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Dodgers Gain Edge Over Phillies, Face the Rays Next
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8/23/2024
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So, the Dodgers have built a little bit of ground here over
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the fills in the National League standing for that top
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overall spot. A two and a half game advantage as the Dodgers
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swept the Seattle Mariners at home this week. They stay at
00:16
the ravine this weekend. They're close to a two-dollar
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favorite against the Tampa Bay Rays. What's the play tonight
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in Los Angeles? Yeah, usually don't take a Tampa Bay Rays
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game and think it has a chance to go over but I think this
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game does have a chance to go over the total. Bobby Miller's
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going to be on the mound for the Los Angeles Dodgers. Only
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155 batters on the season but elevated power numbers against
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at 243. A weighted on base percentage at a 416. That's
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bad. If we isolate just this last month which he doesn't have
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a lot of work, only 22 total batters. That's a 286 iso and a
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weighted on base percentage of 465 but also, it's not a great
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lineup whatsoever as you sort of factor in that Tampa Bay
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Rays. So, let's take a look at the opposite side. You look on
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the mound here. Tyler Alexander for the Rays has been okay.
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He actually struggles a little bit more with left-handed
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batters than righties but if we include the entire season, Ben,
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for this left-handed pitcher, 329 batters. He's faced an iso
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of 209 and a weighted on base percentage of 337. The one
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thing I will say, if you don't necessarily want to take a
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total to the over this game or even a side because you think
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the price point might be just a little bit too high for the
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Dodgers. Just focus on those three batters in the middle of
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the lineup here and again, you say, well, Donnie, Joey Otani
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is not the middle of the lineup. We're going to leave
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him out of it. It's Mookie Betts. It's Freddie Freeman and
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Teoscar Hernandez. 579, 387, and 384 are the weighted on
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base percentages of Betts, Freeman, and Teoscar Hernandez.
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If you don't like the price, if you don't like the total
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itself because you can't trust the Rays here, just take one or
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two of those players in the middle of that lineup here to
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get RBI opportunities. They will here. At least one of those
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three is going to come away with an RBI tonight for me,
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Ben. Donnie, I'm glad that you highlighted Mookie Betts in the
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middle of that lineup. Joey Otani has remained the leadoff
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guy but really when you go up and down the offensive lineup
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for the Dodgers, patient hitters at the plate. Here are
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the walks per game for everybody on the Dodgers and
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Mookie Betts leads the way. So, walking Betts is what we have
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here at .61 walks per game. Shohei Otani and Freddie
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Freeman at .55. So, the walking Betts there, something always
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to keep an eye on. Yes, it is. Absolutely keep an eye on at
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that point here. Sorry, I got distracted by a moment here. My
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screen blinked and threw me off but yeah, let's just go with
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that simple question and answer right there. How about that?
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But D.R., I just want to make sure you saw the title of the
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graphic. What's that? Walking Betts? Yeah. Well, no. See, I
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don't. Now, I see it right now. I don't really get to look at
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the actual screen behind me. I'm more focused on the camera
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at this point and I got distracted by my odds were
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changing. So, I didn't expect a comeback here to that Dodgers
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question. I was already moving on to Arizona and Boston at
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this point. So, there you go. Alright, well, we'll talk in
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the commercial break. It's such a good bit, man. It's such a
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good bit. You hate when even like inside innuendo jokes go
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over the one guy that needs to hear it. We'll get back to it in
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just a little bit.
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