Fixture: Cincinnati @ New York Yankees
Time/Date: 1:05 PM ET, May 19, 2012
Pick: New York Yankees
Odds: -170 (1.59 in decimal odds) @ Pinnacle

This will be the second game of 3 Interleague game series played in New York. Yankees won 4-0 last night.

New York Yankees have the best Interleague Play record in MLB 158-107. Their shortstop Derek Jeter is the all-time Interleague Play leader in hits (327) and runs scored (185). Third baseman Alex Rodriguez is the all-time leader in RBI’s, with 187.

Ivan Nova will be starting for the Yankees today. He is 4-1, 5.44 ERA after 7 starts. Nova sprained and bruised his ankle in Monday’s 8-5 loss at Baltimore, but he appears to be ready for today. He has been very good in Interleague games. He is 2-0, 3.16 ERA in four starts against the National League. One of those outings came against Cincinnati, against whom he tossed eight innings of one-run ball last June.

Cincinnati will send out Homer Bailey, who is 1-3, 4.35 ERA in 7 starts this season. Bailey is 3-4, 6.00 ERA in 10 Interleague starts, and 0-3, 5.06 ERA in his last four since beating Cleveland on June 27, 2009. New York Yankees catcher Russell Martin is hitting .375 (3-for-8) in his career against Bailey.

Yankees second baseman Robinson Cano is hitting .444 with 7 doubles, 3 home runs and 12 RBI’s in his last 12 games.

Yankees are 4-1 in last 5 games against Cincinnati and I expect them to win today.

Fixture: Baltimore @ Washington
Time/Date: 7:05 PM ET, May 18, 2012
Pick: Washington
Odds: -119 (1.84 in decimal odds) @ 5Dimes

This will be the first game of 3 Interleague game series played in Washington. Previous meetings between the Baltimore Orioles and Washington Nationals, also know as The Beltway Series, haven’t had much significance, but this year Baltimore is atop the American League East while Washington is one-half game back in the National League East.

Edwin Jackson will be starting for Washington tonight. He is 1-1, 3.71 ERA in 7 starts. In 43.2 innings of work this season Jackson has allowed 18 earned runs while striking out 38. Jackson has dominated Baltimore in his career, he is 5-0, 2.68 ERA in his last 8 games against them mark with a 1.18 WHIP while holding Baltimore to a .222 batting average.

Baltimore will send out Jake Arrieta, who is 2-4, 5.21 ERA after 8 starts this season. He is 1-4 in his last 5 starts. Aside from throwing 8 innings of five-hit ball during a 5-0 victory at Yankee Stadium on May 2, Arrieta has compiled a 9.90 ERA over those other 4 starts. Arrieta has struggled against Washington in 2 career starts, with an 0-1 record and a 12.38 ERA. Each of the six current Washington players who have faced Arrieta have reached base safely at least once, even though no batter has had more than five plate appearances. Washington’s second baseman Danny Espinosa leads the pack with a triple and a homer in two at-bats against Arrieta.

Washington lost 5-3 to Pittsburgh yesterday. Washington hasn’t dropped back-to-back home games since Sept. 16-17 last season and I’m expecting them to win tonight.

Fixture: Oakland @ Texas
Time/Date: 2:05 PM ET, May 17, 2012
Pick: Texas
Odds: -178 (1.56 in decimal odds) @ Pinnacle

This will be the final game of 2 game series played in Arlington. Texas won 4-1 last night.

Texas is sharing first position in American League with Baltimore and Tampa Bay with 24-14 record. Oakland is 19-19. Texas leads MLB in all offensive stats, they’ve scored 216 runs and their batting average is .292. Oakland has the worst batting average in MLB .215 and they are 27th in runs scored with 133.

Matt Harrison will be starting for Texas today. He is 4-3, 5.23 ERA in 7 starts. After opening the season with 3 victories in 3 starts he is 1-3 in next 4 starts. Harrison is 4-1, 4.10 ERA and one shutout in 9 career games, six starts, against Oakland.

Oakland’s starter Brandon McCarthy is 3-3, 2.56 ERA after 8 starts in 2012. He opened the season with 3 losses in his first 5 starts, but he has recorded 3 wins in his last 3 starts. McCarthy has struggled against Texas (his former team) going 1-4, 4.06 ERA in 9 games, 7 starts.

Although Oakland’s starter seams to be in better form than Harrison, he hasn’t done well against Texas, while Harrison has been dominant versus Oakland. Texas has won 13 of the last 15 meetings with Oakland, going 8-1 at home and I expect them to win today.

Fixture: Pittsburgh @ Washington
Time/Date: 7:05 PM ET, May 16, 2012
Pick: Washington
Odds: -131 (1.76 in decimal odds) @ 5Dimes

This will be the first game of 2 game series played in Washington.

