WEBVTT - Dodger Talk (9-19-26) 0:00:00.470 --> 0:00:03.740 For the back to back world champions of baseball. One 0:00:03.760 --> 0:00:06.870 of the greatest runs in the history of baseball. Immortality. 0:00:07.410 --> 0:00:08.510 is within their reach. 0:00:08.930 --> 0:00:10.050 Incredible. 0:00:10.270 --> 0:00:11.950 And while others make excuses. 0:00:12.270 --> 0:00:14.250 The only reason the Dodgers are doing this is because 0:00:14.290 --> 0:00:15.310 they can. They print money. 0:00:15.360 --> 0:00:17.240 The Dodgers. This can't continue. 0:00:17.300 --> 0:00:18.160 It's not fair. 0:00:18.340 --> 0:00:19.420 Are making plans. 0:00:19.820 --> 0:00:20.260 Again. 0:00:20.320 --> 0:00:25.180 It's a singular focus on controlling what they can control. 0:00:25.340 --> 0:00:29.020 Now your pregame host of the world champion LA Dodgers, 0:00:29.540 --> 0:00:30.300 Tim Cates. 0:00:31.910 --> 0:00:35.850 Well, hi, everybody, and welcome to Morongo Casino. Dodgers on 0:00:35.930 --> 0:00:39.900 deck on this Saturday, September the 19th, as your Los 0:00:39.990 --> 0:00:44.559 Angeles Dodgers, 94-60 on this season. They have already clinched 0:00:44.580 --> 0:00:47.520 the NL West with eight games remaining. They are four 0:00:47.560 --> 0:00:49.900 games up on the Atlanta Braves for the second spot 0:00:49.940 --> 0:00:52.840 in the National League, which would secure them a bye 0:00:52.880 --> 0:00:56.610 in the wildcard round. After a series opening win last 0:00:56.670 --> 0:00:59.270 night over the Giants, Dodgers look to do it again tonight. 0:00:59.590 --> 0:01:01.370 Tarek Skubal on the mound. 0:01:01.430 --> 0:01:04.470 First pitch from Uniqlo Field at Dodger Stadium is coming 0:01:04.530 --> 0:01:06.940 up at 6-10. Between then and now, we've got a 0:01:07.040 --> 0:01:09.320 lot to get to here on Morongo Casino. 0:01:09.360 --> 0:01:10.160 Dodgers on deck. 0:01:10.440 --> 0:01:13.080 You're going to hear from Josue DePaul as David Vasse 0:01:13.120 --> 0:01:16.300 goes one-on-one with a Dodger rookie. We'll hear from the manager, 0:01:16.340 --> 0:01:19.190 Dave Roberts, coming up in about 20 minutes. We'll preview 0:01:19.209 --> 0:01:22.250 this pitching matchup. David Vasse, of course, joins us throughout 0:01:22.290 --> 0:01:24.949 the hour. We've got your Dodgers magical moment. We're going 0:01:24.970 --> 0:01:28.589 to hear from Giants assistant coach, longtime manager and coach 0:01:28.890 --> 0:01:32.040 in Major League Baseball, Ron Washington. Get his thoughts on 0:01:32.080 --> 0:01:34.280 this Dodgers team and this Giants team as well, what 0:01:34.300 --> 0:01:37.440 they're going through here in 2026. And in just a 0:01:37.480 --> 0:01:39.580 few minutes, we will head out to Rick Monday and 0:01:39.700 --> 0:01:43.300 Charlie Steiner at the Galpin Ford broadcast booth. Well, last night, 0:01:43.680 --> 0:01:47.980 Glassnow was a strikeout machine while the Dodgers offense played 0:01:48.030 --> 0:01:50.710 home run derby. Tyler Glassnow got the start in the 0:01:50.750 --> 0:01:53.350 big right-hander bouncing back from his last outing where he 0:01:53.390 --> 0:01:56.550 struggled through four innings against the Marlins. Glassnow last night 0:01:56.570 --> 0:01:59.470 allowed two runs on only three hits over six