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Dodger Talk is sponsored by La Care
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millions of Angelinos for over twenty five
years. And now your voice for Dodger

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Talking like the Back, David Vasse. Welcome the Dodger Talk David Vase live

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at P and C Park in Pittsburgh. After the Pirates shut out the Dodgers

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by a final score of one to
nothing, we are with you until seven

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thirty tonight. Eight six six,
nine eighty seven, two five seventy is

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the phone number. The Dodgers fall
to the Pirates one nothing for the first

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time since August of twenty seventeen here
at PNC Park, the last time the

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Pirates beat the Dodgers by the identical
final score we had tonight was a difficult

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one for a lot of us because
in twenty seventeen, the Dodger offense was

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scoring runs up and down the lineup, But on August twenty third, twenty

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seventeen, here at PNC Park,
they could not score a single run for

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America's pitcher Rich Hill, who threw
nine no hit innings against the Pirates.

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The game went extra innings and Josh
Harrison hit a walk off home run off

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of rich Hill to obviously beat Hill
in the Dodgers and also spoil what would

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have been a special night for rich
Hill as he did not have the no

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hitter for ten innings. But nonetheless, tonight a very different story in some

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ways. Glass Now a tough luck
pitcher tonight in a lot of ways because

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for the fourth or excuse me,
the fifth straight start for Tyler glass Now,

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the Dodgers did not score while he
was on the mound. The last

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time the Dodgers scored for Tyler glass
Now while he was still in the game

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was all the way back on May
fourth. They have not been giving their

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best starter a lot of run support, and tonight was evident of that.

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Glass Now made a mistake pitch fastball
up in the zone that I'm sure he

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wished he could have back. But
Jack Slewinski, the number nine hitter coming

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into the game hitting one seventy four
with four home runs, sent one over

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the Roberto Clemente wall in right field
and gave the Pirates an early one nothing

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lead, and that would be the
final score Tonight. The Dodgers shut out

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for the fourth time this season.
Just to put that in context, the

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Dodgers were shut out four times all
of last season. This Dodger offense with

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Otani slumping, with not a lot
of power coming from Mookie Bets. He

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homered for the first time in his
last fifty at bats on Sunday afternoon at

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Dodgers Stadium, So they're not getting
a lot of power from Mookie. You

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know, everybody keeps saying Freddy Freeman
is in a slump. I would love

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to be in a slump. Hitting
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since the end of April. I'm
not sure what we're seeing with Freddy Freeman.

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Obviously, the extra base hits have
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a year ago, but he's still
getting hits. He's hitting over three hundred

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over the better part of the last
two and a half months. Show hey.

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Otani, though, on the other
end, is hitting a buck fifty

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in his last sixteen games. The
Dodgers may want to rethink their batting order

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until Otani can recalibrate and move Freddy
back up to the two spot. I'm

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not trying to be mister panic or
knee jerk reaction, but you gotta do

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something to jump start this offense because
what's going on. Right now, it's

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not working, And you could always
point at the seven eight nine hitters.

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Yeah, they could be better.
They could try to cut down on swings

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and make adjustments. But right now
Otani is coming up in situations and not

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delivering, and Freddy comes up with
the bases empty. That's not gonna get

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it done. So look, I'm
not saying to bench anybody, but maybe

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recalibrating the Otani Freeman stack, as
Dave Roberts alluded to on Sunday, against

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lefties, he may consider it,
but maybe against righty's as well. When

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you look at this Dodger offense,
I thought they had a golden opportunity.

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In the first inning, ta Oscar
Hernandez admitted that was his worst at bat

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of the game. First pitch,
swinging after he had runners at second and

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third and Jared Jones, maybe fighting
some nerves against the team that he grew

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up rooting for. Taoscar swings at
the first pitch, grounds out to third

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base. Inning over second inning,
here we go with the seven eight nine

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hitters needing to move the runner over
or having productive outs. After Jason to

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Hayward walked and stole second base,
Gavin lux needed to get him to third

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base. Instead, he struck out
first out. Miguel Rojas, trying to

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do the right baseball play to get
him to third base, grounds out to

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the shortstop. Hayward's at third with
two outs. By then it's too late,

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and Chris Taylor flew out to end
the inning. And then Taoscar Hernandez

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again came up in the third inning
with two outs, runners at first and

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second and flew out to left field. And that's what you get, being

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blanked by not only Jerry Jones,
but also the rest of the Pirate staff

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that included Eraldus Chapman and their closer
David Bednar. Eight six six nine seven

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two five seventy is the phone number. Let's go out to La Joe.

