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Welcome to Dodger Talk. David Vase with

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you until the top of the hour, taking your phone calls at eight sixty

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six nine eight seven two five seventy. After the Dodgers snapped their four game

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losing streak with a four to three
win over Trek's schoolbol and the Tigers tonight

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at Comerica Park, eight six six
nine eight seven two five seventy is the

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phone number. This was a huge
win for the Dodgers. Number One,

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they snapped their four game losing streak. If they would have lost tonight,

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it would have tied the season long
losing streak of the season at five games.

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And when you have Trek Schoolball on
the mound in his home ballpark,

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where his ERA is barely over one, you're figuring it's going to be a

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tough night. Maybe your best chance
is to get school Ball's pitch count up

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and get him out of the game. And that's exactly what the Dodgers did

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tonight. He threw a season high
one hundred and one pitches tonight. The

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Dodgers got him out after six innings, and it looked like it was gonna

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be one of those games for the
Dodgers offense because school Ball was cruising until

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one out in the fourth inning when
Freddy Freeman shocked him in forty two thousand

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plus at Kamerica Park with a home
run to give the Dodgers their first hit

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of the game and their first run
of the game, and all of a

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sudden, it was three to one. By the end of the fourth inning,

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it was three to two, and
the Dodgers continued to work Schooble's pitch

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count, got him out of the
game and got to that Tiger's bullpen.

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And for the Dodgers, it was
nervous time as well, because we know

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how precarious of a situation it is
with their starting rotation. Another disappointing start

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from a Dodgers starter tonight, James
Paxton only goes three and two thirds innings.

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Dave Roberts has to go to his
bullpen with two outs in the fourth

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inning. Johann Ramirez comes in for
an inning and a third. Evan Phillips

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was used in a game the Dodgers
were down a run in the sixth inning

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and then he goes to Blake Trinon
Michael Peterson, who ends up getting the

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win, and Daniel Hudson basically the
last relievers the Dodgers had unless they're going

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to Ricky Venasko in extra innings,
and Daniel Hudson walked to in the ninth

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inning, but he was able to
wiggle himself out of it. So this

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was a huge win on so many
levels for the Dodgers, or they're looking

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at a five game losing streak and
a little more pressure the last two games

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in Detroit with a rookie on the
mound for them tomorrow and Justin Robleski and

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a bullpen game on Sunday. So
this was a big win in a lot

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of ways. And not surprisingly,
we have a huge hole on our phone

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board tonight after a Dodgers win.
How many calls do we have Colin the

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much? Yeah, not surprising after
we could have taken phone calls for two

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hours after the Dodgers were swept in
Philadelphia. If you called the last three

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nights, you better call tonight.
At age six six nine, eight,

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seven, two five seventy coming up
later in the show. I have a

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trade idea that isn't unrealistic to be
able to entice the Tigers to trade tonight's

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starter, Trek Scouble to La.
A big game for Dave Roberts as well.

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He pushed all the right buttons from
his relievers to going to the challenges

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at the right point in time.
And also the chess match with aj Hinch

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in the eighth inning in Miguel Vargas's
spot, where Dave went to the left

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hander Autman, aj Hinch brought the
lefty. Then he decided to go to

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Austin Barnes, who delivered for him
the OG twenty seventeen Dodgers Chris Taylor and

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Austin Barnes runners at the corners when
Shoe a Otani hit his go ahead double

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to give the Dodgers their first lead
since last Saturday at Dodgers Stadium against the

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Brewers. Let's head back out to
Detroit to hear from manager Dave Roberts performed

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incredibly well. You saw the fight
that we talked about. You know,

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you're going against a really good pitcher
and school ball and for us to hang

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in there and I give the bullpen
a ton of credit for picking up you

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know, six innings or whatever it
was five plus, and they did a

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tremendous shop, you know, just
hanging in there, getting taken good at

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bats when we needed to shoot in
the four hole, whether it's Tao or

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ct Austin coming off the bench,
getting a hit for us, show hey,

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coming up big when we needed them
most. And you know, Freddie

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taking a really good at bat against
the lefty. So across the board we

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made. We've got the hits that
we were hoping for, you know,

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and it just comes with just the
fight that I know we have. James,

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what did you see that was just
missing for him or that allowed for

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some of those walks. Really,
it's something we talked about. It's just

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the commanding of the baseball, you
know, when the stuff is not as

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lifey as it's been in the past, you know, ninety four ninety five

