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Talking. Hike back David Vasse.
Welcome to Dodger Talk David Vasse Live FP

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and C Park in Pittsburgh where the
Pirates defeat the Dodgers tonight by a final

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score of ten to six. We
are with you until eight o'clock tonight here

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on AM five to seventy LA Sports. We have phone lines open at eight

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six six nine, eight seven two
five seventy. We will hear from Dave

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Roberts. We also will get to
my numbing trade talk. We will also

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update you on Bobby Miller, Clayton
Kershaw and Kyle Hurt. And we also

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have a pair of tickets to give
away to the June eleventh game against the

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Texas Rangers. So a jam pack
show leading you to the top of the

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hour, live from Pittsburgh PNC Park. All right, Look, there was

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a lot of talk about the Dodger
offense, and rightfully so, I was

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not sold that the Dodger offense was
back. After their three game sweep of

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the Mets, I was not sold
that the Dodger offense had solved all its

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problems after taking two out of three
from the Rockies, and it was evident

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last night. But tonight you have
to tip your cap to the Dodger offense,

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which obviously had a tall order in
trying to manage this game and scrape

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some runs against Paul Skeens, who
is throwing one hundred plus miles an hour.

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That's not an easy challenge. And
kudos to them for being able to

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get to get three runs off of
Skeens Otani with a two run home run

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in the third inning and then Andy
paie Haz with a solo home run in

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the fifth inning. So you know, if the Dodgers do that for Tyler

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Glass now they win last night's game. Unfortunately, it was James Paxton on

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them, and I have been telling
you, whether it's on Rogan and Rodney

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Petro some money or right here on
Dodger Talk, James Paxton has been living

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a very dangerous life on the mound, letting way too many baserunners on even

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though he was stranding close to ninety
percent of them. And that's part of

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the reason why. Even though he
wasn't pitching great. His record was undefeated,

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his RA was around three or less, because somehow, some way he

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was finding his ways out of those
situations. But you ask anybody, you

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can't allow that much traffic on the
basis every five or six days out there,

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and tonight it caught up to him. And the Pirates obviously had a

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very good game plan against him because
they were swinging first pitch. The first

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five hitters of the second inning reached
safely. All in all, they scored

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seven runs against James Paxton. But
as Hose Motive pointed out, and I

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thought it was a great point,
the Dodgers, led by Jason Hayward,

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never gave up. Jason Hayward kept
playing like this game was a one run

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game, and I feel like that
kind of set the tone in that dugout

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to not give up on this game. And the Dodgers had a golden opportunity

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against Skeens in the fifth inning,
bases loaded two outs after Paz already had

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hit his home run. In the
fifth inning, they had a golden opportunity

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with the man that leads the team
in RBIs te Oscar Hernandez with thirty eight.

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He swings at the first pitch and
rolls over and he's out, forced

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play at third base. Out inning
over. Skiens out of the game after

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ninety three pitches. So to me, that could have been a bigger inning,

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and unfortunately it wasn't. But even
after that, the Dodgers kept on

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coming against that pirate's bullpen. Unfortunately, in the seventh inning, Ryan Yarborough

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gave up two runs as he pitched
the final three innings of the game.

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So, you know, seven runs
by your starter, it's gonna be tough

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to come back. Before we head
out to the phone calls, let's head

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downstairs right now to the manager's office
to hear from Dave Roberts. I thought

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today was a really good offensive performance. I thought the bats were much better.

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I thought we were on the fastball, taking some borderline off speed pitches.

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I thought we did a really good
job tonight of competing and hitting to

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our zone. What did you think
of Skeens Skeens, It's really good stuff,

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you know, for us to get
them out after five, I thought

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it was a win. You know, the fastball has a lot of life,

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he's got really good command. I
just thought today we just did a

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really good job of grinding them and
getting to the pen, and so they've

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you know, the silver lining I
guess is when you lose two ball games.

