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Angeles Dodgers thirty six and twenty two on the season. After a five hundred
road trip that included a sweep of the ment in New York, the Dodgers
return home for the start of a three game weekend series against the Colorado Rockies,
Hopefully rested after a long delayed flight home from the East Coast. Walker
Bueller on the mound. First pitch from Dodger Stadium is coming up at seven
to ten. Up next here on the next hour of Marono Casino Dodgers on
Deck, we will hear from the Dodger manager, Dave Roberts. We will
preview this pitching matchup. David Bassey will go one on one with Bobby Miller.
Shortly we'll hear from Kirsten Watson. We'll get your o TAWI rewind and
in just a few minutes we'll check in with Rick Monday and Tim neffertt o
at the Galpin Motors Broadcast booth. Well when day in the Queens, the
Dodgers were the Kings as they beat the Mets ten to three. James Paxton
got the start. It was an abbreviated start going in. He knew that
on short rest. Three innings, no runs, two hits, three strikeouts.
The Dodgers offense gave James packs in the early lead. Will Smith got
it started in the second. Think good Peterson, you get something common with
you mo left handed. Yeah. Aside from that, there's a swing in
a drive deep to left fan, way back. It goes, it is
gone. Will Smith a solo homer to get it going. Here the second
inning, one nothing Dodgers home run number eight for will as Smith rounds the
bases and starts things off for the Dodgers well. On the second inning,
Will Smith is solo home run back to back games with the home run,
hitting over four hundred against left handed pitching. More on Will Smith coming up.
Andy Pott has an RBI single and the fourth Dodgers a two to nothing
lead. Show Hey Otani an RBI single in the top of the fifth.
Dodgers were up three to nothing. But that fell apart in the bottom of
the fifth inning as the Mets scored three runs. Tomas Nito a two run
shot. JD. Martinez, the former Dodger, tied it up with an
RBI double, So the game was tied at three until the eighth, when
Will Smith untied it ball no strikes. Tom Avino gets ready to face Will
Smith again. It was a curve ball swung on hit well in the left
field and is going back to the walk down home run for Smith had the
Dodgers leaded in the eighth four to three. The second home run of the
game for Will Smith. Head the Dodger catcher, has scored three of the
four Dodger runs this afternoon. What a performance from Will Smith. Two home
runs, his ninth of the year for that one, giving the Dodgers a
four to three lead. But they weren't done. They'd score six runs in
the eighth Inny Miguel Rojas an RBI single, Miguel Vargas a two run double
show heyl Tony capped it off with a two run home run as the Dodgers
explode to take a nine three lead. Brought to you by Arco, the
top tier gas for less, and they weren't done. In the ninth,
Jason Hayward a solo home run, his second of the year. Dodgers go
on and beat the Mets ten to three. Blake Trying gets the winning relief.
Adam Ottovino gets the loss. What a day for Will Smith who gets
his one hundredth home run in a Dodger uniform. Roy Campanella, Mike Piazza
and Steve Yeger the only other three to do so, and Will Smith ties
Steve Yeger with one hundred in a Dodger uniform as the Dodgers get the sweep
in New York No. Now thirty six and twenty two on this season.
They come back home with a six and a half game, leading the division
as the offense starting to heat up. Walker Buehler on the mount in this
series opener tonight, first pitch at seven ten and with more let's head out
to the Galpin Moters broadcast say hello to Eric Monday and Tim Never guys,
Tim, thank you very much. Gorgeous night a Dodgers stadium. Great to
be back, and the Dodgers take on the Rockies tonight, first to three,
before heading right back to the East take on Pittsburgh and the Yankees.
But meantime, the Dodgers have won three straight, ended up with a three
and three road trip after sweeping the Mets, and they have won a lot
against these Colorado Rockies. In fact, the last one hundred games against the
Rockies, the Dodgers have won sixty nine of them. Last year, they
took ten of thirteen meetings. Dodgers begin the game six and a half games
above both San Francisco and San Diego in the Division, and the Rockies in
the basement fourteen and a half back their record twenty and thirty five, fifteen
under five hundred. Already, the Rockies playing a little bit better lately.
