World Series Notes: Assessing Rangers and Diamondbacks' Form

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00:02 Because it is two teams playing in their first World Series in a little bit of time.

00:07 Craig, the Rangers into the World Series for the first time in more than a decade,

00:11 dating back to 2011.

00:13 The D-backs into the World Series for just the second time in organization history.

00:17 Of course, the last time they were here, 2001.

00:21 Luis Gonzalez wins it in game number seven for the Diamondbacks.

00:25 Two teams, Craig, that have had to go on the road, both in wild card positions

00:30 throughout this October run, and have won in big ways.

00:34 Arizona winnings game six and seven in Philadelphia.

00:38 The Rangers won all four of their games in the World Series on the road in Houston.

00:43 Texas has home field advantage in the World Series over Arizona.

00:47 And Craig, when you evaluate these two teams, right here,

00:51 right now, in October in the postseason, how close are they together?

00:55 Or maybe how far are they apart?

00:57 >> Yeah, look, I think right now with the way that these teams have had a couple

01:02 of days off, they're sort of able to reset the rotations to a degree.

01:07 You're gonna see prime pitchers pitching in game one of the World Series.

01:11 I mean, I think when you look at the odds, it sort of tells you

01:15 that Arizona at least gives you more of a value play.

01:19 And people may say, well, what do you mean by value here?

01:21 I mean, you can't really look at the Rangers and

01:24 say they're playing better baseball than the Diamondbacks right now.

01:27 It seems to me they're playing equal in the way that they have done this.

01:31 So the fact that you're getting Arizona at a plus 148 or plus 150,

01:36 definitely tells you that there's an opportunity for

01:38 the Diamondbacks to win the World Series.

01:40 You absolutely cannot count them out.

01:42 Game one in this situation is gonna be very important.

01:45 I know the Rangers have had a lot of success going on the road.

01:48 But even though they got a really good starting game seven, did the Diamondbacks,

01:52 I think it's still fair to say that if Arizona has any particular advantage,

01:57 it would be with Gallon and Kelly starting off the World Series.

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