Dodgers Dugout: Previewing An Important Series With The Brewers

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Series pinch Brewers is important

The Dodgers statesman a four-game bid pinch nan Milwaukee Brewers coming astatine Dodger Stadium. Remember, nan 3 section winners automatically suffice for nan postseason, but nan section victor pinch nan worst grounds will person to play successful nan first round, while nan different 2 skip nan first round. And, if teams are tied, nan first tiebreaker is head-to-head record. Let’s look astatine those 3 teams arsenic of Wednesday night:

1. Milwaukee, 74-47
2. Atlanta, 73-48
3. Dodgers, 73-48

The Dodgers are 2-1 against Milwaukee and 1-2 against Atlanta. So, nan Dodgers will request to astatine slightest divided nan 4 games to support tiebreaker advantage complete nan Brewers. Of course, winning 3 of 4 aliases sweeping would beryllium moreover better. If nan Brewers triumph 3 of four, aliases expanse nan Dodgers, past they will beryllium successful nan driver’s spot for champion grounds and home-field advantage passim nan postseason.

The Dodgers person 3 games remaining against nan Braves, Aug. 25-27 astatine Atlanta.

Let’s return a look astatine really nan Dodgers and Brewers comparison this season, done Tuesday.

Runs per game
Dodgers, 5.02 (third successful nan majors)
Milwaukee, 4.91 (fifth)

Batting average
Dodgers, .261 (first)
Milwaukee, .252 (sixth)

On-base percentage
Dodgers, .338 (second)
Milwaukee, .336 (third)

Slugging percentage
Dodgers, .428 (second)
Milwaukee, .396 (19th)

Doubles
Milwaukee, 214 (third)
Dodgers, 198 (ninth)

Triples
Milwaukee, 20 (seventh)
Dodgers, 12 (18th)

Home runs
Dodgers, 152 (seventh)
Milwaukee, 110 (30th)

As you tin see, nan Dodgers person much powerfulness than nan Brewers, but Milwaukee makes up for it immoderate successful nan adjacent 2 categories.

Stolen bases
Milwaukee, 118 (fifth)
Dodgers, 46 (28th)

Sacrifice bunts
Milwaukee, 29 (second)
Dodgers, 12 (22nd)

ERA
Milwaukee, 3.54 (fourth)
Dodgers, 3.72 (seventh)

Rotation ERA
Dodgers, 3.54 (fourth)
Milwaukee, 3.56 (fifth)

Bullpen ERA
Milwaukee, 3.51 (fourth)
Dodgers, 4.02 (16th)

Pitcher strikeouts
Milwaukee, 1,169 (second)
Dodgers, 1,073 (eighth)

Pitcher walks
Dodgers, 373 (10th fewest)
Milwaukee, 376 (11th)

Home runs allowed
Milwaukee, 123 (seventh fewest)
Dodgers, 143 (20th)

Saves
Milwaukee, 38 (third)
Dodgers, 32 (14th)

Blown saves
Dodgers, 16 (T15th)
Milwaukee, 15 (T19th)

Inherited runners who scored%
Dodgers, 35.5%, 49 of 138 (23rd)
Milwaukee, 41.9%, 54 of 129 (28th)

The 2 teams are beautiful evenly matched.

The large quality betwixt nan 2 is nan Brewers conscionable can’t look to breakthrough successful nan postseason. They person made it successful 7 of nan past 8 seasons, but reached nan NLCS only twice, losing some times to a very acquainted team. Let’s look:

2018: Lost successful NLCS to Dodgers, 4-3
2019: Lost NL wild-card crippled to Washington
2020: Lost successful NL wild-card bid to Dodgers, 2-0
2021: Lost successful NLDS to Atlanta, 3-1
2022: Did not make postseason, vanished pinch 86-76 record
2023: Lost successful NL wild-card bid to Arizona, 2-0
2024: Lost successful NL wild-card bid to New York, 2-1
2025: Lost successful NLCS to Dodgers, 4-0

This is why it was specified a astonishment they didn’t do much to get Tarik Skubal. That would person fixed them a devastating 1-2 punch successful Skubal and NL Cy Young favourite Jacob Misiorowski. Instead, they acquired erstwhile Dodger Dustin May.

Keep successful mind, it is not imperative to decorativeness successful nan apical two. The Dodgers had to play successful nan first information past play and that worked retired OK. In fact, this play is looking amazingly for illustration past season, pinch nan shaky bullpen and beardown starting pitching.

L.A. radio/TV icon Steve Edwards discusses nan team

Steve Edwards, who had done conscionable astir everything successful nan section TV and power scenery and is astir apt champion remembered arsenic longtime big of “Good Day L.A.,” is simply a longtime Dodgers instrumentality and newsletter subscriber. He agreed to reply a fewer questions recently, and we convey him for his time. This was conducted via email.

Q. How agelong person you been a Dodgers fan, and do you person a favourite Dodgers representation and player?

Edwards: To a definite grade it started earlier nan Stone Age. I was a kid successful New York successful a glorious clip for baseball. We had 3 teams. We had nan celebrated Willie, Mickey and nan Duke playing halfway section for nan 3 teams. The teams were ever going to nan World Series each twelvemonth successful immoderate operation and it was an unthinkable clip erstwhile shot was nan king of each sports and to beryllium a kid successful nan mediate of each of was nirvana (a connection that didn’t beryllium successful nan a 9 twelvemonth old’s vocabulary-but sounds bully now). As a Bronx Kid I was geographically predisposed to nan Yankees.

