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Talk. Fight back, Damn Cats. Now, the Dodgers bullpen fell apart

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tonight, something we haven't said too
often this year. They've been really good,

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fourth best ERA in baseball, hit
by injuries. Even despite that,

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the Dodgers back end has been really
good, starters have been good, and

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the Dodgers' offense has been there,
and the Dodgers have been winning baseball games

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until the last two weeks, when
the bullpen has started to slide. Starting

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pitching, he's started to not have
as good an outings as they've had in

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the past, and the Dodgers' offense
has come back down to earth guys like

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Mookie Betts, Freddie Freeman, Max
Mounsey gets hurt, Will Smith. His

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offense has been tempered in the last
ten games, and the Dodgers over the

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last two weeks have been at five
hundred baseball team and tonight they lose another

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one, nine to six to the
Cincinnati Reds, the team in last place

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in the NL Central, a team
that was ten games under five hundred on

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this season, five games under five
hundred at home at Great American Ballpark and

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in front of a sellout crowd.
Tonight, they saw their Reds offense explode

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for three in the first on a
Spencer Steer three run home run, and

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then really get after James Paxton,
Johann Ramirez, and Alex Vesia in the

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fifth inning, a sixth run fifth
inning kept off by a Jonathan India Grant

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slam as the Reds come back and
go on and win it by a final

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of nine to six eight six six, nine eighty seven two five seventy.

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Is our number eight sixty six nine
eighty seven two five seventy. If you

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misters, nothing, just at Tim
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we could talk to Dodgers ball is
where well you hear from Isabelle from Anaheim

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who sent me a tweet and said
she's done. I can't believe it.

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Isabelle from Anaheim, who is a
fixture on this show with David with Me

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off night Dodger Talk off season Dodger
Talk. She calls every single night and

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she says she's done with this team
and don't want to overreact like is he,

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But this team is certainly hit itself
into a rut right now. As

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a five hundred team over the last
ten games, as a team that just

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went seven and six on a thirteen
games in thirteen days, dropped two of

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three to the Arizona Diabacks, and
tonight come out and lose to a well

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below five hundred very average Cincinnati Reds
team by a final of nine to six.

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Now, James Paxton was five and
zero to come into this season.

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James Paxson, the Big Maple as
they call him, had an ERA sub

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three coming into this game. James
Paxton Tonight got into trouble early and often.

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James Paxon a lead off walk to
the first battery faced two batters later,

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a walk and then a three run
home run. He had runners on

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base in the second, in the
third, a lead off walk. He

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got into trouble in the fourth,
a two out single. He had runners

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on in that inning. In the
fifth inning, they lead off home run

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to Stuart Fairchild. After getting back
to back outs, a two out walk,

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and that's when Dave Roberts came out
and pulled him. If James Packson

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could have just gotten out of that
fifth inning, was just that solo home

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run to Stuart Fairchild as the limited
damage. I think we're talking about a

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different outcome, but the momentum was
all Red's home run. Two batters later,

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a flyout and then a walk with
two outs and they bring in Johann

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Ramirez. And I looked at Colin
ye Here and I was like, Johann

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Ramirez, Yeah, I get it. He pitched a couple of nights ago.

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It's against the Diamondbacks. But I
believe this is the same Johann Ramirez

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who was dffaded not once, but
twice already this year by the Orioles and

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the Mets. Yes, it is
a Johann Ramirez who has had trouble walking

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guys often in his major league career, control issues everywhere he's been. And

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he comes in tonight inherent to Rudder, hits the first battery, faces,

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then'll walk to load the bases,
and then he hits Nick Martini to bring

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in Spencer Steer to tie the game
at five thirteen pitches, twelve balls,

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unbelievable from Johann Ramirez hands the ball
over to Alex Vesia, who was in

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a really tough situation, bases loaded, two out, crowd into it,

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and he's got a face. Jonathan
India falls behind three to one, and

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what happens Grand slam Jonathan India nine
to five, Reds lead after five innings.

