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MLB Playoff Picture Overview The playoff picture in baseball after the long holiday weekend, throughout Labor Day, the summer unofficially comes to a close. A focus on football in the fall and of course, postseason baseball in MLB as well. We are in the final month of this regular season. October is on the horizon. Most teams around MLB, when you look at the overall amount of games played, were, well, less than 25 or 30 at this moment. The Dodgers, for instance, have the best record in MLB. They've played 138 games and 83 and 55 record. The Phillies more than 80 wins. As is the case for the Brew Crew as well. National League Playoff Race About 25 games left in this MLB regular season. So let's start with the NL playoff picture. The Dodgers have the best record in baseball and in the league. The Phillies and the Brewers all have substantial leads in their division. The Phils up by seven games over the Braves. The Brew Crew back to a double digit lead in the National League Central, ten games in front of the Cubs and the Dodgers were great. In August 19th and eight and take the weekend in Arizona over the Diamondbacks. So LA now looking to win the National League West for the 11th time in the last 12 years, five games in front of San Diego, six ahead of Arizona. Yeah three days before the all star break. Two. We have to remember the Philadelphia Phillies. There were six gas clear. Not in their division. Six games clear. The Dodgers, with the number one overall seed expected to be in the National League. Now you take a look there. How? Well, as you're saying the Dodgers have played over the past month and month and a half now have a game lead or two games lead here over the Philadelphia Phillies. But the question marks also were coming up on the Phillies. Are that little malaise here. They had a monster series against the Atlanta Braves. That four game set where they took three of those four games, which included a couple comeback victories that sort of put it out of reach. Now, never say never, because the Phillies, I believe it was maybe, let's say, 2007, where they came back all the way with the Mets like, you know, seven games with 17 to play something crazy like that, which we've seen happen in baseball history. But a seven game lead for the Phillies in the month right now. September they're probably not going to get caught at this point. That's how big that series was overall to pick up two games over the Braves. So the Braves now singular focus here Ben going to be on just making that wild card. And they are getting nipped and bit on the heels by the New York Mets. Now only a half game back in that wild card race, which is going to be so much fun to watch down the stretch. Diamondbacks struggling a little bit San Diego Padres maybe cooling off just a tad. Those two teams I do believe, will be in the playoffs, but the Braves and the Mets now neck and neck all the way through. The good part about it is if you're the Mets, you're going to play a lot of games against the Phillies, a lot of games against the Braves here. No fault of your own if you miss out on the playoffs. But that looks like a fun, competitive matchup throughout the final three weeks or so of the season. And when you look at the National League East, the odds are off the FanDuel sports book, the NL central. The odds are off the FanDuel sports book. The Dodgers, a -6000 favorite to win the National League West. There is also a competitive race. I guess you could say between the Phils and the Brewers in terms of who is going to earn that second bye into the postseason, but the Phils do maintain a two or. Excuse me, a half game lead over the Brew Crew at this moment. But the most competitive race in the National League, as Donnie mentioned, only a half game for Atlanta in front of the New York Mets. The divisional mates down the stretch battling for that third and final NL wild card spot to the odds we go. The Mets price to make the postseason plus 158. The Braves not on there. Not because they're so strongly in front. The odds have been taken off. But I think FanDuel has to kind of reassess where Atlanta is. A team that entered the season with the second best price to win a World Series. Yeah. And also here's you have to keep in mind too. We're already in playoff mode for those two organizations. Loe what the Mets have done. Looks like they were dead and buried. Now they're back with a legitimate chance to make it in to that wild card round in the playoffs. But the thing I really like about the Atlanta Braves, which again, they have a half game lead, which isn't much, but that's starting pitching lineup now. Chris Sale has been great. Reynaldo Lopez back off of the IL. Looking decent once again. And Spencer Schwellenbach looks like he can be that third hammer down the stretch. He was great against the Philadelphia Phillies. That bullpen just gave way. So if I'm looking at those three pitchers healthy in the month of September, then I got to give the nod to the Atlanta Braves at this point, because pitching wins, particularly when you're in playoff mode, and both of those teams are not knocking the Mets, as I said, like what they've done surprised me even in this spot here. And even with all those injuries to the Braves, that one, two, three punch is really formidable