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Posted at 1:30 PM EST.

10:05 PM EST. Is there a team in MLB that is attracting more hype than the Dodgers right now? No, not even the Astronauts are getting as much press as the Dodgers recently. What that means is you are going to pay a premium to back these Dodgers in almost every game they play especially when they’re playing teams much less popular than they are. Next, we have the seemingly short price on the Dodgers, which means the oddsmakers are “taking a position” here because they absolutely are aware that a high majority of bets on this contest will be placed on the Dodgers. We’re pretty sure that a high majority of bettors took Colorado to beat Matt Cain last night at a short price and this one has a similar feel to it. The red-hot Dodgers appear to be a steal tonight at -115 but you may have noticed we did not play Colorado last night because, that, too, looked too good to be true. Always be mindful of short prices on popular teams and that applies here.

What this market is likely going to overlook is that Hyun-Jin Ryu is not pitching very well despite what his surface stats suggest. Ryu has a seen a jump in fly balls lead to five over the wall over his last three starts. Ryu’s last effort resulted in a no-decision against the Mets but he only lasted five frames. Ryu is 1-4 on the road in six starts and he’ll now face an Angels’ squad that has scored an average of 6.0 runs per game with an OPS of .831 over their last eight games.  

Alex Meyer faltered in his last but a look at the weeks leading up to that Fenway disaster gives us plenty of confidence. Meyer has exhibited improved command on both sides of the equation and he at least draws the Dodgers in a game away from Chavez Ravine where recently L.A. has terrorized opposing pitchers. One of the most difficult things to do is to come right back on a pitcher that you bet last game out after he gets smoked a and that is the case with Meyer. We had him in that aforementioned game at Fenway and he looked awful in walking two batters and allowing five runs in 3.1 innings of work before he was yanked. However, Meyer has 58 K’s in 49 innings to go along with a 46% groundball rate. If he’s throwing strikes, he’s difficult to hit and the oddsmakers are gambling that he’ll be throwing strikes tonight. That’s good enough for us.

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