innings 0:01:59.530 --> 0:02:04.300 of work while striking out a season-high 10. The Dodgers offense, meanwhile, 0:02:04.660 --> 0:02:08.800 got after Giants starter Cesar Pardomo in the first. Mookie Betts, 0:02:08.900 --> 0:02:11.880 a solo home run, his 21st of the season. Dodgers 0:02:11.919 --> 0:02:15.180 up 1-0. Tyler Glass now gave back that lead, though, 0:02:15.200 --> 0:02:17.510 in the second with a leadoff home run. In the third, 0:02:17.530 --> 0:02:20.070 a two-out walk came back to haunt him as the 0:02:20.150 --> 0:02:23.609 Giants took the lead. Well, the Dodgers were down, but 0:02:23.850 --> 0:02:27.570 the offense was just getting started. In the fifth, Teoscar Hernandez, 0:02:27.630 --> 0:02:31.220 an RBI single, tied the game at 2-0. In the sixth, 0:02:31.260 --> 0:02:35.180 Josue DiPaola, an RBI doubled, gave the Dodgers a lead 0:02:35.200 --> 0:02:38.460 again of 3-2. In the eighth inning, that's when the 0:02:38.560 --> 0:02:41.820 fun really started. Max Muncy, a pinch-hit home run to right, 0:02:42.100 --> 0:02:45.470 his 29th of the season. Dodgers a 4-2 lead. How 0:02:45.490 --> 0:02:47.710 about the very next batter, King Tuck? 0:02:47.710 --> 0:02:49.170 420 feet. 0:02:49.190 --> 0:02:52.929 Now Tucker with a fly ball to right field. 0:02:52.950 --> 0:02:55.550 That one's deep. Dodgers going back-to-back. 0:02:56.090 --> 0:02:56.889 Yes, sirree! 0:02:59.710 --> 0:03:02.269 Muncie and Tucker go back to back in the eighth. 0:03:02.870 --> 0:03:06.440 And the Dodgers now lead five to two with Tucker, 0:03:06.500 --> 0:03:07.660 his 17th. 0:03:07.480 --> 0:03:08.380 Home run of the year. 0:03:09.580 --> 0:03:13.660 Solo home run for Kyle Tucker. Dodgers with back-to-back home runs. 0:03:14.000 --> 0:03:17.360 A 5-2 lead, and they weren't done. Three batters later, 0:03:17.380 --> 0:03:21.260 Josue DiPaola drew a two-out walk. Mookie Betts then left 0:03:21.280 --> 0:03:23.970 the yard. A two-run home run, his second of the game, 0:03:24.310 --> 0:03:27.190 his 22nd of the season, and the Dodgers had a 0:03:27.210 --> 0:03:31.290 7-2 lead. But guess what? They weren't done. The very 0:03:31.370 --> 0:03:32.870 next batter, Will Smith. 0:03:33.570 --> 0:03:34.369 Abner delivers. 0:03:35.090 --> 0:03:36.670 And there's a fly ball to center field. 0:03:36.710 --> 0:03:37.610 That one is deep. 0:03:37.870 --> 0:03:38.790 That's way back. 0:03:39.070 --> 0:03:39.910 At the wall. Gone! 0:03:40.090 --> 0:03:41.750 A home run! 0:03:43.170 --> 0:03:46.930 Will Smith hits the fourth home run of the inning 0:03:47.010 --> 0:03:50.490 for the Dodgers. The route is on. It is eight 0:03:50.630 --> 0:03:59.140 to two. Muncie and Tucker begin the inning with back-to-back 0:03:59.240 --> 0:04:03.800 home runs. And then with two outs, Betts and Smith 0:04:04.040 --> 0:04:05.140 go back-to-back. 0:04:06.320 --> 0:04:08.520 And it comes on the anniversary of the night the 0:04:08.560 --> 0:04:12.780 Dodgers hit four consecutive home runs in an inning. 0:04:13.760 --> 0:04:16.370 Will Smith with the home run, his eighth of the season. 