Dodgers Favor Yoshinobu Yamamoto in New York Clash

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00:00the Yankees 45 and 19 most wins best record in all of the bigs but not as of this moment

00:07for tonight LA with Yamamoto on the mound minus 126 is the road money line favorites

00:14yeah trying to do some background information quickly here Cody Poteet is going to be on the

00:17mound so certainly not one of those named pitchers that we like to talk about but looking at some of

00:21the starts that he's had this year major league baseball only two which is on my number shows 42

00:27only 19 of those in the past 30 days if we take a look between those starts five innings pitched

00:32and six innings pitched he's actually done decent there the last game he's pitched against the

00:36Giants on the first of the month 19 batters he faced there two earned runs before that he went

00:40six innings against the guardians on the road and only one earned so he will be making his first

00:44start of the year at Yankee Stadium which certainly shows that stepping up into the big time he can

00:49fill into those shoes because you're going to need it going up against some of these hitters

00:52now granted 75 degrees at first pitch you take a look at 12 mile an hour winds blowing out the

00:57right field we got an atmosphere that should be able to get that ball into the seats but if we're

01:02taking a look from that you know Dodgers perspective you do have the better pedigree pitcher on the

01:06mound there's no doubt about that numbers for the past 30 days have been good but a little bit leaky

01:11against right-handed batters and as we know you start to focus on stamp you start to focus on

01:16Aaron Judge and rightfully so now in the starting lineup anticipated today is Juan Soto who certainly

01:21has been doing his fair amount of damage over the past month going up against right-handed

01:25pitchers the question is going to be is he going to come back in now reading into the Soto injury

01:30he actually said Ben it doesn't hurt when I hit or throw or even play the field it's really just

01:35when I'm just sitting around that I could just feel that achiness in my forearm now the good

01:39part about that is he's not a pitcher when you hear forearm tightness out of a pitcher you start

01:44to think doom and gloom forearm tightness out of a hitter maybe you can work around that and maybe

01:48it's no big deal because it did come out of last night's game after the rain delay as a

01:52precautionary factor but sometimes we see that hey give the guy a day or two off it's like the

01:56world series to do that because you know all of these guys are amped up by playing the Dodgers

02:00and playing the Yankees in Yankee Stadium I would be surprised if Soto's out of the lineup but just

02:04something to keep an eye on tonight yeah it is really interesting DRS because forearm tightness

02:10if you were to hear that for any pitcher like all right Tommy John surgery let's get it on the OR

02:15schedule as of right now but not the case necessarily with your position of pleasure

02:20and good to hear from Soto that it's not really bugging him just can be sore and achy after layoffs

02:26and with the delay yesterday maybe that was the issue a spotty shower or two midway through the

02:32afternoon in the New York City area but I am very pleased because tonight is supposed to be perfect

02:38baseball weather up in the Bronx.