San Francisco vs. Arizona: Key MLB Rivalry Game Preview

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00:00and francisco hosts a divisional foe today in the arizona diamondbacks the d-backs an ever so

00:05slight favorite on the road minus 116 merrill merrill kelly gets the start for arizona and

00:12odds flip in what you see right there justin verlander gets the start tonight for sf total

00:18stands at eight tonight by the bay drs arizona in its first divisional series of the season over

00:26the weekend an extended four game set against the dodgers they split between the two of the d-backs

00:31did get crushed yesterday though in the finale losing eight to one what do we see in the opener

00:36of this nls rivalry starting tonight in san francisco yeah dodgers tacked on late in that

00:42game last night but justin verlander certainly not the same pitcher of his first let's just say 15

00:45years in major league baseball 42 innings pitched on the season about a 450 era and a 4.45 xvip number

00:52we take a look at merrill kelly on the season 44 innings pitched 4.09 era and a 4.18 xvip number

00:59the lineup's simple to me right against right into pitching the arizona diamondbacks have done very

01:03well this season if we take a look at the first five batters that we anticipate tonight lefty and

01:08carroll lefty and marty lefty and pavin smith lefty and josh nayland and a righty with eohenio suarez

01:14look at these iso power numbers against right into pitching particularly over the past 30 days 284

01:194.38 230 169 and 333 and also understand this like some of the you know execution of statistics

01:27that i like to use usually the beginning of the season just compile all the stats but now we're

01:31over a month into the season you want to wipe out ben like those first two weeks cold environments

01:36pitchers getting used to the batters batting just getting used to the pitchers now we can go with 30

01:40day statistics for the major league baseball batters to remove that you know bias of hey you got a great

01:45start to start the season now he's been terrible this will let you sort of zone in on that the

01:49pitchers still want to keep the same until they get like 70 75 innings and you can do the same thing

01:54wipe out the month of april start with may and june once you have 60 days there just to get the full

01:59perspective of how well they're pitching as of late let's flip it over to the other side also and

02:03take a look at the pitching matchup for merrill kelly not a great pitcher but having said that

02:06not a great looking lineup for the san francisco giants tonight against right into pitching

02:10particularly over the past 30 days yeshremsky 327 weighted on base percentage you'll take that

02:15out of the lead else five how about willie adams 83 at bats over the past month against right into

02:19pitching a 239 iso and a weighted on base percentage of 387 everybody after that leaves a lot to be

02:25desired for me the better hitting lineup is the diamondbacks today that's the way i'll go

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