Dodgers at Brewers
O/U 6.5 · RL Dodgers -1.5 · American Family Field
The pick & result
- Published pick
- Dodgers ML -136
- Published odds
- -136
- Result
- Lost
- Final score
- 4-7
Odds are the American price printed with this pick, not a current offer. Wins, losses and pushes remain on the public record; a missing grade is not a win.
The line
BETMGM · 8 moves| Market | Opened Oct 12 5:00 AM | Close Oct 12 4:45 PM | Move |
|---|---|---|---|
| SPREAD | Dodgers -1.5 (+125) | Dodgers -1.5 (+135) | Price |
| TOTAL | 6.5 (-120) | 7 (+105) | +½ |
| MONEYLINE | Dodgers -145 | Dodgers -135 | +10 |
Every move, in order ›
| When | Spread | Total | Moneyline |
|---|---|---|---|
| OPENOct 12 5:00 AM | Dodgers -1.5 (+125) | 6.5 (-120) | Dodgers -145 · Brewers +118 |
| Oct 12 6:00 AM | Dodgers -1.5 (+125) | 6.5 (-120) | Dodgers -145 · Brewers +118 |
| Oct 12 9:00 AM | Dodgers -1.5 (+135) | 6.5 (-120) | Dodgers -140 · Brewers +115 |
| Oct 12 12:00 PM | Dodgers -1.5 (+135) | 7 (+100) | Dodgers -135 · Brewers +115 |
| Oct 12 1:31 PM | Dodgers -1.5 (+135) | 7 (-110) | Dodgers -135 · Brewers +115 |
| Oct 12 1:56 PM | Dodgers -1.5 (+135) | 7 (-102) | Dodgers -135 · Brewers +115 |
| Oct 12 4:01 PM | Dodgers -1.5 (+135) | 7 (+100) | Dodgers -135 · Brewers +115 |
| Oct 12 4:30 PM | Dodgers -1.5 (+135) | 7 (+100) | Dodgers -135 · Brewers +115 |
| CLOSEOct 12 4:45 PM | Dodgers -1.5 (+135) | 7 (+105) | Dodgers -135 · Brewers +115 |
The read
The two-time defending champs come into American Family Field down 1-0 with their October stopper on the mound, and Milwaukee gives the ball to a rookie with a chance to take a 2-0 grip on the pennant race. I think the middle innings decide this one. Yamamoto has gone 7 innings in four of his last five starts, on 88 to 98 pitches. Logan Henderson has stopped at exactly 5.0 innings in each of his last four starts, and his walks have gone up: 6 in his last 10 innings. That likely leaves the Brewers needing about four innings from a bullpen whose four leverage arms all pitched last night. Aaron Ashby threw 26 pitches, Trevor Megill 19 and Abner Uribe 15. Tomorrow's off day lets Pat Murphy go back to that group, but covering four innings with them on back-to-back days is a lot to ask. Any inning that falls to the next tier of arms gives the Dodgers a better shot. Their contact has been better than their results, with a .396 xwOBA over the last three games.
The matchups favor Los Angeles too. Yamamoto holds left-handed hitters to a .511 OPS, and Milwaukee starts six of them. That includes the soft bottom of the order against righties: Sal Frelick at .640, David Hamilton at .668 and Christian Yelich at .722. Henderson goes the other way. Ten of his 14 home runs allowed came against left-handed bats, and his 0.57 GO/AO makes him a fly-ball pitcher. He has to work through Freddie Freeman, Shohei Ohtani, Max Muncy and Kyle Tucker. On the Dodgers' side, Edwin Diaz and Edgardo Henriquez come in on 4 full days off, so Dave Roberts needs a shorter bridge, and his arms are more rested.
The case against this pick is real. Henderson has a .257 xwOBA allowed, a 1.84 ERA at home and 13 strikeouts in 12 innings against this lineup this season. The Dodgers are 8-for-65 with runners in scoring position over their last 10 games, and Ohtani and Will Smith are both cold. If Henderson gets through six cleanly, Milwaukee's way of winning holds up again. Still, the Dodgers are 9-1 in Yamamoto's postseason starts, with a 1.23 ERA in his starts after a loss, and I expect him to pitch deeper than Henderson tonight. At -136 I'll take the deeper starter and the more rested bullpen to even the series.
The research
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HEAT CHECK
Will Smith: 1.182 OPS in Last 15 Days
1.182Smith has a 1.182 OPS over the last 15 days, far above his .781 season mark. That is only 31 at-bats, where a couple of home runs swing the number a lot, and his 10 homers on the year point to a solid hitter more than a slugger. His total-bases line is 0.5, so tonight comes down to one hit, and the hot form helps that case without settling it.
