SERIES PREVIEWS Today’s starters listed in ()’s Phillies (Suarez) at Braves (Fried) Can the Phillies win this series? Absolutely, and in fact I am giving good chances to three of the four wild card teams who moved on and you have to consider the Phillies among the best positioned of them with how Wheeler and Nola look to be locked in right now. Unfortunately, they are facing the Braves who have the perfect set of arms in the bullpen for a five game series and have their pitching lined up to win games 1 and 2 at home. But I am sticking with my prediction before these series kick off and thats Atlanta & L.A. losing Prediction: Phillies in 5 Mariners (Gilbert) at Astros (Verlander) This is the one spot I do not see the wild card team having any chance. Seattle has yet to really get over the Houston hump and much like Atlanta, the Astros are setup perfectly for their rotation compared to what Seattle has. The major difference is I trust Houston’s hitting a little bit more than Atlanta’s out of the gate. So look for Houston to make quick business with a 4 game series win. I’ll give Seattle one win at home. Prediction: Astros in 4 Guardians (Quantrill) at Yankees (Cole) My favorite upset in the American League is going to be the Guardians over the Yankees. I think New York is a flawed team in many regards and the Guardians are that not great, but just perfect team to come in and give the favorites a headache in a short series. Cleveland’s pitching is going to dominate and the hitting will be sneaky on every DFS slate in this round. Prediction: Guardians in 4 Padres (Clevinger) at Dodgers (Urias) And now the series I didn’t think we would see, but here we are. Should this one have the most juice in it? Absolutely. It’s going to go five games and I would bet that every game is the opposite of the first one, which means tonights game decides the series in a weird way. Prediction: Padres in 5 [spacer height=”10px”] WEATHER No issues and some great fall weather once again. [spacer height=”10px”] Max Fried Fried will go 100+ pitches, not give up a ton of hard contact, strike out a few Phillies and go from there. I am concerned about early inning walks and…...
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