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Your Los Angeles Dodgers, well they're
not enjoying this road for fifty five and

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thirty nine on this season, still
first place and all alone a top of

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the nl Wes, but after getting
swept in Philadelphia, the Dodgers are now

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in Detroit for the start of a
three game series against the Tigers. Hopefully

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get some positive feelings going into the
All Star Break. James Paxson on the

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mount in the series opener, first
pitch from co America Park is coming up

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at three forty. Coming up over
the next hour here on Wrongo Casino Dodgers

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on Deck, we wily hear from
the Dodger manager Dave Roberts, get his

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thoughts on his team after what happened
in Philadelphia and going into the final weekend

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before the All Star Break. We'll
preview this pitching matchup with a big maple

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on the mound for the Dodgers.
David Vatsag goes one on one with Dodger

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Hero and Tiger's broadcaster Kurt Gibson,
that's coming up in forty five minutes.

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Shortly, we'll hear from Kirsten Watson. In just a few minutes, we'll

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send it out to Rick Monday and
Tim Never in the gapin Motors Broadcast booth.

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Well, for the Dodgers, Philadelphia
was anything but the city of brotherly

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love. Yesterday in Philly, Anthony
Bonda got the start as the opener,

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and it was more of the same
from the Dodger pitching. In the first

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Trey Turner, a solo home run
off Bonda of the Phillies took a one

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to nothing lead. Then in a
second Land and Knack on the mount is

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the bulk innings guy. He too
got hit around Brandon Marsha's solo home run

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the Phillies rub two to nothing.
The Dodgers managed to finally finally get on

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the scoreboard in the fifth inning thanks
to Gavin Lucks one oh and Lux hits

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the ball a long way down the
left field side. Jason gets to the

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corner and that ball is off the
pole and gone a home run. That

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ball sliced and it hit the three
twenty nine marker the screen just to the

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right of the foul pole, down
toward the bottom of it, and Gavin

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Lux has a home run, his
third of the year. It's a two

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to one ball game. Gavin locks
with the big bopper there, his third

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of the season. Dodgers cut the
deficit in half, down two to one,

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and the sixth, though landing neck
still in when he got into trouble

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again, Brandon Marsh ripped a triple
down the line, scoring Nick Castanos that

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put the Phillies ahead three to nothing. The very next batter, Yawn Rojas

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and RBI single that brought in Marsh
and the Phillies extended to lead to four

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to one, and that was it
for Knack, but not for the Phillies.

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And the eighth Ryan Yarborough on and
relief facing Kyle Schwarber. The top

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active managers in winning percentage are squaring
off here in Philadelphia. This ball's hammered.

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Schwarber's got another home run, upper
deck shot in right field. Five

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to one, Philadelphia. There was
a curve ball. He went out and

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got it and pulled it into the
upper deck. The Schwarber home run number

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nineteen. Shorber the home run.
Phillies up five to the one. They

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go on a win by that same
final score. Aaron Nola gets to win

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his eleventh of this season. Anthony
Bonda gets tagged with the loss. Dodgers

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lose all three games in Philadelphia.
They've now been swept for the Phillies by

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the first time since twenty eleven.
With the loss, they fall to fifty

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five and thirty nine. They've dropped
four in a row eight of their last

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twelve. James Paxon though on the
mound as the Dodgers are now in Detroit

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for the start of a three game
series against the Tigers. First pitch from

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co America Park is at three forty
and with more, let's head out to

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the Gallpin Motors broadcast booth and say
good afternoon to Rick Monday and Tim never

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guess Tim, thank you very much. Change a venue for the Dodgers here

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tonight, beginning a weekend interleague series
with the Detroit Tigers, or at k

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America Parking downtown Detroit. Gorgeous evening
for baseball too, eighty one degrees,

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lose skies and plenty of sunshine.
Right now as we get ready to get

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this one underway, the Dodgers will
send James Paxton to the mile, the

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left hander seven and two in a
four to four ERA trek Scoobel, who

