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- 0:01Speaker 1: Yep. Inside, I want to kill myself. We're on own
- 0:06Speaker 1: seven run over the last two days after tonight it
- 0:08Speaker 1: was just complete bullshit. So that's that's I'm gonna start
- 0:12Speaker 1: off this show horrible Sunday one and five. I don't
- 0:15Speaker 1: even know what to tell you about that. I just
- 0:18Speaker 1: don't want to do this anymore. I have never seen
- 0:21Speaker 1: anything like this. Man with the slump continuing. Two straight losses,
- 0:26Speaker 1: not a good day at all. Oh in four, I
- 0:30Speaker 1: have not had a good season. Man with wookends the
- 0:34Speaker 1: slump that I'm on, and the slump continues, I've reached
- 0:38Speaker 1: a new peak. Actually, I'm going to burn my browins
- 0:42Speaker 1: hat Man, I don't know what is going on with
- 0:44Speaker 1: the Bruins. Arch hate? Is that what it is? I
- 0:47Speaker 1: don't even know it's It's March ninth, I think who
- 0:50Speaker 1: even knows? Man, I don't know what data is anymore.
- 0:53Speaker 1: But I don't even know what data is anymore. Man,
- 0:55Speaker 1: back with you after the worst day that I could
- 0:59Speaker 1: possibly have with you, as I always am until I die,
- 1:03Speaker 1: at least oh and two yesterday and yesterday it did
- 1:07Speaker 1: not go well for me. Oh and five the worst
- 1:10Speaker 1: month that I've ever had in my eighteen years doing this.
- 1:13Speaker 1: I don't know what to even tell you about this anymore.
- 1:16Speaker 1: The slumpy, the slump discontinuous, the slump continues. Somebody fucking
- 1:21Speaker 1: kill me, please. I don't even know what I should
- 1:25Speaker 1: do at this point, other than potentially end it all.
- 1:33Speaker 1: What's up, everybody, It's towed back with you for better
- 1:35Speaker 1: off dead. Tuesday, August fifth, We had a winner on
- 1:40Speaker 1: the show yesterday. I gave about one play and it
- 1:42Speaker 1: was a win, maybe a little bit of a lucky one.
- 1:44Speaker 1: I'm Milwaukee. I told you either play the run line
- 1:47Speaker 1: or the money line, or split the bet half and half.
- 1:50Speaker 1: All of it hit, so it was a winner whatever
- 1:53Speaker 1: way you did it. But it did require Milwaukee to
- 1:56Speaker 1: score all of their runs on one home run, a
- 1:59Speaker 1: three run home when they wound up winning the game
- 2:01Speaker 1: three to one, and not the way I expected it
- 2:03Speaker 1: to go down. Obviously expected more runs out of Milwaukee there,
- 2:08Speaker 1: giving how good their offense is, how they're up against
- 2:10Speaker 1: Eric Fetti, and it was on the road, but they
- 2:12Speaker 1: still got it done. But they only had three hits
- 2:15Speaker 1: in the entire games, So based on that, it was
- 2:17Speaker 1: a little bit lucky, but it was a winner. Nonetheless,
- 2:21Speaker 1: I'll give out two baseball plays today. They're both going
- 2:24Speaker 1: to be totals, and yeah, I mean, I think that's
- 2:27Speaker 1: about it. Let's get into it, man. We will talk
- 2:30Speaker 1: about the WNBA first though, because there is WNBA today,
- 2:35Speaker 1: perhaps unfortunately, but I've committed myself to it. Man, I'm
- 2:39Speaker 1: committed to the bit. So we're gonna talk about it.
- 2:42Speaker 1: We do a five games Dallas at the New York Liberty.
- 2:45Speaker 1: First game up. The Liberty are returning home from a
- 2:48Speaker 1: road trip, but they finished the road trip with two
- 2:51Speaker 1: straight games in Connecticut, so they're not really traveling that
- 2:53Speaker 1: far at this point. They are still returning back home,
- 2:56Speaker 1: which still could be a little bit of a distraction
- 2:58Speaker 1: playing against Dallas. I think Dallas is just dealing with
- 3:02Speaker 1: some injuries right now, not with Becker's, but they do
- 3:05Speaker 1: have Harris and heinz al Well. Harris is up for
- 3:08Speaker 1: the season. Heins Allen as listed his game time decision.
- 3:11Speaker 1: But whatever the case is, the line has gone up
- 3:14Speaker 1: on New York from seven to eleven. Now probably seems
- 3:18Speaker 1: like a bit of too much of a price to
- 3:20Speaker 1: lay there with New York, although they are one of
- 3:22Speaker 1: the top teams in the WNBA, Dallas. On the other hand,
- 3:26Speaker 1: coming in to start a road trips, the spot is
- 3:28Speaker 1: a little bit better for them coming off a couple
- 3:31Speaker 1: of losses, maybe a spot to refocus for them. Washington
- 3:36Speaker 1: at Chicago and this Chicago team, they are just decimated
- 3:39Speaker 1: with injuries. Angel Reese is still out so she's not
- 3:41Speaker 1: playing today. They have a lot of injuries. They've lost
- 3:45Speaker 1: how many games in a row. I can't even count, seven,
- 3:47Speaker 1: maybe eight, whatever that is. They've been awful recently. They're
- 3:51Speaker 1: staying at home. They're not really showing any signs of
- 3:54Speaker 1: turning this around. The one game that I went with
- 3:57Speaker 1: a side on Chicago, they still didn't or I missed
- 4:00Speaker 1: by one point and they probably could have won that
- 4:02Speaker 1: game out right, and that still didn't happen. It was
- 4:04Speaker 1: one of the dildo games. Maybe this will be a
- 4:07Speaker 1: dildo game. Washington's going up two straight losses as well.
- 4:10Speaker 1: They're playing a second straight road game, but they are
- 4:13Speaker 1: the better team. Question is, are you laying too much
- 4:16Speaker 1: of a price here at this point with Washington from
- 4:18Speaker 1: five and a half to eight now, I mean, maybe
- 4:21Speaker 1: that does seem pretty high to me, Although it looks
- 4:23Speaker 1: like the money is actually coming in on the Washington side.
- 4:26Speaker 1: On the New York game, it looks like the cash
- 4:28Speaker 1: is actually coming in on the Dallas side a little
- 4:30Speaker 1: bit there. For Washington, it still seems like a bit
- 4:33Speaker 1: too much of a price to lay. But the way
- 4:34Speaker 1: Chicago's been playing, I mean, I don't see how you
- 4:36Speaker 1: can put your money on them unless it's like a really,
- 4:39Speaker 1: really excellent spot. And even when it was with mine,
- 4:41Speaker 1: they still didn't do it. Emily, what's up? Thanks for
- 4:44Speaker 1: hanging out. What's the next game up? Indiana and La.
- 4:51Speaker 1: Caitlyn Clark is still out, so this is not gonna
- 4:53Speaker 1: be Clark versus Sparks. Caitlin Clark, we don't know when
- 4:57Speaker 1: she's coming back. Man, maybe you'll never come back in
- 5:01Speaker 1: the WNBA will just fold and collapse. Both teams are
- 5:04Speaker 1: actually coming off beating Seattle in their last outing. La
- 5:07Speaker 1: did it on the road. They're returning home. Indiana did
- 5:10Speaker 1: it at home, I believe, and they are starting a
- 5:12Speaker 1: road trop Oh no, they did it on the road
- 5:13Speaker 1: to my mistake. So they're actually playing a third straight
- 5:15Speaker 1: road game that they are already adjusted to the Pacific
- 5:18Speaker 1: time zone. That means Indiana's won five games in a row,
- 5:21Speaker 1: which is decently impressive doing that without Caitlyn Clark. I
- 5:26Speaker 1: don't have a good read on this game at all.
- 5:28Speaker 1: The money is coming in in Indiana, it looks like
- 5:30Speaker 1: with more of the cash, and the line initially came
- 5:32Speaker 1: out minus one on La and it's flipped all the
- 5:35Speaker 1: way to minus two with some of the books on Indiana.
- 5:37Speaker 1: So it looks like a legit move to me coming
- 5:41Speaker 1: in on the Indiana side. So I guess read into
- 5:43Speaker 1: that what you will. I don't really see much of
- 5:46Speaker 1: an angle there. Connecticut at Phoenix and Connecticut still the
- 5:49Speaker 1: worst team in the league. That's gonna remain the case.
- 5:52Speaker 1: Phoenix is returning home from a long road trip, though
- 5:54Speaker 1: they were on the road five games in a row,
- 5:57Speaker 1: and now they're returning home to face an awful team,
- 5:59Speaker 1: So looks like kind of a distraction spot man. You
- 6:02Speaker 1: get back home, you have stuff to do, and like,
- 6:03Speaker 1: are you really going to be that focused with Connecticut
- 6:06Speaker 1: coming into your place? Even though the road trip was
- 6:08Speaker 1: pretty unimpressive to say the least, it was not successful,
- 6:13Speaker 1: I still don't know the Connecticut's really gonna fully draw
- 6:15Speaker 1: out their attention here. Connecticut coming off losing again, what
- 6:18Speaker 1: else is new? To the Liberty after they'd beaten the
- 6:21Speaker 1: Liberty of the game before that, so it was expected
- 6:23Speaker 1: they were going to lose the next game and kind
- 6:25Speaker 1: of a zigzag spot there. I would have a slight
- 6:28Speaker 1: lean to Connecticut and this one just given the spot
- 6:30Speaker 1: Phoenix sitting at like a fifteen point favorite though, I
- 6:34Speaker 1: mean it's a huge line, so if you want to
- 6:36Speaker 1: take the shot with grabbing the points with Connecticut, that
- 6:39Speaker 1: is the way that I would lean. Minnesota at Seattle
- 6:42Speaker 1: probably the best game of the entire night as far
- 6:45Speaker 1: as a WNBA goes. I mean, none of these games
- 6:48Speaker 1: are good, but you know, regrading on the women's curve here,
- 6:52Speaker 1: Seattle's lost two games in a row to LA and Indiana.
- 6:56Speaker 1: As I said, they did just lose to Indiana. They
- 6:57Speaker 1: are staying at home though. This is a big game
- 7:00Speaker 1: with Minnesota the team with the best record in the
- 7:02Speaker 1: league coming in they are the best team as well.
- 7:05Speaker 1: On Minnesota coming off a historic win basically where they
- 7:08Speaker 1: beat Vegas, and I actually thought it was a bad
- 7:11Speaker 1: spot because Minnesota had just exacted finals revenge beating beating
- 7:16Speaker 1: the Liberty who had beaten them in the finals last year.
- 7:19Speaker 1: That was a huge win. From Minnesota. And what did
- 7:21Speaker 1: they do? They turned around, went to Vegas and they
- 7:24Speaker 1: embarrassed Vegas one hundred and eleven to fifty eight. Absolutely ridiculous.
- 7:28Speaker 1: So this is the type of spot where you gotta
- 7:31Speaker 1: look to fade Minnesota. I mean Minnesota. They shot out
- 7:34Speaker 1: in their minds in this game, Dude, something like this
- 7:36Speaker 1: is never gonna happen again. Fifty nine point two percent
- 7:39Speaker 1: of the field and sixty three percent from three. You
- 7:43Speaker 1: have to be kidding me. That's not gonna happen again.
- 7:45Speaker 1: But the problem that I have with wanting to take
- 7:48Speaker 1: Seattle here, I would agree with Seattle in general. Seattle's
- 7:50Speaker 1: actually a favor here. So I saw that number, I
- 7:53Speaker 1: was like, yeah, that doesn't totally make sense, Like what's
- 7:55Speaker 1: going on? Although obviously public looks at this, they're gonna say,
- 7:59Speaker 1: how am I getting Minnesota as an underdog? As the
- 8:01Speaker 1: team with the better record here looks very tempting to
- 8:04Speaker 1: take Minnesota. So again I would lean to Seattle for
- 8:06Speaker 1: that reason. Fifty three percent of tickets, eighty four percent
- 8:09Speaker 1: of the cash coming in Seattle, they're minus two and
- 8:11Speaker 1: a half point favorite here. Again, I still think this
- 8:14Speaker 1: is probably the best lean of the day actually to Seattle.
- 8:16Speaker 1: But the problem that I have with this is that
- 8:18Speaker 1: Minnesota is now they're in an injured player spot. Now
- 8:23Speaker 1: they are gonna be without call here for like two weeks,
- 8:26Speaker 1: and she's potentially gonna be the MVP of the league.
- 8:29Speaker 1: She was a heavy favorite to win MVP this year
- 8:32Speaker 1: with the way that she's been playing, and now she's
- 8:34Speaker 1: out with a sprained ankle for multiple weeks and this
- 8:37Speaker 1: is gonna be her first game out. So you know,
- 8:39Speaker 1: I always say the first game out, the team usually
- 8:42Speaker 1: tends to step up their game a little bit, knowing
- 8:44Speaker 1: that they have to compensate for that star player being out.
- 8:46Speaker 1: So I don't really want to fade Minnesota just for
- 8:49Speaker 1: that reason. Otherwise I'd be doing it like we'd probably
- 8:51Speaker 1: be getting Seattle as like basically an underdog in this game.
- 8:54Speaker 1: It would be I think, a great play on Seattle.
- 8:57Speaker 1: I still lean to Seattle given the situation, but the
- 9:01Speaker 1: injured player theory spot gives me hesitation there, so that
- 9:03Speaker 1: will not be an actual play for me. We'll move
- 9:06Speaker 1: on to Major League baseball here where I am gonna
- 9:10Speaker 1: have two plays. Like I said, we have no afternoon
- 9:12Speaker 1: baseball here, though sometimes we do on a Tuesday. Not
- 9:15Speaker 1: the case today. Everything starts in the evening with this
- 9:18Speaker 1: great matchup between Houston and Miami. Houston won eight to
- 9:23Speaker 1: two yesterday. Miami. I mean again, I think they've been
- 9:27Speaker 1: playing well above their pay grade and they're not as
- 9:30Speaker 1: good as they look. But for this game, we don't
- 9:32Speaker 1: know who Houston starter is gonna be, So that's kind
- 9:34Speaker 1: of an issue trying to handicap this game, and it
- 9:37Speaker 1: kind of that's kind of an issue for Houston. Man,
- 9:39Speaker 1: if they're gonna go with the bullpen game, I don't know.
- 9:41Speaker 1: Houston's bullpen is pretty good though they only used three
- 9:44Speaker 1: relief pitchers yesterday, so Houston has the bullpen edge, even
- 9:47Speaker 1: though Miami did only use one relief pitcher yesterday. Both
- 9:50Speaker 1: bullpens set up pretty decently in this game, but Houston's
- 9:53Speaker 1: is the better bullpen. We know that cal Quandrill is
- 9:56Speaker 1: pitching from Miami four point seven to ninety RA one
- 9:59Speaker 1: point three to one WHIP on the season, not great.