They took two of three from the Phillies and two of three from Cleveland in
their last two series. Dakota Hudson at one in seven makes the start for
Colorado. Walker Buller one in two. He'll make his fifth start tonight,
But Mookie Bett's back at shortstop after playing second base two days ago in New
York, and I think the good news also Dave Roberts is alluding to it
after the last game on the road trip, is we're now beginning to see
the bottom part of the order. We're talking about it for a number of
weeks. Bottom part of the order now is starting to contribute, and that's
exactly what they were able to do, in particular in the final game of
the series in New York, where the bottom part of the lineup responsible for
five runs that were put up on the scoreboard, five of the ten runs.
So that is the very good news. And you get some support from
the bottom part because for the most part of the season it's been the big
horses hit. The top of the order been pulling the wagon. Miguel Rojas
coming off a four hit game, his tenth career four hit game. He's
batting in the eighth spot again. Dave Roberts complimenting his compete at the plate
lately, and we've seen it very good. Yeah, I did some numbers
today and started to look to put it into perspective. The bottom third of
the lineup coming in tonight, and again they're hitting much better if we look,
not only in the New York series, but it is starting to show
some signs in Cincinnati at the beginning of the last road trip. But the
number seven hitters in the lineup total one nine four. Number eight hitters just
one eighty five, number nine hitters two to two. Those numbers are going
up, and that is a very good sign. Indeed, Well, the
Dodgers want to give their skipper a birthday present tonight at Stave roberts fifty second
birthday, So a win is really all he cares about at this point in
time in terms of getting a win. Number thirty seven. They've won seven
straight games at home against Colorado, and it seems for the Rockies when you
look at him year over year, at least the last few years, and
again coming in here for their first meeting this year, it's basically the same
ball club. They keep running the same guys out there, and they keep
getting similar results and wondering that the results are not going to be changing.
Talking about Dave robertson hit his birthday. Hopefully it's going to be a happy
night. Normally the win, it's a happy flight. The Dodgers did not
have a happy flight from New York to Los Angeles because of weather, because
of a mechanical because of a crew change. The Dodgers were on the plane
for thirteen and a half hours for a five hour flight. Did you get
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This is the free wide all in one to Otani stretch and the delivery
swung on ground ball up the middle, sharply hit. Farnus is gonna come
around third. He's on his way to the plate. He will score,
and O'tani gets his first hit of the series, driving in a run.
It is now three to nothing. Marcus off of second Lopez pitch and Showy
hits one well to left field. This ball's back and this pun is gone.
Shaw Hell Tony with a two run shot and there's nine to three.
The show rolls on here in New York. Two run home run for show
Hey Otani. He was two for three on Wednesday in the finale against the
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Kirston's Corner with Kirston Watson. Hey, Kirston now joins us before this series
opener against the Colorado Rockies. What a wild road trip, Kirston. The
Dodgers lose three straight in Cincinnati, get rained out of Memorial Day, then
they take three from the New York met some interesting travels back from New York.
But with that all being said, this is a team that's in good
spirits right now and I have to be feeling good about the way they're playing.
Yeah, they really did. And ultimately, like look, you talked
about how the braindown on Memorial so that Monday it really allowed for everyone just
to kind of reset. They came in for the doubleheader, they're ready to
go. Took two on that game, and then they were able to pick
up the sweep on Wednesday. So Dave has said that like it's truly in
the last seventy two hours, If not, I guess maybe a couple more
like a total just shift and energy. The offense has gotten going again.
We've seen from Will Smith multiple homers in the last game, and if you
look at the last two games, he's got three homers. So the top
of the order is getting things going. Show Hey, it was kind of
the numbers had dropped down, but he's now gone back on track with that
home run in the last game in New York. And then like, really
the bottom of the order though they were able to put together some hits and
with talking to a couple of the guys for them, it's really just about
like how can they set the table for the top of the order. And
the numbers have shown, especially with Miguel Rojas. You know, when he
goes, the team goes, and he has kept his little If he has
a hit or scores a run, they're undefeated and he's kept that one going.
