The Atlanta Braves and Colorado Rockies finish a weekend series in Atlanta on Sunday afternoon.
All eyes have been fixated on the Braves offense, paced by NL MVP front runner Ronald Acuna Jr., and rightfully so, Atlanta has been arguably the best offense in baseball outside of the Tampa Bay Rays this season and has been incredible at the plate this month.
Can the team cap off the series against the lowly Rockies with another big scoring outing against Rockies starter Chase Anderson?
Here are the odds for Sunday's matchup:
Rockies vs. Braves odds, run line and total
Rockies vs. Braves prediction and pick
The Braves offense is hitting over .300 as a team in the month of June, best in the big leagues by a wide margin (second is the Phillies at .280). The team is also the only big league club with a slugging percentage of greater than .500 (.513) this month.
Now, the team gets to face Anderson, who has a 2.72 ERA that is supported by a 3.89 xERA. While Anderson looks to be a formidable rotation piece, but he is skating by with looming regression. The Rockies starter has stranded 92% of runners this season, one of the highest marks in all of baseball.
That is sure to drop against an elite lineup like the Braves, who has scored over 90 runs in 15 games this month and should have little issue generating hard contact against the Anderson, who lacks the velocity to punch out Atlanta hitters, averaging less than seven strikeouts per nine innings.
I'm going to target the Braves team total over as my favorite bet on Sunday.
PICK: Braves Team Total OVER 5.5 (+110)
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