Fixture: LA Dodgers @ Toronto
Time/Date: 7:07 PM ET, July 24, 2013
Pick: LA Dodgers
Odds: -105 (1.95 in decimal odds) @ Pinnacle
This will be the final game of 3 game Interlague series played in Toronto. LA Dodgers won first two games, 14-5 on Monday night and 10-9 yesterday.
LA Dodgers scored 33 runs in their last 3 games. They are leading National League West with 52-47 record. They are on 5 games winning streak. Toronto is last in American League East with 45-54 and they are on 6 game losing streak.
LA Dodgers are 11-3 since acquiring Ricky Nolasco from Miami. Nolasco will be starting for the Dodgers tonight. He is 6-9, 3.75 ERA after 21 starts in 2013. Nolasco is is 1-1, 3.12 ERA in 3 starts since being acquired. Nolasco is better pitching away where his ERA of 3.01 is 1.5 runs better compared with home games ERA of 4.57. He pitched 6 innings in his only career start against Toronto back in 2009, allowing 2 runs on 5 hits while striking out 9 a 7-3 Florida win.
Toronto's starter will be Esmil Rogers, who is 3-4, 3.84 ERA in 9 starts and 23 relief appearances this season. Rogers is winless in his last 5 starts, going 0-2 during that period and allowing 16 earned runs in 28.2 innings of work combined. He hasn't had much success against the Dodgers, going 0-1, 6.23 ERA in 3 starts while pitching for Colorado in 2010 and 2011.
Toronto is 2-8 in their last 10 games as an underdog. LA Dodgers won 22 out of their last 27 games overall and they are 5-1 in the last 6 meetings in Toronto and I expect them to win tonight.
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