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Hi everybody, and thanks for being
with us on this off night Dodger Talk

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here on AM five to seventy LA
Sports. Thanks for being with us Thursday

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nights, May twenty third. A
lot of graduations happening out there around southern

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California, whether it's elementary school,
middle school, high school, college graduations.

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Congratulations to all those graduating promoting moving
on to the next level. It

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is a big accompt of accomplishment for
everybody out there putting it in the time

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and the effort and the hard work
through their education. So big congratulations to

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all the graduates out there at all
levels this graduation season. Eight sixty six,

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nine eighty seven two five seventy is
our phone number here on off night

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Dodger Talk. And I want to
hear from you on this Thursday night because

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the Dodgers right now sit atop the
NL West. They've got a lead in

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the division over the San Diego Padres
by six and a half games. That's

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right. The Padres and Giants both
won today. They have picked up a

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half game on the Dodgers of the
Padres are a six and a half games

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back. The San Francisco Giants are
seven and a half games back. But

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the Dodgers just finished a thirteen games
in thirteen day stretch and basically they played

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a game over five hundred during that
stretch. They win seven and six.

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They're coming off a home stand in
which they went four and three. They're

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coming off a series in which the
Dodgers dropped two of three to the Arizona

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Diamondbacks. And certainly it's a long
one hundred and sixty two game season.

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Then the Dodgers have a six and
a half game lead, They're thirty three

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and nineteen, and they're sitting pretty
comfortably atop the NL West. And it's

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not nitpicking here. It's not picking
zits on a supermodel, so to speak,

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here as far as the Dodgers are
concerned. But there are some things

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that are starting to pop up with
this Dodgers team. Through the first I

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don't know what sixty two game,
fifty two games of the season, there

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is a point in which the Dodgers
seem to just kind of hit a roll,

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whether it's in a series, a
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And I know it's tough to get
up for one hundred and sixty two games,

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and this is a Dodgers team that
is winning a lot of series.

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But I look at this series against
Arizona, these last three nights out of

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Dodgers Stadium. They win the series
opener, and the Dodgers extend their winning

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streak, and the Dodgers are riding
high, winning four in a row after

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dropping the series opener to the Reds. And they come back the next night

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and they lose seven to three to
the Arizona Diamondbacks. Christian Walker hits a

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home run, Marte hits a home
run, and the Dodgers struggle. The

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Dodgers again lose last night and they
get shut out six to nothing by the

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Arizona Diamondbacks. Zero for eight runners
in scoring position. They strand eight base

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runners out there and quite frankly,
offensively locked any kind of enthusiasm in my

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mind any pop out out there.
Mookie Betts got on base a couple of

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times, Gavin Luxman two for four, but the Dodgers had an opportunity after

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opportunity to drive in runs and just
missed on fastballs right down the middle of

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the plate from Ryan Nelson, who
came in it struggling so much so that

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Tory Lavello, the manager of the
Diamondbacks brought in an opener to start in

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place with Ryan Nelson so he can
come in as the bulkinning guy. And

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Ryan Nelson looked really good against the
Dodgers. Had some traffic on the bass

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pass, but got out of that
traffic challenging Dodgers' hitters. The Dodgers are

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first six innings yesterday, had runners
on base and stranded them there. Otani

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left on base in the first taskar
Herlanda is a lead off walking the second

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they got nothing. It won out
double by Mooky. In the third,

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Dodgers have the heart of the lineup
up and Otani and Freeman get out.

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In the fourth inning, second and
third, with one out, Andy Pott

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has strikes out on a ball down
the middle. Jason Hayward grounds out.

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Threat done. Fifth inning, first
and second, nobody out, Otani flies

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out, Freeman strikes out, Will
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The sixth inning, one more chance. The Dodger's still in this game.

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First and second, nobody out.
How many times are they gonna put on

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a platter for you? And Andy
Pott has grounds out into a weird two

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five six' two double play,
and then Jason Hayward flies out. There's

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just to me stretches in which the
Dodgers look lethargic out there offensively at the

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plate. They don't have that fire
at the plate. And I got a

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couple of texts last night from Buddy
saying, what kind of a bats are

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these that the Dodgers are having?
How do you have runners on base less

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than two outs and not put the
ball in play, not driving a run,

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not get on the scoreboard. And
it's happened several times. I don't

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know if it's the Dodgers feel like
we've already won a series. In this

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case, they lose the series,
but we're already at the end of the

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finish line, so to speak,
of this homestand this series, this road

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trip, and they have letdown games, And to me, I'm starting to

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see too many letdown games at the
end of a series. They're now eight

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and nine in getaway games eight and
nine, there are sub five hundred team

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in getaway days. Into a road
trip, over into a homestand into a

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series, you're moving on to a
different part of the road trip eight and

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nine for Dodger team, that's thirty
three and nineteen to be under five hundred

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in getaway games of a series,
a road trip, a homestand that to

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me is pretty glaring. Finish off
their teams, finish off a series.

