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MLB · Fri, Sep 11 · 9:40 PM

Mariners at Athletics

O/U 10.5 · RL Mariners -1.5 · Sutter Health Park

GARY'S PICK
MLB@ Athletics· -164

Mariners
Moneyline

-164 · 9:40 PM ET

Athletics

The line

FANDUEL · 11 moves
MarketOpened
Today 5:00 AM
Close
Today 7:16 PM
Move
SPREADMariners -1.5 (-114)Mariners -1.5 (-110)Price
TOTAL10.5 (-104)10.5 (-106)Price
MONEYLINEMariners -178Mariners -166+12
Every move, in order ›
WhenSpreadTotalMoneyline
OPENToday 5:00 AMMariners -1.5 (-114)10.5 (-104)Mariners -178 · Athletics +150
Today 6:00 AMMariners -1.5 (-111)10.5 (+106)Mariners -174 · Athletics +146
Today 7:15 AMMariners -1.5 (-108)10.5 (+108)Mariners -168 · Athletics +142
Today 8:00 AMMariners -1.5 (-110)10.5 (+108)Mariners -168 · Athletics +142
Today 9:00 AMMariners -1.5 (-106)10.5 (+108)Mariners -168 · Athletics +142
Today 11:00 AMMariners -1.5 (-110)10.5 (+106)Mariners -168 · Athletics +142
Today 1:50 PMMariners -1.5 (-110)10.5 (+100)Mariners -168 · Athletics +142
Today 4:30 PMMariners -1.5 (-108)10.5 (-106)Mariners -164 · Athletics +138
Today 5:56 PMMariners -1.5 (-106)10.5 (-106)Mariners -164 · Athletics +138
Today 5:58 PMMariners -1.5 (-108)10.5 (-106)Mariners -164 · Athletics +138
Today 6:31 PMMariners -1.5 (-110)10.5 (-106)Mariners -164 · Athletics +138
CLOSEToday 7:16 PMMariners -1.5 (-110)10.5 (-106)Mariners -166 · Athletics +140

The read

Warm night in West Sacramento, wind blowing out to center, and George Kirby takes the ball for Seattle against lefty Jeffrey Springs and the Athletics. The two things carrying this pick are the conditions and who is hitting the ball hard right now. Springs is a fly-ball pitcher with a 0.69 GO/AO and a 9.2% barrel rate allowed, and he has given up 23 homers to right-handed hitters in 364 at-bats with an .841 OPS against them. Tonight he gets 86 degrees, a 12 mph wind out to center, a 1.07 park, and a Seattle lineup stacking Cal Raleigh (1.017 OPS vs LHP), Randy Arozarena (.871 vs LHP), Julio Rodriguez (2 HR in 14 AB vs Springs), and Taylor Ward from the right side. Over the last three games Seattle is producing a 40.3% hard-hit rate with a .328 xwOBA and a 116.1 mph max exit velocity. That contact profile against that pitcher in this air is the edge I'd put my own money on.

The strongest argument against Seattle is real and I'm not hiding from it. Springs shut this exact lineup out six days ago, seven innings and two hits, and Kirby has a 6.59 ERA over his last five with three starts of 5 or more earned runs. Seattle's season line is a .229 average and a .683 OPS, J.P. Crawford is 1-for-13 against Springs, and Rodriguez is hitting .186 over the last ten. That is a legitimate case for the home dog at +138. But the shutout sits between starts of 7, 4, 2, and 2 earned runs, with 13 walks in 26 innings. I read that gem as the outlier, not the trend.

Kirby's ugly results also sit on solid process. His .310 xwOBA allowed is well under his .336 actual, and his 6.9% barrel rate is elite. The market is not overpaying for something fragile here. It is pricing a starter whose surface numbers look worse than his contact suppression. The Athletics are averaging 84.2 mph off the bat with a 28.8% hard-hit rate over their last three games, which is exactly the offense a pitcher leaking hits wants to see. Add the deeper bullpen, with Gabe Speier at 2.61 and Andrés Muñoz rested, and Seattle has the better pitching from the first pitch to the last. Moneyline, not the run line. This series has played tight all year and I want the win, not the margin.

