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Speaker 3: Welcome to the playoffs, Dodger fans.

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Speaker 4: Is playoff time when your favorite.

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Speaker 5: Show, thirteen wins is all it takes on half and.

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Speaker 6: Escape for you.

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Speaker 7: Welcome to a playoff edition of Dodger Talk. Get in

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Speaker 7: on the action at eight six.

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Speaker 3: Six eats Breeze, sleeps Baseball.

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Speaker 8: Now we go to your award winning broadcasters of the

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Speaker 8: world champion Dodgers.

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Speaker 7: Here's your host of Dodger Talk.

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Speaker 6: It's only been fourteen years. Every day, David Vasse.

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Speaker 3: Welcome the Dodger Talk David Vase live at Dodgers Stadium.

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Speaker 3: After the Dodgers sweep the Reds in the Wildcard series tonight,

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Speaker 3: the final score eight to four. We're with you until

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Speaker 3: eleven o'clock tonight, live from Dodgers Stadium. We have phone

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Speaker 3: lines open at eight six six, nine, eight seven, two

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Speaker 3: and we will hear from Mookie Betts and Dave Roberts.

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Speaker 3: And tonight again, the Dodgers starting pitcher led them to victory.

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Speaker 3: Yamamoto was incredible tonight, over one hundred pitches thrown. If

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Speaker 3: believed in Roki more than anybody else. He believed if

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Speaker 3: The Dodgers needed to get Roki in one of these

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Speaker 3: to go until eleven o'clock tonight. Let's go out to

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Speaker 3: Edward who is at Dodgers Stadium tonight? Hi, Edward, you're

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Speaker 9: Yeah, I was a good DZ.

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Speaker 4: It was such an amazing game.

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Speaker 10: Regardless of who the point it was.

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Speaker 10: Firing on all cylinders. I loved it.

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Speaker 4: I was out here at the game tonight and Roki

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Speaker 3: It was I think we're all sold now, Edward? Are

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Speaker 4: Yeah, whoever it is, whoever has the best confidence confidence

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Speaker 4: I was out here with my dad. I was sitting

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Speaker 3: But this is going to be the toughest challenge for

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Speaker 3: it's the Cubs, the Padres, or the Brewers. Shane was

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Speaker 9: What's up DV? So my son and I went to

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Speaker 9: that we need to be piggybacking our starters and not

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Speaker 3: But Shane, are are we going to just ignore that

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Speaker 3: I'm in with that, Shane. And that's how the nineteen

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Speaker 3: to the podium. That's where Dave Roberts is addressing the media.

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Speaker 3: After the Dodgers advanced to the NLDS.

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Speaker 11: You know, guys stayed positive, stayed within in themselves, kept

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Speaker 7: What I mean every year is different, But how far

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Speaker 11: I think we can. We can win it all. I

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Speaker 11: in all honesty, I don't care who we play. I

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Speaker 13: The questions for Doc, just what have you seen out

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Speaker 3: There's Dave Roberts at the podium after the Dodgers beat

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Speaker 3: This is a battle of Titans. These are two of,

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Speaker 6: How you doing.

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Speaker 10: I'm doing great, David, Thank you so much for taking

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Speaker 6: Hey, thank you for the phone calling.

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Speaker 3: Yes, Yamamoto deserves so many accolades. I felt like he

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Speaker 8: Hi a mere, Hi David jun Thanks for taking my call.

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Speaker 9: I just had two questions for you.

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Speaker 8: For you specifically, Dave, how do you compare the Dodgers

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Speaker 3: Yeah, well, number one, I remember two thousand In two

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Speaker 3: But trust me, Philly hasn't seen a Dodger team loaded

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Speaker 3: hear from Mookie Bets. We have one line open. We'll

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Speaker 3: After the Dodgers sweep the Reds two games to nothing

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Speaker 13: Counts still full.

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Speaker 5: The next pitch from sati On will be the ninth

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Speaker 3: Third time in Mookie Betts playoff career that he had

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Speaker 3: a four hit night. Mookie Bets came alive in September,

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Speaker 6: Let's head back down stairs to.

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Speaker 3: The podium to hear from a rejuvenated Mookie Bets.

