Pirates vs. Dodgers: Skenes Faces Yamamoto in Key Matchup

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00:00The Pittsburgh Pirates throwing their ace, Paul Skeens, against Yamamoto.

00:04Maybe an ace there for the Dodgers.

00:06Look at this price point, Joe.

00:08Opened up at minus 215 with Skeens on the mound.

00:11You would think he might be a favorite.

00:12He's not.

00:13He's the dog.

00:14It's even higher right now at a minus 225 price for those Dodgers and a total of seven.

00:19But by the way, looking at statistics, Yamamoto's XFIP coming into today on the season, a 1.81.

00:26Phenomenal.

00:27Paul Skeens coming in at a 2.59.

00:29Really good here.

00:30Seven runs.

00:31I don't know if we get there, but in your mind, are we overrating this matchup or is it just,

00:35hey, Pittsburgh, I don't think you can get very many base hits tonight.

00:39Well, I mean, they just came off of what?

00:42A extra inning loss last night to the Angels, but they did win the series finally, Pittsburgh,

00:48which is great.

00:49They look like they finally started to hit the ball, but now you got to take a short,

00:55what, bus ride there to go to Chesra Dean and take on the Dodgers, which let's be realistic.

01:01This is a totally different, totally different animal that they're going to be walking into.

01:06And as good as Skeens is, we've seen that.

01:09Yeah, he's not going to tends not to get the run support against better teams that he might

01:16against a team like the Angels.

01:18So Yamamoto, to your point, has been absolutely lights out here.

01:23And the bullpen of the Dodgers has also been great.

01:26So where are the runs coming from in this game is my question, because Pittsburgh's bullpen

01:32has actually been pretty decent over the last month here, Donnie.

01:36So to me, it's a dead under in this game.

01:39Good luck trying to figure out where the runs are coming from.