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

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