02:15 PM [902] STL CARDINALS -1.5 +110 ( J NELSON -R / A WAINWRIGHT -R )
04:10 PM [903] MIA MARLINS -260 ( J FERNANDEZ -R/ ACTION )
01:05 PM [914] TOR BLUE JAYS -160 ( ACTION /M ESTRADA -R )
02:10 PM [915] TEX RANGERS +115 ( C GONZALEZ -R / T DUFFEY -R )
04:10 PM [918] TOTAL u7.5 -110 (CHI WHITE SOX vrs HOU ASTROS) ( C SALE -L / D FISTER -R )
04:10 PM [919] DET TIGERS -128 ( J VERLANDER -R / B SNELL -L )
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Waino and Verlander both good at bouncing back after poor starts, and they are in the situtations today to take advantage of that....
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Chi Chi Gonzalez will make his second start of the season, aiming for his first win. Gonzalez was hit hard by the Yankees in his first start, surrendering five runs in five innings pitched, finishing with the no decision. The young right hander went 4-6 with a 3.90 ERA and a 1.21 WHIP in 67 innings pitched in his first taste of the Majors last season
Gonzalez, the team's 2013 first-round pick (No. 23 overall), is 3-6 with a 5.04 ERA in 14 starts with Round Rock this season. Despite the high ERA, he carried a 3.90 ERA in 14 appearances (10 starts) with the Rangers last year. He also threw 1 2/3 innings in the American League Division Series against the Blue Jays. "This is familiarity. He stepped up big for us when he first came up last year, and just the overall body of work," manager Jeff Banister said. "It kind of plays into the philosophy of a three-pitch-or-less mentality, get the ball on the ground. Given the overall choices, I felt like he was the best fit for us right now."
he's been working on his mechanics, which yielded good results in his last few Round Rock starts. he hopes it will carry over into his starts with the big team
Jimmy Nelson, who has gone 5-6 with a 3.60 ERA in 16 starts this year, including 0-1 with a 4.61 ERA in his last three starts and 1-3 with a 5.66 ERA in seven starts on the road. Nelson has now gone 8-15 with a 4.56 ERA in 30 games (28 starts) on the road in his career and 3-11 with a 5.02 ERA in 20 day games (18 day starts), while vs the Cardinals he is 0-5 with a 9.51 ERA in six games (five starts), including 0-2 with an 11.81 ERA in two games (one start) here at Busch
The biggest let down of the day was this Justin Verlander start against the Indians, where he allowed 4 - yes FOUR - homeruns in the fifth inning alone enroute to a 4.2 IP, 8 ER, 9 Hits, 2 BBs, 5 Ks line. Whatareyougonnado. I'm sure a good amount of you guys are worried about this outing after such a good run from - and let me ease your mind. The velocity was fine, it really was just "one of those days" where it wasn't clicking on his end and his batters were on point. Don't do anything rash -
Snell picked up his first Major League win on Monday, but he still lacked command on many of his pitches after throwing two perfect innings to start...Because of these problems, Snell doesn't go deep in ballgames meaning an awful bullpen comes into play. Tampa's relievers have given up a ton of runs this series. Detroit is hitting around .257 against left-handed starters this season.
Harrell will get the start after Bud Norris was traded to the Dodgers on Thursday. His last Major League start was with the Astros on April 15, 2014. ....Harrell was 2-1 with a 2.81 ERA in nine appearances, five starts, for Gwinnett. In his starts, he did not allow more than three runs. He pitched six scoreless innings in his last start against Charlotte on Sunday....Harrell has major league experience, going 18-33 with a 4.84 ERA over five years. He won 11 games for the Astros in 2012.
In nine starts this season, Danny Duffy owns a 3.33 ERA, 1.03 WHIP and 10.7 K/9. However, he's somehow still available in 62 percent of ESPN.com leagues. He should be snatched up for Saturday's matchup against the Phillies, who are truly awful against lefty pitching, sporting an MLB-worst 60 wRC+ to go along with a 24 percent strikeout rate.
Duffy matched a career high with eight innings, while posting his fourth quality start of the month, in a win over the Cardinals last Monday. The Royals have gone 6-3 this season with Duffy on the mound since he joined the rotation.
More than anything else, Nola (5-7, 4.45 ERA) will be looking to improve his location when he opposes Royals left-hander Danny Duffy (3-1, 3.24).
"The more I think about it, and the more I look at the video, all his good starts, the ball was down at the knees," Mackanin said. "All his bad starts, the ball's elevated. He's not keeping the ball down in the zone."...Pitching coach Bob McClure has discussed that with Nola
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Arrieta's struggles continued vs. the Reds as he gave up a season-high five runs and five walks over five innings. Arrieta still has a 2.10 ERA, but he's walked 20 in his last 40 innings, and four of the five runs he allowed Monday reached on a walk.