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has been one of the best pitchers
in the American League ten and three in

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a two to three SEVENTYRA. He
is one of the front runners currently for

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the Cy Young Award and possibly the
American League starting pitcher in the All Star

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Game. So a tough customer tonight
that the Dodgers will face on the hill

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for the Tigers. Tigers are forty
five and forty nine. They've won six

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of seven this week. The Dodgers
have lost four straight and are currently fifty

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five and thirty nine, seven games
up on the Padres in the National League

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Western Division. Moh change of scenery
might be just what the Dodgers need after

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getting swept in Philadelphia. Well,
they need to change the scenery that they

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have. They also need to change
in results. The fact that they've lost

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eight of twelve thirteen at last twenty
seven and on this road trip. Propped

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all three in Philadelphia, and it
was not dropping three with a whole lot

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of contention on the Dodgers side.
Runners in scoring position in those three games,

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Dodgers hit one thirty eight. What
about the Phillies three sixte out the

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last six games. The Dodgers have
had difficulty putting runs up on the board

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when opportunities present. In those six
games, hitting had just won seventy seven

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in that same spot runners in scoring
position. They'd like to see some guys

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hit the ball out of the yard
and show hey, ho Tani has a

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good history of doing that in this
ballpark. He has eleven home runs an

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eighty one career at bats against the
Tigers. That's a home run every seven

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point four at bats and almost a
year ago to the day, July twenty

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seventh, last year, in a
doubleheader, he pitched a one hit shutout

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in Game one. In a Game
two, he hit two monster home runs

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in an Angel sweep over the Tigers
last year, and the Tigers certainly remember,

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show hey Otani the Dodgers hoping that
he can come through and be productive

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with his at bats. Well,
I think in on the board early.

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Here's a number ran across earlier.
Today the Dodgers win, they score first

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in the ballgame. They won forty
one of forty seven. Is that good?

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Well, it's the best winning percentage
in Major League Baseball eighty seven percent.

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End of the time they score first, they walk home with a victory.

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They did not score first in any
of the games in Philadelphia. They

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had difficulty scoring in that opportunity and
again with runners in scoring positions. So

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Dave Roberts going with the left handed
lineup that being left handed is on the

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mound, so he goes to more
right handed batters, only two lefties that

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being Otani and Freeman. In that
lineup, Hernanis will be at third base,

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Miguel Vargas and left Chris Taylor starts
at second base. In Pajes again

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is in the center field position.
Rodgers don't see the Tigers very much now.

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They'll see them every other year at
home and then once on the road.

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But one name to really watch for
offensively and defensively for the Tigers is

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Riley Green Green, the center fielder. He has made the American League All

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Star Team, hitting three eighty two
in his last nine games with seven runs

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batted in, so he is a
name to watch certainly. Also Andy Ebanyas,

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who'll be leading off and playing second
base, having a very good year

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for the Tigers. James Packs In
pitching for the Dodgers, Trek Scooble for

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the Tigers Dodgers Tigers Interleague Baseball coming
up from Detroit. Tim all right,

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we're off and running as we cut
you down here to first pitch. Dodger

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Roberts. David Vets say, we'll
check in throughout the show. He'll go

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one on one with Kurt Gibson break
down this pitching matchup up next. So

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your Otani Reewine and we'll visit with
Kirsten Watson from Sports and at LA.

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Detroit Tigers Dodgers. Thanks for being with

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Dodgers on Dodgers on Deck. Y'all
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Dodgers and Tigers. James Paxton terror
Scooble. The pitching matchup first pitching

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co America Park in Detroit, set
for three forty. This is the Otani

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rewhy. Well, it was a
rough day for the Dodgers. Top of

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the line up yesterday Freddie Freeman was
oh for three, Will Smith oh for

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four with three punch outs, shoe
Hey Otani oh for four yesterday with two

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strikeouts, now hitting three fourteen on
the season as Dodgers loss of the Phillies

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five to won. The good news
is showey Otani has played on Mcole America

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This is Kirston's Corner with Kirston Watson. Hey Karson now joins us from

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Detroit of all places. Yeah,
Dodgers in the Motors City for a three

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game weekend set again the Tigers and
Keirrison. This Dodgers team. They need

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to get back on track now,
Yeah, they do. And even last

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night Freddy Freeman, he was talking
in the clubhouse to the media saying that,

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look, the Philly series, they
just did not play their best baseball.

