Phil Bickford, Justin Bruihl (1-0), Yency Almonte and Victor González combined to allow one hit over five innings of shutout relief as the Dodgers built a 6-0 lead. “He’s had it and put stuff on it to keep it at bay. “I think we’ll know more in the next couple of days,” Roberts said. “We tried to do what we could to make it serviceable but it just got to the point where it was probably going to just continue to open up.”ĭodgers manager Dave Roberts said there's a chance Syndergaard could end up on the injured list. “I went to use the restroom before the game and looked own and my hand was bleeding pretty good,” Syndergaard said. Syndergaard lasted only one inning because of a cut on the index finger of the 30-year-old right-hander's pitching hand. The news wasn't all good for the Dodgers. “I kind of felt like towards the end of my outing I was starting to kind of find it a little bit, but obviously, too little, too late,” Lauer said. The unearned run was due to Lauer’s own errant pickoff attempt. Lauer allowed four runs – three earned – in 3 2/3 innings. He wasn't nearly as successful this time. The only active pitcher who has made at least 10 starts against the Dodgers with a better ERA is San Diego’s Yu Darvish (2.36). Back the over.Lauer had gone 7-1 with a 2.37 ERA in 11 previous starts against the Dodgers. I’m hoping both offenses come to play in this one and we see a lot of runs. I’m going to take the over 9.5 runs as both of these pitchers are in spots they haven’t looked good in these situations. I think the best bet here is to play the total. Dodgers hitters have been okay against Lauer over their career. He’s allowed 10 earned runs in just seven innings at Miller Park this season. He’s been inconsistent at best in most games. Lauer hasn’t been great on the road or at home this season. Today they put Eric Lauer on the hill in hopes of beating the Dodgers. I expect that to continue to be the case this year, but to their credit, they’ve put up nine runs in their last game and seven in the prior one. As has bene the case for the past few years, the Brewers are led by their pitching staff. They do have a better batting average than the Dodgers, but they’ve scored almost 40 fewer runs than them. The Brewers don’t really have the hitting that usually makes me confident they will crush the opposing pitcher, but I think they can get to Syndergaard who has been terrible as a road starter. Noah Syndergaard has struggled as a road pitcher the past few years. He missed his last start and is now back for another, but he is on the road so I have no faith in him. He has allowed 13 earned runs in just eight innings outside of Dodgers stadium. Just like last year, he was fine in Los Angeles, but when he pitched anywhere else, he was brutal. If he keeps pitching the way he has he likely won’t stay in the rotation long. He was probably picked up as a test or even as a stopgap/filler in the rotation early season. Today they get one of their offseason acquisitions taking the ball for them, Noah Syndergaard. Now they seem to be turning things around and currently sit six games over and are looking to take over the division heading into summer. 500 to start the year and nothing was going great for them. That really isn’t much of a surprise considering that they were basically. The Dodgers are playing better baseball than they did to start the season. The Dodgers and Brewers take each other on Tuesday night. I’m choosing this game because I think it is mispriced. I never really thought of it this way, but Geoff Clark mentioned it on a podcast we were doing and I love the way it was summed up: The advantage we have over the book is we get to choose what to bet on. There are always games available to bet on, but that doesn’t mean you should do it all the time.
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