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They've used their leverage guys for the
first two nights, so you know,

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all of our leverage guys are locked
and loaded for tomorrow. We got

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Walker going, so I feel good
about tomorrow. But he was impressive with

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Paxston, like even when he was
limiting runs, the swinging myths wasn't there

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in their walks, Like has he
come kind of fighting either his mechanics or

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just kind of trying to find some
sort of consistency command wise kind of all

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year. Yeah, I think that
tonight it sort of was one of those

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things that as early on the first
six weeks, call it the batting average,

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ball in play was low, We're
turning double plays, and tonight,

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you know, when the ball gets
in play, there's a chance for it

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to find out field grass. And
that's what happened tonight. All Right,

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there's manager Dave Roberts, who I
guess was finding the silver lining that Derek

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Shelton used his high leverage relievers in
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Uh, I wouldn't call that too
much of a silver lining considering the Pirates

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won the first two games of this
series and are looking to sweep the Dodgers

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for the first time in Pittsburgh since
August of twenty fifteen. There's a reason

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why Chapman and Bednar were used in
this game. They were winning and they

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wanted to win this game tonight.
It's not like it was a six or

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seven run lead. It was a
four run lead and the Dodgers were chipping

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away against every other reliever that Derek
Shelton brought in, So you can understand,

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even in a non safe situation,
this was a game they wanted to

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win because they've won the series already
and are playing with house money going into

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the final game of this three game
series. So come on, we're a

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little smarter than that. Eight six, six, nine eighty seven two five

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seventy is the phone number. Let's
go out to the phones, Michael and

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Rancho Kuckamunga. You're on Dodger Talk. Hi, Michael, Hey David,

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how are you. I've been better? I mean, uh so, not

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great to come all the way to
Pittsburgh and watch the Dodgers lose the first

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two games of the series. Michael
that's true. And you know what's worse

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is sitting in the comfort of your
home watching the same uh, watching the

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same loss. So I tell you, at least you could turn the radio

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off. Uh now when you're not
when you bleed not when you bleed blue.

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You can't. You gotta you got
you know you. You roll with

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the loans, you roll with the
high My question, thank you. So

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the question is, uh, you
know, just I know you mentioned earlier

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that you're going to kind of get
to the trade talk aspect of it.

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So that's kind of where my question
is leaning. Just what do you want

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to know given the roster that we
have, Well, what do you want

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who's on? Michael? I ran
to Cuckamonga's list. Who would you trade

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for to cure whatever issues you think
the Dodgers have? You know what?

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And I was ready for you to
ask that question, Dave, and I

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don't have an answer. That's why
I didn't make any recommendation. You know

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why, because there's not a lot
of guys, Michael, there's not a

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lot of guys that are going to
make a huge impact. There is no

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Manny Machado out there that can make
a huge impact. I know you know,

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with Jeff pass and reporting what I
told you three weeks ago that the

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White Sox were listening to trade offers
for Luis Robert, everybody is now saying

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that's the guy the Dodgers need to
put them over the top. You heard

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it here first, Luis Robert.
Did you know, Michael, Luis Robert

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has only played one hundred games once
in his major league career, and that

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was last year. This guy is
always hurt, including right now he had

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an hip injury. So you know, I like Luis Robert. I've talked

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to teammates about him. They said
he's a good guy, great player when

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he's on the field. He's hardly
ever on the field, Michael, I

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hear you, Dave. So the
question is then, okay, if no

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one's worth trading man, And in
the game of baseball, it's you know

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you you you go through the process, You trust the process, and the

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results will come. Uh clearly.
Uh. You know, with like Ttka,

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people that have been around, people
that have been on the Dodgers for

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quite some time. Uh, from
your perspective, do you think that they

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need to start tweaking their process given
that you know the lack of performance is

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just so evident. And I mean, I know it's so early, but

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hey, you know it's June before
we know it, you know, a

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sneeze in a conference. Gonna know
what, I believe, Michael, the

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Dodgers have to make the pieces to
the puzzle fit a little bit better.

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And when you talk about what the
Dodgers may need or may not need,

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they've got to figure out their infield, specifically up the middle. Are they

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going to continue with Gavin Lux at
second base and Mookie Betts out of position

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at shortstop or are they just going
to say, you know what, thank

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Gavin, we gave you an opportunity, but you're going to come off the

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bench now and play against some righties
and Mookie Betts is going to play second

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and we're going to find a shortstop. And until we do, Miguel Rojas

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is going to play shortstop. The
thing is, and I've heard this from

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multiple people within the organization, they
believe that if they play Rojas every day,

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he's not going to last all the
way through October, which is the

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most important thing to have him available
for. And you know, when you

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hear it from one person, you're
skeptical. When you hear it from three

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or four, then you know it's
true. The legs have a lot of

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miles on them. You don't want
to wear Rojas down. But the Dodgers

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have got to figure out what they're
doing with the middle of the infield by

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the time the trade deadline comes around. And I know everybody's talking about outfield

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help, including myself, But if
Jason Hayward is going to play the way

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Jason Hayward played last year, and
we're starting to see signs of that.

