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Talking like back, David Basse.
It was October in May at Dodgers Stadium

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as Jock Peterson leads the way for
his new team, the Arizona Diamondbacks to

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beat the Dodgers tonight seven to three. Welcome the Dodger Talk, David Va

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say with you until eleven o'clock tonight
here on a five to seventy LA Sports.

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And no, I'm not going to
freak out over this loss. It

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was just one of those nights.
But I will say this, the Dodger

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offense is not firing on all cylinders. Mooki has not had a great May.

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He's cooled off considerably. Freddie Freeman, who hit a Grand Slam last

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night, did not have a lot
going on tonight. Really the show,

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Hey O'tani show tonight. As Otani
manufactured the Dodgers' first run tonight on his

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own in the fourth inning, doubling
and then stole third. The Diamondbacks catcher

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Gabrielle moreno throw it, threw it
into left field and Otani scored on the

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air, So that's how the Dodgers
scored their first run. And then in

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the sixth inning, young Miguel Vargas, who got his second start since being

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called up, let off with a
double and O'tani drove him in, and

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then Will Smith drove in Otani.
But then the backbreaker in the top of

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the seventh inning, Jack Peterson hitting
a three run home run off of Michael

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Grove four hundred and nine feet on
an eighty six flat slider from Grove.

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So a rough a rough night for
Michael Grove. Gavin Stone takes the loss,

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Brandon Fought the winning pitcher, and
Christian Walker. I don't call him

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the Dodger Killer for no reason.
There are reasons that I have been traumatized

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to put him in that category.
Christian Walker has hit thirteen home runs now

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at Dodgers Stadium since twenty eighteen.
That's two more than any other visiting player

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at Dodgers Stadium during that span of
times. So Christian Walker certainly has a

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name here at Dodgers Stadium. Coutell
Marte he extended his hitting streak to twenty

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games, and like I mentioned,
Jack Peterson Jock Pop in the seventh inning

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to beat the Dodgers tonight seven to
three, eight six, six, nine

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eighty seven two five seventy is the
phone number. I thought it was fitting

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and indicative that the Dodgers are not
taking every loss like it's do or die.

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In the bottom of the eighth inning, when Otani was due to come

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up, Miguel Rojas and Taosca Hernandez
played a joke on Otani. He had

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all the armor on, everything ready
to go. He had his bat in

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hand, helmet on, and he
was ready to go out onto the on

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deck circle. And Miguel Rojas told
him to stand the dugout that he was

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being asked to pinch hit for him. And Rojas really sold it. He

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had his bat, he had his
helmet, and Otani and Rojas and Hernandez

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all had a good laugh about it
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So that's good to see. And
why wouldn't you laugh even though you lost?

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Tonight? The Dodgers are thirty three
and eighteen, an eight game lead

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over the Padres, a nine game
lead over these Diamondbacks, and again,

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the Dodgers are the only team in
the NLST with a winning record. So

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tomorrow night they're facing a pitcher they
should probably score some runs against Ryan Nelson

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with an ERA of seven zero six. If the Dodgers win this series,

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it will be a successful home stand
before they head out to Cincinnati and City

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Field to play the Mets. Eight
sixty six, nine eighty seven two five

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seventy is the phone number. I
also was really happy to see Miguel Vargas

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get some results tonight. Like I
mentioned, he came around to score on

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the base sit by Otani in the
bottom of the sixth inning after he led

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off the inning with a double.
And here is Miguel Vargas after the game

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on Sports net LA. I mean, you know, he think it was

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really good. This stuff. He
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really good. So I think it
was a good thing for him to get

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time to get that big swing later
in the game. And just what I

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know, we talked about find out
how much more what are you feeling with

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your hands? Things like that?
Was that just kind of one of those

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hitsets perfect example, just the work
even putting in and how confident and comfortable

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you feel at the plate right now? Yeah, honestly, like you I

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feel way better at the other th
this year, and then you know it's

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trying to be on base. You
know, meg a run, a sporting

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position, and you know, tried
to make some rooms. Where do you

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think you've gotten You've improved the most
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I mean, I think a leaf
last year about you know, being a

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troubles So you know, now I
just want to enjoy in the process every

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single day, you know, enjoying
being here. I mean, I'm on

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the best team on baseball, so
that's all I do is like trying to

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you know, have fun and enjoy
the time here. All right, there's

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Miguel Vargas on sports net LA.
He led off the sixth inning with a

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double and scored on an RBI single
by show Hey Otani, and Vargas told

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me he did make an adjustment after
the first start. He got here earlier

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in the homestand he was determined to
move closer to the plate. He felt

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like he was a little too far
off the plate, and he moved closer.

