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Speaker 1: The quest for the three feat has begun.

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Speaker 2: Only four teams in Major League Baseball history have won

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Speaker 2: three consecutive titles. The Dodgers are the favorites to become

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Speaker 1: This is World Champion Dodger Talk.

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Speaker 3: Here we go again. We're going to running back.

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Speaker 4: David Vaseas.

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Speaker 3: Welcome the Dodger Talk.

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Speaker 2: After the Dodgers complete the three games sweep of the

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Speaker 2: Diamondbacks to begin the twenty six campaign three to two.

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Speaker 2: The final score tonight at Uniclo Field at Dodgers Stadium.

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Speaker 2: Phone lines are open at eight sixty six nine eighty

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Speaker 2: seven two five seventy. You know what's incredible is the

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Speaker 2: Dodgers sweep the Diamondbacks and Showho Tani only had one

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Speaker 2: hit in the first three games of this series. Freddy

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Speaker 2: Freeman tonight broke out after hitting the ball hard. Not

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Speaker 2: a lot to show for it, but he continues his

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Speaker 2: process and look, by the end of the year, Freddy

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Speaker 2: Freeman will be hitting two ninety five, three hundred with

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Speaker 2: you know somewhere between thirty seven doubles and forty one doubles,

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Speaker 2: and tonight Freddy Freeman had three hits. He almost had

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Speaker 2: a fourth if it wasn't for the ball just dining

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Speaker 2: his first home run of the year. But he drove

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Speaker 2: inning to chip away at the Diamondbacks lead. That point

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Speaker 2: it was two to one, and then walk off will Smith,

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Speaker 2: who has become, in my opinion, the most clutch batter

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Speaker 2: he got called up in twenty nineteen and the most

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Speaker 2: memorable weekend of twenty nineteen was called walk off Weekend

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Speaker 2: and will Smith hit a walk off home run that

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Speaker 2: weekend against the Rockies. Remember Verdugo baty walk off weekend

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Speaker 2: against the Rockies in twenty nineteen. Since then, Will Smith,

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Speaker 2: including that weekend in twenty nineteen, has five walk off

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Speaker 2: mention how clutch he's been in the postseason, including the

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Speaker 2: and last year's Game seven World Series. Without that home run,

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Speaker 2: who knows where that World Series goes. And tonight was

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Speaker 2: that Bobblehead Night giveaway. And oh, by the way, it's

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Speaker 2: Will Smith's thirty first birthday. So Saturday night is Will

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Speaker 2: Smith's night here in Los Angeles as he hits a huge,

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Speaker 2: Will Smith or whoever hits that home run, and Mookie

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Speaker 2: bottom of the eighth inning. Eight sixty six seven two

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Speaker 6: Yeah, no, he you know, he's always been good. We

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Speaker 6: I just kind of dropped the bubble hood card if

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Speaker 7: Special?

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Speaker 5: Was it get the go ahead home run your bubble

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Speaker 6: I mean, you know, regardless of you know, being my

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Speaker 6: You know what I was more excited about imertally to

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Speaker 7: What do you think goes into that?

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Speaker 6: You know, controlled zone, you know, spoil good pitches, you know,

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Speaker 5: Ever before that swing was sort of telling you about

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Speaker 3: What's the mood, the attitude in the dug out in

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Speaker 6: Yeah, you know, I think there's just you know, we

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Speaker 6: they're so good down there and you know, not letting

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Speaker 3: All right. There's Will Smith. Tonight's heero.

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Speaker 2: It seems like every night there's somebody new, especially on

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Speaker 2: bobblehead night. So if you're at Dodgers Stadium, you don't

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Speaker 2: to you by Modello Modello the mark of a fighter,

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Speaker 2: all right. Besides Freddie Freeman and Will Smith, Kyle Tucker

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Speaker 3: That was in the fifth inning.

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Speaker 2: Tucker in this series already as made a huge difference defensively.

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Speaker 2: So he's made his presence felt. But how about Edwin

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Speaker 2: three outs? And I know the Diamondbacks hit a few

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Speaker 2: it's a big outfield here at Dodgers Stadium. The Dodgers

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Speaker 2: five years since Kenley Jansen saved three hundred and fifty

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Speaker 3: There was no.

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Speaker 2: Doubt when you heard California Love, the Dodgers were going

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Speaker 2: There was gonna be no doubts about it. And these

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Speaker 2: for the first time in five years. That's a very

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Speaker 2: There's something to be said about guys that know how

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Speaker 2: Yeah you might be facing the same hitters. But some

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Speaker 2: Just feel that feeling, not only the timmy trumpet, which

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Speaker 2: five years since Kennley Jansen was here. Eight six six

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Speaker 2: to the phones for the first time tonight. Hi, Noah,

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Speaker 2: you were at Dodger Stadium. You're on Dodger Talk.

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Speaker 7: What's up, David?

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Speaker 9: How are you doing?

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Speaker 2: Phenomenal second Dodger Talk of the day and going strong

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Speaker 2: on adrenaline.

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Speaker 9: That's good. So I was gonna talk about Will, but

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Speaker 9: now I'm like ready to overreact about the bullpen.

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Speaker 3: Overreact in a good way, in a good way. Yeah,

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Speaker 9: I just feel like the with Edwin Diaz being the closer,

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Speaker 3: Well pump the breaks.

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Speaker 2: Vesia is the highest leverage of highest leverage relievers. Left

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Speaker 2: you Alrighty, that's not the guy I was talking about.

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Speaker 2: He can get outs in the ninth inning. But yeah,

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Speaker 2: it allows the Dodgers to deploy him earlier in the

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Speaker 2: Tanner Scott in different innings.

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Speaker 3: So yeah, I'm with you.

