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Dodger Talk is sponsored by La Care
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millions of Angelinos for over twenty five
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Talking like back, David Vasse.
What a night at Corsefield, a Corsefield

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Classic for the Dodgers as they score
seven runs in the ninth inning to come

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from behind and beat the Rockies eleven
to nine. Welcome the Dodger Talk,

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David Vasse with you until the top
of the hour tonight. We will head

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back to Corsefield to hear from manager
Dave Roberts, and we also will check

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in with Jose Mota. But by
the way, my phone was blowing up

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after that Teoscar Hernandez go ahead,
three run home run. It feels like

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the whole city of Los Angeles,
if you did not turn this game off,

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was treated to a very exciting finish. And if you were as excited

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as our very own Tim Neverett eight
sixty six nine eight seven two five seventy

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is the phone number. What a
night by the Dodgers, who you know,

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many people feel like the Dodgers are
going to fall apart without Mookie Bets.

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Quite the contrary, They have a
lot of good players, and this

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may be in the long run somewhat
of a blessing in disguise, because last

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year the Dodgers faced almost zero adversity
as far as injuries of this significance goes.

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Obviously, Kershaw was battling through that
shoulder injury that required surgery, but

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the Dodgers did not lose a position
player like this all season long last year.

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And for them to continue to keep
this train moving in the right direction,

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they're going to have to come together
as a unit to be able to

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overcome this adversity and really use it
as a chip on their shoulder, as

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it seems that they are doing in
the first two games without Mookie Bets,

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and tonight was a great example of
that. I thought last night was a

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great night start to finish. Will
Smith ended it last night with a twelve

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pitch at bat with a sacrifice fly
that kind of sent a message to the

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rest of the team, no matter
how far we're down or how far we're

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up, we're not going to give
away at bats, and certainly tonight the

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Dodgers did not give away any at
bats. They continued to pass the baton

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in that ninth inning to set up
Jason Hayward's grand slam, the first career

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pinch hit grand slam by Jason Hayward. It was the fourth career grand slam

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by the Dodgers veteran right fielder.
And look, Jason Hayward means a lot

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to this team. He makes a
lot of really good plays, smart plays

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that don't show up in the box
score. But on a night like tonight

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where he's called to come off the
bench at Corsfield for Chris Taylor, he

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delivered by inches right, It hit
the foul pole in right field, and

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then Teoscar Hernandez hits the go ahead, three run home run despite many at

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Corsefield thinking he struck out to end
the game, but Lance Barksdale at first

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base, said, uh huh,
he checked his swing. And look,

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I know there's a lot of different
opinions on what a check swing is or

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isn't, And in fact, if
you look in the Major League Baseball rule

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book, it's a gray area as
well, and it kind of outlines the

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fact that it's the first or third
base umpire or homeplate umpires discretion on what

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they believe was an attempt to swing. I know many of us were brought

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up to believe that it's whether or
not the bat crosses the plane of home

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plate. That's not the way it's
presented in Major League Baseball's rule book.

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So it's whether or not the umpire
or umpires believe that they hit her attempted

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to swing. So I did not
believe ta Oscar Hernandez attempted to swing,

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and so did the first base umpire. But Bud Black had a differing opinion,

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obviously wanting to beat the Dodgers.
The Rockies have not had many wins

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over the Dodgers since twenty eighteen's Game
one sixty three, and really have not

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had many wins at all this season, so they wanted it badly. They

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did not get it, and Bud
Black was not around to see the go

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ahead three run home run by Taoscar
Hernandez. Eight six six nine eight seven

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two five seventy is the phone number. Dodgers beat the Rockies eleven to nine,

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scoring seven runs in that ninth inning. Let's go out to the phones.

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Glenn in Hemmett, you're on Dodger
Talk with David vasse Hi. Glenn,

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thanks for taking my call. David. I I was watching the postgame

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show and no more Garcia Park explain
the he chucked swing and he said he

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did not break his wrist. Well, see that, I mean, that's

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not in the rule book. It
doesn't matter if you break your wrist or

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not. It's whether or not the
umpire believes you attempted to swing. And

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I guess breaking the wrist I've heard
that too, but that's not in the

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rule book. That's why it's all
subjective. Okay, okay, yeah,

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great gain tonight. I enjoyed it. I'll go Dodgers, all right,

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Glenn, thanks a lot for the
phone call. Yeah, breaking the wrist

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usually means there's a good shot that
you attempted to swing the bat, but

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that's not something in the rule book
that says if the hit or breaks his

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wrist he swung. No, it's
whether or not he attempted to swing,

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and it's at the umpire's discretion.
Eight sixty six nine eight seven two five

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give away tonight. Eight sixty six
nine eight seven two five seventy is the

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phone number. Let's go out to
OZ and Valencia. You're on Dodger Talk

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with David vasse Hi Oz. Hey, David, how are you doing.

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I'm doing great. You seem very
subdued considering the way the rest of the

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Dodger faithful are feeling tonight. No, No, I'm very happy. What

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a comeback win by the guys.
My question to you is just I was

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a little worried about Walker Buehler considering
Yamamoto's injury and viewers struggling. Do you

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think we need to get out to
get more starting pitching. Yeah, definitely.

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I feel like the Dodgers are going
to be in the market for starting

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pitching, whether it's Heesus Lozardo or
anybody else. Garrett Crochet, the Dodgers

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are going to need more starting pitching
if they can find a starter that they

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believe camp in the two or three
spot in their playoff rotation. And Oz,

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it's a case of where Walker Buehller
is just searching. He really hasn't

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found his footing since coming back,
and he is going to be a phriege.

