5*Baltimore Orioles -128 (Norris/Volquez)

5*Tampa Bay Rays -133 (Bumgarner/Archer)


Both teams have never faced the opposing pitcher, however a few Rays' players have faced Bumgarner. Madison has been much better at home (2.25 ERA) than away from AT&T Park (3.25 ERA). August has been a bit rough for Bumgarner over the past three years. Batters are hitting .260 against him, which is the second highest of any month. The big thing for me is that the Giants have not played in any Dome game this season. It's been at least three years since they have. The Rays are batting .291 vs. left-handed starters at home. Tampa Bay is 10-2 when facing an NL team this year. The Giants are 2-6 in Interleague games this season, while batting just .203 as a team.

4*Philadelphia Phillies -113 (Gaudin/Kendrick)

4*Texas Rangers -127 (Weaver/Garza)

4*NY Yankees +103 (Archer/Nova)

5*Baltimore Orioles -130 (Gonzalez/Guthrie)

4*Baltimore Orioles -105 (Hammel/Chen)

4*Colorado Rockies -151 (Jackson/Chatwood)

4*Tampa Bay Rays -101 (Hellickson/Buehrle)


The Rays are batting .282 vs. left-handed starters. This team has the look of a long winning streak. The Rays had a team meeting before yesterday's game to remind each player what is at stake.

4*Philadelphia +100 (Kendrick/Hefner)

4*Baltimore -134 (Johnson/Feldman)

4*Atlanta Braves -140 (Arroyo/Medlen)

4*Pittsburgh Pirates -134 (Milone/Liriano)


Francisco Liriano has been awesome when his team needs him the most. The Pirates will look to break out their mini slump before an off day on Thursday. The Pirates are 9-2 before a day off between games. Liriano has won 8 out of his last 10 starts when his team is coming off more than one loss in a row. Take the home team!

4*Pittsburgh Pirates -113 (Colon/Locke)

4*Tampa Bay Rays -136 (Sale/Moore)

4*Pittsburgh Pirates -122 (Liriano/Samardzija)

5*Texas Rangers -131 (Hernandez/Holland)


The Rangers left a season-high 24 total runners on base in Tuesday's loss. They had 11 hits but only 2 runs. Felix Hernandez is a stud but has struggled at Rangers Ballpark in Arlington. He is just 1-3 with a 4.88 ERA since 2010 when pitching in Texas. The Rangers are hitting .304 vs. Hernandez over the last three seasons in Texas. Holland is 18-9 at home since 2010, and 5-1 vs. Seattle with a 3.74 ERA. The Mariners are batting .209 vs. left-handed starters on the road. Take the home team!

3*Cincinnati Reds -152 (Lincecum/Baily)

4*St. Louis -117 (Wainwright/Parker)

4*Minnesota Twins -131 (Guthrie/Deduno)

4*Detroit Tigers -137 (Hanson/Alvarez)

4*Baltimore Orioles -124 (Masterson/Tillman)

4*Atlanta Braves -122 (Maholm/Figaro)

5*Toronto Blue Jays -134 (Hammel/Dickey)


The Orioles have not played indoors in about one month. Huge advantage for the home team in game one of this series. R.A. Dickey is 11-2 with a 2.02 ERA in the month of JUNE over the last three seasons. Teams are batting just .193 against him in June over the last three seasons. Take the home team!

5*Detroit Tigers -123 (Lackey/Alvarez)


The Tigers matchup against John Lackey very well. They will be focused after getting blown out by the O's yesterday. Boston is batting just .229 vs left-handed starters on the road. Take the home team!

5*SF Giants -144 (Stults/Bumgarner)


The Giants are 8-1 in Bumgarners last 9 starts vs. SD. SF is hitting .291 vs. left-handed starters at home. I don't think Stults is a good match-up in this spot. Take the home team!

