Sale tabbed as one of Thursday's best

Today's Overview/Schedule/Weather: Thursday makes for a nine-game day, one that is comprised of four matinees and five night games. A Padres-at-Phillies battle gets things underway at 1:05 p.m. RHP Zack Wheeler is ticked for the Philadelphia end of that mound match-up, and he is tabbed as one of Thursday's best in overall Matchup Ratings that skew as slightly below average, with strikeouts being the lead category and wide dispersion of ratings. Warmed-up conditions are forecasted for that game in Philadelphia, and that's the norm across the baseball weather map. Mostly dry conditions are in the forecast as well, save for a slight chance of precipitation in a Thursday-evening KC@MIN tussle at Target Field. And a significant...

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