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And at the end of the year, the Dodgers have young pitchers like

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Bobby Miller and Gavin Stone that can
fill out a playoff rotation. I'm wondering,

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is Walker Bueller untouchable at the trade
deadline. I'm wondering whether or not

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he is or not as we get
closer to July thirtieth. I'm not saying

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the Dodgers will trade him, but
is he really untouchable? Yeah, you're

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right, Thank you so much,
David. All Right, thank you for

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the phone call, Oz. And
nobody wants to see Walker Bueller go anywhere.

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But if he continues to be searching
and the facts are he is a

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freeg and at the end of the
year and the Dodger rotation looks to be

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full next year and moving forward,
is there a future for Walker Bueller after

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this season in a Dodger uniform.
And if it's not, and he's pitching

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this way, you have to wonder
whether or not the Dodgers are thinking,

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well, if we need to include
him, is he untouchable? I would

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say at this point in time,
he's not untouchable. Let's go out to

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James and Guardina. You're on Dodger
Talk. Hi James, Oh, Hi

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David. I just want to say
I thought today was a magical win,

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and I'm starting to feel now that
the Dodgers are a team of destiny.

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You do, huh over one game
in Colorado? You feel like they're a

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team of destiny? Well, they
say that, yeah, like over the

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course of the season, like like
like like maybe one game can can can

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give you can give you and maybe
give the team that feeling that you know

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that they can go all the way. And I'm starting to feel that way

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about this team. Well, I
felt that way before this game. I

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felt that way even more before Mookie
Betts broke his left hand. But I

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feel like adversity is good, especially
when you are getting a player like Mookie

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Bets back instead of losing him for
the entire season. So I'm not going

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just like I wouldn't overreact over one
lost James, I'm not going to say

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one win guarantees you a Cinderella story
either, especially when it's against the Rockies.

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If this was against the Phillies,
I might be a little bit more

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emotional, Okay, But yeah,
but like the last time the Dodgers had

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to win, like Elvis Presley was
starting out, Yeah, nineteen fifty seven.

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Yeah, that's the last time they
had a win like this. You're

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right, all right, all right, thanks David, Hey, thanks for

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the phone call. James appreciate it. Eight six six nine eighty seven two

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five seventy is the phone number.
Dodgers scores seven runs in the ninth inning,

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a grand slam by Jason Hayward,
a pinch hit grand slam by Jason

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Hayward. Will Smith being called out
on strikes and when he was asking for

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time, set up Tioscar Hernandez to
come to the plate after Freddie Freeman was

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walked intentionally, and Taoscar Hernandez said, all right, you want to walk

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him, all right, I'll take
care of this, and he certainly did.

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He leads the Dodgers now with eighteen
home runs, and also he leads

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the team with fifty four RBIs.
He gets more opportunities than any other Dodger

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in this lineup, with runners on
base and runners in scoring position. When

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he delivers, there's a good chance
the Dodgers are going to win. Because

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when Taoskar Hernandez drives in a run, the Dodgers are twenty and six.

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When he does not drive in a
run, they're basically a five hundred team.

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Eight sixty six nine eight seven two
five seventy is the phone number.

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Let's go out to Alta. Dina
Rich, You're on Dodger Talk. Hi

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Rich, Yeah, Hi, Hi
David Bush. You sir, I uh,

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one of the most exciting games I've
never heard. You've got to archive

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Tim Neverritt's call is on those two
homers. They're epic And I don't care

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that it's that it's the Rockies.
This, this win can help cement team

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unity and you know, in the
face of the loss of Mookie, you

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know, and yam momotos So what
an exciting game. This was good for

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the city, David. I mean, we need things like this, and

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I'm just excited about it. And
thank you for your great commentary. Hey,

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I said when that last homer came,

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I said, thank you Lord,
and I thank you Lord for this too.

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Thank you so much. All right, rich you enjoyed and blessings to

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right now to hear from manager Dave
Roberts top to bottom honestly, is you

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know you get the closer in there? Actually, you know you get back

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to Beaks coming into the game and
having him try to go one plus and

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getting him out of the game and
making him work, to then get the

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closer in the game and not concede
even in a safe situation, and then

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to tack on and to get another
arm in there. It was just quality

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of it back up and down the
line. If I think it started with

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Pages taking a walk and then midguro
at the base it and then they just

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kept going on from there. So
Jason was ready when called upon, had

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a big pinchhip Grand Slam, and
then Showhay just continued to be on fire,

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and then obviously tail with that Homer. You know, it's just he

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keeps coming up with big hits.
So I just couldn't be more excited for

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our guys on the offensive side.
And you know, you got to also

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go back and Michael Peterson. You
know, he makes his debut against the

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team that drafted him. He's got
his family here. He pitches two innings

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for us, gets a win,
his major league win on his debut.

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He gets a couple of punch outs, and you know what the guys did.

