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Everybody, lookome in to Morongo Casino
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your Friday afternoon now into the evening
here in beautiful southern California. You're Los

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Angeles Dodgers thirty six and twenty two
on the season. After a five hundred

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road trip that included a sweep of
the ment in New York, the Dodgers

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return home for the start of a
three game weekend series against the Colorado Rockies,

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Hopefully rested after a long delayed flight
home from the East Coast. Walker

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Bueller on the mound. First pitch
from Dodger Stadium is coming up at seven

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to ten. Up next here on
the next hour of Marono Casino Dodgers on

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Deck, we will hear from the
Dodger manager, Dave Roberts. We will

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preview this pitching matchup. David Bassey
will go one on one with Bobby Miller.

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Shortly we'll hear from Kirsten Watson.
We'll get your o TAWI rewind and

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in just a few minutes we'll check
in with Rick Monday and Tim neffertt o

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at the Galpin Motors Broadcast booth.
Well when day in the Queens, the

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Dodgers were the Kings as they beat
the Mets ten to three. James Paxton

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got the start. It was an
abbreviated start going in. He knew that

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on short rest. Three innings,
no runs, two hits, three strikeouts.

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The Dodgers offense gave James packs in
the early lead. Will Smith got

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it started in the second. Think
good Peterson, you get something common with

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you mo left handed. Yeah.
Aside from that, there's a swing in

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a drive deep to left fan,
way back. It goes, it is

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gone. Will Smith a solo homer
to get it going. Here the second

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inning, one nothing Dodgers home run
number eight for will as Smith rounds the

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bases and starts things off for the
Dodgers well. On the second inning,

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Will Smith is solo home run back
to back games with the home run,

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hitting over four hundred against left handed
pitching. More on Will Smith coming up.

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Andy Pott has an RBI single and
the fourth Dodgers a two to nothing

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lead. Show Hey Otani an RBI
single in the top of the fifth.

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Dodgers were up three to nothing.
But that fell apart in the bottom of

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the fifth inning as the Mets scored
three runs. Tomas Nito a two run

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shot. JD. Martinez, the
former Dodger, tied it up with an

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RBI double, So the game was
tied at three until the eighth, when

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Will Smith untied it ball no strikes. Tom Avino gets ready to face Will

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Smith again. It was a curve
ball swung on hit well in the left

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field and is going back to the
walk down home run for Smith had the

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Dodgers leaded in the eighth four to
three. The second home run of the

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game for Will Smith. Head the
Dodger catcher, has scored three of the

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four Dodger runs this afternoon. What
a performance from Will Smith. Two home

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runs, his ninth of the year
for that one, giving the Dodgers a

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four to three lead. But they
weren't done. They'd score six runs in

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the eighth Inny Miguel Rojas an RBI
single, Miguel Vargas a two run double

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show heyl Tony capped it off with
a two run home run as the Dodgers

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explode to take a nine three lead. Brought to you by Arco, the

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top tier gas for less, and
they weren't done. In the ninth,

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Jason Hayward a solo home run,
his second of the year. Dodgers go

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on and beat the Mets ten to
three. Blake Trying gets the winning relief.

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Adam Ottovino gets the loss. What
a day for Will Smith who gets

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his one hundredth home run in a
Dodger uniform. Roy Campanella, Mike Piazza

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and Steve Yeger the only other three
to do so, and Will Smith ties

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Steve Yeger with one hundred in a
Dodger uniform as the Dodgers get the sweep

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in New York No. Now thirty
six and twenty two on this season.

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They come back home with a six
and a half game, leading the division

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as the offense starting to heat up. Walker Buehler on the mount in this

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series opener tonight, first pitch at
seven ten and with more let's head out

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to the Galpin Moters broadcast say hello
to Eric Monday and Tim Never guys,

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Tim, thank you very much.
Gorgeous night a Dodgers stadium. Great to

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be back, and the Dodgers take
on the Rockies tonight, first to three,

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before heading right back to the East
take on Pittsburgh and the Yankees.

