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Tonight in LA 808 first pitch.

It'll be thrown by Jack Flaherty

and then Garrett Cole will take the mound in the bottom of the first inning.

We all made our picks earlier in the show.

I like the Yankees in six.

Don and Peter both like the Dodgers in six.

And although we've picked the series to end in six games I think all three of us

think it's going to be a very tightly fought series I think the teams are fairly

evenly matched and if the Dodgers had better

health not better help if they had better health in their starting staff I think

that they would be prohibiteditive favorites in this World Series, but they don't.

These are the pitchers that are on the IL, unable to pitch because of injury.

Tyler Glassnau, Clayton Kershaw, Gavin Stone,

Dustin May, Tony Gonsalen, Emmett Sheehan,

and River Ryan.

And they have one pitcher that is not hurt but he's inexplicably

ineffective and that's Bobby Miller those guys might be a lot of them could be their number one starter. Right now Jack Flaherty is the number one starter who they got at the trade deadline.

That's the Yankees advantage and that's why it's imperative that Cole and Carlos Rodin pitch well and give them innings because the

shorter the outing by the starters the more outs are going to have to get out of the

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