Welcome to another Sunday in The Dongers Club, a big afternoon with a couple very warm spots and then still some below average weather situations out there. We have FanDuel out here trying to throw back time as they have included two extra games on their Main slate today and DraftKings continues to act like FanDuel without the 3PM window of games. That just means that DraftKings is truly appreciating our desire to enter a quality Sunday Tilt Slate before the Tilt-Tilt Showdown slate and I applaud them for that. Remember to use our new and improved Daily Lineups page for information on starting lineups and a quick snapshot of the match-ups. MLB Lineups Page – Daily Ambush [spacer height=”20px”] WEATHER All games play and here are the games which have the warmest conditions. Camden Yards: Rays at Orioles – Near 90 degrees, wind slightly out to right center. Fenway Park: Mariners at Red Sox – Mid 80’s, wind out to the monster. Citizens Bank Park: Dodgers at Phillies – Mid 80’s, wind out to right field. It is a big drop off after that with games in the 50’s/60’s in most other non dome spots. We could actually see them open the roof in Toronto, Miami and Houston today though which would help hitters in Miami and Houston. Milwaukee is iffy but the wind is blowing out there which could come into play if they leave the roof open all game. [spacer height=”20px”] There are a couple interesting pitchers in the warm weather games, specifically Logan Gilbert and Nathan Eovaldi in Fenway Park and I have zero desire to use a pitcher in that stadium with that weather and how the ball has played this season in Fenway compared to the rest of the league. Eovaldi of course is coming off a horrific start against Houston and is prime to have a bounce back game with a good number of strikeouts or he just continues to have zero vertical movement and gets lit up again. Loan Gilbert will power his way through 5 innings but I don’t see how he doesn’t give up 3-4 ER vs Boston right now and so we’re just ignoring both these guys due to risk but I do acknowledge they are good and have upside. Meanwhile the Reds are starting their head grounds keeper, it’s wild that they brought him with them into Toronto…...
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