Rays vs. Guardians: Windy Weather Shapes Crucial Game

The 8 o'clock start is better for rain. It looks like they, you know, the worst of that is behind it. But the winds coming off that lake there, I mean, up to 40-mile-an-hour gusts. But, you know, maintain 15 to 20 miles an hour. I don't know how we're getting seven runs because there's going to be a lot of doubles and singles and other things because I don't think the ball's traveling tonight in that ballpark at all at Progressive with the wind blowing in like that. So it'll be interesting to see, but you're right, here we are just after 6 o'clock Eastern time. If you were going to cancel it, you probably should have canceled it. But as long as they don't have rain, I guess the rest can be, you know, we just got to mull through it here, right? I think so, but look, just because of wind and cold weather is not going to stop them from playing this game. But, you know, I do think Tampa's going to score some runs tonight. I think this could be the offensive breakout for them. I think there's a chance of that, but I don't think that this is a great hitting environment for either team. I do think Tampa Bay will come back tonight, but again, I thought Tampa Bay would have won the last game. There's really been, for me, between both Cleveland and Tampa Bay, Tampa Bay swept the Yankees, Cleveland came back to win against Chicago, but this series, I don't know that any team wins three games in a row. Or, you know, I feel like it's just a back-and-forth battle to the end. Certainly, if Cleveland wins tonight, 75% of the teams who have gone up 3-1 in the best-of-seven series, the ALCS have gone on to win. So you would expect if Cleveland wins tonight, they've got a really good shot at winning, and the odds are sort of telling us to flip that coin. Yeah, it's a big, big opportunity here for both the Guardians and Tampa to kind of get the momentum back in their way. if something was to happen and listen weather shifts all the time we we might you know if all of a sudden it might shift and all we got rain back in the forecast who knows what could happen here but a cancellation or a pushback to saturday favors who the guardians cleveland probably yeah because they get to rest their guys and i don't think sean armstrong would go tomorrow joe i think somebody else i agree with them in a better spot but this is not this is not the spot that Cleveland wants to be in yeah but again all things being equal they they you know sort are going to play the same way that they normally play uh but piecing together you know nine innings of bullpen I doubt Sean Armstrong I don't know what his his outs total is tonight I would guess it's probably three and a half or maybe four and a half because I mean he's not a two-inning guy really and the Rays are a little due I feel like for some runs it's actually been surprising to me that their offense has been almost completely shut down yeah well they've used a ton of well they could certainly use you know a rest day there for kate smith but espino's been out there gaddis to break it feels like it's been the same dudes uh over and over a while here now for cleveland but uh they're gonna have to mix and match their way here uh tonight and martinez the reverse splits what do you do if you're the guardians you throw it up all righties you throw what are you doing here it's so weird with the whole reverse split thing with him yeah i think what's interesting about this is that uh cleve uh you know Cleveland can't solve this guy they've been talking about this today is that is that Martinez pitched 13 innings against Cleveland and he didn't give up a run in his two starts against them this season he faced him in Saint Pete and in Cleveland so he's really had their number and i wonder if that gives Tampa Bay at least a little advantage going into this but the problem for the Rays has been their offense all of a sudden Caminero he's one for 10 he hasn't been able to hit you know Aranda's one for 15 and he he has these hot and cold streaks Aranda that you can never figure out but I I suspected that uh the Rays will it would look I don't think Cleveland is going to be an offensive juggernaut at all in this series no matter what and they can still win but I'm so I Tampa Bay was a really good offensive team joe during the season so right i i suppose they would have a shot also a quick note here from the research how about this the rays struck out 13 times against Cleveland and Gavin Williams the other day that was the second most they struck out in a game the most opening day March 30th against the Brewers this season