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Speaker 1: Welcome everyone to a special live edition Sunday Night edition

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Speaker 1: of Fair Territory. We are coming on in the middle

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Speaker 1: of the Yankees Red Sox game on Sunday Night Baseball.

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Speaker 1: And before we get started, I would like to congratulate

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Speaker 1: the Colorado Rockies on participating this season. They participated and

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Speaker 1: now they are eliminated. Bye bye to the Rockies. Yes,

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Speaker 1: they're going to finish the season, of course, but it's

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Speaker 1: a fairly early elimination, wouldn't you say. But to the

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Speaker 1: good stuff. We've got Yankees Red Sox this weekend, we

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Speaker 1: had Dodgers Padres as well. We've got a lot to

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Speaker 1: talk about the Mets coming up against the Phillies. The

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Speaker 1: Cubs may be closing on the Brewers, could it be well,

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Speaker 1: we'll see about that. But first Yankees Red Sox. Now,

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Speaker 1: as I said, this game currently is in progress and

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Speaker 1: the Yankees are leading five to two as we do

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Speaker 1: this live on Sunday Night. Even if the Yankees win tonight,

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Speaker 1: of course they would have lost three or four in

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Speaker 1: the series. They would be two and eight against the

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Speaker 1: Red Sox on the season. It's not good. And what

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Speaker 1: we saw entering this series we thought was a resurgent

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Speaker 1: Yankee team, But how resurgent was it really? When they

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Speaker 1: went seven to one against Minnesota, Saint Louis, and Tampa Bay,

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Speaker 1: three teams that sold at the trade deadline, And then

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Speaker 1: when you go and face a better club, the Boston

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Speaker 1: Red Sox, a team that has basically owned you this year,

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Speaker 1: you fall apart again. You saw the first three games

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Speaker 1: of the series not good for the Yankees, culminating with

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Speaker 1: Saturday's twelve to one embarrassment. Granted it was a game

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Speaker 1: Crochet pitched, a game the Red Sox expected to win,

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Speaker 1: but it disintegrated into something else entirely Now on Sunday,

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Speaker 1: for Sunday Night, we saw the Yankees finally bench Anthony Volpi,

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Speaker 1: and you see him there. He has struggled, both offensively

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Speaker 1: and defensively, and at one point, I don't know, a

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Speaker 1: couple of weeks ago, I wrote a column describing how

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Speaker 1: the Yankees kind of view Volpi as almost a teacher's pet.

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Speaker 1: They protect him, and as Chris Kirshner wrote in The

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Speaker 1: Athletic on Saturday, there's no reason to protect him anymore.

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Speaker 1: Among shortstops who are qualified for the batting title, he

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Speaker 1: ranks twenty fourth out of twenty sixth in wins above replacement.

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Speaker 1: He's only twenty four, We get it, but he's had

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Speaker 1: about eight hundred played appearances in the big leagues. If

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Speaker 1: not a goal glove defender, has extremely little value the

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Speaker 1: way he is hitting, the way he is so streaky.

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Speaker 1: So that was a positive step for the Yankees Sunday.

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Speaker 1: They had to do this move. In my opinion, We'll

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Speaker 1: see if Volpi snaps out of it, and we'll see

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Speaker 1: if Jose Caballero now maybe gives them a lift. It

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Speaker 1: all remains to be seen, and Volpi is only one player,

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Speaker 1: one part of a much larger problem. This is a

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Speaker 1: team that we have seen sloppy. We have seen them stumble.

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Speaker 1: We have seen repeatedly, not just this year, not just

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Speaker 1: in Game five of last year's World Series, but for

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Speaker 1: quite some time now. A team that lacks fundamental soundness,

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Speaker 1: a team that, frankly, as I wrote during last year's

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Speaker 1: to play baseball. That's a huge problem. Now things can

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Speaker 1: get better, get better when Judge gets back to the outfield.

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Speaker 1: Maybe they have an outfield then a Judge Grisham and

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Speaker 1: Bellinger much better Defensively, you get Domingez out of left,

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Speaker 1: they get better. If Max Freed is as good as

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Speaker 1: he looked in this series, he had a bounce back start,

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Speaker 1: and with Rodin and him impossibly schlitter and maybe warrened

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Speaker 1: or Heels stepping up, you've got something in the rotation

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Speaker 1: and their bullpen should stabilize. I do expect that. But

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Speaker 1: the Yankees are if they win this game on Sunday

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Speaker 1: Night two and eight against the Red Sox, three and

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Speaker 1: seven against the Blue Jays, and you wonder where this

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Speaker 1: is all going. What happens if they miss the playoffs unlikely,

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Speaker 1: but what happens more likely they could get knocked out early.

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Speaker 1: That's certainly a scenario we can envision happening. Does Aaron

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Speaker 1: Boone come back, does Brian Cashman come back? Or do

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Speaker 1: they finally turn the page? All of this seemingly is

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Speaker 1: in play now. The Red Sox obviously the flip side

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Speaker 1: of the coin here. Terrific series for them against the Yankees,

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Speaker 1: and terrific because they got a strong star from Beao,

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Speaker 1: a strong star from Crochet. Now Dustin may not so

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Speaker 1: good Sunday Night. He's been a little bit inconsistent, and

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Speaker 1: I question with the Red Sox, the one thing I

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Speaker 1: he's going to replace him on Monday Night. So you're

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Speaker 1: looking at crochet Cy young candidate, one of the best

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Speaker 1: pitchers in baseball right now, BeO an emerging star perhaps

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Speaker 1: but still young. And Giolito, who has been up and down,

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Speaker 1: and then where do you go from there? That's my

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Speaker 1: question with the Red Sox. They're getting healthier in the bullpen,

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Speaker 1: and certainly their lineup right now is really intriguing. I

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Speaker 1: doing what he's doing. All of that is good. It's

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Speaker 1: just with the Red Sox, my one question is the

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Speaker 1: starting pitching and the starting pitching both down the stretch

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Speaker 1: here obviously in the postseason. So that's the Yankees Red Sox.