4*Cincinnati Reds -115 (Liriano/Leake)

3*KC Royals +138 (Davis/Hernandez)

4*San Diego Padres -119 (Cahill/Stults)

4*Oakland A's -119 (Hughes/Straily)

5*Baltimore Orioles +123 (Gausman/Hellickson)

5*Chicago White Sox -122 (Parker/Sale)

4*LA Dodgers -131 (Richard/Lilly)

4*Colorado Rockies -121 (Greinke/Chacin)

5*Baltimore Orioles -105 (Zimmerman/Tillman)

4*Baltimore Orioles -114 (Gonzalez/Jenkins)

5*Baltimore -117 (Tillman/Nolin)

4*NY Yankees -114 (Kuroda/Hammel)

5*Colorado Rockies -120 (Zito/Nicasio)

4*Kansas City Royals -125 (Shields/Parker)

5*LA Angels -112 (Sale/Wilson)


Chris Sale defeated CJ Wilson just 5 days ago. I like the LA Angels in the rematch.

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5*Baltimore Orioles -127 (Cashner/Tillman)


This line should be closer to -150. Chris Tillman is a rising star and the Orioles are just flat-out more talented than the road team.

4*Colorado Rockies +150 (De La Rosa/Garcia)


The Rockies should bust out of their 4-game losing streak and 0-for-40 batting slump. Colorado is hitting .275 vs. left-handed starters. The Cards are hitting just .218 vs. left-handed starters and the team will be resting some key starters in this game.

4*Baltimore -113 (Guthrie/Garcia)

4*Baltimore Orioles -135 (Mendoza/Tillman)

5*Colorado Rockies -106 (Kuroda/De La Rosa)

5*Baltimore Orioles -120 (Santana/Chen)

4*Colorado Rockies -110 (Cobb/Chacin)

4*LA Dodgers -139 (Kershaw/Zito)


The Dodgers are hitting .294 vs. left-handed starters and Clayton Kershaw has a 1.74 ERA in his career against the Giants. The Dodgers have revenge on their minds after the Giants won two of three at Dodger Stadium to open the season.

5*Baltimore -124 (Hammel/Maurer)

5*St. Louis Cardinals -130 (Latos/Wainwright)


The Cardinals need another strong performance from their ace, having dropped two in a row to fall

4*Baltimore Orioles +115 (Hammel/Parker)

3*Tampa Bay Rays -125 (Pettitte/Cobb)

3*Washington Nats -102 (Waineright/Detwiler)

4*Baltimore Orioles +115


The Orioles are hitting .281 vs. Left-handed starters and Baltimore has been solid coming off a loss in which they collect 5 hits or less.

4*Cleveland Indians -133 (Aceves/Masterson)


Justin Masterson has found something in his mechanics that has cliked this season. The burly sinkerballer has logged 19 consecutive innings without yielding a run. Cleveland left a season-high 19 runners on base in last night's loss. Look for a better effort tonight from the offense.

4*Baltimore Orioles -118 (Hernandez/Arrieta)


The Orioles are one of the best teams when playing after a loss and a day off over the last two seasons. I will fade Roberto Hernandez as his pitches are rather flat right now. Take the home team.

3*Tampa Bay Rays +137 (Cobb/Buchholz)


I like the matchup with Cobb as an underdog in this spot.

4*Washington Nationals -128 (Teheran/Detwiler)


The Braves are hitting just .197 vs. left-handed pitchers and Detwiler is a good one.

3*Detroit Tigers (Johnson/Fister)


Doug Fister's best month is April in terms of ERA (2.00) and Josh Johnson has never pitched at Comerica. Only throwing 90-93 MPH instead of his pre-injury of 94-97 MPH. Take the Tigers to bounce back at home.

5*Washington Nationals -157 (Peavy/Gonzalez)


The Nats are 3-0 at home this season and should be focused after losing two of three against the Reds. Gio Gonzalez is great after a team loss and the White Sox are hitting just .200 against lefties. The White Sox have played six games so far this season and they were all against right-handed starters. I like the Nats in a close low-scoring game.

3*Pittsburgh Pirates +135 (Rodriguez/Cahill)


The Pirates were completely shut down in Los Angeles and will now go to a very hitter-friendly ball park. The Pirates are a good bet as dogs tonight.

4*Washington Nationals +105


I look for the Nats to bounce back after last night's debacle. The Reds tend to struggle early in the season against accomplished left-handed starters.