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The guys in the pen were fantastic. Alex was great as always,

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and obviously Evan finishing it up.
But you know, for us to weather

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a Walker Buller start that was,
you know, not spectacular in any sense,

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and to come away with win was
huge. With Walker's outing, just

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what were your takeaways from it?
It seems like his last two he's really

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obviously he's altered his pitch mikes quite
a bit there. Do you feel like

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it's something to look for feel or
just obviously there's game planning. But I

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guess we're your takeaways from these lasts. You know, I think that he's

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certainly searching. He is not confident, not comfortable. I don't think in

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any of his uh you know,
in his delivery, in his pitches and

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with the sequencing, and he just
didn't have complete command tonight, and so

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they made him pay. And so, you know, it seemed like everything

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they hit, whether it was a
grounder or ball in the air, it

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fell in and there were some walks
in there, so you know, it's

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baseball. I know, he took
one a line shot in the hip,

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and so that's something of some concern
that you know, was really sore and

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hurting, and so our docs are
going to look at him, but I

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don't know, you know, you
know, actually he was sort of okay

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after that, but you know,
it was still really sore after that.

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So we'll see. But you know, we just got to keep going.

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All right. There's manager Dave Roberts
on Sports talking about the comeback in the

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ninth inning and goodbye him to point
out Michael Peterson out of Riverside to City

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College, making his major league debut, pitching two innings in what at the

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time was low leverage relief, and
it turns out to be his first major

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league win in his first major league
game against the Rockies, the team that

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drafted him. So congratulations to Michael
Peterson. An exciting night for him,

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an exciting game to be part of, as the Dodgers come from behind by

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scoring seven runs in the ninth inning
to beat the Rockies eleven to nine.

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When we continue on Dodger Talk,
Jose Mota will check in from Denver.

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Also more of your phone calls at
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five seventy, and we will celebrate
the tenth anniversary of Clayton Kershaw's one and

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only career no hitter. We put
together what says no hitter on a tenth

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anniversary other than a montage, We
got a montage for you. And as

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we go to break here here was
Tim Neverritt's call of Jason Hayward's first career

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pinchhit grand slam. I'm the right
handers to two. Offer to Jason Hayward,

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swing on and hammer the right field. This ball is back, this

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ball is gone off. The foul
ball A grand slam for Jay hay a

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fourth career Grand Slam for Hayward,
and the Dodgers are within a run.

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That's nine to eight. Oh can
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This is Dodger Talk with David Masson two

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two swung on heaving the air right
center fielding deep, this ball heading back,

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This ball's gone. That's gone.
Hitch On a three run home run.

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Tyascar head on us and the Dodgers
have come all the way back to

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take the lead. Oh my goodness, absolutely incredible. It's eleven to nine.

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As the Dodgers down to their last
strike, strike big time as Tausker

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hits his eighteenth home run of the
year. Tim Neverett on the call,

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as excited as anybody in the city
of Los Angeles after ti Oscar Hernandez hit

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the go ahead three run home run
as the Dodgers were down to their last

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strike and they come from behind,
scoring seven runs in that ninth inning to

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beat the Rockies eleven to nine.
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Still to come. Here on Dodger Talk,

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we will get to the celebration of
Clayton Kershaw's one and only career no

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hitter. It's the tenth anniversary today
of Kershawn no hitting the Rockies. So

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I guess June eighteenth, when the
Dodgers play the Rockies, it's not going

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to be a good night for the
Rockies, but it's going to be a

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historic night for the Dodgers, because
tonight was only the fifth time in Dodger

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or sixth time in Dodger franchise history, they have come back by five runs

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or have come back from a five
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to win the game. And the
only thing I could think of that comes

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close in recent history to this type
of comeback for the Dodgers at Corsefield was

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the Andrew Toles game back in twenty
six Remember that game, Andrew Toles hit

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a grand Slam in the ninth inning. The Dodgers scored three in the eighth

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and five in the ninth, four
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grand slam. The Dodgers were down
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and they came from behind, And
that will forever be known as the Andrew

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Tolls Game, the grand slam in
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on that Dodger come from behind victory. But in recent history, that's the

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only wacky corse Field come from behind
victory for the Dodgers other than this one

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tonight. It will be remembered as
the Taascar Hernandez and Jason Hayward check swing

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called strike three. While I'm calling
for time, game at cors Field.

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All right, let's set out to
Jose Mota. It's time to go around

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the horn with Jose Mota. All
right, Jose Mota live in Denver.

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What a ninth inning for the Dodgers. What a roller coaster of a ninth

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inning? Usually a game as a
roller coaster, but that inning was a

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roller coaster. I mean, man, that you saw Walker walk onto the

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mountain, gave up those early runs, four runs right away, You're like,

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oh, you know what, Thankfully
there's a lot of game left.

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I just didn't know that the game
left I was talking about was going to

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come in that one inning with the
Dodgers just never gave up. Dave Roberts

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pulling all the punches again. You
know, the approach from yesterday carry into

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carry into today to some degree because
the guy continued to pursue some good masses

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at the end. I mean,
Vargas and Pies had key, I mean

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very key walks in a park that
attracts you do out there and swing the

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bat. They stayed right with it, and they're a big, big part

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of the w This combat happened when
you look at that ninth inning, Jose

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number one. Let's start with what's
set up Jason Hayward's grand Slam. It

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was past I've seen the baton and
it feels like in the last two games

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so far, the Dodgers are taking
on that identity and making a concerted effort

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to not to try to be the
hero, but to trust the guy behind

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you. It is what needs to
happen, David. I know that perhaps

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some people are saying, yeah,
this is against the Rockies, but you

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know there's a Rockies team that also
I'm glad we're not talking about the Dodgers

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cannot beat the Rockies, and then
we all be talking about Bookie be As

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being out right. So no,
you take whatever the game's giving you today,

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you use it, and passing the
baton becomes a very important part of

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what you want to prolong in your
stay in the big leagues as a hitter

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and as a team. Saying we
could do this when those times go a

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little bit dry, you know that
the walk has to be part of this

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team. We know that, and
we talked about it a lot extensively about

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Max Montly not being in it and
prolonging innings and giving guys behind them a

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chance to, you know, see
more pitches. All those things go along

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with the guy getting worn down and
the bullpen that perhaps has not been very

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good at all, and Buddy black
wanders stay with from that open. But

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most the younger guys understand this then, and then you see a team have

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success. If you talk about keep
the line moving means exactly what happened today.

