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Stone Cold Gavin, Gavin Stone if you

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need him, Dodger right hander,
A complete game shutout tonight for the Dodgers

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as they win it in Chicago four
to nothing over the Wide Sox. Hi

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everybody, and welcome in to postgame
Dodger Talk here on You're Home of the

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Dodgers and five seventy LA Sports Live
everywhere on the iHeart Radio app. The

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Dodgers get the sweep in Chicago,
they take all three games. They've now

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won four straight overall. A day
off tomorrow as they continued the road trip

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on Friday with the start of a
three game series against the San Francisco Giants

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in the Bay Area. The Dodgers
to needed some length out of Gavin Stone

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last night when Bobby Miller winch just
two innings and they handed it over to

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Michael Peterson and the rest of the
bullpen. They needed six guys to come

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out of that gate in the bullpen
to get through nine innings last night.

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Six relievers they needed last night and
a four to three Dodgers win tonight.

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They needed Gavin Stone going into this
one. They needed him to give him

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some length. They needed Gavin Stone
to pitch deep into a game tonight to

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help out the bullpitch. Sure,
there's a day off tomorrow, but it'd

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be nice to get these guys off
their feet and not having to get hot,

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not even needed to take off the
windbreaker to break a sweat and let

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them get in essence, two full
days off today tomorrow before a start of

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a three game series in San Francisco. And that's exactly what Gavin Stone did,

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was pitched a complete game shutout and
not have to bring in anybody out

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of that bullpen. Yeah, Alex
Vesia was getting warm. Dave Roberts had

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somebody starting to get loose in the
ninth. As Gavin Stone went out to

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pitch the ninth in he's sitting on
ninety three pitches, gets a ground ball

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or a flyout pop up the third, Tommy fam singles with one out and

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I'm so glad Dave Roberts left him
in there. In an error in which

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you get to a high pitch count, you're late in the game. Sometimes

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the computer tells you, or your
gut tells you, or your pitching coach

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tells you, Hey, just go
the bullpen, bring in a fresh arm,

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somebody different. Let's get the final
two outs, let's get out of

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Dodge and let's go to San Francisco. And Gavin Stone, to his credit,

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deserved to be out there. And
Dave, I think knew that and

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let him get the final two outs. And that's exactly what he did,

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and he did it quickly. In
that ninth inning, after Tommy fam singled

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with one out in the ninth Bennett
Tendy comes up and on a second pitch

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change up flies out to Andy Pajes
in center. That brings up Robert,

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who, on the second pitch grounds
out on a sinker pitch number one hundred

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and three ballgame over Gavin Stone,
a complete shutout. Dodgers win four to

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nothing eight six six nine, eight, seven, two five seventy. You

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heard Gavin Stone in the clubout show
it if you didn't. David Vets even

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joke with him how calm he was
and just kind of nonchalant he was after

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pitching a complete game shutout. And
as he said, it's the second time

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in his professional career. He's done
that first time at the major league level,

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and for him it was just,
hey, glad, I can do

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what I can do help out the
team. Nobody in the bullpad to come

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in, gave him a night off, got some offense, we got the

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win. He was in complete control. Well. Even in his postgame interview

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tonight in Chicago on the mound,
Jose Mona mentioned it, now, I'm

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glad he did. Kevin Stone on
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There was a presence, an aura, if you will, a command

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from Gavin Stone the entire night and
with an air of a pitch clock where

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sometimes you can get flustered. Sometimes
you can get sped up and rushed and

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your pitches are high in the zone, or maybe you get sloppy and leave

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a ball over the middle of the
plate and he start to get hit around.

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He was pitching early in the pitch
clock. He was mixing up his

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pitches, whereas last year he only
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to used. No, He's now
got a fastball, slider, a sinker,

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and a change up in his back
pocket that he can use and tonight.

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He was efficient, He was in
command and his pitches. He was

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dotting the fastball inside outside, and
a tip of the cat to Austin Barnes,

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who were gonna hear from, and
just a little bit Dodger ketcher who

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got the start tonight. Austin Barnes
takes a lot of incoming from Dodger fans.

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Austin Barnes gets it because he doesn't
hit three hundred and driving eighty runs.

