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2022 MLB Handicapping
(73-59) San Diego Padres vs. Los Angeles Dodgers (90-40)
Date: Saturday, September 3, 2022
Time: 9:10 PM ET
Venue: Dodger Stadium, Los Angeles, CA.
Projected Pitchers: Manaea (SD), Urias (LAD)
MLB Moneyline Odds: Padres +185 , Dodgers -215
MLB run line Betting Odds: Padres -115 , Dodgers -105
MLB Baseball Gambling Total: O/U: 8.5
San Diego Padres
Here’s a testament to how good the Dodgers have been: despite having the second-best record amongst all second-place teams entering Friday, San Diego is by far the furthest back in its division.
The Padres entered Friday 18 games back of the Dodgers, even after winning the final three games in their four-game series with the Giants this week.
The trip from San Francisco down to Los Angeles isn’t a particularly long one so San Diego got to enjoy most, if not all, of its day off Thursday.
Yu Darvish will go on Friday and Sean Manaea will start this game on Saturday.
Perhaps the Oakland A’s knew something the Padres didn’t when they dealt Manaea in a trade over the offseason.
In his first season as a Padre, Manaea is 7–7 with a 77 ERA+. He has pitched a full season, which is a positive but he just hasn’t been effective like he was in Oakland.
The discouraging bit is that the lefty’s ERA is trending the wrong way, from somewhere in the threes for most of the first half to later the fours and now approaching five.
He’s faced the Dodgers twice this season and got beat around both times, most recently a month ago in LA.
LA Dodgers
The Dodgers didn’t homer off of Manaea in that game — the only game in Manaea’s last ten starts in which he didn’t give up at least one — but they did get ten hits and eight runs in just four innings.
Mookie Betts, Trea Turner, Freddie Freeman and Will Smith — the first four in the lineup — finished that game 8-for-15 with six runs scored.
Tony Gonsolin started that game for the Dodgers but he missed his last start and the reports on him are that he’s going to be out at least a little longer than initially expected.
So the unstoppable Dodgers are now without perhaps their three best starting pitchers with Walker Buehler out for the season and Clayton Kershaw also laid up.
That puts all the more pressure on Julio Urias to be an ace. He’s been that this season: 14–2 with a 2.32 ERA.
The days of him perhaps being a disappointment after all the hype surrounding him coming up the chain are long gone.
He won 20 games at age 25 last season and has a chance to win an ERA Title in the NL this season, though he’s unlikely to catch Sandy Alcantara (2.13).
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San Diego Padres vs. LA Dodgers MLB Prediction:
Manaea will pitch the best he has in three starts against the Dodgers.
Of course, that isn’t saying much. After getting beat up twice, He will have some adjustments to make but the Dodgers are still going to get theirs.
It will be more than Urias needs. The kid is locked in.
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