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Speaker 4: Brough night for the Dodgers.
Speaker 5: Then a chance to pick up ground in the division,
Speaker 5: a chance to leave Arizona with the series winning, and.
Speaker 4: They were cruising to a two nothing lead.
Speaker 5: Turned it over to the bullpen, and that's when the
Speaker 5: wheels fell off. In the eighth inning for Will Klein
Speaker 5: gives up a solo home run to Corbyn Carroll, a walk,
Speaker 5: two batters later, a single Alex Vessi would come in.
Speaker 5: He'd give up a base hit to score a run
Speaker 5: and tie the game. And then in the ninth could
Speaker 5: tell Marte at absolute blast down the left field line
Speaker 5: off Tanner Scott wins it as the Diamondbacks walk off
Speaker 5: the Dodgers three to two. On top of it, the
Speaker 5: Dodgers cee Max Mounsey leave the game in the fifth thing.
Speaker 5: Thankfully he is okay. We heard on We heard from
Speaker 5: Max and the Dodgers' clubouse show. After you collided with
Speaker 5: the first baseman Vargas as they were both going towards
Speaker 5: the first base bag and he beat him to the bag,
Speaker 5: but in the process collided with him as they both
Speaker 5: were going towards the middle part of the first base bag.
Speaker 5: Neither one wanted to concede, and like a duel two
Speaker 5: guys going at it, they collide in mid air and
Speaker 5: the glasses that Max Munsey wears cut him on the
Speaker 5: bridge of his nose. Had to come out of the game,
Speaker 5: got checked for a concussion. Thankfully he does not have
Speaker 5: a concussion. And according to Dave Roberts, who we'll hear
Speaker 5: from a little bit, you're gonna get Max Mounsey the
Speaker 5: night off tomorrow night in the series opener against Reed
Speaker 5: Debt Merse, who's a left hander anyway, so a lefty
Speaker 5: versus lefty matchup probably would have been a day off
Speaker 5: anyways for Max Munsey, but with the collision tonight at
Speaker 5: first base there in the fifth inning, a definite day
Speaker 5: off for Max Munsey tomorrow night and where in the
Speaker 5: world was the Dodgers top half of the lineup. Shoe
Speaker 5: a Otani had the night off. It was a planned
Speaker 5: night off. We've done it for twenty four hours that
Speaker 5: it was going to be Will Smith as a designated hitter.
Speaker 5: The Dodgers offense had six hits the entire game. Mookie
Speaker 5: Betts was OH for four, Freddie Freeman OH for four,
Speaker 5: Andy Pajez was OH for four.
Speaker 4: Kyle Tucker had a hit. That was it. The Dodgers'
Speaker 4: top four. They were a.
Speaker 5: Combined one for sixteen in this game tonight. That is
Speaker 5: not going to win a game for a Dodgers most times.
Speaker 5: They almost got away with it thanks to the great
Speaker 5: performance from Justin Robleski for six shutout innings, but his
Speaker 5: eighteen pitch sixth inning put the pitch count up to
Speaker 5: eighty four and that was it. Kyle Hurt took over
Speaker 5: the seventh inning, got some help on a challenge ball
Speaker 5: strike from Dalton Rushing, who, by the way, three challenges
Speaker 5: tonight from the Dodger catcher. Dalton Rushing three for three
Speaker 5: on pitches that were called balls. He challenged the call
Speaker 5: and got overturned to strikes. So a good job by
Speaker 5: Dalton Rushing and the ABS system tonight in favor of
Speaker 5: the Dodger catcher. But then the wheels got, you know,
Speaker 5: just kind of fell off for Will Klin. And for
Speaker 5: Will Klin, this is something that we haven't seen. We
Speaker 5: saw dominance last year in the postseason the World Series
Speaker 5: when he was called upon that eighteen inning game. He
Speaker 5: has been really good this season out of the bullpen,
Speaker 5: part of that ridiculous thirty plus inning streak of consecutive
Speaker 5: innings without giving up a run by the Dodgers bullpen.
Speaker 5: He's a big reason why Will Klein hadn't give up
Speaker 5: the run since May third.
Speaker 4: It's June the fourth, over.
Speaker 5: A month between the last time Will Clin give up
Speaker 5: an earned run against the Saint Louis Carton on May
Speaker 5: third in Saint Louis, and tonight giving up a pair
Speaker 5: of runs in the eighth inning against the Arizona Diamondback.
Speaker 5: So you just don't see it too often. It happened
Speaker 5: tonight and the Dodgers just couldn't muster much offensively outside
Speaker 5: of that fifth inning, and quite frankly, they were gifted
Speaker 5: those runs in the fifth inning. Why so you asked, well,
Speaker 5: it was right after Monthsy and Vargas collided at first
Speaker 5: base two outs months.
Speaker 4: He comes out of the game espitall runs.
Speaker 5: For him, and Ryan Ward on a two to two slider,
Speaker 5: hits the ball into right center field. Probably should have
Speaker 5: been the final out of the inning and a zero
Speaker 5: zero game going to the bottom half of the fifth
Speaker 5: inning as it is, Corbyn Carroll, who's one of the
Speaker 5: better defensive outfielders, completely overran the ball at a weird
Speaker 5: a and the ball sails over his head to right
Speaker 5: center field for an RBI double and giving the Dodgers
Speaker 5: a one to nothing lead.
Speaker 4: Then Dalton, rushing.
Speaker 5: On a two to two fastball, gets jammed inside outs
Speaker 5: it and just losts it into less center field where
Speaker 5: it falls in for a base hit. And it seems
Speaker 5: like the center fielder for Arizona got a late jump
Speaker 5: on it. I mean, if if Walshchmidt gets a better
Speaker 5: jump and comes in harder on that ball, that too
Speaker 5: is an out to.
Speaker 4: End the inning.