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You're on Dodger Talk with David Vese. Hi, Joe, Hey, Dave,

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how you doing. You're doing great, shot, Dan. I want

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to tell you right now. But
I'm an ex player, way back,

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I played with the era of bench
and Rod Carew was my teammate. I'm

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an old guy, but that doesn't
I don't That doesn't mean I don't know

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the game. We all do.
When he played long enough and all the

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years that we watched it and played
it and whatever the problem, I'm gonna

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tell you. I know the kid's
I knew him as a baby. He

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plays for the Washington Nationalies. A
five tool player. He's twenty seven or

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eight. His name is Lane Thomas. This kid had he's hurt this year.

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He had an MCL to two month
spring. But last year, look

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at his stats. His ops was
was three point fifteen, his slug was

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seven eighty three almost eight hundred.
He can run, field, throw,

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and hit for average ana home run
twenty eight home runs last year eighty six

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RBIs you want to solidify a year
center field and outfield position, you're playing

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a bunch of guys that are on
the last legs. You're playing guys that

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are just not there six years ago. There for fine, not anymore.

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Kevin lux is never, never gonna
be a great player never. He doesn't

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have it. There's problems. Okay, I don't want to get into all

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the Dodger problems, but I want
to say, get Lane Thomas. I

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know I was in spring training last
year with for next year. You're saying

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for next year deadline, get him
at the trade deadline or whatever his contract

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is inexpensive days. Look it up, you can do it, You're yeah,

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I see it. I see he's
having a down year. He's having

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a down year, but he was
really good last year. And yeah,

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that may be one of those under
the radar type of moves that the Dodgers

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may make because there's not a lot
of great outfielders to be had. Tommy

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fam we hear his name, We
hear Taylor Ward's name. But yeah,

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maybe a guy like Lane Thomas.
Lane Thomas could be a guy that can

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get jump started. But you know, it's hard Joe to sell Lane Thomas

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when he's sitting to eighteen this year. Wait a minute, he's been hurt

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for two months. He had a
spring n CL. He just came back,

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all right. Yeah, but the
Dodgers need help now. They can't

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wait for a guy to get his
legs underneath him. That may be true,

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and that's one hundred percent true.
It takes time to come back.

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But Gavin Lux is evident of that
as well. I mean, he missed

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all the last season with a devastating
knee injury. Are we not taking that

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into account? No, he's on
the rise. Look at this last week

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of battle. I know he's good, Joe, Joe, I know he's

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good. But are you saying the
Dodgers should take on a hitter that's hitting

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two eighteen trying to come back?
He will, he will be back,

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David. All Right, my name
is Joe. I played the game.

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I played with a lot of Hall
of famers, Dave, and I'm telling

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you this. We know as a
kid can play, he can play.

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I don't doubt that. I don't
doubt that. I'm not doubting that.

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All right. It's a contract,
David's inexpensive contract. And why would the

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Nationals want to trade him with the
Nationals want to trade him? Maybe Martinez

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loves him, I'm telling you,
Okay, so why would they want to

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trade him? All right? I'm
not against Lane Thomas? All right,

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Joe, thanks for the phone call. I'm not opposed to Lane Thomas,

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who in his last eight games has
picked it up, hitting three thirteen with

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an ops of eight sixty one.
He was a really good player last year.

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Maybe he's on the Dodgers' radar.
We'll have to wait and see.

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But I've heard a lot crazier ideas. But right now, the Dodgers need

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to find a way to win games
before the trade deadline, and they've got

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to find a way to get these
hitters to make adjustments and make the right

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baseball play. You know Darryl Strawberry, who was one of the greatest players

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of his generation. The guy was
a thirty to thirty player in the eighties.