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But Austin Barnes does a lot right
behind the plate and it was on

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full display tonight. The way he
helps kind of orchestrate the game, calling

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the pitches, keeping Gavinstone calm on
the mound, keeping the rhythm going batter

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to batter. It's almost like dancing
and your partner. You have to be

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in complete rhythm with and dancing and
that picture and a catcher have to be

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in rhythm calling pitches on the same
page. Pitcher and catcher have to be

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on the same page as far as
what the game plan is overall, the

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catcher receiving the ball, helping out
his pitcher with framing. There's a lot

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that goes into it besides a guy
just calling a sign throwing it and throwing

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it back to the pitcher after the
pitch comes. There's a lot more to

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it. And tonight, Gavin Stone
and Austin Barnes, they were dialed in,

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dialed in together, and that's something
that Austin Barnes brings as a veteran

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catcher behind the play. Fact let's
go back out to Chicago, guaranteed raid

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field or on David Vasse stalking with
Austin Barnes and the rest of the media.

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Austin first complete game for the Dodgers
since Buehler did it two years ago.

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What was working so well for Gavin
tonight, same stuff he's been doing

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early. Just sinking the ball,
put in just really uncomfortable, but he's

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he's something the ball hard and he's
just born on their hands and then uh,

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you know, his slider makes you
respect the other side of the play.

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He has the ability to force him
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uh, and it's to you know, he threw some good ones in there

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ten too, but it was I
think it's just a sinker and his slider

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today that was really just helping us
throughout the lineup. When you have a

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picture that's going that way and feels
like a lot is working for him.

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How fun is the desk catcher and
how much easier of a job? Doesn't

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make it, Oh, it makes
it so much easier. You know.

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His ability to affect people in get
him away, spin the ball away,

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get that special little changeup underneath them
at times is uh, you know,

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it's unique. You know he's got
a great little mix, really confident right

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now, and you know he made
it really he could. You know,

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he made it really easy to it
felt like the ben attendee at that maybe

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was the one that was extended a
little bit more in the sixth inning,

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but he got him to the grounding
to an inning ending double play. How

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did you navigate through that? Yeah? I thought I thought his change up

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was he just had to get it
though, a good change up really,

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I think, you know, it's
change of special. I think sometimes throughout

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this game he was, you know, kind of throwing it into the dirt

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a little bit. But when he
lands it, it's with his speed.

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It's pretty special. So, yeah, you can't say enough about what somebody's

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been doing for us, going deep
into games, resetting the bullpen. No,

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he's just been quiet, steadyings going
about his business and uh, you

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know it's a testament to him.
All right, there's Austin Barnes Well said

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from Barnesy, quiet's almost like an
assassin out there, a steady uh get

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you know, a reset of the
bullpen is exactly what they got with not

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having to bring anybody in tonight in
a complete game shutout from Gavin Stone,

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and he touched on it. Uh. He was even able to get his

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change up in there for strikes and
his fastball. Yeah, it sits middle

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nineties. That's really good, and
he's the way he's able to pinpoint it

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and hit his spots inside outside.
And as Barnesy said, there with the

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sinker tonight and the sinker getting a
lot of ground ball outs going with the

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slider that was absolutely filthy. And
he didn't miss the old cement mixer slider.

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He didn't miss on those. He
had a lot of bite on that

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slider and that kept hitters, I
think guessing for the most part tonight for

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the White Sox because ninety three ninety
five, all of a sudden he throws

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you a sinker and then a wipeout
slider. You have no idea what's coming,

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and you can't hit it, and
tonight he had seven punchouts, zero

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walks, zero walks. Again control
efficient with this pitches one hundred and thirty

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total pitches, seventy three for strikes. He was in command on that mound.

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I cannot tell you the last time
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control on a mound. I mean, you think about some of the great

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performances. I mean, we just
had the ten year anniversary of Clayton Kershaw's

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no hitter, and you go back
to that game against the Colorado Rocky's a

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Dodger steam David Vatse talks about it. Yeah, that was another game where

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you just kind of felt like,
this dude is in control. He owns

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the pace of the game, he
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He is dictating what is happening at
the plate by whether he's pitching. That

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kind of felt like one of those
nights tonight from Gavin Stone and the Dodgers

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provided the offense. Shoho Tani solo
home run to lead off the game is

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twenty fifth of the season, and
then a three run third inning for the

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Dodgers put a four spot on the
board for him and that would win it

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for nothing over the White Sox.
Dodgers have now won four straight. Gavin

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Stone now nine to two on the
season. Gavin Stone, to me is

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an All Star Dodger fans, he
is an All Star and he needs to

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be picked as an All Star.
And he's not in a fan vote because

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he is a pitcher that is selected
by players and coaches. But you look

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at what he has done this year. Him and Tyler Glass now absolutely absolutely

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should be All Stars. And tomorrow
at nine am Pacific, the first round

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of the voting stops. And we've
seen some updates the last couple of weeks

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as far as how it's going in
the National American League. Ta Oscar Hernandez

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needs to get your vote. He
absolutely needs to get your vote. Freddie

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Freeman needs to get your vote.
Milkie Betts is not going to play in

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the game, but deserves your vote. Look at what the Dodger pitchers are

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doing in Tyler Glass now and of
course Evan Phillips should be an All Star

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with thirteen saves, he's been very
good. But this Dodgers team should be

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well represented in the All Star Game
this year in Arlington. Here's Dave Roberts.