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So it's time to get things going. And you know what, more

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importantly, they want to end the
first half of the season on a very

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high note. You know, a
good place to do that is here in

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Detroit against the Tigers. That's the
last chance for them to do it,

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to end on a high note,
to be honest. But also the Tigers

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have been playing pretty well as of
late. In their last seven games,

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they're six and one, and they've
got their ace on the mound today in

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Schooble. So the hope is Dave
was saying today, The hope is to

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take advantage of his mistakes, find
different ways to get to him. He

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is leading the Alci Young conversations for
a reason. So you know, I've

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heard the Dodgers before yell in the
dugout let's be some ra busters. And

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maybe they should do just that today
to get things going and find a way

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not only to take the series,
but hopefully sweep the series so that they

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can at least finish this road tra
at five hundred and field a really good

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mood heading to whether it's the All
Star Game, heading home to rest and

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recover wherever their All Star adventures take
them. Guy and I guess the best

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guy they can have on the mound
right now in a city that they don't

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go to very often is James Paxton, who is pitching this ballpark a lot.

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Yeah, he has. He Actually
quite a few of us were on

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the same bus together and he was
the only one who knew where we were

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going when we got off the bus, Like everyone was like, huh,

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so which way did we go?
So it was nice. He's like,

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yeah, I've been here quite a
few times have I'm playing in the American

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League. So he definitely it's best
case scenario. But also he's a veteran

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in the rotation right now. We've
talked the last couple of days with there's

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a lot of injuries at the moment, and so he is a very steady

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presence. He's been having a numbers
wise, pretty good year. I think

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results were seeing kind of up and
down. But the hope is for him

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not only just to be a workhorse
today, try to go deep into the

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game, but have be a steady
veteran presence and also just end the first

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half of the season on a very
high note. So Dave is looking to

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see, you know, some good
stuff from him today and hopefully he can

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do just that. Kirsten. Let's
hope the Dodgers can get back on track

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and we can talk to you post
game. We appreciate it still to come

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here on Wronggo Casino. Dodgers on
deck will dive deeper into this pitching matchup.

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David Vassa goes one on one with
Kurt Gibson, Dodger hero, Tigers

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broadcaster and a legend the game of
baseball. But up next we'll get you

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an injury report. We got an
update on Joe Kelly and crew, and

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we'll hear from the manager, Dave
Roberts as well. It's the Dodgers and

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He's not coming back for a few
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on the iel with the strained rotator
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throw now on the flat ground.
Walker Bueller on the iel at the right

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hip sore on this he is in
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on the iel at the store lat
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cap strain. Clayton Kershaw is going
to go out on a minor league rehab

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assignment. This weekend. More on
that coming up, but first let's check

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in with the Dodgers, get Bird, anything else? Dave? Do you

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think questions for Dave? Dave?
Can you just describe Dave? Can you

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talk about the pressure in the dugouts
with day Robberts? Dave, just when

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you look at this matchup, you
guys are going against AlSi leader in school

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ball. What are you hoping?
Just what are you hoping to do to

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find ways to get to him today? It's gonna be tough. You know,

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I haven't seen him pitch, you
know, in person, seeing some

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obviously some highlights and video. It's
it's a really it's just got command of

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all of his pitches. It's all
plus stuff. You know, I think,

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like anything, we've got to be
better at getting on the fastball.

