Hondo
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Mighty ! Quinn
Chicago Cubs
Trev Rogers
A's/Mets Under 8.5
Yankees/Giants Under 8.5
D'Backs -135
Handicapper World
Phillies @ Cardinals
Eaton vs Wainwright
Pick: Cardinals -110 (Game of the Year)
Red Sox @ Padres
Wakefield vs Young
Pick: Red Sox +110
Marc Lawrence
Philadelphia/Eaton over St. Louis
Phillies right hander Adam Eaton takes on the Cardinals in Game Two of this series knowing he has cased in three of his last four road starts in June. With Eaton in solid current form, and Philadelphia 9-3 away in Game Two of a series this season, look for the Redbirds to take it on the chin once again today.
Vegas Experts
Chicago Cubs at Chicago White Sox
White Sox continue to be plagued by poor relief pitching and lack of timely hitting. They have lost 23 of their last 32 games, 8 of their last 11 and 12-of-16 in inter-league play. Javier Vazquez has recorded just one win in five home starts this season. Supporting angle says to Play Against - Any team (CHI WHITE SOX) - bad AL offensive team (<=4.5 runs/game) against a good NL starting pitcher (ERA<=3.70), cold hitting team - batting .250 or worse over their last 20 games. (53-16 since 1997, 76.8%).
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Dave Cokin
(969) LA Dodgers
(970) TAM Devil Rays
Take "(970) TAM Devil Rays"
Scott Kazmir still hasn't registered a win at home this season, but the D-Rays have managed to go 4-4 in his eight starts at home. I see Kazmir breaking through and getting that elusive victory here as he battles fellow lefty Randy Wolf and the Dodgers. It looks to me as though Wolf may be wearing down a bit, as his strikeout numbers are beginning to dive. That's a sign of possible fatigue and the Tampa Bay bats are good enough to take advantage. After cashing the Friday Bonus Play on the Dodgers, I'll try to beat the hand that just fed me by playing the D-Rays here
Jim Feist
957) HOU Astros
(958) TEX Rangers
Take "Over"
Two pitchers that have seen better days are matched up today as the Astros and Rangers renew their Intrastate IL Rivalry. Roy Oswalt goes for the Astros and while he does sport a 7-4 record, his era is a bit high at 3.51. On the road the numbers drop dramatically as his record is just 2-3 and the era an inflated 5.92. Jamey Wright starts for the Rangers and Wright has been all wrong in his first two starts. Wright started back in April and lasted just 2 2/3 innings while allowoing five hits and five earned runs to Tampa Bay. His next start, last week on June 16th, wasn't much more productive; five innings, nine hits and four earned runs. The bad news for Wright is that his next loss will make 100 on his career versus just 67 wins. We aren't thrilled with either pitcher here so we'll look for lots of hits and runs and the game to go OVER the total on Saturday.
IC: June 23rd (526/859)
Have a lot of writing to proof this evening as if you check the site later this evening, I will have it published.
5 plays on the card today. Had to sleep on it and I still like all of them - lol.
Detroit Tigers -159
I couldn't wait for this game as I think Verlander is far better than Davies and the Tigers offense is in a whole another league than anyone else's offense right now. The Tigers are 10-4 when Verlander is on the mound and he was a stud last year and he continues to be a solid pitcher yet again this year. Verlander is 8-2 with a 2.90 ERA and 4-1 wih a 2.76 ERA on the road. Imagine the disarray that the Braves are in right now? The hitting is not getting it done as they got smoked by the Red Sox, Andruw Jones is hitting less than .200 of late and the Braves fans are getting very sick of him, very fast. This is similar to Pat Burrell and the Phillies - lol. The Tigers hit fast balls very well and Davies throws just that and if the Braves can tee off Smoltz, they can certainly have their way with Davies in my mind. Verlander has had 1 bad quality start out of the past 7 and I expect him to do his usual 7 innings and 2 earned runs while Davies gets rocked for 4-5 runs in 5 innings. Davies is 3-6 with a 5.65 ERA on the season. Tigers have won thier last 4 road games and the Braves are 1-9 in their last 10 games against a team at home with a winning record. I hate taking the run-line here as I had this pegged at -150 last night, and I had it in the cutoff, but I have it at -159 today, and -160 is my limit. Frankly, I do think the Tigers cover the run-line at +100, but I don't mind laying it up to -160 to making sure that there isn't some late inning heroics by the Braves with the shady Tigers bullpen, but I certainly won't lay off playing this game either.
