Saturday Baseball

Atlanta (Millwood) @ Colorado (Stark)

Well we are going to the Rocky Mountains for our pick today and we are going to playing the under which has appeared in the last 5 meetings in Colorado.

The Braves send Kevin Millwood to the mound who has a record of 2-4 on the year with an ERA of 4.44 with a WHIP of 1.27 the under is 3-4 in his starts. He has enjoyed allot of success against the Rockies with a 5-1 record and an ERA of 2.94 with the unfer going 6-2 in his trips to the mound against them including a perfect 4-0 when he travels to the thin air of Colorado.

The Rockies counter with young right hander Denny Stark who in his first start pitched 6 very good innings surrendering zero earned runs in a Colorado win over the Florida Marlins and should be bale to hold the pitiful hitting Braves to a low enough score to get the under.

The Braves are only managing to score 3.9 runs a game against right handers while batting just .240 as a team against them with an on base percentage of .335. They are playing very solid defense allowing just 3.3 runs a game while batting .240 with an OBP of .367.

The Colorado offense is scoring an average of 5 runs a game against righties with a team batting average of .271 and an on base percentage of .374 while they are allowing the opposition to score 4.1 runs a game while batting .251 with an OBP .343.

The home plate umpire Jim Wolf has called 3 overs and 5 unders he has allowed an average of 8.62 runs a game and has a strike out to walk ratio of 1.74 with the only overs he called were one game at 8.5, one game at 8 and one game at 7.5.

The under has appeared 7 out of the last 7 games between these two in Colorado, the umpire likes to call strikes and the Braves are just not impressing anyone offensively while they are playing very solid defense and have a pitcher going to the mound that really seems to give the Rockies problems and the Braves have had allot of trouble when they see a pitcher for the first time and that is the case today with Stark who held a Marlin team that hits the ball allot better than the Braves to no earned runs ao I really like our chances here.

Playing Under 11.5 -118