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But meantime, the Dodgers have won
three straight, ended up with a three

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and three road trip after sweeping the
Mets, and they have won a lot

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against these Colorado Rockies. In fact, the last one hundred games against the

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Rockies, the Dodgers have won sixty
nine of them. Last year, they

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took ten of thirteen meetings. Dodgers
begin the game six and a half games

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above both San Francisco and San Diego
in the Division, and the Rockies in

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the basement fourteen and a half back
their record twenty and thirty five, fifteen

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under five hundred. Already, the
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They took two of three from the
Phillies and two of three from Cleveland in

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their last two series. Dakota Hudson
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Colorado. Walker Buller one in two. He'll make his fifth start tonight,

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But Mookie Bett's back at shortstop after
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York, and I think the good
news also Dave Roberts is alluding to it

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after the last game on the road
trip, is we're now beginning to see

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the bottom part of the order.
We're talking about it for a number of

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weeks. Bottom part of the order
now is starting to contribute, and that's

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exactly what they were able to do, in particular in the final game of

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the series in New York, where
the bottom part of the lineup responsible for

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five runs that were put up on
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So that is the very good news. And you get some support from

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the bottom part because for the most
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horses hit. The top of the
order been pulling the wagon. Miguel Rojas

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coming off a four hit game,
his tenth career four hit game. He's

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batting in the eighth spot again.
Dave Roberts complimenting his compete at the plate

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lately, and we've seen it very
good. Yeah, I did some numbers

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today and started to look to put
it into perspective. The bottom third of

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the lineup coming in tonight, and
again they're hitting much better if we look,

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not only in the New York series, but it is starting to show

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some signs in Cincinnati at the beginning
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number seven hitters in the lineup total
one nine four. Number eight hitters just

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one eighty five, number nine hitters
two to two. Those numbers are going

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up, and that is a very
good sign. Indeed, Well, the

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Dodgers want to give their skipper a
birthday present tonight at Stave roberts fifty second

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birthday, So a win is really
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time in terms of getting a win. Number thirty seven. They've won seven

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straight games at home against Colorado,
and it seems for the Rockies when you

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look at him year over year,
at least the last few years, and

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again coming in here for their first
meeting this year, it's basically the same

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ball club. They keep running the
same guys out there, and they keep

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getting similar results and wondering that the
results are not going to be changing.

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Talking about Dave robertson hit his birthday. Hopefully it's going to be a happy

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night. Normally the win, it's
a happy flight. The Dodgers did not

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have a happy flight from New York
to Los Angeles because of weather, because

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of a mechanical because of a crew
change. The Dodgers were on the plane

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for thirteen and a half hours for
a five hour flight. Did you get

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the sleep yesterday? I just woke
up about two hours ago. Me too,

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Rocky is when Dodgers coming up,
game one of this three game series.

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Dem all right, thank you guys, as we call you down to

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birthday boy Dave Roberts. We'll check
in with David Vets say he'll go high

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and tight with Bobby Miller. We'll
dive deeper to this pitchy matchup. We'll

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get you at Injury Report, We'll
get you your magical moment of the day.

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But up next you're O Tani Rewind
and we'll visit m Kirston Watson from

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sports and at LA. And that's
all coming up as we lead you up

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to Dodgers and Rockies on this Friday
night Military Appreciation Night. Appreciate all our

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military past and present. First pitch
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Bueller, Dakota Hudson, the pitching
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game series. And it's back on
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Coast. We getting next week.
First pitch tonight, coming up at seventen.

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This is the free wide all in
one to Otani stretch and the delivery

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swung on ground ball up the middle, sharply hit. Farnus is gonna come

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around third. He's on his way
to the plate. He will score,

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and O'tani gets his first hit of
the series, driving in a run.

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It is now three to nothing.
Marcus off of second Lopez pitch and Showy

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hits one well to left field.
This ball's back and this pun is gone.

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Shaw Hell Tony with a two run
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The show rolls on here in New
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Hey Otani. He was two for
three on Wednesday in the finale against the

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Mets, drives in the three runs
at the home run, now hitting three

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Kirston's Corner with Kirston Watson. Hey, Kirston now joins us before this series

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opener against the Colorado Rockies. What
a wild road trip, Kirston. The

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Dodgers lose three straight in Cincinnati,
get rained out of Memorial Day, then

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they take three from the New York
met some interesting travels back from New York.

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But with that all being said,
this is a team that's in good

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spirits right now and I have to
be feeling good about the way they're playing.

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Yeah, they really did. And
ultimately, like look, you talked

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about how the braindown on Memorial so
that Monday it really allowed for everyone just

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to kind of reset. They came
in for the doubleheader, they're ready to

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go. Took two on that game, and then they were able to pick

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up the sweep on Wednesday. So
Dave has said that like it's truly in

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the last seventy two hours, If
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like a total just shift and energy. The offense has gotten going again.

