 Yankees and the Red Sox will play an elimination game in Fenway in the postseason, the wild card game, to open it up. And I got to tell you about a matchup that people might not think is scary, but I'm scared. Kike Hernandez versus Garrett Cole. These are his numbers on the season. 12 plate appearances, four hits, one double, one homer, 583 on base. All the numbers are really good. If you downloaded DraftKings at the sports book this year and you used promo code Johnboy when you did and you play some bets over under on Kike's hits versus Garrett Cole games, you'd probably win it or maybe like total bases reached versus Cole. Those would be good bets because he's just had his number all year and it started off. This is the first pitch Kike ever saw from Cole. It's a fast ball to start the game and he swings big, takes it deep over the monstah into the front row. That guy makes the catch and that is the beginning of it because these are Kike's numbers against Cole's fast ball this season. Look at this, zero swings and misses. Zero foul balls, three hits. Every time he swung at a fast ball, he put it in play, two cold strikes that he didn't think were strikes he didn't swing at. He just hunts Cole's fast ball and you can see that this happened over the courses of the season where he's just looking at that fast ball. That's a 1-0 fast ball. It's a fly out but looking fast ball. This is a 2-0 fast ball, another fly out to judge. Here's a first pitch of the game fast ball. He ropes down the line for a double. Another fast ball here, 2-1, third inning. He's gonna fly out to Wade. Later on in this game, the 0-2 fast ball. He drives to the wall of Yankee Stadium and Wade makes a nice catch but that's a nice piece of hitting. So Kike's just hunting the fast ball. There's a base hit on a 3-2 fast ball later on in the season. And Cole's like, what the hell is this? I guess I can't throw my fast ball anymore. But when he throws a breaking ball or change up off speed, breaking ball, look at this. Only two whiffs, three fouls, one put in play, one hit. So when he did put it in play, it was a hit. Three foul balls, only two whiffs, a lot of balls. He just doesn't chase. You can see a montage of them here. If it's a slider, I mean that's not a competitive pitch but sometimes these do get swings and misses. That was called strike but he didn't like it. Change up low, curve ball low, slider on the outside. He's not swinging if the ball isn't fast. These are the two swings and misses. A 2-0 change up, maybe he thought a fast ball was coming for sure. And then an 0-1 slider, that's what those pitches that we were just looking at that are way out of the zone. That's what's supposed to happen. It only really happened once. He only got one swing and miss on a slider. In his last five at bats versus Garrett Cole, walk, single, walk, walk, single. And he starts off every game. So I'm super curious about the first pitch of the game tonight because look at this. This is his fifth most recent at bat. Here's how Cole attacked him after knowing some of this fast ball stuff. He gets the change up in the zone for called strike one and then on the 0-1 count, he's gonna go fast ball way out of the zone to try and set up the slider away that comes right here and he doesn't chase, doesn't chase at all. Then he's gonna go back on the 2-1 pitch, fast ball tries to dot it, goes 100 miles per hour. Now he's in a fast ball count, 3-1 tries the same thing with the change up and misses. So you're seeing that there was three off speed pitches and only two fast balls in that at bat. Let's go to the next at bat, the fourth most recent at bat. First pitch, slider and he gets absolutely drilled almost a homer, a homer in a lot of parks. That's just a single at Fenway. First pitch of the game, fast ball. That was a kind of dangerous pinch. I winced when I saw it and he has him 0-1, tries to get him to swing on the slider, tries to get him to swing on the slider, doesn't swing, doesn't swing, tries to get him to swing on the slider again, doesn't swing, has to go back to the fast ball, tries to overthrow it, yanks it, ball. All right, the next at bat, first pitch, slider. Then a change up right down the middle and then slider. So we're all off speed. There's a fast ball, he yanks it again and there's a change up low and then a slider and Kike doesn't swing, he just takes his walk. Next at bat, change up, up and in. He got that pitch earlier, fast ball right down the middle. Scary pitch, Kike takes. Then we go slider, that's a ball. He just doesn't chase those, didn't swing. Next pitch, change up, high and in. I think he likes that pitch, but he's gotta really hit it. Then fast ball, low and away. He takes it and then the last pitch, fast ball down the middle, base hit. So a lot of people look at a lot of other batters in the Red Sox lineup. I am very curious to see how Cole attacks Kike Hernandez to open up the game tonight because Cole likes establishing his fast ball, establishing his dominance and just letting it rip. Kike loves hunting that pitch. So who gives in? Does Cole say my fast ball's gonna be better than your swing today? Or Cole says, okay, I'll play your game and I'll go slide or change up. But Kike doesn't swing at those. So there's a lot of dangerous hitters in the Red Sox lineup that I'm scared of. And I don't think a lot of people point to Kike Hernandez versus Cole and say that's a big matchup. But it's kind of a big matchup because if he gets on, then he's gonna get on with Devers coming up. Ooh, I don't want that. So that's an interesting little matchup in the wild card game tonight that you should check out. And if there is a prop bet tonight on Kike Hernandez, total bases or something like that, I'd take the over because his last five played appearances, he reached all five times. So go to Draft King Sportsbook, use promo code Johnboy, search out Yankees versus Red Sox, go to player props, see if they got Kike's line. It's probably like 0.5 or 1.5. I don't know. He probably reaches, probably reaches. I hope not. Go Yankees.