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the NL West. They've got a seven game lead in the division, ahead
of the Diamondbacks. The Dodgers went into the All Star Break banged up.
Last night, they started the post All Star break with a come from behind
win, and today they look to make it two straight over the Boston Red
Sox with Justin Robuski on the mound, first pitch coming up at four fifteen.
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cor that's coming up about forty five minutes. We got your Dodgers magical moment.
We'll get your Otani rewind in just a few minutes. We'll check in
with Tim Neverett and Jose Motau at the Kalpulm Motors Broadcast booth. Well,
last night at the Ravine, some late inning heroics got the Dodgers to win.
Gavin Stone got the start, and the right hander was good five innings.
He allowed just one run on six hits while striking out three along the
way. He had the lead off batter on and three the first four innings,
Button navigated around that each time to put up zeros. Finally, though,
in the fifth, the Red Sox got on the board when Gavin Stone
made a mistake to Jaron Durant. A solo home run for duran out of
Ciperus High School, his eleventh of the season. The Red Sox grabbed a
one to nothing lead. The Dodgers offense meanwhile not much the first couple times
throughout, the lineup just two hits the first seven innings against Nick Pavetta and
the Red Sox bullpen. In the eighth, Ryan Yarborough on a relief for
the Dodgers, still down one to nothing, when the Dodgers defense got the
stadium excited. Here's a one to two pitch to Devers. Runner goes pitches
going on and hit in the shadow left. Fargas comes on to make the
catch, pill load up and throw it a first stretch by Freeman. He
got him last. He has calls him out. I wait to see what
the Red Sox want to do. It was bang bang at first Miguel Vargas
with the catch and throw it on the back pick, getting Tyler O'Neill at
first base. A great defensive play from Vargas to end the inning with that
double play. And when't you know it? Who let off the bottom of
the eighth inny y yep. Miguel Vargas. He got the Dodgers rally started
with the leadoff walk. Two batters later show heyo Tania ground rule double.
That's when things really got interesting. Alex Cord decided to walk Will Smith to
load the bases with one out to get to Freddie Freeman and the pitch and
Freddie beltz at to right fielding deep toward the corner Paul's backe. It's gone.
It's the seventh career Grand Slam for Freddie Freeman. It comes to the
bottom of the eighth and the Dodgers take a four to one lead. Holy
smokes Treddie Freeman absolutely annihilated that pitch and hit it into the Red Sox bullpen
down the right field side, and Freddy Freeman gets this crowded better than fifty
one thousand on their feet. Well, that was a bad decision from Alice
Cora. A Grand Slam for Freddie Freeman. That's the top tier player of
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Grand Slam for Freeman, his second this year. Dodgers with a four run
eighth and he took a four to one lead. The top of the ninth
belonged to Daniel Hudson, who came in and closed it out. Dodgers with
a comfort behind win last night as they take the series opener from the Red
Sox. Dodgers now fifty seven to forty one, they maintain a seven game
lead in the division. After this afternoon, game two of this three game
series against the Red Sox. Justin Robleski, the young leftander on the mount.
First pitch coming up at four fifteen, and with more we head out
to the Gallping Motors broadcast booth as we welcome in Tim Nevert at Jose Mota.
Guys, Thanks Tim very much. Perfect afternoon for a ballgame here in
late July, as the Dodgers and Boston Red Sox get ready for interleague play.
Boston last night had a lead until the eighth inning, but in the
bottom of the eighth, Alex Corr, the manager of the Dodgers, rolled
the dice. He intentionally walked Will Smith with runners on second and third to
get to Freddie Freeman, and Freddie hit his seventh career Grand Slam, his
second Grand Slam of the season, and gave the Dodgers a four to one
win in Game one. So the Dodgers start to day fifty seven and forty
one, seven games above the Arizona Diamondbacks and eight games ahead of the San
Diego Padres. The Red Sox are fifty three and forty three. They are
five and a half behind the division leading Orioles in the American League East,
four and a half behind the second place Yankees. Right now, they are
a game up in the third wild card spot in the American League, and
they're a game out of the second spot, trailing Minnesota by only a single
game. Brian Bao, the pitcher for the Red Sox today, is ten
and five with a five to three to two earned run average. He will
oppose Justin Robleski, the left hander zero and one with a six to three
to oh er Jose when we talk about Robleski, he's just really a handful
of pitches away from having an outstanding start to his major league career. Well,
he's a guy that you know, confidence is not lacking tim The stuff
plays well, averaging so far ninety five miles an hour out his fastball.