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And it may seem like nothing right
now, but you got to start learning

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how to finish off teams. Why
because when you get to October, you

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have to finish off a team and
you have to know how to put your

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foot on the throat, cut the
head off of a snake, so to

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speak of. It's the Diamondbacks.
When you're up in a series, whether

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it's the NLDS, a wild Card
round, the NLCS, the World Series,

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you're up in a series two games
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finish them off. Don't get complacent, don't get in a rut,

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don't get into well, you know
what, we'll figure it out. Because

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last night is a prime example of
a Dodgers team that can put the ball

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all in play when they want to, but when they've got opportunity after opportunity

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and they don't, they get shut
out again for the third time this season.

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Eight sixty six, nine eighty seven, two five seventy. A lot

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has gone right for this Dodgers team. Certainly, they're playing really well,

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but right now, something that sticks
out is finishing off series, finishing off

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home stands, finishing off a road
trip. Finishing off series is gonna be

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a big thing for this Dodgers team
come October. It will be you remember

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it. You don't think so.
Now you're sitting in your car, you're

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sitting back listening to Dodge to talk, eating a little something, and you're

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like, you're crazy, cats,
what are you talking about. I'm telling

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you put it in the old memory
bank. This Dodgers team learns needs to

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learn how to finish off a team. It's something that it's starting to feel

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like it's a problem. And the
Dodgers went on the road and cured some

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of those problems a couple of road
trips ago and got right again after losing

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three straight series at home. The
Dodgers are going on the road again right

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now for a six game East Coast
road trip. And these are series the

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Dodgers to win. At Cincinnati,
at New York against the Mets. They

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should win these series. They're rested, they're ready to go. They should

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be rejuvenated after a day off at
a night in Cincinnati to enjoy a night

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steak meal or wherever they're at in
Cincinnati before a three game series and heading

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off to the Big Apple and City
Field next Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday.

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But it's just something that I was
thinking about last night and again when

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I got some text messages from Buddy
saying what's going on in these getaway days

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and a couple of jokes about how
maybe I'm a curse doing getaway Dodger talk.

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No, no, no, This
Dodgers team is really good and they've

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won series. But to me,
to be eight and nine and get away

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days, you got to finish off
teams. You got to finish off opponents

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when you have a series win or
a chance to go out on a winning

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note on the road eight six,
six nine, eight seven, two five

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seventy. And I bring this up
because the Dodgers right now are not only

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need to figure that out come October. Learn now how to win, how

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to finish off teams, because when
you get to October you're gonna have to

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do that. Learn now how to
manufacture runs, so when you get to

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October, you're not having to figure
it out on the fly. You get

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it. Practice things now, do
them now. Over the course of one

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sixty two so when you get to
October, it's not new to you finishing

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off teams manufacturing runs. Last night, the Dodgers were down three to nothing

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after a three run fifth inning,
but they had the first four innings to

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get on the board. Just scratch, crawl, do something to get a

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run across to take the lead.
In the fifth inning, they're down three

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to nothing and they have first and
second, nobody out. Tyler Glass now

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pitches his butt off, gives up
three runs in the fifth inning. You

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have a chance to pick them up. You have a chance to make it

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right for Tyler Glass. Now,
first and second, nobody out. Oh

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Tani flies out, runners move over, Freeman strikes out, and Will Smith

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flies out. Your two three four
hitters with runners in scoring position, and

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what is a tainable game? Still
only three to nothing? You get one

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runs, three to one, you
get two runs. It's a one run

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game. And Tyler Glass now maybe
goes back out there, gives you an

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extra inning, or do you get
closer to that Diamondbacks bullpen. Things could

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change with a pitch here, pitch
there. We saw that last night with

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Tyler last Now in the fifth a
one out walk and then a single and

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then a one to two pitch to
Corbyn Carroll and all of a sudden,

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a nothing, nothing game is a
three to nothing lead after Corbyn Carroll's two

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run triple, and then you spike
a ball and Corbyn walks in from third

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on a wild pitch. Baseball can
change in a hurry eight six, six,

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nine, eighty seven to two five
seventy. I also want to bring

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up the point that the Dodgers are
going into a stretch, not just thirteen

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games in thirteen days and they finish
off, but they're now going into a

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stretcher which they're going to make two
East Coast road trips in the next three

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weeks. They go to Cincinnati and
New York for six a day off a

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week from today, and then they
get a three game series at a home

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against Colorado. That is it,
three games at home against Colorado, a

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day off, and they're going back
to the East Coast, three at Pittsburgh,

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three at Yankees against the Yankees.
This is a tough stretch. You

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thought thirteen games in thirteen days was
rough, and the Dodgers, you know,

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had some of those games at home. They're on the West coast.

