Rockies vs Orioles Betting Odds: Orioles Look Poised for Series Win

The Baltimore Orioles will take on the Colorado Rockies in an interleague three-game series over the weekend.

The Rockies don’t have a chance at the playoffs in the National League. However, the Orioles are still trying to hold first place in the AL East.

It’s been a while since the Orioles have been competitive like this. This team and its players don’t have much experience battling for the top spot in the American League East. But here they are at the top of the MLB standings 2023 in the American League.

For the Orioles, they must win this home series against the Rockies. Colorado doesn’t even have 50 wins on the year.

Let’s break down the Rockies vs Orioles betting odds for this three-game series.

Colorado’s Attendance High Despite Losing Team

The Rockies won’t be home for their series against the Orioles. However, Colorado fans are starting to get fed up by the Rockies and its ownership.

They’ve consistently finished in the top half of attendance in the MLB. However, Colorado rarely spends to put together a real competitive team in the MLB.

The fans enjoy the stadium. They enjoy their seats. It’s their team, and they’re proud of them. However, because fans act like this, the ownership doesn’t feel the need to spend.

It’s like when the New York Knicks sold out their arena with five scrubs starting a half-decade ago. It’s Madison Square Garden, and it’s the Knicks. They’ll sell out regardless of who is on the court.

The Knicks don’t compare to the Rockies. But that’s still a real example. Colorado’s ownership knows the fans will flock in regardless of who is on the roster. Therefore, they don’t spend or care about winning long term.

This season has been another failure for the Rockies. They’ll be way below .500 again.

When is enough enough?

Let’s Keep Talking About Ownership!

The Orioles don’t have any better ownership. John Angelos hinted that the Orioles won’t extend their young stars without “dramatically” raising prices.

Baltimore’s a small-market team. But they’ve looked incredible with their young talent coming up from the farm system.

This is the first season where the Orioles have had significant success from start to finish. Yet, during the peak of the regular season, Angels acknowledges that he’ll either have to make more money to keep his players or he’ll watch his players walk off to a big market team willing to pay money.

These owners are a disgrace to baseball.

Atlanta never had a problem extending their young talent early. The Orioles can do the same. Ronald Acuna signed an 8-year extension worth $100 million in 2019. Now, he’ll likely be the MVP of the National League.

While there’s potential that Acuna will hold on, it shows you that ownership can put together great teams while these players are still young.

It was a bad look for Angelos and likely didn’t make many Orioles fans happy.

Below, we’ll discuss the probable pitchers and the Rockies vs Orioles betting odds for the weekend series.

The Rockies will start Kyle Freeland for tonight’s game. He’s 5-13 with a 5.02 ERA on the season. His walk rate is sitting at 6.6% on the season. However, he’s only earned 8.5% swinging strikes and has allowed 34.2% of hard contact over the last month.

However, in the last 30 days, he’s allowed righties to hit a .298 ISO and wOBA of .467.

Freeland will face Cole Irvin, a left-handed pitcher, earning over 25% of strikeouts in the last 30 days. He’s minimized strikeouts and has held teams to a .145 ISO and wOBA of .291 over the previous month.

Against lefties, the Rockies haven’t looked good. The projected lineup has struck out over 30% of the time and has hit a wOBA way below the average.

Meanwhile, the Orioles have hit a .168 ISO and wOBa of .313 against righties over the last month. Baltimore hasn’t dominated against righties, but Gunnar Henderson, Anthony Santander, and Ryan Mountcastle have done enough damage to lead the way.

The Orioles are -205 at home, with the Rockies sitting at +175. Meanwhile, the total is 9, with the under juiced to -115. I’d look at the Orioles at -1.5, with odds at +105 as the best bet.

In the second start, Chris Flexen will get the start. He’ll pitch later in the MLB game times on Saturday. Flexen has allowed a .295 ISO and wOBA of .420 to his last 118 batters. The right-hander has been worse against righties but has still allowed a .365 wOBA against his last 55 lefties.

We don’t know who Flexen will face just yet in this game. The Orioles haven’t announced a starter for this game. The Rockies vs Orioles betting odds will likely still favor the Orioles at home. This was originally Dean Kremer’s spot in the rotation. However, he took over for Jack Flaherty, who couldn’t pitch earlier this week.

Flaherty is unsure when his next start will be. Therefore, he’s not an option to pitch in this game.

Against righties, the Rockies have hit a .169 ISO and wOBA of .333 using their projected lineup over the last 30 days. The Rockies have been getting more production from lefties than righties against righties, which is typical. Charlie Blackmon has launched the baseball against righties Nolan Jones and Ryan McMahon. Again, they’re all lefties.

The Orioles will have to take on their second lefty of the series in Game 3. Ty Blach has been the best pitcher of the three probable starters for the Rockies. He’s held his last 108 batters to a .134 ISO and wOBA of .334. However, he’s only struck out 11.1% of batters and has thrown 76.8 pitches per start in the last 30 days.

Blach will go up against Kyle Bradish, who has allowed a .121 ISO and wOBA of .270 to his last 119 batters. He’s also struck out 25.2% in that span and has limited walks to 8.4. Bradish has earned over 58% of ground balls and kept fly balls and line drives below the MLB average.

Bradish has been terrific. I’ll grab the Orioles as Sunday’s MLB picks today.

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