Both Washington and Pittsburgh have excellent defensive and bad offensive results. Only difference is that Washington is better than Pittsburgh in both. Washington’s pitching staff is ranked No. #1 in MLB with 2.86 ERA and only 117 runs allowed. Pittsburgh is ranked 3rd with 3.21 ERA and 127 runs allowed. Offensively Pittsburgh is the worst team in MLB with just 100 runs scored and batting average of .201. Washington is ranked 24 with 130 runs scored and batting average of 246.

Pittsburgh’s low run production is what’s preventing their today’s starter Erik Bedard from having a better record than 2-4, 2.57 ERA after 7 starts this season. He hasn’t allowed more than 2 earned runs in neither of his starts, but he has still recorded 4 losses. Bedard faced Washington last Wednesday, but he was forced to exit he game after just one inning because of back spasms. Bedard is 0-1, 1.35 ERA in 4 career starts against Washington.

Gio Gonzalez will be starting for Washington tonight. He is 4-1, 1.94 ERA in 7 starts, 5 of which were quality starts. He has been especially effective in home starts going 2-0, 0.43 ERA in 3 home starts with 22 strikeouts in 21 innings pitched and just 1 earned run allowed. Opponents are hitting .114 at home against him. Gonzalez leads the majors with 10.8 strikeouts per nine innings. He has allowed just 5 total runs in his last 6 starts since conceding 4 in his first start.

Fixture: Colorado @ San Francisco
Time/Date: 10:15 PM ET, May 15, 2012
Pick: San Francisco
Odds: -141 (1.71 in decimal odds) @ Pinnacle

This will be the final game of 2 game series played in San Francisco. San Francisco won 3-2 last night.

Colorado is on 4 game losing streak and they are 1-9 in their last 10 games overall. Colorado is 13-21 in 2012, while San Francisco is 18-17 and they are on 3 game winning streak.

Tim Lincecum will be starting for San Francisco tonight. He is 2-3, 5.89 ERA after 7 starts. His first 3 starts of the season were bad. In those 3 starts he has allowed 16 earned runs in 13.2 innings. Since then, in 23 innings of work, he has allowed only 8 earned runs. His strikeouts were always there, he has 41 this season. Lincecum is 3-1, 1.57 ERA in his last four home matchups against Colorado. He has fared much better at home (3.79 ERA) than on the road (8.15).

Colorado’s starter will be Jeremy Guthrie who is 2-1, 5.92 ERA in 4 starts. He hasn’t pitched since April 22 because of a right shoulder injury. In those 4 starts he had only one bad start and that one came in San Francisco where he has allowed 6 runs (2 home runs) on 9 hits in 3.1 innings of work. San Francisco’s left fielder Melky Cabrera had two hits off Guthrie and is 13 for 34 (.382) with 5 doubles in his career versus him.

San Francisco is 8-2 in last 10 head to head against Colorado and I expect them to win tonight.

Fixture: Cincinnati @ Atlanta
Time/Date: 7:10 PM ET, May 14, 2012
Pick: Atlanta
Odds: -135 (1.74 in decimal odds) @ Pinnacle

This will be the first game of 2 game series played in Atlanta. Atlanta is coming home after 7-2 road trip, where they swept St. Louis Cardinals scoring 23 runs and Colorado scoring 29. They chad a .286 average with 11 home runs while averaging 6.2 runs in those 9 road games. Atlanta’s center fielder Michael Bourn had 8 hits in St. Louis, increasing his average to .336 to go with a team-high 11 stolen bases and 24 runs.

Atlanta is the best offensive team in National League scoring 189 runs and they are second in entire MLB, behind Texas with 207 runs. Atlanta has the second best hits stat in the league at 9.4 per game. Cincinnati’s offense ranks in the bottom 10 in MLB in scoring.

Cincinnati is sending out Homer Bailey , who is 1-3, 4.93 ERA in 6 starts. He is coming off his worst outing. Bailey was pulled with two outs in the fourth inning and was charged with 6 runs and 6 hits while walking 3 and hitting a batter in Tuesday’s 8-3 loss at Milwaukee.

Atlanta is 4-1 in last 5 home games against Cincinnati and I expect them to win tonight.

Fixture: Colorado @ LA Dodgers
Time/Date: 4:10 PM ET, May 13, 2012
Pick: LA Dodgers
Odds: -150 (1.67 in decimal odds) @ 5Dimes

This will be the final game of 3 game series played in Los Angeles. LA Dodgers won both previous games, 7-3 on Friday and 2-1 last night. LA Dodgers right fielder Andre Ethier had 2 hits and a run yesterday, after having 3 hits with a home run on Friday night. He is 10 for 19 with 5 extra-base hits in his last 5 games. With those five hits he has boosted his average to .440 with two home runs in his past 7 meetings against Colorado.