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Speaker 2: Noah, he just when you have a closer like Edwin Diaz,

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Speaker 2: similar to when Kenley Jansen was here. If you're Dave Roberts,

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Speaker 2: you start counting outs backwards. You know you got three

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Speaker 2: seventh inning, you're counting outs. Let's go to Bob, who

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Speaker 2: is at the game tonight. Hi, Bob, you're on Dodger Talk.

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Speaker 7: Uncle Daves.

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Speaker 10: What a knight to be out back at Dodgers Stadium.

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Speaker 10: You know you knew it was gonna be a good night.

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Speaker 10: Started out getting all the staff there rings, which was

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Speaker 10: exciting to see mister Bobblehead on his birthday does his job.

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Speaker 7: Edwin Diaz comes out.

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Speaker 10: You know how you always say when show Hay is pitching,

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Speaker 10: it's an event. Tonight Dodger Stadium. This year first three games.

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Speaker 3: So let's let the season breathe a little bit, Chris.

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Speaker 8: Joseph, Hey, David, So, I'm just calling it.

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Speaker 3: So David, how's it going, Hey, when.

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Speaker 7: Good, awesome, awesome.

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Speaker 12: I wanted to talk about I personally think, well, Will

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Speaker 3: To Paul two strike pitch from the Rio to Smith.

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Speaker 2: in the ninth inning, now nobody is nervous. There's no

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Speaker 2: heart attack kids going on. In the ninth inning, Edwin

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Speaker 2: Diaz gives you the confidence to know that he is

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Speaker 2: going to get those three outs similar to the way

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Speaker 2: Kennelly Jansen did in his prime. And ken Ley recorded

441
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Speaker 2: three hundred and fifty career saves with the Dodgers, more

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Speaker 2: than any other picture in their franchise history. So that's

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Speaker 2: the feeling now. In that ninth inning, everybody was pumped

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Speaker 2: up for Timmy Trumpet, and nobody blink deny that Edwin

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Speaker 2: Diaz wouldn't be able to get those final three outs.

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Speaker 2: That's the feeling in that dugout, That's the feeling in

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Speaker 2: the stadium, and it's all because of one guy that

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Speaker 2: has closed games in a big market in New York

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Speaker 2: with the Mets and now under the brightest lights in

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Speaker 2: LA with the back to back World champion Dodgers. Can't

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Speaker 2: stress enough how much Edwin Diaz has changed the complexion

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Speaker 2: of games for the Dodgers this year. Let's go out

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Speaker 2: to Sacramento. Frank, you're on Dodger Talk. How you doing, Frank?

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Speaker 7: I'm doing phenomenal days yourself.

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Speaker 3: Hey, couldn't be better. I think we've established that.

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Speaker 11: Hey, happy birthday.

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Speaker 7: Do the jiggy one. Will Smith the first Prince of

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Speaker 7: la He told the Diamondbacks tonight to keep the name

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Speaker 7: his name out of their mouth.

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Speaker 3: See what you did there, Frank, See what you did there.

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Speaker 3: I think we got it.

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Speaker 2: I love that you stayed on hold for twenty two

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Speaker 2: minutes to put all that together.

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Speaker 3: I appreciate it. Frank.

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Speaker 2: Eight sixty six nine eighty seven two five seventy is

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Speaker 2: the phone number. Let's go out to Braxton, who is

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Speaker 2: at the game tonight? Hi, Braxton, you got any more?

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Speaker 2: Will Smith puns?

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Speaker 8: Hey, No, I don't have any Will Smith funds. My

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Speaker 8: last name is Smith, though, and my house calls him

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Speaker 8: cause he Will.

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Speaker 3: All right. I like that. I like that. What do

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Speaker 3: you think about walk off Will? I'm going with walk

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Speaker 3: off Will now.

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Speaker 8: I think couz you Will is amazing. My little girl

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Speaker 8: loves this. She exsa shares his walk up music. She

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Speaker 8: loves us so much. But what I want to talk

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Speaker 8: about night they've is the fan base. I'm a season

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Speaker 8: ticket holder. I go it's about fifteen games a year

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Speaker 8: or so, and I got to say that us being

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Speaker 8: down the way we're down, you see a lot of

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Speaker 8: fans leave in prior years, and this year it's awesome,

483
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Speaker 8: like we've been down every game and everybody's hanging on

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Speaker 8: and everybody knew like we're going to come back and

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Speaker 8: win this. So number one, the awareness of the fan

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Speaker 8: base and excitement. I love that. And number two one

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Speaker 8: major play was Moreno's almost home run. How aware was

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Speaker 8: the fans this year? To everybody, If you go back

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Speaker 8: and watch that, everybody backed off, everybody backed off from

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Speaker 8: gave him room. I thought that was incredible. So shout

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Speaker 8: out to the fans of that.

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Speaker 2: All right, Braxton, thank you for the phone call. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: I remember last year in the postseason or in a

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Speaker 2: tight game, fans got out of the way for an

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Speaker 2: opposing outfielder to rob a Dodger down the left field

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Speaker 2: short wall. Yeah, the fans got to know the game.

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Speaker 2: When it's an opposing outfielder trying to rob a Dodger

498
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Speaker 2: home run. Do whatever you can to knock that ball

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Speaker 2: out on the glove is in the stands, but yes,

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Speaker 2: kudos to the fans over there in right field on

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Speaker 2: the short wall to give Kyle Tucker all the room

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Speaker 2: he needed to rob that home run, which certainly was

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Speaker 2: a big home run, no doubt. Eight six six nine,

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Speaker 2: eight seven, two five seventy is the phone number Freddie

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Speaker 2: Freeman tonight his first three hits of the year. He

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Speaker 2: drove in a run in the seventh inning, and like

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Speaker 2: I mentioned during the Clubhouse show, I am keeping track

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Speaker 2: of the doubles for Freddy. That was his five hundred

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Speaker 2: and forty eighth career double. He ties Alex Rodriguez for

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Speaker 2: thirty third on the old time doubles list in baseball history.

