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Speaker 1: A minute.

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Speaker 2: DBD correspondent West the Avula was in Miami yesterday to

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Speaker 2: see the Dodgers lose eleven to nine against the last

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Speaker 2: place Marlins.

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Speaker 1: He brings us this report, fum.

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Speaker 3: Dodgers Patinas straight trash. Today was just like a show

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Speaker 3: of trash, Like it's the last place Marlins and they

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Speaker 3: couldn't get a manning without an out, without a score man.

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Speaker 3: It was crazy, but it is what it is. Another

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Speaker 3: day tomorrow show. He got forty eight today, so that's

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Speaker 3: pretty awesome.

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Speaker 2: It is September eighteenth, twenty twenty four. The Dodgers are

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Speaker 2: in first place in the NL West, three and a

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Speaker 2: half games in front of the Padres, but it sure

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Speaker 2: doesn't feel like it. Welcome to Dodger Blue Dream Daily,

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Speaker 2: our recap format where I tell you everything you need

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Speaker 2: to know about yesterday's game and my take on it

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Speaker 2: in five minutes or less. I'm Richard Parks, the third

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Speaker 2: and today we are going to talk about two things.

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Speaker 2: One our pitching is a mess, especially on the starting

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Speaker 2: rotation side, and two, our offense is gold getting hot

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Speaker 2: at just the right time. And you know what, I'm

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Speaker 2: going to throw in a third thing for good measure.

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Speaker 2: Where does this leave us in our quest to win

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Speaker 2: the World Series this year? I'll give you my take,

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Speaker 2: all right, pitching. Bobby Miller was on the mound yesterday,

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Speaker 2: and I really like this kid. He throws a hundred,

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Speaker 2: but it doesn't really matter if you throw one hundred

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Speaker 2: if it doesn't have any movement and you don't have

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Speaker 2: any other pitches. He only got through two innings against

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Speaker 2: one of the worst offenses in baseball, and I feel

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Speaker 2: for him. I mean, he was sweating so much that

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Speaker 2: his whole jersey turned a darker shade of gray, like

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Speaker 2: the entire thing was stopping wet, and he's got those

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Speaker 2: sad dough eyes. But let's not hang this all on

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Speaker 2: Bobby Miller. I mean, he was selected to start because

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Speaker 2: even though he's been bad all season long, we just

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Speaker 2: don't have any starting pitchers who are not hurt. Somebody

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Speaker 2: has to start. And this is the Dodgers problem. When

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Speaker 2: you get into a short series like best of five,

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Speaker 2: and you have to win a game in order to

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Speaker 2: win another game and then win three games and win

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Speaker 2: the series, you can't have starting pitching like this because

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Speaker 2: then you don't win, even though your offense scored nine runs.

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Speaker 2: And your bullpen has to cover seven innings and so

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Speaker 2: they're tired for the next day, so then they're ineffective.

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Speaker 2: You can see how this is a slippery slope. And

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Speaker 2: speaking of the bullpen, they were also not sharp. Michael

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Speaker 2: Grove gave up three, Ryan Brasier gave up two, and

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Speaker 2: Daniel Hudson gave up.

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Speaker 1: Two as well.

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Speaker 2: So the Marlins, one of the worst offensive teams in baseball,

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Speaker 2: scored eleven runs against our pitching staff. The Marlins are

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Speaker 2: a last place team. What's gonna happen when we're in

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Speaker 2: the postseason and we're facing a first place team. All right,

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Speaker 2: let's move on some good news. Our offense scored nine

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Speaker 2: runs in this game. That's the second game in a

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Speaker 2: row we've scored nine runs, usually more than enough to

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Speaker 2: win a baseball game, so that is great. Max Munsey

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Speaker 2: had five RBIs on his own, and shohy O Tani

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Speaker 2: hit an incredibly loud, incredibly long, incredibly historic home run.

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Speaker 2: It was Sho Hay's forty eighth homer of the season,

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Speaker 2: and so now he is at forty eight and forty

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Speaker 2: eight homers and steals. We did a couple episodes on

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Speaker 2: show hayes getting to forty forty, which only six players

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Speaker 2: in history have done, and the highest anybody's.

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Speaker 1: Ever gotten is forty two.

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Speaker 2: Forty two A Rod did that, So every time show

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Speaker 2: Hay goes up a level, he's making history. And with

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Speaker 2: eleven games left in the season, including a series in

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Speaker 2: the high altitude of Colorado, it almost seems guaranteed that.

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Speaker 1: Sho Hay will get to fifty to fifty.

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Speaker 2: Freddy had an RBI to add to Munsey's five batted in,

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Speaker 2: and Miguel Rojas homered against his former team in front

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Speaker 2: of dozens of family and friends. So this offense led

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Speaker 2: by our superstars is on fire, and it's a good

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Speaker 2: time to get hot going down the stretch because that'll

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Speaker 2: help us win baseball games, and that's what we need

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Speaker 2: to do in order to win series, in advance in

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Speaker 2: the playoffs, and.

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Speaker 1: Make it all the way.

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Speaker 2: In terms of what this means for our World Series chances.

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Speaker 2: This loss was tough, but there was good mixed in

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Speaker 2: with the bad. I think of the late great Dodgers

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Speaker 2: broadcaster Vin Scully, my hero, who famously said losing feels

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Speaker 2: worse than winning feels good, And I think as Dodger fans,

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Speaker 2: we have to remember that we are in the postseason

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Speaker 2: every year. It's been eleven consecutive years. And if we're

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Speaker 2: there with this offense, and we get a couple decent

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Speaker 2: starts from our pitching rotation, we have a very good chance.

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Speaker 1: Here looked outside Los.

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Speaker 2: Angeles, the sun is shining and the forecast is clear.

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Speaker 2: Thank you for listening to Dodger Blue Dream Daily. Please

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Speaker 2: check out our back catalog for thoughtful documentary episodes. We'll

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Speaker 2: be back with another one of those soon. I'm Richard Parks,

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