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And now your host for Morongo Casino
Dodgers on Tech can Tim kays Hi everybody,

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and welcome in to more Rongo Casino
Dodgers on Deck. Hope you're well

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on this Friday night. The Los
Angeles Dodgers forty two and twenty eight on

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this season, after dropping two of
three to the Texas Rangers to start the

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homestand tonight they welcome into Kansas City
Royals for a three game interleague series.

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Gavin Stone on the mound. First
pitch from Dodger Stadium is coming up at

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seven to ten. Between now and
then, we got a lot to get

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to here on Morogo Casino Dodgers on
Deck, we'll hear from the manager,

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Dave Roberts. We'll dive deeper into
this pitching matchup. David Vats is going

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to go one on one with Dodger
reliever Daniel Hudson. In just a little

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bit, we'll check in with Kirsten
Watson from Sports and at LA and in

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just a few minutes we'll head out
to the Gallpin Motors broadcast booth and here

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from Rick Monday and Tim Never Well, last night it was a bullpenning game

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that got away from the Dodgers as
they lose the series with the Texas Rangers.

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Michael Grove got the start for the
Dodgers last night, and the right

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hander went one inning, but it
was a one inning that was roughed up.

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He gave up two runs in the
Indian, including an RBI's single to

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White Langford. Those singles were both
on the slider, just the seventh and

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eighth hits sick Grove has allowed on
his slider since April tenth, and now

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Langford will saw one off the other
way. A little bloop and shallow right

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field. Garcia will score Texas doubles. It's leading out two to nothing.

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That ball was not hit hard,
but it was hit in the right spot.

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An RBI for the rookie in an
early hole for the Dodgers. Why

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Langford with the RBIs single. It
was a two to nothing lead for the

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Texas Rangers and the third Langford again, this time a single to shallow right

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off of Ryan Yarborough, and the
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A quiet night for the Dodgers' bats
until late in the game. Finally,

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in the seventh inning, the Dodgers
got on the board thanks to Andy Pajes

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one zero from Lorenzo Paz swings pummels
the ball left field looking toward the quarter.

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Stay up the will Andy Pajes hooks
his seventh hole run of the season.

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Five rows up just inside the left
field ball pole. That gets the

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Dodgers on the board. It's now
three to one, solo home run for

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Paes' seventh of the year, RBI
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Dodgers limited with opportunities until that home
run of the seventh. Then the eighth,

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they had runners on the quarters with
nobody out, a golden opportunity to

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tie the game at least get one
more run across, but they couldn't get

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anybody across as the Dodgers saw bets
Otani and Freeman go in order. All

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three struck out in a row to
end the threat in the eighth. The

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Dodgers would have a mini threat in
the ninth, but go in order as

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the Rangers win it by final of
three to one. The Dodgers dropped two

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to three to the Rangers in that
interleague series. Are now forty two and

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twenty eight on this season. Tonight, the Kansas City Royals in town for

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the start of a three game set. Gavin Stone takes the mount first pitch

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at seven to ten, and with
more we head out to the Gallpin Motors

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broadcast booth as we welcome in Rick
Monday and Tim Nevertt. Guys, Tim,

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thank you very much. It's another
gorgeous night at Dodgers Stadium, perfect

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night for a ballgame as the Dodgers
open up a brand news series. It's

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an intern League series against the Kansas
City Royals. Dodgers six games up in

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the National League West at forty two
and twenty eight, coming off losing two

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of three to Texas. Meantime,
the Royals have lost three of four to

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the Yankees. Coming into this one, they are five games back in the

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Central Division of the American League.
There are forty and thirty ten games above

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five hundred. Gavin Stone has been
exceptional lately. Seven and two. He's

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got an ERA of two nine three
that is the lowest among the starters on

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the Dodgers staff. Cole Reagan's a
left hander four and four, three oh

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eight the ERA going for Kansas City
and for the Royals. The first name

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that pops up is Bobby Witt Junior, and if you're the Dodgers tonight,

