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- 0:18Speaker 1: You gotta slip in your palm and a hole in
- 0:21Speaker 1: your chaps. Black coffee on the felt.
- 0:24Speaker 2: Man, you look like a mess.
- 0:27Speaker 1: Three teen Parlette turned the dust in your head. Now
- 0:31Speaker 1: you stare at the chips like they made you this man.
- 0:35Speaker 1: But don't you go quiet. Don't you fade from the floor.
- 0:39Speaker 1: Your name steal mean something in somebody for show. Put
- 0:43Speaker 1: the glass down, baby, look at me.
- 0:48Speaker 3: No, hold on, hold on nothing nice now, hold on,
- 1:01Speaker 3: hold on.
- 1:04Speaker 2: Me that but it don't get the crown.
- 1:16Speaker 3: Hold on, hold on.
- 1:19Speaker 2: And stay with me. Now, what's up, everybody?
- 1:30Speaker 4: It's towed back with you With toad Stool Sports Tuesday,
- 1:34Speaker 4: June ninth, I still feel a crap, so hopefully we
- 1:38Speaker 4: could somehow get the show done quickly. Even though there's
- 1:40Speaker 4: a full baseball slate. I'm gonna give about three baseball plays.
- 1:45Speaker 4: Yesterday was a pass for me, which probably was a
- 1:47Speaker 4: good thing because my read on some of those games
- 1:49Speaker 4: was not great. Red Sox did not win, Houston won
- 1:53Speaker 4: if you went full game, didn't win if you went
- 1:55Speaker 4: first five. Washington won full game and pushed first five
- 1:59Speaker 4: if you went with that one. Those are kind of
- 2:01Speaker 4: my three strongest opinions. I suppose whatever, let's get into it.
- 2:07Speaker 4: We have more WNBA Cup crap as well. I feel
- 2:11Speaker 4: like I'm being maybe too selective with the WNBA, but
- 2:14Speaker 4: I just don't like these games, dude.
- 2:16Speaker 2: And then I'm gonna skip the hockey game as well.
- 2:19Speaker 4: I know, I think I haven't had a play in
- 2:21Speaker 4: the Stanley Cup finals, but that's just the way that
- 2:23Speaker 4: it is. I'm not gonna force something like when it
- 2:26Speaker 4: isn't there.
- 2:26Speaker 2: So let's get into it. Seattle and Baltimore.
- 2:30Speaker 4: I'm gonna give out a play on this, even though
- 2:32Speaker 4: it looks like I'm on a public side.
- 2:34Speaker 2: Here, but I think it looks good to me.
- 2:41Speaker 4: I mean, it almost looks too easy, and I don't
- 2:43Speaker 4: like that the market read is going against this. But
- 2:47Speaker 4: we'll take Seattle on money line in this one. I
- 2:49Speaker 4: think this is a mismatch here in various ways. The
- 2:52Speaker 4: pitching throughout the game, I think it's pretty much a mismatch.
- 2:55Speaker 4: I know Seattle did use four relief pitchers yesterday. They
- 2:58Speaker 4: still have a couple of their better relievers of it
- 3:00Speaker 4: bailable here. Baltimore is the lesser bullpen. They use two
- 3:03Speaker 4: guys out of the bullpen, but the bullpen disparity is
- 3:07Speaker 4: quite a bit here. Seattle's got a bullpen ERA one
- 3:10Speaker 4: and a half runs better, even though I arrange it
- 3:12Speaker 4: by whip and they're only ranked fifteen Baltimore nineteen, but
- 3:16Speaker 4: I still think they have enough of an edge that
- 3:18Speaker 4: will take it full game. Here.
- 3:20Speaker 2: Offenses are kind of comparable.
- 3:22Speaker 4: Baltimore is ranked eleventh, Seattle twelfth based on ops. But
- 3:25Speaker 4: I'm also looking at the starting pitching here, and if
- 3:27Speaker 4: you want to go first five with this, I wouldn't
- 3:29Speaker 4: really disagree with that either. It might be a little
- 3:32Speaker 4: bit more of a price here, but this price, I'm
- 3:35Speaker 4: worried that it looks too easy, But again, like this
- 3:39Speaker 4: is just the way that I see it. Logan Gilbert
- 3:41Speaker 4: is pitching for Seattle. He's been really good. Three point
- 3:44Speaker 4: seven to nine ERA one point one whip. He's been
- 3:47Speaker 4: awesome on the road point nine to four Roady Ray,
- 3:50Speaker 4: which again doesn't really make sense because these Seattle pitchers,
- 3:54Speaker 4: you expect him to do better at home because it's
- 3:56Speaker 4: more pitcher friendly.
- 3:58Speaker 2: He's been way worse at home.
- 3:59Speaker 4: He's been awesome on the road, so I think we
- 4:00Speaker 4: can ride him on the road here. He didn't have
- 4:03Speaker 4: a great outing last time out against the Mets, but
- 4:05Speaker 4: he still had eight strikeouts in one walk, so he
- 4:08Speaker 4: is still in good form right now. His command numbers
- 4:10Speaker 4: have been good basically the entire season. He's got more
- 4:13Speaker 4: than one strike gut and ending low hit rate, low
- 4:16Speaker 4: walk rate. His home run rate is a little bit high, though,
- 4:19Speaker 4: but that's getting skewed a little bit by having seven
- 4:21Speaker 4: home runs all lout across a couple of starts there
- 4:24Speaker 4: in early May. So he did give up two in
- 4:27Speaker 4: his last down into the Mets, though, but I think
- 4:29Speaker 4: he can pitch well here. He is going to go
- 4:31Speaker 4: up against Baltimore, who they do have a good offense,
- 4:35Speaker 4: but Gilbert has been good against them. Sixty nine at
- 4:38Speaker 4: bats in his career against them, one seventy four average,
- 4:41Speaker 4: five eighty one ops, twenty one to four strikeout walk ratio.
- 4:45Speaker 4: All these numbers are good, so I think we should
- 4:48Speaker 4: get a good start from Gilbert here. Home road splits
- 4:51Speaker 4: point in his direction. He's the better of the two
- 4:53Speaker 4: pitchers over the course of the season. It's not even
- 4:56Speaker 4: really close. He's got good matchup numbers. He's going up
- 4:59Speaker 4: against Trevor who has not been anywhere near what he
- 5:02Speaker 4: was last year for Baltimore, which is making last year
- 5:05Speaker 4: look like more and more of a fluke, because I
- 5:07Speaker 4: didn't think he was gonna do anything last year, Like
- 5:09Speaker 4: I looked at his numbers before that when he was
- 5:12Speaker 4: on Miami and whenever he wasn't good.
- 5:14Speaker 2: Then last year he was shockingly good. But this year
- 5:16Speaker 2: he has been horrible.
- 5:18Speaker 4: Six point two ninety RA one point five to one
- 5:20Speaker 4: whip bad numbers. He's a little bit better at home,
- 5:23Speaker 4: but six point zero ninety RA is still terrible. Did
- 5:27Speaker 4: pitch well in his last game against Boston. He did
- 5:29Speaker 4: have a couple of decent starts in a row here.
- 5:31Speaker 4: He's gonna have to step up in class to face Seattle, though,
- 5:34Speaker 4: after facing Toronto and Boston and Detroit before that. Seattle's
- 5:38Speaker 4: a better offense than all three of those. He's got
- 5:41Speaker 4: a low strikeout rate this year, a hit rate that's
- 5:43Speaker 4: definitely too high. His walk rate is kind of mediocre.
- 5:47Speaker 4: He hasn't been good, and his numbers against Seattle aren't
- 5:50Speaker 4: really any veteran thirty nine at bats, seven to seven
- 5:52Speaker 4: strikeout walk ratio, three to zero WA eight average allowed,
- 5:55Speaker 4: one thousand and three ops. So I see this as
- 5:58Speaker 4: a pitching mismatch. Here. I think we have the pitching
- 6:01Speaker 4: edge throughout this entire game. The one concern would be
- 6:04Speaker 4: that Baltimore is kind of in a bounce back spot historically,
- 6:07Speaker 4: because they lost yesterday in a return home spot. And
- 6:10Speaker 4: a lot of times when that happens and a team
- 6:12Speaker 4: doesn't do that well in the return home spot, they
- 6:14Speaker 4: bounce back and they do better in the next game.
- 6:16Speaker 4: So Baltimore isn't a positive situational spot in that regard.
- 6:20Speaker 4: But I don't know if that situation is really strong enough.
- 6:23Speaker 4: I think this is a big pitching mismatch. We're getting
- 6:25Speaker 4: a cheap price here. We'll go with Seattle here. I
- 6:29Speaker 4: consider leaving this off my card, but I don't know.
- 6:31Speaker 4: I mean, it looks like Baltimore is kind of public.
- 6:33Speaker 4: Eighty percent of the tickets, ninety percent of the cash
- 6:36Speaker 4: on them, even though they have the worst record.
- 6:38Speaker 2: I don't know what the deal is with that. Really.
- 6:41Speaker 4: Seattle's favored on the road for a reason, though Osbakers
- 6:43Speaker 4: is telling you that they should be the better team
- 6:46Speaker 4: in this matchup here, it does look like the money
- 6:49Speaker 4: is actually hitting Baltimore here. I thought we were on
- 6:51Speaker 4: a public side here too. It looks like we're kind
- 6:53Speaker 4: of not, but whatever, we'll go with Seattle here. I
- 6:57Speaker 4: see it as one of the bigger mismatches of the day.
- 7:00Speaker 4: Arizona at Miami. These two teams did not play yesterday.
- 7:03Speaker 4: Miami is staying at home. They've won five of their
- 7:06Speaker 4: last six games as well, so they're playing decent baseball
- 7:09Speaker 4: right now. Arizona is having to fly in from home.
- 7:13Speaker 4: They had yesterday off as well, so the bullpens are
- 7:16Speaker 4: rested here. And I talk about this when teams are rested,
- 7:19Speaker 4: I tend to look towards unders a lot of the
- 7:22Speaker 4: time because you get rested bullpens, so all the bullpen
- 7:25Speaker 4: arms are available. The hitters can be cooled off a
- 7:27Speaker 4: little bit by the day off, so I do tend
- 7:30Speaker 4: to lean in that direction here.
- 7:32Speaker 2: Arizona could be in a little bit of a positive.
- 7:34Speaker 4: Spot because you usually are focused to start a road trip,
- 7:37Speaker 4: but they are having to travel across a couple of
- 7:38Speaker 4: time zones here, but going east is easier to do
- 7:41Speaker 4: with the going west for a late night game. These
- 7:44Speaker 4: bullpens have both been pretty good, Miami number seven, Arizona
- 7:47Speaker 4: number nine, although their era is a little bit worse
- 7:50Speaker 4: than that. Hitting wise, these teams have not been that great.
- 7:54Speaker 4: Miami twenty first, Arizona twenty third. That's not exactly good.
- 7:58Speaker 2: And this is a pitcher friendly ball here.
- 8:00Speaker 4: Low total here too, So there are some aspects of
- 8:03Speaker 4: this that do kind of make this look like it
- 8:04Speaker 4: could be an under Zach Gallon is pitching for Arizona.
- 8:09Speaker 4: He's had bad numbers though, five point three to two ERA,
- 8:12Speaker 4: one point five to two WHIP. He's been really bad
- 8:14Speaker 4: on the road seven point five to seven road ERA,
- 8:18Speaker 4: which doesn't really make sense because Arizona is a hitter
- 8:21Speaker 4: friendly ballpark, but he's way better at home.
- 8:24Speaker 2: It's the way that it is.
- 8:25Speaker 4: Maybe he'll pitch it better here because it's a pitcher
- 8:27Speaker 4: friendly park, but I don't know. He had a low
- 8:29Speaker 4: strikeout rate in his last two starts. That's a little
- 8:32Speaker 4: bit of a red flag there. His strikeout rate on
- 8:34Speaker 4: the season is actually really low, and his hit rate
- 8:37Speaker 4: is really high, and his walk rate isn't that great either,
- 8:40Speaker 4: So these overall numbers do not look good.
- 8:43Speaker 2: Miami, though, doesn't hit him well.
- 8:45Speaker 4: They only have twelve at bats against him, only four
- 8:48Speaker 4: of their hitters have ever faced and they have a
- 8:50Speaker 4: one sixty seven average. No extra base hits five hundred
- 8:53Speaker 4: ops five to three strikeout walk ratium. It's such a
- 8:56Speaker 4: small stamp, but there's not a whole lot you can
- 8:58Speaker 4: do with that. But maybe he does have a little
- 9:00Speaker 4: bit of an advantage here because it is against an
- 9:03Speaker 4: offense that doesn't have familiarity with him. They haven't really
- 9:06Speaker 4: hit him well when they've seen him. This is a
- 9:08Speaker 4: pitcher friendly park, and Max Meyer is pitching for Miami.
- 9:12Speaker 4: You know, I think he's good. Two point eight one ERA,
- 9:15Speaker 4: one point zero five whip. He's been really good this season.
- 9:18Speaker 4: He's been really good at home one point seventy nine
- 9:20Speaker 4: hom e Ra pitched really well in his last game
- 9:23Speaker 4: on the road at Washington. Miami's won a bunch of
- 9:27Speaker 4: his starts recently. They won six of his last seven starts.
- 9:30Speaker 4: The one start they didn't win was the start where
- 9:32Speaker 4: he gave up five and runs against the Mets. But
- 9:34Speaker 4: his pitching line still wasn't really that bad other than
- 9:37Speaker 4: the fact that his walk number went up a little bit.
- 9:40Speaker 2: Season wide, numbers are really good.
- 9:42Speaker 4: His hit rate is really low, his strike gout rate
- 9:44Speaker 4: is high, his walk rate is okay.
- 9:47Speaker 2: Numbers against I already forget who.
- 9:50Speaker 4: We're talking about here. Who are we talking about Arizona?
- 9:54Speaker 2: I don't know why.
- 9:55Speaker 4: My mind just doesn't work that way anymore. His numbers
- 9:59Speaker 4: against Arizona, believe or not, are actually not good. They
- 10:01Speaker 4: have five hitters who have faced him thirteen at bats
- 10:04Speaker 4: three eighty five average, one forty four oh ps five
- 10:07Speaker 4: to one strike out walk ratio. Does that mean I
- 10:09Speaker 4: actually think Meyer's gonna pitch poorly here? No, not really.
- 10:13Speaker 4: This is just such a small sample size, and I
- 10:15Speaker 4: don't believe it was this year, So I think you
- 10:18Speaker 4: have to take that with a bit of a grain
- 10:19Speaker 4: of salt. I don't think he's gonna pitch that poorly.
- 10:22Speaker 4: I think the under might be the way to look
- 10:25Speaker 4: at this game.
- 10:26Speaker 2: Again.
- 10:27Speaker 4: It's a situation that at least sets up for it
- 10:29Speaker 4: because you have two decent bullpens that are rested.
- 10:31Speaker 2: Here.
- 10:31Speaker 4: Money looks like it's hitting the over. I don't really
- 10:34Speaker 4: agree with that. Eighty three percent of tickets, ninety three
- 10:36Speaker 4: percent of the cash on the over. The total is
- 10:38Speaker 4: low seven and a half. It's low for a reason.
- 10:41Speaker 2: Man.
