The Mets are desperately trying to stop the bleeding and have a tough task ahead of themselves again on Wednesday as Shohei Ohtani takes the mound opposite Clay Holmes.
Carlos Mendoza’s struggling group has opened on prediction markets as big underdogs, coming in at +190 on Polymarket as of Tuesday evening.
Holmes has pitched very well so far this season and bright spots for the Mets have been few and far between; he comes in with a 1.50 ERA in his three starts.
Though Ohtani has looked dominant in his own right, having not yet allowed a run in two starts, the Dodgers look to keep him fresh for the full 162-game stretch.
We’ll dive in to whether there is any hope for the Mets to right the ship and avoid another loss to the Dodgers in a West Coast swing where the team seems to be reeling and searching for a motive.
Mets vs. Dodgers prediction
The Mets’ bats have been putrid, terrible, and all of the adjectives for most of this season.
Ohtani is no slouch on the mound, but I’m going to buy a bit of the Over on this one as I consider that these two pitchers will have at least some good fortune this year.
It’s still early, but Holmes has an xERA of 3.61 with middling whiff rates and hard-hit rates.
The same can be said for Ohtani, who is struggling to miss bats in his own right through two starts.
While the Mets seemingly can’t hit anything right now, I’ll still track the Over at a decent price going into Wednesday.
The run total comes in at 7.5 on the prediction market sites, and I like that at -115 at the time of this writing.
THE PLAY: Over 7.5 total runs (-115, Polymarket)
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