Michael Cannon
San Francisco -125 at ARIZONA
I had the Giants last night and they failed me, but I’m coming right back with them tonight.
Matt Cain will start for San Francisco and now that he’s getting some run support it’s reflecting in his win-loss totals. The right-hander is 7-1 on the year with a 2.27 ERA. He’s 3-0 in his last three starts with a 1.33 ERA.
Billy Buckner will start for Arizona and I just don’t see him matching Cain pitch-for-pitch. The young righty is 2-1 on the year but has a 5.24 ERA.
Take the Giants as they grab the road win.
3♦ SAN FRANCISCO
JIM FEIST
CHICAGO CUBS / HOUSTON ASTROS
Take CHICAGO CUBS
It's been a good week for the Cubs, taking 3 of 4 games. Alfonso Soriano's solo home run off Mike Lincoln ignited a three-run rally in the 14th inning that the Cubs took charge in a 6-3 victory over the Reds. Seven Cubs relievers combined for 7 1/3 innings of one-run ball. Lefty Ted Lilly (6-4) has been great, with a 3.28 ERA and a sizzling 59-18 strikeout to walk ratio. Houston starter Brian Moehler is awful, with a 6.37 ERA. He has a 13.50 ERA against the Cubs this season. Play the Cubs.
Jr Tips
COLORADO vs. MILWAUKEE
Milwaukee (33-24) missed a chance to sweep a three-game series dropping the finale 8-7 on Sunday, and Colorado (25-32) swept a four-game series from the Cardinals.The Rockies now have a chance to win six straight for the first time since September 2007. Colorado outscored St. Louis 33-9, improving to 7-4 under their new manager Jim Tracy. Jason Hammel (2-3, 4.50 ERA) takes the mound for Colorado. He's 2-1 with a 1.86 ERA in four starts and two relief appearances on the road this season and has allowed three runs or fewer in four of his last five starts overall.The right-hander surrendered two runs and four hits in seven innings to earn a win in Colorado's 10-3 victory at Houston last Thursday night. This will be Hammel's first appearance versus the Brewers who will be facing a Milwaukee lineup that had a strong finish to its series with Atlanta, getting a pair of two-run homers from Ryan Braun. The left-fielder has 12 homers on the season and nine career multihomer games, including two this year. Cleanup hitter Prince Fielder is coming off a road trip in which he hit .462 (12 for 26) with three homers and six RBIs in seven games. Braden Looper will start for Milwaukee today. Looper struggled giving up five runs and seven hits in 4 2/3 innings.The veteran right-hander is 3-2 with a 6.00 ERA in his last six starts and 2-2 with a 5.28 ERA in 19 appearances, two starts, against Colorado. Both these teams are playing some of the best baseball in the NL and both offensives have produced at a high level. Looper will have trouble once again stopping this Rockies offenese and the Brewers will continue to score at a rapid pace at home.
TAKE OVER 9 1/2 RUNS
VEGAS EXPERTS
New York Yankees at Boston Red Sox
The Boston Red Sox swept the Yankees at Fenway Park in April and also took two games at the new Yankee Stadium, thus winning all five meetings this season. Boston has not won six in a row against the Yankees in 35 years. The Yankees hold the one-game lead in the AL East and are a far different team from the last meeting in early May. Yankees starter AJ Burnett has a 5-0 record against the Red Sox with a 3.52 ERA in nine starts. Boston ace Josh Beckett is carrying over a 5.00 ERA against arch-nemesis New York. Beckett has a 3-9 TSR after allowing just one or less earned runs in his previous start. Go with the Yankees
Play on: New York
LT Profits
Los Angeles Angels @ Tampa Bay Rays
James Shields of the Tampa Bay Rays has always pitched well at home in Tropicana Field, while Jered Weaver has become the Angels ace to this point this season.
Remember that Shields was 9-2 with a 2.59 ERA and 1.04 WHIP at home last season, and he is at it again this year, going 4-1 with 2.72 ERA and 1.12 WHIP here in six starts covering 43 innings. He has allowed two earned runs or less in his last five starts at the Trop, and he has also allowed two runs or less in all five of his career starts vs. the Angels in this stadium.
