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taking the ball. Justin Robluski will take the mound for the Dodgers first pitch. A minute made Park is coming up at four to ten. Between then and now, we have got a lot to get to here on Marongo Casino Dodgers on Deck, you'll hear from the de manager Dave Roberts will dive deeper into this pitching matchup. David Vasse will go one on one with another Dodger, rookie River Ryan, who is expected to get the start tomorrow
in the series finale. Shortly, we'll check you with Kirsten Watson in just a few minutes will head out to Rick Monday and Tim Nefert and the Gallpin Motors Broadcast booth. Well, yesterday, the Dodgers ran into Fraanburg Valdez, who pitched really well for the Houston Astros. Meanwhile, Gavin Stone win six innings, allowed four runs on nine hits a couple of home runs.
He gave up three strikeouts along the way.
The Dodgers' offense just couldn't get anything going against Valdez. Otani single to lead off the game. Then Valdez retired sixteen in a row, including the last six by strikeout, before getting Gavin Lux to single the one out in the sixth inning. The Dodgers would have the bases loaded, but the Oscar Hernandez struck out and then Andy Potez flew out to end the game. That was it as
far as any offensive threats for the Dodgers last night. Meanwhile, the Astros got after Gavin Lux in the second with an RBI single and Alex Bregman in the third a solo home run to left that gave the Astros a two to nothing lead. Then the Pride of Long Beach Milliken John Singleton gave the Astros the lead for good.
Three two pitch now to Singleton, swing out and beltic deep too right, This one's going into the upper deck for a two run home Round four nothing Astro. Singleton's eighth home run of the season, four hundred and three feet to the upper deck. He just mass a three two cutter that was inside and he turned on it, dropped the head of the bat down and got the best part of it.
Singleton with a two run home run four hundred and three feet.
Astros up four to nothing.
Du Pond then an RBI double in the eighth Inny and that was the final nail in the coffin for the Dodgers, as the Astros go on and shut them out five to nothing. Frommer Valdez gets to win his ninth of the season. He struck out ten along the way. Gavin Stone gets tagged with the loss. He falls to nine and two on this season. Dodgers sixty two and forty three now overall, still a six and a half game lead in the division. Both the San Diego Padres just keep on winning and they're not going to go
anywhere the rest of the season. No doubt about that. Game two of this three game set coming up. Justin Robleski on the mountain, the leftender go for the Dodgers, and with more, let's head out to the Gallpin Moters broadcast booth in Houston, as we say good afternoon to Rick Monday and Tim Neffert.
Guys, Tim, thank you very much.
Rufe closed again here as it is much of the summer in Houston, Texas, as the Astros get set to take on the Dodgers, Game two of this three game weekend set. Dodgers start the night sixty two and forty three, six and a half ahead of the Padres in the National League Western Division. Astros still a game up on the Mariners in the AL West at fifty four and forty nine. Last night, right before the game, Freddie Freeman had to go home, so he missed his first game
all season. Dodgers did not have his bat in the lineup, and Houston really took advantage from Bervaldez at one point had retired sixteen straight hitters. And anytime you see that in the game, you know the offense just is not gonna have much of a chance. And used to going on to shut him out five nothing.
Yeah, and it was all speed pitches. That really kind of confused this Dodger ball club. I mean, normally they had lent to particularly well, but not the case in last night's ball game. One of the things that I noticed last night and I confirmed it with some numbers looking at it today, the Dodgers they have the best batting average as a team in the National League when they put the first pitch into play, And I thought last night, if you're looking at how the Valdez pitched,
he tried to get ahead early in the count. He tried that. In fact, the very first bat of they faced that being show Hey o'tani in the very first inning the ballgame just underway. What happened in the first pitch a double, so you get RBI possibilities. But then it went to three outs in a row following that. Dodgers just won for nine with runners in scoring position
last night. But I thought that they were tentative and they expanded the strike zone from an offensive standpoint, They're gonna have to him at that again tonight with all speed pitches to.
I try to find a way to even up the series. Ronel Blanco at nine and five and a two seventy five era facing Justin Robluski. Robluski makes his fourth major league start, and for the Dodgers, they've got the lefties back in the lineup and Gavin lux moving way up in the lineup to the third spot.
