Baseball Underdog of the Day Contest - Tuesday, 5/6/08

[Wrigley]

Los Angeles Angels +123

KC Bannister in his Past 3 Starts is 0-3, 8.59 ERA

[chipski]

padres +122
backing young and pad bullpen to pitch great and for pads to start a winning streak .
pads can score 5 or more tonight .

[sharktank1]

TWINS + 116

Minn has won 5 in a row.
CWS has lost 6 in a row.
A trap?
Don't think so.
Come on Blackburn...

[SexyMit]

Philadelphia Phillies +136 Randy Johnson is getting old and his stuff is not what it use to be and the phillies bats are hot, so I will ride with them.

[Wyndham]

Guess I miss out on 1-0 last night because I didn't add a comment. Oh well.

Pick for tonight: TB +128

Sonnanstine is 4-1 as a starter. The value is there. The bats are picking up. Enough said.

[ChuteBoxe]

927 Baltimore Orioles +132

Oakland's bats have been struggling as of late, and this is always a close matchup between these two teams. Duchscherer's ERA against the Orioles is 5.40, and Burress' ERA against the Athletics is 1.50, with a WHIP of 1.00. The A's have also struggled a little against LHP this season.

[trytrytry]

Padres +122


atlanta has a terrible starting pitcher in this one...easy win

[brock]

901 San Francisco Giants +111 Sanchez 33.2 innings 27 hits
Duke 35.2 innings 48 hits.

[diogee]

919 Cleveland Indians +115 The Indians have a solid line-up and should be able to get a few runs out of Pettite again. Carmona is solid and very capable of pitching a gem. 2 or 3 runs could win this game for the Indians.

[regularguy]

Phillies +136
The Phillies are hitting the ball and are winning. They beat the D'Backs yesterday 11-4, and they are a +136 dog today, with no mismatch between the pitchers? Obvious value there, IMO. The Elderly Unit just doesn't have much slider anymore, and his fastball is not so fast. He was terrible Wednesday: 9 hits and 6 runs in 4 innings. I think the snakes will lose 3 in a row for the 1st time this season, marking the official end of their over-their-heads 2008 start.

[pats3peat]

925 Los Angeles Angels +123
Bannister has been weak lately and angels the better team.

[THE HITMAN]

PHIL + 1.36
I need to do some catching up in this contest, so I'll go with the biggest dog on my list. PHIL 4-1 their last 5 and have 28 runs in that stretch. Eaton, while not being spectacular, has jept them in games and they are 4-2 in his starts. Randy Johnson, on the other hand, doesn't have the fastball of old anymore.

[goldengoat]

Phillies +136
randy johnson is finished

[rm18]

Padres +122

Chris Young is way too good, only weakness is homers and SB's, Braves are mostly high average guys.

[oakas]

LA Angels +123

Think the rookie settles down after the rocky first start he had against the A's.

[Checkerboard]

Minnesota Twins +116

w-l streaks and hitting avgs in different directions. Chicago has to deal with distraction of coming home after being swept by Toronto. Blackburn pitching decently . . .

[msubulldog]

lost baltimore last night in my 1st pick in contest as oakland live up to stats of having a hard time against left handers, but baltimore could only manage 1 run.

tonight like san diego + 122 over atlanta as I think they have big edge in starting pitching here. joung has had one bad outing in 6 starts giving up 7 runs to Dodgers in 3+ innings. other 5 starts he has given up 1,2,2,1,2 runs.

[greg66]

903 San Diego Padres +122
Young is due for a quality start. After some solid outings I for Jurrgens to have a letdown game.

[clarkd32]

SD +

Jurrens has done well this year so far but i'm not sure it warrants him being this big of a fav vs Young. If this game were played earlier this year I'd think SD would have been the favorite - or close to it.

[LT Profits]

PHILADELPHIA PHILLIES +136: Poor Randy Johnson is getting dumped on in this thread, and I think I will pile on. LOL

More importantly, the Philadelphia bats are finally waking up, and I think they offer great value at this price. Also, Eaton pitched well the last time he started in Arizona last year, allowing three runs in seven innings in an unlucky 3-2 loss. He should get better run support tonight unless Johnson somehow turns back the clock.

[DeluxeLiner]

Phillies - Randy Johnson is old and not as consistent as he used to be. Phily has been playing great lately, and Eaton should hold down the D-bags who have been slowing down after their great start this season.

[Meestermike]

925 Los Angeles Angels +123

Play based solely upon RD record of LAA... 11-5 vs. KC 5-8 at HM. Also LAA's R\AB OTR = 0.152 vs. KC's 0.082 R\AB output at HM.

Offensive RBI\AB also leans in favour of LAA by +0.61

[rjt721]

Angels +123

Adenhart couldn't throw a strike to save his life last week. However, his command wasn't a major concern in the minors, and he should settle down in his second big-league start. Santana's gem last night left the Halos' pen in great shape, and even without Figgins and Kendrick, the Angels should have some success against Bannister, who's had his own struggles over his L3.

[marley33]

I like the Angels +123. Bannister has struggled lately

[MOONCRICKET]

philly+136: philly is 4-2 behind eaton this year, they are hitting the ball well, and they just crushed az last night.

[Shooter]

929 Texas Rangers +132

Believe it or not Sidney Ponson had a pretty decent outing last time. He gave up one run in 8 innings. The game prior he only gave up one run to the Twins before the defense and bullpen imploded on him. A couple of ugly stats are the Rangers have lost 9 of 11 road games, and Batista has a 9.00 ERA at Safeco. So I'll take Sidney and see what happens.

[soli]

NY Mets +121

The Mets will be looking to rebound from the loss last night going against a righty in which NY can load up all the power that they have with left hand batters. Figueroa is on the mound for the Mets and I don't see LA getting enough runs to win.

[stump]

929 Texas Rangers +132
keep riding ponson

[Mr KLC]

Baltimore Orioles +132

Duchscherer has a low ERA but he still had 5 unearned runs in his last game. Brian Burress is a top notch pitcher as long as he doesn't play the Tampa Bay Rays. They are playing Oakland so we don't have to worry about it.