Brewers at Mets
O/U 8.5 · RL Brewers -1.5 · Citi Field
The pick & result
- Published pick
- Mets +1.5 -128
- Published odds
- -128
- Result
- Lost
- Final score
- 8-1
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The read
I want the run here. New York is playing too well at Citi Field, and this matchup is too balanced, for me to lay -148 with Milwaukee. The Mets are 7-3 over their last 10 and 6-1 at home during that stretch; Milwaukee is 6-4 over its last 10 but has lost two straight. Those records do not decide tonight, but they establish that this is not a lifeless home underdog.
Robert Stock’s 5.40 ERA and 1.68 WHIP keep me from forcing the Mets moneyline, but his three home starts have produced a 1.32 ERA. Dustin May brings the deeper résumé and already threw six scoreless innings against New York this season, yet he has a 5.59 road ERA and surrendered seven earned runs in two innings last time out. New York also starts four left-handed hitters against a pitcher who has allowed them a .751 OPS, compared with .601 against righties.
Milwaukee’s bullpen is the reason I want the insurance. It owns a 0.88 ERA over the last seven games, compared with 3.24 for the Mets, giving the Brewers the cleaner late-game path. But Citi Field is pitcher-friendly, Tuesday’s opener required 10 innings to separate these clubs, and the season series is tied 2-2. My read calls for another competitive game. The extra run and a half lets New York cash the ticket with either an outright win or a one-run loss.
The research
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STARTER FORM
Dustin May: 6.00 ERA over his last 3 starts
6.00Fourteen hits and ten earned runs in three starts works out to nearly a hit an inning, and that's not one bad outing, that's a trend. May's season ERA is now more than a run cheaper than what he's actually pitching to right now. I want the bats against this version of him.
STREAK
MIL games have gone UNDER 4 straight
U4About two and a half runs of separation between the number and what these MIL games have actually produced, and tonight's total sits almost exactly where it's been the whole stretch. The under just has to keep doing what it's already done four straight times.
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Props on this game
2- GARY'S PICKROBERT STOCKPITCHER WALKS OVER 2.5
Stock has issued at least three walks in each of his last three starts, including three in only 4.1 innings in both home outings. Milwaukee averages 4.14 walks per game and sends six left-handed or switch hitters at him. His control has repeatedly driven up the pitch count, but he has still lasted long enough to face the lineup twice. I like getting plus money on another three-walk night.
- GARY'S PICKCARSON BENGEH+R+RBI OVER 1.5
Benge has cleared this number in 11 of his last 15 games and enters tonight hitting .391 with a 1.059 OPS over that span. He went 3-for-4 in the opener and now gets May from the left side, where the matchup is more favorable: left-handed hitters have produced a .751 OPS against May, compared with .601 for righties. Batting cleanup gives Benge multiple paths through hits, runs and RBIs.
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