The Athletics arrive in Cincinnati riding a seven-game losing streak and a 45-69 record that's about as bad as it looks, so there's no case to make that this is secretly a good team. The case is Andrew Abbott, who just walked five batters over five innings in a 4-1 loss to Pittsburgh, the kind of command breakdown that doesn't fix itself between starts. His season line still reads fine at 3.91, but the control has slipped, and a lineup that's found runs even in a lost season can make him pay for free baserunners. Mason Barnett draws the ball for the Athletics in just his second career start, a 4.85 ERA rookie without much of a track record to lean on, and this isn't a bet that he outpitches Abbott. It's a bet that Cincinnati's command-shaky lefty gives away a game the Reds are favored to win comfortably. Informed money is already on the Athletics early, and at +150 this side only needs to win two times in five to turn a profit. The A's are the play this afternoon.
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Who was the public on? 64% of the public money was on Cincinnati Reds to win on the moneyline. And, 61% of the bets were on the game to go UNDER the total.
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My computer prediction for this game was that Cincinnati would win by a score of 5.0 to 3.6 with Cincinnati winning on the moneyline, Las Vegas winning on the runline and the game going UNDER the total.
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Las Vegas at Cincinnati
12:40 PM Eastern
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Public Consensus
Who was the public on? 53% of the public money was on Cincinnati Reds to win on the moneyline. And, 50% of the bets were on the game to go UNDER the total.
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My computer prediction for this game was that Cincinnati would win by a score of 6.5 to 4.3 with Cincinnati winning on the moneyline and on the runline and the game going OVER the total.
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Public Consensus
Who was the public on? 60% of the public money was on Cincinnati Reds to win on the moneyline. And, 55% of the bets were on the game to go UNDER the total.
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My computer prediction for this game was that Cincinnati would win by a score of 5.6 to 4.4 with Cincinnati winning on the moneyline, Las Vegas winning on the runline and the game going OVER the total.
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Public Consensus
Who was the public on? 52% of the public money was on Cincinnati Reds to win on the moneyline. And, 56% of the bets were on the game to go UNDER the total.
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My computer prediction for this game was that Cincinnati would win by a score of 0.0 to 0.0, Las Vegas winning on the runline and the game going UNDER the total.
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Public Consensus
Who was the public on? 54% of the public money was on Cincinnati Reds to win on the moneyline. And, 53% of the bets were on the game to go UNDER the total.
Computer Predictions
My computer prediction for this game was that Cincinnati would win by a score of 0.0 to 0.0, Las Vegas winning on the runline and the game going UNDER the total.
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Cincinnati at Las Vegas
10:05 PM Eastern
Cincinnati fell to 34-39 on the road with its 3-0 loss to the Athletics last night. Carlos Cortes homered twice, and Cincinnati stranded 11 runners. The Athletics got 4 2/3 shutout innings on four hits from their relievers. The Reds have only scored 12 runs in five games, and they have lost five of nine. The Athletics will go for their third straight win, and Luis Severino will look to continue his stretch of giving his team five or six strong innings. Severino has yielded just nine runs in his past five starts, and the Athletics have won three of them. The Reds have lost eight of 12 against AL West opponents. Hunter Greene has a 1.69 ERA at home, but it increases to 3.89 on the road, with an opponent batting average of .262. Take the Athletics.
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