Rangers vs. Mariners: Eovaldi vs. Gilbert Matchup Preview

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00:00Take a look at this in the Pacific Northwest today. Rotational number 973, 974. Nathan Evaldi,

00:05the Rangers, going to take on Seattle's Logan Gilbert. A 410 start out west. Sevens as the

00:10number at the opening. Now we see, Tom, for the total six and a halves across the board.

00:15Slight favorite for Gilbert at 134 to 135. Everybody now showing just about now a minus

00:20130 price. Texas, Seattle, Pacific Northwest, T-Mobile Stadium. What are we looking at?

00:26Oh, we're looking at two awesome pitchers. Logan Gilbert is awesome. And this game screams under

00:34when you're looking at a 38.5% strikeout rate, which I do not think is sustainable. And this is kind of

00:41one of the things that we just talked about with the Allen's like, Logan Gilbert is awesome right

00:44now. Is he going to maintain a nearly 40% strikeout rate? Something that Jacob deGrom didn't even do?

00:49No, of course not. We're going to see that settle back down last year is at 27%. So we're going to

00:53fall back in that 28 to kind of 32 range, but it's phenomenal. He's allowing a 4.6% walk rate.

00:59Home runs have always been an issue for him. A 1.49 XFIP is absolutely unbelievable. He does not

01:05allow hard contact. He does not allow fly balls. On the other side, Eovaldi also been on to a pretty

01:10solid start this season. I love to see that the strikeout rate is elevated. The home runs are down.

01:15A 2.7% walk rate for Eovaldi is phenomenal. No one's going to be on base in this game from

01:20either team. There's going to be strikeout hitters. Either team can win this game 1-0.

01:24I don't know who wins it. It's about the under.