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forty two and twenty seven on this
season. After splitting the first two games

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of this three games set with the
Texas Rangers, the Dodgers look to take

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the rubber game tonight with Michael Grove
set to take the mount as the opener.

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

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deeper into this pitching matchup. David
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Shortly we'll check in with Kirston Watson. We'll get your ow Tawny rewind

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and in just a couple of minutes
we'll check in with Rick Monday and Steven

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Nelson out at the Galpinmotors Broadcast booth. Well, last night, the Dodgers

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took the early lead, then a
friendly face he took it right back for

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the Texas Rangers. Bottom of the
first, standing second batter facing John Gray

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at three to two slider, Show
Hey Otani said, so long, another

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full count for John Gray. Oh
Tani trills the ball, right field tosses

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the bat man watches it. Five
back to back games with a home run

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for show Hey old Tani. That's
number seventeen four, number seventeen and the

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Dodgers have the early lead four hundred
and thirty two feet for show Hey on

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Tani, his seventeenth of the season. That's the top tier play of the

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early one to nothing lead against John
Gray. Meanwhile, Walker Buehler he'd go

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four scoreless innings. In the fifth, things would unravel a bit for the

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young right hander as Walker Buehler got
an r ground out to start off the

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top of the fifth, then a
single dissenter in air on Bigio had runners

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on base for former Dodger Corey Seger. So Buehler will try again. He

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comes home in the year right field
and crush Corey Seeger announces his return to

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Dodger Stadium, sending a ball halfway
up the Pavilion. That's his fourteenth home

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run of the year. It flips
the scoreboard and now Texas is ahead three

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to one. Corey Seger a three
to two fastball down the middle of the

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plates. After fouling off back to
back cutters and sliders, she takes Walker

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bueher Deep a three run home run, his fourteenth of the season. As

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the Texas Rangers take a three to
one lead. The Dodgers in the ninth

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in and put together a little bit
of a rally. Runners on base for

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Jason Hayward. Yates exhales and fires
to Hayward, who swings and line's a

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base hit right center field gap cut
off by Tavara's deep bubbles. It here

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comes Smith, stop sign held up
for Dino Ebol. Pot has just running

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through it to throw home the tag
they got him. I has ran through

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the stop sign. He paid no
attention to Dino Ebl who had his hands

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held up. Jason Hayward the double
the rights centator. Will Smith scored and

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he Popeads was given the stop sign, but he ran through it from dino

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Ebl and he gets thrown out at
home to end the game. The Dodgers

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falls short. They lose to the
Texas Rangers last night, three to two.

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As Walker Buehler gets tagged with the
loss. He's now one and four

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on this season. The Dodgers fall
to forty two and twenty seven overall.

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Tonight's the rubber game of this three
game series. Michael Grove is the opener.

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Don't expect him to be out there
too long. Ryan Yarborough, we'll

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get a bulk of the innings.
First pitch coming up at seven to ten,

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and with more we head out to
the gapin Motors Broadcast booth as we

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say hello to Rick Monday, Steven
Nelson, Guys, thank you ta.

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We're approaching the series finale between the
Dodgers and the Rangers. Series on the

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line. Well, last night's game
ending in thrilling but also heartbreaking fashion for

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the Dodgers. They had the tying
runs on base with two down in the

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ninth inning and a rookie mistake by
Andy Pajez on the bass pass, saying

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after the game that he just did
not pick up dino ebol and did not

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see the stop sign, ultimately running
through it and getting tagged out at home

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plate. You know I've said it, and I would continue to say it

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because I've gone through it. This
is a very difficult classroom to go through

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as a young player at the major
league level. Regardless of the number of

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games that you have played at the
minor league level. This is a different

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game and a different game. Also
from a standpoint is as a runner,

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you lose sight of the fact that
on that particular play, the Texas Rangers

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executed a cutoff in relay. Absolutely
textbook and that's the reason it was a

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bang bang play at home plate.
I will also say is that you know,

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if you're looking upon is he also
made a base running mistake in New

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York already at SACA base ground Ball
hit the shortstop was thrown out trying to

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advance the third when he's already in
scoring positions. So those are the little

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things growing pains. Yes, and
it hurts a little bit more, and

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there's nobody feels any worse than he
does, but especially if you're ending the

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game on those circumstances. The other
part about ending the game, I think

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that rule at home played on if
the runner has a lane or does not

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have a lane is the most misunderstood
rule in baseball, and I don't think

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majority of the players really understand do
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on the baseline, because the baseline
was actually blocked at that particular moment.

