Larry Ness
(**Blowout of the Week**)
15* San Diego Padres
(**Terrific Tuesday Total**)
Braves/Dodgers Over
Marc Lawrence
Game: Baltimore Orioles at Chicago White Sox
Jul 3 2007 8:10PM
Prediction: Chicago White Sox
Reason: Chicago White Sox w/Vazquez over Baltimore:
Javier Vazquez is back in solid current KW form (4 walks and 2 strikeouts) in his last three starts, and also his his last three home starts (4 walks and 22 strikeouts). With the Orioles just 3-10 on Tuesdays and 4-9 away in Game Two of a series this season, look for Vazquez and the White Sox to even things up in this series here tonight.
The Wunderdog
Game: Tampa Bay at Boston (8:05 PM Eastern)
Pick: Tampa Bay +180
It is not our way to play on a team like the D-Rays who are on an extensive losing streak, but the value is hard to resist here. Kazmir has dominated this Red Sox lineup throughout his young career, as the D-Rays have won 6 of his 9 starts over Boston. The six starts for Kazmir that resulted in wins have revealed some eye-popping numbers. He has worked 38.1 innings allowing just 17 hits and two earned runs while striking out 47! The biggest reason he has had success is his ability to dominate the heart of the Bo Sox order. Career numbers against Kazmir are as follows: Lowell 3-11, Ortiz 5-26, Ramirez 4-29, Varitek 3-15 and Youkilis 1-13. The five players in the middle of the Sox lineup are a combined .170 against Kazmir. He will catch the Red Sox at a good time as the offense has really struggled. In their last 25 games the Sox have scored two runs or less over half the time. This is too hard to pass up with the way Kazmir has handled this lineup.
Hondo
HONDO
July 3, 2007 -- Hondo plunged deeper into the abyss last night when the Rangers and Pirates failed to perform to expectations, causing the deficit to mushroom to 250 murtaughs.
Tonight, he'll go with the Native Americans in Detroit -
10 units on Byrd.
Sports Gambling Hotline
LA Angels (-130) at TEXAS
Tonight we side with the Angels to outslug the Rangers. We realize Ervin Santana has been a bust on the road this season at 1-6 with a 7.53 ERA, but the fact remains the Angels are a West Division leading 51-31 this season, and they have beat up the Texas Rangers in a big way.
The Halos are 6-1 this year in the season series, including handing tonight's starter Kevin Millwood a pair of losses in his 2 starts against them. Millwood has given up 7 runs in 7 innings of work against LA, and for the season Millwood is a sub-par 4-7 with an over 7 ERA.
The Angels stand at 32-13 since 2005 in the season series against the Rangers, and we see another win happening tonight for Los Angeles.
Play on the Halos!
4♦ ANGELS
Karl Garrett
Arizona at ST. LOUIS (+130)
Underdog play tonight on the Cardinals, as St. Louis continues to own Arizona. Last night the Cards trounced the D-Backs 11-3 to make it 5-2 in the Gateway City against the snakes since 2005.
'Zona is limping to the All-Star break with losses in their last 3, and 6 of their last 8. Randy Johnson's first start back from the DL was a suspect 3 innings of 3 earned run ball, and the G-Man feels the aging lefty is vunerable tonight to a Cardinals team that has plated 22 runs the last 2 nights!
Wellemeyer has picked up no decisions his last 2 starts, but has pitched well, allowing only 3 runs in 11 innings of work. I like the way St. Louis is getting a little momentum heading to the break, as the Redbirds have won their last pair, and 4 of their last 6.
Go with the underdog Cards to get another win over the slumping Diamondbacks.
3♦ ST. LOUIS
Chris Jordan
N.Y. Mets at COLORADO
For Tuesday night, we roll with the Rockies at home against the Mets.
How solid was Aaron Cook in his last start? Seriously, he near-perfect in a no-decision road stint against the Astros, as his sinker was downright nasty, stifling Houston to one run on seven hits over seven innings.