- 10:02Speaker 1: He has been better at home though, four point two
- 10:04Speaker 1: to two ERA at home, and he's actually been better
- 10:07Speaker 1: recently this month two point nine two ERA. Miami's won
- 10:11Speaker 1: like a bunch of his recent starts. He've actually won
- 10:13Speaker 1: eight of his last nine starts twenty one to four
- 10:16Speaker 1: strike at walk ratio in the month of July, and
- 10:18Speaker 1: he's allowed one run combined over his last three starts
- 10:22Speaker 1: in a sixteen inning stretch. So he is actually pitching
- 10:25Speaker 1: pretty well right now. He's not racking up a lot
- 10:27Speaker 1: of strikeouts or anything. He's not putting a lot of
- 10:29Speaker 1: guys on base and not allowing a lot of runs,
- 10:31Speaker 1: so he's actually pitching well surprisingly right now. His numbers
- 10:35Speaker 1: against Houston are not really that good, and seventy six
- 10:38Speaker 1: at bats nine to seven strike at walk ratio, Walker
- 10:41Speaker 1: actually destroys him seven point fifteen with a couple of homers.
- 10:45Speaker 1: He's allowed of two eighty nine batting average to Houston
- 10:47Speaker 1: seven ninety seven ops. Not sure if Quantrill, even though
- 10:51Speaker 1: he is in good form right now, not sure if
- 10:52Speaker 1: he's really the guy that you want in this game.
- 10:55Speaker 1: The way this is setting up right now, I mean,
- 10:57Speaker 1: it almost looks like maybe you could potentially take a shit
- 11:00Speaker 1: with the over the eight and a half here, just
- 11:02Speaker 1: because we don't even know what's going again, we don't
- 11:04Speaker 1: know what's gonna happen. If it's like a Houston bad
- 11:06Speaker 1: starter or bullpen game up against Quantrille. But again, I
- 11:10Speaker 1: don't know if you really want to fade quantrum Man
- 11:11Speaker 1: because recent form does matter, and that that up against
- 11:14Speaker 1: matchup stats. I have a hard time, you know, kind
- 11:17Speaker 1: of deciding which of the two is the more important
- 11:21Speaker 1: of the two, So I usually just stay away from
- 11:23Speaker 1: those games. The money line and this is basically close
- 11:26Speaker 1: to like minus one ten on both sides. It's kind
- 11:28Speaker 1: of moving around right now. And again we don't know
- 11:30Speaker 1: who Houston's starter is. It's a very difficult game to
- 11:33Speaker 1: handicap Minnesota at Detroit. Detroit got the win yesterday. Minnesota,
- 11:39Speaker 1: I don't even know who they wound up with a
- 11:40Speaker 1: starter yesterday, but it didn't work out for them whatever
- 11:44Speaker 1: the case was, even though Detroit was coming up that
- 11:47Speaker 1: big ESPN Sunday night game returning home from it, so
- 11:51Speaker 1: it wasn't a very good spot for Detroit, and they
- 11:53Speaker 1: still got the win yesterday. Detroit does the better of
- 11:56Speaker 1: the two bullpens here, Minnesota's certainly not very good. Detroit
- 12:00Speaker 1: used three relief pitchers yesterday, in Minnesota only used two.
- 12:04Speaker 1: That kind of saved most of their better relievers. But
- 12:07Speaker 1: I would still give the bullpen edge to Detroit. Houston,
- 12:10Speaker 1: by the way, as the offensive vege o from Miami,
- 12:12Speaker 1: Detroit has the offensive edge here over Minnesota. I don't
- 12:15Speaker 1: think that's really going out on a limb, hear Zebi
- 12:18Speaker 1: Mattews returning to the rotation here for the Twins five
- 12:23Speaker 1: point six seven ERA one point four to one whip.
- 12:26Speaker 1: His numbers are not good this year. A six point
- 12:28Speaker 1: six y three ERA on the road. That's pretty bad.
- 12:31Speaker 1: So he's been definitely struggling, although he's shown some signs
- 12:35Speaker 1: of being able to do something man, because he has
- 12:37Speaker 1: a seventeen to one strike up walk ratio over his
- 12:39Speaker 1: last three starts in July, the last time he came back.
- 12:43Speaker 1: I believe he's been up and down between the miners
- 12:45Speaker 1: and the majors. Year. He gave up a lot of
- 12:48Speaker 1: runs though, I mean that was the thing. He gave
- 12:49Speaker 1: up a lot of hits and a lot of runs.
- 12:51Speaker 1: Not a lot of home runs though, But his command
- 12:53Speaker 1: was good, good strikeout rate and not a lot of walks.
- 12:55Speaker 1: So he looks like he is able to compete at
- 12:57Speaker 1: the major league level. And fools, it seems like he
- 13:00Speaker 1: kind of just got hit by some timely hitting, maybe
- 13:03Speaker 1: threw too many pitches over the plate there. I'm not
- 13:05Speaker 1: going to write off Matthews yet, man, because he does
- 13:08Speaker 1: have good stuff, so I think his ceiling is definitely
- 13:10Speaker 1: a lot higher than what we've seen so far. Detroit
- 13:12Speaker 1: has actually never faced him before, so these young pitchers,
- 13:16Speaker 1: as I always say, when the opposing lineup has never
- 13:18Speaker 1: seen them before, the young pitcher can have an extra
- 13:21Speaker 1: advantage there over those hitters because the hitters don't really
- 13:23Speaker 1: know what to expect. So I don't really hate Matthews
- 13:26Speaker 1: in this matchup, and he's probably gonna be pumped to
- 13:29Speaker 1: get another shot pitching at the majors again. Well, actually
- 13:32Speaker 1: he's been in I mean he's he hasn't really, I
- 13:34Speaker 1: don't think he's been sent down to the miners actually,
- 13:36Speaker 1: since he's been back up in July. I think he
- 13:39Speaker 1: last pitched like in late July, so it's not like
- 13:41Speaker 1: he's been out of the rotation for very long. Chris
- 13:44Speaker 1: Paddock pitching for Detroit. They got him from Minnesota, so
- 13:49Speaker 1: he might actually step up for this game because Minnesota
- 13:52Speaker 1: traded him away. Now he's on a contender here, so
- 13:55Speaker 1: he might get pumped up to face his former team
- 13:57Speaker 1: for the first time. Man, it's an interesting situation here.
- 14:01Speaker 1: Four point seven to seven ERA for him, one point
- 14:03Speaker 1: two to four with very mediocre numbers, four point two
- 14:06Speaker 1: ERA at home, which was of course almost entirely with Minnesota,
- 14:10Speaker 1: but he did have one game at home with Detroit.
- 14:12Speaker 1: His one game was good with Detroit. You only gave
- 14:15Speaker 1: up one run in six innings against Arizona. Over his
- 14:18Speaker 1: last two starts, one with Minnesota, one with Arizona, one
- 14:21Speaker 1: with Detroit. He faced La and Arizona and he went
- 14:24Speaker 1: twelve innings only along seven hits, tour in runs total,
- 14:28Speaker 1: thirteen strikeouts and no walk So he's in good form
- 14:31Speaker 1: over his last two starts, even though he was kind
- 14:34Speaker 1: of struggling leading up to that. Is a strikeout walk
- 14:36Speaker 1: ratio has been pretty good this entire time leading up
- 14:39Speaker 1: to that, So maybe we are going to get a
- 14:41Speaker 1: good start out of Paddock here. For those reasons in
- 14:44Speaker 1: Minnesota basically has never faced him before. Only former Reds
- 14:47Speaker 1: Christian Vazk has has seen him before and he's zero
- 14:50Speaker 1: for two off en so both starters very unfamiliar to
- 14:53Speaker 1: the opposing hitters here. I would probably want to avoid
- 14:56Speaker 1: Minnesota's bullpen, although again, they rested their whole bullpen yesterday,
- 15:00Speaker 1: so I'm leaning towards an under in some way in
- 15:03Speaker 1: this game, man. Although we have sixty percent of taket
- 15:05Speaker 1: seventy six percent of the cash on the over, totals
- 15:08Speaker 1: just kind of hanging out at eight and a half.
- 15:11Speaker 1: DraftKings is lower though at eight, so well, juice to
- 15:14Speaker 1: the over, though that kind of concerns me a little
- 15:16Speaker 1: bit because DraftKings usually is the square or books. It
- 15:19Speaker 1: looks like some of the more professional money might actually
- 15:22Speaker 1: be taking the over here. I don't really agree with that, man.
- 15:25Speaker 1: I kind of like bull starting pitchers. If you want
- 15:27Speaker 1: to avoid Minnesota's bullpen, you could go first five innings
- 15:31Speaker 1: under as well. I think the bullpen's are rested though,
- 15:34Speaker 1: so it seems like it could be a full game
- 15:37Speaker 1: under as well. To me, there that that's a lean
- 15:39Speaker 1: for me in that one. San Francisco at Pittsburgh is
- 15:42Speaker 1: one of my plays, so I will skip it for now.
- 15:44Speaker 1: I told you I have twots odal, so you probably
- 15:46Speaker 1: know exactly what I'm doing. Baltimore at Philadelphia, I mean,
- 15:49Speaker 1: this is a pretty ugly pitching matchup here. Baltimore won
- 15:53Speaker 1: yesterday and another ugly game. Ugly for Baltimore at least
- 15:56Speaker 1: a Philadelphia on one. Excuse me, I don't know if
- 15:58Speaker 1: I accidentally said Baltimore. Philadelphia beat Baltimore thirteen to three yesterday.
- 16:03Speaker 1: Philadelphia has the better of these two bullpens. Only used
- 16:06Speaker 1: two relief pitchers yesterday as well. Baltimore used three, so
- 16:11Speaker 1: we give the bullpen edge to Philly. They obviously have
- 16:13Speaker 1: the better offense. Dean Kreamer will be pitching for Baltimore
- 16:17Speaker 1: here four point two seven e RA one point two
- 16:20Speaker 1: seven WHIP and neither of these bullpens are that good,
- 16:23Speaker 1: by the way, so I will point that out. Creamer
- 16:26Speaker 1: never been a fan of him, obviously, his numbers are
- 16:28Speaker 1: not terrible this year. He has been pretty terrible on
- 16:30Speaker 1: the road though. Five point three to seven roady RA
- 16:34Speaker 1: not a good sign. Recent form not great either. Baltimore
- 16:38Speaker 1: lost his three his last three starts. He's walked multiple
- 16:42Speaker 1: guys in all three only when five innings last out
- 16:45Speaker 1: against Toronto, loved three or runs. I mean, he's at least,
- 16:48Speaker 1: I guess, been serviceable over the last month twenty six
- 16:51Speaker 1: to nine strike a walk ratio four point three e
- 16:54Speaker 1: RA Creamer is creaming. Basically, he's doing exactly what you expect,
- 16:59Speaker 1: pitching mediocre in a very mediocre fashion, I guess surprisingly
- 17:04Speaker 1: decent numbers against Philly in twenty three at bats five
- 17:07Speaker 1: to five strike at walker ratio is not good, but
- 17:10Speaker 1: two seventeen average allowed seven to forty eight ohps still
- 17:13Speaker 1: not really that high. So Creamer maybe he'll come out
- 17:16Speaker 1: and have an okay game here. And he's going up
- 17:18Speaker 1: against Taiwan Walker, which is never a good thing for
- 17:21Speaker 1: Philadelphia really, and you see that he's the listed starter.
- 17:24Speaker 1: He doesn't go deep into games man, so you're gonna
- 17:26Speaker 1: get Phillies. Not very good bullpen probably coming into this
- 17:29Speaker 1: game somewhat early on a three point eight two ERA
- 17:32Speaker 1: one point three to six whip for Walker. He's worse
- 17:35Speaker 1: at home four point seven eighty r at home, so
- 17:37Speaker 1: both starting pitchers are on the worst end of their
- 17:40Speaker 1: home road splits here over the past month. Three point
- 17:43Speaker 1: eight Era looks pretty good. Came off only along tour
- 17:47Speaker 1: in runs to the White Sox, but he didn't strike
- 17:49Speaker 1: out anybody in that game. Has an eleven of four
- 17:52Speaker 1: strike at walker ratio over the past five starts, not
- 17:54Speaker 1: a high strikeout rate. He's not walking a lot of guys,
- 17:57Speaker 1: but he's allowed seven home runs over his last three
- 18:00Speaker 1: he starts, which is a huge problem. He's allowed too
- 18:02Speaker 1: many hits over those starts as well, so he's getting
- 18:05Speaker 1: hit hard. So that's really his problem. He's not walking guys.
- 18:09Speaker 1: But despite what his name is, he should be called
- 18:13Speaker 1: Taiwan a hitter I guess or whatever it would be,
- 18:16Speaker 1: because he's given up a lot of hits. Man not great.
- 18:19Speaker 1: His numbers are good against Baltimore though, in forty three
- 18:21Speaker 1: at bats thirteen to two strikeout walk ratio one sixteen
- 18:25Speaker 1: batting average, allowed four to eleven ops, so surprisingly he's
- 18:28Speaker 1: actually pretty much dominated Baltimore. To me, though, I just
- 18:33Speaker 1: don't think I could trust Walker at all Man, So
- 18:35Speaker 1: to me, this seems like it's an over game for me.
- 18:39Speaker 1: We have fifty percent of take as ninety percent of
- 18:41Speaker 1: the cash on the over. It's a very high total.
- 18:43Speaker 1: It's already gone up from nine and a half to
- 18:45Speaker 1: being juiced to the over, and then some of the
- 18:47Speaker 1: books are already at ten as well. Bookmaker's still sitting
- 18:51Speaker 1: at nine and a half, so again you're not missing
- 18:53Speaker 1: out on the key side of the key number. Of
- 18:56Speaker 1: nine because it already was nine and a half, so
- 18:59Speaker 1: if you're going old, not too much of a difference
- 19:01Speaker 1: between nine and a half and ten. But I would
- 19:03Speaker 1: be leaning into the over. Don't really like either starter
- 19:06Speaker 1: or either bullpen, and they're on the worst side of
- 19:08Speaker 1: the splits. I just hesitate because the matchup numbers are
- 19:11Speaker 1: pretty good for both pitchers, but I think you have
- 19:12Speaker 1: to kind of dial that back a little bit. So
- 19:15Speaker 1: probably an over is the lean. There A's at Washington.
- 19:18Speaker 1: These teams were both off yesterday, Washington staying at home
- 19:21Speaker 1: after getting swept by Milwaukee. They've lost five games in
- 19:25Speaker 1: a row, and they might want to bounce back here
- 19:26Speaker 1: because they got absolutely embarrassed by Milwaukee. Man they give
- 19:29Speaker 1: up double digit runs in two of the three games.
- 19:32Speaker 1: They give up eight runs in the other game. That's
- 19:34Speaker 1: not good obviously, so they may want to bounce back here.
- 19:38Speaker 1: The A's are starting a road trip, could potentially be
- 19:40Speaker 1: a focused spot for the A's. I mean, this is
- 19:42Speaker 1: a battle of two teams that know that they're out
- 19:44Speaker 1: of it. Both bullpens are terrible, so even though they're
- 19:47Speaker 1: rested bullpens, I would probably not want to factor the
- 19:49Speaker 1: bullpens into my handicap as far as expecting them to
- 19:53Speaker 1: be good. Luis Severino pitching for the A's, maybe you
- 19:57Speaker 1: could expect him to be alright. I know his numbers
- 19:59Speaker 1: are bad on the season four point eight three ERA,
- 20:02Speaker 1: one point three to five whip. He has some of
- 20:04Speaker 1: the most insane home road splits that you'll ever see.