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with the fastball, you've got to
have command, and tonight he was,

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you know with the walks, and
for me, there just wasn't a whole

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lot of swing and miss and a
right hand heavy hitting lineup. I just

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felt that and after getting a ball
hit off of his hamstring, the inner

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part his hamsterring. I just felt
that, you know where we're at right

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now and how things have been going, you've got to try to manage to

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minimize as many runs as you possibly
can to keep the game close, and

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certainly going against a guy like Schoogle. So that's kind of my thought behind

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it. All. Right, there's
manager Dave Roberts, who had a great

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game tonight. Obviously he does not
have the full compliment of players to be

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able to go to until they get
some of these players back from injuries.

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And obviously the Dodger pitching staff has
not been as great as it was maybe

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at the beginning of the season,
so Dave has had to be a little

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bit more nimble and maybe have a
shorter leash with some of these starters than

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he's had earlier in the season.
And James Paxton did not look like himself

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tonight. The four walks was one
thing, But the other part of this

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equation you heard Dave Roberts mention it
was the life on his fastball. His

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fastball average tonight was ninety one miles
an hour on the season, ninety three,

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so he saw something there that did
not jive with what was going to

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be a winning recipe, and he
wanted to keep the game right there,

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especially when you have school ball on
the mound. Eight six six nine seven

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two five seventy is the phone number. Let's go out to the phones for

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the first time tonight, Ontario,
Eddie, you're on Dodger Talk. How

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you doing, Eddie? Pretty guy? You do it great? What do

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you got? That's the biggest Dodger
at the garbage fan, you know,

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Robert Tayter say, But tonight,
though, I gotta think he did an

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awesome job. Stant totoedel with an
eighth you know, you know that's the

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greatest gay of the world. But
love BENI today they did great. So

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I want to call it that seems
like a backhanded compliment. Yeah, well

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yeah, I'm not the biggest fan
of his, but okay, you know

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I have been when I'm wrong,
and that he did finally, did avidate?

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Finally? All right? All right, Eddie, thanks a lot for

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the phone call. I guess I'm
sure Dave Roberts would love to hear that

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compliment. Resounding endorsement from Eddie and
Ontario tonight. Look, if you're going

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to put the blame at Dave Roberts. You better give him credit on nights

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like tonight. And I appreciate that, Eddie, even though it was begrudgingly

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to give him the credit he deserves. And look, Dave Roberts only has

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the players that he has at his
disposal. There's not much more he can

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do with players that are not on
the bench or not producing or in the

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minor leagues. This is who he
has to work with. And I feel

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like, going back to last year, Dave Roberts has done a really good

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managing job the last few years for
the Dodgers. Eight six six seven,

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two five seventy is the phone number. Let's go out to Mission Hills.

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Edward, You're on Dodger Talk with
David vasse Hi. Edward, Hey as

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going, Dave, what a release
that'd be won today? Honestly, the

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past few days, I believe the
Dodgers lost the game themselves. You know

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you mentioned the beginning of the season
the Dodgers will beat themselves in use games

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like that. So really that we
want it's in the books we have at

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W I have a question for you. You know everyone's looking on the for

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the trade deadline, big on big
time pitchers. Why isn't no one talking

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about example, Tyler Anderson. Someone
can give you innings, someone that can

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at least, you know, get
you to Police seven or Jack. They're

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not who the Dodgers need. Edward. Tyler Anderson's been solid with the Angels.

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But I've been told by executives around
Major League Baseball, if you start

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to dive deeper into his season,
it's not as appealing as the numbers on

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the surface suggest. He's not.
He's a guy on the margins. The

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Dodgers need a schoo ball, they
need a crochet. They need maybe even

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a Chris Bassett or Nathan Vivaldi,
not a Tyler Anderson. Okay, yeah,

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good point. But you know what, I think there's more sellers deadline,

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and I think the price that's huge
this season night. That's what I

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think. All right, thank you
for the phone call, Edward. I'll

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say this right now. I'll put
this on the table right now. Sin

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So, we had a caller dive
us into my numbing trade talk, and

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the trade deadline is coming up on
July thirtieth. I know it sounds crazy

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to believe the Tigers would trade Trek
Scooble. He is one of the best

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starters in baseball this year. He
is one of the leading candidates to win

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the American League Cy Young Award,
no doubt about it. But the facts

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are the Tigers probably are not going
to re sign him in two years.