- 10:42Speaker 4: I think both pitchers could actually maybe get the job
- 10:44Speaker 4: done here. So I would lean under, But I don't
- 10:48Speaker 4: have a good gauge on this game. Really, Arizona is
- 10:52Speaker 4: getting the money. It looks like, for whatever reason, sixty
- 10:54Speaker 4: one percent of tickets eighty one percent of the cash
- 10:56Speaker 4: on Arizona. I mean, I did just show you. Gallon
- 10:59Speaker 4: at least does have better matchup numbers here, So I mean,
- 11:03Speaker 4: I guess you could potentially take a shot with Arizona.
- 11:06Speaker 4: Miami's around minus one thirty here. I don't really want
- 11:09Speaker 4: to fade Max Meyer though, though maybe this could potentially
- 11:12Speaker 4: be a spot where maybe you could do that, But
- 11:14Speaker 4: you don't want to weigh these matchup numbers that heavily
- 11:17Speaker 4: because there's such a small sample size. So Gerald, what's up?
- 11:21Speaker 4: Thanks for hanging out. I feel a crap. My sore
- 11:25Speaker 4: throat has turned into the sinus part of this whole
- 11:29Speaker 4: thing now. It's not going well. Also, the Red Sox loss,
- 11:33Speaker 4: so that's not going well either. They're playing against Tampa
- 11:36Speaker 4: again today. Red Sox lost three to one yesterday, so
- 11:39Speaker 4: yet again, the Red Sox offense is their downfall again.
- 11:44Speaker 4: Good pitching from the Red Sox yesterday, bad hitting. They
- 11:47Speaker 4: use four relief pitchers yesterday. They do have the better bullpen.
- 11:51Speaker 4: Tampa Bay had a bullpen game yesterday, so they used
- 11:53Speaker 4: six relief pitchers yesterday, so the Red Sox should have
- 11:56Speaker 4: a bullpen advantage again here they're ranked third and bullpen
- 12:00Speaker 4: and Tampa Bay is seventeenth and their ERA is significantly
- 12:03Speaker 4: higher than the Red Sox. Red Sox have a struggling offense,
- 12:07Speaker 4: so twenty fifth after the did go on a little
- 12:10Speaker 4: bit of a run, but now they're playing poorly again.
- 12:12Speaker 4: Tampa Bay fourteenth in offense, So Tampa Bay does have
- 12:16Speaker 4: the better hitting. Red Sox have the pitcher with more
- 12:20Speaker 4: upside in this game. I would say they have the
- 12:22Speaker 4: much younger, probably higher ceiling, Like I said, pitcher here,
- 12:27Speaker 4: Peyton Totley. He's been good two point two eight ERA
- 12:31Speaker 4: point nine to seven whip. I saw some metrics. I
- 12:34Speaker 4: think it was like some of the advanced analytics that
- 12:37Speaker 4: put him like upper echelon pitchers this season, which is
- 12:41Speaker 4: a good sign.
- 12:43Speaker 2: He doesn't have significant home roads.
- 12:44Speaker 4: What's his ERA is almost exactly the same home and
- 12:47Speaker 4: away pitch well last time out against Baltimore shut them
- 12:50Speaker 4: out after he had kind of a shaky start the
- 12:53Speaker 4: previous start against Atlanta.
- 12:55Speaker 2: He still hasn't allowed more than three or in runs
- 12:57Speaker 2: in any.
- 12:57Speaker 4: Start this season, he's got a high strikeout rate, low
- 13:00Speaker 4: hit rate in his walk rate isn't too bad either.
- 13:03Speaker 4: Numbers against Tampa Bay, though they've faced him, He actually
- 13:06Speaker 4: pitched well against them earlier this season in Fenway, he
- 13:09Speaker 4: had an outing where he went five innings, allowed one
- 13:11Speaker 4: on and run on, six hits, four strikeouts, no walk,
- 13:14Speaker 4: so he was not bad in that outing. But his
- 13:16Speaker 4: career numbers against Tampa must include some really bad start
- 13:21Speaker 4: last year or something, because his numbers are not good
- 13:23Speaker 4: against them. It's a very small sample eighteen at bats,
- 13:26Speaker 4: so maybe you shouldn't put too much weight into this
- 13:29Speaker 4: three eighty nine batting average with though nine four oh
- 13:31Speaker 4: ps two zero strikeout walk ratio, that doesn't look that great.
- 13:36Speaker 2: And Tampa is.
- 13:37Speaker 4: One of the more familiar teams with him in the
- 13:41Speaker 4: league so far. So a lot of times you have
- 13:43Speaker 4: these younger pitchers, they do better when they're unfamiliar to
- 13:46Speaker 4: their opponent, and he's not very unfamiliar to Tampa. Nick
- 13:49Speaker 4: Martinez is pitching for Tampa much older dude, but he
- 13:53Speaker 4: is having a good season two point twenty nine e
- 13:55Speaker 4: RA one point one to nine whip. He's been worse
- 13:58Speaker 4: at home, but two point eight six y is not
- 14:00Speaker 4: exactly bad. Wasn't good in his last start though against Detroit.
- 14:05Speaker 4: There are some red flags in here. I mean, pitching
- 14:07Speaker 4: poorly against Detroit is not a good thing because they're
- 14:09Speaker 4: not a good offense. Two of his last three outings
- 14:13Speaker 4: he only had one strikeout. That's not a good sign either.
- 14:17Speaker 4: So his strikeout rate is kind of low. It's actually
- 14:19Speaker 4: really low on the season. He's not striking out anybody.
- 14:22Speaker 4: He's a lot more than one hit per inning as well,
- 14:24Speaker 4: but his walk rate is quite low. He's been all right,
- 14:28Speaker 4: but he does not really go out there and blow
- 14:30Speaker 4: guys away. Red Sox have hit him well in the
- 14:33Speaker 4: past fifty eight at bats three twenty eight average eight
- 14:36Speaker 4: thirty nine oh ps nine to one strikeout walk ratio,
- 14:39Speaker 4: and they faced him earlier this year, but he actually
- 14:41Speaker 4: pitched okay in Fenway. He went five or two thirds,
- 14:44Speaker 4: give up one on run on seven hits though three strikeouts,
- 14:47Speaker 4: no walk, so he was okay in that outing. I
- 14:50Speaker 4: think totally is probably the better pitcher, though, Like if
- 14:53Speaker 4: I was gonna pick a side, I think I probably
- 14:55Speaker 4: would lean to the Red Sox again here slightly. I
- 14:58Speaker 4: think an over could potentially be worth a look here,
- 15:02Speaker 4: though the money's coming on Tampa. I don't really know why,
- 15:05Speaker 4: because the Red Sox initially did move to a favorite here,
- 15:08Speaker 4: so the favorite flipped to the Red Sox, which which
- 15:11Speaker 4: is usually some indicator. But we have eight fifty four
- 15:14Speaker 4: percent of the tickets on the Red Sox fifty six
- 15:16Speaker 4: percent of the cash on Tampa.
- 15:18Speaker 2: I don't really buy that though.
- 15:19Speaker 4: I don't think the public is coming in and playing
- 15:21Speaker 4: the Red Sox here.
- 15:22Speaker 2: I wouldn't think so because their record is just bad.
- 15:25Speaker 4: They're eleven and a half games behind Tampa Bay, so
- 15:28Speaker 4: I don't really see that really being the case here.
- 15:32Speaker 4: The odds makers, I think, are telling you something like
- 15:34Speaker 4: I said yesterday by lining the Red Sox as a favorite.
- 15:36Speaker 4: But I thought the Red Sox had a better match
- 15:39Speaker 4: up betge yesterday with a good young starter against a
- 15:42Speaker 4: bullpen game, and they still couldn't get it done. I think,
- 15:46Speaker 4: like I said in over, might actually be worth considering
- 15:49Speaker 4: here because both starting pitchers are familiar to the opposing hitters,
- 15:52Speaker 4: and they both have bad matchup numbers, and there's not
- 15:55Speaker 4: much leeway here with the total of seven and a half.
- 15:58Speaker 4: Usually I know seven and a half. Odds makers are
- 16:00Speaker 4: telling you they think it's gonna be a pitching duel.
- 16:02Speaker 4: They think it's gonna be a low scoring game. But
- 16:04Speaker 4: I could see this going over. Tampa Bay's bullpen is
- 16:07Speaker 4: like completely shot here too, so that might actually be
- 16:12Speaker 4: my preference in this game.
- 16:13Speaker 2: Is to just go over. But this is not gonna
- 16:15Speaker 2: be a play for me.
- 16:17Speaker 4: I could see both pitchers doing well here too, because
- 16:19Speaker 4: they both have done well on the season. Obviously, uh So,
- 16:22Speaker 4: obviously there's still a decent chance they pitch well.
- 16:27Speaker 2: Excuse me.
- 16:28Speaker 4: We have a sixty three percent of tickets, sixty one
- 16:31Speaker 4: percent of the cash on the under, so the money
- 16:33Speaker 4: looks like it is indicating.
- 16:34Speaker 2: Towards the over. Kyle, what's up?
- 16:37Speaker 4: They start hanging out? Next game is Dodgers and Pirates.
- 16:43Speaker 4: Uh these teams were off yesterday. Pittsburgh is returning home.
- 16:46Speaker 4: They went to Houston and Atlanta got swept by Atlanta.
- 16:50Speaker 4: You know, I do talk about when a team returns
- 16:51Speaker 4: home from the road, it's a bad spot. Generally you
- 16:54Speaker 4: have to get back to home life. It can be
- 16:57Speaker 4: a distraction. But I think the fact that they're playing
- 16:59Speaker 4: to the Dodgers might keep them focused enough here, but
- 17:02Speaker 4: I would say it's still negative for Pittsburgh enough that
- 17:05Speaker 4: I don't think I really want to get involved in
- 17:07Speaker 4: this game. Dodgers are having to travel though they're coming
- 17:10Speaker 4: in from LA, so they do have a day off,
- 17:14Speaker 4: but having to travel across multiple time zones can be
- 17:16Speaker 4: a little bit difficult, although again starting a road trip,
- 17:19Speaker 4: like I said with Arizona, sometimes is a positive spot.
- 17:22Speaker 2: Here.
- 17:23Speaker 4: Dodgers are number one in offense, Pittsburgh number six. Dodgers
- 17:27Speaker 4: number two in bullpenal their ray has actually gone up,
- 17:29Speaker 4: so maybe they're not really the number two bullpen here,
- 17:33Speaker 4: still better than Pittsburgh, who is sixteenth better ERA than
- 17:38Speaker 4: they have as well. Now looking at this pitching matchup, though,
- 17:41Speaker 4: this looks like the starting pitching matchup has to be
- 17:44Speaker 4: an edge for Pittsburgh here. Eric Lawers pitching for the Dodgers.
- 17:49Speaker 4: They just picked him up off the scrap heap not
- 17:52Speaker 4: too long ago after Toronto got rid of him. He
- 17:54Speaker 4: hasn't been good this season most of these numbers with
- 17:56Speaker 4: Toronto though, five point seventy for ERA one point.
- 18:00Speaker 2: Three to eight whip.
- 18:01Speaker 4: He was pretty good for Toronto last year, but this
- 18:03Speaker 4: year he was just not doing well. His road numbers
- 18:06Speaker 4: are not great either, five point five to seven. Roady,
- 18:09Speaker 4: al right, he is a little bit better on the road,
- 18:11Speaker 4: but that's still pretty bad, and Pittsburgh is a good
- 18:13Speaker 4: offense at home. Lower has made two starts with the
- 18:17Speaker 4: Dodgers here. I don't know why this says he was
- 18:19Speaker 4: acquired between these last two.
- 18:21Speaker 2: These these were both with the Dodgers.
- 18:23Speaker 4: I'm pretty sure he had one good start at home
- 18:25Speaker 4: against Colorado and then he had a pretty shaky start
- 18:27Speaker 4: in his last start on the road against Arizona. I
- 18:32Speaker 4: think this is more comparable to that Arizona start because
- 18:35Speaker 4: he is going to a road environment that's not gonna
- 18:38Speaker 4: be very pitcher friendly going up against Pittsburgh here. I
- 18:44Speaker 4: hate how ESPN does not switch these. He's got bad
- 18:47Speaker 4: numbers against Pittsburgh forty one at bats. You only have
- 18:50Speaker 4: six hitters who have faced him, but they've all done
- 18:52Speaker 4: damage pretty much, three sixty six batting average, eleven to
- 18:55Speaker 4: twenty seven OPS, eight to two strikeout walk ratio. So
- 18:59Speaker 4: Loward does not look like he sets up very well here,
- 19:01Speaker 4: and he has to go up against Paul Skeens, who
- 19:04Speaker 4: is the better of these two pitchers obviously, three point
- 19:07Speaker 4: zero nine ERA point nine to one whip. He's been
- 19:10Speaker 4: good at home two point five homeyra. You expect that
- 19:14Speaker 4: his ERA on the season should be in the twos
- 19:16Speaker 4: as well. I think maybe at some point it will be.
- 19:19Speaker 4: He's been a little bit shaky though over his last
- 19:21Speaker 4: four starts. In fact, Pittsburgh has lost all four of them.
- 19:25Speaker 4: Not entirely his fault, but he did a lot too
- 19:27Speaker 4: many runs in a couple of them.
- 19:29Speaker 2: But I think he's probably gonna get back into form here.
- 19:32Speaker 4: I mean, he's skiings, he's got a high strikeout rate,
- 19:34Speaker 4: low walk rate, really low hit rate. We know that
- 19:37Speaker 4: he's really good. Obviously his numbers against the Dodgers hard
- 19:42Speaker 4: hitting lineup, but Skeens has done pretty well against them
- 19:44Speaker 4: in the past. Sixty two at bats, seventeen strikeouts, two walks,
- 19:48Speaker 4: two ten average six seventy oh ps. So, even though
- 19:52Speaker 4: I don't love to jump on teams that are in
- 19:53Speaker 4: the return home spot, and that's kind of the reason
- 19:55Speaker 4: why I'm avoiding this, you're not gonna get skins at
- 19:59Speaker 4: a cheap price like this very often, Dude, sixty four
- 20:01Speaker 4: percent ticket, seventy eight percent of the cash on Pittsburgh.
- 20:04Speaker 2: They're on minus one twelve. I would lean to Pittsburgh here.
- 20:09Speaker 4: Again, I don't love the spot in the return home spot.
