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This is the best of the Ben Mallor show on Fox Sports Radio.

Home field advantage is a fun thing.

The Arizona Diamondbacks, I'm relatively confident if that game had been in Colorado,

they would have lost.

They blew a six-run lead.

Had a six-nothing lead through three innings of the wild card game. Arizona taking advantage of Paul Goldschmidt's early three-run home.

Do you watch this game, by the way?

I was checking it out.

A little scouting report.

And I got to tell you, I feel more confident now that the Dodgers are going to advance than I did before the game.

That is not a great baseball team, the Arizona Diamondbacks that I saw.

Not at all.

So they got out to the big lead, and then they regurgitated that lead, most of it.

And Colorado came back and used the back and forth, right?

It's like a pinball machine.

They're going back and forth.

And the Diamondbacks came this close.

Now, you cannot see it's radio.

They came this close to being full-on choking dog.

We would have circled the wagons.

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