Cleveland/wash over 10
Paul Byrd gives up a ton of hits. I mean he gives up a ton of hits. You know how much I love overs typically with the Indians and I think the Nats get their bats going today against Byrd. The Nats have been playing very good baseball of late winning series upon series and they took it to Carmona recently which just shows that this team can ball. Byrd has given up 31 hits and 16 earned runs in his last 3 starts while Chico has pitched well this year, he did get rocked for 17 hits against the AL teams of the Orioles and Tigers. Indians can't be too thrilled of how the series against the Nats are going and I think they rock Chico for 5-6 runs and I think the Nats enjoy batting against Byrd as 10 is not a bad price to take here and I think game will be a final of 7-5 of sorts. The over is 5-2 in Byrd's last 7 road starts and the over is 8-0-1 when the Nats face a pitcher with WHIP of greater than 1.30 and the over is 5-0 when Diaz's is behind home plate for Cleveland ball games. Cleveland put up 1 run on the board yesterday and I expect them to do a little bit better today while the Nats hold their own.
Cincy/Seattle Over 9.5
Seattle took it up the chin bad yesterday and in embarassing fashion by the Reds. Having a team score 16 runs off of you and then you scoring 1 run in return is not the ideal notion of fun for many ball players. Kyle Lohse takes the mound and he has given up 9 earned runs in his last 2 games in interleague action while Washburn has not been himself of late as he has given up 27 earned runs in his last 7 starts and considering he only averages 5 innings a ballgame and he is giving 4 runs during that stint, that is not efficient. I think the Mariners will bounce-back nicely against Lohse and put a ton of runs across the plate and I think the Reds will do the same on Washburn as the Reds are hitting better of late as well. Take out the 3 unders played by the Reds at Oakland and this team had been playing overs at a good rate. The over is 4-1-1 in Washburn's last 6 interleague starts, the over is 5-1 when the Reds face a pitcher with WHIP greater than 1.3 as well as the over is 5-1 in the Reds last 6 games with the total of 9-10.5.
Phililes/Cards Under 10
I like this under a good deal with Eaton and Wainright. Both of these offenses are suspect, in particular the Cardinals and Eaton has pitched very well for the Phillies. Their ERA's of 5.3 and 4.7 help aid the total in being 10, but their ERA's have come down of late which helps in this under. Eaton has given up 5 earned runs in his last 3 starts and that was against the Mets, Tigers and White Sox. In his last 6 starts, Wain has given up 4 runs or less and typically has solid bounce-back performances after giving up 4 runs. For example, he gave up 8 runs to the Dodgers on 5/15 only to give up 2 runs tot the Pirates on the 22nd. He gave up 4 runs to the Reds earlier this season and then came back to give 0 earned runs to the Royals. Then on a home and home with the Royals he gave up 4 runs, and now I expect him to have a solid start based on that start. Sandwiched in between those starts were solid starts of 2 earned runs for 6-7 innings. The under is 4-0 in the Phillies last 4 in the NL Central and the under is 5-1 when Wainright pitches with a total of 9-10.5 set and this is an awfully high total for a Cardinals ballgame with these 2 pitchers, so I will take the under. I have this score at 5-3.
Wash/Chicago Over 152
I was so angry when I saw this line. From here on out out I will put these analysis up early in the morning because covers.com is flat out lying when it comes to the opening lines they are stating. The true opening line of this game last night when I saw this was 151 and then I wake up to see them claiming that the opening line was something different. Either way, the line is shifting far too much over the night. The basic premise of this play is that Washington now wants to be the poor man's Phoenix Mercury and run, run and run. If the Houston Comets can put up 95 on this team, I can bank on the fact that the Chicago Sky who just had a tough defensive matchup against the Monarchs can put up 80+ on this team as well. The Mystics are no sham either as they put up 106 on Phoenix, the highest regular scoring game in the WNBA and 85 on the Coments. I have both of these teams getting into the 80's for this game. The over is 5-1 in the Mystics last 6 road games and the over is 4-1 when the Sky are playing on 3 or more days rest.