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you got to find a way to
stop him. He leads Major League Baseball

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and batting average and a number of
other categories right now. He's the most

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productive player in baseball offensively. Yeah, and you know what the Diners that

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love to do tonight blow out the
candles on his birthday cake because Bobby Wood

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Junior is celebrating number twenty four.
And this Dodger ball club tim trying to

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get back on the winning track and
do it consistently. There's still I mean,

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you look at the standings, and
I know that there was a lot

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of people last night calling in and
talking to David Vassey in the postgame Dodger

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Talk. Dodgers are six games in
front of San Diego in the Western Division.

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That being said, this is a
ball club that can play better even

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in the record that is forty two
and twenty eight, and I full will

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expect him to do it a little
different lineup tonight since as you mentioned,

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is that Reagan's is pitching for the
Royals. He is a left hander,

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So Dave Roberts changing that lineup a
little bit, Yeah, Chris Taylor is

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in the nine spot, kick Hernandez
in the eighth ball, he'll be at

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third base, and Miguel Rojas out
there. It seems like when Rojas plays

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and he contributes with a hit,
the Dodgers win. Yeah, and he's

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done a very good job. Do
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hit twoint eighty against left handed pitching, so he's in there. He'll bandon

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that seven spy as you're talking about. But this is a ball club that

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needs to figure some things out.
The mookie Ben's shown signs of now coming

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out of it. Otani beginning to
show some signs as well, because BET's

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the last thirteen games is hitting this
one seventy six, Otani the last twelve

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games is hitting just one ninety one. So they're trying to pick up that

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pace and add to what we kind
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games because they were absolutely light sound
at the top of the order. Well,

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the Dodgers have been really good in
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By the way, the Royals are
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They're four and five. But you
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the Dodgers have the top mark in
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six, in spite of the fact
they just lost two of three to Texas.

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Yeah, and for the Royals just
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below five hundred on the road,
in place behind Cleveland. But they played

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well within their own division. Cleveland
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League, and for Kansas City they're
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they're coming in here and they've had
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to do it keep in mind too, is that the Royals are seventh highest

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in batting average in Major League Baseball, and they score some runs. They're

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number five Dodgers. Of course they
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in run scored. Now, the
word in Kansas City is that this was

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not expected this year, where the
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point and very much in the hunt
for the division, in the hunt,

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and they've got another addition that was
not really expected. They were hoping it

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would come around. They've got pitching
versus a club that does not have in

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pitching, and figure every time you
go on the field you have to score

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five or six runs in order to
get there. Look for the Royals,

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They've got the pitching, they don't
have to score as many runs. Now.

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One bit of good news is the
fact that the Dodgers designated hitter Shohel

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Tani has a really good history against
the Royals organization. In twenty four career

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games against Kansas City, Shohey is
hitting three point fifty four with nine home

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runs in twenty seven runs batted in. And if anybody with at least one

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hundred career played appearances against Kansas City, Otani's ops is twelve forty two,

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the highest in history. So keep
that in mind as we enter this ball

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game tonight. The Dodgers and the
Kansas City Royals. First pitch around the

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corner. Tim all right, as
we count you down to first pitch,

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Coming up here on Dodgers on Deck, we'll hear from the Dodger manager Dave

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Roberts. David Vats goes one on
one with Daniel Hudson. We'll dive deeper

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into his pitching matchup. We'll get
you your injury report, your magical moment

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of the day. But up next
your Otani you rewind and we'll visit with

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Kirsten Watson from Sportsnet LA. Leave
you up to first pitch on this Friday

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night, It's the Dodgers and Kansas
City Royals with us. I'm Tim Kasis,

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Los Angeles Dodgers Audio Network is Morongo
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and Royals. Kevin Stone on the
man, Cole Reagans. We'll go for

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Kansas City. First pitch from Dodgers
Stadium is coming up at seven ten.