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Speaker 2: And like we mentioned earlier as well, Freddy in his

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Speaker 2: career has averaged forty one doubles per season. So if

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Speaker 2: he does that by the end of this year, he

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Speaker 2: should be cracking the top twenty of doubles. And you

515
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Speaker 2: know he wants to hit three hundred. He values batting

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Speaker 2: average and I think we can all appreciate that and

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Speaker 2: what Freddy does, and I mean, come on, the guy

518
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Speaker 2: has the distinction of being the only player in baseball

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Speaker 2: history to have two walk off home runs in.

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Speaker 3: The World Series.

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Speaker 2: Let's go out to Lars, who is at the game tonight. Hi, Lars,

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Speaker 2: You're on Dodger Talk.

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Speaker 13: David a big fan, first time calling and first time

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Speaker 13: with Dodgers season tickets, And man, have we been rewarded.

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Speaker 13: We went opening day, we went tonight. I took my

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Speaker 13: five year old son up. We caught a foul ball.

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Speaker 13: He was sitting on my lap.

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Speaker 8: When Mookie Bets was up and I told him, Mookie's.

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Speaker 13: Walking and Will Smith's going to hit a walk off,

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Speaker 13: game winning home run here to celebrate his birthday and

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Speaker 13: celebrate the bobblehead. And man, We've been to hundreds of games,

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Speaker 13: but this was some of the most fun I've ever

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Speaker 13: had in the Dodger game. In fact, we like it

534
00:27:45,840 --> 00:27:47,760
Speaker 13: so much where we're find to DC and we're going

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Speaker 13: to see the Dodgers series there, so maybe in DC

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Speaker 13: and it's here on the Dodgers.

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Speaker 3: I love it.

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Speaker 2: Nationals Park is actually a really good stadium, Lars, You're

539
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Speaker 2: picking a good one. It's not one that people talk

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Speaker 2: about all the time off the tip of their tongue,

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Speaker 2: but I enjoyed going to Nationals Park. I've walked around

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Speaker 2: the concourse and uh yeah, I like Nationals Park a lot.

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Speaker 3: I think you're going to enjoy it.

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Speaker 13: My brother is actually an architect and helped design Nationals Park,

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Speaker 13: and I was the first manager of media relations for

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Speaker 13: the Washington Nationals and they moved from Montreal. Hey, we

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Speaker 13: got lots of friends and family coming out of the game,

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Speaker 13: but we are lifeli Dodgers fans now, so it's been great.

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Speaker 3: Lars.

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Speaker 2: Were you in that Netflix documentary about how they torpedoed

551
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Speaker 2: Montreal and got to Washington? Were you part of that?

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Speaker 7: Said?

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Speaker 13: And I came on board right after the team was

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Speaker 13: announced to move to DC, and I got to fulfill

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Speaker 13: my dream not just to have a team in my hometown,

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Speaker 13: but to get to work for him and work with

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Speaker 13: Frank Robinson and Jim Bowden. Just had an amazing experience.

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Speaker 13: But living out in LA and better in all of sports, then.

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Speaker 3: Working for Jim voting was a dream job. I don't

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Speaker 3: know about that.

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Speaker 13: Frank Robinson was and just just working for the Nationals

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Speaker 13: and getting to work at baseball, but now to share

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Speaker 13: it with my son and see his love of the game,

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Speaker 13: his love of the Dodgers and the memories we're making

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Speaker 13: together at Dodgers Stadium. It's been really special in fulfilling.

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Speaker 3: All right, Lars.

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Speaker 2: So we'll see out there in our nation's capital. Can't

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Speaker 2: wait for that road trip because after the Dodgers go

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Speaker 2: to Washington, DC, they'll be headed back to Toronto.

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Speaker 3: That's right, the Dodgers.

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Speaker 2: First road trip of the season will take them back

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Speaker 2: to where they won the World Series last year. It's

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Speaker 2: going to be a week from Monday when the Dodgers

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Speaker 2: open up a three game series in Canada. That should

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Speaker 2: be spectacular. You don't want to miss any of those games,

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Speaker 2: and they are the first two games of the series.

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Speaker 2: You can listen to them right here on seventy LA

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Speaker 2: Sports and the iHeartRadio app at four oh seven. First

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Speaker 2: pitch on Monday and Tuesday, April sixth and seventh, and

580
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Speaker 2: getaway Day is Wednesday April eighth. That'll be at twelve

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Speaker 2: o seven here in LA. And speaking of going back

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Speaker 2: to Toronto, we'll see if Will Smith and Miguel Rojas

583
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Speaker 2: have any issues going through customs, whether or not those

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Speaker 2: Canadian Mounties hold what they did. They're heroics in Game

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Speaker 2: seven against them. But earlier today we had our first

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Speaker 2: Dodger talk show of Saturday eleven to one at WSS

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Speaker 2: and Boyle Heights. It was a great time out there.

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Speaker 2: Great to see all the true blue Dodger fans, great

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Speaker 2: to have some vas tacos, and especially great to have

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Speaker 2: World Series Hero Miguel Rojas there to meet and greet

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Speaker 2: with all the fans that came out. There was one

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Speaker 2: fan that actually camped out at five am. He was

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Speaker 2: the first person in line at WSS after camping out

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Speaker 2: at five am. And here was part of our conversation

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Speaker 2: with World Series Hero Miguel Rose earlier today at WUSS

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Speaker 2: and Boil Heights.

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Speaker 12: Yeah, my mindset is empty the tank every single day.

