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warm Friday evening here in southern California. Your Los Angeles Dodgers forty seven

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and thirty on this season, first
place atop the NL West, a nine

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game lead over the Padres and the
Diamondbacks in the division. After taking three

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or four from Colorado in Denver,
the Dodgers are now back home for a

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brief two game freeway series against the
Anaheim Angels. First pitching Dodgers Stadium is

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coming up at seven to ten.
Coming up over the next hour here on

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hear from the manager, Dave Roberts.

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We'll dive deeper into this pitching matchup. David Veasse will go one on one

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with Freddie Freeman. He is having
himself a month of June. Shortly,

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we'll hear from Kirsten Watson, and
in just a few minutes we'll check in

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with Rick Monday and Tim Neverertt out
at the Gallpin Motors Broadcast booth. Well

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yesterday in Denver Stone pitched a jim
as the Dodgers used the long ball to

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get the win. Gavin Stone,
what a first half he is having.

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The young right hander making his first
start ever at coors Field, and usually

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this spot that's not favorable to pitchers, But for Stone, he defied the

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odds and pitched well. Sixth inning
and he went five and a third officially

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two runs, four hits, all
of them singles, and he tied his

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season high was seven punchouts. The
Dodgers offense, meanwhile, got after ty

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block early and often the first bat
of the game, Show Hey Otani.

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Two balls in one strike to Otani, Otani, then Smith, then Freeman.

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Here in the top of the first
inning on a sun splashed Thursday afternoon

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two one swing on Well hit the
center field, going back as Toil,

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He's to the track, to the
wall, he leaps and that a home

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run. As Show Hey Otani hits
it out, it's one nothing Dodgers instant

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offense for Show Hey O'tani his twenty
first home run of the season, and

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the Dodgers scored first this afternoon leadoff
home run for Show Hey, that's the

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top tier play of the game.
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less. Dodgers up one to nothing. How about shoey Ootani by the way,

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the lead off spot four games in
Denver, eight for eighteen, two

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home runs, three doubles and six
rbi. The third bottom of the lineup

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came through Andy pa Has in RBI
double that scored te Oscar Hernandez. Dodgers

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up two to nothing. The very
next batter Miguel Vargas and RBI single to

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right that scored Paes. Dodgers up
three to nothing. Then in the fourth

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Dodgers back at it. This time
it wasn't back to back singles at scored

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runs. It was back to back
jacks home runs, first with Will Smith,

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then for Freddy Freeman Will Smith.
It's the second Dodger home run today.

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Forty five RBIs now for Smith,
breaking ball hammered by fred Need to

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center field. This ball heading back
and this ball is gone. That's d

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of the trees. Freddy Freeman back
to back home runs with Will Smith and

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the Dodgers lead at five to nothing. Back to back home runs is eleventh

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of the season for Freddy. Dodgers
a five to nothing lead. Gavin Stone

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pitched well for five innings, got
into some trouble in the sixth, then

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he can give up a pair of
runs. After that, the Rockies were

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able to get a runoff alex Vessia
in the eighth. Dodgers z oh go

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on and beat the Rockies yesterday five
to three to win this series. Gavin

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Stone is eighth win of the year. What a first half he is having.

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You got to get him to the
All Star Game. Alex Vessia has

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twelfth saved. Dodgers take three of
four. They improved a forty seven and

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thirty. They're leading the divisions now
nine over Arizona and San Diego, and

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tonight they're back home for a brief
two game Freeway series against the Angels.

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Landon Nack called up from TRIPLEA Oklahoma
City. He'll get the start. First

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pitch is seven to ten and with
more we head out to the Gallpin Motors

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broadcast booth as we welcome in Rick
Monday and Tim never guys, Thank you

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Tim very much. Beautiful night here
at Cheveezravine. The Dodgers and the Angels

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renew the Freeway series, although it's
been a bit one sided lately, with

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the Dodgers taking ten in a row
in this series and outscoring the Angels sixty

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to seventeen in those ten games.
Patrick Sandoval will get the start. The

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left hander is two to eight for
the Angels and for the Dodgers. They

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called up Triple A pitcher Landon Nack. Knack will make his fifth appearance for

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the Dodgers this year. He's won
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two sixty one earned run average.
JP Fireheisen was optioned back to Triple A

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Oklahoma City to make room for landon
Nack. The Dodgers begin the day nine

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games up on both San Diego and
Arizona forty seven and thirty season high seventeen

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games over five hundred. Meantime,
the Angels twenty nine and forty five,

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thirteen and a half back in fourth
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Dodgers coming off a pretty good road
trip, just a four game trip to

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Colorado. But anytime you go onto
Colorado and take three out of four,

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you'll take it. I think the
other part, too, kind of coupled

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up with that same thinking, is
the bull bin comes out of it.

