Padres vs Reds Pitching Preview: Predicting Tonight's Game
Analyzing San Diego Padres vs Cincinnati Reds: Vasquez's low ERA suggests a tight, low-scoring game with bullpens in the spotlight. Our experts break it down.
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What do you do with the Padres and the Reds?
Here we go again.
Which Reds team shows up?
Lodolo is on the mound.
Gosh Vasquez going for the Padres, and you know, he's actually been pretty good, Craig, over the last month here, Randy Vasquez for them.
And yeah, they This has been a long road trip for the Padres.
They need to get, they need to get back to their winning ways at the great American Ballpark here tonight.
Do we, do we have faith in them doing that?
Last night was so easy for them, and it is perplexing to me- Yeah how the Reds seemingly I mean, look, I don't have any data.
I'd have to look, and I'm gonna guess they haven't been shut out more, or the most of any team in baseball.
It sure feels like the Reds are shut out every other day.
I mean, from looking at the scores- It really does it feels And, and then the other of the day they score 9 runs or 10 runs.
I- there's no way I could back the Reds.
So it would just be looking at a total or looking at San Diego, but, I would assume Miller is available tonight after not pitching yesterday, but did pitch back to back days.
San Diego maybe doesn't use him tonight, I'm not sure.
Total feels very high at 9.
I m- I mean, the Reds didn't score yesterday, so you mean to tell me after not scoring yesterday they put up a 5 spot today against San Diego?
I would lean Padres again.
Nothing strong here for me here.
Lodolo has clearly not been as good as he was a year ago.
Vasquez, okay, but it's gonna be up to the bullpen, I think, for San Diego to close this out.
So I kind of like a low scoring game.
Maybe a five to two finish tonight would be my opinion.
The, the total seems high to me on this.
Yeah, and Vasquez, I gotta give him credit.
His last six outings, 4 and 0, 2.20 ERA, and 32 and two-thirds innings.
So he's figured some things out, here.
So it's, kind of crazy.
He hasn't Basically nothing, not a whole lot of history against this Reds team.
But again, go from scoring nine runs to no runs.
Maybe they score two tonight, then they'll score 16 tomorrow.
It They are the most aggravating team to get behind in a- this year.
It's just It's sad for how much talent that they do have that they have not had a better outcome here.
