00:00um soroka is back on the mound here tonight uh coming off iel had a i believe a glute issue
00:06he
00:07hadn't seen him in a while uh since june i believe is the last time that we actually saw him
00:12pitch
00:12for arizona and just in the nick of time i i mean listen still misses plenty of bats he's uh
00:19you
00:20know he had a little bit of command issue going on earlier in the season but you know still a
00:26a
00:26great middle uh rotation got a guy number three guy that can get swing and misses eight and a half
00:34in arizona you especially with colorado who believe it or not has actually been swinging the back well
00:40even though they they've lost four of their last five it's not for a lack of run production here
00:46and i like this young kid hughes look at his numbers and that's what pitching in colorado
00:52he's he's and i think the eight and a half tells you everything you need to know about this game
00:56in arizona yeah he's he's pretty good hughes he got crushed last time out the uh the key for the
01:03rockies in the last week has been the player of the week jake mccarthy he's been the hottest hitter
01:08in all of baseball and he's batting right at the top of that lineup and you got a righty lefty
01:12match
01:12up here so you would assume mccarthy would be a little bit in the driver's seat there but he has
01:17really carried the rockies we know that goodman has been great too for them but just look at look
01:22at mccarthy's numbers this past week they're just absolutely uh staggering so uh i i can't back
01:29colorado i can't do it but i i i just i really think that arizona is a sound team so
01:37that means
01:38if i had to like just close my eyes and blind guess or predict the series joe it would be
01:43that
01:44arizona wins two out of three but yes which two you know i don't know is it tonight maybe maybe
01:51not is it tomorrow uh i mean hughes may be uh one of colorado's best options i mean shockingly enough
01:58uh sugano on colorado i believe he has like 12 wins or something like that this season which is
02:04insane i never would have thought that yeah so uh you know to me it's probably a stay away if
02:10anything because i do think arizona is going to win this series two out of three and if i think
02:14that i'm not going to try and guess what's going to happen i i and listen i think uh having
02:19soroka
02:20back is just another arm that arizona brandon fought has been great since uh since he got uh back
02:26uh into the rotation there merrill kelly was awful uh to start the year but of course over the last
02:33month he's i thought he pitched phenomenal against the dodgers uh in that game that went to uh to
02:39extra extra innings there so all of a sudden that pitching staff for arizona if the bullpen can hold
02:46up here i i still i like them better than i like the padres i like the offense better believe
02:52it or
02:52not me too i think you too yeah no i i think so look i i think i think san
02:58diego put themselves
02:59joe in a position to fight to the end and so by getting the pitchers that they got and uh
03:06it was
03:06mys and who was the other one that they got i keep forgetting who the padres ended up getting
03:10two pictures robbie ray who also got lit up and robbie right yeah so so i think what that did
03:15joe
03:15is give san diego a fighting chance to the end i think without those guys they don't so it's not
03:22like
03:22a 50 50 toss-up i'm with you i think arizona is better than san diego but in the end
03:27joe would
03:27you be shocked if the padres made it in arizona didn't you probably would not the bigger question
03:31i think is it possible that the padres get in the diamondbacks get in and the phillies do not
03:38i think that is more of the possibility there if the phillies don't get their act together here
03:45pretty quickly yeah and it's got to start i think it's pretty safe to say they got to handle business
03:52here against uh the cardinals tonight would be uh fantastic of them but i like the position arizona
03:58finds themselves in i think they got a pretty good shot uh at making a run and the schedule by
04:04the
04:04way down the stretch uh for arizona is also uh not as daunting here obviously at the rockies they
04:12they do have the braves red socks reds cubs and giants so kind of 50 50 there but i think
04:21the
04:21they got a hand of business against the rockies and then boy it would be a good litmus test right
04:26because they got a hand to head to uh truist to take on the braves this weekend i think that's
04:32a
04:32pretty good test here we're going to figure out whether or not uh they are for real they showed
04:36it against the dodgers but right can they do it against atlanta that would you know on the road
04:43as opposed to being home i think that's going to be uh interesting
04:47interesting
04:47you
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