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This is the Otanis rewind Well Show. Hey Otani and the Dodgers three to

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one loss last night to the Texas
Rangers, win oh for four with a

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strikeout. Otani now about in three
oh six on this season, looking to

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bounce back tonight in the series opener
against the Kansas City Royals. The Otani

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joins US. Before the Dodgers and
Royals the start of a three game interleague

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series as the Homestead continues, Kirston, the Dodgers dropped two at three to

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the Texas Rangers and incomes of Kansas
City Royals team not a lot of household

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names, but a really good team
that plays the Dodgers well, yeah they

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are. I mean, look,
they played them very well last year when

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the team was in Kansas City.
And you know, even though with the

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new schedule in which they played each
other every year, you change locations each

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year the Dodgers have. They went
to the Royals two years ago as well,

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and so we've been seeing them quite
a bit as of late. But

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they come into this season playing really
well. The pitching has been fantastic,

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of course with Bobby with Junior,
he has kind of led that team.

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So as much as they come into
this series coming off of a series against

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the Yankees, the big, the
big and bad Yankees, you know,

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and they almost got swept by them, they were able to take the game

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yesterday, but they come into this
series looking to kind of continue with what

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they've been doing this year. So
Dave said, it's gonna be it's gonna

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be a good test for the Dodge
and hopefully the offense can get going again

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like we saw hopefully in Game one
against the Rangers. So hopefully they can

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turn things around today and pick up
the win. Bobby Miller updates. Is

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it soon that he returns and what
happens to this rotation? Now, Yeah,

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it's very soon that he returns.
So yesterday he had his final rehab

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outing. The results, if you
look at the line score, they weren't

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great, but Dave Roberts said,
the most important thing is that he continues

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to feel healthy, and so he
feels good about him stepping back into the

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rotation. So his next outing is
going to be a big league one.

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It's going to be in Colorado against
the Rockies. He's scheduled to pitch on

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a Wednesday, and so they asked
Dave, you know, and that's not

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necessarily a soft landing to go to
Colorado and have to pitch there, But

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he feels really good about where Bobby
is at. If he understands that.

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Look, he is now a big
leaguer. He doesn't need the training wheels

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anymore. So he feels confident with
him and with him stepping back in,

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and we of course asked like,
so what does that mean for the rotation.

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Gavin Stone, who's pitching tonight,
has been fantastic take and usually you

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kind of look at, you know, the youngest arm, but you know,

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everyone's been pitching really well as of
late. And so Dave Roberts says

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they're going to go with a six
man rotation for now. We'll see how

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long that lasts. We'll see what
that continues to look like. He's gonna

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be mindful of kind of the usage
and where guys are at, how they're

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feeling. But at this moment,
once Bobby comes back, it is going

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to be a six man rotation for
the Dodgers. Dodgers starting to get healthy,

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guys starting to trickle back. That
is certainly good news, Kirston.

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matchup. David Veasse goes high and
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and we'll hear from the Dodger manager
Dave Roberts. That's all coming up as

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we lead you up to Dodgers and
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Gavin Stone Cole Reagan's the pitching matchup. First pitch coming up at sevent ten.

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This it's the LA Dodgers Injury Report
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the Los Angeles Dodgers. Max Munsey
on the il with the oblique injury.

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Joe Kelly on the il with the
shoulder strain. However, he is throwing.

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That is good news. Bobby Miller
had his last rehab assignment last night

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in Oklahoma City. Kyle hurt shoulder
inflammation. He's pitching a couple of games

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with the Dodgers in the minor leagues. He is working his way back.

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Him and she and done for the
season after having Tommy John surgery last week.

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All right, let's head back out
to Dodger Stadium and check in with

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the Dodgers skipper. Anything else?
Questions for Dave? Dave? Can you

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just describe Dave? Can you talk
about the pressure in the dugouts with Dave

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Robbers. I've been putting out really
good numbers against lefty starters. What is

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the plan just to attack Reagan today? And what do you want to see

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from him? I think for us, you know, it's it's ninety seven

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ninety eight. There's a little crossfire
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today. There's a change up off
of that of breaking ball again. He's

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got a really good arm, got
a good pitch mix, so it's going

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to be a challenge to get to
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change up down below, so it's
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side with Gavin Stone, What has
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his last couple of outings and what
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as he continues just to be that
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guy. I think just the composure, the poise, the strike throwing.

