Impactful Upcoming Series as Pennant Races Heat Up

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00:00there are a couple of series that jump out to me which ones catch your eye in particular and

00:05you're saying this could actually have an impact on what happens come the final week of September

00:09I think what we alluded to a little bit earlier it's more just about like a gut check um I think

00:15Yankees Tigers because I'm not doing the Yankees thing here you know we're not going to do that

00:20but like it's just because they've have this bender of a stretch here and I'm still trying

00:25to figure out who they are uh and and you know they they're making a really strong case with the

00:31last two series against two teams that are they have a great chance of potentially playing in the

00:36postseason and are good measuring sticks for them and then you got another one right here too uh and

00:41and a team that can beat you in a little bit of a different way than the other two so I think just

00:45seeing how they battle against the the Tigers will be really interesting to me um just to get an idea

00:50of where the Yankees are at now and you also look at you know some of the pitching matchups there as

00:55well um I I think it makes it for a fun you know a fun battle you got Mize versus Warren as the

01:02probables then you've got uh Flaherty versus Rodon um which I think is like that would potentially be

01:08a postseason matchup because I they're both those guys are going to have to be relied upon um and then

01:13we'll see who gets the ball in the in the third game but it should be Schlittler who's going to get

01:17a chance to bounce back here uh against the Tigers other one that jumps out to me I failed to mention

01:22uh Houston and Toronto north of the border Houston and Toronto is an interesting midweek set right now

01:28because again you've got Toronto trying to keep the stiff arm on the rest of the ALEs notably the

01:32Yankees and then you've got Houston trying to keep the stiff arm on Seattle and the Rangers right now

01:39so that series jumps out to me the other one is Cincinnati and San Diego how does the cookie crumble

01:45in Southern California this week I Cincinnati's sort of kind of making a push the Mets have really

01:50done nothing to secure that third wild card spot um that one is I think it's kind of their brain

01:58to pretzel it's kind of a last gasp for them too because I mean if they drop two out of three

02:03they're still fine they're still alive theoretically but they get swept or whatever the Reds like they're

02:08in trouble so I think there's a chance to and also if it goes the other way you went two out of three

02:12there the schedule gets softer the rest of the way and I think the obvious one is is Mets Phillies

02:18right which we alluded to but the way it is too you know they'll end up like battling each other and

02:25then it'll come down to some the final series when they're not playing each other but I think there's

02:29a lot of storylines within that series because what Sean Minaya are you getting like Sean Minaya needs

02:33to match Ranger Suarez who's the problem you know those are the probable starters there like that's

02:37I think going to be a really important thing to to monitor there what's the deal with Clay Holmes is

02:44he running out of gas how are they going to utilize him he needs to match Christopher Sanchez like all

02:48of a sudden when you see these teams match up against each other you feel that the pitching gap all of a

02:54sudden even without Wheeler um and I think that's going to be important and then with the Mets I don't

03:01think they get their their wonder can rookies going in any of these games right then it's going to be

03:04David Peterson most likely on Thursday unless they change something against I don't know who

03:08who has announces the probable yet for the Phillies so it's not any of the rookies it's kind of the

03:13vets that they need and expect and are going to probably need to make them you know they're going

03:17to need to get going in the postseason here's your chance

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