from a Braves starting pitching perspective here, the Mets 17 and 13. In the month of August, they ended out American League Playoff Race August and now continuing into September on a five game win streak. Quickly, quickly here. Let's look at the American League, the most competitive race is the Yankees and the Orioles for the top spot in the Al East. The Red Sox trail by four aa half games for a wild card spot. Despite the Royals being on a six game skid. Donnie, if you had to bet it right now, Yankees at -140 a half game lead over MLB Insider Craig Mish Joins the Show the O's in the American League East, who wins the divisional title? I would say the Yankees, but boy oh boy, I'm waiting at that. Gerrit Cole missing out maybe on 3 or 4 starts. If he's injured, that could Our MLB insider and the host of Newswire, Craig Mish joins us live right here on this Tuesday on the early Line following the long holiday weekend where Craig, the calendar has flipped to September. About 25 games or less for all clubs around MLB. The hunt for October is on as the regular season draws to a close. We appreciate your time and your insight. Live right here on the early line. Yeah, I mean, look, this has been great for me. You know, the team that I cover in baseball started off the season zero and eight. A team that I went to school started off the season losing by 70. So yeah, I mean we're just off to a great start here with baseball. And now with football as well. Yeah. Yeah Craig sorry about that. Your Florida Gators not putting up much of a fight to Diane to Donnie's Miami Hurricanes on Saturday. Unfortunate unfortunate. However before we get your insight on MLB, am I hearing this correctly Craig sun over the weekend and the biggest baseball news through a no no, a no hitter and some Little League action. Craig Mish, what are the details? Yeah, it was a big moment. Yeah I mean the perfect game tournament, we didn't get to finish it because of the rain, but yeah, I mean got the call five. No hit innings of shutout ball. I mean, honestly very, very close to a perfect game on A32 count walk the kid. And then also on A32 count, it looked like a curveball for a strike. But the kid, you know, curveball comes in, you know, kids get little. My son gets scared of curveballs, too, to be fair. But curveball comes in and he got hit. But other than that, perfection. Yeah. Perfection. First time he's ever done that before too. So we'll have a full story coming up on on Newswire. Newswire, play by play, a play by play. Craig, you hate doing schedule breakdowns in the National Football League, but I think a pitch by pitch report of your son's no hitter would do the people well. On Newswire starting at 11 a.m. eastern in the bigs. We go all around here on the daily basis. Craig Mish yesterday Yankees Injury Concerns and Playoff Implications the Yankees on the road after dropping two straight sets in their opener in Arlington. Gerrit Cole darn good. Six innings of work striking out nine against the Rangers, only allowing a single earned run, but did exit the game early with what the Yankees are calling a right calf cramp. He wille monitored tomorrow. Tomorrow is today. Craig, are you buying what the Yankees are selling? That it's only a calf cramp. Well, I mean, look, as you guys know, love leading off with the Yankees on daily basis, so let's dive right in. Yeah. I mean, it's. I mean, I'm going to have to do it in an hour from now, too. So, you know, I think with something like this, you know, everyone questions injuries. They question the teams for their reporting. And, you know, honestly, with what goes on in this day and age in baseball and even in all sports, you're hearing less and less about the severity of injuries just because they don't have to be reported as extensively. Latest story coming out of Houston that Kyle Tucker may have had a break in a bone or something like that from back in June, which is why he hasn't played in three months. But I think I'm going to I'm going to on the side of optimism for this one just because it's not arm related. It's not shoulder related. And indeed, if it is mild, then I think that Cole pitches again very soon, if not a week. Two weeks, and they'll monitor this. But the Yankees are headed toward the postseason and they need him for game one. And so that's when I believe he'll be available to pitch. Hey, they certainly do. Hopefully it's not one of those things that will linger. And they can certainly handle their business because if you take a look at the American League standings today, if the season was over, the Yanks would be the top overall seed in the Al, followed by the Guardians and the Astros close by, or the or the Orioles. If we're looking at that wild card race to is it over? Craig, in your mind in the Al, does it look like the twins, Royals and Orioles? Let's just say, will be those teams? Or could you see something out of the Red Sox trying to climb back in there? Yeah, I mean, it could happen. But I think Donny, those top six are super realistic at this point. Yeah. You know credit to Detroit by the way Ben we're going to have to take a look at that over for the Tigers I think next season I think Detroit is on their way. I could see them being very active in the off season, getting their way back to where they need to be. So yeah, Donny, I think