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Certainly, you only had to play
San Diego, San Francisco, and then

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back home for a seven game homestand
you didn't have to leave California. But

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now they're gonna have to go to
the East Coast twice. So it's an

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interesting stretch here for the Dodgers,
going back east to Sincy in New York,

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only back home for three games,
and then right back to the East

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Coast for Pittsburgh and the Yankees.
You've got fifteen games, twelve of which

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are gonna be in the Eastern time
zone, and you've got to make two

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cross country flights. Not a big
deal in the grand scheme of one hundred

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and sixty two games, I understand
that, but that's a lot of travel

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and wear and tear on it team
that right now is playing over the last

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thirteen games basically a little over five
hundred baseball and what was possibly an eight

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or nine game lead, the division
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the Padres are gonna keep winning.
And he's certainly the Giants, maybe they're

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playing a little bit above their skis
right now, but the Padres are a

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team to keep an eye in on
your in your rear view mirror. There

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as far as being only six and
a half games back eight sixty six,

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nine eight to seven, two five
seventy. Coming up at about seven forty,

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we're gonna get you a farm report, and again i'll give you an

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update of the Dodgers' top minor league
prospects. There's already been some shifting when

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the season starts in the minor leagues
about you know, ten days after the

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major league start. Minor league camp
breaks and guys report to Triple A,

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Double A, High A Ball,
Low w A Ball. They stay maybe

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at Campbelback Ranch for rookie ball and
extended spring training. But guys break about

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ten days after the major league season
starts, and already we've seen some shifting

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because the Dodgers have called up from
Triple A arms Miguel Vargas. That means

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it's a trickle down effect. We're
seeing guys then called up from Double A

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to Triple A to fill the void, and guys are rewarded for good play

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the first five weeks of their minor
league season, so it's a trickle down

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effect. We're seeing guys moved up
from Rancho to Great Lakes, Great Lakes

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to Tulsa, the Double A team
and Double A Tulsa to Triple A Oklahoma

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City. So we'll give you an
update on the Dodgers' top twenty prospects and

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some guys who are off to great
starts that maybe aren't on the radar necessarily

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with Baseball America and Baseball Prospectus and
MLB dot Com, but that are off

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to really good starts here in twenty
twenty four and have earned promotions up to

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different levels in the minor league.
So that's coming up at seven forty.

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Your phone calls at eight six six, nine eighty seven, two five to

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seventy. Also, today is an
anniversary for Sean Green. Now, you

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older Dodger fans have a pretty good
idea what I'm talking about, but you'll

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hear it coming up in about ten
minutes. What Sean Green did on this

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day, Now, it's gonna be
hard to believe twenty two years ago,

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is that right? Twenty two years
ago Sean Green accomplish this feat. You'll

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hear that come up about ten minutes. We'll take a quick break, we'll

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come back. Your phone calls Stu, Chris, Gregbrian, Roger, Izzy,

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I see it. I got one
line open. Eight sixty six,

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nine eighty seven two five seventy.
Dodgers need to start finishing off teams,

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start winning series. Stop messing around
when you get a team on the ropes,

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finish him off. When you take
the first game of a series,

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come back the next night and beat
him again. When you got a rubber

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game in a three game series like
you did last night, you got to

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manufacturer runs, figure out a way
to get some runs on the scoreboard and

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you a farm report. Coming up
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get you an anniversary for Sean Green
twenty two years ago today. Hard to

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believe it was that long ago.
It feels like it was literally just a

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few years ago, but twenty two
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in Milwaukee eighty six, six nine, eighty seven two five seven's go out

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to the phones, thanks for being
patient. Chris is in Malibu, Chris,

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welcome to Dodger Talk. How you
doing? Hey, damn you got

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me? I got you, Chris? Go ahead. Hey, you know,

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so this is my very first of
all, if you have if you

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have a payroll and this kind of
quality of guys, get the first two

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guys on base. There's no reason
storing at least one run seventy five percent

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of the time. I mean,
I just the guys are just too good

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not to do that. And here's
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But what do you think of this
Freddy Wiggles. Let me let me

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finish the sentence here about the Freddie
Wiggles, I associate the I associate the

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Freddie wiggle with last year getting swept
by the diamond Back. Remember the Washington

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Nationals, the baby dark thing.
Yeah, they didn't do that. The

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next year they did something different.
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is they don't have this killer instinct. I'm going they're getting a triple and

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you're doing a goofy little Freddie wiggle. I don't think it's very intimidating.