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He's locked in against Righty's, ta
Oscar Hernandez is going to play every day.

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Andy Pajes has played really good center
field defense, and he has made

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adjustments. The great Mark McGuire text
me watching the game from Mexico, of

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all places, and he said he
can tell Paz now is getting his front

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foot down much earlier, which allows
him to stay behind the ball to drive

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it more. And we saw that
tonight against Paul Skins. So he's making

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the adjustments. Everybody that you talk
to that has seen po Haz since spring

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training believes his swing plays so the
outfield pretty much. You know, maybe

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you find a role player that can
spell Paz, or maybe some depth out

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there. I like what our caller
Joe had to say yesterday about Lane Thomas.

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I wouldn't be opposed to Lane Thomas
being part of this roster. But

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the Dodgers kind of need an infielder. They need either a third baseman,

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a shortstop, or a second baseman. And I've brought up Taylor Ward in

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the past, and the reason why
I have is Number One, he's having

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a really good year for the Angels
and he's a really good player. Number

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Two, the Dodgers and Angels came
very close to making a trade for Taylor

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Ward in their versatile infielder Louis Renhitho, who by the way, is hitting

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three point twenty nine for the Halos
this year. So you know, if

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they came close for a ross strippling
Jack Peterson, Andy Pajez for Taylor Ward

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and Louis Renhipo when they had six
years of service time available, why wouldn't

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the Dodgers try to circle back and
see if the Angels, who have an

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organization that is depleted of talent,
would revisit that trade or some close,

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some sort of incarnation of that trade. Those two guys could really help the

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Dodgers down the stretch eight six six
nine eight seven two five seventy is the

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phone number. Dodgers fall to the
Pirates tonight, ten to six. Let's

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go out to Eric in Hollywood.
He always is positive. What do you

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got for us tonight? Eric,
god dured nay sho, Man David,

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I am positive. I mean,
I love seeing Otani whack that Paul Skiing

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fastball out of the park. I
get that part. But man, Dave,

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I mean, I know. I
think this is gonna be the first

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time me and you are going to
disagree on a calling, and I'm just

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gonna hold on to it because I
think I just need to say it.

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Something's up in that clubhouse. We
have the weapons to be the best team

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in the Major League Baseball, and
something is up. I get it.

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I don't I don't know anything about
trades. I don't want to get rid

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of this man, that guy.
I don't want to do any of that.

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All I'm simply saying is that the
weapons that we have are not doing

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their job, and something is up. Either either somebody stole somebody chocolate chip

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cookies during lunchtime or something like that, or there's something going on in there

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because there's no way Otani could come
in and all of a sudden he's not

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killing it. Yes, everybody goes
through slumps. Yes, teams go through

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slumps. Yes, we are leading
the n now West and we should be

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fine. But this thing that I've
seen is indicative of what I've seen for

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the last couple of years, when
we just fall off the face of the

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arts. We don't get any hits, we don't do any of this,

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we don't do any of that.
And I'm worried. I'm really worried,

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Dave, and I don't want to
be worried. I want to root.

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I bleed blue, like everybody that
calls you here, I bleed blue.

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And I don't have any animosity tools
any of the players. I love them

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all because they're Dodgers. When you
wear a Dodger uniform, I love you

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to death. But Dave, something
is up and I don't know how to

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and I wish you could tell me
how we could fix this, because we

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should be pounding the Pittsburgh Pirates.
You should be killing these guys. We

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should be killing these guys. These
guys don't even hold a candle to where

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we stand up. Dave, tell
me if I'm talking off the precipice,

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Dave, talk me off the precipice, talking off of it. Yeah,

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well, Number one, the Dodgers
are one of only four teams in the

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National League, Eric, with a
winning record. Even with their loss tonight,