Yeah, Dave Roberts. Last night in the elevator back of the hotel after the ballgame, it turned to me beause some of the coaches were on there. We're talking about the game and frustration of last night. He goes, Hey, who do you think I'll have hitting you to the third or fourth in tomorrow's game, meaning tonight, And I said, well, Gavin Luxey's one of the hottest hitters that you have. And for Luxi's done that. I mean for the last seven games, he's eleven for his last twenty, and he'll
be in that number three spot tonight. Interesting point where we are right now, very quickly in the season, because you know, the trade deadline is on the thirtieth, and right now there are twelve teams boasting that they're in the playoff contention. You know, team in the Nation League Western Division is really making up some ground right now, and that's Arizona. They won fifteen in last twenty two. They're seven and a half out, but they're kind of
positioning themselves. You saw the magic they had last year going to the World Series as a wild card, and they're trying to knock on the door right now.
Dodgers still the number of head to head matchups against Arizona, so it's not going to be any picnic down the stretch. In order for the Dodgers to win one hundred games, they've got to go thirty eight and nineteen. At this point, they're on pace for ninety six wins. The number of wins isn't that important as opposed to the number of games they finish ahead of the next best team.
Yeah, I think the biggest number on wins is try and get one tonight, make it sixty three in the ballgame. As far as the season goes, they're going to have to hit better more consistently they did last night, and there's no question about it. They're going to have to run the bases better than they did last night. Last night, well in one inning, the base running well, you go back to a base running one toh one.
Well, the Dodgers need to find a way to win on the road. Last eight of ten road games have been in the lost column anytime. The Astros have won eleven of their last thirteen home games, outscoring the opposition seventy six to thirty three. Dodgers and Astros Game two Dodgers trying to find a way tonight here in Houston.
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The Otani three wide.
He swings the first pitch and he slashers went into left center field for a base hit and O'tani rumbling around first on his Wait a second and he's in with a leg double, his twenty eighth double of the season. Pitch two, Otani is ripped up the middle of base hit and they got a fastball right around the knees that split the plate in half, and Otani hit it to the right of second base up the middle. Now the one too, there goes Otani. Pitches in the dirt
throw down and that hits Otani. It was a terrible throw to the right of the bag. It glanced off the gloovel. Two they hit. O'tani went over toward the shortstop and there was paining you to grab it. So stolen base number twenty five for sho Hey Otani.
Shoo Tani last night had two of the Dodgers six hits. He goes two for three on base three times. You heard the stolen base there. He's now got twenty five on this season. But the Dodgers get shut out in the series opener last night in Houston five to nothing. The final The Otani Rewind brought to you by Itto Antoyocha, Japan's number one green tea and the tea that showey Otani loves and drinks available at local Diso stores, Amazon and eto in dot com.
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Kierson now joins us from Mint Made Park before Game two of this three game set. Kirston Freddie Freeman. He's away from the team right now. So the Dodgers have added some help in his absence.
Yes they have, and he's gonna be away for the team. We don't know the exact timeline, but what's most important right now is that he's with his family. So he and Chelsea and the kids, they're the thoughts and prayers are with them at the moment. So as long as Freddie needs, he's going to have the family. Emergency list time is usually a seven to nine day, so again no timeline on his return. So what that means for
just who's here, what the lineup looks like. Things do look a little bit different at the moment, Hunter Fidusha he is being activated, his family is going to be coming down as he's going to making his major league debut. Once he gets out there. He is a catcher. We saw him a lot at spring training. He's got a great bat, and so that's really what his usage at the moment. It's getting his bat where they can. He's
not someone who could play the field, Dave said. If he gets into the game again, it's really just for a bat maybe to backup kid. So on the back end of the game, we'll kind of see what that looks like. But even with looking ahead to tomorrow, you know Will Smith is going to be they're gonna give him the day off and Austin Barnes will be catching.
So right now, it's kind of putting pieces together as we kind of get through just this very large injury bug I think that's attacked the team and then obviously just some personal reasons for some others. So again piecing things together. But when Hunter, hopefully he's got a great bat We saw it a lot. He's been performing really well at Triple A, so hopefully he can kind of be a little boost this team needs.