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there to just knock them out.
You have to and chick the other team

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doing a silly little wiggle dance that
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The whole thing isn't freaking. It's
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appreciate it, Chris. It is
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same Freddy wiggle that they used in
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background of this. I'm not prevy
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heard in an interview a player talk
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it's completely different, and it's a
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So I can't believe we're sitting here
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a single, or whatever they do
to get on base to celebrate what

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they just did. But I guess
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not the Freddy Wiggle like it was
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different than that. Again, I
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don't know the history of it.
I know Freddie Wiggle was his dancing that

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he did at a birthday party and
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year. But it's completely different.
I don't think it has good or bad

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juju either way. As far as
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believe in that, but you know, certainly if you do, then more

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power to you. Greg and Sherman
Oaks is next up here on Off Night

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Dodge. You talk. Hi,
Greg, Yo, long time listener,

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first time caller, appreciate that.
Grab it to our mind. Yeah,

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you know, you were talking about
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team has relied a lot on the
long ball. I would be interested to

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look at the stats on those getaway
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hit in those getaway games and the
staff the reason we're not hitting them is

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that the reason why we're losing,
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about that. We've got a manufacturer
runs. Just like you said, Yeah,

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it's something They've been pretty good at
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Greg. I'm bringing up this stat
that I saw yes yesterday, and

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now I'm trying to go back and
find it about the Dodgers' home runs and

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where are they at as far as
record wise when they do hit home runs,

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And I'm going to try to figure
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as soon as I can find it. But yeah, the Dodgers, I've

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been pretty good as far as not
relying on the home run ball the start

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this season. Certainly, when they
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really good. And when they don't
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they're more of a pedestrian team as
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But I don't know and getaway days
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a homestand necessarily what the home run
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ninety seven two five seventies, stealing
Calabatsa's thanks for being patience too. How

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are you doing tonight? Excellent?
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I see a glaring in that miss
and Dave Roberts' inability to use the bunt

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if you got first and second,
nobody out, a little leaguers, pony

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leaguers, all the way up through
the organizations. You bunt them over to

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get him into scoring position. He's
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recently, where the guy's on second, nobody out. He doesn't bunt them

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to third. When's the last time
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Dodger attempt to bunt. H was
a key. Key Hernandez attempted to bunt

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and popped out. The other night, I did see shoey Otani put down

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a bunt for a basic ruled the
basic could have been ruled an air on

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the throw. But I've certainly seen
it more this year Stu than in the

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past five years. There's no doubt
about that. Why why did he have

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a thing against bunting. He's a
little guy who played small ball his whole

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career. Why wouldn't bunting just be
a natural transition into managing Well, I

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think that I appreciate it. I
think the bunch comes more into play during

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the regular season in extra innings,
especially when you have that free runner at

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second base and you're batting and you
want to get that runner across it's it's

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in the numbers. I guess you
know to butnt that guy over with one

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out a chance to drive him in. Now, Certainly, if it's the

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heart of your lineup, you know
you're two three, four hitters, you're

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not necessarily going to ask them to
bunt a runover to then try to run

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get a run in. But if
it's where you're up the home team and

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you hold the opponent to no runs
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you're the tenth inning and it's three
to three game, and all of a

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sudden it's the bottom of the tenth
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and you got the free runner at
second. I think it's in the best

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entrance of the Dodgers at that point
to bunt the runner over to third one

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out. Then all it takes is
the ball driven to the outfield, a

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ball to the gap, and even
a base it certainly, and you win

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the ball game. When you're just
needing one run and you can get them

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ninety feet away with one out,
I think that's where you want the bunt

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to come down. I don't think
in a three to two game necessarily in

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the fifth inning and you're asking somebody
to bunt to get the runner over to

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the third to try to get the
time run into that situation. I think

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you let it play out until you
get later in the game. Now here's

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the what I was looking for.
Play Carris put this out there on Twitter

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and this was posted yesterday. The
Dodgers record in twenty twenty four when hitting

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two or more home runs seventeen and
one to nine to forty four win percentage.

