00:00We're going to get ready for two teams that are very much in the wild card and or
00:05postseason picture, and that's the Rangers at the White Sox. Kumar Rocker on the mound for the
00:10Rangers. You're quitting on the mound for the White Sox here, and it feels like the White Sox
00:18are heading the wrong way. The Rangers offense, I can't trust, Tom. I don't know. This could go
00:24one of a few different ways here. Talk about two teams I do not trust and two pitchers I do
00:31not
00:31trust here. Where's the angle? Runs? I don't know. The Rangers have been absolutely infuriating to me
00:41this season as someone that's holding a ticket on them to make the playoffs at plus 120 since
00:47before the season started, which I bet back in March. I have been sweating this out really for
00:52weeks at this point. You win two, you lose two. You win three, you lose three. They are just the
00:57epitome of a 500 team, but when it comes to this matchup, I want to say, okay, Kumar Rocker, I
01:03know
01:03who he is at this point. He has been great. He looks good at times. He can't string together long
01:08starts, but Jose Urquidy has not been in the majors for a couple of years. He gets called up
01:14from AAA, and he gets signed. He has a couple good outings. If there's any time for the Rangers
01:20offense to get things going, it should be against Jose Urquidy, and I just don't know if I can
01:26trust the Rangers offense to do so. I want to bank on runs, and I want to bank on the
01:30Rangers money
01:31line, but it is a tough sell. It really is. I mean, and I don't know. What do you think
01:38about maybe
01:40White Sox first five, White Sox maybe team total over? It just feels like Rocker on the road
01:47is going. I have more faith in a White Sox offense than I do the Rangers at the moment here,
01:56so it feels like I think the White Sox can get the Rocker, even though he hasn't been here in
02:03how
02:03long, but do we really trust that offense to take advantage of that? I don't know that I can,
02:09Dom. That's the problem.
02:10I can't either. Rocker hasn't been good, to your point, over the last 30 days. We're looking at a
02:165.76 ERA. He's allowing 1.8 home runs per nine. His grand ball rate's only 36%. He is struggling,
02:25and yeah, Urquidy has 9.2 innings pitch just because he just got called up, and he's actually
02:29looked somewhat decent, but man, the White Sox, they better be able to get to Kumar Rocker.
02:35Like, this is the type of matchup since they've been, you know, the White Sox have been okay-ish
02:39over the last few weeks. Like, this is the kind of matchup that they should be ready for. They're
02:43at home. They had a nice walk-off against the Mets.
02:45He can't pitch to lefties, right? What have they got? Seven of them they can throw against them?
02:51So tonight, they're going to be rolling out as it 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. They have seven lefties
02:56in their
02:57lineup tonight, the White Sox do. That's right.
02:59Give me runs. Like, give me White Sox team total. If they can't get the Rocker,
03:05early, maybe even the first five over, but expecting the Rangers offensively to do good
03:10things has not been a recipe for success, Tom. Every time I try to back them, they just can't
03:17score against some of the worst pitchers, but I do think that's not a bad look here, going in that
03:24direction. Little team total over with the White Sox at home. Too many power bats there to be able
03:30to get something done.
