Guardians vs. Royals: A Crucial AL Central Showdown Tonight
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00:00We'll be right back.
00:03Battle for the top of the American League Central.
00:06Yes, you heard that right tonight in Cleveland.
00:08It's the Guardians and the Royals minus 120 for Cleveland
00:13as a slight home favorite, but then you have Seth Lugo on the
00:17other side for KC with the Royals booked as an underdog.
00:22What happens here between the two best teams in the AL Central?
00:26Yeah, Royals booked as an underdog, but more of an underplay
00:28for me, Tristan McKenzie, who's one of those guys which has a
00:31terrible like X-Fit minus numbers should be able to get hit around.
00:34He's been escaping those and if you take a look at a game against
00:37right-handed batters through the face 68 of them over the past
00:3930 days, that number is high to 236 weighted on base, excuse
00:43me, 236 ISO and a 348 weighted on base percentage.
00:46You know, you're looking at from the right side here tonight.
00:48It's going to be Bobby Wood Jr.
00:49227 ISO power number.
00:51Let's flip it over to the other side.
00:52Seth Lugo has been absolutely incredible for the Kansas City
00:55Royals last 30 days or 119 ISO weighted on base percentage of
00:59263 just to put that in a capsule of this entire season 313
01:04batters a 121 ISO and a weighted on base percentage of 266.
01:08This isn't just the pitcher getting hot over the past couple
01:10starts.
01:11He's been fantastic over the first couple months of the season
01:14now taking a look at right-handed pitchers going up against the
01:16Cleveland Guardians.
01:17We have a very good record and also a very good track record of
01:20hitting right-handed pitchers particularly over the last 30
01:22days.
01:23Look at the middle of this lineup Ramirez Naylor and Fry 439 328
01:27and 207 ISO power numbers consecutively there.
01:30That's probably where your power source is going to come from.
01:33But having said that and looking at both of these lineups, both
01:35of these pitchers are probably still will be to the under between
01:38this game and the Guardians and the Royals.