And you mentioned the different guys that are hurt and then mixing and matching in the lineup. Last night Gavin Lux goes two for three, batty ninth and today he's batty third.
Yeah, I mean, hey, when it comes to Gavin Lux, he's earned his way to the top of the order. And yes, again, lots of injuries at the moment were used to there's no Freddy, there's no Mookie, there's no Max Munsey. The list kind of feels like it goes
on and on. But Gavin Lux, he came out of the All Star break and he's gotten back to exactly where they want him to be, you know, as much as it has taken some time, but defensively, he's been in a really good spot for majority of this season, if not all of this season, and then offensively, it just took him time to kind of get his legs
under him. He was telling me recently after he won National Player of the Week that you know, he didn't realize just the impact his knee injury was kind of having on just when it comes to the swing in that full the need to have his whole body kind of going together, that was impacting it a little bit more than he had thought. And so now he just knows that he's got his legs are truly under him.
He feels strong, he feels good to go. And even this All Star break, he went home and he saw his uncle Agischmid, who's also his one of his hitting coaches, and so he was telling him, you know, you just gotta be aggressive, you know, have the confidence within yourself. Be aggressive, like Dave always says, moved the ball forward. He was saying that, you know, he just wants to put it up in the air and put it in play, and so he's been doing more of that and getting
those results. So this is exactly you know, look, it's the second half of the season. It's truly go time, and so he feels that he's in a really good spot right now and now it's just kind of keeping it consistent. So hopefully he can do just that today, He'll do it at the top of the order.
Hopefully he can keep it going to night Kirsten. We appreciate it.
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The dugouts with Dave Robberts Dave?
Yesterday when we heard the news, just to Freddie.
Freeman going home to be with his family during this time. What is the plan though? We saw that Hunter produce.
It's been activated.
What's the plan for him, Well, he's on the family emergency list. I think you have you know, seven days, potentially nine days. I think for us, we don't know. We're just trying to let him spend time with his family and you know, pray that things continue to improve. I don't know, you know, his time, and I think that for me personally, it's just kind of waiting to hear from him and when he wants to come back. So right now, yeah, we recalled hunter and he's kind
of here for coverage. Left handed bat family from Louisiana, so they'll be making their way out here and hopefully we can you know, get him in a bat at some point.
Can he play the field or.
No, he's just he He hasn't played. He hasn't played anywhere else side of catcher.
With the Fagan arm, Like, is there a waying Will Smith big first or something.
Like that that's not gonna happen. Will hasn't played for I think he played first in an extra ding game in San Francisco and didn't make a play. So I don't think he's gonna be at first base. So yeah, so Austin will catch tomorrow and then hopefully you know we'll still get trye Hunter at bat?
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You look at the Dodgers lineup in this matchup against the Astros. Obviously you know Freddy Freeman for those reasons, they gotta hurt Mookie Betts, Maxi Munty's been out for a while. You look at the lineup today, it's getting a little thin.
Yeah, not only those superstars, Tim, but also you think about role players that you may not feel that have had a great offensive season. They haven't, but Miguel Rojas and Chris Taylor also hurt the Dodgers depth. And that's part of the reason why Gavin Lux is hitting third. Luckily for the Dodgers, he seems to have hit his stride since the All Star break. He went back to Wisconsin.
If you remember on the pregame show, he shared with us on the last homestand and work with his uncle in the batting cage during family reunions back there, and his uncle was the one that reminded him to stay connected to the ground. So Lux is hitting third today and Dave Roberts alluded that Miguel Vargas may get the start at third base tomorrow with the way things are going right now with so many guys hurt, and obviously Freddie Freeman being back with his family.
All right, speaking to hurt, David, how about some updates Walker Buehler, Bruce dog Graderol, a name we haven't heard in a while.
Michael Grove.
