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Speaker 1: Welcome everyone to the Monday edition of Fair Territory. I'm

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Speaker 1: Ken Rosenthal, here with you for the next I don't know,

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Speaker 1: twenty five minutes or so. We have a lot to

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Speaker 1: talk about after an interesting weekend of baseball, with many

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Speaker 1: interesting weekends ahead. The first thing to talk about, of course,

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Speaker 1: is the Dodgers Padres series, a surprising outcome to many

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Speaker 1: of us, given the way the Padres were playing so

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Speaker 1: well going into that series, and given that the Dodgers

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Speaker 1: have not really reached a peak all season. Well, all

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Speaker 1: of that changed over the weekend at Dodgers Stadium. What happened.

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Speaker 1: The Dodgers swept the Padres, regained the lead in the

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Speaker 1: NL West, now lead by two games. And let's go

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Speaker 1: Friday Night, Clayton Kershaw brilliant against the Padres and six innings,

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Speaker 1: one run. That was on a night when the Padres

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Speaker 1: an inconsistent season, was inconsistent again. Six walks in three

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Speaker 1: did a really good job against him. Also in this

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Speaker 1: game Blake Snell six innings scoreless. It was the second

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Speaker 1: three attempted steelers in the first two innings, and then

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Speaker 1: finally Sunday you saw that game. Darvius was just okay,

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Speaker 1: not even that for the Padres. Glass now was decent

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Speaker 1: five innings for the Dodgers, and Mookie Betts with the

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Speaker 1: go ahead homer in the eighth inning, and the Dodgers

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Speaker 1: bullpen bent but didn't break to complete the sweep. So

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Speaker 1: been a question at various points this season, but one

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Speaker 1: question that has arisen with them with regard to their

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Speaker 1: to be coming from Morole Loreano right now their new

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Speaker 1: one guy who went deep in this series for the Padres.

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Speaker 1: Actually they had a couple of other homers as well,

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Speaker 1: we're about to show you home runs for the season.

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Speaker 1: The Yankees are number one, one hundred and ninety five,

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Speaker 1: Dodgers number two, one eighty five, The Padres are twenty

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Speaker 1: So the Pirates, I'm sorry. The Padres offense is a

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Speaker 1: Dodgers pitching is getting healthier. We're gonna see Tanner Scott

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Speaker 1: the month most likely. So the Dodgers look like again

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Speaker 1: they've taken command. We'll see exactly how this fares out

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Speaker 1: And the concern there is that the Padres bullpen has

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Speaker 1: Manager Dave Roberts from the Dodgers joins Alana Rizzo and

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Speaker 1: Clint Pesius on Dodgers' Territory today at noon Pacific three Eastern.

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Speaker 1: Also this weekend, a couple of disturbing injuries came to light.

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Speaker 1: That's the biggest thing with Zach Wheeler. The question now

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Speaker 1: this weekend, I'm gonna talk about the Yankees. Six. I

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Speaker 1: Time now for the inside Dish, the part of the

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Speaker 1: I'm seeing on the field. All right, with that, we're

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Speaker 1: gonna close it out. We've got our Thursday show coming up,

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Speaker 1: of course, live with a lot of Rizzo's. Stay tuned

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Speaker 1: for that on Thursday. That will be at twelve thirty Eastern.

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