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Speaker 1: Welcome to Dodger Blue Dream Daily. There are just twelve

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Speaker 1: games left in the regular season. Too much going on

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Speaker 1: that's what this is, Dodger Blue Dream Daily. As I

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Speaker 1: said before, you'll get a digest of what's going on

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Speaker 1: with the team and my take on it in under

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Speaker 1: five minutes. I know, new format smash that like button. Today,

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Speaker 1: we're looking at yesterday's nine zero victory over the Atlanta

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Speaker 1: Braves with three distinct segments. Number one, how did Yoshiobu

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Speaker 1: Yamamoto look in his second start back from the injured list?

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Speaker 1: The Dodgers starting rotation situation is dire. How does Yama fit?

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Speaker 1: In Thing two, we're looking at an unsung hero. Miguel

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Speaker 1: Rojas had a standout game during a standout season, but

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Speaker 1: since it's Miggy Row, he did it in that understated

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Speaker 1: way that only the savviest of baseball observers and podcasters

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Speaker 1: would care to shine a light on. And last, what

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Speaker 1: does this all mean for the postseason? October is just

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Speaker 1: around the corner, and last night's game has me feeling hopeful.

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Speaker 1: The Dodgers are in Miami today starting a three game

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Speaker 1: series against the Marlins, the team with the worst record

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Speaker 1: in the National League and den Bums. They're in first

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Speaker 1: place in the National League West, three and a half

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Speaker 1: games in front of the Padres, and their magic number

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Speaker 1: is nine. That means any combination of Dodgers wins and

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Speaker 1: Padres losses that adds up to nine, and the Dodgers'

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Speaker 1: first place finish is guaranteed. It's Tuesday, September seventeenth, twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty four. I'm your host, Richard Parks. The third. Yoshinobu

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Speaker 1: Yamamoto looked to sharp in his second start back since

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Speaker 1: coming off the il yesterday. He's still building up his strength,

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Speaker 1: so the team had limited him to seventy two pitches

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Speaker 1: and with that, Yama went four scoreless innings. He wasn't

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Speaker 1: quite as good against the Braves as he was against

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Speaker 1: the Cubs last week at Dodger Stadium in Atlanta. Yesterday,

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Speaker 1: he struggled a bit with his control aka throwing strikes

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Speaker 1: the strike zone. It took him a few innings to

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Speaker 1: get his splitter from bouncing in the dirt and to

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Speaker 1: look enticing enough to induce swings from the Braves lineup,

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Speaker 1: and his fastball was a couple miles per hour slower

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Speaker 1: than it was last week, averaging around ninety five to

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Speaker 1: ninety six. He walked a couple guys and gave up

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Speaker 1: some hits, which meant that we got to see Yama

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Speaker 1: deal with having runners on, and that was something that

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Speaker 1: looked promising, because Yama found a way to get out

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Speaker 1: of jams after a leadoff double in the second inning

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Speaker 1: and a leadoff triple in the fourth, both times Yama

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Speaker 1: retired the following three batters in a row. I focused

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Speaker 1: on one hitter at a time, he said through an

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Speaker 1: interpreter after the game, and stayed calm as always. This

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Speaker 1: guy was fun to watch. There's a charming little video

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Speaker 1: of him doing a sort of jumping leaping while jogging

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Speaker 1: pregame workout, which I put on our Instagram account at

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Speaker 1: Dodger Blue Dream and in the warm human climbs of

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Speaker 1: Truest Park. His face had a pleasant shine throughout the evening.

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Speaker 1: What creams does Yamamoto put on his face? One listener

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Speaker 1: asks that guy is gloe af All right, Let's talk

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Speaker 1: Miguel Rojas because he had a great game one for

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Speaker 1: one in the box score, but that doesn't come close

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Speaker 1: to telling the whole story. He scored three runs yesterday,

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Speaker 1: so even if you deleted all of the rest of

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Speaker 1: the offense, Miggi Roe beat the Braves on his own.

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Speaker 1: When he let off the third inning, he worked a

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Speaker 1: walk and then on a soft grounder a first off

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Speaker 1: a double play, miggi Roe took a smart path to second,

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Speaker 1: which drew a weird throw and he was safe. He

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Speaker 1: promptly stole third because they weren't holding him on, and

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Speaker 1: then when Max Fried bounced a pitch and the dirt,

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Speaker 1: miggi came home to score. The pitch was not super

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Speaker 1: miggi Row hit a opposite field doink, just this super

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Speaker 1: awkward swing that actually sent him to his knees at

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Speaker 1: and that scored Tommy Edmond from second. Then Miggy Row

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Speaker 1: on a field there's choice, So all small ball stuff.

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Speaker 1: His highlight reel tonight is going to be all baseball

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Speaker 1: oral Herscheiser said on the broadcast. No home runs, and

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Speaker 1: that's what I love about Miggy Row under the radar, value, contact, hitting,

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Speaker 1: an incredible defense at short at age thirty six, he's

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Speaker 1: a clubhouse leader. He takes the rookies out to lunch

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Speaker 1: and buys them Jordan's he wants to be a manager

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Speaker 1: one day, and he should be. Love you. Miggy Row

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Speaker 1: number eleven killing it all right. We're going to go

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Speaker 1: those comments. What this means for October? We need starting

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Speaker 1: pitching in October, and right now pretty much everybody is

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Speaker 1: banged up or on the end list, and Yamamoto is

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Speaker 1: definitely trending in the right direction. So this is great news.

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Speaker 1: And then small ball unlikely heroes all the type of

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Speaker 1: smart baseball moves that Miguel Rojas displayed last night. When

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Speaker 1: you need to actually play the game and manufacture runs

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Speaker 1: because you're in a short series, these are the ingredients

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Speaker 1: that get you there. Nine to zero win. Will take

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Speaker 1: that any day, but also some hopeful notes for October.

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Speaker 1: All right, that's it for today's edition of Dodger Blue

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Speaker 1: Dream Daily. Check out our back catalog, and thank you

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Speaker 1: for listening. I'm Richard Parks, the third