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Speaker 14: Mookie, you've been around a while, great Red Sox teams,

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Speaker 2: Where do you rate this one? And how far do

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Speaker 15: I mean, that's hard to kind of rank them, but

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Speaker 2: We can win the whole thing. We just have to

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Speaker 15: We have to continue to pitch timely, hitting and play

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Speaker 15: I mean not really, just because just two different teams.

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Speaker 15: Yeah, we have went through a lot. You know, we

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Speaker 2: To respond now and be ready now.

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Speaker 15: And anything that kind of comes our way, it can't

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Speaker 13: Does tonight kind of become an example of that, just

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Speaker 15: Just got to play one inning at a time, one

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Speaker 2: It's more on winning the game.

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Speaker 3: the time to meet up with Mooki when the team

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Speaker 3: was in Florida to get him right mechanically and maybe

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Speaker 3: even mentally, because ever since then he's been a different guy.

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Speaker 3: So shout out to America's DH JD. Martinez. And how

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Speaker 3: about keyk Hernandez october Keik Let's not take that for granted.

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Speaker 3: Tonight and yesterday got the starting left field. He had

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Speaker 3: four hits in the two games against the Reds. Tonight,

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Speaker 3: his was a huge hit in the fourth inning to

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Speaker 3: tie the game and RBI double to tie the game.

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Speaker 3: And then Miguel Rojas came up big dumped a fly

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Speaker 3: ball into right field to give the Dodgers the lead,

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Speaker 3: and Ben rourtfitt. He did the little things to help

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Speaker 3: the Dodgers win. In the ninth spot tonight, he had

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Speaker 3: two hits, he had two runs scored, He squared away

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Speaker 3: to bunt, he forced the Reds to make a play

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Speaker 3: they could not. So if you look at the seven, eight,

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Speaker 3: nine hitters for the Dodgers tonight and Keith a Hernandez,

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Speaker 3: Miguel Rojas and Ben Rourtfitt, they combined to have six

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Speaker 3: hits in the game tonight, they combined to score five

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Speaker 3: runs and drive in two RBIs we forget that's what

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Speaker 3: made the Dodgers offense so dangerous last year when they

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Speaker 3: had their seven eight nine hitters, not only getting on

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Speaker 3: base but scoring and driving in runs and then turning

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Speaker 3: the line up over having men on base for show. Heyotani,

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Speaker 3: Mookie Betts and Freddie Freeman. I remember last year, opposing

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Speaker 3: teams told me before each and every series, our goal

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Speaker 3: is for Otani to come to the plate with nobody

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Speaker 3: on base. If there's guys on base, that's a real problem.

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Speaker 3: And we saw that again tonight and a number of

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Speaker 3: different innings. Eight sixty six nine seven two five seventy

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Speaker 3: is the phone number. Let's go out to Emma in

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Speaker 3: Long Beach. You're on Dodger Talk with David vasse Hi.

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Speaker 6: Emma, Hi, David.

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Speaker 16: I want to let you know, sir, that you don't

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Speaker 16: go to the locker room on a John A win

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Speaker 16: with champagne without goggle.

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Speaker 2: Sir.

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Speaker 3: Hmm, well, I me, yes, it burned a couple of

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Speaker 3: different times. But I'm a big believer in eye contact.

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Speaker 3: And when you have goggles on, they can't see your eyes.

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Speaker 3: The fans at home can't see your eyes. So me

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Speaker 3: and Kershaw we're in that boat where you just want

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Speaker 3: to make eye contact with everybody.

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Speaker 16: Yeah, you did a fabulous job, real quick, David. I

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Speaker 16: just wanted to let you know I am so proud

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Speaker 16: of Rosaki rock. He just did all you.

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Speaker 6: Just made spend it.

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Speaker 3: You just made him Mexican the way you pronounced his name,

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Speaker 3: which is fine, but I just want to point out

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Speaker 3: it's rokey Roki Sasaki.

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Speaker 16: There we go awesome, and you know he is.

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Speaker 3: He's welcome to the Carnie Sada anytime. I'm sure, Emma,

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Speaker 3: But yeah, Roki Sasaki.