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You guys are a big part of
this. Players know this, learn

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this and know that against premiere pitching
is going to be a win, which

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you're going to be able to be
one, two and three guys. All

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right, let's get to two of
the controversial moments in the ninth inning.

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First, Will Smith called out on
strikes for the second out of the ninth

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inning. It seemed like on the
replay he verbally was asking for time,

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but was he too quiet about it? What did you see or what do

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you believe happened in that at bat
when he was calling for time. What

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needs to happen is if the umpires
considers that you're calling a little bit too

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late, even though you're entitled to
call time now once per plate appearance,

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the umpires still had the last call. And what Will I was the catcher

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forgot about was that you cannot be
the umpire in other words, until you

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hear time or you see the umpires
in front of me get their hands up,

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you can now get out of the
battlest box. So in that case,

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yeah, some guys are granted time, so umpires are quicker with a

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trigger and giving it to you.
But also at the same time, you

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have to stand in the box until
somebody says time. And that's one that

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will I'm sure will not happen again. Were you looking at the pitch clock,

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Jose, was it ticking down?
Did he feel like the pitch clock

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was Was he trying to play games
with the pitch clock? How did that

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play into it? I think perhaps
well little just thaw, the pitchcuck was

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just a little bit too far down
from the call, the time out of

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that situation and the pisture getting ready
and getting ready set up to deliver to

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the play, so he does not
have to give it to you if he

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considers it it's a little bit too
late. But I did not pay attention

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to see where the clock was.
But I don't know. He's winding down

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and not more than anything. People
tell you all the time, don't play

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on pire. You stand the battlest
box until you hear something. Dodgers come

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from behind, scoring seven runs in
the ninth inning, beating the Rockies eleven

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to nine. All right on the
flip side, the Dodgers got what appeared

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to be a break when yes Oscar
Hernandez was called to check his swing.

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It was not strike three? What
did you see on the check swing?

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And did Bud Black have an argument? He did have an argument if this

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set happened against the Dodgers and they
lose a game like the Rockets at tonight,

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it will be a big issue right
now. So yes, it does

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have a point. But at the
same time, who you are to Osco

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or Nanda saying, well, I
just got a little break here. What

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do I do? Now? You
clear your head and you put together the

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best at that possible and think about
the other way and think about the middle

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of the field. But there's no
doubt, Dave. If this had been

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against the Dodgers, we'll be talking
about what a back pall that was true

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or not, No doubt about it. But I will say this, I'm

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being very impartial. I did not
believe ta Oscar Hernandez attempted to swing,

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but he crossed the bat. He
did cross the plane. That's it.

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But that's a judgment call in the
Major League Baseball rule book, Jose.

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There's no plane that they talk about. It's about whether or not the umpire

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believes he attempted to swing the bat. Well, Dave, I'm gonna leave

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it that way. If this happened
against the Dodgers, we'll be talking about

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that being a swing. Now.
I'm gonna stay right. Whether it be

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impartial about her, know that they
got a break. You get breaks here

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and there, but the main thing
was I said to Oscar, took advantage

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of it and bade them pay.
It's interesting after that you heard Teoscar Hernandez

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and Jason Hayward say the same thing
as they were facing vic Vodnik. They

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talked about not seeing him before seeing
two of his best pitches and then attacking.

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Was there something more as far as
the scouting report being brought back to

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the dugout. Was it a scouting
report maybe from the runner at second base?

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They almost said the identical same thing
when it came to vic Vodnik,

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the verbal man. And then the
adjustments they both made. For one,

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you know, Jason, heyw he's
so far from the plate and guys will

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use Guys with a little sweep will
use that pitch almost as a change up

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against him, because left he's like
anything that's coming in on him and low

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and take something off of it.
He got full on that once and then

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he figured, well the book on
me is this. They want to get

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me away on change up. So
what I do is I changed my mind

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into off speed thinking, stay back, be late on the fastbold is not

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going to beach because you were far
from the plate. Remember this, and

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that fast was supposed to be end. It's going to be the middle.

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But when you make a mistake with
something off speed as he did there,

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you paid that price right there.
Different for Oscra because ti Oscar and actually

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I just talked to him after the
game and it told me this yesterday.

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I need to get back to using
my hands. And the report was somebody

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like bot Mak that you haven't seen. The more you wait on him,

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forcing him to throw something over the
plate and find out immediately what is his

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best pitch? What is it?
Outpitching, You look all these things that

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are presented the players get ahead,
get even, and also put away what

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is that pitch? They look for
it and they did not miss. They

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put some good swings, control swings, copying what they did yesterday. An

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exciting night of course field as the
Dodgers come from behind with seven runs in

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the ninth inning to beat the Rockies
tonight eleven to nine. Unfortunately, during

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the game, Jose, we got
the news that Willy Mays passed away at

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the age of ninety three. No
matter the age, obviously, it's hard

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to lose an icon like Willie Mays, and I saw what Alex Korra said

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when he was asked by the Boston
media about losing Willy Mays and whether or

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not he had met him. He
said that he met him a lot of

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different times when he was playing with
the Dodgers, and Orlando Supaida would actually

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introduce him to Willie Mays when he
was playing for the Dodgers. But he

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also mentioned your dad many Mota telling
him stories about Roberto Clemente and Willie Mays.