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The Dodgers record this year when hitting
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game eleven and six. Okay,
still five games over five hundred. The

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Dodgers record when they hit zero home
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now five and twelve for seven games
under five hundred. Again, much different

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looking Dodgers team win loss record wise. When they don't hit home runs two

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or more home runs, they're seventeen
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they're eleven and six. When they
hit zero home runs, they're five and

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twelve, eight six, six,
nine eighty seven two five seventy. Let's

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go to Eric and Hollywood. Always
great to hear your voice, Eric,

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how you doing on this Thursday night? Nod JR. Nay shoo, Tim,

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you know what. I am always
glad to call it and talk to

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you, Tim. I think you're
amazing. Thank you very much for those

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stats. But I am a little
bit concerned. I know it's really really

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early in the season. I listen
to you all the time. Hey,

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relax, don't jump overboard yet.
But some of the tendencies that I see

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from the Dodgers is what I saw
in the postseason last year. It's like

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guys disappear and they're not balling,
and they're not putting. They're not they're

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not putting back to ball and getting
singles and stuff like that. Now,

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I'm not as seasoned as you are, because you watch this game and you

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know this game better than I do. I'm just a fan and I'm gonna

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overreact, and you're hearing me right
now. Overreact. But what is it

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with the jelling of this team.
I don't think they're jelling yet, you

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know what I mean. I know
that whole thing with O Tommy and You're

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gonna pitch it and all that,
and ki Oscar and and you know,

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and and and and Miquel and all
that. They're all messing with him.

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But it's it's something about a jelly
phase that this team needs to get to.

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The ninety nine Yankees had a geling
phase and they came into every game

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like nobody's gonna beat us. We
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There's no way you're gonna beat us. I just don't feel like the Dodgers

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have that, you know, I
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I think this team has gelled well. I think this team has been hit

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with a lot of off the field
distractions already, and that has certainly been

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the case with what's happening off the
field with Ipe show Otani's former interpreter.

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I mean, that is a big
story. That is certainly something that has

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affected Shohees's personal life in a big
way, and showi Otani has continued to

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go out there every day and play
even when it broke over in Korea.

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It is something that for a new
player on a new team with new teammates

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to lose his best friend and interpreter
that's been around him and this game for

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the last six years in Anaheim,
he very easily could have taken some time

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away from the game. He very
easily could have been in a huge rut

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with all the distractions and mentally just
checked out. It could have affected this

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clubhouse tremendously with the being a distraction
and constant questions from the media, from

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international media, from the news media
starting to cover the story. It could

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have been a huge problem as far
as talked about every day and a focus

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that's taken away what they're doing on
the field. But it hasn't. It

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hasn't. Shohay has continued to go
out there, play every day, produce,

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been really good, been a good
teammate, and it hasn't been an

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issue, I believe at all in
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this team, traveling personalities on the
team, it just hasn't affected them.

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And that's something that very easily could
have affected this team with a new guy,

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most high paid player in baseball,
highest paid salary in North American history

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of professional sports, and it breaks
like it did off the field, it

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could have been a monstrous distraction and
something that really caused a problem in the

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clubhouse because of all the questions.
But it didn't. I think that the

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credit to everybody in that clubhouse,
a credit to the leadership of Dave Roberts,

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that coaching staff, guys like Mookie
Betts, Freddie Freeman Tasker, Hernandez,

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for keeping a light keicking Hernandez,
for keeping a good attitude out there,

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everybody involved in that roster and in
that clubhouse and on that team playing,

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and in the team buses. I
think that doesn't get talked about enough,

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quite frankly, to be thirty three
and nineteen six and a half games

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up playing the way they have been, and sure we're talking about finishing off

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series. We're talking about a team
that needs to do better in getaway days,

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finishing off series, finishing off road
trips or home stands. Put that

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aside, this team very easily could
have gotten off to a awful start.

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For the distractions off the field was
Shoeyo Tani, but they didn't a lot

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of affect him on the field,
between the lines and even in the clubhouse.

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I think that needs to be addressed. What they've been able to overcome

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with all the expectations and eyes on
the Dodgers this year, for the signings

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and for the amount of money that
was spent, and with what they did

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in free agency and who they brought
in. There's a lot of people want

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to shoot arrows at the Dodgers.
Baseball people, baseball fans from all across

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the country, and the Dodgers are
going to get those slings and arrows all

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the time for being the Dodgers,
for being who they are and what they

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do and how they win, and
for being one of the best teams and

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best organizations in baseball. And to
have a distraction like that, again,

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things kind have gone very south quickly, but they didn't. And that needs

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to be I think talked about and
mentioned because here they are first place in

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the division. They've been able to
compartment compartmentalize, excuse me, and put

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aside all that stuff being talked about
and dealt with in the court and off

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the field and gone out and played
baseball. Is he Isabelle in Anaheim?

