Light-slate Thursday brings tough lineup decisions

Today's Overview/Schedule/Weather: The first Thursday of May brings an abbreviated six-game docket. Five of those six games will be daytime contests. No significant weather effects appear to be in play. Tread carefully with pitching lineup decisions on this day. The tumble of rotations has not been kind to May 2, 2024.

Notable Starts:

Edward Cabrera is coming off a clunker in his last but has been pounding the strike zone, missing bats, and inducing ground balls through his first three starts. The Colorado Rockies own a .601 OPS, 28% strikeout rate over their last 14 games. Cabrera gets this turn at home where last year he registered an ERA of 2.42.

Nathan Eovaldi is lined up for a Thursday turn against the Washington Nationals....

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