Ranger Suarez Seeks a Victory in Playoff-Style Game
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00:00Tonight, our boy Ranger Danger Suarez is going to go for them.
00:07Ronaldo Lopez on the brave side of things.
00:10Phillies minus a buck 35, Braves plus 115.
00:14The nice low seven and a half tonight at the bank, Joe.
00:18Yeah, and again, it was a one of those situations where Atlanta got out early three runs in the
00:25second and third inning and then the bullpens got involved.
00:28And that's when the wheels fell off there.
00:31Give Charlie Morton credit.
00:33I like Rene Lopez has been solid, to say the least, for what he's brought to the table
00:39for this Braves team here.
00:41He's also had last couple of outings have been very good.
00:45Suarez at home much better than he's been out on the road.
00:49Neither team, the Braves, don't exactly crush lefties here.
00:53So I'm going to avoid the bullpens once again, and I'm going to take the first five under
00:59at four and a half here, because I do think this is more like a playoff atmosphere style
01:05game here and the Braves backs against the wall.
01:08I do think it's going to feel like that here tonight.
01:11I think it's going to be another low scoring game.
01:13The total was only eight this morning, I think, Carver.
01:17Yeah, and so it's been creeping down a little bit, Joe.
01:20I like the under two.
01:21You're probably going with the safer play, I think, with the first five going with the
01:27under there as opposed to the whole game, because as we know, anything could always
01:30happen when you get the bullpens involved with any team, anything can always happen
01:35with them. Boston is in Detroit this weekend against the Tigers.
01:40Tanner Houck tonight against Casey Mize, minus 120 for the Sox on the road, even money
01:46for the Tigers and an eight and a half at Comerica.
01:52Yeah, this is interesting.
01:53Tanner Houck is clearly running out of gas and you can tell simply because he's not
02:00missing nearly as many bats as he did early on in the season here.
02:06But, you know, let's face it, he does have a Detroit team here that has a pretty good, I
02:12think the eighth highest K rate against right handed pitching this season.
02:16So it wouldn't shock me if Houck has more success in this game here.
02:22The Red Sox can't win at Fenway.
02:23They can win on the road.
02:26I would lean Boston in this one if I was going to do anything.
02:30Believe it or not, Joe, the Red Sox have lost Houck's last seven starts.
02:35The last seven times he has started, they have lost and a lot of those he has not pitched
02:40well. Six runs last time out against Arizona.
02:43He had another six against Texas on August the third.
02:45He's got a bunch of really bad games.
02:48But in terms of them just winning, they haven't won at all with him on the mound.
02:52See if they can turn that around tonight in Motown.
02:56Second game of the doubleheader in Cincinnati between the Brewers and the Reds.
03:01Tonight, though, you get, you know, usually sometimes those second games, those
03:04doubleheaders, Joe, they call up those, you know, 27 men, the guys in the minors to
03:09pitch. Well, D.L.
03:11Hall will go on the Brewers side.
03:15Rhett Louder will go for the Reds minus 120 for Cincinnati.
03:21Even money for the Brewers.
03:22The Reds are favored tonight over the Brewers and a nine and a half.
03:28Yeah, Louder is a pretty big pitching prospect there for the for the Reds, and so is
03:34Hall, in fact, who was hurt earlier this year and now has come off the I.L.
03:40He's had a couple of a couple of games here over the last couple of weeks.
03:44Both guys can fire it.
03:46Hall's the lefty, Louder is the righty.
03:50This is another one where, you know, I hate expecting back to back wins from a team
03:56here. It feels like usually in the second game, I like to root for the split.
04:02And I think that's exactly where we're going here.
04:04So if I was doing anything, I'd be looking at Cincinnati to get the split here.
04:10Is the Major League debut for Louder, Joe, on the Cincinnati side?
04:14So he is making his ML debut tonight.
04:17We have some guys on the on the Reds with some pretty good numbers against Hall, by
04:20the way, in the limited action that they've seen against him.