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there are still seven games ahead of
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division, and they still haven't played
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not rattled off seven or ten wins
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even without them playing their best baseball, they're still getting great pitching from their

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starters, notwithstanding tonight from Paxton,
and they're getting great bullpen pitching. They

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just need the offense to catch up
here, Eric, and I don't have

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any doubts it will, especially since
Otani coming into the game tonight, was

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hitting two hundred in his last seventeen
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Betts the power just hasn't been there
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hot and he's hitting two ninety five. So for me, I believe that's

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really scary for the rest of the
league that the Dodgers have a seven game

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lead in their division and still have
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certain players that have not gotten red
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I just don't want to be the
Atlanta Braves of this century. I don't

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want to have one World Cherry's Ring
and have twelve NL West titles. I

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mean, I don't dave. I
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I'll always root, I bleed bloom, But I don't want that.

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I don't want that. I know
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know they am, and I'm scruiting
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Man, but the day, man, come on, man, give us

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some positive energy. Man, we
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All right, Eric, thanks for
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about October. You're talking about right
now. I can't tell you what's going

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to happen in October or how the
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place the last three Octobers. All
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good news is last year this Dodger
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adversity the way this one is having
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look in the mirror, each one
of them individually and then come back to

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collectively, and the guys that are
not the first four hitters have got to

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find a way to help this team
even when they're not. That's going to

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be the difference between winning and losing
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one run game, trying to just
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down a bun to advance the runner
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work in the postseason. Not hitting
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the runner to third base is not
going to work in the postseason. The

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teams that do that, that make
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World Series the last couple of years, and the twenty twenty Dodgers that won

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it, they also did that.
They put together hits and they got big

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home runs. That's how you win. So, like I said, man,

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I cannot go from the here and
now what's going on in the here

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and now and then fast forward to
what the Dodgers need to do in the

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playoffs to run the table and avoid
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It's just that's just too much.
Eight six six nine, eight seven two

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five seventy is phone number. Let's
go out to see me Valley. Justin,

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you're on Dodger Talk with David vasse
Hi Justin, Hey Dave, thanks

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for taking my call. Just a
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the end of the road, uh, for Chris Taylor. I I don't

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want to pile on him, but
I think we've seen enough. As well

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as with Gavin Lux, I think
we we blew it when we should have.

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We should have probably traded Lucks two
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the highest, and now we can't
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Yeah, yeah. The one other
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and awesome Barnes is going to catch
a stray here. I don't understand why

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we don't call up rushing just to
see what he has. I know he's

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not gonna get as many plate appearances
up in the big leagues with Will Smith

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behind the plate. I don't understand
keeping Barnes in the in the on the

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roster when he's obvious below two hundred
experience, his experience, and he's hitting

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better than he was last year.
He's a better hitter right now than Chris

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Taylor, and his experience is invaluable. You can't say that you want to

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get rid of Austin Barnes and bring
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the system for a couple of years. So what is he going to add

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to a veteran pitching staff that Austin
Barnes doesn't. I mean, Austin Barnes

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has helped Walker Bueller find a new
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He's a guy that you know,
sees things that most guys don't see.

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He's a great receiver. So I'm
sorry, I disagree with that. If

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you now, you would have gained
some credibility with me. If you would

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have said, you know what,
I feel like, we're at the end

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of the road with Chris Taylor and
we should call up one of those kids

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at Oklahoma City, like a Trey
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Then I would have said, all
right, you know this guy makes sense.

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But when you talk about saying goodbye
to a veteran backup catcher that catches

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once a week justin and you want
to call up Dalton Rushing, what's he

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going to do when he only plays
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You have a point there. I
just prefer thanks you give the younger.

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I'd like to give Rushing it at
least a shot to see what he

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had. You would, but when
would he play? I mean stick him?

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Well, I guess we can't stick
him in the deal. Stick them

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somewhere, right, just stick him
somewhere. You got me, You got

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me, Dave. One last thing. As far as the trade deadline goes,

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I agree with you, Ward and
rangifo would be would be good.

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I called a few weeks ago and
was huge on Jazz Chisholm. I still

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think, uh, we got to
unload the farm for an impact that.

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Like I said, I'm tired of
losing in the Division series here. I

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think we got to go all in
this year. All right, Justin and

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thanks for the phone call. Yeah, I'm a fan of Jazz Chisholm.

