High Scoring Expected: Nationals vs. Rockies at Coors Field
Tonight's Nationals vs. Rockies game at Coors Field, with a total set at 11.5 and favoring the over, likely implies high scores from heat and poor pitching.
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One of the more interesting matchups on tonight's slate, at least I think, and maybe I'm just a little bit of a sicko, would be Nats Rockies, the best offense in baseball going to Coors Field where it's 90 plus degrees.
We got 11 and a half total.
Also, A, we got one of the worst pitching staffs in baseball at Coors Field with, with the, the, the Nats.
So how are you approaching this game?
Do you play the 11 and a half total, 'cause that is super high and it's juiced to the over?
Well, you're not playing the under.
So you're, you're taking the over, you know, or you're leaving it alone, right?
I mean, you're never taking, you know, an under there.
I'm gonna go I, listen, I think this score's gonna be a good in-game over.
The Yankees should be very thankful that they played the Washington Nationals bullpen the weekend before the All-Star break, right?
Mm-hmm.
'Cause they won all three of those games eighth inning or later.
'Cause the Washington Nationals bullpen is terrible.
They're all soft throwers.
Doesn't seem like today's guys, in today's bullpen, everyone's throwing 110 miles an hour or faster, right?
They may not have control, but they're throwing hard.
Everybody in the, in the, Nationals bullpen throws 91, 92.
They're all soft throwers.
So I think that's where you can attack those in-game overs as well here.
The Rockies can beat up on that bullpen.
I'm on the over.
Impossible not to play the over for Chicago, Washington.
Washington can really hit.
Yeah.
I mean, yeah, Hunter Goodman, I think he hit three home runs yesterday, and if you didn't watch- Mm-hmm the game, you would think, "Oh, they, b- they probably won big."
No.
Nope.
It's not enough in Colorado.
It doesn't happen.
All right, let's, get to a couple other matchups here.
First time since you mentioned Miza-Roski, I, I think maybe even one that's flying under the radar tonight, George, is another Jacob.
Jacob deGrom starts for the first time since my, little watch here says July the 7th.
So that's a full, I don't know, almost three weeks of no deGrom.
Rangers are minus 168 here tonight.
I feel like they made a preventative move there, George.
Tom and I were talking and my comment was I, I think they got ahead of this saying, "You know what?
This dude is not throwing 180 innings and making 30 starts.
Let's just hit it now.
Let's hit the button and let him rest a little bit."
I, I think that's all they did.
And Skip Schumacher pretty good with his pitchers too, so I would imagine that Texas probably in good shape, and they're playing better.
So are the White Sox, right?
They're, they're playing the Sox here, but Erick Fedde's going for the Sox.
So yeah, I feel pretty good about deGrom.
I wouldn't have any deGrom bets, his strikeout totals.
He is coming back from the glute injury, right?
That's why he missed a start, or two there.
So I, I'm, I don't trust that he'll go deep into the game, Craig.
I, I want him to.
He's on a couple of fantasy teams of mine, so I need him to go deep into the game.
Need, need a W there from you, Jacob.
Can you get me a W, please?
But I wouldn't have any individual bets on Jacob himself, though.
But I do like the Rangers to win the game.
I'm not, I'm gonna leave the total, alone here, though.
I, I just, I just feel like the Rangers are gonna score some runs tonight.
I think I could take the Rangers team total over.
I could be talking to that in the next couple of hours.