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He has two more years of team
control. They also have a shortstop who

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made an error tonight in Javier Baias. I'm sure the Tigers would love to

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get from out of that Bias contract, which has three more years left close

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to eighty million dollars. Remember back
in twenty twelve when Neck Coletti pulled off

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the biggest trade the Dodgers were able
to pull off in the month of August

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and really got this thing rolling back
in twenty twelve, No, not handling

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Ramirez for Nathan Valdi, Adrian Gonzalez, Nick Punto Carl Crawford and Josh Beckett

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for Ruby. De la Rosa forgot
Alan Webster and also James Loney went back

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to Boston in that trade. The
way the Dodgers were able to entice Boston

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to make that trade was to take
off their hands the huge contract remaining for

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Carl Crawford and the two years remaining
on Josh Beckett. Similar situation here would

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the Tigers be enticed to get rid
of a horrible contract in Javier Biaz and

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the Dodgers don't have to give up
as many prospects for Trek Skoubel if they

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included Javier Biaz and his three years
and seventy five eighty million dollars left on

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his contract. If I'm the Tigers, I give that serious consideration. That's

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the way you pull off blockbuster trades. Ned Coletti did it in twenty twelve.

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Let's see if the Tigers would take
the plan from the Red Sox and

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make a trade with the Dodgers in
the same vein. What do you think?

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

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I've come up with creative ideas,
and this is the latest brainchild that I

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believe would have some legs if the
Dodgers and Tigers started to dive into this.

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

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Dodgers snapped their four game losing streak
against the Tigers tonight or four game losing

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streak overall, by beating the Tigers
tonight four to three. We're gonna take

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a time out here on Dodger Talk. When we come back, your phone

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calls eight six six, nine eighty
seven, two seventy. I had to

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shame you into calling tonight. Full
boarder calls. When we return. After

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the Dodgers beat Detroit four to three
on a five to seventy LA sports,

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Dodger Talk with Dodger insiger David vassiamps this

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one deep to right, Fia going
back. This ball is gone a home

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run. Freddie Freeman has hit his
fourteenth home run of a season that gets

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the Dodgers on the board. It
is three to one. Freddie Freeman with

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a big game tonight. He showed
the Dodgers Tariff school Ball was human in

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the fourth inning as Freddy gave the
Dodgers their first hit and their first run

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hitting that home run off of school
Bowl. And then in the eighth inning

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he set the table for Teoscar Hernandez
to be able to tie the game at

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three, and from there Austin Barnes
Chris Taylor, the OG twenty seventeen Dodgers

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set the table for show Hey o'tani
with the go ahead double four hundred and

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twelve feet away to center field to
give the Dodgers their first lead since Saturday,

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and the Dodgers get their first wins
since Saturday, beating the Tigers tonight

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at Comerica Park four to three.
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want the Dodgers to win this series, but I want the Dodgers to trade

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for their ace. We saw tonight
a front row to two of the biggest

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trade targets in baseball. The Dodgers
have seen Garrett Crochet this year, they

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have seen Trek's Google and I thought
that this makes a lot of sense for

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the Tigers and for the Dodgers.
If the Dodgers want to pry away Trek

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Scouble from Detroit, they better be
willing to take on the massive contract of

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Javier Baiaz three years, seventy five
eighty million dollars left on that contract,

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one of the worst contracts handed out
by any team the last ten fifteen years,

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Almost as bad as the contract the
Red Sox gave our good buddy Carl

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Crawford, and who took that contract
and freed the Red Sox of Carl Crawford's

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big contract? It was your Los
Angeles Dodgers. How many teams out there

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can take on that financial burden?
And if Bayaz doesn't mix with the Dodgers

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in the clubhouse this year, next
year, they can cut him loose.

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Trust me, they can afford to
absorb eighty million dollars if it means getting

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Trek Schouba and helping you win the
World Series. Who says no? Eight

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six six nine, eight seven,
two five seventy. Let's go out till

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Gilberto in San Diego? Are you
in Chula Vista, Gilberto and Adrian Gonzalez

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neighborhood? Where are you at,
Gilberto? I'm by North Park in San

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Diego right now? All right,
all right, nice neighborhood. David,

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Okay, come with as David.
How are you feeling today? Much better?

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Gilberto Tranquilo Okay, we talked about
it yesterday and you asked me to

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lit up a candle. I thought
I told you I would do it last

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night, but instead of a candle, I lit up a plane thrower.