you're right. It is just basically Boston at this point. But I don't know the red one of those teams Boston, Kansas City, Minnesota, one of them has to get super hot to sort of impose their will in these last 30 days or so. If Boston was able to roll off, let's say, 11 out of 12, 12 out of 13 or 14 out of 16, something like that, that would put them in contention for that final wild card spot. But Donny, I don't see that. I see Boston kind of playing like how they have been a little bit over 500. I just don't know that that's going to be enough to get in. Despite the six game skid for the Royals, they still maintain a four and a half game lead for that third and final American League Wild National League Wild Card Battle card spot in the National League. The Dodgers in front in the NL West by five games. The Phillies have a seven game lead in the National League East. The Bw Crew up by double digits in the National League Central and the Padres and the Diamondbacks still in front of Atlanta. For those top two wild card spots. So, Craig, the most compelling race is that third and final now just a half game lead for Atlanta in front of New York. The Mets have won five straight. The Braves dropped three of four this weekend in Philadelphia. When all is said and done, who takes that final wild card spot in the National League? Yeah, I mean, I'll still lean on the Braves here, although I could see the Mets doing it. It was one year ago, by the way. Ben that the Cubs had this spot and completely fell apart in the final month of the season and felt of it so hard for me to endorse them. I'll say Atlanta gets it, but, you know, you can't discount the Mets. They're going to look back at the end of the season. I'm going to guess and say, if Edwin Diaz was just a little bit better in that ninth inning, maybe we would have gotten in. And you can't predict that sort of stuff. I mean, the ninth inning in baseball is the hardest thing to predict in all of sports. Predicting a closer going into the season being great is almost impossible if Key Matchups and Predictions his name is not class A these days, so I'll say the Braves. And if we take a look tonight, you take a look at Boston and the New York Mets. They're going to match up tonight. Slight favorite towards the Mets. And also as you talked about the Braves Chris Sale on the mound as a -350 favorite tonight. So it doesn't look like we're probably going to get that matchup. We wanted to where both of these teams look like they're going to win. But from a Mets perspective they beaten again the Red Sox tonight. Do you think. Yeah. And playing okay at home I think that's going to be the key for the Mets here. They do have a number of home games in September that can certainly help them. But you know I see this kind of series as a back and forth. You know three game series. What I saw last year in watching the Marlins very closely. Donnie, is that you can expect the unexpected in September. Teams that you think are pushing toward the playoffs fall apart, teams that you think are out of it all of a sudden make a push. And we're just simply not there yet. But the last couple of weeks of this season that NL East is going to be wild, down to the finish. Yeah, the Mets took the opener against Boston yesterday at Citi Field 4 to 1. The red Sox on a three game slide catch Craig Mish Newswire leading Things get a little bit wonky here in the final month of the MLB regular season, following Labor Day weekend, because it was a holiday and we saw 11 games yesterday. We saw some weekend sets come to a close on labor Day. Some start some off days that continue into this Tuesday. Not a full 15 game slate, 13 games listed with odds and rotation numbers on the FanDuel Sports book, including inside Citi Field. Game number two of the midweek set tonight between the Mets and the Red Sox. New York taking game one 4 to 1 behind a strong pitching performance out of Luis Severino tonight. David Peterson on the bump. Minus one 32 in favor of the Amazins over under at eight. Two different streaks at pl. Boston on a three game skid. The Mets have won five in a row. Yeah, I think the Mets are going to be able to win again. Have to if they want to keep pace with the Atlanta Braves. You have Chris Sale on the mound as we talked about in the previous segment here. -350 plus favorite, which is crazy. They'll probably win that game which means the Mets must win. And they do have the better pitcher on the mound today. And that's in David Peterson. Take a look at this 59 innings pitched over the past 60 days. His ERA 2.44. But as we know that's not the end all be all. It is a slightly higher xfip number at a 4.24, but still much, much better than Kutter Crawford who in my card? Ben I have 21 pitchers rated with a minimum of 20 innings pitched over the past 60 days. He's 20 out of 21. And you take a look at Crawford, a 5.40 number here for the ERA. But a 5.25 Xfip number. And if you're taking a look at Kutter Crawford struggling with right handed batters, you dip right in Mark Vientos Pete Alonso in the middle of that lineup should be able to do damage, quite frankly. If you're looking at the first six batters in the lineup for the Mets, you're taking a look and saying, okay, how have they done over the past 30 days against right handed pitching? Very well. Lindor Nimmo, Vientos, Alonso, Winker