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In case you missed it, Dave
Roberts pre game today, asked by

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David Vassay about the All Star voting, which again stops tomorrow the first round

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of it. The first round stops
at nine am tomorrow. Here's David vass

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asking the manager, Dave Roberts about
the All Star voting. Listen carefully,

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Dodger fans, Dave, tomorrow's the
deadline for the first tier of All Star

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voting. Will Smith, Ti,
Oscar Hernandez among other players that might have

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a case. What do you believe
as far as them being All Stars?

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Yeah, it's a no brainer.
I think Will is an easy one.

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As far as talent, He's one
of the top two or three catchers in

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the game, let alone the National
League, and with Teo. You just

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look at the numbers and what he's
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It's you know, the All Star
Game is interesting because it's a lot

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of it is based on popularity and
certain fan bases that are more active voting.

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And my encouragement for the Dodger fans
is to, you know, get

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off your hands and start voting for
your players, because you look at all

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these other fan bases that the players
aren't nearly as having the seasons that our

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guys are having, and they're leading
the fan voting. So that's what's disappointing

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for me as a manager, because
the players are not going to promote themselves.

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So it's about the fans, you
know, supporting their players. All

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Right, there's Dave Roberts telling you
Dodger fans to get onto Dodgers dot com

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slash vote and get those Dodger players
to the next round and get him to

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the All Star Game in Arlington.
Will Smith absolutely deserves it. Ria Muto,

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the catcher in Philadelphia, is having
a good not really. William Contreras

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and Milwaukee, okay, one point
four million votes is the leading catcher of

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the National League as far as vote
getter can tell. Marte is the leading

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second base vote getter. I mean
Jerkson Profar one point six Jerkson Profar's got

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more votes than Tiascar Hernandez. Something
wrong here, Something wrong here, Dodger

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fans. You can vote five times
per day. You got until ne o'clock

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tomorrow for the first round of this
All Star voting show. Heo Tani is

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certainly having a lot of votes to
one point seven million votes so far.

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Dave Roberts message from Dodger manager to
you get out there, vote early,

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vote often. First round ins tomorrow
at nine am. Dodgers dot Com slash

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vote Dodgers dot Com slash vote.
Brad mission viah Welcome to Dodger Talk tonight.

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Brad, How you doing, Hey, thanks for taking the call.

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You know, it's funny the Dodgers
got two shutouts in this series, and

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you know how lowly the White Sox
are. They teams have been scoring like

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twelve fifteen runs against him, but
the pitching was that good. We're really

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didn't matter in this case. Yeah, Yeah, two shutout wins appreciated.

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Brad a three nothing to win in
the opener, they win four to three

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last night, and they get the
shutout win again tonight for nothing over the

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White Sox limiteding them to just four
hits in this game tonight was Gavin Stone

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who threw a complete game shutout,
struck out seven along the way, and

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he got just all he needed from
showey Otani in this Dodgers offense a four

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run victory. They beat him four
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thirty one overall on this season.
How about this the first sellout of the

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year at guaranteed rate field in Chicago. Bad team, yet they don't get

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much crowds there. Dodgers come to
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the first two nights, and then
you had Mexican Heritage Night in and it

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was a sellout crowd tonight on the
South side of Chicago, thirty six,

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two and twenty five got to see
their favorite Dodgers sweep the White Sox with

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a four nothing win. Luis Elcerito, Welcome to Lewis. Lewis, you're

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on Dodger Talk. How you doing, Hey, Tim? Always a pleasure

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and good point about the voting.
I'll say two things to all of those

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people who live in die By just
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is just another example that it doesn't
work that way and people need to start

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looking at it. Stone was amazing
tonight. He has presence, he knows

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how to pick chin. Barnes was
obviously helpful, but he only goes up

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to ninety five. Landonnak is not
nearly as polished, but I believe has

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a similar potential, even though I
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and just the more and more.
I've been watching baseball for a long time,