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Speaker 16: And he's so humble. And you know, also what you

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Speaker 16: were saying about ya Yamamoto. He has been robbed so

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Speaker 16: many times that that man comes back true blue, bleeding

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Speaker 16: blue and comes out there and shows him what shows

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Speaker 16: all of us what he's got. He's a tremendous picture,

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Speaker 16: no doubt, and he.

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Speaker 3: Showed that in October last year. Nobody even remembered that

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Speaker 3: he missed a couple of months. All they remember is

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Speaker 3: what he did in October, and then he comes back

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Speaker 3: this year with thirty starts, never really missed a start.

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Speaker 3: The Dodgers gave him extra rest and it benefited him.

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Speaker 3: And really, if you go back to spring training, the

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Speaker 3: Dodgers were setting themselves up to have their starting rotation

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Speaker 3: not only to be healthy, but to be pitching at

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Speaker 3: their best. And right now everything they planned back in

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Speaker 3: March in February is starting to come to fruition. In

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Speaker 3: that respect, the offense has come to life. They're playing

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Speaker 3: for each other and they're not giving up at bats.

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Speaker 6: They have a lot of focus.

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Speaker 3: Some guys more than others turned the switch on, which

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Speaker 3: has been big. And I'm so happy for Taoscar Hernandez

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Speaker 3: because nobody felt worse about dropping that fly ball in

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Speaker 3: the first inning than Taoscar himself, and he redeemed himself.

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Speaker 3: He drove in two with a double, and he was

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Speaker 3: big last night with two home runs, and Taoscar Hernandez

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Speaker 3: in these two games drove in six runs to help

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Speaker 3: the Dodgers advance to the NLDS, and they're going to

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Speaker 3: need Taoscar Hernandez to be big in Philadelphia and in

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Speaker 3: the NLDS, especially against those lefty starters of Sanchez, Luzardo

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Speaker 3: and Ranger Suarez. Let's go out to Manny, who won

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Speaker 3: some tickets to come to the game tonight. Well the

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Speaker 3: Dodgers that rewarded you.

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Speaker 8: Manny, Yes you did.

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Speaker 17: Thank you very much. I appreciate it. Had a great

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Speaker 17: Tuesday and even better Wednesday. Man we close it out.

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Speaker 2: It was great.

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Speaker 17: I know yesterday you said I wasn't that positive, you know,

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Speaker 17: talking about the hitting. But today I don't want to

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Speaker 17: overlook Ama Malta. Man Yoshi killed it one hundred and

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Speaker 17: thirteen pitches. But more importantly, he had a first pitch

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Speaker 17: strike on like twenty of the twenty nine hitters he faced.

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Speaker 8: That's unreal.

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Speaker 17: He take this to a big lead. Doesn't matter what

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Speaker 17: we did after that. He set us up. We brought

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Speaker 17: it home for him. It was great, man, I had

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Speaker 17: a great night. Thank you very much to you, David.

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Speaker 17: I appreciate you giving me the tickets, Thank you for calling,

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Speaker 17: Thank you everybody behind the scenes, everybody.

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Speaker 9: I appreciate it.

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Speaker 17: Thank you so much.

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Speaker 9: Love the show.

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Speaker 6: Thank you, Manny. Glad you made it out here, and glad.

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Speaker 3: You could watch and witness the Dodgers advanced to the

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Speaker 3: NLDS behind another great offensive performance.

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Speaker 6: Mookie Betts tonight leads the way.

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Speaker 3: October Keik Hernandez showed up in a big way, and

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Speaker 3: Tioscar Hernandez certainly powered the Dodgers last night and redeemed

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Speaker 3: himself tonight as well after making a costly error. And

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Speaker 3: how about Roki Sasaki. I think we're all sold that

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Speaker 3: this guy can get the last three outs.

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Speaker 6: Of a game. All right, we'll get back to the

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Speaker 6: phone calls in a moment, but first.

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Speaker 7: It's tough to go around the horn with Jose Mota.

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Speaker 3: All right, Jose Mota, the Dodgers are headed to Philadelphia.

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Speaker 3: Let's start with Roki Sasaki. I think we're all sold

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Speaker 3: that this guy can pitch under pressure.

