Brewers at Angels
O/U 7.5 · RL Brewers -1.5
The pick & result
- Published pick
- Angels +1.5 +113
- Published odds
- +113
- Result
- Won
- Final score
- 0-3
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The read
**Gary's Take**
First pitch just after noon in Anaheim, sun's out, hot with a light breeze, and Milwaukee's going for the sweep on the last day of a long road trip. Misiorowski against Ureña, and the price on the Brewers has climbed since before sunrise. Here's what got my attention: strip out the house's cut, and the market thinks exactly what it thought at five this morning — same odds on Milwaukee winning, then and now. The price went up and the actual opinion didn't move at all. That's not new information getting baked in. That's the book taking a bigger cut, and somebody's got to pay for it.
Part of what's weighing on this price is yesterday's mess. The Angels pulled Soriano on Saturday with the trade deadline two days away and used Suter as a fill-in starter, and a team that looks like it's selling itself for parts tends to get punished a little extra the next day too. But Saturday was Saturday. Today they hand it to Ureña, who's been terrific in nearly all of his recent starts — he walks too many guys and he doesn't go deep, but he's a real big-league starter, not a band-aid. On the other side, Misiorowski is the best arm in baseball and he's also on a short rope: he's been pulled early his last two times out, and his manager has said openly he's managing the workload coming off a break, and not just to be careful. Both of these guys are gone by the fifth. So this is really a bullpen game dressed up as an ace matchup — and Milwaukee's late-inning guys, Uribe and Megill, both pitched Friday and Saturday. Anaheim's relievers had a day off in between and nobody there threw two nights in a row.
So I'm not laying a big price with a road team whose closer is on his third straight day at the end of a trip. Give me the Angels and the run and a half at plus money. This team is built for exactly this ticket whether they like it or not — a huge chunk of their season has come down to one run, and they've lost a pile of those, which is a rough way to live and a perfectly fine way to cash a ticket. Add up the one-run losses and the outright wins and the Angels have covered this number in well over half their games, while the price is only asking for a bit under half. Last night they lost by two; one more swing and it's a winner. What beats me is Milwaukee putting up a big inning early and turning this into another blowout like they've already had twice in this ballpark, and I won't pretend a bad team on a five-game losing streak is a comfy place to put money. It doesn't have to be comfortable. It has to cost less than it's worth, and here it does.
The full analysis
Part of what's dragging on this price is yesterday's noise. The Angels scratched José Soriano on Saturday with the deadline forty-eight hours out and ran Brent Suter as an opener, and a team visibly taking itself apart tends to get shaded a little heavier the following afternoon too. But Saturday was Saturday. Today they hand the ball to Ureña, who has allowed one earned run or fewer in five of his last six starts — he walks his share, eight in the last three, and he doesn't finish games, but he's a real starter, not a patch job. On the other side, Misiorowski is the best arm in the sport and he is also on a leash: four innings on July 20, five on July 26, Murphy openly managing him back from the layoff and saying out loud it wasn't only caution. Both of these outings end in the fifth. This is a bullpen game wearing an ace matchup's clothes, and the back end that already worked Friday and Saturday belongs to Milwaukee — Uribe and Megill both. Anaheim's arms got the off day in between, and nobody there threw on consecutive nights.
So I'm not laying -234 with a road team whose ninth-inning guy is on day three at the end of a trip. Give me the Angels and the run at plus money: +1.5 at +113. This is a club built for exactly this ticket whether it wants to be or not — thirty percent of their season has come down to a single run and they've lost twenty of those, which is a miserable way to live and a perfectly fine way to cash. Add the one-run losses to the outright wins and the Angels have brought this side home in 56 percent of their games while the window is asking me for 47. Last night they lost 3-1; one more swing and that's a winner. What beats me is Milwaukee hanging a crooked number in the second and turning this into the same laugher they've already had twice in this park, and I won't pretend a 42-69 team on a five-game slide is a comfortable place to put money. It doesn't have to be comfortable. It has to be cheaper than it's worth, and at +113 it is.
The research
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STARTER FORM
Walbert Urena: 1.13 ERA over his last 3 starts
1.13Two earned runs and 13 strikeouts across his last three starts is a step up even from his strong 2.70 season number. Not an easy pitcher to be facing in the middle of a five-game skid.
PLATOON EDGE
Brice Turang (bats L) gets a RHP from the 1st spot
.921Turang's platoon gap is enormous — .921 against righties, .588 against lefties — and Urena throws right-handed tonight. He's leading off right into the version of himself that actually hits.
BULLPEN
Los Angeles Angels pen: 15.7 relief IP over their last 3 games
15.7 IPOnly Yates has pitched more than once in the last three days — Kerry's the one who went long, four innings and 55 pitches, and probably needs the night off, but the rest of that pen is sitting on a single light outing. There's real rest in that bullpen even if the record doesn't show it.
RUNNING GAME
Milwaukee Brewers like to run — Tyler Heineman (33% caught) is the wrong catcher to test
33% CSMilwaukee runs, 1.3 attempts a game, and Heineman's caught just 33% of runners this year. That's about as clear a green light as you'll find — I'd expect them to test him early.
SITUATIONAL
LAA's pen has logged 12.7 innings across its last 3 games
12.73 games, 12.7 innings out of the pen — Jose Fermin (3.3) and Brent Suter (2.3) carried the load. MIL's pen has thrown 11.3 over the same span.
STREAK
LAA have lost 5 straight
L5Five straight losses with an 11-run margin over that stretch, 3-6 across their last nine — a team scuffling on both sides of the ball. Facing one of the league's hotter arms tonight doesn't make it easier.
TEAM RECORD
Brewers 6-2 in Jacob Misiorowski's last 8 starts
6-2Milwaukee's 6-2 in his last eight starts and on a three-game winning streak with him on the mound, and they're walking into an Angels team that's lost five straight. The trends are stacked in the same direction here.
CLOSER WATCH
Ryan Zeferjahn / Kirby Yates
3 SVShared ninth in LAA: Ryan Zeferjahn 3 saves, Kirby Yates 3. The role is live.
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Props on this game
2- GARY'S PICKJACOB MISIOROWSKIK'S OVER 9.5
Twelve strikeouts in five innings his last time out — that's a pitcher getting more dangerous the shorter Milwaukee keeps his leash, not less. His whiff rate has climbed start to start and sat at 50% in that last outing.
He's averaged nine strikeouts a start over his last six regardless of how deep he's gone, and the lineup he's facing today chases pitches and swings through fastballs at a rate that plays right into his hand. This Angels group is stripped down and playing out the string before tomorrow's trade deadline.
Getting plus money on a total this pitcher has been clearing more often than not, with his stuff trending up rather than down, is the number I want.
- GARY'S PICKJAKE BAUERSTOTAL BASES OVER 1.5
Bauers set a new career high in homers this weekend and he's hitting .444 over his last week doing it. This isn't a fluky hot streak from nowhere — his damage all year has come against right-handed pitching, and that's exactly what's on the mound for the Angels today. He's driving the ball with real authority right now, and I don't see anything in what Ureña's shown lately that changes that. One extra-base hit or a two-hit day gets this done, and I like the price for a hitter running this hot against a matchup that favors him.
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