Leila Rahimi

They haven't won any of their last nine series.

And if they don't win tonight, they're not going to win a series in Colorado.

This is some ugly stuff.

It's a great question.

I mean, I think we all remember when the 2016 core was eventually figured out by like 18, and the Dodgers were the first ones to get there down the stretch in 17, where you threw the high fastball and the breaking ball that tunnels off that same spot, and you got them.

You got Schwarber and Bryant and Rizzo and Javi.

The numbers there, them in the postseason, that four-pack in the postseason, post-2016 as Cubs, was horrific.

Just like unbelievably bad because you could attack all of them the same way and every team knew it.

To your point, Layla, I'm not sure if that's what's happening.

You think it is?

He swung at the first pitch a couple times and hit the ball hard.

I still think he wouldn't acknowledge it with us last week, Lawrence, but I think that dude is in between trying to show the slug and going back to the contact line.

He's not doing that, though.

Look at the numbers.

He's not making good contact in that way.

Yeah, that's a really interesting number and a really distressing number.

And it makes me think of their velocity as a pitching staff, which has not been higher than 26th since 2018.

Like eight years in a row as a pitching staff of not throwing hard in a league where everyone throws hard.

and being dead last in bat speed in a league where everyone is working to increase their bat speed, those don't feel like good organizational trends.

And he's a great two-strike approach too, Lawrence.