Author: Roger

The Los Angeles Dodgers have now lost 3 in a row but they should right the ship tonight when the lefty Alex Wood taps the rubber for Los Angeles. Wood is having a stellar year, with a record of 15-3, an ERA of 2.69, and a 1.06 WHIP. The Dodgers are 17-4 in Wood’s last 21 starts and 8-1 in his last 9 road turns. The Phillies will counter with Jake Thompson, who has been mediocre at best. Thompson is 2-2, with an ERA of 4.46, and a 1.65 WHIP. The Dodgers are 9-4 in the last 13 meetings with Philadelphia and they should get this one.
TONIGHT’S PICK: LOS ANGELES DODGERS

The pesky San Diego Padres took game 1 of a 3-game set from the Arizona Diamondbacks last night but tonight Arizona should get back in the win column because of a major pitching mismatch. The Padres are expected to send the lefty, Travis Wood, to the hill and he has been downright terrible. Wood is 0-2 in his last 3 outings, with a bloated ERA of 15.58, a 3.23 WHIP, and with numbers like that, how is this guy still in the Bigs? Zack Godley is expected to take the hill for Arizona. Godley has been delivering, with a record of 2-0 in his last 3 turns, posting an ERA of 1.29 and a WHIP of just 0.86. Arizona has been feasting on southpaws. The Diamondbacks are 10-1 in their last 11 games against southies.
TONIGHT’S PICK: ARIZONA DIAMONDBACKS

The Arizona Diamondbacks have a 5-game lead over the Colorado Rockies for the top spot in the Wild Card race and they should be able to pad that tonight when they travel to Petco Park to take on the San Diego Padres. Patrick Corbin is one of the hottest pitchers in baseball and he will tap the rubber for Arizona. Corbin is 14-12, with a ERA of 4.06, a 1.42 WHIP, and Arizona is 6-1 in his last 7 starts. Luis Perdomo will start for the Friars. He is 7-10, with an ERA of 4.61, a 1.51 WHIP, and the Padres are 0-4 in his last 4 starts against the Diamondbacks. Arizona has had the upper-hand with the Padres, going 14-6 in the last 20 meetings, and they are 9-1 in their last 10 road games. Everything says Arizona here.
TONIGHT’S PICK: ARIZONA DIAMONDBACKS

The New York Yankees are poised for a 4-game sweep over the Baltimore Orioles in an early one today in the Bronx. The Yankees’ bats are hot. They’ve outscored the Orioles 30-10 over the last 3 games and that should continue today because Baltimore will send Ubaldo Jiménez to the hill. Jiménez is 0-2 in his last 3 starts, with a 9.95 ERA, and a 1.97 WHIP. The Orioles are 0-4 in Jiménez last 4 road starts and they are 1-9 in their last 10 overall. The Yankees will counter with Sonny Gray. Gray has pitched well over his last 3 outings, with a record of 1-2, a 2.61 ERA, a WHIP of only 0.97, and the Yankees are 5-0 in their last 5 home games. Bombers today.
TODAY’S PICK: NEW YORK YANKEES

The New York Yankees put a beating on the Baltimore Orioles yesterday, 8-2, and I see that happening again today. Baltimore has had issues in the Bronx, going 8-21 in their last 29 trips to the Stadium, and they are 1-7 in the last 8 meetings overall. Joe Girardi is going to send Jordan Montgomery to the hill to face Baltimore’s Jeremy Hellickson. The southpaw Montgomery is 7-7 on the season with a 4.24 ERA and Hellickson is 8-9 with a 5.23 ERA. The Yanks are 6-1 in their last 7 overall and 4-0 in their last 4 home games. I like the Bombers in this situation.
TODAY’S PICK: NEW YORK YANKEES

The Tampa Bay Rays return home tonight to Tropicana Field and will open a 3-game set against Chris Sale and the Boston Red Sox. After a slight bump in the road, Sale is back to his dominant form. The lefty is 2-1 in his last 3 turns, with a 1.56 ERA, a 1.10 WHIP, and last faced the Rays on Saturday when he gave up 6 hits with 8 Ks and no runs in a 9-0 Red Sox win. Matt Andriese gets the nod for Tampa. Andriese has been awful in his last 3 starts, going 0-2, with a 14.09 ERA and a 2.48 WHIP – and that’s not a typo. When Tampa Bay put Andriese up against Sale last Saturday, he gave up 8 runs on 7 hits and couldn’t make it out of the second inning. The Rays are 0-4 in his last 4 starts and 0-5 in their last 5 games against southpaws. That spells doom when you have to face a flame throwing lefty like Sale.
TONIGHT’S PICK: BOSTON RED SOX

The Houston Astros will send Brad Peacock to the mound tonight to oppose the Los Angeles Angels’ Ricky Nolasco in the rubber game of a 3-game set at Angel Stadium. Nolasco has not pitched well in the 2017 campaign, with a record of 6-13, an ERA of 5.19, a WHIP of 1.47, and he has given up 34 homers, which is tied for the third most in the Majors. The Angels are 3-8 in his last 11 home starts and 0-4 in his last 4 home outings against a team with a winning record. Peacock on the other hand has pitched well, with a record of 10-2, a 3.05 ERA, and a 1.24 WHIP with 150 strike outs. The Astros are 10-4 in his last 14 road starts and are 11-5 in their last 16 trips to Angel Stadium. The pitching match-up sides with Houston tonight.
TONIGHT’S PICK: HOUSTON ASTROS