Yeah, Michael Grove and Bruce dar Graderol both appeared in their second rehab game yesterday for Oklahoma City. Good results. They each pitched an inning of scoreless baseball, but Dave Roberts said today that they are nowhere near close to returning to the bull And Walker Buehler, Yes, he did pitch yesterday, but he did not pitch well. He gave up eight hits in four innings, gave up four runs
in four innings. And that's the reason why he is going to have another start in Oklahoma City instead of rejoining the Dodgers. And at this point in time, Tim it's more about results with Buehler than it is about help. The Dodgers would like to see better results from Bueller before they bring him back up to the major leagues. Because they cannot afford to have Bueller come up and give up three or four runs in the first three
or four innings of a game. They need him to kind of reinvent himself a little bit or make the adjustments. He's not the same pitcher physically as he was back in twenty nineteen or twenty twenty. He's going to find a way to be more of a pitcher to get back closer to being effective. At this stage of his career.
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What are you hearing?
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But I guess the.
Last attractive trade chip the Marlins have is their closer, Tanner Scott. But my understanding is the Marlins are asking for a lot for Tanner Scott, and that's part of the reason why the Diamondbacks went with aj Puck instead of Tanner Scott a couple of days ago. The Dodgers are looking for an impact bat. It could be somebody from the Angels, whether it's Taylor Ward or Louis Renheefo, Nico Horner from the Cubs, or Ian Hat from the Cubs. And also, you know, it's interesting when you look at
the landscape of closers. The Pirates are still in the National League wildcard race, but you never know, to try to get better, they may have to trade one of their back end relievers in David Bednar or e Raaldis Chapman. So we'll see what happens. But the Dodgers certainly have a lot of different ways they can pivot. Tommy fam of the White Sox seems to be a name emerging being connected to the Dodgers these days.
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Rick Monday where deep in the heart of Texas. And I'm not sure if this was planned or not, but right outside your radio booth here is a photo of Nolan Ryan's no hitter against your nineteen eighty one Dodgers. That's not Southern hospitality.
You have to leave, don't you. Thanks for bringing it up. By the way, Dwayne McDonald brought that up to me yesterday and I said, oh, thanks, anything else that's depressing, I'll tell you what's even more depressing. Coming to this ballpark. Is it looking at a replica, if you will, of the World Series, the World Championship of ring that they have from that year, the garbage Can year. That's aggravating.
Yeah, Clayton Kershaw said as much as well. He does not like seeing it. He does not like coming here. But the Dodgers have got to turn to Patrick and they've got to find a way to score some runs tonight.
Well. The other part too is and if you look at the first inning last night, I mean the very first pitch he gets, show Heyotana gets the double to left center field to figure, okay, fine, Dodgers will take the early lead. Will Smith strikes out line drive to right field by tioscar Her. Nattie pot has grounds out. So missed opportunities. The Dodgers last night for one for nine with runners in scoring position. But I think the big story was is that they ran the bases horribly.
And I underline that by horribly when you look at what happened in that semonth enty trying to get on the board, I mean two different mistakes. You're the one or third you cannot jog in the home plate and it was ruled that Miguel Vargas did not touch home plate before another base running blunder, that being by Kicki Hernanez, who went around second base for some reason, went past second base. He was easy pickings boom, he gets tagged out,
run doesn't score because of jogging towards home plate. That's the third out of the inning. The inning is over. The Dodgers missed golden opportunities to score. This cannot happen. And if you look at the Dodgers, while they had a good road trip, I mean a good homestand at six and one with that lost last night, if you look at the bigger picture, Dodgers have dropped eight of the last ten away from Dodger Stadium.
Yeah, they have not played well on the road, going back to before the All Star break. And like you mentioned Rick, those type of things, especially now without Miguel Rojas, without Chris Taylor, without Freddie Freeman, the list goes on and on. Those things get.