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Okay, and I love the courage
they show today. And it's a long

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season. It's a lone season,
and they're gonna be fine. I like

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your trade on. I do like
the trade because Heavy Bas, even though

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he's not hitting right now, coming
to the Todgers, he may remember again

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how to hit. He might be
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he can also play defense. And
look, it's not about Javier Bias.

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It's about trying to entice the Tigers
to trade Trek Scouble. Bias is just

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a necessary means to be able to
acquire Schooble. It's not about Bias.

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Bias could be released the day after
as far as I'm concerned. It's about

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finding a way to not give up
the farm and also being able to pry

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away one of the best starters.
Could you imagine Schooble starting Game one of

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any playoff series for the Dodgers,
Gilberto, you have Schooball, then you

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have Glass now maybe Kershaw and Gavin
Stone. That changes the playoff dynamics quite

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a bit, definitely, and I
hope they do something like that, and

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that is a good option that you
brought up. Listen, hey, muchas

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Gracias Gerberto. I'm smart, I
know what I'm doing here. Hold on,

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do you want to copy of Tom
Hopefar's compilation Perfect Eloquence, A tribute

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to Vince Scully. I love that, David. I really would love that

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because I grew up with Vin Scaley. Okay, I love it. Thank

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you for lighting that candle for the
Dodgers or that flamethrower. Appreciate it.

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Eight sixty six seven two five seventy
is the phone number. Let's go out

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to WOW nine oh two one oh
Beverly Hills. Michael, you're on Dodger

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Talk. How you doing, Michael, I'm good, Dave, thank you

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for having me this evening. Are
you calling from the peach pit? No,

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I'm not. I'm not, okay. I want to talk about how

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spoil Dodger fans are. I think
I'm the only one of my friend group

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that is still on the Dave Roberts
train. You know, I've seen him

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pinch hit many times for Austin Barnes, and Austin Barnes won't come up with

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a hit. But tonight, of
course the move of that with pulling Dave,

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with pulling Austin Barnes off the bench, burning James Albman, he gets

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a big hit and all the Dodger
fans are quiet, not giving Dave Roberts

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a pat on the back. I'm
a huge Dave Roberts fan and I think

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you are too, and I just
don't think he gets tough credits. Yeah.

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Look, I covered Phil Jackson when
he coached the Lakers both times,

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Michael and Phil Jackson is a Hall
of Fame coach, we know the resume,

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a eleven time world champion coach,
but he wasn't above being asked the

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questions of why he decided to do
this or that. He wasn't above it,

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and he actually handled those questions with
a lot of dignity and humility and

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was not offended when you asked him
that or if you criticized him on that

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on a certain coaching decision, and
same thing. I may have a question

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on why Dave Roberts made a certain
pitching move or why he chose or chose

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not to pinch hit or bunt or
something like that, but that doesn't mean

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I don't believe Dave Roberts isn't the
right guy for this Dodger organization. I

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do believe he's the right guy,
but that doesn't mean he's above questioning.

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And I'm sorry if he takes offense
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he takes offense to it. But
you look at all these talented teams,

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to look at the Braves and they're
struggling this year. You look at all

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these talented teams, and we win
the NLS every single year, and it

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just feels like Dodger fans are really
spoiled. And You've got some great teams,

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talented teams that failed to make the
playoffs every year, and it seems

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like we're right there every single year. So and I think a lot of

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that is to do with Dave Roberts. All right, Michael, thanks for

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the phone call. Appreciate it.
Eight six six nine eighty seven two five

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seventy is the phone number. I
love the urgency Dave Roberts managed with tonight,

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taking James Paxton out of the game
and the fourth inning with two outs,

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he saw he had no life on
his fastball, the velocity was down.

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It just didn't look good. For
Paxton, who walked four in three

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and two thirds innings. I love
the urgency Dave managed with. I believe

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it sent a message to his team
that, hey, I want to win

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this game. Even with Trek Scooble
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come back and win this game.
And that's when he went to his bullpen.

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He also managed with urgency in some
ways bringing Evan Phillipson to the sixth

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inning that said a lot as well. That was outside of the outside of

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the box. So Dave Roberts did
a great job pushing the buttons tonight and

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certainly deserves credit because when things don't
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you're the first one to call in
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And the players have to play.
The players have to execute if one of

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those relievers blinks. Obviously we're not
talking about a Dodger win. But let's

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not forget these are the Tigers.
I know they've been playing better lately,

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but that's not the Phillies lineup,
and those relievers should be able to put

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up zeros like they did tonight.
Let's go out to Mike and Burbank and

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I will say one other thing.
Mistakes did not add up on the Dodgers

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tonight. No matter how good or
bad of a team, you're playing the

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mistakes the Dodgers made in Philadelphia,
you are not going to beat anybody.

