the rest
of your season. You're building off each

445
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one. Yeah, I mean,
I think every every start is you know,

446
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every season that I've played, it's
trying to build on something, or

447
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build on the last one, or
get back to one before or whatever.

448
00:31:41.480 --> 00:31:45.279
I think, you know, the
mindset of the mentality for me is a

449
00:31:45.319 --> 00:31:47.440
little bit different than it used to
be, and I think it has to

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be. And you know I kind
of came together in my last start,

451
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and you know, we need to
keep putting it together. The one thing

452
00:31:53.039 --> 00:31:57.200
that I love about your mentality that
hasn't changed. You don't just want to

453
00:31:57.240 --> 00:32:01.119
be out there. You want to
be the best. And it feels like

454
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the more you get that itch,
the more you want more. Yeah.

455
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I mean, you know, at
the end of the day, I think

456
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I got really lucky to be in
this organization. You know, drafted here

457
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and come up here, and you
know we've always been good in the regular

458
00:32:15.359 --> 00:32:17.079
season. Like there's you know,
you put together a nice start in the

459
00:32:17.079 --> 00:32:21.000
regular season, that's kind of that's
awesome, and that's what everybody wants.

460
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But you know, we're building towards
being really good in October. And I

461
00:32:24.319 --> 00:32:30.359
think that's a perspective that I kind
of was brought up with here. And

462
00:32:30.680 --> 00:32:34.119
you know, something I don't think
is going to change. I've never asked

463
00:32:34.119 --> 00:32:37.960
you this before, but do you
pitch with a chip on your shoulder?

464
00:32:37.119 --> 00:32:42.920
People always seem to short change whether
it was in college you were better than

465
00:32:42.960 --> 00:32:45.880
where they slotted you, you were
better than where you were drafted because of

466
00:32:45.920 --> 00:32:51.319
the elbows surgery. Do you pitch
with that chip on your shoulder? Yeah?

467
00:32:51.359 --> 00:32:52.880
I think so. I mean I
think you're kind of always teetering with

468
00:32:53.240 --> 00:32:57.079
you know, if you're having any
sort of success, I think you're teetering

469
00:32:57.119 --> 00:33:01.440
behind or between like that chip and
then you know, being too confident,

470
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and you know, when you get
hurt, I think that's probably the most

471
00:33:05.720 --> 00:33:08.000
humbling thing that can happen to an
athlete. You know, if you if

472
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you perform badly, like you get
to do it again the next week or

473
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the next day or whatever. But
getting hurt it's really you know, for

474
00:33:14.519 --> 00:33:16.960
me, it's been what twenty two
months of kind of trying to figure out

475
00:33:17.240 --> 00:33:21.920
how to be good at this game
again and you know, provide for your

476
00:33:21.960 --> 00:33:24.319
family and all of that, and
so yeah, I mean, I think

477
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there's some sort of chip. I
think for that to actually do anything,

478
00:33:28.920 --> 00:33:31.400
you have to like physically be right
and mentally be ready to compete. And

479
00:33:32.000 --> 00:33:37.200
I think this last start was kind
of all of that coming together. Before

480
00:33:37.240 --> 00:33:42.240
I let you go, you must
have been feeling little buffalo trace ish when

481
00:33:42.279 --> 00:33:45.400
you gave Austin Barnes credit for why
you moved on the mound. I thought

482
00:33:45.400 --> 00:33:50.599
that was really revealing. He's been
telling me this for a couple of years

483
00:33:50.599 --> 00:33:55.039
and I don't I don't like doing
it, but Burnsy has his moments and

484
00:33:55.039 --> 00:33:58.720
it really made a difference, right, I think. So, I mean,

485
00:33:59.039 --> 00:34:01.440
you know, it's kind of an
abstract thing, but the orientation of

486
00:34:01.480 --> 00:34:05.400
our body and the way my eyes
see the plate and stuff like that can

487
00:34:05.519 --> 00:34:09.639
kind of dictate some things happen physically. And you know, Barnes has always

488
00:34:09.639 --> 00:34:15.239
talked about how he wants certain things
to come out in certain you know,

489
00:34:15.400 --> 00:34:17.760
lanes and things like that, and
I had to be really perfect for it

490
00:34:17.800 --> 00:34:22.840
to come out like that, where
I used to be and so hopefully you

491
00:34:22.880 --> 00:34:27.519
know, this kind of change works
for the long term, but even just

492
00:34:27.559 --> 00:34:30.239
for the one I have to give
him a little little hot tip. Walker,

493
00:34:30.280 --> 00:34:35.000
it's great having you back. I'm
a little nostalgic. You mean a

494
00:34:35.039 --> 00:34:37.280
lot to me. The guys that
have been here since you were a rookie

495
00:34:37.360 --> 00:34:40.280
mean a lot to me, no
matter what uniform they're wearing. So it

496
00:34:40.360 --> 00:34:45.320
feels like the world is a little
bit more normal with you pitching again.