0:04:16.410 --> 0:04:17.990 That's the top-tier play of the game brought to you 0:04:18.010 --> 0:04:21.770 by ARCO. Quality top-tier gas for less. Dodgers four home 0:04:21.810 --> 0:04:24.210 runs in the eighth inning. A pair of back-to-back jacks 0:04:24.610 --> 0:04:27.210 as the Dodgers, as Rick Monday mentioned, did it on 0:04:27.230 --> 0:04:31.310 the 20th anniversary of the 4-plus-1 game. And with the lead, 0:04:31.350 --> 0:04:34.050 the Dodgers' Dave Roberts gave the ball to Edwin Diaz, 0:04:34.110 --> 0:04:36.730 fresh off the injured list. And he struck out a pair, 0:04:36.790 --> 0:04:39.460 looked ninth in the ninth inning as the Dodgers beat 0:04:39.500 --> 0:04:42.240 the Giants 8-2 last night. Tyler Glass now the win. 0:04:42.520 --> 0:04:45.560 Dodgers now 94-60 on the season. Two games back in 0:04:45.580 --> 0:04:48.000 Milwaukee for the best record in the National League. Four 0:04:48.060 --> 0:04:50.200 games up on the Braves going into action tonight for 0:04:50.240 --> 0:04:53.000 the second spot. And tonight they send Tarek Skubal to 0:04:53.020 --> 0:04:55.890 the mound. First pitch is 6-10. We head out to 0:04:55.910 --> 0:04:58.710 the Galpin Ford broadcast booth as we welcome in Charlie 0:04:58.750 --> 0:05:00.270 Steiner and Rick Monday. 0:05:00.350 --> 0:05:03.650 Guys. All right, Tim. We're at game 155. 0:05:03.650 --> 0:05:07.919 And, of course, last night, the four home runs in 0:05:07.940 --> 0:05:08.600 the eighth inning. 0:05:08.640 --> 0:05:10.539 What a remarkable inning it was. 0:05:11.060 --> 0:05:14.960 Muncie and Tucker go back-to-back a couple hours later. Betts 0:05:15.140 --> 0:05:18.180 and Smith go back-to-back. Four home runs in the eighth. 0:05:19.370 --> 0:05:20.420 Going home last. 0:05:20.170 --> 0:05:21.030 Night, thinking about it. 0:05:21.089 --> 0:05:22.849 Hey, that was pretty cool. 0:05:22.850 --> 0:05:24.610 20 years ago last night. 0:05:25.150 --> 0:05:28.810 Four home runs in a row, coming from behind, tie 0:05:28.860 --> 0:05:31.570 the score, force extra innings with the Padres, and then 0:05:32.000 --> 0:05:35.900 the Nomar home run, the 4-plus-1. The coincidence of last 0:05:36.020 --> 0:05:40.020 night was just overwhelming, and I couldn't get it out 0:05:40.040 --> 0:05:41.080 of my head driving home. 0:05:41.140 --> 0:05:43.920 Well, we saw the five-minute video prior to the game, 0:05:44.400 --> 0:05:47.100 and we were here. We saw it. We talked about it. 0:05:47.140 --> 0:05:49.160 You did a marvelous job in calling it as well. 0:05:49.750 --> 0:05:52.630 It was unbelievable, the emotions of that. And then we 0:05:52.670 --> 0:05:55.730 talked to Nomar Garcia-Parr before the ball game, downstairs at 0:05:55.770 --> 0:05:58.240 the Dugout Club. His son was there, who had seen 0:05:58.279 --> 0:06:00.160 it really for the first time when he saw the video. 0:06:00.240 --> 0:06:02.740 And then you go full circle, and in the eighth inning, 0:06:02.760 --> 0:06:05.440 you hit four home runs in last night's ball game. 0:06:06.080 --> 0:06:08.290 It kind of tickled your fancy in going back into 0:06:08.310 --> 0:06:13.350 the record book and remembering that. How astonished this entire 0:06:13.930 --> 0:06:16.250 stadium was when that took place 20 years ago. 0:06:16.250 --> 0:06:19.150 20 years ago, and we were talking before. 