The autobets that accompany the series bets have already been discussed. Now for the goodies that I selected outside of those plays.
As stated the air conditioners are on in the Metrodome, so I'm going under the total with the two young guns on the bump, Matusz and Gabino. Matusz has had a little rough going of late, but respectfully the guy is pitching in the AL East, the toughest division in baseball to keep a low era. The kid has good and bad numbers. The bad is that he has given up 13 runs over the past 13 2/3 innings, but at the same time he has more strikeouts (20) than innings pitched (18.2). Hope those air conditioners are running full blast like the info indicated. Not as if the O's are going to help matter any. They are hitting a very weak .206 average these days. The Twins are hitting (.306) and get the nod as far as a side if I had to choose one.
Gabino's numbers out of Rochester look good: 2.93 era to go along with a 1.01 WHIP. Statistically he has even better numbers when you break it all down. In 35 games he has pitched 83 innings giving up 64 hits and 20 free passes offset by 54 strikeouts. Not bad. Hopefully these young guns can keep the offenses at bey long enough.
O's/Twins under 10 (They will score 9 runs!)
For the Crumbs Play of the Day, Brett Anderson is the man despite the rough stretch. When you face the Yanks 2 times as well as the Red Sox and White Sox it will distort your numbers a bit. The Mariners are hardly those teams, and Anderson should be able to slow down those Mariner bats even more than the .243 average that they are already hitting at in recent form (last 3 games). The A's bats are a little better than that hitting .275 over their last 3. The M's took the 1st game of the series, but the A's will take them down in the middle game.
A's +105
With Haren coming to town and coming off of his worst start of the season I look for him to bounce back into form tonight and get the job done against the Giants who have to be tired as hell after the marathon deal with the Rockies last night. He is my fantasy stud with 126 k's to go against only 26 walks. His era has climbed up a bit as of late to 2.74, but I don't expect for him to fall off any time soon, and certainly not tonight.
Cain is wonderful and he's at home. So we have two aces on the bump and two mediocre offenses facing them. That's a recipe for the under for sure. Throw in the fact that AT&T has the 12th park factor in the bigs and the ticket looks good for cashing.
Snakes/Giants under 6.5
As stated the air conditioners are on in the Metrodome, so I'm going under the total with the two young guns on the bump, Matusz and Gabino. Matusz has had a little rough going of late, but respectfully the guy is pitching in the AL East, the toughest division in baseball to keep a low era. The kid has good and bad numbers. The bad is that he has given up 13 runs over the past 13 2/3 innings, but at the same time he has more strikeouts (20) than innings pitched (18.2). Hope those air conditioners are running full blast like the info indicated. Not as if the O's are going to help matter any. They are hitting a very weak .206 average these days. The Twins are hitting (.306) and get the nod as far as a side if I had to choose one.
Gabino's numbers out of Rochester look good: 2.93 era to go along with a 1.01 WHIP. Statistically he has even better numbers when you break it all down. In 35 games he has pitched 83 innings giving up 64 hits and 20 free passes offset by 54 strikeouts. Not bad. Hopefully these young guns can keep the offenses at bey long enough.
O's/Twins under 10 (They will score 9 runs!)
For the Crumbs Play of the Day, Brett Anderson is the man despite the rough stretch. When you face the Yanks 2 times as well as the Red Sox and White Sox it will distort your numbers a bit. The Mariners are hardly those teams, and Anderson should be able to slow down those Mariner bats even more than the .243 average that they are already hitting at in recent form (last 3 games). The A's bats are a little better than that hitting .275 over their last 3. The M's took the 1st game of the series, but the A's will take them down in the middle game.
A's +105
With Haren coming to town and coming off of his worst start of the season I look for him to bounce back into form tonight and get the job done against the Giants who have to be tired as hell after the marathon deal with the Rockies last night. He is my fantasy stud with 126 k's to go against only 26 walks. His era has climbed up a bit as of late to 2.74, but I don't expect for him to fall off any time soon, and certainly not tonight.
Cain is wonderful and he's at home. So we have two aces on the bump and two mediocre offenses facing them. That's a recipe for the under for sure. Throw in the fact that AT&T has the 12th park factor in the bigs and the ticket looks good for cashing.
Snakes/Giants under 6.5