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We've seen from Will Smith multiple homers
in the last game, and if you

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look at the last two games,
he's got three homers. So the top

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of the order is getting things going. Show Hey, it was kind of

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the numbers had dropped down, but
he's now gone back on track with that

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home run in the last game in
New York. And then like, really

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the bottom of the order though they
were able to put together some hits and

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with talking to a couple of the
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like how can they set the table
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the numbers have shown, especially with
Miguel Rojas. You know, when he

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goes, the team goes, and
he has kept his little If he has

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a hit or scores a run,
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So let's see what he can do
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for this Dodgers team, I mean, we talked about it on Dodger Talk

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a lot, and we talk about
it here on the pregame show a lot.

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It cannot just be the top four
when Will Smith included in this Dodger's

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lineup if they want to keep producing
in winning games and winning series. And

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I think we're starting to see Jason
Hayward, Miguel Vargas, some of these

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guys starting to produce here. Yeah, and that's exactly what it is.

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Look, it can't just be the
top of the order. And so the

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fact that you're seeing not only just
about on the order getting on base,

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getting a result, they are proving
to be a lot of the difference in

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a lot of these games. And
they get going, then it just puts

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the top of the order in a
position where like the other day in Game

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three against the Men's where when Mookie
Betts and Freddie Freeman they don't have a

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hit, you know, but they
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ability big performance and things like that. So the fact that those guys are

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getting going. Dave has said that
ultimately he doesn't necessarily always like to talk

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about, you know, top of
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but he did say today that what
they're doing is they're doing their jobs,

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and that is really push in the
offense in a good position. They're seeing

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really good at bats. He's putting
them in a good position to win games.

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Kirston, we appreciate it. We're
glad everybody's back safe and sound and

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rested. On this Friday night day, you got another road trip to look

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forward doing seventy two hours, you're
back on the road. How about that.

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Listen, just know we are going
to be the kings and queens of

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cross country flight. That's right.
By the end of by the end of

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next week, you're gonna see Middle
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In the next last two weeks,
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just look out the window say hi, we appreciate it. Kirston will check

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get you an injury report as Evan
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Joe Kelly on the iel at the
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iel at the right cap strain.
Bobby Miller, who you'll hear from coming

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More on that we'll hear from him
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activated off the iel of that hamstring
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the back end of that Dodger's bullpen, Connor broadenstall on the Il, Clinton

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and Emma Shean all out with injuries. Let's check you out with the Dodger

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scopper anything A questions for Dave Dave? Can you just describe Dave? Can

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you talk about the pressure in the
dugouts with Dave Roberts Dave, Happy birthday?

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What is your favorite part about celebrating
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know, I think outside of just
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no other place on Earth I'd rather
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a home birthday, a game,
a day we're playing baseball. It's great.

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The Lord blessed with the beautiful day
at Dodger Stadium. So just very

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excited, well being back home,
coming off of the sweep in New York.

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How have you seen just the offense
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the bottom of the order. How
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in a position which they're kind of
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the top of the order. It's
great, I'll tell you you know what

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a different seventy two hours makes.
You know, you're on the heels of

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losing six in a row, and
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Then you win three in a row, and you're feeling pretty good about

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yourselves. I try not to make
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order, but I think it just
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part. And when those guys are
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then good things happen. What do
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I think with Walker just command,
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I think last time, I think
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got into the sixth inning. I'd
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know, twenty three twenty four hitters
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a position win a ball game.
All right, there's Dave Roberts down to

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in when David Bassey lean you up
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all season long, Dodgers and Rockies. Dodgers back home for a brief three

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game series against Colorado. Walker Bueler
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at seven ten, Joining Tim Kates
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for who they are. This is
Dodger insider David Basse. All right,

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DV. The big news for the
Dodgers today getting healthy Evan Phillips is back.