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He was a monster six' six. You know, a guy that

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had a massive power, great speed, middle of the order bat, but

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still understood to how to play the
game and understood how to hit. You

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had to if you're gonna hit close
to three hundred home runs from nineteen eighty

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three to nineteen ninety one. And
the one thing he reminded me of that

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I always heard players talk about.
It wasn't just moving closer to home plate

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or moving away from home plate to
make adjustments. It was when you're not

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able to hit a pitcher's off speed
pitch, how about moving up towards the

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pitchers mound to not allow that curveball
to break on the back end of the

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plate. When you're not able to
catch up to a fastball, how about

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move back away from the pitcher,
move back on the plate so he gives

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you a better chance to let the
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When was the last time you ever
heard a player talk about that? And

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when was the last time we ever
saw a Dodger or any other player in

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Major League Baseball talk about that.
I haven't seen it. I haven't heard

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it. But that was something that
players used to do on a regular basis,

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and you just don't see it.
So when you hear about when you

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hear about adjustments, it's not just
mechanical adjustments. It's about being able to

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move up, up and down from
home plate, move back and forth.

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There's a lot of different ways to
make adjustments. If you're not doing well

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against the pitcher, you don't go
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same placement of where your feet are. Eight six six nine eighty seven two

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five seventy is the phone number.
We'll get back to the phone calls in

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a second, but I want to
head downstairs to let you hear from Tyler

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Glass Nile. It's cool, familiar
feeling. I hadn't been back in a

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while. It was cool seeing like
messages out there, old coach, some

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Jordan bolkincatchers how Mitch. That was
cool before the game, and then felt

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good tonight. Yeah, you're really
effective. And is that was the pitch

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that they got you for the home
run? Do you think that was one

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in which it was a mistake on
your side? Do you think that's just

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a good thing on their part.
I think I just threw too many heaters.

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I think it was like, oh, one, then I got to

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three one just like heater, heater, heat, a heater, and it

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was like a good carry heater just
in his barrel path, and he hit

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a homer. And I feel like
as long as it was since you've been

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back here, kind of yeah,
I hadn't been here in a long time.

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It felt like a pretty long time. It was like in that regard

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coming back and so much you've been
through since you left here, it's kind

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of it's just normal. I guess
I've really like thought too deep into it.

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But it was just cool to be
back. And then I'm glad.

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I felt good tonight. I realized
the team has since scored a run with

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you on the mound in a month. I didn't know. I don't know.

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Baseball is hard. I mean they
I mean at the beginning of the

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year, I feel like every time
I pitched it was like ten runs,

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so I think it just kind of
has to even itself out. Yeah,

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yeah, sort at that point.
How do you think Jones fared against your

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guys lineup would be a good good
picture? Got some good stuff, really

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good, young one. I think
at the start of the year, like

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we asked you, when you have
big leads, it's make it easier to

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go through starts, like when it's
the inverse may note, Does it just

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add a little bit of stress during
starts at all? When you're pitching close

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games? Like you can think of
it both ways. I guess I think

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it's a close game, it's like
more important to pitch well, and you

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kind of have that little added adrenaline, I guess. But I wouldn't say

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it's like two different either way.
I just think you kind of have to

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pitch regardless, yeah, off each
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I don't even like I just go
into my own little world in the tunnel

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and do my stretches. I'm not
even like watching really, I'm like keeping

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up with what's going on, but
I'm not like investing in anything. I'm

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kind of interest in my own world. When you look back on the starts

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you used to make here, do
you feel like a different guy taking them

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out there at PNC. Yeah,
I mean then I just sucked every time,

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and then now I feel like I'm
bad than I was then, So

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uh, definitely like a stark difference
for sure. All Right, it was

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the night. It was a good
crowd night for sure. Yeah, I

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think Dodgers and yeah it was good
crowd for sure. It was awesome.

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Geez, we get it. He
pitched here for the the first time since

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being traded to the Rays. We
get it. That's not what the story

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was tonight. The story was he
pitched great and they did not score for

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him. It wasn't about how you
felt or man, did it feel different

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being out here? Yeah? It
did. By the way, the Pirates

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traded Tyler Glass now and Shane Baz
who turned out to be a really good

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pitcher for the Rays for Austin Meadows
and Chris Archer back in August twenty eighteen,

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I would say the Rays won that
trade. Eight six six nine eight

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seven two five seventy is the phone
number. Let's go out to Wilmington.