497
00:34:45.559 --> 00:34:47.119
I appreciate it. Man. We'll
talk to you guys here later on there

498
00:34:47.159 --> 00:34:51.079
he is the man, but tane
Walker Buehler, we'll send it back to

499
00:34:51.079 --> 00:34:52.079
you in the studio. Tim,
all right, thanks lot. Great to

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00:34:52.079 --> 00:34:55.840
hear Walker Bueler, good spirits and
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on the mound for the Arizona Diamonbacks. He is a reliever, bullpen expert

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so to speak, not a starter, but tonight he is the opener for

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Arizona as they go with the left
hander. Veteran thirty three years old,

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a twenty seventh round pick of the
Tigers back in twenty thirteen out of Virginia

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Tech, made his debut in twenty
sixteen with Detroit. Pitched for the Yankees

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and then joined the d Backs in
twenty twenty with an All Star in twenty

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00:36:17.719 --> 00:36:22.920
twenty two with the Snakes, making
his twenty second appearance this year, again

520
00:36:22.960 --> 00:36:27.159
his first as a starter an opener
this season. Last pitched on Saturday,

521
00:36:27.480 --> 00:36:29.719
did not record it out and give
up a couple of runs. It was

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00:36:29.719 --> 00:36:34.360
a rough outing for Joe manniply.
This is his twenty fourth appearance against the

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Dodgers. He's zero to two with
a four to ninety five ERA sixteen and

524
00:36:37.960 --> 00:36:42.800
a third innings niner and runs given
up and sixteen strikeouts. Yoschanovo Yamamoto on

525
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the mound for the Dodgers, twenty
five year old right hander, first season

526
00:36:45.679 --> 00:36:50.840
with the Blue making his tenth start
this season, his last time out in

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San Francisco, five and two third
innings, four runs, five hits,

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00:36:53.320 --> 00:36:57.800
six strikeouts in a no decision.
Believe it or not, this is already

529
00:36:57.840 --> 00:37:00.800
his second time now facing the ERA
on the Diamonbacks. David Vassa alluded to

530
00:37:00.880 --> 00:37:04.960
it earlier. Now we're starting to
see teams see him for a second time.

531
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He went six scoreless innings and he
struck out five in his previous start

532
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against them. That was three weeks
ago in Arizona in which he got the

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win. Yoshinobu Yamamoto. Every time
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Gates's Los Angeles Dodgers Audio Network.
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Dodgers and Diamondbacks. Yoshinobo Yamamoto on
the mound for the Dodgers. Joe Maniply,

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the reliever is the opener going for
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head back out to the booth Stephen
Nelson, Rick Monday, guys, thank

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you Tim okay Mo. Before we
get into Yoshinobu Yamamoto against the opener Joe

547
00:38:22.320 --> 00:38:27.039
Mantaply for Arizona, let's talk about
the weekend that was in Show hey Otani

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Sho hey Otani Day officially now in
Los Angeles County, May seventeenth, turned

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into Show hey O Tani Weekend.
He didn't have many hits in the series,

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but he made him count his thirteenth
home run on Show Heo Tani Day,

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and then of course capping off the
weekend with his first walk off as

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a Dodger. You really, I
think, really, it doesn't surprise me,

553
00:38:47.079 --> 00:38:52.039
but impresses me and will take for
granted the exceptional ability that he has.

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What I really embrace is how his
teammates and the city have embraced him.

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00:39:00.159 --> 00:39:04.880
Here's a star value, and yet
it is not detracted from what this

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00:39:05.079 --> 00:39:07.920
team as a whole is able to
do. And I'm not certain that that

557
00:39:08.000 --> 00:39:12.800
works in every ball club where you
get someone that comes in so dynamic,

558
00:39:13.119 --> 00:39:16.679
they get so much attention front row
and center, and yet he blends in

559
00:39:16.880 --> 00:39:20.599
very well with his ball club,
And I think that's a big, big

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00:39:20.639 --> 00:39:24.000
credit to show hey Otani who understands
the team concept. And you don't get

561
00:39:24.039 --> 00:39:28.679
a whole lot of superstars that maybe
embrace that. Well, you talk about

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00:39:28.719 --> 00:39:35.119
superstar all at a word that isn't
necessarily often tied to superstar, and that's

563
00:39:35.199 --> 00:39:38.000
humility. I mean, shohe Otani. Maybe too much humility, you would

564
00:39:38.000 --> 00:39:40.760
think, but that is the way
he's wired and that is what endears him

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to his teammates, his coaches,
and fan bases as a whole. So

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00:39:45.239 --> 00:39:47.039
it was great to see over the
weekend. And now the Dodgers try and

567
00:39:47.079 --> 00:39:52.760
continue this strong stretch of play during
which they've won twenty of twenty six games

568
00:39:52.920 --> 00:39:55.559
MO with Yoshinobu Yamamoto starting against it. Yeah, a couple of things are

569
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going to be looking at very closely. First standing in particular because it's the

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three twenty four average whatever it is, he has, at least to this

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point, has had a little difficulty
settling in. Once he does, it's

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been lights out. And he's a
guy if you go to home played as

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a hitter, if you're looking for
one pitch, you're in trouble because he

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commands five of them. Very well. Dodgers starters MiB best two point one

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point one team era going back to
April twenty First, I mean, if

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we talk about the starting pitching,
the bullpen's been even better than that,

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Tim Kates. So hopefully both those
things continue throughout this series. For the

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Dodgers against Arizona. We'll talk to
you when first pitch comes around. Yeah.

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I need the bullpen to keep it
going, get the starting pitching going

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as well, and some timely offense, and the Dodgers can win their fourth

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in a row. Tonight's against Arizona, the start of a three game series.

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Yoshanoba Yabamodo on the mound for the
Dodgers. First betcho we come back.

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I'm Tim Kates has been Wrongo Casino
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