Dodgers Look for Bounce Back as Ohtani Starts Against Twins

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00:00Shohei Otani gets the start tonight at the Ravine for the Dodgers.

00:04They're a hefty favorite against the Minnesota Twins, minus 162.

00:08But LADRS swept this weekend by the Milwaukee Brewers, not playing great baseball.

00:13They have dropped 10 of 12 games.

00:16They still maintain a three-and-a-half game lead in the National League West

00:19in front of the San Diego Padres, but it hasn't been the best brand of baseball.

00:24Total tonight, eight-and-a-half.

00:25Might Shohei Otani go more than three innings tonight against the Twins?

00:30That's one of the main questions.

00:32Yeah, it's also the main question is who's coming in behind him.

00:34I think it's going to be, I'm listed as May.

00:36I want to say Dustin May, who has a 4.81 XFIP over the past 60 days

00:40through 49 and two-thirds innings pitch here.

00:42That's not very good.

00:44So, yes, Otani can hold you down for three innings,

00:46but after that, it's going to be up to May to do the same thing.

00:48Now, I don't like David Festa as a pitcher, quite frankly, either.

00:51You take a look at some of his statistics over the past 60 days, not all that great.

00:55But also, are we getting the best out of the lineup right now for the Dodgers?

00:59Because if I look and say, well, Mookie Betts is really struggling.

01:03That doesn't help.

01:04Otani's phenomenal.

01:05He's going to be pitching, and maybe that takes away from his first couple of at-bats

01:08while he focuses on pitching.

01:09Let's just remove that.

01:11But Freddie Freeman got plunked with a pitch yesterday.

01:12He's probably not going to be in the lineup again today.

01:14So, we look at a minus 190 price.

01:16If this was an Otani start, meaning one through five innings,

01:19I'd say, okay, you could deal with it.

01:20Everybody's going to bet the Dodgers are the home eventually to turn that around.

01:23But Festa's not going through a murderer's row lineup right now.

01:26Like, Pahez is struggling.

01:27Kim's struggling.

01:28Edmund's struggling.

01:29There's a lot of struggling Dodgers here to still be placed at a minus 190.

01:33But most people will see Shohei Otani and say, I'll take that risk.

01:35But again, three innings out of Otani tonight is probably the expectation,

01:39which means there's going to be six innings left.

01:41I'll take the plus 160 price point.

01:43First five innings again, Dodgers, maybe so.

01:45But Festa might be able to dance between those raindrops, as we like to say,

01:48because that's not a great lineup right now for the Dodgers.