00:00The fun will begin at Philadelphia at Citizens Bank.
00:03Double-digit wins blowing straight out the center field.
00:07I don't know if that's going to matter with Zach Wheeler on the mound for the Phillies,
00:10but Rileski does not strike out and miss a lot of bats,
00:14but he gives up a ton of weak contact.
00:17I don't understand his numbers, Craig.
00:19I get that the Dodgers are going to give you run support, which is always fun,
00:24but it just feels like for a guy that doesn't strike anybody out,
00:30at some point that weak contact turns into solid contact.
00:34He's a fly ball pitcher with 15-mile-an-hour winds at Citizens Bank,
00:38but are the Phillies going to be good enough to be able to take advantage of him,
00:43and we see some of that regression tonight?
00:46Yeah, I mean, he's usually a five- or six-inning pitcher,
00:48and so you're going to be dealing with a lot of bullpen action in L.A.
00:52He reminds me a lot, you know, different pitcher, but, Joe,
00:55he reminds me a lot a few years ago.
00:57Do you remember when L.A. had Kershaw?
01:00They had that incredible staff, and then they had this guy named Tony Gonsolin,
01:04and that guy won a million games and was, like, in the Cy Young conversation,
01:08and we couldn't figure out that guy.
01:10Like, how is this guy getting all those wins, and he made the All-Star team?
01:13I think it was 2022, and then, you know, we heard from him, what,
01:16one more or two more years, and he's gone?
01:17I kind of feel like that's the same thing with Rileski,
01:20so I could see him rolling off the rest of the season just like he is right now, man.
01:23Like, I don't know that that will change, but, you know, look,
01:27Philadelphia, I think, has the advantage here.
01:28The question you ask yourself is we asked the same thing last night.
01:31How many opportunities from now through the end of the season
01:35will you get the Dodgers at plus money?
01:38Less than 10?
01:39Less than 8?
01:40Less than 5, maybe?
01:41This is, again, one of those light nights where you probably could,
01:45and if you feel that strongly about them, they would go in that direction.
01:48For me, it would be, I do think the Phillies get through the first 5 here.
01:52My concern would be what would happen in the back end,
01:55because I do feel like L.A. is always a sleeping giant in the end.
01:59Wheeler's props tonight in terms of strikeouts, 6.5 over minus 132,
02:05under plus 104.
02:06Those are his numbers going into this evening's matchup.
02:10Feels like a sneaky under, too,
02:13because you've got the public seeing 16 runs scored.
02:15Last night, 17 runs scored.
02:17Last night, the wind's blowing out.
02:20Oh, there's absolutely, be careful with that,
02:24even with that Philadelphia bullpen here.
02:27But that's going to kick off the festivities at 640.
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