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00:00A divisional duel, a rivalry of its own today in Chicago. Dave
00:08Baseball on a Friday afternoon in the summer months in Wrigley.
00:12That's a good time. Minus 122 for the Cubbies who could use
00:16some good vibes. The RS now just 33 and 36 this year. Total
00:22seven and a half. What happens today inside the friendly
00:25confines? Yeah, there's some home cooking as they get back
00:28to the friendly confines of Wrigley Field. But you see
00:30that number eight there for the total. You know what that
00:32means. Wind's not blowing out. It's blowing in at double
00:34digits from center field, but not all that bad. It's 11 miles
00:37an hour, 76 degrees. If we take a look at that Chicago Cubs
00:40lineup, the way to get after Kyle Gibson as a right-handed
00:43pitcher, he's got very good statistics on the season
00:45against right-handed batters, but that does change from a
00:48lefty perspective. Over the entire year, 169 lefties he's
00:51faced, a 234 iso and a weighted on base percentage of 355. That
00:55actually increases over the past 30 days up to a 288 iso
00:59power number and a weighted on base percentage of 438. So
01:02there's your trigger point here for the Cubs. Talkman leads off
01:05as a lefty, not great numbers here, but then you start to get
01:08into Cody Bellinger, 172 iso, 331 weighted on base percentage
01:12about average over his last 69 at bats against right-handed
01:15pitching. But then also maybe the best batter in the lineup
01:17which sat out yesterday, Ian Happ was a switch hitter who
01:20will bat from the left-hand side today. Get this, 64 at
01:22bats over the past month, 357 iso and a weighted on base
01:25percentage of 353. So if we're looking from a Chicago end of
01:30it, that's probably the best of it there. Jordan Witt's on the
01:32mound for the Cubs, not telling him, but some of those
01:36right-handed batters like Goldschmidt and Arenado and Wynn.
01:38By the way, Mason Wynn, the leadoff batter for the St.
01:40Louis Cardinals, a guy to keep an eye on. He's been scorching
01:43hot over the past month. So I do think, let's buck the trend
01:46here. Let's go runs even with the wind blowing in at Wrigley.
01:49I think they can get nine or more.
01:50Okay.
01:52Yeah.