Atlanta Braves vs. Houston Astros: Key Game Insights

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00:00 (upbeat music)

00:02 So let's break it down to have some fun to see

00:07 if we can find some ins and outs and some angles to play.

00:09 2.10 p.m. this game is gonna start.

00:11 It's Atlanta and it's Houston.

00:13 Max Fried, the lefty will be on the mound for the Braves

00:15 going up against Houston's JP France.

00:17 The total across the board here,

00:18 which includes the Fandler Sportsbook, is listed at nine.

00:21 A favorite that opened up overnight at minus 132

00:24 is a road favorite here for the Atlanta Braves,

00:26 now showing live at a minus 138 price.

00:29 Houston, six and 13 on the season.

00:32 Can they at least scrape together a W

00:34 against Atlanta today?

00:35 Or we just can't trust Houston just yet here.

00:38 I mean, this is a pretty difficult one

00:40 'cause both of these starting pitchers

00:41 have been brutal to start the year.

00:43 France has not been, I mean, France was not particularly

00:46 good to begin with.

00:47 Fried has been very good for the Braves,

00:49 but has been awful to start the year.

00:50 He's also up against an Astros team that just,

00:53 I mean, they do just absolutely crush

00:55 left-handed starting pitching, right?

00:56 That is kind of what they are built to do.

00:58 Not that they're bad against right-handed starting pitching,

01:01 but anytime there is a formerly very good starting pitcher

01:05 who is struggling that I never really believed in

01:08 to begin with, like Fried's prospect profile

01:10 was not one that I was in love with.

01:12 He didn't profile as a big swing and miss guy.

01:14 He was never gonna strike out 30% of the guys that he faced.

01:17 It was kind of, you know, the magic

01:21 of being a starting pitcher in Major League Baseball,

01:23 getting out when you needed them,

01:25 getting out to be a contact.

01:26 I just don't really like that profile of guy.

01:29 Not gonna take a side here.

01:30 I know a second time already on the show,

01:32 I'm not taking a side,

01:33 don't wanna take a side in Hawks Bowls either,

01:35 but I do like the over here a good bit.

01:38 I've talked already on the show about how I'm really not,

01:42 I'm actually my worry meter for the Astros hitters is zero.

01:45 For the pitchers, it's higher than zero,

01:47 but I think that they're just gonna be

01:50 probably the third best lineup in the American League

01:52 in terms of hitting when all is said and done.

01:55 And the Braves lineup is completely self-explanatory.

01:58 They are the second best lineup in the National League.

02:00 Nine, I mean, I would expect,

02:02 I mean, what happened yesterday was this series opened

02:06 at nine, went to nine and a half, went to 10.

02:08 By the time I went on Pharrell coast to coast

02:10 in the afternoon, it had moved all the way to 10 and a half.

02:13 So let's just go ahead and get out in front of it

02:15 and let's take the over on nine here.

02:18 (upbeat music)

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