Coors Field Showdown: Rockies vs. Pirates Game Preview

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00:00Let's get to a place that continues to give us runs.

00:03That's Coors Field.

00:04Both of these lineups technically stink, Tom,

00:06but both of these lineups are hammering over the past two days.

00:10Does it continue today?

00:11955, 956 on the rotation of 310 start.

00:14Pittsburgh is going to go with Mitch Keller.

00:15Blaylock here, the right-handed pitcher for the Rockies.

00:18No surprise, overnight 10-and-a-halves quickly disappeared.

00:21We're at 11s and 11-and-a-halves across the board.

00:24A heavy favorite for Pittsburgh at a minus 176 price,

00:26but they were heavily favored yesterday with skeins.

00:29It didn't work out to their advantage.

00:30Let's call it 160 across the board.

00:32The Pittsburgh Pirates and the Colorado Rockies today.

00:35Oh, the fact that they're this heavy favorite is kind of crazy.

00:39On Friday, one of the tapes I wanted to share in the early line,

00:42which we just didn't get to, I was like, listen, this series,

00:44just take the plus money.

00:45Just take the plus money on either side, whatever it ends up being.

00:48And, you know, skeins couldn't get the win yesterday.

00:50Obviously, there was a delay.

00:51He has come out of the game, whatever it might be.

00:52But looking at Bradley Blaylock, who should be starting for the Rockies today,

00:56smaller 33-inning sample size.

00:59This is his second year in the majors overall.

01:02We're doing the 164 home runs per night and a 10.9% walk rate.

01:06Yes, he has a 10.9% strike rate on top of a 4.8% walk rate.

01:10So he doesn't strike anyone out.

01:12Yeah, he doesn't let anyone on base for free.

01:13But he also has a 338 Babbitt.

01:15So he's not a good pitcher.

01:17Mitch Keller, you could say, he's probably a decent pitcher when it's all said and done.

01:20But the hitting environment is just far, far conducive to scoring,

01:24considering the Pirates also got rid of Bednar.

01:26So their late game shutting down teams is not there anymore.

01:30It's just always runs, runs, runs, even though these lineups are terrible.

01:34Exactly.

01:35If you've ever heard the ambulance driving by right there,

01:37probably taking the starting pitchers in the bullpens back into the hospital

01:40for where they've been getting damaged this week.

01:42And sometimes it's just about riding like bad baseball teams to say,

01:45I look at the lineups and I don't like it.

01:46Like, I haven't liked the Pittsburgh Pirates lineup the past two nights,

01:49but yet they still are hitting runs because it's Coors.

01:5186 degree temperatures today, Tom.

01:53There is a wind blowing in around eight to nine miles per hour,

01:55but I still do think there's runs where you say,

01:57I'm just going to get after this game once again.

02:00I don't like the lineup for the Rockies.

02:01They've produced.

02:02I don't like the lineup for the Pittsburgh Pirates.

02:04They have produced here.

02:05So it's just as simple as saying, if the bullpens aren't there,

02:08you're always going to get that Coors magic late in game situations

02:11because nobody can get anybody out.

02:13You throw a strike and a back gets on it,

02:15there's a chance it's going to be a double in the gap

02:17and or a home run at this point.

02:18So I have a sell me something at the end of this show

02:21that I'm saying ride the good times.

02:23People don't care who's actually on the mound or hitting.

02:26Those games are going over.

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