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Speaker 1: The quest for the three peat has begne.

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Speaker 1: Dodger Talk wherever you get short podcasts. Here's your host,

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Speaker 1: David Vase, last.

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Speaker 3: Day, Welcome the Dodger Talk.

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Speaker 2: David Vasse with you until eleven thirty tonight right here

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Speaker 2: on AM five to seventy LA Sports. After the Dodgers

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Speaker 2: on Otani Night beat the Guardians four to one. We

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Speaker 2: seven two five seventy. We will hear from show, Hey Otani,

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Speaker 2: we will hear from Max Muncy. We will check in

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Speaker 2: with Jose Mota, and we will take your phone call.

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Speaker 2: So a lot to get to between now and eleven thirty.

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Speaker 2: Let's start with Otani and then we'll get into the

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Speaker 3: Because I know.

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Speaker 2: I always preach let the season breathe a little bit,

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Speaker 2: but some signs are a little concerning, and this Dodger

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Speaker 2: But I'll re emphasize it's only the first five games.

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Speaker 2: But still, some of the pitchers the Dodgers have faced

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Speaker 2: they should be doing a lot more damage against than

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Speaker 2: You go back to his first season with the Dodgers.

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Speaker 3: He set goals.

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Speaker 2: He set goals to steal fifty bases, to be a

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Speaker 2: coming back to pitch, he couldn't run as much hit

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Speaker 2: certainly we saw that on display tonight. Six scoreless sinnings,

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Speaker 2: and the level of greatness that he strives, he's looking

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Speaker 2: at that and what he can do better. But for

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Speaker 2: on Yoshi Bobblehead night. You couldn't have two bigger things

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Speaker 2: But back to Otani, a great night, a great debut

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Speaker 4: How do you sort of feel just being able to

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Speaker 6: Do you feel like you're a better picture?

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Speaker 4: Maybe then you worry last year Day said that your

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Speaker 7: That's mine. Tension every year is to be a better pitcher,

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Speaker 7: I'm last year I felt good, But this year I

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Speaker 2: There was show he Tani with Will Ireton after tonight's

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Speaker 2: Hey Otani could have that type of feel for so

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Speaker 2: I advised all of you gamblers out there to jump

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Speaker 2: your chance. Now the next question is when does he

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Speaker 2: pitch again. The entire baseball world wants Otani to pitch

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Speaker 3: We all want to see it.

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Speaker 2: We all want to see Otani go back to Rogers

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Speaker 2: the Blue Jays. We all remember, you know, one of

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Speaker 2: Would love to see Otani go back there and show

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Speaker 2: the Blue Jays the new and improved Otani pitcher better

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Speaker 3: We all want to see it.

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Speaker 2: They know they're going back to Toronto next week. So if

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Speaker 2: pitching on nine days rest a week from Friday here

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Speaker 2: You're on Dodger Talk with David Vasse.

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Speaker 3: How you doing, Howard doing good?

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Speaker 9: Good to hear you guys back. You're a stellar analyst.

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Speaker 10: I've been listening to you for a long time, man,

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Speaker 10: and I really enjoyed listening to Oil and.

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Speaker 2: Play them thirteen times during the season since they're in

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Speaker 2: I love that connection. Since Mark Walter owns both the

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Speaker 2: saw the urgency in Dave roberts managing style tonight in

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Speaker 2: Let's go out to North Hollywood. Steve, you're on Dodger Talk.

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Speaker 2: How you doing, Steve good?

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Speaker 7: How are you doing?

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Speaker 3: Dave great?

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Speaker 6: So I'm thinking.

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Speaker 7: It might be a little bit too early to start Otani,

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Speaker 7: you know, with intensity pitching this early.

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Speaker 6: If it were me, obviously it's not up to me,

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Speaker 6: I wouldn't have him start to July.

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Speaker 6: I don't know what you think about that.

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Speaker 3: No, No, I mean he wants to be a pitcher.

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Speaker 2: The Dodgers slow played him back in rehab style last year.

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Speaker 2: He has prepared himself for this season. It's one thing

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Speaker 2: and pitch that's who he is, that's his identity as

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Speaker 2: Yeah, have some load management out there in North Hollywood.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, maybe Steve in North Hollywood needs rest. Otani doesn't

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Speaker 2: to you by Modello. Modello. The mark of a fighter

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Speaker 3: We're just waiting for it.

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Speaker 2: It's a really good lineup if they played to their potential.

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Speaker 2: Because the Mets fans and city field we're booing Bob

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Speaker 2: Once the first three hitters get it going, then this

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Speaker 2: geeze four for nineteen, three for nineteen, Mookie only has

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Speaker 2: one walk. Let's go out to Santa Monica. Evan, you're

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Speaker 3: How you doing? Evan?

