San Diego Padres Clinch Rubber Match Against Cleveland Guardians
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00:00Now we go to Cleveland, where the Guardians had a half game up on the O's at the all-star
00:08break for the best record in the American League.
00:11Not any longer.
00:12San Diego winning the rubber match yesterday against Cleveland, 2-1.
00:16Michael King got it started, the bullpen delivered for the Padres, only allowing two hits to
00:21Cleveland.
00:22They were a very slight underdog on the road in the land.
00:25Cleveland won game one 7-zip.
00:27San Diego responds on Saturday, winning 7-zip.
00:30The Padres take the rubber match to win the weekend, 2-1 yesterday.
00:33Yeah, you're not going to win too many games as you line up and say, OK, what are we doing
00:37with runners in scoring positions?
00:38Because the reason why we like that metric is it means you have traffic on the bases
00:41with a legitimate chance to score outside of the home run.
00:440-1, that's not going to do it here for the Guardians if they only score that one singular
00:48run.
00:49But as we looked at yesterday, handicapping this game, it probably did tilt more towards
00:52an under than it did an over.
00:54And by the way, King, who came over in that deal for Juan Soto, 8-6 now in the season,
00:59seven innings pitched, one earned run, and ERA now is 3.28.
01:02And Lively's one of those guys that, you know, we're just hoping that he gets on track.
01:06He's actually had a pretty good season here for the Guardians.
01:09It's a shame that you waste an effort.
01:10Five and a third innings, two earned runs, a 3.57 ERA on the season.
01:14You wasted that effort there because you just couldn't get anything going at the plate.
01:17The Padres sitting over .500 at .52 and .50.
01:21There's a lot of talent there.
01:22It's one of those teams that we're looking at.
01:24And through some of these updates from the beat writers in Major League Baseball, maybe
01:27buyers at the deadline, because if you can see the playoffs with the extra wildcard,
01:32you owe it to the team to go in for that.
01:33That's a talented roster, a talented lineup still.
01:36Let's see what they do with the deadline.
01:37But a good win for them yesterday.
01:38And King looks every bit the part as one of those good young pitchers in Major League
01:41Baseball.