With this one being at home, I like the Rockies to continue their recent domination at home, where they've won seven of eight. Remember, this is a team that battled the Mets in extra innings at Shea back in April, and closed the series with an 11-5 romp. This marks New York's fifth straight on the road.
The Rockies, albeit in a nasty losing skid, have looked terrible – I know this. But this homecoming will be huge for Mile High boys. Take the home team here.
1♦ ROCKIES
Bobby Maxwell
The Phillies have taken two of three from the Astros this season, inclduing when Philadelphia starter Adam Eaton got a win over the Astros 11-4.
Eaton (7-5, 5.75 ERA) is 4-2 on the road this season and has always seemed to have the Astros' number. While with the Padres he was 3-1 against them and then beat them earlier this season with the Phillies.
Philadelphia has won six of Eaton's last nine starts and two of his last three on the road.
Roy Oswalt (7-5, 3.42 ERA) is pitching for the Astros and they are just 3-6 in his last nine starts. And he's allowed three or more runs in six of his last seven outings and the Phillies got to him for six runs on seven hits over five innings back on April 13.
Look for more of the same from the Phillies offense as they lit up Oswalt once this season and should do it again today. Play the plus-money Phillies in this one.
2♦ PHILADELPHIA
Dave Cokin
Take "(967) CLE Indians"
Paul Byrd continues to do his thing for Cleveland. He's seldom sensational, but definitely consistent in that he usually gives his team a reasonable chance to win. Nate Robertson goes for Detroit, and the lefty looked good in his first start after a DL stint due to arm fatigue. But Robertson has had issues with the Indians, and the road team is playing the better baseball right now. I'm taking the price with the Indians this time
Jim Feist
Take "(958) HOU Astros"
Philadelphia heads into a good hitter's park and they have very hittable Adam Eaton on the mound. Eaton has a 5.75 ERA and the last 3 starts has a 7.13 ERA. Houston plays its best ball at home and just took 3 of 4 at home to Colorado. Ace Roy Oswalt (3.42 ERA)goes here, and the team is 3-1 his last four starts. He's 5-1 with a sizzling 2.63 career ERA against Philly. Play the Astros!
MADDUX SPORTS
Today's Free Pick is Arizona -135
BANKROLL SPORTS
2* Baltimore Orioles +120 (MLB)
JEFF ALLEN
Take Cincinnati Reds
Other than the fact that he\'s stayed healthy and eaten up innings, Barry Zito has been a complete flop for the Giants. The lefty is 6-8 on the year with 4.61 ERA and 0-2 with 7.27 in L3. Harang has been super for the Reds at 8-2 and Cinncy has won his last four starts scoring 34 runs. The Giants are 3-8 as road dog at this price and 1-10 on the road when posted total is 9+ ..... take the Reds.
JOHN ANTHONY
MLB Chicago (N) vs. Washington []
Take Chicago (N) Cubs
Sure it\'s a big price but you don\'t pay juice when you win. Carlos Zambrano is the zone. When the weather gets hot, so does he, 4-1 with 1.67 ERA in L5. The game he lost, he had non-no thru seven and lost 1-0 on opposite field homer in ninth. Tim Redding makes first MLB start since 2005 and is 21-34 in his journeyman career which tells you just how bad injuries are for the Nats right now. The Blue Bears are 9-1 in L10 while Nats are 2-7 the other way. Take the Cubs.
GEORGE SMEADER
WNBA Los Angeles vs. Seattle []
Take Over
We will play the OVER 155. The over falls into our NBA Totals system with a solid 6.0 rating. Our system is based on several years of experience, practice and fine tuning with solid year over year returns. Ratings are not multipliers on base unit betting. Our ratings system is on a 1-8 scale, but we will never release a play lower than a 5.9. Winning is our business and businss is good.
MLB San Francisco vs. Cincinnati []
Take Cincinnati Reds
We will play on the moneyline at -119. The Reds stack up in our MLB system with a 5.9 rating. Our system is based on several years of experience, practice and fine tuning with solid year over year returns. Ratings are not multipliers on base unit betting. Our ratings system is on a 1-8 scale, but we will never release a play lower than a 5.9. Winning is our business and businss is good.