Mookie Betts: 1.046 OPS in Last 15 Days
1.046Betts has a 1.046 OPS over the last 15 days in 46 at-bats, well above his .780 season mark. Some of that is a hot two weeks that should cool, while his 23 home runs show the power has been there all year. With his total-bases line at 1.5, the choice is how much to trust the recent run versus the full-season version of him.
COOLING OFF
Freddie Freeman: .489 OPS in Last 15 Days
.489Freeman has a .489 OPS over the last 15 days, so very little is falling in and the power is missing. That covers 46 at-bats, set against a .792 season mark, which makes it a cold stretch more than a new normal. When sizing up his props at Milwaukee, lean on the season number over these two weeks.
Garrett Mitchell: .560 OPS in Last 15 Days
.560Mitchell has a .560 OPS over the last 15 days, well below his .771 season mark. That is 36 at-bats, small enough that a couple of good games would move it a lot. His season number is the better guide, and the dip is a reason to check how he is being used before writing him off.
HEAD-TO-HEAD
Brewers are 4-3 vs Dodgers this season
4-3Seven games in, Milwaukee leads the season series by a single win, close to even. The last meeting was a 6-2 Brewers win, and the sheet has nothing else explaining the split. Tonight in Milwaukee should be judged on the starters and current form, with this record as a tiebreaker at most.
STREAK
MIL games have gone UNDER 4 straight
U4Milwaukee's last four games averaged 5.8 combined runs against totals that averaged 7.3. Four games is short, and some of that gap came from books setting lines high. Tonight's total is 7, so the market has partly caught up, and with the Dodgers on their own under run the cushion is thinner than the streak suggests.
LAD games have gone UNDER 4 straight
U4The Dodgers' last four games came in under, averaging 5.5 combined runs against totals around 7.5. That gap is wide but rests on four games. Tonight's line is 7, lower than what they have been clearing, so the question is whether that number already prices in both teams' under runs.
TEAM RECORD
Brewers 7-1 in Logan Henderson's last 8 starts
7-1Milwaukee has lost only once in Henderson's last eight starts and has won the last four in a row. Eight starts is a small sample, and nothing on the sheet says whether the wins came from his pitching, the offense or the schedule. The Dodgers are a tougher lineup than most of what that run likely included, so weigh the streak against the quality of tonight's opponent.
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Props on this game
2- GARY'S PICKKYLE TUCKERH+R+RBI OVER 0.5
Kyle Tucker over 0.5 hits plus runs plus RBIs at -155. One hit, one run or one RBI cashes this, and the Dodgers need him on base from the eighth spot so the order turns over for Mookie Betts and Freddie Freeman.
The matchup lean is handedness. Logan Henderson is a fly-ball righty who has given up most of his home runs this season to left-handed hitters, and Tucker is one of four lefty bats Henderson has to work through tonight. All season, Tucker's contact quality has run ahead of his actual results, so the profile says his hits have been coming in light. Henderson has stopped at five innings in each of his last four starts. That likely gives Tucker a late trip against a Milwaukee pen that leans on lefties like Aaron Ashby and DL Hall, and Tucker has hit left-handers better than right-handers this year. Before Sunday he had cashed this number in four straight games.
The case against is clear. He is hitting eighth, which costs him a plate appearance compared to where he spent most of the season. Right-handers are the weaker side of his split, and he is hitless in five career trips against Henderson. On Sunday he reached twice on walks and still finished with nothing, and a night of walks pays nothing here.
- GARY'S PICKJAKE BAUERSH+R+RBI OVER 0.5
Jake Bauers over 0.5 hits plus runs plus RBIs at -155. He bats cleanup behind Jackson Chourio and Brice Turang, the two hottest bats in the Milwaukee order this week. That means his trips come with runners on, and an RBI counts the same as a hit.
His season against right-handed pitching is strong, and his contact quality backs up the power instead of flattering it. He has also had success against Yoshinobu Yamamoto in a small career look: two hits in four at-bats plus a walk across six trips. That sample is tiny, so I treat it as a tiebreaker only. His patience gives him a second route to this number. Bauers draws walks as well as anyone in this lineup, and when he reaches that way, scoring a run still cashes the ticket. He singled off Tarik Skubal on Sunday, and he gets a hitter-friendly park at home.
The case against is real. Yamamoto has been tougher on left-handed hitters than on righties all season, and he has been even stingier on the road. Bauers has been cold over the last two weeks, and he played the second half through shin splints in both legs. A Yamamoto night that goes seven deep shrinks every Milwaukee prop. At -155 I still want the cleanup hitter with the most ways to get one.
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