and also McNeil high ISO power numbers and weighted on base percentages. The Mets will get another victory tonight over there in Queens. Yeah it could be a big one for the Mets. They're a half game behind the Atlanta Braves. So now we go to Atlanta. The Braves would have to lose and the Mets would have to win to overtake the Braves for that third and final National League wild card spot. The reason I present it as such, it does not appear the Braves are going to lose tonight at home against the Rockies. Atlanta is a minus0 favorite on the FanDuel sports book because Chris Sale gets the nod tonight. The over under stands at seven and a half. Donny, is there any way that you would want to play this game between the rocks and the Braves, knowing it is such a strong price in Atlanta's favor? It's kind of crazy. Probably more towards the under sale we know has been phenomenal. His last 60 days been a 2.25 ERA in Xfip number 2.61. But you take ak at Freeland. He's the 10th overall pitcher on the card today. 556 and two thirds innings pitched, which does include some starts here in Colorado. And how about this an ERA of 4.29, which is a little bit elevated. But his true number that Xfip 3.76. Here's the issue that you're going to have. Freeland is a left handed pitcher. The bats have woken up for the Atlanta Braves, particularly against lefties, over the past month. Harris, Soler, Olson, Laureano, Arcia and Murphy all high ISO power numbers. Good luck if you're Colorado. Colorado is one of those teams on offense. Like if they're at home, you sort of like, you know what, I'll take a flier on them. But on the road you just take a look at the last 30 days against left handed pitching. And sale has been tremendous. Doyle's got a 176 ISO, which is about average. Stallings has a 231, but only through 16 at bats. Everybody else in that lineup below average with their ISO power numbers. Good luck. Colorado playing out the string against an Atlanta Braves team that absolutely need it, needs it, and is smarting after losing three out of four to the Philadelphia Phillies sale and the Braves not only a -350 favorite tonight on the Bump. Chris Sale is -550. Now to win the National League Cy Young Award. And really, how could you knock it? He only trails Tarik Skubal who is going to run away with the American League. Cy Young Award. And the odds not even posted at the moment in wins and ERA, Screwballs got 16 wins and a 2.51 ERA. Sale has 15 wins, a 15 and three record, and a 2.58 ERA, second best in both categories. Around MLB. The Braves did drop three of four this weekend in Philadelphia. No doubt it has tightened that race in the National League wild card Chase, but Atlanta, prior to the weekend in Philadelphia, had won six of its previous seven. Now we go out west a divisional series this week between two teams in different spots. The Diamondbacks still in that wild card position, two and a half games in front of the Braves at the moment for the second of those three wild card spots, only a game behind San Diego for that top spot, the D-backs, looking to bounce back from dropping three of four against the LA Dodgers at home this weekend. Now in Northern California, a slight road favorite total of seven and a half. Good bounce back spot here for the Diamondbacks. As you said. Always tough to play. The Dodgers are playing their best baseball right now, but I do like the price point there at the FanDuel sports book at a -116. The reason being is you might jt see the name Ryan Nelson are not that great a pitcher here. But when you take a look at his statistics, particularly over the past 30 and 60 days, they're pretty impressive. If we go by the last two months, 63 and a third innings pitched, how about an ERA of 2.84? An exit of 3.27? It's not a great lineup that you're going to take on with the San Francisco Giants. So I do put them in that category of I like that price point. They should win if we flip it over. From a Giants perspective, Harrison has been a decent pitcher on the mound, and we do need to see that Arizona Diamondbacks lineup bounce back against left handed pitching, which they haven't been great over the past month. I think they're the better team. I think it's a good spot to bounce back, and I expect a pretty good performance out of Ryan Nelson. Not one of those big name guys, but boy, he's been putting work in over the past two months here. No doubt about that. The D-backs have lost six of their last eight, almost unheard of for one of the, if not the hottest teams since the All star break. In fact, they have lost two straight series against the Mets and then again losing three of four this weekend at home against the Dodgers. The first time Arizona has dropped two consecutive sets since the end of June, losing four of six and two consecutive series against Final Thoughts and Upcoming Games the Phillies and the twins. Almost unheard of. Skins day number 19. That's x I x in the history of MLB. It will be interesting to see how the buck goes. Deal with Skenes today inside Wrigley -130. The Pirates a favorite. The over under seven and a half but schemes the rest. Really just going about 5 or 6 innings not throwing more than 100 pitches any longer. As Pittsburgh is out of playoff contention. The cubbies had a six game win streak snapped yesterday, still three and a half back