0:06:19.589 --> 0:06:22.380 Maybe there were 50 people in the stadium last night 0:06:22.720 --> 0:06:24.660 who were there 20 years ago. 0:06:24.880 --> 0:06:27.500 Well, we know two that were. We know two that were. 0:06:27.720 --> 0:06:29.940 All right, so the Dodgers are sitting pretty, of course. 0:06:29.960 --> 0:06:32.680 They were just kind of running out the string, one 0:06:32.740 --> 0:06:36.210 would think. But Milwaukee won today. So they're two and 0:06:36.250 --> 0:06:39.450 a half behind the Brewers. Brewers shut out Baltimore one-zip. 0:06:39.850 --> 0:06:44.710 Atlanta is playing right now. Where are the Dodgers now, Moe? 0:06:44.730 --> 0:06:47.349 We've got two with the Giants, three with. 0:06:47.310 --> 0:06:50.690 San Diego, running down the stretch. 0:06:51.029 --> 0:06:51.610 Where are they? 0:06:51.830 --> 0:06:54.719 Are they in a good spot to be where they 0:06:54.940 --> 0:06:56.260 are with what they have? 0:06:56.460 --> 0:06:59.320 I hope the focus is in that direction. You would 0:06:59.339 --> 0:07:01.420 look at it and say, hey, wait a minute. Let's 0:07:01.460 --> 0:07:04.260 look at it very honestly. Mookie Bentz, okay, two home 0:07:04.300 --> 0:07:06.320 runs last night. He's done that a few times in 0:07:06.360 --> 0:07:09.750 his career. For Mookie, the last 15 games, hitting a. 0:07:09.380 --> 0:07:12.990 356 with six home runs. Freddie Freeman is trying to 0:07:13.030 --> 0:07:15.150 get things going. It has been a struggle for him 0:07:15.290 --> 0:07:17.050 in the month of September. Then you look at other 0:07:17.070 --> 0:07:19.940 guys that have been hot. Teoscar Hernandez continues to hit 0:07:19.950 --> 0:07:22.940 the ball very hard. Kyle Tucker continues to hit the 0:07:22.980 --> 0:07:25.280 ball very hard the last nine games on top of that. 0:07:25.760 --> 0:07:29.610 So I think the focus is, look, beyond the finish line. 0:07:29.640 --> 0:07:33.570 The finish line is 162, and then the season gets really, 0:07:34.610 --> 0:07:37.300 I think, congested because there's a whole lot of thoughts 0:07:37.340 --> 0:07:39.520 that happen. Some of the guys on this ball club 0:07:39.560 --> 0:07:40.460 have been through it before. 0:07:40.830 --> 0:07:41.370 Championship. 0:07:41.390 --> 0:07:43.410 A couple of guys have not been through it before. 0:07:43.790 --> 0:07:45.230 I think they're looking at the guys that have the 0:07:45.290 --> 0:07:47.870 experience and say, okay, where should my focus be? 0:07:48.150 --> 0:07:51.690 Tarek Scruble is going for the Dodgers this afternoon. 10-7 0:07:51.950 --> 0:07:54.960 on the year. The Dodgers have won each of Scruble's 0:07:55.040 --> 0:07:59.220 last five starts. He's 3-0 and a 2-18 ERA during that. 0:07:59.160 --> 0:07:59.840 Period of time. 0:08:00.400 --> 0:08:03.220 The Giants counter with a right-hander, Junior Marquez. 0:08:03.800 --> 0:08:06.560 And we will detail that pitching matchup and much more 0:08:06.620 --> 0:08:07.490 on the pregame, Tim. 0:08:08.630 --> 0:08:09.750 All right, thank you, Charlie. 0:08:09.770 --> 0:08:11.710 As we count you down to first pitch, Dodger fans, 0:08:11.730 --> 0:08:14.380 get that game day meal on at Shakey's Pizza Parlor. 0:08:14.700 --> 0:08:19.480 Order your Shakey's Pizza, Chicken, and Mojo's right now at Shakey's.com. 0:08:19.540 --> 0:08:21.760 Coming up here on Morongo Casino, Dodgers on Deck, you're 0:08:21.790 --> 0:08:24.130 going to hear from the manager himself, Dave Roberts. 