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Talk bike back David Basse. Welcome
the Dodger Talk David Vase live at Dodgers

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Stadium. After the Dodgers hammer the
Rangers tonight, fifteen to two, We're

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with you until eleven thirty eight,
six six ninety seven, two five seventy

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is the phone number. Well head
downstairs in a moment to hear from Freddie

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Freeman. After the Dodgers hit five
home runs tonight, Will Smith with a

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three run home run in the first
inning and then in the sixth inning.

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That's when the Dodgers unleashed against Rangers
reliever Greg Anderson. Four home runs hit

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in that sixth inning, including by
Freddie Freeman, who hit back to back

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home runs with show Hey o'tim the
National League Player of the Week continued to

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be red hot. Ta Oscar Hernandez
homers for the fourth time in his last

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four games, and Jason Hayward also
homered in that sixth inning. It was

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the first time since twenty twenty one
the Dodgers hit four home runs in the

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same inning. Jose Moto will check
in at about eleven ten tonight. Also,

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we have a copy of Andy McCullough's
Clayton Kershaw biography, The Last of

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His Kind, to give away,
and we have an update on Bobby Miller

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as well. So a lot to
get to between now and then. But

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before that seven run sixth inning,
Will Smith's three run home run was nice

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to see. It's proof that you
don't have to hit it four hundred and

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fifty feet halfway up to up the
pavilion to make it count. That was

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a home run by inches, but
it counted for three runs, a three

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run home run, And it also
was nice to see Mooki Bets deliver with

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the bases loaded and two outs in
the fourth inning, because Mooki has been

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struggling at the plate lately in his
last seventeen games. Coming into tonight,

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Mooki was only hitting two thirty five, so it was good to see Mooky

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who only had that one basis clearing
double as his hit tonight, but it

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was a big one and at that
point it was three one Dodgers. It

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turned into six one Dodgers eight,
six, six, nine, eight,

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seven two five seventy Dodgers beat the
Rangers tonight fifteen to two. The fifteen

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run score tonight were a season high
by the Dodgers and ever since been swept

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in Cincinnati. The Dodgers are now
nine to four, coming off a big

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series at Yankee Stadium where they took
two out of three from the best team

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in the American League. Now these
Rangers, I know they have come into

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town as the world champions, but
the Rangers are a very different team in

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limping. They are without Jacob deGrom, they are without Max Scherzer. They

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were without Corey Seeger for the fifth
straight game because of a left hamstring issue.

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They do not have Evan Carter,
who's on the IL for an extended

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period of time, and in the
last twenty seven games, including tonight,

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the Rangers are now nine and eighteen. They are certainly not out of it

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in the AL West, but they
have to get healthy and get things going

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if they want to be in the
mix. Last year, they made the

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postseason by one game on the final
day as a wildcard team. The Dodgers,

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on the other hand, maintain a
seven and a half game lead over

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the Padres in the NLS, they
improved their record to forty two and twenty

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six, while the Rangers dropped to
thirty one and thirty five, six and

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a half games back of the Seattle
Mariners. Before we get to Freddy Freeman,

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no, I just want to set
this up that Freddy Freeman to this

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point has not got hot, but
it looks like he is heating up because

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in nine June games, Freddy Freeman
now is hitting three seventy five with three

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home runs and seven RBIs. Do
you realize how scary that is for the

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rest of the league that Freddie Freeman
is, as he likes to say,

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treading water. There are so many
players out there that would love to tread

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water hitting two ninety seven with an
ops of nine hundred, which is what

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Freddy Freeman is doing currently. But
Freddy Freeman now is starting to heat up,

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which could be scary for the rest
of the league because we have not

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seen a hot Freddy Freeman for an
extended period of time, but all of

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a sudden, now in his last
nine games he's hitting three seventy five.