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You heard Jose Mota bring it up
regarding Indie Piz a couple of nights

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ago that Jose feels like Paz is
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the plate because he's standing too far
away from home plate. Well, Vargas

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realized that himself and made the adjustment
tonight so he was closer to home plate

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and it paid off in the sixth
inning with a leadoff double. And another

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part of this for Miguel Vargas at
this point in time, he's going to

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be himself. He got confidence.
He had a two ninety eight batting average

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over one thousand ops eight home runs
for Oklahoma City. He's feeling good about

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himself right now. And since he's
been called up, tonight was only the

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second start he's made. That's not
easy for a young player no matter what.

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So I feel like tonight was a
better swinging, better approach in his

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at bats tonight than I have seen
in the last year. So very encouraging

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signs from Miguel Vargas, and he's
a very easy guy to root for.

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Eight six six, seven, two
five seventy is the phone number. Dodgers

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fall to the Diamondbacks tonight by a
final score of seven to three. I

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mentioned Otani's night two for four tonight
with two stolen bases. He now has

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thirteen stolen bases and thirteen home runs. Sho Hey Otani right now is on

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pace to be a forty forty player. He's on pace for forty one home

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runs and forty one stolen bases.
Ronald Acunya Junior stole seventy three bases last

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year and hit forty one home runs. Akunya became just the fifth player in

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baseball history to be a forty to
forty player. So if Otani is able

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to pull this off, he will
become just the sixth player in baseball history

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to be a forty forty player.
And I know I have said since the

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beginning of spring training that I believe
twenty twenty four was the season of Mookie

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Betts. I am not going to
come off that because Mooki's having a great

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year, no doubt about it.
But man if Otani goes forty forty and

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he's hitting three sixty the way he's
hitting right now, I mean three fifty

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six, I mean, at this
point in time, he's challenging for the

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Triple Crown. I know he's a
DH, but if he is at least

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two out of the three leading of
the Triple Crown categories home runs, betting

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average and RBIs and he's a forty
to forty player with all the acclaim and

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hype around him, and how much
Major League Baseball wants him to succeed.

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I don't know it would be close, But right now you have to admit

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Mooki Bets and show Hey Otani are
the two leading National League MVP candidates.

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I don't know who else would be
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With the way the Brewers are going
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is really separating themselves. So right
now it's a Mookie Bets versus Otani MVP

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race. Eight six six nine,
eight seven, two five seventy is the

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phone number. The Dodgers fall to
the Diamondbacks tonight seven to three, and

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earlier today, Bobby Miller was throwing
a simulated game to Chris Taylor, Miguel

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Vargas, and Gavin Lux. Miller
is going to go out on a rehab

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assignment on Sunday with Rancho Kucamonga and
Dave Roberts said that he plans on throwing

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at least three rehab games before they
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And I know everybody's wondering what's going
to happen when Bobby Miller is ready to

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go. Who's the odd man out
in that rotation. Well, a lot

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can happen between now and August.
You don't want to see injuries, but

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the chances of injuries are you know, large and small can happen to pitchers

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between now and then. And I
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front office on what they would do. So if the Dodgers have six healthy

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starting pitchers, and let's not forget
you have to remember that Walker Bueller's coming

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off his second Tommy John surgery.
So that's part of the equation here with

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tom with Tommy John and Walker Buehler
needing some rest there. That's part of

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this whole equation as far as this
Dodger rotation. And as we do the

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show right now, Clayton Kershaw's on
the mound. He's looking to visit with

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Jock Peterson, his former teammates.
So speaking of Clayton Kershaw, he joined

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us on the pregame show earlier today
and gave us an update on how he's

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handling the patience of rehab. Well, you know, this is a new

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territory for me. So you typically
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But now, like you know,
with surgery, there's kind of like,

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hey you got a you can't push
surgery, you know. So I think

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that's I think it's teaching me some
things about how to how to work and

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how to figure out what's good pain, what's bad pain, what's like you

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need to slow down, or hey
you need to work through it, and

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just all kinds of new territory for
me really. But you know, I

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would say overall, the process has
been great. Everybody here back on.

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Everybody's helping me out a lot,
and I'm getting closer, I really.

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I know last year it was a
grind for you to just do what you're

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doing now, throw every day and
between starts. Is it refreshing to know

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that you don't have that pain anymore
to go out there? Well, I

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think you just take it for granted, you know. I think, you

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know, health is something that you
don't care about until you don't have good

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health, you know, And that's
the true in life as well. So

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for me to be able to,
you know, throw a baseball and have

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it feel great, it's a huge
blessing. I love it. I love

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throwing a baseball. It's a lot
of fun and especially when it doesn't hurt.