- 20:06Speaker 1: Though he's been way better on the road three point
- 20:09Speaker 1: zero three ERA, and he actually is coming up a
- 20:11Speaker 1: good home start where he went five innings give up
- 20:13Speaker 1: one run against Seattle. He's actually in decent form right
- 20:17Speaker 1: now over the past month. The A's of one of
- 20:19Speaker 1: his last three outings twenty seven to eight strike a
- 20:23Speaker 1: walk ratio. Over the past month, last three outings, he's
- 20:25Speaker 1: on five or more innings in all of them. Two
- 20:27Speaker 1: of them were on the road. But so is this
- 20:29Speaker 1: one A three point eight one ERA over that span,
- 20:32Speaker 1: and against Washington, I believe he actually does have good numbers. Yeah,
- 20:36Speaker 1: and forty two at bats eleven to four strike a
- 20:38Speaker 1: walk ratio, only one extra base hit a double from
- 20:41Speaker 1: low one point four to three R Excuse what I
- 20:45Speaker 1: keep saying that one forty three batting average allotted three
- 20:47Speaker 1: eighty four oh ps. So seven Reno. He's better on
- 20:50Speaker 1: the road. He's in decent form right now, and he
- 20:52Speaker 1: has good numbers against Washington, So that's kind of the
- 20:55Speaker 1: trilogy there, which leads me to expect that seven Reno
- 20:57Speaker 1: will actually have a good game here. He's going up
- 21:00Speaker 1: against Mackenzie Gore, who is definitely a real strikeout guy.
- 21:04Speaker 1: But he has his struggles, man, especially with the walks.
- 21:07Speaker 1: Three point eight ERA this year. One point two to
- 21:10Speaker 1: nine whip is definitely a whip that's a bit high,
- 21:12Speaker 1: a little bit better at home. Three point six EIGHTYRA
- 21:15Speaker 1: at home, so both pitchers are on the right side
- 21:16Speaker 1: of their splits. He's coming up some shaky outings though. Man,
- 21:20Speaker 1: he walked nine over the previous two outings prior to
- 21:24Speaker 1: his last outing, and then his last outing excuse he
- 21:28Speaker 1: gave up six earned runs to Houston. Not really that
- 21:31Speaker 1: great a sign man over the past month. Maybe he
- 21:34Speaker 1: was distracted because he got named in the All Star Game.
- 21:36Speaker 1: He pitched in the All Star Game. But six point
- 21:39Speaker 1: seven to five RA over the past month in a
- 21:40Speaker 1: really bad nineteen to fifteen strike a walk ratio, way
- 21:44Speaker 1: too many walks. He's been way too wild. But will
- 21:47Speaker 1: he bounce back here, possibly because the a is even
- 21:51Speaker 1: though they're a pretty good line up, a bunch of
- 21:53Speaker 1: young talent there. Gore does have decent numbers against the
- 21:56Speaker 1: hitters that have seen him before, and some of their
- 21:58Speaker 1: best hitters have never seen him before. Sixteen of bats,
- 22:01Speaker 1: six strikeouts, no walks, no extra base hits, one eighty
- 22:04Speaker 1: eight average allowed in three seventy five ops. So Gore
- 22:08Speaker 1: may actually pitch well in this game. I would not
- 22:10Speaker 1: want anything to do with the bullpens here, but I'm
- 22:12Speaker 1: kind of leaning towards a first five under in this game.
- 22:15Speaker 1: A lot of activity on the over eighty seven percent
- 22:18Speaker 1: of tickets, eighty nine percent of the cash, but I'm
- 22:20Speaker 1: not sure that I buy that. I mean again, I
- 22:22Speaker 1: think first five under and expecting both starting pitchers to
- 22:25Speaker 1: actually put a decent performance out there is the way
- 22:27Speaker 1: to go. If you want to go full game just
- 22:30Speaker 1: because it's not at the A's stadium and both bullpens arrested,
- 22:33Speaker 1: you can have at it. But I just both these
- 22:35Speaker 1: are the two worst bullpens in baseball, so I don't
- 22:38Speaker 1: really want to do that, So under first five would
- 22:40Speaker 1: be the way I would do it. In this game.
- 22:42Speaker 1: We see eight and a half's across the board. But Bookmaker,
- 22:45Speaker 1: you know which, I consider them to be an indicator
- 22:47Speaker 1: book because they cater to the pros. They have the
- 22:49Speaker 1: highest juice on the under eight and a half there,
- 22:52Speaker 1: so that's kind of an indicator there towards the under,
- 22:55Speaker 1: at least for me the way that I read this market.
- 22:57Speaker 1: So that's the way that I read that game at
- 23:00Speaker 1: the Mets. Mets took a loss yesterday seven to six,
- 23:03Speaker 1: and all of the runs were scored after the fifth inning,
- 23:06Speaker 1: so I said I was looking leaning towards an under
- 23:09Speaker 1: in the game yesterday. There I should have said first
- 23:11Speaker 1: five under because I did like the starting pitching better
- 23:14Speaker 1: than the bullpens. I'm not loving how how the bullpen's
- 23:17Speaker 1: set up in this one. Maybe, as I pointed out yesterday,
- 23:19Speaker 1: Cleveland actually has the better bullpen at this point, but
- 23:22Speaker 1: they used four relievers yesterday the Mets I used five.
- 23:25Speaker 1: I believe in the Railey only pitched, only made three pitches,
- 23:29Speaker 1: so he's probably available again today. But I don't really
- 23:32Speaker 1: love the bullpens coming into this game. Obviously, by the way,
- 23:36Speaker 1: I should mention, the A's have the better offense over Washington,
- 23:39Speaker 1: and well, I don't know if that's obvious, but they do.
- 23:42Speaker 1: And the Mets have the better offense over Cleveland. That's
- 23:44Speaker 1: more obvious. Starting pitching in this game, Logan Allen for
- 23:47Speaker 1: Cleveland mediocre numbers four point zero six the RA a
- 23:51Speaker 1: pretty high one point three to six whip. He has
- 23:53Speaker 1: exactly the same ERA home and away, so consistently mediocre man.
- 23:58Speaker 1: Over the past month, he's actu been decent three point
- 24:01Speaker 1: five two ERA, twenty one to six strike a walk ratio.
- 24:04Speaker 1: Doesn't doesn't get a lot of strikeouts, but he doesn't
- 24:07Speaker 1: issue a ton of walks. His issue has kind of
- 24:10Speaker 1: been the home run ball. He's allowed five home runs
- 24:12Speaker 1: over the last month, which isn't that great. He's pitching okay,
- 24:16Speaker 1: not allowing more than four earned runs in any start
- 24:19Speaker 1: for a couple of months now, actually going all the
- 24:21Speaker 1: way back, he's only done it once all season, actually
- 24:23Speaker 1: in late April against my boss in Red Sox. So
- 24:26Speaker 1: he's consistently not allowing a lot of runs and most
- 24:29Speaker 1: of the Mets lineup hasn't seen him before, so maybe
- 24:31Speaker 1: he has a little bit of an edge over the
- 24:33Speaker 1: Mets guys that haven't seen him before. Although Mullins and
- 24:36Speaker 1: Sodo have combined it for a three for five rate
- 24:39Speaker 1: off him with five walks and one strikeouts. That's not
- 24:42Speaker 1: exactly good for Allen against those two guys. Maybe he
- 24:46Speaker 1: does have an edge over the rest of the Mets
- 24:48Speaker 1: hitters who haven't seen him before. Clay Holmes has been
- 24:51Speaker 1: the better of these two starters three point four to
- 24:53Speaker 1: five r for the Mets. His whip is too high
- 24:55Speaker 1: as well, though, one point three to two, So that
- 24:58Speaker 1: again one of those guys where I keep thinking, how
- 25:01Speaker 1: could his whip be that high and as ERA still
- 25:03Speaker 1: be that low. He's done a little bit worse at home,
- 25:05Speaker 1: but his numbers are really close ERA wise. Not coming
- 25:08Speaker 1: off a good outing where you give up eight hits
- 25:10Speaker 1: against San Diego and somehow limited them to tour in runs.
- 25:13Speaker 1: A couple of unearned runs came home, though only lasted
- 25:17Speaker 1: three and two thirds in that game. Not a good start.
- 25:19Speaker 1: He's been really shaky over the past month four point
- 25:22Speaker 1: nine to one ERA, sixteen to eleven strike at walk
- 25:25Speaker 1: ratio very shaky, and it goes back to the previous
- 25:28Speaker 1: month two So again, his strikeout walk ratio is really
- 25:30Speaker 1: bad right now, and it leads me to believe that
- 25:33Speaker 1: Holmes has to suffer some sort of regression here with
- 25:36Speaker 1: his era. Maybe it won't happen here, though, because his
- 25:39Speaker 1: numbers are good against Cleveland, they're not a good lineup.
- 25:42Speaker 1: Thirty at bats, he only have five hits off him.
- 25:44Speaker 1: Fry does have a home run off him, but not
- 25:46Speaker 1: a lot of damage Other than that. Ramirez is two
- 25:48Speaker 1: for four with a home run or excuse thee a double,
- 25:51Speaker 1: not a home run. Overall one sixty seven average allowed,
- 25:54Speaker 1: five sixty five ops nine to four strike a walk ratio,
- 25:58Speaker 1: Holmes does do decent against Cleeve. So, even though I
- 26:02Speaker 1: have my issues with these pitchers, they walk too many guys,
- 26:06Speaker 1: I could see the argument in this game for a
- 26:08Speaker 1: first five inning under. I would not want to factor
- 26:10Speaker 1: in the bullpens into into that. If I were to
- 26:12Speaker 1: go under in this game, could potentially just based on
- 26:16Speaker 1: how they match up here. I know I'm going against
- 26:17Speaker 1: you know, kind of that recent form argument here, at
- 26:20Speaker 1: least with homes. But to me, I think the under
- 26:23Speaker 1: might make sense here though we see fifty eight percent
- 26:25Speaker 1: of tickets on the under, fifty of the cash on
- 26:27Speaker 1: the over, and we basically just see eight and a
- 26:30Speaker 1: half across the entire board here a little bit heavier
- 26:33Speaker 1: juice at Bookmaker though on the over so maybe the
- 26:35Speaker 1: market is disagreeing with me a little bit on that.
- 26:37Speaker 1: But I think first five under maybe a way to
- 26:41Speaker 1: look in that game. Kind of just like yesterday, where
- 26:44Speaker 1: I should have said that that was the lean yesterday
- 26:45Speaker 1: instead of the full game Kidsas City at my Boston
- 26:48Speaker 1: Red Sox. Red Sox got another win yesterday. They hung on,
- 26:52Speaker 1: they almost blew it actually in some way. Yesterday they
- 26:55Speaker 1: were winning the game six to one. Earlier in the
- 26:57Speaker 1: game they only won eight to five. Red Sox. Generally,
- 27:01Speaker 1: I would say they have the better bullpen over case,
- 27:04Speaker 1: but the Red Sox saw a lot of bullpen usage.
- 27:06Speaker 1: Five relief pitchers entered the game for the Red Sox
- 27:09Speaker 1: yesterday compared to three for Kansas City, including Sam Longo,
- 27:13Speaker 1: I believe is a long relief man. So again we're
- 27:16Speaker 1: in a simulation man. Great name for that guy. So
- 27:19Speaker 1: the bullpen edge kind of shifts towards Kansas City a
- 27:22Speaker 1: little bit because of the usage. So I would say
- 27:25Speaker 1: that there's not a huge advantage one way or the
- 27:27Speaker 1: other with the bullpen's here. Red Sox have the way
- 27:30Speaker 1: better offense. Obviously, and I would say the Red Sox
- 27:32Speaker 1: have the starting pitching edge as well. Ryan Bergeer is
- 27:36Speaker 1: pitching for the Royals. They just they got him right
- 27:38Speaker 1: before the trade deadline from San Diego. This will be
- 27:41Speaker 1: his first appearance for the Royals. His numbers are actually
- 27:44Speaker 1: good on the season, two point seven to eighty R,
- 27:46Speaker 1: a one point one to eight whip, and he is
- 27:48Speaker 1: going from one pitcher friendly park in San Diego to
- 27:51Speaker 1: another with Kansas City. But he's not pitching one tonight
- 27:54Speaker 1: because Fenway is not a very pitcher friendly park. Brig
- 27:58Speaker 1: Aire is better on the road, though, which does surprise
- 28:02Speaker 1: me with San Diego being so pitcher friendly. He has
- 28:04Speaker 1: one point nine to SIXTYRA on the road this year.
- 28:08Speaker 1: San Diego had won a bunch of his recent outings. Actually,
- 28:11Speaker 1: going back the full season, san Diego had won eight
- 28:15Speaker 1: of his ten outings, so that's kind of crazy. But
- 28:17Speaker 1: he doesn't go deep into games. Man his last couple
- 28:20Speaker 1: of outings, even though he only allowed three on runs
- 28:22Speaker 1: across eight and two thirds innings, he walked six guys.
- 28:25Speaker 1: He struck out eleven, so strikeout rate was high, but
- 28:28Speaker 1: the walk rate is way too high right now. Man,
- 28:30Speaker 1: so Bregeer. I don't know how his whip is that low.
- 28:33Speaker 1: I guess he's that unhittable, not allowing that many hits
- 28:36Speaker 1: because he's wild man. He's got a decent strikeout rate
- 28:39Speaker 1: and a really high walk rate and a really low
- 28:42Speaker 1: hit rate. So that's what you're gonna get out of
- 28:44Speaker 1: Brigere here, and the Red Sox have never faced him before,
- 28:46Speaker 1: so maybe he has a little bit of an edge
- 28:48Speaker 1: while he's in there against the Red Sox because they
- 28:52Speaker 1: haven't seen him before. But I would expect Bregere highly
- 28:55Speaker 1: likely to be the first of the starting pitchers out
- 28:57Speaker 1: of the game here, So it's highly likely Kansas City
- 29:00Speaker 1: goes to their bullpen sooner than the Red Sox do here,
- 29:05Speaker 1: which might kind of counteract the fact that Kansas City
- 29:07Speaker 1: has a more rested bullpend here because the Red Sox
- 29:09Speaker 1: have Garrett Crochet on the mound. I mean, we know
- 29:12Speaker 1: how good he is two point two to three ERA
- 29:15Speaker 1: one point zero nine whip on the season, started racking
- 29:18Speaker 1: up a bunch of wins since the Red Sox started
- 29:20Speaker 1: hitting as well, so he's getting his run support behind
- 29:24Speaker 1: him now a little bit. He's been slightly worse at
- 29:26Speaker 1: home two point four two ERA, probably expected because it's
- 29:28Speaker 1: a hitter friendly ballpark. Last month, he's been good as usual,
- 29:32Speaker 1: not a looting more than tour in runs in any
- 29:34Speaker 1: of the starts. Red Sox have won all of his
- 29:36Speaker 1: starts this month, have won five in a row of
- 29:39Speaker 1: his starts, and they've won nine of his last ten starts.