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He's gonna come after us so and
hope, hope he makes mistakes and create

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some havoc. But it's going to
be tough. And you know the other

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part is that we just need James
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weall and keeps in the ball game. How important I guess does this start

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for James? Just considering, you
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being that veteran of this group,
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a big start, and you you
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half, you know, on a
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it's been up and down a lot. There's been some really good ones

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and there's been some not so good
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know, to have something to build
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And yeah, and just kind of
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I mean, after all the different
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the last few weeks, Like how
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here going into the break? That
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The starting pitching. We just haven't
got off to a good start the

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last you know, a couple of
weeks, and it's shown itself. But

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to get a good one out of
James, to keep us in this ballgame

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against a guy that's really it's gonna
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that's just kind of the way it
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really really talented pitching. But I
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offensively and you know what better time
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James been sewing consistent this year?
I think it's a strike throwing. I

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think the strike throwing the high walk
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And when you're getting into bad counts
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I think that's probably the biggest factor
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All right, David James Paxton.
The Dodgers really need him to give them

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something today. And well, next
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the rotation from the starting of the
season and Dave he's the last guy standing.

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Yeah. I mean, who would
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Tim, that James Paxton would make
every single start for the Dodgers. Basically,

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he's missed maybe one start where the
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the thirty five year old left hander
obviously has not been spectacular. But I

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feel like the best way to describe
him is solid, and he's been there

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and here he is today in Detroit
for the Dodgers, his final start before

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the All Star break. And I
had a chance to catch up with James

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on the pregame show a couple of
days ago, and here's what he said

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about his career evolving with the Dodgers. Yeah, you know, I really

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have. I've gotten a lot of
help with some pitches. You know,

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I came in and I needed help
my change up, and I really got

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to help a lot of help there. And you know, I'm kind of

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evolving in the way that I pitch. I don't have quite the same stuff

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that used to have, and they're
they're helping me make that, make that

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change and learning how to pitch with
different stuff, and it's been it's been

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great. Is that the first step
to understand that you are evolving, that

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James Paxton at this stage of your
career is not the James Paxton from even

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five years ago. Yeah, you
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to all pitchers, most pitchers.
You know, you get a little older,

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and you lose some velocity, maybe
lose certain sharpness on certain certain pitches,

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and you have to learn how to
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you know that can be tough,
and it has been, you know,

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frustrating and hard. But I've had
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learn how to make that work best, and it's been good experience. I've

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heard Connor McGinnis, one of the
Dodger pitching coaches, talked to James Paxton

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about developing a change up, and
every time he throws a bullpen session in

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between starts tim it seems like that
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more, you're starting to see that
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And I don't know how much this
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faced the Tigers all the way back
in twenty eighteen, he tossed a complete

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game against them. Hopefully he can
do that again this afternoon, David.

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you think what are the Dodgers' plans
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one, the Dodgers have the twenty
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and I feel like this always sneaks
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new that Major League Baseball has decided
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and they have it during the All
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couple of different sides here, and
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the Dodgers are projected to not take
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middle infielders. MLB Pipelines has them
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by the name of Theo Gillen.
Fangrabs also has them looking at a middle

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infielder outfielder Kelln Lindsay out of a
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like the Dodgers are projecting to draft
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that can bring some different dynamics to
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it can only be called f one
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David well since the fourth of July, Tim, it's been considerable. Yesterday

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at very frustrating at bat for him
trying to do too much where he definitely

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expanded his strike zone over in that
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second inning. And for Otani now
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is hitting in the two fifties,
but the strikeouts are what's alarming. The

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strikeouts are three to one four to
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eight games. And we saw when
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five game stretch before he got hot
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was doing. He was expanding the
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he was walking. So he's got
to get back to being able to swing

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more games to go before the All
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to finish it strong after what we
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You need to send some very good
vibes. In particular when there's runners

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on base. If they can get
runners on base, I mean they've gone

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to snap the four game losing strength. They've lost to eight of the last

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twelve, and they've not done it
in very good fashion. In particular,

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when they finally get runners in scoring
positions, you start to look at the

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last six games in particular the team's
hitting below one point eighty with runners in

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scoring position. I would expect that
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But you know one thing that we
lose sight of. Yeah, you look

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at the record. Yes they're fifty
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a seven game lead over San Diego. It's actually very much of an accomplishment.