LA Dodgers are the best team in entire MLB with 22-11 record. Colorado is 4th in National League west with 13-19 and they are just 2-8 in May. LA Dodgers are on a 3 game winning streak. Colorado has lost 7 out of their last 8 games overall. They are hitting only .222 while scoring three runs or fewer five times in its last six games.

Ted Lilly will be starting for LA Dodgers today. He is 4-0, 1.41 ERA after 5 starts. All of his 5 starts were quality starts and he has allowed only 5 earned runs in 32 innings of work, while striking out 21. Including last season, Lilly is on a career-long 7 game winning streak, going 7-0, 1.03 ERA in his last eight starts. Lilly has been dominating Colorado going 9-2, 3.77 ERA in 13 career starts against them, and 5-0, 2.39 ERA in the last six.

Colorado will send out Alex White for the second time this season after recalling him from Triple-A Colorado Springs. In his first star he went 0-1, 2.84 ERA allowing 6 hits and 2 earned runs in 6.1 innings of work.

LA Dodgers are 25-13 against Colorado over the past five seasons at Dodger Stadium and I expect them to win today.

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Fixture: Kansas City @ Chicago White Sox
Time/Date: 7:10 PM ET, May 12, 2012
Pick: Chicago White Sox
Odds: -115 (1.87 in decimal odds) @ Pinnacle

This will be the second game of 3 game series played in Chicago. White Sox won 5-0 last night and they are now on a 3 game winning streak.

Chicago’s designated hitter Adam Dunn was impressive last night and continued his good form. He went 2 for 2 with a pair of walks and hit his 11th homer of the season. Dunn is batting .324 with seven home runs in his last 12 games.

Chris Sale will be starting for Chicago tonight. He is 3-1, 2.73 ERA after 5 starts and 1 relief appearance this season. Sale was great in five starts this season before moving to the bullpen May 4 due to concerns about his sore throwing elbow. He had an MRI and it was clean, so he is back in starting role. He never allowed more than three runs in any of his starts. In 33 innings of work he has allowed 9 earned runs while striking out 30. Current Kansas City Royals are a combined 7-for-34 (.206) with 10 strikeouts against Sale.

Fixture: Colorado @ LA Dodgers
Time/Date: 10:10 PM ET, May 11, 2012
Pick: LA Dodgers
Odds: -169 (1.59 in decimal odds) @ Bodog

This will be the first game of 3 game series played in Los Angeles. LA Dodgers are the best team in National League with 20-11 record. Colorado is 4th in National League west with 13-17 and they are just 2-6 in May.

Chris Capuano will be starting for the Dodgers tonight. He is 4-0, 2.21 ERA after 6 starts this season and he has recorded a win in all of his 3 home starts posting 1.42 ERA. LA Dodgers are 5-1 in his 6 starts. Capuano hasn’t allowed a run in last 18.2 innings.

Colorado will send out 49-year-old veteran Jamie Moyer who is 1-2, 4.01 ERA in 6 starts. Only 2 out of those 6 were quality starts. Over his last 2 starts he has allowed 9 earned runs on 21 hits in 10 innings of work. Colorado is 1-5 in Moyers’s 6 starts. Moyer is 0-2, 10.26 ERA in 3 starts against the Dodgers since his last win against them in 2000. He is 3-6, 5.50 ERA in 13 career starts versus them.

Colorado is just 3-7 in their last 10 overall and I’m not giving them much chance in tonight’s duel against the Dodgers.

Fixture: Texas @ Baltimore (game #1)
Time/Date: 4:05 PM ET, May 10, 2012
Pick: Texas
Odds: -124 (1.81 in decimal odds) @ Pinnacle

Yesterdays game was postponed due to a rain so today there will be two games. Our FREE pick of the day is game #1 with Colby Lewis and Wei-Yin Chen as starters.

This will be the third game of 4 game series played in Baltimore. Texas won both previous games outscoring Baltimore 24-6.

Texas is the best team in MLB with 20-10 record and they are the best offensive team in MLB with 170 runs scored and .293 team batting average. Their outfielder Josh Hamilton and shortstop Elvis Andrus each have eight-game hitting streaks. Hamilton is batting .448 (13-for-29) over the past seven games and .447 (21 for 47) with seven home runs and 21 RBI’s in his last 11 games against Baltimore.  Andrus is hitting .471 (16-for-34). Two days ago, Hamilton became the first player since Carlos Delgado in 2003 to hit four home runs in a game.