'Absolute heater' of run shows Dodgers are who we thought they were
All Dodgers podcast hosts Jeff Spiegel and Kevin Skinner discuss the Dodgers' hot streak, their second-best record in baseball, and whether this is finally the team everybody expected 56 games ago with elite pitching and an offense built to weather slumps.
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Let's just talk big picture, Kevin, about the Dodgers.
they are good.
They're on an absolute heater.
They've won 12 of their last 14.
They now have a four-and-a-half game lead over both the Diamondbacks and the Padres in the National League West.
They have the second best record in baseball.
They're about a game and a half back of Atlanta.
Does this feel to you like we're watching the team that everybody expected them to be 56 games ago?
Yeah, I think so.
They, they're doing You can't control who's on the schedule, you know, as Pop Pop loves to say.
But it's true, and they are doing what you should, they should do against, quote unquote major league caliber teams.
and no, i- in all honesty, they're doing what they should be doing against, you know, bottom tier teams.
The Angels, the Rockies, this is They should just be beating up on these guys.
Um- Yeah and then sandwiched in there, you had the two of three in, in Milwaukee, which can't go, understated, because I think that's a big series for a team like Los Angeles, who, you know, in the middle of two softer series, they could have either looked ahead to Milwaukee and lost some in Anaheim.
Yeah.
Or they could have done the opposite and gotten, you know, kind of buttered up in Anaheim and then gotten the brakes beaten off of them in Milwaukee, and they didn't let either of those things happen.
They played game to game.
they've played to their talent level, I think is kind of where you land that.
And, yeah, I, I think the, the guys that we expect to be going well are going well, outside of a couple, m- mostly Mookie and Will Smith.
But, other than that, I Like, yeah, this is the team we thought they would be.
Bullpen's great, starting pitching is great, and the offense is doing, you know, the You build an offense like this to try and not have everyone slump at one time.
