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Colorado Rockies vs LA Dodgers Best Bet: An NL West Battle at Coors

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Colorado Rockies vs LA Dodgers Best Bet: Thursday, June 29th

The LA Dodgers and Colorado Rockies will wrap up their three-game set on Thursday night at Coors Field, and a favourable pitching matchup could lead to another high-scoring affair. After a wild game on Wednesday night that featured 17 runs being scored between the two teams, our resident baseball expert Ej Garr has his eyes on the total for this final game on the schedule for Thursday night.

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The night’s last game happens at Coors Field as the Dodgers and Rockies will wrap up their three-game set on Thursday. After the Dodgers earned a 5 – 0 win on Tuesday night, Wednesday night’s match featured 17 players crossing home plate as the Rockies leveled the series with the Dodgers making this the rubber game of the series.

This expected pitching matchup has me eyeing this total because it appears as if the Rockies will let Chase Anderson retake a Major League mound. The last game that Anderson appeared in came against the Angels, and if you didn’t see that final score, let me hit you right in the face! The Angels won the game 25 – 1, and Anderson gave up 9 earned runs including 3 balls that were sent out of the yard.

Anderson has allowed 11 home runs over his last 6 starts, and one thing he has not done this campaign is to win a damn baseball game for his club. With 10 appearances to his credit this year (8 Starts), Anderson has yet to be credited with a win, and the Dodgers are strongly favoured to win this game tonight. At 1.50, there is not a lick of value to be found, and I certainly can’t invest my money on the Rockies at the moment either despite winning last night’s game. Chase Anderson is barely capable of getting outs, much less is he going to have any success on Thursday night against the Dodgers.

Did you happen to catch the odds on Chase Anderson to be credited with a win on Thursday night? William Hill is showing a 4.50 line on that expectation, and that will also point me to another prop bet against Anderson for this affair.

I see odds at 2.20 on the Over 5.5 Hits Allowed for Chase Anderson, and that is a bet that you should be making. Anderson will give up at least 8 hits, so don’t even sweat it because it won’t be close! On top of that bet, let’s not forget that Emmet Sheehan is making his first start on the road in his career on Thursday night.

Sheeran has done well in his first two starts this year against San Francisco and Houston, but he did have Dodger Stadium to rely on and that is not Coors Field. Balls fly out of here like nowhere else, and I don’t trust Anderson or Sheehan to give us a big outing.