WEATHER No issues tonight. [spacer height=”20px”] That loud humming sound you hear is me snoring as I write up the pitching tonight, it is a three headed monster and then absolutely NOBODY I want any part of. CLAYTON KERSHAW Kershaw has gone back to ‘normal’ after his near perfect game vs the Twins. Tonight he should be show some flashes of what he did on that cold afternoon vs another AL Central team tonight and one who has 6+ hitters that are extremely bad against Sliders, a pitch Kershaw is using very well right now. NATHAN EOVALDI Eovaldi is stout vs RHB, which is the heavy bulk of the Orioles lineup and he is usually a challenge for Big Cedric Mullins at the top of the order. Eovaldi went 7 innings on just 72 pitches in his last start and comes in with no restrictions tonight. GERRIT COLE Cole will be my personal fade tonight because I am 100% on the two guys above, but he is viable to play as the third of the big three. I just don’t see the other two faltering and will ride them 100%. [spacer height=”20px”] Boston Red Sox Raffy Devers, Trevor Story, Alex Verdugo The Red Sox have strong “we are going to drop 10 runs tonight” vibes coming out of this match-up against Spenser Watkins. He’s not been up in the bigs for very long obviously and this year through 13Innings has been a little more lucky with a big jump in Ground Ball rate to 52%. But the underlying stuff is weak and RH hitters have hit him extremely hard. Even with Mt. Baltimore in left field I like Boston’s lineup a ton. Texas Rangers Calhoun, Semien, Seager If Texas does not get to Bryce Elder out of the gates then they will go quietly into the night. The Braves pen is very good so we want to focus on the top of the order. Cincinnati Reds Naquin, Garcia, Votto The Reds will hit Chad Kuhl tonight. Some of them know him well and I see no reason to mess around with SP tonight so we want some cheap bats in good spots. That would be the Reds. [spacer height=”20px”] CATCHER Aramis Garcia Mitch Garver Will Smith FIRST BASE Freddie Freeman Joey Votto Anthony Rizzo SECOND BASE Trevor Story Marcus Semien Nick Madrigal THIRD BASE Rafael Devers Austin Riley SHORTSTOP Corey…...
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