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I thought even in that first inning
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to temper them, get a groundball, minimized damage. And I just feel

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that he can go deep in games. And today's a day that you know

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we're gonna need some length and I
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Did you come to both stayed two? Splitting up show in Freddy today?

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One of those lefties who might warrant
that you know what, actually this guy

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has been. You know what I've
seen is he's very neutral. He's you

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could argue better versus left or verse
right. There's a fastball that bores in

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on you, and a lot of
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hand hitter. So granted he's probably
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he pitches. I thought about it, but I felt tonight I still feel

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good about those two guys right there
leaving it as is. Did you see

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enough positive signs from three recently?
Maybe he's coming out of it a little

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bit. I have, I have. I think that the chase is starting

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to go down a little bit.
The ball's down below. I think he's

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hitting a lot, he's hitting more
balls hard. I know he feels good

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physically, and there's been a lot
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Leave you up to Dodgers and Royals
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we'll check in with the David vassays. We leave you up to the

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first Bitch. I'm Tim Kats's Los
Angeles Dodgers Audio Network. This is Marongo

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Casino Dodgers on dep on your home
for the Blue All Season Law. It's

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the Dodgers in Kansas City Royals start
of a three game set. Gavin Stone

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Cole Reagan's the Pitching Matchup, first
pitch set for seven to ten, joining

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Tim Kats on Dodgers on Deck.
I accept everybody for who they are.

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This is Dodger insider David Bass.
All right, DV, we saw your

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social media platforms. Joe Kelly throwing
a bullpen session. What's the latest?

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Yeah, around four o'clock this afternoon, Joe Kelly tipped me off to the

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fact that he was going out to
throw another bullpen session, and he said,

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make yourself useful and videotape it for
the people. And usually it's a

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little intrusive to go down there and
videotape a bullpen session, but I went

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down there to get some eyes on
it and share it with the people.

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He threw twenty five pitches and the
reason why it's encouraging is is number one

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he alerted me to it, and
number two. It was Kelly's second bullpen

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session in the last three days.
The first one three days ago was a

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fifteen pitch bullpen session where he was
throwing ninety five miles an hour, and

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so you know he usually throws around
ninety nine, so it's going in the

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right direction. And he was very
encouraged him that he'll be back before the

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All Star break. David is turned
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F Series built tough, all right, David Otani MOOKI, it's no secret

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these guys are slumping right now.
Well, in some parts of LA it's

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a secret, Tim, but not
here. Since May fifteenth, these two

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guys have unfortunately been in a slump. At the same time, Otani is

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only hitting two hundred in his last
twenty four games. Mookie Betts is hitting

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a very pedestrian two forty two and
is on base percentage and slugging percentages are

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below four hundred since May fifteenth.
And how does that change? I'm not

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sure, but I could tell you
this. No. Mar Garcia Para,

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who joined Petro some money earlier,
was telling me in the dugout the reason

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why you go into a slump is
you're afraid to get beat by the fastball

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because you don't have a feel and
you don't see the ball. The baseball

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coming out of the pitcher's hand really
well, So we'll see whether or not

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Mookie Betts gets aggressive early in the
count. That can be the cure and

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has been the cure to his struggles
in the past, David, the Kansas

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City Royals have had the Dodgers' number
the last couple of years in Kansas City.