of Atlanta for the third and final NL wild Card spot. But crazier things have happened in the final month of the season. No bats have really heated up for the Chicago Cubs, which makes it an interesting matchup against Paul Skenes. But if we're jt going from a pitcher to pitcher ratio here, that ratio is much better. On the Pittsburgh Pirates side. Take a look at Skenes last 60 days, and quite frankly, his entire season has been very good. 56 and two thirds innings pitched, an ERA of 2.38 and a very manageable xfip number at 3.09. We flip it over to the veteran pitcher on the mound, Kyle Hendricks, and he over the past 60 days, 41 and a third innings pitch. Much different scenario than then. 5.66 ERA, 5.03 Xfip number. The questions always come up. You know Skenes is the better pitcher at the end of five innings, they're probably going to have the lead. Why do you want to risk Paul Skenes throwing 100 pitches over five and two thirds innings and leave it up to that bullpen, only to see the Chicago Cubs come back in that environment? Maybe a run line first five inning is the most appropriate number because skiing should have a good day. Hendricks should get hit and by the time he leaves that game talking about Skenes, they should have the lead. And why leave it to chance? Because, put it this way, if Skenes is down 4 to 1 when the game is over, what's the big deal? They probably weren't going to win anyway, but there's a chance they have the lead and can blow it late against the Cubs again. Doctors in August Pittsburgh was really, really bad. When you look at the overall record, they were eight and 19. They were two games above 500 at the end of July. So then you look at Skenes starts here in the month of August, 100, in his first one. But when things started to go really bad in terms of pitch count, he hasn't thrown more than 93 pitches in his last four outings. Think about the last game he had last week at home against Chicago. Five innings of work, three runs scored when he was in but only two of those earned did strike out six when he left the game after five innings. Pittsburgh had an 8 to 3 lead for the cubbies to score 11 unanswered in the final three innings, including I think six in the top of the ninth. So just to keep that all in mind for where Chicago is, we'll have some more baseball breakdowns on the other side of the break. As we look at the wild card standings in the National League. Again, this is really the only place where things are interesting. Atlanta a half game up over the New York Mets, three and a half in front of the Chicago Cubs. No price on the Braves to make the postseason. The New York Mets at a plus 158 number American League Central teams in action and plenty more Live right here on the early line on sports Grid. We continue going through the mostly full Tuesday slate in Major League Baseball. Can the Royals snap a six game skid at home tonight against divisional mate, the Cleveland Guardians? The oddsmakers not necessarily expecting that to be the case. Total of eight in Cleveland, a slight road favorite and a -116 price. The Guardians winning yesterday 4 to 2. The offense for Cleveland two to run home runs out of Lane Thomas and Josh Naylor. That the difference for the Guardians, who have opened up a three and a half game lead in the American League Central. What happens today inside Kauffman Stadium? He is shown their coin flip basically there from the FanDuel sports book, bringing these two teams together. But I'm saying the better pitcher on the mound tonight is actualn Kansas City side here. Ben Brady Singers last 60 days 58 and a third innings pitched a very manageable ERA at 3.86. And even better exit number at 3.21. What do we like about Brady Singer? The right handed pitcher over his last 124 batters? He's faced over the past 30 days, 26% of those batters have struck out lefty batters. That increases the 31.4%. The reason I bring that up. Take a look at the lineup tonight as we anticipate for the Guardians lefty Lefty Jimenez, Lefty Ramirez, lefty Naylor, lefty Manzato, lefty Naylor and Lefty Rocchio. So if those guys are going to back from the left hand side, which quite frankly, you're supposed to do against a right handed pitcher that feeds right into maybe that strikeout numbers here, that could be a very big difference in the game tonight. Give me Kansas City to fight off those bad demons tonight and finally pick up a come on now. Yeah, Donnie, as we learned late last week, our guy Vinny. Vinny Quintino is going to be out for probably close to two months. Was it a broken hand? That was his ailment. Unfortunate for KC, the Royals still a four and a half game lead, though, for the third and final American League wild card spot. They're only a game behind Minnesota for that second of three wild card positions. Minnesota on the road once again in Tampa tonight. They won the series opener yesterday 5 to 4 Trevor Larnach three run home run. Brooks Lee a solo shot for the rookie good enough to outlast the rays. The rays at home today a slight favorite, but again a virtual coin flip. -112 on one side for Tampa. -104 on the other for Minnesota. Total at seven and a half. And the under has the juice. What do we see tonight in the trop. We're going to enjoy the fiesta tonight down there at the trop. And that's taken under seven and a half y David