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Speaker 12: I don't have a I don't have to worry about

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Speaker 12: what going to happen next year. I already talked Dave

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Speaker 12: rovers anything that you need from me, pulled me in

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Speaker 12: the game at any any chance, any any opportunity you have,

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Speaker 12: Just get me in there, because I'm not going to

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Speaker 12: be complaining about being tired or anything like that because

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Speaker 12: I can't rest after after this year. But definitely that's

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Speaker 12: that's the way that I'm kind of approaching it and

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Speaker 12: spring training. I knew it was all about getting ready

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Speaker 12: for the season and all that, but I feel like

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Speaker 12: it's my opportunity to kind of like give.

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Speaker 3: It all out.

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Speaker 12: And that doesn't mean that I didn't before, but I

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Speaker 12: feel like right now it's like I'm enjoying every single

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Speaker 12: game like it's my last one because it's a last

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Speaker 12: opportunity of doing everything almost every single day. So for me,

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Speaker 12: that's the way that I'm going to approach it and

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Speaker 12: looking forward.

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Speaker 1: To uh to to win.

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Speaker 12: The last game of the season.

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Speaker 2: Again, no doubt that's what the dot goals are. But

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Speaker 2: they take it every they take it one game at

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Speaker 2: a time, and they never stop working. I posted a

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Speaker 2: video three hours before first pitch this afternoon and the

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Speaker 2: Dodgers were taking infield, Max Munsey, Santiago Espinal at third base,

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Speaker 2: you had Mookie Bets at shortstop. You had Rojas and

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Speaker 2: Alex Freelan at second base, and Freddie Freeman at first base.

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Speaker 2: Three hours before the game, you had those names putting

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Speaker 2: in work. Before the third game of the regular season,

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Speaker 2: Dalton Rushing was doing the catching behind the plate. He

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Speaker 2: obviously hasn't played in a while, so that was valuable

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Speaker 2: for him. But that's what separates and that's what people

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Speaker 2: that just want to have these hot takes about bashing

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Speaker 2: the Dodgers and all the money they spent. They don't

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Speaker 2: see the work these big name, high priced players put

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Speaker 2: in to be able to deliver to back World Series championships.

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Speaker 2: That's something special that separates them from every other team

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Speaker 2: in baseball. And I'm with these guys and I get

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Speaker 2: to the ballpark early. Yeah, there's guys putting in some

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Speaker 2: extra work, but you don't see the superstars doing what

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Speaker 2: the Dodgers are doing on a consistent basis. That's the

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Speaker 2: difference maker. And if you want to hear the full

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Speaker 2: conversation with Miguel Rojas, you can find it on the

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Speaker 2: iHeartRadio app. And I did bring up to him the

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Speaker 2: fact that we saw Jeff Hoffman give up a game

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Speaker 2: tying home run in the ninth inning last night with

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Speaker 2: one out as the Dodgers were getting his rings, and

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Speaker 2: he said, actually, Dave, have you ever heard of social media?

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Speaker 3: I saw it.

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Speaker 2: Somebody actually did a split screen on social media and

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Speaker 2: one of his friends sent it to him as the

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Speaker 2: Dodgers were getting their ring.

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Speaker 3: Somebody did a split screen.

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Speaker 2: Cold as Ice Jeff Hoffman giving up that game tying

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Speaker 2: home run to the Oakland A's Shane Langley as Rojas

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Speaker 2: and the Dodgers were getting their ring. Yeah, that's out

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Speaker 2: there on social media, so I wasn't breaking any news

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Speaker 2: to him. What he doesn't know, though, is how I

656
00:34:09,960 --> 00:34:13,480
Speaker 2: got to WSS and how I got to Dodgers Stadium tonight.

657
00:34:13,800 --> 00:34:15,880
Speaker 3: In all three games, I got.

658
00:34:15,719 --> 00:34:20,040
Speaker 2: A brand new Hyundai Tucson from my guy Sam at

659
00:34:20,080 --> 00:34:24,040
Speaker 2: Downey Hunday. I rolled up to WSS and that thing today.

660
00:34:24,120 --> 00:34:27,680
Speaker 2: So Miguel Rojas don't know about that. Might know about

661
00:34:27,719 --> 00:34:31,439
Speaker 2: Jeff Hoffman, but he don't know about Downy Hunday, now

662
00:34:31,520 --> 00:34:31,799
Speaker 2: you know.

663
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Speaker 3: So thank you to my guy Sam.

664
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Speaker 2: Who has hooked me up all season long to get

665
00:34:36,160 --> 00:34:39,480
Speaker 2: to Dodger Stadium this year, and I appreciate that. Eight

666
00:34:39,560 --> 00:34:43,080
Speaker 2: six six nine eight seven two five seventy is the

667
00:34:43,080 --> 00:34:47,400
Speaker 2: phone number. Dodgers beat the Diamondbacks tonight three to two

668
00:34:47,400 --> 00:34:51,200
Speaker 2: thanks to a go ahead to run a home run

669
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Speaker 2: by Will Smith with two outs in the bottom of

670
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Speaker 2: the eighth inning, set up by a two out walk

671
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Speaker 2: by Mookie Betts. So a big night for the Dodgers

672
00:35:01,040 --> 00:35:04,280
Speaker 2: as they continue to wear down the Diamondbacks and Tyler

673
00:35:04,320 --> 00:35:07,800
Speaker 2: Glass now started the game tonight. He was strong, six innings,

674
00:35:07,840 --> 00:35:11,319
Speaker 2: two earned runs, six strikeouts. Will Climb, though, gets the

675
00:35:11,360 --> 00:35:15,480
Speaker 2: win in Reliefjuan Morio gave up the two run home

676
00:35:15,560 --> 00:35:17,359
Speaker 2: run that was the difference in the game in the

677
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Speaker 2: eighth inning, and Edwin Diaz, for the second straight night,

678
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Speaker 2: records the save without any drama, and everybody loves that

679
00:35:26,200 --> 00:35:28,640
Speaker 2: as well. All right, let's check in with our guy,

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Speaker 2: Jose Moda.