The research

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BATTER VS ARM

  • Julio Rodriguez vs Jeffrey Springs: .286

    .286

    Julio Rodriguez's career line off Jeffrey Springs is 4-for-14, a .286 average over 14 at-bats with 2 home runs — they meet again tonight. He enters cold (.474 OPS, L15).

HEAT CHECK

  • Cal Raleigh: 1.141 OPS in Last 15 Days

    1.141

    Cal Raleigh has a 1.141 OPS over the last 15 days and 43 at-bats. That is 0.47 above his .671 season OPS.

COOLING OFF

  • Julio Rodriguez: .375 OPS in Last 15 Days

    .375

    Julio Rodriguez has a .375 OPS over the last 15 days and 55 at-bats. That is a supplied 0.318 decline from his .693 season OPS.

TEAM RECORD

  • Athletics 2-6 in Jeffrey Springs's last 8 starts

    2-6

    Athletics are 2-6 in Jeffrey Springs's last 8 starts this season. He starts tonight.

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Props on this game

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  • GARY'S PICK
    JOSH NAYLORRBI UNDER 0.5
    MLBSeattle Mariners· -190

    Josh Naylor
    RBI under 0.5

    -190 · 9:40 PM ET

    Seattle Mariners

    Josh Naylor bats sixth for Seattle, but the RBI production hasn't matched the lineup spot. He's driven in 49 runs across 137 games this season, a shade under half a run a night, and he's cleared this number in just three of his last fifteen outings.

    He hasn't left the yard in his last fifteen games, and even against left-handers like Jeffrey Springs tonight, his home run rate is modest at three in 179 at-bats on the year — the profile is more ground-ball, opposite-field contact than pull-side power. He's also 1-for-9 in his career against Springs.

    Over his last fifteen days he's hitting .212 with a .476 OPS, and a hitter who's mostly collecting quiet singles right now, in a matchup where he hasn't had success, is exactly the kind of bat that stays off the board even when the team scores. I don't need Seattle's offense to go cold for this one to land, just for Naylor to keep doing what he's already been doing without the extra-base or two-out knock that drives in a run.

  • THE LONG SHOT
    RANDY AROZARENAHR OVER 0.5
    MLBSeattle Mariners· +360

    Randy Arozarena
    HR over 0.5

    +360 · 9:40 PM ET

    Seattle Mariners

    Randy Arozarena is a right-handed bat with real pop against left-handed pitching — a .871 OPS and seven home runs in 144 at-bats this season — and tonight he gets a small park with the wind blowing out to center at twelve miles an hour and the temperature sitting at 86 degrees. Jeffrey Springs is a fly-ball pitcher with a 0.69 groundout-to-airout ratio and a 9.2 percent barrel rate allowed, and he's already given up twenty-three home runs to right-handed hitters this season. Arozarena has gone deep twice in his last fifteen games and already has a home run in sixteen career at-bats against Springs. This is a long shot because every home run bet is, but it's the right shape of one — a power bat with the platoon edge, facing a homer-prone lefty, in a ballpark and wind built to turn a fly ball into a souvenir.

  • GARY'S PICK
    DOMINIC CANZONEH+R+RBI UNDER 2.5
    MLBSeattle Mariners· -140

    Dominic Canzone
    H+R+RBI under 2.5

    -140 · 9:40 PM ET

    Seattle Mariners

    Dominic Canzone has gone cold at the wrong time. He's hitting .231 with a .500 OPS over his last seven games, and stretched to fifteen days it's .236 with a .712 OPS — both below a season line that already averages out to 1.7 combined hits, runs, and RBI a night, short of the three he needs to clear tonight's number. He's also 0-for-5 in his career against Jeffrey Springs. Springs has gotten hit hard by both sides of the plate this season, so I'm not counting on Seattle's offense to go quiet, but stacking a hit, a run, and an RBI into the same game is a tall order for a hitter in the middle of a two-week slump, and I'd rather let that damage come from somewhere else in the order tonight.

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