- 29:43Speaker 1: He has a thirty one to six strike a walk
- 29:44Speaker 1: ratio of the last month as well, one point seven
- 29:48Speaker 1: to three ERA. We get it. He's good. He's facing
- 29:51Speaker 1: a really weak case C lineup here, and even though
- 29:54Speaker 1: he was in their division last year, so they're somewhat familiar,
- 29:56Speaker 1: and they have not hit him well in thirty four
- 29:58Speaker 1: at bats one extra ma hit a double from WIT
- 30:01Speaker 1: thirteen strikeouts to two walks and a lot of strikeouts
- 30:05Speaker 1: one seventy six average four to twenty eight ohps. So Crchet,
- 30:09Speaker 1: you got to give him the upper hand. And the
- 30:10Speaker 1: starting pitching matchup here as well could be an early
- 30:14Speaker 1: under in this game, though, which is kind of what
- 30:16Speaker 1: my thoughts are in this game. I don't necessarily want
- 30:18Speaker 1: to deal with the bullpens here because they're both kind
- 30:21Speaker 1: of unrested to some extent. Although the money's coming into
- 30:24Speaker 1: the under two seventy five percent of tickets, eight and
- 30:26Speaker 1: nine percent of the cash on the under money somewhat
- 30:28Speaker 1: on the Red Sox seventy eight percent takets ninety four
- 30:31Speaker 1: percent of the cash. Red Sox way too heavy a
- 30:33Speaker 1: favorite though. In the minus between minus two thirty and
- 30:37Speaker 1: minus two to fifty, basically depending on which book you're
- 30:39Speaker 1: looking at, it's a very very high number there. I
- 30:42Speaker 1: think first five inning under could make sense, but the
- 30:44Speaker 1: totals already down to seven and a half. Juice to
- 30:47Speaker 1: the over. You may still find it an eight out
- 30:49Speaker 1: there like a Draft Kings, although it is juiced to
- 30:51Speaker 1: the under there a bit. If you can find first
- 30:55Speaker 1: first five innings under at a round four, that's probably
- 30:58Speaker 1: the way that I would go in that game. And
- 31:00Speaker 1: that's not gonna be a play for me, because I
- 31:01Speaker 1: just don't know what we're gonna get out of berge
- 31:03Speaker 1: Are Curshet should do well for his part, I would imagine,
- 31:07Speaker 1: hopefully hopefully I'm right as a Red Sox fan. So
- 31:10Speaker 1: those are my thoughts on that one. Brewers at Atlanta.
- 31:13Speaker 1: I got the game right yesterday, somewhat luckily, Milwaukee got
- 31:16Speaker 1: the win three to one yesterday. We're still gonna give
- 31:19Speaker 1: Milwaukee the bullpen edge here. The only use two relief pitchers,
- 31:22Speaker 1: just a very light bullpen usage from Milwaukee yesterday. Atlanta
- 31:27Speaker 1: not as good. And these three relief pitchers yesterday and
- 31:29Speaker 1: their bullpen is not as good as Milwaukee's either, And
- 31:32Speaker 1: I think we have a starting pitching edge with Milwaukee
- 31:34Speaker 1: as well. With Freddy Peralta pitching three point eighty RA,
- 31:38Speaker 1: one point one to three whip good stuff man good
- 31:40Speaker 1: numbers on the season. He is worse on the road, though,
- 31:42Speaker 1: somewhat significantly four point one nine road ERA. Something to
- 31:47Speaker 1: keep in mind. He didn't dwell in his last start
- 31:49Speaker 1: UH five and runs allowed, but it was at against
- 31:51Speaker 1: the Cubs. He also did walk for uh. Two of
- 31:54Speaker 1: his last three starts have been fairly bad, but and
- 31:58Speaker 1: then that Cub start he didn't even make it five innings.
- 32:00Speaker 1: But the other start was against the Dodgers. Four runs,
- 32:02Speaker 1: a lot of five innings, three walks, but those are
- 32:04Speaker 1: against elite offenses Man, and that Dodgers was on the road.
- 32:08Speaker 1: Cubs is at home. But other than those games, he's
- 32:10Speaker 1: been pitching pretty much lights out. So Atlanta's offense is
- 32:14Speaker 1: obviously nowhere near as good as the Dodgers or the Cubs.
- 32:17Speaker 1: Paralta three point five eighty R and thirty six to
- 32:19Speaker 1: twelve strike at walker racer in the past month. The
- 32:22Speaker 1: twelve walks again, that walk great skyrocketed a little bit
- 32:26Speaker 1: because he faced those two good offenses. So I'm still
- 32:29Speaker 1: gonna say that he's I believe he's still in decent
- 32:32Speaker 1: form here, should do pretty well in this game. He
- 32:34Speaker 1: has nice numbers against Atlanta fifty eight at bats fourteen
- 32:38Speaker 1: to seven strike at walker race is not great again,
- 32:40Speaker 1: it's too many walks, but one ninety batting average allowed
- 32:43Speaker 1: of five eighty seven ops. So Paralta has held Atlanta's
- 32:47Speaker 1: offense down well. He's gonna be opposed by Joey Wentz,
- 32:51Speaker 1: who basically has been a journeyman this season alone. I
- 32:55Speaker 1: believe he's been on three or four different teams five
- 32:57Speaker 1: point oh two ERA one point four to four this season.
- 33:01Speaker 1: He's basically only in the Braves rotation because they have
- 33:03Speaker 1: so many injuries. I don't think he'd be there otherwise.
- 33:08Speaker 1: Seven point two ERA at home this season. That's not
- 33:11Speaker 1: all with the Braves though. With the Braves he's made
- 33:14Speaker 1: four appearances. He only went more than five innings once,
- 33:18Speaker 1: which is his last outing, a pretty good six and
- 33:20Speaker 1: two thirty eight one hit shutout against Kansas City, but
- 33:23Speaker 1: he did walk three guys again. Kn's City is a
- 33:26Speaker 1: very weak lineup seven strikeouts as well in that game.
- 33:30Speaker 1: Other than that, he's been okay with Atlanta. He only
- 33:33Speaker 1: allowed any runs in one outing, but it was against Texas.
- 33:37Speaker 1: It isn't really a good offense. I'm not ready to
- 33:39Speaker 1: really trust Wens. I mean, his overall numbers are not
- 33:42Speaker 1: that good over the course of his career. He's actually
- 33:44Speaker 1: been quite awful five point four to five r and
- 33:47Speaker 1: one point five to one WHIP, So I don't think
- 33:49Speaker 1: we could expect a whole lot out of Wentz here.
- 33:51Speaker 1: Milwaukee's got a good offense, even better on the road,
- 33:54Speaker 1: even though I know they didn't hit well yesterday. Wentz
- 33:57Speaker 1: hasn't been good against him. In a limited sample size
- 33:59Speaker 1: twenty one at bats, Milwaukee actually has eleven RBIs off him.
- 34:03Speaker 1: They're hitters that are in the lineup right now, which
- 34:05Speaker 1: unfortunately does not include Shorrio. Because I like Milwaukee and
- 34:08Speaker 1: maybe win the World Series here, but they're gonna need
- 34:10Speaker 1: him to come back. Man. It looks like he might not.
- 34:13Speaker 1: But either way, even without him, Milwaukee has a three
- 34:15Speaker 1: thirty three average and eight to forty ops against Wentz,
- 34:19Speaker 1: So Peralta, you got to give him the upper hand
- 34:21Speaker 1: in the starting pitching matchup here. So Milwaukee seems to
- 34:25Speaker 1: have the starting seems to have the edge across the
- 34:27Speaker 1: board again in this game, man offense, starting pitching, bullpen.
- 34:30Speaker 1: Money is coming in against them, though they have seventy
- 34:32Speaker 1: five percent of tickets, only seventy four percent of the cash,
- 34:35Speaker 1: and the line is dropped from similar to where it
- 34:37Speaker 1: was yesterday in the minus one forties down into the
- 34:40Speaker 1: minus one thirties, so I guess take from that what
- 34:43Speaker 1: you will. It's still higher at DraftKings, which is because
- 34:46Speaker 1: again DraftKings pretty much always has a higher number on
- 34:50Speaker 1: the favorite. They just kind of screw you with the
- 34:52Speaker 1: number on the money line there. It looks like Atlanta
- 34:55Speaker 1: is taking a little bit of money as the home
- 34:56Speaker 1: underdog though, but I don't really see it. I don't
- 34:59Speaker 1: see a reason really do that. I mean, professional money.
- 35:02Speaker 1: They're always going to be about value though, so they're
- 35:03Speaker 1: basically saying we don't think Milwaukee should be that heavy
- 35:06Speaker 1: a favorite on the road. But they seem to always
- 35:08Speaker 1: think there's value in Atlanta. Man, Oh, Atlanta is better
- 35:11Speaker 1: than the record indicates, so well, yeah, that's true. But
- 35:13Speaker 1: their season is over now, and it's like, look at
- 35:15Speaker 1: this matchup, man, like what do you want? So I
- 35:18Speaker 1: don't really love that idea at all. I think Milwaukee
- 35:21Speaker 1: probably should win this game. And then the total. We
- 35:25Speaker 1: have sixty percent of tickets on the under and fifty
- 35:27Speaker 1: one percent of the casual on the under, and it's
- 35:28Speaker 1: basically eight juice to the under across the whole board.
- 35:31Speaker 1: Difficult to gauge that total there when you have one
- 35:34Speaker 1: starting pitcher you think is gonna be good and one
- 35:36Speaker 1: who isn't gonna be good. As far as what your
- 35:38Speaker 1: expectations are, Reds Cubs. As you can see in that's
- 35:41Speaker 1: all in the in the total in the title, it
- 35:43Speaker 1: is going to be a total, though I'm skipping that
- 35:46Speaker 1: for now. That'll be a best bet. Yankees at Texas,
- 35:49Speaker 1: Texas with a win yesterday at extra innings in a
- 35:53Speaker 1: crazy game, Texas with a three run walk off home
- 35:58Speaker 1: run from Young I guess to finish the game off
- 36:01Speaker 1: or Jung, I pronounce it Young though Yong Again, I'm
- 36:08Speaker 1: happy about the slide that the Yankees are on right now.
- 36:11Speaker 1: Is I'm not a fan of the Yankees. Texas has
- 36:13Speaker 1: the bullpen edge here. They have the better bullpen. Did
- 36:16Speaker 1: see some bullpen you suggest today? The Texas used John Gray,
- 36:20Speaker 1: who is a guy who's been a starter in the past.
- 36:23Speaker 1: They used him for a lot of the innings yesterday,
- 36:25Speaker 1: so Texas was able to hold their bullpen attacked pretty much.
- 36:29Speaker 1: So Texas definitely has the bullpen edge here. Yankees used
- 36:32Speaker 1: four relief pitchers yesterday. Texas's bullpen is better anyway, so
- 36:36Speaker 1: we'll give Texas the bullpen edge. Yankees obviously have the
- 36:40Speaker 1: offensive edge. They have a way better offense than Texas.
- 36:42Speaker 1: But I think Texas you gotta give him a starting
- 36:44Speaker 1: pitching edge here. And you know me, I like pitching
- 36:46Speaker 1: better than I like hitting. Will Warren is pitching. I
- 36:50Speaker 1: think pitching a beats hitting more often than it does. Not.
- 36:53Speaker 1: Will Warren pitching for the Yankees not having a great
- 36:55Speaker 1: season four point six four ERA one point four to
- 36:59Speaker 1: three not great, really really bad on the road seven
- 37:03Speaker 1: point two erra on the road. He's been way worse
- 37:06Speaker 1: on the road than at home. Like insane splits for
- 37:09Speaker 1: him coming off a good out and gave up one
- 37:11Speaker 1: run against Tampa Bay and six inninges. Of course that
- 37:14Speaker 1: wasn't home. Over the past month, his numbers are not good.
- 37:17Speaker 1: Five point three four ERA, twenty five to sixteen strike
- 37:20Speaker 1: a walk ratio, six home runs allowed him well more
- 37:23Speaker 1: than one hit all out per inning, So he is
- 37:25Speaker 1: struggling despite that recent good start. I'm not sure if
- 37:29Speaker 1: it's gonna continue here, even though Texas is not very
- 37:31Speaker 1: good offensively, and he does do well against them small
- 37:34Speaker 1: twenty two at bat sample size but only one extra
- 37:37Speaker 1: race hit allowed to double to time eleven to one,
- 37:40Speaker 1: strike a walk ratio two to twenty seven batting average,
- 37:43Speaker 1: five thirty four ohps allowed, So he does have good
- 37:47Speaker 1: numbers against this weak Texas lineup. So it is possible
- 37:50Speaker 1: Warren does a little bit better this time out. I
- 37:52Speaker 1: think I would trust he evolved a little bit more, though.
- 37:54Speaker 1: I mean, he's just been the better pitcher on the
- 37:57Speaker 1: season by far one point four to nine ERA po
- 38:00Speaker 1: point eight nine whip. He's done a little bit worse
- 38:03Speaker 1: at home, but still that amounts to one point eight
- 38:06Speaker 1: sixty RA. Yeah, I mean, there's no way he can
- 38:08Speaker 1: keep these numbers that good for an entire season, so
- 38:11Speaker 1: at some point there should be some regression. But he's
- 38:13Speaker 1: not a guy that I'm jumping I'm jumping up on
- 38:17Speaker 1: my seat to fade man, absolutely not. Texas has won
- 38:20Speaker 1: his last five starts, even though they can't even hit.
- 38:23Speaker 1: He has a point five to ninety RA over that
- 38:25Speaker 1: stretch that was all in July, and thirty to eight
- 38:28Speaker 1: strike a walk ratio over that span, really really good,
- 38:31Speaker 1: and he had three shutout performances, allowed one and run
- 38:34Speaker 1: in the other two starts. Hasn't allowed more than that
- 38:36Speaker 1: in any of those starts and win at least five
- 38:38Speaker 1: innings in every single one. So yeah, he's obviously in
- 38:41Speaker 1: a good for him right now, although the Yankees are
- 38:43Speaker 1: gonna be one of the better offenses he's faced. But
- 38:45Speaker 1: he did beat them La. He didn't beat them. He
- 38:48Speaker 1: bitched well against him, but he got absolutely zero runs apart.
- 38:51Speaker 1: They actually lost the game one nothing in New York,
- 38:54Speaker 1: even though he went six innings and only allowed one
- 38:56Speaker 1: run against him, had a six to one strike a
- 38:59Speaker 1: walk ratios. Pitch well against the Yankees on the road
- 39:02Speaker 1: this year, and he is good against them in general.
- 39:04Speaker 1: Surprisingly one hundred and twenty at bats. He has a
- 39:07Speaker 1: ridiculous thirty eight to four strike a walk ratio against
- 39:10Speaker 1: the Yankees. Really all the damage from the Yankees comes
- 39:13Speaker 1: from Stanton. They have five home runs off him, and
- 39:16Speaker 1: four of them are Stanton, so if he pitches around him,
- 39:19Speaker 1: you know, he could probably hold the Yankees lineup down.