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With Paez specifically, you know,
he said a lot of the right things

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after the game as well. You
talk about this is the toughest classroom.

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He said, the only way for
me to learn is to make mistakes like

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this, and that's tough. It's
embarrassing, it bums you out, it

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makes you angry, it does all
those things. But in the learning curve,

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the growth trajectory Poe has is on. Ultimately, this happening in early

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June is a good thing for him
and the Dodgers has been I talked to

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Dino before the game yesterday. He
has been working so diligently on improving the

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slide that was what happened in New
York. He's had some really bad slides

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this year. So he's putting in
the work and keeping that front foot down.

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So these are all things in his
progression, his development as a big

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leaguer at the big league level in
his rookie year. Yeah, you're going

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to have mistakes and you're gonna make
them. You know. The Dodgers gave

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up an additional run because of an
air in one particular inning too. But

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this is not a finger pointing contest. Now, this is a team contest,

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and this team is going to get
better and better because of decisions that

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are going to be made better and
better. And the reason why we spend

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this first segment talking about it is
because again we are looking at this team

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throughout the year, through the postseason. Lens and Andy Poi has looks like

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a player who's going to be a
major contributor on the Dodgers road to the

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postseason. And these are the lessons
that this team and this player in particular,

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specifically in this instance, has to
learn and hopefully will learn. After

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last night, when we come back, we'll talk about the series finals on

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the pitching matchup Michael Lorenzen, an
Orange County kid for the Rangers and Michael

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Grove opening a bullpen game for the
Dodgers. Tim back to you, all

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First pitch coming up at seventeen.
This is the Otanians rewind another full

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count for John Gray. Otani drills
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man watches it fine. Back to
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Hey Old Tani. That's number seventeen
four, number seventeen, and the Dodgers

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have the early lead. Showey Otani
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The gates opened a little bit earlier today,

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even like four hours ahead of the
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everywhere. So there's a lot of
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he was really funny. He was
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He said it was really good.
He said that it looks just like him.

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I appreciate how humble he is.
I can say that absolutely he gets

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pushed back. That means Michael Grove
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at one point was the starter coming
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expect him out very long tonight.
Yeah, you know, it's kind of

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crazy to think that he has truly
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in a high leverage role at that. So he is someone who we've

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seen whenever he's typically taken the mount
I guess now in years past here at

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Dodge Tatum, it's been as a
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was an opener he'd come in behind
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today. He's not as built up
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so Dave said it's likely only going
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then they'll obviously see depending on Mitch
Nixon matching things like that, but Ryan

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Yarborough will likely take down the bulk
of this game. So that's the plan.

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We'll see kind of how exactly it
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one inning and then we'll see Yarborough
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the Dodgers can get out of it
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games set, and then the Royals
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games in relief for Oklahoma City as
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through a three inning SIM game today. If he checks out of that,

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the Dodger skipper. The questions for
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Dave. Can you talk about the
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Yeah, Michael's obviously starting, and
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going to be shorter. I don't
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and then I can see Ryan Yarborough
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then we'll sort of mix and match. But I'm just not sure when we

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deploy the guys. So with Clayton
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how have you seen your continue to
progress over your takeaways from this? Adding

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was good. Obviously, it's hard
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as much out of it because there's
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we'll check on the next couple of
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he's pitching in a game, in
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is he more advanced than you kind
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further along, and you know he's
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his mindset, the work ethic and
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a great job, and so he's
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does that, I guess, I
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are you going to have to plan? Just knowing that he will be ready

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sooner you've got Bobby likely taken his
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does that look like? You know? I think that where he's at,

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you know, we still got a
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so I think that Unfortunately, a
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whether it's we need to give guys
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But obviously, when he's ready,
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check out what David Vatt says.
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First pitch coming up at sevent ten. Joining Tim Kats on Dodgers on