- 20:13Speaker 4: I think I would actually play at first five. But
- 20:15Speaker 4: if you do that, you have to pay a little
- 20:16Speaker 4: bit extra uh in the first five because obviously the
- 20:19Speaker 4: oddsmakers are they know that the biggest edge Pittsburgh has
- 20:22Speaker 4: is the starting pitching matchup, so you're you're probably gonna
- 20:26Speaker 4: have to lay a bigger money line on that. But
- 20:28Speaker 4: I think that's the way I would do it, is
- 20:30Speaker 4: Pittsburgh first five money line. I think you have an
- 20:34Speaker 4: edge there with Skeins over lour. So that's the way
- 20:36Speaker 4: I would look at that game. Next game up is
- 20:40Speaker 4: gonna be another play for me. We better get some
- 20:43Speaker 4: wins here today. Man, this next game, I think this
- 20:49Speaker 4: is gonna be an under the radar type of play here,
- 20:51Speaker 4: Twins and Tigers. I'm gonna go under four and a
- 20:55Speaker 4: half in the first five innings here with this pitching
- 20:57Speaker 4: matchup here. And it might sound crazy like nobody's gonna
- 21:01Speaker 4: want to play an under in a game like this,
- 21:02Speaker 4: but as I already pointed out, you have two teams
- 21:05Speaker 4: that are returning, the two teams that were off yesterday,
- 21:07Speaker 4: excuse me. So I think when that happens, the bats
- 21:10Speaker 4: can kind of cool off a little bit. You get
- 21:11Speaker 4: rested bullpens here. I know I'm cutting the bullpens out anyway,
- 21:15Speaker 4: because I don't like these bullpens at all. Like I
- 21:17Speaker 4: don't think you could. You do not want to risk
- 21:20Speaker 4: having Minnesota's bullpen in here. They're twenty eighth and bullpen
- 21:23Speaker 4: very bad Detroit twenty first, so I'm just gonna cut
- 21:26Speaker 4: them out.
- 21:27Speaker 2: These offenses have.
- 21:28Speaker 4: Struggled Detroit twenty third, Minnesota nineteenth, so I think we
- 21:32Speaker 4: could fade these offenses here, and I like the starting
- 21:35Speaker 4: pitching here. I'm looking at the scheduling spot. By the way,
- 21:38Speaker 4: Detroit is hot right now. They are staying at home.
- 21:40Speaker 4: They have been hitting a little bit better. Got to
- 21:42Speaker 4: give them that. They've won five of their last six games.
- 21:46Speaker 4: Their offensive numbers that have improved a bit, but I
- 21:50Speaker 4: still think they might be held down by the pitching here.
- 21:53Speaker 4: Minnesota has played in some low scoring games where recently
- 21:56Speaker 4: they've been playing poorly.
- 21:57Speaker 2: They lost four of their last five.
- 21:59Speaker 4: They're coming in from home starting a road trip, which
- 22:02Speaker 4: that is a better Uh. That is sometimes a good
- 22:04Speaker 4: spot when you leave home and just start a road trip.
- 22:07Speaker 4: You can be more focused here. But I'm looking at
- 22:09Speaker 4: the total here. As I said, TODJ. Bradley is pitching.
- 22:12Speaker 2: For the Twins.
- 22:12Speaker 4: I know his whip isn't very good. One point three
- 22:15Speaker 4: to two is elra three point five six is pretty good,
- 22:17Speaker 4: although it should be higher based on that whip. He's
- 22:20Speaker 4: not quite as good on the road three point six
- 22:22Speaker 4: to eight road.
- 22:23Speaker 2: I get all that.
- 22:25Speaker 4: I do worry that he had five walks in his
- 22:27Speaker 4: last ounting against the White Sox, and he wasn't that
- 22:29Speaker 4: good in that Pittsburgh game the game before that where
- 22:32Speaker 4: we lost on a first five under in that one.
- 22:34Speaker 4: But I still think he's you know, I don't want
- 22:37Speaker 4: to say he's like completely out of form here. I
- 22:39Speaker 4: know the walks are concerned, but those are pretty good offenses.
- 22:42Speaker 4: He's stepping down in class to face Detroit here. He
- 22:45Speaker 4: faced them earlier this season. He had one of his
- 22:47Speaker 4: best starts of the season against them earlier this year
- 22:49Speaker 4: in Minnesota. Went six and a third, ten strikeouts, no walks,
- 22:53Speaker 4: one on and run, allowed six hits. He was really
- 22:56Speaker 4: good in that outing against Detroit, and he has good
- 22:59Speaker 4: numbers generally against Detroit as well. He has held him
- 23:02Speaker 4: to a one sixty seven average four to thirty nine ops.
- 23:06Speaker 4: It's a small sample though, twenty four at bats they
- 23:08Speaker 4: only have one extra base. He had a double from McKinstry,
- 23:11Speaker 4: nine strikeouts, one walk, So I think Bradley has a
- 23:15Speaker 4: good match up here. So I think he can come
- 23:16Speaker 4: back into form here. And nobody's gonna pay attention to
- 23:20Speaker 4: Troy Melton, who is pitching for the Tigers year.
- 23:23Speaker 2: He's actually not bad.
- 23:25Speaker 4: He's a young pitcher still, and they've put him in
- 23:27Speaker 4: the starting rotation basically because they don't really have any choice.
- 23:30Speaker 4: But he was in the starting rotation for a while
- 23:32Speaker 4: last year too, and his numbers last year are pretty good.
- 23:35Speaker 4: His numbers this year are pretty good between the bullpen
- 23:37Speaker 4: and between and starting one point seven point eighty seven
- 23:42Speaker 4: whip that's all pretty good.
- 23:43Speaker 2: Actually, he's only made starts this year. My mistake.
- 23:46Speaker 4: Last year he made a bunch of relief appearances. His
- 23:49Speaker 4: strikeout rate wasn't good last year. I know he's not
- 23:51Speaker 4: really a strikeout pitcher, but he's been pretty capable man,
- 23:55Speaker 4: and he's going deep into these outings. Actually, he hasn't
- 23:59Speaker 4: pitched at home yet. He's only made roads starts so far,
- 24:02Speaker 4: and it hasn't really been that easy. Like he had
- 24:04Speaker 4: a deep outing against the White Sox, another one against Tampa.
- 24:07Speaker 4: Those are not easy offenses to face, and Baltimore all
- 24:11Speaker 4: on the road and he allowed no more in the
- 24:13Speaker 4: touring runs than any of them. Has a low hit rate,
- 24:16Speaker 4: low walk rate, And yes, I know his strikeout rate
- 24:18Speaker 4: is not good, but Melton has been pretty good. And
- 24:21Speaker 4: he also has done well against Minnesota in the past.
- 24:24Speaker 2: It's a small sample.
- 24:25Speaker 4: Four at bats, a lot of their guys haven't even
- 24:27Speaker 4: seen him, but the row for four off and with
- 24:30Speaker 4: no strikeouts and no walks, so he's got a clean
- 24:32Speaker 4: sheet against them. I like that he's going deep into
- 24:35Speaker 4: these outings and these bats that haven't seen him.
- 24:39Speaker 2: Seem to tend to struggle against him a little bit.
- 24:41Speaker 2: So I like it. First five under in twins Tigers here,
- 24:47Speaker 2: Let me see if we can find it here. Let
- 24:49Speaker 2: me look for Melton there.
- 24:52Speaker 4: It is Hi, the FAQ, where are you Melton there?
- 24:56Speaker 4: The money is indicating on the under pretty strongly here.
- 25:00Speaker 4: Fifty six percent of tickets on the over, sixty two
- 25:02Speaker 4: percent of the cash on the under. Full game is
- 25:04Speaker 4: eight and a half. I just don't want the bullpens
- 25:07Speaker 4: involved because they're not good bullpens. So that's the way
- 25:10Speaker 4: I'm doing it. The money is also coming in on Detroit,
- 25:12Speaker 4: for what that's worth. They're about minus one thirty here.
- 25:15Speaker 4: Seventy four percent of tickets are on Minnesota, fifty three
- 25:18Speaker 4: percent of the cash on the Tigers. So do with
- 25:22Speaker 4: that info what you want. But I like the under
- 25:24Speaker 4: first five there. That's gonna be another play, all right.
- 25:28Speaker 4: Yankees and Cleveland. Unfortunately, the Yankees wound up winning an
- 25:33Speaker 4: extra innings yesterday even though they were losing the game late.
- 25:36Speaker 4: So Cleveland blowing that game, maybe Cleveland will be a
- 25:38Speaker 4: little bit hung over here. Yankees are still probably gonna
- 25:41Speaker 4: take Cleveland seriously because Cleveland played them well yesterday. Cleveland
- 25:45Speaker 4: beat them two out of three in New York like
- 25:47Speaker 4: a week ago. So I don't think the Yankees are
- 25:49Speaker 4: gonna be unfocused here. This is TBS and Prime. Here
- 25:53Speaker 4: is where this game is. Yankees did use a lot
- 25:56Speaker 4: of relief pitchers though the game went into extra innings.
- 25:58Speaker 4: They use seven guys out of the bullpen. That's not good.
- 26:02Speaker 4: Cleveland also used quite a few. They use five these
- 26:06Speaker 4: bullpens are both mediocre. Yankees are twelveth Cleveland at fourteenth,
- 26:10Speaker 4: but I would not want to trust these bullpens given
- 26:13Speaker 4: the lack of rest that they have right now. Yankees
- 26:15Speaker 4: are number two in offense, Cleveland is way worse than
- 26:19Speaker 4: that of twenty six. Yankees clearly have the better offense
- 26:22Speaker 4: here and they have the better starting pitcher here, obviously.
- 26:25Speaker 4: Garrett Cole's pitching for the Yankees. He's been good so
- 26:28Speaker 4: far in his return from injury to Era point eight
- 26:32Speaker 4: nine Whip. He has a zero roady ray so far,
- 26:35Speaker 4: only one start, but it was his best start, shut
- 26:38Speaker 4: out with ten strikeouts against Kansas City. He actually just
- 26:42Speaker 4: faced Cleveland, though, and that was his worst start of
- 26:44Speaker 4: the season easily. I gave up three bombs, four and runs,
- 26:48Speaker 4: six hits and five and a third.
- 26:50Speaker 2: I know home runs are fluky.
- 26:51Speaker 4: But two strikeouts, one walk. He wasn't good in that
- 26:55Speaker 4: outing and Cleveland just saw him. So that might help
- 26:57Speaker 4: Cleveland's bats a little bit. And believe it or not,
- 27:00Speaker 4: Cole does not have good numbers against Cleveland. They have
- 27:02Speaker 4: ninety nine at bats against him, nineteen strikeouts, twelve walks,
- 27:06Speaker 4: two sixty three average eight fifty seven ops, so Cleveland
- 27:10Speaker 4: is one of the offenses that can actually do damage
- 27:12Speaker 4: against him. For whatever reason, Slay Chacone is pitching for Cleveland,
- 27:18Speaker 4: He's not good four point nine two ERA, one point
- 27:21Speaker 4: four to three whip that's not very good. He's good
- 27:23Speaker 4: at home though, ish four point one to nine home hera,
- 27:27Speaker 4: so he is better at home. He just faced the Yankees,
- 27:30Speaker 4: so the Yankees offense might have a little bit of
- 27:32Speaker 4: an advantage here as well because they just saw him.
- 27:34Speaker 2: But he pitched well. He went six innings, gave up
- 27:36Speaker 2: one on run, four hits, four strikeouts, one walk, and
- 27:40Speaker 2: Cleveland somehow managed to not win that game.
- 27:44Speaker 4: Because their offense sucks. But Chacone he actually does well
- 27:48Speaker 4: against the Yankees. That was not his only start against them.
- 27:51Speaker 4: They have thirty six at bats against him, not a
- 27:54Speaker 4: huge sample, but still decent, sixty two strikeout walk ratio
- 27:58Speaker 4: two twenty two average, six eighty ops. So Slay Chaconi
- 28:03Speaker 4: actually has the better matchup numbers in this game here.
- 28:08Speaker 2: Would we dare actually go with Cleveland here?
- 28:12Speaker 4: I mean, I think I kind of have to lean
- 28:14Speaker 4: that way a little bit. They're an underdog at home here.
- 28:18Speaker 4: Yankees probably paying a little bit of a price for
- 28:20Speaker 4: them with coal, they're minus one thirty something.
- 28:23Speaker 2: Here looks fairly easy to play the Yankees.
- 28:25Speaker 4: Although we have ninety one percent of the tickets ninety
- 28:28Speaker 4: three percent of the cash on Cleveland. I don't think
- 28:30Speaker 4: Cleveland's the public side here, Like, do you really think
- 28:32Speaker 4: the public is going against the Yankees and Cole and
- 28:36Speaker 4: going with Chacony. I highly doubt that, So I think
- 28:39Speaker 4: maybe Cleveland is worth a look.
- 28:41Speaker 2: But I think.
- 28:43Speaker 4: You know, an over might be worth a look here
- 28:46Speaker 4: if you go full game on this and include the bullpens.
- 28:48Speaker 4: Because Chaconi is just not good, so there's a chance
- 28:51Speaker 4: he gives up runs here. Even though the Yankees are
- 28:53Speaker 4: not as good offensively on the road. Cole doesn't have
- 28:57Speaker 4: good matchup numbers here. Eight and a half is the
- 29:00Speaker 4: total here, sixty four percent of tickets, ninety five percent
- 29:02Speaker 4: of the cash on the over.
- 29:04Speaker 2: So do with that information what you want.
- 29:06Speaker 4: I could see the arguments fort I think there are
- 29:09Speaker 4: there are arguments for an under too, though you could argue, well,
- 29:11Speaker 4: Cole is still a good pitcher and Chaconi has good
- 29:14Speaker 4: matchup numbers.
- 29:14Speaker 2: You could argue for an under if you're gonna go under.
- 29:17Speaker 4: I would go first five though, because the bullpens are
- 29:19Speaker 4: just totally unrested there.
- 29:21Speaker 2: If you're gonna go over, I would go full game
- 29:23Speaker 2: with it.
- 29:24Speaker 4: All right, Philadelphia and Toronto, these teams did play yesterday.
- 29:27Speaker 4: Philadelphia won, not a shock. I said that I thought
- 29:31Speaker 4: they would with Sanchez up against. I don't even know
- 29:34Speaker 4: who pitched for Toronto, Oh yeah, Patrick Korman. Philadelphia used
- 29:38Speaker 4: two relief pitchers, Toronto used three. I think Philadelphia has
- 29:43Speaker 4: the better bullpen, even though they're ranked lower in whip
- 29:46Speaker 4: Toronto's ten Philadelphia thirteen, But Philadelphia's got the better ERA
- 29:50Speaker 4: A little bit more rested here too.
- 29:52Speaker 2: Philadelphia has been poor offensively though.
- 29:54Speaker 4: They're tied in twenty sixth with Cleveland and Kansas City.
- 29:59Speaker 4: And uh, Toronto is not really that much better at twentieth,
- 30:04Speaker 4: so we have some offenses that are struggling here. Zach
- 30:07Speaker 4: Wheeler is pitching for Philadelphia. He's been really good since
- 30:10Speaker 4: coming back. He's right back in form, like he basically
- 30:13Speaker 4: picked up right where he left off.
- 30:14Speaker 2: He's got a two.
- 30:15Speaker 4: Point three to one ERA point eight three whip home
- 30:19Speaker 4: road splits. His ERA is the same both home and away.
- 30:22Speaker 4: Doesn't matter. He did throw over one hundred pitches in
- 30:25Speaker 4: his last out, and he was a pretty good start
- 30:26Speaker 4: against San Diego. I wouldn't be that concerned with that,
- 30:29Speaker 4: even though I know that was the first time he
- 30:31Speaker 4: threw over one hundred pitches this season. But he's a
- 30:33Speaker 4: veteran dude. I mean, he's used to it, so I
- 30:36Speaker 4: wouldn't be too concerned by that. His strike cut rates
- 30:39Speaker 4: a little bit low here, but not too bad. His
- 30:41Speaker 4: hit rate is really low and his walk rate's not
- 30:43Speaker 4: bad either, so he's pitched well this season.
