Dodgers Territory - Kyle Tucker and Dalton Rushing Exit Early in Dodgers Victory Over Twins

Episode Date: June 23, 2026

Alanna Rizzo, Katie Woo, and Clint Pasillas break down all the action between the Los Angeles Dodgers and Minnesota Twins! Reactions to Kyle Tucker and Dalton Rushing being removed from the game early. What are our concern levels for their injuries? We dive into the latest from Minnesota. Eric Lauer has been quietly great for the Dodgers. What is behind his success? Katie shares her insight. 🌶️ To explore coverage, visit aspcapetinsurance.com/FOUL. The ASPCA® is not an insurer and is not engaged in the business of insurance. Use our code for 10% off your next order of MLB tickets on SeatGeek*: seatgeek.onelink.me/RrnK/TERRITORY10 Sponsored by SeatGeek. *Restrictions apply. Max $20 discount Subscribe on YouTube!https://www.youtube.com/@DodgersTerritory  Follow our social media channels for more content!https://x.com/LADTerritory https://www.instagram.com/ladterritory/ https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61578546105253  Check out DT merch at https://dodgersterritoryshop.com Support Guidry's Guardian at https://guidrysguardian.org Find Clint on YouTube at https://youtube.com/@alldodgers Follow Katie's work at The Athletic https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/author/katie-woo/ See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

But the big thing was just finding a way to make sure that the Dodgers kept nine players on the field. Hal Tucker left the game with back spasms and Dalton rushing percussion protocol. Everybody and welcome to the live postgame edition of Dodgers territory on this June 22nd. I'm Alana Rizzo. That is Katie Wu and Clint Paseas. We are psyched that you guys are here. Get your comments in the chat. Always appreciate you guys being here.

And we want to know what you think about this game. A two to one victory over. Did we just play? The twins. The Minnesota. twins. Good for us. It was all about the home run today. Obviously, our guys get two. The twins get one. We will take that every single time. I'm going to be with the two of you as well. It's the first team to hit 50 wins. Katie, you've been there for the majority of them. You'll take a two to one ball game at the pace in which they played. What's your biggest takeaway in this one?

The fact that they were able to get a win with two hopefully not critical injuries, but very important players right now, given the state of the Dodgers roster. lose Kyle Tucker in the second inning and then Dalton rushing almost immediately after that. So Dodgers playing with a super thin bench. I'm sure we'll get into later in the show, but some clutch moments came up with runners in scoring position. They still weren't able to cash in on those opportunities. But the big thing was just finding a way to make sure that the Dodgers kept nine players on the field.

And we'll hopefully find more information about Kyle Tucker left the game with back spasms and Dalton rushing concussion protocol throughout post game. Yeah, a lot of different big. storylines in this one. You got the injuries. You got Eric Lauer. The offense seems to be the, like, I don't say least invasive. I don't know. My words are going to be shitty tonight, but they tried, they had enough. They put enough points on the board here with a lead-off Homer from Shohei, Freddie, Homer's later in the game. You know what? I want to get it out of the way early because I'm happy with Shohei Otani. Shocker. Show-Hohay is going to be today's

Fanduel Daily Dinger pick because he hit a dinger today. How about this dude? He's hit seven homers now in his last 13 games. Shohei is starting to crank up the power a little bit more as we get into summer. The swing, I wouldn't say, I won't say it's bad. Show Hey swing is never bad. But he was a little bit off with the swing for a good stretch there early in May. He's finding some things.

The on-base is great. The bat the ball is a lot better. And you're starting to see him really short. show out for a little bit of power. So we love that from, Mr. Otani there. The knee is not a problem, apparently, Katie. And also, you know, new dad strength helps.

Yeah, two-time dad strength, Clint. Hello. Bad strength, two-time power. So given the way that this game went, very nice to see Shohei. I mean, that was obviously I'm not in Minnesota, but I felt like I heard it from here with one of those.