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Deck, I accept everybody for who
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Bassi. All right, d v's
Game two for young Bigio. The Dodgers

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pick up yesterday from the Toronto Blue
Jays. Kind of take us through what's

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the thinking of having him on this
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and foremost, Max Munsey, from
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weeks, and the Dodgers want to
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order to try to get it to
turn over, so Mookie Beds and show

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Hey O Tani and Freddie Freeman can
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the middle of the game, and
Cavin Bigio the batting average obviously doesn't stand

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out as stellar, but the one
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this saber metric world we live in, is the on base percentage. So

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he does get on base by walking. I know the Blue Jays would have

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liked to have seen him swing the
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with him. He had some good
at bats last night, and that's the

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biggest thing why Calvin Bigio gets his
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Tough Clayton Kershaw Tough Guy. David
coming back from shoulder surgery three sim game

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today. There on the mount of
Dodger stadium. What's the takeaway from that?

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Yeah, last week he threw two
innings at Rancho Cuca Manga in a

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simulated game, and today he took
it another inning further three innings today,

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and I guess the biggest victory is
he did not give up a home run

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to Chris Taylor, because the first
time we saw that, he did give

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up a home run to Chris Taylor. Taylor, Miguel Rojas and another minor

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league player the Dodgers invited to face
Kershaw where the hitters today and look,

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he was throwing eighty eight to eighty
nine miles an hour. He seems to

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be trying to work on the field
for a change up. He has said

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forever he just can't throw it.
We'll see whether or not this time off

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is forcing him to take more time
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still won't fully commit to it,
so we'll see where it goes when he

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comes back. But just think about
this tim in the same type of parallels

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to spring training, a pitcher usually
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he went from two innings to three
innings. The next time it'll be four

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innings. David, Yesha, you
had chance to catch up with Corey Seeger

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here on Dodgers on Deck. A
great interview is you were here covering the

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team, traveling with the team when
he got called up, and I've seen

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him really mature in front of your
eyes as a baseball player, as a

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man goes to the Texas Rangers.
What did you take away from your conversation

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yesterday? Well, first and foremost, he did take in the fans appreciation

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for him the first night after that
video highlight montage number two. I always

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wondered a lot of those Dodger players
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one they believed to be the best
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the two time World Series champion and
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what was the best Dodger team he
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said twenty seventeen, and he said
how close that group was. Another part

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of the interview that I thought was
interesting as he was being very candid about

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beating the Astros last year in seven
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he was carrying the torch for that
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did say He got many texts from
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beat the Astros, so I appreciated
that as well. Dave. Twenty four

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hours after the running through the stop
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get thrown out at home by the
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fallout, and he talked about that
today in the clubhouse. Yeah, a

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lot of not on in the clubhouse. But Ron Rennicky and Dino Ebol we're

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talking about it. Ron Renicky obviously
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base. And Ron's gonna join us
a little bit later and explain just what

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went right, what went wrong in
last night's play. All right, time

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It is currently seven horses, they've
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five furlongs on the turf. One
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saying, here's LA Dodgers broadcaster and
World Series Champion Dodger Rick Monday. Well,

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Rick Monday, being a former player
and a longtime broadcaster, has a

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better understanding of the Major League Baseball
rule book than most anybody I've come in

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contact with outside of umpires. Rick, I feel like you don't even have

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the answer to catchers blocking the plate
and making a tag like we saw last

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night. David I said it last
night, I have said it for years,

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and I will reiterate it right now. The catchers giving the runner a

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clear lane. That's the rule in
the rule book, A clear lane,

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a clear path, if you will, I personally believe it's the most misunderstood

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rule in Major League Baseball. Here's
why. What is a clear lane on

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the catcher? Because last night's play
and kudo's by the way to the Texas

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Rangers, because it was a perfectly
executed cut off and relay from the outfield

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after the ball had been bobbled.
So instead of the tying run that began,

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DEAs being able to score who ran
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But now let's concentrate on what happened
at home plate. If you look

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at the catcher on that play,
on the replay, and it was him

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doing the catching, excellent catcher,
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He had one foot in fair territory. The reason I mentioned that is that

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home plate is in fair territory.
If you look at it, home plate's

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in fair territory. So if the
catcher has one foot in fair territory and

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one foot in foul territory, that
blocks the direct path. In other words,

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he's straddling the baseline. Where is
the clear path. That's the part

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that I don't understand. I thought
that you had to be either in front

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or if you're in the act of
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But he's set up to receive the
throw with one foot here and one foot

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there fair territory and foul territory.
And it was a bang bang play.