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You're not even going to beat the
Sisters of Mercy, as the Great Chickern

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would say. With the mistakes the
Dodgers made in the field, on the

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bases, in the batter's box,
you're not going to win. And tonight

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they were. They played cleaner baseball
than what we've seen since last Saturday.

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Frankly at Dodgers Stadium. Let's go
out to Burbank. Mike, you're on

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Dodger Talk. How you doing,
Mike Good? Dave normally on Mike riverside,

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but I gotta go where the work
is. Hey, Burbank's a great

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player. Yeah, Hey, great
two out hitting tonight as well. You

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know that's something we haven't team.
But hey, just a question. When

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Mookie comes back and they're saying Rookie
and Rojas for now will be the infilled,

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what do you do with Gavin Lucks
He's the odd man out. Sorry,

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Mike, He's I'm sorry, you
know I like Gavin personally, but

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when Mookie Beds comes back, Gavin
Lux is the odd man out. Mookie

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Bets is going to second, Miguel
Rojas is going to be the Dodgers shortstop

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in October, and Gavin Lux,
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he is going to be a bench
player. Mike, that's just the

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facts. I agree, we're well
past the halfway point here. He has

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almost what two hundred plate appearances.
The Dodgers cannot wait for Gavin Lux any

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longer, and his ninth inning at
bat left a lot to be desired tonight

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as well. Yeah, and one
more, any updates on Yamamoto? You

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know? Yeah, I have updates
on Yamamoto. Joe Kelly and Bruce Star

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Gretorol Mike Yamamoto, according to Dave
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He's not coming back until August at
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so at least he's moving the arm
around. I wouldn't hold your breath,

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but at least he's throwing the baseball. Awesome, all right, Mike,

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thanks for the phone call. Yeah, Joe Kelly, Dave Roberts confirm should

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be back for the first series after
the All Star Break against his former team,

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the Boston Red Sox. And look, I wasn't counting on Bruce Star

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Gretarol coming back this year, but
Dave Roberts said he is trending towards a

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rehab assignment here very shortly. So
if the Dodgers can get Gretarol back and

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Joe Kelly and at some point Ryan
Brazier, that certainly would help this bullpen

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depth that has been severely tested with
starters only going four or five innings recently.

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Eight six, nine, eight seven, two five seventy is the phone

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number. The Dodgers come from behind
and beat the Tigers tonight four to three

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in front of forty two thousand and
sixty at Comerica Park, And look,

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this was a big win for the
Dodgers, not only to snap a four

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game losing streak, But the facts
are as we talked about in Philadelphia,

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the Dodgers starting pitching is extremely thin. Tomorrow they have Justin Robleski making his

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second career major league start, and
on Sunday they have a bullpen game,

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and today was basically a bullpen game. So if they lose this one,

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there's a lot of pressure, and
you're climbing a big mountain with a rookie

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on the mount tomorrow and also a
bullpen game on Sunday. But the Dodger

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Bats need to come alive to get
some early runs because they've been playing behind

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for the last week. Tonight,
their first lead since last Saturday came in

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the ninth inning, and that was
the final score, four to three tonight

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in Detroit. Let's go to a
mission via Ho Brad. You're on Dodger

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Talk. Hi, Brad, Hi, thanks for taking my call. Yeah,

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a question of the runs allowed improved
a little bit, he er.

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It's nice to see that because when
you were saying the other night that over

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the last eight ten games they had
given up like fifty runs or something forty

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four in their last forty five innings
for starters after that first game in Philly,

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right, Yeah, and then going
back to the San Francisco finale.