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Hi? Is he? Hey?
Hayekim, how are you look good?

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I got your tweet last night where
you said you didn't want to call in

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it was too late, you were
too upset. How are we feeling twenty

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four hours later? Well, they
say, help we feel after tomorrow game,

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because I'm still now over trust me. But Tay, last night game,

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you know what I much? It
was first rating last night, and

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I forget that this is still a
brand new team by and what's see what's

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see what happened, It's just gonna
be I'm ki hearing that this is a

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season. Then I'm sallry. It's
not for me anymore. It charly became

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me lad after the fish after the
Fish game. Is he Great to hear

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your voice, Hope you're well,
okay, okay, talk to you later.

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I got to make sure we point
this out. And great to hear

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from is. I'm glads she's doing
well today. May twenty third, twenty

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twenty four, twenty two years ago. On this day, it was a

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Thursday afternoon, a getaway Damn Miller
Park in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The Dodgers

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blew out the Brewers sixteen to three. How about this day from Shawn Green.

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He had a chat with roysch here
a couple of days ago. Breaking

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ball hit pass first, a base
hit for Green. His terrists will score

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easily. Shawn's on the way to
second, and he's got his fourth extra

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base hit of the series in Milwaukee. Next pitch and Green sends a flyball

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to Rhyde. O Chow has to
go back on the ball. Still going

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back and this ball is out of
here. A home run for Sean Green

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and the Dodgers have a three run
blast and put them ahead six to one.

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Sean Green has hit six home runs
at Miller Park in the last two

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seasons. Goes to one bolt in
one's right Glennon rushed Jordan's late worked at

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inning at two thirds, Green swings
drives it high and deep the right center

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field. This one is back and
he's hit his second home run in the

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ball game. He is fourth in
the series and the Dodgers lead it nine

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to one. And for Sean Green, boy, he is swinging and he

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looks like the Seawn Green of last
year. That ball was driven and the

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right center field. It is three
seventy four and that ball was shit up

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into a landing. It takes outside
one and zher and the next pitch he

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drives it to left field. It
is up. It is back and he's

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done it for the third time.
Sean Green three home runs this afternoon and

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the Dodgers lead at ten to oohing
Green going around second basin, he has

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not been choosy. He's gone to
right field, he's gone to right center

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and this time he hit it over
the left field wall. What an afternoon

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for Sewan Green. The next one, there's a drive the right center field.

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He's done it. Four home runs
for Sean Green to tie the major

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league record. The Milwaukee fans are
in their fate, giving him a standing

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ovation and as he circles third,
What to day? Ross Porter and Rick

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Monday with the call. May twenty
third, two thousand and two. Shawn

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Green six for six, a record
tyn six six run scored, a record

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tigned four home runs, a record
tied five extra base hits, seven RBIs,

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and a record setting nineteen total basis. Sean Green in Milwaukee this day

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twenty two years ago. How about
that? I remember that like it was

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yesterday. All right, Coming up
next, we'll get you a farm report.

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We'll try to get some phone calls
if we can. It's Off Night

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Dodger Talk right here at AI seventy
LA Sports Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.

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Off Night Dodger Talk continues here on
AM five to seventy LA Sports.

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Tim Kates with you here until the
top of the hour. Thanks for joining

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us on this Thursday night, May
twenty third, The Dodgers with a night

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off. They're in Cincinnati about to
start a three game series tomorrow at Great

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American Ballpark. It's the start of
a six game East Coast road trip tomorrow.

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We'll get it all started with Morongo
Casino Dodgers on deck at three o'clock,

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James Paxson on the mound for the
Blue Right hander Graham Ashcraft will go

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for the Reds first pitch at four
to ten, and that'll be the start

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of that three game series in Cincinnati. The Dodgers looking to get back on

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track after dropping two of three to
the Arizona Diamondbacks to finish off this last

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homestead. Alright, let's get you
updated on what's happening down in the minor

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league for a ball all the way
up to Triple A. Let's go down

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on the farm. We start off
with the Dodgers number one overall prospect,

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Dalton Rushing, twenty three year old
second round pick in twenty twenty two out

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of Louisville. Baseball America has him
down as the number forty three overall prospect

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in all of baseball. Right now, he's in Double A Tulsa and tearing

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it up, bitch slinging a peak
pri at the right field, and this

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one is long gone, and that
one one hops over the fence. Belchia

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Avenue. Dalpha Rushers drives a three
run homer. That was a bolt time

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here Tulsa Drillers Radio Network with the
call, one of four home runs for

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Dalton Rushing on this season in thirty
games to forty eight average, six doubles,

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the four round trippers, sixteen ribbies
and eight eighty five ops. Hoossuay

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de Paala. He's eighteen years old. He's the number forty two overall prospect

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according to Baseball America. He's six
three, one hundred and eighty five pounds.