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A tough situation for Alex Vesi to
step into. But the Dodgers' bullpen,

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which has been so good it got
caught up tonight. The Dodgers tonight

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saw what could have been the last
three weeks if not for some really good

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starting pitching, getting them deep into
games and limiting how many times they have

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to go to the bullpen, because
without major high leverage guys right now,

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in this bullpen, the Dodgers are
relying upon Triple A pitchers La s Or

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Hernandez, guys who they're bringing up
and then sending back down. Tonight,

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it was Johann Ramirez to get an
opportunity to pitch in the Dodgers sixth inning

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or the fifth inning without Bruce Dark
graderol Evan Phillips, Joe Kelly, and

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Ryan Brazier, four high leverage relievers
imagine any one of those four guys that

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I just mentioned coming in in the
fifth inning with two outs and a runner

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on and a five to four game. Yeah, Brazier, Bruce Dark,

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Gratterol probably has hadn't come up in
that situation to lock it down. Instead,

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they got to go to Johann Ramirez, who gives up the lead.

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The Dodgers have been walking a tight
rope with their bullpen, they really have.

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They've been fortunate that Michael Grove has
turned in to the reliever that he

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has been because he's a starter turned
long term reliever, slash opener, middle

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reliever, and now Michael Grove is
a one inning reliever. He's a guy

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you can pitch two out of every
three games in a series, whereas before

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you could only use him once every
four or five days because he was built

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up as a long inning relief or
a starter. That's what he was.

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But now he as a reliever and
he's turned into a really good reliever,

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a right in an arm they can
go to with that curveball and that nasty

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changeup and a decent fastball. Michael
Grove has been a guy that's blossomed because

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of no grad Erol no Phillips,
no Kelly, no Brazier. So they've

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been fortunate to get outings from guys
that probably Dave Roberts wondered who they were,

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didn't know their last names, called
up that day, thrown in there

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and pitched. It's happened over the
last three weeks because of injuries, the

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Dodgers been very fortunate. And then
again as you add in starting pitching that's

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gone six innings, seven innings and
only asking the bullpen to get the final

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six outs, nine outs, ten
outs of a game, it's a lot

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easier to ask and banged up bullpen
to do that than asking him to come

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out and get thirteen outs or fourteen
outs. It just is. And it

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came back to bidenm tonight with James
Paxson getting in trouble and then having to

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go to Johann Mirrors and even Eliezer
Hernandez pitched an eighth inning for the Dodgers

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and he didn't pitch good the last
time out. So the Dodgers are fingers

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crossed hoping to get back these high
leverage relievers that can help out this Dodgers'

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bullpen, because again they've been very
fortunate when they haven't had the pitching,

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they've had the offense to step up
and give him double digit scoring games when

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the offense hasn't necessarily been there.
They've been good with really good starters and

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the bullpen having to do less work
in less high leverage situations. But tonight

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it's just backfired. You could see
it on Dave Roberts face. You can

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absolutely see it on his face.
When Johann Ramirez was out there and hit

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his first batter and then walk to
second batter, and he's out there visiting

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him. You can just see he's
sitting the dugout arms, cross head sort

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of tilted looking out in the field, like you gotta be kidding me.

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Where's Brazier, Where's Kelly, Where's
Phillips, where's Graderol? I need one

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of these dudes to be out there. Unfortunately, all four of them are

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bagged up right now and hurt.
And again, you can only go to

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Michael Grove so often as one of
your high leverage now right handed guys out

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of the bullpen. Eight six,
six, nine eighty seven two five seventy.

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The Dodgers have really been fortunate.
The last few weeks. It started

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to catch up to him. Now, over the last ten days, five

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and five. Over the last ten
games, they've lost now three in a

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row after winning four in a row. It's been up and down for the

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Dodgers. Tonight the offense bailed them
out, bullpen gave it up, and

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it was just too much of a
hole for them to get out of.

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Eight sixty six, nine eighty seven
two five. Say we'll come back.

