Bookmaker    -1½ +160 

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LA Angels -1½ +160 over Cincinnati

Angel Stadium – Anaheim, CA

9:38 PM ET. The Reds are desperate, clinging to playoff hope and staring down a brutal schedule. This is supposed to be the soft spot — the one they have to cash. The market sees it too, and it’s baking that urgency into the number.

Cincinnati has a “10-game winner” on the mound in Brady Singer, while the Angels counter with Victor Mederos, who barely has a resume. That optics disparity is doing a lot of work.

Dig deeper. Singer’s surface record hides real flaws: a 4.30 ERA, a ground-ball rate below league average, and a hittable profile in a park that punishes mistakes. The total is 9.0, signaling volatility, which favors the Halos.

The Angels can mash. They’re built for nights like this — home park, soft arm, and a Reds lineup that disappears at times. Cincy ranks 23rd in home runs and doesn’t have the kind of lineup you trust to go punch-for-punch.

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