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How much did your dad play against
Willy Mays? How well did he

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know Willy Mays? Well, Willie
Mays called him Chico. They both called

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each other Chico. And when my
dad got called up by the Giants in

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nineteen sixty two for the first time, their patrolling center field is thirty one

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year old Willie Mays, and my
dad tells the story. And by the

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way, my dad was pretty inpacted
by this as we gave the news over

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the air, and he sent a
message also for the radio listeners about how

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much it meant to him. Willie
May has received them as a big leaguer.

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Toad McField Wilson's pulled his ear a
couple of times, but also you

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know that'said. The thing that people
forget about with May is is how he

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revolutionized how you play center field.
You think about this, there's no pettit

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walls, there's no diving play in
style, right, I mean it was

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a shoestring that was like the best
play ever guy coming in right. And

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in other words, you didn't see
Willie Mays go crash against walls, but

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you saw Willie Mays play center field
beautifully. I mean it's like an artist

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out there. And then he's impact
with the glove, he's throwing on the

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bat. The power of the combination
is a five to two player. I

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mean, born in La Alabama and
playing for the Barons of Alabama in the

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Negro leagues, which is just marvel
to be in your career. But I

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remember one time that Willie Mays,
as a youngster, told me, Hose,

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I didn't know that, you know, thirty third is going to be

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a big deal. Forty forty I
would have done more times. He goes,

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I don't know that was going to
be a big deal. I would

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have done it more times. Knowing
that people are making a big deal out

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of this, and he's obviously very
close to Barry Bonds. He's a godfather,

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but he also is a player that
when Afro American players came into the

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league in the early sixties late fifties
would take him and say, listen,

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here's a lesson to be learned.
Jackie set it up for us. Make

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sure that we are good citizens off
the field. But also don't take don't

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take for granted the fact that you
are fighting for something as a black man

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or Latino guy with dark skin,
and make sure that you go out there

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and put the best effort putting in. And a quick story for our fends

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from Willie Mays. My dad is
a spring training as a rookie in nineteen

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sixty two and he's taking fly balls
in center field early rounds and he feels

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a tap on his shoulder and he
says, hey, you know, young

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motive, you can levels anywhere you
want in this outfield, but not here

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in centerfield. This is mine.
I love that. Thanks Jose, thanks

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for sharing those stories and memories.
And we'll catch up with you after tomorrow

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night's game as well. All Right, they're good job there, he goes,

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Good job by you, Jose Mota. The Dodgers come from behind and

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beat the Rockies tonight eleven to nine. We are going to take one final

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time out here on Dodger Talk.
When we come back, I see you

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guys online. Stay where you are. We will get to your phone calls,

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and also we will get to the
celebration of Clayton Kershaw's ten year anniversary

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of his one and only career no
hitter against the Rockies June the eighteenth,

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Rockies Dodgers usually ends up in history
for LA, and tonight they did it

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again, coming from behind seven runs
in the ninth inning to beat the Rockies

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tonight eleven to nine on the Los
Angeles Dodgers Audio Network. Dodger Talk is

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available on AM five seven E LA
Sports dot Com, hand on the iHeartRadio

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app. Back to more Dodger Talk
with Dodger insider David Basset falls no strikes

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to Otani Gomberdio. This fall a
swung on a hammer deep center field,

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way back and down. That's unto
the forest. Show, Hey Otny home

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run number twenty, Oh majestic,
last hit the dead center field. Then

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O'tani makes us seven to three.
Oh yeah, that happened? Show,

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Hey Otani with the longest home run
hit this season in Major League Baseball.

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Four hundred and seventy six feet was
the estimated distance straightaway center field into the

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forest at Corse Field in the sixth
inning, and the Dodgers mounted the comeback

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in the ninth inning with an eleven
to nine victory over the Rockies. Thanks

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for hanging with us. We're with
you until ten thirty tonight. A lot

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going on and exciting come from behind
victory for the Dodgers tonight. Eight six

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six nine, eight seven two five
seventy is the phone number. Don't forget.

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By the way, the Dodgers had
a chance to come from behind in

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the seventh inning with two on and
two out, but Brenton Doyle, the

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center fielder for the Rockies, had
an amazing game. He had four hits

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tonight and robbed O'tani of extra bases
and two RBIs in the top of the

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seventh inning. And if Doyle does
not come up with that catch, I

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mean he is gambling, laying it
all out on the line. If that

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ball gets behind him and goes to
right center field and the wall bag there,

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Otani can run and he probably hits
an inside the park home run.

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So at the moment, Brenton Doyle
in the seventh inning saved the game for

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the Rockies, but it was not
meant to be for the hapless Rockies in

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the ninth inning, as they allowed
seven runs in the ninth inning for the

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Dodgers to come from behind and beat
them tonight at Corpsfield. The Rockies now

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twenty five and forty eight, twenty
games behind the Dodgers in the NL West,

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the Dodgers now forty six and twenty
nine, nine games get ahead of

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now the second place Diamondbacks in the
NL West, and the Dodgers still the

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only team consistently that has been above
five hundred all season long in their division.