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Yeah, and that's a big boost
to the Dodger bullpen. Tim there

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without Joe Kelly and Ryan Brazier as
it is, and getting Evan Phillips back

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from a freak injury where he was
just playing catch and got his cleat stuck

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in the grass while playing catch with
Joe Kelly and it turned into a Grade

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one right hamstring strain. And gotta
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nicer guys in that clubhouse. He
was not happy during his month on the

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il, but today the smile was
back on his face. Very happy to

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be back, very excited. You
know, not being able to pitch and

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being on the injured list is definitely
no fun. It's much less fun than

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you know, being a part of
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So very fortunate that my rehab journey
was irrelatively quick and fully healed,

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So very fortunate for that. I'm
just happy to be here again. Did

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you catch Daniel Hudson reminding the world
you are the Dodgers? Yeah? Sure,

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did you know? That was really
exciting? It was actually that game

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of the doubleheader was what Sunday right, Yeah, So I had I had

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a rehab game that day, and
I was just getting ready for my game,

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and I had the Dodgers on in
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watching that moment unfold and you know
they basis loaded three to zero count,

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you know, winning run on third
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Hoddy could get through it. So
it was a super super awesome to see

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that come to fruition and the shushing
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the icing on the cake. Man. I could tell you're back. The

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smile is back. For Evan Phillips. It feels like a weight's beIN lifted.

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Definitely. Yeah. I'm absolutely just
super excited to get back out there

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and you know, competing again.
So been it felt like a long road

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for me, just because it's been
I think about four weeks now since I've

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been in a game. So just
super happy to be back. Yeah,

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Evan Phillips is back, and Alicia
Hernandez was DFA designated for assignment to make

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room on the roster for the Dodger
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three game series, the Dodgers will
head back on the road and back to

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the East Coast Pittsburgh and New York, this time to face the Yankees.

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I don't nobody's gonna do the Dodgers
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are not doing them any favors.
Yeah, it's not just the Dodgers.

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Tim. Other teams around baseball cannot
believe the way the schedule makers at New

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York City's office, the hub for
Major League Baseball, planned out this year's

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twenty twenty four campaign. You go
back to Cincinnati, and the Reds played

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the Dodgers more than they already have
played inside their own division. They played

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the Dodgers seven times and have only
played three games inside their own division.

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And not only are the Dodgers going
back to the East Coast after this short

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three game homestand next month the Dodgers
return home from a four game series in

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Denver against these Rockies to play two
games against the Angels to go back out

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on the road to Chicago and San
Francisco. So very strange schedule. Not

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to mention Tim this coming week in
our a week from today, the Dodgers

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are a Yankee stadium. While Major
League Baseball has the most anticipated regular season

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series in New York between the Dodgers
and Yankees, they also planned for their

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Jewel London series to take place the
same weekend. Go figure that. I

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can't figure that one out, Dave. All right, time not to pick

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the ponies as we do here at
Santa Anita. And tomorrow we're looking at

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the eighth race at Santa Anita,
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Who you like, DV in the
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sent me a nice text today,
So I'm going with the nine horse Cody

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Boy. And yes, I'll pick
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Boy. Yeah, you dropped it. Let's go with coach Cronin, obviously

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in honor of Mitt Cronin and his
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racing along with a mixed brother.
They own a couple of horses, and

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I'm just assuming that's the Cronin family
horse coach job future. Thanks Dave.

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cours Field in Colorado taking on the
Rockies. Trevor's story was on the base

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pass until Yasio Puige nailed them to
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to right that goes tweeting he is
at the wall. He jumps he can't

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get it. It is off the
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on his way to third page.
I want to throw, and he is

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out at third page. Yes see
Old Puigue with one of the great throws

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you will ever see in this game. He is three hundred and seventy nine

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feet from home plate. He threw
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and he was out by a thread
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never gonna see anything like this one
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of the great throws in baseball history. It bounced off the wall, then

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he had to chase it down,
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strike in which Turner was able to
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story was Pleague's throw, oh Man, an absolute laser from Yassie Old Puigue

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and right field at Corus Field.
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on Dodgers on Deck. Will check
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first pitch on this Friday Night Dodgers
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broadcast and World Series Champion Dodger Rick
Monday. Well, Rick Monday was a

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few rows ahead of me on that
plane that was delayed seven hours the other

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night on the way back from Newark. Have you recovered Rick Monday? I

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just woke up about two hours ago. Was that a night of just stand

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by to stand by. And by
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our cabin crew that most of them
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a marvelous job. And also to
Jay, the gentleman from United Airlines that

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goes with us. He wound up
getting on the plane finally, he was

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soaking wet. He was doing his
best to get a the plane fixed,

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b to get a flight crew up
front because they had timed out and the

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airport had closed because of weather.
So yeah, it took us thirteen plus

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hours on the plane to take a
five hour flight. It was quite an

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evening, it sure was. And
I was telling guys at the radio station.