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We'll get to your phone calls,
and we'll hear from the manager, Dave

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Roberts. I can't imagine he's too
happy after what happened tonight in that fifth

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inning. We'll hear from the Dodgers
skiffer and your phone calls. I gotta

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line open, jump on it.
Eight six six nine eighty seven two five

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seventy year level of concern now after
what the Dodgers bullpen had happened tonight nine

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seven two five seventy Dodgers lose to
the Reds ninety six. War of your

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Willie hits the ball high in the
ear of the right field and deep heard

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of is going back to the track
to the wall. That's gone a home

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run Will Smith and opposite field homer
is sixth ove the year and the Dodger

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is now leaded five to three.
Will Smith goes deep his six of the

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year. Taascar Hernandez goes deep as
well as solo shot of the ninth is

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twelve too little, too late.
A six run fifth inning by the Cincinnati

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Reds against the Dodgers, as they
go on and beat them nine to six.

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Graham Ashcraft gets the win. He's
four and three. James Paxson gets

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the loss. He'd been four and
two thirty eight has giving him five runs

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on five hits, walked four,
gave up a couple of home runs,

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including a three run shot in the
first inning Dispenser Steer. He falls to

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five and one on this season.
The Dodgers' overall have now lost three in

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a row. They dropped the series
opener in Cincinnati, and they're now thirty

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three and twenty on this season.
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behind three to nothing, battled back
with a four run second inning. Will

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Smith, you just heard the home
run call there in the fifth gave the

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Dodgers a five to three lead.
James Paxton was up and down, gave

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up the three run home runs,
got out of trouble in the second,

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got out of trouble in the third, had a two out single in the

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fourth that he was able to limit
by getting a strikeout to the indy inning.

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The fifth inning, though, he
gives up a solo home run,

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making it a one run game five
to four, gets two outs back to

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back, and you kind of felt
like, all right, if he can

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get out of this fifth inning,
things will be all right for the Dodgers.

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Instead of two out walk and that
was it for Dave Roberts after ninety

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five pitches, Johann Ramirez comes in
and absolutely implodes on the mound, and

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Alex Vesia gives up a grand slam
to the first batter he faces, and

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this game unraveled quickly for the Dodgers
and their bullpen as they lose it nine

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to six. Let squad to the
phones, Brad and mission viah Brad,

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you're on Dodger Talk. What's going
on? Buddy? Oh? I think

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you're taking my call. Why didn't
he bringing the Alex in the first place?

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He's been there before. I mean, he would have just stir more

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fresh than Ramirez, don't you think. Yeah, Ramirez is the right hander

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that they wanted to get up in
that situation. You know, Alex Vesia,

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I'm not sure what the thinking was
at the time. I had to

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go back and look and see who
was up in that fifth inning. But

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when they did bring him in,
they face Stevenson, he fest Espinol,

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and then Martini. Then finally after
the three batters that he faced, they

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go to Alex Vesia to face Jonathan
India. I think ideally, if they

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weren't all banged up, thanks Brad
for your phone call, if they weren't

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in the situation where they're at right
now, that's a Bruce dark groutter all

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situation. A one run game,
tying run on base, two outs.

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You need to put the hammer down
on this inning. You need to close

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the door on the Reds and stop
whatever momentum they're getting to get to the

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sixth inning and then to get to
the final twelve outs that you need to

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get to win this game. But
as it was, the Dodgers go to

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Johann Ramirez and Johan Ramirez couldn't find
the strike zone. Johan Ramirez on four

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pitches hit Stevenson. He goes three
to zero and throws a ninety two mile

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an hour ball. It is back. Then Espinal comes up and he walks

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them on five pitches. So so
far now he's thrown seven balls to two

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batters. Then Martini and he throws
three more balls, so he threw ten

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balls. Of the thirteen pitches,
he threw in ten balls, a strike

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and two hit by pitches. Drills
Martini, the left handed hitter, to

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bring in the tye run two little
too late. At that point, Alex

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Vessia comes in. He fell behind
three to zero. He finally got back

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to back strikes three to two count. The only thing he could do at

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that point was throw a fastball and
hope that maybe he gets a little tail

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on that fastball out of the zone
outside part of the zone, and India

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chases it, India gets under it, India pops it up, or he

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just whiffs. As it turns out
from the left hander, Vessia got a

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little tail on it, the four
seam fastball, little tail. Instead of

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going up, it tailed in and
a tail right to the bat of Jonathan

