MLB Sunday
(Play of the Day)Roy Halladay is going very good right now with an ERA of just 1.73 in his past three starts working 26 innings. He sports a WHIP under 1 in those outings meaning he doesn’t allow many base runners which avoids those big innings against.
(Baseball System ) Play Against all underdogs with a money line of +125 to +175 like the Cubs, who is crummy offensive team scoring 4.1 or less runs per game, against a rock solid NL starting pitcher (ERA<=3.70), with a decent bullpen whose WHIP is 1.350 to 1.450 on the season. Since 2008, this system is 46-11.
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Oakland @ Kansas City
Brian Bannister is struggling with a 5.56 ERA and 1.50 ERA despite owning a 7-7 record. He has not fared well against the A's in his career given his career 5.02 ERA, 1.49 WHIP and .282 opponent's batting average.
Vincent Mazzaro is 4-2 record along with a 3.81 ERA this season. He boasts a 3.64 ERA on the road (versus a 4.00 ERA at home) while sporting a 3.23 ERA during the day (compared to his 4.50 ERA at night). Mazzaro is peaking right now as he has a sizzling 2.31 ERA with a 1.14 WHIP over his last four starts.
Oakland has won four of their last five games against right-handers..________________________________________ __________ ________
San Francisco Giants vs. New York Mets
Sanchez is 5-3 with a 3.06 ERA in nine home starts this season.
Sanchez is 3-2 with a 2.90 ERA in his last five home starts.
Throughout the season, Sanchez has done a good job of bouncing back after poor starts.
After every start in which he’s either allowed four or more earned runs or failed to make it out of the fifth inning, he’s earned a win or pitched at least seven innings in each of those six starts.
That bodes well for him today, as in his last start, he allowed five hits and five runs in only 3.2 IP at Washington eight days ago.
- Santana has been fantastic in July after struggling in his last four June starts. After going 1-3 with a 6.07 ERA in his last four June starts, Santana is 2-0 with an ERA of 0.39 in three July starts.
In those three starts, he’s allowed only 14 hits, eight walks, and one run in 23 IP, and he hasn’t allowed a run in each of his last two starts.
The Mets have scored 19 runs in Santana’s nine road starts. In seven of those nine starts, the Mets have scored two runs or less.
The Mets have scored 56 runs in Santana’s 19 starts this season. That’s an average of less than three runs per start. It’s been enough to get the job done the last two times out, thanks to shutout efforts by Santana, but it won’t cut it every time out.
The Mets are 2-7 in Santana’s road starts.
The combined run total has been six or less in 12 of the 19 games Santana has started this season. There are two other games in which the total has been seven.
The combined run total has been six or less in seven of the nine games Santana has started on the road.
San Francisco’s bats weren’t helping Sanchez out much early on in the season, as they were on the receiving end of shutouts three times and scored only 28 runs in his first nine starts. But in his last nine starts, the Giants have averaged seven runs per game (63 runs total).
Giants are 7-2 in Sanchez’s last nine starts after going 4-5 in his first nine starts. A little run support goes a long way, doesn’t it?
Might as well save the worst for last, right? The Mets have scored only 13 runs in their last seven games. They’ve been shut out three times in those seven games, and they’re only 2-5 in that span. The two wins? Santana’s two starts, both at home.
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(Baseball Trend ) A rare trend for the Toronto Blue Jays has them as 15-0 vs. AL teams scoring 3.7 or less runs game in the second half of the season since 1997.