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Okay, Dave Roberts saying there's a
couple of arms in that bult bin tonight,

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maybe not going to be used,
but that can be a nightmare for

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pitching staff. So the Dodgers got
through it relatively unscaled. This is a

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portion of the schedule also, and
not to throw disparity towards any ball club

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at all, but if you're looking
at the Rockies and their record, you

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look at the Angels in their record, and then the Dodgers after these two

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games in the Freeway Series move on
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This is the time that the Dodgers, if you're looking at it realistically,

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should possibly maybe even prove that nine
game lead that they have in the nationally

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Western Division. The Angels are seventeen
and twenty on the road. They've got

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a much better road record than they
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only twelve and twenty five, but
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And you're right, this is a
point in the schedule here where the Dodgers

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really need to make some hay And
if we look at this, the won

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two punts changes a little bit tonight
for this Dodger lineup. Will Smith will

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get a breather after playing a few
of the games up in Denver, Austin

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Barnes is doing the catch. He's
going to bat in a nine spot,

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but t Oscar Hernandez is going to
be elevated at the number two position in

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tonight's game. He'll play right field
and for show Hey Otani another night as

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a designated hitter, and boy,
you can underline hitter because you look at

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the last four games where Otani has
been the leadoff man for the Dodgers and

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the absence of Mookie Benz. He's
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That's a four forty four batting average
with two home runs and he's knocked

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in seven. And if Show Hey
Otani gets an RBI in this game tonight,

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he'll do something he's never done in
his career. That's having RBI in

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six straight games. So Otani taking
on the Angels for the first time,

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seeing his former team in the regular
season. Will Smith having an off day

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today, Dave Roberts wants to rest
the catcher, so Austin Barnes is in

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the lineup. Barnes is in the
lineup, Rojas again at shortstop, and

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Miguel Vargas starts in left field.
Ky K Hernanez another start at third base,

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and Chris Taylor, whose bat is
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it up. Indeed, he's going
to get the start, bat eighth and

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play at second base. It's the
Dodgers of the Angels, Game one of

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the Freeways series. Patrick Sandoval pitching
for the Angels. He is two and

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eight Land and Knack called up today
from Triple A. He will pitch for

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the Dodgers. Nak is one on
one for LA this year, making his

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fifteenth appearance. Lineup's first pitch not
too far away? Tim, All right,

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as we cut you down to first
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on Deck. You will hear Dodger
manager Dave Roberts. You will hear from

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Freddie Freeman David Vass say, we'll
check in. We'll get you an injury

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updates. Max Monks he's been shifted
to the sixty DIIL. What does that

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mean? Kyle Hurt activated off the
Angel list but sent to Triple a what

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does that mean? We'll break it
on down, including the pitching matchup tonight

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when Land and Knack back from Triple
A Oklahoma City is Patrick sandon Wall.

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It's a Dodgers and the Angels Freeway
Series on this Friday night. Thanks for

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The pitching matchup in this brief two
game series Dodgers off on Sunday before

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heading into Chicago. First pitch tonight, coming up a seventen. This is

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the free wide two balls and one
strike to Otani, Otani, then Smith,

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then Freeman. Here in the top
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splashed Thursday afternoon. Two one swung
on well hit the center field, going

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back his toil, He's to the
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and that buzz gone a home run. As show Hey Otani hits it out.

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It's one nothing Dodgers instant offense for
show Hey O'tani his twenty first home

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run of the season and the Dodgers
scored first. This afternoon show Hey Otani

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with the leadoff home run yesterday twenty
one home runs thirty in Major League Baseball.