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India, who turned on it by
the way right down the third base line

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for a Grand Slam. You tip
your cap to him. Great piece of

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hitting. If he doesn't turn on
it like he did, that's either a

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strike three swinging or he loses his
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that bat sawed off on the handle
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It was a good pitch. It
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for the Grand Slam, and the
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of nine to six. Now I
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She's going right to the straight of
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mean, I'm I'm gonna loss calling
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ago and said she was done,
But now she's on hold? Is he

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in Anaheim? Is he? You
have completely flipped back to calling into Dodger

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talk after you said you were done. What's going on? I well,

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you see to call in, and
you did say and I to call in

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tonight. Trust me, I wouldn't
go to call in tonight. You seek

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to call in, so I did
say to call You also tweeted at me,

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Hi, Tim done with them this
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I don't know if it doesn't sound
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it sounds to me like you're not
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when you say that. Yeah,
I know it did sound there. I

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don't worry. I'll we'll be calling
you complaining about the you know what it

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were? They even Maddy. They
have the pitch with tervor Will tonight they

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hit the last day game with I
mean, well, they actually out hit

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the rest tonight. It is the
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of runs with the runners in scoring
positions, so it wasn't as bad as

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Wednesdays for eight eight men left on
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tonight. Then you tip your cap
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Babe by Stuart Fairchild, in particular
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that he went up and robbed and
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run. You gotta tip your captain
man. It'sy. I appreciate it.

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I'm so glad you changed your mind
because Colin and I were freaking out about

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not having you part of Dodger Talk
anymore this year because you tweeted at me,

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I'm done talk to you next year. Those are your words, So

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we're glad to have you back here
on Dodger Talk eight six six seven,

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five seventy. Before we get back
out to the phones, we got a

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check in with the Dodger skipper,
Dave Roberts, who certainly did not look

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happy during that fifth any in which
Johann Ramirez was unraffling on the mound and

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then the Grand Slam giving up to
Jonathan India, Thank you India, and

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he looked happy, did not look
happy on the bench. Let's see if

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he's happy postgame. Let's check in
with this Dodger manager Dave Roberts. Dave,

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let's start with the good. As
far as the offense goes six runs

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eleven hits, must be good to
see that the offense came to life tonight.

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The offense was good, you know, fair Child out there, Slummerfield

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took some extra bases away from Mookie
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we had some really good at bats, could have scored some more runs.

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But offensively, I thought we played
a heck football game. How tough

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was it to watch that fifth in
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it's frustrating, certainly. I don't
think. I don't think James just started

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off had his best stuff. I
think he was trying to find it all

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night long, you know, with
the four walks and four plus innings,

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you know, and pitch count getting
up, and I just didn't think he

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had great command tonight. And then
you know, you're trying to bridge to

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get to leverage guys and you feel
that you know, Hernandez can go on

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there and get one of the next
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it just didn't work out that way. He just certainly didn't have feel and

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couldn't find it tonight. Is that
a situation where like the lack of bull

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and options right now you kind of
feel how to put a guy who I'm

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sure you weren't imagining, you know, into what is kind of the leverage

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spot there? Yeah, you know, I just well, I mean I

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think the the lever spot was sort
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with a two run lead with two
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I wouldn't consider that leverage. I
really wouldn't, you know, Michael

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Is. We don't have anyone anyone
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know, that's not low leverage.
I can do an updown. So you're

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trying to figure out how to you
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get through the game, and so
unfortunately it just didn't work out. Could

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you like tell right away when a
guy comes in when it just like this

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stuff isn't theirs, it's just kind
of like hoping he can get through it

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without having that kind of situation unful. I didn't foresee this at all,

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you know, Yeah, I mean
he was he was rested and and you

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know, he's got to go out
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he just didn't get it done tonight. And that's baseball. So I'm still

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trying to learn, you know,
Johan, but I still don't feel it

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was too much of a leverage.
I think that that was a good spot

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for him, and we just didn't
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There's Dave Roberts, you could tell
in his voice just flabbergasted about the performers

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tonight from his bullpen, in particular
Johann Ramirez, and he just said it

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right there at the end. Didn't
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even though the bases were loaded.
It was only the fifth inning and

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the Dodgers rubbed five to four,
so he brings them in hoping to get

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something because again it's one runner on
with two outs. He didn't come in

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with the bases loaded in two outs
like Alex Vesi inherited thanks to Joan Ramirez.