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But when you start to look at
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at the present time, not just
starting players in the lineup, but if

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you look at a decimated starting rotation, I mean, the Dodgers have three

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rookies in their rotation right now.
Plus then you're looking at a day off

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or an opener, if you will. So this is not the ideal situation,

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but the Dodgors have to slug their
way through this and hopefully turn it

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around. You know what I found
remarkable, even in somewhat coming up short

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Rick, was that Freddie Freeman did
not come up with a hit in that

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three game series against the Phillies the
first time ever in his Dodger career.

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Doesn't that just speak to how great
Freddy Freeman is. Yeah, and the

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numbers when we saw those over the
last number of days. Those numbers are

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unbelievable. I mean, how do
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as he has and come up empty
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I mean you start to look at
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possible that you could be that's steady. So for so many games, you

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know, day in and day out, and get base hits at least in

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series. You know what I loved
about it too, Rick, After the

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game, Freddie Freeman was one of
the few Dodgers that stood in front of

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his locker and fielded questions after the
way things went for him and for the

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team in Philly. Yeah, well, you and I both know Freddy and

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he has the reputation to do that. He's not there just when the lights

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front of his locker even when he
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a crummy game or the club's not
playing particularly. I think that says a

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lot about the character of Freddie Freeman
on how he handles professionally, what his

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job is. Rick the Dodgers are
at Comerica Park, a new ballpark relatively

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speaking, in Detroit. Did you
were you celebrating when Old Tiger Stadium was

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blown up? How did Rick Monday
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don't think it took a full stick
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think maybe a strong win and remove
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But this is obviously just a tremendous
venue in compared to terms to what

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Tiger Stadium was. Kind of an
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plate than the lower deck in right
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unusual. It was also four it
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to straightaway center field, and at
one time actually had a bolt that someone

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had removed from the stands somewhere up
in center field and thrown down and it

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actually hit me. Fortunately it hit
me on the outside the sole of the

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shoe. But there were a few
thuds that also took place where they misfired,

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didn't hit me. And an incident
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had ushers put up in the upper
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didn't happen again. Now, only
beach balls hit you, Rick, Well,

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the beach balls those don't hurt.
The bolts that were removed from the

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stands, they do hurt. And
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front of the Dodgers first base Doug
Up, I guess that's my cue.

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Rick. You found a way to
use them to your advantage today. Well,

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if that's the cue, I want
to bring him with me to LA.

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Thanks. Rick. We'll check back
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little bit later. I have a
good one, David. Thanks Rick,

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pitching matchup. Rickle'll be back with
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those keys to a Dodger win.
But I'm next. We go high end

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tight for former Dodger legend the biggest
home run a Dodger history in nineteen eighty

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eight. Former big leaguer Tigers Dodgers
now Tigers analysts. One of the good

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guys, Kirk Gibson. That's next
lead up to Dodgers and Tigers from Detroit.

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I'm Tim Katsus Los Angeles Dodgers Audio
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Terry Scooble. The pitching matchup.
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now what will likely be vass a
fielding insults from a Dodger player. It's

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an engagement of endearment. This is
high and tight, the hard and soul

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of the eighty eight Dodgers, along
with the stunt men, the one and

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only Kirk Gibson. So he's good
to come in here and look at the

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CED eighty eight where the ball landed, and that certainly generates good memories.

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Gibbee. Obviously it's been well chronicled
about the home run against eckers Lee,

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but I believe everybody forgets you don't
get there, You don't get that opportunity.

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If Mike Zosha doesn't hit the home
run off of Doc Gooden, you

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don't hit the home run in the
twelfth inning to even up that series,

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because you guys were staring at three
games to one deficit in New York.

