We asked scouts, coaches and execs to weigh in on each team's second-half success -- and what it could mean for October.
No teams in baseball have been better since the All-Star break than the Dodgers, Padres and Corbin Carroll's Diamondbacks . ESPN baseball reporter. Covered the L.A. Rams for ESPN from 2016 to 2018 and the L.A. Angels for MLB.com from 2012 to 2016.have won 67% of the time since the All-Star break and yet have seen their division lead be trimmed by a game and a half.
The Dodgers showed some of that over these last few days, winning three of four on the road against the D-backs to finally give themselves some breathing room in the standings. By the end of Labor Day weekend, they led the Padres by five games and the D-backs by six, with FanGraphs giving them a 93.5% chance of winning the division.bloop single away from potentially splitting their series, have the talent and the moxie to take down the mighty Dodgers when it matters most. The Padres do, too.
A close observer called this year's Padres"a well-oiled machine," which seems appropriate. They might not have quite as much star power as last year's group, but the pieces seem to fit so much better. They're dominating in extra-inning games and coming through in clutch situations, two things they famously didn't do last year.
has looked a lot more like the guy who lit the world on fire last year, with an OPS 378 points higher in the second half than he had in the first.has a 6.26 ERA, and yet the D-backs' rotation scenario might be the envy of the division. It's a weird thing to write coming off a four-game series that saw their starters combine for 15 earned runs in 20 innings against the Dodgers, during which a scout raised concerns over the quality of Kelly's and Rodriguez's stuff.
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