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Wash UNDER 10
Det UNDER 9-
Cincy UNDER 9-
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INTERLEAGUE
Detroit (43-29) at Atlanta (38-36)
ATS ADVANTAGE: DETROIT
Justin Verlander (8-2, 2.90 ERA) shoots for his fourth straight victory when he takes the ball for the surging Tigers in the middle game of their series at slumping Atlanta. The Braves will counter with Kyle Davies (3-6, 5.65).
Detroit dealt the Braves their third consecutive shutout loss, and in doing so ran its current winning streak to five in a row. Jim Leyland’s squad is now 6-1 on its current road trip, scoring a total of 59 runs in the process.
The Braves have been blanked in three straight games and have gone 29 consecutive innings without scoring a run. Atlanta is just 6-13 in its last 19, scoring three runs or less in 12 of those contests. Bobby Cox’s team is also just 4-11 in its last 15 home games.
Including Friday’s result, the Tigers are 12-4 in interleague play, while the Braves are 4-9.
Verlander followed up his first career no-hitter with Sunday’s 7-4 win at Philadelphia, giving up three runs on seven hits in six innings. The Tigers are 7-2 in Verlander’s last nine appearances, and the righthander has yielded two runs of fewer in seven of those contests.
Davies has surrendered exactly five earned runs and exactly six hits in each of his last three starts, failing to last more than 5 1/3 innings in any of those games. Atlanta lost all three and is just 2-5 in Davies’ last seven starts.
Verlander is 4-1 with a 2.76 ERA on the road, while Davies is just 1-2 with a 6.00 ERA in six starts at home. On the bright side for Davies, the Braves won all three of his no-decisions at home.
The over is 4-1-1 in Verlander’s last six starts and 9-4 when Davies starts.
Overall, Atlanta is on a 6-2-1 "under" run, and the under is 6-1 in the seven meetings between these squads going back to 2002. On the flip side, the Tigers are 6-3 "over" in their last nine, including 4-1 "over" in the last five. The over is also 10-2-2 in Detroit’s last 14 road games and 21-6-2 in their last 29 games played on grass.
Oakland (39-33) at N.Y. Mets (39-32)
ATS ADVANTAGE: OVER
Orlando Hernandez (2-4, 3.62) looks to bounce back from back-to-back ugly outings when he leads the Mets against Joe Kennedy (3-10, 3.62) and the A’s in the middle game of this interleague tussle at Shea Stadium.
New York pounded out a 9-1 victory last night, but is still mired in its worst slump of the season, going 5-14 since the start of June, including 3-7 at home. The Mets, who started the month with a 34-18 record, have seen their lead in the N.L. East shrink to two games over the Phillies.
Including last night’s setback, the A’s are 13-6 in their last 19, including 5-2 on the road.
Hernandez is coming off consecutive road losses to the Dodgers (5-3) and Yankees (8-2), giving up nearly as many earned runs in those two games (10) as he did in his first eight starts (11). In Sunday’s loss in the Bronx, El Duque yielded six runs on seven hits (two home runs) while pitching a season-low 4 2/3 innings. After his last two starts, the veteran righthander’s ERA has risen from 1.94 to 3.08.
Going back to his days in the American League, El Duque has made eight starts against the A’s, going 5-0 with a 2.68 ERA. However, he hasn’t faced Oakland since 2002.
Kennedy has pitched well all season, giving up three earned runs or fewer in 11 of his 13 starts, but Oakland is just 3-10 in those outings, including 1-5 in his last six. On Sunday against St. Louis, Kennedy yielded four runs (three earned) on seven hits in just five innings, getting a no-decision as the A’s fell 10-6 at home.
The A’s are 1-5 when Kennedy makes a road start, with the southpaw going 1-3 with a 4.54 ERA. Meanwhile, Hernandez is 1-1 with a 2.88 ERA in four home starts, giving up just two earned runs in his last three home outings spanning 20 innings (0.90 ERA).
The over has hit in each of the last two starts for Hernandez and Kennedy.
Last night’s game barely nudged over the total, and the over is now 7-2 in Oakland’s last nine on the road, all in interleague action, while the Mets are also 9-3 "over" in their last 12 overall.
The consensus among the top 2 Arena cappers is Tampa Bay.
The consensus among the top 2 WNBA cappers is Detroit.
