Padres vs. Braves MLB Series Preview: Key Matchups

All right. Meanwhile, this put up or shut up time for the San Diego Padres. They got a set coming up with the Braves this week and then I'll see them in Miami this weekend. The Braves are light favorites here minus 134 Padres plus 114. They've been tinkering with the roster and the lineup a little bit the Padres Tom have struggled all season long. It just nothing that they've done is turned to gold. Usually this is when they get kind of hot at the end of the year and get themselves in but don't kind of feel like the Braves are going to take this series in some way. Do you think that starts tonight? I do ultimately I have no faith in the Padres. I don't think people should be looking at a extreme recency bias of what they did yesterday scoring nearly 20 runs against the Royals. They lost that series versus the Royals, which is embarrassing to say the least the Padres have one of the worst offenses in baseball. The Braves are seemingly finding their footing. I think they are in a spot to really gain some positive momentum between the performances that they put up against the decent Texas team. They're getting the offense going Drake Baldwin looks amazing over the past few days and reports are that Acuna is going to be coming back at Thursday, Friday, Saturday, wherever it is at the end of this week. I think that this is the spot that the Braves I'm not going to say fully turn the corner, but it's a spot for them to get back on the right foot in a very tight NL East and NL wildcard race overall. I like the Braves to win the series. I think they take two out of three. Yeah, and Bryce Elder will pitch. She's been up and down for the Braves. JP Sears had a really good start against LA a couple of weeks ago, but beyond that is ERA is pushing like six for the season. This is not San Diego's best starter and here we are four games into the second half of the season. So Braves in first place Padres still trying to get themselves back into wildcard position because everybody is just too far back of the Los Angeles Dodgers. All right, let's take a look at another matchup tonight. The Chicago Cubs are playing good baseball seems like they're cruising toward the postseason even despite all of the issues that they've had to starting pitching. They made a trade over the weekend to get Aaron Savalli who's pitched for several teams in the last several years. Detroit at Chicago tonight. Not a lot of faith in the Cubbies though as we're looking at fan duels line here at minus 118, but the scary part about this one tonight, Tom. It's been the summer at Wrigley. Look at the total night 11 and a half. Usually when I see totals like this in Chicago, I either go over or I don't play the game at all because I have no idea what's going to happen tonight. We have hot temperatures. We have wind blowing out 1516 miles per hour to essentially straightaway center field tonight. And like you said, when the Cubs who are an absolute roller coaster of a hot and cold team when they're hot, they can score 10 runs by themselves, but I'm going to say especially not know only at all because they can't score in the road apparently, but only at home. They can put up a 10 runs in a hurry and Detroit's got a good enough offense with good enough hitters against Tyone who I haven't been convinced about in years that they could probably get six of their own. So to see this game and 10 6 8 6 on either side wouldn't surprise me. I wouldn't play the money line. I play the total and I played over. I think we're going to see some offense tonight.