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

682
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Speaker 2: All right, Jose Moda, what a night at Dodgers Stadium.

683
00:35:39,239 --> 00:35:42,200
Speaker 2: But I made this argument, and I feel like I

684
00:35:42,239 --> 00:35:45,560
Speaker 2: have a pretty good argument to make that the signing

685
00:35:45,600 --> 00:35:49,040
Speaker 2: of Edwin Diaz was more important for the Dodgers than

686
00:35:49,080 --> 00:35:50,280
Speaker 2: signing Kyle Tucker.

687
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Speaker 7: I agree with you. Nothing against Kyler Tucker, obviously, the

688
00:35:54,840 --> 00:35:58,640
Speaker 7: Dodgers of the Brett wellstat offense even before Tucker welcome him.

689
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Speaker 7: But Diaz is a one guy that allows you to

690
00:36:01,719 --> 00:36:04,240
Speaker 7: do one thing. Shortened the game. And as you mentioned

691
00:36:04,320 --> 00:36:07,040
Speaker 7: regarding that Colletti, when the game gets too long for

692
00:36:07,080 --> 00:36:09,759
Speaker 7: the opponent, well the game gets short against the opponent too.

693
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Speaker 7: When you have guys that are going to go out

694
00:36:11,600 --> 00:36:14,000
Speaker 7: there and just shut the door. I remember when Edwin

695
00:36:14,040 --> 00:36:17,799
Speaker 7: came up with the Mariners heart throwing guy, he was

696
00:36:18,080 --> 00:36:20,640
Speaker 7: pretty much thinking too much about mechanics. If you look

697
00:36:20,640 --> 00:36:23,319
Speaker 7: at his mechanics, it's nothing pretty about him. But he

698
00:36:23,400 --> 00:36:25,120
Speaker 7: understands who he is. He needs to know where the

699
00:36:25,239 --> 00:36:28,200
Speaker 7: arm needs to be a dag and a guy that is.

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Speaker 7: I got to meet him, you know, being in that

701
00:36:29,880 --> 00:36:32,600
Speaker 7: same division for many years with the Angels. He just said,

702
00:36:32,600 --> 00:36:34,680
Speaker 7: moment telling is quite simple. And one thing he does

703
00:36:34,760 --> 00:36:38,520
Speaker 7: pretty well is he watches other bullpens. He wants to

704
00:36:38,560 --> 00:36:40,800
Speaker 7: watch the guys starting make throwing their bullpens with a

705
00:36:40,880 --> 00:36:44,720
Speaker 7: catcher set up. What he can learn about relief points,

706
00:36:45,200 --> 00:36:48,440
Speaker 7: where the ball lands. He pitches to ground balls. This

707
00:36:48,480 --> 00:36:50,520
Speaker 7: guy pitches. He's not just a thrower. He knows how

708
00:36:50,560 --> 00:36:52,240
Speaker 7: to pitch, even though he does have in his career

709
00:36:52,360 --> 00:36:54,680
Speaker 7: what eight hundred and forty one strike us in prover

710
00:36:54,960 --> 00:36:58,040
Speaker 7: twenty in a third. But it's just also the angle

711
00:36:58,040 --> 00:37:00,800
Speaker 7: of his arm that just does not allow the opponent

712
00:37:01,320 --> 00:37:03,760
Speaker 7: to see the ball very well in a consistent basis.

713
00:37:03,880 --> 00:37:07,080
Speaker 7: He is down at nineteen degrees, which is Dave, pretty

714
00:37:07,080 --> 00:37:09,080
Speaker 7: hard to watch ninety seven to ninety eight goal by you.

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00:37:10,160 --> 00:37:12,600
Speaker 2: I'm glad you said that, Jose, because we all knew

716
00:37:12,640 --> 00:37:15,279
Speaker 2: what the bread and butter was for Kenley Jansen and

717
00:37:15,360 --> 00:37:18,600
Speaker 2: Mariano Rivera the cut fastball. Maybe you could share with

718
00:37:18,680 --> 00:37:21,399
Speaker 2: us how we know Edwin Diaz is on his game

719
00:37:21,440 --> 00:37:24,680
Speaker 2: and why he has such margin for air even when

720
00:37:24,719 --> 00:37:25,359
Speaker 2: he may not.

721
00:37:25,320 --> 00:37:26,520
Speaker 3: Have his best stuff.

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00:37:26,920 --> 00:37:29,120
Speaker 7: Yeah, this might sound a little crazy about sometimes his

723
00:37:29,200 --> 00:37:31,680
Speaker 7: slaughter needs to go the other way, so it needs

724
00:37:31,719 --> 00:37:35,479
Speaker 7: to be like a backup slaughter against righties, and he's

725
00:37:35,480 --> 00:37:37,879
Speaker 7: fine with that because sometimes his delivery gets a little

726
00:37:37,880 --> 00:37:40,799
Speaker 7: bit fast. But because his arm angle is low and

727
00:37:40,840 --> 00:37:43,800
Speaker 7: he's able to finish up hitters and down on the zone,

728
00:37:43,920 --> 00:37:45,880
Speaker 7: his slide of the backs up, as we say it's

729
00:37:45,920 --> 00:37:50,239
Speaker 7: a mixer, is efficient against rightis and lefties. Down on

730
00:37:50,239 --> 00:37:53,160
Speaker 7: the zone obviously can do a little bit of trouble

731
00:37:53,160 --> 00:37:55,360
Speaker 7: if he hangs it like everybody else in baseball. But

732
00:37:55,440 --> 00:37:59,080
Speaker 7: what allows them to be consistent is the ball exploding

733
00:37:59,120 --> 00:38:01,960
Speaker 7: from that low end go down and up in the zone,

734
00:38:02,000 --> 00:38:04,160
Speaker 7: which is hard to guess because now you're looking at

735
00:38:04,200 --> 00:38:07,439
Speaker 7: the four seamer that is never straight, it's running away

736
00:38:07,440 --> 00:38:09,000
Speaker 7: and left. He's an up and in on right is

737
00:38:09,040 --> 00:38:11,680
Speaker 7: and when you see the games of Trachos, he comes

738
00:38:11,719 --> 00:38:14,960
Speaker 7: into high leverage and guys are amped up when they

739
00:38:14,960 --> 00:38:15,759
Speaker 7: see fastballs.