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Jowan Ramirez came in with a five
to four Dodger lead, two outs

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and a runner at first base,
and he's asked to come in, get

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an out, get the Dodgers out
of the situation. And he hit,

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the guy, walks a batter and
then hits a bradder to bring in the

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tie and run you you cannot do
that as a major league pitcher, And

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you could hear the frustration and I
guess bewilderment in the tone from Dave Roberts

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there about what he saw from Johann
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mean outside of Major lea the movie, I don't think I can remember anything

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like that in which a guy comes
out and hits a batter, walks a

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batter, and hits a batter and
thirteen pitches and it gets yanked from a

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game, if not for the three
batter minimum rule. You have to wonder

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if he gets past the second batter
that he faced the walk to load the

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bases, because at that point he
had no control. At that point,

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it's a high leverage game, and
maybe you go to Vessi at that point,

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maybe you go to somebody else out
of your bullpen. After he loads

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the bases, you're putting that picture
in a tough position, So you putting

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a lot of strain on your guys
behind you. When you're Johann Ramirez and

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you face three batters thirteen pitches,
you give up the lead and you load

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the bases. Its just that cannot
happen. There's a reason why Johann Ramirez

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has been DFA twice already this season. There's a reason why Johann Ramirez,

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who has been with Seattle, Cleveland, Pittsburgh, the White Sox, the

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Mets, the Orioles, and now
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Holy smokes. In twenty twenty two
he was with three teams, Cleveland,

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Pittsburgh and Seattle, and the White
Sox he was with four teams. And

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now in twenty twenty four, we
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and Johann Ramirez has been with the
Mets, the Orioles, and the Dodgers

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already this year. He is now
give He's looking at his strikeout to walk

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Rasho and I cannot seem to find
it on here. But there you go,

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four teams in twenty twenty three and
now three teams in twenty twenty four

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for Johann Ramirez. I don't mean
to pick on it, but certainly what

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he did tonight cost the Dodgers,
helped them give up a lead and Alex

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Vessias three to one fastball over the
middle of the plate was the game changer

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to Jonathan India. Thank you India. A nine to five lead for the

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Reds. Dodgers able to get one
back. Hey, they had their opportunities

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in the seventh inning. Stuart Fairchild
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run that could have made it a
nine to seven game in the seventh.

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In the eighth and that Dodgers had
first and second, one out, o'tanni

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popped out, Freddie Freeman hit by
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Smith, Well, Will Smith was
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You got a line drive out.
That was it. Dodgers had their opportunities

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late, but when you're down in
a hole light they were. It was

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going to take a special inning,
a crooked number, if you will,

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to put up with the Dodgers in
order to get back and it to win

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this game tonight. As it is, the Reds win a nine to six.

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Graham Ashcraft the victory. He's four
and three. James Paxton the Laws,

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he falls to five and one.
Dodgers and Reds. We'll do it

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again tomorrow. Game two of this
three game series starts at four to fifty

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while'm Wrongo Casino Dodgers on deck beginning
at three o'clock. Walker Bueller looking to

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duplicate what he did at his last
start. Man, the Dodgers can get

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what they got out of Walker Bueler
tomorrow, what they got out of him

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last time around against the Reds.
Six shutout innings, three hit, seven

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strikeouts, no walks, Grey it
felt pretty good about themselves. Hunter Green

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from Notre Dame High School in Sherman
Oaks. He'll go against the Dodgers Tomorrow

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night at Great American Ballpark again,
Ronco Casino, Dodgers on deck three PM,

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first pitch at four fifteen, and
then Sunday the final game of this

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three game series. Dodgers lose tonight
in Cincinnati nine to six is your final.

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Thanks to Colin Ye. Thanks to
all you Dodger fans for being a

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part of the show calling in Thanks
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Have a great, safe rest of your

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Friday night. Congratulations to all the
graduates out there, job well done. Soul everybody