Larry Ness
Friday Night Delight
San Francisco Giants
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Boston Red Sox
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Minnesota Twins
Greg Shaker
RunLine Double-Dime Bet
CHC -1.5 (-105) vs PIT
Money Line Double-Dime Bet
WAS (-106) vs CIN
Money Line Double-Dime Bet
BAL (+109) vs SEA
Total Double-Dime Bet
SEA / BAL Over 9
Total Double-Dime Bet
HOU / NYM Under 9.5
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LA Dodgers -1.12 (3 Unit Play)
The Dodgers dropped the opener of this critical four game series but made a huge acquisition in obtaining Manny Ramirez to try and help their offense. I am not a Manny fan by any means but one thing the guy can do is hit and he should be a huge asset to the Dodgers down the stretch. Ramirez is expected to be in the lineup tonight so we will see if he helps or not. The Dodgers will have rookie Clayton Kershaw on the mound and he has been pitching pretty well at home this year as he has a 3.46 ERA in 26 innings with a 1.42 WHIP. This will be Kershaw's first career appearance against the Diamondbacks but he is off of his first career win on Sunday against Washington. The Diamondbacks will have Randy Johnson on the mound and he has been pitching very well over his last few starts but he was struggling badly before that and could revert back tonight as his teams are only 4-6 the past 10 games against the Dodgers. Tonight's HP umpire Eric Cooper is 11-10 for the home team this year but more importantly Johnson has had six career starts with Cooper and went 1-5 while this will be Kershaw's first career appearance with the umpire. I like the Dodgers here tonight.
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San Francisco Giants vs. San Diego Padres
Play: San Francisco Giants
With Tim Lincecum on the mound for San Francisco, look to PLAY AGAINST home teams like San Diego when the money line is +125 to -125 in a game involving two teams with win percentage between 38 to 46 percent in August games. Since 2004, this play is 29-10, 74.4 percent.
Larry Ness
Milwaukee Brewers @ Atlanta Braves
PICK: Over
The Brewers returned from the All Star break and promptly won seven straight games, all on the road. They then came back to Milwaukee for a seven-game homestand and "the wheels fell off!" First, the lowly Astros took two of three from the Brewers and then in a first-place showdown with the Cubs, the Brewers lost all four games, getting beat 7-1, 7-2 and 11-4 in the final three games. Will the team being able to recover? Can the Brewers maintain their recent high level of play on the road? They open a three-game series in Atlanta tonight, a team which won 24 of its first 30 home games but has gone just 8-17 over its last 25 games at Turner Field. The Brewers are hoping Jeff Suppan can bounce back from a terrible outing in his last start, an 11-6 loss to the Astros last Sunday in Milwaukee. Suppan was rocked for 11 hits and eight ERs (six IP) in that game and turning it around here, may not be easy. Suppan posted a 5.38 road ERA in 2007 (his first with Milwaukee) and his road ERA in '08 sits at 5.79. He's just 1-5 in six career starts vs the Braves (5.61), which includes an 0-4 mark with a 7.25 ERA in Turner Field (ouch!). However, I don't really feel comfortable taking the Braves, who have recalled Chuck James from the minors, to start in the place of the injured Tim Hudson. James wasn't bad the last two season for Atlanta, going 22-14 with a 4.05 ERA in 55 appearances, including 48 starts (Braves were 28-20). However, he's coming off rotator cuff surgery and has been up and down between the majors and minors this year. He made three early April starts and then after a stint in the minors, made two more starts in early May, before being sent back. Doing the math for '08, he's 2-3 but with an 8.82 ERA, as he's allowed 21 ERs in 23 innings. The lefty will be up against a Milwaukee team which is 22-13 vs lefties this year, averaging a solid 5.1 RPG. Let's go 'OVER' the total.
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Los Angeles Angels @ New York Yankees
PICK: Under
Now that we can get on the plus side with the under, we're going to step in. Both the Angels and Yankees have been swinging the hot bats in recent games, but that's the funny thing about baseball, you never know when a team is about to go cold. All we need is for that to happen to one team tonight, and our under ticket should be golden.
Ervin Santana is no slouch on the mound for the Angels. The under is 13-6-2 in his 21 starts in 2008, including 7-4-2 on the road. Six of his last seven outings have produced run totals of nine or less. He has faced the Yankees just once since the start of last season so you can essentially throw his career numbers against them out the window.
Sidney Ponson is coming off a bad outing for the Yankees earlier in the week, but we feel that he could succeed over what could be an overconfident Angels bunch. Note that Los Angeles is hitting 22 points lower against righties than lefties this season, and a full 80 points lower over their last 10 games.
The under is 30-22-4 in Angels road games this year while the Yankees own a 22-32-4 o/u record at home. We also have an 'under' ump behind the plate in CB Bucknor. His games have resulted in an average of just over eight runs. Take the under (3*).
INDIANCOWBOY COMP
Seatle -121
Olson hasn't put together a bounce-back start in quite some time as he rarely pitches a quality start, nevertheless, a bounce-back. He is 3-4 with a 6.81 era on the road while Washburn is 6 of 7 in quality starts and even that 1 start that wasn't necessarily quality was borderline at a 4.50, the cutoff for me for quality, the Orioles have though beaten him both games he was a part of in pitching against him this year, still a relatively cheap price on Washburn and in fact, it is a bit too cheap to be good, reminds me too much of the KC vs. Oakland game in which Oakland looked great for all the reasons above, but lost by 1 run in extras.
write-up: Let's take the bait here, why not, Washburn has lost both times to the Orioles but he has gotten better each time, the Mariners offense put up 8 runs at Texas in a win, they have clearly the better pitcher and Olson has found it tough all year to pitch back to back quality starts. The Orioles are 1-4 in Olsen's last 5 starts and they are 2-9 against the AL West of late as well.
Bob Balfe
Major League Baseball
Phillies/Cardinals Over 8 Runs
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3 units on Boston -140
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