The 89-73 Toronto Blue Jays will be in Minneapolis today when they face the 87-75 Minnesota Twins in Game 1 of the AL Wild Card series. Toronto has played well on the road, with a record of 46-35, and will have their ace, Kevin Gausman, on the hill. Gausman is 12-9 with a 3.16 ERA and over his last 3 turns he is 1-1 with a 2.04 ERA. Minnesota is expected to hand the ball to Pablo López. He comes in at 11-8 with a 3.66 ERA but over his last 3 his ERA has soared to 6.46. The Twins do not score a lot of runs and Gausman will be able to keep them in check. The young guns for the Jays get it done today.
TODAY’S PICK: TORONTO BLUE JAYS
Monday NFL Pick
The 2-1 Seattle Seahawks will be in New Jersey tonight to face the 1-2 New York Giants. The Seahawks are 5-0 in in their last 5 trips to the Garden State and have Geno Smith over center. He is the most underrated quarterback in the NFL. Smith has thrown for 736 yards with 4 TDs and just 1 pick. The Jersey Boys will have Daniel Jones at the helm. He has thrown for 562 yards with only 2 TDs and 4 picks. The line opened up with the Giants laying 1 and has flipped to the Seahawks laying 2 plus the hook.
TONIGHT’S PICK: SEATTLE SEAHAWKS M/L
Sunday NFL Pick
The Miami Dolphins might be 3-0 but today they travel to Western New York to face the Buffalo Bills and that’s a horse of a different color. The 2-1 Bills had a hiccup in game 1 against the Jets but since then they have been lethal, taking down the Raiders, 38-10, and then taking it on the arches to DC and blowing out the Commanders, 38-3. Miami is coming off a 70-10 romp over the Denver Broncos but you don’t run it up like that. It’s an unwritten rule and a kiss of death. The Bills will make coach McDaniel and company pay.
TODAY’S PICK: BUFFALO BILLS M/L
Saturday NCAA Football Pick
The 4-0 Syracuse Orange will be a home dog today when they host the Clemson Tigers at the Dome. The Orange are 1-0 in Syracuse and 3-0-1 ATS. The Tigers are 2-2 , 0-1 on the road, and 1-3 ATS. The Orange are averaging 517.3 yards per game and the Tigers are averaging 486.3. Clemson is 9-1 in the last 10 meetings but just 3-7 ATS. The Q are getting no respect in this one, with the current line of Clemson -6½, but that’s okay. It will give them more motivation to prove the odds makers wrong.
TODAY’S PICK: SYRACUSE ORANGE +6½
Friday MLB Pick
The Miami Marlins hold a slim half game lead over the Chicago Cubs for the third and last Wild Card spot in the NL. Tonight they visit the Pittsburgh Pirates for the final 3-game set of the regular season, however if they don’t secure a Wild Card spot by Sunday, they might have to play a makeup game with the Mets on Monday. How do they avoid this scenario? It’s simple: sweep the 75-84 Pirates. The Marlins have won 3 of the 4 meetings this year with the Bucs and are 5-0 in their last 5 road games against a team with a home losing record. Tonight’s expected starters for both teams have yet to be announced but we know one thing for sure, the Pirates will not be sending two of their best to the hill this weekend, Mitch Keller and Johan Oviedo, who are done for the year. Pittsburgh will be playing a lot of their young prospects and Miami will take advantage of that.
TONIGHT’S PICK: MIAMI MARLINS
Thursday MLB Pick
The Arizona Diamondbacks will go for a sweep of the Chicago White Sox when they close out their 3-game set in an early one today on the south side. The D-Backs have outscored the lowly Sox, 18-4, over the first two games and are expected to send Bryce Travis to the hill. Travis is perfect, at 2-0, with a 2.45 ERA and a WHIP of only 0.93. The White Sox are expected to have Touki Toussaint toeing the rubber and his numbers are not good. Toussaint is 4-7 with a 5.10 ERA and a 1.45 WHIP. Over his last 3 turns, his ERA has ballooned to 6.75 with a 1.69 WHIP. Arizona holds a 2 game lead over the Marlins and Cubs for the second Wild Card spot. They will finish out the season at home against the World Champion Houston Astros and that will not be a walk in the park so they need to take care of business today.
TODAY’S PICK: ARIZONA DIAMONDBACKS
Wednesday MLB Pick
The New York Yankees’ season is done but they are not rolling over and that was evident in last night’s 2-0 victory over the Toronto Blue Jays at Rogers Centre. Tonight in the second game of their 3-game set, they will have the leading AL Cy Young candidate, Gerrit Cole, toeing the rubber. Cole is having a season like no other. He is 14-4 with a 2.75 ERA, a 1.01 WHIP, and 217 strikeouts. If that doesn’t warrant a Cy Young crown, then I don’t know what does. The Jays, who have a 1½ game lead over the Astros and 2 over the Mariners for the second Wild Card spot, will send José Berríos to the hill. Berríos is 11-11 with a 3.58 ERA, a 1.18 WHIP, and is 3-6 in his career against the Bombers with a 5.14 ERA. The Yankees are 6-0 in Cole’s last 6 starts and in his last turn on September 21st against these Toronto Blue Jays he was in the zone. Cole yielded just 2 hits,1 run, struck out 9 over 8 innings of work, and the Yankees went on to a 5-3 victory. This is probably Cole’s last start of the season. He will want to go out on a positive note and New York would love nothing more than to spoil their AL East rival’s run at the postseason.
TONIGHT’S PICK: NEW YORK YANKEES