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Will You're on Dodger Talk with David
vasse Hi Will yes, sir, hid

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everybody out there, Hey listen,
what's Yeah, what's going on? You

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guys can't hit or what was I
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only thing the good thing that I
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I kind of see, Oh Tawny
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struck out. Ain't doing nothing with
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scares me because because we're getting set
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it's a big let down. You
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thirty games, you know, but
when it comes to October, these guys,

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you know, I mean these other
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know what's what's at stake, So
I don't know they play harder what these

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guys disappeared. The good thing is
the one thing I will say, Will,

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the one thing I will say Will, it's June, it's not October

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number two. I believe last year
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adversity like they're facing right now with
the offense. And I feel like this

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is a good thing to try to
figure things out right now. They're not

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doing a good job of it,
but this is more adversity offensively than what

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they faced last year, So I
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long run. Yeah, oh you
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know what it is. It's cool. I see what you're trying to say.

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But you know what, I've been
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they're really talking about the newspaper.
Who reads the newspaper anymore? For the

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sixties. He came up on the
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keen runs and they ended up losing, you know, Like he said,

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Man, we always ended up losing
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what I mean. I hope,
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Yankees. Hey, I love Wilmington. Call back anytime. Will and Man

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keep subscribing to those newspapers. They
need somebody to all right, there he

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goes Will and Wilmington appreciated newspapers.
I don't even read the newspapers anymore.

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I get it online, and I'm
rethinking that these days. Eight six six

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nine, eight seven two five seventy
is the phone number. Pirates shut out

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the Dodgers tonight one to nothing.
They were zero for twelve with runners in

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scoring position. We're gonna take a
time out here. On Dodger Talk.

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When we come back, we may
hear from Dave Roberts, but also we'll

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hear from Blue Jays GM Ross Atkins, who addressed the trade rumors of Bob

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Bischette and Vladimir Guerrero. I know
there's a lot of Dodger fan sites hysterical

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about Bo Boschett. Well, we'll
go on the record with the Blue Jays

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GM next as we continue to talk
about tonight's game and also some mind numbing

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trade talk after the Dodger offense struggles
again, shut out by the Pirates one

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to nothing on the Los Angeles Dodgers
Audio Network on air at AM five to

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seventy, online at AM five seventy, LA sports dot com, and available

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by podcast on the iHeartRadio app.
This is Dodger Talk with David Bassa.

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What no highlight? Oh yeah,
that's right. The Dodgers were shut out

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tonight one to nothing by the Pirates. David Vasse live at PNC Park in

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Pittsburgh where Jerry Jones, who grew
up in La Morata, a Dodger fan,

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stifled the team that he loved six
scoreless innings, six strikeouts, pumping

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one hundred miles an hour tonight to
beat the Dodgers and to give their offense

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a lot of things to contemplate as
they make the walk over the Clemente Bridge.

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Tonight, Tyler glass Now, the
losing pitcher. Tyler glass Now,

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by the way, with nine strikeouts, becomes the first pitcher in Major League

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Baseball to have one hundred strikeouts this
season. Also, this is something that

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I still can't believe, even though
our producer engineer here in Pittsburgh presented this

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to me because he's so good with
the projections. With glass Now's nine strikeouts

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tonight, Tyler glass Now has one
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Can you believe that Glass now is
on pace for two hundred and seventy two

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strikeouts. That would be the most
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right hander in franchise history. I'll
say that again, Tyler Glass Now is

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on pace for a record setting two
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That's remarkable. He's been everything and
more that the Dodgers advertised after making the

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trade with the Rays and then sending
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I'm not sure if he's going to
stay healthy all five years, but this

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year, for sure, he looks
strong, He looks healthy, and he

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looks like he's not losing anything.
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eight seven two five seventy is the
phone number. I want to let you

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hear from Blue Jays GM Ross Atkins
because there's been a lot of buzz around

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the league about the Dodgers and Blue
Jays possibly matching up on a trade for

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Toronto shortstop Bob Bishett, who is
having a down year. But obviously the

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Dodgers kind of have to find a
way to move Mookie Bets back to second

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base if there's a better option on
the trade market, and Bo Bishett appeared

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to be an obvious choice. There's
a lot of Dodger fan sites that yell

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at you hysterically about Bo Bishett,
but I'm sure many of those that are

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screaming for Bo Bishett did not hear
Ross Atkins the Blue Jays GM on MLB

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Network Radio kind of shut down any
of those thoughts that they may trade Bobishet

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or Vladimir Guerrero Junior. This year, both of them, especially the month

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of May, have been very solid. Glad he's been exceptional in May.

