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Welcome to Dodger Talk. David Vasse with

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

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six, nine eighty seven, two
five seventy after the Phillies beat the

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Dodgers for a second straight night out
there in the City of Brotherly Love.

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The final score tonight four to three
in Philadelphia. Uh Christopher Sanchez with the

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win, Gavin Stone the loss,
and Jeff Hoffman with the safe. Really,

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this game comes down to the little
things, right. We can look

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at the Dodgers being just four for
eleven with runners in scoring position, and

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in the seventh inning, I felt
like that was the game. They had

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runners at first and third with one
out and they did not score a run.

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And then they come back in the
eighth inning with a run a double

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by Pa Has and then Miguel Rojas
drives him in and was tagged out at

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second base, and that ended the
inning when maybe the Dodgers could have extended

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it for a game. Tying base
hit or who knows, maybe even a

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go ahead home run. But to
me, the seventh and eighth innings were

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just as key as the fourth and
fifth innings tonight in different ways. Miguel

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Rojas, I know Rick Monday and
Tim never thought that Bryson Stopt Meya pushed

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him off the bag a little bit
with his glove on the pop up slide.

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And look, that may have happened, but from my vantage point,

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it just looked like Bryson Stott was
doing what infielders have been taught to do

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ever since instant replay came into Major
League Baseball. And you know, I'm

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not a big fan of these calls
because I don't believe instant replay was put

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into place to try to get runners
out on pop up slides. But they're

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holding true to that I guess,
letter of the law, because I don't

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believe it was the spirit of the
rule of having instant replay, but it

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is what it is, and that's
what's happening. They're going to the replay

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on pop up slides. When instant
replay came into the game, managers,

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coaches, we're telling their base runners, you've got to rethink how you slide

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into second base. No more pop
up slides, because if you do,

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you're going to be called out on
the instant replay. And that's exactly what

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happened to Miguel Rojas. And I
like what Jose Mota said as well.

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You know what Jose Mota had to
say about Rojas not trying to go to

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second base. Just stay at first
base. You're thirty six years old.

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You've said your legs are giving you
issues at different points in time this season,

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So how about just stay at first
base and keep the train moving.

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But when you're in that environment,
when you're struggling to score runs, when

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things aren't going your way, I'm
sure Rojas was still kicking himself about allowing

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that ball from Trey Turner in the
fifth inning get under his glove. I'm

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sure he's trying to say, you
know what, I'm going to do a

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little extra to try to make up
for that. He did not need to.

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He already drove in two runs.
He drove in two of the Dodgers

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three runs tonight, So that was
a mistake. Another mistake was obviously Andy

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pah Haz in center field losing that
twilight fly ball by wit Maryfield, and

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also a mistake by Miguel Vargas not
moving on every pitch, not backing up

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Pahes, not being there to back
up Pahz Quicker to keep Maryfield from going

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to third base. So those two
things stood out to me the most,

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and it came back to hurt the
Dodgers as they fall by one run to

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Philadelphia, four to three. And
that's the difference between winning and losing a

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close game against a really good opponent. And this is the best the Dodgers

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we'll see all season long. The
Philadelphia Phillies, make no mistake about it,

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are one of the two best teams
in Major League Baseball and right now

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are the class of the National League. And for me, it feels like

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any path to the World Series is
going to have to go through Philadelphia.

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

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Dodgers fall to the Phillies tonight,
four to three. Let's go out to

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Temecula. Rex, You're on Dodger
Talk. How you doing? Rex?

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Hey, David, I was telling
your screener, I'm here in the tri

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team area, which is Angels,
Padres Dodgers. I went to all three

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of those stadiums this year. At
no time did I ever think during the

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Angels game that they could win that
game. When I was at Petco,

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at no time did I think that
the Padres could win that game. But

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at Dodger Stadium, I know they
have the firepower and I know that they

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can win any game if they put
their mind to it. But David,

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I want your comment on this.
It was like the opening scene of Rocky

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three where Balboa comes out and he
thinks this is just going to be some

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charity event and he gets punched in
the mouth by Hulk Hogan. Every team

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wants to take out the Dodgers.
Now, every team wants to be the

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Hulk Hogan, and that analogy.
Every team is going to get up for

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the Dodgers. They need to sound
battle stations. Every single game is going

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to be a war, and we
can't have the errors like we have tonight.