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Mighty ! Quinn
Chicago Cubs
Trev Rogers
A's/Mets Under 8.5
Yankees/Giants Under 8.5
D'Backs -135
Handicapper World
Phillies @ Cardinals
Eaton vs Wainwright
Pick: Cardinals -110 (Game of the Year)
Red Sox @ Padres
Wakefield vs Young
Pick: Red Sox +110
Marc Lawrence
Philadelphia/Eaton over St. Louis
Phillies right hander Adam Eaton takes on the Cardinals in Game Two of this series knowing he has cased in three of his last four road starts in June. With Eaton in solid current form, and Philadelphia 9-3 away in Game Two of a series this season, look for the Redbirds to take it on the chin once again today.
Vegas Experts
Chicago Cubs at Chicago White Sox
White Sox continue to be plagued by poor relief pitching and lack of timely hitting. They have lost 23 of their last 32 games, 8 of their last 11 and 12-of-16 in inter-league play. Javier Vazquez has recorded just one win in five home starts this season. Supporting angle says to Play Against - Any team (CHI WHITE SOX) - bad AL offensive team (<=4.5 runs/game) against a good NL starting pitcher (ERA<=3.70), cold hitting team - batting .250 or worse over their last 20 games. (53-16 since 1997, 76.8%).
Play on: Chicago Cubs
Dave Cokin
(969) LA Dodgers
(970) TAM Devil Rays
Take "(970) TAM Devil Rays"
Scott Kazmir still hasn't registered a win at home this season, but the D-Rays have managed to go 4-4 in his eight starts at home. I see Kazmir breaking through and getting that elusive victory here as he battles fellow lefty Randy Wolf and the Dodgers. It looks to me as though Wolf may be wearing down a bit, as his strikeout numbers are beginning to dive. That's a sign of possible fatigue and the Tampa Bay bats are good enough to take advantage. After cashing the Friday Bonus Play on the Dodgers, I'll try to beat the hand that just fed me by playing the D-Rays here
Jim Feist
957) HOU Astros
(958) TEX Rangers
Take "Over"
Two pitchers that have seen better days are matched up today as the Astros and Rangers renew their Intrastate IL Rivalry. Roy Oswalt goes for the Astros and while he does sport a 7-4 record, his era is a bit high at 3.51. On the road the numbers drop dramatically as his record is just 2-3 and the era an inflated 5.92. Jamey Wright starts for the Rangers and Wright has been all wrong in his first two starts. Wright started back in April and lasted just 2 2/3 innings while allowoing five hits and five earned runs to Tampa Bay. His next start, last week on June 16th, wasn't much more productive; five innings, nine hits and four earned runs. The bad news for Wright is that his next loss will make 100 on his career versus just 67 wins. We aren't thrilled with either pitcher here so we'll look for lots of hits and runs and the game to go OVER the total on Saturday.
IC: June 23rd (526/859)
Have a lot of writing to proof this evening as if you check the site later this evening, I will have it published.
5 plays on the card today. Had to sleep on it and I still like all of them - lol.
Detroit Tigers -159
I couldn't wait for this game as I think Verlander is far better than Davies and the Tigers offense is in a whole another league than anyone else's offense right now. The Tigers are 10-4 when Verlander is on the mound and he was a stud last year and he continues to be a solid pitcher yet again this year. Verlander is 8-2 with a 2.90 ERA and 4-1 wih a 2.76 ERA on the road. Imagine the disarray that the Braves are in right now? The hitting is not getting it done as they got smoked by the Red Sox, Andruw Jones is hitting less than .200 of late and the Braves fans are getting very sick of him, very fast. This is similar to Pat Burrell and the Phillies - lol. The Tigers hit fast balls very well and Davies throws just that and if the Braves can tee off Smoltz, they can certainly have their way with Davies in my mind. Verlander has had 1 bad quality start out of the past 7 and I expect him to do his usual 7 innings and 2 earned runs while Davies gets rocked for 4-5 runs in 5 innings. Davies is 3-6 with a 5.65 ERA on the season. Tigers have won thier last 4 road games and the Braves are 1-9 in their last 10 games against a team at home with a winning record. I hate taking the run-line here as I had this pegged at -150 last night, and I had it in the cutoff, but I have it at -159 today, and -160 is my limit. Frankly, I do think the Tigers cover the run-line at +100, but I don't mind laying it up to -160 to making sure that there isn't some late inning heroics by the Braves with the shady Tigers bullpen, but I certainly won't lay off playing this game either.
