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Speaker 1: That's what. Welcome to Dodger Blue Dream Daily. We won

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Speaker 1: with the Dodgers four to three victory over the Padres

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Speaker 1: last night at Dodger Stadium. We have now split the

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Speaker 1: first two games of this all important three game series.

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Speaker 1: It is Thursday, September twenty sixth, twenty twenty four. The

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Speaker 1: Dodgers are in first place in the NL West, three

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Speaker 1: games over the Padres with just four left to play

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Speaker 1: on the regular season, which means with a win tonight,

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Speaker 1: we will be four up with just three to play, AKA,

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Speaker 1: we clinch the NL West. That's right, it could happen tonight,

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Speaker 1: the last home game of the regular season. Let's go

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Speaker 1: today on the show, we're going to talk about some

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Speaker 1: key takeaways from the game last night that will help

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Speaker 1: you understand this team going forward into the postseason. So

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Speaker 1: hopeful concerning things are moving super fast and they're super fun.

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Speaker 1: I'm your host, Richard Parks, the third. Thank you for

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Speaker 1: joining us. That's work all right. Show is coming up.

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Speaker 1: It's the bottom of the sixth inning. It's three three,

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Speaker 1: they're two outs and they're two on. It definitely feels

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Speaker 1: like the playoffs are already here. That was not a

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Speaker 1: strike you can't challenge Wilson starks peccadillos, like bad calls

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Speaker 1: that are so quotitian during the regular season, now smack

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Speaker 1: with the aura of life altering drama. You've watched two pitches,

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Speaker 1: and the Christmas and Easter baseball fans are coming out

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Speaker 1: of the woodwork to witness the high stakes spectacle. You're

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Speaker 1: stressing Meani grand this center field. Please give him the

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Speaker 1: Dodger studied again quote Sani put it the Motus Cup

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Speaker 1: got the lead. Nice Last night, Shoheo Tani played probably

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Speaker 1: the most important game of his major league career, and

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Speaker 1: he delivered, like show hey, two hits, two RBIs, including

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Speaker 1: what was the deciding RBI that you just heard in

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Speaker 1: the sixth inning, a walk and he scored a run,

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Speaker 1: and he was fired up as he ran to first

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Speaker 1: base after this single up the middle in the bottom

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Speaker 1: of the sixth inning, Shohy flipped his bat emphatically and

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Speaker 1: called out the entire way up the line. During all

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Speaker 1: his years on the Anaheim Angels, we never saw show hey,

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Speaker 1: this pumped up and it is super fun to watch.

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Speaker 1: But for the guy batting behind him, it was quite

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Speaker 1: the opposite. Mookie Betts went oh for four, not coming

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Speaker 1: through in a couple key places, and combining that with

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Speaker 1: his OH for four the night before, Muki is now

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Speaker 1: oh for eight in this all important series against the Padres.

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Speaker 1: And this picks up on a narrative because Muki has

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Speaker 1: had a really tough time in the postseason the past

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Speaker 1: couple years on the Dodgers. He was OH for eleven

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Speaker 1: in the postseason in twenty twenty three, and in twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty two he wasn't a whole lot better, hitting just

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Speaker 1: one forty three with two hits and won RBI in

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Speaker 1: four games. Both of the last two years the Dodgers

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Speaker 1: have gotten knocked out early. Freddie wasn't a whole lot

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Speaker 1: better than Mooki in those series, And so Dodger fans

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Speaker 1: are watching our superstars super closely this October. But the

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Speaker 1: other thing we are always watching is pitching, particularly starting pitching,

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Speaker 1: and last night, hometown boy Jack Flaherty had the ball

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Speaker 1: and he looked totally solid. He clearly did not have

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Speaker 1: his best stuff, and he gave up a towering home

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Speaker 1: run to Fernando Tatius Junior, and in general he was

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Speaker 1: kind of battling. He gave up four hits three earned

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Speaker 1: runs and it took him one hundred pitches to go

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Speaker 1: through just five innings. Would have loved to see Jack

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Speaker 1: go a little deeper, but with our offense, three arnies

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Speaker 1: over five innings, we'll take that. And then the bullpen

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Speaker 1: some more good news came in and shut the door.

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Speaker 1: Vesia Phillips trine in Kopek, four dudes, four goose eggs,

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Speaker 1: shut out nothing doing for the Padres lineup over the

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Speaker 1: final four innings of play to get us across the

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Speaker 1: finish line in a game that saw Flarty facing off

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Speaker 1: against one of the best pitchers in the National League.

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Speaker 1: Dylan cees fun game, fun atmosphere, and the rubber game

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Speaker 1: of the series is tonight. Will the Dodgers cap it

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Speaker 1: off with a champagne celebration in the clubhouse? Tonight? Will

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Speaker 1: we clinch the division? Ooo? DOGI. Because this team is

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Speaker 1: usually so dominant, we don't tend to be able to

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Speaker 1: experience series that mean this much this late in the season.

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Speaker 1: Hope you're enjoying it as much as I am. We'll

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