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I wanted to know what you thought
about pulling out of this nose dive

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and you know, tightening our shoes, getting to work, getting back to

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basics. All right, Well,
I appreciate your show so much, my

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friend. All right, thank you, Rex, I appreciate it. Losing

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three in a row is not a
nose dive. But the Dodgers have left

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me wanting more the last forty games, and I've let it be known,

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and I feel like in this series
we want more from the Dodgers, and

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I would not consider it three game
losing streak a nose die by any means.

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And the analogy Rex was using if
the Dodgers were playing the Marlins,

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it might be applicable, but it's
not applicable when you're playing the best team

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in the National League in the Phillies. They're not getting up any more for

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the Dodgers than they would for any
other team. Let's look at the results

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the last two years. The Phillies
went to the World Series and they went

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to the NLCS last year. I
wouldn't put this series in that same category.

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But some of these younger Dodger players
like Andy Pajez, Miguel Vargas,

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James Autman, and even to a
certain extent, a veteran like ta Oscar

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Hernandez, they're getting a taste of
what it would be like in the postseason.

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And it's not a shock that a
player like Austin Barnes, who has

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come up bigger than any other Dodger
catcher in the postseason in the last ten

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years came to play tonight. He
got the start. Not only did he

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catch a pretty good game tonight,
he also extended his hitting streak to six

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games and came up with a couple
of key base hits to keep the line

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moving. So this is the environment
that these young guys, if they're going

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to be here in the second half
of the season, they better get used

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to it. And I would say
that's the biggest takeaway from this series.

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And also it's a sobering reminder the
disparity in starting pitching between the Phillies and

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Dodgers as currently constituted. You look
at the Phillies and who they've thrown out

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there and are going to throw out
there tomorrow in this series, and who

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the Dodgers have had to go to
in this series. Bobby Miller, who

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was optioned before the game today,
Gavin Stone, who is still a rookie

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by all considerations. He is eligible
for the Rookie of the Year by the

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way, and tomorrow Landon Knack,
who's only making his sixth or seventh start

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of his big league career. Well, the Phillies have thrown out Zach Wheeler.

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Night they threw out Christopher Sanchez,
who is one of the best left

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handers in the National League this year, and tomorrow they're throwing out Aaron Nola.

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So to me, that's what this
series is, a sobering reminder of

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the Phillies starting staff in a best
of seven series right now is quite a

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bit ahead of what the Dodgers have
to throw out at them. They haven't

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even seen their best starter, a
guy that may start the All Star Game

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in Ron hare Suarez. That's what
this series is telling me, the disparity

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in starting pitching and also the defense. The Dodgers have some guys that are

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marginal defenders and it costs them Tonight
eight six six nine, eight seven two

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five seventy is the phone number.
Let's go out to Ryan, who is

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actually in Philadelphia. Ryan, are
you a Phillies fan or a Dodger fan?

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Now flew out there. No,
My grandmother is from Brooklyn. She

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had four sons were all Dodgers fans. So we live in Scranton. Drove

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down to the game nice. We
were in set upset though we were We

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were up on the top of the
seventh inning when they put in James Outman

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per Key k just the bunt.
I know it was a righty lessy situation.

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There was a guy on second explain
to me the thought process between putting

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in James Outman. There. I'm
actually with you, Ryan. I thought,

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if Dave Roberts wanted a sacrifice bunt
right there, no doubt I would

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take key K a Hernandez over James
Outman to lay it down. If there

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was a contest in my life was
on the line and I said, who

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is going to lay down this bunt
to advance the runners, I would certainly

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choose Keyk Hernandez right handed, left
handed. I don't care he's throwing with

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his third I Key K a Hernandez
would get that bunt down, and you

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don't burn out men. You could
use outman later in the game. One

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more thing I think it was the
deciding part in the game is when I

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messed that ball in centerfield. We
were right out there and left field centerfield,

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and I was following the ball.
I'll be honest, I lost the

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ball. I was looking at him. I was looking at the ball that

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cost three runs right there. I
mean, I'd say a bit of this

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game was a bit unlucky. I
don't like a couple of the moves,

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but overall, I I don't know
that that inning was just a disgrace there

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was they had sticks out in that
inning. Yeah, I'm with you that

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that would have been a one two
three inning for Gavin Stone. But an

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interesting perspective that a fan in the
stands also lost the ball too bad.

