Ozzie Albies' career numbers against Kyle Freeland make him the key player prop in Braves-Rockies clash

The Sunday shot paper often looks packed. Every squad plays astir each Sunday, truthful you person a batch of games to take from. As a sports bettor, that’s a bully happening due to the fact that you person opportunities for the books to marque mistakes. However, it besides takes longer for you to measure each game. Let maine bash the enactment for you and springiness you a risky, but fun, look astatine a crippled betwixt the Braves and the Rockies.

The Braves travel into the crippled with a beardown grounds for the year, and the commencement that everyone hoped they would get disconnected to aft the unsmooth past season. It is astonishing what tin hap erstwhile you don’t person changeless injuries to your team. In fairness, determination are inactive immoderate missing pieces, but Atlanta has been capable to navigate those amended than it did past year. It is lone the commencement of May, and the NL East looks similar theirs to lose.

Atlanta Braves pitcher Spencer Strider delivers a transportation successful the archetypal inning against the Arizona Diamondbacks successful Atlanta connected April 5, 2024. (John Bazemore/AP)

To marque matters worse for the teams chasing them, they are sending retired a large starter to the mound, Spencer Strider. This volition beryllium the play debut for Strider, and I person to expect that the Braves volition beryllium alternatively cautious with him. Last season, helium turned successful 23 starts and accumulated 125.1 innings implicit the season. He didn’t person a large year, going 7-14 with a 4.45 ERA and a 1.40 WHIP. The bully quality for him is that helium gets to travel backmost against a soft-hitting Rockies team. However, they are 8-for-32 wide against him, but lone person 2 RBIs and 14 strikeouts.

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The Colorado Rockies were expected to beryllium the worst squad successful shot by astir analysts. That hasn’t proven to beryllium the case, arsenic it seems similar they person immoderate combat successful them this year. Before we commencement printing playoff tickets, the squad is inactive nether .500 and won’t sniff the postseason. However, for a squad that won 43 games past twelvemonth and didn’t person 15 wins until June 16th, they are astatine slightest up of that pace.

Colorado Rockies pitcher Kyle Freeland delivers a transportation successful the archetypal inning against the Toronto Blue Jays astatine Coors Field. (Ron Chenoy/Imagn Images)

There are a fig of reasons the squad is performing amended — pride, amended hitting and amended pitching, etc. To me, 1 feline specifically stands retired who has had a bully commencement to the season, and that is today’s starter, Kyle Freeland. For the year, Freeland is 1-2 with a 3.48 ERA and a 1.11 WHIP. I’ve been a Freeland instrumentality for galore years and deliberation helium has been buried a spot with the Rockies. He was ne'er apt to beryllium an Ace with a club, but helium astir apt could’ve been a reliable limb and adjacent a postseason starter. He lone has 1 commencement astatine location this year, but it was a precise bully one, going 6.1 innings and allowing conscionable 1 tally connected 3 hits.

The atrocious quality for the Rockies and Freeland is that the nine has feasted connected his pitching implicit the years. Collectively, the Braves are 45-for-137 against him, starring to a .328 average. Ozzie Albies is the feline I’m locked successful connected for 3+ full bases and whitethorn adjacent bash 4+ and 5+ arsenic helium is hitting 11-for-24 with 4 extra-base hits against Freeland.

Atlanta Braves' Ozzie Albies and Eli White observe aft scoring connected a treble by Matt Olson during the 2nd inning against the Los Angeles Dodgers successful Los Angeles connected April 2, 2025. (Kevork Djansezian/AP)

Another 1 worthy playing is Mauricio Dubon, who is 7-for-19 with 4 extra-base hits disconnected of Freeland. Albies volition beryllium an authoritative play, but I’m going to bash a Same Game Parlay for a spot of Sunday amusive with 2+ full bases from Albies (3+), Dubon, Mike Yastrzemski and Austin Rile. That pays retired astatine 12:1.

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