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Yeah, So what are you doing
in between the Dodgers being at home

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and you being in Texas? Yeah, so, you know, rehaving Texas

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is good. You know, obviously
it gives me some more family time.

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But thankfully school is winding down and
we'll get to be out here full time

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here and next week or so,
which is awesome. But it's been good,

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you know. Obviously not playing is
no fun, but being able to

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be home and have the kids stay
in school, and you know, Cali's

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in third grade now, so school
kind of like is important to her and

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she wants to be around and I
think they're actually learning stuff. So it's

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been it's been a blessing to be
able to be home with them for a

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while. At this stage of your
career. What is the motivation? I

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mean, because I know you care
so much about being the best dad you

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possibly can, and it hurts when
you're not with them, But what is

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the motivation to keep going with the
Dodgers and pitching? Well, I mean

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to win obviously, that's that's the
motivation on the field, is you know,

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we're we have a special group of
guys and a special team and have

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the opportunity to win. And so
I think that that's the motivation on the

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field and then off the field,
like my kids are just now getting old

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enough to like kind of think this
is cool, you know, and so

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for Calli and Charlie to kind of
be around even Cooper who's four now,

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Like I took him in the field
for the first time this year, so

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some of that stuff dad life,
like, you know, let him know

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that their dad did have a job
at one point and like able to like

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show him kind of the stuff is
important, and like I want him to

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know, you know, what LAS
meant to our family. And so yeah,

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I mean there's a motivation there too. All right, there's Clayton Kershaw

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who joined us on the pregame show
earlier today. In case you missed that

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interview, you can find it on
the iHeartRadio app. And today Clayton felt

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good because he threw a forty pitch
bullpen session and he kept on telling me

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today is a good day. Today
is a good day. So he is

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making strides to return in July,
and certainly he wants to be a part

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of this because the Dodgers are well
on their way to win one hundred games

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again. After the loss tonight,
they are thirty three and eighteen and have

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the largest divisional lead in all of
Major League Baseball. They have an eight

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game lead over the second place Padres. They have a nine game lead over

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these dime Backs and San Francisco Giants, so the Dodgers are the only team

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in the NL West with a winning
record despite the loss tonight. Thirty three

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and eighteen, eight six six,
nine eighty seven two five seventy is the

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phone number Dodgers fall to the Diamondbacks
tonight, seven to three. When we

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continue from Dodgers Stadium, we'll check
in with Jose Mota get his thoughts on

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the Dodger offense and what he saw
from the game tonight. The Dodgers are

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not scoring consistently since Will Smith's home
run yesterday in the third inning. The

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Dodgers offense now is seven for their
last fifty two. What can Jose Mota

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do to fix that? We'll find
out next right here on AM five to

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seventy LA Sports on air at AM
five to seventy, online at amfive seventy

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LA sports dot com and available my
podcast on the iHeartRadio app. This is

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Dodger Tough with David Bassin. David
Basse live at Dodgers Stadium with you until

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the top of the hour after the
Arizona Diamondbacks, led by Jock Peterson's three

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run home run, defeat the Dodgers
tonight by a final score of seven to

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three. Brandon Fock, the winning
pitcher for Arizona tonight. Gavin Stone takes

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the loss. He is now four
and two. Christian Walker with a home

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run in the sixth inning off Stone. That's his thirteenth home run at Dodgers

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Stadium since twenty eighteen. Jock Peterson
with the big blow, a three run

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home run off reliever Michael Grove,
and that would do it for the Dodgers

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Mota joins us and before we get
to the baseball game, Jose Mota.

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I was remissed last night to ask
you what was going on with one of

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the biggest stars in streaming television being
in your booth before the game yesterday,

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Cristo Fernandez, who played the famous
Danny Rojas and Ted Lasso. What was

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he doing in your booth last night? He wanted to take a visit at

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the Espanol where he belongs, and
it was great to see him. And

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that guy is in great shape.
Let me tell you something. We're talking.

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Oh my god. He was great
to see him. He was He

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was kind of a shock to walk
in and go they're actually paying attention to

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me. I'm like attention to you
guys. But it was it was great

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to see him. Thanks for Patrick. Before we're going to buy he was

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great. Are you a Ted Lasso
fan, Jose, be leave it,

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be leave it. Joe Davis called
me out last night after he was walking

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out of your booth. Patrick told
me that he was in your booth and

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I said, oh man, I
love Ted Lassa. You got to get

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a picture with me and Joe Davis
caught me red handed and he said,

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let the guy breathe. So I'll
wear that all night long. We're gonna

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bring bring him again an intervitation.
I'm going to make sure they stop about

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your booth and say, he Lodi, you or you can tell the talk

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Spanish and you know, just hang
out with us. David. You know

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it is okay to hang out in
our booth. You know that, right?