Shohei Otani swings, Shohei Otani contact. So they really needed it. given that another one run ball game six of their last seven we're just not going to talk about sunday's game we're just going to eliminate that from our memories uh six of their last seven one run ball games playing with fire here in los angeles yeah yeah i tell you 12 to one did you see i was like what what what is what is happening i bailed so oh my i wish i did yeah i looked around and i was like i think if they scored 10 runs i should legally be allowed to leave but that was not the case

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talk, guys. Entering the game, can the sluggish offense get back on track? Can he tell us a little bit more about the column that you just had? Because we just talked about the woe that was Sunday. But this is a, you don't often hear Dave Roberts speak ill. And it's not that he was putting anybody down, but he did not like the at-back quality of his team. Tell us more. Yeah, you guys know this. Dodgers fans know this. Dave Roberts is by nature a very patient manager. He trusts his veterans to figure things out. And he is very, very patient with her younger guys, the inexperienced guys on the lineup, kind of going through the ebbs and flows of learning to adjust to major league pitching. But he did not like the quality of a bats against that or in that Oriole series. And rightfully so, Dodgers left

a lot of men on base. There didn't seem to be a lot or overall collective approach. I'll go ahead and read that full quote from Dave Roberts after Sunday's loss. Dave said the mindset of being offensive and scaring pitchers out of the strike zone, I think for us it's been, it's very in between. pitchers just start to get that rhythm, that comfort, and that just shouldn't be the case with our lineup. There's passivity at the wrong time. I think that the mindset of scaring guys out of the hitting zone, we're just not doing that right now. And that's an approach that you can kind of see one through nine with these Dodgers hitters. It's more of a like when you have the star power of the Dodgers, you want to make pitchers get you out.

So you shouldn't be given them strikes where, you know, you're going out into the zone and you're chasing. They don't have to come attack you. we saw this, and I don't want to make this all about Kyle Tucker because he's not the only problem, but that about Saturday night, which the Dodgers lost three to two, where he took a splitter in the dirt for ball one and then three straight splitters from there that he swung on on mist out of the zone. That to me was a kind of an abat that Dave Roberts was like a microcosm of a book that he does not want his hitters to be doing. And I thought it was interesting because obviously there's no Will Smith, no Tiaska Hernandez, guys that really helps solidify that lineup. And you're looking at a lot of

relatively inexperienced players with rushing Ryan Ward, Alex Freeland. So I asked Dave, you know, is this a combination of the inexperienced? And he actually said that he thought those three guys were actually taking some of the better at that's collectively. So it's on really the top of the lineup for me. And again, hard to evaluate if they got better because a big chunk of that is paltseller. Obviously did not play most of this game. But it's clear.

Dodgers still have the best offense in terms of stats and production in baseball. But Dave Roberts not happy with the overall approach from his hitters lately. Yeah, and it is funny. We are seeing better, sometimes better approaches, better at bat, you know, just quality later in the game. But, Riz, it feels like probably once a month, especially for a team like the Dodgers, you're coming off back-to-back World Series. They were talking about it pregame on S&LA. You know, I think it was S&LA, but the regular season is a formality for the Dodgers, even if they have to pretend like it's not. at some point it seems like it's real easy for your head to get elsewhere and maybe i'm not going to say

they're not putting in the work but maybe just you know the mind wanders a little bit during uh during a baseball game or during a series or during a particular series and i know you've seen it you've covered this team there's there is no question about that i mean think think about the fact that you know we do however many shows three or four shows a week and not every single show is is at the ultimate level where we're going to win Emmys, whatever the podcasting, whatever the podcasting award is. But honestly, it is hard to be, you know, 100% all the time and every single thing that you do. And to your point, the Dodgers are built for October, right? If they can continue to tread water, I mean, we're really getting into the dog days of summer.

We're about five weeks away from the trade deadline. And then it's even a week after the All-Star game for the trade deadlines. So we're all kind of waiting for that. And then you really get into it. I don't really ever worry about how they're doing at this time of year. To me, the time to truly ramp up. And let's not forget, they still have a nine game advantage in the standings, right? So it's like you want to make sure that the first thing you want to do is when your division.

And right now, that's what the Dodgers are doing. They are winning their division by nine and a half games now, nine and a half games. So they're still on pace to do exactly what they need, what we would like for them to do. but they're just trying to tread water right now with the amount of injuries that already are on the shelf to key pieces of this program. Obviously, the Blake Snells of the world, the Tyler Glasnows of the world, and now we're going to wait and see what happens to Kyle Tucker. I mean, God bless Chuckie Robinson, but I mean, he's not the answer. I said this the other day when Will Smith, we knew it was going to miss some significant time. And now he's obviously not on the road trip.