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So that's a great sign for the
Dodgers and the rest of the league should

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be put on notice. Let's head
downstairs right now to the Dodger Clubhouse to

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hear from Freddy Freeman on sports and
at LA. Yeah, I mean it

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started in Pittsburgh. We've started putting
better bats together off those tough pictures,

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kind of just carried it through the
weekend and kind of I stay off yesterday

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and we needed after getting home so
late again. But a good start to

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our home stand. WHA's been swinging. That's pretty good for a kid weeks

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now, are you personally swaying?
Just what was the focus? How are

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you able to get to Dunning getting
him out of the game and then even

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just the rest of their bullpen.
Yeah, I mean our plans and offense

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is always trying to get that picture
out, starting picture out and five as

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are last to set up busketting to
the bullpen and making it harder for throughout

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the series. We were able to
do that tonight, put together good at

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bats, bade them use some relief
pictures that might be down the rest of

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the series. So it's a good
start to our par seriesarch that's one of

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the biggest difference to offense in these
last five games or hitting the balls and

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there's nothing I mean, I know, I know it's like kind of cliches,

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but it's evan flows of the season. We're gonna go through stretches where

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you just don't get the hits when
you need to, and the last few

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weeks we've been getting the hits.
You know. It's I'm sure you might

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ask us here in a month again. You know, it's just kind of

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how it goes throughout the course of
the year. But you know, we,

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like I told here in Pittsburgh,
you can see that bats even though

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this games game didn't turn out like
you know, getting to them the way

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we want to, but just better
at bats, quality at bats. And

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we've been throughout ten to twelve days
now, we've been putting together good at

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bats and kind of carrying over into
hits the last couple of years. And

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you guys, shoot, so if
you think the last couple of days,

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does it feel like a precursor and
stuff? Yeah, sure, hope.

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So I just wish baseball is more
of a guarantee. And I can tell

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you yes, but every day is
a new day, when new pitchers tomorrow,

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so we've got to get go.
It's Gray who's typically for me.

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It's been a tough picture in my
career as face. So it's got great

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stuff. So come out and today
we we were just trying to get the

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ball off the bottom of the zone
against done, trying to give force them

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into the zone. So we'll come
up with the playing tomorrow. So if

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you can execute it tomorrow. Have
you ever been more than any like that?

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How would you describe six? Yeah, that's fun. You always hear

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it. Hitting is contagious, you
know once Mookie worked the walkshow it's a

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home where you just want to try
and keep it going to start the inning

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again, and you do that,
and then we'll gets to hit and then

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ty Oscar does it again. It's
then Jason, it's it's those are the

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innings are fun, fun for fans
to come to those games. Glad they

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came tonight. All right, there's
Freddy Freeman and certainly the Dodgers put on

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a show. As Rick Monday likes
to say, in that sixth inning,

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four home run, seven runs scored, rockets red glare as the Dodgers go

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on to beat the Rangers tonight fifteen
to two, eight six six eight seven

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two five seventy is the phone number. Let's go out to Al who is

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at Dodgers Stadium tonight. Hi,
Al, you're on Dodger Talk, mister

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Bessy. What's up man? Just
coming back from the game and uh and

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you know, just just being you
know, you know, a witness to

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to how cool it is to have
you know, five seventy you know,

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and all your guys' shows and stuff
like that, and like the you know,

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just just what you guys are all
about. And then you know,

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sending me to this game last week, you know that, Now that was

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like, dude, top class class
act. I love that, dude,

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like and then you know, I
couldn't take my kid, but I got

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an opportunity to take my Northern Californian
friend, which you know is a fan

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of some other team up there.
You know that rhymes with you know the

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rhymes is something that I can't even
come up with because it just yeah,

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no, they're They're a giant that
I got you. I'm glad you had

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a good time. It was our
pleasure to hook you up and you got

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to see a great game. Thanks
for the phone call, and thanks for

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listening. We love it. Eight
six six seven two five seventy is the

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phone number the Dodgers beat the Rangers
tonight fifteen to two. Let's go out

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to Madison in ocean Side. You're
on Dodger Talk with David Vasse. Hi

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Madison, Hi, David, how
you doing? What a great game tonight?

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I'm calling in to celebrate ta Oscar
and his four home runs in four

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games. And I shouted out spontaneously
the other day in my best Harry Belafonte

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imitation, Hey hey another day,
come Many hit the home run. Hey

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hey, daylight, come Many hit
the home run. Game time come Mandy

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hit the home run? Hey hey, yes, yes, we got it.

