Marlins at Reds
O/U 8 · RL Reds -1.5
Miami Marlins moneyline+104
CONF 62%
LLostFinal 0-1
The read
Friday night at Great American Ball Park, warm air hanging over one of baseball’s smallest yards. Cincinnati comes home after an emotional win, while Miami arrives carrying the sting of a 13-1 beating.
I’m backing Sandy Alcantara’s ability to quiet that park. He has thrown 20 consecutive scoreless innings, works deeper than Chase Burns, and faces a Cincinnati lineup with several cold bats surrounding its dangerous middle. Burns has been excellent overall, but his command slipped last time out and Cincinnati has generally limited how far he works.
The bullpen setup breaks Miami’s way, too. Its important late-inning arms were spared during yesterday’s blowout, while the Reds have covered 13⅓ relief innings over three games and used several leverage pitchers repeatedly. Miami also handles right-handed pitching well enough to make Burns work. At plus money in a matchup I make slightly better than a coin flip for the Marlins, +104 is the bet.
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Props on this game
5Chase BurnsUNDER 17.5 Pitcher Outs Pitcher Outs-104
LActual 21
Burns has completed six innings in only two of his last six starts, and Cincinnati continues to manage his workload. Miami can help move that clock: Marsee, Edwards, Lopez and Sanoja all make frequent contact, while Burns has issued at least two walks in seven of his last eight starts. Those extended counts should get the bullpen involved before Burns records his 18th out.
Sandy AlcantaraOVER 18.5 Pitcher Outs Pitcher Outs+112
WActual 21
Alcantara has gone seven innings in four of his last six starts and enters with 20 consecutive scoreless innings. Cincinnati strikes out frequently, several hitters around the dangerous middle of its order are cold, and Alcantara's efficiency gives him a legitimate path through the seventh. I want plus money on baseball's innings leader recording at least 19 outs.
Griffin ConineOVER 0.5 Home Runs Home Runs+500
LActual 0
Conine's doing that thing where every ball he squares up leaves the yard — 8-for-18 with three home runs, a .444 average and better than a 1.500 OPS over the last week, and an exit velocity sitting near 99 miles an hour on that recent stretch. That's not a hot week riding seeing-eye singles, that's barrel after barrel.
He gets Chase Burns tonight, and Burns has a real platoon split this year — eleven home runs allowed in 281 at-bats against lefties, compared to just two home runs in 171 at-bats against righties. Burns has also cooled over his last three starts, without a changeup to keep hitters honest when he misses location.
Add in a Great American Ball Park that plays small with the wind pushing out to center, and I like Conine's chances of running into one.
Eugenio SuarezOVER 0.5 Home Runs Home Runs+425
LActual 0
Suarez has gone deep four times in his last week and is barreling the ball at a rate that would lead the league over a full season — five barrels on seventeen balls in play is not a fluke stretch, that's a hitter locked in. Sandy Alcantara is pitching as well as anyone in baseball right now, three straight starts without an earned run, so I'm not pretending this is an easy matchup. But Suarez sees the whole game, not just the six or seven innings Alcantara's good for, and Miami's bullpen has been lit up lately — north of a five ERA over its last week of work. A hitter this hot gets to the homer even against good pitching, and the price on a guy running a near-30 percent barrel rate is generous enough to take.
Tyler StephensonOVER 0.5 Home Runs Home Runs+550
LActual 0
Stephenson's contact quality the last couple weeks is as good as it's been all season — 94 miles an hour average exit velocity, three barrels in his last thirteen balls in play, and a whiff rate under twenty percent, meaning he's not just hitting the ball hard when he connects, he's connecting more often too. He already went deep last night. Alcantara's the tougher assignment of the two starters in this game, no question, but Stephenson gets a shaky Marlins bullpen behind him for the middle and late innings, and his current form says he's due to keep running into mistakes. I'll take the price.
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