Cleveland/wash over 10
Paul Byrd gives up a ton of hits. I mean he gives up a ton of hits. You know how much I love overs typically with the Indians and I think the Nats get their bats going today against Byrd. The Nats have been playing very good baseball of late winning series upon series and they took it to Carmona recently which just shows that this team can ball. Byrd has given up 31 hits and 16 earned runs in his last 3 starts while Chico has pitched well this year, he did get rocked for 17 hits against the AL teams of the Orioles and Tigers. Indians can't be too thrilled of how the series against the Nats are going and I think they rock Chico for 5-6 runs and I think the Nats enjoy batting against Byrd as 10 is not a bad price to take here and I think game will be a final of 7-5 of sorts. The over is 5-2 in Byrd's last 7 road starts and the over is 8-0-1 when the Nats face a pitcher with WHIP of greater than 1.30 and the over is 5-0 when Diaz's is behind home plate for Cleveland ball games. Cleveland put up 1 run on the board yesterday and I expect them to do a little bit better today while the Nats hold their own.
Cincy/Seattle Over 9.5
Seattle took it up the chin bad yesterday and in embarassing fashion by the Reds. Having a team score 16 runs off of you and then you scoring 1 run in return is not the ideal notion of fun for many ball players. Kyle Lohse takes the mound and he has given up 9 earned runs in his last 2 games in interleague action while Washburn has not been himself of late as he has given up 27 earned runs in his last 7 starts and considering he only averages 5 innings a ballgame and he is giving 4 runs during that stint, that is not efficient. I think the Mariners will bounce-back nicely against Lohse and put a ton of runs across the plate and I think the Reds will do the same on Washburn as the Reds are hitting better of late as well. Take out the 3 unders played by the Reds at Oakland and this team had been playing overs at a good rate. The over is 4-1-1 in Washburn's last 6 interleague starts, the over is 5-1 when the Reds face a pitcher with WHIP greater than 1.3 as well as the over is 5-1 in the Reds last 6 games with the total of 9-10.5.
Phililes/Cards Under 10
I like this under a good deal with Eaton and Wainright. Both of these offenses are suspect, in particular the Cardinals and Eaton has pitched very well for the Phillies. Their ERA's of 5.3 and 4.7 help aid the total in being 10, but their ERA's have come down of late which helps in this under. Eaton has given up 5 earned runs in his last 3 starts and that was against the Mets, Tigers and White Sox. In his last 6 starts, Wain has given up 4 runs or less and typically has solid bounce-back performances after giving up 4 runs. For example, he gave up 8 runs to the Dodgers on 5/15 only to give up 2 runs tot the Pirates on the 22nd. He gave up 4 runs to the Reds earlier this season and then came back to give 0 earned runs to the Royals. Then on a home and home with the Royals he gave up 4 runs, and now I expect him to have a solid start based on that start. Sandwiched in between those starts were solid starts of 2 earned runs for 6-7 innings. The under is 4-0 in the Phillies last 4 in the NL Central and the under is 5-1 when Wainright pitches with a total of 9-10.5 set and this is an awfully high total for a Cardinals ballgame with these 2 pitchers, so I will take the under. I have this score at 5-3.
Wash/Chicago Over 152
I was so angry when I saw this line. From here on out out I will put these analysis up early in the morning because covers.com is flat out lying when it comes to the opening lines they are stating. The true opening line of this game last night when I saw this was 151 and then I wake up to see them claiming that the opening line was something different. Either way, the line is shifting far too much over the night. The basic premise of this play is that Washington now wants to be the poor man's Phoenix Mercury and run, run and run. If the Houston Comets can put up 95 on this team, I can bank on the fact that the Chicago Sky who just had a tough defensive matchup against the Monarchs can put up 80+ on this team as well. The Mystics are no sham either as they put up 106 on Phoenix, the highest regular scoring game in the WNBA and 85 on the Coments. I have both of these teams getting into the 80's for this game. The over is 5-1 in the Mystics last 6 road games and the over is 4-1 when the Sky are playing on 3 or more days rest.
