Gallen vs. Strider: Diamondbacks vs. Braves Showdown

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00:00Arizona Diamondbacks who start a midweek set against one another tonight in the A.

00:04Spencer Strider and Zach Gallin, an ace affair, an Atlanta affair, total eight and a half.

00:11The Braves, a slight favorite at minus 138.

00:15What do you like out in the A tonight?

00:17Yeah, give me the Braves all day and night tonight.

00:19By the way, who replaced Zach Gallin with a tomato can out there on the mound?

00:22That's one of the better young pitchers in baseball that we talked about for the past couple years.

00:25Look at his last four starts here.

00:27Four earned, six earned, four earned, five earned.

00:29All of those not making it out of the fifth, or excuse me, not getting out of the sixth inning at least there.

00:33That's terrible.

00:35You look at the lineup tonight.

00:36Acuna, Baldwin, Ozuna, Olsen, and Riley all doing very well against right-handed pitching.

00:40And finally, Ben, early June here down to the big A.

00:4480 degrees tonight at first pitch with a light wind blowing in.

00:47But here's the interesting part.

00:48Strider hasn't worked his way all the way back yet.

00:50Pedigree pitcher, absolutely.

00:52This lineup for the Arizona Diamondbacks tonight, you know, Carroll, Marte, Perdomo, Naylor, Suarez, Gurriel,

00:57Smith, and Moreno all extremely high, weighted on base percentages against right-handed pitching tonight.

01:03So for my money, I actually think I'm getting the better pitcher tonight in Spencer Strider.

01:07Can he hold those bats down?

01:08I'm going to bet in that direction because the one thing I don't trust right now,

01:11which you should be able to, is trust Zach Gallin in a game where he's the underdog.

01:15He's been brutal.

01:16And maybe the bats come to life for the Atlanta Braves tonight.

01:19And maybe Strider can hold that up for the Arizona Diamondbacks.