So let's see what he can do today. The bottom of the lineup
for this Dodgers team, I mean, we talked about it on Dodger Talk
a lot, and we talk about it here on the pregame show a lot.
It cannot just be the top four when Will Smith included in this Dodger's
lineup if they want to keep producing in winning games and winning series. And
I think we're starting to see Jason Hayward, Miguel Vargas, some of these
guys starting to produce here. Yeah, and that's exactly what it is.
Look, it can't just be the top of the order. And so the
fact that you're seeing not only just about on the order getting on base,
getting a result, they are proving to be a lot of the difference in
a lot of these games. And they get going, then it just puts
the top of the order in a position where like the other day in Game
three against the Men's where when Mookie Betts and Freddie Freeman they don't have a
hit, you know, but they still can put up ten runs and still
ability big performance and things like that. So the fact that those guys are
getting going. Dave has said that ultimately he doesn't necessarily always like to talk
about, you know, top of the order the bottom of the order,
but he did say today that what they're doing is they're doing their jobs,
and that is really push in the offense in a good position. They're seeing
really good at bats. He's putting them in a good position to win games.
Kirston, we appreciate it. We're glad everybody's back safe and sound and
rested. On this Friday night day, you got another road trip to look
forward doing seventy two hours, you're back on the road. How about that.
Listen, just know we are going to be the kings and queens of
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scopper anything A questions for Dave Dave? Can you just describe Dave? Can
you talk about the pressure in the dugouts with Dave Roberts Dave, Happy birthday?
What is your favorite part about celebrating your birthday at the ballpark? You
know, I think outside of just being with my family, I think there's
no other place on Earth I'd rather be. I really wouldn't And to have
a home birthday, a game, a day we're playing baseball. It's great.
The Lord blessed with the beautiful day at Dodger Stadium. So just very
excited, well being back home, coming off of the sweep in New York.
How have you seen just the offense get back on track and really just
the bottom of the order. How have you seen them start to be really
in a position which they're kind of setting the tone and setting the table for
the top of the order. It's great, I'll tell you you know what
a different seventy two hours makes. You know, you're on the heels of
losing six in a row, and you come back and win a ball game.
Then you win three in a row, and you're feeling pretty good about
yourselves. I try not to make too much of the bottom part of the
order, but I think it just really comes down to everyone just doing their
part. And when those guys are doing their part and taking productive at bats,
then good things happen. What do you want to see from Walker today?
I think with Walker just command, I think the stuff is good enough.
I think last time, I think he took down twenty one hitters,
got into the sixth inning. I'd love to see him go through, you
know, twenty three twenty four hitters tonight and you know, put us in
a position win a ball game. All right, there's Dave Roberts down to
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DV. The big news for the Dodgers today getting healthy Evan Phillips is back.
Yeah, and that's a big boost to the Dodger bullpen. Tim there
without Joe Kelly and Ryan Brazier as it is, and getting Evan Phillips back
from a freak injury where he was just playing catch and got his cleat stuck
in the grass while playing catch with Joe Kelly and it turned into a Grade
one right hamstring strain. And gotta tell you, Evan Phillips one of the
nicer guys in that clubhouse. He was not happy during his month on the
il, but today the smile was back on his face. Very happy to
be back, very excited. You know, not being able to pitch and
being on the injured list is definitely no fun. It's much less fun than
you know, being a part of the team and trying to win ball game.
So very fortunate that my rehab journey was irrelatively quick and fully healed,
So very fortunate for that. I'm just happy to be here again. Did
you catch Daniel Hudson reminding the world you are the Dodgers? Yeah? Sure,
did you know? That was really exciting? It was actually that game
of the doubleheader was what Sunday right, Yeah, So I had I had
a rehab game that day, and I was just getting ready for my game,
and I had the Dodgers on in the background, and you know,
watching that moment unfold and you know they basis loaded three to zero count,
you know, winning run on third base. I didn't have any doubt that
Hoddy could get through it. So it was a super super awesome to see
that come to fruition and the shushing of the crowd at the end was just
the icing on the cake. Man. I could tell you're back. The
smile is back. For Evan Phillips. It feels like a weight's beIN lifted.
