With how the race in the National League West is shaping up, expect any meeting between the Colorado Rockies and the Los Angeles Dodgers to be labeled as crucial regardless of the timing. Who will win the series which starts this Friday? The Rockies and the Dodgers are +2000 and -10000 to win the NL West.
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Game by Game Betting Preview for the Colorado Rockies vs Los Angeles Dodgers Regular-Season Series Running from June 21-23 2019
Where: Dodger Stadium, Los Angeles
When:
Game 1 Friday, June 21, 10:10 PM EST
Game 2 Saturday, June 22, 7:15 PM EST
Game 3 Sunday, June 23, 4:10 PM EST
Line: Colorado Rockies vs Los Angeles Dodgers – view all MLB lines
TV Broadcast: ESPN
GAME 1
Starters: German Marquez (7-3, 4.57 ERA) vs. Hyu-Jin Ryu (9-1, 1.26 ERA)
Pitching:
Marquez got torpedoed on the mound in his last start by the San Diego Padres, as he allowed seven earned runs on 10 hits in 5.2 innings on Jun. 15, albeit in a 14-8 home win. Marquez is 3-2 with a 3.33 ERA in seven road starts this year. Ryu has been tantalizing all season long. He has not allowed more than a run in each of his last nine starts. He is 1-0 with a 0.45 ERA across three starts (20.0 innings) this month as of this writing. He is 6-0 with a 0.87 ERA in seven home starts this season.
Hitting
Nolan Arenado is 11-for-10 with three homers in career vs. Ryu.
Joc Pederson is 4-for-13 in career vs. Marquez.
Prediction: Dodgers win, 5-2.
GAME 2
Starters: Peter Lambert (2-0, 6.00 ERA) vs. Kenta Maeda (7-4, 3.87 ERA)
Pitching:
Lambert got his first bad taste in the big leagues, when he got blown out on the mound in his last start, allowing eight earned runs on nine hits in a 14-13 home loss to the Padres on Jun. 16. He allowed just a total of two earned runs across 12.0 frames over his first two starts, though. Maeda held the Rockies down to only a run in a 10-6 road win last April in which he also allowed just four hits while striking out four. He is 5-1 with a 1.95 ERA in six home starts this season.
Hitting
Charlie Blackmon is batting 7-for-21 in career vs. Maeda.
Cody Bellinger is hitting .395 at home this season.
Prediction: Dodgers win, 5-4.
GAME 3
Starters: Antonio Senzatela (5-5, 5.48 ERA) vs. Clayton Kershaw (6-1, 3.13 ERA)
Pitching:
Senzatela got lit up by the Chicago Cubs on Jun. 12, as he yielded six earned runs on eight hits in 4.0 innings of a 10-1 home loss. It was an unfortunate turn of events for Senzatela who was coasting in his previous two starts, during which he allowed a total of only two earned runs on eight hits across 12.0 innings. Kershaw hasn’t allowed more than three earned runs in each of his past six starts, including in the Dodgers’ 7-3 home win over the Cubs on Jun. 3, when he surrendered three earned runs on seven hits in 6.0 innings.
Hitting
Charlie Blackmon is 16-for-53 in career vs. Kershaw.
The Dodgers’ current lineup has a collective .360 career batting average vs. Senzatela.
Prediction: Dodgers win, 6-3.
Writer’s Overall Series Prediction
Dodgers sweep the series.
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