Texas Rangers vs. Arizona Diamondbacks: Afternoon Showdown

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00:00Texas Rangers looking to rumble going against the Arizona Diamondbacks is expected to be

00:08a hot afternoon Donnie out there at Chase Field 100 plus and counting Cody Bradford

00:14gets out there on the hill for the Rangers the big lefty and Meryl Kelly gets to tow

00:18the slab here for the Diamondbacks taking a look at the numbers it's Arizona minus 152

00:24there on the money line with that total sitting right around eight and a half you know it's

00:29gonna be tough about this one yesterday you saw a great pitching performance at a Zach

00:32Allen right six to nothing victory that's what you're supposed to do the haves and the

00:36have-nots as we talk about it Texas isn't going to make the playoffs Arizona looks like

00:40they will do that now this is an afternoon game 340 start which is actually out there

00:43what 1240 pacific time if we line this game up Meryl Kelly not the same pitchers what

00:49you're getting from Zach Allen yesterday take a look at this dub see his last 105 batters

00:53that he's faced his ISO power number 289 ridiculously high weighted on base percentage

00:58414 an equal opportunity dub see lefty and righty batters getting the best of them but

01:04here's the issue that's not a great lineup right now for the Texas Rangers particularly

01:08up against right-handed pitching over the past month you take a look at Wyatt Langford

01:11Adolis Garcia and Ezekiel Duran all positive numbers everybody else is below average now

01:16let's flip it over to the Texas side of things of who they're starting on the now that's

01:20Cody Bradford theoretically on the card today he's a much better pitcher than Meryl Kelly

01:24is Bradford coming into this one 3.80 era over the past 60 days and his exit number

01:31manageable at 3.90 Meryl Kelly on the other hand through 28 and two-thirds innings pitched

01:36a 5.72 era but if we're also looking at Cody Bradford left-handed pitcher he's been really

01:42good here dub see against right-handed batters as of late on the season it's a 141 ISO power

01:48number over the last 30 days that dropped to a 121 but one thing we do know is a lot

01:52of switch hitters in that lineup for the Arizona Diamondbacks sugar the primary numbers will

01:57be against right-handed batters the only lefties look like Corbin Carroll and Jake McCarthy

02:01so seven right-handed batters two left-handed batters in this lineup I might be looking

02:05at this game and actually thinking about an under here because I think the pitching matchups

02:09make some sense not a great pitcher on the side for Arizona not a great lineup for the

02:13Rangers a much better lineup for the Diamondbacks but Bradford does pitch well to right-handed

02:18batters let's go under in the desert this afternoon.