He throws a sinker a little bit lower ninety three or so. But his
slider is a key pick for him against right handers and against left handers.
I think, you know, in talking to him the last week or in
Detroit, he said he wants to aim more that slider to the back for
the righting, make sure there's some termination as they say, finish, and
he can pronate a little bit more. But I think also they're gonna pay
attention with him as what he's done against lefties or what lefties have done against
him five for ten, three extra bases, including a home run. And
I know he as we mentioned last night during the broadcast, he's a couple
of pitches away from having a very good outing. He fills us out,
he's not afraid of contact, and I think overall today the lesson learning is
hey trust that fastball which he throws. But there's a big difference also Tim
when he's zero to one or want to know it, he should learn that
it plays well in every single level of baseball as far as the offense is
concerned. Shoeo Towny had a rough start to the game. He's struck out
three times before hitting a ground rule double in the eighth inning after Miguel Vargas
had drawn a lead off walk, And of course Freeman's grand slamm Will Smith
Again, if you're the manager, you look at it after the fact.
You're trying to set up a double playball. But it's a pick your poison
moment. Do you take Smith as one of the better hitters in the game
or Freeman, who's one of the better hitters in the Will Smith three h
two men in scoring position ALC Troy's watching it and saying, well, we're
playing modern baseball where I'm going to be asked about it regardless of what happens.
Well, your pitcher needs to make a better pitch. That's the bottom
line right there where you know but I do it did not make a good
pitch, and Freddie took advantage of it. And Freddy had been making some
good pass us through the baseball before that. When he lined out a couple
of times in deep left field, his body was aligning well enough to know
that if he stayed back and was able to ease those hands. We saw
the result. What happened, Another grand Slam for Freddy and obviously for a
Dodger team that was thirsting so much for Bruns fifteen and a third without scoring,
well, that was one big blouse. But it was also set up
by the bottom of that lineup too. Justin Roblaski against Brian Bao today.
That's the pitching matchup from this afternoon game at Dodger Stadium. Tim all right,
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Freddie Freeman, who connected on a grand slam, his second of the season,
seventh of his career. Dodgers go on to get the four to one
win thanks to that swing of the bat from Freddy Freeman, and afterwards talk
their own David Vesse Freddy Freeman giving the Dodgers the lift they needed in the
eighth inning. What did you think when Alex Kora held up four fingers to
walk Will Smith? I was excited, and you kind of live for those
situations. Do you want to be up in those situations? So when you
get the opportunity to try and potentially win a game for your team, that's
all you can care about. I was just trying to hit a fly ball,
and hit a fly ball in the fense. You do pretty good against
lefties, Freddy. You saw that hanging curveball, did your eyes light up?
No? I mean I fell on the o secret. I took a
really good swing out of so I was feeling good the previous two at bats.
I was able to stay on ballding him in the left field, so
even though I got out, there's little wins in certain situations that helped build
confidence for later down the road. And after I took the swing, I
felt good on that swing, and I felt like I was in a good
spot to be able to hit what I needed to hit in the zone,
and I got one on the zone and hit it. I'm sure you felt
the excitement in the stadium and in your could you feel how big of a
lift you gave your teams? Yeah? You know, first seven eggs,
a little bit of a grind. Not many hits me through out there,
but Gavin pitch grade are bullpen was unbelievable. So uh, when you get
those situations, you got to try and come through and more times a night.
If you get a good Fitch hit, sometimes you get the hits.
How did you feel about that curtain call? It is nice when you've got
fifty four thousand people on their feet, can your name prior to the bat
and then after, I mean something could happened? So uh, pretty cool.
Glad to be back. Nice four days off started off with a win.