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The good news was nobody had a
meltdown, nobody freaked out on the

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plane. Everybody kept their composure.
It is what it is. And again,

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the people that really made it enjoyable
impalatable at the very least was the

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cabin crew. You know, the
flight attendants that worked the Dodgers charters are

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absolutely top of their profession and they
showed that. You know, they don't

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get paid for that on the ground. Wow, they do not get paid

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while they're on the ground in doing
that. They get paid in the air

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so our thanks to them and our
thanks to Jay. Jay may have dried

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out by this time. He was
literally soaking wet off the plane, calling,

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calling, you know, the the
tower, calling everybody else to see

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if we could get a flight crew. And we had to wait for the

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maintenance to come and fix the plane
because there was an issue taxiing out of

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a fuel pump. You know,
it's better to have a malfunction while you're

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in the where you're on the ground, than is in the air. I

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was never aware of that. Yeah, I learned that being a pilot over

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a lot of years myself. David, Yeah, it's much better because there's

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no off ramp. You know,
you can't pull over the side and called

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Triple A or anybody else. Hey, Rick, good news. The Dodgers

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will do it again on Monday when
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Yeah, I can't wait. But
they got a short homestand here against one

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of the worst teams in baseball.
How do you view this series for the

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Dodgers, Going back to the fact
that the Dodgers are here for three games

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and then they go back to Pittsburgh
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a couple of people talking to said, well, should we just leave our

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luggage in the hotel here and we'll
you know, we'll get by at home

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obviously for the three days and pack
enough clothes for the three days in Pittsburgh

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and then go back and pick up
the luggage because we're at the same hotel

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when we go to New York next
time to play the Yankees. But you

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know, now, three games against
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mean, it comes down to the
same thing that I've said even from spring

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trending. The Dodgers are viewed as
the Goliath of baseball. The Rockies are

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having a putrid season, and that
may be at the best you talk about

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that. I mean, they come
in, they're twenty and thirty five,

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there's seven and twenty one on the
road. However, they're playing against Goliath.

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That's going to be incentive itself,
right, And I feel like already

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we've seen that the Reds played Goliath
and took them down in Cincinnati, Yeah,

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and enjoyed every minute of it.
It was amazing. In New York

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at City Field, Tim Nevert and
I were talking about the fact is,

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you know that first game, the
Mets had the lead and it was kind

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of a quiet stadium and the Dodgers
when they were able to come back and

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tie that game, it was amazing, if not overwhelming, the number of

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Dodger fans that were there. Now
I realized there's still a certain age group

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that has irritated that the Dodgers packed
up and left Brooklyn to begin with.

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But there's even more of a group
that they were on their feet when the

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Dodgers were winning those games. Yeah, it's the grandkids of the Dodger fans

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from Brooklyn that were in Queen's over
the weekend or not over the weekend.

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Research again have Yeah, there we
go, right, Yeah, moonlighting,

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Thanks a lot, Rick, and
we'll check in with you and Tim Nevertt

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a little bit later. Yeah.
Yeah, I'm glad you finally woke up.

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Hey, I wish we were sitting
in the same road together during those

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seven hours. Rick, won't happen. We'll check back with Rick Monday a

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little bit later. For now,
we'll send it back to you in the

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studio. Temp. All right,
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preview of this pitch matchup. Rick
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with the keys to the game.
But up next we go high and tight

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with Bobby Miller. How's the young
right handed feeling shoulder inflammation? Hopefully fingers

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crossed coming back soon. We'll hear
from him and find out next. For

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leading up to Dodgers and Rockies.
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now what will likely be vast a fielding

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insults from a Dodger player. It's
an engagement of endearment. This is high

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and tight. The Dodgers are back
for three games, but it's always good

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to come home and see my guy, Bobby Miller. Bobby, thanks a

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lot for the time. You look
fresh and well rested. I feel great.

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Thanks for having me. Everybody's wondering
how the rehab is going. I

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know the way you've expressed it to
me that you're itching to get back.

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I'm definitely interesting to get back.
You know, I just trusting the process

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at the same time, but I
feel ready to go. I feel ready

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to get back in major league games
with where my stuff is at right now

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and health wise, I feel one
hundred percent right now. But you know,

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I'm just here trusting the process.
During your rehab outing, can you

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gauge anything from those or is it
more about how you feel the next day.