- 30:46Speaker 2: He's got good numbers against Toronto as well.
- 30:48Speaker 4: Eighty one at bats twenty one to three strike out
- 30:51Speaker 4: walk ratio to twenty two average, five eighty three ozh ps.
- 30:55Speaker 4: So Wheeler looks like he has a good match up here.
- 30:58Speaker 4: I think he should pitch well. Dylan Cease will be
- 31:01Speaker 4: making his return from the injured list for the Blue
- 31:04Speaker 4: Jays here. Cease having a good season three point zero
- 31:07Speaker 4: five ERA, one point two to one WHIP. He's been
- 31:10Speaker 4: good at home two point three to four home ERA.
- 31:14Speaker 4: Struggled a bit over his last few outings.
- 31:16Speaker 2: I know one of them was against the Yankees.
- 31:18Speaker 4: One of them was against Pittsburgh, but he was walking
- 31:20Speaker 4: too many guys in the last few outings. Didn't get
- 31:23Speaker 4: injured though, so maybe the injury had something to do
- 31:25Speaker 4: with it. It's Pittsburgh start got cut short, I think
- 31:29Speaker 4: because of the injury. Overall, he's got a really high
- 31:32Speaker 4: strikeout rate, like maybe he might even have the highest
- 31:35Speaker 4: strikeout rate in baseball. He hasn't thrown that many innings
- 31:39Speaker 4: and he's almost at one hundred strikeouts already in sixty
- 31:42Speaker 4: two innings. He's got a low hit rate as well
- 31:44Speaker 4: as walk rate is too high. That's like always the
- 31:47Speaker 4: case with Cease, though he blows guys away.
- 31:50Speaker 2: He tends to throw too many pitches and walks too
- 31:52Speaker 2: many guys.
- 31:55Speaker 4: Against Philadelphia, he hasn't been that great and sixty at
- 31:58Speaker 4: bats twelve six strikeout walk ratio to sixty seven average
- 32:02Speaker 4: nine hundred ops. So Cease doesn't look like he matches
- 32:05Speaker 4: up well. However, what I will say is that a
- 32:08Speaker 4: lot of times you have a veteran pitcher like Cease
- 32:10Speaker 4: coming back from the injured list. A lot of times
- 32:12Speaker 4: they're pumped up and they pitch well because they're excited
- 32:15Speaker 4: to get back out there, and the team kind of
- 32:17Speaker 4: rallies around them and whatever. So I don't really want
- 32:19Speaker 4: to fade a veteran pitcher like Cease coming back here.
- 32:22Speaker 4: And the money is actually on Toronto seventy to nine
- 32:24Speaker 4: percent of tickets, eighty eight percent of the cash on them,
- 32:28Speaker 4: they're around minus one ten. I mean, I think if
- 32:31Speaker 4: you forced me to pick a side, I think I
- 32:33Speaker 4: would still fade Toronto here. I think I would prefer
- 32:37Speaker 4: Wheeler Overseas still, based on the matchup numbers. I just
- 32:40Speaker 4: showed you the totals really low at seven and a half,
- 32:43Speaker 4: so the odds makers are kind of telling you they
- 32:45Speaker 4: think this is going to be a pitching duel here,
- 32:47Speaker 4: and you know that's not really going out on a limb.
- 32:49Speaker 4: Although Cease doesn't have good matchup numbers, but these are
- 32:51Speaker 4: two good starters here. I wouldn't really disagree with the
- 32:56Speaker 4: under all though we have fifty three percent of tickets
- 32:58Speaker 4: fifty two percent of the cash on the under. I
- 33:00Speaker 4: don't know how much I love the bullpens, but I
- 33:02Speaker 4: don't really hate them either. I don't know a full
- 33:05Speaker 4: game under. I see more arguments for that than that,
- 33:09Speaker 4: you know, then for an over here, but I don't know.
- 33:11Speaker 4: I think the best arguments are actually for Philly in
- 33:14Speaker 4: that game, but I don't want to do anything with it.
- 33:17Speaker 2: Garrett, what's up? Thanks for hanging out. I don't know what's.
- 33:22Speaker 4: Gonna happen in that game tonight. I have an opinion
- 33:26Speaker 4: on it that is not what the market is saying.
- 33:29Speaker 4: Saint Louis at the Mets. The Mets are returning home
- 33:31Speaker 4: from the Pacific Coast, and you know, I talk about.
- 33:33Speaker 2: That when a team has been gone for a week
- 33:35Speaker 2: and they're.
- 33:35Speaker 4: Travel across country, that's one of the worst spots you
- 33:39Speaker 4: can be in because you gotta get back to home life.
- 33:41Speaker 2: You can get distracted.
- 33:43Speaker 4: It's even worse in baseball when it's a bad team,
- 33:45Speaker 4: and I think the Mets.
- 33:46Speaker 2: Do qualify as a bad team.
- 33:48Speaker 4: So this is not a good spot for the Mets here,
- 33:51Speaker 4: although they are actually favored because I think Saint Louis
- 33:54Speaker 4: is just a massively overrated team. Saint Louis has the
- 33:57Speaker 4: better situational angles, though they're starting a road trip. Been
- 34:00Speaker 4: coming in from Saint Louis, so I think that's better.
- 34:04Speaker 4: They're on a four game win streak. They did just
- 34:06Speaker 4: sweep Cincinnati, but I don't think you're gonna be in
- 34:09Speaker 4: a letdown spot for sweeping the last place.
- 34:11Speaker 2: Team in your division. Mets still have a lot of
- 34:14Speaker 2: name recognition whatever.
- 34:15Speaker 4: Playing in New York is still a big deal, So
- 34:17Speaker 4: I think Saint Louis is in a focused spot here
- 34:20Speaker 4: with momentum. Both teams were off yesterday, by the way,
- 34:23Speaker 4: for whatever that's worth. Mets have the better bullpen. Mets
- 34:26Speaker 4: are ranked fifth. They actually have a pretty good bullpen.
- 34:30Speaker 2: Saint Louis is twentieth, so the Mets have a bullpen edge. Year.
- 34:34Speaker 2: Hitting wise, the Mets have been awful. They're twenty ninth,
- 34:37Speaker 2: although at least they're out of the bottom spot thinks
- 34:39Speaker 2: to San Diego.
- 34:41Speaker 4: Saint Louis is fifteenth, so Saint Louis does have the
- 34:43Speaker 4: better offense. Dustin May is pitching for Saint Louis. He's
- 34:47Speaker 4: been pitching better recently. His numbers on the season are
- 34:50Speaker 4: actually in kind of a range where they're more tolerable
- 34:54Speaker 4: four point five to ninety or one point twenty nine whip.
- 34:56Speaker 4: He's been a little bit better on the road four
- 34:58Speaker 4: point two to three road, which doesn't make sense because
- 35:01Speaker 4: Saint Louis is a pitcher friendly park.
- 35:04Speaker 2: But he's actually pitching better recently.
- 35:06Speaker 4: He's had a high strikeout rate recently seven plus strikeouts
- 35:10Speaker 4: in four of his last five starts. He's allowed no
- 35:13Speaker 4: more than foreign runs in any start going all the
- 35:15Speaker 4: way back to his first two starts of the season.
- 35:18Speaker 2: So May is actually pitching better. Unfortunately, you know.
- 35:23Speaker 4: Because the Red Sox had him very briefly, and I'm like,
- 35:25Speaker 4: what the fuck are the Red Sox even doing because
- 35:28Speaker 4: I thought May was never going to bounce back from
- 35:30Speaker 4: his injury issues and whatever. He's still not there, like
- 35:34Speaker 4: he's not what he once was, but he is pitching better.
- 35:36Speaker 4: He's got a pretty easy task here against a weak
- 35:39Speaker 4: hitting Mets line.
- 35:40Speaker 2: Up here, and he is a good form.
- 35:43Speaker 4: Like I said, against the Mets, He's got twenty six
- 35:46Speaker 4: at bats against them. They only have six hitters who
- 35:48Speaker 4: have ever faced him, one ninety two average allowed and
- 35:52Speaker 4: five ninety two ohps five to five strikeout walk ratio,
- 35:55Speaker 4: but four walks are from Soto, so May actually does
- 35:59Speaker 4: have good matchup numbers here, so he might actually pitch well.
- 36:02Speaker 4: He is not the better pitcher out of the two,
- 36:04Speaker 4: just on the surface, I think Freddy Peralta is the
- 36:07Speaker 4: better pitcher, although Peralta's whip has gotten into higher territory here.
- 36:11Speaker 4: He's got a three point six y three RA. His
- 36:13Speaker 4: whip is too high though, one point three to two.
- 36:16Speaker 4: That's not good. He's been worse at home as well,
- 36:19Speaker 4: four point one to nine homey RA. Pitched well last
- 36:22Speaker 4: time at Seattle, which was a nice bounce back because
- 36:25Speaker 4: he had two bad outings in a row against Miami,
- 36:28Speaker 4: although his strikeout rate was still really good over that span.
- 36:31Speaker 4: But he is kind of trending back in the right direction.
- 36:33Speaker 4: He's got a good strike out rang on the season,
- 36:35Speaker 4: good hit rate. His walk rate is too high. That's
- 36:38Speaker 4: always his problem is the walks. He's got to get
- 36:40Speaker 4: that number down against Saint Louis. He has alright numbers
- 36:46Speaker 4: here in ninety five at bats two forty two average,
- 36:49Speaker 4: six poin fifty eight ohps. They've seen a lot of
- 36:51Speaker 4: them because he was on Milwaukee for a while, but
- 36:54Speaker 4: he's done pretty well against them. Twenty five strikeouts eleven
- 36:56Speaker 4: walks isn't great though, too many walks, but overall his
- 36:59Speaker 4: numbers pretty good here. So I don't really want to
- 37:01Speaker 4: fade Peralta, even though I think if you forced me to.
- 37:04Speaker 2: Pick a side I would lean to Saint Louis here.
- 37:06Speaker 4: The money's not agreeing, sixty one percent of tickets on
- 37:10Speaker 4: Saint Louis, sixty eight percent of the cash on the Mets.
- 37:12Speaker 4: I do not agree with that. The Mets are around
- 37:14Speaker 4: minus one thirty here. Mets are in a bad spot, dude.
- 37:18Speaker 4: Like I said, the return home spot, I don't like that.
- 37:22Speaker 4: I don't like that spot at all. So I think
- 37:24Speaker 4: I would lean slightly towards Saint Louis is the dog here.
- 37:28Speaker 4: And under makes some sense here as well. The total
- 37:31Speaker 4: is low for a reason, it's seven and a half.
- 37:33Speaker 4: Then the money looks like it's on the over fifty
- 37:35Speaker 4: percent of tickets eighty seven percent of the cash on
- 37:37Speaker 4: the over.
- 37:38Speaker 2: I think it undermakes some sense.
- 37:40Speaker 4: Both starting pitchers actually have good matchup numbers here, so
- 37:43Speaker 4: I think and undermakes sense. Maybe a first five under
- 37:47Speaker 4: if you want to avoid Saint Louis's bullpen, But you
- 37:50Speaker 4: have two. Like I said, these are teams that were
- 37:52Speaker 4: off yesterday, so you have offenses that might be cooled off.
- 37:55Speaker 4: The offensive offense for the Mets might be distracted as
- 37:58Speaker 4: well from the return home and.
- 38:00Speaker 2: Travel cross country.
- 38:02Speaker 4: Neither bullpen is really that bad and they're both completely arrested,
- 38:05Speaker 4: So I think it under makes more sense than anything
- 38:08Speaker 4: else in that game.
- 38:10Speaker 2: Actually, yeah, I don't know.
- 38:12Speaker 4: I'm torn between Saint Louis and the under in that one,
- 38:14Speaker 4: but I'm not gonna do anything with that, is it?
- 38:18Speaker 4: Eric Vetti, I'm not sure. I looked at the Braves
- 38:21Speaker 4: five games ago and it was a Davis Martin start,
- 38:24Speaker 4: so I don't know. He's not pitching yet, so I
- 38:26Speaker 4: don't know what they're doing, or I mean, I looked
- 38:28Speaker 4: at the White Sox.
- 38:29Speaker 2: Excuse me, the White Sox.
- 38:31Speaker 4: Yes, I'm happy the Knicks lost the run line. This
- 38:39Speaker 4: is Braves at Chicago here, so at least if you
- 38:42Speaker 4: go run line, you.
- 38:42Speaker 2: Have all nine innings to work with.
- 38:45Speaker 4: Here, the White Sox are returning on from a road trip,
- 38:48Speaker 4: so that's a negative. They went to Minnesota and Philadelphia again.
- 38:52Speaker 4: When a team returns home from the road, a lot
- 38:54Speaker 4: of times they're distracted. But I think that's mitigated somewhat
- 38:57Speaker 4: by the fact they're playing the team with the best
- 38:59Speaker 4: record in baseball. I'm pretty sure the Braves, like, are
- 39:02Speaker 4: you really gonna overlook the Braves?
- 39:04Speaker 2: Probably not. Atlanta could be in a letdown spot too, because.
- 39:07Speaker 4: They're coming out a sweep of Pittsburgh. Pretty big weekend
- 39:12Speaker 4: series there, although they avoided Paul Skins though, right so
- 39:16Speaker 4: they kind of lucked out there. But they won five
- 39:20Speaker 4: of their last six games. They won eight of their
- 39:21Speaker 4: last ten. But this could be a letdown spot for them.
- 39:24Speaker 4: I think it's kind of a negative spot for both
- 39:26Speaker 4: teams here. No bullpen usage because the teams are off yesterday.
- 39:31Speaker 4: Atlanta has the better bullpen. They're number one in both
- 39:34Speaker 4: WHIP and ERA.
- 39:36Speaker 2: White Sox not great at eighteenth, so Atlanta.
- 39:39Speaker 4: Has a bullpen advantage. Both offenses are good. Atlanta number three,
- 39:43Speaker 4: White Sox number four. Grant Holmes is pitching for Atlanta.
- 39:48Speaker 2: I don't know. I'm not really a fan of these numbers.
- 39:50Speaker 4: Three point eight six e Ra's pretty good, but at
- 39:52Speaker 4: one point three to two WHIP isn't that great. He's
- 39:54Speaker 4: a little bit worse on the road, but not much
- 39:57Speaker 4: for road ERA. He was alright in his last start
- 40:00Speaker 4: against Toronto.
- 40:01Speaker 2: I don't know. He's been a little bit shaky and.
- 40:03Speaker 4: Not really going deep into a lot of these recent outings.
- 40:06Speaker 4: He's got too high of a walk rate too. I
- 40:08Speaker 4: don't really trust Holmes here. He's got a decent hit rate,
- 40:11Speaker 4: but his walk rate is way too high his strikeout rates.
- 40:15Speaker 4: You know, Okay, I don't think Holmes is that good
- 40:19Speaker 4: against the White Sox. Let me say, uh, they haven't
- 40:24Speaker 4: really faced him, so he does have that advantage.
- 40:26Speaker 2: They're oh for three with a strikeout.
- 40:28Speaker 4: Only Akunya, not not the not the Braves, Acunya, Luis
- 40:35Speaker 4: on Hellakunya, I don't even know who that is, and
- 40:38Speaker 4: Greed Chuck have combined for that over three with a strikeout.