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Yeah, you're talking about the championship
series. We played the Mets and they

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were heavily favored. I think they
beat his twelve out of thirteen times in

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the year, some crazy number like
that. But you know, we actually

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had Doc Doc Goodin's pitches out of
the wind up, and so you know

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he hit one out. I mean, how likely is that? Not very

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but he did it, and I
hit one out in the twelfth I think

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orl Herscheizer came out of the boltpen
that night after throwing the previous night seven

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innings. Everybody was selfless. They
just everybody in that team was so selfless.

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They just did what it take to
make sure we all were on track

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to win a world championship, and
then we followed it through. You certainly

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did. Don't tell my wife eighty
eight was the best summer of my life.

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Well that's you deal with that.
You know, my wife was not

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even at the game. I told
her to go home. I don't know

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if you've heard that, but because
I didn't think there was any way I

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was going to play. You know, I had pretty severe injuries, some

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injections, but you just never say
never. And you know, the impossible

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did happen? Gibby? Did you
really run across your living room before that

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game? When I got up in
the morning, I started walking as I

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slept with my knee, elevated some
pillows around it just to kind of keep

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a little light pressure, trying to
get the information out of it. And

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I got up to say, yeah, not too bad. Then I ran

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across the living room. I got
to about a half half speed jog,

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and he grabbed me pretty good,
and I just said, oh boy,

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we got a problem here. And
you know, I got some injections before

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the game and stayed in the training
room and iceed my leg, and the

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situation called for me to give it
a try. I did, and I

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just can't explain it. Gibby.
Last time I saw you, it was

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a few years back in Detroit.
You were clean shaven, no mustache.

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But I'm looking at you right now. You look like Kurt Gibson from nineteen

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eighty eight with some of the five
o'clock shadow beard, and you got the

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beautiful stash coming down exactly the way
it was that year. I mean,

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this is your back. That look
is back. Well, I don't feel

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like I did back when I had
this stash, but I got no complaints.

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You know, life's good, my
family's growing, it's great, my

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kids are healthy. We've got good
friends, and we contribute and help to

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give people opportunities as they go through
and hopefully we can help them in whatever

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their causes may be. You know, my motto has always been kind of

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go to your blow and I go
hard every day. I get full days

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in and you know it doesn't hurt
to get me out in the woods,

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which is coming up and right now
in the fall Michigan, the leaves are

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going to start to turn, and
it's my favorite time of the year.

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So I'm looking forward to the rest
of the twenty twenty three season and into

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twenty twenty four. And we could
support Kirk Gibson by going to your website,

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the Kirk Gibson Foundation. How are
things going as far as the foundation

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and raising awareness for Parkinson's. Yeah, it's Kirk Gibson Foundation dot org.

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The foundation is going great and the
participation has been outstanding. We've raised awareness.

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We help people with alternate therapies to
try and fix their pasture and some

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of their symptoms cover them up.
And most of all, movement is better.

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It's just and there's no way you
can dispute it. But sometimes you

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need to be kicked in the ass
and I'm still pretty good at that.

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Yeah you are. I see the
fire in your eyes. Thanks a lot

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for the time. Kirk Gibson Foundation
dot org is where you can support Kirk

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Gibson and everything he's doing to fight
Parkinson's and bring awareness to it. He

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has done so much for all of
us, and we'll do so much for

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us forever as we look back on
that great nineteen eighty eight season. So

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that's the least we could do is
support his foundation. Thanks a lot for

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the time, Thanks very much.
And it's a great organization Kirk Gibson Foundation

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dot org. And we aimed at
please and to help and preserve quality of

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life for all. What a great
team, what a Niickell team there.

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He is Tim, one of the
heroes of the magical nineteen eighty eight world

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champion Dodgers, the one and only
Kirk Gibson. We'll send it back to

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you in the studio. Thanks a
lot, DV Dodgers Baseball. Great to

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hear from Kibbi. By the way, Dodgers Baseball is brought to you by

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Lean you up to first pitch Dodgers and

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Tigers from Detroit coming up next.
We'll dive deeper into this pitching matchup.