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Let's go back out to the phones, Brad in mission Viejo. Thanks

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for being patient, Brad, you're
on Dodger Talk. Yeah, Hi,

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thanks for taking my call. Yeah. But nineteen fifty seven was their last

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year in Brooklyn too, which is
really interesting, you know, with that

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last comeback. Yeah, yeah,
good point. And also I heard Jim

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Hill mention that it's the first time
in Major League history that a team down

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on the ninth had a three run
home running a grand slam in the same

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inning. I would believe that,
Brad. That's amazing, isn't it.

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Well, Jason Hayward's grand Slam.
It may get lost in the highlights in

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the shuffle, but to me that
was just as critical to ta Oscar Hernandez's

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go ahead three run home run,
because if Hayward does not come off the

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bench for that pinch hit grand slam, the Dodgers lose this game. Inning

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over. Thanks for the phone call. Eight six six seven two five seventy

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is the phone number, by the
way, that pinch hit grand slam by

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Jason Hayward, only his second career
pinch hit home run and obviously the first

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ever pinch hit grand slam in Jason
Hayward's career. Let's go out to Trey

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in West LA. You're on Dodger
Talk with David vasse Hi Trey. Oh

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yeah, man, oh man,
oh man, thank you. David just

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wanted the chance to come on and
celebrate what a heck of a win by

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the team tonight. It's why I
never leave a turn off a game early.

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As the immortal Yogi Berra said,
it ain't over till it's over,

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And what a circle of the wagons
morale boosty when that was tonight, just

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00:35:24.800 --> 00:35:31.079
fantastic shout out to Tim for two
epic on the precipice of losing his mind

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00:35:31.119 --> 00:35:37.440
and jumping out of the press box
and enjoy type of call. Fantastic and

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just shout out to Doctor's Nation and
everybody was just a hell of a game

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and came at the right time and
appreciate taking my call. Just a great

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win for everybody. Shout out to
everybody out there. Thanks awesome, Trey.

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Yeah, Tim never did a great
job on the call alongside Rick Monday.

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And how could you not get excited
over that home run. I feel

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like those two calls, the grand
Slam call and the go ahead three run

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00:36:01.679 --> 00:36:07.480
home run call by Tim Neverett reflected
how all of you were feeling listening to

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the game back in Los Angeles.
So definitely those calls reflected the moment and

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everybody was certainly excited. And look, I'm not trying to drop names here,

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but a very loyal listener to Dodger
Talk, Brad Paisley. We had

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lunch together today and he was trying
to convince me that Mookie Bets getting hurt

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could be in the long run,
a very good thing for this team because

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they will come together and they will
rally amongst each other. And when Mookie

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Bets returns, he is going to
find a very hardened, battle tested team.

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So I'm starting to buy into what
old Brad had to say earlier today

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and love Brad, great guy,
big Dodger fan, and was offered tickets

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to see Clayton Kershaw pitch tomorrow Rancho
Kuckamunga, but he couldn't make it,

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So we'll just give you and Brad
the updates. Tomorrow night, Kershaw will

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be at Rancho Kuckamonga in case you
live out that way or want to make

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the drive out there to Loan Mark
Field, Kershaw is expected to throw three

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innings. And speaking of our very
own Clayton Kershaw, today is the ten

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year anniversary of his one and only
career no hitter at Dodgers Stadium against these

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Rockies, and I feel like you're
short changing the fact that it was a

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no hitter. Yes, it was
nearly a perfect game if not for Hanley

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Ramirez's horrible throw rushing the throw at
that point in time. But even with

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that error in the game, it's
still considered one of the greatest games,

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if not the greatest game ever pitched
in Major League Baseball. History in the

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regular season. From what I understand
from ESPN stats and info, there is

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a way where they score pitchers games
similar to a QB rating in a game,

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and only Carrie Woods twenty strikeout game
in nineteen eighty nineteen ninety eight was

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scored higher than Kershaw's nearly perfect game
on this day ten years ago, and

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still to this date, Kershaw's no
hitter the only one with fifteen strikeouts and

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no walks. Just a remarkable night
at Dodgers Stadium. He had that curveball

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work in perfectly twelve to six.
He was dominating these Rockies hitters. And

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it wasn't these Rockies. It was
a team that had some good, pretty

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00:38:52.880 --> 00:38:58.719
good hitters. And at dj Lemayhew
Troy to Lewitski, Corey Dickerson, there

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were guys in this lineup or in
that lineup ten years ago, and we

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thought the best way to celebrate the
Kershaw no hitter was by putting together a

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montage. Our guy, Colin Ye
and Tim Kats put it together and we

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wanted to share it with you.
So here is our tribute to the great

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Kershaw and his no hitter ten years
ago. Clayton Kershaw with a regular of

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six and two one to zero against
the Rockies this year, eleven and five

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lifetime. He is six and one
over his last nine starts against Colorado,

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and he's working on a three game
winning speed and his earned run average over

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that period of three wins one point
eight. The one to two pitch on

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the way slow curveball see you later. Oh, that's not fair when you're

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00:39:54.920 --> 00:40:00.119
thrown in the middle nineties and then
you come up with that thing, a

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big slow rainbow curve. It was
seventy three miles an hour, and it's

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just dropped perfectly into a j Ellis
meth. Here's the two to two and

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there's a fast bread. He swung
out and miss Strike three. Well,

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he strikes out the side. Kershaw
has fan ten. He's been perfect through