But I loved nan Dodgers, who couldn’t? Jackie Robinson was a heroic fig successful my portion of nan world and you had Pee Wee and Campy and Hodges, Oisk, Skoonj and of people The Duke. Over nan years I gradually flipped allegiance — falling much successful emotion pinch nan Dodgers — and falling retired of emotion pinch The Steinbrenner Yankees, chiefly because of Steinbrenner. Moving to L.A. sealed it. When I came to L.A. nan teams were playing successful The World Series and I realized I was intelligibly rooting for nan Dodgers, a point that would’ve made my mother, who was from Brooklyn, very happy.

Q. How do you measure this season’s team?

Edwards: Really bully and yet disappointing. We are for illustration spoiled children — we get much of everything — and of people want moreover more. Of people it will travel together successful clip for nan playoffs wherever Kiké will deed .900, Glasnow and Snell will transportation no-hitters and Freddie will deed a mates of walkoffs. Now if Tucker and Díaz can really travel around……

Q. A ghost grants your wish and says you are nan proprietor of nan Dodgers and tin make 3 contiguous changes. What changes do you make? It tin beryllium to nan team, nan stadium, immoderate you want.

1. Keep Yordan Alvarez.

2. Have Frank McCourt ne'er bargain The Dodgers (or astatine slightest not clasp connected to a stock of nan onshore and parking lots).

3. I americium a BIG BIG instrumentality of Joe Davis and Stephen Nelson. We are truthful fortunate to person them, but I still wish we could perceive Vin’s sound — a sound that was nan soundtrack of truthful galore of our lives — not only nan champion ever, but connected america arsenic a organization and thief specify Los Angeles.

Q. Recently, a website listed their 10 top Dodgers. A batch of fans were unhappy that Shohei Ohtani wasn’t among nan apical 10. Seems measurement excessively soon to see him 1 of nan 10 top Dodgers. What do you think?

Edwards: Shohei didn’t go nan Face of Baseball until he became a Dodger. All those years, moreover pinch everything that he personally accomplished connected a squad pinch Mike Trout,didn’t really move nan needle that overmuch (that’s a full different Q&A).

When he arrived pinch nan Dodgers, it wasn’t conscionable nan needle moving, it was a seismic shift. He is already 1 of nan astir memorable Dodgers (or each of baseball) successful history — truthful to inquire if you should beryllium considered apical 10 is crazy, possibly immoderate deliberation he needs a fewer much years but he’s decidedly should beryllium considered and — travel connected —he’s in.

Q. Way backmost successful nan ancient times of 1991, I won WrestleMania tickets from you while you were hosting a show connected KABC 790 (which whitethorn person been nan top talk position successful history). You person been a TV big and person done virtually everything. What was your favorite?

Edwards: That’s for illustration choosing among your children aliases grandchildren. I’ve been incredibly fortunate and grateful for each of it. But I really did emotion doing Sportstalk…

Q. My 2 favourite shows of yours were “Two connected nan Town” with Melody Rogers and “Good Day L.A.” pinch you, Jillian Barberie and Dorothy Lucey. We recently did a story connected nan 3 of you hosting a podcast. What was nan genesis of that podcast, and really tin readers perceive to it?

Edwards: It came astir organically, we’ve remained really bully friends done nan years pinch each nan ups and downs of life. We were approached to do this, and it seemed for illustration a earthy point to do. There were a batch of group who loved that show — location besides a batch of group who were irritated by it. For maine it brings backmost a acquainted emotion of trying to decorativeness a sentence. Funny you mention Two connected nan Town — I’m astir to person a FaceTime pinch Melody Rogers correct aft this. You tin find nan podcast connected YouTube — “So Unanchored” pinch Jillian Barberie, Dorothy Lucey and Steve Edwards. It’s a bully woody astatine nan value — it’s free. You tin find it by clicking here.

Up next

Thursday: Milwaukee (*Shane Drohan, 6-4, 3.87 ERA) astatine Dodgers (Roki Sasaki, 5-5, 4.54 ERA), 7:10 p.m., SportsNet LA, AM 570, KTNQ 1020

Friday: Milwaukee (*Robert Gasser, 3-4, 4.57 ERA) astatine Dodgers (Yoshinobu Yamamoto, 11-7, 2.65 ERA), 7:10 p.m., SportsNet LA, AM 570, KTNQ 1020

Saturday: Milwaukee (Jacob Misiorowski, 11-5, 2.76 ERA) astatine Dodgers (*Justin Wrobleski, 11-4, 3.44 ERA), 4:15 p.m., Fox, AM 570, KTNQ 1020

Sunday: Milwaukee (Logan Henderson, 6-2, 2.88 ERA) astatine Dodgers (*Tarik Skubal, 6-2, 2.93 ERA [0-1, 4.09 ERA pinch Dodgers]), 1:10 p.m., SportsNet LA, AM 570, KTNQ 1020

All times Pacific

*-left-handed

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Until adjacent clip ...

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