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It's a little bit of a mix
of both. You know, I

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felt great that day the day after. I've been bouncing back really good,

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especially after that after that LIVEVP here
at Dodger Stadium. It seemed like right

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after that, like I just started
bouncing back really good health wise, and

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everything just seemed to go away.
And I'm feeling nothing at this point,

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like no pinch or anything. In
the shoulder even warming up. It's not

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taking me a long time to get
loose anymore. It's just like coming out

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good right away. But the takeaways
from the game, I mean, it's

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hard, like really to know what
to expect. You know, you don't

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know if there's gonna be guys like
really really excited to face a major leaguer

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and start swinging a lot. But
you know, some of a couple of

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them put together some good at bats. It's really just an execution standpoint for

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me, like showing them something good
or not. But I my takeaways were

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really good, you know, after
a decent amount of strikes. Fastball was

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really good, changed up was great, cider was great. Curveball still needs

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a little bit of work, but
I learned that everything's going good. The

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curveball, that's that's a field pitch, right, I mean, yeah,

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last year that was a big field
pitch for me. I could throw whenever

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I wanted, whatever count. I
still feel that way. It's just not

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as sharp as it should be right
now. But I'm sure once I get

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back into game action, it'll be
right where it needs to be. I

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remember the first time Bobby Miller pitched
at Dodger Stadium. It was during the

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Futures Game of All Star Weekend here
at Dodger Stadium, and your manager was

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Mike Zosha for that game, and
he had so many great things to say

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about you. But the one thing
that's refreshing is how you prioritize throwing the

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fastball down in a way to hitters. That seems to be a lost art.

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Yeah, I mean, especially like
a guy like me too, like

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a little bit of a taller guy
being six to five. I'm not releasing

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low. So you know, when
you release high, that fastball down in

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a way is really good. It
almost looks like it's especially if you have

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good carry on the baseball, which
I've had like this year and a little

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bit most of the time last year, you know, and you stick that

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down away heater. Being a tall
and high release guy, it could look

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like it's going to be a ball
out of the hand, like it's coming

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straight down, looks like it's going
into the ground. But you stick that

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pitch and you'll get a lot of
swings out other stuff. And then it's

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kind of the opposite, like a
shorter guy or a low release guy,

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like throwing the ball up it's like
the same effect. So but a lot

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of people take that for granted.
They think a lot of guys think like,

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oh, I really good vertical breakup
my fastball. I can just throw

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it up at all times, but
it's just going to make your off speed

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pitches worse. So that's something I
had to learn coming into this organization is

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burning out a stick, a downin
the way heater. I really started throwing

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that more when I got to the
major leagues. I wasn't throwing that enough

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coming up up through the system,
and that's something Prior helped me out with

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a lot, and he's telling me
like, hey, this is this is

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a really good throw for you.
And I started working on that. And

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I still do every single bullpen and
make sure I can establish that glove side

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heater before I start throwing anything else. So that's a really important pitch.

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Bobby Miller is our guest Walker Bueller's
on the mountain tonight for thes How impressive

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has it been to watch him put
in the work and obviously be able to

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come back and pitch at this level
the way he has. Yeah, I

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mean I know, knowing Walker,
I know, I know he expects a

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lot out of himself and he's a
huge competitor, So I'm excited to watch

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him tonight. You know, it's
always a tree being able to watch Walker

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pitch. He's always been one of
my favorite guys to watch in baseball and

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it's a blessing to being teammates with
him, and and I'm pretty good friends

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with him now at this point.
And but yeah, I love watching Walker

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pitch, and he's getting better every
outing and and he knows what he needs

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to do. How about your roommate, Evin Stone, He's really starting to

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put his name amongst some of the
better rookies in the National League. It's

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been a work in progress, but
like you, he put in a lot

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of work during the off season.
Yeah, he put in a ton of

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work and it's obviously showing the steps
that he made from last year to this

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year. Is is crazy. You
know, he's he's became. I mean,

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he's he's one of the better arms
and like all starters right now,

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he's going deep into games every single
start, which is which is really good

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for our bullpen. And he's given
it. I haven't seen him not give

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the team a chance to win when
he's out there, and that's something we

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really prioritize as a starters. It's
just like the main thing is giving the

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team a chance to win, and
he does that every time he's out there.

