The Pirates are favored for a good reason here. First of all, they've only been favored seven times this season and have won five of those games. Brubaker has had two bad starts, both on the road and against good offenses in Atlanta and the Cardinals. At home his ERA is 2.67 and his WHIP is 1.03, both of which are exceptional. Hentges has had four starts and was completely lit up in two of them and given up three or more earned runs in the last three. He also hasn't thrown more than five innings, which brings the pen in earlier, especially in an NL park without a DH, which obviously hurts the Indians. Cleveland may get back Ramirez, but that doesn't dissuade me. The Indians normally reliable pen was not so reliable yesterday, and it'd be easy to point to the longer term but the fact is they weren't reliable yesterday! And of course they used key guys. Either way, the Pirates are going to sweep the Indians.

06/19/2021 7:33 PM