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We got that one. Yes,
yes, we get it, We

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get it. That was spectacular.
Madison. You put a smile on my

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face. Alrighty, thank you?
All right, that's all you wanted to

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do. Huh. Just celebrate his
home run. And next time he hits

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the home run, I'll be singing
it here in Oceanside. Love it,

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Madison. Thanks for the phone call. We'll let Taoscar Hernandez or Talo hear

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that, hear that rendition. Taoscar
Hernandez certainly is red hot, in case

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you missed it earlier. Today,
he was named the National League Player of

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the Week, and rightfully so.
He had more home runs than any player,

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drove in more runs than any player
last week, and did it on

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the biggest stage in baseball, Yankee
Stadium, Dodgers, Yankees. It doesn't

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get any bigger than that, and
Taoscar Hernandez was one of the biggest reasons

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why the Dodgers were able to win
the first two games of that series.

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And Oscar Hernandez continue to roll red
hot tonight. He was part of that

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sixth inning where the Dodgers hid four
home runs. Let's head downstairs to the

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Dodger club house to hear from Tao. Uh. Great. Uh. You

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know, we've been playing really good
baseball and like I said, we having

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good at bats and that's why we're
producing a lot lately. And you know,

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that's something that we're going to try
to keep doing it for the rest

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of the season the best that we
can and just trying to score runs and

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win ball games. You know,
they say hitting is contagious, but when

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you see your teammates five home runs
tonight, just I guess what's the reaction

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amongst you guys. I mean,
I feel great, Like it's awesome when

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you see everybody getting hits in a
game. Get in some production and scoring

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runs. That's that's that's fun and
we enjoy it. I enjoy it and

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we having a great time right now. You guys run out of sunflower seats

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starting at sixth thenning, Thank god, we had a lot. You got

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a bunch and in the dugout.
Uh, you know, it's fun.

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It's fun when that happened. You've
had a lot of really good stretches over

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your career, but like this last
week. You know, how has this

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felt just relative to some of your
your best kind of moments offensively and are

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there specific things that you kind of
feel that have led to this and that

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are working well at the plate?
Uh? Yeah, Like you said,

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I have a bunch, but nothing
like producing getting a lot of RBIs and

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getting a lot of homers I have. I had it before, but just

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hits and getting on base, but
not not producing for the team. But

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uh, you know, it's it's
something that you try to continue to do

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it, having like those goose stretches
throughout the season and just trying to minimize

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the bout ones. There is the
reigning National League Player of the Week,

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ta Oscar Hernandez. He was part
of that barrage in the sixth inning where

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the Dodgers hit four home runs off
a Rangers reliever Greg Anderson or Grant Anderson.

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Excuse me, I don't want to
make his or have his name wrong

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after giving up four home runs and
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But ta Oscar Hernandez has been vital
for this Dodger offense. We hear

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so much about how there's such a
huge drop off after the first four hitters

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in this lineup, and no doubt, those guys are upper echelon elite hitters,

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and the Dodgers are very fortunate to
have all four of them. But

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it takes more than just four guys
to make a lineup and to make an

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offense sustainable, and especially with Max
Munsey on the injured list, Taoscar Hernandez

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has moved up to the five spot
and has thrived. And if you look

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at the numbers, Taoscar Hernandez has
come up with men on base, forget

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about runners in scoring position, just
men on base more than any other Dodger

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this season because those first four guys
are getting on base, and for the

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most part, Taoscar Hernandez has delivered, especially recently now nobody's going to bat

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a thousand in those situations, but
he's pivotal to the Dodgers scoring runs because

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those guys get on base. And
we all know the Dodgers have had struggles

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with the bottom third of their lineup. But I told you when Jason Hayward

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comes back, he is going to
improve the perception and reality of that seven

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to eight to nine spot. And
tonight Jason Hayward was hitting eighth. He

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got hit by a pitch. Tonight
he homered in that sixth inning. He

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just makes the lineup better for a
number of different reasons that are not always

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as obvious as they were in the
sixth inning. But going back to Taoscar

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Hernandez, Taoscar Hernandez leads the Dodgers
now with seventeen home runs and four nine

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RBIs. The reason why he has
more runs driven in than anybody else is

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because he's getting more opportunities than anybody
else, and recently he's delivered. And

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he is a streaky hitter, but
it feels like he's trying to be as

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consistent as he can be, and
certainly hitting behind those first four guys is

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definitely advantageous to him. And if
you remember Jose Moda has talked about this

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a number of different times in the
last week, where t Oscar Hernandez is

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trying to make the adjustments to the
pitcher being more aggressive early in counts.

