Month: June 2022

After a dismal start to the 2022 campaign, the Cincinnati Reds are starting to turn it around, winning 5 of their last 7. Tonight they will welcome the struggling Washington Nationals to Great American Ball Park to open a 4-game set. The Nationals have lost 3 straight, have not scored a run in 21 innings, and were swept by the Mets in their last series, outscored 28-5. Joan Adon is expected to get the nod for the Nats and his numbers are not good. Adon is 1-8 with a 6.09 ERA, a 1.65 WHIP, and Washington is 0-9 in his last 9 starts as a dog. Cincinnati is expected to counter with Graham Ashcraft and although he hasn’t seen a lot of action, what he has shown looks impressive. Ashcraft is 1-0 with a 1.69 ERA and a 1.12 WHIP over 10.2 innings of work. The Reds are 4-1 in their last 5 home games and are a good value, depending on where you shop, at around -135.
TONIGHT’S PICK: CINCINNATI REDS

The Los Angeles Angels have now lost 6 straight after a 9-1 shellacking last night by the best team in baseball, the New York Yankees. Tonight it won’t get any easier for the west coasters when they resume their series with the Yanks in the Bronx. Southpaw Nasty Nestor Cortés Jr. will be tapping the rubber for New York and he has been throwing flame after flame. Cortés is 4-1 with a nasty ERA of 1.70, a stingy 0.85 WHIP, and in his last outing against a really good Tampa team, he yielded just 1 run on 4 hits resulting in a 7-2 Yankees win. The Angels will look to lefty Reid Detmers to pull them out of the gutter and we know what the Bombers do to left-handed starters, crush them. Detmers is 2-2 with a 4.65 ERA, a 0.91 WHIP, and does have a No-No this year under his belt, however since then his ERA has ballooned to 7.45. If LA wants to pull the upset in this one, they have some hurdles to overcome. The Halos are 0-4 in their last 4 road games, 0-6 in their last 6 against the AL East, and New York is 24-8 in their last 32 as a favorite.
TONIGHT’S PICK: NEW YORK YANKEES