Weaver has been very consistent regardless of the venue, as he has regained the fine form he displayed when he first entered the Major Leagues a few years ago. Weaver actually deserves a better fate than his current 5-2 record, as he owns a 2.26 ERA and an excellent 1.00 WHIP overall this year. He has been very consistent with eight Quality Starts in his last nine starts, and better yet, he has incredibly allowed exactly one run in five of his last six outings!
Finally, Weaver is a perfect three for three in Quality Starts in his career vs. the Rays, so look for a good old fashioned pitching duel in Tampa tonight.
Pick: Angels/Rays Under 8
Bryan Leonard
Detroit at Chicago
Mark Buerhle has dominated the Tigers as of late, especially the last two seasons. Earlier this year he allowed just one hit while shutting out the Tigers. Last year in two starts he limited Detroit to just 3 runs and a .298 slugging percentage.
Dontrelle Willis hasn't been the same pitcher in the past few seasons. His wild delivery fooled a lot of batters early on but they made the needed adjustments. While Willis has tried to counter he is just a shell of his former self. Willis continues to struggle with his control and it's really hurt his team. Opponents can just wait for a hittable pitch because nothing he throws is borderline. He either misses badly or throws the ball down the heart of the plate.
Look for Chicago to play long ball tonight as the White Sox roll.
Tom Freese
Detroit at Chicago
Detroit is 19-42 their last 61 games as road dogs. Starting pitcher Dontrelle Willis has more walks than strikeouts in his last 3 starts and he has more walks than strikeouts in his last 3 starts vs. Chicago. The Tigers are 0-5 in the last 5 starts made by Willis as a road dog. Chicago starter Mark Buehrle has a better than 4-1 strikeout to walk ratio in his last 3 starts and he is 8-3 in 11 starts this year. The lefty starter has allowed 3 or less runs in 9 of his 11 starts this year. The Pale Hose are 8-2 at home vs. the Tigers with Buehrle on the mound. PLAY ON CHICAGO - (Buehrle vs. Willis)
MTi Sports
Kansas City Royals at Cleveland Indians
Prediction: Kansas City Royals
The Indians are 0-8 after a win in which they used 5+ pitchers and 2-16 after scoring more than six runs. The Royals are 13-7 as a 170+ dog after a loss in which they were shut out in the last 6 innings. KC seems worth a small investment.
Dennis Macklin
San Francisco Giants at Arizona Diamondbacks
Prediction: Under
Both teams hitting just .250 over the past week and both teams send razor-sharp starters to the hill. Matt Cain rocks a 7-1 2.27 ERA for the year and 3-0 and 1.33 over L3. The Snakes' Buckner is 2-1 and 2.95 in his three starts for Arizona. Runs should be tough to come by setting up the sixth straight under in the season series. Go Low.
Nick Parsons
Minnesota Twins @ Oakland Athletics +100
As the Minnesota Twins continue to struggle on the road, the Oakland Athletics have won no matter where they’ve played of late. The surging A’s look to extend their longest winning streak in three seasons while trying to hand the visiting Twins a fourth consecutive loss Tuesday night. Minnesota (28-31), meanwhile, is 1-3 on a 10-game road trip. The Twins, who are 7-19 on the road, have lost 14 of their last 17 away from the Metrodome and I look for that strong trend to continue this evening! Brett Anderson (3-5, 4.97 ERA), one of four rookies in Oakland’s rotation, looks to build off the best outing of his young career. The 21-year-old left-hander allowed six hits and struck out four in seven innings of a 7-0 win over the White Sox on Thursday. Anderson is 3-1 with a 3.52 ERA in his last four starts after posting a 6.03 ERA while losing four of his first six. Look for OAKLAND to improve to 11-6 (+5.2 units) at home when the total is 8 to 8 1/2!
Matt Rivers
For Tuesday play the under down South in Florida.
I am not at all a totals guy as I believe more times than not they turn out to be 50-50 crapshoots but with that said I just do not see many runs today down in South Beach. For one, Chris Carpenter really does not allow runs and for two the Cardinals have been scuffling of late and really having been scoring runs.