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He walked a couple of times yesterday. He has gotten his average up

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Kirsten Watson had a checks to catch
up with one of the Dodgers who

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hit a home run. Otani went
deep, Freddie Freeman went deep, and

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so too Will Smith. Well,
in this series you had a lot of

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hard hit ball, but today one
finally fell. Just how good did it

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seed? Just to get the results
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homer. Yeah I feel all right
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ball is just you know, it's
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hit a little harder. But yeah, it's good to get one to day.

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So considering it is such a large
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field just not really your friend here? Yeah, not this series. So

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it's definitely hot with the pitching today. See and Gavin Stone his first time

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playing here. How impressive was he
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little traffic later on his outing,
which just how he was able to settle

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it. Yeah, he pitched really
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know, weak contact. I was
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good early. I thought he was
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yeah, I just got a little
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know that happens, you know,
it's ran out of gas or whatever.

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But he looks really strong the whole
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just considering the altitude and things.
But considering how you all played in

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these four games series, how important
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the series against the Rockies? Yeah, it's uh, you know it take

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three or four on the road.
We need everyone we can get. You

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know, guess yesterday I sweaked away
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know, come back out and get
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it's good for us all rightly,
ready to get back home? Yes,

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all right, Well, congratulations on
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So thank you some much. All
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say he'll go one on one with
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you an injury report and we'll hear
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Dodgers and Angels on this Friday night. First pitch is seven ten. I'm

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Yoshinobu Yamamoto with a right tricep tightness, Walker Buehler on the iel with the

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sore hit. Michael Grove on the
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activities, but it has been a
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the sixty day IL. Kyle Hurt
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Dodger pitcher the reliever, but was
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where he had been doing minor league
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head back out to the stadium and
check in with the Dodger skipper Dave.

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Do you think the questions for Dave
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Can you talk about the pressure in
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off day on Sunday, and so
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But Landin has comed in and filled
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other guys down today, so it'll
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What's Walker going to be doing?
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guys or what's the plat So we
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think with Walker, it's sort of
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a pitcher right now, where his
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of you know, he's a lot
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surgery, so to kind of figure
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pitch mechanics and delivery. So it's
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kind of finalized sort of where this
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going to be kind of obviously we'll
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might be an off site thing or
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do if you guys have now long
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compared to last year, show hanging
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guys more reinforcements. What's your overall
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Is that does that warrant any extra
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doesn't warrant any extra conversation. I
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in Anaheim. I think he's certainly
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those things that he's excited to get
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to get it over with because I
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he just wants to play a baseball
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David now joins us from Dodgers Dandy
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series against the Anaheim Angels, and
it's show Hey Otani DV. Facing his

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former teammates, Yeah and it's interesting. Otani told reporters in Denver tim that

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this series is not going to mean
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go, than the emotions he'll feel
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in this season. He did also
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Angels to see where they're at in
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singled out amongst all the other former
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Angels catcher. Obviously, Ohapi caught
o'tani starts last year, but he does

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like to hear things about Logan o'happy
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So he didn't mention anybody else by
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o'happy as one of them and certainly
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A. That's where he said it
will feel a little bit more emotional coming

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off this series in Colorado DV.
We've got pastly midway point here at June,

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and what a month that's been for
Freddie Freeman. It really has.

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And look, Freddie has not had
that bad of a year, despite what

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he'll tell tell you. He's been
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always talks about when your lows are
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hover around the two to eighty two
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he was doing the first two months
of the season. But now in the

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month of June, he's slugging almost
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point fifty four. I thought it
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the ball in that six or in
that five walk game the first game of

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that series in Denver, because I
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telling us before the Dodgers went to
Denver and corse Field. He said,

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a slump is when a hitter does
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he's not seen the ball well and
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strike zone. Well, show Hey
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month of June has been doing that
and no better way to show that by

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having a career night five walks the
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tonight, his fifth start in the
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in his time up here. He
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his performance being the reason why he
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numbers game. The Dodgers had a
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Walker Buehler back. But all of
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and Yamamoto is out for an undisclosed
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continue to go to the bullpen game
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look, they want to give Glass
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to get one tomorrow. But this
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next start tonight and Austin Barnes will
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be in the lineup again. His
former battery mate with Team Mexico in the

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World Baseball Classic. Patrick Sandoval went
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praising the way Austin Barnes caught him
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So Barnes versus Sandoval round one after
the World Baseball Classic tonight. That's

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interesting, DV. Austin Barnes catching, So no Will Smith in the lineup

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tonight? Is everything? Okay,
Everything's okay. The Dodgers just came back

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from a four game series at Corsfield, and, as Andre Ethier told us

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before the game yesterday, a three
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the high altitude. But a four
game series can be really taxing on the

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body. And what position is more
taxing than catching? So Dave Roberts giving

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Will Smith a breather before the night
game tomorrow night against the Angels. Good

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to know, just a breather for
Will Smith, DV. We appreciate it.

