Seattle Mariners Face Houston Astros in Key Divisional Game

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00:00all right Seattle Mariners on the road tonight in Houston against the Astros in AOS rivalry

00:06and a divisional duel the nightcap of our nine game slate on this Thursday DRS good news for

00:13Seattle welcome back George Kirby making his season debut another talented arm in that Mariners

00:18starting staff makes his season debut tonight in Seattle a road favorite tonight against the

00:25Astros Lance McCullers on the other side for Houston eight and a half is that total what do

00:30you like here take a look at Lance McCullers I don't like anything that I'm seeing out of him

00:35this is one of the young up-and-coming pitchers of the past couple years that we thought maybe

00:39would be on a trajectory to be a hall of fame type pitcher but injuries really have derailed his

00:44career and you take a look at only 45 batters that he's faced this season how about a 143 iso which

00:49isn't all that bad but a 397 weighted on base percentage and lefty batters getting the best

00:54to him to a 235 iso and a weighted on base percentage of 378 the reason why we bring up

00:59those lefty batters in the lineup JP Crawford's last month a 371 weighted on base percentage

01:03Jorge Polanco 436 weighted on base percentage Cal Raleigh 377 weighted on base percentage with a couple

01:10of those guys including Rowdy Tellez with high iso power numbers against to shame we don't have the

01:15roof open in Houston because 86 degree temperatures like a little wind blowing out the left field into

01:20those Crawford boxes would have been great we don't know technically what we're getting out of

01:24Kirby but I got a feeling what we're getting out of Lance McCullers and it isn't necessarily going to

01:29be very good by far give me the Mariners minus 130 price I'll take that and maybe a couple RBI shots

01:34here from Jorge Polanco and Cal Raleigh to mix in some plus money I just can't take Lance McCullers

01:40Ben I can't do it yeah DRS it is such a good point when the Astros were making their playoff runs he was

01:46kind of that up-and-coming guy that was sensational during the playoffs but to your point some injuries

01:51have kind of derailed his career at least at its peak to this stage the Seattle Mariners DRS in that

01:58top spot in the American League West 28 and 20 they won their midweek set taking two of three against

02:04the White Sox as everybody should Seattle playing pretty good baseball in the only team that is more

02:10than two games above 500 28 and 23 and a half games in front of Houston the Astros the second best

02:17record in the American League West 25 and 24 the Astros have been basically a 500 team the entirety

02:25of this season and they're opening 49 games they have never been better than three games above 500

02:32that was their peak by the way earlier this week before dropping the final two games of their

02:36midweek set on the road in Tampa against the Rays but the Strohs have also never been worse than two

02:42games below 500 important divisional rivalry starting this weekend with a four-game set in Houston DRS

02:50let's get to the series finale between the New York Yankees and another American League West team

02:55that would be the Texas Rangers this series coming to a close with some early day baseball

03:00I wonder if they get this one in up in the Bronx the Yankees greater than a dollar and a half

03:05favorite today at home against Texas total at seven weather is miserable here today in the greater New

03:11York City area minus 156 for what should be on paper a good pitching matchup Carlos Rodon for the

03:18pinstripes Nathan of all the on the other side for the Rangers low 50s rain double digit win blowing

03:24in from right field a lot of similarities been that we saw last night in the Bronx where I really like

03:28the under and I love the solo home run as they walk up by Dominguez because that was a four to

03:32three final in a seven and a half total game that goes to extras there's no way you're going to end

03:36up winning that game so that was a good one yesterday Nathan Evaldi just might be the best

03:40pitcher on the card take a look at his last 30 days by the way analytically 30 and two-thirds

03:45innings pitched how about an ERA of 0.59 and an XFIP number the best on the card of the past month

03:50starting today at 2.54 you look at his 114 batters that he's faced in 037 ISO and a weighted on base

03:57percentage of 190 Evaldi has been tremendous but also understand this the New York Yankees

04:02bats against right into pitching for the past month they have been sensational as well take

04:06away vivas and Paul Goldschmidt everybody high ISO power numbers high weighted on base percentage but

04:11in this type of atmosphere meaning low 50s rain and cooler conditions with the wind blowing in

04:16advantage Nathan Evaldi now on the opposite side Carlos Rodon why do we also like yesterday Ryan

04:22Yarbo's not a great pitcher but he's a left-handed pitcher and the one thing I told you yesterday is

04:26Texas doesn't hit left-handed pitching all that well same guys Langford and Jung positive numbers

04:31everybody else brutal this game screams another under in the Bronx if we even get it to play

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