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Speaker 8: Now after Dave, and start playing your bullpens and working

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Speaker 8: from the bottom side up, because you've got to pencil

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Speaker 8: him in in the most important situations. Now, we've had

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Speaker 8: a chance today to touch to some scoals and touch

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Speaker 8: some players. And what they saw from him since he

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Speaker 8: come back, he came back, it's just a different guy.

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Speaker 8: Look at his face, Look at the expressions, Look at

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Speaker 8: the confidence, look at the conviction. Of the pitches and

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Speaker 8: obviously look at the triple digit, So I am glad

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Speaker 8: Number one that he's throwing strikes. Number two is that

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Speaker 8: he's not afraid to go out there and challenge people.

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Speaker 8: And then number three is his splitter. Fourth ball is

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Speaker 8: the best we've seen since he got here from Japan,

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Speaker 8: because obviously he's not a guy that has a lot

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Speaker 8: of spin right on that pitch, but he's thrown it

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Speaker 8: now with a better follow through. So thankfully the Valuers

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Speaker 8: had the resources that he talked about a couple of

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Speaker 8: weeks ago to straight him out, understand mechanics and also

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Speaker 8: being open minded about the things they need to do.

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Speaker 8: So he's on his way to really have some big,

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Speaker 8: big outs, some big innings for this ball club.

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Speaker 3: How big is it for the Dodgers to get him

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Speaker 3: into a game here at Dodgers Stadium in this type

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Speaker 3: of setting before he experiences the city of brotherly love.

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Speaker 8: He needed that, you know, Dodger Stamer had not been

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Speaker 8: very friendly with him as a starter. That's all in

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Speaker 8: the past, and I'm glad that people like Shohil Tani,

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Speaker 8: Yamamota and the rest of the staff are just guiding

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Speaker 8: him along to know that the worst has gone. You know,

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Speaker 8: it's passed. Whatever is happening right now is something that

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Speaker 8: he's got to go out there and build off of.

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Speaker 8: But they have no doubt about the way teams scouted

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Speaker 8: this guy and what they wanted to What they wanted

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Speaker 8: him is what we're seeing right now because the potential

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Speaker 8: as a young pitcher is so high. But certainly for

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Speaker 8: the Dodgers, the flexibility of not pushing him into one spot,

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Speaker 8: being open minded and challenging him has made him better.

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Speaker 8: So pitching is Dodger Stadium today, to me, for him

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Speaker 8: was big because the memories here had not been all

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Speaker 8: that great.

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Speaker 3: And for the Dodgers, they've been searching for a guy

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Speaker 3: that doesn't give them too much drama in the ninth inning.

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Speaker 3: So Jose, I'll ask you this. I seem to ask

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Speaker 3: four or five different people before every game. Ninth inning

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Speaker 3: saves situation. Who's getting the last three outs? If that's

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Speaker 3: the case in Game one in Philadelphia, who is getting

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Speaker 3: the last three outs?

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Speaker 8: Gotta give it to rookie right now. He's got the

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Speaker 8: swing of miss, he's got the ability to go out

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Speaker 8: on the triple digits, change speech on you and be

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Speaker 8: as tough against Lestis and against Righty. So the way

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Speaker 8: things end right now, the way things stand today, there's

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Speaker 8: nobody standing up better than rookie Sasaki, even with a

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Speaker 8: short spurt. I'm going to just go to go back

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Speaker 8: to two thousand and two in the Angels in Francisco Rodriguez.

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Speaker 8: How do they find Frankie pitching four or five games

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Speaker 8: in September out of double A, and all of a

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Speaker 8: sudden he is in the middle of everything, passing the

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Speaker 8: baton for Percival and if anybody without frank the win.

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Speaker 8: I see the same thing happening right now in even

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Speaker 8: more important situations, because this guy's stuff is even better.

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Speaker 6: That's a great comparison.

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Speaker 3: Jose Mota is joining us after the Dodgers advance to

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Speaker 3: the NLDS sweeping the Reds in the Wildcard Series. How

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Speaker 3: excited are you, Jose, not only for this matchup of

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Speaker 3: two of the titans in Major League Baseball, but to

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Speaker 3: see Otani pitch in his first postseason game in Major

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Speaker 3: League Baseball.

