Phillies at Mariners
O/U 7 · RL Phillies -1.5 · T-Mobile Park
The pick & result
- Published pick
- Mariners ML +116
- Published odds
- +116
- Result
- Lost
- Final score
- 6-0
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The read
This game reads much closer to a coin flip than the price suggests, so I’m taking Seattle at plus money. Bryan Woo has a 1.96 ERA at T-Mobile Park, where the Mariners are 8-2 in his starts. Jesús Luzardo counters with a 1.95 road ERA, and Philadelphia is 11-2 in those starts. However, Seattle’s six right-handed hitters and two switch-hitters face the side against which Luzardo has allowed a .735 OPS. Woo has held left-handed hitters to a .676 OPS, relevant against Philadelphia’s six left-handed bats.
Philadelphia’s bullpen is the concern: it owns a 3.47 ERA and a 2.18 ERA over the last seven games, compared with Seattle’s 4.01 and 5.88 marks. Woo’s return from shoulder soreness also keeps this from being a high-confidence play, although he was cleared after his bullpen session. Still, Seattle has already won this series’ first two games 9-2 and 4-1, Woo’s home performance is established, and the lineup construction gives the Mariners a measurable route against Luzardo. At +116, I’ll trust Seattle to finish the sweep.
The research
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STARTER FORM
Bryan Woo: 1.00 ERA over his last 3 starts
1.00Three straight starts of missing more bats and barely letting anything score — that's not one lucky night, that's stuff playing up right now. Tough draw for Philadelphia's lineup tonight regardless of what the season line says.
PLATOON EDGE
Bryce Harper (bats L) gets a RHP from the 3rd spot
1.023Harper third against a righty puts the platoon edge exactly where a lineup wants it, right behind two hitters whose job is getting on base ahead of him. Woo has to work through the middle of the order fully exposed to it tonight, with no way to plan around it.
HEAT CHECK
Cal Raleigh: 1.090 OPS in Last 15 Days
1.090A .618 season mark tells you Raleigh has real cold spells, so this stretch is his timing finally catching up to power that was already there. Seventeen homers proves the pop, and 0.5 total bases is about as easy as these get right now.
Alec Bohm: 1.068 OPS in Last 15 Days
1.068A .689 season line makes this stretch a real spike, not an already-great hitter getting hotter — something's clicked the last two weeks. Fourteen homers is enough pop to clear 0.5 total bases, and right now he's a hitter I want in the lineup, not against it.
COOLING OFF
Cole Young: .402 OPS in Last 15 Days
.402This is the shallowest drop in the group, and with this much of a sample already banked, it reads like results lagging behind still-solid contact. I'd treat him as a buy-low piece against Philadelphia tonight, not a fade.
HEAD-TO-HEAD
Mariners are 2-0 vs Phillies this season
2-0Two games is a snapshot, not a trend — Seattle winning both comfortably is nice to know but it's two data points. Hosting tonight doesn't turn that into anything sturdier.
FANTASY PICKUPS
Bryan Woo
3.56 xERAWoo's the buy-low here — a 4.10 ERA running nearly a half-run worse than his 3.56 xERA, next to the best strikeout rate on this list at 8.9 K/9 and a sharp 1.08 WHIP. The results just haven't caught up to the stuff yet. DEEP-league stash — get in before the ERA starts drifting down toward that xERA vs PHI.
CUT LIST
Patrick Wisdom
0.401 OPSWisdom's hitting fifth for Seattle tonight and somehow has the uglier line of the group — .122 average, .401 OPS. A five-hole at-bat is just more outs at that rate. Nothing about tonight's lineup slot changes what the season-long numbers already say. Cut him.
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Props on this game
2- GARY'S PICKJESUS LUZARDOPITCHER OUTS OVER 18.5
I’m taking the plus money on Luzardo to record at least one out in the seventh. He has cleared this number in five of his last six starts, owns a 1.95 road ERA and has allowed five earned runs with 30 strikeouts over his last 19.1 innings.
Seattle has managed a .217 average and .642 OPS against left-handed starters, and Naylor, Young and Canzone are all out of today’s lineup. Luzardo’s dominant sweeper gives him a reliable way through this right-handed order.
The 110 pitches in his previous start add some risk, but +155 is too generous for the form and matchup.
- GARY'S PICKRANDY AROZARENAHITS OVER 0.5
I’m backing Arozarena to break through with one hit. He owns a .288 average and .852 OPS against left-handed pitching, hits second, and has recorded a hit in nine of his last 15 games.
His recent results also include six hard-hit balls and two barrels on 18 balls in play. Luzardo has been much more hittable by right-handed batters, allowing them a .253 average and .735 OPS, than by lefties.
Arozarena should get four opportunities, which makes -147 playable despite Luzardo’s current form.
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