Magnified, no question about it. You know, last night, going up after the ballgame on the elevator, of riding with Dave Roberts and a couple of coaches as well, and just talking very briefly about the ball club I mean, you look at it, as you mentioned right now, you have Mookie Bets on the injured list. You have Max Munsey, Miguel Rojas, Chris Taylor. You're missing Freddie Freeman and we hope, by the way, and we send our best wishes to Freddie and his family with their son Max. On top
of it. Well, those are the position players. Then you look at the pitchers. You have Yamamoto, Dueller, who didn't pitch particularly well last night in Triple A. Gradol is pitching. We haven't seen him at the big league level. Bobby Miller is throwing tonight in Triple A. Then you've got Dustin May. He's going to be out for the entire season. So this is I mean, this is kind of a
skeleton crew. And Dave Roberts looked at me last night on the on the elevator, and I can see the frustration because he's got limited sources to go to and you have twenty six man roster. But this is not really indicative of this really good Dodger team right now. I'm not throwing disparaging words towards the other guy's in the supplemental role, but these are not the big horses that pull the wagon in the majority in that nine in the batting order, and they says, well, what do
you think? And I turned to him, I said, as I was getting off the elevator, I said, Dave, one thing that we know, when the band starts playing, you've got to get up and dance. And that's exactly what has to happen with this dog your bunk club. They've got to get up and dance.
Yeah, local time six ' ten. Tonight, this game is going to start, and whoever he has, they've got to play their best, and tonight it's not going to be easy against Ronell Blanco.
And I sent some frustration on the guys down down below, and I understand that because they know that they're short on the troops that pulled the majority of the wagon.
Hey, River, Ryan was a shortstop until the Dodgers made him only a pitcher. You never know he might have to grab a bat for his start tomorrow.
Yeah. What's the last time you got a base hit, David? Oh? You know Badingu?
Yeah, yeah, exactly.
Well, no, no, I played in an adult league during junior college. You know, I still had the dream, kept it going. I got a baseit in that way, s Pulva the basin.
Did you get the baseball?
All right?
Rick, let's go look at that picture of Nolan Ryan again.
Your time's up. Goodbye, see you tomorrow.
We'll send it back to you at the studio.
Tim.
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Yeah, thank you for having me. I appreciate it very much.
It's kind of fitting that you'll be making your second major league start here in Houston because the guy by the name of Nolan Ryan had a lot of no hitters in this for this organization.
Yeah you sure did. Yeah, that was really awesome.
Did Is there any connection as far as you knowing the history of the game and knowing some of these guys that came before you.
I mean, there's definitely no correlation between me and Nolan Ryan. We're not related in any any means. But yeah, watching watching Nolan Ryan, a lot of videos of him when he was playing. It's pretty special man, electric stuff.
Sure.
I know a lot of the young guys talk about they love playing the game, but they never really watched it growing up. Did you watch a lot of baseball growing up?
No, The only time I really ever watched sports is when it means something, so like playoffs or I mean All Star Game, Home run derby is pretty cool to watch. But I definitely like watching them.
Watching players play when the pressure's on, you learn a lot.
I keep reminding people that you were not just a pitcher when you got drafted by the Padres. You were two way players. So what inspired you to chase your dream of playing baseball?
Well, the dream has always been to be a major league position player. But when I got traded the Dodgers in twenty two, they I went into the office and asked them. I was like, hey, so are we gonna still do the hitting thing or are we just pitching? And they just said, you're just gonna pitch, and I was like, all right, yes, sir.
That made things a little bit more easier to focus and to grow as a pitcher, to be able to make your major league debut last week.
Yeah.
Absolutely, When you are able to just focus on one thing, I think you can you can develop a lot of aspects in your game. I've definitely over the past two years, learned a lot on the pitching side, developed the arsenal quite a.
Bit, added a couple of pitches.
So yeah, and I last saw you, I told you we hadn't seen each other since spring training. Camp broke and during camp you did not really pitch a lot. So how did you get your season jump started and be able to have this opportunity?
Yeah.
Now, I just did a lot of rehab in spring training for the shoulder, because the year before I almost I was nearing tripling my amount of innings I through the year before, so that was pretty taxing, especially just becoming a was my second.
Year just pitching my entire life, so that was a lot.
But yeah, I took some rest in the off season, did some rehab in the off season. All the way through spring training and extended and then some so I think we're in a really, really good spot.
Did you feel like you were starting to hit your stride before you got called up?
Yeah, I mean it wasn't never really the question of well the stuff play.
It was being able to throw strikes and attack guys efficiently. Getting strike one is the biggest thing I can do, because if you fall behind you, you're gonna give him a chance to do some damage against you, and that's that's definitely not something you want to do.
So getting strike one is huge.
Did you learn something as far as the way you use your secondary pitches the sequence scene in your first start against the Giants.