Speaker 5: But the Dodgers take the gifts on the defensive miscues
Speaker 5: by the Arizona Diamondbacks to take a two to nothing lead,
Speaker 5: but it threw to be not enough and for the Dodgers,
Speaker 5: this one stings. And I know it's one hundred and
Speaker 5: sixty two game season, and you can't get too high
Speaker 5: when you're winning, and you can't get too low when
Speaker 5: you suffer a loss. Of those losses straight out to
Speaker 5: be multiple losses. But let's hope they come out tomorrow
Speaker 5: and absolutely put this loss behind them. They have to
Speaker 5: at the moment right now, it stings to have a
Speaker 5: chance to win three or four in Arizona, pick up
Speaker 5: another half game on San Diego, in a full another
Speaker 5: game on Arizona to come back up seven and seven
Speaker 5: and a half games up in the division. Now you're
Speaker 5: six and a half games up on Arizona in the
Speaker 5: NL West. In fact, they could have been eight and
Speaker 5: a half up on Arizona if they get the win
Speaker 5: a two game slide there because they let this one
Speaker 5: get away. I understand, it's June fourth, They got a
Speaker 5: lot of baseball to play. The Dodgers are the best
Speaker 5: team in the division, hands down, but it still stings
Speaker 5: in a game that you don't have all your offense there,
Speaker 5: you still have a lead laid and the bullpen, which
Speaker 5: has been arguably the best thing for you this year
Speaker 5: through the first what sixty three games?
Speaker 4: Let it get away tonight.
Speaker 5: Let's just hope it's a one time thing and tomorrow
Speaker 5: they get back on track and they can do what
Speaker 5: they did against the Angels a couple weekends of going
Speaker 5: Anaheim and that's just feast on a bottom feeding team
Speaker 5: in the Anaheim Angels eight six six nine eight seven
Speaker 5: two five seventy. I just hope they get this one
Speaker 5: behind them. You heard Tanner Scott say that that you
Speaker 5: have to forget about this.
Speaker 4: Tomorrow's a new day. That's the right attitude. I love it.
Speaker 4: But to me, that pitch can't happen.
Speaker 5: It could tell Marte you can't throw a ball in
Speaker 5: his wheelhouse there in the ninth inning, like Tanner Scott did.
Speaker 5: You just battle with Tommy Troy struck him out and
Speaker 5: the first pitch to could tell Marte is literally the
Speaker 5: pitch that he swings the best at fastball, low and inside,
Speaker 5: and he absolutely crushed it. Now it looked like he
Speaker 5: missed the spot on that credit to could tell Marte
Speaker 5: because it takes two guys to make it work, and
Speaker 5: he took advantage of a bad pitch and made him
Speaker 5: pay and made the Dodgers pay with that solo home run.
Speaker 5: But this one stings, no doubt, a game they let
Speaker 5: get away and a chance to just separate themselves even
Speaker 5: more from the division gets away from him tonight in Phoenix.
Speaker 5: Eight sixty six, nine eighty seven, two five seventy is
Speaker 5: the number. Let's start things off with Dave and Elisa Viajoe.
Speaker 5: Your first up here on Dodge, you talked, how are
Speaker 5: you doing tonight?
Speaker 6: Dave, Yes, sir, basically, Tallas Scott choked. I know you guys,
Speaker 6: you do a very good job, even David, but your
Speaker 6: profession doesn't allow you to use the word choke on
Speaker 6: the air. But real sports fans know he choked big time.
Speaker 6: He crushes the morale of the Dodgers with his home run.
Speaker 6: He did it last year countless times. I could see
Speaker 6: giving up a couple of base hits, maybe a bunt sacrifice,
Speaker 6: a walk, but he his his his his, his walk
Speaker 6: offs devastating to the morale of the team.
Speaker 5: Well, you know, I would agree that it's a tough wall.
Speaker 5: It is a tough loss, David. I agree one hundred percent.
Speaker 5: It's gotta be a better pitch. And you heard Tanner Scott.
Speaker 5: If he could have it back, he would. That is
Speaker 5: just not a pitch you want to throw to Kadel
Speaker 5: Marte in his sweet spot hits it out of the
Speaker 5: park for.
Speaker 4: A home run.
Speaker 5: But with that being said, this is a Dodger team
Speaker 5: that It's not just on Tanner Scott tonight.
Speaker 4: He was put into a situation and a two to
Speaker 4: two tie.
Speaker 5: Yeah, he's got to put up a zero and get
Speaker 5: the offense back up there in the tenth And according
Speaker 5: to Dave Roberts, if they got into the tenth inning,
Speaker 5: Shoey o'tani was gonna bat in the tenth inning. And
Speaker 5: who knows what happens when number seventeen comes up to.
Speaker 4: The plate in any situation. But with that being said,
Speaker 4: let's rewind it just a little bit.
Speaker 5: How do we get to that ninth inning in the
Speaker 5: tie situation in a fastball that Tanner Scott leaves down
Speaker 5: the middle of the plate to Ka tell Marte. Rewind
Speaker 5: a little bit back to the eighth inning. Will Klein
Speaker 5: didn't do anybody any favors in that eighth inning. Heck,
Speaker 5: you go back to the seventh inning, a one out single,
Speaker 5: Kyle Hurt gives up. He gets out of it with
Speaker 5: back to back strikeouts. To his credit, Dalton Rushing again
Speaker 5: third challenge of the night overturned a ball that turned
Speaker 5: into a strike on Tommy Troy. Great job by Dalton Rushing.
Speaker 5: But the eighth inning, Will Klein comes in and gives
Speaker 5: up a solo home run on a fastball to Corbyn Carroll. Okay,
Speaker 5: it's two to one. You gotta bear it down at
Speaker 5: that point and you got to get out. And what
Speaker 5: happens He walks the next batter of moreno on five pitches.
Speaker 5: That can't happen. That's not Tanner Scott's fault. That's a
Speaker 5: Will Klein problem. Gets Aeronauto striking out looking on a sweeper.
Speaker 7: No.
Speaker 5: By the way, Nolan Aeronauto, I love the guy. Probably
Speaker 5: gonna be a Hall of Famer maybe, yeah, Okay, he
Speaker 5: looks old right now at the end of his career.
Speaker 5: I don't know if he's banged up or what. But
Speaker 5: he went first to third on a play and then
Speaker 5: could not score when a ball was hitting the left
Speaker 5: center field who besides the point? Then Walshmid comes up
Speaker 5: and singles the left on a ball that's right over
Speaker 5: the middle of the plate from Will Klein. That's got
Speaker 5: to be better executed by Will Klein, not Tanner Scott
Speaker 5: obviously in the ninth but in that eighth inning, the
Speaker 5: Dodgers got to do a better job of holding.
Speaker 4: Onto a two to nothing lead.