Rocco Spacamuro
100* Reds
Lou Diamondz
50 Units A's
Mike Rose
Cleveland Indians @ Detroit Tigers o10.0 (-115)
Tue Jul 3 '07 7:05p
I'm not sure what's gotten into the AL Champs of late, but they haven't been playing good ball whatsoever. Sunday's 1-0 win over Minnesota salvaged one game of that series for them, and now they have to take on the surging Cleveland Indians (winners in 8 of 10) who are coming off a four game home sweep of Tampa. The Tribe's taken five of their first seven meetings this season, and that most definitely won't sit well with the home team. That being said, they're going to have to score some runs tonight in order to win this one considering the Tribes been smashing left-handed pitching at a .320 clip of late, and Nate Robertson would never be confused with one of the more dominant south paws this league has to offer. In fact, he's been downright putrid this season ringing in with a 4.82 ERA and allowing 89 hits in 71 innings of work. He's been even worse of late evidenced by his 9.28 ERA, and he looks very ripe for a shellacking at the hands of Cleveland's sticks. However, Paul Byrd has been knocked around this season as well (4.67 ERA and 120 hits in 86.2 innings of work) and the Tigers owe him a beating after he and the Tribe got the best of them back in May by a 7-4 final count. He's coming off one of his best efforts of the season against Oakland, but I would be shocked if he were still bringing it in the 7th inning this time around. Detroit would love nothing more than to get a hold of the division lead during this three game set, but they'll have to break out their sticks in order to do so. I foresee them getting fat tonight off Byrd, but they'll need to keep the pressure on offensively all night because I'm not a believer in Robertson regardless of how well he looked in his first start off the DL last week. Hit the 'Over' as it improvers to 7-1 ATS between these clubs this year.
St. Louis Cardinals (124)
Tue Jul 3 '07 8:10p
It almost seems laughable to me to see the Cardinals as home pups in this one regardless of the fact that it's the "Big Unit" Randy Johnson squaring off against the much lesser known Todd Wellemeyer in Game 2 of this four game set. I can't with good intentions back Johnson here knowing full well that his first start since coming off the DL was a complete debacle. He only managed to go three innings against the Dodgers then, but has been given the thumbs up to increase his output to around 100 pitches this evening. That being said, the Cardinals have fared well against lefties at home this year hitting at a .274 clip, and they've had relative success over the "Big Unit" the last couple times they've seen him. On top of that, Todd Wellemeyer is a perfect 2-0 in the red and white this season, and the Red Birds are yet to lose a game he's started this season (6-0). Todd has benefited from the tutelage of pitching coach Dave Duncan, and he actually ranks out high according to my pitcher power ratings. He has shown to be wild on occasion, but he's only surrendered 16 earned runs and struck out 30 in 35 innings of work. With Arizona sputtering of late losing two of their L/3 series', this looks to be excellent position to grab the home club as underdogs. Look for the Cardinal bats to get to Johnson once again, and for Wellemeyer to pick up his third victory of the season as the Cardinals improve to 7-0 with him leading the way.
Sports Gambling Hotline
LA Angels (-130) at TEXAS
Tonight we side with the Angels to outslug the Rangers. We realize Ervin Santana has been a bust on the road this season at 1-6 with a 7.53 ERA, but the fact remains the Angels are a West Division leading 51-31 this season, and they have beat up the Texas Rangers in a big way.
The Halos are 6-1 this year in the season series, including handing tonight's starter Kevin Millwood a pair of losses in his 2 starts against them. Millwood has given up 7 runs in 7 innings of work against LA, and for the season Millwood is a sub-par 4-7 with an over 7 ERA.
The Angels stand at 32-13 since 2005 in the season series against the Rangers, and we see another win happening tonight for Los Angeles.
Play on the Halos!