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This is a team that's come in
playing five hundred baseball right now,

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but they're forty and thirty overall.
They're five games back of Cleveland in the

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Central and Kansas City has got a
superstar emerging. Don't say they do in

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Bobbywood Junior, and he and Juan
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American League MVP. Bobbywood Junior year
is right now, statistically speaking, the

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best shortstop in all of Major League
Baseball. He's hitting second tonight for the

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Royals, so all of Los Angeles
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the young emerging superstars. But the
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bit. The Yankees exposed them in
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three from Kansas City, and the
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but the offense, especially their outfield
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so they're counting on guys like Bobby
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playing for a base. Looking at
the lineup tonight, Dave Key, Key

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Hernandez, Chris Taylor, Miguel Rojas, that means one thing. There's a

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lefty on the mound. Yeah.
Cole Reagan's for the Royals on the mounta

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tonight. He's really good. And
tomorrow the Dodgers will have to deal with

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Seth Lugo, who was kind of
a swing guy for the Padres last year

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and now has emerged as a really
good frontline starter for the Royals. But

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I know everybody wonders when Chris Taylor
is in the starting lineup. If he's

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on this roster, he has to
play against lefties Gavin Stone. David,

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this is a guy who's making a
case to be an All Star for the

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first half of the season that he's
having and Gavin Stone tonight, I gotta

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believe they need some length out of
him based on last night's bullpen game,

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right, no doubt. That's a
great point. And the Dodgers used Blake

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Troning and back to back games during
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so I would imagine he's down tonight, but Daniel Hudson certainly will be available.

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But Gavin Stone, he has delivered
whenever the Dodgers have needed him the

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most, and it feels like he's
starting to become more on the radar for

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not just fans in Los Angeles,
but across the country because you can't ignore

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the fact he has the lowest era
of any Dodger starter coming into tonight.

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All Right, Dave Tynan to pick
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Petros. Unfortunately he's been scratched from
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on the turf, there is eight
horses. But now that Petros is out,

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who do you like in the eight
horse race tomorrow? Or in the

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spirit of Petros, I'll go with
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I'll go. I'll go with the
six horse, Safa I believe is the

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name Safa the six horse. So
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But I'm next for Dodgers Magical Moment. So Dodgers and the Royals.

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First pitch of seven to ten.
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of a three game series from Dodgers
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in which Clayton Kershaw did it all
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World Series champion Dodger Rick Monday. Rick

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another day, another American League team
for the Dodgers to face tonight. Yeah.

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By the way, I was listening
to your postgame show last night.

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Nobody was safe. You know,
I thought it gonna have to drop by

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the booth and give you a helmet. I know, right, I mean,

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people were fired up over that compared
to how excited fans were after the

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Dodgers won two out of three a
Yankees tay one. I made an illegal

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lane change with one of the callers, and then you turn it over to

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the It was basically phone in to
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last night. That's right, Yeah, I let them handle it amongst themselves.

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I mean that just shows you the
passion and the expectations. And that's

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exactly what I was going to say, and why even brought it up,

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because you know, this game touches
so many people in different ways. It

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is really amazing. And sometimes when
you you know, you think you can't

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make a difference, you know,
the listening habits and everything else. There's

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there's a great quote that I that
I tell many many times and I'm out

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talking and especially with young people,
is that whenever you feel that you're too

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small to make a difference, understand
you've never tried to fall asleep in a

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room the mosquito, And it bears
true. And we lose sight of the

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fact sometimes as oh, we see
the fifty thousand people here in the stadium,

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but we lose sight of the fact
of the listening audience and those that

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listen and with through thick and thin
as the club is going along. And

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I I love hearing people that are
passionate about their feelings and about the Dodgers,

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because not that many years ago,
David, we were on the other

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end of that radio and we were
listening, you know, as kids growing

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up and listening and watching, and
everything was jovial when the Dodgers were winning.

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And then if they lost the games, you know, the food didn't

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taste as good and the next day
at school it was drudgery. And I

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remember growing up listening to you,
Rick, you would call my apologies if

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you were in a slump. Everybody
was an expert at hitting, and it

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was that way. Now, this
is a true story. I was in

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one of the many slumps you get
into. And if you're playing for nineteen

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years, you're going to go in
and out of slumps. That's just the

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fact. You can ask a couple
of guys right now. Bookie Bess is

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kind of in a slump. Show
Heyo, Tony kind of in a slump.

