Category: Baseball

The Arizona Diamondbacks are red hot, winning their last 9 games, but I see that coming to an end today when they take on the Colorado Rockies at Coors Field. Zack Godley will tap the rubber for Arizona and in his last 3 outings, he is 1-2, with an ERA of 5.51, and a 1.59 WHIP. The Rockies will counter with Germán Márquez. Márquez is 1-0 in his last 3 starts, with an ERA of 4.50 and a 1.44 WHIP. Colorado is 8-2 in his last 10 outings and 9-0 in his last 9 home starts.
TODAY’S PICK: COLORADO ROCKIES

The Minnesota Twins will try to add some distance between themselves and the Kansas City Royals for the American League second wild card spot when they meet tonight a Target Field. Kansas City called up the lefty Onelki García from AAA Omaha where he was 7-3, with an ERA of 4.75. Kyle Gibson will start for the Twins. Gibson is 2-1 in his last 3 starts, with an ERA of 3.06, and a 1.36 WHIP. The Twins are 7-1 in their last 8 home games and 4-0 in their last 4 home games against southpaws. Minnesota is 4-0 in Gibson’s last 4 starts against the Royals and KC is just 2-6 in their last 8 trips to Minnesota.
TONIGHT’S PICK: MINNESOTA TWINS

The Pittsburgh Pirates have lost 3 in a row but had the day off yesterday to gather their bearings and tonight they will host the Cincinnati Reds at PNC Park. Pittsburgh’s ace, Gerrit Cole, will tap the rubber tonight for the Pirates. Cole is 11-8, with a 3.99 ERA, a 1.23 WHIP in 167 innings of work and last faced the Reds on Saturday where he threw 7 scoreless innings in a 1-0 Pirates win. Cincinnati will send Luis Castillo to the hill. Castillo is 2-7, with a 3.26 ERA, and a 1.14 WHIP in 77.1 innings of work. The Reds are 24-41 on the road. Pirates should get this one.
TONIGHT’S PICK: PITTSBURGH PIRATES

Two southpaws will oppose each other today when the New York Yankees and the Boston Red Sox open a 4-game set in the Bronx. Joe Girardi will send CC Sabathia to the hill. The veteran has been steady over his last 3 outings, going 1-1, with a 3.94 ERA and a 1.12 WHIP. The Bombers are 4-0 in CC’s last 4 starts against the Red Sox and 11-2 in his last 13 starts against the American League East. John Farrell will send Eduardo Rodríguez to the mound. Rodríguez is 0-1 in his last 3 outings, with a 6.11 ERA, a 1.30 WHIP, and Boston is 0-4 in his last 4 road starts and 0-4 in his last 4 starts against the American League East. I like the Yankees in this situation.
TODAY’S PICK: NEW YORK YANKEES

The St. Louis Cardinals and Milwaukee Brewers will play an early one today at Miller Park. The Brewers will send Chase Anderson to the hill. He is 7-3, with a 2.87 ERA, and a 1.13 WHIP. The Cardinals will counter with Carlos Martínez, who is 10-9, with a 3.48 ERA, and a 1.19 WHIP. Milwaukee is 4-1 in their last 5 home games and 4-1 in their last 5 games against the National League Central. Head to head, the Brewers are 5-2 in their last 7 meetings with the Cardinals. I like the home dog in this one.
TODAY’S PICK: MILWAUKEE BREWERS

The Boston Red Sox got back in the win column yesterday and will try for two in a row when they send their ace Chris Sale to the hill to face the struggling Toronto Blue Jays at Rogers Centre. Sale, who leads the league with 253 strikeouts, is 14-6 with an ERA of 2.88. Boston is 15-6 in Sale’s last 21 starts and 4-1 in his last 5 road outings. Toronto called up Brett Anderson from AAA Buffalo where he was 3-3, with an ERA of 3.65. The Red Sox are 5-0 in their last 5 trips north of the border and the Jays are 2-8 in their last 10 overall. Sale has faced Toronto twice this year, shutting them down in both games, with a 7-1 victory in July and a 4-1 victory in April.
TONIGHT’S PICK: BOSTON RED SOX

The Detroit Tigers will limp into Coors Field tonight to open a 3-game set against the Colorado Rockies. Detroit is having a year they would rather forget and will send Jordan Zimmermann to the hill to face Colorado’s Antonio Senzatela. Zimmermann has been dealing wiffle balls, with a record of 0-2 in his last 3 starts, an ERA of 13.83, a WHIP of 2.27, and that is not good. Senzatela is 0-1 in his last 3 outings, with an ERA of 5.14, a 1.86 WHIP, and the Rockies are 6-1 in his last 7 home starts. The Tigers are 2-9 in their last 11 trips to Coors Field and 1-9 in their last 10 road games.
TONIGHT’S PICK: COLORADO ROCKIES