Definitely. Yeah. I'm absolutely just super excited to get back out there
and you know, competing again. So been it felt like a long road
for me, just because it's been I think about four weeks now since I've
been in a game. So just super happy to be back. Yeah,
Evan Phillips is back, and Alicia Hernandez was DFA designated for assignment to make
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three game series, the Dodgers will head back on the road and back to
the East Coast Pittsburgh and New York, this time to face the Yankees.
I don't nobody's gonna do the Dodgers any favors, but the schedule makers certainly
are not doing them any favors. Yeah, it's not just the Dodgers.
Tim. Other teams around baseball cannot believe the way the schedule makers at New
York City's office, the hub for Major League Baseball, planned out this year's
twenty twenty four campaign. You go back to Cincinnati, and the Reds played
the Dodgers more than they already have played inside their own division. They played
the Dodgers seven times and have only played three games inside their own division.
And not only are the Dodgers going back to the East Coast after this short
three game homestand next month the Dodgers return home from a four game series in
Denver against these Rockies to play two games against the Angels to go back out
on the road to Chicago and San Francisco. So very strange schedule. Not
to mention Tim this coming week in our a week from today, the Dodgers
are a Yankee stadium. While Major League Baseball has the most anticipated regular season
series in New York between the Dodgers and Yankees, they also planned for their
Jewel London series to take place the same weekend. Go figure that. I
can't figure that one out, Dave. All right, time not to pick
the ponies as we do here at Santa Anita. And tomorrow we're looking at
the eighth race at Santa Anita, currently a ten horse race six furlongs.
Who you like, DV in the eighth race tomorrow? Well, Cody Bellingers
sent me a nice text today, So I'm going with the nine horse Cody
Boy. And yes, I'll pick up that name off the ground, Cody
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few rows ahead of me on that plane that was delayed seven hours the other
night on the way back from Newark. Have you recovered Rick Monday? I
just woke up about two hours ago. Was that a night of just stand
by to stand by. And by the way, kudos to first of all
our cabin crew that most of them we see on every flight. They did
a marvelous job. And also to Jay, the gentleman from United Airlines that
goes with us. He wound up getting on the plane finally, he was
soaking wet. He was doing his best to get a the plane fixed,
b to get a flight crew up front because they had timed out and the
airport had closed because of weather. So yeah, it took us thirteen plus
hours on the plane to take a five hour flight. It was quite an
evening, it sure was. And I was telling guys at the radio station.
The good news was nobody had a meltdown, nobody freaked out on the
plane. Everybody kept their composure. It is what it is. And again,
the people that really made it enjoyable impalatable at the very least was the
cabin crew. You know, the flight attendants that worked the Dodgers charters are
absolutely top of their profession and they showed that. You know, they don't
get paid for that on the ground. Wow, they do not get paid
while they're on the ground in doing that. They get paid in the air
so our thanks to them and our thanks to Jay. Jay may have dried
out by this time. He was literally soaking wet off the plane, calling,
calling, you know, the the tower, calling everybody else to see
if we could get a flight crew. And we had to wait for the
maintenance to come and fix the plane because there was an issue taxiing out of
a fuel pump. You know, it's better to have a malfunction while you're
in the where you're on the ground, than is in the air. I
was never aware of that. Yeah, I learned that being a pilot over
a lot of years myself. David, Yeah, it's much better because there's
no off ramp. You know, you can't pull over the side and called
Triple A or anybody else. Hey, Rick, good news. The Dodgers
will do it again on Monday when they go back to the East Coast.
Yeah, I can't wait. But they got a short homestand here against one
of the worst teams in baseball. How do you view this series for the
Dodgers, Going back to the fact that the Dodgers are here for three games
and then they go back to Pittsburgh and New York. I know there were
a couple of people talking to said, well, should we just leave our
luggage in the hotel here and we'll you know, we'll get by at home
obviously for the three days and pack enough clothes for the three days in Pittsburgh
and then go back and pick up the luggage because we're at the same hotel
when we go to New York next time to play the Yankees. But you
know, now, three games against the Rockies don't take them lightly. I
mean, it comes down to the same thing that I've said even from spring
trending. The Dodgers are viewed as the Goliath of baseball. The Rockies are
having a putrid season, and that may be at the best you talk about
that. I mean, they come in, they're twenty and thirty five,
there's seven and twenty one on the road. However, they're playing against Goliath.
