Red Sox Snap Losing Streak, Face Rangers in Pivotal Game
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00:00Red Sox were on a four-game skid before a win in extras yesterday, 5-4 against the Rangers.
00:10The Red Sox looking up at the Royals, trying to keep pace with Kansas City and hoping Zebby
00:16Matthews has a great MLB debut.
00:20The Red Sox at home today against the Texas Rangers, minus 142 is that number, total at
00:2810.
00:29Ben, can we see some runs today at Fenway?
00:31Yeah, you see the 9 after 10 and rightfully so.
00:33I don't know if I've actually seen these numbers out of a picture that we're going to go over
00:37with Cutter Crawford.
00:38If you take a look at the analytical numbers, a 108 XFIP minus over the past 60 days, which
00:42isn't bad.
00:43A 5 ERA, not great.
00:44XFIP is a little bit raised.
00:46But the numbers we talk about, Ben, and sometimes you say, well, the pitcher only had three
00:50or four batters that he's faced.
00:51That's why it's high, because one of those three or four batters hit a home run.
00:54Cutter Crawford over the past 30 days, 88 batters he's faced.
00:57I've never seen this before.
00:59An ISO power number against 518 combined through 88 batters.
01:04Like if you're just doing the math, it feels like every other hitter either hit a double
01:08tripper or home run against them is what those numbers technically feel for me.
01:11Weighted on base percentage close to 500.
01:13If you break it down, left handed batters, which Corey Seager is a left handed batter,
01:18a 619 ISO against through 46 at bats.
01:22It almost looks like this is an error in computing right now where it can't be that high.
01:26It shouldn't be that high.
01:27So if you are backing Dinger Tuesday at the FanDuel Sportsbook against a pitcher that
01:31seems like he must give up a home run every single time to a left handed batter, Corey
01:35Seager has got to be on your list.
01:37Now, it doesn't get much better when you flip it over to the other side with Jose Ureña.
01:40You take a look at him, 32 batters against lefties, 44 ISO and a weighted on base percentage
01:46of 478.
01:47We know they got left handed batters for days on the Boston Red Sox.
01:51So Dinger Tuesday might find itself a home in Boston, but certainly that total should
01:55be in peril even at a 10.