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Miguel Rojas may not be. They
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Josh Chisholm is a guy that played
the infield and now plays the outfield.

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He's a kind of a personality in
alpha. The Dodgers kind of need some

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swag like that. Also, another
interesting player that could be traded and probably

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will be by the Mets is Jeff
McNeil. He's a guy that can play

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second base and is a second baseman, could play a little bit of the

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outfield. He's got some edge to
him. I'm looking for some edge.

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I'm looking for some Tommy fam edge. Not only a really good player,

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but some edge, some playoff edge. Eight six six nine eight seven two

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

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You're on Dodger Talk with David vasse
Hi Al. Hey, so again,

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like one of the things that make
me suspicious when you say that, not

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that, but one of the things
that you said earlier about uh, just

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you said the word adversity. That's
something usually the Dodgers teams don't have something

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that the Lakers didn't have early on, something that the Trojans. I mean,

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you know usually when you get tested
early and a lot of the baseball

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teams that have won World Series,
like the Nationals and and you know all

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this stuff, these guys are like
sub five hundreds. You know, they

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are tests. They are you know, like you know, sculpted to adversity.

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And like even though we're in first
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like, dude, this is this
is one of the best things that could

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happen in sports, just testing your
metal, seeing what you're about, so

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for sure, dude, like,
let them figure this cred out. Let

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them feel how it is to get
snacked better now they get snacked in the

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playoffs looking like you know, like
you don't know what you're doing. So

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you know, not saying we bosses, but you know what that that is

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like, you know, an aspect
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not just by fans, by them
though, and hopefully somehow they hear us,

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somehow you tell them by hey,
like, just keep and you know

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what it, be about it and
and be about it. Look look at

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those who've come before you, and
and you know, let's move ahead.

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You know the way champions? Do
you know? All right? Al,

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why don't you hold the line?
And you've won a pair of tickets to

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the June eleventh game against the Rangers. Congratulations out for a solid phone call

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to win those tickets. Holy moly, holy crap. Yeah, thank you

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man for give me back me up
on the molley and give me a better

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word I will hope. All right, Al, thanks a lot, hold

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on and we'll get you those tickets. Compliments of AM five seventy LA sports,

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you're home for Dodger Baseball. Another
layer to all this is, don't

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underestimate the loss of Max Munsey.
Everybody just forgets about Max Munsey. He

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was the Dodgers' cleanup hitter. He
made this lineup a little bit longer,

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and you there is no perfect player, right. Max Munsey was not a

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perfect player, but he fit a
function in this lineup and his defense at

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third base was improving before he heard
his oblique. Can you believe that the

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Dodgers since Monsey went on the injured
list or a mere nine to eight and

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they're only averaging a little over three
runs per game. Their batting average is

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two thirty five, their ops is
six ninety four since Mounsey went on the

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IL. Do not underestimate how much
Monsey means to this team and how badly

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his bat is missed in the middle
of the order, a left handed bat

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to separate the first three from the
bottom five six seven guys. Because Will

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Smith would be hitting cleanup on certain
days, Monthsy would be hitting fifth,

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Tay Oscar would be hitting sixth,
and then Jason Hayward would be hitting seventh.

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Right, makes the lineup that much
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lineup makes a huge difference as well, So don't forget about the loss of

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Max Monthly. And unfortunately, when
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still not allowed to do hardly anything. He's not allowed to swing the bat.

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That oblique that kor muscle is debilitating
and right now he has to wait

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for it to heal before he can
do anything. So I wouldn't expect him

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back until maybe right before the All
Star break. Eight six six nine,

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eight seven two five seventy is the
phone number we're gonna take our final time

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out here on Dodger Talk. We
had a big first segment right there,

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Blue by it as the Dodgers fall
to the Pirates tonight ten to six on

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This is Dodger Talk with David Bassan. He is a bright young pitcher

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boy. He's got some right arm. Oh one pitch and Pie has hitch

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the ball deep to left and is
carrying near the track to the wall.

