Padres vs. Astros: Darvish & Arrietta Battle in San Diego

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00:00The Padres comfortably in that top NL wild-card spot. Houston sweeping the

00:07Angels as one would hope. They now lead the American League West again by four

00:11and a half games over Seattle. They face off tonight in San Diego. The Padres

00:17will throw out Hugh Darvish. Spencer Arradetti on the other side for the

00:21Astros. Another pretty low total at seven and a half. San Diego a home favorite.

00:25What do you like? I'm gonna flip the script. Let's go over in this game. The

00:29reason I say that is Spencer Arradetti's on the mound. He's been much better over

00:32the past couple months that he did the start season, which should help. But if

00:35you're looking at that Padres lineup against right-handed pitching, Ben, six

00:37positive batters with ISO power numbers and weighted on base percentages. Let's

00:41flip this over to you, Darvish, on the mound. You want to see him be that

00:44dominant pitcher that we saw over the past, let's just say, five to ten years.

00:48That could really help San Diego. But his last 30 days back coming off the IL,

00:51they haven't been great. Also, that Houston lineup, first six batters, 160

00:56ISO, 266, 214, 571, 171 and 289 respectively against right-handed

01:02pitching over the past month. So typically in a pitcher's ballpark and

01:05also in a playoff type atmosphere, I usually lean towards the under. We're

01:09gonna go over eight runs tonight, see if we can get some contrarian action late

01:12night.