- 40:41Speaker 4: So Holmes does have an unfamiliarity yet here at least,
- 40:44Speaker 4: and Chicago's going with a bullpen game, which is pretty ugly.
- 40:48Speaker 4: Isert is listed as a starter, He's probably only gonna
- 40:52Speaker 4: go one to two innings here. He's got a three
- 40:54Speaker 4: point two one ERA one point two one whip Carrott.
- 40:58Speaker 4: You think it's gonna be Fetti coming in after? It
- 41:00Speaker 4: might be because again I looked five games back and
- 41:03Speaker 4: it was Davis Martin, so I was like, I don't
- 41:06Speaker 4: really know what they're doing here. Obviously Martin is not
- 41:08Speaker 4: gonna have an opener in front of him. FEddi last
- 41:12Speaker 4: pitched on the third, so I think you might be right.
- 41:14Speaker 4: It might be Fetti. He actually went he actually went
- 41:17Speaker 4: five innings of shutout ball last time out against the Mets.
- 41:21Speaker 4: But yeah, I mean I don't trust Fetti. He's got
- 41:23Speaker 4: some ugly numbers here, four point nine to four e RA,
- 41:26Speaker 4: but one point four to one whip indicates his THERA
- 41:29Speaker 4: should be higher than that other brothers. All right, so
- 41:32Speaker 4: this is the battle of the brothers then interesting.
- 41:36Speaker 2: Yeah, I still don't really like Fetti.
- 41:37Speaker 4: Feedti's been better at home though, three point eight two
- 41:40Speaker 4: homie RA, so he's significantly better at home.
- 41:43Speaker 2: Numbers against Atlanta not great.
- 41:47Speaker 4: In one hundred and eleven at bats to eighty eight,
- 41:49Speaker 4: average allowed, eight thirty five ops, fourteen to twelve starting
- 41:52Speaker 4: out walk ratio.
- 41:53Speaker 2: None of that is really good.
- 41:54Speaker 4: So if you're gonna get a bullpen game with FEddi
- 41:58Speaker 4: you know, probably going four five innings here or whatever,
- 42:01Speaker 4: at least they're gonna try to let him do that,
- 42:02Speaker 4: I guess is what they're doing here. Yeah, I mean,
- 42:06Speaker 4: I think you're probably right. Atlanta probably should win this game.
- 42:09Speaker 4: White Sox look public, which doesn't make any sense to me.
- 42:13Speaker 4: I mean, I understand the White Sox being public because
- 42:16Speaker 4: there's hype on them they're a good offense, but I
- 42:18Speaker 4: guess it Landa. Oh, Fetti is listed as a starter,
- 42:21Speaker 4: now you got that right? Yeah, all right, yeah, you're correct.
- 42:24Speaker 4: He's listed as a starter on the board here now,
- 42:28Speaker 4: so yeah, it will be him, but kind of slash
- 42:31Speaker 4: a bullpen game. I think if you're gonna play this game,
- 42:33Speaker 4: I think you should go action on the White Sox side, though,
- 42:36Speaker 4: I think you should specify Holmes must start, but for
- 42:39Speaker 4: the White Sox, because they might put an opener in
- 42:42Speaker 4: front of Fetti, and I think you could be pretty
- 42:44Speaker 4: certain you're gonna get Fetti here at some point, but
- 42:47Speaker 4: maybe not to start the game. If you want your
- 42:49Speaker 4: bet to still count, I think you should specify Holmes
- 42:52Speaker 4: must start, but you don't care who starts for the
- 42:54Speaker 4: White Sox. I think that's probably what I would do,
- 42:57Speaker 4: unless you think they're gonna switch to Davis Martin here,
- 42:59Speaker 4: but I don't think so.
- 42:59Speaker 2: I think he might pitch tomorrow.
- 43:02Speaker 4: Atlanta's about minus one fifty something here, ninety four percent
- 43:05Speaker 4: of the tickets, eighty five percent of the cash on
- 43:07Speaker 4: the White Sox money looks like it's indicating towards Atlanta.
- 43:10Speaker 4: I still don't buy that the White Sox are actually
- 43:12Speaker 4: a public side here though that makes no sense to me,
- 43:16Speaker 4: and Money is hitting the over here. The totals at nine,
- 43:19Speaker 4: so it's a pretty high total. Oddsmaker's kind of thinking
- 43:23Speaker 4: that there's gonna be some offense in this game here,
- 43:26Speaker 4: which might be right, you know, I think the better
- 43:29Speaker 4: way to play this because Holmes is just kind of
- 43:31Speaker 4: a mystery here. I think Atlanta team total over is
- 43:34Speaker 4: probably the best way to play this because I think
- 43:36Speaker 4: they could definitely get runs. I know they're actually better
- 43:39Speaker 4: on the road too, Atlanta. They actually hit better on
- 43:42Speaker 4: the road than at home, believe it or not. So
- 43:44Speaker 4: I think that is probably the approach in this game,
- 43:46Speaker 4: Atlanta team total over. That would probably be what I
- 43:49Speaker 4: would recommend you. I think they could definitely get runs
- 43:51Speaker 4: off of Fetti plus whatever relievers come in for the
- 43:54Speaker 4: White Sox here. Fetti Mikolas got the job done yesterday. Man,
- 44:01Speaker 4: he did well enough for Washington to win that game. Yeah,
- 44:05Speaker 4: that was like the one spot where you might want
- 44:07Speaker 4: to play Micholas, although he had to go full game
- 44:09Speaker 4: on it, and I never would have done that with Washington.
- 44:12Speaker 4: I never want to include their bullpen, all right, Texas
- 44:15Speaker 4: Kansas City. These teams were off yesterday as well. Kansas
- 44:20Speaker 4: City just started the road trip that they're finishing now.
- 44:24Speaker 4: They started it in Texas and they got swept. So
- 44:27Speaker 4: Kansas City has a little bit of a quick revenge
- 44:30Speaker 4: angle here maybe.
- 44:32Speaker 2: But they're returning home from the road. They just had
- 44:33Speaker 2: three roads series in Texas, Cincinnati, Minnesota. Now the returning
- 44:38Speaker 2: home from that, you know, I talk about this, when
- 44:39Speaker 2: a team returns home from the road.
- 44:41Speaker 4: It's a negative spot. Typically you have to get back
- 44:44Speaker 4: to home life. It's not a good spot to me in.
- 44:48Speaker 4: But again that might be negated somewhat by the fact
- 44:51Speaker 4: that they got swept at Texas to start the road trip,
- 44:54Speaker 4: so they may not overlook Texas here, even though Kansas
- 44:58Speaker 4: City is a bad team in a bad spot. Texas
- 45:02Speaker 4: was off yesterday as well. They just beat Cleveland. They're
- 45:05Speaker 4: hot right now Texas. They've won seven of their last
- 45:08Speaker 4: nine games, including beating Cleveland ten nothing the last time out.
- 45:12Speaker 4: Although Texas's offense is not really that good no bullpen usage.
- 45:17Speaker 2: I don't know why I'm looking at that.
- 45:18Speaker 4: Texas has the better bullpen, though by a lot, the
- 45:21Speaker 4: ranked six than bullpen Kansas City's twenty ninth and Texas
- 45:25Speaker 4: ERA is almost two runs better than Kansas City. This
- 45:28Speaker 4: is a huge bullpen advantage to Texas year, even though
- 45:31Speaker 4: they're both rested.
- 45:35Speaker 2: Offensively, neither team has done well.
- 45:37Speaker 4: Texas is twenty first, Kansas City twenty six, so Texas
- 45:40Speaker 4: has a little bit of an advantage there too. On
- 45:43Speaker 4: the surface, I think Texas has the better starter here
- 45:46Speaker 4: as well, with Nathany Vivaldi. He's got a four point
- 45:48Speaker 4: one ERA, but his one point one to eight whip
- 45:50Speaker 4: is pretty solid, like his ther should probably be a
- 45:53Speaker 4: little bit better than that. He's been good on the road,
- 45:56Speaker 4: which is kind of weird because Texas is a pitcher
- 45:58Speaker 4: friendly ballpark, but he's got three point eight to eight
- 46:01Speaker 4: rodio race.
- 46:01Speaker 2: He's been a little bit better on the road.
- 46:03Speaker 4: He did just get knocked around a bit by Saint
- 46:05Speaker 4: Louis in his last downy, but his command members are
- 46:07Speaker 4: still there seven to one strike out walk ratio, so
- 46:11Speaker 4: I don't think he's like totally out of form here,
- 46:13Speaker 4: but his last two starts were a little bit worse. Overall,
- 46:17Speaker 4: he's got good numbers. He's got a strike out rate
- 46:19Speaker 4: right around one per inning, hit rate lower than that,
- 46:21Speaker 4: and walk rate is low as well, but he's allowed
- 46:23Speaker 4: fourteen home runs, so the long ball.
- 46:25Speaker 2: Has been kind of an issue for him.
- 46:27Speaker 4: But other than that, he's got solid numbers otherwise, and
- 46:32Speaker 4: he's a solid pitcher. He's been around for a while.
- 46:34Speaker 4: I mean, we know, I can't find Kansas City here.
- 46:37Speaker 4: He's he's got numbers that aren't that good against Kansas
- 46:39Speaker 4: City though. In seventy six at bats, seventeen to three
- 46:42Speaker 4: strike out walk ratio is good, but a two seventy
- 46:44Speaker 4: six average eight fifty six ops allowed, that's not good.
- 46:48Speaker 4: So this might be a bad matchup for Reavaldi here.
- 46:52Speaker 4: Steven Colek is pitching for the Royals. He was on bereavement,
- 46:56Speaker 4: but I don't think he's missing a start here. I
- 46:59Speaker 4: think he's on schedule here and he's been good at
- 47:01Speaker 4: home one point eight home he ra. I don't know
- 47:03Speaker 4: if the bereaveman is gonna be like an distraction for
- 47:06Speaker 4: him or anything thing, But he pitched well. Uh six
- 47:09Speaker 4: days ago, he pitched in Cincinnati, hit her friend the ballpark,
- 47:12Speaker 4: and he pitched well there.
- 47:13Speaker 2: He's been pretty good on the season. Low hit rate,
- 47:15Speaker 2: low walk right.
- 47:16Speaker 4: His strikeout rate is low though doesn't strike out a
- 47:19Speaker 4: lot of guys. I think Evaldi just has better stuff
- 47:23Speaker 4: than colect but Coleck has been pretty good.
- 47:26Speaker 2: His numbers against Texas, though, are not good.
- 47:28Speaker 4: Thirty seven at bats three seventy eight average allowed, eleven
- 47:31Speaker 4: oh one oh ps, five strikeouts, two walks. So I
- 47:34Speaker 4: don't really like what I'm seeing with these matchup numbers
- 47:37Speaker 4: from either starter or here.
- 47:39Speaker 2: I mean, we would we dare go over in this game. Uh.
- 47:42Speaker 4: The crazy thing is the oddsmakers are really kind of
- 47:45Speaker 4: putting these totals really high in Kansas City.
- 47:48Speaker 2: Now.
- 47:48Speaker 4: They've brought the walls in and E Evaldi colec games
- 47:52Speaker 4: at nine to nine and a half here on the total,
- 47:54Speaker 4: that's crazy. The money is indicating pretty heavily on the
- 47:57Speaker 4: over as well, and eighty nine percent of tickets on
- 47:59Speaker 4: the under ninety two percent of the cash on the over.
- 48:03Speaker 4: I mean, I don't think I quite want to do it,
- 48:05Speaker 4: because you do. You do still have two pretty good
- 48:07Speaker 4: starting pitchers here, but their matchup numbers are bad, so
- 48:10Speaker 4: I can see the argument for the over, and that
- 48:12Speaker 4: does look like that's where the.
- 48:13Speaker 2: Money is going.
- 48:14Speaker 4: I wouldn't want to do it, though, especially over that
- 48:17Speaker 4: high of a total. But then again, odsmakers are kind
- 48:20Speaker 4: of signaling with a total that high. Kansas City also
- 48:24Speaker 4: appears to be public, which I would not buy that
- 48:26Speaker 4: at all. Seventy six percent of ticket, seventy four percent
- 48:29Speaker 4: of the cash on Kansas City, there's no way that
- 48:31Speaker 4: the public is actually on Kansas City. Minus one twenty
- 48:35Speaker 4: or so is the price on Texas. I'd probably lean
- 48:37Speaker 4: Texas here. I think Evaldi he does have better matchup
- 48:41Speaker 4: numbers two, even though they're not great, but I think
- 48:44Speaker 4: he's just the better pitcher there. So that's what I
- 48:46Speaker 4: think about that. I'll be right back and then I'll
- 48:48Speaker 4: talk about the rest of these games. I have one
- 48:50Speaker 4: more play in baseball. Give me a second, all right.
- 50:17Speaker 4: Our next game is Cubs at Colorado. Cubs are coming
- 50:23Speaker 4: in from home, so they're starting a road trip. Could
- 50:26Speaker 4: be a focused spot, possibly bounced back spot, because the
- 50:29Speaker 4: Cubs haven't been playing great recently.
- 50:30Speaker 2: They just lost to San Francisco.
- 50:33Speaker 4: Colorado is staying at home off of getting swept by Milwaukee,
- 50:37Speaker 4: so both teams seems like a focused spot for both
- 50:40Speaker 4: teams to me here. Colorado, well, yeah, neither team played yesterday,
- 50:47Speaker 4: so there's no bullpen usage here. Colorado's bullpen is bad
- 50:50Speaker 4: though the Cubs are ranked eighth and bullpen Colorado is
- 50:54Speaker 4: where are they.
- 50:57Speaker 2: Twenty six? A huge bullpen disparity.
- 50:59Speaker 4: In fact, Colorado is the worst bullpenny ra so Cubs
- 51:02Speaker 4: have a huge bullpen edge here. Cubs are number ten
- 51:05Speaker 4: on offense, the Rockies are seventeen, so the Cubs have
- 51:09Speaker 4: the advantage there too. Colin Ray is pitching for the Cubs.
- 51:13Speaker 2: He hasn't been.
- 51:14Speaker 4: Great four point five ninety Ray one point three to
- 51:17Speaker 4: five whip. He's been way way worse on the road
- 51:19Speaker 4: six point one to nine ROADI ra now, he's not
- 51:23Speaker 4: an extreme fly ball pitcher though, so he might do
- 51:26Speaker 4: okay in course field.
- 51:27Speaker 2: And I looked.
- 51:27Speaker 4: I think the last time he pitched at Corsefield was
- 51:29Speaker 4: two years ago, and he actually did well in that start,
- 51:32Speaker 4: although that was two years ago. But he profiles as
- 51:36Speaker 4: a guy that can pitch okay in course field, just
- 51:40Speaker 4: because he's not really a huge fly you know, not
- 51:43Speaker 4: a huge fly ball pitcher, not a huge home run
- 51:45Speaker 4: pitcher here.
- 51:45Speaker 2: But he's struggled recently still though he's.
- 51:48Speaker 4: Been allowing too many walks, not going that deep into
- 51:50Speaker 4: some of these games. I don't know, not really great
- 51:53Speaker 4: stuff here, more than one hit a upper ending on
- 51:54Speaker 4: the season, low strike out rate, kind of a high
- 51:57Speaker 4: walk rate, so I don't really like these numbers here. However,
- 52:00Speaker 4: against Colorado I think.