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Speaker 8: It could not have come in a better spot for show. Hey,

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Speaker 8: the challenge of facing very tough hitters and that ballpark,

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Speaker 8: the fact that he amped it up a little bit

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Speaker 8: more against College Schwarba when he faced the Phillies here.

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Speaker 8: And the other thing too, is the Dodgers lost those

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Speaker 8: games against the Phillies. They lost that series, but if

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Speaker 8: you look at every single one of those games, there's

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Speaker 8: a chance and a window there they couldn't capitalize, and

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Speaker 8: they actually came that close without the offense clicking the

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Speaker 8: way it is now. But we know that in Philadelphia

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Speaker 8: is so friendly for the hitters, it's going to be

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Speaker 8: friendly for both sides. I like the way I see

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Speaker 8: things now right now, especially with Shohey on the way

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Speaker 8: he sit on the baseball and varying his patterns like

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Speaker 8: you have a molta day today, and being able to

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Speaker 8: just read some swings, read some hitters and really live

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Speaker 8: up to the momentum and live up to the environment,

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Speaker 8: which is going to be fantastic for him.

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Speaker 3: After Otani's last two starts, Jose Dave Roberts kind of

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Speaker 3: pulled back the curtain a little bit where they have

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Speaker 3: a pregame meeting with Otani Andrew Friedman. There's a few

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Speaker 3: people involved and deciding how long O'tani will pitch in

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Speaker 3: a game. Last time, they all agreed six innings. If

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Speaker 3: it's going easy and smooth, that's all good. If you

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Speaker 3: see Otani after five shutout innings in Philly, is there

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Speaker 3: any doubts he would go back out there for a sixth?

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Speaker 8: Listen, this is not the regular season anymore. And if

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Speaker 8: he's out there being your best reliever at that point,

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Speaker 8: meaning he's the best guy to have to pick himself up,

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Speaker 8: you have to go out there and leave him because

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Speaker 8: show he wants this. Believe me, that all beyond the

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Speaker 8: medical staff and all beyond medical recommendations, he understands. But

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Speaker 8: certainly he understands more about what he means to the

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Speaker 8: ball club. He's pitching, well, there's no need to pull

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Speaker 8: him out with sixty five pitches after five innutes because

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Speaker 8: he's never known the top top of the environment. What

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Speaker 8: the lineup's going to do against a bullpen, Well, the

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Speaker 8: bullpen's going to do against that lineup. And for sure,

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Speaker 8: if he's riding along, you just go out there and

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Speaker 8: leave Malone because Shoy is not going to say no.

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Speaker 8: Believe me, he's not going to say no.

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Speaker 6: Jose.

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Speaker 3: When the Phillies were here at Dodger Stadium in September,

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Speaker 3: the Dodgers faced three of their starting pitchers that were

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Speaker 3: left handed. Christopher Sanchez is starting Game one. We saw

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Speaker 3: Lozardo and Suarez at Dodger Stadium. Would you expect the

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Speaker 3: Phillies to throw those three lefties in the first three

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Speaker 3: games of the series.

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Speaker 8: You know, they're without their best pitcher in Zach Wheelers,

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Speaker 8: so he's out. So there's a reason why they let

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Speaker 8: things up here with Lozardo and those guys in Sanchez

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Speaker 8: and Suarez. When they were here and the Dodgers actually

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Speaker 8: got to those guys, you know, it's not a game

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Speaker 8: in which you expected them to blow off people and

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Speaker 8: score eight runs, but they did enough and had enough

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Speaker 8: team at bats score just enough runs to win pitching

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Speaker 8: then you know, back that up. But I feel very

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Speaker 8: comfortable on the approach head against every single one of

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Speaker 8: those guys, So I expect that again, and certainly knowing

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Speaker 8: that not least on one time. You know, make sure

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Speaker 8: that you take advantage of whatever windows they gave you.

