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Speaker 1: Welcome to Dodger Blue Dream Daily, our recap format, what's

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Speaker 1: going on and my take in five minutes. I'm Richard Parks,

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Speaker 1: the Third. Today Sunday, we're taking a look back at

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Speaker 1: the last three Dodger games with a focus on our

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Speaker 1: starting kitchen, the Dodgers' main pain point as we head

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Speaker 1: down the stretch and look toward October. It is Sunday,

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Speaker 1: September twenty second, twenty twenty four. The Dodgers are in

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Speaker 1: first place in the NL West, but their lead is

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Speaker 1: down to three games over the Padres, who come to

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Speaker 1: town on Tuesday after we finish up a three game

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Speaker 1: series today at Dodger Stadium against the Rockies. But let's

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Speaker 1: go back to Thursday, a day you heard all about

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Speaker 1: on our last episode show Hey Otani, fifty to fifty

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Speaker 1: Ichi Bond and something that was completely lost in the

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Speaker 1: spectacular of that historic day. Jack Flaherty gave us a

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Speaker 1: quality start, allowing three runs and five hits over six

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Speaker 1: full innings. And when I say quality start, that is

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Speaker 1: an official baseball term. When a pitcher gives up three

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Speaker 1: runs or fewer and goes at least six innings, it's

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Speaker 1: a quality start, a very useful yardstick in terms of

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Speaker 1: starting pitching performance, and the Dodgers are not getting enough

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Speaker 1: quality starts this year. The Dodgers ranked twentieth of the

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Speaker 1: thirty MLB teams in quality starts, so we are in

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Speaker 1: the lower third in that category. But Jack Flaherty, who

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Speaker 1: we picked up at the trade deadline from the Tigers,

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Speaker 1: now has fifteen quality starts, the most of any Dodgers starter,

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Speaker 1: and good for twenty third overall amongst NL pitchers. It's

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Speaker 1: as many as pirates rookie pitching sensation Paul Skenes, who

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Speaker 1: is the front runner to win Rookie of the Year.

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Speaker 1: In terms of the rest of the Dodgers' staff, it's

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Speaker 1: one more than Tyler Glass now, who is likely missing

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Speaker 1: the rest of the year with an elbow strain. Gavin

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Speaker 1: Stone has ten but is also probably done, and Yoshinobu

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Speaker 1: Yamamoto has seven. We're going to need Jack Flare to

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Speaker 1: come through with quality starts in the postseason, and he's

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Speaker 1: probably going to be our number one or number two guy.

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Speaker 1: We're also hoping for Yoshi to be one of those

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Speaker 1: top two guys, and in terms of everybody else, we'll

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Speaker 1: see Clarity has postseason experience one in three record, which

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Speaker 1: isn't great, but a very good three point six zero er.

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Speaker 1: With our Dodgers offense and his track record of quality starts,

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Speaker 1: I feel like in the postseason he's going to give

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Speaker 1: us a chance to win. He's also a hometown boy,

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Speaker 1: Harvard Westlake. Let's go Jack, get her done. Okay. Moving

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Speaker 1: to Friday, we were back in LA to open the

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Speaker 1: series against the Rockies and it was a bullpen day,

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Speaker 1: meaning no starting pitcher, just stitching together a series of

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Speaker 1: relievers and hoping everybody comes through. And it worked. We

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Speaker 1: only gave up as many runs as we had the

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Speaker 1: day before, four and we won with the help of

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Speaker 1: our stellar offense, including Shohey, of course, who the night

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Speaker 1: after going fifty to fifty and fifty to fifty one,

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Speaker 1: extended his all time record to fifty two fifty two,

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Speaker 1: hitting a homer and stealing a base. But we used

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Speaker 1: eight pitchers on Friday night. A bullpen game in the

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Speaker 1: postseason is not something you want to see. There are

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Speaker 1: just too many ways that it can go wrong. And

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Speaker 1: in the postseason, our lineup is going to be facing

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Speaker 1: some of the best starting pitchers around. We can't just

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Speaker 1: take it for granted that we're going to score twenty

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Speaker 1: runs or even six runs every night. We need starting pitching.

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Speaker 1: All right, Let's move on to Saturday's game. But Tane

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Speaker 1: Walker Buehler on the mound in what is likely his

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Speaker 1: penultimate start of the regular season. And Walker Buhler, if

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Speaker 1: you don't know, has been a big game pitcher for

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Speaker 1: the Dodgers in the past. He's pitched in multiple World

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Speaker 1: Series and he's been that guy, arguably our ace in

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Speaker 1: the twenty twenty series. But he's trying to come back

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Speaker 1: from his second Tommy John surgery on his elbow. We're

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Speaker 1: going to cover this in depth in an episode coming

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Speaker 1: up later this week. But on Saturday, his start was okay,

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Speaker 1: a lot that looked promising. He struck out nine, he

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Speaker 1: went five and a third, and he walked just one batter,

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Speaker 1: down from five in his last start, which was also okay,

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Speaker 1: but he gave up four runs and so not a

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Speaker 1: quality start. Things are trending in the right direction for

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Speaker 1: Walker Buehler, but we are running out of time. His

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Speaker 1: er in the first inning is nine guy, And in

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Speaker 1: general this has been a trend. He has trouble settling

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Speaker 1: in and in the post. Early innings matter. It's a

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Speaker 1: momentum thing. For one. On Saturday, he got burned on

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Speaker 1: a couple close plays. Early on. There was a play

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Speaker 1: so the run scored. And then there was a broken

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Speaker 1: bat single to lead off the second where Miggy Rowe

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Speaker 1: nine strikeouts. Nane definitely some positive, just not overwhelmingly positive.

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Speaker 1: And I keep thinking of something that Walker Buehler said

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Speaker 1: recently to the media about I just wish it was

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Speaker 1: April instead of August, but it's not. And now it's September,

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Speaker 1: it's almost October. It is go time. So a mixed

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Speaker 1: bag from Bueller. And also we lost the game. The

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Speaker 1: bullpen wasn't perfect. Daniel Hudson gave up a two run homer,

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Speaker 1: but that wouldn't really have mattered if Walker hadn't given

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Speaker 1: up those runs. But that's baseball. We watch, we hope,

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Speaker 1: we cry, we dream, and I like our chances against

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Speaker 1: the Rockies today in the rubber game with Yamamoto on

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Speaker 1: the mound, and then on Tuesday, the Padres are in town.

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Speaker 1: Are villainous archrivals from the south. It is the wild

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Speaker 1: wild West and the stage is set for a dramatic

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Speaker 1: showdown and a historic Dodgers finish. I'm Richard Parks