Astros vs. Reds: Key Pitchers Face Off in Cincinnati Showdown

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00:00All right, let's take it out to Cincinnati.

00:05The Reds playing against one of the hottest teams in the West, the Houston Astros coming

00:09into town.

00:11The starting arm, Spencer Arrighetti, gets the hill for the Astros and Nick Martinez

00:15gets to go for the Reds.

00:17Both have pretty strong whips, Donnie, but on the ERA side of things, close to my Starbucks

00:22order from earlier today.

00:24So could we see a bit of offense trending for this one?

00:27It's interesting that we bring that up, too, because if you take a look at the season total,

00:30it's like, boy, Arrighetti wasn't very good to start the season.

00:33As we know, that certainly goes into your numbers.

00:35Nobody's going to look at ERA and just say, oh, well, how'd you pitch over the past two

00:38to three weeks at this point?

00:39You only see the full season numbers.

00:41But I like to get into those numbers over the past 30 and 60 days.

00:44And Spencer Arrighetti has been a pretty good pitcher here, Doves.

00:47Number five on my card today is ERA over the past 60 days, manageable at a 3.49.

00:53But how about his exit number, 3.63?

00:55You can get away with that.

00:57Also, we're in one of the better hitters ballparks in Major League Baseball at Great American

01:01Ballpark in Cincinnati.

01:02Temperature's 80 degrees, but the wind is blowing in a little bit from center field.

01:06Maybe that affects it slightly, but I don't think there's going to be too much of a difference.

01:09Nick Martinez, however, 48 and a third innings pitched over the past 60 days.

01:13Look at his ERA, Dovesy, 3.35.

01:16Exit number, 3.90.

01:18I like both of these offenses here, but I might think you're getting a discount here.

01:22I don't know if we get 10 runs in this game.

01:25So once again, I'm a guy that roots for RBIs, likes to see runs, likes to see RBI props,

01:29but I'm probably more likely today in this game to go under than I am over here.