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Speaker 2: the story of the night is Roki Sasaki and his

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Speaker 2: struggles continuing tonight from Arizona. As far as his spring

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Speaker 2: And he had an impressive spring training, no doubt about it.

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Speaker 2: There are so many games on this homestand that are

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Speaker 2: the Guardian. Saying, going back to twenty twenty four, I

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Speaker 2: Let's go out to Aggie in Oxnard. You're on Dodger

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Speaker 2: Talk live from Dodger Stadium High AUGI, Hey.

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Speaker 4: Dave, this is Augi from Oxnart. I met you at

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Speaker 1: How could I forget?

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Speaker 1: Ventura Oxnar.

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Speaker 2: When he's pitching, he's almost at first he's almost between

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Speaker 2: He's not directional, christ not going straight towards home plate.

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Speaker 2: I remember Tom Glavin saying this at some point as

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Speaker 2: To be very mechanical, overthinking things, and I'm sure he's

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Speaker 2: After Rokie pitching in the playoffs, I wouldn't use the

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Speaker 2: Thanks for the phone call, Augie, appreciate it. Eight six

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Speaker 2: Let's hear from Dave Roberts again, because he was asked

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Speaker 5: You know, once a season starts, then you got it.

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Speaker 5: It's about production. But I don't think that you can

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Speaker 5: And we know that the standard needs to be better.

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Speaker 5: He knows that. We know that, and then now it's

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Speaker 2: When a pitcher goes out and can only pitch three

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Speaker 2: And you know, like we saw last year, you go

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Speaker 1: One old pitch, this one driven high and dape to lap.

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Speaker 2: Tonight's story Roki Sasaki and him being in the Dodgers

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Speaker 4: I think I've seen what everybody has seen, but me

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Speaker 4: Put everything behind this happened now and know that you

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Speaker 2: All right, Jose, looking forward to see how this goes

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Speaker 1: All right? I love it. That's a good appetizer for Thursday.

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Speaker 1: Thanks Jse. We'll see you back out here tomorrow night.

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Speaker 1: S see you later.

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Speaker 2: Otani is on the mound for the Dodgers, but it's

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Speaker 2: a little bit earlier of a start four o'clock. Our

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Speaker 2: coverage begins with Dodgers on deck first pitch with Rick

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Speaker 2: Monday and Tim Neverett at five to ten. So this

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Speaker 2: is a good final practice run to just for the

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Speaker 2: shadows may roll in a little bit later, but certainly

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Speaker 2: a good final dress rehearsal to have the last game

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Speaker 2: at and we will have the game right here on

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Speaker 2: Day it's going to be nationally televised on Peacock. My

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Speaker 2: guy Kershaw is gonna be in the house. He's gonna

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Speaker 2: So looking forward to that. I don't know where he's

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Speaker 2: Connecticut somewhere? Is he just going to do one of

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Speaker 1: I doubt that.

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Speaker 2: But no, Kershaw, I'm sure will be out here, and

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Speaker 2: he'll be out here on Tuesday or excuse me, on

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Speaker 2: Friday getting his ring. I mean, he was a big

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Speaker 2: part of last season and it'll be great for him

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Speaker 2: to be celebrated again at Dodgers Stadium on Tuesday with

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Speaker 2: the ring ceremony. Look forward to see him, seeing him

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Speaker 2: out here. Maybe he'll be wearing a suit. Maybe I

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Speaker 2: don't know. He can't cut the sleeves off his suit.

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Speaker 2: So looking forward to see Kershaw back at Dodger Stadium.

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Speaker 2: That'll do it for us tonight. Thanks to calling you

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Speaker 2: back at our Bank Studios. Thanks to Dwayne McDonald out

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Speaker 2: here at Dodger Stadium, and thanks to you for listening.

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Speaker 2: In case you missed any of the show or any

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Speaker 2: of our interviews during spring training, you can find it

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Speaker 2: all on the iHeartRadio app. Just search Dodger Talk. Subscribe,

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Speaker 2: make it a preset favorite, and you won't miss anything

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Speaker 2: Dodger related. Once again, the final score tonight from Dodgers Stadium.

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Speaker 2: It was a tie, a seven to seven tie between

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Speaker 2: the Dodgers and Angels. We'll do it again tomorrow night.

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Speaker 2: Thanks a lot for listening. Fox Sports Radio is next.

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Speaker 2: Ben Mallor I'm sure is already talking about something he

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Speaker 2: has no idea about. So Ben Maller is next on

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Speaker 2: Fox Sports Radio.

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Speaker 1: See him start it