Texas vs. Minnesota
Pick: Texas
Chi Chi Gonzalez may sound more like a professional golfer's name than a baseball player, but the man with that moniker is back in the rotation with the Texas Rangers in his second season in the bigs. Gonzalez had a solid - if not stellar - rookie season with Texas, having gone 4-6 with a 3.90 ERA in 14 games (10 starts) in 2015. His first start of this season last Monday certainly does not instill confidence going into this game today, but that first one was in Yankee Stadium - a place that can be deadly to righthanded pitchers. Gonzalez should have an easier time of it today at Target Field against the Twins. After a very promising rookie season in which he went 5-1 with a 3.10 ERA in 10 starts, LHP Tyler Duffey has taken a step backwards in 2016. So far, Duffey is 3-6 with an ugly 5.59 ERA and 1.42 WHIP in his 12 starts covering just under 68 innings. It could get ugly fast for Duffey this afternoon as the Rangers' .294 batting average vs. southpaws is the best number in the American League. The Twins are just 15-25 at home this season while the Rangers are very strong on the road at 23-17.
Detroit Tigers -118
Detroit is showing some great value here as a small road favorite against the Rays. The Tigers won yesterday's series opener 10-2 and have now scored 10 runs in each of their last 3 games. Detroit has won 4 straight overall and 8 of their last 11. Tampa Bay on the other hand has lost 14 of their last 16.
The Tigers give the ball to Justin Verlander, who is coming off a ugly start against the Indians, where he gave up 8 runs on 9 hits in 4 2/3 innings. Prior to that Verlander had been pitching very well and I look for him to bounce back in a big way against a Rays offense that is scoring just 3.6 runs/game at home. Verlander is also 7-3 with a 3.49 ERA in 14 career starts against the Rays.
Detroit should be able to stay hot at the plate, as they face off against rookie Blake Snell, who has a 4.11 ERA and 2.153 WHIP in his last 3 starts. Snell is only averaging 5 1/3 innings/start and has walked 10 batters in his last 15 1/3 innings of work.
Tigers are 11-4 in their last 15 after scoring 10 or more runs and 10-0 in their last 10 after a win by 8 or more runs. They are also 21-9 on the season as a favorite of -110 or more and 23-13 in their last 26 road day games.
04:10 PM [903] MIA MARLINS -260 ( J FERNANDEZ -R/ ACTION )
01:05 PM [914] TOR BLUE JAYS -160 ( ACTION /M ESTRADA -R )
02:10 PM [915] TEX RANGERS +115 ( C GONZALEZ -R / T DUFFEY -R )
04:10 PM [918] TOTAL u7.5 -110 (CHI WHITE SOX vrs HOU ASTROS) ( C SALE -L / D FISTER -R )
04:10 PM [919] DET TIGERS -128 ( J VERLANDER -R / B SNELL -L )
1 unit bet pays 33 ....betdsi line .... evening parlay later
MLB parlays: 9-93, -20.86 units (risk 1 unit each pick)... winner #1 posted here......winner #2 posted here....winner #3 and nice winner #4... and small reduced winner #5, winner #6 paid 5.07 units...winner #7...and here is winner #8...and then winner #9
Goood luck everyone!! :firing: :toast:
Waino and Verlander both good at bouncing back after poor starts, and they are in the situtations today to take advantage of that....
ripped, cut and pasted, otherwise written by others, from across the internets:
Chi Chi Gonzalez will make his second start of the season, aiming for his first win. Gonzalez was hit hard by the Yankees in his first start, surrendering five runs in five innings pitched, finishing with the no decision. The young right hander went 4-6 with a 3.90 ERA and a 1.21 WHIP in 67 innings pitched in his first taste of the Majors last season
Gonzalez, the team's 2013 first-round pick (No. 23 overall), is 3-6 with a 5.04 ERA in 14 starts with Round Rock this season. Despite the high ERA, he carried a 3.90 ERA in 14 appearances (10 starts) with the Rangers last year. He also threw 1 2/3 innings in the American League Division Series against the Blue Jays. "This is familiarity. He stepped up big for us when he first came up last year, and just the overall body of work," manager Jeff Banister said. "It kind of plays into the philosophy of a three-pitch-or-less mentality, get the ball on the ground. Given the overall choices, I felt like he was the best fit for us right now."
