Losing juice the last 3 days. No good.
One play for the Noon games:
*1.5
Yankees -1.5 (even)
I feel comfortable taking the RL here with the home team just because every win for the Yanks so far has been by 2+ runs. And Ervin Santana has not had much luck against the pinstripes. His career 5-2 record vs. them is a little deceiving as one of those wins came in an inning of relief work in the playoffs last year, another one was during his unbelievable month of August in 2008, and the others were in 2005 and 2006. In all of his wins that came as a starter except 1, he got at least 8 runs to help his cause. So his career 5+ ERA with the Yankees is safe when that happens, but Petite is very good at controlling the game and limiting his mistakes. The Angels are chalk full of Right handed Batters and Switch hitters, so you would think that could give Pettitte a little problem, but he actually has a lower BAA vs. RH batters. Also he's been pretty good out of the gates in April for his entire career.
I'll take the Yankees over the struggling Angels
One play for the Noon games:
*1.5
Yankees -1.5 (even)
I feel comfortable taking the RL here with the home team just because every win for the Yanks so far has been by 2+ runs. And Ervin Santana has not had much luck against the pinstripes. His career 5-2 record vs. them is a little deceiving as one of those wins came in an inning of relief work in the playoffs last year, another one was during his unbelievable month of August in 2008, and the others were in 2005 and 2006. In all of his wins that came as a starter except 1, he got at least 8 runs to help his cause. So his career 5+ ERA with the Yankees is safe when that happens, but Petite is very good at controlling the game and limiting his mistakes. The Angels are chalk full of Right handed Batters and Switch hitters, so you would think that could give Pettitte a little problem, but he actually has a lower BAA vs. RH batters. Also he's been pretty good out of the gates in April for his entire career.
I'll take the Yankees over the struggling Angels
