00:00we have not seen a whole lot of movement in the market either uh with this and you know nick
00:07martinez is a guy that has had plenty of success here against this guardians team the guardians
00:13are gonna go you had mentioned it the plan is bullpen time matchup time um two games to one
00:20right now the guardians i don't want to say nothing is a must win unless of course you're
00:26down three games and on but yet it's a pretty big win here for the tamp bay red and they
00:31need to get
00:31it or this is going to be a huge opportunity for the guardians to go up three games to one
00:39yeah look if cleveland goes up you would make them the heavy favorite as they should be to win the
00:43series uh i think that that's absolutely fair but it's not like messick or gavin williams or even
00:49foster griffin are pitching tonight to do that and so i i favor tampa bay tonight i favored tampa
00:56bay previously and and credit to cleveland they came back and won that but it just shows you
01:01more than anything joe i think in this series in particular that the margins are really thin in
01:06this series and the games will be very close in this series all of them probably within a run
01:11you can't get any good odds on plus one and a half on either side i don't think you will
01:15all season
01:16all series long and if there's ever a day for the race to pop up a little on offense
01:22it would probably be today this would be the opportunity i understand that they uh had the
01:28biggest differential in terms of ops versus lefties and righties this season 678 against lefties 751
01:35against righties so that tells you that they're favored in a big way when they face right-handed
01:41pitching but they still got to do it and they have guys that haven't done it yet like i mean
01:45junior
01:45caminero is going to have to hit for the race to win the world series he's not going to be
01:48able to
01:49go through this entire uh alcs and world series without winning and on the flip side as we've
01:55talked about the guy who's now shown up and and having a huge impact jose ramirez is impacting
02:00cleveland in a very big way he's hitting stealing bases all of a sudden he's back to being jose ramirez
02:05again so in my mind uh for the rays to win the american league championship series i think they
02:13have to win tonight i do because this is the gimme game this is the game that you're supposed to
02:18win
02:18when you don't have to face williams you don't have to face messick you don't have to face foster
02:22griffin if they don't win tonight it's 3-1 and then you know i mean honestly joe cleveland's just
02:28got to win one more game either in st pete or in cleveland and i and i probably would assume
02:32that
02:32that will happen so all the pressure on the race tonight but the good news for them
02:38is bullpen game facing openers i mean they don't deserve to win the alcs if they can't win tonight
02:45no and again the wind is what you need to keep an eye on uh and the gusts are up
02:51to 40 miles an hour
02:52which is gonna kill a lot of fly balls i think at progressive there so this is you know ground
02:58balls
02:59rise up manufacturing runs which is kind of what these two teams have done better than anybody
03:05really mostly this year uh i don't know that the home run comes into play so guys are gonna have
03:11to
03:11put the ball in play and that's what tampa has done really really well uh and if they're not leaving
03:18if they're not leading early uh do we like them to lead late because i'm a little worried about the
03:24back end now with how much usage we've had for the guardians i think tampa playing from in front
03:29is important in this game no uh yeah i mean look it was important uh last game and it didn't
03:36matter
03:37pd pd halpin ended up hitting a home run yeah so uh look i i i think that cleveland's closer
03:44is just
03:44as good as tampa bay's and tampa bay's closer is just as good as cleveland's but i just don't think
03:50tampa bay is going to be in a spot like cleveland is today and by the way i don't think
03:54cleveland
03:56will do this again the rest of the series if it goes seven i don't think they'll be opening up
04:00with
04:00sean armstrong in game seven in st petersburg i i feel like they will do something else uh it just
04:07feels like cleveland almost has no choice and the reason why they have no choice is because they went
04:11all hands on deck against the white socks to come back and win three to two so at some point
04:15that's
04:16going to bite you and that's today there's no way joe that a month ago if i would have told
04:20you
04:21cleveland they're in the american league championship series you would have said probably not likely
04:25but okay sure and on top of it they're going to be using an opener named sean armstrong in game
04:30four
04:30you'd have been like there's no chance of that happening and here we are right here we are so uh
04:36yeah like uh it'll be cantillo is really the key i guess tonight i mean that that's really where you
04:42want to focus all of your energy on here because if that guy shuts down the raise then they will
04:48win
04:48and if not they will lose like that's that's pretty much it
04:51you