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The left handed hitting outfielder is in
Rancho Cucamonga, and right now he

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is crushing it all the way.
There goes George the pitch his beltip deep

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to right, the Hayes who's turns
watches go on post sway that Paula overless

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for the first fifth plus of the
season. It's easy, just like that

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Depalla in the drive steep bright field. We got ourselves at time on his

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first career too hover game in a
Rancho uniform posts Way. Paula one hundred

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percent locked in Rancho Cucamugga Quakes for
Radio Network in thirty one games, one

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hundred and twenty one at bats,
nine doubles, two triples, now four

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home runs, three of which have
come in the last three days. It's

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got twenty three runs batted in sixteen
walks a seven to seventy nine ops.

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He's sixty three one eighty five,
A big young man who most likely will

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be on his way to Great Lakes
with the promotion to High A Ball.

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Dodgers number four overall prospect Nick Frosso
twenty five year old right hander. He

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has done for the year. He
had shoulder surgery in November. He is

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not gonna pitch. River Ryan,
the dodgers number five overall prospect, twenty

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five year old right hander, should
be in TRIPLEA Oklahoma City, but he's

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on the sixty day il with OKC
shoulder fatigue. Jackson Ferris twenty year old

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left hander, the number seven overall
prospect. The Dodgers got him in a

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trade with the Cubs his past offseason
involving Michael Bush. He was the second

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round pick for the Cubs in twenty
twenty two. He's in High A Ball

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eight starts, one to three,
five ninety one ERA, thirty nine strikeouts

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in just thirty two innings. Diego
Kartaya March Herald, the Dodger catcher now

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twenty two years old. He's in
Double A Tulsa, twenty six games a

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one to ninety one average, two
doubles, four home runs, thirteen ribies

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and thirty three strikeouts. Stay Ron
Lorenzo, twenty year old catcher, first

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basement designated hitter, top one hundred
prospect in Baseball America, a top ten

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prospect for the Dodgers. The young
Man of the Dominican Republic is in high

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A ball with the Great Legs Loons, and he is hitting the ball hard

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and the pitch let Runzo Laser in
the left is down in rolls against the

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wall for Theodness giving the wave around
the new periods is fuck it up and

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mob the twenty year old in center
field. That thing is moving out there.

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Walk off home run Loons Radio Network
with the call that came yesterday for

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the Loons. Thirty three games for
Theyron one hundred and twenty three at bath

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two thirty six average, but he
got eight doubles, five home runs,

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sixteen ribies, twenty five walks in
an ops near eight hundred. Peyton Martin

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a nineteen year old right hander.
He's in low A ball Rancho Kuka Manga,

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seventeenth round pick in twenty twenty two. He was slow played to start

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the year out of extended spring training. Just three starts, eight and two

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third innings. He's got twelve strikeouts. Kendall George, the Dodger's first round

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pick a year ago. He's eighteen
years old, five ten, one hundred

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and seventy pounds. Kid was graduating
from high school a year ago. Now

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he's playing professional baseball. He's in
Racho Kouka twenty seven games so far to

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seventy five average, a double,
eleven ribies, an eleven stolen basis.

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He's a speedster. Maddix Bruns,
first round pick of the Dodgers in twenty

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twenty one, out of high school. He's now twenty two years old.

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He's in Great Lakes. Five starts, got a lot of strikeouts a bit.

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He's a swinging him in Masterman K's
six strikeouts Ramatics runs here tonight Loun's

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radio network with the call. He's
got twenty three k's in thirteen and two

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third innings and a one ninety eight
ero. Maybe Maddix Runs has figured it

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out. Dodgers top fifteen prospect Justin
Robleski, twenty three year old left hander

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in Double A Tulsa. Eight starts, two and one, record forty four

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strikeouts in thirty nine and a third
innings. Ronan Cop twenty one year old

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left hander. He's in Double A
Tulsa, a top twenty prospect for the

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Dodgers, seven games, eight and
two third innings. He's two and oh

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with a nine to thirty five r
He's got sixteen walks already in limited time.

