Tigers-Astros Matchup & Importance Of Game 1
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00:00Let's talk about the matchup a little bit and open lines 2 4 8 5 3 9 97 97 some people wanted Houston some people wanted
00:05Baltimore, it's Houston John. How do they match up? Well obviously everybody's looking at the pitching matchup
00:11You're sending the best pitcher in baseball to the mount the question is how much run support is he gonna get Valdez left-handed pitcher?
00:19And it doesn't line up well, or at least it's not the best opportunity for Tigers bats is Kerry Carpenter
00:26We're not gonna see him until you know some reliever comes in and maybe we see him in the fifth sixth seventh inning like
00:34It's not
00:35It's not a great matchup, but who cares go out there and do exactly
00:41What you've done over the past two months, and that's overcome the odds odds say in Houston no matter who's pitching
00:49Houston wins the series odds say Valdez left-handed pitcher gives the Tigers
00:55Fits
00:56Not and not just left-handed hitters. It gives the Tigers fits or one of the worst teams batting against left-handed pitching but
01:04Don't tell me what we can't do
01:07Well, I'll at least fill it in there 26th against left-handed pitching batting average OPS
01:11They're one of the worst teams hitting lefties. It takes carp out of the lineup because AJ is strict on the platoons
01:16It's also not the ideal matchup for a Riley green
01:19Who's a lefty a Colt Keith who's a lefty a Parker Meadows a Trey Sweeney that aren't left-handed bats?
01:23Having said all that
01:25You're not going full logical. I'm honest. No. No having said all that like you have turks Google on the mound, right?
01:30He's better you have the better pitcher and when it goes to the bullpens
01:32You trust your bullpen more than their bullpen win game one steal it
01:36You don't have to be better than them steal it do the what you've done the second half of this season here and find ways
01:42to win because if you win game one
01:44Chances of winning the series super high since they put in the three-game format in 2020
01:5087% of the time the team that wins game one wins the series
01:52It's a hundred percent the last two years and you are sending Tarik schubel to the mound
01:58Astros can hit lefties
01:59He's not any lefty and he has to be better than your typical lefty and if he is he's gonna go deep into that game
02:05He'll throw six seven innings. He'll set the bullpen up. They'll have the whole pen to use
02:09game to
02:11Get out of there and two and be done and and this is an opportunity for Tarik schubel as you know
02:16And we all believe and I think it's I don't know if it's a foregone conclusion, but he's gonna be the Cy Young Award winner
02:22Now he gets a postseason opportunity so he can we can start
02:28Comparing him to other Cy Young winners, especially here in Detroit now
02:32There's a much longer runway right now for Tarik schubel
02:35But this is his first opportunity to pitch in the postseason and say what he is going to be
02:41There is no better opponent
02:43I think for him and hit the season that he's had to come out and just put a you know a period at the end of
02:49The sentence put the exclamation point on the season now
02:52Hopefully there's more opportunity for him to pitch in a second series
02:56Maybe even a third but it this is the one opportunity that he knows he has and he's got to come out with his best
03:03stuff
03:04Ticket texters coming in two four eight five three nine ninety seven ninety seven unacceptable for the effort
03:09They put out there on Saturday. They still have a job to do. Okay, who's the fun police here, right?
03:13They had claims to playoff spot. Yes. It's somebody that bought a ticket and thought you know
03:17Well, they're just gonna the magical the magic is just gonna keep oozing out of their pores instead of all the booze
03:23Ticket texters as I worked Friday at Little Caesars
03:26Said a bunch of people left early to walk over and celebrate the fans that were there went crazy when they showed the last out
03:31That's Scott in Detroit
03:33Texture says love you guys
03:34But what you're missing the Tigers chances of winning are much better against the Orioles than they are against the Astros
03:39I agree with it, but that's a moot point today, right? It doesn't matter
03:42I mean, okay, that was a conversation for last week. The conversation now is they're facing the Astros
03:47There's nothing that's gonna regular seasons over for the American League. I
03:51Understand it's gonna be bad for a lot of people. But for me, it's great. I'm out of work at 2 p.m
03:55Every day, boom ticket text 2 30 in the afternoon
03:59Price is right in days of our lives at my grandpa's retirement home
04:03I
04:06Take a texture says that's why not winning the last two games is a big deal. That's DJ
04:11John in Taylor's he's saying because they didn't get the Orioles those last two games are a big deal. It's clear. They don't mind
04:16It's clear. They don't see a big deal between playing. You know, it was clear that
04:20And when we talked to AJ, hey, if things are wrapped up, are we gonna see Tara scooble?
04:24No, we're gonna get him ready for the first game
04:27They were simply going through the motions those last two games so that they could set up their pitching rotation to face Houston
04:35Yeah, there's an argument if you really wanted to play Baltimore then you would have pitched scooble
04:39But it's to me it's more important to have him in game one because game one sets the tone decides the series
04:45Yeah as much as I'd rather play Baltimore. It wasn't worth putting him out there on Sunday
04:49Would you rather have scooble against Valdez or anybody else against Burns?
04:54right
04:55That's your choice. Yeah, and I'd rather have scooble out there against the Astros. I think you