That's going to be incentive itself, right, And I feel like already
we've seen that the Reds played Goliath and took them down in Cincinnati, Yeah,
and enjoyed every minute of it. It was amazing. In New York
at City Field, Tim Nevert and I were talking about the fact is,
you know that first game, the Mets had the lead and it was kind
of a quiet stadium and the Dodgers when they were able to come back and
tie that game, it was amazing, if not overwhelming, the number of
Dodger fans that were there. Now I realized there's still a certain age group
that has irritated that the Dodgers packed up and left Brooklyn to begin with.
But there's even more of a group that they were on their feet when the
Dodgers were winning those games. Yeah, it's the grandkids of the Dodger fans
from Brooklyn that were in Queen's over the weekend or not over the weekend.
Research again have Yeah, there we go, right, Yeah, moonlighting,
Thanks a lot, Rick, and we'll check in with you and Tim Nevertt
a little bit later. Yeah. Yeah, I'm glad you finally woke up.
Hey, I wish we were sitting in the same road together during those
seven hours. Rick, won't happen. We'll check back with Rick Monday a
little bit later. For now, we'll send it back to you in the
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to come home and see my guy, Bobby Miller. Bobby, thanks a
lot for the time. You look fresh and well rested. I feel great.
Thanks for having me. Everybody's wondering how the rehab is going. I
know the way you've expressed it to me that you're itching to get back.
I'm definitely interesting to get back. You know, I just trusting the process
at the same time, but I feel ready to go. I feel ready
to get back in major league games with where my stuff is at right now
and health wise, I feel one hundred percent right now. But you know,
I'm just here trusting the process. During your rehab outing, can you
gauge anything from those or is it more about how you feel the next day.
It's a little bit of a mix of both. You know, I
felt great that day the day after. I've been bouncing back really good,
especially after that after that LIVEVP here at Dodger Stadium. It seemed like right
after that, like I just started bouncing back really good health wise, and
everything just seemed to go away. And I'm feeling nothing at this point,
like no pinch or anything. In the shoulder even warming up. It's not
taking me a long time to get loose anymore. It's just like coming out
good right away. But the takeaways from the game, I mean, it's
hard, like really to know what to expect. You know, you don't
know if there's gonna be guys like really really excited to face a major leaguer
and start swinging a lot. But you know, some of a couple of
them put together some good at bats. It's really just an execution standpoint for
me, like showing them something good or not. But I my takeaways were
really good, you know, after a decent amount of strikes. Fastball was
really good, changed up was great, cider was great. Curveball still needs
a little bit of work, but I learned that everything's going good. The
curveball, that's that's a field pitch, right, I mean, yeah,
last year that was a big field pitch for me. I could throw whenever
I wanted, whatever count. I still feel that way. It's just not
as sharp as it should be right now. But I'm sure once I get
back into game action, it'll be right where it needs to be. I
remember the first time Bobby Miller pitched at Dodger Stadium. It was during the
Futures Game of All Star Weekend here at Dodger Stadium, and your manager was
Mike Zosha for that game, and he had so many great things to say
about you. But the one thing that's refreshing is how you prioritize throwing the
fastball down in a way to hitters. That seems to be a lost art.
Yeah, I mean, especially like a guy like me too, like
a little bit of a taller guy being six to five. I'm not releasing
low. So you know, when you release high, that fastball down in
a way is really good. It almost looks like it's especially if you have
good carry on the baseball, which I've had like this year and a little
bit most of the time last year, you know, and you stick that
down away heater. Being a tall and high release guy, it could look
like it's going to be a ball out of the hand, like it's coming
straight down, looks like it's going into the ground. But you stick that
pitch and you'll get a lot of swings out other stuff. And then it's
kind of the opposite, like a shorter guy or a low release guy,
like throwing the ball up it's like the same effect. So but a lot
of people take that for granted. They think a lot of guys think like,
oh, I really good vertical breakup my fastball. I can just throw
it up at all times, but it's just going to make your off speed
pitches worse. So that's something I had to learn coming into this organization is
burning out a stick, a downin the way heater. I really started throwing
that more when I got to the major leagues. I wasn't throwing that enough
coming up up through the system, and that's something Prior helped me out with
a lot, and he's telling me like, hey, this is this is
a really good throw for you. And I started working on that. And
I still do every single bullpen and make sure I can establish that glove side
heater before I start throwing anything else. So that's a really important pitch.