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But now he's not just being blindly
aggressive. He's waiting for the right pitch

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for him to hit, and sometimes
it is the first pitch, sometimes it's

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the second pitch. But certainly he's
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pitches inside the strike zone and it's
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or so. Eight six, six, nine, seven, two five seventy

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is the phone number. Let's go
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on Dodger Talk with David vasse Hi
Edward pad n DV. What a great

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game. The offense exploded. I
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month in Texas, but that was
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you made a good point about Freddie. Also, I want to look at

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Gavin Lux I'm looking at his stats
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batting close to three hundred, and
not only that, I was listening to

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your show for the past few months
and everyone wants to tread Gavin Lustre or

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pretty much DFA. But it looks
like he's finally putting his work in his

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bats, so I want to give
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question. I think part of that
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the field, and tonight was one
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sure if you heard or saw it, Edward where in the fourth inning with

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one out he hit a ball that
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into the air. I have never
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Monday has never seen that. So
that's how good things are going for Gavin

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lux recently. I was at the
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Oh sorry, Edward, Oh you
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that was that was a I was
like what But anyways, I do have

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a question. So it looks like
Bobby Millard might be coming back fairly soon.

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Are we going to have a sixth
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right now, thankfully, all these
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the year. I don't see that
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Tommy John surgery. The Dodgers are
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now made a career high twenty starts
last year. You know they have a

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surplus of starters right now. But
when Bobby Miller comes back, it's very

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conceivable that, yes, they have
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to make what Dave Roberts said is
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on Thursday, and that would line
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week when they are at Course Field. So that's the way it lines up

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right now. Edward, Oh,
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I think Ni Colletti said, it's
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bad team that has too many pitches, especially compared to last year. Yeah,

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yep, no doubt. Thanks a
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appreciate it. And look, the
Dodgers started tonight a stretch of thirteen

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straight games, and we all know
the Dodgers like to create extra days of

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rest during these period of times because
they do want to keep Yamamoto on extra

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day's rest. They do want to
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day's rest, So it's not a
coincidence. They're going to have Bobby Miller

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start another game on Thursday, a
final tune up before he gets placed back

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in the rotation next week, and
creates an extra day of rest for the

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rest of the rotation. Dodgers beat
the Rangers tonight fifteen to two. They

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hit five home runs tonight, and
certainly it was enjoyable to watch, and

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the Dodgers are riding high after a
very sloppy series in Pittsburgh. They come

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back and win two out of three
at Yankee Stadium. That was an electric

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atmosphere, and they carry that into
tonight's game, the start of a six

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game homestand beginning with these three games
against the Rangers and three more against the

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upstart Kansas City Royals, and certainly
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And you know, you look at
it. The Dodgers, after getting swept

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in Cincinnati and losing five in a
row all of a sudden, now are

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nine to four. Ever since that
took place, and it started when they

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swept the Mets and took that doubleheader. After being swept in Cincinnati, that

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kind of changed the entire vibes around
the team, and the Dodgers have the

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second best record in the National League
forty two and twenty six, seven and

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a half games ahead of the Padres, while the Rangers are struggling with a

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lot of injuries. So far this
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five, six and a half games
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and now three and a half games
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American League. And they're fighting with
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to be that second wildcard team.
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last year and ran the table to
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And our guy, Corey Seeger was
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second time in his career. Obviously, in twenty twenty with the Dodgers,

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he won his first World Series Championship
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it was really classy of the Dodgers
tonight to recognize everything Seeger accomplished with them

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since twenty fifteen, all the way
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mean, Corey Seger was one of
the most popular players over the course of

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the last fifteen years as far as
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Hall of Famer in the making.
It stinks the business of baseball got in

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the way of him being a Dodger
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seeing that the Dodgers put up that
video montage before first pitch, and I

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love that Seger actually acknowledged and reciprocated
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all that and the appreciation he had
playing for the Dodgers. He won the

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National League Rookie of the Year.
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He hit three twenty eight in that
twenty twenty postseason, and for me,

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one of my favorite Corey Seeger moments
was Game two of the twenty seventeen World

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Series when in the sixth inning he
hit that go ahead home run against Justin

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Verlander and unleashed the most emotion we
had ever seen from Seeger in his entire

