On the Friday, May 26 Sports BIT show, Teddy Covers & Pauly Howard examine a rematch of the 2016 NLCS on Friday night as the Chicago Cubs visit the Los Angeles Dodgers. It's Jake Arrieta on the mound for the Cubs and Alex Wood for the Dodgers. Compare all baseball sportsbooks: https://www.sportsbookreview.com/betting-sites/ MLB Betting Article: https://www.sportsbookreview.com/picks/mlb/cubs-dodgers-open-weekend-set-with-over-winner-may-26/79860 Follow us on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/Sportsbookreview.SBR Twitter https://twitter.com/SBRSportsPicks Tumblr http://sbrsportspicks.tumblr.com/ Google + https://plus.google.com/+sbrforum Automated Video Transcription: all right we're back Pauly and Teddy time for big-game breakdown is always live odds SBR odds and sports book review check out the rating guide make sure you're betting with the trustworthy shop out there follow us on Twitter at Pauly Howard at Teddy underscore covers and get to show bright and early if you follow us on Twitter before we do big game breakdown you through this up here in the show rut rundown this blows my mind I've run this down about what's going on this year an MLB all right this is from Joe sheehan's baseball newsletter okay back in 1995 strikeouts outnumbered singles for the first time prior to that singles there be more singles in a season than strikeouts in every year the difference in 1995 in the midst of a hitter's era 313 more strikeouts than singles last season this is again the first time that ever happened 95 last season the difference was 11,000 443 more strikeouts than singles this year the projected pace is more than 13,000 more strikeouts than singles that's a significant change and it kind of sets up a big game breakdown theme for these because we're looking at teams you know it's 40 games in now teams are over 40 games in pitchers are over 40 innings in and at a certain point you got to say you are who you are which leads into a good discussion on the Chicago Cubs and Jake Arrieta yep so you have Arrieta look at this last this area in against would by the way Dodgers a dollar 35 in this one Arrieta last three seasons er a 177 and 2015 last year er a a 3 point 1 0 this year Oh almost 5 several problems this year number one velocity average fastball was 94 point for 2015 this season down to ninety one point seven the defense the babette goes from two point two four one two three four five some of his his fault Cubs also go from 255 to 297 ground balls Arrieta was 56.2% to 2015 now it's down to 41.3 in the homeruns not just more flyballs in general