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Yeah, in fact, that's got
to improve, you know, all pitchers

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giving up the total of even like
more than fifty runs. I was also

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curious. The All Star Game is
coming up Tuesday, and just like you

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said a few minutes ago, they
were well past the halfway point. Why

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do you think that is that it's
not more like eighty one games in an

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eighty one games on the other side, No idea, Brad. They just

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feel like that's the perfect time.
That's why I go back and forth when

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I say the halfway point, because
we are past the halfway point for the

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Dodgers. It's not the eighty first
game on Sunday for the Dodgers. Tonight

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was their ninety fifth game of the
year. So yeah, it's just the

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Midsummer Classic. It's right in the
middle of summer. Brad. Thanks for

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the phone call. Let's go out
to San Diego. Robin. You're on

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Dodger Talk. Hi, Robin,
Hey David, how are you doing doing

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good? Hey? My first question, I want to really give you an

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appreciation for your growth as in an
announcer. You've really come a long ways

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in the last four or five years. Man, you really thank you.

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Robin an excellent observer of the Dodgers
in baseball. I appreciate that. Weird,

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We're all trying to get better every
day in our life and in our

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jobs, so I appreciate that you've
You've definitely climbed a good hill. Laddie

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book. But anyhow, It's my
real question. Who do you feel the

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Dodgers will give up to, like
Detroit for like this guy's sober or whatever

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the guy's name is. I mean, you got to get you know,

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they're they're in a pinch. I
mean, like you say, they they're

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pitching is pretty pathetic. And they're
gonna have to give up somebody. And

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who are they going to give up? Do you think to give somebody?

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They will have to give up somebody. They will have to give up multiple

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prospects to be able to get Trek
Scoogle from the Tigers. But if you

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take on Javier Bias's contract, it
won't be the premium package if you don't

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take him and his contract on.
And like I said, the best comparison

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I can use is when Neck Coletti
pulled off that trade with the Red Sox

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that brought Adrian Gonzalez, who was
the player the Dodgers wanted. But so

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they didn't have to give up the
entire farm and only give up two suspects

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and Ruby de la Rosa and Alan
Webster, they took on the contracts of

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Carl Crawford and Josh Beckett. Crawford
especially, so that's why I'm saying you

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have to take on a Javier Bias
to lessen the blow in that department.

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Yeah, I agree with you,
But I mean, at the same time,

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they're going to have to give up
somebody on that always have to to

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get something. You have to give
something, no doubt about it, Robin.

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But the Dodgers have a lot of
good pitching prospects, names that we

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don't even know about, and lo
that other teams have been scouting. So

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for you to put me on the
spot and tell you who exactly the Tigers

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want, I don't know what their
needs are. I don't know who they're

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looking at. But obviously some of
these blue Chippers, one of these Dodger

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catchers behind Will Smith, will be
included in a trade. You could be

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sure that for Trek Scuubel or Garrett
Crochet. Do you feel that they'd probably

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go for somebody that the Dodgers have
on their you know, their lineup right

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now or on their roster. Who
would that be? I don't think so

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well. I mean, would you
give up Luck, would you give up

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Vargas? Yeah? I would,
I would give up Yes, I would

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for Trek Scuball in a trade for
Schooble or Crochet, Lucks Vargas outman,

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they're all on the table. Yeah, I think you're right. I mean

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you got to give to get all
right, Robin, thanks for the phone

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call. Appreciate it. Eight six
six nine eighty seven two five seventy is

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the phone number. With the Dodgers
win tonight, they improved their record of

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fifty six and thirty nine. They
certainly need to keep winning because they're right

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there with the Brewers for the second
seed in the National League playoff picture.

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The Brewers have forty losses, the
Dodgers thirty nine. So it's not just

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about holding off the Padres after the
All Star Break. It's about trying to

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win that second seed in the playoff
pictures, so you don't have to play

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that best of three Wildcards series against
a team that probably is red hot like

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the Diamondbacks were last year and the
Padres were the year before. Tomorrow,

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Game two of this three game series
for the Dodgers, young Justin Robleski will

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be making his first start in the
major leagues on the road. His second

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career start. Remember, he started
last Sunday at Dodgers Stadium in his major

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league debut when five innings gave up
four runs. He's going up against our

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young right hander in Kider Montero.
Montero is one and two with an ERA

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four to sixty four. Morongo Casino. Dodgers on Deck begins at ten to

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ten in the morning from Coomerica Park. We will talk to you then,

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thanks to Colin Ye and our Burbank
Studios. Thanks to Dwayne McDonald at America

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Park in Detroit. In case you
missed any of the show, you can

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find it on the iHeartRadio app.
Once again. The final score. Tonight

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in Detroit, the Dodgers snap their
four game losing streak with a four to

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three win. Enjoy the rest of
your Friday night. We'll talk to you

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tomorrow early. Once again, the
final score. The Dodgers beat the Tigers

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four to three. See them