We were on Minnesota's number last night, and Cleveland got there late, riding a two-run swing in the sixth to take it in a game that looked competitive for six innings. That's actually the point tonight: the Twins have hung around in this series without having the pitching depth to finish the job, and Minnesota's bullpen has been one of the worst in the league all season, a real problem in a four-game set where close games keep finding the middle innings. Bailey Ober gets the ball for Minnesota with an ERA pushing past four, and Slade Cecconi counters for Cleveland in a similarly middling spot on paper, but the gap that matters here isn't the starters; it's who's standing behind them. Cleveland's relief corps ranks among the better units in the league, and that depth has been the difference in both of the first two games of this series. That gap hasn't closed in two nights, and I don't expect it to tonight. Side with Cleveland on the moneyline.
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Who was the public on? 60% of the public money was on Cleveland Guardians to win on the moneyline. And, 53% of the bets were on the game to go OVER the total.
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My computer prediction for this game was that Cleveland would win by a score of 4.8 to 4.4 with Cleveland winning on the moneyline, Minnesota winning on the runline and the game going OVER the total.
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Public Consensus
Who was the public on? 73% of the public money was on Cleveland Guardians to win on the moneyline. And, 83% of the bets were on the game to go OVER the total.
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My computer prediction for this game was that Minnesota would win by a score of 4.1 to 3.9 with Minnesota winning on the moneyline and on the runline and the game going OVER the total.
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Minnesota at Cleveland
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Public Consensus
Who was the public on? 85% of the public money was on Cleveland Guardians to win on the moneyline. And, 91% of the bets were on the game to go OVER the total.
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My computer prediction for this game was that Cleveland would win by a score of 4.9 to 4.4 with Cleveland winning on the moneyline, Minnesota winning on the runline and the game going OVER the total.
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Minnesota at Cleveland
Minnesota got run off the field Monday, a career-worst outing from Joe Ryan in a 13-4 loss where Cleveland hit seven home runs in one game. But two of those blasts came from Petey Halpin and Rhys Hoskins, hitters batting under .200 on the season, and that kind of power surge from the bottom of an order rarely repeats itself two nights running. Kendry Rojas gets an emergency start for the Twins tonight after a month of relief work. Still, the early returns are legitimate: a 2.79 ERA and opposing hitters batting .221 against him in his limited big-league look. Byron Buxton is back in the lineup off the injured list too, adding thump to an order that has more juice than Monday's shutdown suggested. Parker Messick is the best arm in this series by a wide margin, a sub-3.00 ERA lefty who allowed one earned run in six innings his last time out, and that's the honest problem with backing Minnesota here. But the number tonight isn't asking the Twins to win outright, just to avoid another laugher, and it's already ticked back toward Minnesota since it opened. I'm not fading a team off one outlier blowout built on two batters running hot. Minnesota wins on the runline tonight.
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Public Consensus
Who was the public on? 69% of the public money was on Minnesota Twins to win on the moneyline. And, 84% of the bets were on the game to go OVER the total.
Computer Predictions
My computer prediction for this game was that Cleveland would win by a score of 4.4 to 4.0 with Cleveland 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? 61% of the public money was on Cleveland Guardians to win on the moneyline. And, 86% of the bets were on the game to go OVER the total.
Computer Predictions
My computer prediction for this game was that Minnesota would win by a score of 5.0 to 4.3 with Minnesota winning on the moneyline and on the runline and the game going OVER the total.
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