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20* Lakers -6.5 (100 Dime BIG TICKET)
20* Dodgers over 8
10* Yankees over 9.5
10* Lakers under 202
10* Oakland under 8.5
10* Seattle under 7
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908 - MLB - 3 units on Houston -121
#910 - MLB - 3 units on St. Louis -128
#926 - MLB - 3 units on Chicago White Sox -112
#927 - MLB - 3 units on Baltimore +100
#930 - MLB - 3 units on Seattle -135
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Orlando +7
NY Yankees -145
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100* Cincy
100* Orlando
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NBA
ORLANDO (+6.5) over LA Lakers 8:05 p.m. ET
OVER 202 POINTS Orlando at LA Lakers 8:05 p.m. ET
Major League Baseball
DETROIT (-120) with Porcello over LA Angels 1:05 p.m. ET
OVER 7.5 RUNS Minnesota at Seattle 4:10 p.m. ET
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2* Cubs / Reds Under 8.5 -115
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5* Philadelphia +113 **POD**
5* Kansas City +235
5* San Diego +147
5* NY Mets -106
NBA
5* LA Lakers -6.5
Larry Ness'
15* Pitching Mismatch-MLB (won Fri, 9-1 w/Astros)
My 15* Pitching Mismatch is on the SF Giants at 5:05 ET. The Giants are 28-26 in 2009, quite an improvement from last year's 72-90 mark. Meanwhile, the Marlins enter this game 27-30 having stumbled to a 16-29 mark since opening the 2009 season 11-1. Speaking about opening the 2009 season, Ricky Nolasco was the Marlins' Opening Day starter back on April 6. He was coming off a team and career-high 15 wins in 2008, bouncing back from injury woes which had plagued him in 2007, after a promising 2006 rookie season. The Marlins went 21-11 in Nolasco's starts last year and his moneyline mark of plus-$1,394 was second to only Cliff Lee (24-7, plus-$1,452), who won the AL Cy Young award last season. Nolasco led the Marlins to a win back on April 6 but he hardly looked sharp (6 IP / 7 hits / 5 ERs). It was a portend of things to come. Nolasco allowed eight ERs in back-to-back starts (May 13 and 22) and that left him with a 9.07 ERA on the year, having allowed 66 hits in 43.2 innings. The Marlins had seen enough and he sent to the minors on May 23. He's made two starts in Triple-A, going 1-1 with a 2.40 ERA over 15 innings and is now "back in the bigs." In the Giants, who are just 10-17 on the road while averaging 3.33 RPG, Nolasco draws a good opponent but there's one problem and it's HUGE. His mound opponent is defending NL Cy Young award winner, Tim Lincecum. Lincecum followed his rookie season of 2007 (7-5 with a 4.00 ERA) by going 18-5 with a 2.62 ERA in 2008 (team was 21-12 in his starts). He led the NL in strikeouts last year (265 vs just 84 walks), allowed only 182 hits in 227 innings. Not a bad second year for a man pitching for a team which finished just 72-90. Consider this, his win percentage was .783, while the Giants went just 54-85 when he didn't get a decision (.388). The Giants were 21-12 in Lincecum's starts (.636) but only 51-78 (.395) when he didn't take the mound. That's what one calls a "difference-maker!" Lincecum is 4-1 with a 3.01 ERA in 11 starts in 2009, posting a 91-21 strikeout-to-walk ratio. The Giants are just 6-5 in his starts and Lincecum has only one victory in his last five starts, despite posting a 2.97 ERA in that span. Like his last start on Tuesday when he left with a 5-4 lead having allowed just two ERs, the Giants' bullpen has not been kind to Lincecum. The Nationals (MLB's worst team) scored six runs in the bottom of the eighth inning on Tuesday, depriving Lincecum of a win. In fact, FOUR of the team's eight blown saves this season have come in games Lincecum has started. Enough is enough. Lincecum faces the Marlins for the first time in his career and as for Nolasco, he may wish he had stayed in the minors. Pitching Mismatch 15* SF Giants.