I said, what happens if something happens to Dalton? because we don't have that depth at that position. And I'm not trying to manifest it, but obviously he had to come out of the game to make sure he didn't have a concussion. And Chuckie Robinson, God bless him. He's just not major league ready catcher.

He's just not that guy. So that's okay, though. They're just going to try to tread water and get the pieces back as they come. And they will be fine. You win the division by nine and a half games. You get home field advantage and you go from there. But no, to think that this team is going to play balls to the wall

for 162 games is just not. realistic. I mean, some guys live for October. This is a team that like just they all I have to do is maintain. And I'd say the first team to 50 wins and a nine and a half game lead in the division is even better than maintaining. So it happens, right? It's not every every series is not going to be game seven. It just doesn't work that way. Look at what happened against the Orioles. And that seems terrible. Yeah. It's the unrealistic expectations that come with watching and covering the Los Angeles Dodgers and Katie. I know you've seen that difference. since coming over here from your years with cards it's just it's a different expectation the fan base

um you lost two against the orioles and and you know all hell starts to break loose a little bit fine alana it's going to be great it's it's going to be great and they won and they won and they first of 50 wins a lot of really really good stuff um it's not always perfect and they're battling with a lot of injuries uh we'll talk more about those injuries and all that kind of stuff up first a word from our friends at Fowell Territory. When my puppy Bella has something wrong, I'm not going to go around Googling what to do. Yeah, Crats, let's have a better plan. Today's episode is sponsored by the ASPCA Pet Health Insurance Program.

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And you hope that's all it is. You hope it's just a back spasm or a cramp or whatever. He seemed to be walking around fine in the dugout. But again, that's not when you already have Tay Oscar out, you know, you already have these other guys out. That's the last thing. I know that Kyle Tucker hasn't, you know, been all world in terms of his offense. But Katie, this is not somebody that you can afford to lose,

considering you still have guys that you're waiting to have them come back. Yeah, I completely agree. And some things that I want to notice, again, just my observations from home, watching on TV. Kyle Tucker was not visited by a trainer at second base. Dave Roberts watched him and made the call to take him out immediately. No combo. To me, that suggests this is something that the Dodgers were aware of beforehand and just wanted to monitor. I'm sure we'll hear more from Dave on the postgame show.

But if you're going to have, you know, just a look from your manager to see Kyle Tucker kind of crouching over a little uncomfortable and get him out of there without even a combo, that to me has been, okay, well, he's clearly talks about this with the med staff and Dave Roberts and they were aware of it. And then television cameras showed Kyle Tucker in the dugout, you know, he went straight to the hitting coaches before the trainer. So all of these signs to me indicated that this is a problem or an issue that they were aware of and just didn't want to make it worse. Dalton rushing a little bit of a different situation. Who comes in, I believe it was the first pitch of the game that he got rocked on that foul tip.

Yeah, that's tough. Welcome. Welcome to the game, Dalton. So I think with Kyle Tucker, it's kind of a wait and see. As we've seen with Tyler Glass now, back spasms can be tricky. and with Dalton, you just hope that he can pass concussion protocols. But this is clearly if this becomes more for Kyle Tucker, not what the Dodgers need right now.

They can cover it. I think Ryan Ward has done a nice job filling in. Tommy Edmund has been pretty Tommy Edmund-like. Since coming off the IL, he can play in the corners too. Dodgers should get to Oscar Hernandez back by this time next week. But if Kyle Tucker misses any time, that's seven days they got to fill, and that can get a little dicey. You know, it's funny.

I don't know if it's funny, but it's funny that you go on social media, and the first thing people start seeing is people clamoring for, okay, now they get to call up James Tibbs, because Tucker's going to go on the IL. And, you know, just everybody wants something else other than Kyle Tucker right now, which, yeah, it's not a great season. I don't necessarily care. The Dodgers won a world last year with, you know, Michael Conforto just being crap.

It happens. You can survive it. But it is interesting to see the fan base. I wouldn't say turn on them quickly. It has been a few months, but showing signs of life at different points. And hopefully this is not one of those things. It turns into a Glass Now situation where we hear Dave. Yeah, oh, we caught it earlier.

I just don't even know if it was like turning on him. I don't think they were ever on really on Bork. You know what I mean? Like he hasn't had like a like a big Dodger moment yet. You know, I just think it's just like, I mean, I was excited that they signed Kyle Tucker. But to me it wasn't like the, oh my God, we got Kyle Tucker. Not like, not how I felt when they signed Edwin Diaz or how I felt when they signed Shohei Otani. Okay.

