San Diego and Minnesota Face Off in Pivotal Wild Card Matchup

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00:00to wild card teams as of this time in their respective leagues. San Diego in the top spot

00:09and the National League wild card standings. Minnesota in the second spot but firmly in

00:14two in terms of the American League wild card standings in both teams have an outside chance

00:20of maybe contending for a divisional crown. The Padres three games back of the Dodgers

00:24and the National League West. The twins making up some ground on the Guardians in the American

00:28League Central. Only two game difference. Game number one of their midweek set tonight out in

00:34Southern California. San Diego a minus 156 home money line favorite. Total of seven. Zemi Matthews

00:41made his MLB debut last week. Looked pretty solid for the young rook and if you're wondering why

00:46San Diego might be a dollar and a half favorite at home against a good twins team on the other side

00:53because Michael King has been sensational here this summer for the Padres. They're a minus 156

00:58home money line favorite and they should be the favorite and they should be about a dollar and a

01:02half. That's a pro that's priced appropriately here. Zemi Matthews the one good thing is here

01:06he is a young rookie they have high expectations for and the Padres haven't seen him live just yet.

01:10They'll get a picture of him tonight. Struggled a little bit with left-handed batters last go

01:14around but was very good against right-handed batters. You'll get some of that. The one thing

01:17that you do like about the Padres over the past month in Major League Baseball that lineup one

01:21through nine has done extremely well against right-handed pitching outside of Jake Cronenworth.

01:26Everybody's weighted on base percentage is elevated that should help you out but if we are just taking

01:30a look at the pitching matchup itself Michael King last 30 days of Major League Baseball which

01:34included 93 batters he's faced an 057 iso and a weighted on base percentage of 223. If you give

01:41it to lefties he's faced 62 left-handed batters a zero iso power number and you know me I like

01:47that Minnesota Twins lineup but tonight the better pitcher and the better lineup both reside

01:52here with San Diego. A little bit of home cooking for them I think they handle their

01:56business I'd be willing to pay about that dollar and a half price for them to do so.