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you. The heat has not led
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the team. A nice to see
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that the ball club was actually leaving
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you're in a coat and tie today, so you're doing dual duty of both

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from Rick Monday, I'm good to
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He By the way, I want
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ago we had to have a tieing
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will, and you've done a magnificent
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on your tie. I appreciate that, and that was not only my biggest

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accomplishment today. Rick I'd beat Bobby
Miller in a game of pig out in

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Huntington Beach. We were at a
clothing store together. They had a full

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court basketball court. I brought Bobby, Gavin Stone, and Blake Trannon down

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and we all played a game of
pig together, and yours truly was the

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last one standing. Is that right? So? But you did not go

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one on one with a six foot
five Bobby Miller, No, I did

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not. I didn't want to hurt
him. He's got a pitch, hey,

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but the Dodgers have land and knack
on the mound today. He's one

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of these new wave pitchers like Bobby
Miller and Gavin Stone that will say hello

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to you on start day. I
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you don't know surprise. And sometimes
when we get a pitcher that's going to

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pitch that day and they say hello, the first thing is is it mistaken

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identity? Does he have a twin
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that? Though? Every day Don
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hello. Don Sutton would actually hold
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with the print media the day he
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do it right in front of his
lockers. So he would actually have,

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if you will, a spontaneous press
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Hey, it must have worked.
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say hello to them that day,
to say hello to him twice the next

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day. Yeah, So I've been
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career. And you know how he
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don't even you don't even look at
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But everybody psykes it up a little
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to compartmentalize it, if you will. The same way with a hitter,

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if they're in a slump, they
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and b don't want to be interviewed
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alone. Hey, two Dodger hitters
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was in a real one for about
twenty five games. But he has come

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out of it, and Freddie Freeman
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fact that the show, Hey,
Otani now in the leadof spots, hitting

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four forty four since the absence,
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going to be time in order for
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But in the four games, Otani
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runs and seven runs back at end. That's not bad for a leadoff hitter.

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that much being the leadoff hitter.
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and rear in for any picture,
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reliever. And you start to look
at the found a note on Freddy Freeman

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today. If you go back the
last three years now, you know he

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has the second highest batting average in
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that's even higher the last three years
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three, and his bat has come
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ones. And the biggest one that
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for him because hard work has paid
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A little bit more in a post
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he's batting in the eight spot tonight, blanket second base again against the left

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hander as Patrick Sandoval is going for
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really celebrating the fact that Chris Taylor
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September. It looks like the same
swing and approach. Is there something that

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you're noticing that's different. I don't
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nuppercut swing, and some of the
numbers on Chris Taylor not going into him.

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They're negative numbers, and I'd rather
talk about a positive stance. I'm

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not only seeing a better swing right
now, but you can tell he's got

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more confidence right now too, because
he understands that he's able to make contact

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much better because with two strikes that
has been really problematic for Chris Taylor.

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How problematic, Well, he's gone
thirty seven consecutive games without a base hit

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with two strikes. Did not have
two strikes on him in any of the

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accounts that he had in yesterday's Bowl
game, So I think with the additional

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now of knowing he can make more
consistent contract I'm just seeing a much more

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positive sign with confidence from Chris Taylor. Hopefully he can continue that confidence building

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tonight against Patrick Sandoval. Rick,
maybe will you and me will play some

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pig one. Well, you'll be
on TV during the during the game itself,

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so you'll be down really from Doug
outside, so you can carry on

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conversations with you will just let Chris
knows that. Hey, look, we

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realize that your you know, your
confidences is really kind of flourished, So

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go up and have a good time. Okay, sounds good. I'll relay

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the message to throw you out in
a New York minute. I have no

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doubt about it. Good to see
you again. Thanks Rick. Not the

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first time I've been thrown out of
any dugout. It won't be the last

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either. We'll send it back to
the studio Tim, all right, Thanks

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Rick and Tim will have the keys
to the game. But up next,

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David Bassey goes one on one with
Freddy Friedman leading up to Dodgers and Angels

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on this Friday night, It's a
Freeway series. First pitch at seven ten.

