Guardians vs. Rockies Prediction and Odds for Thursday, June 16 (Fade both Starters in a Potential Fireworks Show)

The Cleveland Guardians are heating up as we head into summer and will be a tough opponent for the Colorado Rockies today at Coors.

From the start of June up until the beginning of this series, the Guardians were 8-3 straight up. They also took Game 1 of this series 4-3 in extra innings on Tuesday night.

Meanwhile, in the 13 games played in June by the Guardians before this series, Cleveland went 5-8 straight up, If only the Rockies had an ace up their sleeve tonight against a streaking Rockies team.

Here are the odds over at WynnBET Sportsbook.

Guardians vs. Rockies Odds, Run Line, and Total

Run Line

• Guardians: -1.5 (+115)
• Rockies: +1.5 (-140)

Moneyline:

• Guardians: -125
• Rockies: +1155

Total:

• 11.5 (Over +100/Under -120)

Guardians vs. Rockies Prediction and Pick

For years, I thought that Chad Kuhl was a good pitcher stuck on a bad team. After he left Pittsburgh for Colorado, however, he simply traded one bad team for another. But, over the first month of the year, Kuhl was fantastic. He finished April with a 1.90 ERA in 23.2 innings over four starts. Maybe a change of scenery was all he needed. The trouble is that his ERA is around 5.00 over his last eight starts. He enters this game at 4-3 with a 3.70 ERA and 1.39 WHIP on the year but has looked much worse lately. So far in June, his ERA is 4.35 and has allowed five or more runs in three of his last six starts. He’s walking way too many batters and has a K/BB rate of 4:7 in 10.1  innings this month. 

He’s not the only starting pitcher in this game teetering on the edge of implosion is Triston McKenzie. The young righty enters this game at 3-5 with a 3.09 ERA and 0.89 WHIP. His ERA isn’t the best but McKenzie’s WHIP is outstanding and shows me his control is spot on. The problem is his decision on where to put pitches needs work and McKenzie allows a lot of home runs. Too many in fact. McKenzie has given up two or more home runs in four of his last five games. In those five games, batters have 10 home runs against him. The worst part of this has to be that the teams smashing home runs on McKenzie are among the worst hitting teams in the league. Those teams include the A’s, Orioles, and Tigers. 

Honestly, it's too hard to pick a horse in this race with two dogs on the mound. So I'll fade ‘em both at Coors and bet on the over in this spot. 

Pick: OVER 11.5 (-115)

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