- 52:02Speaker 2: He does do well. Yeah.
- 52:03Speaker 4: They only have four hitters who have faced him though,
- 52:05Speaker 4: so not a huge sample to look at here. The
- 52:08Speaker 4: only extra Mase hit is a double from Julian. They're
- 52:11Speaker 4: one for eleven, two strikeouts, one walk. Uh oh ninety
- 52:14Speaker 4: one average is what that is? Three forty eight ops.
- 52:18Speaker 4: Ray might do well here, He's pretty unfamiliar to them,
- 52:20Speaker 4: and he does profile okay from pitching a course Tomoyuki
- 52:24Speaker 4: Sugano is pitching for the Rockies.
- 52:26Speaker 2: He's he's been alright.
- 52:27Speaker 4: Uh three point nine to eighty RA one point two
- 52:30Speaker 4: six really not bad considering he has to pitching course
- 52:33Speaker 4: field half the time. He's been worse at home though,
- 52:36Speaker 4: of course four point five home ye RA. It's not
- 52:38Speaker 4: easy to pitch in this stadium. But he's done alright.
- 52:42Speaker 4: Like I said, he's been kind of a serviceable pitcher.
- 52:45Speaker 4: He's got a really low strikeout rate though, but his
- 52:48Speaker 4: hit rate and his walk rate really aren't that bad.
- 52:51Speaker 4: He is kind of a fly ball pitcher, though, so
- 52:53Speaker 4: he's allowing some home runs. Here, numbers against the Cubs
- 52:57Speaker 4: are actually not bad, and twenty at bats strike out
- 53:00Speaker 4: walk ratio two under an average five thirty eight ops.
- 53:04Speaker 4: I don't know if I would trust it, but I
- 53:07Speaker 4: mean I could see the argument for an under in
- 53:08Speaker 4: this one. The totals twelve and a half, which is ridiculous.
- 53:12Speaker 4: It's coors Field, but you know, money coming in on
- 53:16Speaker 4: the over eighty three percent of tickets on the under,
- 53:18Speaker 4: ninety five percent of the cash on the over, first
- 53:21Speaker 4: five under, I think you could make an argument for it.
- 53:25Speaker 4: I think both starting pitchers might actually do better than
- 53:27Speaker 4: people think here. I would not go full game under
- 53:30Speaker 4: because Rockies bullpen it's just awful, but I think first.
- 53:33Speaker 2: Five under does make some sense here.
- 53:35Speaker 4: The Cubs are also around minus one fifty ninety percent
- 53:38Speaker 4: of tickets ninety two percent of the cash on Colorado.
- 53:40Speaker 4: I don't really have an opinion on the side there.
- 53:45Speaker 4: Cubs are the better team, but I don't know. I
- 53:47Speaker 4: mean that game just I don't have a good.
- 53:49Speaker 2: Read on it. Houston had Anaheim.
- 53:52Speaker 4: Anaheim returned home yesterday and Houston was able to beat them,
- 53:55Speaker 4: but it took extra innings to do it. Anaheim could
- 53:58Speaker 4: be in a bounced back spot after that, because when
- 54:00Speaker 4: you return home sometimes if you don't play well, sometimes
- 54:03Speaker 4: you bounce back. But it was a close game yesterday.
- 54:06Speaker 4: Anaheim used five relief pitchers. Their bullpen has not been good.
- 54:10Speaker 4: Houston used four. Houston's bullpen has been a little bit
- 54:12Speaker 4: better recently. They were really bad for so long, but
- 54:16Speaker 4: they're twenty fourth now, which isn't too bad. Anaheim twenty seventh.
- 54:21Speaker 4: These bullpens are both pretty close right now. Neither are
- 54:23Speaker 4: good though. Houston is number seven in offense. Anaheim is eighteen,
- 54:30Speaker 4: so Houston has a bit of an edge there. Kaiwai
- 54:33Speaker 4: Tang is pitching for Houston. I still don't know what
- 54:35Speaker 4: to think about him. He's got good numbers. A lot
- 54:38Speaker 4: of it was out of the bullpen, though, three point
- 54:41Speaker 4: six ERA, one point one to seven whip. He's been
- 54:44Speaker 4: good on the road two point five to seven roadyra.
- 54:48Speaker 4: But there are some indicators that this is not gonna last.
- 54:50Speaker 4: Like if you look at his longer outings, he's walked
- 54:53Speaker 4: at least three guys and three out of the four
- 54:56Speaker 4: he's been allowing some runs recently, he only had one
- 54:58Speaker 4: strikeout last time against Pittsburgh. I don't know, man, I
- 55:02Speaker 4: think this is gonna unravel a little bit for Tang here.
- 55:04Speaker 4: These numbers are really not that great on the season.
- 55:09Speaker 4: His hit rate is good, his strike out rate is
- 55:10Speaker 4: all right, but his walk rate is way too high.
- 55:13Speaker 2: So the walks are definitely a problem for him.
- 55:16Speaker 4: But maybe he matches up okay here because Anaheim hasn't
- 55:18Speaker 4: really seen him much.
- 55:20Speaker 2: They only have eight of bats against him.
- 55:22Speaker 4: Only Peraza has a hit against him, one strikeout, no walks,
- 55:26Speaker 4: one twenty five average two fifthy ops.
- 55:30Speaker 2: So maybe he does pitch well here.
- 55:31Speaker 4: But I think Walbert Uranium I'd actually be the more
- 55:34Speaker 4: talented pitcher here. Urania has been alright in what I
- 55:37Speaker 4: think is his rookie season. He's got a two point
- 55:40Speaker 4: six to eighty RA. His whip is too high though,
- 55:42Speaker 4: one point three to three, so that indicse the THERA
- 55:45Speaker 4: should be higher. But he's been good at home two
- 55:47Speaker 4: point one to two. Homie Ray pitched pretty well last
- 55:50Speaker 4: time out against the Rockies. He's got to get his
- 55:53Speaker 4: walk number down, though the walks are the concern with
- 55:55Speaker 4: him here. He's got a decent strike out rate, a
- 55:57Speaker 4: good hit rate, it's low, but his walk rate is
- 55:59Speaker 4: too high. And he is more ground ball oriented than
- 56:03Speaker 4: flyball oriented, which is not bad really, although sometimes that
- 56:07Speaker 4: does tend to mask the amount of walks that you're
- 56:10Speaker 4: giving up. He hasn't been that good against Houston, but
- 56:12Speaker 4: it's only in seven at bats. The only have six
- 56:14Speaker 4: hitters who have faced him two eighty six average allowed
- 56:17Speaker 4: though nine to twenty nine OPS, one to three strike
- 56:21Speaker 4: out walk ratio, So Urania hasn't been that good against them.
- 56:24Speaker 4: All of that was earlier this season. He actually pitched
- 56:26Speaker 4: against Houston twice to start the season.
- 56:30Speaker 2: I think both were out of the bullpen. He gave
- 56:32Speaker 2: up now runs one of the starts.
- 56:34Speaker 4: Houston got six unearned runs against him, which is crazy.
- 56:38Speaker 4: But I think Urania might actually pitch okay here, I
- 56:41Speaker 4: think I might lean towards Anaheim here. I mean, it's
- 56:44Speaker 4: potentially a bounce back second game back home, maybe just
- 56:47Speaker 4: first five.
- 56:48Speaker 2: Maybe just go with Urania and I'll pitch teng.
- 56:51Speaker 4: But the money is coming in against that sixty eight
- 56:53Speaker 4: percent of tickets on Anaheim, eighty one percent of the
- 56:56Speaker 4: cash on Houston. I have no idea why Anaheim would
- 56:58Speaker 4: be a public side.
- 56:58Speaker 2: It makes no sense. Houston at minus one twenty. I
- 57:02Speaker 2: don't know. Should Tang really be favored like that on
- 57:04Speaker 2: the road, I don't know about that. And the money
- 57:07Speaker 2: is coming in on the over as well, for what
- 57:09Speaker 2: that's worth at eight and a half. If you go
- 57:13Speaker 2: over in that game, obviously go full game with it
- 57:15Speaker 2: because the bullpen's are awful. So that's what I would
- 57:18Speaker 2: say about that, But I think maybe a slight lean
- 57:19Speaker 2: to Anaheim verse five. Don't have a good read for it.
- 57:22Speaker 4: The next game up will be my last play, though,
- 57:30Speaker 4: and we are going to go with Cincinnati on the
- 57:32Speaker 4: run line in the first five minus a half run
- 57:35Speaker 4: at minus one oh five. You could go full game
- 57:38Speaker 4: on this if you want to, but their bullpen is
- 57:40Speaker 4: clearly horrible, Like Cincinnati has a massive bullpen disadvantage here,
- 57:44Speaker 4: so I think you have to go first five. But
- 57:46Speaker 4: the oddsmakers know this. They know that the big advantage
- 57:49Speaker 4: Cincinnati has is the starting pitching here, so they're juicing
- 57:53Speaker 4: that price way up on Cincinnati. They're like minus one
- 57:56Speaker 4: sixty I think on the money line in just the
- 57:59Speaker 4: verse five. But we'll go with laying the half run here,
- 58:02Speaker 4: and yes, it means they have to be winning at
- 58:04Speaker 4: that point, but I think they could do it. These
- 58:07Speaker 4: teams did play yesterday. San Diego used four relief pitchers,
- 58:10Speaker 4: Cincinnati used two. Cincinnati's bullpen is still totally untrustworthy, though
- 58:15Speaker 4: San Diego is number four in bullpen. Cincinnati's dead last
- 58:19Speaker 4: thirtiethough the ERA is better than Colorado's, but they have
- 58:22Speaker 4: the worst whip. They're awful hitting whyse San Diego has
- 58:27Speaker 4: been awful their last thirtieth and Cincinnati is middle of
- 58:31Speaker 4: the pack at sixteen.
- 58:32Speaker 2: So we do get the better offense here.
- 58:34Speaker 4: But I think we have a big starting pitching advantage
- 58:36Speaker 4: here with Chase Burns. Who else We're gonna go with him?
- 58:39Speaker 4: Man two point zero five ERA, point nine to five whip.
- 58:43Speaker 4: He's been really good on the road one point eight roadra,
- 58:46Speaker 4: which makes sense because the Reds Stadium is hit her friendly.
- 58:49Speaker 4: Put him in a pitcher friendly ballpark here. I think
- 58:51Speaker 4: he should do well. He was six, so he had
- 58:54Speaker 4: his last start pushback, but he pitched well anyway against
- 58:57Speaker 4: Kansas City, so he's continuing to pitch well. He's allowed
- 59:00Speaker 4: more than tour and runs only one time this season.
- 59:02Speaker 4: He's got a high strikeout rate, really low hit rate,
- 59:05Speaker 4: and his walk rate is slightly high, but the.
- 59:09Speaker 2: Rest of his numbers are overcoming that.
- 59:10Speaker 4: And San Diego's never faced him before, so we have
- 59:13Speaker 4: an extra advantage here with a talented young pitcher who
- 59:17Speaker 4: he's facing a bad offense and this offense hasn't.
- 59:20Speaker 2: Seen him before.
- 59:21Speaker 4: That should be an advantage to the pitcher because the
- 59:23Speaker 4: offense has to try to figure him out.
- 59:25Speaker 2: So I like all that. Lucas Gillledo's pitching for San Diego.
- 59:29Speaker 4: He has not been good. Four point eight six ERA,
- 59:32Speaker 4: one point seven to four whip is awful. He's been
- 59:35Speaker 4: better at home. He has a zero home he RA,
- 59:37Speaker 4: but that was only one start. He did shut out
- 59:40Speaker 4: the A's at home, but he had five walks in
- 59:42Speaker 4: that outing. So there's really not a lot to like
- 59:45Speaker 4: about what jill Liedo has done so far. He's got
- 59:47Speaker 4: more walks than strikeouts in sixteen two thirds innings so far.
- 59:51Speaker 2: None of this is very good.
- 59:52Speaker 4: He's not a good pitcher, and against Cincinnati he does
- 59:55Speaker 4: not have good numbers and forty two at bats, seventeen strikeouts,
- 59:59Speaker 4: seven walks, ten average one thousand and three ops.
- 1:00:02Speaker 2: So we will go with Cincinnati run line first. Five.
- 1:00:06Speaker 2: I don't know why the money's coming in on San Diego.
- 1:00:08Speaker 2: I do not agree with that. San Diego I believe
- 1:00:11Speaker 2: won yesterday. By the way, Yeah, they won yesterday. They're
- 1:00:14Speaker 2: staying at home.
- 1:00:15Speaker 4: Maybe a little bit of a bounce back here for
- 1:00:17Speaker 4: Cincinnati as well, even though Cincinnati is not a great team.
- 1:00:20Speaker 4: I know, but their biggest disadvantage is the bullpen, and
- 1:00:23Speaker 4: we're taking that out of the equation. I think they
- 1:00:25Speaker 4: have a huge starting pitching edge year. But I don't
- 1:00:28Speaker 4: like the money here. Sixty percent of tickets eighty six
- 1:00:31Speaker 4: percent of the cash on San Diego, Cincinnati's around minus
- 1:00:34Speaker 4: won twenty something a full game, like I said, and
- 1:00:38Speaker 4: much higher than that in the first five for a
- 1:00:41Speaker 4: reason though. Totals also seven and a half with money
- 1:00:44Speaker 4: coming in towards the under do with that info what
- 1:00:46Speaker 4: you want, but first five Cincinnati run line is the
- 1:00:49Speaker 4: play there. Washington at San Francisco ESPN Unlimited. San Francisco
- 1:00:54Speaker 4: was in a really bad spot yesterday. They return home
- 1:00:57Speaker 4: from the road, having to travel all the way back
- 1:01:00Speaker 4: to the Pacific coast, and Washington was only coming in
- 1:01:03Speaker 4: from Arizona. So it was a terrible spot for San
- 1:01:06Speaker 4: Francisco and San Francisco is coming off two straight extra
- 1:01:09Speaker 4: inning games, including the Sunday night game, which went into
- 1:01:11Speaker 4: extra innings. It was an awful spot, so bad that
- 1:01:14Speaker 4: they lost to Miles Mikolas.
- 1:01:16Speaker 2: There you go. I still don't think San Francisco's offense
- 1:01:19Speaker 2: is good. They had three games where they just totally
- 1:01:22Speaker 2: exploded in course field, once against Milwaukee and once in Wrigley.
- 1:01:27Speaker 4: But I don't I'm not buying it. I don't think
- 1:01:28Speaker 4: San Francisco is that good offensively. Three games in a
- 1:01:31Speaker 4: row they haven't been, so keep that in mind. Could
- 1:01:35Speaker 4: be a bounce back spot for them here, though, because
- 1:01:37Speaker 4: when a team returns home from the road and they
- 1:01:38Speaker 4: don't do well, a lot of times they do bounce
- 1:01:40Speaker 4: back in the next game. San Francisco used two relief pitchers.
- 1:01:43Speaker 4: They only Us Smith for three pitches yesterday Dylan Smith.
