Dodgers End Slide, Take Series Against Giants Over Weekend

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00:00A California rivalry between the Giants and the Dodgers.

00:03L.A. snapping a seven-game losing skid on Saturday,

00:07finally getting back in the win column against San Francisco on a Saturday evening.

00:13So in the rubber match on a Sunday wild game,

00:17Dodgers had a 2-0 lead into the home half of the ninth.

00:20Luis Matos hits a two-run home run for SF, forcing extra innings.

00:25And in the 11th, the Dodgers played three runs.

00:28The Giants unable to respond.

00:30L.A. wins the finale and the weekend DRS, 5-2 in the finale,

00:34taking two or three and snapping that seven-game slide on Saturday.

00:38Really needed it.

00:39I mean, they really needed that Saturday game

00:41because we talked about it yesterday on Pro Baseball Today.

00:42Boy, wouldn't that have been interesting if they would have lost the game on Saturday

00:45and how much, you know, emotion they would need to pour out on Sunday

00:48so you don't go into the all-star break with that epic losing streak saying,

00:51what's wrong with us and we have to sit out five days?

00:53Nice to end against a division rival.

00:55You take the final two games Saturday and Sunday

00:57and it worked out in your favor.

00:58And also, taking a look at Shohei Ohtani on the mound saying,

01:01all right, you know what?

01:02Two innings now, three innings now.

01:04What's it going to be after the all-star break here,

01:06that four innings and five innings, you become a full-time starter,

01:09something to certainly watch out for.

01:11But if you are taking a look at, you know, how things played out,

01:14you needed that for the Dodgers.

01:15Not to say if they would have lost the two games.

01:16Oh, no, there's no way they could win the division

01:18or make the playoffs and woe is me attitude.

01:20That wouldn't have been the case.

01:21But just for their own psyche, picking back up where they left off,

01:24they have a winning streak now heading into the break.

01:26They can decompress, come back after the break

01:28and see if they can charge down the stretch

01:30and be that number one overall seed in the NL.