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But again it goes back. I
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but I think overall, since it's
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and I've said it over and over, it's the most misunderstood rule in baseball.

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Rick When you look at that play
last night, when Jonah him actually

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has the ball in his glove,
is he allowed to block the plate?

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Do we know that? It's a
good question if you're going to be making

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the tag. And my understanding of
the rule is if you're in the act

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of receiving the ball to make the
play, but can you block it in

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order to receive the ball. That's
where he's sent up to me. That

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was the big question mark to begin
with, because if I'm straddling the baseline

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again, home plate is in fair
territory, and if I'm the catcher and

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I have my right foot and fair
territory in my left foot in foul territory,

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am I not blocking the plate because
I'm straddling the baseline. Yeah,

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you got your foot in front of
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And I've said this too, is
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protecting the catcher, which I'm all
in favor of trying to protect the players

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and keep them healthy and on the
field. But I think a runner is

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going to have to get maybe injured
here there to really look at it because

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the runner has to then compensate at
the last second. I just don't understand

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the rule itself. I've not received
a clear definition of the rule. I've

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asked two different umpires and you kind
of get different interpretations. It's a tough

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play there's no question about it.
But again I don't fully understand it even

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though you read the rule book.
All right, Rake, here's another question

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that was posed to me by a
listener. Can the runner run the catcher

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over if he has received the ball
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to be times that, yeah,
that if a catcher is catching the balls

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for exemp. For example, you
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right, so you're in front of
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the catcher now turns to make the
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there's going to be a collision.
Yes, you can make contact. I

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understand is to be able to protect
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liberties and put the runner into harmsway
either speaking up taking punishment as a catcher.

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Your dandy old roommate is at Dodger
Stadium tonight. Stevie Yaeger was here

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drop by. He's going to entertain
the troops in one of the sweets here

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tonight, my dandy little roomy.
This is a big date actually in Dodger

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history because if you look at this
date nineteen seventy three, it was the

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first game of a record setting infield
of Davy Lope, Steve Garvin, Ron

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Say, and Bill Russell. Bill
Russell, by the way, they were

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together for eight and a half years. It was on this date today they

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played their first game together. Rick, thanks a lot, so you turned

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into history. Buff. Hey,
thanks a lot. Proud of you.

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Hey, thank you appreciate him.
I'll get out of here our times.

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We'll try to keep you in.
Steve Jeger separated, so there's not too

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much trouble, Boomer, We'll send
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keys to the game. Up next, though, we hear from Dodger special

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assistant longtime player coach manager Ron Renichu. That's next, leading up to Dodgers

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be vast a fielding insults from a
Dodger player. It's an engagement of endearment.

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This is high and tugged. Well. There's only a few people that

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when they tell me something when it
comes to baseball, I say yes,

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sir, and I'm with one of
them right now. One of the best

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and one of the assistants to Andrew
Friedman, that is the great Ron Rennicky

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Ron, thanks a lot for the
time, No problem. I hope you

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don't feel that way that I'm going
to get on you. No, no,

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okay, you're like one of my
Jiminy crickets to steer me in the

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right direction. That sounds good.
Not only are you one of the best

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base ball men that we know around
here, but also you were a great

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third base coach and dealing with base
runners guys that were a little bit more

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headier than others. There was a
lot of debate about last night, Andy

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Paez keeping his head down. What
did you see on that last play last

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night? Well, I came in
today and I talked to Dino a little

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bit. He asked me if I
saw the play. And the thing about

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putting your head down is the fastest
you run is when your head is up.