Speaker 5: And then when it's two to one on the home
Speaker 5: run by Carol, got to do a better job of
Speaker 5: getting out to not walking the next batter. Two batters
Speaker 5: later get up a single. All of a sudden, it's
Speaker 5: first and second with one out. Tyan runs at second base.
Speaker 5: Tough spot for Alex Vessia who got a fly ball out,
Speaker 5: but then he gives up a single to Pertomo to
Speaker 5: center field. So you have to help yourself out. Will
Speaker 5: Klein came in a clean inning. He came in the
Speaker 5: eighth inning with a two to nothing lead. You've got
Speaker 5: to hold, You've got to get out. You can't walk
Speaker 5: batters as a reliever. That's the one thing you always hear,
Speaker 5: and I'm with it.
Speaker 4: Your job is to get out.
Speaker 5: If you're a re liever and you come in and
Speaker 5: you start walking, dudes, that is like awful.
Speaker 4: That's not what you're supposed to do.
Speaker 5: And nine times out of ten it comes back to
Speaker 5: bite you, and tonight it did. Come back to bite
Speaker 5: them as Moreno would then come around and score the
Speaker 5: tie run in the eighth inning. So again we want
Speaker 5: to focus in on could Tell Marte's solo bomb off
Speaker 5: of Tanner Scott And certainly it's gotta be a better pitch.
Speaker 5: It does better execution. You tip your cap to cold
Speaker 5: Tell Marte on that one. But that's gotta be a
Speaker 5: way better pitch. You gotta miss up those on you
Speaker 5: gotta miss away not in his wheelhouse. But let's pull
Speaker 5: it back a little bit to the eighth inning, as
Speaker 5: we just did. Will clients got to execute better out
Speaker 5: of the bullpen. And for his credit, though he has
Speaker 5: I mentioned it, the last time he gave up a run,
Speaker 5: let alone an urn run was a month ago, May
Speaker 5: third and Saint Louis against the Cardinals. So he is
Speaker 5: pitched well. Overall, the Dodgers' bullpen has pitched well. Tonight
Speaker 5: one of those nights got away from him, unfortunately, also
Speaker 5: one of those nights in which the Dodgers didn't put
Speaker 5: up crooked numbers. Dodgers' offense didn't put up seven runs, Dodgers'
Speaker 5: offense didn't put up a ninth spot.
Speaker 4: This was a tight ballgame.
Speaker 5: Top of the lineup goes one for sixteen, your top
Speaker 5: four hitters, one hit from Kyle Tucker, an overnight for
Speaker 5: Mookie Betts, an overnight for Andy Pajes, an overnight for
Speaker 5: Freddie Freeman.
Speaker 4: So the blame could.
Speaker 5: Be kind of pointed in all directions on this Dodgers
Speaker 5: team tonight, the lack of execution from the bullpen, and
Speaker 5: certainly the lack of offense tonight. The Arizona Diamondbacks had
Speaker 5: three runs on eleven hits. The Dodgers had two runs
Speaker 5: on only six hits in this game tonight, and only
Speaker 5: two walks by the way by the Dodgers, so not
Speaker 5: a lot of traffic on the base pass. There only
Speaker 5: left four runners on base all night. Eight six six nine,
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Speaker 4: Of a fighter. All right, let's go toe to toe
Speaker 4: with my guy Ken in Newport Beach.
Speaker 7: Ken.
Speaker 4: How you doing tonight?
Speaker 7: Hey, Tim? How are you doing? How's the family?
Speaker 5: Everybody's good? Thanks for asking this one stings can I.
Speaker 5: It's not the end of the world, but man, this
Speaker 5: is a game. You kind of feel like you have
Speaker 5: to close the door on the Diamondbacks and you let
Speaker 5: him back in. You give him a little bit of
Speaker 5: confidence after a split now in a four game series,
Speaker 5: that you're going to see him.
Speaker 4: Later on this year.
Speaker 7: I agree, and that went to air live estate and
Speaker 7: I could tell you for people who don't know, it's
Speaker 7: four days in Arizona, there's way too many bars by
Speaker 7: the fourth day. But I have two questions for you.
Speaker 7: Number one, you got a guy pitching his shutout. Why
Speaker 7: do you pull him into sixth inning? That didn't make
Speaker 7: any sense? Number two, and the ninth inning, you're down
Speaker 7: by a run, and you got your best hitter, your superstar,
Speaker 7: sitting and yawning on the bench. Why didn't he come
Speaker 7: in and pinch hit Otani? And then the last thing, where.
Speaker 4: Where would you hit him? Who would you hit him?
Speaker 6: For?
Speaker 5: In the ninth inning, Pa has led off the inning
Speaker 5: that it's Tucker. And then for Will Smith, you.
Speaker 7: Know the third guy that was replaced the lookie or
Speaker 7: replaced the Muncy.
Speaker 4: That's been all.
Speaker 5: Yeah in that situation, as Colin Ye brought up a
Speaker 5: great point by Colin Ye, it was a two out
Speaker 5: double by Will Smith. If you pinch it show, Hey Otani,
Speaker 5: what are they gonna do. They're gonna put up four fingers.
Speaker 5: You have an open base at first. So you just
Speaker 5: negated him coming off the bench and trying to win
Speaker 5: the game for you.
Speaker 7: Because they could use it. In my last comment, and
Speaker 7: this is just one of those stupid staff things, Rookie
Speaker 7: Betts is now as a starter in the major leagues
Speaker 7: as a fourth worst batting average. Something's got to change
Speaker 7: fourth worst or any starter in the major leagues.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's uh, it's every game that goes by. Can
Speaker 5: I appreciate it? It's becoming more and more of a problem.
Speaker 5: He's hitting one to eighty three now. Is on base
Speaker 5: percentage is two forty six zero for four tonight? Was
Speaker 5: Mookie Betts in the leadoff spot, and because Otani had
Speaker 5: the night off, you move move Key back up to
Speaker 5: the lineup in the top spot to change the scenery.
Speaker 4: Maybe you hope it sparks something.
Speaker 5: He can see the ball better, you know, the ball
Speaker 5: can find some green a little bit.
Speaker 4: He can string together some good at bats.
Speaker 5: As it is, Mookie Betts goes oh for four tonight,
Speaker 5: But you know what top three hitters went oh for
Speaker 5: twelve bets, Freeman Paez, top four hitters, if you include
Speaker 5: Kyle Tucker win one for sixteen. It's got to be
Speaker 5: a better effort offensively at the top of the lineup.