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All right, Bobby, thanks a
lot for the time. Glad things

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are going well for you and we
look forward to seeing you on the mound

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soon. Thank you. There he
is my guy, Bobby Miller. We'll

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send it back to you in the
studio. Tim, all right, thanks

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a lot. DV. Great to
hear from Bobby Miller. Hopefully getting close

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the blue all season long. Dodgers
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out of Dodgers Stadium. First pitch
Night, coming up at seven ten and

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they make it easy to a coda. Hudson on the Mountain one in seven

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with the five fifty four ERA,
twenty nine year old right hander, first

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round pick of the Cardinals in twenty
sixteen out of Mississippi State, made his

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major league debut in twenty eighteen,
signed a one year deal with the Rockies

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before this year, making his eleven
start this season last time out, six

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innings, two runs, five hits, two strikeouts and a walk in a

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no decision against the Phillies against the
Dodgers. In his career six appearances,

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two starts, one and one with
a two fifty Eerray Walker Buehler on the

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Mountain, twenty nine year old right
hander for the Dodgers as one and two

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with a four to twenty six RRA. Last time out, I have a

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two third innings, three runs,
six hits, four strikeouts and a loss

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to the Reds. He's facing Colorado
for the twentieth time in his career,

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which is the most among single opponents
in his career that he's faced. He's

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seven to two with a four to
one seven ERA last faced him April twenty

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twenty two. Five innings, allowed, two earn runs on four hits,

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will striking out five, Walker Bueller, Dakota Hudson. Dodgers and Rockies started

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a three game series. We are
fifteen minutes away from first pitch of Dodger

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Stadium. He's to the game.
Our next I'm Tim Kasi's Los Angeles Dodgers

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three game series against the Dodgers,
who are back home and then back on

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the road next week on the East
Coast. Walker Buehler, Dakota Hudson.

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first pitch, Let's head back out to

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the booth rick Monday, Tim never
guys, Tim, thanks again. We

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get you ready for the first pitch
of the ball game tonight the Dodgers and

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the Rockies. Walker Bueller against Dakota
Hudson. Buehller has faced the Rockies more

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than any other team in his career'll
make his twentieth start against the Rockies.

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Just in his last five starts alone, he's three to zero against them.

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He said, really good success against
Colorado, and in his fifth start tonight,

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he hopes that it translates into more
success against that ball club and hopefully

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gets off to a good start.
The first nine batters going through the lineup

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the first time have been somewhat problematic
of three forty three batting average against him

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and for Bueller five home runs,
but they have all been solo home runs,

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you know, with runners on base. Walker Buehler's given up just a

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one sixty seven batting average against He's
challenging hitters early and then when he needs

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to really pick and choose, he's
really been on top of it. One

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key for him so far, and
again it's a small sample because we've only

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seen him in four starts, but
he's allowed nine earned runs, five of

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them more than half have come in
the first inning, So he's got to

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try to shut it down right away. Yeah, shut it down. And

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for the Rockies, they have three
lefties in the lineup, so predominantly right

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handed hitters and right handers have hit
exactly one hundred against Bueller in his four

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starts. Left he's hitting three ninety
five on the other hand, So that's

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why Bud Black's got Charlie Blackman,
Ezekiel Tovar and Ryan McMahon out there to

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start things tonight. Well, as
far as Dakota Hudson is concerned, first

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pitch to him by him has been
a problem because he is giving up an

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average of six thirty three on the
first pitch he throws in games, and

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two of the five home runs he's
allowed have also come on the first pitch.

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Yeah, he's had trouble first nine
and the final third time through the

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lineup. But he's coming off a
very good start, maybe his best outing

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before the bullpen collapsed. And for
Dakota Hudson had a no decision. That

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was last Saturday against the Phillies.
He went six innings, only two runs,

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five hits, and the Rockies are
hoping that was just something that really

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good. Signs to come. Hudson
at one and seven, deal A at

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one and two, Rockies and the
Dodgers. Game one of a three game

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weekend set here at Dodgers Stadium.
Tim should be a good one. The

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Dodgers back home six and a half
game lead ast the NL West going into

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action tonight. Dodgers looking to add
on to that against the last place Colorado

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Rockies team Monday and they'll be off
and that it's back to the East coast.

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But first things, first three game
set against the Colorado Rockies Tonight,

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