Saturday Thoughts

All I know is the last few days have been disappointing to many inconsistent sessions and poor choices.

MLB-

Rangers -109 (3units)

Looks like Travis Hafner will not play . Really Cliff Lee is a guy who goes out and gives you 6 innings and either allows 3 or 4 runs. Volquez is an unknown and I really am not sure what he will give you. With that said Lee has dropped 3 straight starts and 8 of 10. The Rangers also hit .300 at Home vs LHP and in Lee's 2 prior starts there he hasnt shown much. The big thing here was Clevelands inability to get outs from the pen on the road this year. The pen has greatly improved of late but much of there play was at home. Can they now lower that 5.80 Road era? Tribe play better in day games and Rangers at nite , plus Tribe really hasnt played well against Texas past few meetings. So after taking game 1 I look for Texas to tie up the series.

Under 10.5 -111 White Sox and Royals (2units)

Buerhle has struggled the past 2 months but has been decent past few outings. The road has been a huge concern for him in 2006 but he has 4 quality starts against KC including 2 at KAuffman. Just 6 earned runs in 24 innings this year. KC tends to struggle against LHP . Perez has pitched vs Chi twice and although the frist lasted just 4 inning it was to stretch out his arm.(11 INN 8 H 6 R)

Over 9 -101 LAA & Det(5units) & First 5 Inn +102 Over 5 (2units)

Basically the 2 youngsters IMO are tired. Saunders has complained about shoulder fatigue and really has been ineffective past few outings. Now he faces a Tiger team that generally hits LHP well and we could see a repeat of his last performance. Verlander also has struggled in teh second half as DET has looked to get him xtra rest whenever it could. LAA hit him enough in teh 1st outing in May to lead me to belive they should do so again. LAA is 5-1 Over after getting shutout. Lean heavily towards DET here.

Under 9 -112 Oakland & Balt -112 (5units)

The O's are the walking wounded with Mora , Hernandez , Patterson , Gibbons and Mora all possible sitting this one out. Chavez is questionable for Oak. Marvin Hudson tends to be an Under Ump and Oakland is 20-12 UNDER when opposing a LHP! Haren rebounded from his poor start in Tor with a strong 12 K effort in Texas. AT home Hren has seen 8 of 11 unders and 7 of in day starts. Haren has a 2.77ERA in both day and home starts.

Phillies Game 1 -125 (5units)

Yesterdays writeup

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