Thanks a lot for stopping Freddy. Great job tonight, Ors, I
appreciate it, Thank you, Thank you, David. There he is the
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for Dave? Dave, can you just describe Dave? Can you talk about
the pressure in the dugouts with Dave Roberts. Dave Tomorrow, your former teammate,
Adrian Beltray is going to be inducted into the Hall of Fame. Saw
you out there with Alix. You guys are all teammates. So what are
your feelings about Adrian and what do you remember the most about you guys playing
here together? Man, there's first off, Yeah, I'm just so excited
for Adrian and his family. Quite the accomplishment, no brainer, first ballot
Hall of Famer. My first year was with him in two thousand two,
and he was a guy that just loved to play the game baseball, loved
to compete, came in fresh, positive every day. Probably the best defender
at third base that I've ever seen. Remember in two thousand and four,
he is basically playing on one leg and ended up hitting a bunch of homers
and playing gold Glove defense and obviously had a tremendous career. But you know,
one of my favorite people and favorite teammates of all time. And I
wish I could be there at the induction, but I'll be watching, and
it's just it's really cool now for me to now start to see people get
into the Hall of fame that I played with, and so that's that's pretty
special to me. How does it looking as far as you're pitching rotation after
tomorrow? After tomorrow, I think it's you know, Knack's going to be
in there. I'm not sure which day, you know, Clayton. Clayon
had a good one yesterday and so we're going to kind of finalize things and
we'll make a decision today on whether he's going to join us next week or
not. I know that Tyler, we're looking forward to him being back in
the rotation on Thursday, so that's a good thing. So yeah, packs
is going to go tomorrow, and uh yeah, I think we're just going
to kind of stay status quo. But Wednesday is going to be interesting,
you know. You know, talking to Clayton, he feels good coming out
of it, So hopefully we can pencil him in on on Wednesday. Sure,
you know what, Mike, I didn't hear. I haven't seen him
today, but I just I'm assuming that it's all going well and I expect
him to start swinging about here in the next couple of days. All Right,
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Kates on Dodgers on deck. I accept everybody for who they are. This
is Dodger insider David Basse. All right, DV. We heard you ask
Dave Roberts about his pitching plans but didn't get too much clarity. Let's go
on with Clayton Kershaw. As far as the plan, are we going to
see him soon? Well? I had a chance to talk to Kershaw today
and he said, Hey, I'm ready to go. I could probably give
seventy five to eighty pitches. And that's what he said after last night's start.
And you know what I told Kershaw was, you feel like you might
be putting the bullpen at, you know, in some sort of vulnerable position
by only being able to pitch four or five innings. It feels like that's
what's going on now anyway, So why not it be you go out there
and give the Dodgers as much as he can for as long as you can.
And it feels like they're leaning that way. You heard what Dave Roberts
had to say. They just have not made it official. And you know,
around two o'clock this afternoon, my understanding was the Dodgers had not made
a decision on whether or not Kershaw was going to pitch, but if he'd
he does pitch, tim it would be on five days rest, on Thursday
afternoon against the Giants, So you could try to hedge your bets and be
here for a day game when Kershaw comes back and just in case. All
right, so Kershaw maybe Glass Now we expect to come off the il land
and neck. We certainly expect to see against the Giants in that four game
series. That's three starters for four games. Who could pitch the fourth one?
Dv Well. There were reports before the All Star break that the Dodgers
were going to call up another one of their minor league pitching prospects, River
Ryan. River Ryan, who did not pitch in spring training at all.
Looks like he will be starting one of the first two games against the Giants
Monday or Tuesday night. River Ryan, as Dave Roberts said earlier today,
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Stadium. Love baseball like this team with a nice win last night. I
mean there's a great vibe around here. And as we mentioned in yesterday.
This is the second season in your season in which guys talk about the separation
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Taska Hernandez is up on Dodger Vision right now. I did not ask you
about this yesterday, but I did ask Dino Evil about this, because,
as you know, Dino ebl through to Vladimir Gueriro to win the seven home
run Derby and then he threw to Taoscar he won the home run derby.
You know Vladdie and his family really well, what did you think when you
saw Vladimir Guerrero Junior wearing ta Oscar's jersey during the derby? I was not
surprised at all because he's two to this day, talk almost every single day,
and I'm going, well, whose idea was this? I mean?
