Wednesday, August 25, 2010

SportsDude's Birthday Special: Kansas City (53-73) at Detroit (63-63)

Pick: Detroit -170
Why?
The Tigers are a different team at home and you can tell when you look at their 43-24 home record. Also they have won their last 5 games which coincidentally were played at home. In each of those games the Tigers won by an average of 6.6 runs. In today's game their pitcher will be Armando Galarraga who in his last start pitched 7 shutout innings. In the last 10 games the Tiger have been batting .347 against right handed pitching which coincidentally is what they are playing against today.

The pitcher for the Royals today is Sean O'Sullivan. In his last 5 starts he has gone without pitching a quality start. He also made a relief appearance a couple of days ago and that will not help him out in today's game. The Royals bullpen has been getting too much work this past week and the era in that span has been around 6. Sean O'Sullivan will not pitch too many innings and when he comes out the Tigers will light up the Royals bullpen.


I hate betting on huge favorites however I can't see the Royals winning this game. This game should have been more than -200! It wouldn't even matter if the Royals all took steroids before the game, their pitching is not enough to win this game. Even if they get a lead the bullpen will blow it. Good luck with your picks today and thanks for your support!

Record: [8-2]

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Happy Birthday man and keep up the good work!!