5 On It: How many runs will Cubs, Nationals score in their 3-game series?
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It's time for five on it. Rahimi Harrison Rhode. Bring you five topics on their minds today. On 1043 the score. No Number one.
The Cubs start a three game series with the Nationals today in our nation's capital. Washington leads MLB in runs scored this season while the Cubs are second. How many runs will the two teams combine for in the in this series?
So if you take my seventy five percent chance There was a by the way, Scott Steiner's son apparently, according to reports, uh, has to serve a suspension from the NFL, so that's unfortunate. But the replies to that post were gold. The Nationals have six hundred and forty three runs to their name. The Chicago Cubs have six hundred and fourteen. And the Cubs have played one fewer game than the Nats have. So if you take the math here, One hundred and twenty.
But then you take my 75% chance of winning. If we used to go one-on-one and then add 66 and two-thirds percents, I got 141 and two-thirds chance of winning at sacrifice.
What is the predicted total runs for the Cubs vs. Nationals three‑game series?
At sacrifice, the most important part. My my favorite part is not percent. It's percentsa. So that's 5.35 runs a game. Thanks, Scott Steiner. You win every time. Point being, I think it's gonna take at least that much. Since everybody seems to be on relative heaters here, including some of the p starting pitching staff, as we saw, Matthew Boyd, nicely done, in Kansas City. I I reckon it will probably take anywhere from five to six runs in each game by each team. So then if you take that three games that Fifteen. Thirty. I'm looking about like fifty runs here.
Fifty runs.
Fifty. If you're judging by the averages, Watch that happen and then it's like three straight one and nothing ball game.
It's a three game set, correct? Yes. So that's over eight runs a game, you're giving me right.
Well it's it's two teams though.
I know. But I'm saying eight runs per team.
Yep.
That that I'm making sure that yeah. That's that's all I'm just making sure. Okay.
Well if it's yeah, so if I well I'm saying like if it's five for each team over three games, that's the average.
That'd be thirty.
Yeah, that's what I said. So then I'm like, mm, up the ante. To
eight runs per game by each team.
Let's get weird.
Okay. Uh that might be more than I had in in envision.
Forty's a little too reasonable.
Here's what I say. I think both teams will score at least ten runs in one of these games. It may be the same game. There could be a thirteen to eleven. Like the Nationals mash. They hit the ball out of the park. You know how I know that? Because they lead Major League Baseball in home runs with 171.
How do the hosts calculate the 75% win‑chance odds for the series?
The Cubs have some guys who will give up some bombs. Fair?
Yeah.
So I think I'm gonna one up you. Sorry. Just a little bit.
No, no, no, no. I that's the whole point. I mean, what's my percent's chance at sacrifice?
Fifty five. Give me fifty five runs. Fifty five total runs in this series.
That seems a little more reasonable.
Is it reasonable? Because that's nine runs per game for each team.
I I just I have a feeling it's gonna be like
I just think there's gonna be a game where somebody scores, you know, twelve, thirteen, fourteen runs. The the have you seen the Nashals bullpen by the way? I haven't.
Uh no, that's partially why I'm factoring in the runs of plenty. Because even they when we talked to their media uh for our sister station in D C, even they were interested in the services of Sir Anthony Dominguez at the time.
Mm, mm. No, you're you're you're right. You're good.
I baby my bonnie. Number two. Who is your pick to click for the White Sox series against the Reds?
Marshal.
So that one guy, Hunter Green, he doesn't pitch anymore, huh? He he's out for the season.
Peace up.
Don't let Ryan Poor hear this, but I think the White Sox are going to absolutely hammer the Reds. Don't let Ryan Porth hear that though, okay? Don't let that get back to him.
I don't know that it's gonna go well for ye Reds in this series.
If they play base I mean, they're supposed to play baseball night.
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–1:22
2
What is the predicted total runs for the Cubs vs. Nationals three‑game series?
1:22–3:11
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How do the hosts calculate the 75% win‑chance odds for the series?
3:11–4:57
4
What run totals do the hosts expect per game for each team?
4:57–7:48
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Why do the hosts think at least one game will see ten or more runs?
7:48–20:54
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