Category: Baseball

Johnny Cueto will be on the hill for the Chicago White Sox tonight when he faces his old team, the Kansas City Royals, for the third game of their 4-game set at Kauffman Field. Cueto is upside down at 4-5 but has an ERA of 2.91 and a 1.19 WHIP. The last time he faced his old teammates was in May and he delivered, pitching 6 scoreless innings and yielding just 2 hits in a 5-3 White Sox win. The Royals will send Kris Bubic to the mound. The lefty has not pitched well. Bubic is 2-6 with a 5.27 ERA and a 1.54 WHIP. The White Sox are just 1.5 games back of the Cleveland Guardians for the top spot in the weak AL Central so every game counts from here on out. Not so for the Royals, who are not going anywhere.
TONIGHT’S PICK: CHICAGO WHITE SOX

The San Diego Padres will try to right the ship tonight when they host the San Francisco Giants. The Friars have lost 5 straight and Bell and Soto have yet to justify their huge salaries but they will tonight. The pitching matchup has Joe Musgrove against Alex Cobb. Musgrove is 8-5 with a 3.00 ERA and Cobb is 3-6 with a 4.08 ERA. Edge Padres.
TONIGHT’S PICK: SAN DIEGO PADRES

The New York Mets are #1 in the East because they are loaded with talent and have the best skipper in the bigs, Buck Showalter. Tonight they will host the Cincinnati Reds. The expected starters are Chris Bassitt for the Mets and Justin Dunn for the Reds. Bassitt is 8-7 with a 3.02 ERA and a 1.12 WHIP. Dunn just got called up from AAA and the Mets are licking their chops. New York has won 3 straight, 8 of their last 10, and will not lose tonight at home to an inferior Reds team.
TONIGHT’S PICK: NEW YORK METS

The Milwaukee Brewers will not lose the series to the Cincinnati Reds and this is why. Corbin Burnes is on the hill. He is 8-5 with a 2.49 ERA and a .095 WHIP. Done.
TODAY’S PICK: MILWAUKEE BREWERS

The Tampa Bay Rays will have the best pitcher in the bigs on the hill today when they face the pathetic Detroit Tigers. Shane McClanahan gets the nod for the boys from St. Pete and numbers don’t lie. He is 10-4 with a 2.07 ERA and a nasty 0.82 WHIP. The Tigers will counter with Garret Hill. He is 1-3 with a 5.89 ERA and a 1.35 WHIP. The Rays need to win, the Tigers don’t.
TODAY’S PICK: TAMPA BAY RAYS

The New York Yankees will look to get back on track when they open a 3-game set with the St. Louis Cardinals tonight at Busch Stadium. The Bombers are in a bit of a funk but that never lasts too long. Tonight they will face Dakota Hudson and they can get to this guy. Hudson is 6-6 with a 4.18 ERA and a 1.36 WHIP. New York will send Nasty Nestor Cortés to the hill. The southpaw is 9-3 with a 2.53 ERA and a 1.03 WHIP. Pitching wins baseball games and the Yankees have the edge in this one.
TONIGHT’S PICK: NEW YORK YANKEES

The San Diego Padres are locked and loaded after their recent acquisitions and the LA Dodgers better be sleeping with one eye open. Today, in an early one at Petco Park, the Friars will look to wrap up a 5-game sweep of the struggling Colorado Rockies. Today’s expected starters are Joe Musgrove for San Diego and Kyle Freeland for Colorado. Soto and company should be able to get to Freeland. He is 6-7 with a 4.63 ERA and a 1.34 WHIP. Musgrove is 8-4 with a 2.65 ERA, a WHIP of 0.99, and just got paid. He’ll deliver.
TODAY’S PICK: SAN DIEGO PADRES