0:08:24.170 --> 0:08:25.770 We'll check in with David Vazdez, of course. 0:08:26.050 --> 0:08:28.090 Throughout the hour, he's going to go high and tight 0:08:28.130 --> 0:08:29.370 with Josue DePaula. 0:08:29.650 --> 0:08:30.950 But up next, we. 0:08:30.870 --> 0:08:35.380 Will check in with Ron Washington, longtime manager, coach, now 0:08:35.410 --> 0:08:38.120 with the San Francisco Giants. That's all coming up as 0:08:38.140 --> 0:08:40.140 we lead you up to Dodgers and Giants on this 0:08:40.160 --> 0:08:40.719 Saturday night. 0:08:40.960 --> 0:08:43.099 First pitch is 6-10. I'm Tim Cates. This is the 0:08:43.140 --> 0:08:45.939 back-to-back World Series champion Dodgers. Audio Network. 0:08:48.640 --> 0:08:51.699 This is Morongo Casino. Dodgers on deck. 0:08:51.840 --> 0:08:53.360 What a home run! 0:08:54.190 --> 0:08:56.740 On your home for the blue all season long. 0:08:59.200 --> 0:09:02.340 It's the Dodgers and Giants on this Saturday night. Tarek 0:09:02.400 --> 0:09:06.140 Skubal goes for the Dodgers. First pitch coming up at 6'10. 0:09:06.990 --> 0:09:11.689 This is the Otani Rewind. Presented by Mikado Shochu. 0:09:12.179 --> 0:09:15.840 Well, Shohei Otani still on the injured list. He is progressing. 0:09:15.900 --> 0:09:19.200 He's eligible to come off the IL on Wednesday. We'll 0:09:19.280 --> 0:09:23.290 see if he officially does. Otani Rewind presented by Nikaido Shochu, 0:09:23.530 --> 0:09:27.069 the official Shochu of the Los Angeles Dodgers. Discover Nikaido. 0:09:27.309 --> 0:09:31.609 Discover Shochu. Well, Ron Washington, one of the good guys 0:09:31.670 --> 0:09:34.750 in baseball. Longtime coach and manager. He was with the 0:09:34.910 --> 0:09:37.439 Angels up until a year ago. Now he's an assistant 0:09:37.520 --> 0:09:40.580 coach up in San Francisco with the Giants. And David 0:09:40.620 --> 0:09:43.240 Vasse had a chance to catch up with Ron Washington. 0:09:43.700 --> 0:09:46.040 You don't think that he needs 3,000 hits for the 0:09:46.080 --> 0:09:47.040 Hall of Fame, right, Wash? 0:09:47.160 --> 0:09:48.240 No, I really don't. 0:09:48.600 --> 0:09:53.270 Freddie is a bona fide Hall of Famer. He's the 0:09:53.309 --> 0:09:56.010 kind of guy that holds teams together. He's the kind 0:09:56.050 --> 0:09:58.470 of guy that gets what the team needs to have happen. 0:09:59.500 --> 0:10:03.900 He's the kind of guy that has work ethic as uncompromised. 0:10:04.700 --> 0:10:07.990 And he's the kind of guy that people follow. All 0:10:08.010 --> 0:10:10.590 of those things is guys that are Hall of Famers. 0:10:11.330 --> 0:10:14.390 And that's Freddie Freeman. So I hope he gets 3,000 0:10:14.390 --> 0:10:17.100 hits and decides to stay around. But if he doesn't 0:10:17.120 --> 0:10:19.280 get his 3,000 hits, it shouldn't stop him from going 0:10:19.320 --> 0:10:20.080 to the Hall of Fame. 0:10:20.380 --> 0:10:22.500 He's always been a great player, but it seems like 0:10:22.520 --> 0:10:25.830 he really has started to embrace being a leader and 0:10:25.890 --> 0:10:28.630 the guy with the Dodgers over the last few years. 0:10:29.710 --> 0:10:31.910 How proud are you that he's been able to become 0:10:31.950 --> 0:10:33.570 that type of guy, that type of teammate? 