Astros vs. Rangers: Battle in Arlington Continues on Tuesday

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00:00For a second straight night, the Lone Star State battle in Arlington rages on. It is Texas

00:06and Houston. The Astros with Frambois Valdez on the bump. A road favorite tonight, it was the

00:10Rangers walking it off yesterday in extras. A Josh Smith two-run home run was the difference.

00:18What happens in game number two? You know what's going to be interesting about this game as you're

00:23trying to set this up is we have a pitcher that's going to be making his major league debut this

00:28season. Those are always tough to say, you know what, I have an exact idea of how he's going to

00:32fare. But the one thing I do know is Frambois Valdez on the opposite side is a left-handed

00:36pitcher. He's been one of the better pitchers in major league baseball even over the last 60 days.

00:40A 73 x-fifth minus number, a 3.02 x-fifth number, and if we're just looking at the statistics over

00:46the last 98 batters, Ben, that he faced, you take a look at an 088 iso, a weighted on base percentage

00:52of 254. Now let's throw it over to the Texas lineup. Forget about even who's on the mound

00:56pitching for them. Let's just see how they've done against left-handed pitchers over the past

01:0030 days. Adoles Garcia, only seven at-bats, he's done really well. Robbie Grossman, only 15 at-bats,

01:05he's done really well. Now you want to take a look at some of the other players, just iso power

01:09number-wise, a 0 for Simeon, a 0 for Seager, a 0 for Lankford, a 0 for Jung, a 0 for Heim,

01:16a 0 for Duran, a 0 for Tavares. That paints the picture right now. You're seeing a price point

01:22of, what's the updated number? Do we have that graphic up? It was like 125, 130-ish, I believe.

01:26Like, I don't know why technically, really, it is that low, if that's the pitching matchup we're

01:31getting tonight. So yeah, I would go with, public play, I don't care, I'd go with the Astros.