Like that kind of like, wow, that's, that's a, that's a huge get. And Kyle Tucker just hasn't shown us the contract yet. Not to say that he won't, but there hasn't, to me, it's just kind of like, just kind of vanilla in terms of that. Dalton rushing for me, guys, with the whole situation that I was worried about if he went down, okay, Chuckie Robinson, what are we going to do? But it's like he came up two different times, two runners on and two outs already. he struck out both times. We're going to need more from that position than we're getting with Chuckie Robinson.

If for whatever reason, Dalton Rushing does have a concussion, which hopefully he doesn't offer that foul tip off of the helmet, and obviously if Will Smith is out for longer than we expect, but they're going to have to do something at that position because obviously, you know, that's not the answer there, especially with Will Smith out longer than expected. Yeah, well, so we got, we actually got an update here from Fabian, of the athletic.

On the rushing side, he passed initial concussion testing. Dodgers are going to bring in an extra catcher in case. I don't even know who the hell that would be. Exactly. They have Elizero Alonzo is in OKC, but he's not on the 40 man. That would be my best yet, just based on what is. What is Sam doing? Does anybody, I know that Austin Barnes was at Petros and Money the other day.

Is he available? I don't think so. And yeah, anyways. And then, yeah, the Tucker backspasm, not expecting any imaging or anything like that. They're not concerned about Tucker. So he has minutes to live, I would imagine, at this point. But, yeah, even. Huh?

They're never concerned. They're never concerned. Everything is everything. They listen to Riz too much. It's going to be great. Everything is perfect. It is going to be great. I've been saying that for three years.

They've won World Series championships the last two. Who do you want from me? Listen, I take it all back. It's going to be great. Either way, you know, concussion are no, notwithstanding here. They need to improve the Chuckie Robinson part of the roster. I don't know how. I mean, last year, you know, when they traded for at the time,

the man I called Ron Rorvetelt because I was like, what the fuck is this name that's just put in front, Ben Rortvet? They need another Ben Rortfet to just fall gently into their arms again, because not into his lap. He's a big boy. They need something like that. They need someone like that. Of course, Banda's with the Mets, and I think he's on the IL, the minor league IL right now.

He is not an option, but they need a different option. Again, with all due respect to Chucky Robinson, seems like a nice enough guy, but they need a little help there. Need a little help. You're going to have to figure it out. I was, you know, won Will Smith in the lineup as much as possible front of the show. But this was a really big opportunity for Dalton rushing to get consistent playing time. Work with some of the pitchers he doesn't usually get because we know Will Smith is usually going to take.

the Otani Yamamoto starts. And we've seen him, you know, that that game on Friday was super telling with the three punchouts. And then he comes in and has a completely different approach against Ryan Heelsie ends up winning the game. So Chuckie Robinson was brought in not necessarily to produce. He was quite literally brought in to be a backup catcher by definition. Basically start the day games after night games and the Dodgers don't believe in day games during the week.

So this was not a position or part of the officers. The Dodgers were like expecting for a lot of playing time. So it goes back to like the original point of if the bats got better today. I want to you pointed out the runners on scoring position, Dodger grew over seven. But a lot of that was Chuckie Robinson. I would have loved to see what Dalton Rushing would have done in that role. But this is not a guy that the Dodger, like, okay, he needs to produce.

It was he just needs to here for an emergency. Yeah. Well, they have it. They're in there. They're in the emergency. Maybe I got used to having, you know, in the last year and change-ish, used to having a backup that maybe has a little bit of, There is just not a chance in hell.

And I'm sorry, Chuckie, if you're watching this. It's not a chance in hell that that man is going to make contact with baseball and it's going to find grass. I'm sorry. When did he goes tomorrow? I want this clip on Twitter. So we clip that. Vince, we need you, bro.

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One last stretch, I think you guys, I might have been muted there. One last bit to talk about here. First, I'll tell you guys, go support the show. Check out DT members. You can click the join button here on YouTube to become a YouTube member. 399 a month. You get access to, well, discount in the merch store. Eventually our second happy hour show.