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Well, here's the story. I
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It's at the grocery store. One
afternoon, and a gentleman came up to

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me. He goes, look,
hey, I can help you. You're

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swinging, and you're swinging underneath the
ball. So here's what you need to

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do. You get some inserts and
you put them in the heel of your

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shoe, and that way you'll be
a little bit higher. And I'm thinking,

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well, that's not going to help
me because my I level is going

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to be the same way. But
the guy was right. And most of

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the time when you swing and miss, you are underneath the ball, not

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over the top of it. But
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for a minute, it's going to
be clean up on Aisle seven, no

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doubt about it. Rick. Maybe
you can reconcile the ups and downs of

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a season for a hitter. How
do you get that feel back? You

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can't force it, and sometimes it
takes much longer than what you wanted to.

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I think the biggest thing is we
talk many times about well, he's

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not seeing the ball well, and
that means you're not picking the ball up

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out of the hands, and sometimes
without understanding it, you begin to jump

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at the ball a little bit more, or maybe you're timing is just a

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little bit off, and maybe you're
compensating for something that is bothering you,

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whether it be a forearm that's sponsoring
you, whether it be a leg that's

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bothering, and you don't realize sometimes
that it does alter your timing, your

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stride, and your swing and you
look like a lost puppy up there sometimes,

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and it's going to happen. One
guy that seems to be getting that

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feel back is Freddy Freeman. Obviously
a rough night last night, but for

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the most part in the month of
June, Freddy's starting to heat up.

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Yeah he is. And you start
to look at June, he's hitting three

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sixty eight. And I mentioned Mookie
bets Is, show Hey Otani, and

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not to put the spotlight on them
itself, but the last thirteen games,

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Moki is hitting one seventy six,
the last twelve games, show Hey is

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hitting one one. Well, we're
used to them hitting much higher than that,

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where everyone is saying, oh my
goodness, here they are. But

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I'll still say one thing about both
those two guys. Really the top four

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in the Dodger lineup in particular,
and now we're beginning to see it.

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In my estimation of TASCAR, Hernanez
as well. When they're going to come

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up to Bant, people don't leave
their seats to go to the Concessius dams.

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They stay there and watch and they
listen, And especially when Otonic comes

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to the home plate, there's like
five thousand photos that are taking on phones

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every swing that he takes, and
that's probably a minimum five thousand. Hey,

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Fernando Vealezuela just walked by. He's
ready for tonight. Well, that's

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okay. He'll give us a bill
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it back to you at the studio. Tim, all right, thanks a

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we'll be back with Tim never right
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to the game. But up next, we go high and tight with Daniel

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Hudson Dodgers Royals first pitch of seven
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And now what will likely be vast
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It's an engagement of endearment. This
is high and tight. We're alive at

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Dodgers Stadium, the Dodgers welcoming in
another American League team, and we're joined

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by a man that I'm not sure
how many teams he pitched for in the

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America League, but he's been around
the block a few times. And that

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is the one and only Daniel Hudson. Thanks a lot for the time.

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Yeah, no problem, And I
think it was two only two only two.

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You're a National League guy, White
Sox and bou Jays. Nice yea,

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you are a National league guy.
I have been most of my career.

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Yes, when you were a starting
pitcher I've never asked you this.

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Were you a good hitter? I
help my own for sure. I have

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a silver bat in my in my
house, Yes I do. Nice.

