Rockies Dominate Padres Despite Odds: Series Analysis

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00:00So, when the Rockies are bad, which they are, and the Padres are good, which they are, the

00:08Rockies always seem to have their number.

00:10Alex, take us through the numbers here.

00:11Yeah, on the season, the Padres are 5-8 against them.

00:15They've scored 56.

00:16They've given up 61.

00:17The Padres have the second-best batting average in baseball in the season, but they hit 262

00:21against the Colorado Rockies, which makes absolutely no sense.

00:25And it's especially worse, I think, when they play in Coors.

00:27I think they've won, like, two games there.

00:29Yeah, so we knew going in this weekend that the Padres could have trouble with the Rockies

00:34because they traditionally do.

00:36We assumed that Arizona would steamroll Tampa Bay, who's kind of a 500-type club, going

00:41into the weekend.

00:42And we weren't really sure what the Dodgers would do against St. Louis.

00:45St. Louis also kind of right there, like a game or so under 500, going into the weekend

00:50series.

00:51But here's what happens.

00:52The Dodgers take two out of three.

00:54The Padres lose two out of three.

00:56The Diamondbacks lose two out of three.

00:58And instead of the Padres—

00:59Diamondbacks got swept.

01:00Oh, excuse me.

01:01They got swept.

01:02Excuse me.

01:03Diamondbacks got swept, yeah.

01:04So instead of the Padres being back—you can put up the standings—they were two games

01:08back as of Friday.

01:10As of today, the Padres are three games back, and Arizona, thanks for the correction, they

01:14got swept.

01:15They're now four games back.

01:17Two teams, both two games back on Friday, but leave it to L.A. to go two out of three.

01:21And oh, by the way, this is where L.A. could start to make some moves here.

01:27When I say make moves, you know how all these guys are always getting hurt on their pitching

01:31staff?

01:32Last week, they lost another young guy to a Tommy John surgery.

01:34What do they do?

01:35They reinsert Clayton Kershaw, and Clayton Kershaw progressively, game by game by game,

01:40is getting better, and this past weekend was his best.