Speaker 5: I know baseball is a tough game, and you know
Speaker 5: some nights the bottom of the line's gonna carry it.
Speaker 4: Which tonight it did.
Speaker 5: You saw the Dodgers two runs come off of singles
Speaker 5: from Ryan Ward and Dalton Rushing. You know the Dodgers
Speaker 5: eight and they're seven and eight hitters and respectively in
Speaker 5: the lineup tonight.
Speaker 4: And you're not gonna score seven runs every game. I
Speaker 4: get that.
Speaker 5: You're not gonna score eight runs on fourteen hits every
Speaker 5: single game. There's gonna be low scoring games. And tonight
Speaker 5: one of those two nothing games. You know, you gotta
Speaker 5: bear down, You gotta throw strikes if your will klin.
Speaker 5: You got to realize this isn't gonna be a high
Speaker 5: scoring affair.
Speaker 4: We can't wait for a crooked number.
Speaker 5: To be plased up on the scoreboard in the top
Speaker 5: of the seventh or eighth or ninth inning to bail
Speaker 5: them out or make it a blowout situation.
Speaker 4: It's a two to nothing game. Go in there, against
Speaker 4: the Diamac. Let's close the.
Speaker 5: Door in the eighth, Let's get it to the ninth,
Speaker 5: and let's get out of dodge and let's come back
Speaker 5: home with the series winning fortunately, lead off home run,
Speaker 5: a walk, two batters later, a single, and the Diamondbacks
Speaker 5: had traffic, and they scored two runs to tie the game.
Speaker 5: So again, I'm not gonna sit here and pile on
Speaker 5: Tanner Scott. I'm not going to you know what. Tonight,
Speaker 5: the bullpen collectively, I mean Alex Vessie gave up a
Speaker 5: two out hit. You're asking these guys to be perfect
Speaker 5: when they come out of a situation like that. Will
Speaker 5: climb clean inning, eighth inning, two nothing game, okay, Corbyn
Speaker 5: Carroll takes you deep. You cannot walk the next batter
Speaker 5: Moreno on five pitches that just can't happen. You gotta
Speaker 5: attack the strike zone. You gotta trust your defense behind you.
Speaker 5: Alex Frielan made great plays tonight. I count three of
Speaker 5: them off the top of my head that he made
Speaker 5: going both ways, glove side Backhan at second base tonight.
Speaker 5: You got a great defense behind you. You cannot walk
Speaker 5: guys when you come out of the bullpen. And again
Speaker 5: the Dodgers tonight top of the lineup didn't come through.
Speaker 5: All we they needed was one of those guys in
Speaker 5: the ninth inning.
Speaker 4: Again.
Speaker 5: The ninth inning came around, tied it too, and the
Speaker 5: Dodgers had Andy Pajz leading off. That's right where you
Speaker 5: want it, right. Paul see Wald comes in, veteran pitcher.
Speaker 4: You can get to him.
Speaker 5: And the top of the line up outside of Tucker
Speaker 5: hasn't done anything all night. Paz popped out to short.
Speaker 5: Tucker struck out Will Smith, who was the DH tonight,
Speaker 5: doubled the left. All right, you got the go ahead
Speaker 5: run at second base with two outs. Again, Espinal comes
Speaker 5: up to bat. Know the situation, open base at first,
Speaker 5: You're not gonna pitch it show hey Otani because all
Speaker 5: Tory Lavella's gonna do is put up four fingers. Not
Speaker 5: because he's saying go UCLA fours up. He's saying four balls.
Speaker 5: I'm walking O'tani, and I want to get Otani down
Speaker 5: to first base and get that threat neutralized as quick
Speaker 5: as possible. So you're not gonna use Otani in that situation.
Speaker 5: Dave Roberts, which we're gonna hear from him coming up
Speaker 5: in just.
Speaker 4: A little bit.
Speaker 5: Did say to the media post game, telling our David
Speaker 5: Vase that in the tenth inning, if it were going
Speaker 5: to get to the tenth inning, that they were gonna
Speaker 5: use show Hey Otani as a possible pinch hitter. But
Speaker 5: the situation wasn't right than ninth inning. You need an
Speaker 5: es but all in that situation to come through clutch
Speaker 5: with the base hit somehow keep the line moving, just
Speaker 5: get on base, do whatever.
Speaker 4: Unfortunately he struck out swinging and.
Speaker 5: Then well it was all she wrote in the bottom
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Speaker 4: How you doing, Carlos doing all right?
Speaker 7: Guys doing all right?
Speaker 8: Yeah, you know tonight it's very easy to uh, you know, uh,
Speaker 8: let Tanner Scott have it and you you know, just
Speaker 8: dump on the bullpen and obviously they didn't have their
Speaker 8: best night, right, But the reality is the team era
Speaker 8: is right around three and they gave up three runs.
Speaker 7: The you spell my thunder because I know show.
Speaker 8: Hal Timey is obviously one of the best players in
Speaker 8: the league. He's a huge presence in the lineup. But
Speaker 8: this lineup looked feeble feeble.
Speaker 9: Terrible.
Speaker 10: Yeah.
Speaker 7: You know what I'd like to see going forward.
Speaker 8: Is Doc batting Mookie ninth because this way he bats
Speaker 8: right in front of show A and maybe he gets
Speaker 8: better pitches or something.
Speaker 5: I just not I understand the theory there. I appreciate
Speaker 5: the phone call Carlos. You put him in front of
Speaker 5: show Hey, figuring he's gonna get better pitches, but he's
Speaker 5: gonna get less at bats and you're not putting Mookie
Speaker 5: Bets ninth in your lineup?
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 5: Could I envision them dropping Mookie Bets to fifth or
Speaker 5: sixth in the lineup?
Speaker 4: Yes, absolutely do.
Speaker 5: I like Andy Paiz batting second in the lineup.
Speaker 4: I can see that.
Speaker 5: Freddie Freeman. I mean, you've seen a little bit of
Speaker 5: the tinkering of the lineup with Dave Roberts. But I
Speaker 5: think when Otani's playing every day and tonight was a
Speaker 5: rare night off that we get that. You know we're
Speaker 5: gonna see Mookie Betts. I gotta believe him drop down
Speaker 5: the lineup, how far not to ninth. There's just no
Speaker 5: way that's gonna happen. There's just no way. And one
Speaker 5: of those nights where boot Bets, Freeman and Pajes go
Speaker 5: over all of them bottom of the lineup drives in
Speaker 5: the only two runs. Again, we don't see it too often.