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He had a slow start, some
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in a really really strong place and
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May and that's going to continue.
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feel for the barrel and such good
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they're going to perform. On the
second part of that, on extension,

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of course, we have dialogue with
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We believe in them, we believe
in their futures and hope that there's

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a way they can play here for
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third part part of the question of
potential trade, it just doesn't make any

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sense for us, you know,
we you know, oftentimes not often,

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there there will be occasional times as
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if we'll consider and we just say
It's not something that we have spent any

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time on, but because they're so
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attractive to other teams, so they
will call. It was disappointed to see

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a report that that was something that
another executive had commented on about our team,

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But it just doesn't make sense.
So really excited about what's ahead for

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them and how well they've played in
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of fun today to see flaying third
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that in the lineup yet, but
all right, there's Ross Atkins. We

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don't need to hear more of Blue
Jays propaganda at the end. We get

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it. You're not going to trade
Bob Bashett or Vladimir Guerrero Junior. The

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Blue Jays, by the way,
got beat up ten to one by the

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Orioles tonight. The Blue Jays are
now in dead last place in the AL

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East, fourteen games back at the
Yankees at twenty eight and thirty two,

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and five games back of the second
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to mention, they have five teams
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Blue Jays are going nowhere unless they
pick it up offensively. Justin Turner outside

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of the first three weeks of the
season has gone cold and right now the

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Blue Jays are just not as good
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East, and Bob Baschett is under
team control not only for the end of

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this year, but also next year
as well. The kind of quagmire Ross

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Atkins is in is because the Blue
Jays, they are Canada's team. There's

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a lot of pressure on them to
fill up that new renovated SkyDome. So

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that's the reason why he's probably not
going to wave the flag and trade one

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of his two young stars that many
in Canada believe are going to be the

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cornerstones of the franchise. But you
need two to tango. Does Bob Baschett

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and or Vladimir Guerrero Junior want to
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Nobody has asked that question. So
if Bob Baschett doesn't want to stay,

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why wouldn't you trade him when you
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a tough call. And my understanding
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a little gun shy when having to
make a trade. So that's another layer

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to all this as well, that
you won't hear on some fan site.

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

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about from within the Dodger system getting
some help. Remember James Outman, Yeah,

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that James Outman that was sent down. Well, he hasn't felt sorry

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for himself. He's fifteen for forty
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That's a three point fifty seven batting
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one. So who knows the Dodgers
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Maybe they're they believe that he has
figured something out, and maybe with Max

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Munsey not doing anything right now because
of the oblique strain, maybe the Dodgers

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feel like, Okay, James Autman
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work on, and we can use
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where it goes with James Outman as
well. Let's go out to the miracle

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mile Fred. You're on Dodger Talk
Live from PNC Park. Hi, Fred,

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Hi, how are you tonight?
I'm great? Hello? Hello Fred?

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Hi, how are you tonight?
Three questions if you don't mind how

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the first two go, we'll go
question by question, we'll see how they

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go. All right, the first
one, are you aware of how poor

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the Dodgers are performing against high velocity
pictures this year? And I am?

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Would you attribute that to? Uh? Nobody has that answer. Even Dave

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Rober hasn't been able to figure that
out. Because the Dodgers' identity the last

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ten years has been being really good
at hitting fastballs. They've been not very

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good against spin. So I'm not
sure about why that's happening right now.

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Tonight one hundred miles an hour,
they were figuring it out against Jerry Jones.

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They just couldn't get the big hit
with runners in scoring position. What's

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question two? Question two is how
close is Chris Taylor to Carl Crawfordville in

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terms of getting the man you are
really going for the juggular? Well,

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Chris Taylor actually had some pretty good
at bats tonight. I don't believe he's

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he's close to being DFAED after starting
in center field tonight. So so far,

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your first two questions are legit,
even though harsh. What's your last

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one? So my third one would
be and you might qualify it as harsh

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as well. Can you explain the
reasoning why Key k Hernandez was hired?

