Brewers Set to Struggle Against Pirates’ Rookie Pitcher Skenes
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00:00You take a look at the 212ERA, the XFIP number 2.34, the minuscule XFIP minus number of a
00:0959.
00:10Good luck, Milwaukee Brewers.
00:11Now, granted already, you're going up against one of the better right-handed pitchers in
00:15baseball who's young and certainly making his way around in his rookie year.
00:19But having said that, if it was any right-handed pitcher on the mound, the Milwaukee Brewers
00:22have been struggling with them, Ben, over the past 30 days.
00:25Bryce Tarango, 167 ISO, Christian Yellich, 270, Jackson Chereo, 200.
00:30Outside of that, they have been abysmal against right-handed pitching.
00:34Advantage Paul Skeans and the Pittsburgh Pirates.
00:36Let's flip it over to the other side.
00:37Aaron Cervale.
00:39Let me just give you some numbers that he's been working with.
00:41Over the past 110 batters he's faced, how about an ISO of 235 and a weighted-on-base
00:45percentage of 369?
00:47This tells you a lot.
00:49The Pittsburgh Pirates are going on the road against the best team in that division, and
00:52they are a favorite.
00:53Not because they're a great lineup, it's because Paul Skeans is on that mound and he's
00:57a better pitcher than Aaron Cervale.
00:59Pittsburgh should win this game, but as we hasten many times, you just go first five
01:03and say, give me Skeans-Cervale, what do you say?
01:06Skeans will go six innings and, oh boy, 7-8-9, hold on.