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and it looks like that somebody in
the Dodger organization is beginning to realize

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that when you just do Vello,
you get caught because when the pitcher loses

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control or doesn't have his villo,
it's not always going to work. And

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hitters, as many of the best
hitters have said, you know, can

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groove a one hundred mile an hour
pitch as well. But if somebody can

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throw ninety five and then has a
change like Gavin has, it makes a

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big difference. And I'm just really, you know, continue to be pleased

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with the pitching despite you know,
some of the injuries, and I think

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in the long run, the bottom
of the order is going to figure it

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out. Yeah. Yeah. My
concern is when when will Months he come

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back, because I think if he
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outfield has to be addressed to the
trade line. Although I would love to

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see Cody Hosey take get a shot
again, I know he's not you know,

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he was a high round rap pick. He seems he's finally figured it

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out. Bring him up if it
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it wouldn't be a tremendous loss for
the entire system. You're right, Lewis,

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I appreciate it. Yeah, thanks
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on a couple of points there and
wanted to touch on Cody Hosey. Not

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sure he's the answer at third base
right now for a team that's on the

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hunt to win the championship. I
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October performers are what you need,
Guys at the major league level that have

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performed consistently. I'm not sure I
want to dip down and rely upon a

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guy who's not played at the big
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of the season in October. If
Max Muns he's not able to come back

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anytime soon, and quite frankly,
it doesn't look like he's close at all

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to coming back. Not swinging to
baseball, taking ground balls, but very

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limited in his baseball activities trying to
come back from that oblique injury. A

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Cavin Bigio, Keiky Hernandez, I
think those are your answers right now with

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third base. Again, that's just
my personal opinion. You don't want to

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necessarily go have to go to a
Cody Hosey at this point of the season,

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when the Dodgers' top prospects as far
as infielders are concerned, you brought

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up pitching, and you're right.
The philosophy I think for the Dodgers has

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changed the last couple of years.
You look at the pipeline of players that

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have come up. Who's unfortunately Hurt, Kyle Hurt, who they brought up,

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Gavin Stone, Bobby Miller. These
our young men that are, yes,

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guys who can throw mid nineties Bobby
Miller, upper nineties, near one

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hundred. But they've become good pitchers
and they've risen to this level from straight

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from Double A or quick stops in
Triple A because they're good pitchers. And

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I keep saying that, and you're
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pitchers, we get that. No, No, there's the art of it.

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Be able to throw multiple pitches and
throw them for strikes, and be

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able to get out of an account
on which you're behind two to oho,

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and be able to use an off
speed pitch and throw it for a strike,

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to be able to pitch backwards to
a hitter, leading them with an

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off speed pitch early in the bad
Those things the art of pitching. The

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Greg maddox is of the world where
you don't throw ninety nine one hundred miles

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an hour, but you can sit
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paint the corners inside outside, and
keep the hitters guessing because you are

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so good at mixing up your pitches. The confidence out on the mound.

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The presence is the word you use
there, Lewis, and I appreciate that's

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an exact word that I think describes
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and Gavin Stone had that tonight,
and you're seeing that presence from all these

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Dodger young pitchers. I think Bobby
Miller, out of all of them,

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is trying to figure out how to
become more of a pitcher with all his

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pitches and not just that ninety nine
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eight sixty six nine eight seven two
five seven. We'll take a break,

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we'll come back, We'll get to
more of your phone calls. Big win

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for the Dodgers tonight. The offense
delivered showe Aotani tenth straight game with an

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RBI, setting a Dodger franchise record. It's a solo home run of the

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first. Dodgers score three in the
third. They shut out the White Sox

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four to nothing for the second time
in three games, and Gavin Stone throws

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a gym a complete game shutout,
four hits, seven punch outs, zero

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walks as the Dodgers get the win
four to nothing over the White Sox.

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five seventy LA Sports. Here's the
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hot and well hit to right field. This ball's back. It has gone

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a home run for the second night
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run and show hey old Tone has
just set a Dodger franchise record with Harby

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Eyes in ten straight games. Show
Hey o'tani lead off home run Tonight Dodgers

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beat the White Sox four and nothing
home run number twenty five for show Hey,

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as he is now driven in a
run in ten straight games. He

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is homered in five of the last
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Sox for three nights in Chicago,
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get four to three win, and
then tonight they come back with a four

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to nothing win over the White Sox. They have now won four straight overall

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fifty one and thirty one on this
season. Gavin Stone improves to nine to

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two on this season and again tomorrow
nine am the first round the voting for

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the MLB All Stars comes to it
in and then they'll open it back up.