4♦ ANGELS
CAPPER ACCESS
Tue) MLB Tigers Indians 130 Tigers
(Tue) MLB Angels Rangers 130 Rangers
(**Blowout of the Week**)
15* San Diego Padres
(**Terrific Tuesday Total**)
Braves/Dodgers Over
Marc Lawrence
Game: Baltimore Orioles at Chicago White Sox
Jul 3 2007 8:10PM
Prediction: Chicago White Sox
Reason: Chicago White Sox w/Vazquez over Baltimore:
Javier Vazquez is back in solid current KW form (4 walks and 2 strikeouts) in his last three starts, and also his his last three home starts (4 walks and 22 strikeouts). With the Orioles just 3-10 on Tuesdays and 4-9 away in Game Two of a series this season, look for Vazquez and the White Sox to even things up in this series here tonight.
The Wunderdog
Game: Tampa Bay at Boston (8:05 PM Eastern)
Pick: Tampa Bay +180
It is not our way to play on a team like the D-Rays who are on an extensive losing streak, but the value is hard to resist here. Kazmir has dominated this Red Sox lineup throughout his young career, as the D-Rays have won 6 of his 9 starts over Boston. The six starts for Kazmir that resulted in wins have revealed some eye-popping numbers. He has worked 38.1 innings allowing just 17 hits and two earned runs while striking out 47! The biggest reason he has had success is his ability to dominate the heart of the Bo Sox order. Career numbers against Kazmir are as follows: Lowell 3-11, Ortiz 5-26, Ramirez 4-29, Varitek 3-15 and Youkilis 1-13. The five players in the middle of the Sox lineup are a combined .170 against Kazmir. He will catch the Red Sox at a good time as the offense has really struggled. In their last 25 games the Sox have scored two runs or less over half the time. This is too hard to pass up with the way Kazmir has handled this lineup.
Hondo
HONDO
July 3, 2007 -- Hondo plunged deeper into the abyss last night when the Rangers and Pirates failed to perform to expectations, causing the deficit to mushroom to 250 murtaughs.
Tonight, he'll go with the Native Americans in Detroit -
10 units on Byrd.
Sports Gambling Hotline
LA Angels (-130) at TEXAS
Tonight we side with the Angels to outslug the Rangers. We realize Ervin Santana has been a bust on the road this season at 1-6 with a 7.53 ERA, but the fact remains the Angels are a West Division leading 51-31 this season, and they have beat up the Texas Rangers in a big way.
The Halos are 6-1 this year in the season series, including handing tonight's starter Kevin Millwood a pair of losses in his 2 starts against them. Millwood has given up 7 runs in 7 innings of work against LA, and for the season Millwood is a sub-par 4-7 with an over 7 ERA.
The Angels stand at 32-13 since 2005 in the season series against the Rangers, and we see another win happening tonight for Los Angeles.
Play on the Halos!
4♦ ANGELS
Karl Garrett
Arizona at ST. LOUIS (+130)
Underdog play tonight on the Cardinals, as St. Louis continues to own Arizona. Last night the Cards trounced the D-Backs 11-3 to make it 5-2 in the Gateway City against the snakes since 2005.
'Zona is limping to the All-Star break with losses in their last 3, and 6 of their last 8. Randy Johnson's first start back from the DL was a suspect 3 innings of 3 earned run ball, and the G-Man feels the aging lefty is vunerable tonight to a Cardinals team that has plated 22 runs the last 2 nights!
Wellemeyer has picked up no decisions his last 2 starts, but has pitched well, allowing only 3 runs in 11 innings of work. I like the way St. Louis is getting a little momentum heading to the break, as the Redbirds have won their last pair, and 4 of their last 6.
Go with the underdog Cards to get another win over the slumping Diamondbacks.
3♦ ST. LOUIS
Chris Jordan
N.Y. Mets at COLORADO
For Tuesday night, we roll with the Rockies at home against the Mets.
How solid was Aaron Cook in his last start? Seriously, he near-perfect in a no-decision road stint against the Astros, as his sinker was downright nasty, stifling Houston to one run on seven hits over seven innings.