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I mean, if you watch a
track runner, they don't run with

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their heads down. Yeah, they
run with their heads up. So that's

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one thing we need to correct is
when you run, the fastest you're going

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to be is when your head is
up. So if your head's up all

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the time, which it should be, you should be able to see a

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lot more. I know Albert Poolhols, for instance, I know sometimes he

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would come around third and when he
had his head down, he was going

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home and you had to try to
convince him that look, just make sure

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you picked me up before he dropped
that head down. But there really isn't

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a reason to put your head down
other than to see the bass. You

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drop it quickly to see the base, and then you're back up again because

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that's the fastest you run. So
that probably was the most important thing.

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When he's halfway over, you know, towards third, he should pick up

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Dino, and then once he hits
the bag, you should. You should

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get your head back up because you're
gonna run faster, and then pick up

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Dino again because it could be a
late hold. He's halfway down the line.

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We want to do that to give
ourselves more time to see what the

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throw is going to be into the
relay and and and gives him the opportunity

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if he sees something he doesn't like, to be able to put on the

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brakes fast. Ron Rennicky is our
guest already teaching us something that you run

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faster with your head up then your
head down. That's not something we all

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realize. But as far as Paez
goes and the teaching lesson last night,

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when do you approach a player on
a play like that that ends the game?

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Well, Dino actually told me that
that Andy came up to him last

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night after the play said something to
him. So I think it's better to

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let a player do that in game. If you think it's a situation where

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it came up, come up again
in the game, you can go talk

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to a guy. But most of
the time you just you let it go

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until after the game, maybe the
next day, and that's that's usually works

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out to be better. But it's
really nice when a player does what Andy

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did. Came up right away to
Dino and said, hey, you know,

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I ran with my head down,
and you know Dino's I mean,

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he's the best over there, so
he's going to stop him plenty of time,

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and and he certainly knows what he's
doing, so you can trust him.

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And it's just a matter of when
you look and then how once you

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see that bass, how you pick
up that guy again. And as a

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third base coach ron when you have
a player like Marcus Simeon who has a

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shortstop arm being the relay thrower,
is that part of the equation for Dino

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to hold him up and to understand, Hey, this guy. A lot

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of guys are not very accurate,
as you know, but he's pretty accurate.

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No, he's really good, and
I'm sure that's why Dino put on

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the brakes there. He saw him
get be in good position to take the

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throw and didn't like what he saw, and that's why he put up that

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stop sign. But you're right,
it does depend on the arm strength.

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So a lot of times we look
and some of these infielders are going out

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too far on cutoffs and relays,
and once that happens, if they're out

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of their comfort zone, then you're
more aggressive. Once in a while you

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get burned on it, but most
of the time it's really difficult for them

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to throw accurately when they get past
that point where you know they should be.

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Do you believe that it's easier now
to be more aggressive when you're trying

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to go first to third or first
to home because not a lot of players

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throw to bases before games. You're
correct, The infield isn't taken as much.

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I know Clayton has the outfielders out
here and when I come in,

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I'm catching throws at third, I'm
catching throws at home before we do our

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batting practice and stuff. So he
brings them out early to make sure they're

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thrown probably a couple times a homestand
so that certainly helps. But you're correct.

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They don't throw as accurate as they
used to, and it's simply because

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we took in film almost every day. And I don't think that was probably

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very smart. I know because my
arm was sore a lot. So I

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think we do it. I think
we're smarter now in the workload that we

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do, but also it probably causes
some inaccuracy. Ron, thanks a lot

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for the time. Like I said, you always teach, and the guys

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that don't talk a lot, they've
got the most knowledge. And Ron Rennicky,

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a World Series champion player with the
Dodgers, a multiple time World Series

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champion as a coach. The Dodgers
are very lucky to have you back,

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and you still play it pretty good
for a space. Thank you, David

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there he is the man, Ron
Renicky. We'll send it back to you

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

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game of this three game set.
First pitch coming up at seven ten,

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the Rangers, thirty two year old
right hander. Eleven season out of cal

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State Fullerton, Red's Angels, Tigers, Phillies, and this year at the

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Rangers, but he didn't sign with
Texas until the end of spring training,

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making his eleven start last time out
four to thirty in's two runs, seven

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hits. He's three and three overall
with a three zero five RRA. He's

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allowed two or few runs in your
career high five straight starts. This is

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his start against the Dodgers, However, he has pitched in relief against him

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eight different times. Michael Grove gets
to start for the Dodgers four and two,

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two seventy two ERA, twenty seven
year old right hander in his twenty

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seventh game this year, his second
start as an opener. Overall, he's

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seven and five in the big leagues
with a five forty three r RAY in

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one hundred and thirty nine strikeouts in
fifty one games, including nineteen starts.