And Bladdy Jr. Is a guy that's you know, he keeps very simple,
a very tight close circle of friends. And when I heard about to
Oscar one of the All Star Game, I'm like, oh my god,
RENI, it's gonna beautiful. Never expected that I was going to see him
worrying Hernandez jersey with Toronto and obviously it brings out some great memories for them.
Yeah. I guess when you're two Dominicans in Canada, you kind of
gravitate towards each other, you do. And that team was so close,
with so many great players and I mean good young players, and the expectations
and also the fact that to Oscar ben fited a lot from another thing from
the Guerreros, the food from Grandma come on, So it's like that tie
is always going to be there between Grandma Guerrero cooking for the anybody that wanted
to eat. I mean, asked Mickeyatra about it. And then obviously the
Meinican issue is even tighter, so it's pretty special. Yeah, I asked.
Dave Roberts and Alex Corus going to join us a little bit later.
They were both teammates with Adrian Beltray when he broke into the big leagues.
Going into the Hall of Fame tomorrow. Your dad, Manny obviously was close
to Adrian as you were as well. What's the motive family thoughts? As
Adrian Beltray is inducted into Cooperstown, We're so proud of him because we saw
him come up as a fifteen year old get signed by the Dodgers. It's
almost the Cloria free agent, which we know why, But then to watch
him go through the struggles of getting to the big leagues and people saying this
is the guy that, this is the guy that you put on the expectations
up. Yeah, it was him. And I remember that after his debut
during that at that during during that game, he told me he had to
run to the bathroom so often because he goes. I was shaken. I
didn't know what my body was reacting to. But the whole Dodger Stadium thing
in the fans is just a little bit too much for me. But we
consider who he became. And when I think Adrian Beltri, I think about
grit the guy would play on one leg, the guy played with no cup
at third base. Yeah that's right, which just crazy too. The thing
and then a guy that wanted to play every single day became one of the
best leaders ever. And I think to this day my former team regrets not
signing him because they're very close. And I recall those conversations and negotiations and
ol Frederick Griffin down to the Minicore Republic saying we almost got him, We
almost, And then all of a sudden like he's gone to Texas, like
oh my god, and but boy, he in Texas became something that it
was like the time was right with Elvis Andrews and the group of players that
came along. But Adrian too, after seasons in Seattle, went to Boston
to say, you let me go out to reclaim this and get back to
people can see who I am again. And boy, did you do it
right? Not surprising at all because he took a lot of pride, a
lot of work. And my dad would tell me, remember in spring training
when I will talk to him, goes, hey, this kid Belcher,
we have wait till you watch him throw from from the low three quarters of
first base. It's a laser to first base. Accurate and a fun guy
too, but kind of a dry sense of humor. But man, one
time they caught him dancing the dugout and put up a big screen to remember
that and it was over. It's like, Okay, you're funny, so
you need to bring that a little bit more, and he eventually did.
Yeah. So great for Adrian Beltray, the full circle from double A San
Antonio when he got called up to Cooperstown, New York tomorrow to be inducted.
Jose, thanks a lot for sharing those memories. We'll catch up with
you a little bit later in the show, and we'll also catch up with
Alex Cora a little bit later as well. Tim. We'll send it back
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can and you know they're in their situation. We're in the same spot.
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enjoy this beautiful facility is awesome. What's the biggest takeaway from your years
with the Dodgers to make you who you are now? One of the most
respected managers in baseball? I keep telling people that, and it's a lot
different now in player development. I still remember when I got to Vera Beach
after I signed to our mini camp. I think we were two days away
from sending people to Great Falls, Montana or Yakimai. I think it is
right. And then people stayed there and in Verro the Dodger way was real.
From the way you dress, the way you act, the way you
perform, it was second to none. And I'm the person that I am
because of that. You know, they really helped me understand what professional baseball
was all about, or what it's all about. Yeah, I had a
good idea because Joey, you know, he was an established Big leaguer,
but so being taught the right way was amazing. I don't know if you
heard, Like a month and a half ago, we had a meeting with
veterans. One of them was Kenley, and we felt like the young players
were getting sloppy dressing up right for road trips. And you know, Kenley
was telling me stories about the way they treated him and the things that they
did to him just to be a big leaguer. Chase Anderson, who has
a lot of experience, we talk about it, and we came to a
conclusion that on day day games, getaway days, we're gonna were sports coach.