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on Deck on your home for the
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started a three game set from Cole
America Park in Detroit. First pitch coming

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the mound for Detroit ten and three
at a two thirty seven ERA twenty seven

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year old, hard throwing left hander. Four season the Big leagues. He

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was named an All Star this year
for the year he's having, making his

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nineteen start last time out seven innings, one run, three hits, thirteen

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strikeouts in a win over the Reds. It's the American League in Whip.

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He is second with the two thirty
seven ERA. He's thirty American League with

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ten wins, one hundred and thirty
two strikeouts and a one ninety seven opponents

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battling and the average. This is
the first time he's ever faced the Dodgers.

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James Packson on the mound for the
Blue the Big Maple, as he's

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called. Thirty five year old leftenders
seven to two at the four to two

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four ERA, making his twelveth or
a seventeen start this year, his twelve

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season in the Big league's first with
the Dodgers. Last time out, five

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innings, two runs, four hits, three punchouts and a no decision against

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the Brewers last weekend. He's facing
the Tigers for the eighth time in his

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career. He's three and one with
a three thirteen ERRA. He last faced

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the Detroit Tigers in May of twenty
eighteen, when he tossed a complete game.

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He allowed his two runs on three
hits while striking out eight in a

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win. So it's the Dodgers and
Tigers at the start of a three game

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interleague series before the All Star Break. Dodgers loses a four in a run

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or four in a row, then
he get back on track tonight at co

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America Park, fifteen minutes away from
first bit keys to the game are next.

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I'm Tim Katson's Los Angeles Dodgers Audio
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It's the Dodgers and the Tigers from
Detroit. James Paxton, Trek Scooble

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the pitching matchup. Dodgers losers of
four straight, looking to get back on

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all right, Tim, thanks again, good night for baseball. Here

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at America Park in downtown Detroit.
James Paxton looking for his eighth win and

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certainly the Dodgers need to find a
way to get in the win column tonight.

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They hope to do so behind the
south paw his last time out,

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got a no decision on Sam against
Milwaukee, but he allowed two runs in

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five innings pitch. The Dodgers eventually
would come back and win that game.

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That's the last game the Dodgers have
won. They've lost four straight, their

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season high losing streak at five.
They hope not to match that tonight.

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Pitchers on opposite end of the spectrum. And if you look at Packson,

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he pitches the contact. If you
look at Schooble, he's a guy that

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tries to throw the ball by you. Coming off a dominant performance against Cincinnati

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on Sunday, he just overwhelmed the
Reds when seven innings, ninety three pitches

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was all and he also joined Mickey
Lowlish the fame lefty with the Detroit Tigers

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number of years ago, the only
pitchers in franchise history without any of thirteen

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strikeouts, no walks in a maximum
of just one run allowed. And he's

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going to challenge with that good fastball. He'll elevate that fastball and it gets

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a lot of swing and misses at
the changeup. Scooble provides a lot of

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power, a lot of velocity from
the port side. He has a pitch

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this year that registered one hundred and
one point seven miles per hour. He

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is also at home in eight home
starts Dodgers this year on interleague play thirteen

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and seven, and the Tigers are
fifteen and sixteen in interleague play. Dodgers

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and Tigers game one of a three
game weekend set coming up from downtown Detroit.

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Tim all Right, Dodgers first place, the top the NL West,

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a seven game lead over the Padres. Dodgers have dropped for in a row.

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The Padres have also lost four in
a row. They are seven games

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back of the Dodgers. The Diamondbacks
they've won two straight, six to ten.

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They start the night the game back
of the Padres, eight games back

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of the Dodgers in the NL West. The Giants, they start the night

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ten games back in the division.
So we'll keep an eye on the Padres

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and the Braves down at Petco Park. Dodgers, though, need to take

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care of business in Detroit as they
take on the Tigers. First pitch is

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next. I'm Tim Kates. This
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