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Speaker 8: Those guys were going to give you strikes number one,

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Speaker 8: They're gonna give you opportunities to score, but it might

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Speaker 8: be a very small window. Take advantagage of it, and

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Speaker 8: then use the team at bats that you had this series,

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Speaker 8: the short series against Cincinnati to capitalize and keep going

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Speaker 8: forward with this momentum.

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Speaker 3: All right, Jose, see on the plane tomorrow on the

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Speaker 3: way to Philadelphia and game one of an epic showdown

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Speaker 3: Game one of the NLDS Saturday Night Dodgers Phillies.

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Speaker 6: We will be there. Look forward to it.

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Speaker 8: Jose, same here, all the best.

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Speaker 3: There he goes, Jose Mota, part of the Dodgers Spanish

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Speaker 3: radio broadcast with Luis Cheeto Cruz. Great to see these

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Speaker 3: guys calling these postseason games and it is going to

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Speaker 3: be electric in Philadelphia. The scene there is going to

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Speaker 3: be something that a lot of these Dodger players have

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Speaker 3: not experienced before they experienced the World Series at Yankee Stadium.

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Speaker 3: This is going to be very similar in the NLDS tonight.

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Speaker 3: From what we understand from MLB dot COM's Todd Zolecki,

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Speaker 3: the Phillies had thirty one thousand fans at their scrimmage tonight,

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Speaker 3: a scrimmage. Alan Iverson would have laughed at that practice.

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Speaker 3: Thirty one thousand fans for practice. Yeah, thirty one thousand

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Speaker 3: fans for a practice game tonight in Philadelphia.

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Speaker 6: It's going to be one of those scenes one of.

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Speaker 3: Those John Suhu photos that will last forever when Otani

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Speaker 3: takes them ound in the first inning for the first

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Speaker 3: time ever in his major league career pitching in the postseason.

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Speaker 3: Let's take a couple of more phone calls. The Dodgers

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Speaker 3: beat the Reds tonight eight to four. Let's go out

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Speaker 3: to Bob and Malibu. You're on Dodger Talk live from

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Speaker 3: Dodgers Stadium.

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Speaker 1: Hi, Bob, Uncle Dave, thanks for having me on as always. Man,

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Speaker 1: congrats to you and the boys out there tonight. Great win.

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Speaker 1: Want to give credits that were credits due Yamamoto and Sasaki,

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Speaker 1: of course, but we can't leave our man, Mookie Bets

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Speaker 1: out of that. Man. He has been a dominant force

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Speaker 1: and he keeps driving that ball for us and he's

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Speaker 1: playing great defense. So all props to Mookie.

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Speaker 8: Man.

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Speaker 1: Want to shout him out.

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Speaker 6: There? You go? You did? Is that? It is that

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Speaker 6: all you want to shout out MOOKI.

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Speaker 1: No sir, no sir.

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Speaker 8: A question for you day, Okay.

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Speaker 1: First of all, like you keep talking about left handers

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Speaker 1: coming out as should they start those three? Will there

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Speaker 1: be any changes to the roster in Philadelphia from what

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Speaker 1: we've seen here.

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Speaker 3: Well, I don't see how Michael Confordo is on this roster.

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Speaker 3: Unless the Dodgers feel that Justin Dean and Hassan Kim

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Speaker 3: are redundant in a five game series much different than

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Speaker 3: a best of three, that'll be a decision they have

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Speaker 3: to make. I actually like the ad bats Confordo was

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Speaker 3: taking the last couple of games or last couple of weeks.

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Speaker 3: And are the Dodgers going to carry three catchers? Because

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Speaker 3: if Will Smith is on the NLDS roster and for

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Speaker 3: some reason that right hand flares up and he can't

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Speaker 3: go the rest of the series and they have to

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Speaker 3: take him off the NLDS roster, that means he won't

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Speaker 3: be available to you during the NLCS. If a player

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Speaker 3: is removed from the roster because of injury, he is

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Speaker 3: not eligible for the very next series. Now he would

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Speaker 3: be for the World Series. So to me, that's the

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Speaker 3: biggest question. Do they add Confordo and do they carry

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Speaker 3: three catchers? That's the biggest question. And it's all contingent

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Speaker 3: on Will Smith's right.

