Pittsburgh (Ashcraft) -126 over Philadelphia (Nola) (1x)
-Despite last night's victory over Boston, The Phills offense has scored just 6 runs in their 3 games and just 176 runs in 44 games (an avg of 4.00 runs/game) and have a -31 run differencial (3rd worst in the NL). In addition the Phills are only 4-12 against teams above .500. The Phillies start RHP Aaron Nola who is 2-3 on the year with an ERA of 5.14 and is just 7-13 the last 2 years with an ERA of 5.74. IN his last 2 starts on the road vs the Pirates he is 0-2 with an ERA of 8.44. Meanwhile, Pittsburgh starter Braxton Ashcraft has an ERA of 2.77 on the year in 8 starts and in his last 2 starts, his team is 2-0 (1-0 personally) allowing only 1 ER over 14 2/3 IP. On the season, he has allowed more than 2 runs in only ONE start. Play Pittsburgh tonight.