With this one being at home, I like the Rockies to continue their recent domination at home, where they've won seven of eight. Remember, this is a team that battled the Mets in extra innings at Shea back in April, and closed the series with an 11-5 romp. This marks New York's fifth straight on the road.
The Rockies, albeit in a nasty losing skid, have looked terrible – I know this. But this homecoming will be huge for Mile High boys. Take the home team here.
1♦ ROCKIES
Bobby Maxwell
The Phillies have taken two of three from the Astros this season, inclduing when Philadelphia starter Adam Eaton got a win over the Astros 11-4.
Eaton (7-5, 5.75 ERA) is 4-2 on the road this season and has always seemed to have the Astros' number. While with the Padres he was 3-1 against them and then beat them earlier this season with the Phillies.
Philadelphia has won six of Eaton's last nine starts and two of his last three on the road.
Roy Oswalt (7-5, 3.42 ERA) is pitching for the Astros and they are just 3-6 in his last nine starts. And he's allowed three or more runs in six of his last seven outings and the Phillies got to him for six runs on seven hits over five innings back on April 13.
Look for more of the same from the Phillies offense as they lit up Oswalt once this season and should do it again today. Play the plus-money Phillies in this one.
2♦ PHILADELPHIA
Dave Cokin
Take "(967) CLE Indians"
Paul Byrd continues to do his thing for Cleveland. He's seldom sensational, but definitely consistent in that he usually gives his team a reasonable chance to win. Nate Robertson goes for Detroit, and the lefty looked good in his first start after a DL stint due to arm fatigue. But Robertson has had issues with the Indians, and the road team is playing the better baseball right now. I'm taking the price with the Indians this time
Jim Feist
Take "(958) HOU Astros"
Philadelphia heads into a good hitter's park and they have very hittable Adam Eaton on the mound. Eaton has a 5.75 ERA and the last 3 starts has a 7.13 ERA. Houston plays its best ball at home and just took 3 of 4 at home to Colorado. Ace Roy Oswalt (3.42 ERA)goes here, and the team is 3-1 his last four starts. He's 5-1 with a sizzling 2.63 career ERA against Philly. Play the Astros!
MADDUX SPORTS
Today's Free Pick is Arizona -135
BANKROLL SPORTS
2* Baltimore Orioles +120 (MLB)
JEFF ALLEN
Take Cincinnati Reds
Other than the fact that he\'s stayed healthy and eaten up innings, Barry Zito has been a complete flop for the Giants. The lefty is 6-8 on the year with 4.61 ERA and 0-2 with 7.27 in L3. Harang has been super for the Reds at 8-2 and Cinncy has won his last four starts scoring 34 runs. The Giants are 3-8 as road dog at this price and 1-10 on the road when posted total is 9+ ..... take the Reds.
JOHN ANTHONY
MLB Chicago (N) vs. Washington []
Take Chicago (N) Cubs
Sure it\'s a big price but you don\'t pay juice when you win. Carlos Zambrano is the zone. When the weather gets hot, so does he, 4-1 with 1.67 ERA in L5. The game he lost, he had non-no thru seven and lost 1-0 on opposite field homer in ninth. Tim Redding makes first MLB start since 2005 and is 21-34 in his journeyman career which tells you just how bad injuries are for the Nats right now. The Blue Bears are 9-1 in L10 while Nats are 2-7 the other way. Take the Cubs.
GEORGE SMEADER
WNBA Los Angeles vs. Seattle []
Take Over
We will play the OVER 155. The over falls into our NBA Totals system with a solid 6.0 rating. Our system is based on several years of experience, practice and fine tuning with solid year over year returns. Ratings are not multipliers on base unit betting. Our ratings system is on a 1-8 scale, but we will never release a play lower than a 5.9. Winning is our business and businss is good.
MLB San Francisco vs. Cincinnati []
Take Cincinnati Reds
We will play on the moneyline at -119. The Reds stack up in our MLB system with a 5.9 rating. Our system is based on several years of experience, practice and fine tuning with solid year over year returns. Ratings are not multipliers on base unit betting. Our ratings system is on a 1-8 scale, but we will never release a play lower than a 5.9. Winning is our business and businss is good.