Speaker 5: The Dodgers bullpen give it up for Will kleinb by
Speaker 5: the way, in a great nugget by David Vasse. I'm
Speaker 5: gonna give him full credit because he deserves full credit
Speaker 5: looking this dat up, because it was texting with David
Speaker 5: after he put it out there on social medium, and
Speaker 5: he said, you know, I feel like I've never seen
Speaker 5: Will Klein give up a home run, and so he
Speaker 5: looked it up and Corbyn Carroll's home run in the
Speaker 5: eighth inning to lead off the eighth was the very
Speaker 5: first home run Will Klein has allowed in the big leagues.
Speaker 5: First home run allowed by Will Klein in the major leagues.
Speaker 5: That's unbelievable. I mean, he's pitched in what almost forty
Speaker 5: games for the Dodgers. He's nearing sixty innings pitched. He
Speaker 5: pitched in eight games back in twenty twenty four with
Speaker 5: Kansas City, pitched with the Dodgers last year. Hasn't given
Speaker 5: up a home run until tonight. It's pretty impressive. Then
Speaker 5: you look about it even more, and I mentioned it
Speaker 5: hadn't given up a run, let alone an urn run
Speaker 5: a run since May third in Saint Louis against the Cardinals,
Speaker 5: and tonight he gives up two in that eighth inning.
Speaker 5: Just a bad night for the Dodgers' bullpen and high
Speaker 5: leverage guys by the way, I mean, we're not talking
Speaker 5: about guys at the back end of the bullpen that are,
Speaker 5: you know, mopping up a game or in their pitching
Speaker 5: because it's the blowout on one.
Speaker 4: Side or the other.
Speaker 5: This is the high leverage relievers for the Dodgers who
Speaker 5: gave it up tonight and didn't have control. Kyle Hurt okay,
Speaker 5: give up a hit, give up a clean seventh inning,
Speaker 5: but Will Klein's home run, walk, and base hit two
Speaker 5: batters later, uncharacteristic of Will Klein that we've seen up
Speaker 5: until this point. Alex Vesia putting a tough situation when
Speaker 5: runners on base, gets a fly ball out, a base hit,
Speaker 5: and then a fly ball out again, and then Tanner
Speaker 5: Scott just to pitch. I know he wants back on
Speaker 5: the first pitch to ca tell Marte with one out
Speaker 5: of fastball low and inside, and Marte absolutely crushes it.
Speaker 4: Bryant and Glendoras next up on Dodger Talk. Hi doing Bryant.
Speaker 9: Hey, Hey, I'm doing well, man.
Speaker 11: How are you doing.
Speaker 4: I'm doing good. Little disappointment. This one stings, Brian.
Speaker 5: This is one of those games you kind of feel
Speaker 5: like you need to shut the door on Arizona, get
Speaker 5: some separation even more in the division, and kill their
Speaker 5: hopes for the next time you see them.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 9: No, I completely agree exactly, And you know, kind of
Speaker 9: everything that you were saying, well, one of the main
Speaker 9: reason why that I was calling in was actually exactly
Speaker 9: the point that you made. I believe it was two
Speaker 9: callars ago. I've been saying it for a little while,
Speaker 9: but I think that the offensive days of Mooki are
Speaker 9: are are in the past. I've been saying I think
Speaker 9: for a little while now he's actually a middle of
Speaker 9: the order bat and just at one point is the
Speaker 9: organization going to have that talk with him. I love
Speaker 9: that Doc is a super players coach and he always
Speaker 9: has their backs. But we need to find a true
Speaker 9: number two hit or behind Muki. And at this point,
Speaker 9: I think Mooki is more of a five six middle
Speaker 9: of the order bat in his career.
Speaker 5: You know what, It's gonna be interesting to see where
Speaker 5: they drop him in the lineup. And I appreciate it, Brian,
Speaker 5: because I think that time is coming and it could
Speaker 5: be a case where you drop him in the lineup.
Speaker 5: Let him get some at bats, let him get that
Speaker 5: confidence back, let him get that swing back. And all
Speaker 5: of a sudden, you're putting Mookie Bets back in, you know,
Speaker 5: towards the top of the lineup where he's comfortable in.
Speaker 5: I can see that happening.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 5: Guys, guys need a little bit more confidence sometimes, and
Speaker 5: Mookie Bets is the first person to get all over himself.
Speaker 5: And we've seen it, we've heard it. He knows when
Speaker 5: he's not swinging the bat well and he is the
Speaker 5: first guy to get on himself. So what you do
Speaker 5: to help him out Drop him in the lineup, let
Speaker 5: him see some better pitches, you know, let him get
Speaker 5: some more opportunities, you know, to see some more fastballs,
Speaker 5: and let's hope he can figure it out. Let's hope
Speaker 5: he can turn things around him be the Mookie we
Speaker 5: know he can still be. You know, nobody's turned the
Speaker 5: page on Mookie bets. You're crazy, absolutely not eight six, six,
Speaker 5: nine eighty seven, two five seventy. And sometimes, you know,
Speaker 5: you drop in the lineup, get that confidence back and
Speaker 5: you move back up. We already saw this year Will Smith,
Speaker 5: a guy who was dropped in the lineup. We've seen
Speaker 5: Max Muntz. He fluctuate in the lineup. Andy Pajz was
Speaker 5: batting six and seventh in the lineup. Now Andy Paz
Speaker 5: is batting third for Dave Roberts in this lineup, So
Speaker 5: the lineup can fluctuate. I think that we get into
Speaker 5: this rut so often where this guy's got about here.
Speaker 5: This guy because he's always done it, he's got about here. Okay,
Speaker 5: the next guy right behind him, well, he's always bat
Speaker 5: at third, no matter where he's been, he's got a
Speaker 5: bat here. That's got to be able to change. Obviously,
Speaker 5: injuries changed things. That mixes up the lineup, and that
Speaker 5: forces you to But you know, if a guy's not
Speaker 5: swinging the bat well, but you need him in the
Speaker 5: lineup every day. You're gonna see him dropping the lineup
Speaker 5: and that could be the next step for a Mookie
Speaker 5: Bets eight six.