Bobby Miller is our guest Walker Bueller's on the mountain tonight for thes How impressive
has it been to watch him put in the work and obviously be able to
come back and pitch at this level the way he has. Yeah, I
mean I know, knowing Walker, I know, I know he expects a
lot out of himself and he's a huge competitor, So I'm excited to watch
him tonight. You know, it's always a tree being able to watch Walker
pitch. He's always been one of my favorite guys to watch in baseball and
it's a blessing to being teammates with him, and and I'm pretty good friends
with him now at this point. And but yeah, I love watching Walker
pitch, and he's getting better every outing and and he knows what he needs
to do. How about your roommate, Evin Stone, He's really starting to
put his name amongst some of the better rookies in the National League. It's
been a work in progress, but like you, he put in a lot
of work during the off season. Yeah, he put in a ton of
work and it's obviously showing the steps that he made from last year to this
year. Is is crazy. You know, he's he's became. I mean,
he's he's one of the better arms and like all starters right now,
he's going deep into games every single start, which is which is really good
for our bullpen. And he's given it. I haven't seen him not give
the team a chance to win when he's out there, and that's something we
really prioritize as a starters. It's just like the main thing is giving the
team a chance to win, and he does that every time he's out there.
All right, Bobby, thanks a lot for the time. Glad things
are going well for you and we look forward to seeing you on the mound
soon. Thank you. There he is my guy, Bobby Miller. We'll
send it back to you in the studio. Tim, all right, thanks
a lot. DV. Great to hear from Bobby Miller. Hopefully getting close
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round pick of the Cardinals in twenty sixteen out of Mississippi State, made his
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before this year, making his eleven start this season last time out, six
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two third innings, three runs, six hits, four strikeouts and a loss
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get you ready for the first pitch of the ball game tonight the Dodgers and
the Rockies. Walker Bueller against Dakota Hudson. Buehller has faced the Rockies more
than any other team in his career'll make his twentieth start against the Rockies.
Just in his last five starts alone, he's three to zero against them.
He said, really good success against Colorado, and in his fifth start tonight,
he hopes that it translates into more success against that ball club and hopefully
gets off to a good start. The first nine batters going through the lineup
the first time have been somewhat problematic of three forty three batting average against him
and for Bueller five home runs, but they have all been solo home runs,
you know, with runners on base. Walker Buehler's given up just a
one sixty seven batting average against He's challenging hitters early and then when he needs
to really pick and choose, he's really been on top of it. One
key for him so far, and again it's a small sample because we've only
seen him in four starts, but he's allowed nine earned runs, five of
them more than half have come in the first inning, So he's got to
try to shut it down right away. Yeah, shut it down. And
for the Rockies, they have three lefties in the lineup, so predominantly right
handed hitters and right handers have hit exactly one hundred against Bueller in his four
starts. Left he's hitting three ninety five on the other hand, So that's
why Bud Black's got Charlie Blackman, Ezekiel Tovar and Ryan McMahon out there to
start things tonight. Well, as far as Dakota Hudson is concerned, first
pitch to him by him has been a problem because he is giving up an
average of six thirty three on the first pitch he throws in games, and
two of the five home runs he's allowed have also come on the first pitch.
Yeah, he's had trouble first nine and the final third time through the
lineup. But he's coming off a very good start, maybe his best outing
before the bullpen collapsed. And for Dakota Hudson had a no decision. That
was last Saturday against the Phillies. He went six innings, only two runs,
five hits, and the Rockies are hoping that was just something that really
good. Signs to come. Hudson at one and seven, deal A at
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