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Speaker 6: It right?

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Speaker 2: David?

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Speaker 11: I mean, come on, I love your passion right now.

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Speaker 12: Five games and I feel the same way I was

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Speaker 8: I got a Yoshi.

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Speaker 12: Babblehead, loved watching Otani pitch, but.

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Speaker 8: I still think it's so.

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Speaker 12: Interesting when he has to bat leadoff, that he runs

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Speaker 11: I'm just wondering, would you on days that he starts,

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Speaker 3: Or Okay, I know everybody talks about that.

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Speaker 2: Hold on, hold on, I know everybody talks about that,

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Speaker 3: But hear me out on this seven.

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Speaker 2: What's to say that he doesn't lead off the fourth

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Speaker 11: Yes, absolutely, I'm just trying to think in his head

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Speaker 2: Well, I saw like in the sixth inning it seemed

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Speaker 3: I have to lead off this inning.

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Speaker 2: And we saw that after the sixth inning where he thought,

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Speaker 11: It's a great point. And you know, I'm just happy

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Speaker 6: Love you, Dave.

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Speaker 3: Thanks for the phone call.

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Speaker 2: Eight six six seven two five seventy is the phone number. Hey,

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Speaker 2: I understand it. Eric Harrows was talking about it a

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Speaker 3: But that's who he is, and he is one of one.

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Speaker 2: And if the Dodgers and Otani didn't believe that they

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Speaker 2: you know, what maybe hitting second or third is better

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Speaker 2: So that's a mood point. But you know, he's just spectacular.

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Speaker 2: I just say, sit back and enjoy the show. Because,

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Speaker 2: I fully echo Charlie Steiner's sentiments that Dodger games are

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Speaker 2: the phone number. Hey, there was some Turner broadcasting going

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Speaker 2: on tonight. TBS at Baseball on Tuesday Nights start up

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Speaker 2: again tonight and Pedro Martinez, a guy that is one

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Speaker 13: Choh is a human freak. I think Choha was made

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Speaker 3: Really, Choh is just amazing.

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Speaker 13: How can you get the field for pitching so early

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Speaker 13: Both those guys are young, but Josera Mires and those

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Speaker 13: So that that's a lot to say. And that was

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Speaker 2: That was the one and only Pedro Martinez. Hey, that's

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Speaker 2: a good comparison. Yeah, I agree, Oh, Tani's Ai. What

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Speaker 2: does a great job on MLB Network and tonight on

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Speaker 2: TBS eight six six nine eight seven two five seventy

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Speaker 2: is the phone number. Let's go out to g Man

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Speaker 2: in Pasadena. G You're on Dodger Talk.

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Speaker 8: Hey, Dave, first time ever being on this channel with you,

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Speaker 8: so thank you.

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Speaker 2: I fell silly going out to U g Man. Hello, Yeah,

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Speaker 2: I was trying to tell you g Man. It felt

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Speaker 2: weird going out to a caller named g Man. Can

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Speaker 2: I just call you g.

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Speaker 6: Well?

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Speaker 8: That's my call I go by G and they call

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Speaker 8: me g Man. Kind of a deal weird.

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Speaker 3: Okay, go ahead, but anyways, anyways, ques.

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Speaker 8: I said, I was going to talk about defense, but

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Speaker 8: or the lack of offense, but I kind of want

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Speaker 8: to switch up. Miggie Rowe. I had a chance to

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Speaker 8: just want to say he was just the chillest person ever.

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Speaker 8: And can you explain his autograph to me? Because I

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Speaker 8: did have him sign something for me, and I saw

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Speaker 8: what he actually signed his signature, do you.

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Speaker 2: Know, Yeah, I just saw a signature a few times

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Speaker 2: because I was with him at WSS and Boyle Heights

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Speaker 2: A lot of these guys you can't even read their names.

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Speaker 2: But at least Miguel Rojas is signature. You could tell

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Speaker 8: Okay, okay, Well, to say, Dave appreciate you, I.

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Speaker 2: Mean, wait a minute, you're just gonna bury the lead.

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Speaker 2: You were at your friend's house and Miguel Rojas was there.

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Speaker 2: I mean, you're just gonna bury the lead right there. Geeve,

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Speaker 2: is that a humble brag? You wanted to call in

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Speaker 2: How does that happen? How does Miguel Rojas end up

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Speaker 2: at your friend's house?

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Speaker 3: Dave?

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Speaker 8: I can't, I really can't.

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Speaker 3: Okay, I mean you just can't call in and say

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Speaker 3: that and not explain.