Speaker 4: Six, nine eighty seven two five seventy.
Speaker 5: Blake in Colorado, My guy, Blake, before we take a break,
Speaker 5: how you doing, Buddy Wely?
Speaker 6: Wely?
Speaker 1: Good?
Speaker 4: Disappointing loss tonight, Blake.
Speaker 5: This is a I was ready to get talking to
Speaker 5: you about a win and taking three or four in
Speaker 5: Arizona and the Dodgers are rolling with a seven and
Speaker 5: a half game lead, and man, they let this one
Speaker 5: get away.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I'm very disappointed.
Speaker 8: And I hope Mondy is okay.
Speaker 5: Yeah, Yeah, we heard from him in the Clubhouse show.
Speaker 5: He sounds okay. David vets I was talking to him
Speaker 5: there and asking the questions about the concussion and pass
Speaker 5: the concussion protocol.
Speaker 4: That is certainly good news. But it's got a nice.
Speaker 5: Little cut on top of his nose because of the
Speaker 5: glasses that in the collision cut him on there on
Speaker 5: the top of his nose.
Speaker 4: But he'll be okay. I'll love him.
Speaker 5: Maybe a little scar there moving forward, but he'll be okay.
Speaker 5: But how about Mookie Betts. What do you do with
Speaker 5: Mookie Blake? What do you do with him in the lineup?
Speaker 6: I'll just saw fum down to do.
Speaker 3: Yeah, the five on six.
Speaker 6: So and hopefully he gets hot Dale.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I hope, so, I hope.
Speaker 5: So the Angels come to town, and the last time
Speaker 5: the needed to get right it was a series in
Speaker 5: Anaheim where they got right out, scoring the Angels thirty
Speaker 5: one to three in that three game Freeway series sweep
Speaker 5: a couple weeks ago in Anaheim.
Speaker 4: That'd be nice to do it again.
Speaker 5: Not that you're gonna outscore him thirty one to three, Blake,
Speaker 5: but man, if the Dodgers can come in here and
Speaker 5: just roll over the Angels and get that momentum back
Speaker 5: look out.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and that'd be a sweetway shilly sweep Ooh Freeway.
Speaker 4: I like that, Blake. That'd be awesome. All right, my man,
Speaker 4: I'll be back on a couple of days. We'll talk then. Okay,
Speaker 4: I bea on Sunday.
Speaker 5: I believe so, because it's a getaway day, so I
Speaker 5: should be back on Sunday.
Speaker 6: All right, Okay, I'll talk to you Sunday.
Speaker 5: All right, There goes my guy, Blake in Colorado, big
Speaker 5: Dodger fan out there in Colorado. Every time the Dodgers
Speaker 5: are in Colorado at Coors Field, my guy Blake is
Speaker 5: at the game. And last time the Dodgers were in Colorado,
Speaker 5: Lo and behold, there's Blake sitting front row, right behind
Speaker 5: the catch. Sure he was on TV every single pitch
Speaker 5: sitting there in the front row.
Speaker 4: In the world did he get those seats? Good for Blake.
Speaker 5: But he is a fixture here on Dodger Talk and
Speaker 5: we love talking to him. Big Dodger fan out there
Speaker 5: in Colorado. All right, take a break, we'll come back.
Speaker 5: We'll get some more of your phone calls. We'll hear
Speaker 5: from Justin Robletski. As the Dodgers well had a chance
Speaker 5: to get him in another victory. He left with a
Speaker 5: two to nothing lead after six shutout innings. Unfortunately, Dodgers
Speaker 5: bullpen gives up two in the eighth and then Tanner's
Speaker 5: got a.
Speaker 4: Solo home run.
Speaker 5: Give it up to kateel Marte as the Diamondbacks walk
Speaker 5: off the Dodgers three to two. Here on a FI
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Speaker 5: As the Dodgers let one get away in Phoenix, had
Speaker 5: a chance to leave Arizona with a series win head
Speaker 5: back home for the Freeway Series tomorrow night, had a
Speaker 5: two to nothing.
Speaker 4: Lead in the eighth. That lead was gone though, after.
Speaker 5: A Corbyn Carrol home run and Heraldo Perdomo RBIs single
Speaker 5: as the dim Backs scored two in the bottom of
Speaker 5: the eighth tied it it to Dodgers could not score
Speaker 5: in the top of the ninth, and then in the
Speaker 5: bottom of the ninth with one out, first pitch from
Speaker 5: Tanner Scott to Ketel Marte boom out of here solo
Speaker 5: home run as the Diamondbacks with a walk off win
Speaker 5: over the Dodgers three to two. Paul Seawall gets the
Speaker 5: winning relieve Tanner Scott.
Speaker 4: Gets the loss. How about Justin Robleski?
Speaker 5: Six shutout innings, scattered six hits, struck out four, zero walks.
Speaker 5: He's now allowed just one run over his last seventeen innings,
Speaker 5: lowered his ERA.
Speaker 4: To two sixty two on this season.
Speaker 5: Justin Robleski, I don't know if he makes the All
Speaker 5: Star Game in Philadelphia this year. I think back to
Speaker 5: a couple of years ago when Tony Gonson was just
Speaker 5: having an unreal first half of the season, and his
Speaker 5: numbers win loss were certainly better than Justin Robluski's, but
Speaker 5: Robleski's seven to two and two sixty two er. Now,
Speaker 5: if he puts together a few more starts like this
Speaker 5: and can get to nine wins, you know, maybe before
Speaker 5: the Midsummer Classic, he could be on his way to Philadelphia.
Speaker 5: I think it takes a couple of more of these
Speaker 5: strong outings for him to get there. And certainly the
Speaker 5: name power isn't going to overwhelm me anybody in baseball,
Speaker 5: and it's not like he's on a team that's just
Speaker 5: going to get one representative and man there's hands down
Speaker 5: it's Justin Robleski because he's their best pitcher.
Speaker 4: It's not that the Dodgers have nine position.
Speaker 5: Players and a DH and Showyotani that are on the
Speaker 5: National League ballot.
Speaker 4: I mean, that's scary.
Speaker 5: They got nine players on the ballot, and Justin Robleski
Speaker 5: could be the Dodger pitcher who gets the All Star Game.
Speaker 4: I certainly think he's on his way.
Speaker 5: If he continues to stack outings like he did tonight
Speaker 5: and last time out.
