DAILY MATCHUPS: Big guns in the green in Thursday ratings

Today's Overview/Schedule/Weather: Thursday’s weekday-weekend transition slate includes 22 games. Not playing Thursday: ARI, BOS, CIN, CLE, COL, HOU, MIL, and TOR. Six of the day’s 11 games will be daytime affairs. The baseball weather forecast is notable in two locales: look for a hefty, hitter-helping breeze in the STL-SF game and rainstorms impacting KC-MIN. The tumble of MLB rotations comes up pretty strong for the 22 hurlers starting games, and the Match-up Ratings are tinged more in green than usual.

 

Notable Starts:

Shohei Ohtani pitched six shutout innings against Oakland on opening day. Ohtani has filed an 0.88 ERA across his last five starts against the Athletics. His last start (April 21 vs. KC) came after a...

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