Atlanta Braves Face Tampa Bay Rays: Game Preview & Pick

Now, Atlanta, you want to talk about Gauntlet. Atlanta's got to take on the, uh, the Tampa Bay Rays here tonight. Not exactly the two best pitchers on the mound coming in, uh, on this one, but you know, Smith, Shaver and, uh, and Peralta, who I don't, I don't know Peralta, but. I want to say runs in this one, eight and a half, but the brands have been great at Truist Park. So are we getting runs in this one? Uh, I had, I was debating the Freddy Peralta props today forever. And it was the Freddy Peralta outs prop and his hits allowed and earned runs. And Freddy Peralta had that horrible start when his Rays team gave you after the trade deadline at the Rockies. And it was terrible. But since then it's what, uh, four of the last five starts, he left three earned runs or fewer. Not that bad. When you look since the start of August versus righties, the Atlanta Braves right now come with a 93 WRC plus not great. That's 19th in the league. So they've been struggling on offense. They do win games at home to your point, but the offense like isn't hitting that peak and I can't trust Freddy Peralta, but I want to say he gets blown up and they would just see runs from the Braves. And this is the true offense that we're going to see from him. And the magic that the Rays work on Freddy Peralta was short lived. And it's just not going to show up again tonight. Yeah. It's a interesting couple of right-handers there, uh, for this, like they split with Philadelphia, but this is a heck of a litmus test for them, right? Uh, I mean, Atlanta's gonna best team in the American league East. You're the best team in the national league East for only four games separate Philadelphia and Atlanta. Now I think the same for the Yankees in Tampa. So with just under 20 games that remain Tom, I mean, do the Yankees catch Tampa do the Phillies catch, uh, the Braves here? I don't, I don't think so. I think it's just a bit too much at this point. And really the Rays, I mean, we have to bring up the schedule remaining for both the Yankees and the Rays to look at it, but, uh, the Phillies would be the team I would back just because I believe their pitching staff can, can power them to win. So they can really get it sort of Lizardo coming off to start the other day. Well, Lizardo looks unbelievable. And this is at the time that no Zach Wheeler has struggled a little bit over the past few weeks. Like now I'm one pitcher rise as the other one is kind of teetering off. Can they get Zach Wheeler turned around? I think the pitching staff of the Phillies is unbelievable. And I, again, I think they're the team, um, that can really go toe to toe with the Dodgers when it's all said and done. I think the Braves line of camp, but the Braves just don't have the pitching anymore. That's the problem, right? I, and that's really, they got the bullpen. They're going to have to hit their way through, uh, through some of it here. I, uh, I'm thinking runs are coming here tonight, uh, with these two. I do like the over when it's all said and done.