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But they've made him a reliever now, and not just a bulk innings guy.

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He's the guy who can pitch one
inning every couple days here now.

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So Grove pitched one inning against the
Rangers on Tuesday night, gave a one

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run on two hits. He'll get
the first inning and then turn it over

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to the left hander Ryan Yarborough,
who will be the bulk inning guy.

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By the way, in bulpen games
this year, the Dodgers two and one

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with a three r ray. Michael
Lorenzen Michael Grove. It's the Rangers in

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town taking on the Dodgers, or
fifteen minutes away for first pitch. He's

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in the game. Our next I'm
Tim Kasi's Los Angeles Dodgers Audio Network.

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As we were saying yes wrong Tho
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of LA Dodgers Baseball, Dodgers and
Rangers. Michael Grove, Michael Lorenzo the

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pitching matchup. So leach up to
first pitch on this Thursday night, final

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game of this three game series.
Head back out to the booth Rick Monday,

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Steven Nelson, Guys, thanks TC
okay. So, Michael Grove going

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to open or start the game for
the Dodgers, his second start of the

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season. The last time he did
that the end of April in Toronto.

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So moa, it'll be a bullpen
game. That was supposed to be Yoshinobu

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Yamamoto on his bobblehead night, but
the Dodgers after he threw one hundred and

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six pitches against the Yankees last week, pushing his start back to Saturday against

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Kansas City, so have seven days
in between starts. I noticed two days

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ago that Yamamoto was throwing in the
outfield and basically on flat ground. But

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what was unusual there were eight members
of the Dodgers organization, including the general

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manager and both pitching coaches are also
a long Yamamoto. At the time,

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we asked, look, is there
anything wrong. He said, no,

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there's not anything wrong. But indeed
his start has been moved back very quickly

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on Michael Grove. One of the
things a couple of things looking at.

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First of all, he throws high
percentage of strikes and I think all speed

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pitches more than half the time.
The other thing is you look at the

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slider that's been thrown by Michael Grove
the last two years. Yeah, seventy

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percent had been sliders on the strikeouts. So that has really been his bread

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and butter. And we'll find out
how well he's going to control that slider

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tonight, regardless of the number of
innings that he might pitch. Oh one

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thing that he and any pitcher who
comes into the game tonight for the Dodgers

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will not have to contend with his
old friend Corey Seger. He was initially

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in the starting lineup for today's finale, but then he has been scratched since.

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So Corey Seeger not playing today for
Texas. Last night had ultimately the

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game winning swing. Yeah, he's
going to take his three run home running

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and go home Evidentally, he had
missed four games because the left hamstring,

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and you know, we don't know
how long he's going to be out.

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Dodgers have to also contend with off
speed pitches from Michael Lorenzen, and you

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start to look at the Dodgers very
quickly have five left handed batters in the

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lineup. Why do I mention that, well, lefties are hitting a very

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meager one to three against Lorenzen,
who is making his eleven start tonight.

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Michael Lorenzen, an Orange County native, grew up an Angels fan, and

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he has pitched well for Texas so
far this year. But the Dodger's going

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to try and take it to him
tonight so they can take this three game

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series TC back to you, all
right, appreciate it there, guys.

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Yeah. Michael Lorenzen, Cal State
Fullerton grad. He's pitched in Southern California's

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entire life. Now I gets to
pitch at Dodger Stadium and get the start

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for the first time in his career
against the Dodgers. Dodgers and Rangers rubber

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game of this three game set,
Well, this one is over. David

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Vass will have all the postgame coverage, including Dodger Talk on AM five to

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seventy LA Sports. That's after the
game. First things first, So first

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pitch, well we come back.
I'm Tim Kates has been wrong with casino

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