Josh Johnson is a really solid hurler, who if not for some bad arm injuries, would be a well known name. The righty without a doubt can match Carpenter goosegg for goosegg and especially so on his familiar home mound.
Florida has been fairly awful ever since that phenomenal 11-1 start to the season and are far from an offensive juggernaut themselves at this point in the season. I really do like Hanley Ramirez and a few others like Jorge Cantu and Dan Uggla are quality players as well but Carpenter is an absolute beast and will have his way today like usual. To think that the St. Louis righthander will implode a bit in this spot just doesn't seem too plausible.
I truly do not see this thing going over that total today as asking either team to score more than four runs is a bit much and that is what needs to happen for a high.
If there's ever a game that's scoreless into the seventh and finishes up 2-1 this is it!
1♦ Under
GINA
Los Angeles Lakers at Orlando Magic
The Magic are back in their house where they play tough and know this a must-win contest. Go with Orlando to make this series interesting. The Magic are 6-1 ATS in its last 7 games at Amway Arena and 5-2 ATS in their last 7 games against the Lakers. Meanwhile, Los Angeles is just 4-4 straight-up and against the spread and ATS on the road in the playoffs.
Orlando Magic -4
Colorado Rockies at Milwaukee Brewers
Colorado's right-hander Jason Hammel (2-3, 4.50 ERA) is 2-0 with a 4.32 ERA in his last three starts and 2-1 with a 1.86 ERA on the road in four starts and two relief appearances this season. Hammel has never faced the the Brewers.Milwaukee's Braden Looper (5-3, 4.65 ERA) is 1-1 with a 5.60 ERA in his last three starts and went 2-2 with a 5.28 ERA in 19 outings, including two starts against the Rockies.Go with the Rockies and their hot bats for their six straight win. Colorado has won their their last five road games and Jason Hammel last three starts.
Colorado Rockies +115
Mr A
Orlando Magic -4
Atlanta Braves -220
New York Mets -175
MLB Computer Picks
Boston Red Sox -135
St. Louis Cardinals -110
Chicago White Sox -160
Mike Wynn
Free Play: MLB St Louis/Florida Under 7
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EZWINNER'S FREE SELECTION
Game: Pittsburgh Pirates @ Atlanta Braves
(955) Pittsburgh Pirates +$132
(Listing Duke and Kawakami)
The Pirates starting pitcher Zach Duke is fresh
off of a win over the Mets and Johan Santana.
While not a strikeout artist, Duke is finally starting
to live up to the potential and hype he had in the
minors and his rookie season. In six out of his
last seven starts Duke has pitched into the 7th
inning or later. For the Braves, starting pitcher
Kenshin Kawakami has been very inconsistent.
Kawakami is only 3-6 this season with a ERA
approaching 5 and a WHIP near 1.5. He also
ranks among the leaders in least run support
and I don't look for that bad luck to change in
this game. I like Pittsburgh to pick up the win here.
2009 Free Selections Record 83-71 (53.9%)
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Craig Trapp
St Louis Cardinals vs. Florida Marlins
Play: St Louis Cardinals
Records
St Louis Cardinals 31-27, 12-12 away (Carpenter 4-0, 0.71 ERA)
Florida Marlins 28-31, 14-17 home (Johnson 5-1, 2.63 ERA)
Betting Trends
-Cardinals are 78-30 in Carpenters last 108 starts.
-Cardinals are 4-0 in Carpenters last 4 starts vs. Marlins.
-Cardinals are 9-2 in the last 11 meetings in Florida.
-Marlins are 5-12 in their last 17 vs. National League Central.
The Cardinals are in there longest losing streak of the season (4). But today they go to the Ace of the pitching staff, Chris Carpenter. He's 3-0 with a 1.03 ERA in his last four starts against FLA and has been just as good lately with an ERA under 1.00 currently. STL has owned FLA lately winning 15 of last 20 games against FLA. Josh Johnson is on the mound for FLA and he has been really good also but doesn't have the experience that Carpenter has. Great value today on STL because of the losing streak but they snap out of it today and wake up the bats. SCORE: STL 5 - FLA 1