Diamondbacks Rely on Brandon Pfaadt in Crucial Championship Game
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00:00 [MUSIC]
00:02 Game seven.
00:04 Tonight in Philadelphia, it is game number seven of the National League Championship
00:09 Series between the Phillies and the Diamondbacks.
00:12 Both teams just one win away from a World Series appearance to take on the Texas Rangers.
00:18 Donnie, this is the first time in a full MLB season since 2004.
00:24 For nearly two decades, we see both of the League Championship Series reach a seventh
00:30 and final winner-take-all game.
00:32 We are the lucky ones for a second consecutive night of a seventh game in the LCS.
00:38 Maybe Donnie Rightside, not as lucky, has to stay up a little bit late tonight to take
00:43 on and see all that Philadelphia will bring to the bank as they welcome in Arizona.
00:49 So DRS, let's start with the line.
00:51 Now minus 168, that money line price in favor of Philadelphia.
00:56 The total at eight and a half.
00:59 Brandon Fott gets the start for Arizona, the young kid.
01:02 The 23-year-old that was sensational in game number three as the D-backs got their first
01:08 win of the NLCS in the opening game in Phoenix.
01:12 Ranger Suarez, though, Donnie, has been great for Philadelphia the last two postseason runs.
01:17 He starts game number seven tonight.
01:20 The Phil's a minus 168.
01:22 Favorite the over-under eight and a half.
01:24 Donnie Rightside, where do you begin?
01:27 Here's where we begin tonight.
01:28 It's still home field advantage at Citizens Bank Park.
01:31 That's going to help the Philadelphia Phillies, but it really helps if you can get an early
01:34 lead.
01:35 Now also, talking from a Phillies perspective, we'll get to the Diamondbacks and some good
01:38 pointers we can bring out for them.
01:40 But Brandon Fott has been unbelievable in the playoffs.
01:43 But also, Brandon Fott has been unbelievable in the playoffs when facing a team just once,
01:47 but for that first time through the rotation, and then let's just say you clinch the series
01:50 and move on.
01:51 The reason what I'm getting at here is Fott was unbelievable against the Philadelphia
01:55 Phillies in Arizona.
01:57 Quite frankly, I thought he should have stayed in the baseball game.
02:00 What did he throw?
02:01 About 68, 69 pitches, exit after five, and was striking at the Phillies at an incredible
02:04 clip.
02:05 Why?
02:06 They've never seen him before, and his stuff was electric that night.
02:09 But now you're coming second time around.
02:10 It's almost like if you take a single game, Ben, as a microcosm, right?
02:13 You see in the playoffs all the time, "Hey, look, we don't want you to go a third time
02:16 around the order because they can catch up to the pitch and they see what you have."
02:19 That's why some of these guys are getting brought out of the game.
02:21 But the Phillies now are going into this game knowing, having filmed, and faced him in real
02:25 time to make those adjustments.
02:27 We'll see if they do.
02:28 Ranger Suarez equally here.
02:29 If you're looking for a maybe playoff MVP, if you get your third starter to perform the
02:34 way Ranger Suarez has performed, that's been incredible.
02:37 So we'll see if that also holds up.
02:38 But Ranger Suarez, a little bit more of a veteran presence here than opposed to Brandon
02:42 Fott.
02:43 If you're looking just to start the game off here, I love what Fott has done, but it'll
02:47 be interesting to see in a different environment at home with loud fans and a lineup that's
02:51 seen him before.
02:52 Can he perform, Ben, the same way he did earlier in the series?
02:56 So Fott, the 25-year-old from Louisville, Kentucky, is going to get the start in this
03:00 game, DRS.
03:01 The last 10 innings of work against the Dodgers and the Phillies, 5-2/3 in game number three
03:07 against the Phightens.
03:09 He has not allowed a single run, and he has only allowed a combined four hits.
03:14 Ten innings against L.A. and Philadelphia, and only gave up four hits in total and not
03:21 a single earned run.
03:22 Did strike out nine as well in game number three in Phoenix against Philadelphia.
03:28 But on the other side, DRS, it was a pitcher's duel.
03:31 Ranger Suarez only allowed three hits in five and a third and did not allow a single run,
03:37 walking just one, striking out seven.
03:40 Ranger Suarez, as you saw right there, three starts this October for Philadelphia, a .64
03:48 ERA.
03:49 Let's go back last year for what Suarez did in the Phillies' run to a World Series.
03:56 A 2-0 record, a 1-2-3 ERA.
04:00 He threw 14-2/3 innings.
04:03 In Donnie, in the World Series against the Astros, five innings of work, shut out baseball,
04:08 only allowing three hits.
04:10 Ranger Suarez is not unaccustomed, I guess you could say, DRS, to these big spots.
04:16 Game seven is a different animal.
04:18 Either your season comes to a close or you win your second consecutive National League
04:22 pennant and appear in your second straight World Series.
04:26 But I think you have to give the edge in this monumental of a moment at home in the bank
04:33 with the entire atmosphere, environment, and crowd behind him to Ranger Suarez.
04:37 (Music)
04:39 (bells chiming)