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How about some guys down on the
farm there aren't considered top twenty prospects,

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but are off to great starts here
in twenty twenty four. Andre Lipsius

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twenty six year old second baseman,
first baseman. He was designated for assignment

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in March by the Detroit Tigers.
The Dodgers claimed him put him in TRIPLEA

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Oklahoma City. What a season he's
happening. Box pitch is ripped to left,

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deep down the line towards the corner, and this is a fair paul

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and a two run home run for
Andre E. Lipsius, his second home

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run of the game. He had
an opposite field solo shot of the second

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and now he yanks a two run
shot to left field here in the fifth

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Okay see Baseball Radio Network with the
call three thirty five average, thirteen home

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runs, nine doubles, thirty six
ribbies, seventeen walks. He's got an

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ops over a thousand. He's twenty
six year old. Andre Lipsius Ben Casparius,

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twenty five year old right handed pitcher, fifth round pick in twenty twenty

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one out of Yukon. He started
the year in Double A Tulsa five starts,

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thirty four strikeouts in twenty one and
two third innings. He was promoted

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to Triple A Oklahoma City. So
far in three starts two and oh two

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to twenty five r raight, he's
got eleven strikeouts in sixteen innings. Keep

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an eye on him. He could
be one of those next call ups for

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the Dodgers. Jack Dryer, you
heard about him last week on the Farm

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Report, twenty five year old left
hander. He can deal. He started

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the year in Double A Tulsa fourteen
and two third innings as a reliever with

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twenty strikeouts. Promoted to OKC.
So far in four games, four and

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two third innings, he's given up
a home run, three runs, eight

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hits and five strikeouts. So a
little bit of a tough adjustment for young

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Jack Dryer. Jared Carroll's twenty three
year old son of Eric Carroll, started

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the year in High A Ball with
the Great Lakes Loons. Was five and

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oh sub two R thirty six strikeouts. He got promoted to Double A Tulsa.

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He's already made a start this week. It was a rough one three

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and two third innings, six runs, seven hits, six walks, got

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a no decision. Alex Freeland,
twenty two year old shortstop, a third

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round pick out of Central Florida in
twenty twenty two, started the year in

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Great Lakes with the Loons, now
in Double A Tulsa. Freeland in fourteen

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games there three thirty three average,
two doubles, three home runs, seven

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ribies, and eleven walks. Ed
Gardo Hearnriquez, twenty one year old right

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hander out of Venezuela, started the
year with Rancho Cucamonga between the Quakes and

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High A Ball at the Great Leagues
Loons. He's pitched in nine games,

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seventeen to the third innings. He's
got thirty four strikeouts and a one p

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fifty ERA. Speaking of hard throwing
right handers, Raynaldo Yeen, twenty year

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old out of the Dominican Republic.
He's in Rancho Cucamonga, the reliever,

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sixty four to one ninety big guy, twelve games, two to zero three

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saves eleven and two third innings.
He can flat out deal oh two all

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the way. Fastball at one oh
four, Hey o, fastball swung on

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and miss shut the door. Maybe
don't say a word. The Quakes keep

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it coming, five straight wins the
Rainaldo Yean makes it happen here in the

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ninth inning in one two three fashion
as he picks up the Safe Quakes radio

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network with the call one hundred and
four miles per hour? Are you kidding

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me? He throws one hundred miles
an hour plus consistently, and he's got

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an off speed pitch in the mid
eighties. He is filthy. Reinaldo Yen

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keep an eye out on the young
twenty year old out of the Dominican Republic,

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out of the bullpen with the Quakes. Certainly we'll get promoted with the

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Great Lakes Loons. So there you
go. You're caught up on what's happening

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from Oklahoma City in Triple A down
to Rancho Kuck among a lot of prospects

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off to good starts here in twenty
twenty four, and other guys that are

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off to great starts as well at
different levels, already moving in around from

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different levels, up a ball to
high a ball, high a ball to

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double A, double A to triple
A. We're seeing some shifting of the

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Dodgers prospects now six weeks into the
twenty twenty four minor league season. All

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right, so you're caught up to
date on what's going down on the farm.

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That's gonna do it for Dodger Talk
on this Thursday night. Certainly appreciate

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all your phone calls. Great to
go down memory Lane with Sean Green and

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the anniversary of his fur home run
game in Milwaukee, and glad to get

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you updated on what's happened with the
Dodgers minor league prospects down on the farm.

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Thanks to Ronnie Foscio. Thanks to
you for being a part of the

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show. You can always download and
listen on the podcast on the iHeartRadio app.

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If you miss any part of this
show. We'll be back tomorrow with

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Morongo Casino Dodgers on Decks beginning at
three o'clock first pitch Dodgers and Reds from

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Cincinnati and four to ten. Until
then, have a great safe rest of

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your Thursday night. Congratulations to all
those graduates out there. Be safe so

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long. Everybody