- 39:21Speaker 1: Santon also has struck out fifteen times against him, so
- 39:24Speaker 1: it's basically either he hits for like power or he
- 39:28Speaker 1: strikes out. There's like no in between him with Stanton.
- 39:30Speaker 1: But overall, Evaldi has held the Yankees to a two
- 39:33Speaker 1: thirty three average and six point fifty eight ops, so
- 39:36Speaker 1: good numbers from me Evaldi. I would lean towards Texas
- 39:39Speaker 1: in this game as far as them having the advantage,
- 39:41Speaker 1: just because I like pitching over hitting. Money is coming
- 39:44Speaker 1: in against it, though, because Texas came out in a
- 39:47Speaker 1: minus one forty favorite and they're down to minus one twenty.
- 39:50Speaker 1: Basically at most spots now, fifty five percent of tickets
- 39:53Speaker 1: on them, seventy two percent of the cash coming in
- 39:55Speaker 1: on the Yankees, though. I think the thought is basically
- 39:59Speaker 1: the Yankee shouldn't be an underdog. Basically, it's very rare
- 40:02Speaker 1: you're gonna see the Yankees as an underdog, man, So
- 40:04Speaker 1: I think that's kind of the feeling with the professional
- 40:06Speaker 1: better is like, well, the Yankees, they have such the
- 40:09Speaker 1: better offense and they're definitely a good team, like they
- 40:13Speaker 1: just shouldn't be an underdog to this extent. Really, that's
- 40:15Speaker 1: kind of the sense I think from the professional money there.
- 40:19Speaker 1: But in this case, I mean, I do still think
- 40:21Speaker 1: Texas has the pitching edge around the across the board there,
- 40:24Speaker 1: so we'll see what happens. It's pitching up against hitting.
- 40:27Speaker 1: I would lean towards pitching, but it's not anything that's
- 40:30Speaker 1: gonna make a play for me at all, and I
- 40:31Speaker 1: especially would not want to fade that market read there.
- 40:36Speaker 1: Colorado hosting Toronto, man, I mean, yesterday's game was ridiculous Toronto,
- 40:41Speaker 1: I believe, one fifteen to one yesterday. Toronto does have
- 40:44Speaker 1: the better bullpen. Colorado used three relief pitchers pretty extensively yesterday.
- 40:48Speaker 1: Rest of their bullpen is rested, but Toronto has the
- 40:50Speaker 1: more rested bullpen. They only us two relievers yesterday. Toronto
- 40:54Speaker 1: also has the better bullpen. Eric Louerd did indeed do
- 40:58Speaker 1: well yesterday, I believe because Toronto only gave him one
- 41:01Speaker 1: run I didn't look at at what his pitching line was.
- 41:03Speaker 1: But that was the one of the debates we had
- 41:05Speaker 1: on the show yesterday, Jay Main pointing out that Lauer
- 41:08Speaker 1: had been really bad in his first few starts of
- 41:10Speaker 1: his career at Colorado, but he's actually been better there
- 41:13Speaker 1: more recently. This Colorado offense is particularly bad. Jose Barrios
- 41:19Speaker 1: gets his turn for the Blue Jays three point eight
- 41:22Speaker 1: four ERA one point two to six WHIP. He's been
- 41:25Speaker 1: better on the road three point three six e R
- 41:27Speaker 1: in the road, but Courtsfield might not be as kind
- 41:31Speaker 1: to him, and he's not been as good recently over
- 41:33Speaker 1: the past month five point eight three ERA, even though
- 41:36Speaker 1: Toronto has they won five to six starts over that month,
- 41:40Speaker 1: and they've won whatever that is, eight of his last
- 41:43Speaker 1: ten starts or something like that, so Toronto has been
- 41:46Speaker 1: hitting behind him. But five point eight three ERA this
- 41:49Speaker 1: past month twenty two to seven strike a walk ratio
- 41:52Speaker 1: not terrific, and he allowed seven on runs over the
- 41:55Speaker 1: past month and more than one hit per inning, so
- 41:57Speaker 1: he is getting hit around a little bit. And he
- 41:59Speaker 1: failed to go five innings in two of those starts,
- 42:01Speaker 1: including the most recent one at Baltimore. Which you can
- 42:04Speaker 1: kind of forgive him not doing well at the A's
- 42:07Speaker 1: Stadium because that's a difficult stadium to pitch in. The
- 42:09Speaker 1: Baltimore start maybe a little bit more unforgivable, and not
- 42:14Speaker 1: really a great start against San Francisco in there either,
- 42:17Speaker 1: So Burrios overall not pitching quite as well here, but
- 42:20Speaker 1: he is stepping down in class to face this really
- 42:22Speaker 1: weak Colorado offense. A lot of their guys haven't seen
- 42:25Speaker 1: him before. Twenty four at bats, only one extra base hit,
- 42:28Speaker 1: a double from ourcia. He has seven strikeouts, no walks,
- 42:32Speaker 1: one sixty seven average as what he's held them to
- 42:35Speaker 1: into three seventy five ops. So overall, Barrios does have
- 42:38Speaker 1: the good matchup numbers, but he's not in good form
- 42:40Speaker 1: right now. Anthony Malina pitching for the Rockies, bad numbers,
- 42:44Speaker 1: seven point two seven ERA, one point five whip. I
- 42:48Speaker 1: believe this is gonna be his first start this season,
- 42:51Speaker 1: or maybe of his career. Even he has a four
- 42:53Speaker 1: point five ERA at home this year, which is interesting
- 42:56Speaker 1: and a little bit better my mistake. He made one
- 42:59Speaker 1: start for Colorado last year, so this will be his
- 43:01Speaker 1: second career start, but he's probably only gonna be an
- 43:04Speaker 1: opener man. He hasn't gone more than two winnings in
- 43:06Speaker 1: any of his outings this year, so we'll see what
- 43:08Speaker 1: happens with him. He does at least have a six
- 43:10Speaker 1: zero strikeout walk range, but he's allowed three home runs
- 43:13Speaker 1: in eight and two thirds innings, thirteen hits, seven e
- 43:16Speaker 1: in runs, so he's not that great, although most of
- 43:19Speaker 1: the damage came against Washington, but he's allowed runs in
- 43:23Speaker 1: each of his last three outings. The last two were
- 43:26Speaker 1: against Arizona and the Dodgers. Even kind of excuse giving
- 43:30Speaker 1: up a run in those starts, But I'm not trusting Molina,
- 43:33Speaker 1: and you know that means he's only gonna go a
- 43:35Speaker 1: couple of innings and then you have to deal with
- 43:36Speaker 1: Colorado's bullpen. Good luck with that. It looks like Toronto
- 43:40Speaker 1: may be able to win this game again. Here Toronto
- 43:43Speaker 1: has four batters so seeing Molina before, they're two for
- 43:46Speaker 1: four with a strikeout off him. So I do think
- 43:48Speaker 1: Toronto should win this game. But obviously you're gonna pay
- 43:51Speaker 1: way too much of a price here for Toronto. They're
- 43:55Speaker 1: up in the minds two twenties range. Now bookmaker has
- 43:57Speaker 1: them in the two thirties up from two hundreds, so
- 44:00Speaker 1: the money actually came in on them. Initially they have
- 44:02Speaker 1: ninety five percent of tickets only ninety four percent of
- 44:04Speaker 1: the cash. So I don't love that money is coming
- 44:06Speaker 1: in in the over, and I don't necessarily disagree with
- 44:09Speaker 1: that fifty two percent of the tickets and eighty eight
- 44:11Speaker 1: percent of the cash. On the over, it already went
- 44:13Speaker 1: up from eleven to eleven and a half. I know
- 44:15Speaker 1: that looks it's a high total. It is course field
- 44:18Speaker 1: rockies to have a weak lineup, but Barrios hasn't been
- 44:21Speaker 1: a great form recently, so even though he does match
- 44:24Speaker 1: up well against Colorado, that would be my hesitation with
- 44:27Speaker 1: going over here. But I think that's probably the way
- 44:30Speaker 1: I would lean is the over, or maybe the better
- 44:33Speaker 1: way to do this is Toronto team total over, even
- 44:36Speaker 1: though I know they put up fifteen runs yesterday. It
- 44:38Speaker 1: almost looks too easy to do it. But do you
- 44:40Speaker 1: really expect much out of Molina for a couple of
- 44:43Speaker 1: innings and then Colorado's bullpend for the rest of the game.
- 44:46Speaker 1: I don't, so I think Toronto over their team total
- 44:48Speaker 1: actually kind of makes sense. In that game Tampa at Anaheim,
- 44:51Speaker 1: I thought Tampa would put up a good performance yesterday.
- 44:53Speaker 1: I leaned towards Tampa yesterday that didn't happen, And somehow
- 44:57Speaker 1: Anaheim only gave a one run with Kohai. Know what's
- 45:00Speaker 1: I believe is their listed starter yesterday? How the hell
- 45:03Speaker 1: does that happen? I don't know what was it going on?
- 45:05Speaker 1: It's or getting like Mandela? Would that be the Mandela effect?
- 45:10Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't know what them either think. No,
- 45:11Speaker 1: it is Kakuchi. What am I saying? That makes more sense?
- 45:13Speaker 1: Kakuchi was good howser actually, and one of his worst starts,
- 45:16Speaker 1: probably the worst start of the season. Uh, his first
- 45:19Speaker 1: start with Tampa, so very unfortunate for him. My mistake
- 45:23Speaker 1: was Kakuchi. Anyway, Anaheim is the worst of these two bullpens.
- 45:27Speaker 1: I mean that's I'm not you know, going on on
- 45:30Speaker 1: a limb there. Anaheim used three relievers yesterday and Tampa
- 45:33Speaker 1: I believe only used one or two. Yeah, they only
- 45:35Speaker 1: used one. So Tampa definitely is the bullpen edge here.
- 45:39Speaker 1: Uh might give Anaheim a slight offensive edge at this point.
- 45:42Speaker 1: To be honest, their offense is mediocre, maybe a little
- 45:46Speaker 1: bit better than Tampa's. Actually, I'm not sure let's let's
- 45:48Speaker 1: see what the stats actually say here? Where? Where are
- 45:52Speaker 1: these teams? What are you even looking at here? Maybe
- 45:55Speaker 1: not Tampa's Actually no, I'm looking at bullpen stats. When
- 45:57Speaker 1: am I talking, I'm like, wait, what, uh, Tampa? Where
- 46:00Speaker 1: are we at here? Tampa is fifteenth and Anaheim sixteenth
- 46:03Speaker 1: or tie for sixteenth in ops. So they're very, very similar.
- 46:07Speaker 1: That explains why I couldn't figure out which one I
- 46:09Speaker 1: thought was better. Ryan Pepio's pitching for Tampa. Generally I
- 46:12Speaker 1: like him better than Soriano, but in this matchup, I
- 46:17Speaker 1: don't think I do three point eighty r N the
- 46:20Speaker 1: season one point one eight whip. I've been a Pepio
- 46:23Speaker 1: defender man for pretty much his entire career, especially this year,
- 46:27Speaker 1: defending him against the advanced analytics guys who don't like him.
- 46:30Speaker 1: He's worse on the road four point three r M
- 46:33Speaker 1: the road, even though he's a lot a ton of
- 46:34Speaker 1: home runs at home in that very home run conducive stadium.
- 46:38Speaker 1: The home run ball has been a problem for him.
- 46:40Speaker 1: But he's coming off a really bad road start where
- 46:43Speaker 1: I thought he would do way better. Against the Yankees,
- 46:45Speaker 1: he up seven and runs three walks and four innings,
- 46:48Speaker 1: six hits as well, two long balls not good. Tampa's
- 46:51Speaker 1: actually lost five starts in a row of his but
- 46:55Speaker 1: he wasn't pitching that poorly otherwise in the prior starts
- 46:59Speaker 1: he was doing pretty well. But because of these last
- 47:00Speaker 1: two starts, so he's walked seven guys, his strike a
- 47:04Speaker 1: walk ratio over the past month is now thirty six
- 47:06Speaker 1: to fifteen, which isn't that good. And he allowed nine
- 47:08Speaker 1: home runs over the past month, So the long ball
- 47:12Speaker 1: is an issue for Pepio man five point zero three
- 47:15Speaker 1: ra over the past month two definitely having some issues,
- 47:18Speaker 1: but overall, I mean he doesn't allow that many hits
- 47:20Speaker 1: really overall, and usually his strike out walk ratio is
- 47:23Speaker 1: actually fairly good as well, So I do generally actually
- 47:26Speaker 1: kind of like Pepio, And normally i'd say, well, I'll
- 47:28Speaker 1: give him a pass for a bad start against the Yankees,
- 47:31Speaker 1: I think he might bounce back, but in this matchup,
- 47:33Speaker 1: I'm not sure. Our twenty two at bats, I know
- 47:35Speaker 1: it's a small sample size against the Anaheim here nine
- 47:38Speaker 1: to three strike out walk ratio, but Anaeim has a
- 47:41Speaker 1: three eighteen batting average off him eight fifty five ops,
- 47:44Speaker 1: so they have hit him fairly well, so that does
- 47:47Speaker 1: warning me a little bit for Pepio coming into this
- 47:49Speaker 1: game up against Jose Soriano, who has a decent ERA
- 47:53Speaker 1: three point sixty five, but his whip is really high
- 47:56Speaker 1: one point three whip. He's another guy that has a
- 47:58Speaker 1: whip that's so high it's like, how could his hera
- 48:00Speaker 1: be as low as it is for Soriano. He does
- 48:03Speaker 1: get a lot of strikeouts, though he does throw some
- 48:05Speaker 1: pretty nasty stuff. He's been worse at home though, pretty
- 48:08Speaker 1: significantly four point nine to two home y RA, so
- 48:11Speaker 1: he does not pitch well at home. So both starting
- 48:14Speaker 1: pitchers here actually are on the wrong end of their
- 48:18Speaker 1: their home road splits. He has a thirty one to
- 48:21Speaker 1: fifteen strike a walk rights over the past month. That's
- 48:23Speaker 1: not that impressive either. Too many walks, way too many
- 48:27Speaker 1: walks two point seventy five ERA, though again somehow he's
- 48:30Speaker 1: not aligning that many runs. He allowed two or fewer
- 48:32Speaker 1: earned runs and all but one start in the month
- 48:35Speaker 1: of July in six starts Soriano gets Tampa. His numbers
- 48:41Speaker 1: are mediocre. In twenty five at bats it is a
- 48:43Speaker 1: small sample size two to eighty batting average, six to
- 48:46Speaker 1: ninety three ohps is pretty low though, but still I
- 48:49Speaker 1: think the way that I'm looking at this game, I mean,
- 48:51Speaker 1: you could argue first five innings towards Anaheim and argue
- 48:55Speaker 1: for Soriano having the starting pitching edge over Pepio fifty
- 48:59Speaker 1: tickets fifty eight percent of the cash on Tampa though,
- 49:01Speaker 1: so the cash team's becoming in on Tampa a little bit.
- 49:04Speaker 1: The line has dropped slightly on Anaheim, down for minus
- 49:07Speaker 1: won twenty five, down into the minus one twenty range
- 49:10Speaker 1: basically at most of these books, first five Anaheim kind
- 49:14Speaker 1: of makes sense to me just because of the matchup numbers,
- 49:16Speaker 1: but I actually think an over is the way that
- 49:18Speaker 1: I'm leaning in this game. I don't see the percentages yet.