Speaker 4: Uh, he could very well.
Speaker 5: Find himself as a first time All Star and that
Speaker 5: would be certainly something for him to celebrate, and Dodger
Speaker 5: fans should celebrate if he's able to do that. Dodgers
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Speaker 5: Justin Robleski with the media.
Speaker 10: Yeah, I mean they hit some line drives today, but
Speaker 10: a lot of grumball hits. I mean, I felt like
Speaker 10: I threw the ball pretty well, kept him off balance,
Speaker 10: punched four. I mean, I feel like it's pretty solid outing.
Speaker 10: I felt like we got ahead. I felt like Russian
Speaker 10: hour working really good today, So I'm pretty pretty pleased
Speaker 10: with it.
Speaker 7: A little bit more swinging.
Speaker 4: Miss on that slider Ortnila.
Speaker 1: Hitch just kind of shape that pitch, and today didn't
Speaker 1: feel like he was just kind of one of your best.
Speaker 9: Started to feel like something was a little enhanceter with
Speaker 9: it today.
Speaker 10: I think it's just teamed to team, you know, looking
Speaker 10: at what they're looking for, trying to figure out what
Speaker 10: kind of team you're facing, And today it was just
Speaker 10: you know, I felt like the slider was working well
Speaker 10: with kind of what we were doing with the fastball,
Speaker 10: just moving it around and kind of creating that lane
Speaker 10: for it. And yeah, I had through some good sliders,
Speaker 10: through some good everything today. I think I like the
Speaker 10: way we mix the splitter, change up, whatever you want
Speaker 10: to call it in today, So overall, I think pretty
Speaker 10: good mix. I think I like where the stuff's at,
Speaker 10: a like kind of where everything's trending.
Speaker 2: Did you make any adjustments to try to come out
Speaker 2: stronger in the first couple of innings?
Speaker 10: Yeah, I think, you know, going out there the first
Speaker 10: inning has got to be the most important one. I think,
Speaker 10: you know, the first inning and then whenever I feel
Speaker 10: like that last inning is going to be those are
Speaker 10: kind of the two important ones to me. But you
Speaker 10: can kind of feel that as the game's progressing. But yeah,
Speaker 10: any number one, Like, I think I've made a kind
Speaker 10: of more of a focus the past couple to come
Speaker 10: out there and try to be, you know, the best
Speaker 10: version of myself these past two and I felt like
Speaker 10: today and obviously my last time, I did a good
Speaker 10: job of that.
Speaker 2: Do you feel like dis day and age, of the
Speaker 2: way hitters are swinging, you have to be more conscious
Speaker 2: of them swinging big?
Speaker 11: Oh?
Speaker 10: Yeah, I think it's again, I think it's team dependent
Speaker 10: hit or dependent. You know, you just kind of have
Speaker 10: to realize who guys are, what they like to do generally,
Speaker 10: and again just make your decision and stick with what
Speaker 10: you got. And if they swing early, I think that's
Speaker 10: great because you know a lot of the times when
Speaker 10: guys swing early, that's it's an out or it's a
Speaker 10: foul ball or whatever. I think if if you're in
Speaker 10: the zone early, like I've said, like, you're gonna have
Speaker 10: more success than not. Like, sure, sometimes you're gonna get
Speaker 10: clipped for a homer, but or a hit or whatever.
Speaker 10: But I think, you know, if you're attacking the zone,
Speaker 10: keeping them, you know, off balanced, uncomfortable and just going
Speaker 10: right at them, I think that's kind of the way
Speaker 10: to go.
Speaker 4: All right.
Speaker 5: There's Justin Robleski, who tonight had six shutout innings and
Speaker 5: a no decision. The start before tonight, seven innings, one run,
Speaker 5: one hit, a solo home run, nine strikeouts in a
Speaker 5: win over the Philadelphia Phillies. Now in the month of May,
Speaker 5: he did have a couple of hiccups on his h
Speaker 5: on his back of his baseball card here giving up
Speaker 5: the five earned runs in Milwaukee and taking a loss
Speaker 5: and then giving up the seven earned runs against the
Speaker 5: Atlanta Braves and a loss doesn't look great. But you
Speaker 5: mix in the last two outings what he's done. You
Speaker 5: mix in the six shutout innings against the Chicago Cubs,
Speaker 5: who are a good team back in April, the six
Speaker 5: shutout innings against the Saint Louis Cardinals on the road.
Speaker 5: Then you factor in the outing he had against the
Speaker 5: New York Mets, where he went eight innings, allowed just
Speaker 5: two hits, and did not give up a run. So
Speaker 5: it's been kind of a mixed bag for Justin Robleski.
Speaker 5: But I think the good outweighs those two starts against
Speaker 5: the Brewers in the Atlanta Braves. That's why I say,
Speaker 5: if he can stack together a couple more of these outings, shutouts,
Speaker 5: one run, limit the damage, and get some wins and
Speaker 5: lower that er even more, I think he's got a
Speaker 5: real shot at making the All Star Game. Bill and
Speaker 5: Mission Viejo, thanks for being patient. Bill, How you doing
Speaker 5: on this Thursday night? Welcome to Dodger Talk.
Speaker 11: Thanks for taking my call. Yeah, what's the deal with Nelson?
Speaker 11: The Diamondbacks starting pitcher. He gave him four home runs
Speaker 11: in his last start and the Dodgers couldn't get to
Speaker 11: him much. What do you make of that?
Speaker 5: Well, Ryan Nelson against the Dodgers has been really good
Speaker 5: in his career, and it wasn't just tonight. For whatever reason,
Speaker 5: Ryan Nelson struggles against other teams like he did his
Speaker 5: last time out. You mentioned he gave up the four
Speaker 5: home runs in Seattle on Saturday, got roughed up for
Speaker 5: five runs on seven hits. Has given up what eight
Speaker 5: home runs in his last five starts coming into tonight.
Speaker 5: Ryan Nelson though against the Dodgers in his career, and
Speaker 5: the Dodgers have seen him several times since he's been
Speaker 5: with the Arizona Diamondbacks.
Speaker 4: Tonight was his sixth.
