Well, good luck with your picks today, here are a few picks that you might want to consider.
- MLB: Seattle Mariners
- This may be a historic moment for me. I don't know the last time that I ever picked the Seattle Mariners to win a game that wasn't against the Astros. So congratulations Mariners, today, for the first time, I don't think you suck. Well, at least I don't think the Mariners pitcher Hishshi Iwakuma sucks. So far this season he is 5-1 with a 1.84 ERA. The Indians on the other hand have been one of the hottest teams in baseball and have won 7 of their last 10 games including 4 straight. The Tribe is hitting really well, which should make this matchup between the Mariners great pitcher and the excellent hitting of the Indians an exciting game to watch. But I almost always have to give the edge to pitching.
- Confidence: 60%
- MLB: Tampa Bay Rays
- The Blue Jays may be one of the biggest disappointment so far in the early part of the season. Many people, including myself, expected them to be one of the best teams in the AL East competing for the pennant. Well it has not quite turned out so nicely for the Jays in the early going. Today they send one of their biggest off season acquisitions RA Dickey to the mound. Dickey has not been what they expected going 3-5 so far this season with an ERA nearing 5. The Rays send their young pitcher Jake Odorizzi out to make just his third start in the big leagues. I don't expect pitching in this game to be great, so it may come down to who can hit better, and for that reason, edge goes to the Rays.
- Confidence: 60%
- MLB: CC Sabathia: Strikeouts
- I know two things, first, Sabathia doesn't give up a lot of hits and second, he gets a lot of his outs via strikeouts. The prop is asking which total will be higher, Sabathia's strikeouts or the Orioles total hits in innings 1-3. Well CC so far this season is averaging about 6 strikeouts a game. Since this is one third of the game, we can predict that he will get about 2 strikeouts in the first 3 innings. It is also safe to assume that if he is getting those strikeouts and his command is on tonight, then he will not be giving up too many hits. This one may be close, but I gotta go with the Yankee's Ace.
- Confidence: 60%
- NHL: Chicago Blackhawks
- This series is tied 1-1 heading in to game three with each team winning one of the first two games 4-1. The series heads off to Detroit tonight for a very important game 3. The Red Wings will be on their home ice, but I don't expect that to matter much. The Blackhawks are the better team and after losing just their second game in the playoffs, they should respond with a big win.
- Confidence: 65%
- MLB: Los Angeles Dodgers
- This is a matchup of two 17-25 teams who are sending out their Aces tonight. The only difference between these two tonight is that the Dodger's Ace, Clayton Kershaw, is pitching like one this year, while the Brewer's man, Yovanni Gallardo is not looking so dominate. When Kershaw has his stuff working, he can be near impossible to hit. He can mix up his pitches and throw a mid-nineties fastball and then come back at you with a curveball in the sixties. Neither team has been amazing this season so far and the Dodgers have been another one of the season's big disappointments, but Kershaw has been anything but disappointing and should help his team get the win tonight.
- Confidence: 75%
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