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Speaker 1: Welcome to Dodger Blue Dream Daily, your pocket sized audio

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Speaker 1: companion to the Los Angeles Dodgers twenty twenty four stretch run,

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Speaker 1: Everything you need to know and my take in five minutes.

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Speaker 1: I'm Richard Parks, the third and the Dodgers are in Miami, Florida,

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Speaker 1: where yesterday they recorded their ninetieth win of the season,

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Speaker 1: beating the Marlins eight to four in the second game

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Speaker 1: of a three game series against the last place Fish.

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Speaker 1: Our offense continues to rake, and the big news of

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Speaker 1: the day we got a really solid performance out of

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Speaker 1: our beleaguered pitching staff. The boys in Blue are in

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Speaker 1: first place in the NL West, three and a half

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Speaker 1: games in front of the Padres with just ten games

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Speaker 1: left to play. It is Thursday, September nineteenth, twenty twenty four.

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Speaker 1: A great day to be alive and to be a

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Speaker 1: Dodger fan. Let's enjoy this time together, shall we. Today

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Speaker 1: we are talking landon Knack, the rookie right hander who

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Speaker 1: went five full innings for us, gave up only two hits,

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Speaker 1: walked to and whifted seven in our eight to four win.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna tell you who is landon Neck? Why is

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Speaker 1: it accurate to say that Nac is showing up in

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Speaker 1: the nick of time, so prepare yourselves to get knackered.

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Speaker 2: Stadium perfect video.

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Speaker 1: To me, Landon Neck feels like a guy who just

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Speaker 1: kind of showed up this year. In April, April seventeenth,

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Speaker 1: to be exact, Wednesday Day game, I got a ticket

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Speaker 1: on a whim at the last minute, parked in my

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Speaker 1: secret spot outside the stadium, and as I was making

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Speaker 1: my way across the parking lot during the first inning,

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Speaker 1: listening to the game on my handheld transistor radio, I'll

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Speaker 1: never forget this. What all pitch is hit well the

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Speaker 1: right center field going back on, it is out and

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Speaker 1: he's at the wall, he leaps and it's gone. Landon Nac,

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Speaker 1: in his major league debut, gave up a home on

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Speaker 1: just the second pitch he ever threw in the majors,

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Speaker 1: And so naturally.

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Speaker 2: I was like, who is this guy? And why is

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Speaker 2: he on the big league team?

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Speaker 1: It wasn't anticipated that he would be a part of

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Speaker 1: the starting rotation this year. But then I remember after

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Speaker 1: that how impressed I was that Nac really got the

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Speaker 1: knack of things quickly and retired twelve of the next

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Speaker 1: thirteen batters he faced.

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Speaker 2: In his debut.

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Speaker 1: Flash forward five months to yesterday against the Fish in Florida,

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Speaker 1: and this is pretty much the same thing that happened

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Speaker 1: in Miami, except even better because yesterday the leadoff hit

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Speaker 1: was a single, not a home run, and after working

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Speaker 1: around that, young Landon retired eleven of the next thirteen

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Speaker 1: batters he faced, and in a much more consequential game

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Speaker 1: than his debut, and at a crucial point in the season.

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Speaker 1: So how did Landon do it yesterday? Well, I recommend

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Speaker 1: that you check out ESPN dot com for that, But basically,

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Speaker 1: to sum it.

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Speaker 2: Up, he throws strikes. This is what I've liked about

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Speaker 2: land and On.

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Speaker 1: He's a strike thrower, especially because it eventss a certain confidence.

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Speaker 1: It seems unlikely for a rookie, which I think could

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Speaker 1: play well in a high pressure scenario aka the postseason. Yes,

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Speaker 1: that's a tease of what's to come in our next segment,

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Speaker 1: where we dig into why Nack is showing up in

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Speaker 1: the nick of time. This start is especially timely and

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Speaker 1: good news to get because to win the World Series

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Speaker 1: we are probably going to need Nack. As you know

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Speaker 1: from listening to this show, the Dodger's primary weakness at

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Speaker 1: this point is our starting pitching rotation or lack thereof.

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Speaker 1: So many guys are injured and we just keep getting

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Speaker 1: more bad news. In addition to losing Tyler Glasnow last

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Speaker 1: week to an untimely elbow sprain, likely for the rest

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Speaker 1: of the season, we just found out that we're probably

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Speaker 1: not going to get Gavin Stone back, the rookie starter

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Speaker 1: we had been most reliant on this year and who

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Speaker 1: we were expecting to probably see make a postseason start

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Speaker 1: and to boot.

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Speaker 2: After his atrocious start.

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Speaker 1: Again against the Marlins on Tuesday, Bobby Miller was sent

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Speaker 1: back down to the Miners.

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Speaker 2: Good luck.

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Speaker 1: Bobby Landon, on the other hand, is still stand in.

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Speaker 1: There's no lack of nack, so we'll take it. It's

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Speaker 1: not like Landon has been a total sensation setting the

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Speaker 1: world on fire.

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Speaker 2: When he started yesterday.

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Speaker 1: He was coming off of his worst outing of the

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Speaker 1: year last week against the Atlanta Braves, when he gave

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Speaker 1: up five earned runs and went just two innings. So

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Speaker 1: it's hard to feel one hundred percent about him. And

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Speaker 1: it's not like Landon shut out the nineteen twenty seven

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Speaker 1: New York Yankees. The Marlins are one of the worst teams.

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Speaker 2: In the league.

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Speaker 1: But at the same time, I think you understand by

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Speaker 1: now thanks to this brief and descriptive podcast episode, why

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Speaker 1: his start yesterday feels as big and important to us

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Speaker 1: Dodger fans at this point in the season, and why

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Speaker 1: we might need Nack come October. What do you say, Landon? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it felt really good to just kind of ride from

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Speaker 1: the rip, really just kind of rip it from the

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Speaker 1: beginning and felt really good right from the rip. Rip

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Speaker 1: it baby, from the beginning, felt good. Thank you for

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