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Well, you're not really a major
league center fielder, so I could give

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you a free pass on it.
So thanks for calling in and love love

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that you have a lineage of Brooklyn
Dodgers in your family. Thanks the first

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time, long time. Yeah,
thanks Ryan. Eight sixty six nine seven

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two five seventy is the phone number. By the way, I do have

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a copy of Tom Hofar's book Perfect
Eloquence and a preppreciation of Vin Scully to

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give away to one of our callers
tonight at eight six six nine eight seven

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two five seventy ish in Riverside.
Thanks for holding Sorry, we kind of

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get you last night. Hey,
no worries. Hey man, I appreciate

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you guys getting me on today.
Man, But hey, listen, you

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know I agree with you regarding the
Phillies, you know, in terms of

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how they're playing. I think that
there was, you know, obviously some

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managerial strategy going back and forth.
I was curious why, you know,

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again Smith wasn't in the line up
today. You know, usually he does

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the back to back right. So
again, the reason I mentioned that is

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that you've also got Bryce Harper.
It's not in the lineup today. So

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again we were losing to them on
a day when they don't have Bryce Harper,

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you know. And so I mean, I agree with you. I

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do think that the road to the
series in the National League, of course,

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goes through the Phillies. So like
on our end, man, are

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we are we just going to kind
of hobble towards the end the finish line

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or I mean, you know,
I'm not saying I'm in panic mode,

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but I definitely think we, you
know, need to use this All Star

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break here to do a major not
a major reset, but you know,

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a real reset as far as like
what is the approach for the second half?

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All right, Ish, I want
a copy of Tom Hofars appreciation of

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Vin Scully. I'll send you a
copy. Oh my god, man,

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Dave, you know I could definitely
appreciate that. All right, Matt,

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hold on, Thanks for being patient. Eight sixty six nine eight seven two

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five seventy is the phone number.
We're gonna take a time out here on

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Dodger Talk. We have a full
board of calls, so we'll get to

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you, hopefully by the top of
the hour. And also we'll hear from

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ti Oscar Hernandez and Dave Roberts about
the decision to send Bobby Miller to Oklahoma

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City. Dodger Talk with you until
eight o'clock after the Phillies beat the Dodgers

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the iHeartRadio app. This is Dodger
Talk with David bassa Dodgers fall to the

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Phillies tonight four to three, Kistopher
Sanchez the winning pitcher, Gavin Stone the

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losing picture, and Jeff Hoffman with
the save. Eight six six nine eighty

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seven two five seventy is the phone
number. I also wanted to bring up

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the disappointment I had in Gavin Lux's
at bat in the ninth inning. Jeff

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Hoffman is somewhat bothered by something,
whether it's physical the mounds. Something's going

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on. Even the manager, Rob
Thompson was about to bring out the trainer

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to check on Hoffman. Doesn't Gavin
Luck see that? Doesn't he understand the

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situation. The Dodgers are down a
run. He's not really lighting the world

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on fire. He's not really sho
hey Otani or Barry Bonds right now.

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He's hitting two oh seven with an
ops five point forty one. He's on

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base, he's at bat and there's
what one out at that point in time,

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He's got Will Smith looming behind him, and after that, show Heyotani

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coming up in the hole. You
would think he would try to do whatever

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he could to make a Jeff Hoffman
work at the very least or b you

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know, try to draw a walk
somehow, some way get on base for

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Will Smith or show Haotani with lux
representing the tying run. Instead, Luck

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swings at the first pitch. What
was he doing right there? Eight six

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six nine eight seven two five seventy
is the phone number. Let's go out

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to Josh and Sierra Madre. You're
on Dodger Talk with David vasse Hi.