That'll be coming up at some point. Support us with. merch at Dodger Territory Shop.com, get that percentage off, yada, yada, anyways, I just want to get those plugs in there. Before we talk about Eric Frickin Lauer, what a pickup. This guy has been in, you know, the screen here is showing Will Klein because it shows the starter of the game, who was the opener, gives up the only run of the game on a Byron Buxton homer, a longtime future Dodger, Byron Buxton.

But six no-hit innings following Will Klein. Like, what a pickup. Eric Lauer has been. been, Woo. Yeah, and this is someone that, you know, we're talking to Andrew Friedman the other day, and he was like when, when Blake's now and Tyler Glassnow went down pretty consecutively, if River Ryan had not been just building back up after his little right hamstring injury, they might have gone straight to River out of need, but they couldn't because he wasn't

built up at that time. So what do you do? You look at the other 29 other clubs, obviously familiar with Eric Lauer with Mark Pryor's connection. And they said, you know what? We're the Dodgers. We can fix that. And they have. And they don't. need Eric Lauer to go out and post six hitless innings, but they'll certainly take it. They just need him to be a certifiable solid six starter. And he's done that and more for this club. It's allowed guys like Justin Robleski to keep working, Roki Sasaki. We'll get to

Emmett Sheehan there. It's bought him a little bit more extra time. But for Eric Lauer, we know how important the six-man rotation is for the Los Angeles Dodgers. They've committed to it all season long. Showe-Otani does not get to do two-way duties without a season long six-man rotation. So for Eric Lauer to come in and just fill that spot out of need. I think the Dodgers were planning on just giving him a couple and seeing where it goes, but he's been more than serviceable. He's been a very good addition to this

club. He's fit right in in the clubhouse and he's he's really helped keep a critical anchor of this Dodgers team afloat. They have the best starting rotation in baseball that is not by accident. It is because they remain committed to the six man. Eric Lauer, very underrated in that overall area because he's allowed them to be able to keep that up. Yeah, Paul Pena, 9548 in our chat brings up a really good point that you don't have to smoke 100 miles an hour to have a successful outing. You know, you can pitch to contact. You can change up the speeds. You can, you know, use your off speed.

There's other ways to do it than throwing 110 miles an hour, which is great as long as you can locate it. But Eric Lauer is more of a pitcher than a thrower. And what I like about the situation, too, is like kind of the joke of, you know, if you can't beat him, join them. Obviously coming over from the Toronto Blue Jays. And it's like, you know, he is a guy among so many, just add Eric Lauer to the list of guys that come over and kind of reinvent themselves or perhaps not even reinvent themselves, but are allowed to be who they are. The Dodgers don't try to force you to be something that you're not. And I've had many conversations, particularly with relievers. And I know Eric Lauer is not one of those guys, but particularly with relievers that they have said to me that they knew who I was when they acquired me and they allowed.

me to be that person. So not really trying to change things up. And these are guys particularly that came over via trade. These are not international signings like the Japanese guys or those types of things or guys that came up through the Dodgers system. These were more guys that came over from other teams via a trade or in free agency. And they just have such a good way about them. And you've got to give Mark Pryor, I think, a tremendous amount of credit. Obviously, and Bardo and the Dodgers bullpen and Connor McGinnis and all of the guys obviously deserve a part in this. But they know what the guy is successful in doing, you know, kind of go with what got you here. And we'll help you hone in on that and be who you are.

And it has proven time and time again, Eric Lauer, just another in the mix, that the Dodgers don't force you to be what you're not. Yeah. And you mentioned the McGinnis part. I think even Lauer mentioned that Connor McGinnis, speaks his language when he's talking about pitching, and you're seeing a lot more of the curveball usage. And I'm going to put the Lauer stats back up on the screen here because how good this dude has been in his now five appearances for the Dodgers,

capped with this one six, no-hit innings. This is the type of stuff that the Dodgers, that this pitching staff does. You mentioned Mark Pryor. I'm just going to piggyback on what you already said there is. They are so good at often maximizing. And this is what you see with guys like River Ryan, who was kind of a nobody when they acquired him. You know, you've seen it with, I mean, Emmett Sheen was a draftee, reviving the career of somebody like Tyler Anderson a couple years ago, making him into an all-star. This is what they do.

They identify something you could do just a little bit better without, like you said, Riz, without changing everything, without, you know, oh, well, let's drop an arm slot. Or let's, let's, you know, change where you're at on the rubber. maybe they might do something like that. It's like, no, you already have good stuff. You are good enough to have made it to the big leagues. Why not just maximize your best qualities for four, five, six innings if you can get that far? And, you know, we got the best of Eric Lauer here. And shit, where would this team be without Eric Lauer this season?