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Phil UNDER 10
Wash UNDER 10
Det UNDER 9-
Cincy UNDER 9-
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INTERLEAGUE
Detroit (43-29) at Atlanta (38-36)
ATS ADVANTAGE: DETROIT
Justin Verlander (8-2, 2.90 ERA) shoots for his fourth straight victory when he takes the ball for the surging Tigers in the middle game of their series at slumping Atlanta. The Braves will counter with Kyle Davies (3-6, 5.65).
Detroit dealt the Braves their third consecutive shutout loss, and in doing so ran its current winning streak to five in a row. Jim Leyland’s squad is now 6-1 on its current road trip, scoring a total of 59 runs in the process.
The Braves have been blanked in three straight games and have gone 29 consecutive innings without scoring a run. Atlanta is just 6-13 in its last 19, scoring three runs or less in 12 of those contests. Bobby Cox’s team is also just 4-11 in its last 15 home games.
Including Friday’s result, the Tigers are 12-4 in interleague play, while the Braves are 4-9.
Verlander followed up his first career no-hitter with Sunday’s 7-4 win at Philadelphia, giving up three runs on seven hits in six innings. The Tigers are 7-2 in Verlander’s last nine appearances, and the righthander has yielded two runs of fewer in seven of those contests.
Davies has surrendered exactly five earned runs and exactly six hits in each of his last three starts, failing to last more than 5 1/3 innings in any of those games. Atlanta lost all three and is just 2-5 in Davies’ last seven starts.
Verlander is 4-1 with a 2.76 ERA on the road, while Davies is just 1-2 with a 6.00 ERA in six starts at home. On the bright side for Davies, the Braves won all three of his no-decisions at home.
The over is 4-1-1 in Verlander’s last six starts and 9-4 when Davies starts.
Overall, Atlanta is on a 6-2-1 "under" run, and the under is 6-1 in the seven meetings between these squads going back to 2002. On the flip side, the Tigers are 6-3 "over" in their last nine, including 4-1 "over" in the last five. The over is also 10-2-2 in Detroit’s last 14 road games and 21-6-2 in their last 29 games played on grass.
Oakland (39-33) at N.Y. Mets (39-32)
ATS ADVANTAGE: OVER
Orlando Hernandez (2-4, 3.62) looks to bounce back from back-to-back ugly outings when he leads the Mets against Joe Kennedy (3-10, 3.62) and the A’s in the middle game of this interleague tussle at Shea Stadium.
New York pounded out a 9-1 victory last night, but is still mired in its worst slump of the season, going 5-14 since the start of June, including 3-7 at home. The Mets, who started the month with a 34-18 record, have seen their lead in the N.L. East shrink to two games over the Phillies.
Including last night’s setback, the A’s are 13-6 in their last 19, including 5-2 on the road.
Hernandez is coming off consecutive road losses to the Dodgers (5-3) and Yankees (8-2), giving up nearly as many earned runs in those two games (10) as he did in his first eight starts (11). In Sunday’s loss in the Bronx, El Duque yielded six runs on seven hits (two home runs) while pitching a season-low 4 2/3 innings. After his last two starts, the veteran righthander’s ERA has risen from 1.94 to 3.08.
Going back to his days in the American League, El Duque has made eight starts against the A’s, going 5-0 with a 2.68 ERA. However, he hasn’t faced Oakland since 2002.
Kennedy has pitched well all season, giving up three earned runs or fewer in 11 of his 13 starts, but Oakland is just 3-10 in those outings, including 1-5 in his last six. On Sunday against St. Louis, Kennedy yielded four runs (three earned) on seven hits in just five innings, getting a no-decision as the A’s fell 10-6 at home.
The A’s are 1-5 when Kennedy makes a road start, with the southpaw going 1-3 with a 4.54 ERA. Meanwhile, Hernandez is 1-1 with a 2.88 ERA in four home starts, giving up just two earned runs in his last three home outings spanning 20 innings (0.90 ERA).
The over has hit in each of the last two starts for Hernandez and Kennedy.
Last night’s game barely nudged over the total, and the over is now 7-2 in Oakland’s last nine on the road, all in interleague action, while the Mets are also 9-3 "over" in their last 12 overall.
The consensus among the top 2 Arena cappers is Tampa Bay.
The consensus among the top 2 WNBA cappers is Detroit.
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