DAILY MATCHUPS: Eovaldi near the top of a 10-game Thursday slate

Today's Overview/Schedule/Weather: Ten games are on the docket for Thursday. Three of those will be daytime affairs. The tumble of rotations brings an unspectacular-but-solid group of starters to the fore. The baseball weather map is dotted with mostly cool temperatures and one and one area of rain with which to be concerned: wet weather could impact Thursday’s COL-ATL game. Fly balls will likely be impacted in Oakland (TAM-OAK: breeze blowing out), Minneapolis (DET-MIN: in), Chicago (PIT-CHC: in), and Los Angeles (CHW-LA: out).

Notable Starts:

Dylan Cease owns a 4.38 ERA through 14 starts. That is his would-be single-season highest ERA since his 2019 rookie season (5.79). But Cease has shown better command of the strike zone of late,...

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