The Colorado Rockies (11-3) and Seattle Mariners (5-11) will close out a weekend set at 4:10 p.m. ET Sunday afternoon at T-Mobile Park. We analyze the Rockies-Mariners betting odds and lines, with MLB picks and best bets.
Rockies at Mariners: Projected starting pitchers
RHP German Marquez vs. LHP Justus Sheffield
Marquez has filed a 1.89 ERA over 3 starts and 19 total innings. The Colorado right-hander has been pounding the strike zone (73% first-pitch strikes) en route to fanning 10.9 batters per nine.
- The 25-year-old owns a fine 3.21 ERA over 219 road innings since 2018. That includes solid road tilts at the Oakland Athletics and Texas Rangers earlier this season. Marquez has only pitched at T-Mobile once before (6 IP, 1 ER, 0 BB, 5 SO).
Sheffield has struggled through two short-leash starts. He has walked six batters over 7 2/3 IP and has a 9.39 ERA. In 2019, the left-hander had a 36-inning 5.50 ERA at the major league level.
- Sheffield is a groundball pitcher, and that plays into a Colorado deficit. In 2019, the Rockies were a top-10 club against fly-ball types and a bottom-5 group against pitchers who induce more grounders. The latter figure has been flipped so far in 2020 but with the aid of a .441 batting average with balls in play.
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Rockies at Mariners: Key injuries
(List of injuries around the league)
Rockies
- OF Ian Desmond (personal) out
- RP Wade Davis (shoulder) out
- RP Scott Oberg (back) out
Mariners
- OF Mitch Haniger (hernia) out
- C Tom Murphy (foot) out
- OF Julio Rodriguez (wrist) out
Rockies at Mariners: Odds, lines, picks and betting tips
MLB odds courtesy of BetMGM; access USA TODAY Sports for a full list. Odds last updated at 10:20 a.m. ET.
Moneyline (ML)
The Rockies (-154) have looked sharp thus far. They’ve won three straight games and six of their last seven. Colorado has taken the first two games of this weekend series and away from Denver, the Rockies have won six in a row.
And now? They are drawing an inflated price. In the concept of “cluster luck” (stringing together hits and walks in bunches to do the most damage), no team has been more off-kilter than this Seattle squad. Give a slight nod to the MARINERS (+140) price for this interleague matchup in Emerald City.
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Run line/Against the spread (ATS)
MARINERS +1.5 (-121) is a decent play. Seattle has lost seven of its last eight games, but the Mariners offense has been hamstrung by a silly-low BABIP.
Over/Under (O/U)
The figure here is a fair one, but perhaps shade the UNDER 8.5 (-110) unless that price starts to creep up.
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