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Speaker 8: At an event, I will come up to you. I

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Speaker 2: Okay, sounds good, g man. Thank you for the phone call.

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Speaker 2: What a mysterious phone call. You don't even give your

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Speaker 2: He actually a hobby aers last week in downtown La.

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Speaker 2: My guy Hobvier took care of him.

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Speaker 3: All right, we're gonna take a time out here on

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Speaker 3: Dodger Talk.

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Speaker 2: When we come back, another mysterious man, Jose Mota, will

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Speaker 2: join us as the Dodgers defeat the Guardians four to

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Speaker 2: one on A five to seventy LA Sports.

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Speaker 1: On air at AM five seventy, online at AM five

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Speaker 3: This is Dodger Tom with Damn Bassi.

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Speaker 14: There's a one one to Munsey. He swings hits a

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Speaker 14: drive to right way back, it goes and Max Munsey

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Speaker 14: has hit it out Hexwell, swinging the silver hammer for

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Speaker 14: the first time this season. HiT's two nothing, oh lot

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Speaker 14: of blast pie Munson.

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Speaker 2: You know what that's called. That's called pregame Karma. Max Monsey,

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Speaker 2: he joined us on the pregame Show and what does

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Speaker 2: he do at his first home run of the season.

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Speaker 2: Monsey and the Dodgers defeat the Guardians tonight by a

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Speaker 2: final scorer of four to one. David Vas Say, Dodger

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Speaker 2: By the way, Monsey's home run pulls in within one

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Speaker 2: home run to tye Steve Garvey for the third most

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Speaker 2: home runs in LA Dodger history. How about that Monsey

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Speaker 2: not only would thirteen postseason home runs the most LA

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Speaker 2: Brooklyn franchise history, now just one home run away from

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Speaker 2: tying the great Dodger Steve Garvey for third most in

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Speaker 2: LA Dodger regular season His way three.

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Speaker 3: All right, let's check in with Jose Moda.

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Speaker 1: It's tough to go around the horn with Jose Mota.

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Speaker 2: All right, Jose Mota, what did you think about Pedro

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Speaker 2: Martinez saying what we saw tonight from Otani was Ai.

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Speaker 6: Who rather than better to describe that better of catching

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Speaker 6: up with the times too, to use certain definitions and

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Speaker 6: match it well with what everybody can understand nowadays. Good

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Speaker 6: job by Pete.

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Speaker 3: What did you think about Otani?

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Speaker 2: How does he have such great feel for all his

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Speaker 2: pitches so early in the season.

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Speaker 6: He's engaged in what he does. He takes everything pretty

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Speaker 6: much to detail, to heart. He doesn't want to fail.

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Speaker 6: He doesn't want to fail, his teammates, doesn't want to fail,

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Speaker 6: his country, doesn't want to fail Dodger fans, And that's

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Speaker 6: why he is who he is. I mean, if you

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Speaker 6: see the thing that Joey does mentally in the off season,

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Speaker 6: you go, you think he's pitching every single night. That's

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Speaker 6: a type of approach he has to life, and that's

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Speaker 6: a tough approach he has to pitching. Considering that now

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Speaker 6: the full season, I mean mentally he's in there. Paranceins

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Speaker 6: I told you the last out of the World Series

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Speaker 6: seems like for this moment. And when you also keep

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Speaker 6: him to consideration and take this into consideration, Dave, when

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Speaker 6: he come to the string training and he has like

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Speaker 6: everything lined up in the program for guys to meet

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Speaker 6: their starts, saying, Yamamota, who's gonna picture? You know, Team

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Speaker 6: Japan WBC. But O Todi didn't have the luxury, but

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Speaker 6: he made sure that whatever the other guys were doing,

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Speaker 6: he almost stayed on par with that. And then when

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Speaker 6: I talked to him in Tokyo and I said, what

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Speaker 6: are you throwing your live VP which didn't happen in Tokio,

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Speaker 6: threw a long boatpin over there. He goes, uh, if

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Speaker 6: we get to Miami and'm gonna start there and it's

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Speaker 6: gonna be long, and he went like force simulated innings

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Speaker 6: right away, which is unusual for him and for anybody

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Speaker 6: you know not rehabbing. He was not rehabing his anybody

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Speaker 6: for a season. And then you see the last down

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Speaker 6: against the Angels and preaches and going eighty six pitches

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Speaker 6: and go, this guy's more than ready. And you understand

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Speaker 6: ing O very well now by nowadave. A lot of

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Speaker 6: these things are dictated by one guy, Shohil Tony. How

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Speaker 6: he feels, how is arms responding, how he's bouncing back,

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Speaker 6: and when he's the eighty six for preseason outing, well,

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Speaker 6: let me tell you you could not expect anything less

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Speaker 6: here today, first outing of the season, when he's going

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Speaker 6: to be a complete pitcher and go up and make

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Speaker 6: you twenty five to thirty starts.