Good Luck...Larry
Larry Ness' 20* PERFECT STORM-MLB (9-0 in MLB '09!)
My 20* PERFECT STORM is on the StL cards at 2:15 ET. Jim Tracy took over for Clint Hurdle on May 29 and the Rockies won two in a row. However, they promptly totaled only nine runs while dropping their next four games. Just as suddenly, the Rockies have now posted three straight wins, by scores of 10-3 (at Houston), 11-4 and 10-1 (the last two wins here at Busch vs the Cards). What's going on? Prior to Thursday's outburst, the Rockies had last scored double digit runs back on May 13, failing to reach that plateau in 20 consecutive games while averaging a modest 3.8 RPG. Take the case of 2B Ian Stewart. He was hitting .177 with seven HRs and two multi-hit performances over his first 48 games of '09. However, in these last four games, Stewart has had at least two hits in each contest, going 10-for-17 (.588) with four HRs, 12 RBI and seven runs scored in that stretch. How's that possible? The Rockies, NL champs just two years ago, enter this game 23-32 and in last-place, 14 1/2 games back of the Dodgers in the NL West. Meanwhile, the 31-25 Cards (despite their recent struggles, having lost six of nine while scoring three or fewer runs six times), have been in the NL Central 'hunt' all season and are currently just two games back of the Brewers. The Rockies are not going for a sweep here, as the team's have a "getaway day" game scheduled tomorrow but Colorado is trying to post double digits in runs in its fourth straight game, something the team last did back in 2000 (April 30-May 3). The pitchers are Ubaldo Jimenez (3-6, 4.11 ERA) for the Rockies and Joel Pineiro (5-5, 3.86 ERA) for the Cards. Jimenez first made a 'splash' for the Rockies when they reached the World Series in 2007, pitching well in September and in three postseason starts (3.38 ERA in which the team won two of three). He went 12-12 in 34 starts (team was 15-19) last year (3.99 ERA) but had all sorts ot trouble on the road (team was 5-13 in those starts). He's made 11 starts with a 4.11 ERA in 2009, with the Rockies going 3-8 (1-6 on the road). As for Pineiro, he was said to have a 'live' arm back in Seattle during the early part of the decade and big things were expected after he went 30-18 with a 3.52 ERA in 2002 and 2003. However, over the next three seasons, he was just 21-35 with a 5.60 ERA in 76 stars (team was 27-49). He found himself in the Red Sox bullpen in 2007 but came to the Cards later that season, reviving his career by going 6-4 with a 3.96 ERA in 11 starts. He regressed in 2008, going 7-7 with a 5.15 ERA in 25 starts (Cards were 12-13). He came out of the gate pitching very well for the c Cards in 2009, going 4-0 with a 3.76 ERA in April. However, he's had a tough May, going 1-5. That being said, a closer look reveals that his May ERA was 3.92, hardly much more that it was in April. The difference being, he received an average of just 1.85 RPG in support in May, after getting 7.86 RPG in April. Let me also note that his road ERA in six starts this year is 5.45 (he's 2-4), while his ERA here in Busch is 2.05 (he's 3-1). The right-hander will face a Colorado team which was just 48-67 vs righties last year, including 22-41 on the road. A closer look at that road record reveals the Rockies were just 3-11 in road day games vs rightiies, averaging only 3.5 RPG. Colorado is hitting righties a little better this year, going 16-21, including 10-13 on the road but the Rockies are just 2-4 in road day games, averaging 4.2 RPG. Colorado's bats will NOT keep it up plus let's not forget the Rockies have won just 24 percent (6-19) of Jimenez's road starts since the beginning of 2009.
PERFECT STORM 20* StL Cards.
Good Luck...Larry
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mlb. minnesota @ seattle under 7' runs (500*).
nba. orlando @ lakers over 201 (30*)
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mlb. washington-110 (20*)
mlb. detroit-125 (10*)
mlb. oakland-115 (10*) free play
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