grindstone
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Any opinion SN on the Det/ Sea game kinda like Sea. They have been playing well of late .
Any opinion SN on the Det/ Sea game kinda like Sea. They have been playing well of late .
What about Ariz/SD who do you like I'm kinda leaning towards SD
Nut this is me talking as a fan of baseball and not really as a bettor, but Greg Smith, I believe, leads the league in both pick offs and steals against. Interesting dichotomy there.
Floyd is the kind of pitcher that I don't like seeing facing the A's. He's not going to walk them, and the A's aren't going to hit him hard because they don't really hit anybody hard. The other thing is that the A's are coming off 17 hits yesterday and they never come back with good offense on the 2nd day. Obviously its too late now for either of us to be convinced so I'll stop typing...but thats the thought here.
In considering that LAA/TOR total, you have to wonder about the Murphy's Law aspect.
Lackey is a perfect 9-0 to Under this season, with his totals not once closing less than 7.0 - so he finally crosses the rubicon into 6.5 territory the moment Roy waltzes into town, with both pitchers off their first shutouts of the season - only Roy is 5-1-1 to Over his last 7 starts where the loser wasn't shut out (8.85 runs/game avg).
Angels in batting form coming out of their double-shutout swoon not long back (0, 0, 1, 1 thru 4 games). Outside of the lone home result in that swoon (bolded), they've scored 6, 6, 4, 5, 7 & 8 run totals their last 6 home games. This anemic bunch are feeling it.
And for all their batting woes, the BJs have only been held to less than 3 runs over 3 straight games once this season (incorporating the only time they've been shutout in consecutive games). They've scored 2 runs in each of their last 2.
Lackey finally gets the 6.5 he's deserved all along - it'd be fitting in baseball terms under the umbrella of Murphy's law that its precisely now he registers his first Over of the season.