Giant tabbed with big rating for Thursday effort

Today's Overview/Schedule/Weather: Nine games are slotted for Thursday. The Matchup Ratings are topped by a high-point Blake Snell home turn against the Arizona Diamondbacks, but the bell curve is bloated with the mid-rated hurlers. Warmer temperatures and continuing dry weather is the prognosis across the map of game cities in play.

 

Notable Starts:

Blake Snell has registered a PQS-5 in three of his last four outings. Snell clocked an 18% SwK while posting a tidy 1.64 ERA across six starts in August. He gets this start against ARI at home where he has logged a 2.82 ERA, 12.7 K/9. The Diamondbacks offense has been on a roll of late (.843 OPS since Aug. 10), but current ARI batters own an aggregate .526 OPS against the veteran port-sider....

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