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I did not know that. That
seems like a lifetime ago. Actually it

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was a lifetime ago. Yeah.
Are you a big fan of the way

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the rules have gone where pitchers don't
hit anymore? Yeah, I think it's

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better for the game. Honestly,
the pitching is just too good. Some

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of the pictures that we're hitting now, it's just it wasn't even a Honestly,

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it wasn't even a competitive at beat. It was really bad. So

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00:31:45.400 --> 00:31:48.960
I think you know a lot of
the especially you know some of the younger

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guys that came up and they got
specialized into pitching early and just didn't hit

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growing up. It just it was
really, really ugly. So I think

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it's better for the game that we
have Dach both in both leagues. You're

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a great guy to ask this,
because pitchers always asked to sacrifice bunt more

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than any other player on the field. How difficult is it to bunt when

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the ball is moving that fast?
It's very difficult back in the day.

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I can say that because it was
back in the day. Uh, A

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lot of times you usually got a
lot of heaters. You know, if

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they knew you were gonna go up
there and bunty, they kind of wanted

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the out soh So you got a
lot more heaters back in the day to

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uh to swing into uh to bunt
at. So I think, uh,

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I think that's another way that has
changed. If you got me up there

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against you know, some of these
guys breaking balls I have, I'd have

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no shot even putting one down,
no shot. Okay, we'll leave it

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right there. Then as far as
the hitting goes, as far as the

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Dodger bullpen goes, Dan, it
feels like you guys have really hit your

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stride as a group, not just
individually. Yeah, you know, everybody's

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everybody's in a good groove down there
right now. I don't want to jinx

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it too bad. I thinks can
be so volatile down there at night tonight

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week to week. So, uh, you know, everybody's been been throwing

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the ball really well for the most
part. I've been pretty healthy, except

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for know early on in the year
we lost a couple of guys to some

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injuries. But uh, you know, everybody that's kind of been filtered through

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since then, has stayed relatively healthy
and throw the ball really well. It's

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been a lot of fun to watch. Speaking of being healthy again, Blake

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trying and this is not normal for
a guy to miss two years and to

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be as nasty as he is.
Right, Yeah, no, it's not.

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You're you're watching something special out there
every single time he takes the bump.

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I know is his vello is not
quite what it was, you know,

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before his injury. But it was
a pretty pretty major shoulder injury he

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went through. And to make it
back after two years and be as sharp

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as he's been since he's gotten back
has been really impressive when you look at

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his body of work and the way
that you guys have both come back from

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different injuries the last two years.
Do you feel like you connect in that

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way that you both continue to pursue
your careers even though you know many other

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guys maybe would not have. Yeah, you know, I've gotten to know

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Blake really well the last last couple
of years. We spent a lot of

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time together at CBR in Arizona,
rehabing our various surgeries and injuries. You

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know, I don't know if it's
a good thing. Or bad thing.

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Obviously, getting a no blake as
a person and as a father, as

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a as a husband has been a
lot of fun and uh, like I

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said, just to see him have
the success he's had, Uh, since

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00:34:07.159 --> 00:34:10.119
he's been back has been impressive to
watch. You mean a lot to Walker

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Buehler as well. He's been frustrated
with the way things have gone recently.

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Has he leaned on you at all? Yeah, Yeah, we've had a

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few talks. I actually went in
there after his game the other night.

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You know, I went in there
and you know, pat him on the

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back and I told him, he's
probably sick of me saying it, but

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it's gonna come. You know,
his stuff's gonna start clicking again. He's

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gonna start filming like himself soon.
You know, he missed pretty much two

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years as well. You got everybody's
got to remember that. And you know,

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after you know, I can speak
from an experience after second elbow surgery,

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just it takes a little while to
feel like yourself again. And uh,

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you know, it's gonna come,
and it's gonna click, and then

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we're gonna be better off for it. When you say, everybody has to

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remember that, maybe he's the one
that needs to remember it the most.

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Definitely. I know he helds himself
to a high standard, and he should

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because he's one of the best pitchers
in the game when he's healthy, and

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uh, you know, it's it's
it's a lot of fun to see him

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out there and competing. And I'm
telling him, you know, good job

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grinding through those five innings. You
know, he could have come out and

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earlier on, but he wanted to
get through five and you know, helped

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the bullpen out going into a bullpen
game last night. So uh yeah,

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it's been Uh, like I said, it's gonna come, It's gonna click,

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and you know we're gonna be better
off for it, all right,

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Daniel Hudson, thanks a lot for
the time before I let you go.