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Dodger career. And don't forget he
missed the entire NLCS that year because of

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a bad back. Charlie Colberson had
to play shortstop during the twenty seventeen NLCS,

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so Seeger found a way to pull
up the bootstraps and be ready for

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his team in the World Series.
As we know, things did not work

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out the way they should have in
that World Series, but certainly still that

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was my favorite Corey Seger moment and
it was great seeing him today, spending

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some time with him in the Rangers
clubhouse, and look forward to having him

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on the pregame show tomorrow night on
Dodgers on Deck eight six six two five

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seventy is the phone number. Let's
go out to Frank who was at Dodgers

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Stadium tonight. Hi, Frank,
you're on Dodger Talk. Hey Dave,

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thanks for taking my call. You
know, great energy tonight in the stadium.

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I haven't sought energy like that quite
some time, and the big part

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of that came from how many people
were really there for singer. I mean,

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it was Joe Kelly Jersey night,
but you know, the amount of

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secret jerseys that I saw on people's
back shows that he still has the hearts

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of people out here and it was
really great to see that. You know,

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I was here with the Rangers fan. We left about the eighth inning

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because it just got too what bearable
for them, you know, better luck

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next time. I also wanted to
give a big shout out to the one

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three war hitters. You know,
Tayoskar is getting those pitches because he's seeing

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those reads from Mookie, Freddie and
everyone else. He is a wonderful player

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because he's watching what's being accomplished.
And you could see it in New York

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when the one through four would go
up and tay Oscar would have his eyes

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locked in and see him get those
accolades. This week is a real big

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accomplishment. But again, let's thank
everyone on that team because they're all studying

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the game right now. Pasta,
Freddie and Shohe for also taking their time

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again, and the pitching staff for
being able to settle down a bit from

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earlier in the year. It wasn't
great in Pittsburgh, but you know,

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it's never perfect as long as you
learn from your mistakes. And you know

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what great team right now, Let's
just keep it steady and running smoothly,

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all right, Frank, thanks for
the phone call, Call back anytime,

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appreciate it. You're right, it's
a team effort. We see in the

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dugout the Dodgers sharing scotten reports on
the picture that they're facing and that is

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the best scouting report you can have. It's by watching the game, watching

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the picture. And that's why you
see Freddie Freeman he has the same spot

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every game, every inning when he's
in that Dodger dugout because he's studying the

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picture. So he's prepared when he
goes to the plate. Not looking at

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the iPad of what the pitcher did
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He's looking in real time what is
going on with the pitcher, what

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is working for him, what is
not working for him. And you could

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see the sharing of scouting reports not
only in the dugout, but obviously you

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know in hitters meetings and all that. But certainly you're seeing that chemistry where

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guys are not just hoarding whatever they're
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dugout. And I remember that started
a while ago with Justin Turner, and

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Max Munsey said this back when he
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twenty nineteen, he said, Justin
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When he comes back to the dugout, he brings back that scouting report.

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And you're seeing that from everybody else
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take another phone call Gregory and El
Segundo. You're on Dodger Talk. How

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you doing Gregory? Hey, David, it's doing really good. Obviously it's

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hard to be upset about a game
like today, but I just want to

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get your opinion. So I was
thinking going into the Yankee series, like,

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he had a really great game today
and I'm a big fan, but

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like Will Smith at four, the
lack of power. I know, he

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has ten home runs. It's not
like it's the worst thing, but for

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a cleanup hitter, it's pretty concerning
considering who gets one through three in our

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lineup. What are your thoughts and
what are the odds? And I'm sure

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they're low, but if you were
playing Dave Roberts or Friedman moving to Oscar

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to four, Smiths to five,
and Monthy at six when he comes back,

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because ta Oskar, when he's not
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And we all know Muncy and you
know many seasons, LEAs the leagues

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and Walks will strikeouts, not independently, so there's a lot of like bang

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bang, like you know, strike
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I think I agree. I agree
when Ta Oskar's not going right, and

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when Munsey's not going right. We
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where uh they're striking out when you
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But the thinking behind having Munsey hitting
cleanup is number one, he sees a

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lot of pitches. Number two,
he is a guy that, uh that

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kind of breaks up the left right
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Smith because he got two lefties,
then Smith and then usually Munsey and Tioscar

