Giants vs. Athletics: A Late Sunday Night West Coast Clash

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00:00But one game tonight on deck, a 10-0-5 on a Sunday night?

00:04Who says no to that?

00:05Those late birds are going to love this.

00:06That's San Francisco, and that is Sacramento,

00:08which used to be the Battle of the Bay, but no longer the Battle of the Bay.

00:12It's Birdsong versus Lopez the Lefty.

00:14As we said, a 10 o'clock start tonight, 970, 980 on the rotation.

00:18It's a split both ways here, Tom.

00:20A virtual coin flip and also a total that's listed at 10 across the board.

00:25Are we in line for runs tonight in Sacramento?

00:28We are.

00:30So Jacob Lopez was a pitcher that I was targeting a couple days ago,

00:34or last week, I should say, when he had the start at Tampa.

00:37And I got to say, he looked really solid, like super, super solid

00:42through the first three, four innings.

00:44And when you see that, it's like, okay, well, he's a 27.2% strikeout rate

00:47on the entire season.

00:48That's pretty darn good.

00:498.7% walk rate, eh, not the worst.

00:53But then that walk comes through, and then a single comes through.

00:56And then we're looking at 1.36 home runs per nine.

00:58And it's like, he's either really good, but as soon as, like, we get a crack

01:01in the cement, it's like, that's where he really gets exposed.

01:03And I like the hitting environment going against pitchers when we are at Sacramento.

01:09And this Giants lineup, the fact that they got Matt Chapman back,

01:14Ramos, Adamus, Devers, who's been up and down, Chapman, Flores, Lee,

01:19that's a pretty solid top six.

01:20And it's not to say I don't like the Athletics to score their own runs,

01:22because Hayden Bernsog on the other side hasn't been solid.

01:25We're seeing, what is this, a 23% strikeout rate, also 1.34 home runs per nine,

01:29and a 10% walk rate.

01:31I don't know who wins, but I think we're going to get some runs.