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Speaker 2: Can you give us some hope that he may pitch

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Speaker 2: in Toronto on seven days rest or do you believe

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Speaker 2: that nine days rest back at home is more likely.

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Speaker 6: I hope that if he's going to be a full

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Speaker 6: time pitcher, that he takes the ball in Toronto, And

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Speaker 6: I hope that that is the agreement they have. Knowing that,

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Speaker 6: I mean, he's going to have plenty of time to

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Speaker 6: take the ball. If you take away the circumstances, it

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Speaker 6: doesn't matter. It's about making his start. Yeah, it's historic,

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Speaker 6: it's impactful. Is going to be every light on every

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Speaker 6: eye of the world baseball on that outing. But Choy

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Speaker 6: needs to stay and the doggie do to stay with

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Speaker 6: him where he is, doesn't matter if it was Toronto

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Speaker 6: or Saint Luis or Tampa Bay. I hope he stays

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Speaker 6: in tune with his outing right now, with the schedule,

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Speaker 6: to make that start when he needs to make it,

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Speaker 6: regardless against him.

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Speaker 2: Jose Mota is joining us on Dodger Talk after the

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Speaker 2: Dodgers beat the Guardians four to one tonight. Now I

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Speaker 2: know it's only four games, Jose, but maybe you could

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Speaker 2: help us understand what's going on with this Dodger offense.

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Speaker 2: I mentioned the slow starts for Tucker and Mookie, but

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Speaker 2: tonight four strikeouts looking two from Mookie bets. Are the

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Speaker 2: Dodgers going back to guessing what they might be seeing?

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Speaker 2: Do they have to start looking more for their own zone?

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Speaker 2: What's going on with this Dodger offense.

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Speaker 6: It's all about five games. If they pumped the brakes

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Speaker 6: a little bit days three days ago, we're talking about

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Speaker 6: how is this Dodger offin is going to be stopped.

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Speaker 6: And now you facing guys that you are not facing

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Speaker 6: in spring training. Now you're facing guys that have way

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Speaker 6: more information on you, and they can base information and

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Speaker 6: scouting based on a couple of things. Number one, will

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Speaker 6: they get pregame based on cumulative stuff, and also number

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Speaker 6: two on what they see the previous at bat and

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Speaker 6: how you react to that. I think baseball fact talking

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Speaker 6: to a lot of scouts up few from the front

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Speaker 6: offense is going back to that a little bit more

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Speaker 6: and trusting the catchers, trusting their pitchers and what they

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Speaker 6: see their first step bat, because you know it's gotten

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Speaker 6: to a point where it's like culative information. Go out

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Speaker 6: there and pitch this one because of what forty have baths,

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Speaker 6: fifty at baths. No talk to me about how the

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Speaker 6: guys swinging today. And I think that's what seeing with

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Speaker 6: the values right now. If you think about this kid

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Speaker 6: last night, Parker Messick, how many times did he threw

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Speaker 6: breaking balls and breaking ball counts and how many times

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Speaker 6: did he surprise guys with fastballs. Dodgiers hitters are a

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Speaker 6: little bit off killed right now. But I'm going to

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Speaker 6: say at the same time that Kyle Tucker does have

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Speaker 6: the pantells, eight of them, but he also had a

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Speaker 6: game winner the other day, just a couple of days ago.

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Speaker 6: He goes Arizona, So you got to take the battle

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Speaker 6: with the good. Adjustice is a part of the game,

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Speaker 6: the scheduling, the intensity of the series of the season.

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Speaker 6: And at the same time we know that at the

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Speaker 6: right time they will come through because it's just way

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Speaker 6: too talented, way too deep. So we can say at

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Speaker 6: four and one right now without the offense clicking, it

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Speaker 6: should be a fun summer.

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Speaker 2: Fair to say though, so that this offense is only

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Speaker 2: going to go as far as the first three hitters

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Speaker 2: get this offense going right, because if this is going

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Speaker 2: to be the first three hitters, they've got to get

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Speaker 2: on base and keep the line moving right.

