Athletics Host Orioles at Hitter-Friendly Home Ballpark

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00:00We had two of the worst hitting ballparks in Major League Baseball.

00:04Miraculously turning to the best hitting ballparks in Major League Baseball.

00:07Why? Because Oakland no longer plays in Oakland.

00:09They play in Sacramento.

00:10It's been fantastic.

00:12Tropicana Field, hopefully it never comes back.

00:14And they just played Steinbrenner Field down there in Temper.

00:16Temperatures, heat and humidity, and the wind blowing out consistently

00:20in a minor league ballpark.

00:21It's been fantastic.

00:22And we'll talk about that now.

00:24971, 972 on the rotation.

00:26On the road, the Baltimore Orioles, who are as of late,

00:28playing better baseball than what we have been seeing

00:30over the previous couple weeks.

00:32Taking on the Athletics, who opened the season with some hope,

00:35and now that hope is dimmed.

00:36But there's always hope when this team is playing at home

00:38because, again, it's a minor league ballpark, and that ball flies.

00:42Sugano versus Lopez on the mound.

00:44That is a 4-0-5 start.

00:45The total of this game, you know it right off the bat.

00:47It's like looking at Wrigley.

00:48Open to 10.5, going to 11.

00:50You know it's going to be hot.

00:51You know the wind is blowing out here.

00:53The side for itself, a minus 145 or so,

00:56still hovering in that same direction as a heavy favorite towards the Orioles.

01:00Love betting out there in Sacramento, Tom.

01:02What are we looking at today from your perspective here?

01:05We're getting runs today.

01:06And I want to make one quick point when you reference it as a minor league ballpark.

01:10The dimensions aren't a minor league ballpark.

01:12They're just normal dimensions.

01:13But because there's no stands surrounding it,

01:16the weather, the wind, it impacts things even further

01:20because there's nothing blocking the wind, essentially.

01:22So we're getting runs.

01:24We got runs last night.

01:26Again, I talked about this with Brady and Adam last night on in-game live.

01:30We got the over last night.

01:31I expect it to happen today.

01:32The Orioles, like you said, playing much better.

01:34Their hitting is better.

01:36Their pitching, still pretty terrible.

01:37And the pitching for the athletics has always been terrible.

01:40So when we're looking at Sagano versus Lopez,

01:42to me this is just a non-factor.

01:43I'm not laying juice with the Orioles as a team.

01:45I just don't think it's good.

01:45But if we look at the hitting options for both teams, Carlson, Lariano, Rutschman, Holliday, Mullins,

01:55all the players that we can trust.

01:56Now, some of these numbers have struggled for Mullins, Henderson, and O'Hearn,

02:01who probably may not even be in the lineup.

02:03But I think the runs will actually be coming from the athletic side of things.

02:06Lawrence Butler, Soderstrom, Lade, Wilson, and Rooker are the players we can't be trusting.

02:11Langeleers just went on the IL, so I think we get runs top to bottom.

02:16Butler, Soderstrom, Rutschman are my favorites.

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