What do you get when you combine two pitch-to-contact starters who don't allow a lot of runs with a ballpark that suffocates offenses? Our betting picks are looking closely at the Under for tonight's clash between Dane Dunning and Logan Webb.
. Yes, both men have sightly inflated expected ERAs due to the number of batted balls they allow into play, but there’s a lot to like with both arms.
Dunning is pitching in front of one of baseball's Top-5 defenses, according to outs above average, and he’s traded some ground balls for fly balls as he's been pumping the strike zone even more than usual this season. His walk rate has come down to 6.9% and his strikeout rate is now at a career-low 17.3%. It has amounted to a 3.21 ERA, and while the expected stats would point towards regression, his accompanying defense is the reason he’s had such great results.
The Giants have been one of the worst offensive teams in baseball over the last two weeks with a 65 wRC+. On top of that, the only real success they’ve had has come from a 9.2% walk rate and some timely base hits. With a putrid .099 ISO in that span, I’m not too worried about Dunning getting lit up here.
That’s enough for me to back the Under here before we even consider San Francisco's ace. Texas has been red hot lately, but leaning on power is not going to work all that well against a guy in Webb, who’s allowed ground balls roughly two-thirds of the time a ball has come back in play. And he's allowed more than three runs in just three of his last 20 starts dating back to April 22 and one of those came at Coors Field, where pitchers go to die. Webb has been particularly effective at pitcher-friendly Oracle Park, limiting opponents to a .226 batting average while posting a 2.23 ERA .
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