Giants vs. Angels: Verlander Seeks a Strong Start on the Road

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00:004.07 p.m. Eastern, first pitch, 927, 928.

00:03That's San Francisco and Los Angeles.

00:05It's Verlander versus Cucucci, the left-handed pitcher.

00:08This line across the board, depending where we're shopping at,

00:10minus 115s, minus 110s, so a de facto pick-em,

00:13and a total that opened up at 8.5 that we now see

00:16has moved to nines across the board, San Francisco and L.A.

00:20What are we looking at here for you, Tom?

00:23So this is a, you know, we're going to tease this a little bit

00:27where we're going to introduce this.

00:28We're going to get to some later segments.

00:30I'll talk about this game a little bit later.

00:32So I want to preface things by saying there's more info to come.

00:35Don't worry.

00:36The Angels are not good.

00:38That's where I want to start things off with.

00:39The Angels are not good.

00:40They got off to this great start.

00:42Throughout the entire season, they're coming in.

00:45This is versus righties, at least, right-handed pitching.

00:47A 196 ISO, which would put them in as the fourth best in the league.

00:50They have a 101 WRC, plus 25% strikeout rate, 6.6% walk rate.

00:55I have been on the record to say the Angels are not as good as their record

00:58and things will return to form for them.

01:00Their hot start is not sustainable.

01:02Over the past week, just since the 13th, they have a 34% strikeout rate,

01:07a 2% walk rate, a 110 ISO, and a 44 WRC plus.

01:13Oddly enough, things have fallen back down to earth for the Angels,

01:16despite the fact that I don't think Verlander is amazing,

01:19which is one of the points I'm trying to make as I kind of bury the lead.

01:22And I'll be talking about Verlander later.

01:24We'll get to that.

01:24But this game is about the Giants coming away with a victory.

01:28Even though I don't think Verlander is amazing,

01:30Kikuchi is an average pitcher.

01:32The Giants, their offense is moving.

01:34Give me the Giants.

01:35I don't know if the runs are going to be there just because I don't trust the Angels.

01:37I think the Giants could realistically win this game 6-1.

01:39I don't know if it's going to be there just because it's going to be there just because I don't know what I'm doing.