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Hernandez. But you know, I'm
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a guy's not going right, Uh, there's nothing wrong with dropping him in

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the lineup. I'm not saying benching
him, but there's nothing wrong with dropping

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them in the lineup until they get
it going again. So I'm not opposed

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to that. But there is a
greater thinking behind the way they make the

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starting lineup. It's not just about
one or two guys. It's about how

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all nine kind of work cohesively to
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in the middle of the game to
bring in a reliever, especially now with

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the rule of having to face the
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that and I knew I kind of
figured you were going to go there,

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and that's why I was like,
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an idea, and we're here for
ideas, right, all right, thanks

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thanks for the input. Thank you, Hey, thank you for your input.

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Gregory. We're going to take a
time out here on Dodger Talk.

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When we continue, we will check
in with Jose Moto. We'll get his

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thoughts on what he saw tonight from
ti Oscar Hernandez and the rest of the

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Dodgers as they defeat the Ranger in
a big way in Game one of this

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three game series, fifteen to two. The final score on AM five to

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seventy LA Sports on air at AM
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by podcast on the iHeartRadio app. This

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is Dodger Talk with David Bassi,
Hataso and a Hugo La Seve Sao Show

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Old Thunday. Yes, I've got
to say, I'm I'm flying titles Tiger

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Savona. That call was not from
nineteen forty six. That was tonight our

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very own Jose Mota, Colin show
Otani, and Freddie Freeman's back to back

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home runs. As he was on
the call tonight with Pepe and Ninguez and

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Fernando Valenzuela. Four home runs hit
in the sixth inning tonight as the Dodgers

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defeat the Rangers fifteen to two.
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the Horn with Jose Mota. Wow, very impressive home run call Jose Moda.

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Well, that started back years ago. But I'll tell you what I

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did before I actually went there.
I went to the Japanese friends and I

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say, hey, this acceptable to
you. Guys are like absolutely, man,

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bring it so and homage to them. Saio Nada. That was a

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big sixth inning. I'm sure it
was exciting for you to call four home

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runs in the same inning. That
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And the Dodgers really put a beating
down on Grant Anderson tonight. They did.

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If you watch it warm up before
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like, okay, how right head
the batter is going to see the ball,

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and how good or left he's going
to sit? But you know he

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starts with his back pretty much for
the hitters, but when the ball comes

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out of his hand is wide open. The Dodgers did a very good job

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just making sure he was in the
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So I applouted the fact that you
know, they saw different arms today

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guys hadn't seen before and did a
very nice delb with the at bats and

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followings that weren't paying attention and passing
on information. You saw Show and Gavin

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Lux, he saw Freddy. You
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passing information along even though he hit
that ground at second base where he

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was kind of jamming. But I
think, as you mentioned earlier, it

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so important Dave to pay attention to
those little things and sometimes don't let technology

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dictate what you do and what you
believe in your eyes are your best scouts

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and paying attention. When a guy
comes into a game, he's gonna tell

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you everything he's gonna throw. Now
you pay attention to velocity, how is

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it getting there? Spins his glove's
gonna tell you the way he wants the

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ladder to go, and just those
are the things make the big difference,

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and thus why it's some very good
players have turned would be great play because

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the things like that they apply when
they go to the batter box. And

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another part of this is the Dodgers
are getting a lot of base runners to

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second base, and as you know, it's very much fair play if the

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runner at second base sees something to
be able to relay it to the hitter.

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I don't know if that's happening,
but it wouldn't surprise me if it

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is with all the base runners at
second for the Dodgers, not only tonight,

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but going back to the last two
games in Pittsburgh and the first two

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in New York. Obviously it's a
little different now because you have the audio

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in your ear and you don't see
anybody flashing. But there's one thing that

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never's gonna stop. And when you
pay attention to a catcher and where he's

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gonna locate himself. And I actuallyyb
a tendency to sometimes to kind of tell

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you where their body language was going
to be a break and ball where you

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will not fastball away and things like
that. But overall, baseball is going

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to find job trying to just neutralize
things. But let me tell there's always

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somebody smart on the field and knows
exactly what to do. And I'm not

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saying this a case today or right
now, but you know, guys that

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pay attention usually find the agent.
It doesn't matter what generation whatever they played

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in. But those are the things
that really matter at the very end,