he's been working on his mechanics, which yielded good results in his last few Round Rock starts. he hopes it will carry over into his starts with the big team
Jimmy Nelson, who has gone 5-6 with a 3.60 ERA in 16 starts this year, including 0-1 with a 4.61 ERA in his last three starts and 1-3 with a 5.66 ERA in seven starts on the road. Nelson has now gone 8-15 with a 4.56 ERA in 30 games (28 starts) on the road in his career and 3-11 with a 5.02 ERA in 20 day games (18 day starts), while vs the Cardinals he is 0-5 with a 9.51 ERA in six games (five starts), including 0-2 with an 11.81 ERA in two games (one start) here at Busch
The biggest let down of the day was this Justin Verlander start against the Indians, where he allowed 4 - yes FOUR - homeruns in the fifth inning alone enroute to a 4.2 IP, 8 ER, 9 Hits, 2 BBs, 5 Ks line. Whatareyougonnado. I'm sure a good amount of you guys are worried about this outing after such a good run from - and let me ease your mind. The velocity was fine, it really was just "one of those days" where it wasn't clicking on his end and his batters were on point. Don't do anything rash -
Snell picked up his first Major League win on Monday, but he still lacked command on many of his pitches after throwing two perfect innings to start...Because of these problems, Snell doesn't go deep in ballgames meaning an awful bullpen comes into play. Tampa's relievers have given up a ton of runs this series. Detroit is hitting around .257 against left-handed starters this season.
Harrell will get the start after Bud Norris was traded to the Dodgers on Thursday. His last Major League start was with the Astros on April 15, 2014. ....Harrell was 2-1 with a 2.81 ERA in nine appearances, five starts, for Gwinnett. In his starts, he did not allow more than three runs. He pitched six scoreless innings in his last start against Charlotte on Sunday....Harrell has major league experience, going 18-33 with a 4.84 ERA over five years. He won 11 games for the Astros in 2012.
In nine starts this season, Danny Duffy owns a 3.33 ERA, 1.03 WHIP and 10.7 K/9. However, he's somehow still available in 62 percent of ESPN.com leagues. He should be snatched up for Saturday's matchup against the Phillies, who are truly awful against lefty pitching, sporting an MLB-worst 60 wRC+ to go along with a 24 percent strikeout rate.
Duffy matched a career high with eight innings, while posting his fourth quality start of the month, in a win over the Cardinals last Monday. The Royals have gone 6-3 this season with Duffy on the mound since he joined the rotation.
More than anything else, Nola (5-7, 4.45 ERA) will be looking to improve his location when he opposes Royals left-hander Danny Duffy (3-1, 3.24).
"The more I think about it, and the more I look at the video, all his good starts, the ball was down at the knees," Mackanin said. "All his bad starts, the ball's elevated. He's not keeping the ball down in the zone."...Pitching coach Bob McClure has discussed that with Nola
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Arrieta's struggles continued vs. the Reds as he gave up a season-high five runs and five walks over five innings. Arrieta still has a 2.10 ERA, but he's walked 20 in his last 40 innings, and four of the five runs he allowed Monday reached on a walk.
Texas vs. Minnesota
Pick: Texas
Chi Chi Gonzalez may sound more like a professional golfer's name than a baseball player, but the man with that moniker is back in the rotation with the Texas Rangers in his second season in the bigs. Gonzalez had a solid - if not stellar - rookie season with Texas, having gone 4-6 with a 3.90 ERA in 14 games (10 starts) in 2015. His first start of this season last Monday certainly does not instill confidence going into this game today, but that first one was in Yankee Stadium - a place that can be deadly to righthanded pitchers. Gonzalez should have an easier time of it today at Target Field against the Twins. After a very promising rookie season in which he went 5-1 with a 3.10 ERA in 10 starts, LHP Tyler Duffey has taken a step backwards in 2016. So far, Duffey is 3-6 with an ugly 5.59 ERA and 1.42 WHIP in his 12 starts covering just under 68 innings. It could get ugly fast for Duffey this afternoon as the Rangers' .294 batting average vs. southpaws is the best number in the American League. The Twins are just 15-25 at home this season while the Rangers are very strong on the road at 23-17.
Detroit Tigers -118
Detroit is showing some great value here as a small road favorite against the Rays. The Tigers won yesterday's series opener 10-2 and have now scored 10 runs in each of their last 3 games. Detroit has won 4 straight overall and 8 of their last 11. Tampa Bay on the other hand has lost 14 of their last 16.
The Tigers give the ball to Justin Verlander, who is coming off a ugly start against the Indians, where he gave up 8 runs on 9 hits in 4 2/3 innings. Prior to that Verlander had been pitching very well and I look for him to bounce back in a big way against a Rays offense that is scoring just 3.6 runs/game at home. Verlander is also 7-3 with a 3.49 ERA in 14 career starts against the Rays.
Detroit should be able to stay hot at the plate, as they face off against rookie Blake Snell, who has a 4.11 ERA and 2.153 WHIP in his last 3 starts. Snell is only averaging 5 1/3 innings/start and has walked 10 batters in his last 15 1/3 innings of work.
Tigers are 11-4 in their last 15 after scoring 10 or more runs and 10-0 in their last 10 after a win by 8 or more runs. They are also 21-9 on the season as a favorite of -110 or more and 23-13 in their last 26 road day games.
