Padres vs Reds Pitching Preview: Predicting Tonight's Game

Uh, what do you do with the Padres and the Reds? Here we go again. Which Reds team shows up? Lodolo is on the mound. Vasquez going for the Padres. And you know, he's actually been pretty good, uh, Craig, over the last month here, Randy Vasquez for him. And yeah, they, this has been a long road trip for the Padres. They need to get, they need to get back to their winning ways at the great American ballpark here tonight. Do we, do we have faith in them doing that? Last night was so easy for them and it is perplexing to me how the red seeming, I mean, look, I don't have any data. I'd have to look and I'm going to guess they haven't been shut out more or the most of any team in baseball. It sure feels like the Reds are shut out every other day. I mean, looking at the scores and then the other day they scored nine runs or 10 runs. I there's no way I could back the Reds. So it would just be looking at a total or looking at San Diego, but I would assume Miller is available tonight after not pitching yesterday, but did pitch back to back days, San Diego. Maybe he doesn't use him tonight. I'm not sure. Total feels very high at nine. I mean, the Reds didn't score yesterday. So you mean to tell me after not scoring yesterday, they put up a five spot today against San Diego. I would lean Padres again. Nothing strong here for me here. Um, Dolo has clearly not been as good as he was a year ago. Vasquez. Okay. But it's going to be up to the bullpen, I think for San Diego to close this out. So I kind of like a low scoring game, maybe a five to two finish tonight would be my opinion. The total seems high to me on this. Yeah. And Vasquez, I got to give him credit his last six outings, four and oh, 2.2, all we are a, and 32 and two thirds ending. So he's figured some things out, uh, here. So it's, uh, kind of crazy. He hasn't basically nothing, not a whole lot of history against this Reds team, but again, go from scoring nine runs to no runs, uh, maybe they scored two tonight, then they'll score 16 a month. They are the most aggravating team to get behind in this year. It's just, it's sad for how much talent that they do have, that they have not had a better outcome here.