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No, I wasn't sure about that. Oh welcome you got because you're

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literally tuned down, so get in. You're a Latin. Oh yeah,

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I was speaking a little Spanglish,
a little Italian with Cristo Fernandez last night,

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that's for sure. Jose. That's
great. All right, Jose,

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let's get to the game tonight.
You were not worried about the Dodger offense

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last night. Are you a little
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not are cooling off? I'm not
concerned at all. This reminds me of

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the series against the Mets, when
all of a sudden the explode and score

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ten runs and before you know they
go to Washington, Toronto, Arizona and

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they keep rowling. So it's one
of those times they when you know,

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things are not clicking obviously, I
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But they run through a guy to
that. It was on his game

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and the guy that you can see
from pitch number one, Brandon and fought

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saying I'm going to get these guys
again because I remember what I did against

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him in the finals. And even
though he came into the record one and

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three and here before his stuff was
electric, I mean, his thought was

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disappearing. That there's very few adjustments
lay in the battles box. And for

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sure, you know, you can
see where guys are kind up. You

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know, they they when you go
through stuff like this, you got that

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oh for one, they got the
over two and then your next that bat

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Most times it's not very good.
And that is what we're seeing a little

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more expanding up his own, guys
chasing sometimes a lot of wings. When

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you see a lot of checks,
wings and almost like undecisive swings. There's

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something wrong with the mentality of hitting. And that's what they're going through Righthound.

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I am quite sure they're going to
come out of it just fine.

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It was a one man show tonight
for the Dodgers show. Hey Otani,

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you know I know, everybody gets
enamored with the home runs, but when

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you get to see him play every
day, Jose like you've had in the

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past, you don't realize how hard
he plays the game. And he plays

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it with so much joy. And
in the fourth inning he created the first

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Dodger run by doubling and then stealing
third. It's really a joy to watch,

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it is, and that's why you
know, before you joined the Dodgers,

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people were asking about it, like
was what is what is it that

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he does? I mean, and
I mean his home runs. He can

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run like a deer, and I
go, you just have to watch him

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every day. It's one of those
players that he can change the game so

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quickly with his legs. He can
be aer for four, he could be

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one for four, change it with
his legs. He can go out there

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and just rattle a pitcher and fight
off the best of pitches and before we

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a one mistake and it's out of
the ballpark. And then you know that

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affects everybody around him because with the
join which he plays, he takes a

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four to three ground I liked is
his laft at bat of his life,

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And I think that's you got to
tip your hat to that. And the

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way he plays the game too,
and it says a good tone. I

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mean, show hey on the way
he we're talking at about base running,

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then the pressure on the infielders.
He had a grandma second base the other

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day, old roller were easy four
to three, but with the pressure him

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running with amt a third base,
well you make a mistake and before you

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know what, it's a base said, So hopefully that will continue. I

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know that he takes a lot of
pride in representing well the game of baseball,

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and especially his people. Is a
good example for a young players,

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young fans that come to see the
game to say, the best player in

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the game plays a game like this, why should I Yeah, no doubt,

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and he sets the tone for everybody
else. And speaking of show hey,

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o Tani, he drove in Miguel
Vargas. I loved what I saw

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from Vargas tonight. I know he
only had the double to show for it,

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but he seems to be a little
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And I mentioned earlier in the show
that he told me that he felt

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like he was too far from the
plate the other night, and he was

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determined to move closer. And then
if you look at the pitch you hit

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today, it was a pitch inside
was so tells you that if you move

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close to the play, don't be
afraid to get beat inside because if you're

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thinking middle of the plate and night, he's gonna bust me in. Listen,

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No pitcher, no level is gonna
be able to repeat and to repeat

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fastballs in there on a constant basis
s strikes, they might throw it off

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the play, but for young players
to know that play coverage at this level,

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David is so important and the difference
is double A triple A. You

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might be that far from the play, but there's no consistency of location and

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command on the pitch. At this
level. They're gonna show you a lane

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that says fastball away at the letters, aline that says fastball away at the

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knees, and then at the waist, and then that same lane's gonna tell

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the slider. So it doesn't happen
in triple A. And it doesn't matter

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how much experience a guy has,
but so at this level, because you

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know they're going to be repeating that, you make the adjustment and then you're

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just according But for sure we have
all play coverage. Trust me that Barrel's

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gonna stay in there a little bit
longer. You're gonna be able to fight

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off pitches and go inside out,
which is not a bad thing either,

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But a lot of guys are so
worried about I don't want to get jam.