740
00:38:15,920 --> 00:38:16,560
Speaker 11: He beats a.

741
00:38:16,520 --> 00:38:19,560
Speaker 7: Lot of guys just above the hands because of the

742
00:38:19,600 --> 00:38:22,680
Speaker 7: way he prepares everybody with that slider. So when you

743
00:38:22,680 --> 00:38:24,759
Speaker 7: sit outside of going the other way is not a

744
00:38:24,800 --> 00:38:27,120
Speaker 7: bad thing. I learned that remember earlier in my in

745
00:38:27,120 --> 00:38:30,120
Speaker 7: my broadcast career. But also when you don't see the

746
00:38:30,320 --> 00:38:33,000
Speaker 7: hard fastball, considered that this guy knows how to pitch

747
00:38:33,239 --> 00:38:36,640
Speaker 7: by getting ground balls very consistent down of his zone.

748
00:38:36,800 --> 00:38:37,200
Speaker 3: No doubt.

749
00:38:37,280 --> 00:38:40,720
Speaker 2: It was fun to see uh Narco playing the first

750
00:38:41,200 --> 00:38:44,600
Speaker 2: last two nights here at Dodger Stadium and Edwin Diaz

751
00:38:44,680 --> 00:38:47,920
Speaker 2: getting the save. And there's just a different feeling, Jose.

752
00:38:48,160 --> 00:38:51,360
Speaker 2: When a guy like Edwin Diaz comes into the game,

753
00:38:51,800 --> 00:38:54,920
Speaker 2: You're confident that you're not going to have to burn

754
00:38:55,080 --> 00:38:58,440
Speaker 2: another reliever. You're confident in a one run game that

755
00:38:58,560 --> 00:39:01,040
Speaker 2: he's going to get the job done. It's just that

756
00:39:01,280 --> 00:39:04,040
Speaker 2: that makes such a huge difference for a team like this.

757
00:39:04,800 --> 00:39:07,600
Speaker 7: It's big David now also going back to DS and

758
00:39:07,760 --> 00:39:10,520
Speaker 7: as he mentioned, his efficiency in so many ways, he

759
00:39:10,520 --> 00:39:13,040
Speaker 7: gets into the head of other managers. But for this reason,

760
00:39:13,560 --> 00:39:16,000
Speaker 7: if they want to stack him against lefties and have

761
00:39:16,080 --> 00:39:18,239
Speaker 7: their empty their bench, as we say in the ninth inning,

762
00:39:18,640 --> 00:39:23,360
Speaker 7: lefties in his career one sixty nine average three hundred

763
00:39:23,400 --> 00:39:26,920
Speaker 7: slugging by the same token, he's able to bury in

764
00:39:27,040 --> 00:39:30,520
Speaker 7: and out, never a guessing game with him not predictable

765
00:39:30,640 --> 00:39:33,360
Speaker 7: at all. Sometime when he's a ratic, he's also very good.

766
00:39:34,000 --> 00:39:36,319
Speaker 7: But nonetheless he can utilize writers and lefties in the

767
00:39:36,360 --> 00:39:39,840
Speaker 7: same way by being able to execute pitches on a

768
00:39:39,880 --> 00:39:44,800
Speaker 7: consistent basis and knowing that. One more thing about his personality, Dave,

769
00:39:45,160 --> 00:39:49,680
Speaker 7: this guy lets it go as quickly as anybody. When

770
00:39:49,719 --> 00:39:51,800
Speaker 7: it's not going well, he'll be the first one standing

771
00:39:51,800 --> 00:39:54,520
Speaker 7: in that locker answering questions. When it's going very well,

772
00:39:54,560 --> 00:39:56,560
Speaker 7: he'll get more credit to the guys behind the plate

773
00:39:56,640 --> 00:40:00,799
Speaker 7: calling and framing for him. And also when is going well,

774
00:40:00,840 --> 00:40:02,840
Speaker 7: he doesn't take it. We've got to know that the

775
00:40:02,880 --> 00:40:04,759
Speaker 7: other teams are also making adjustments. There's a lot to

776
00:40:04,840 --> 00:40:06,640
Speaker 7: learn from erin just giving me a little heads up

777
00:40:06,640 --> 00:40:08,840
Speaker 7: on him. But he keeps it quite simple because he

778
00:40:08,880 --> 00:40:10,359
Speaker 7: can turn the page with the best.

779
00:40:11,280 --> 00:40:13,000
Speaker 3: Hey, that's what the best closers do.

780
00:40:13,200 --> 00:40:16,840
Speaker 2: A short memory Jose Mota is joining us after the

781
00:40:16,880 --> 00:40:20,520
Speaker 2: Dodgers sweep the Diamondbacks tonight, the final score three to two.