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Josh, Hello, David, I
appreciate you taking my call. It's a

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little frustrating when your father and most
of your family are for Philadelphia and they're

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giving a team you can't and you
can't give it back. So not yet

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frustrating. We're a little frustrating right
now. But I'm hanging in there,

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so you may have the last word, Josh. Right, it's only July.

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The Dodgers and Phillies play after the
All Star break in LA and more

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importantly, may see each other in
October. That's right. It's like,

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you know, they may have won
this battle, but we'll see what happens

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going forward anyways, So we'll see
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think it's become very obvious they need
at least one starting pitcher, maybe two,

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and they could use another bat.
I don't know if they're going to

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be able to get all three.
They may be fortunately get one. It

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really doesn't matter what they do,
though, if they do not start getting

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better at the little things like we've
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situational hitting, that this all has
to improve. Gavin, I really

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hate the earned run stat because,
let's be honest, Gavin Stone gave up

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one earned run today. That was
the Schwarber home run. The rest of

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the runs were not his fault.
You've got guys playing out of position.

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Andy Pop. I like Andy Pies, but anytime a ball is hit to

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him in center field, I have
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so hard to watch. He has
misplayed so many balls out there, and

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that mistake he made in the fifth
inning open the floodgates after they came so

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hard, you know, the scratching
claw on tie the game, and just

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to have that happen, it's just
so frustrating. So it really doesn't matter

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what they do with the deadline if
they do not start getting better at the

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fundamentals, this team's not going to
go anywhere. You can't go anywhere when

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you're giving teams extra out and runs. Just doesn't work, all right,

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Josh, thanks for the phone call. I disagree. I feel like the

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Dodgers desperately need starting pitching because,
like I said, the Phillies have four

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very healthy starters that have had no
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Zach Wheeler, Aaron Nola, Christopher
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So to me, the Dodgers starting
pitching is a lot more questionable right now

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when you do the tail of the
tape between these two teams. Daniels Jewelers,

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they are the official sponsor of the
trip around the Diamond. Stop by

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gift card toward any purchase of ninety
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the dream. Speaking of starting pitching
and concern over the Dodgers starting pitching,

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more concern Bobby Miller before today's game, was sent down to Oklahoma City because

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he just has not looked like himself
all season long, and the Dodgers,

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similar to James Outman, instead of
trying to figure it out at the major

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league level, they believe Bobby needs
to take a deep breath and take a

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break from the season and go to
the minor leagues, work with their coaches

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down there, reset a few things, clear his head, look in the

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mirror, and maybe even mature a
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And before today's game, Dave Roberts
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to the miners. Number one,
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I think that's the impetus, and
what's the best way to get him right

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mentally, emotionally and mechanically. Butting
up to the All Star break, it's

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it made made a lot more sense, and you know, you have a

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path to either continue to go as
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or you know, remove him from
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him a reset to get out of
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we just felt that this was the
best thing for Bobby and for us,

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and you know, he's a big
part of what we're trying to do this

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year, and so we just felt
that's the yes thing to do. All

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right. There's manager Dave Roberts on
the thought process from the Dodgers to option

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Bobby Miller, who coming into this
season was supposed to be a big part

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of their rotation not only in the
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wouldn't rule that out right now.
Obviously it has not gone the way the

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Dodgers thought it would or Bobby Miller
thought it would. But as Dave Roberts

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put it, get him out of
the hot box of trying to figure it

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out on the fly and in between
starts and get him down to the minor

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leagues where he can fully concentrate on
fixing whatever mechanical issues he's having, and

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also to clear his head and stop
trying to chase velocity, stop trying to

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chase spin rate, stop trying to
make the perfect pitch each and every time

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out there. Look, you can't
do that, and it seems like Bobby

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Miller has been chasing all those things. And that's not a way to live

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in the major league. So I'm
a big believer in Bobby Miller. Every

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path is not linear. Every player's
path to the major league or their success

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in the major leagues is not linear. So this is just a speed bump

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to what I believe is going to
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Eight six, nine, seven,
two five seventy is the phone number.