Festa on the mound for the Minnesota Twins. A guy one of those names that you need to get involved with here. 37 innings pitched over the past 60 days. How about an ERA of 4.34? So, Donny, that's high, but the underlying metrics tell you that x fifth number is a 3.11. And in a true pitcher's ballpark tonight, that should certainly help him out. You're also taking a look on the opposite side springs. Not a lot of work here, but over the past 30 days he has gotten in 100 batters, a 144 ISO against and weighted on base percentage right around average of 328. I think both of these teams in this environment, with those pitchers on the mound, I'm not too sure we get eight runs tonight. I'll go to the under seven and a half. Yeah. Jeffrey Springs gets that start for the rays. Was great to start last year. Missed a considerable amount of this season. Hasn't been bad for Tampa in the spots. The Yankees who would drop two consecutive sets before their first game last night in Arlington, did rally against the Rangers 8 to 4. The victory for the Yanks Gerrit Cole good, but did leave early with what the Yankees are calling a right calf cramp. We'll see if we have any updates later on this day. Carlos Rodon gets the start tonight against Andrew Heaney. The pinstripes a road favorite in Texas once more. Total of nine. What's the play? Yeah I think you're going to look at the Yankees tonight as the right side. You take a look also at the pitching prospects here of Carlos Rodon. Not a great pitcher this year but his last 60 days 4.10 should be able to keep you in the game. And a manageable Xfip number of 3.72. He is tonight at least analytically the better pitcher over Andrew Heaney. If you're looking from an RBI perspective, he needs a left handed pitcher. Has struggled at times with right handed batters. You look right to that leadoff guy tonight in Gleyber Torres and maybe Aaron Judge. He still has sizzling numbers against left handed pitching. His last 42 at bats, a 583 ISO and a weighted on base percentage of 616. If we're looking at that Texas lineup, the one thing that we do know they don't hit left handed pitching, all that well, but they will have a ton of right handed batters in that lineup. That's the way to attack Carlos Rodon, a left handed pitcher. His last 29 at bats. And quite frankly, he's 115 left handed batters he faced on the season. He's been dominant, but a little bit leaky against right handed batters. Still going to go with the Yankees. We're not saying they need this game more than the Texas Rangers. It's not really the right way to approach it with roughly a month left to go in the season, but I think Rodon be able to step up to the plate and the Yankees superstars be able to carry the tide. I think the Yankees handle their business tonight. Texas eight games below 565 and 73 for the reigning world Series champs. They are going to miss the postseason more than likely. Jacob deGrom expected to return this week for Texas. See what he's got ending 2024 into 2025. The Astros by the way, 46 games in front now of the Mariner, who have lost three straight games and are an even 500 not much out of the American League West this season, by the way, Aaron Judge and RBI yesterday Giancarlo Stanton, a home run judge, has not hit a home run in seven consecutive games. The horror. He had a six or a seven home run run in a six game stretch prior to now being blanked. Seven straight games plus 190 to record a long ball tonight against the Rangers, doctors, the American League Central is such a funny division. You got four teams now above 500, including the Tigers, who are a game above 500 at 70 and 69 and more than likely three teams making the American League postseason. The Guardians more than likely the divisional champs. You got the twins and the Royals and wild card spots. And again, Detroit a game above 500. But because the White Sox are 31 and 108, the division as a whole, five teams, 36 games below 500, despite four of the five teams having a winning record, all to say some fun facts and trivia as we get ready for tonight, I don't know if Cade Povich will ever be booked as a $3 favorite once again in his life, but he's minus 310 for the O's tonight as they host the White Sox. By the way, if we are just looking, look, it's obvious that the White Sox have given up on the season. They don't care about wins and losses at this point. But there comes a point where sometimes numbers actually don't make sense. Now hear me out on this. Povich is on the mound. I don't know how much longer Povich should be pitching for the Baltimore Orioles. If they want to stay in that pennant race and win that division 21 out of 21 pitchers today, he's 21. His last 60 days, he's got an listeners. He's a 300 or better favorite tonight Ben. He's got an ERA that's almost ten over the past 60 days. Ten. That's not one start. It's 25 and a third innings pitched. His exit number worst on the card at a six. Now you look at that Chicago white Sox lineup one through nine. They can't hit left handed pitchers. But I'm just telling you this right now don't even make them a parlay piece should they win Baltimore. Yes, but you're talking about by far the single worst pitcher on the card is a 3 to 1 favorite tonight. It tells you how much the Chicago White Sox have quit. But you can't take that price. That's ridiculous