782
00:40:21,040 --> 00:40:23,440
Speaker 2: Tyler glass Now started this game, and I kind of

783
00:40:23,480 --> 00:40:26,360
Speaker 2: feel like he's kind of one of those forgotten names,

784
00:40:26,360 --> 00:40:29,240
Speaker 2: even though on any other team, or at least twenty

785
00:40:29,239 --> 00:40:32,000
Speaker 2: five other teams, he probably could have been their opening

786
00:40:32,080 --> 00:40:35,800
Speaker 2: days starter. In his last tune up for the regular season,

787
00:40:35,920 --> 00:40:39,239
Speaker 2: he really had his curveball working, maybe not the fastball.

788
00:40:39,680 --> 00:40:42,279
Speaker 2: What did you see from Glass now? And do you

789
00:40:42,360 --> 00:40:44,640
Speaker 2: feel like this might be a big year for him?

790
00:40:45,200 --> 00:40:47,720
Speaker 7: I think so. He just needs to stay in one piece,

791
00:40:47,719 --> 00:40:49,560
Speaker 7: and the fact that he's thinking a little bit less

792
00:40:49,560 --> 00:40:52,400
Speaker 7: and being less mechanical, it's going to be good for him.

793
00:40:52,440 --> 00:40:54,839
Speaker 7: I mean that frame of six a the least point

794
00:40:55,160 --> 00:40:57,160
Speaker 7: the extension sometimes going to get out of way. But

795
00:40:57,200 --> 00:40:58,920
Speaker 7: I think the less he thinks about stuff like that,

796
00:40:59,000 --> 00:41:00,840
Speaker 7: the better off he is. I'm going to take the

797
00:41:00,920 --> 00:41:03,560
Speaker 7: last start against the Angels in preseason, when he had

798
00:41:03,560 --> 00:41:06,239
Speaker 7: the eleven strikeouts, he said in his mind, I'm going

799
00:41:06,320 --> 00:41:08,440
Speaker 7: to go work on my curveball. He was facing a

800
00:41:08,480 --> 00:41:12,240
Speaker 7: team very anxious hitters. They chased a whole lot. Today

801
00:41:12,560 --> 00:41:14,200
Speaker 7: he didn't try to force and try to get the

802
00:41:14,239 --> 00:41:17,520
Speaker 7: strike out today when the curboll was not working the Dbacks,

803
00:41:17,600 --> 00:41:20,960
Speaker 7: knowing very well more disciplined hitters in the Angels, he

804
00:41:21,040 --> 00:41:23,400
Speaker 7: goes to the curveball early. They're not swinging at it.

805
00:41:23,440 --> 00:41:26,520
Speaker 7: There's a couple missed, very close misses. They're not biting

806
00:41:26,520 --> 00:41:29,000
Speaker 7: at all. He goes through his two seam fastball. He

807
00:41:29,120 --> 00:41:32,640
Speaker 7: threw nineteen sinkers, fourteen for strikes. He topped out at

808
00:41:32,680 --> 00:41:35,839
Speaker 7: ninety six. Remember tug in six eight run on top

809
00:41:35,840 --> 00:41:39,680
Speaker 7: of the release point, and then this fastball, which naturally

810
00:41:39,719 --> 00:41:42,919
Speaker 7: sometimes cut his four seamers in, made it even better.

811
00:41:42,960 --> 00:41:45,680
Speaker 7: So I think overall there's a time last year in

812
00:41:45,760 --> 00:41:48,399
Speaker 7: early September when he missed a start and I think

813
00:41:48,440 --> 00:41:50,360
Speaker 7: that was pretty much the growing that he needed to

814
00:41:50,400 --> 00:41:52,919
Speaker 7: do and get the ear full from Dave Robbins say

815
00:41:53,239 --> 00:41:54,920
Speaker 7: do this who we need, we need you to be.

816
00:41:55,440 --> 00:41:57,520
Speaker 7: I think he's taken off from that, and today was

817
00:41:57,520 --> 00:42:00,680
Speaker 7: a good example about not chasing strikeouts, being a complete

818
00:42:00,680 --> 00:42:02,640
Speaker 7: picture and going back to the other side of the

819
00:42:02,640 --> 00:42:05,480
Speaker 7: book and finding that two seam fastball later in the

820
00:42:05,520 --> 00:42:07,319
Speaker 7: game because he had a very good outing again.

821
00:42:08,320 --> 00:42:11,160
Speaker 2: All right, Jose, thanks for checking in. Enjoy Sunday and

822
00:42:11,200 --> 00:42:12,520
Speaker 2: we'll talk to you Monday night.

823
00:42:13,239 --> 00:42:16,640
Speaker 7: Austin Lego, mister Dodger talk two hours and now you're

824
00:42:16,680 --> 00:42:17,759
Speaker 7: the best man. Keep going?

825
00:42:18,800 --> 00:42:19,160
Speaker 3: Why not?

826
00:42:19,360 --> 00:42:21,880
Speaker 2: Best team in baseball might as well keep it rolling.

827
00:42:21,960 --> 00:42:25,200
Speaker 2: Thanks for the checking in, Jose. Jose does a great

828
00:42:25,280 --> 00:42:29,120
Speaker 2: job on the Dodgers Spanish radio. Don't miss the Santa

829
00:42:29,200 --> 00:42:33,080
Speaker 2: Anita Derby at Santa Anita Park on April fourth, Big payouts,

830
00:42:33,120 --> 00:42:38,160
Speaker 2: full fields, NonStop action, Save now at Santa Anita dot

831
00:42:38,200 --> 00:42:41,680
Speaker 2: com slash events. Jose brought up a couple of really

832
00:42:41,719 --> 00:42:46,160
Speaker 2: good points. The Dodgers needed what they got from glass

833
00:42:46,160 --> 00:42:49,120
Speaker 2: Now tonight after Emig Sheen only went three and a

834
00:42:49,200 --> 00:42:53,080
Speaker 2: third innings last night. Glass Now saved the bullpen tonight

835
00:42:53,120 --> 00:42:55,680
Speaker 2: by going six innings and keeping them in the game.