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Excuse me? He was signed basically
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He did not take a spot from
Altman or Vargas. He took Manuel

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Margo's spot on the roster. That's
why they traded Margo to be able to

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clear that spot. So they wanted
Keyk's versatility. Key K wanted to be

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a Dodger. It felt like the
right thing. I was not upset about

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Key k Hernandez coming back. You
don't think he's a bit redundant to mention

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he's a playoff player, but he
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a la monci A, la rojaff
A Lah, a lot of other

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of the right east that they have
on the road. Well, that's why

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he's not I mean, they signed
him for four million dollars fread. He's

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a role player. That's what role
players usually do. They hit mistakes and

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make good baseball plays. He's played
really good defense everywhere he's played. So

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yeah, I'm I mean, he
fits, he fits a purpose, and

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don't forget about October. Well,
he's an October player. There's not too

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many of those, all right.
Thanks for the phone call, Fred,

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call back anytime. Eight six six
nine eighty seven two five seventy is the

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phone number. Speaking of fastballs,
the Dodgers are going to face another heart

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throwing young right hander from the Pirates
out of El Toro High School, Paul

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Skeens, who at this time last
year was pitching in the College World Series

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for LSU and winning a national championship. But his story goes way back other

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than just those two years as an
LSU Tiger. That's where he got a

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lot of fame and got drafted.
But his story began in Orange County and

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specifically at El Toro High School,
under the guidance of their gray coach,

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Mark Gonzalez. Did you know Paul
Skeens was a catcher in his junior year

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but his coach told him, you
know what, you're too big for that

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position. And did you know that
Paul Skeens out of high school went to

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the Air Force Academy. He wanted
to be a fighter pilot, but his

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size made him not really fit into
those airplanes, so pitching it was.

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And earlier today, Paul Skeens joined
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I've been to one Dodgers game in
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Stadium, and that was, you
know, a surreal experience just to you

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know, watch a game there.
So you know, I paid attention to

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that. My my grandpa was more
of a Dodgers fan than I was or

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my family was. But no,
it's gonna be cool. When you grew

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up as a high school player,
you know, you're you're pretty good.

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Was there anybody that you try to
emulate or at that point in time,

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are you just yourself? A little
bit? Just myself? But definitely seeing

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Otani do do what he was doing
with the Angels because I was an Angels

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fan. Seeing him hit and pitch
that kind of you know, gave me

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some sim inspiration to be able to
do that at the next level. So

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just kept working and you know,
did that as long as I could.

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How good of a hitter was Paul
Skans in high school? I was good.

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I was. I was a better
hitter than I was a pitcher when

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I was in high school. But
I mean I didn't get drafted for a

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reason. Yeah, yeah, Paul, your family has a background in the

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military. Right you went to Air
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How much did you see in your
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Navy. That was the goal,
you know, since I was probably like

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a freshman or sophomore in high school. I just wanted to fly and kind

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of saw baseball as a as a
avenue to do that, you know,

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But my goal was was to fly. Oh yeah, Paul Skans I

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feel the need the need for speed, and he has speed on that fastball,

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and the Dodgers are going to get
a first hand look tomorrow night at

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Paul Skiens and his fastball schemes this
year for the Pirates two and oh with

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an ERA of two forty five,
going up against James Paxton, who is

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five and oh with an ERA of
three twenty nine. Morongo Casino Dodgers on

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Deck begins at two point thirty tomorrow
afternoon, with first pitch from PNC Park

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at three forty. That'll do it
for us tonight on Dodger Talk. The

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tarp is on the field. Rain
is expected overnight and in the early mornings

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here in Pittsburgh, so hopefully no
rain when it's time to play ball in

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Game two of this three game series, appreciate Dwayne McDonald for hanging out and

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giving us a lot of good wisdom
and historical context all throughout the game and

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into the postgame show. Thanks to
calling ye back at our Burbank studios.

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And in case you missed our conversation
with young Paul Skins and his mustache,

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you can find it on the iHeartRadio
app. That's where you can find this

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show as well all the episodes podcasted
on the iHeartRadio app. Once again,

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the final score tonight from P and
C Park in Pittsburgh, The Pirates blank

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the Dodgers one to nothing. Fox
Sports Radio is around the corner, Ben

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Mallor a little bit later tonight,
enjoy him once again. The final score

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the Dodgers fault of the Pirates one
to nothing. Have a great rest of

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your night, Seal