- 49:20Speaker 1: Although the total dropped kind of from eight and a
- 49:22Speaker 1: half down to eight at some of these books, bookmakers
- 49:25Speaker 1: still at eight and a half, but juice to the under.
- 49:28Speaker 1: But I think with at least one kind of bad
- 49:31Speaker 1: bullpend here with Anaheim and not really trusting either start
- 49:34Speaker 1: or that much, I mean, I could potentially see an
- 49:36Speaker 1: over happening in that game, but I'm definitely not touching
- 49:39Speaker 1: that game either. Not gonna be a game I'm gonna
- 49:41Speaker 1: give out a play on and again I will remind
- 49:43Speaker 1: you that I'm not actually betting these games right now
- 49:46Speaker 1: because I need to get some financial stability here first.
- 49:51Speaker 1: At least get that first before I start doing what
- 49:53Speaker 1: I used to do. But I am giving up plays
- 49:54Speaker 1: as if I were betting them White Sox at Seattle.
- 49:58Speaker 1: This one is actually somewhat close to being a play.
- 50:00Speaker 1: These two teams were off yesterday, so we have rested bullpens,
- 50:04Speaker 1: so that's good, even though I don't trust Chicago's bullpen
- 50:06Speaker 1: that much. So that's kind of the problem the White
- 50:08Speaker 1: Sox because I'm leaning towards under in some form in
- 50:12Speaker 1: this game, and I think it's close to being a
- 50:14Speaker 1: being playable man with both bullpens being rested. Of course,
- 50:18Speaker 1: when teams are off, it can kind of affect they're
- 50:20Speaker 1: hitting a little bit and cool them off a little
- 50:22Speaker 1: bit too, even though the White Socks have actually been
- 50:24Speaker 1: hitting better recently. But this is Seattle. It's a picture
- 50:27Speaker 1: friendly park. Yes, Seattle does have the better of the
- 50:31Speaker 1: two bullpens. In general. Davis Martin has pitched for the
- 50:33Speaker 1: White Sox. He's actually been okay this year three point
- 50:36Speaker 1: eight four era one point two to six WHIP, not
- 50:39Speaker 1: terrible numbers. Worse on the road though, four point seven
- 50:42Speaker 1: road ERA. So Martin does worry me a little bit.
- 50:45Speaker 1: And over the past month and two starts seventeen excuse
- 50:49Speaker 1: ten to seven strike out walk ratio is not good
- 50:52Speaker 1: four point two two eras okay, but that strike out
- 50:54Speaker 1: walk ratio is not very good. So he's kind of
- 50:57Speaker 1: sliding out of form a little bit right now. Ast Seattle.
- 51:01Speaker 1: I believe he does have good numbers though. Yeah, in
- 51:03Speaker 1: twenty eight at bats one forty three batting average, a
- 51:06Speaker 1: lot of four to fifty ops, so he actually has
- 51:08Speaker 1: been good holding Seattle's offense down. And Brian Wu was
- 51:12Speaker 1: pitching for Seattle. I mean, there's not a whole lot
- 51:14Speaker 1: to say about Wu. We know he's good three point
- 51:16Speaker 1: one one ERA, point nine to seven whip. He's really
- 51:19Speaker 1: good at home two point twenty nine ERA. Most of
- 51:22Speaker 1: Seattle's pitcher is really good at home. He's coming off
- 51:24Speaker 1: a start where he inexplicable, kind of inexplicably gave up
- 51:27Speaker 1: four home runs, but it was at that ridiculous as stadium,
- 51:31Speaker 1: and he somehow still limited them to five earned runs,
- 51:34Speaker 1: limited the damage big time. There only and still had
- 51:36Speaker 1: a six to one strike a walk ratio, So I'm
- 51:39Speaker 1: not ready to say that Wu was out of form
- 51:41Speaker 1: really in any way at all. It was just a
- 51:44Speaker 1: bad stadium to pitch in thirty one to eight strike
- 51:46Speaker 1: a walk ratio over the past month three point six
- 51:48Speaker 1: to ninety ra is still quite good. Faced a couple
- 51:52Speaker 1: of difficult lineups in there too well, especially the Yankees,
- 51:54Speaker 1: and did well in that start. So Wu is still good. Man,
- 51:58Speaker 1: going up against who are we talking about here? I
- 52:01Speaker 1: already forget the White Sox. Yeah, I mean, even though
- 52:04Speaker 1: they've been hitting better recently, still a very weak lineup.
- 52:06Speaker 1: They only have seventeen at bats against him, and he's
- 52:08Speaker 1: held them to two hits and one extra base hit
- 52:11Speaker 1: a home run from Ben and Tendy one eighteen batting average,
- 52:14Speaker 1: allowed four to sixty one oh ps, and five to
- 52:16Speaker 1: one strike a walk razio. So WU does fitch well there.
- 52:20Speaker 1: I'm leaning under in this game, man. Both bullpens are
- 52:24Speaker 1: at least rested. You could go first five innings as
- 52:26Speaker 1: well if you really don't trust the White Sox pen here,
- 52:30Speaker 1: but you'd be probably going under three and a half,
- 52:32Speaker 1: which I don't like as much. I would do the
- 52:34Speaker 1: under seven and a half full game. It's seven and
- 52:37Speaker 1: a half across the board. You can get it at
- 52:38Speaker 1: a decent price. I think it around minus one seventeen.
- 52:41Speaker 1: Maybe it looks like at some places don't even see
- 52:45Speaker 1: the percentages on that ninety four percent of tickets only
- 52:47Speaker 1: nine to one percent of the cash on Seattle. Seattle
- 52:50Speaker 1: is a huge favorite, but they drop from minus two
- 52:52Speaker 1: to fifty into the minus two thirties range of the
- 52:54Speaker 1: bookmaker does have a higher number on them. I do
- 52:57Speaker 1: still think Seattle is probably the better way to lean
- 53:00Speaker 1: in the game, just because they have the better offense.
- 53:02Speaker 1: I'd give them a bullpen edge as well, and probably
- 53:04Speaker 1: the starting pitching edge too, So I think Seattle should
- 53:07Speaker 1: win this game. But obviously I'm targeting the under here
- 53:10Speaker 1: as a lean, if not a play. I mean, let
- 53:12Speaker 1: me look, because I'm actually tempted, man, in this one.
- 53:15Speaker 1: Let me see what we got going on with the
- 53:16Speaker 1: totals here. I'm looking right now. Uh, it's tempting for sure.
- 53:24Speaker 1: Where are we looking? I'm looking at Action Network right
- 53:26Speaker 1: now to see what they have going on with this.
- 53:29Speaker 1: I mean, I'll stay off of it, but it is close, man,
- 53:31Speaker 1: It's close. To being a play for me. I lean
- 53:33Speaker 1: to the under in that game again, either full game
- 53:37Speaker 1: or a first five innings. You actually with a total
- 53:40Speaker 1: that might even be like in the eight range. Potentially,
- 53:42Speaker 1: maybe you could get a decent Maybe you can find
- 53:44Speaker 1: a four out there in the first five innings if
- 53:47Speaker 1: you want to go under that. San Diego at Arizona.
- 53:50Speaker 1: Arizona's won three games in a row now man, even
- 53:53Speaker 1: though they sold off at the deadline, they're out of it,
- 53:56Speaker 1: but they're playing against the division rival here man, and
- 53:58Speaker 1: they showed up yesterday and one to two. Arizona does
- 54:02Speaker 1: have the worst of the two bullpens, though pretty significantly.
- 54:04Speaker 1: They did only use two relievers yesterday, though, so their
- 54:07Speaker 1: bullpens decently rested, more rested than San Diego's a little.
- 54:10Speaker 1: San Diego only used two relievers yesterday as well. Still
- 54:13Speaker 1: gonna give the bullpen ed to San Diego because their
- 54:15Speaker 1: bullpen is way better than Arizona's. Arizona still has the
- 54:19Speaker 1: offensive edge in my opinion, even though they sold off
- 54:21Speaker 1: some of their guys starting pitching. Interesting matchup here. You
- 54:26Speaker 1: Darvish pitching for San Diego. He's coming back from injury
- 54:29Speaker 1: and he had a couple of bad starts, and then
- 54:32Speaker 1: his last start was actually really good. His overall number
- 54:34Speaker 1: is not good so far, six point four to sixty
- 54:37Speaker 1: IRA and one point three to five whip That is bad,
- 54:39Speaker 1: really bad on the road, eleven point eight to eight
- 54:42Speaker 1: roady IRA, and it might not get easier pitching an
- 54:44Speaker 1: a pitcher friendly or pitching in a hit or friendly
- 54:46Speaker 1: park's using in Arizona. Overall, eighteen to nine strike a
- 54:50Speaker 1: walk ratio is pretty alarming. That's not good. But after
- 54:54Speaker 1: pitching pretty poorly in all four of his first four starts,
- 54:58Speaker 1: he came from out of nowhere and had a set
- 55:00Speaker 1: ann two hitch shutout with seven strike outs and no
- 55:02Speaker 1: walks against the Mets. He absolutely dominated the Mets. And
- 55:05Speaker 1: the Mets are a decent line. I mean, I know
- 55:07Speaker 1: they're not in the best hitting form right now. That's
- 55:10Speaker 1: an impressive outing for you, Darvish. I know that was
- 55:12Speaker 1: at home in San Diego's pitcher friendly park, which he's
- 55:16Speaker 1: not going to be in here, So he's not going
- 55:19Speaker 1: to do as well as that here. But maybe he'll
- 55:21Speaker 1: do okay. I mean, he is seemingly he's rounding it
- 55:24Speaker 1: to for him, at the very least darvishon I mean,
- 55:27Speaker 1: he's a guy with an arsenal that kind of lends
- 55:29Speaker 1: itself to being able to pitch at an older age
- 55:31Speaker 1: because he's not really like a velocity type of pitcher.
- 55:35Speaker 1: He's a guy that has a ton of different pitches,
- 55:36Speaker 1: like seven different pitches, and he tries to fool you
- 55:39Speaker 1: with weird off speed stuff. So if he gets his
- 55:42Speaker 1: command back of that stuff, I mean, that is going
- 55:44Speaker 1: to be a good thing for him. Mediocre numbers though
- 55:47Speaker 1: against Arizona. Again I said, they're a pretty decent line up,
- 55:50Speaker 1: even without the guys that they traded away. One hundred
- 55:53Speaker 1: and nineteen of bats against Arizona for Darvish forty to
- 55:57Speaker 1: seventeen strike a walk ratio that is too many walks.
- 56:00Speaker 1: Two's sixty one average not bad, but eight thirty two
- 56:02Speaker 1: oh ps is fairly h He's allowed six home runs
- 56:05Speaker 1: to a piece from Carol Marte and and McCann, so
- 56:11Speaker 1: three guys do hit him quite well there. As far
- 56:12Speaker 1: as the long ball, not sure if I'm ready to
- 56:15Speaker 1: totally trust Starvis here. It does look like he's rounding
- 56:18Speaker 1: it to form. Ryan Nelson will be pitching for the Diamondbacks,
- 56:21Speaker 1: a guy that I keep saying I don't think he's
- 56:23Speaker 1: that good, but I may have to eat my words
- 56:26Speaker 1: at some point, because he is pitching well this year
- 56:28Speaker 1: three point two ERA one point oh two whip really
- 56:31Speaker 1: good at home two point zero nine homy Ra pitching
- 56:35Speaker 1: well over the past month two point two two ERA
- 56:38Speaker 1: twenty two to seven strike a walk ratio. He's pitching well.
- 56:42Speaker 1: Man coming off a nice outing at Detroit where his
- 56:44Speaker 1: fielding laps behind him, but he still only allowed one
- 56:47Speaker 1: on run, eight strikeouts and no walks against a pretty
- 56:50Speaker 1: solid Detroit team. So Nelson is pitching fairly well right now.
- 56:54Speaker 1: Man up against the San Diego Padres, though they've seen
- 56:58Speaker 1: a lot of them one hundred and fifteen at bats,
- 57:00Speaker 1: he hasn't been that great against them. Five home runs
- 57:03Speaker 1: allowed to them, four different batters of homeward off him,
- 57:06Speaker 1: seventeen to seven strike a walk ratio. Bogarts has two
- 57:09Speaker 1: omers off him, by the way, two seventy batting averages
- 57:12Speaker 1: seven to sixty four ohps. So I don't know if
- 57:14Speaker 1: I'm ready to trust Nelson either. I mean, I'm kind
- 57:17Speaker 1: of leaning towards an under in this game, man, where
- 57:19Speaker 1: you don't really know what you're gonna get out of
- 57:20Speaker 1: either pitcher. It is possible the pitchers don't do that well. Yes,
- 57:24Speaker 1: San Diego's bullpen is good, but Arizona's isn't, So most
- 57:27Speaker 1: of the components are there to potentially look towards an
- 57:31Speaker 1: over I see fifty eight percent of ticket sixty two
- 57:33Speaker 1: percent of the cash on Arizona as a home underdog here.
- 57:38Speaker 1: San Diego came out minus one thirty five and they're
- 57:40Speaker 1: already down into the minus one twenty five range here,
- 57:42Speaker 1: So the money seems to be backing Arizona here. If
- 57:46Speaker 1: you're gonna do Arizona, I would only go first five
- 57:48Speaker 1: innings and just go with Nelson to outpitch Darvish here
- 57:51Speaker 1: because I would not want Arizona's bullpen a factor into
- 57:54Speaker 1: the equation. But I can see the argument like, should
- 57:57Speaker 1: San Diego really be that heavy of a favorite with
- 58:00Speaker 1: Darvish on the mount who's kind of still an unknown
- 58:02Speaker 1: at this point in San Diego really has not been
- 58:05Speaker 1: a good road team this year, and they really have
- 58:07Speaker 1: not been that good since they're hot start to the season,
- 58:10Speaker 1: though they have been a little bit better recently too,
- 58:12Speaker 1: But still don't know if the price is justified on
- 58:16Speaker 1: San Diego, but I think the over might make more sense.
- 58:19Speaker 1: But the total has flipped from nine juice to the
- 58:21Speaker 1: over to nine juice to the under at most places,
- 58:23Speaker 1: So it looks like the money came in on the
- 58:25Speaker 1: under in this game, and I'm not quite sure that
- 58:27Speaker 1: I agree with that one. And to finish it off
- 58:29Speaker 1: before I go to best bets, it's gonna be a
- 58:31Speaker 1: little bit over an hour today. That's not too bad.
- 58:33Speaker 1: Not dealing with the chat today, though, which is unfortunate
- 58:36Speaker 1: because that means we don't have the interaction today. Saint
- 58:39Speaker 1: Louis at the Dodgers to finish this thing off here.
