Atlanta Braves vs. Philadelphia Phillies: Game 3 Preview

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00:00Game number three tonight, Atlanta, a slight favorite at home.

00:04Spencer Schwellenbach off to a great start this year for the Braves.

00:07Leads Atlanta out there as a minus 126 favorite.

00:11Jesus Lozardo on the other side for Philadelphia.

00:14Total seven and a half.

00:15The RS, who wins the rubber match?

00:17Who wins the series?

00:18Yeah, it's going to be a close one.

00:19It is.

00:20And you see the favorite there for the Braves.

00:21Let me just take a look because I think we had some different numbers earlier today.

00:24Okay, so minus 124 overnight sits now at minus 126.

00:27This was as high as minus 130 to minus 140 a little bit earlier this morning

00:31because the buyback coming on the Phillies because Jesus Lozardo has been really good

00:35in his first couple starts here through around 50 or so batters on the season.

00:39Schwellenbach is a strikeout guy as well.

00:40So you look at the total itself.

00:42Opened up at eight, dropped to seven and a half.

00:43I do agree with that.

00:45These teams will have the opportunities to score runs like they did last night,

00:49but the opportunities weren't cashed in with actual runs.

00:52Disappointing me in the first five innings, needed a couple runs.

00:54They stranded 14 combined batters.

00:56But if we're being optimistic about this game, the Phillies lineup is much better

00:59than the Atlanta Braves.

01:01Outside of Trey Turner and Alec Boehm, who haven't hit right-handed pitching all that well,

01:05the rest of the lineup has done extremely well and also includes a lineup that typically

01:09has a lot of strikeouts in it, have done very well against right-handed pitchers

01:12and not striking out.

01:13That'll be key.

01:14Put the ball in play as opposed to striking out with Schwellenbach making those positive

01:18outs as opposed to not moving the runners along could be the key.

01:21But again, Hayes Lozardo comes over to the Phillies.

01:23Sort of a reclamation project in Major League Baseball coming into the big leagues.

01:27He had high expectations.

01:29Is he now reaching them?

01:30Well, granted, only two starts in 46 batters.

01:32We'll find out.

01:33But here's the key.

01:34The Braves lineup just isn't very good against left-handed pitching.

01:370-91-0-0-0-0-0-0.

01:40And a couple guys there with some green numbers.

01:42That's the ISO power numbers versus lefties.

01:44I give the advantage to the Phillies.

01:4667 degrees warmer than it was yesterday.

01:48Four mile-an-hour winds blowing out the left field.

01:50I think the Phillies can take down the Braves because they're not playing good baseball.

01:53But I do look towards the under 7.5.

01:55I'm not so sure, Ben.

01:57We get eight runs in this game with these two pitchers.

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