Speaker 5: Start, his ninth appearance, two and zero with the two
Speaker 5: seventy two ERA his last three home starts. Going into tonight,
Speaker 5: Ryan Nelson had a three r with eighteen strikeouts and
Speaker 5: was one and zero, so undefeated against the Dodgers, and
Speaker 5: that remained that way with a no decision for Ryan Nelson,
Speaker 5: who is let off the hook after the Dodgers to
Speaker 5: nothing lead evaporated in the bottom half of the eighth
Speaker 5: inning when Will Klein gave up two runs and then
Speaker 5: Tanner Scott gives up the solo home run to cad
Speaker 5: tell Marte in the ninth inning and the Diamondbacks walk
Speaker 5: off the Dodgers three to two. We're gonna take one
Speaker 5: more call before we call it to night. If we
Speaker 5: don't get to you, I apologize. Let's go to Ray
Speaker 5: and Georgia. We gotta check in long distance down on
Speaker 5: the ATL How you doing right? Thanks for checking in
Speaker 5: on Dodger Talk.
Speaker 3: Hey Jim, thanks for taking the call, and I appreciate
Speaker 3: a great great program as usual. I just want to
Speaker 3: bring up something two things real quick. That rookie is
Speaker 3: the ultimate team player.
Speaker 1: Man.
Speaker 11: He look what he did going.
Speaker 3: To shortstop, your second base and shortstop. But I'm going
Speaker 3: to tell you playing the infield is very taxing, especially shortstop.
Speaker 3: I bet you, with left field open, you put him
Speaker 3: out there in left field. Let's see what happens, because
Speaker 3: I think he should be out in the outfield. We
Speaker 3: could move Freeland to shortstop and put Rojas see and
Speaker 3: just see what happens.
Speaker 11: I think he if he could be back in the outfield.
Speaker 3: That would be unreal, and I think that would release
Speaker 3: him because there's so much pressure in the infield. And
Speaker 3: look at Tatise. He hit his first home run this
Speaker 3: week and he's and he's playing second base this year
Speaker 3: because the Cohen Worth has been out for San Diego.
Speaker 3: So it's it's a very taxing to be an outfielder.
Speaker 11: To come in as an infielder.
Speaker 8: What do you think about that?
Speaker 4: I understand what you're saying. I get it what you're saying.
Speaker 5: I don't think that's going to happen with them moving
Speaker 5: too the outfield. Mookie Betts is the everyday shortstop as
Speaker 5: long as he's healthy. And yes, it is taxing, it
Speaker 5: is grueling, but guys do it every single day.
Speaker 4: I mean my guy no more. Garcia Para did it for.
Speaker 5: An elite time for many years at the big league levels,
Speaker 5: and it was one of the best.
Speaker 4: You know, you think.
Speaker 5: About guys who play shortstop every day generally Aret, you know,
Speaker 5: power hitting guys in traditional terms, But Mookie Betts is
Speaker 5: a freak as fleet. He's so good whatever he does.
Speaker 5: He made himself a short stop. He decided he wanted
Speaker 5: to be a short stop after playing the outfield, and
Speaker 5: he turned himself into a finalist last year as a
Speaker 5: goal Glover won a Gold Glove already as an outfielder
Speaker 5: with the Boston Red Sox. So yeah, he won with
Speaker 5: the Dodgers as well in twenty twenty two as a
Speaker 5: goal glover. He is gonna be the short stop. Is
Speaker 5: he gonna be in an offensive rut like this all year?
Speaker 4: I don't think so. It's being magnified because it just.
Speaker 5: Won't stop and he's now hitting one eighty three. The numbers,
Speaker 5: you know, the on base percentage is.
Speaker 4: Just not there.
Speaker 5: I'm confident I'm gonna give Mookie Betts as long as
Speaker 5: he needs Now with a one eighty three average and
Speaker 5: a two forty six on base percentage. Am I giving
Speaker 5: him as long as he wants as the leadoff hitter
Speaker 5: or the second hitter. No, And with that being said,
Speaker 5: that's why I alluded to it earlier. I can see
Speaker 5: him dropping in the in the lineup. I can see
Speaker 5: him falling down in the lineup a little bit and
Speaker 5: and get him some better looks and not dropping him
Speaker 5: down to the ninth spot. That is not gonna happen.
Speaker 5: But I can see Mookie Bets falling down to fifth
Speaker 5: or six in the lineup. See if it changes things,
Speaker 5: you know, Tonight Dave Roberts pregame said, I like Mookie
Speaker 5: as my lead off hitter. With no show he o
Speaker 5: Tani in the lineup, I think we're gonna see, you know,
Speaker 5: Mookie hopefully turn things around. Maybe it triggers something and
Speaker 5: jump starts something. He can string together some good at bats. Tonight, Unfortunately,
Speaker 5: it just didn't happen. Mookie Bets goes zero for four
Speaker 5: and sees the average now fall below at one eighty three.
Speaker 4: So I got full confidence in Mookie Bets.
Speaker 11: I do.
Speaker 5: I'm not worried at this point that Mookie Bets offensively
Speaker 5: is gonna be in a rut all season long. I'm
Speaker 5: convinced that he is too good of an athlete to
Speaker 5: figure it out. And we're gonna see him string together
Speaker 5: at bats, string together at games series, and next thing
Speaker 5: you know, Mookie Betts will be back to being that
Speaker 5: offensive hit or that we've grown to love here in
Speaker 5: Los Angeles in his time with the Dodgers.
Speaker 4: All right, that's gonna do it for Dodger talk tonight, Man,
Speaker 4: what a night. The sky was flying.
Speaker 5: First five innings took like an hour and a half hour.
Speaker 4: Twenty minutes. Colin and I were looking at each other.
Speaker 5: Man, Okay, the Dodgers are up two to nothing, sixth seventh,
Speaker 5: all right, their cruiser right now. It's gonna be a
Speaker 5: two hour games. Last night was three hours. Two hours tonight. Unfortunately,
Speaker 5: Diamondbacks hit the pause button, got after Will climb for
Speaker 5: two runs in the eighth, and then unfortunately the Snakes
Speaker 5: bit in the ninth.
Speaker 4: Say walk off the Dodgers three to two.
Speaker 5: Tough lofts for the boys in Blue, who return home
Speaker 5: with the four games split. But now they get ready
Speaker 5: for a three game freeway series against the Angels beginning
Speaker 5: tomorrow night.
Speaker 4: Well I'm Wrongo because you know, Dodgers on.
Speaker 5: Deck beginning at six, first pitch of seven ten rookie
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