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But get those Dodgers in, get
him towards the front, and all

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the positions from Teoscar Hernandez to Will
Smith to show hey, o Tawny,

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get them to the front of the
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All Star voting, Dodgers dot com
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Dodgers dot Com slash vote. Let's
go back out to the phone.

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Thanks for being patient, Alan West
Covina, Welcome out. How are you

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doing? Al Al going once?
Yo? Go ahead? Yo? What's

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up? Man? My bad?
That was that was? That was my

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bad on my part? Good?
Yeah, that was a solid wind,

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solid series. Everything's on point.
It's like you know which but you can

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talk about and you know, leading
the charger with you know, with the

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callers that you know have they've been
supporting no excuse me, supporting you know,

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Stone and all that. And then
one of the things that the main

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thing I wanted to call about is
it just show hey, at lead off,

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you signed the unicorn. Hey,
let's let's use them. However,

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and yes he's available. Why not
I've heard of something like you know,

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like when Mookie comes back, like
okay, is a lead off you know,

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solidified? It's like Okay, Mookie, you know at lead off in

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the playoffs last year where they you
know, it was you know, we

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were rise cold. Yeah, appreciate
it. Now. I think that's a

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little down the road. That's something
we don't have to worry about right now.

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And I know it's fun to talk
about. Uh, when Mookie returns,

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will he return to the leadoff spots? Will the batting order to go

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back to what it was pre fractured
hand for Mookie Betts. We'll find out.

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As David Vassay and I talked about
on the Dodgers on Deck show before

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the game, Dave Roberts has sort
of left that door open. He hasn't

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closed it by saying no. And
as David Vassa pointed out, and he's

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absolutely right by by not closing the
door on it, you allow the opportunity

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that when Mookie Betts comes back,
and remember one of minor league rehab assignment,

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some at bats in, but he
wants to get back in the flow

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of the regular season when he does
come back, you know, after the

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All Star break, and you can't
just rush a hitter back. They got

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to get back, they got to
get strong, and you can do only

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so much in the minor leagues and
get those at bats down there in Triple

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A and Double A. But when
he comes back and he's cleared and he's

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healthy and he's coming back, you
still got to get right at the plate.

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And maybe you don't throw him back
into the leadoff spot and you keep

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shoe Otani as the leadoff hitter for
however long, a few games, a

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series, a week, two weeks, I don't know how long. I

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don't think there's a number you can
necessarily put on it. But you allow

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Mookie time to reinterrogate himself here into
this Dodger lineup, allow him to come

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back and be a part of this
team. And then once he's back into

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a flow, maybe he's got some
groove going at the plate, he gets

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some home runs, he gets them
all, you know, he's able to

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put the ball in play. Then
you bring Mookie back to the leadoff spot.

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So I don't think you close the
door on and say no, as

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soon as Mookie comes back, first
game back, he's back in the leadoff

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No, You'll allow a little period
for him to get situated back in the

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lineup and playing every day, getting
those three to four five at bats,

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every single night, and then you
slowly move the lineup back to where it

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was. I think ultimately, ultimately
the plan is to have Mookie Betts as

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the leadoff hitter when he does come
back at the end of the season and

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into the postseason. All right,
that's gonna do it for postgame Dodger Talk.

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Many thanks to you Dodger fans for
being the part of the show.

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If we couldn't get to you,
I apologize. We'll get to you tomorrow

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night because I'll be back with off
night Dodger Talk at seven o'clock tomorrow night.

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Right here in a five seven ELA
Sports, we'll have a farm report.

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Yeah, we got some big Dodger
prospects on the move this week and

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they're moving the ourselves up to Triple
A and high A ball. We'll tell

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you tomorrow on the farm report,
what's happened with the dodgertop prospects. As

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we get closer to the MLB trade
deadline, some of these names that we've

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been hearing about could be in play
if the Dodgers want to make the trade

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and help out the major league roster. Thanks to Colin ye thanks to all

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you Dodger fans. For being a
part of the show tonight. Thank you

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for podcasting as well on the iHeartRadio
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on. We appreciate it. We'll
be back tomorrow with Dodger Talk Back on

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Friday, six o'clock Wronggo Casino,
Dodgers on deck, First bitch seven to

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fifteen from Oracle Park in San Francisco. Dodgers and the Giants. Dodgers win

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it tonight. Four. Nothing went
over the White Sox. Gavin Stone a

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complete game, shutout. What a
Jim Solo. Everybody