NL Wild-Card: DBacks Host Rockies, Winner Advances

NL Wild-Card Game How Two Familiar Foes

The Colorado Rockies and Arizona Diamondbacks meet on Wednesday at Chase Field in the NL Wild-Card game. These two teams are about as close as teams can get. First pitch is set for 8:05 pm EST. The game is going to be televised by TBS. They share a spring training facility in Scottsdale, Arizona. Their clubhouses are separated by a couple of concrete walls and about 400 feet of stadium grass. They opened spring training against each other this year and met 19 times in the regular season. All of that just to get to this Winner-Take-All NL Wild-Card game. The winner will advance to take on their division rivals, the Los Angeles Dodgers. Arizona won 11 of the 19 meetings this season. They are on a bit of a roll. The team has won nine of the past 13 head-to-head matchups. The Diamondbacks outscored the Rockies 101-69 in the regular season. Oddsmakers opened the Diamondbacks as -163-moneyline favorites versus the Rockies, while the game’s total opened at 9. The line is now up to Arizona -178-moneyline favorite and the total has slid down to 8.5.

Rockies Hope to Solve DBacks Pitching in NL Wild-Card

The Rockies will pin their hopes on the pitching of right hander Jon Gray in this game. Gray has a 10-4 record and a 3.67 ERA this season. Gray beat the D-backs twice in three starts this year. Both games were at Chase Field. He struck out a season-high 10 in each turn in Arizona. Gray is 2-2 with a 4.75 ERA in five career starts versus the Diamondbacks. The Rockies led the NL with 824 runs this year. They feature a pair of MVP candidates as well. Center fielder Charlie Blackmon and third baseman Nolan Arenado have had great seasons. Blackmon set a major league record with 103 RBIs from the leadoff spot. Arenado had his third straight 130-plus-RBI season. Each had 37 homers.

D-Backs Look to Continue Dominance Over Rockies

Starting this game for the Diamondbacks will be Zack Greinke. The right hander has a 3.20 ERA to go along with a 17-7 record this season.   Greinke beat the Rockies in Arizona and at Coors Field this season. He was 2-1 with a 3.41 ERA in five starts this season. Four of them were quality starts. The other was two outs short of it. He is 9-5 with a 3.93 ERA in 25 career games versus Colorado. Arizona scored 12 fewer runs this year, but finished third in the NL in team ERA. The D-Backs ERA was 3.66. They improved by nearly a run and a half over the worst ERA in the majors last season, 5.09. The D-backs have their own MVP candidate in first baseman Paul Goldschmidt. He rang up 36 homers and 120 RBIs this season. Arizona right fielder J.D. Martinez could be the best trade-deadline acquisition in many years. He blew up for 29 homers and 65 RBIs in 62 games after begin acquired from the Detroit Tigers. Martinez had 16 homers in September. That tied Ralph Kiner’s NL record for the month.

Z Greinke (17-7) ERA: 3.20

Colorado’s relievers have pitched 11 innings in the last 3 games.
Arizona’s relievers have pitched 14.1 innings in the last 3 games.

Colorado Rockies – Jon Gray

Arizona Diamondbacks – Z Greinke

NL Wild-Card Supergrid

Title	Stat	Rank	Stat	Rank
Away Team Overall Scoring vs Home Team Overall Defense	5.09	3	4.07	3
Away Team Away Scoring vs Home Team Home Defense	4.15	25	4.27	11
Home Team Overall Scoring vs Away Team Overall Defense	5.01	8	4.67	14
Home Team Home Scoring vs Away Team Road Defense	5.64	2	4.22	8

Head To Head Detail

NL Wild-Card Betting Trends

Colorado Rockies
The total has gone UNDER in 11 of Colorado’s last 13 games
Colorado is 2-6 ATS in its last 8 games on the road
Colorado is 2-6 SU in its last 8 games on the road
The total has gone UNDER in 6 of Colorado’s last 7 games on the road
Colorado is 2-5 ATS in its last 7 games when playing Arizona
Colorado is 2-7 SU in its last 9 games when playing Arizona
The total has gone UNDER in 4 of Colorado’s last 6 games when playing Arizona
Colorado is 2-4 SU in its last 6 games when playing on the road against Arizona
The total has gone UNDER in 4 of Colorado’s last 6 games when playing on the road against Arizona

Arizona Diamondbacks
Arizona is 1-4 ATS in its last 5 games at home
Arizona is 6-2 SU in its last 8 games at home
The total has gone OVER in 4 of Arizona’s last 6 games at home
Arizona is 5-2 ATS in its last 7 games when playing Colorado
Arizona is 7-2 SU in its last 9 games when playing Colorado
The total has gone UNDER in 4 of Arizona’s last 6 games when playing Colorado
Arizona is 4-2 SU in its last 6 games when playing at home against Colorado
The total has gone UNDER in 4 of Arizona’s last 6 games when playing at home against Colorado

Arizona Diamondbacks

Colorado Rockies

Arizona Diamondbacks

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