NL West Showdown: Dodgers and Padres Battle for Lead

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00:00The one that jumps out to me is the NL West in that regard.

00:04Dodgers have dropped 7-10.

00:06They salvaged.

00:07They avoided the sweep in Baltimore.

00:09Padres have dropped 7-10.

00:10They did win a series over the weekend.

00:13The Dodgers sit at 79-64.

00:15The Padres at 78-65.

00:17So a game separates those two right now.

00:20So I ask you simply, who wants to win this division right now?

00:26It's funny because we always talk about 162 as a battle of attrition.

00:31It's just whoever can survive the never-ending journey that is a Major League Baseball season

00:38can just usually take it.

00:41Or you generate such a lead in the first half because you're so dominant,

00:44a lot of Tigers, that you can coast a little bit more down the stretch.

00:49It really, I don't know if I can remember in the last few years,

00:52an example of the battle of attrition side of things being highlighted in so many divisions

00:58at the same time.

00:59And I look at the Dodgers and the Padres where I was trying to prepare for this conversation

01:05and say, okay, well, what are some statistics I can look at, some trends I can look at?

01:11It changes every series.

01:13You figure, oh, they'll get right here.

01:15I came prepared with the schedule remaining, but that might not even matter

01:20because the Pirates just beat up on them.

01:23So I don't really know.

01:26I do still want to go through the schedule remaining.

01:28But it really is just going to come down to, like, who's going to get hot here

01:32over the final week or two or who's not going to suck?

01:37I think that might be it, too.

01:38Who can play 500 ball while the other one sucks?

01:40I think that's the big thing to me because I look at the Dodgers getting swept

01:44by the Pirates in Pittsburgh.

01:46And by the way, Don Kelly, I think still over 500 as the Pirate skipper

01:51since taking over as the interim manager.

01:53It's a pretty big deal, actually.

01:55It is a huge deal.

01:55So they're going to remove that interim tag very quickly on Don Kelly

01:59and make him the manager of the Pittsburgh Pirates.

02:00But Dodgers got swept by the Pirates in Pittsburgh.

02:04And then a day after that series concludes, Kyle Freeland goes eight scoreless

02:09and punches out ten Padres in Colorado.

02:12And I'm thinking, what in the wide world of sports is happening right now?

02:15But that's the nature of the beast.

02:17Walk us through the remaining schedules for the Dodgers and the Padres.

02:20And let's talk through that because I'm just trying to figure out

02:23who's going to wheel their way to the finish line sooner.

02:26It's like Ricky, Bobby, and John Gerrard jogging to the finish line

02:32at Talladega and Talladega Heights.

02:34Yes, literally.

02:35Also, I guess Kyle Freeland took out all of the Rafi Devers frustration

02:39and just decided to have an all-time outing.

02:43He started on two days rest because he only threw eight pitches,

02:46and the eighth pitch of the game was taken to mark.

02:48That's an interesting note.

02:50Kyle Freeland on seven days rest.

02:52Maybe that's the fix.

02:55He's just going to shove.

02:56So Dodgers, they have three at the Rockies, as we're recording this,

03:00three at home against the Rockies, three at the Giants,

03:05three at home against the Phillies, four at home against the Giants,

03:10three at the Diamondbacks, and three at the Mariners.

03:13Overall, it's a pretty tough schedule, and I think when you compare it to,

03:17you tell me what you think is more difficult.

03:19Padres have three at home versus the Reds, four at home versus the Rockies,

03:24three at the Mets, three at the White Sox,

03:27three at home against the Brewers, and three at home against the D-backs.

03:31Dodgers is way more difficult there.

03:33I agree.

03:35I agree.

03:35Okay, so naturally, I think you forecast San Diego makes up the game,

03:40and they could very well win this division.

03:42Yeah, but you know that's not how it's going to go, right?

03:44You know that somehow the Padres are going to get swept by the White Sox.

03:49The Dodgers are going to have a great series against the Phillies,

03:52then Flounder against the D-backs.

03:54That's the thing.

03:55I always want to go by schedule,

03:56but if you really are stuck on a tiebreaker here,

03:59I do think that the Padres have a better path ahead,

04:03especially when you've got three against the Rockies

04:06and another three against the White Sox.

04:09Yeah.

04:10Four against the Rockies, excuse me.

04:12Four against Colorado.

04:13Okay.

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