The Dodgers are in the middle of a rough patch that the team hasn’t seen much of lately. After beating rival San Francisco Giants last weekend, LA lost just 5-10 in June and slipped to third place in the NL West. The Dodgers, usually good at home, won that last home game 4-2, including a 15-0 loss to the Giants on Saturday night.

All-Star Freddie Freeman opened up about the Dodgers’ struggles and what he thinks is wrong.

“It’s not the ideal situation right now,” said Freddie Freeman, Dodgers first baseman. “It’s hard to even put into words. Every day we come in with the right attitude. … And every day it’s another loss right now. It’s one of those difficult points in the season where you have to struggle, come every day and hope to win. Our team is far too good to survive this phase.”

According to the Orange County Register

Freeman is right that this team is too good to get through this phase, but it’s the reality the Dodgers are in right now. They haven’t shown any consistency on the field lately and honestly you never know what to expect from the games anymore. LA appears to be the team many believe will start the season after losing a slew of talent over the winter.

However, despite all the problems this team has to deal with, they are still just a few games behind the leaders. If they can clean up their game and get back to basics, maybe they can recover. But this team is not at the same level as in previous years. They have some real gaps in the squad that will need to be filled sooner rather than later. Manager Dave Roberts spoke about the track and how they can get the ship back on track.

“Looking back over that two-week span, there are a lot of things that we’re not doing well,” Roberts said. “We don’t play clean baseball, we don’t play fundamental baseball. I think it’s about not just winning, but focusing on the little things: catching the baseball, minimizing walks, throwing to the right base, not getting thrown at the bases. Making a pickoff play – these are the things that keep haunting us. Normally we are much better at it.”

According to the Orange County Register

The Dodgers were embarrassed by their rivals last weekend. Maybe that’s what it takes to ignite the spark from this team. Maybe the pride comes out and they say enough is enough. Whatever they have to do, they have to implement it quickly, otherwise this season could be lost. Both the players and the front office are to blame and changes need to be made as the trade deadline is fast approaching.

LA has a day off Monday before heading to a two-game series with the Angels. Maybe the extra time off will help this team get back on track.

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SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) — Police Chief Bill Scott escalated a war of words with District Attorney Chesa Boudin Monday less than two hours after State Attorney General Rob Bonta and San Francisco Mayor London Breed had issued a joint statement voicing their hopes of mediating the dispute over the investigations of use of deadly force incidents.

Scott had terminated an investigative agreement between his department and the DA’s office earlier this month in the wake of revelations that came to light during the trial of Officer Terrance Stangel.

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The agreement, or memorandum of understanding, between the agencies went into effect in July 2021 and allows the district attorney’s Independent Investigations Bureau to respond to crime scenes and investigate officer-involved shootings, in-custody deaths, and use-of-force cases.

Stangel is being tried on charges of battery, assault with a deadly weapon, assault likely to cause great bodily injury, and assault under color of authority. A DA investigator tested under oath that she felt pressured to mislead police and withhold evidence from a sworn affidavit out of fear of losing her job.

The alleged assault occurred in October 2019 encounter with Dacari Spiers, an unarmed Black man. Stangel and another officer initially responded to a report of a man choking a woman in the city’s Fisherman’s Wharf area and, once at the scene, a struggle ensued between Spiers and the officers.

During the encounter, Stangel allegedly struck Spiers’ legs with a baton several times, resulting in Spiers suffering a broken leg and wrist, as well as lacerations to his leg.

The testimony hath broiled over into a heated public debate with an exchange of accusations between Scott and Boudin. Now Scott and Boudin are scheduled to sit down this week to start renegotiating a new agreement to cooperate on use of force investigations.

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In the statement from Bonta, Breed and City Attorney David Chiu, the officials said that they were “working together to support the parties to swiftly and collaboratively reach an agreement on the terms of an amended MOU that address the significant issues of compliance, accountability, and mutual expectations.”

Scott used the statement to once again level criticism at Boudin, questioning the integrity of the DA’s office.

“I’m grateful to Attorney General Bonta, Mayor Breed and City Attorney Chiu for recognizing and responding to the significant issues of compliance that eroded my confidence in the integrity of my agreement with District Attorney Boudin’s office,” Scott said in his statement.

“I stand strongly for the principles of accountability and transparency, which are foundational to all 21st century police reforms — including those involving uses of force and officer-involved shootings,” the statement continued. “But accountability and transparency must be mutually honored by both parties in agreements such as these. I am hopeful that rigorous protections can be put in place to restore and then guarantee the ‘two-way street’ moving forward, which according to the sworn court testimony of an SFDA investigator that office abandoned.”

Boudin denies violating the agreement. Rachel Marshall, a spokesperson for Boudin’s office, said the agreement has room for improvement and that the DA’s office remains committed to prosecuting unlawful use of force.

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“We are hopeful that we will be able to reach an agreement that preserves our ability to conduct independent investigations of police use of force,” she said.

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