Diamondbacks' Late Surge Fuels Hope for Postseason Berth

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00:00All right. Meanwhile, the Diamondbacks this time last year, Matt, they started surging

00:07into the postseason, got their way all the way to the World Series, played really well

00:11down the stretch. Not quite the same this time around, but they did get that win that

00:15they really needed yesterday against the Giants. Look, I do think at this point that win is

00:21going to get them into the postseason one way or the other over the next few days. If

00:24they would have gotten swept, maybe we'd feel differently about this, but they played well

00:28enough for the majority of the season and I think also especially in August to put themselves

00:33right back in another good position potentially to make a run. Yeah, and look, anytime a team

00:39has experience, like recent experience making a deep run, they always have that extra level

00:46of belief that, hey, we can do this. We've been here. We know how this goes. Obviously

00:51a big series this weekend, of course, but, you know, they're a talented team. They proved

00:57that they can do this again last year. They're not going to be intimidated by any of the

01:01bright lights by any of the matchups and they're going to be ready to go. You know, as far

01:06as making it out of the NL, I think that's going to be exceedingly difficult for some

01:09of the reasons you mentioned and also just the Dodgers, the Phillies and a very talented

01:16Milwaukee team that people seem to be overlooking maybe because they don't have a lot of those

01:21big stars, marquee guys, but they're just solid top to bottom. And of course, you know,

01:27a very talented Padres team as well and whoever else makes it in there out of the Mets and

01:33Braves. So it's going to be a very interesting NL, but I don't think we can count Arizona

01:38out for sure. And it does look like they're going to get there now.