And we started doing it. And he reminded me of you know,
Sannton and Texas. You know, collar shirt sports coach slacks on the road.
And it's not that that makes you a better big leaguer or a better
player, but I think it gives the profession the professionalism that it deserves,
you know, And that's something that I wouldn't try for anything. You know,
The Dodger Way was right. The Dodger Way was the right right way
to doing it. And I'm proud of you know, consider myself, you
know, a homegrown Dodger player. You consider yourself because you are. Alex
Cora is our guest and your former teammate, Adrian Beltray is going into the
Hall of Fame. He's being inducted tomorrow. Can you believe it? Number
one? And number two? Did you see this career arc happening when you
guys were teammates all the way from ninety eight to four. I didn't see
it in the beginning, But you know, after his last season here,
he went to Seattle, right, wasn't great. Then he came to Boston
and something clicked there. Right, I think the spotlight, you know,
was shining on him, and he put a great season. Obviously, it
didn't work out business business wise, and I know there's a lot of people
in the organization in the city that regret that. But then in Texas he
became the leader that he is, right and just the way he goes about
his business. If you look at his career, and this is something I
keep talking to people about Raffie Devers. Right when Beltray was here in ninety
eight, ninety nine, whatever, the thing that he had was upside offensively
and he was posting he posts right. He played same thing with Raffi defensively,
Belly became one of the best defenders ever at third base. But early
on it wasn't great. I think he made like twenty nine errors. He
averaged like twenty five errors his first three seasons, just like Raffi right,
like erratic, making bad decisions. And he he decided to find structure in
his defensive work. I do believe that we help him out. You know,
his stories of myself and Robin probably one of the best defensive infielders in
the history of the Dodgers. And there was this sense of pride, you
know, like not in a bad way, because sometimes we confuse pride with
being selfish. With Belly, he was pride about posting every day, playing
hard every day, winning every day, and being a Dodger the right way.
And I mean, the guy is amazing. I was joking with Mike
Fiori today this morning. He looks better than what he looked when he got
called up in nineteen ninety eight. He looks younger and stronger. I don't
know how that happens, and I'm very proud of him. We learn a
lot from him. I know he learned a lot about from the people around
him, from Mary Carras to Sean Gren, who I think was the one
that gave him the keys to unlock the offensive potential because they started playing games
in VP right the opposite field homers, remember, Yeah. And there was
a lot of money involved too, he and Luduca and Greene. But I
think it helped him to become the hitter that he became. And I'm very
proud of him. Man. So I guess Alex Cora is not surprised that
Sean green texted me from Cooperstown. He is going to be there. Not
surprised was Greenie was kind of like the guy that basically took us under his
wing. You know, he came from Toronto. Yeah, we had other
mentors, you know, Kevin Brown and Jeff Shaw, every Carros, but
Greene. At that point we were playing every day, although Belly started playing
every day in nineteen ninety eight. But like his tourists on myself, we
became every day big leaguers. And you know, he help us a lot
offensively, he help us a lot with the mental side of the game.
And I'm not surprised that he's in Cooperstown. I wish I was there.
You know. Actually I never asked for permission. I should have, but
coincidence that I'm here in Dodger stadium when Belly is getting into the Hall of
Fame. Probably not is the way that this game works. And it's gonna
be a fun day tomorrow, not only for the Dodger you know, fans
and the organization, but for us. I know, you guys never made
it to the World Series, but maybe I'm biased. You guys had such
a special group and such a tight knip friendship and brotherhood. Can you just
describe what those teams were like, especially in o for it felt like it
was you against the world. It was maybe more. But I still remember
that day in San Diego, you know, the last day of the trade,
the deadline, and it wasn't a good feeling at all. It was
probably the worst feeling of that season. Understanding that we probably got better in
in in a way, right we we brought in some good players. One
of them got hurt right away, which I think it made the difference in
October, Brad Penny. But we brought in Steve Finley, who was amazing
for the group clicked right away. Uh, Jason Worth became an everyday player,
Milton took it to another level. Brad Main was awesome, but uh,
you know, trading, uh moda Luduca and Dave Roberts. Was was
was tough for the group. I don't know what would have happened, you
know, in the last two months of the season and in October, but
it was a close group, not only on the field but off the field.