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six and the folks inside Dodger Stadium
are giving him a standing ovation, sensing

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something special is going on tonight.
Crom All back headed to third, some

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play by Rojas, rows to first
and dugout by Adrian Gonzalez, a terrific

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play turned in by Miguel Rojas to
keep the no hitter in tack Hing two,

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kershawn or rubbedge, swung on and
miss strike three, strikeout number fourteen,

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a new career high for Clayton Kershaw. Now ball's two strikes, two

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outs, fourteen strikeouts for Kershaw.
Corey Dickerson is the batter. Here comes

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the two slung on and miss,
strike three and a no hitter. On

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the fifteenth strikeout of the game,
Clayton Kershaw about to be mobbed by his

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teammates. The Dodgers win ate nothing. The greatness of Clayton Kershaw shown off

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yet again, another sparkling chapter in
the career of Clayton Edward Kershaw. Talk

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about great final calls. That was
a great one by Charlie Steiner. And

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you heard the legendary Vin Scully at
the beginning of the game. If you

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00:41:40.840 --> 00:41:47.880
recall, Vin Scully would broadcast a
simulcast for the first two innings that night

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and that season, and certainly great
to hear Vin's voice on such a historic

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00:41:53.280 --> 00:41:59.440
night Clayton Kershaw's. Even though it
wasn't a perfect game technically, it was

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the perfect game I have ever seen
pitched by a Dodger with my own living

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00:42:04.960 --> 00:42:08.840
eyes, and I know Coofax had
the perfect game against the Cubs. I

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00:42:08.920 --> 00:42:14.639
did not see that. I'm saying
the one game that I have ever seen

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that was as perfect of a game
pitched. It was that night June eighteenth,

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twenty fourteen, at Dodger Stadium,
and it was pitched by Clayton Kershaw.

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And thanks to our guy Brad Paisley
for allowing us to have his song

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00:42:30.480 --> 00:42:36.159
so many summers underneath those calls during
that montage. I thought it was fitting

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because man baseball players, they only
have so many summers, and there are

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00:42:40.000 --> 00:42:45.199
only so many summers where you see
a game pitched like that, and certainly

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a special night at Dodger Stadium.
And I don't want to sound like Kershaw's

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career is over, because let's face
it, two years ago he had a

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00:42:53.519 --> 00:42:59.599
great chance for a perfect game two
separate times, no hitters, two separate

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00:42:59.599 --> 00:43:04.159
times Minnesota when he was taken out
in his first start of that season.

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I firmly believe then and I firmly
believe now he should not have come out

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of that game. It's not like
it prevented him from any more significant injury.

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And then in Anaheim they let him
stay in the game and it was

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broken up, I believe in the
eighth inning of that night too in Anaheim,

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so he had two other really good
chances, and look, he's a

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great pitcher, and I don't doubt
that he's going to find a way to

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compete this year and be a big
part of the Dodgers second half. Eight

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six sixne eight seven two five seventy
is the phone number if you were at

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00:43:42.320 --> 00:43:45.599
that game, I'd love to hear
from you. If you remember that game,

559
00:43:45.679 --> 00:43:47.920
find Lee would love to hear from
you. Eight six six nine eight

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seven two five seventy. As we
mentioned earlier, we got the news during

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the game tonight that we lost one
of the greatest players in baseball history,

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Willie Man. And if you ask
Vin Scully who the greatest player he ever

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saw play, he would automatically say, without hesitation, Willie Mays. And

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00:44:10.920 --> 00:44:17.360
here was Vin during a broadcast when
it was Willy's eighty fifth birthday, And

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here was Vin describing the greatest play
he ever saw, Willie Mays. Make

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HI, this is Vin Scully.
I've been around a long time. In

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all the years I've been broadcasting,
people have always asked me, who's the

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greatest player you ever saw? Well, I didn't see many American League games,

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but I certainly saw a lot of
National League games. And without a

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doubt, the number one, the
greatest player I ever saw was Willie Mays.

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I was also privileged to see Willie
make the greatest catch of his career,

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and he agrees with me that it
was no not the catch in the

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World Series against Vic Wurtz and Cleveland. I'm talking a Dodger Giant game.

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00:44:59.679 --> 00:45:05.199
In the field, Dodgers trailing by
a run, bases loaded and two out.

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00:45:05.440 --> 00:45:08.480
We had a young third baseman out
of Oklahoma by the name of Bobby

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00:45:08.519 --> 00:45:14.199
Morgan, and Morgan had a line
drive in the left center As soon as

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the ball left the bat, you
knew it was an extra base hit.

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Everybody knew that except Willie. And
Willie, running as hard as he can,

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00:45:22.400 --> 00:45:28.079
left his feet parallel like an arrow
going through the air, and caught

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the ball. But that was only
part of it. In those days,

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certainly at Ebbets Field, we had
a gravel warning track. So Willie,

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00:45:36.559 --> 00:45:42.199
going head first, hit that gravel
and then bounced and headfirst into the concrete

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00:45:42.239 --> 00:45:45.800
wall. And he was not wearing
a helmet. They didn't wear helmets in

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00:45:45.840 --> 00:45:49.960
those days. He hit the concrete
wall, rolled over on his back.

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The left fielder was a fellow named
Henry Thompson for the Giants. Henry came

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over, bent down, there was
Willie unconscious, holding the ball on his

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00:45:59.440 --> 00:46:02.039
chest. Henry reached down, took
the ball and held it up to the

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00:46:02.119 --> 00:46:08.000
umpires out for Bobby Morgan. That
was the greatest single play I've ever seen.