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when you go out there and get
an edge and make it pay for it

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for you. No doubt, catchers
are setting up way earlier than ever before,

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and Rick Monday has pointed that out
many times. When a catcher sets

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up too early, it tips off
the hit her. You can feel where

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the catcher is at, well,
we can go. We're gonna have an

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entire show about this. Shadows and
things like. I mean, there's a

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lot of things the hitters can see
and sometimes got you up to be very

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careful not to move to early because
of something picking somebody picking something up and

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just saying I know what's going to
come right here. So thank you very

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much for the information. Pre pitch. Jose Moda is joining us after the

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Dodgers put a drubbing on the Rangers
tonight, fifteen to two the final score.

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Tonight, the Dodgers hit five home
runs, including Will Smith's three run

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home run, but ta Oscar Hernandez, who is the reigning National League Player

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of the Week, kept the hot
back going tonight. Jose, he was

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one of those hitters that hit a
home run in that sixth inning, you

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know, for to Oscar Nandez.
And we had this conversation last week about

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him. You know, Tosker got
into a Tennessee being, you know,

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like swing happy and just not being
able to follow up plan su Walder pitching

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to him. But now he has
got better coverage. He's got now the

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way in which he's landing early and
separating the hands, he's really paying off.

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I mean, he got jammed the
first at bat, and I'm like,

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you know what, that's pretty good
at bat. And you know,

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being late is not a bad thing. And I think to Oscar, because

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he's so strong he can go through
his own so efficiently, is learning more

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and more about what the league is
trying to do. To remember, every

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single week you go by, every
single year is different. So he's really

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learning and rethinking about how the league
is going about it against him, especially

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in this lineup. We're is,
you know, constructed in any indifferently than

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he's ever been before, and he's
learning and applying quite nicely too. Jose

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Mota is joining us after the Dodgers
defeat the Rangers tonight fifteen to two.

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It's not a coincidence. I know. We're talking a lot about the offense,

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and rightfully so when you score a
season high fifteen runs, of course,

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yeah, but the Dodgers got another
really good start from James Paxton at

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home. Paxton is undefeated at Dodgers
Stadium with an ERA of two forty eight,

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and Jose this year, when one
of their starters goes at least six

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innings, the Dodgers record is twenty
seven and seven. It's a lot to

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do with the starting pitching well.
Packs the number one. I'm glad that

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it was passed the last start over
in Pittsburgh, which I know he felt

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bad about it pretty much, almost
like embarrassed about not the cleanness of games

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behind him. But he just didn't
make twitches. And Dave Roberts very cautious

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to know what his comments about,
not about stuff, not about him getting

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ahead. It was another cliche.
It was pretty much he may pitches when

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he needed to, and there's so
many games in which you do not have

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the stuff that you expect to have
or the other team just spoils it for

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you. But you find that one
pitch to get you out of an inning

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or out of a jam, and
prolongs you're stay on the mound. And

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for Paxton, you know, sometimes
it has been uglier than it looks about

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Dave. If you look at his
numbers with mad scoring position all season long,

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he's been along the top in baseball
because he does pitch a lot of

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traffic on the basis, but he
makes a pitch when he needs to do

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it. Yeah, and recently it
hasn't worked out that way, but tonight

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he was able to do it pretty
well, So that was a good thing

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for the Dodgers. And getting off
to a six to one lead after four

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innings also helps him just throw strikes. Definitely, that takes a load off.

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You have a lead, you go
out there and sometimes guys put more

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pressure on themselves will leave. But
he's been round the league long enough to

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know that he's motive better about the
fact that his runs on the board.

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It's on him with his experience what
he needs to do and just build his

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own The walks up in an issue
obviously, But going back to your point,

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but Dodgers going six or leads,
that's just an example as to why

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it's called quality stars and why when
he come up a little bit short.

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It's not because the possibilities, probabilities, percentages of you winning that game increase

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when you start to go six plus
innings. No secret, no magic.

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I mean, it's just evident,
no doubt. Starting pitching. That's how

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momentum continues to build, and the
Dodgers kept it rolling tonight after their big

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series in New York. Jose,
we'll see you back out here tomorrow night

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for Game two of this series.
I believe in Walker Buehler. Believe it.

