Dodgers as Underdogs: An Uncommon Scenario Explained

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00:00 I don't think we've had a game this year where the Dodgers have been dogs.

00:07 Maybe there has been one, but it's an extremely rare occurrence that the Dodgers are not the

00:13 favorites in a baseball game.

00:14 They're in Pittsburgh tonight against the Pirates where they lost one nothing last night

00:18 on the Swinsky home run.

00:20 And of course it's because Paul Skeens is going for the Pirates minus 115 for the Buccos

00:26 and minus 105 for the Dodgers who have the big maple going.

00:29 I love Skeens, Gabe.

00:31 I think that he's fun to watch.

00:34 He hasn't exactly like, I know he's got a lot of strikeouts, but he's given up a couple

00:37 homers.

00:38 He hasn't exactly been like shutting out everyone every time.

00:42 Why are the Dodgers dogs tonight, Gabe?

00:45 The Skeens hype is real and people just saw the Dodgers get shut out.

00:50 Listen, the Dodgers offense has been struggling a little bit as of late.

00:54 It's been a couple of weeks actually where they just really, they're not really putting

00:59 up any big crooked numbers in any innings.

01:01 The Dodgers, they'll get a solo shot here, a solo shot there.

01:05 The thing is they're so good that even when they slump, it doesn't really show in their

01:10 batting average.

01:11 You know what I mean?

01:12 Like, like Mookie Betts could be struggling and you tune in, you're like, yeah, he's still

01:16 hitting three 33 or something.

01:18 So it hasn't, I'll tell you one thing about the Dodgers.

01:22 They, it sounds cliche Carver.

01:25 They're not very good bro on the West coast.

01:28 For when they leave the West coast and they go into the East coast and the mid wet, like

01:33 they really are sort of, they get like in this bubble on the West coast and they get,

01:37 they'll get rolling and stuff.

01:39 They haven't been a great road team in certain spots.

01:41 They, they sort of get bored.

01:43 The bottom of their order has been bad as well.

01:47 But tonight, as you stated, it's almost a classic spot, isn't it?

01:50 They're coming off a shutout.

01:51 You got Skeens, his kids actually favored.

01:54 And I think the Dodgers are going to rough them up tonight.

01:56 Actually.

01:57 I think this is a, this is going to be one of the big league moments, kids like go back

02:02 to the game because Otani is going deep on you.

02:05 They're going to rough you up and you know, they're fired up.

02:08 They just got shut out.

02:10 You got some kid, they're underdogs.

02:13 No one tell Otani, you know, don't bring up gambling around him.

02:18 But somebody, somebody is going to say, damn, man, look at this.

02:21 We're underdogs today.

02:22 You guys like, wow, we're underdogs to the pirates.

02:25 So all, all kidding aside, Carver, I do like the Dodgers tonight.

02:29 And it sounds like you do too.

02:31 I love the Dodgers tonight and I'm with you.

02:33 I think that some of these guys are going to get them tonight.

02:35 Like you're even getting some prices for these Dodgers to Homer tonight.

02:40 And like you said, they have been slumping.

02:41 So that factors in a little bit, but Otani a plus three 30.

02:46 I know that doesn't sound like a lot, but for Otani, that's a lot.

02:50 It's usually like two 72, 80, you know, right in that area.

02:53 So you're getting a little bit on Otani bets, five 40 to Oscar Hernandez, five 60.

02:58 You're getting good Homer numbers for the Dodgers.

03:00 Wow.

03:01 Big numbers.

03:02 And let's just be real to this.

03:04 This is what everybody wants to see.

03:06 Oh, Tani versus Kings, right?

03:09 A guy that's going to throw it 102 against the guy that can hit it 130 miles an hour

03:13 off of his back.

03:15 So do the math.

03:16 I mean, this is this the modern baseball that we're in right now.

03:19 And they do do the math.

03:20 Unfortunately, they do the math too much.

03:22 And that's why we have launch angles and the analytics that we do right now.

03:26 But it's simple physics, Mike.

03:28 If Otani makes contact with the ball and keeps it in play, it's going over the wall.

03:33 Like the sheer gravity of it, like the ball coming in that fast, Otani making contact

03:39 with it, it's gone.

03:40 I'm definitely getting a piece of Otani.

03:42 I like your style, but just spraying the board here with some home run props tonight.

03:47 Somebody's going deep on him.

03:49 It's power pitchers.

03:51 That's their thing, right?

03:52 We all know power pitchers.

03:53 They'll give up home runs because if you make contact, it won't stay in the park.

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