- 1:01:49Speaker 4: Washington used four guys out of the bullpen. Washington has
- 1:01:51Speaker 4: the lesser bullpen here. They're number twenty three, although San
- 1:01:54Speaker 4: Francisco is number twenty five, but their era is still better.
- 1:01:58Speaker 4: Neither bullpen has been that good, though, but San Francisco's
- 1:02:00Speaker 4: got the better era and they're more rested. Washington's number
- 1:02:04Speaker 4: five in offense, the Giants are number twelve, but like
- 1:02:06Speaker 4: I said, I'm not really buying it. I think they're
- 1:02:08Speaker 4: gonna fall off here, and I actually like Washington starting
- 1:02:12Speaker 4: pitching better here with Andrew Alvarez making a start here.
- 1:02:16Speaker 4: He made five starts last year and he's made one
- 1:02:18Speaker 4: start so far this year, and he's actually been pretty decent.
- 1:02:22Speaker 4: His walk rate was way too high last year, but
- 1:02:24Speaker 4: he looks like he's kind of getting that under control now.
- 1:02:26Speaker 4: He's got a three point five to four ERA this
- 1:02:28Speaker 4: year and a one point two to three whip most
- 1:02:30Speaker 4: of it out of the bullpen. I'm making like long
- 1:02:33Speaker 4: relief appearances. But I think he's a decent pitcher. He's
- 1:02:36Speaker 4: got a zero road ra which is solid, did fairly
- 1:02:40Speaker 4: well in his last time out against Miami. He hasn't
- 1:02:42Speaker 4: gone deeper than four and two thirds innings so far, though,
- 1:02:44Speaker 4: so they might have him on a little bit of
- 1:02:46Speaker 4: a leash here. I don't know how long he's gonna go,
- 1:02:48Speaker 4: so that could be a problem because Washington's bullpen is bad.
- 1:02:51Speaker 4: So if they're gonna pull him somewhere around the fifth inning,
- 1:02:54Speaker 4: you got to deal with Washington's bullpen after that, which
- 1:02:56Speaker 4: isn't great. Alvarez is allowed, you're with the one hipper
- 1:03:00Speaker 4: inning more than one strike up r inning in. His
- 1:03:02Speaker 4: walk rates not too bad, so he's got good numbers overall.
- 1:03:05Speaker 4: San Francisco has twelve at bats against him, not a
- 1:03:08Speaker 4: big sample, but most of their batters have faced him.
- 1:03:10Speaker 4: Three strikeouts, no walks, two fifty average five eighty three ops.
- 1:03:14Speaker 4: So I think Alvarez could actually pitch well here. He's
- 1:03:18Speaker 4: gonna have to face Adrian Houser, who is not having
- 1:03:21Speaker 4: a good season for San Francisco. Five point four to
- 1:03:24Speaker 4: ninety RA, one point five eight whip really bad. He's
- 1:03:27Speaker 4: been worse at home six point nine to seven homey
- 1:03:30Speaker 4: RA makes no sense because it's a pitcher friendly ballpark here.
- 1:03:35Speaker 4: He's been roughed up recently to three straight outings where
- 1:03:38Speaker 4: he didn't make it five innings.
- 1:03:39Speaker 2: He's been bad.
- 1:03:41Speaker 4: He's got a high walk rate, his strikeout rates really low,
- 1:03:43Speaker 4: his hit rate is high. He's allowed a fair amount
- 1:03:46Speaker 4: of home runs too. He's been pretty bad overall. His
- 1:03:49Speaker 4: numbers against Washington or sort of average in forty two
- 1:03:53Speaker 4: at bats to sixty two average, seven forty five ops,
- 1:03:57Speaker 4: six y five strike out walk ratio.
- 1:04:00Speaker 2: I wouldn't really want to trust Howser.
- 1:04:02Speaker 4: I know it looks like a bounce back spot for
- 1:04:03Speaker 4: San Francisco here, but I think Washington first five is
- 1:04:07Speaker 4: probably the way to look at this game. I think
- 1:04:08Speaker 4: Alvarez can outpitch Houser here, and Alvarez should be in
- 1:04:13Speaker 4: there for most of the verse five innings. At least
- 1:04:15Speaker 4: you kind of avoid Washington's bullpen by doing it first five.
- 1:04:19Speaker 4: San Francisco is a favorite, They're probably a favorite first
- 1:04:22Speaker 4: five as well. They're around minus one to twelve here,
- 1:04:26Speaker 4: minus one fourteen.
- 1:04:27Speaker 2: Whatever. The money looks like it is agreeing with Washington.
- 1:04:30Speaker 4: Fifty three percent of tickets on San Francisco, sixty nine
- 1:04:32Speaker 4: percent of the cash on Washington. Money also coming in
- 1:04:36Speaker 4: towards the over pretty strongly in that game over eight
- 1:04:39Speaker 4: and a half. I don't know if I probably wouldn't
- 1:04:41Speaker 4: disagree with that. I mean, you got bullpens that I
- 1:04:45Speaker 4: don't really trust here. Maybe both starters are un trustworthy,
- 1:04:48Speaker 4: so there are probably more components to that that would
- 1:04:51Speaker 4: indicate towards an over, But I think first five Washington
- 1:04:54Speaker 4: makes the most sense, and Washington they're good at hitting
- 1:04:57Speaker 4: on the road, too, so keep that in mind, and
- 1:04:59Speaker 4: then we have Milwaukee and the A's in Las Vegas
- 1:05:02Speaker 4: and a total even higher in tonight's game because if
- 1:05:05Speaker 4: you didn't see last night's game, they scored twenty nine
- 1:05:09Speaker 4: runs in last night's game and it went twelve innings.
- 1:05:12Speaker 4: There were a lot of extra innings runs and almost
- 1:05:15Speaker 4: every guy that reached base scored, so like they scored
- 1:05:17Speaker 4: twenty five. Yeah, I think it was twenty nine runs
- 1:05:21Speaker 4: they scored, but I think it was on like thirty
- 1:05:23Speaker 4: three hits or something like that, so it was a
- 1:05:26Speaker 4: really high like run to hit ratio.
- 1:05:28Speaker 2: But still, twenty nine runs is ridiculous.
- 1:05:31Speaker 4: And one thing that I forgot to mention is I
- 1:05:33Speaker 4: think this is a Triple A stadium, but it's also
- 1:05:35Speaker 4: in high elevation.
- 1:05:38Speaker 2: For whatever reason in Las Vegas.
- 1:05:39Speaker 4: It's not like cors Field, but I think it's like
- 1:05:42Speaker 4: three thousand something.
- 1:05:45Speaker 2: Feet at elevation.
- 1:05:47Speaker 4: So keep that in mind. And yesterday's game went way
- 1:05:50Speaker 4: over the total. So does that make me want to
- 1:05:53Speaker 4: go over again here? I don't know, I mean maybe,
- 1:05:56Speaker 4: and went into extra innings and a lot of the
- 1:05:57Speaker 4: relief pitchers came in. The A's used six guys out
- 1:06:01Speaker 4: of the bullpen Milwaukee used six as well, so we
- 1:06:05Speaker 4: have some unrested bullpens here. Milwaukee is the better bullpen,
- 1:06:09Speaker 4: the ranked eleventh and they have a good bullpen ERA.
- 1:06:12Speaker 4: The A's are number twenty two, not very good hitting wise.
- 1:06:16Speaker 4: The A's are eighth and actually tied with Milwaukee. They're
- 1:06:19Speaker 4: tied in eighth. For the pitchers here we have Robert
- 1:06:23Speaker 4: Gasser pitching for the Brewers. He hasn't been that good.
- 1:06:26Speaker 4: Four point seven to three ERA and one point four
- 1:06:29Speaker 4: to three WHIP. Those are not great numbers. Home road
- 1:06:31Speaker 4: split's not really that significantly. Slightly better on the road,
- 1:06:34Speaker 4: but he's only made three starts so far and his
- 1:06:37Speaker 4: last one was good, but it was against San Francisco,
- 1:06:40Speaker 4: so I don't know how much weight to put into that.
- 1:06:43Speaker 2: His walk rate is too high right now.
- 1:06:44Speaker 4: His strike got rate and hit rate er okay, but
- 1:06:46Speaker 4: it's also a really small sample. But one problem with
- 1:06:49Speaker 4: Gaser is his fly ball rate is really pretty extreme.
- 1:06:53Speaker 4: So that is not what you want in a ballpark
- 1:06:55Speaker 4: like this, So that is not a good indicator that
- 1:06:57Speaker 4: Gaser allows a lot of fly balls.
- 1:07:00Speaker 2: Look at last year. That seemed to kind of be
- 1:07:03Speaker 2: the case. Last year too.
- 1:07:03Speaker 4: He hasn't really pitched that much though, so we don't
- 1:07:05Speaker 4: have a huge sample here, and the A's have never
- 1:07:07Speaker 4: faced him, so maybe that's a little bit of an
- 1:07:09Speaker 4: advantage to him because they haven't seen him. But I'm
- 1:07:12Speaker 4: not sure the gasler is really gonna do well here.
- 1:07:15Speaker 2: J T. Ginn is pitching for the A's.
- 1:07:16Speaker 4: He's had a good season two point seven to four
- 1:07:19Speaker 4: ERA one point oh wait whip. He's been good so far,
- 1:07:21Speaker 4: but he's been worse at home three point nine to
- 1:07:24Speaker 4: six home e RA. And I know that's in Sacramento,
- 1:07:27Speaker 4: but this stadium is very similar to that, so I
- 1:07:29Speaker 4: think that's not a good sign that he doesn't pitch
- 1:07:32Speaker 4: as well in stadiums similar to this. Although he's not
- 1:07:35Speaker 4: an extreme flyball pitcher, he's pretty even with the ground
- 1:07:38Speaker 4: balls and fly balls, so he does set up.
- 1:07:40Speaker 2: A little bit better to pitch in an environment like this.
- 1:07:43Speaker 4: He pitched well last time out against the Cubs, was
- 1:07:45Speaker 4: pretty good the start before that too against the Yankees.
- 1:07:48Speaker 4: He's been pretty good recently. Actually, his last four full
- 1:07:52Speaker 4: starts have actually been really good. He had one kind
- 1:07:56Speaker 4: of bad outing where he got pulled early against San Diego,
- 1:07:58Speaker 4: but other than that, he's been good recently.
- 1:08:00Speaker 2: His strike out rates not that high. That's not really
- 1:08:02Speaker 2: what he does.
- 1:08:03Speaker 4: His hit rate is low, but his walk rate is
- 1:08:05Speaker 4: too high, so the walks are the biggest concern for him.
- 1:08:10Speaker 4: His numbers gets a milwauk, You're okay. In twenty six
- 1:08:12Speaker 4: at bats two thirty one average seven A fifty six
- 1:08:15Speaker 4: obs is like right around that average there where I
- 1:08:18Speaker 4: look at seven fifty as kind of a Mendoza line there,
- 1:08:22Speaker 4: ten to four strike out walk ratio, you know, I
- 1:08:26Speaker 4: mean you could look towards an over here. I mean,
- 1:08:29Speaker 4: the bullpens are both in bad shape after yesterday.
- 1:08:33Speaker 2: Man. You know, I don't know if I love either pitcher. Here.
- 1:08:37Speaker 4: Money is kind of indicating towards the under here. The
- 1:08:39Speaker 4: totals thirteen, which is ridiculous, but it is that high
- 1:08:42Speaker 4: for a reason. Sixty four percent of tickets, fifty nine
- 1:08:45Speaker 4: percent of the cash on the over though, And I
- 1:08:47Speaker 4: don't know if I'd really want to do it, because
- 1:08:48Speaker 4: when you see a fifteen to fourteen final score that's
- 1:08:51Speaker 4: what it was last night, fifteen fourteen. When you see that,
- 1:08:55Speaker 4: like the public is just gonna come in on an
- 1:08:56Speaker 4: over after that thing. Oh my god, this Vegas Stadium
- 1:08:59Speaker 4: is ridiculous. Milwaukee won fifteen to fourteen, totally ridiculous, and
- 1:09:05Speaker 4: it is.
- 1:09:05Speaker 2: But when you see a game like that and the
- 1:09:07Speaker 2: bullpens get used like that and whatever, a lot of
- 1:09:09Speaker 2: times that kind of dominoes into the next game. You
- 1:09:13Speaker 2: don't even need it to be anywhere close to that
- 1:09:14Speaker 2: high scoring to get this thing over this time. I
- 1:09:17Speaker 2: don't know. I think it over kind of makes sense
- 1:09:19Speaker 2: in this one. The money's indicated towards Milwaukee for whatever reason.
- 1:09:23Speaker 2: A is seventy four percent of ticket, seventy percent of
- 1:09:26Speaker 2: the cash, They're around minus one ten. They look like
- 1:09:28Speaker 2: a public side here, which that doesn't make sense to me.
- 1:09:31Speaker 2: You think Milwaukee would be a public side here. I
- 1:09:35Speaker 2: don't know.
- 1:09:35Speaker 4: I mean, I don't have a good read on this game,
- 1:09:37Speaker 4: so do with it what you want. But yeah, I
- 1:09:40Speaker 4: got nothing on this game.
- 1:09:41Speaker 2: Really.
- 1:09:42Speaker 4: I still think it over might be the way to
- 1:09:45Speaker 4: play it. But first play with Seattle Mariner's money line,
- 1:09:50Speaker 4: all right, even though I'm worried that the market read
- 1:09:55Speaker 4: is not really agreeing with me on that, or actually
- 1:09:57Speaker 4: it looks like it is now. I don't know who knows, man,
- 1:10:00Speaker 4: I'm just doing my handicapping, man. I just think there's
- 1:10:02Speaker 4: a big pitching edge there. All right, let's look at WNBA. Unfortunately,
- 1:10:10Speaker 4: WNBA Cup action, I don't have any plays here. I
- 1:10:12Speaker 4: know I'm skipping the WNBA a lot here. I think
- 1:10:15Speaker 4: I was right about two of the three games last night,
- 1:10:17Speaker 4: maybe all three, I don't even remember. On the side
- 1:10:21Speaker 4: I mean, ESPN has Atlanta and Chicago. Chicago has not
- 1:10:26Speaker 4: been playing well in Cup play right now. I think
- 1:10:27Speaker 4: they only have one Cup win so far. I don't
- 1:10:32Speaker 4: know what that means as far as like when they
- 1:10:33Speaker 4: could potentially get eliminated. They haven't been playing well recently.
- 1:10:36Speaker 4: They just got blown out by Toronto on the road.
- 1:10:39Speaker 4: It was only a single game on the road, So
- 1:10:41Speaker 4: Chicago might play better here back at home. They're not
- 1:10:44Speaker 4: going to overlook at Lanta. Atlanta has been a good team.
- 1:10:47Speaker 4: Chicago coming off an embarrassing loss to an expansion team.
- 1:10:50Speaker 4: Atlanta's coming off a pretty satisfying thirty two point win
- 1:10:54Speaker 4: over Washington. I know Washington is not a good team,
- 1:10:56Speaker 4: but still, when you beat anybody by that much, you
- 1:10:59Speaker 4: gotta be feel pretty good about yourselves going out on
- 1:11:02Speaker 4: the road here, I would lean towards Chicago plus the
- 1:11:05Speaker 4: points here. This is gonna be a really interesting game though,
- 1:11:08Speaker 4: because this is the Angel Reese battle. If you remember,
- 1:11:11Speaker 4: I mentioned that Angel Reese was on Chicago last year,
- 1:11:14Speaker 4: which I think was her only season so far, or
- 1:11:16Speaker 4: maybe the last two seasons whatever. Now she's on Atlanta,
- 1:11:19Speaker 4: So I don't know which way that goes though, Like
- 1:11:21Speaker 4: does Reese want to play well against her former team?