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So I've been fortunate to watch you
play all those years, Willie.

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Yeah, there was Vin Scully on
Willie May's eighty fifth birthday. We lose

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the great Mays tonight at ninety three
years old. What a life, what

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00:46:22.719 --> 00:46:28.480
a great player. And anybody that
saw Willie Mays play, they swear by

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him. And what a special time
right when the Dodgers were in Brooklyn,

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the Giants were in New York,
and the Yankees in the Bronx. Actually

595
00:46:37.599 --> 00:46:43.639
the Polo grounds were across the river
in Harlem, so it was right there

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00:46:43.760 --> 00:46:49.039
Giants and Yankees. But it was
the Dodgers and Giants that had that unbelievable

597
00:46:49.159 --> 00:46:53.119
rivalry. And what a time in
the fifties to have the three greatest center

598
00:46:53.199 --> 00:47:00.559
fielders at that time playing in the
same vicinity of each other. Key Mantle

599
00:47:00.599 --> 00:47:05.920
for the Yankees, Willie Mays for
the Giants, and Duke Snyder for the

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Dodgers in Brooklyn. Just an unbelievable
time, and that's why so many people

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call that the Golden Era, the
Golden Age of baseball. But I kind

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00:47:15.280 --> 00:47:22.000
of feel like there's a renaissance in
baseball and its popularity in the last ten

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00:47:22.119 --> 00:47:29.360
years. I know ESPN does not
give baseball it's due because of business reasons

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00:47:29.440 --> 00:47:34.320
and the contracts they have signed with
other leagues, but they're ignoring the fact

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that baseball is more popular now than
it ever has been in the last twenty

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years. So I feel like baseball
is in a great spot and there's a

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lot of great young players. But
going back to Willie Mays in that time,

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just unbelievable to think that those three
guys were playing center field for the

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three New York teams. Just an
unbelievable time in baseball history. And Rick

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Mundy, we take him for granted
in how much baseball he has seen from

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his days growing up in Santa Monica
to being the first player ever drafted in

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the amateur draft by Major League Baseball
in nineteen sixty five. He has seen

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a lot of great players, and
he played against a lot of great players,

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even though they were at the tail
end of their careers, and one

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of them was Willie Mays. And
here was Rick during tonight's broadcast talking about

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the great Willie Mays. So he
had his first career home run off the

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future Hall of Famer Warren Spawn nineteen
fifty one. His final base hit came

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in Game two of the nineteen seventy
three World Series, off of another future

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Hall of Famer, Rolly Fingers,
two down and Hunter Goodman, finals went

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back. But I think his presence
tim when you were around him, who

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was absolutely off the charts. What
do you remember about the first time you

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were around him and in his presence, at least before he maybe even met

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him. Well, yeah, I
saw him play against the Dodgers all the

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time on television and would watch him
when he come into Dodgers Stadium. I

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was amazed at what he could do, the fielding, the running, the

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throwing, the hitting. He just
he put a different emphasis on the game,

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on how he played it. His
instincts were spot on. His timing

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was impeccable. Pitch now to Goodman, He'll take inside. It's three and

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one a Hunter Goodman anything, I'm
willing. He was never full of himself

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talk to Willie Mays, and he
talked to you like he was just another

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person. For he one goodman takes
Paul four outside to out walk, and

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he was far from just another person. But as you watched them when you

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were growing up watching the Dodgers,
Rick Monday a kid from Santa Monica.

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You know, then you got to
play in the same game with him for

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the first time. Wait, what
do you remember, Ay, There's a

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bouncing ball to second base off the
bat of Jay Cave. Taylor grabs it

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and throws on to first. It's
difficult to play the game and want to

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take pictures at the same time.
But you wanted to, didn't you.

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There's Rick Monday and Tim Nevertt on
the call tonight, as we found out

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we lost the great Willie Mays at
ninety three years old. So a big

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day in baseball and Dodger baseball world. Tonight the ten year anniversary of Clayton

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Kershaw's no hitter. The Dodgers making
history at Corus Field by coming back down

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seven runs in the ninth inning,
a grand slam by Jason Hayward and a

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go ahead three run home run by
ta Oscar Hernandez with the Dodgers down to

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their last strike brought them back to
beat the Rockies tonight, eleven to nine.

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The Dodgers have won the first two
games of this four game series in

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Denver, and Bobby Miller will be
back on the mount for the Dodgers Tomorrow

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night, making his first start since
April tenth. Before he went on the

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IL, Bobby was one and one
with an ERA of five forty. He

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has told me repeatedly how anxious he
has been to get back and pitching in

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Major League Baseball. He'll get his
chance tomorrow night at cors Field, going

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up against Ryan Feltner, who has
not had a good year for the Rockies.

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He's one in six with an ERA
of five seventy one. Morongo Casino

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Dodgers on Deck begins at four thirty
tomorrow, with first pitch at five thirty.

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Then I'll do it for us tonight
on Dodger Talk. Thanks to Dwayne

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McDonald at Corsfield, Thanks to Colin
Ye at our Burbank Studios, and thanks

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

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can find it on the iHeartRadio app. Once again, the final score tonight,

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the Dodgers score seven runs in the
ninth inning to come from behind and

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beat the Rockies eleven to nine.
Coming up next Fox Sports Radio, Ben

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Maller at eleven o'clock. Have a
great rest of your night. See you