0:10:33.870 --> 0:10:35.710 Well, he was that type of guy and he was 0:10:35.750 --> 0:10:38.290 that type of teammate when he came over here. But 0:10:38.309 --> 0:10:40.829 he had to feel his way first, you know, and 0:10:40.850 --> 0:10:43.380 that's Freddie. Freddie is not the kind of guy that's 0:10:43.390 --> 0:10:45.900 just going to jump in and take over. He's going 0:10:45.920 --> 0:10:48.880 to understand where he fit. And if he's supposed to 0:10:48.920 --> 0:10:50.700 fit as a leader and he's supposed to fit as 0:10:50.720 --> 0:10:52.480 the guy, he'll fit as that guy. 0:10:52.900 --> 0:10:55.400 But he's been that guy even when he was in Atlanta. 0:10:56.059 --> 0:10:56.780 He was that guy. 0:10:56.840 --> 0:10:59.600 So it just took him a minute to settle in 0:10:59.700 --> 0:11:02.370 here in L.A. But what they're seeing is a true 0:11:02.400 --> 0:11:02.969 Freddie Freeman. 0:11:03.490 --> 0:11:07.390 Ron Washington was with Freddie Freeman every day in Atlanta. 0:11:08.179 --> 0:11:11.630 When you talk about Freddie Freeman and somebody brings him up, 0:11:11.740 --> 0:11:15.260 what's the one thing that people don't realize that allows 0:11:15.300 --> 0:11:16.820 him to be as great as he is? 0:11:17.500 --> 0:11:18.040 He's a leader. 0:11:19.660 --> 0:11:22.260 That's the one thing people may not have seen, and 0:11:22.300 --> 0:11:25.940 he's grown into that position here with L.A., but he's 0:11:25.980 --> 0:11:26.819 a natural leader. 0:11:27.660 --> 0:11:31.600 He's a gamer. He's a family man. He's a great teammate. 0:11:32.679 --> 0:11:35.020 He can play the baseball game any way you want 0:11:35.059 --> 0:11:35.480 him to play. 0:11:35.929 --> 0:11:37.429 If they wanted him to bunt, he could drop a 0:11:37.450 --> 0:11:40.550 beautiful bunt. If they wanted him to just consistently hit 0:11:40.570 --> 0:11:42.450 the ball out the ballpark, he could do that too. 0:11:43.190 --> 0:11:45.910 But allowing Freddie to just be Freddie and play his game, 0:11:45.950 --> 0:11:48.390 and his game is to use the whole ballpark and 0:11:48.460 --> 0:11:49.229 lead his. 0:11:49.170 --> 0:11:50.720 Teammates to victory. 0:11:51.140 --> 0:11:53.760 And he's done that in Atlanta, and now he's doing 0:11:53.800 --> 0:11:55.980 it here in L.A. 0:11:56.200 --> 0:11:58.340 And he's got a supporting group. 0:11:58.360 --> 0:12:00.800 He had a bunch of young kids supporting him in Atlanta, 0:12:01.320 --> 0:12:02.360 and we played like hell. 0:12:02.960 --> 0:12:04.580 You know, we played the hell out of baseball. 0:12:04.720 --> 0:12:07.160 He had a young group supporting him, and now he's 0:12:07.179 --> 0:12:09.960 here with a veteran group that knows how to play baseball, 0:12:10.080 --> 0:12:11.280 and all they know how to do is win. 0:12:11.730 --> 0:12:13.530 Hey, Ron, you've seen a lot of teams. You've seen 0:12:13.550 --> 0:12:16.630 championship teams that are young. You've seen guys that have 0:12:16.670 --> 0:12:19.290 been able to put together championship years. 0:12:19.530 --> 0:12:20.910 What do you think about the Dodgers? 