Rocco Spacamuro
100* Reds
Lou Diamondz
50 Units A's
Mike Rose
Cleveland Indians @ Detroit Tigers o10.0 (-115)
Tue Jul 3 '07 7:05p
I'm not sure what's gotten into the AL Champs of late, but they haven't been playing good ball whatsoever. Sunday's 1-0 win over Minnesota salvaged one game of that series for them, and now they have to take on the surging Cleveland Indians (winners in 8 of 10) who are coming off a four game home sweep of Tampa. The Tribe's taken five of their first seven meetings this season, and that most definitely won't sit well with the home team. That being said, they're going to have to score some runs tonight in order to win this one considering the Tribes been smashing left-handed pitching at a .320 clip of late, and Nate Robertson would never be confused with one of the more dominant south paws this league has to offer. In fact, he's been downright putrid this season ringing in with a 4.82 ERA and allowing 89 hits in 71 innings of work. He's been even worse of late evidenced by his 9.28 ERA, and he looks very ripe for a shellacking at the hands of Cleveland's sticks. However, Paul Byrd has been knocked around this season as well (4.67 ERA and 120 hits in 86.2 innings of work) and the Tigers owe him a beating after he and the Tribe got the best of them back in May by a 7-4 final count. He's coming off one of his best efforts of the season against Oakland, but I would be shocked if he were still bringing it in the 7th inning this time around. Detroit would love nothing more than to get a hold of the division lead during this three game set, but they'll have to break out their sticks in order to do so. I foresee them getting fat tonight off Byrd, but they'll need to keep the pressure on offensively all night because I'm not a believer in Robertson regardless of how well he looked in his first start off the DL last week. Hit the 'Over' as it improvers to 7-1 ATS between these clubs this year.
St. Louis Cardinals (124)
Tue Jul 3 '07 8:10p
It almost seems laughable to me to see the Cardinals as home pups in this one regardless of the fact that it's the "Big Unit" Randy Johnson squaring off against the much lesser known Todd Wellemeyer in Game 2 of this four game set. I can't with good intentions back Johnson here knowing full well that his first start since coming off the DL was a complete debacle. He only managed to go three innings against the Dodgers then, but has been given the thumbs up to increase his output to around 100 pitches this evening. That being said, the Cardinals have fared well against lefties at home this year hitting at a .274 clip, and they've had relative success over the "Big Unit" the last couple times they've seen him. On top of that, Todd Wellemeyer is a perfect 2-0 in the red and white this season, and the Red Birds are yet to lose a game he's started this season (6-0). Todd has benefited from the tutelage of pitching coach Dave Duncan, and he actually ranks out high according to my pitcher power ratings. He has shown to be wild on occasion, but he's only surrendered 16 earned runs and struck out 30 in 35 innings of work. With Arizona sputtering of late losing two of their L/3 series', this looks to be excellent position to grab the home club as underdogs. Look for the Cardinal bats to get to Johnson once again, and for Wellemeyer to pick up his third victory of the season as the Cardinals improve to 7-0 with him leading the way.
Sports Gambling Hotline
LA Angels (-130) at TEXAS
Tonight we side with the Angels to outslug the Rangers. We realize Ervin Santana has been a bust on the road this season at 1-6 with a 7.53 ERA, but the fact remains the Angels are a West Division leading 51-31 this season, and they have beat up the Texas Rangers in a big way.
The Halos are 6-1 this year in the season series, including handing tonight's starter Kevin Millwood a pair of losses in his 2 starts against them. Millwood has given up 7 runs in 7 innings of work against LA, and for the season Millwood is a sub-par 4-7 with an over 7 ERA.
The Angels stand at 32-13 since 2005 in the season series against the Rangers, and we see another win happening tonight for Los Angeles.
Play on the Halos!
4♦ ANGELS
CAPPER ACCESS
Tue) MLB Tigers Indians 130 Tigers
(Tue) MLB Angels Rangers 130 Rangers