Dodgers Looking to Capitalize vs. Pirates on Sunday

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00:00Probably going to see less of schemes moving forward.

00:09I just don't trust this, this Pirates team.

00:11I don't trust them with, with Falter on the mound here, going up against Glass now.

00:16It feels like a Dodgers team total over type of situation.

00:20How are you looking at it?

00:21Yeah, this is another one, Joe.

00:23You know, the Dodgers put themselves kind of in a situation where now they're dealing

00:28with, you've got the red hot San Diego Padres, and you have a red hot Arizona Diamondbacks

00:34team, both right on their tail.

00:36You could have said a couple, maybe a month ago, the Dodgers locked this thing up.

00:40The entire dynamic has shifted.

00:42That game one, Los Angeles made a statement putting up nine runs in that matchup.

00:47Then yesterday, putting a hurt on Paul Skeens, and I predicted this, Skeens had played them

00:52back in June, I believe it was June 5th, and he got the win.

00:56So the Pirates put up 10 runs in that game in a 6-10 final.

01:00So I went through his metrics and I looked at all of his stats, dating back to that game

01:06throughout the rest of the season, that was the most hits that Skeens had allowed, along

01:11with the most runs that he had allowed all season long.

01:14And then in his most recent matchups prior to yesterday, you could see that he was trending

01:19to the downside.

01:20He was descending as a pitcher.

01:22He was allowing more hits and allowing more runs.

01:25So yesterday, I fully predicted, and I actually said it on the SportsGrid show, I had the

01:30D-backs yesterday, and I expected Skeens to get lit up, and that's exactly what happened.

01:34They jumped on him early, they attacked him, and they figured out, and that's the thing

01:38with pitchers early on in their career.

01:41As teams adapt, you can start watching, where is his locations?

01:46We know this guy's got a 102-mile-an-hour fastball.

01:48What are his pitches?

01:49Where does he like to throw it?

01:51Where are we going to attack him, and how are we going to sit on him?

01:54That is exactly what the Dodgers did yesterday, and that is exactly why they capitalized on

01:58a 4-1 win yesterday, Joe.