- 58:42Speaker 1: I believe Saint Louis actually won. Last night. Dodgers were
- 58:46Speaker 1: turning over from a road trip, so as I pointed out,
- 58:48Speaker 1: it wasn't a great spot for the Dodgers, but I
- 58:51Speaker 1: wasn't sure that I wanted to back Sonny Gray on
- 58:53Speaker 1: the road. But it turned out that the Dodgers did
- 58:57Speaker 1: indeed lose that game three to two. The Dodgers have
- 59:00Speaker 1: the worst of the two bullpens. Still, their bullpen is
- 59:03Speaker 1: not a great bullpen man. They used three relief pitches yesterday,
- 59:07Speaker 1: but they only use dryer for one pitch, so he
- 59:10Speaker 1: I imagine will be available again today if they want
- 59:12Speaker 1: to use him. Saint Louis used two relief pitches as well,
- 59:16Speaker 1: not heavy usage at all there from Saint Louis, so
- 59:19Speaker 1: Saint Louis will have the bullpen edge in this game.
- 59:22Speaker 1: Dodgers obviously have the hitting edge. They have a really
- 59:24Speaker 1: good offense, especially at home. I think they actually have
- 59:26Speaker 1: the most runs scored per game out of any team
- 59:30Speaker 1: at home this season. Miles Mikolas pitching for US Saint
- 59:33Speaker 1: Louis looks like the start. You gotta give the starting
- 59:36Speaker 1: pitching edge to LA in this game, and I mean
- 59:39Speaker 1: I don't trust Mikolas, though he's actually been a little
- 59:41Speaker 1: bit better recently. Four point eight three ERA, one point
- 59:44Speaker 1: two eight WHIP not great stats there. He's been really
- 59:48Speaker 1: bad on the road, a six ERA on the road,
- 59:50Speaker 1: allowing twelve of the eighteen runs he's allowed on the
- 59:53Speaker 1: road to Those six of them came in one game
- 59:55Speaker 1: against the Cubs, which was at the start of July.
- 59:59Speaker 1: Over July the span of July, he actually had a
- 1:00:01Speaker 1: pretty decent nineteen to three strike a walk ratio though
- 1:00:05Speaker 1: not bad, but he allowed nine home runs but granted
- 1:00:07Speaker 1: six of them were in one start, so beyond that,
- 1:00:10Speaker 1: he actually didn't pitch that badly after that, allowing more
- 1:00:14Speaker 1: than two hour runs only once in the remaining four starts,
- 1:00:18Speaker 1: so one of them was on the road against the Dodgers.
- 1:00:20Speaker 1: So again the common theme here is he pitches poorly
- 1:00:22Speaker 1: against good lineups on the road, and that is what
- 1:00:25Speaker 1: he's doing here. He's pitching against a good lineup on
- 1:00:28Speaker 1: the road, So might not be a good sign since
- 1:00:30Speaker 1: his last two bad outings were both that against the
- 1:00:32Speaker 1: Cubs in Arizona. Against La he doesn't have good numbers
- 1:00:37Speaker 1: and nine to nine at bats does have a good
- 1:00:38Speaker 1: twenty three to four strike a walk ratio, but seven
- 1:00:41Speaker 1: home runs from the Dodgers against them, although Bets has
- 1:00:45Speaker 1: two of them and Freeman has three of them, three
- 1:00:47Speaker 1: zero three batting average allowed in eight eighty six ops allowed.
- 1:00:50Speaker 1: So Miko Lass has not been very good against the Dodgers,
- 1:00:53Speaker 1: and he's going up against a guy who I continue
- 1:00:55Speaker 1: to to heap praise upon Emmett she And I mean,
- 1:01:00Speaker 1: he's a guy who's only twenty five, but I believe
- 1:01:02Speaker 1: he's already coming off with Tommy John surgery. But he's
- 1:01:05Speaker 1: a guy that throws at a high velocity. He's a
- 1:01:07Speaker 1: very talented young pitcher. His numbers around. He has a
- 1:01:10Speaker 1: form this year to three point six ERA at one
- 1:01:12Speaker 1: point two to four whip. That's not bad. He has
- 1:01:14Speaker 1: been worse at home though, a five point two to
- 1:01:17Speaker 1: five yarra at home. Although it's a small sample size,
- 1:01:19Speaker 1: it was basically one bat outing against a good Milwaukee
- 1:01:22Speaker 1: lineup that does hit really well on the road. That's
- 1:01:24Speaker 1: basically what did all the damage to his numbers this year.
- 1:01:28Speaker 1: Overall this year, he's pitching fairly well. Twenty six to
- 1:01:30Speaker 1: ten strike a walker as you on twenty five innings pitch,
- 1:01:33Speaker 1: twenty one hits allowed. The walk rate is too high,
- 1:01:36Speaker 1: though he's walked five guys over the last two starts,
- 1:01:38Speaker 1: going five or fewer innings in those two starts, so
- 1:01:42Speaker 1: not terrific. But again, he does have good strikeouts stuff
- 1:01:44Speaker 1: he's got. He's got to get a little bit less wild.
- 1:01:47Speaker 1: But Saint Louis has never seen him before, so I
- 1:01:49Speaker 1: think you got to give Shean the edge over on
- 1:01:52Speaker 1: Mikolas here Man and the starting pitching matchup, although bullpens
- 1:01:55Speaker 1: go to Saint Louis here so I think it makes
- 1:01:58Speaker 1: sense to go with the Dodger, but I would go
- 1:02:00Speaker 1: first five innings and just go with Sheian to outpitch
- 1:02:03Speaker 1: Mikolas here. Sixty six percent take is ninety four percent
- 1:02:06Speaker 1: of cash on the Dodgers. It's not that typical that
- 1:02:08Speaker 1: you see the money actually coming into the Dodgers, but
- 1:02:11Speaker 1: it is the case here, although they're down for minus
- 1:02:13Speaker 1: one ninety to into the minus one eighty range basically
- 1:02:15Speaker 1: at some places. But I think the way to go
- 1:02:18Speaker 1: would be the run line first five innings on the
- 1:02:21Speaker 1: Dodgers here and just go with the Dodgers to have
- 1:02:23Speaker 1: the lead at that point. I think that's a decent
- 1:02:25Speaker 1: way to look at that game. And let's go to
- 1:02:28Speaker 1: the best bets segment, man, right, have two totals, and
- 1:02:30Speaker 1: if you know me, you know what I'm doing in
- 1:02:32Speaker 1: these plays. The first one up is actually a repeat
- 1:02:36Speaker 1: of the same thing that I did with the same
- 1:02:38Speaker 1: pitching matchup in the other stadium, and that's gonna be
- 1:02:41Speaker 1: San Francisco and Pittsburgh under the seven and a half.
- 1:02:44Speaker 1: I saw it out there at minus one fourteen. You
- 1:02:46Speaker 1: might have to pay a little bit more for that,
- 1:02:47Speaker 1: but remember seven is a key number man in baseball,
- 1:02:50Speaker 1: because it breaks the three to three ties, So under
- 1:02:53Speaker 1: in this game, I would pay up to about minus
- 1:02:56Speaker 1: one twenty probably to get it under seven and a half,
- 1:02:59Speaker 1: just so if it lands seven, you're still gonna win
- 1:03:01Speaker 1: on that. And this is the same starting pitching matchup
- 1:03:04Speaker 1: where I gave out the same thing on the road,
- 1:03:06Speaker 1: and I believe it was an easy undercall in the
- 1:03:08Speaker 1: other game. I think it might wound up being a
- 1:03:09Speaker 1: two to one final or something like that. With the
- 1:03:11Speaker 1: same exact pitching matchup. Last time out, it was Logan
- 1:03:14Speaker 1: Web against Mike Burrows. Where are they on the board here?
- 1:03:17Speaker 1: Why don't I see them? Come on, man, there they are.
- 1:03:20Speaker 1: So we have eighty six percent tickets ninety one percent
- 1:03:22Speaker 1: of the cash coming in on the under, so the
- 1:03:23Speaker 1: under does look public. The total hasn't really moved much.
- 1:03:27Speaker 1: It's kind of just sitting at the seven and a half.
- 1:03:29Speaker 1: But I'm going with the under in this game, just
- 1:03:32Speaker 1: you know it worked before. I'm gonna do it again
- 1:03:34Speaker 1: here now with this matchup. Even though Sarrancisco is a
- 1:03:36Speaker 1: more pitcher friendly park than Pittsburgh is, but they're actually
- 1:03:39Speaker 1: kind of similar in a way, right because you have
- 1:03:42Speaker 1: the water kind of beyond right field. It's actually kind
- 1:03:46Speaker 1: of a similar set up here, and the wind is
- 1:03:47Speaker 1: blowing in, by the way in Pittsburgh tonight here, so
- 1:03:51Speaker 1: I think it's decent conditions for an under here, although
- 1:03:54Speaker 1: I'll look at the weather report actually because I don't
- 1:03:56Speaker 1: really know what the uh temperature is going to be there,
- 1:04:00Speaker 1: because of course, if it's cooler, it'll help the under
- 1:04:02Speaker 1: a little bit more. It's gonna be eighty two degrees,
- 1:04:07Speaker 1: but a seven mile an hour wind blowing in, I mean, still,
- 1:04:09Speaker 1: I think that's okay. It will be warm, but still
- 1:04:13Speaker 1: it's a night game anyway, so I think that can
- 1:04:15Speaker 1: help kind of knock the the offense down a little
- 1:04:18Speaker 1: bit too. But I like the starting pitching matchup man
- 1:04:20Speaker 1: and over in San Francisco. Borrows actually outpitched webs so
- 1:04:25Speaker 1: I kind of like that as well. Even though it
- 1:04:26Speaker 1: looks like the cash percentages on San Francisco here sixty
- 1:04:29Speaker 1: seven percent tickets ninety two percent of the cash on
- 1:04:32Speaker 1: San Francisco, but they've dropped from minus one sixty to
- 1:04:36Speaker 1: into the minus one thirties man, so it looks like
- 1:04:38Speaker 1: the actual money to me actually came in at least
- 1:04:41Speaker 1: initially hitting Pittsburgh as the home underdog there, which leads
- 1:04:45Speaker 1: me to believe that the professional betters actually do have
- 1:04:47Speaker 1: some faith in Mike Burrows here, and I would agree
- 1:04:50Speaker 1: with it, even though I do think the edge that
- 1:04:52Speaker 1: he had in is the last time out. I know
- 1:04:54Speaker 1: the major one of the major edges he had the
- 1:04:56Speaker 1: last time out was that he was facing a San
- 1:04:59Speaker 1: Francisco team that never seen him before. So that was
- 1:05:01Speaker 1: definitely a big edge for Borrows in that game. So
- 1:05:04Speaker 1: now that San Francisco has seen him before, they might
- 1:05:06Speaker 1: be able to hit a little bit better against him.
- 1:05:08Speaker 1: But Webb actually wasn't as good last time, so maybe
- 1:05:11Speaker 1: Webb will actually do better, though I know web is
- 1:05:13Speaker 1: not as good on the road. I will go to
- 1:05:15Speaker 1: that in a minute. The bullpens, I actually don't mind
- 1:05:18Speaker 1: either bullpend here man, even though they saw some usage.
- 1:05:20Speaker 1: San Francisco is near the top of the class and
- 1:05:23Speaker 1: bullpen Man, they have one of the best bullpen the
- 1:05:26Speaker 1: RRAs and one of the best bullpen whips. There's still
- 1:05:28Speaker 1: a top five bullpend Pittsburgh shockingly is fifth in bullpend whip,
- 1:05:32Speaker 1: although the ERA is a little bit higher than that.
- 1:05:34Speaker 1: So we're looking at decent bullpens and We're looking at
- 1:05:36Speaker 1: some bad offenses here, man. We're looking at bottom tier
- 1:05:40Speaker 1: Pittsburgh at the very bottom ops wise, terrible offense. San
- 1:05:43Speaker 1: Francisco twenty fifth in offense. So some good indicators for
- 1:05:47Speaker 1: an under here, man. We have two pretty good bullpens
- 1:05:49Speaker 1: and too bad offenses. The starting pitching might help us
- 1:05:53Speaker 1: get deep en up into this game that we don't need,
- 1:05:57Speaker 1: you know, the bullpens for that much of this game.
- 1:05:59Speaker 1: San Francisco used three relief pitchers yesterday. Pittsburgh also used
- 1:06:02Speaker 1: three I believe, well they used four, excuse me, but
- 1:06:05Speaker 1: still some of the better relievers are still available, I
- 1:06:07Speaker 1: believe for both teams coming into this one. Well, actually
- 1:06:10Speaker 1: Pittsburgh won five to four yesterday, so actually maybe that's
- 1:06:13Speaker 1: not the case on the Pirates side. Let me see, Yeah,
- 1:06:16Speaker 1: I mean, I guess a couple of the better relievers
- 1:06:18Speaker 1: did come in for the Pirates yesterday. But still some
- 1:06:21Speaker 1: decent relievers are available, and the bullpens are decent here,
- 1:06:24Speaker 1: and we got a decent starting pitching matchup. Man. Anyway
- 1:06:26Speaker 1: you look at it, Logan web pitching three point three
- 1:06:29Speaker 1: one ERA one point two to five whip decent numbers,
- 1:06:32Speaker 1: lowse whip is higher than I would like to see.
- 1:06:34Speaker 1: I know he's not as good on the road three
- 1:06:36Speaker 1: point nine era, but that's still pretty good. And he's
- 1:06:38Speaker 1: a guy that gets you deep into games, man, So
- 1:06:41Speaker 1: I like that about it. Last time out was against Pittsburgh,
- 1:06:44Speaker 1: so yeah, I know both lineups are recently familiar with
- 1:06:47Speaker 1: the opposing pitchers here, but that was a one to
- 1:06:50Speaker 1: one game at the end of nine innings, man, So
- 1:06:52Speaker 1: that was a very very under game, and I'm expecting
- 1:06:55Speaker 1: a similar game here. I'm not expecting to be that
- 1:06:57Speaker 1: low scoring, but still a web at a eleven strikeouts
- 1:07:00Speaker 1: in that game. But he did walk four guys, which
- 1:07:02Speaker 1: is a little bit concerning, but he held Pittsburgh to
- 1:07:04Speaker 1: one run. This is not a very threatening Pittsburgh lineup. Man.
- 1:07:08Speaker 1: Webb had pitched poorly the previous three starts, but it
- 1:07:12Speaker 1: was around the All Star Game. He pitched in the
- 1:07:13Speaker 1: All Star Games, so and it was against the Dodgers,
- 1:07:16Speaker 1: Toronto Mets, I mean teams that can hit. So he
- 1:07:18Speaker 1: to me, he seems to be a rounding back into
- 1:07:20Speaker 1: form here. Webb is used to grinding it out for
- 1:07:22Speaker 1: entire seasons, man, so I think Webb is returning to form. Here,
- 1:07:25Speaker 1: so I'm not that worried about that bump that he
- 1:07:29Speaker 1: had there in the road where he didn't pitch that well.