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By the way, would you be
against me finding a way to get a

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snapshot of you at City Field coming
off the field with your fingers quieting the

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00:35:27.360 --> 00:35:30.280
crowd. I want to know if
that's in bounced, because I do not

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00:35:30.320 --> 00:35:32.280
want to cross Daniel Hudson. I
don't know about that. I mean,

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00:35:32.280 --> 00:35:36.400
you can get whatever you want.
I'm sure it's on the internet somewhere you

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00:35:36.440 --> 00:35:38.400
can print it off, but uh
no, that's uh, that'll be cool

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to see if you get it all
right. I want to know if I

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have the green light. Like I
said, I am as frightened of you,

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00:35:44.440 --> 00:35:46.719
as intimidated of you as I was
of Chase Suttley. So I I

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00:35:46.800 --> 00:35:51.360
tread very carefully. I don't know
how how true that statement is for you,

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but it's definitely a compliment if you
put me in the same sentence as

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Chase. So I'll take it.
You're not the silver Fox yet, it's

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getting there. Thanks a lot for
the I'm Daniel. From there, he

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battle through injuries, a couple of
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mound for the Kansas City Royals,
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ERA, twenty six year old left
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back in twenty sixteen. He missed
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twenty with Tommy John Surgery's two of
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He's been good. He's made his
major league debut in twenty twenty two,

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trading at a deal for a roald
As Chapman last year. Primarily throws a

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fourcing fastball, a change up,
and an occasional cutter. Making his fifteen

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start this year, he's fourth in
the major leagues in strikeouts with ninety eight

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his one hundred and eighty seven career
strikeouts. His twenty six starts are a

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franchise record through twenty six starts.
Last time out six hitting one run,

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three hits, nine strikeouts, get
a no decision against the Mariners. This

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is his first start against the Dodgers. Gavin Stone on the mound for the

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Blue seven to two two ninety three
ERA twenty five year old right hand or

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fifth round pick in twenty twenty.
He is making his thirteenth start this season.

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He has won three starts in a
row, five of his last six.

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Last time out five and two third
innings, two runs, eight hits,

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00:38:21.880 --> 00:38:24.960
six punchouts in a win over the
Yankees in the Bronx tonight. His

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00:38:25.000 --> 00:38:31.400
first time ever facing the Kansas City
Royals. Gavin Stone, Cole Reagans Dodgers

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Royals. We're fifteen minutes away for
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All right, before first pitch,
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Rick Monday. Tim never guys,
Tim, thanks very much. We count

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you down with the first pitch tonight. Cole Reagan's the left hander for Kansas

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City, Galvin Stone for the Dodgers. The key for Gavin Stone his change

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up opponents this year, hitting only
one eighty five against it. Yeah,

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it's been good, only twelve for
sixty five. The other thing about gammon

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Stone, the first inning has been
a little problematic. The highest batting average

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over the first two times through a
lineup to two seventy. But if you

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start to look at gammon Stone every
month, he has lowered the era.

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In March he was five point four. In April it was four and a

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half. Five starts in May it
was under two. So he has really

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picked it up. He's on a
roll, and for Reagan's he's been on

585
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some sort of a role. He
has gone seven starts this year of six

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innings or better with no more than
one run allowed. So he's expected to

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00:40:14.079 --> 00:40:15.920
go deep into the game. Yeah, inspected to go deep. Little out

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about Reagan's lefties have hit three forty
one, right handers barely two hundred,

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and the Dodgers have the best ops
against lefties this year in Major League Baseball

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at eighth seven. Counting it down
to the first pitch, It's the Dodgers

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and the Royals from Dodgers Stadium,
Game one of this interleague series. Tim

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all Right first pitches next don't forget
after the game is over. David Veasse

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