You know. I still have you know, memories of going to Gania's
house and hanging out. The strength and conditioning coaches were amazing with us.
Uh. It was kind of like the first time that we actually you know,
uh got involved with you know, using all the tools that were provided
by the organization to to be better, right. Uh, take a look
at tendencies and pictures and defensive alignments and all that stuff. It was really
good. Uh. I still remember the last out. Uh, with all
the respect to Trace, I hated shaking hands with the Cardinals after the game,
but it is what it is. And uh, you know, too
bad we got to split up. I think that team was on, uh
on the rise to to become probably a force and then a West but obviously,
you know, decisions were made and uh it didn't happen. But very
proud to be part of those teams, you know, and uh I see
I see Jim, you know, Trace and spring training when he goes down
and visit out chat, Uh his son who's a Triple A manager in Worcester,
and we talk a little bit, you know about what if or you
know, what we did right and where we struggle. But uh, it's
always cool to talk to Trace. He he's actually in Cooper song too.
He has too, you know, he has Helton and he has belly.
So he's a great. Great day for Jim. Alex Cora, thanks a
lot for the time. I wonder if the run was a little bit more
arduous this morning after last night's finish. It will be tomorrow and tell you
that we took the day off today. Five yes, ay running Pasadena joking
aside, the first time I was running besides Paso Colorado. But it was
beautiful. It was nice, awesome. The one and only Alex Cora will
send it back to you in the studio. Tim, all right, thanks
a lot of DV. Great to hear from Alice Cora. A different side
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at Dodgers Stadium, Game two of this three game weekend in league series between
the Dodgers and the Boston Red Sox. Justin Robleski the left. He makes
his third major league start and for Brian Bao. Since May seventeenth, Bo's
era of six point fifty two has been the worst in Major League Baseball,
so he's been struggling in spite of having a ten and five record for the
Red Sox. So Robleski, as a youngster, gets another start here at
Dodger Stadium, and for him to you know, come up in what appeared
to be a spot start. He's been here right along now getting ready to
make his third big league stay. His fourth seamer worked quite well, you
know. Four seamer right now is being hit only in a one eighty two
clip fastball averaging ninety five, he moves it in and out. He's talked
to me about how he's able to work with Cutter McGinnis, assistant pitching coach,
on the seams and the fly of the baseball to make it go in
both directions. So his sinker plays well and sometimes he wants to make it
look like a slider with the withatherbowl rold taste through the air. But the
main thing for him's going to be to just go out there and get strike
one out of the way, trust the defense. One thing that's ultimate and
bary impressive for him is the fact that he understands that these players are going
to be made. But you got to trust yourself to not overpower or troto
overpower hitters all the time. The home run ball has followed him just a
couple of pitches that he needs to go out there and execute much better on
and certainly against the lefties too. But you know what, he's fun to
watch because he has a good pace, a lot of reflection in the body,
max free type of guy, with that body type over there on the
mound internity, confidence never lacking with him hopefully be able to at least minimized
damage and get through five or six indre because obviously that is the goal for
him. A couple of notes from Dave Roberts today. Clayton Kershaw, who
pitched last night in Triple A. They're going to make a decision today at
some point on whether he'll join the rotation, perhaps as soon as the Giants
series coming up this week. Tyler Glass now looks like he's going to pitch
on Thursday. And we could see Jason Hayward back in the Dodger lineup or
maybe activated as soon as tomorrow. So that's a couple of updates for you
before we get this one underway. Lineups. First pitch, Just around the
corner, it's the Red Sox and the Dodgers coming up from Dodger Stadium too,
all right. Game two, This three game set, Dodgers looking to
ride that momentum from that four run eighth inning last night. All start with
Miguel Vargas's leadoff walk, the ground duel double from Shay hot Show Hey Otani,
and then the grand slam from Freddy Freeman to give the Dodgers the win
last night in their first game back from the All Star break. Game two
coming up, Dodgers starting the day, a seven game lead over the Diamondbacks,
eight game lead over the Padres. Both those two teams in action coming
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