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Speaker 1: That good morning, Your Los Angeles Dodgers won the first

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Speaker 1: game of the National League Championship Series against the New

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Speaker 1: York Mets last night, nine to zero. Welcome to Dodger

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Speaker 1: Blue Dream Daily on Richard Parks. The third it feels

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Speaker 1: good as hometown boy Jack Flaherty gave us the best

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Speaker 1: and most important start of his Dodger career. He continued

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Speaker 1: the momentum of the previous two wins over the Padres,

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Speaker 1: and he set us up for success in a best

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Speaker 1: of seven series that should we win, it means the

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Speaker 1: Dodgers are going to the World Series offensively. And there

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Speaker 1: were contributions from up and down the lineup. Max Munsey

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Speaker 1: knocked him the first run in the first inning and

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Speaker 1: that decided the game, never playing from behind, and we

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Speaker 1: added with graded bats from Gavin Lux Tommy Edmund, both

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Speaker 1: of whom laid down sacrifice bunts. Uki had a bases

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Speaker 1: loaded bases clearing double. Freddy was in the show. Hey,

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Speaker 1: we got to nine runs without hitting a home run.

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Speaker 1: But mostly the story of last night is the story

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Speaker 1: of the pitching. The starting pitching. I'm talking about the

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Speaker 1: Burbank bread Beefcake, who's basically a lock to come in

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Speaker 1: first in the Hottest Dodger Poll this year. J Flair

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Speaker 1: Jack clear Lair. He could not ask for a better

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Speaker 1: start for the hometown. It is Monday, October fourteenth. Game

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Speaker 1: two of the NLCS is at Dodger Stadium today at

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Speaker 1: one eight pm, very specifically Pacific time. But I'm still

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Speaker 1: thinking about last night because I was there, and it

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Speaker 1: feels good, and Jack Flaherty is starting, and I feel

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Speaker 1: really happy for him. As an LA native myself, I'm

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Speaker 1: mused about how special this must have felt for Jack

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Speaker 1: before walking into the stadium yesterday. Grew up in Burbank,

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Speaker 1: coming to Dodger games, went to Harvard Westlake. Obviously, he's

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Speaker 1: at least ten years younger than I am, but other

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Speaker 1: than that, he could have been somebody I grew up with,

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Speaker 1: went to school with a little league with Jack's mother, Eileen,

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Speaker 1: sat behind home plate to see what was surely Jack's

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Speaker 1: finest performance at Dodgers Stadium since his high school won

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Speaker 1: the CIF championship there. With Flaherty's seven shutout innings plus

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Speaker 1: a scoreless eighth from Daniel Hudson and a scoreless ninth

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Speaker 1: from Ben Casparius, a rookie, the Dodgers pitching staff has

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Speaker 1: now combined for thirty three consecutive scoreless innings this postseason,

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Speaker 1: and that ties the longest streak in Major League history.

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Speaker 1: The nineteen sixty six Orioles did it against the Dodgers,

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Speaker 1: and the only other time this has happened was in

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Speaker 1: nineteen oh five, when the New York Giants did it

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Speaker 1: for the Dodgers. This was the first seven innings scoreless

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Speaker 1: start in the postseason since Clayton Pershaw in twenty twenty,

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Speaker 1: and if you remember, we won the World Series that year.

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Speaker 1: This scoreless streak also continues the resonance with nineteen eighty

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Speaker 1: eight in a postseason against the Mets, because eighty eight

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Speaker 1: was the year Oral Herscheiser set a record of scoreless

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Speaker 1: innings with fifty nine. It love. All right, let's talk

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Speaker 1: about why this is particularly awesome baseball wise. For this series,

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Speaker 1: this was a relatively stress free game. We had the

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Speaker 1: lead in the first inning, and then it was three

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Speaker 1: to zero, which with how Flerity was pitching, is nice.

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Speaker 1: And then it was six to zero, which makes us

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Speaker 1: feel okay because we're prone to stress. And then it

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Speaker 1: was nine to zero and we could actually breathe and

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Speaker 1: because Jay Flair went so deep, the Mets didn't even

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Speaker 1: get to see our leverage bullpen guys. One inning from

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Speaker 1: Huddy and one from Casparius, who even some Dodger fans

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Speaker 1: haven't really heard of. Gives the bullpen a rest after

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Speaker 1: they worked so hard in that series against the Padres,

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Speaker 1: And it means that manager Dave Roberts can pitch a

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Speaker 1: bullpen game today. The last time that happened during Game

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Speaker 1: four of the NLDS, we won eight to zero. And

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Speaker 1: it's so great to feel the momentum carry over from

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Speaker 1: one series into the next. Come to think of it,

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Speaker 1: Since that one awful where the Padres scored six runs

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Speaker 1: against Walker Bueller in Game three at Petco Park, the

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Speaker 1: Dodgers have been fairly dominant. There's been some innings of

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Speaker 1: nail biting baseball. But last night it was all Dodgers

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Speaker 1: and all j Flair back. First, just to go through

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Speaker 1: seven scoreless innings and then to have the ovation from

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Speaker 1: the fans, Just how special was that for you? It's

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Speaker 1: a lot of fun. You can't really, you can't really

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Speaker 1: put it all the words. Well, let's leave it at that. Then,

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Speaker 1: hottest Dodger, I'd say, he's pretty cool too, Thanks j Flair.

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Speaker 1: Let's keep it going for Game two, Dodgers, I'm headed

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Speaker 1: down to the ballpark. What Dodger Blue Dream is written

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Speaker 1: and produced by me Richard Parks. The third music in

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Speaker 1: this episode by Jonathan Snipes. Production assistants from Tyler Hill

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Speaker 1: and Elizabeth Parks Kibbie. If you like the show, check

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