836
00:42:55,800 --> 00:42:58,560
Speaker 2: Don't lose sight of that. That was just as big

837
00:42:58,600 --> 00:43:01,399
Speaker 2: as anything else tonight for glass Now to go six

838
00:43:01,520 --> 00:43:03,960
Speaker 2: innings and not have Dave Roberts use seven or eight

839
00:43:04,040 --> 00:43:07,400
Speaker 2: relievers to cover as many innings as he needed to

840
00:43:07,440 --> 00:43:11,080
Speaker 2: cover last night, not to mention the day off tomorrow.

841
00:43:11,440 --> 00:43:15,120
Speaker 2: So that's a double bonus for the Dodgers. And you'll

842
00:43:15,120 --> 00:43:19,359
Speaker 2: have Edwin Diaz available Monday night. If needed for a

843
00:43:19,440 --> 00:43:23,000
Speaker 2: safe chance. But on Monday night as well, it's Roki

844
00:43:23,080 --> 00:43:26,080
Speaker 2: Sasaki making his first start of the season, and he

845
00:43:26,200 --> 00:43:29,880
Speaker 2: was very erratic with his fastball command in spring training.

846
00:43:29,960 --> 00:43:32,520
Speaker 2: Some of the Japanese media told me today as well,

847
00:43:32,880 --> 00:43:36,920
Speaker 2: a ratic in his bullpen session. So Justin Robleski has

848
00:43:37,000 --> 00:43:41,160
Speaker 2: been throwing his bullpens the same day Roki Sasaki has been,

849
00:43:41,520 --> 00:43:44,640
Speaker 2: So you would expect Justin Robleski to be on standby

850
00:43:45,000 --> 00:43:48,680
Speaker 2: to cover a lot of innings if necessary on Monday night.

851
00:43:48,840 --> 00:43:52,560
Speaker 2: So what glass Now did tonight very important. And like

852
00:43:52,600 --> 00:43:56,440
Speaker 2: I said, this guy glass Now there's a different look

853
00:43:56,560 --> 00:43:59,239
Speaker 2: about him. There was just something different about him in

854
00:43:59,320 --> 00:44:02,959
Speaker 2: spring training. I believe he's gonna have a big year,

855
00:44:03,280 --> 00:44:06,120
Speaker 2: and I don't think he's gonna get in his own way.

856
00:44:06,520 --> 00:44:09,000
Speaker 3: I think he's gonna compete all season long.

857
00:44:09,320 --> 00:44:11,800
Speaker 2: And two years ago, his first year with the Dodgers,

858
00:44:12,040 --> 00:44:14,919
Speaker 2: he made a career high twenty two starts. He made

859
00:44:14,960 --> 00:44:17,400
Speaker 2: the All Star team that year in twenty four. People

860
00:44:17,480 --> 00:44:20,600
Speaker 2: forget that because he missed the entire second half of

861
00:44:20,640 --> 00:44:25,600
Speaker 2: the season. He I think he's gonna exceed that. I

862
00:44:25,600 --> 00:44:28,880
Speaker 2: could see Glass Now making a new career high and starts.

863
00:44:28,880 --> 00:44:31,080
Speaker 2: I could see him making at least twenty five starts

864
00:44:31,120 --> 00:44:34,920
Speaker 2: this year. All right, Tomorrow day off. Roki Sasaki will

865
00:44:34,960 --> 00:44:38,400
Speaker 2: take the mound on Monday night, going up against Cleveland's

866
00:44:38,400 --> 00:44:42,520
Speaker 2: twenty five year old Parker Mesik Morongo Casino. Dodgers on

867
00:44:42,600 --> 00:44:45,960
Speaker 2: Deck begins at six o'clock on Monday, with first pitch

868
00:44:46,120 --> 00:44:47,359
Speaker 2: at seven to ten.

869
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Speaker 3: That'll do it for us tonight on Dodger Talk.

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Speaker 2: Thanks for being with us in case we couldn't get

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Speaker 2: to you a callback Monday night. Thank you to everybody

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Speaker 2: that came by WSS and Boyle Heights earlier today at

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Speaker 2: eleven am. Feels like another day. Thanks for coming out

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Speaker 2: earlier today at eleven am. Thanks to everybody at WSS

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Speaker 2: for their great hospitality. And thanks to Colin Yee, who

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Speaker 2: also was part of the Dodger Talk doubleheader today. He

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Speaker 2: was there earlier for us back at the Burbanks Studios.

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Speaker 2: He's still there for us tonight. So thank you, Colin.

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Speaker 2: And thank you to Dwayne McDonald who is always here

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Speaker 2: at Dodgers Stadium. He never leaves. You'll be here tomorrow too,

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Speaker 2: I'm sure. I mean he might just hang out until

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Speaker 2: Monday anyway. Great night at Dodgers Stadium. It was Will

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Speaker 2: Smith's night, his birthday, his bobblehead night, and he gives

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Speaker 2: the Dodgers the win with a go ahead, two.

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Speaker 3: Run home run in the bottom of the eighth inning

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Speaker 3: with two outs.

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Speaker 2: So what a night for Will Smith, What a start

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Speaker 2: for the Dodgers as they are three and oh after

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Speaker 2: sweeping the Diamondbacks in the opening series. Can't wait to

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Speaker 2: talk to you on Monday. Enjoy Sunday, Palm Sunday. Have

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Speaker 2: a great rest of your night.

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Speaker 3: Once again.

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Speaker 2: The final score the Dodgers the Diamondbacks three to two.

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Speaker 3: See us by six.

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Speaker 1: The legs don and I'm on this leftist camp.