Yeah, I'm still definitely in the process of learning what pitches to throw in what situations, but I kind of have a pretty solid idea of what I want to do against right handers and what I want to do against left handers. So yeah, I'm just gonna, like I said, try to get strike one and then go from there.
River Ryan is our guest. He made his Major League debut at Dodger Stadium, and while I was doing Dodger Talk, I saw your whole family out on the mound. You had a lot of people at Dodger Stadium. What was it like after the game and just being with them and sharing them moment.
Man, it was a true blessing to have them all be able to make it out for my debut. That was very special. I'm praise the Lord that they were all able to make it, especially with what was going on with the airports. Some of the family was stuck in the airport for twelve hours thinking they might not make it, but fortunately a lot of them were able to make it out. And yeah, we we just hung out after the games, kind of talked about the outing, how blessed we are to be able to be in this situation.
But yeah, it was very very fun. I could tell.
Family means a lot to you.
Absolutely. Yeah, Family's everything.
They've They've been there supporting me since I've been you know, just a little chap So to have them still be in my corner at twenty five years of age is very special.
That's awesome, River, Ryan, Before I let you go, since your roots are as a hitter, any itch to go into the batting cage at any point in time during the season, it takes some hacks. With the boys.
Oh, I think about hitting all the time.
I wish I could still hit, but like I said, it got taken out of my hands and we're just focusing on the pitching side and it's got me here. But I do still take some ground balls at shortstop as part of the routine leading up in the starts. You know, say athletic because I've been in a position player in my whole life. Quick twitch muscles. Got to keep them, you know, in motion. Definitely helps me on the mound, clean up my arm action. Throwing some balls
from the hole at shortstop. It helps me get behind the ball better on the mound.
So yeah, I love it.
Maybe Dave Roberts if he needs a bunter and in a safety squeeze situation, River Ryan's available.
Yeah, I'm always ready. I'm always ready. When my name is called, I will be ready.
Okay, thanks a lot for the time, and it's great to see your trajectory from where you were in spring training to making your major league debut and just never looking back moving forward. Thanks a lot for the time.
Yeah, thank you very much. I appreciate it.
There he is River Ryan, eas he got a root for just like Alex Vessia. We'll send it back to you in the studio.
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and is tied for eighth and wins. He was also the first pitcher to throw a no hitter this season, doing it in April against the Toronto Blue Jays last time out five and two third innings, four runs, six hits, five strikeouts and a loss to the Mariners. This is the second time in his career he's facing the Dodgers. He faced them at Dodgers Stadium last June six innings, allowed three runs on two hits, walk two, struck out six.
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Justin Robleski on the mound for the Dodgers. Twenty four year old left tender eleventh round pick in twenty twenty one out of Oklahoma State, one to O the four to forty ERA, made his major League debut on July seventh against Milwaukee tossing five innings, given up five hits, four runs, two home runs, two walks, while striking out four in a loss. Dodgers and Astros were fifteen minutes away for first pitch. Keys to the game, Our next, Tim Kasis, Los Angeles Dodgers Audio Network.
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Thanks again, We count you down to the first pitch. The Dodgers and the Astros had been made, park roof is closed. It had been raining again here today doesn't matter indoors who've got dry conditions, natural grass, and a good place to play baseball. Tonight, expecting another sellout crowd here in Houston, Justin Robleski will make his fourth major league start. The left hander coming off his best start
as a big leaguer. He got a no decision against the Boston Red Sox, going four and a third shutout innings. And what we've seen out of Robluski so far reverse splits. Left handers are hitting him better than right handers. Four hundred for the lefties and one ninety four for the right hander.
Yeah, if you look at the last two Stars, right hitters have hit just below one fifty and doing that, I think the big thing for Reveski is to get into the swing of things very quickly and throw strikes into a nice ballgame.
So Ronel Blanco going for the Astros nine to five for him, he has lost each of his last two starts. One thing, though, He's been particularly tough on left handed hitters, and the Dodgers have more lefties back in the lineup orse so Tony doesn't matter either way with him, but Lucks has moved up to the three spot. Then you go Jason Hayward and James Outman and Cavin Biggio also
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