- 1:11:24Speaker 4: And I guess she does, But I don't know if
- 1:11:26Speaker 4: that's gonna be enough. Man Chicago might I don't know.
- 1:11:29Speaker 4: I want to get back at them too. I think
- 1:11:32Speaker 4: the spot's a little bit better for Chicago. Atlanta's laying
- 1:11:34Speaker 4: eight and a half on the road here. They've gone
- 1:11:36Speaker 4: up from six and a half to eight and a half,
- 1:11:38Speaker 4: eighty seven percent of tickets eighty eight percent of the
- 1:11:40Speaker 4: cash on Atlanta. They do look like a public side.
- 1:11:43Speaker 4: The money has come in on them early. But I
- 1:11:45Speaker 4: think I would lean towards taking the points there. I
- 1:11:47Speaker 4: don't want to do it. Dallas and Minnesota is a
- 1:11:51Speaker 4: good game, and it is kind of interesting. Minnesota is
- 1:11:54Speaker 4: still without call here, but they've been playing really well anyway.
- 1:11:56Speaker 4: They've won seven games in a row. They just beat
- 1:11:59Speaker 4: Seattle which is whatever. I think they're undefeated and cup play.
- 1:12:03Speaker 4: Seattle's not a good team though. Now they did actually
- 1:12:06Speaker 4: win at Dallas already. If you looked at that game, uh,
- 1:12:09Speaker 4: Dallas I think was a three and a half point
- 1:12:11Speaker 4: home favorite in that game, and now Minnesota is like
- 1:12:15Speaker 4: five and a half I think at home here, So
- 1:12:17Speaker 4: that seems like a bit of an adjustment, you know,
- 1:12:20Speaker 4: maybe an over adjustment, like if Dallas was three and
- 1:12:23Speaker 4: a half at home, you think this game would be
- 1:12:25Speaker 4: like closer to like maybe Minnesota one one and a
- 1:12:27Speaker 4: half here. Five and a half seems crazy. And if
- 1:12:30Speaker 4: you dig into that matchup here, Minnesota shot really well.
- 1:12:35Speaker 4: They shot sixty percent from the field forty six percent
- 1:12:38Speaker 4: from three. Dallas was only forty six percent and twenty
- 1:12:41Speaker 4: nine percent, respectively. And Dallas had more field goal attempt
- 1:12:45Speaker 4: So Dallas actually kind of outplayed Minnesota in some ways
- 1:12:49Speaker 4: in this game, although Minnesota did still out rebound them.
- 1:12:52Speaker 4: But it looks like the biggest outliers they were the shooting.
- 1:12:55Speaker 4: I think that might mean that Minnesota might shoot worse here,
- 1:12:58Speaker 4: it might mean the Dallas might shoot better here. It's
- 1:13:00Speaker 4: a little bit of a road revenge angle here, Dallas
- 1:13:02Speaker 4: has been playing well, even though they're young, kind of
- 1:13:05Speaker 4: inexperienced team.
- 1:13:05Speaker 2: They've won four games in a row and six of seven.
- 1:13:08Speaker 2: They just beat LA.
- 1:13:10Speaker 4: But they're coming into Minnesota from LA, which is not
- 1:13:13Speaker 4: that easy of a travel spot. But I would lean
- 1:13:15Speaker 4: Dallas in this game. I think Dallas is not getting
- 1:13:19Speaker 4: the money though. It looks like the public is taking
- 1:13:21Speaker 4: Dallas thinking Minnesota at five and a half is kind
- 1:13:23Speaker 4: of crazy, which I think it is too.
- 1:13:26Speaker 2: You gotta look see if they're injuries, I guess, because I.
- 1:13:29Speaker 4: Don't see why Minnesota would be five and a half
- 1:13:31Speaker 4: here if Dallas was three and a half at home
- 1:13:35Speaker 4: when they played earlier this year, Dallas ninety one percent
- 1:13:37Speaker 4: of tickets, eighty seven percent of the cash. So it
- 1:13:39Speaker 4: looks like the public is taking the points with Dallas here,
- 1:13:42Speaker 4: thinking this is going to be a competitive game and
- 1:13:44Speaker 4: you do not want public underdogs like Dallas.
- 1:13:48Speaker 2: I will tell you that. Yeah, I mean, there are
- 1:13:52Speaker 2: some injuries here. I don't know how. I mean.
- 1:13:56Speaker 4: Obviously, we already know Colliers out for Minnesota. She's been
- 1:13:59Speaker 4: out since the playoffs last year, so that's not a change.
- 1:14:05Speaker 2: Sims is out for the Wings.
- 1:14:06Speaker 4: That doesn't look like a big deal either. I have
- 1:14:08Speaker 4: no idea, dude, I don't know why the line is
- 1:14:10Speaker 4: like that. I think I would lead towards Dallas plus
- 1:14:12Speaker 4: the points there. But I'm not playing these WNBA games.
- 1:14:16Speaker 4: You're tailing Seattle, all right, let's get it done, man.
- 1:14:20Speaker 4: I found out about minus one fifteen, so the price
- 1:14:23Speaker 4: was all right. And then we have Phoenix and Golden State.
- 1:14:25Speaker 4: Phoenix is playing better recently. Golden State has been playing
- 1:14:28Speaker 4: worse recently though. I think Golden State's a pretty strong
- 1:14:32Speaker 4: team though. I think they're on the way up. But
- 1:14:36Speaker 4: they did just lose to Minnesota and Vegas in close
- 1:14:39Speaker 4: games on Those are two good teams. Those are two
- 1:14:41Speaker 4: of the best teams in the league. So I'm not
- 1:14:42Speaker 4: gonna blame them for losing. They've had really really difficult
- 1:14:45Speaker 4: games recently in the last three games and played Vegas.
- 1:14:49Speaker 2: Twice in Minnesota.
- 1:14:50Speaker 4: That's not easy, so playing Phoenix is a step down
- 1:14:53Speaker 4: in class. But they're coming home from the road, although
- 1:14:56Speaker 4: they were only on the road Thursday Saturday, so that's
- 1:14:58Speaker 4: not that big a deal. But returning home from two
- 1:15:01Speaker 4: big games, they're playing a Phoenix team they already beat
- 1:15:04Speaker 4: at home ninety five to seventy nine, so they already
- 1:15:07Speaker 4: easily beat Phoenix at home earlier, so they might overlook
- 1:15:11Speaker 4: Phoenix for that reason, so the spot doesn't look that good.
- 1:15:14Speaker 4: Phoenix is already on the Pacific coast and they're coming
- 1:15:17Speaker 4: in from Portland. They had some wins against Seattle in
- 1:15:20Speaker 4: Portland that I think we'll just give them some momentum.
- 1:15:22Speaker 4: Those are not big wins against teams that aren't really
- 1:15:25Speaker 4: that good, so I think that might just continue their
- 1:15:27Speaker 4: momentum into this, so I would leave Phoenix. I think
- 1:15:29Speaker 4: Phoenix is not as bad as the record looks, although
- 1:15:33Speaker 4: Osbegers are telling your Golden State's the better team.
- 1:15:35Speaker 2: They're eight and a half eight here minus eight or so.
- 1:15:38Speaker 4: But it's a low total, and with a low total
- 1:15:40Speaker 4: like that, it makes more sense to play an underdog
- 1:15:43Speaker 4: points a little bit more out a premium.
- 1:15:45Speaker 2: I think I would take the points with Phoenix there,
- 1:15:46Speaker 2: so I think I lean to all three underdogs.
- 1:15:49Speaker 4: And then we have NHL Carolina and Vegas Game four.
- 1:15:53Speaker 4: I don't want to play this game, though Vegas is
- 1:15:55Speaker 4: better at home, so we do have that. Vegas has
- 1:15:58Speaker 4: had three goals in the last two games taken off
- 1:16:01Speaker 4: the board by for various infractions. One was off sides.
- 1:16:07Speaker 4: I think two were goaltender interference. I think the one
- 1:16:10Speaker 4: two games ago might have been an incorrect call.
- 1:16:12Speaker 2: I don't know. I mean the other two were probably not.
- 1:16:16Speaker 4: But Vegas, I mean, I don't know, man, they should
- 1:16:19Speaker 4: have more easily won that game last time out. They
- 1:16:21Speaker 4: were winning four to nothing and they blew that game, dude,
- 1:16:24Speaker 4: and Carolina switched goalies, dude. So I don't even know
- 1:16:27Speaker 4: who who Caroline is putting in net here. But that's
- 1:16:29Speaker 4: not good when a team switches goalies. I'm gonna tell
- 1:16:32Speaker 4: you right now. They took Anderson out and if they're
- 1:16:35Speaker 4: gonna put him back in, that.
- 1:16:36Speaker 2: Could kind of hurt his confidence. Man. So I don't
- 1:16:38Speaker 2: like that. We don't even know who they're Who are
- 1:16:41Speaker 2: they starting?
- 1:16:42Speaker 4: I have no idea, Garrett, who are they starting in
- 1:16:45Speaker 4: net I have no idea because they're either gonna go
- 1:16:47Speaker 4: with and Anderson, who might have his confidence shot after
- 1:16:51Speaker 4: he was bad in the last game, or they're gonna
- 1:16:53Speaker 4: go with Bussy, who did play well in the last.
- 1:16:55Speaker 2: Game, but he's very inexperienced.
- 1:16:57Speaker 4: So I don't know what they're doing, but I don't
- 1:16:58Speaker 4: think it's a good sign when it's he pulls their goalie. Man, Like,
- 1:17:01Speaker 4: I just leave Anderson in because he's played so well
- 1:17:04Speaker 4: throughout the playoffs. I would have just left him in,
- 1:17:06Speaker 4: let him regain his confidence. I don't know what that was.
- 1:17:10Speaker 2: And yeah, putting bussy and almost got them the game,
- 1:17:13Speaker 2: that's true, but.
- 1:17:15Speaker 4: He's not telling anyone, all right. That makes this game
- 1:17:19Speaker 4: even more difficult to handicap. But I don't think that's
- 1:17:21Speaker 4: a positive. Having a goaltender question mark is not good. Vegas,
- 1:17:28Speaker 4: like I said, should have won that game more easily.
- 1:17:30Speaker 4: They were winning the game four to nothing. The game
- 1:17:33Speaker 4: was crazy, dude. Carolina did score on a power play,
- 1:17:36Speaker 4: and their power play really hasn't been that good really
- 1:17:40Speaker 4: throughout the entire season. Vegas did out shoot them slightly,
- 1:17:43Speaker 4: but Vegas out hit them by twenty somethings hit, so
- 1:17:47Speaker 4: Vegas was the more physical team, although Carolina won the
- 1:17:51Speaker 4: face off battle. Yeah, I feel like shit, this is awful.
- 1:17:55Speaker 4: Oh god, I know it's obvious. And then in the
- 1:17:59Speaker 4: game before that, by the way, the game before that,
- 1:18:02Speaker 4: Vegas probably should have won the game before that too.
- 1:18:06Speaker 2: I mean, it was just a crazy sequence of events.
- 1:18:08Speaker 2: In this other game.
- 1:18:09Speaker 4: The game prior to that, where Vegas was winning two
- 1:18:11Speaker 4: nothing into the third period, Carolina tied the game. Then
- 1:18:15Speaker 4: Vegas looked like they had the go ahead goal taken
- 1:18:18Speaker 4: off from goaltender interference. Tortorella challenged it, lost the challenge,
- 1:18:23Speaker 4: which gave Carolina power play. Then they scored on the
- 1:18:26Speaker 4: power play that they don't they don't really have a
- 1:18:29Speaker 4: good power play. Vegas wound up tying it anyway again
- 1:18:32Speaker 4: after that, and then they lost on another power play
- 1:18:34Speaker 4: on a trip in overtime. I don't know, man, I mean,
- 1:18:38Speaker 4: Vegas definitely could have easily won that game too. I
- 1:18:41Speaker 4: think Vegas has been the better team in this series
- 1:18:43Speaker 4: of of our I think the Carolina after putting all
- 1:18:46Speaker 4: that energy into come back from down four to nothing,
- 1:18:49Speaker 4: huge comeback, doing all that just to fall short again,
- 1:18:52Speaker 4: and of the goaltender question marks here, I like Vegas
- 1:18:55Speaker 4: in this game.
- 1:18:57Speaker 2: That's the way I would lean here.
- 1:18:58Speaker 4: The money does not agree with that, though, Uh we
- 1:19:01Speaker 4: have fifty six percent tickets eighty six percent of the
- 1:19:03Speaker 4: cash on Carolina the round minus one thirteen. I don't
- 1:19:06Speaker 4: agree with it though, and the money's coming in on
- 1:19:08Speaker 4: the over all three games. All three games have gone
- 1:19:12Speaker 4: over the total so far, but I think a lot
- 1:19:14Speaker 4: of that was kind of flukey, man. So I don't know,
- 1:19:18Speaker 4: but I think Vegas is actually kind of correlated to
- 1:19:20Speaker 4: an over. I think Carolina wants to play under. Carolina
- 1:19:24Speaker 4: wants to play under games. That's what they want to do.
- 1:19:27Speaker 4: They play low scoring games.
- 1:19:28Speaker 2: Man.
- 1:19:29Speaker 4: Vegas is a better offensive team, so they want to
- 1:19:33Speaker 4: like probably push the pace and they have been able
- 1:19:35Speaker 4: to do that in the series. Vegas, Well you mean Carolina,
- 1:19:39Speaker 4: I think, yeah, But yeah, those are my thoughts on it.
- 1:19:44Speaker 2: That's gonna do it, man.
- 1:19:45Speaker 4: I don't really have much else on this game, but
- 1:19:47Speaker 4: slight lean for me towards Vegas. I don't really have
- 1:19:50Speaker 4: a good read on the total though, with all the
- 1:19:52Speaker 4: games going over so far, maybe an under does make sense.
- 1:19:55Speaker 4: But I think an under might be correlated to Carolina.
- 1:19:57Speaker 4: So do that if what you want.
- 1:20:00Speaker 2: We got through it all.
- 1:20:00Speaker 4: Maybe I have to be sick all the time just
- 1:20:02Speaker 4: so the show goes faster. Three plays today or the
- 1:20:05Speaker 4: Mariners on the money line. Minnesota and Detroit first five
- 1:20:10Speaker 4: under four and a half in baseball and also baseball
- 1:20:13Speaker 4: Reds minus a half run first five innings, that's gonna
- 1:20:17Speaker 4: do it. Let's get some wins today. Two and one
- 1:20:19Speaker 4: would be fine with me. Hopefully we can do it.
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- 1:20:58Speaker 2: It's not gonna be a good day, it really isn't.
- 1:21:01Speaker 4: I am just in a horrible state right now, and
- 1:21:04Speaker 4: I need to be better for tomorrow. For the Less
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- 1:21:23Speaker 2: overcome this. Am I allowed to say that. I don't know.
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