Tampa Bay-Milwaukee Total: Is the Over the Best Bet?

The total is fascinating to me here, Greg, because we're seeing six, six and a half here, and we're talking a hodgepodge of guys for Tampa Bay that could be throwing in this. And even while Misurakis has been fantastic, it's not like he's not striking out the world. He has given up some runs here. I'm wondering if this total is too low tonight here, And it's only because he's simply pitching. So, Misurakis had seven strikeouts and 41 swings in the last game. That's 17%. That's the lowest in any start he made in 2026. He struck out 14 of 55 batters in the postseason, which is 25%. In the regular season, he was 37%. That led Major League Baseball. So, to your point, maybe something is percolating here a little bit, whether it is getting tired or nerves or whatever it is but he has not been the regular Miz but i would caution to be careful here because he is on full rest and there's no question this is the biggest start of his career he knows it everybody else knows it so i i would expect a good start for him today but it is uncharted territory joe for him and for everybody else by the way it's uncharted territory just as much for Miz that it is Drew Rasmussen like none of these guys have gone this deep into the season. We're headed toward November here. So I do think Miz shows up today. I do. I do think he does. I can't give you, give me the over on the innings. I can't do that just because I feel like we've talked about this for weeks. And every time we go that way, the guy comes out like, like the, I think, I think Peralta went over a couple of times, which was shocking because he was like five clean or six clean. generally you you know we want to go back to 1996 and think okay Clemens and and uh Randy Johnson they're gonna go seven eight innings, Bumgarner, it doesn't happen the managers are on the top step in the third inning and yeah i look and for tampa it is different than milwaukee just because i don't know who tampa would go to like if rasmussen had to come out after four innings like who is the go-to guy for that like like is it baker in the fifth like maybe like i don't know so whereas milwaukee i kind of feel like they have some better options that haven't been as used so uh i i don't know i i it's a guess for me though not really knowing how ms is feeling but knowing that he's on full rest that's good uh rasmus and not good last time out on short rest but there's no choice tonight gotta go no he's gotta go and they'll bring in nick martinez who threw a couple innings right yesterday but he was your game one starter right like he was your game one it would have made sense for him tonight to be the matchup except for the fact that they had to bring him in last night i know what i mean is what he throw two innings is that not not not a ton but you would assume like the rays have to kind of say to themselves look if we get to seven games who the hell is going to pitch in this thing and i would assume it'd be him now i can't imagine they use martinez again today maybe i guess they're down to like no options here so i mean Look, Cole Sulser is not somebody that they planned on using. Kelly hasn't been that good in the postseason. Seymour, as you said, they've been using him up too. I don't know. I hate to play that whole bullpen game because it could go to crap and then both guys could go six innings. Could Baker go more than two? Not tonight. I mean, he's never done it. Not tonight. He did two yesterday. They wouldn't burn him. No. He'll pitch again tonight if they need him, but another two innings? I don't think so. They can't use Wells. amazingly was actually efficient in that game last night in the extra innings uh boozer is another guy uh he's already pitched a couple of days in a row so and you don't even trust a lot of these guys no you're gonna need steve which i found interesting in game one right was it game one uh or game they brought in steven matts as the first choice coming out of the bullpen uh it was either in game one and he wasn't terrible at all so i found that very interesting And Clevenger hadn't pitched since the middle of September before they brought him into the game earlier. What was it? He didn't pitch yesterday, but he pitched in that first game. So I don't, I mean, you're not rolling Seymour out again anymore, at least not for more than an inning. And then what happens with the matchups, Greg? Since you're so severely limited, does righty-righty-lefty, does that go out the window at this point? whoever is available uh is that who cash calls to here or can you still play that game maybe a little bit but you're right with the usage it's kind of it's kind of hard to do uh you know for Milwaukee the only the only one that I'd be questionable with and it just comes down to who Pat Murphy is going into this game is based on what Drohan did yesterday is he the one that you wouldn't pitch based off what you saw yesterday and I'm you never know Pat Murphy may say listen I ain't letting this guy go out in this World Series the way that he went out last night or do you take the opposite approach and like all right we've got to shelve him and we'll go to like Woodruff or something like that instead so uh interesting decisions will have to be made tonight