0:12:20.950 --> 0:12:23.330 A lot of people are ready to write them off 0:12:23.410 --> 0:12:25.170 as being too old to be able to make the 0:12:25.210 --> 0:12:26.210 run for the three-peat. 0:12:26.230 --> 0:12:27.240 Do you see an old team? 0:12:27.530 --> 0:12:29.800 Well, I lost the World Series because we were supposed 0:12:29.820 --> 0:12:33.210 to be playing an old team. In 2010, when we 0:12:33.230 --> 0:12:35.730 made the World Series, we had a real young team 0:12:35.750 --> 0:12:38.430 that was feisty and could play. And we met the 0:12:38.470 --> 0:12:41.490 San Francisco Giants, who all the reports said was old. 0:12:41.530 --> 0:12:43.110 They couldn't do this. They couldn't do that. 0:12:43.870 --> 0:12:47.030 But when it came time for the game of baseball 0:12:47.380 --> 0:12:49.540 to rear his head, they could do everything that the 0:12:49.580 --> 0:12:50.520 game of baseball lacks. 0:12:50.559 --> 0:12:52.780 And they could hit with power. They could use their speed. 0:12:53.100 --> 0:12:57.880 They could pitch. They could fundamentally outdo you offensively. 0:12:58.420 --> 0:13:00.610 And they had older guys, but they knew how to 0:13:00.650 --> 0:13:02.090 play defense and they knew how to be in the 0:13:02.130 --> 0:13:02.610 right spot. 0:13:02.850 --> 0:13:03.949 They knew where to throw the ball. 0:13:04.830 --> 0:13:07.810 So, no, no, you don't count the Dodgers out until 0:13:08.809 --> 0:13:09.120 they're out. 0:13:09.150 --> 0:13:10.250 They're the team to beat. 0:13:10.990 --> 0:13:13.610 I know they're not maybe playing up to par, but 0:13:13.650 --> 0:13:16.870 they got a 10-11 game lead in their division. How 0:13:16.910 --> 0:13:18.410 much par do you have to play up to have 0:13:18.450 --> 0:13:21.170 that with 10-11 games left? 0:13:21.809 --> 0:13:24.150 I mean, so, no, no, they're the team to beat. 0:13:24.480 --> 0:13:28.370 And until somebody remove them, The Dodgers might have a three-peat. 0:13:29.370 --> 0:13:31.770 All right, there's Ron Washington, one of the good guys 0:13:31.850 --> 0:13:34.270 in Major League Baseball, been around with many teams, and, 0:13:34.290 --> 0:13:36.410 of course, going back to Atlanta with his days with 0:13:36.450 --> 0:13:40.329 Freddie Freeman, who he credits with all those pregame drills. 0:13:40.200 --> 0:13:41.600 That the Dodgers all do now. 0:13:41.740 --> 0:13:44.760 Dodgers baseball brought to you by Cars for Kids, the 0:13:44.880 --> 0:13:47.260 easiest way to get rid of that old car. Donate 0:13:47.300 --> 0:13:49.260 it today. 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Then he'll get 0:16:01.450 --> 0:16:04.390 two days to recover with the off day on Monday, 0:16:04.450 --> 0:16:07.930 and then he'll play two or three that next series. 0:16:08.490 --> 0:16:10.230 I think it's a good exercise for him. 0:16:10.510 --> 0:16:13.510 The last time Scooble pitched, he was catching him, and 0:16:13.550 --> 0:16:16.010 obviously the results came to themselves. 0:16:16.090 --> 0:16:18.090 What was the feedback that he got. 0:16:18.010 --> 0:16:19.660 From both those guys about why. 0:16:21.550 --> 0:16:24.590 I think just more getting on the same page as 0:16:24.950 --> 0:16:29.190 far as knowing what Tarek wants to do, knowing what 0:16:29.330 --> 0:16:34.450 the game plan, Mark and Will kind of envision, knowing 0:16:35.030 --> 0:16:37.930 what Tarek feels comfortable with. 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