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It has gone a home run.
Andy Pie has with his sixth home run

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of the season, and it's now
a seven to three ball game. As

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Pie haz leads off the fifth with
a home run to the left Andy Pie

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has starting to heat up again.
That was off of Paul Skeins. Unfortunately,

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not enough for the Dodgers, as
they could not climb out of an

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early seven to nothing hole that James
Paxton put them in. They fall to

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the Pirates for the second straight night, ten to six. Here at PNC

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six nine eight seven two five seventy
is the phone number. We only have

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a few minutes left, so I
just want to give you that update on

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three big time pitchers for the Dodgers
that will be pitching on Friday. Number

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one, Bobby Miller will make what
is expected to be his final rehab start

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pitching for Oklahoma City, and Dave
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start that game, but reliever Kyle
Hurt will pitch in that game as well,

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his first rehab appearance since he went
on the sixty day il with right

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shoulder inflammation. So that was as
big a news as Miller possibly making his

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final rehab appearance on Friday. If
the Dodgers can get a Kyle Hurt back

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in their bullpen, that would make
it that much deeper because he was pitching

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really well as a reliever, and
that certainly would make that bullpen much more

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not only deeper, but that much
more devastating to shorten a game. Also

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Friday, Clayton Kershaw will be pitching
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the game, but earlier in the
afternoon. He is expected to throw a

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two inning simulated games. So when
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Dave Roberts likened it to him being
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reporting for pitchers and catchers in spring
training, meaning that the earliest he would

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return to the Dodgers is six weeks
from now, so that would put him

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in the end of July August Range
to return to the Dodger rotation. So

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that's the update on that. Also, I just wanted to point out again

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that the National League, Wow,
it has really fallen off this year.

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The Dodgers are only one of four
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record. The Dodgers, the Phillies, the Braves, and the Brewers are

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the only teams in the National League
that have a winning record. The Pirates,

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after winning the first two games of
this series, are still three games

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under five hundred. They're twenty nine
to thirty two in the n now Central,

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six and a half games back of
the Brewers. The Padres, who

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are in the NL West with the
Dodgers, are a five hundred team and

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also the same distance out of first
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in the NL Central are. And
that's the Pirates. So very weird National

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League this year, It's not really
it's probably the worst National League I've seen

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since twenty eighteen. That's probably the
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And the Dodgers were not that great
in twenty eighteen. The Brewers probably

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should have beat them in the NLCS. But tip of the cap to the

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NLCSMVP Craig Council for making horrible pitching
decisions and the Dodgers were able to go

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to the World Series. But really, this is the weakest National League I've

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seen since twenty eighteen, and who
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CS and twenty eighteen Dodgers Brewers.
The Brewers are playing pretty good. Everybody

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was thinking, you know, a
council going to Chicago with the Brewers trading

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Corbin Burns to the Orioles, their
season was over and they would be sellers.

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Well it's been the complete opposite.
Willie Adamis has really carried that team

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and they've gotten contributions from Joey Ortiz, who they acquired from the Orioles to

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play third base in that Corbyn Burns
trade. So they know what they're doing

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when they trade some of these superstars
that they can't keep or afford. All

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right, Tomorrow, it will be
Walker Bueller on the mound for the Dodgers.

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He's one in three with an ERA
of four point thirty two, going

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up against Bailey Falter, who's a
left hander out at Chino Hills High School

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and I did some background check in
on Bailey Falter. I love the local

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kids, and my understanding is when
he was in high school at Chino Hills,

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because his dad was such a big
Sandy Kofax fan, Bailey Falter did

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multiple book reports and just school presentations
on Sandy Kofax, And from what we

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understand, we'll see it tomorrow.
Bailey Falter's delivery as a left hander is

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similar to the way Kofax used to
have his delivery, so we'll see whether

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or not how identical that is.
Falter. This year is three and two

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with an era of three p twenty
two Marongo Casino. Dodgers on Deck begins

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at two thirty tomorrow with first pitch
at three forty. That'll do it for

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us on Dodger Talk from P and
C Park in Pittsburgh. Thanks to Colinie

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Back at our Burg Bank Studios,
Thanks to Dwayne McDonald out here in Pittsburgh,

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and thanks to you for listening.
In case you missed any of the

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show or our pregame conversation with Gavin
Stone, you can find it on the

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iHeartRadio app. Once again, the
final score from PNC Park in Pittsburgh.

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The Pirates defeat the Dodgers ten to
six. Have a great rest of your

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knife. See you yes,