Mariners vs. Nationals Game Preview: Key Players & Stats

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00:00A series comes to a close between the Mariners and the Nationals tonight.

00:04Seattle, a home favorite, minus 120 on that money line.

00:08Total stands at seven and a half.

00:11Ems, Nats, the rubber match, DRS, of this midweek series.

00:14What's the play?

00:15Yeah, surprising last night.

00:16I thought the Mariners would be able to do a little bit of damage at the plate.

00:18They weren't able to do that.

00:19Mackenzie Gore will be on the mound today as a left-handed pitcher.

00:22Struggles more with lefties than he does righties, which is usually an interesting anomaly.

00:26But also, take a look at some of these batters in the lineup for the Seattle Mariners tonight.

00:30That includes Julio Rodriguez and also Cal Rowley.

00:3236 at-bats and 35 combats, each one of those guys, over the past month against left-handed pitching.

00:38How about Cal Rowley, who will bat from the right-hand side tonight?

00:40A 515 ISO power number and a 565 weighted-on-base percentage.

00:45The guy is actually, you know, 18, 19 home runs, I believe, on the season.

00:47Right up there near the tops in Major League Baseball.

00:50He's been fantastic.

00:51Sometimes you lose sight of that being in the Pacific Northwest.

00:53Julio Rodriguez, 36 at-bats against lefties over the past month.

00:56How about a 371 ISO and a weighted-on-base percentage of 411?

01:00Those two guys make sense for some RBI props.

01:02But flip it over to the other side.

01:04Two of my favorite batters in that Washington lineup go 1-2 as lefties.

01:07That's C.J. Abrams and James Wood.

01:09You take a look at Emerson Hancock on the mound.

01:11180 batters he's faced in the season, but I want to focus on his last 30 days, and particularly

01:16the lefties.

01:16He's faced 127 total batters, 49 of those from the left-hand side, and Hancock is a right-handed

01:22pitcher.

01:23Look at these ISO power numbers.

01:25333 weighted-on-base percentage.

01:27444 strikeout rate.

01:28Only 14% to lefties.

01:30You look at the first two guys, as I said, Abrams and Wood.

01:3282 at-bats and 74 at-bats, respectively, here, against right-handed bats over the past 30 days.

01:37A .222 ISO for Abrams, and a .234 weighted-on-base percentage here for James Wood.

01:42One of those guys also going to do damage.

01:44So instead of saying to myself, which side do I think wins this game?

01:47I think if you go RBI prop Rodriguez, RBI prop rally, and then come back with Abrams

01:51and Wood, you're probably going to get two of those four players to get an RBI tonight.

01:54And if not, maybe a home run or two from those guys.