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I'm Tim Kas's Los Angeles Dodgers Audio
Network. This is Morongo Casino Dodgers

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on this Friday night. Land and
Neck recall from TRIPLEA Oklahoma City. Patrick

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Sandoval, the left hander, will
go for Anaheim. First pitch at seven

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now what will likely be vassy fielding insults

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from a Dodger player. It's an
engagement of in dear. This is high

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and tight. Sometimes we all need
somebody to lean on, and yesterday Freddie

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Freeman leaned on Key k Hernandez and
his first base coach Clayton McCullough. Freddy,

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you can lean on me anytime.
I appreciate that. That was a

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good that's a good lead in to
the term of your nice one, David.

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Yeah, that's that's not as easy
as people think. Playing four games

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at course Field. Yeah, you
know, I've obviously never dealt with that

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before. But usually it's a three
game series you can get through. It's

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usually night games too. But our
first day there, of the four days,

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it was a really hot one is
in that for nineties. Next two

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days are okay, but it just
takes a twenty body. You're just not

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used to the altitude. But the
fourth day obviously day game, and it

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was in about low nineties there too, and long four days. We're in

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a tough stretch of twelve in a
row. My last that bat, you

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know, there's you can sniff it
hit and smell it hit sometimes and I

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emptied the tank and obviously emptying it
all the way and I need a little

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helps back to the first base.
The last Dodger player I heard that went

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to the oxygen mask was reliever JP
Howe. So two lefties going to the

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tank. Yeah, but there's actually
a few guys that went to the tank

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just don't know. You don't hear
about it. During that series we had,

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we scored a few runs. A
lot of guys scored goal from first

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to home. It's mostly the outfielder
that's a like it's a little little bit

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of running the right field and back. So that one game Jay played,

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he scored from first and then he
kept running back and forth that he was

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a little tired too. So I'm
not gonna throw some people out there,

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but there's a few other guys that
took some mosters, not just me.

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Hey, Freddie, it's okay,
nothing to be worried about. The biggest

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thing is Freddie Freeman's in the starting
lineup today. Well you thought that was

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what did you think? No way, no way. I got a day

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off on Sunday? Yeah, what
are days off? What are days off?

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Freddy had five walks in the first
game at Corus Field. Is that

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indicative of how well you're seeing the
ball? Well? I would actually beg

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to differ on that. I had
about six or seven pitches to hit and

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foul them off. So I obviously
I can critique myself more than anybody in

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this earth will critique me. But
I had some pitches of hit, but

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I was ultimately able to lead to
walks and not get myself out. But

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the swing has been better off the
last you know, three or four weeks,

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but still some cut swings here and
there, but ultimately better swings each

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day. Wow, Freddie, that
was not the answer I was expecting.

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You are so hard on yourself.
How do you allow yourself to enjoy the

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fruits of your labor? I don't. I think if you ask my wife,

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it ever happens. I just,
yeah, I expect a lot of

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myself. But yeah, maybe maybe
when I'm done playing playing, I'll and

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I'll look back. But as I'm
in it, yeah, it's usually never

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good enough. Freddy, you grew
up in Orange County. Obviously the Angels

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were your team. Do you get
excited wearing this uniform in a Freeway series?

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I get excited, Yeah, be
home and playing in front of my

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family pretty much every single day,
like my dad's gonna be coming tonight.

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So that's the cool thing. What's
cool to me is playing these games and

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I get to see Garrett Andrew walk
on the field, which I just saw

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him about ten minutes ago, so
he's obviously my favorite player growing up,

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so being able to come here and
see him, and you know, that's

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what's so enjoyable for me, and
being home. Obviously I didn't grow up

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a Dodgers fan because I grew up
ten minutes from Angel Stadium. But I

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think we're all Dodger fans now.
So we've got to beat the Angels.