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Speaker 1: It's wrapping up in the Bronx right now, and no

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Speaker 1: matter what happens on Sunday night, not a good outcome

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Speaker 1: for the New York Yankees. Over on the West Coast

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Speaker 1: Dodgers Padres series at Petco Park. The Padres win two

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Speaker 1: of three when the first two games of this series,

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Speaker 1: both games that they won pitched brilliantly, a great start

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Speaker 1: from Darvish on Friday Night and a great start from

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Speaker 1: Nestro Cordis Junior against the Los Angeles Dodgers, the team

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Speaker 1: that haunted him in the World Series on Saturday. Padres

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Speaker 1: won both those first two games, allowing only one run.

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Speaker 1: The Dodgers offense finally woke up on Sunday, an eight

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Speaker 1: to two victory. They got some home runs from Freeman,

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Speaker 1: two from him, another from Otani. All Right, where are

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Speaker 1: we with this one? The two teams are tied for

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Speaker 1: first place in the division again, and it seems to

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Speaker 1: me that the Dodgers are not yet what the Dodgers

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Speaker 1: a couple of weeks now has sort of resembled what

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Speaker 1: the Padres lineup at the bottom of the Padres lineup

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Speaker 1: looked like before the trade deadline, before they acquired Ryan

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Speaker 1: O'Hearn and Ramon Loriano and really deepen themselves Freddy for

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Speaker 1: me and as well, the Dodgers right now playing without

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Speaker 1: next monthy Kei k hernandez Haisan Kim and Tommy Edman.

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Speaker 1: and then the others as well. Once all of that happens,

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Speaker 1: then we'll see a more representative Dodgers lineup, one that

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Speaker 1: you could expect would be a much more potent version

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Speaker 1: how easily the Dodgers handled the Padres at home last week,

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Speaker 1: a pennant race for the Los Angeles Dodgers. I'm talking

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Speaker 1: great series, two home runs in one of each of

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Speaker 1: they've been mixing in these guys. They have to keep

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Speaker 1: in left field they are something like twenty third, or

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Speaker 1: going into Sunday they were twenty third. Michael Confordo an

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Speaker 1: awful season for him. That's been a bad signing his

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Speaker 1: could be a DFA candidate without any question. So once

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Speaker 1: In my opinion, if you watch the Dodgers play, Mookie

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Speaker 1: Betts has been brilliant at shortstop, brilliant defensively, and he

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Speaker 1: The Padres here is a team that playing at home

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Speaker 1: different team at home. Now with the Padres, the question still,

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Speaker 1: brilliant season. If you look at his strikeout rate and

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Speaker 1: Phillies by seven games in the National League East seven games.

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Speaker 1: Now they have a series against the Phillies this week.

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Speaker 1: And the Phillies, yes, terrible loss of Zach Wheeler. Think

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Speaker 1: He is getting closer to a rehabilitation assignment, and you're

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Speaker 1: absolutely right. They need him. They especially need him against

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Speaker 1: do that. They are a top heavy team even at

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Speaker 1: their best with Freddie and Otani and Bets. Munsey gives

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Speaker 1: is part of that equation. But I do expect Munsey back,

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Speaker 1: and I do expect him to play a big role,

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Speaker 1: and that's one reason why I said in the first segment,

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Speaker 1: we're not really seeing the Dodgers as we're going to

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Speaker 1: see them just yet. Their bullpen is finally hole again

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Speaker 1: with Tanner Scott and Kirby Yates or reasonably Hole Kopek

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Speaker 1: is coming back as well. But they need those position

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Speaker 1: players back. They needed to thick in their lineup, get

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Speaker 1: the outfield straightened out, and all of that. All right,

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Speaker 1: next question, Let's see what this one is actually. Oh there,

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Speaker 1: it is from foul Territory. Foul Territory poses the question,

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Speaker 1: and this is a good one. Are Kyle Tucker and

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Speaker 1: the Cubs back? Now, I'll give you one caveat The

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Speaker 1: Cubs played the Angels over the weekend in Anaheim, and

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Speaker 1: while they had a terrific series, it's effectively a home

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Speaker 1: weren't a lot of people there, and the people that

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Speaker 1: comfortable at home, and the fans are very comfortable making

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Speaker 1: themselves at home flying the w at the end of

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Speaker 1: Sunday's game, in particular, that's said we did see Kyle

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Speaker 1: Tucker come to life in this series, and the deficit

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Speaker 1: in the NL Central right now is down to five games.

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Speaker 1: The Brewers have lost five of their last seven. The

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Speaker 1: Brewers cannot play any better, so I expect this to

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Speaker 1: tighten a little bit. The two teams are done with

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Speaker 1: down the stretch, especially if the Brewers start to feel

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Speaker 1: it a little bit. I don't know that they will.

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Speaker 1: They're not necessarily a team that is like that, but

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Speaker 1: they're young and we'll see if they can hold up.

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