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Speaker 1: Hand understood, And obviously, like you said, with three left handers,

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Speaker 1: we're gonna want those right hand bats in the lineup.

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Speaker 8: And most importantly Will Smith last thing for you.

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Speaker 1: Day before I let you go. You know GM ned

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Speaker 1: COLLETTI once said it to win a World Series, someone

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Speaker 1: on the team's got to turn into Barry Bond. Last year,

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Speaker 1: Freddie Freeman delivered for us. Who's it going to be

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Speaker 1: this year? Who do you think it has.

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Speaker 13: To be this year for us?

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Speaker 3: I mean it's looking like Mookie Bets, right, Bob, the

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Speaker 3: way he's playing. I mean I wouldn't I wouldn't count

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Speaker 3: out Mookie Betts. I wouldn't count out show Hey Otani,

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Speaker 3: and I wouldn't count out Freddie Freeman. That's what makes

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Speaker 3: the Dodgers so dangerous. They got four or five six

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Speaker 3: different guys that can carry you. Tommy Edmond was the

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Speaker 3: NLCSMVP last year amongst these group of players. That just

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Speaker 3: shows you how deep they are. Thanks for the phone call, Bob,

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Speaker 3: appreciate it. Eight six six nine, eight seven two five seventy.

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Speaker 3: Here here's something else, another subplot to a series that

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Speaker 3: doesn't need another one. Walker Buehler, last year's Game five hero,

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Speaker 3: is now a Philadelphia Philly and he pitched really well

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Speaker 3: his last two appearances of the regular season. How are

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Speaker 3: the Phillies going to deploy Walker Bueller. Are they gonna

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Speaker 3: hold him until he pitches here at Dodger Stadium? What

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Speaker 3: are they going to do with Walker Bueller? And how

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Speaker 3: are they going to deploy him the way they did

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Speaker 3: in his last two appearances of the regular season. There

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Speaker 3: was one where he piggiedback to start, pitched the final

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Speaker 3: five innings of a game. The Phillies already had the

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Speaker 3: division wrapped up by that point in time, and he

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Speaker 3: also made a traditional start. That's another part of this

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Speaker 3: series that you want to keep in the back of

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Speaker 3: your mind. Walker Bueller wants nothing more to prove the

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Speaker 3: Dodgers wrong in the Red Sox wrong for not bringing

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Speaker 3: him back in two different scenarios. So let's see. Let's

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Speaker 3: see what Walker Buehler we get. Let's see when Walker

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Speaker 3: Buehler is pitching in this NLDS. It all starts Saturday night,

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Speaker 3: Game one of the NLDS right here on Dodgers Radio

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Speaker 3: AM five to seventy LA Sports Rick Monday, Steven Nelson

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Speaker 3: will be on the call first pitch for Game one

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Speaker 3: of the NLDS. Still to be decided, but it's either

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Speaker 3: going to be six o'clock Eastern time or six point

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Speaker 3: thirty Eastern time right around there. But stay tuned to

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Speaker 3: A five seventy LA Sports and we will let you

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Speaker 3: know when Game one of the NLDS will take place.

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Speaker 3: It's Saturday night in Philadelphia, Otani versus Christophers Sanchez. That'll

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Speaker 3: do it for us on Dodger Talk tonight. Thanks to

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Speaker 3: Colin Yee back at our Burbank studio. Do I have

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Speaker 3: to call you a stud That feels.

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Speaker 6: Really weird to me?

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Speaker 3: You're just calling ye? Thanks to Dwayne McDonald DM. You

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Speaker 3: could dm DM anytime, just playing Nellie. You know you're

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Speaker 3: a nickname guy. Thanks to you for listening. In case

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Speaker 3: you missed any of the show or the interviews, you

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00:43:20,680 --> 00:43:24,319
Speaker 3: can find it on the iHeartRadio app. And thanks again

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Speaker 3: to sports Net LA for including me in their celebration

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Speaker 3: coverage as well. We'll talk to you Saturday night from Philadelphia.

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Speaker 3: Ben Maller on Fox Sports Radio is next? Will the

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Speaker 3: Mookie apology happen tonight? Stay tuned, We'll see you Saturday.

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Speaker 10: Lay