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Yeah, no doubt, no doubt, Walker Bueller on the mound tomorrow

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and we will talk to you after
the game. We'll see how it works

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out. Good night, There he
goes Jose Mota, part of the Dodgers

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Spanish radio broadcast with Pepe and Ingas
and Fernando Valenzuela. Eight six six nine

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eighty seven two five seventy is the
phone number I forgot to give away Andy

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mccollough's book. That means we'll give
away two tomorrow. It's a great Father's

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Day gift. The last of his
kind, Clayton Kershaw biography. It's really

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well done. I read it front
to back, solid book by Andy McCullough.

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I thought it was really fair and
certainly gave you some insight and the

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journey of Kershaw's career. So we'll
give away two tomorrow night, and it's

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a great Father's Day gift. Like
I said, eight six six eighty seven,

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two five seventy is the phone number. Like I mentioned to jose Moda,

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Well lost in all this season is
the dog starting pitching. Remember last

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year how many injuries they had to
their rotation, and at the end of

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the season they were counting on a
guy named Lance Lynn in a win or

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go home playoff game. That was
the difference between the Dodgers going farther or

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going home. Not to mention the
offense really did not do them any favors,

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But by the end of the season, the Dodgers' rotation was depleted,

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and they made a concerted effort to
go out and try to rectify that by

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signing Yoshi Yamamoto to the richest contract
by any major league pitcher and also training

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for Tyler Glass. Now that has
set the rotation up for everybody else to

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fall into place, whether it's Bobby
Miller or Gavin Stone or even James Paxton.

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It starts with Glass, Noow and
Yama Moto, and they have delivered

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as advertised. I thought we found
out a lot about Yoshi Yama at Yankee

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Stadium. I mean, that was
the biggest stage he's been on in Major

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League in Major League Baseball so far, playoff like atmosphere, and he rose

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to the occasion. So kudos to
Yama Moto. I thought we found out

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the most about Yamamoto and Taoscar Hernandez, the two newest Dodgers are two of

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the newest Dodgers, and playing in
that uniform at Yankee Stadium with these expectations,

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you found out those guys can handle
playoff like atmosphere. But going back

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to the Dodgers starting pitching that includes
Yamamoto, they are twenty seven and seven

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this season. The Dodgers are when
their starter goes six or more innings,

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that says it all right there,
and the Dodgers' offense has provided James Paxton

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more nights than not with plenty of
run support, and that makes things a

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lot easier for your number five starters. So the Dodger offense was not going

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to be held down all season long. There's ebbs and flows to every season.

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Yes, they would like the bottom
third of their order to start getting

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on base more consistently, but with
Jason Hayward back and Gavin Lux seemingly starting

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to get his legs underneath him,
that's gonna make things a lot better.

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And you never know, between now
and the trade deadline, the Dodgers can

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add pieces. James Autman is swinging
the bat better in Oklahoma City. He

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has an ops of over a thousand. There's some buzz around the league that

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he may be playing his way back
to the big leagues to get another opportunity.

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So all those things are starting to
make this Dodger offense and the possibilities

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of it being even deeper than what
it is right now a little bit more

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of a reality. And like I
said, Jason Hayward coming back is huge

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for this Dodge lineup because not only
does he homer, not only does he

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drive in runs and play solid outfield, He's he's a guy that makes the

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right baseball plays and understands the situation. So Jason Hayward is a big part

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of this offense. To make it
longer after the first five or six hitters,

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that'll do it for us. On
Dodger Talk tonight, the Dodgers tomorrow

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will have Walker Buehller back on the
mound and he is determined to get back

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in the win column. He'll be
going up against another right hander, former

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Rockies right hander John Gray Morongo Casino. Dodgers on Deck begins at six o'clock

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with first pitch at seven to ten. Thanks to calling ye back at our

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Burbank Studios, Thanks to Dwayne McDonald
out here at Dodgers Stadium, and thanks

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to you for listening. In case
you missed any of the show, you

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can find it on the iHeartRadio app. Coming up next, yeah, Ben

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Maller. I'm sure he'll be ripping
some NBA player out there or Major League

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Baseball player, the player, Peter
himself. Ben Maller on Fox Sports Radio

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is next, once again. The
final score from Dodgers Stadium. The Dodgers

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defeat the Rangers in a big way, mauling them for a fifteen to two

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victory. Have a great rest of
your night see them