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Jose Quintana has used his non-fastballs 5.4% more often this season (49.8%) than he did last season (44.4%).<\/div>\n<div style=\"display: block; margin: 0.25rem 0 1.5rem;\"><small><em><strong>Explain:<\/strong> A pitcher who limits has fastball usage will instead heavily use change-ups, curveballs, sliders, etc. These are far more effective pitches at preventing runs and generating strikeouts.<\/em><\/small><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div style=\"display: block; margin: 0.75rem 0;\"><strong>Mickey Moniak &#8211; Over\/Under 1.5 Total Bases (+130\/-165)<\/strong><\/div>\n<div style=\"display: block; margin: 0.25rem 0;\">Despite posting a .425 wOBA this year, the leading projection system (THE BAT X) believes Mickey Moniak has had some very good luck given the .104 deviation between that figure and his estimated true talent wOBA of .321.<\/div>\n<div style=\"display: block; margin: 0.25rem 0 1.5rem;\"><small><em><strong>Explain:<\/strong> Players that are overperforming should be expected to play worse going forward, which can create value on prop Unders if the lines are too heavily weighing the lucky, to-date overperformance.<\/em><\/small><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div style=\"display: block; margin: 0.75rem 0;\"><strong>Mickey Moniak &#8211; Over\/Under 1.5 Total Bases (+130\/-165)<\/strong><\/div>\n<div style=\"display: block; margin: 0.25rem 0;\">When estimating his overall offensive ability, Mickey Moniak ranks in the 78th percentile according to the leading projections (THE BAT X).<\/div>\n<div style=\"display: block; margin: 0.25rem 0 1.5rem;\"><small><em><strong>Explain:<\/strong> THE BAT X is a highly sophisticated projection system that accounts for a multitude of factors and regularly tests among the most accurate systems available.<\/em><\/small><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 style=\"margin: 3rem 0 0 0;\">Betting Trends<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<div style=\"display: block; margin: 0.75rem 0;\"><strong>Colorado Rockies &#8211; Over\/Under 4.5 Team Total (+110\/-140)<\/strong><\/div>\n<div style=\"display: block; margin: 0.25rem 0 1.5rem;\">The Colorado Rockies have hit the Team Total Over in 12 of their last 19 games at home (+3.70 Units \/ 16% ROI)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div style=\"display: block; margin: 0.75rem 0;\"><strong>Texas Rangers &#8211; Over\/Under 5.5 Team Total (+100\/-130)<\/strong><\/div>\n<div style=\"display: block; margin: 0.25rem 0 1.5rem;\">The Texas Rangers have hit the Team Total Under in 14 of their last 22 games (+5.50 Units \/ 22% ROI)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div style=\"display: block; margin: 0.75rem 0;\"><strong>Jake McCarthy &#8211; Over\/Under 0.5 Singles (-110\/-120)<\/strong><\/div>\n<div style=\"display: block; margin: 0.25rem 0 1.5rem;\">Jake McCarthy has hit the Singles Under in 16 of his last 20 games at home (+11.35 Units \/ 43% ROI)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div>\n<form><input type=\"hidden\" id=\"ga-page-group\" name=\"ga-page-group\" value=\"GAME PREVIEW\"><input type=\"hidden\" id=\"ga-sport\" name=\"ga-sport\" \"value=\"mlb\"><input type=\"hidden\" id=\"ga-title-id\" name=\"ga-title-id\"value=\"1.24.1\"><input type=\"hidden\" id=\"ga-title-group\" name=\"ga-title-group\" value=\"PREVIEW\"><input type=\"hidden\" id=\"ga-title-cta\" name=\"ga-title-cta\" value=\"0\"><\/form>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Texas Rangers @ Colorado Rockies -150O\/U: 9.5(-110\/-110)+130 Texas Rangers Insights MacKenzie Gore &#8211; Over\/Under 17.5 Pitching Outs (-140\/+110) Recording 93.2 adjusted pitches per start this year on average, MacKenzie Gore&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":372117,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[247,305,16,250,248,251,241,193,312,242,249,243,356,73,246,239,240,253,245,252,28,244],"class_list":["post-372116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mlb-game-previews","tag-analysis","tag-brandon-nimmo","tag-colorado-rockies","tag-game-breakdown","tag-game-forecast","tag-head-to-head","tag-insights","tag-jose-quintana","tag-mackenzie-gore","tag-match","tag-match-preview","tag-matchup","tag-mickey-moniak","tag-mlb","tag-prediction","tag-preview","tag-rankings","tag-score-prediction","tag-simulation","tag-team-stats","tag-texas-rangers","tag-winning-probability"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Prediction and Game Breakdown: Rangers vs Rockies Match Monday May 18, 2026 - WriteNow\u2122 by EV Analytics<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Get an in-depth game preview and prediction for Texas Rangers vs. Colorado Rockies on May 18, 2026. 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