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I don't want to get jams.
So they're flying open and you're gonna

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have the mentality number one Freddie Freema
mentality. Hey, you want to get

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in there, that's fine, but
I'm not gonna change who I am.

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But I'm glad that Bargas did that
because his short swing is obvious, and

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hopefully, you know, the adjustments
that he's made are going to pay off

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here in the long run. Just
to wrap it up, are you encouraged

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by what do you've seen from Miguel
Vargas. I like how short yes of

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the baseball right now. Hopefully you
know, as you mentioned, it's tough

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to play and to produce when you're
not playing every day. But what he's

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done so far got him back to
the big leagues, that's for sure,

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all right, Hose, Before I'll
let you go, Michael Grove has done

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really well for the Dodgers coming out
of the ball. There's been a couple

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of hiccups, but every reliever has
it, especially when you're new learning the

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new role. It felt like Jock
ambushed him in the seventh inning because Jock's

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been around a long time now.
He knows what righties are trying to do

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to him. He knows that Michael
Grove likes the slider to lefties, and

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it felt like he knew the sequencing
right there, just like a rise new

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in San Diego, Jock knew.
And Jock is a hunter man. He

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hunts pitches and he doesn't miss.
He look at it, look at home

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ones. He's in the World Series, which I'm glad you brought out.

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Looked at the swings and what he's
hit, and you'll see that he hunts

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pitches and when he does that,
he does not miss. Michael Grove maan

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another that pitch his He is over
six. It was over six last year.

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And you know he's given us glimpses
of sometimes kind of coming out of

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those things and those those bad stretches
do. But us has nothing that consistent.

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And we know he's pitch and leveraged
innings because your high leverage guys are

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hurt. But certainly does a great
opportunity for him to actually get better and

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have a little more consistency in executing
pitches. But uh, for sure,

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Tip, you're out to jocks.
He said, I looked for this pitch.

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I'm gonna set on it and I'm
not going to strike and get a

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fastball or you miss it. But
he was still looking for that. He

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knew he was going to get it
based on the pattern and he just connected

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quite nicely. All right, Jose, thanks a lot for the insight and

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man, thank you for bringing Chris
Sto Fernandez up to the booth. And

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uh, I'm glad you didn't see
me fanboy out outside of your booth yesterday.

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Next time here with the first one. My friend will be the first

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one. Okay, thanks a lot, Jose. We'll see you tomorrow night.

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Getaway day for the Dodgers in some
respects. All right, mate,

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But cheerio, cheerio Jose. Eight
six six, nine eighty seven two five

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seventy is the phone number Dodgers fall
to the Diamondbacks tonight, seven to three.

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Yeah. I mentioned earlier that Jack
Peterson is tied with Gil Hodges with

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five home runs in the World Series. They're actually tied for second in Dodgery

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history for the most home runs hit
in the Fall Classic. The Great Duke

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of Flatbush, Duke Snyder from Compton, California, has the Dodger franchise record

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with eleven home runs in the World
Series. So the Duke with eleven,

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Jack Peterson, and Gil Hodges with
five, that'll do it for us.

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Tonight on Dodger Talk Tomorrow, the
finale of this six game homestand for the

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Dodgers and the rubber match between the
Dodgers and Diamondbacks in this three game series,

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Tyler Glass now will be on the
mound for the Dodgers. He carries

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a six and two record to the
mount tomorrow night with an ERA of two

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ninety, going up against right hander
Ryan Nelson, who's two and three with

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an ERA over seven. Morongo Casino. Dodgers on Deck begins at six o'clock

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with first pitch at seven to ten. Thanks to Colin Ee back at our

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Burbank Studios, Thanks to Dwayne McDonald
out here at Dodgers Stadium, and thanks

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to you for listening in case you
missed any of the show or our pregame

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com with the Great Clayton Kershaw.
You can find it on the iHeartRadio app.

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Coming up next it will be Ben
Maller on Fox Sports Radio. I

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heard Ben take some shots at me, but I'm not getting in the gutter

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with him and his cronies over there
at Fox Sports Radio. I'll stay above

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it. You have a great show, Ben Maller once again. The final

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score tonight the Dodgers fall to the
Diamondbacks seven to three. Have a great

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rest of your night. See you. Let's just