5*Colorado Rockies -146 (Marquis/Francis)


Teams that start on the road and than make their home debut normally play great in game one. Jeff Francis takes the bump for the Rockies with a lot of confidence after his tremendous March. Jason Marquis is 18-26 with a 5.15 ERA over the last three years. Teams are hitting .296 against him. He also has a 6.15 ERA in April over the last three seasons. Jason will debut a new change-up, but Colorado is not really the venue to try new things. Take the home team!

5*Baltimore +116 (Gonzalez/Hernandez)


I like the pitching matchup with Gonzalez. He went 9-4 with an ERA of just over 3 last season. Roberto Hernandez allows close to a .280 batting average in all of his day starts since 2010. The Orioles are a good bet as underdogs in this spot.

4*Oakland A's -139 (Iwakuma/Parker)


Oakland was stymied last night against Felix the Cat. The A's No. 3 and No. 4 hitters went a combined 0-for-8. I like the A's to bounce back with Jarrod Parker. Parker has a Career ERA of 2.61 and 1.18 WHIP at Oakland Coliseum. Hisashi Iwakuma is best when he's effective with his sinker, but was 0-2 with a 6.14 ERA against the A's last year. Oakland is 10-2 in their last 12 head-to-head meetings vs. Seattle.

3*LA Dodgers -153 (Cain/Kershaw)


The Dodgers are pumped up for this game. Fading the World Series Winner if they open on the road has been very proftiable over the years. Clayton Kerhsaw has a 1.37 ERA in 16 career starts vs. SF. Matt Cain is just 4-8 vs. the Dodgers in his career.

5*Detroit Tigers -165 (Verlander/Zito)

5*St. Louis -120 (Cain/Lohse)

10*San Francisco Giants -130 (Lynn/Bumgarner)


Madison Bumgarner rarely has two bad outings in a row and he has a lot of experience pitching at AT&T Park. His career ERA is 3.07 and he went 10-3 at home this season. Lance Lynn has not started a game since 9/30/12 and he has never pitched at AT&T Park. No starts, no relief appearances. Nothing. Look for some first and second inning trouble for Lynn as he gets assimilated with that mound. The big AT&T ball park should negate the Cards power (159 HR in 162 reg. season games) to some extent. Take the Giants in game one!

5*Detroit Tigers -135 (Verlander/Parker)

5*NY Yankees -157 (Saunders/Hughes)

5*St. Louis -106 (Lohse/Detwiler)

5*NY Yankees -164 (Gonzalez/Kuroda)

5*Cincinnati Reds -142 (Zito/Leake)

4*St. Louis -101 (Gonzalez/Wainwright)

5*Detroit Tigers -162 (Milone/Fister)

5*SF Giants -121 (Cueto/Cain)

5*Detroti Tigers -185 (Parker/Verlander)

3*St. Louis Cardinals +158

4*Philadelphia +126 (Gonzalez/Cloud)

5*SF Giants (Kelly/Vogelsong)

5*Washington Nats (Capuano/Detwiler)

5*Detroit Tigers (Milone/Sanchez)

5*NY Yankees -127 (Kuroda/Lester)

5*St. Louis Cardinals -138 (Gallardo/Lohse)

5*LA Dodgers +108 (Beckett/Lincecum)

4*Texas Rangers -142 (Harrison/Guthrie)

4*Washington Nationals -130 (Detwiler/Turner)

3*St. Louis -113 (Westbrook/McDonald)

5*Atlanta Braves +115 (Hudson/Lincecum)

4*LA Dodgers -110 (Lincecum/Blanton)

5*NY Yankees -152 (Beckett/Kuroda)


When Kuroda was with the Dodgers he was awesome on ESPN and off a team loss. Josh Beckett is not having one of his better seasons with an ERA over 5. He might not be 100% physically, as his average fastball is down this year. Take the Yankees!

4*Chicago Cubs -125 (Norris/Germano)

5*SF Giants -119 (Zimmerman/Bumgarner)

4*Baltimore -130 (Mendoza/Tillman)

5*NY Mets -127 (Johnson/Dickey)

5*Pittsburgh Pirates -116 (Corbin/Karstens)

5*LA Dodgers -154 (Samardzija/Billingsley)