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Let's go out to North Hollywood.
James, you're on Dodger Talk.

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How you doing, James? Hey, doing all right? David? Not

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Gray? Of course. My dad's
busting my chops living in South Jersey about

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the Phillies. He's going to the
game tomorrow night. So I'm just working

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out, trying to get up my
aggression here waiting to chat with you.

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I think today's game comes down to, you know, rookie outfielders and swinging

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outside of the zone. Our guys. You know, I don't think we're

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taking the two strike approach that we
have when we've been able to move the

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lines forward from shoe a Otani even
all the way down. Swinging at pitches,

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it's just more close and big swings
on those pitches, and the Philly

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staff is just too good to be
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me, that's the tale of this
game. But I couldn't agree more.

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I mean that it's a David and
deliath when you look at the starting pitching

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scenario right now. We got to
get Bobby Miller, right, We got

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to get Bueller healthy and right.
We need Kershaw back, and we need

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to trade for another big arm because
you know, you can't rely on guys

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staying healthy, and it's a lot
to ask of all of our young guys.

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Well, you know you just mentioned
Walker Buehler. You know, he's

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been in Florida for the last couple
of weeks. He actually told me a

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couple of weeks ago before he left
there he was going to Florida for a

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month to work out whatever hip issue
he has and whatever pitching mechanics he has.

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And thanks for the phone call,
James. Look, I have been

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trying to reinforce the fact you can't
count on Walker Buehler. All of you

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have been calling for the last six
months saying Walker Bueller will be back,

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He'll be ready for the playoffs.
Really, Willie, there's not too many

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guys that have come back from two
Tommy John surgeries. The only guy that

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I know that has done it at
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I keep trying to reinforce to you
that being in front of Nathan Valdi a

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couple of weeks ago, he's much
bigger physical than Walker Bueler can ever dream

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of being, and that kind of
helps him be able to withstand putting more

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stress on his elbow. And if
Nathan Evaldi is available at the trade deadline,

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I'm all in. And as far
as Clayton Kershaw goes, look,

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I am never going to bet against
Kershaw, but don't you believe it's a

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little unfair to act like he is
going to be the Dodgers savior after not

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undergoing a minor surgery, undergoing a
major shoulder surgery. That's really unfair to

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put that all on him, that
he has to be the savior for a

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team that went out and traded for
time Glass now gave him a big extension,

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went out to Japan and signed Yoshi
Yamamoto to the richest contract any major

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league starter has ever gotten. And
you're going to put that on Clayton Kershaw

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to be the savior. That's a
little unfair to me, and I feel

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like those expectations are a little unrealistic. Let's go out to Tony, who

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is in Philly too. Tony,
you're on Dodger Talk. Thanks for calling.

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Yeah, thank you. A lifelong
Dodger fan became a Dodger fan July

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nineteen sixty. I was at game
last night and tonight and we looked lesargic.

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I mean, it's terrible the way, you know, I kind of

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give a little blame to Roberts,
the way we're playing the position players and

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they don't know where they're playing from
one night to the next. We gave

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that game to them. They didn't
win it last tonight. We gave it

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to him. The play on the
field was terrible. I just I don't

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understand what's going on. I was
very disappointed. Of course. I always

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wear my colors when I'm at the
stadium and everybody breaks my chops. But

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I don't care because I'm a lifelong
doctor fan. But I just don't get

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what's going on. I understand we
have ten pictures. Well, hold on,

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Tony pump the breaks. Take a
breath for a second. Take a

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deep breath. Number one. Let's
not forget no Mookie Bets, no Max

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Munsey, right, that would kind
of set this order in the right position.

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Let's not lose sight of the fact
that there is no Mookie Bets and

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there is no Max Muncy. That
would change a lot, wouldn't you agree?

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I absolutely I agree. So you
have a lot of guys playing where

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they shouldn't be playing. Keith a
Hernandez only started playing third base until Max

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Mounsey got hurt. You got Gavin
Lux and Miguel Rojas up the middle.

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When Mooki comes back, I'm pretty
sure it's going to be Mooki and Miguel

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Rojas with or without Gavin Lux on
this roster. So that's my point.