I also think that it's a matter of you don't always have to be the guy because there's 25 others around you. So you really do have the opportunity to kind of just be yourself and continue to obviously improve on what you have, but use what got you there in the first place. And he knows his role. And I think that's another thing about Dave Roberts in particular and the Dodger staff is that I think they're very good at communicating. They're very good at letting guys know the expectations of what their role is. I mean, Santiago Espinal knew it was going to be a two-month stint, you know, like that type of thing. And I think they're very good about letting guys know as much as they can, letting guys up know out front, up front what the expectation is of them and kind of the role on the team.

And I think that's all you can ask for, right? Is open communication and honesty and transparency. And then anything beyond that, I mean, I, you know, I think that as an adult and as a human being, that's all you can ask for. Yeah. Did I say Connor McGinnis? Conner McGinnis. Maddieman is in the chat saying Connor McGinnis is one of the greatest MMA MMA fighters ever, but

it's just dicking around here in the chat. The final thing is you kind of mentioned the Sheehan factor in there, Katie. Not a good start for Emmett Sheehan. I've been on the send Sheehan to AAA train for maybe

longer than most. It feels like maybe we might be getting a step closer to that. What can you tell us about Sheehan's status? Yeah, not a good start and not really a good month for Emmett Sheehan. He had a really good start against the Diamondbacks on the very, I believe it was June 1st, and then three clunkers in a row, even against the White Sox, those five scoreless innings, he looked more like Emmett Sheehan and then just ran into traffic, obviously, in the sixth inning there.

We don't need to rehash that. We know it. I think what's important about Emmett Sheen going forward is, as we know, I'm more of the exercise, patient person on this show where I'm like, hey, you know what? Like a lot of said, they're nine games up. They're their first team to 50 wins. We can give some of these guys a bit of a leash to figure it out. But with Emmett Sheehan, it's been more of the same problems and not a lot of moving forward.

And I think it got to a point yesterday. I'll read two quotes that I thought we're telling one from Emmett Sheehan and one from Dave Roberts. We talked to Emmett after the game and he said straight up, execution was really bad at his start on Sunday. He allowed six earned and three and a third. And then Emmett said, at this point, my coaches, teammates, fans all deserve better than what I'm putting out there. Dave Roberts followed up with just hasn't been where we needed to be, where Sheen wants it to be.

And I think right now he's probably searching a little bit. He'll get a start this next one and we'll see where it takes us. So that suggests, you know, both parties are at least aligned that this kind of pitching performance just can't continue because it's not like the starts there are getting better. Pitchers are allowed to have a couple of bad starts throughout the course of the season. But for Emmett, we just haven't seen a lot of progress there. So he will take his next start against the Padres. I believe that's going to be that Sunday series finale in San Diego.

And if, you know, it doesn't go the way that the Dodgers would like it to go and Emmett doesn't see signs of progression. We've been very patient about River Ryan. We've discussed where, you know, the Dodgers and where they stand on him. Maybe that's a solution. But I think it's fair to at least question what the long-term look for Sheehan looks in the rotation right now, just because the last month or so it hasn't been, you know, I think of the quality that both he and the Dodgers expected to be. Yeah. Here's a final, you know, I guess lending itself to what you're saying, patience.

Semison? Semisimis. I don't even how to say the name, but commenter saying on pace to win 104 to 109 games last year they won 93. Relax. Everybody can relax. But at some point it does need to be about getting the job done. and she and has not been exceptional at doing that also before we sign off i want to acknowledge we got a uh 999 super chat here from uh what is that la 824 dash ldr a lot in there talking about

the mooky factor here missing seeing mooky in right field he's done a good job at sure sorry great job at shortstop um maybe adding in some flexibility with mooky i don't see that happening not after all of the all of the uh the comments about him being at short and all of the work that he's done and how the how the change is messed up his offense and no muckies are shortstop for the foreseeable future probably i can play a very very strong right field so let's bounce him around that's his back steady eddie or swiss army night whatever guys want to call him Tommy tanks apparently is what he's known as over here it's Tommy tanks you got to love Tommy taters as well gets job done. That's about it. I don't have much more to add. The Dodgers win. Dodgers

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