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Yeah, no doubt. And Charlie's
here too, your dad, Charlie,

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and nobody cares about course fielding the
Freeman family, No, none of them

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did. The three year olds were
opening up fight early. We played some

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hide and see he got the house. We did some stuff and then obviously

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came here and started throwing at Charlie
and doing that, and yeah, they

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don't care about that. Yeah,
Freddy's got a lather like it's the seventh

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inning of the game already. I
know, we just we just threw two

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buckets. I did my work out
here. I'm about to go hit somem

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in the cage. So about six
hours straight hopefully of good stuff. All

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right. You know there's one other
Dizzy related song, the Goo Goo Dolls.

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Dizzy. Jeez, David, let's
just end this thing, okay,

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Yeah, it sounds good. Thanks
for all right. There's David Vasse,

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night. These two teams will see
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this weekend. Dodgers look to keep the

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winning going after taking three or four
in Denver. It's Patrick Sandoval and Landon

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Knack. The pitching matchup will dive
deeper into numbers when we come back.

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of Mission Vieo High School. There
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and the occasional fastball. Making his
sixteenth start of the season. He has

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pitched at least six innings in five
of his last eight starts and held opponents

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to two or few runners runs in
four of those starts. Last time out

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five innings, three runs, eight
hits, five strikeouts and a no decision

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against the Giants. He is OH
three with a five to forty ERA in

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five career games against the Dodgers.
Tonight marks third career appearance at Dodger Stadium.

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He's OH to one at the Ravine
with a four seven ERA. Landon

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Knack on the Mound for the Dodgers
one and one with the two sixty one

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er twenty six year old right hander
second round pick in twenty twenty, making

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his ninth start well in Triple A
Oklahoma City, which he was three and

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two with a three fifty four ERA. Here at the big leagues his fifth

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start with the Dodgers. He's been
up and down all season, but pitched

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well in his time with the Dodgers
last time out. Four and two third

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innings, one run, three hits
and five strikeouts. It's the Dodgers and

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the Angels landon Nack, Patrick Sandoval. We're fifteen minutes away from first pitch.

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He's to the game. Are next? I'm Tim Kats's Los Angeles Dodgers

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first pitch, let's head back out
to the booth to check in with the

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Rick and Tim guys. Thank you
once again. Tim. Perfect night for

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a ballgame at Dodgers Stadium. Just
a brief two game homestand before the Dodgers

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will take off for Chicago and San
Francisco with an unusual off day on Sunday.

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No game on Sunday, just the
games tonight and tomorrow night before heading

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off to the Windy City. The
meantime, it's landon Neck getting another opportunity.

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The twenty six year old will make
his fifth appearance for the Dodgers.

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The right hander, when he's been
on the mound for LA has been pretty

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good. Yeah, three starts in
April, one start also in the month

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of May. Overall ten starts in
at triple A. So Nack could possibly

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stretch it out a little bit in
this ball game. He's handled left.

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He's very well, just a one
forty six batting average against Dodgers. Need

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to be very cognizant of of speed
pitches against Patrick Sandoval. The reason is

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the last two years, he's thrown
the second highest percentage of off speed pitches

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of any pitcher in baseball. He
also gets that fastball hit and hit often,

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so he's the guy's going to move
the ball around, and that off

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speed pitch is going to be a
big weapon for Sandoval. He has had

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four prior starts against the Dodgers.
He is zero in three with a five

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to eighty nine earned run average.
So those will be the starting pitchers tonight

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and the Dodgers looking for a little
length out of Land and Knack. He's

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had ten appearances and nine starts in
Triple A for Oklahoma City, but when

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he's been in the big leagues over
his four prior appearances, opponent's only hitting

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one eighty nine against him. He's
done a good job in that area and

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also with runners in scoring position below
a one hundred average. The longer he

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goes, the better off. The
Dodgers' bullpen is going to be Dodgers and

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the Angels sand the ball against Knack. That's the pitching matchup we're getting sent

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for this ballgame here at a beautiful
Friday night at Dodgers Stadium. Tim it

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is a beautiful night warm outside and
afterwards a drone show, hopefully a happy

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drone show where all you Dodger fans
is. The Dodgers look to keep the

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winning going. They won three of
four and Denver came back home for this

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brief two game series. Dodgers winners
of six of ten as they take on

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the Angels tonight and tomorrow night.
That an off day on Sunday before starting

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a six game road trip. First
off Chicago, South Side of Chicago against

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the White Sox. First things first, Dodgers and Angels. After this one,

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I'll be back with all the postgame
festivities in Dodger Talk as well Dodgers

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