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I know we all get emotional.
I know you're living out there in Phillies

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Country this series. I don't want
to say it means nothing, but this

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does not resemble a series that what
it may look like in October and what

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it may look like after the trade
deadline when the Phillies get to Dodger Stadium

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in August. So I know,
for your own personal reasons, you wanted

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the Dodgers to really win these first
two games, but the reality is this

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is not the Dodger team that you're
going to see at Dodger Stadium in two

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or three weeks. One hundred percent. Agree, one hundred percent. And

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like like I said to the guys
that I went with, you know,

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anything can happen in October September.
We were one hundred and eleven games in

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twenty two and we got knocked out
the first round. So it's who's hot

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at the end. Heay, Tony, Tony, remember nineteen eighty three,

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the Dodgers beat the Phillies eleven out
of twelve times, and the Phillies beat

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them in the NLCS. Absolutely,
I remember so, and I remember the

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night that Gagney gave up the home
run the stats that was Broxton gave it

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up the stairs. Broxton. Thanks, Tony, Hey, we'll see you

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out there in October. Okay,
Tony, all right, thanks Tony,

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appreciate it. Hey. Also coming
out of this game tonight, the Home

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Run Derby participants were announced, and
I told you ta Oscar Hernandez I was

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the first to report it wanted to
be part of the Home Run Derby.

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Well, he finally got the invite
and broke the news while he was playing

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the outfield on ESPN's Baseball broadcast.
So are you gonna participate this year?

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I'm going so yeah. I just
got to confirmed yesterday that I'm gonna be

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there participated in the home run there
this year. Well that's great. We

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haven't here. Yeah, I'm so
happy, so happy, so outside it.

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Hell, wait, why why does
the Home Run Derby have such appeal

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to you? I don't know signs
I'm being in the big league, so

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always wanted to participate it. But
for some reason, you know, I

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don't like I would. I don't
like to do the Home Run Derby if

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I'm not going to the All Star
Game. So in twenty twenty one I

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was there, they didn't buy me, So I don't know how that works?

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Is it? So I didn't participate. I think it's gonna be excited

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this year. You know the rules. The rules changed a little bit,

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but I think it's gonna be good, a good one. Let me ask

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you this, are you going to
practice maybe tomorrow or soon for the home

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run Derby? I'm I was thinking
to do it in Detroit the second day.

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Only one time. I'm gonna do
it just, you know, just

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to get used to it and know
how, like know the rules work and

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everything. Have you already reached out
to whoever's gonna pitch to you? Yes,

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it's gonna be my Thursday coach Dino. He's very good. Yeah,

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he's been in there. He knows
how to do it all right. Ta

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Oscar Hernandez officially part of the Home
Run Derby this year in Texas at Globe

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Life Field. Taoscar really wanted to
be part of it, and he broke

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the news while he was playing right
field for the Dodgers in the third inning.

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And he could not find a better
batting practice pitcher than Dino Ebol.

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He has gone with a lot of
different guys, Albert Poolholz, Vladimir Guerrero,

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Junior, Jock Peterson. So he
knows the drill. He's got a

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veteran home run Derby pitcher in Dodger
third base coach Dino Eble. That'll do

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it for us on Dodger Talk tonight. Sorry we couldn't get to everybody.

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We'll take your phone calls. After
the finale of this Dodgers Philly series,

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the Dodgers looking to avoid the sleep, the sweep and the sleep with Landon

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Nack on the mound. He's one
and two with an ERA of two to

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eighty six, going up against veteran
Aaron Nola. Nolan this year is ten

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and four with an ERA at three
forty eight Morongo Casino. Dodgers on Deck

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begins at two o'clock with Tim Kates. First pitch with Rick Monday and Tim

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Neverett from Philadelphia at three oh five. In case you missed any of the

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show, you can find it on
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can hear our pregame conversation with James
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his help here in our Burbank studios. Thanks to you for listening. Fox

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The final score tonight in Philadelphia, the

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Phillies defeat the Dodgers four to three. Have a great rest of your night.

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See them, let's just