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Speaker 6: So when they're ascent, guess what, that's what you have

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Speaker 6: at will Smith. You have a max months, you have

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Speaker 6: Tail coming through today, and then you have Andy Payes,

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Speaker 6: so everything ends up running up very nicely. I don't

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Speaker 6: think we're going to see nine guys be hot at

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Speaker 6: the same time, but yes, the big guys need to

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Speaker 6: be the big guys, and right now, from showy at

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Speaker 6: least he's a little bit waiting the fastball a little

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Speaker 6: bit more, which I prefer that he's doing that instead

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Speaker 6: of jumping on fastballs. You got to breaking up pretty

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Speaker 6: nice today. He's taking his walks, Tucker. I think pitch

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Speaker 6: election is one issue, maybe a little bit longer than

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Speaker 6: the swings. It'll come with time and yes, adjustments to

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Speaker 6: a new team. It all matters a whole lot. And

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Speaker 6: for Midki is building off good at bats, getting word

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Speaker 6: from the lady fly balls and making sure that his

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Speaker 6: pitch selection as well. But as a unit, you want

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Speaker 6: to compliment each other and help each other out. Well,

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Speaker 6: that bottom half got it done by his big ut

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Speaker 6: bats and those guys to positive to Oscar shill be

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Speaker 6: feeding off a lot of information and runners to go

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Speaker 6: out and driving some runs.

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Speaker 2: Also this season, Andy Paie has has not missed the

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Speaker 2: beat since day one of spring training. He he is

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Speaker 2: oosing confidence since the first day of spring training. He

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Speaker 2: came ready to play and he's building off a tremendous

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Speaker 2: rookie season.

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Speaker 6: He is, and I think you see a more confident player,

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Speaker 6: a guy that you know you don't have to be

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Speaker 6: moving up and down the lineup. Maybe occasionally you get

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Speaker 6: somebody to day off and move him up. But he

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Speaker 6: understands where he is. He follows the game.

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Speaker 9: Well.

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Speaker 6: One thing Piz was telling me, Dave was that hitting

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Speaker 6: this low at times, it's always beneficial to see how

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Speaker 6: other guys are being pitched to. And he goes, no

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Speaker 6: matter what, maybe they're not gonna pitch to me like

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Speaker 6: they're gonna pitch Mookie Betts or Tiasca. But I know

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Speaker 6: that if I see a guy throwing a break the ball,

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Speaker 6: many times, I don't see what's going to be landing.

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Speaker 6: How many times is he gonna land it for a strike.

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Speaker 6: That's my information. That's what I'm gonna take. And that's

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Speaker 6: just a sign. It's pretty for a guy that perhaps

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Speaker 6: went through a whole lot last season, ended up with

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Speaker 6: twenty seven home runs and twenty seven doubles and close

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Speaker 6: and out of RBIs. But I'm glad to hear at

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Speaker 6: leads the information being passed them is going to be

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Speaker 6: simplified a little bit more to you just go out

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Speaker 6: there and be reactive and so far as you mentioned,

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Speaker 6: says the first that bat and Tempi Diablo where he

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Speaker 6: struck out looking when five pitches that he saw, he says,

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Speaker 6: I'm gonna build off that at bat, and I think

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Speaker 6: overall we're seeing some maturity, and I think overall him

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Speaker 6: doing we're good. It's going to take some pressure. I've

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Speaker 6: selling the bigger guys too, all.

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Speaker 3: Right, Jose, thanks a lot for checking in.

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Speaker 2: We'll see you tomorrow night before the Dodgers head out

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Speaker 2: on their first road trip of the season.

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Speaker 6: I know how much you're looking forward to going north

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Speaker 6: to Canada, so I look forward to seeing you there too, Buddy, Yeah.

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Speaker 3: Look forward to it as well. Thanks Ose.

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Speaker 2: Jose Mota, part of the Dodgers Spanish radio broadcast, checks

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Speaker 2: in after every game here on Dodger Talk. All Right,

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Speaker 2: Tomorrow the finale of this opening homestand it's been eventful,

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Speaker 2: to say the least. Morongo Casino Dodgers on Deck began

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Speaker 2: at four o'clock tomorrow, with first pitch at five twenty.

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Speaker 2: Yama Moto will be making his second start of the season,

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Speaker 2: going up against Gavin Williams. A successful opening day start

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Speaker 2: for Yama Moto against the Diamondbacks. He'll be looking to

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Speaker 2: build off that and catching the first pitch on Yoshi

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Speaker 2: Bobblehead night. So look forward to that and the Dodgers

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Speaker 2: winning the series. Thanks to Colin Yee back at our

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Speaker 2: Burbank Studios, thanks to Dwayne McDonald out here at Dodgers.

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Speaker 2: seventy LA Sports Coming up Next, Fox Sports Radio, Ben Mallar,

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Speaker 3: Once again.

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Speaker 2: The final score the Dodgers beat the Guardians four to one.