Today's Free Picks for
Posted at 11:00 AM EST. Odds are subject to change.
Colorado -1½ +190 over San Francisco
9:10 PM EST. Adrian Houser RHP - SF) is exactly the type of arm you look to fade at Coors Field. The surface numbers from last year look respectable, but once you dig in, it’s a completely different story. Houser owns one of the lowest strikeout rates on the board, and his expected ERA sits at an ugly 5.53—and that’s with the benefit of pitching half his games in one of the most pitcher-friendly parks in baseball. Now you drop that profile into Coors, where balls don’t die and contact gets punished, and it becomes a dangerous setup. Low strikeouts plus high contact in this environment is a recipe for crooked numbers.
The Coors Field angle hasn’t changed. This park continues to inflate scoring in bunches, and it creates one of the few situations in baseball where laying the run line actually becomes the value side. When games break open here, they don’t land on one-run margins very often. We’ve leaned on the reverse run line in this park for years, and this is another textbook case. If Colorado gets to Houser early—and the matchup strongly suggests they will—this can snowball quickly.
Ryan Feltner (RHP - COL) isn’t someone you go out of your way to back, but that’s not the point. This is not about trusting Feltner—it’s about attacking the far more vulnerable arm in a brutal pitching environment. The market is pricing this like a standard game when it’s anything but. At Coors Field, volatility is the edge, and +190 to win by two or more in this setup is too good to pass up.
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Our Pick
Colorado -1½ +190 (Risking 2 units - To Win: 3.80)