- 1:07:31Speaker 1: His numbers against Pittsburgh in sixty three career bats twenty
- 1:07:34Speaker 1: five strikeouts is quite a bit to six walks, two
- 1:07:38Speaker 1: six batting average will Loft five thirteen obs, So some
- 1:07:40Speaker 1: really weak offensive numbers from Pittsburgh against them. They only
- 1:07:43Speaker 1: have two extra base hits against them, both doubles from
- 1:07:47Speaker 1: Cruise and Horowitz. So definitely fine with Webb in this game,
- 1:07:51Speaker 1: and I'm fine with Borrows as well. Man he's started
- 1:07:53Speaker 1: to pitch pretty well as a young talented pitcher here
- 1:07:56Speaker 1: three point eight eight eer and one point two to
- 1:07:58Speaker 1: six whip, similar numbers to web Actually, on the season,
- 1:08:01Speaker 1: he's actually better at home for the most part, three
- 1:08:04Speaker 1: point three eighty R at home, although he's allowed more
- 1:08:06Speaker 1: home runs at home, but he has pitched more innings
- 1:08:08Speaker 1: at home as well. Borrow's coming off a couple of
- 1:08:11Speaker 1: really good starts in a role, only allow of one
- 1:08:13Speaker 1: run over the last twelve innings, including a start against Arizona,
- 1:08:17Speaker 1: a team that can hit, and he's had a twelve
- 1:08:18Speaker 1: to two strike aut walk ratio of that span. Allowed
- 1:08:21Speaker 1: one run that last time out, which was against San Francisco.
- 1:08:24Speaker 1: As I said, seven strikeouts and six innings, only three hits,
- 1:08:27Speaker 1: allowed one walk, so he did really well. Yes, again,
- 1:08:30Speaker 1: both lineups are recently familiar with these pitchers. They might
- 1:08:33Speaker 1: hit a little bit better, but I'm willing to lay
- 1:08:36Speaker 1: it on the line here with both pitchers actually being
- 1:08:39Speaker 1: good enough that they overcome that familiarity disadvantage that they
- 1:08:43Speaker 1: might have. Here, Borrows, I think is starting to pitch
- 1:08:45Speaker 1: really well. Man. He's allowed two or fewer runs in
- 1:08:47Speaker 1: the last three outings. The other one was against the
- 1:08:50Speaker 1: weak White Sox lineup. I get that, but as I
- 1:08:53Speaker 1: just showed you, San Francisco's lineup is also a very
- 1:08:55Speaker 1: weak lineup, Borrows. Against them, it's a very small nineteen
- 1:08:58Speaker 1: at bats amble size, but they have no extra base
- 1:09:01Speaker 1: hits off him. One eight average, three fifty eight ohps,
- 1:09:04Speaker 1: seven strikeouts in one walk. That was all that one start.
- 1:09:07Speaker 1: But he really held them in shack Man, so I
- 1:09:09Speaker 1: think he might be able to do fine again here.
- 1:09:11Speaker 1: So under is the play in San Francisco and Pittsburgh.
- 1:09:15Speaker 1: There again, what's up Andrew? Thanks for hanging out. And
- 1:09:18Speaker 1: then finally we'll go to my last play, which is
- 1:09:21Speaker 1: also an under, but it's a first five under in
- 1:09:24Speaker 1: Red's Cubs. I think public's gonna look at this game
- 1:09:26Speaker 1: Red's Cubs. They know these teams have some good hitters here,
- 1:09:29Speaker 1: especially the Cubs. We know the Cubs can hit. It's
- 1:09:32Speaker 1: at Wrigley Field, which can be a hitter friendly park.
- 1:09:34Speaker 1: But in this case, I don't think that's the case.
- 1:09:37Speaker 1: I'm going under here. I think it's misleading. You know,
- 1:09:41Speaker 1: the public is probably gonna look at this total. Oh,
- 1:09:43Speaker 1: it's seven and a half across the board, and actually
- 1:09:45Speaker 1: the money's coming in on the under. Book maker again
- 1:09:48Speaker 1: an indicator book for me there there the only book
- 1:09:51Speaker 1: out of all of these it's heavily juice to the unders.
- 1:09:53Speaker 1: That's a strong indicator for me as well, where all
- 1:09:55Speaker 1: the other books are seven and a half or seven
- 1:09:57Speaker 1: and a half juice to the over bookmakers saying, nah,
- 1:10:00Speaker 1: juice to the under man. And that's you know, again
- 1:10:02Speaker 1: a lot of sharp's bet a bookmakers. So I think
- 1:10:05Speaker 1: that's an indicator of money coming into the under. All
- 1:10:08Speaker 1: we see ninety percent of the tickets on the under
- 1:10:09Speaker 1: and ninety two percent of the cash on the under.
- 1:10:11Speaker 1: I think the money is indeed coming in on the
- 1:10:13Speaker 1: under here, so I'm gonna roll with that. Cubs are
- 1:10:16Speaker 1: a big favorite. Of course, the money is coming in
- 1:10:18Speaker 1: on Cincinnati. If you want to take from that what
- 1:10:20Speaker 1: you want to seventy one percent of tickets on Chicago.
- 1:10:23Speaker 1: Of course, the public is only gonna bet the Cubs here.
- 1:10:26Speaker 1: I mean they like that the Cubs are. I mean,
- 1:10:28Speaker 1: Cubs have a really good offense, and they have one
- 1:10:29Speaker 1: of their best pitchers on the mound, So that's what's
- 1:10:32Speaker 1: going on there. Eighty percent of the cash coming in
- 1:10:34Speaker 1: on Cincinnati, though, and the lines dropped for minus one
- 1:10:36Speaker 1: to eighty basically into the minus one seventies. I don't
- 1:10:40Speaker 1: think I would quite trust Cincinnati here though, man, And
- 1:10:43Speaker 1: the reason I'm excluding the bullpens. I don't like Cincinnati's
- 1:10:45Speaker 1: bullpen very much. They're a very middling bullpen. But they
- 1:10:48Speaker 1: also use five relief pitchers yesterday, so I'm not ready
- 1:10:51Speaker 1: to factor the bullpens into an under here. Man. Cubs
- 1:10:54Speaker 1: also a lot of bullpen use it year. Five relievers
- 1:10:57Speaker 1: pitched yesterday, so that's kind of a no go for me.
- 1:11:00Speaker 1: But I like to start a pitching matchup on the
- 1:11:02Speaker 1: money seems to be coming in the under full game,
- 1:11:04Speaker 1: but I'm willing to say that it's gonna be mostly
- 1:11:07Speaker 1: because of the starting pitchers. Again, I found a four
- 1:11:10Speaker 1: out there. If you can't find a four and you
- 1:11:12Speaker 1: have to go under three and a half in the
- 1:11:14Speaker 1: first five, that's a little bit less tempting to me.
- 1:11:16Speaker 1: So you maybe I would say you should still go
- 1:11:19Speaker 1: full game under the seven and a half here and
- 1:11:21Speaker 1: just risk it. I mean, of course, if it's under
- 1:11:23Speaker 1: seven and a half in Wrigley Field, you know that
- 1:11:26Speaker 1: means the wind is blowing in, so let me just
- 1:11:28Speaker 1: make sure of that. But I know it's Ema Naga
- 1:11:30Speaker 1: on the mound. But with the Cubs at Wrigley, I
- 1:11:34Speaker 1: mean you'll see win most likely blowing in. Yeah, it's
- 1:11:36Speaker 1: a nine mile an hour wind blowing in, and it's
- 1:11:37Speaker 1: not not gonna be very hot in Chicago seventy five
- 1:11:41Speaker 1: degrees and nice nice temperature there, man, nice night at
- 1:11:45Speaker 1: the White Sox there are though, when it's an under
- 1:11:47Speaker 1: I kind of prefer it to be a little bit
- 1:11:48Speaker 1: overcast and rainy, but looks like decent conditions for the
- 1:11:52Speaker 1: under there wind blowing in in both of these games.
- 1:11:54Speaker 1: Of course, that is factored into the number there though,
- 1:11:56Speaker 1: But we're looking at the starting pitching here Man, and
- 1:11:59Speaker 1: I like it for both sides. Zach Lttel is gonna
- 1:12:02Speaker 1: be making his first start with Cincinnati. Tampa actually traded him,
- 1:12:06Speaker 1: so again, first start with your new team, you might
- 1:12:08Speaker 1: step up and pitch well on that game, then for
- 1:12:10Speaker 1: your new team. Lattel has decent numbers on the season
- 1:12:13Speaker 1: three point five eighty R and one point one two whip.
- 1:12:16Speaker 1: I've never been totally sold on him though, even though
- 1:12:18Speaker 1: I will bet on some games bet him to do
- 1:12:20Speaker 1: well because his overall numbers, I mean, his whip is
- 1:12:23Speaker 1: definitely good. He doesn't put a lot of guys on base,
- 1:12:25Speaker 1: he doesn't walk a lot of guys, but he does
- 1:12:27Speaker 1: give up a lot of hard hits, so that's kind
- 1:12:29Speaker 1: of the problem. He's given up twenty six home runs
- 1:12:31Speaker 1: this year, and that's kind of the problem. Three point
- 1:12:33Speaker 1: seven to four R on the road. He's a bit
- 1:12:35Speaker 1: worse on the run. He's allowed eighteen home runs on
- 1:12:37Speaker 1: the road, so that is a concern. You have to
- 1:12:39Speaker 1: avoid the home run ball at Lattel here Man could
- 1:12:42Speaker 1: be an issue, but we do have the wind blowing
- 1:12:44Speaker 1: in here, so hopefully not that much of an issue.
- 1:12:46Speaker 1: He's coming off shutting out the Yankees for five innings,
- 1:12:49Speaker 1: though for once he actually walked too many guys and
- 1:12:51Speaker 1: that start he walked four guys. But over the last
- 1:12:54Speaker 1: month eighteen to eight strike a walker ratio three point
- 1:12:56Speaker 1: four to five ERA, he wasn't pitching too poorly. He
- 1:12:59Speaker 1: only allowed home and two of the five starts, so
- 1:13:01Speaker 1: that's not too bad his home run the rate of
- 1:13:04Speaker 1: home runs that he's allowed has actually gone down over
- 1:13:06Speaker 1: the last like month and a half basically, so he's
- 1:13:09Speaker 1: kind of getting that under control. And his numbers are
- 1:13:11Speaker 1: surprisingly good against the Cubs thirty eight at bats, nine
- 1:13:14Speaker 1: to five strangle walk race is not that good. Yeah,
- 1:13:16Speaker 1: he's a lot of couple of home runs. What else
- 1:13:18Speaker 1: is new from Castro and Swans and but two eleven
- 1:13:22Speaker 1: average overall six' ninety seven. Ops so he's held The
- 1:13:26Speaker 1: cubs lineup. Down SO i think we can Expect lettel
- 1:13:29Speaker 1: to at least do okay enough in this game to
- 1:13:31Speaker 1: get us. Through and then of course we're expecting the
- 1:13:33Speaker 1: better pitching to come from show To imnaga really good
- 1:13:37Speaker 1: pitcher for The cubs. Here. Man he does have games
- 1:13:38Speaker 1: where he just gets absolutely blown. Up and there's nothing
- 1:13:41Speaker 1: you can really do about. That if you're betting on
- 1:13:42Speaker 1: him to do well and he has one of those complete, Implosions,
- 1:13:46Speaker 1: YEAH i, mean nothing you could really do about. That
- 1:13:48Speaker 1: BUT i like him as far as like his mental
- 1:13:51Speaker 1: state and. Whatever you see how he reacts like he's
- 1:13:53Speaker 1: fairly new to the. MAJORS i think he, was uh
- 1:13:55Speaker 1: he made his major league debut last, YEAR i. Believe
- 1:13:57Speaker 1: but he's kind of like a guy that like laughs
- 1:13:59Speaker 1: at all off more, so he's kind of. Funny like
- 1:14:01Speaker 1: the fans like him for that. Reason SO i think
- 1:14:03Speaker 1: that's good because it keeps his mindset right and he
- 1:14:05Speaker 1: tends to bounce back when he has bad. Starts he
- 1:14:08Speaker 1: doesn't go into like a lull where he has like
- 1:14:09Speaker 1: a bunch of bad starts in a row or anything like.
- 1:14:12Speaker 1: That three point two FIVE era and one point zero
- 1:14:14Speaker 1: four whip on the, season good. Numbers he is slightly
- 1:14:17Speaker 1: worse at, home SO i know we're going up against
- 1:14:20Speaker 1: the home road splits. Here three point six to seventy
- 1:14:22Speaker 1: are right at. Home still good. Though over the last month,
- 1:14:26Speaker 1: AGAIN i, mean he's been pretty. Good The cubs have
- 1:14:28Speaker 1: won four of his six starts over the past. Month
- 1:14:31Speaker 1: they've won a bunch of his recent. Starts, actually they
- 1:14:33Speaker 1: won eight of his last eleven starts or whatever that.
- 1:14:37Speaker 1: Is that's pretty good as well over the past. Month
- 1:14:39Speaker 1: twenty six to two strike out walk right shows really,
- 1:14:41Speaker 1: good but the home run ball became an. Issue nine home.
- 1:14:44Speaker 1: Runs he'lled five over the last two. Starts one of
- 1:14:47Speaker 1: those was just that complete blow up against The White
- 1:14:49Speaker 1: sox that made no. Sense. Man he came back and
- 1:14:52Speaker 1: he had a pretty decent starting Against milwaukee and picked
- 1:14:54Speaker 1: up a, win only a longing three earned runs against
- 1:14:57Speaker 1: a Good milwaukee, team had eight, strikeouts no. WALKS i
- 1:15:00Speaker 1: think he's bouncing back just fine, here. Man that StrEG
- 1:15:03Speaker 1: a walk ratio over the entire month was really good
- 1:15:06Speaker 1: four point three to two e ray not very good
- 1:15:08Speaker 1: over the past, month but again that's all skewed by
- 1:15:10Speaker 1: that one really bad start against The White. Sox against The,
- 1:15:13Speaker 1: reds seventeen of. Bats they haven't seen a whole lot of,
- 1:15:16Speaker 1: him but he's been pretty good and held him to
- 1:15:18Speaker 1: a two thirty five average five to seventy two oh.
- 1:15:20Speaker 1: Ps they only have one extra base, hit a double
- 1:15:22Speaker 1: From hayes three to one streke a walk, ratio SO
- 1:15:25Speaker 1: i am ready to say we'll get some good pitching
- 1:15:27Speaker 1: in this, game so we'll go Under Red's cubs in
- 1:15:30Speaker 1: the first five. Innings THOUGH i found it under four
- 1:15:33Speaker 1: at plus, money which is a decent price. THERE i
- 1:15:36Speaker 1: saw some four and a half kind of hanging around,
- 1:15:38Speaker 1: too so it's a weird number there on this. Game but,
- 1:15:41Speaker 1: again if you want to go full game UNDER i
- 1:15:42Speaker 1: would not disagree, totally but you gotta worry about the
- 1:15:45Speaker 1: bullpends a little. Bit hope that you're starting pitching gets
- 1:15:48Speaker 1: you deep into the, game, Man BUT i think first
- 1:15:50Speaker 1: five is a safer way to do, it maybe even
- 1:15:52Speaker 1: going to three and a half on, that even THOUGH
- 1:15:54Speaker 1: i don't love to do, that but that's the Way i'm.
- 1:15:56Speaker 1: Going those are the two players once more under seven
- 1:15:58Speaker 1: and a half in the full game In Giants pirates
- 1:16:01Speaker 1: And Red's cubs first five inning under. Four that's gonna do.
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