Dodgers vs. Phillies: Crucial Matchup for NL Top Spot

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00:00The rubber match today in Los Angeles. The Dodgers a slight favorite to take the game

00:08and the series. A game and a half lead at this moment for Philadelphia over LA for the top spot

00:15in the National League. So Craig with all of that information, how significant is this third

00:20and final game in the midweek set tonight in Los Angeles? Yeah look it's it's the dog days now.

00:26The baseball players will tell you that we've reached it in August where there's still two

00:30three weeks until we get to September and that's when the final push happens. I'm very pragmatic

00:35about these teams Philadelphia, New York, even the Yankees to a degree. We were talking a few

00:39weeks ago everyone was just you know saying the Yankees are done they're done all of a sudden

00:43they make a trade then they roll off several wins in a row. At some point the Phillies are

00:47going to start winning again. Dodgers are going to push toward 100 wins. Every team is going to

00:51have these streaks. What you don't want to do is see it happen for more than a month or two months

00:55but guys out of every five or six month season every month can't be a 700 winning percentage.

01:01It was not going to happen for the Phillies. It was never going to happen for the Dodgers

01:05and so it really is all that matters guys. Talk to me second week in September. Who's hot? Who's

01:10pushing toward the post-season? Who was it last year? The Texas Rangers. What did they do? They

01:15got to the World Series. So I think the same could be said for all of these teams as we head toward

01:19October.