Free Baseball Pick: Colorado Rockies (-110)
Mon Apr 28 ‘08 10:15p - Click Here for MLB Betting Odds
Matt Cain of the San Francisco Giants is generally regarded as the unluckiest pitcher in baseball over the last two years, as he pitched very well with a terrible record due to lack of run support. Well, he does not figure to get much support vs. the Colorado Rockies tonight either, but the difference this season is that frankly, his own numbers are not as good either.

Cain is 0-2 with a poor 5.27 ERA and 1.61 WHIP. To be fair, those numbers are skewed by one horrible outing at St. Louis, and he is coming off of a very nice outing in San Diego. Still, that marked just Cain’s second Quality Start in five starts, and the normally weak San Francisco offense will be even weaker tonight after Aaron Rowand suffered a rib injury yesterday. That is bad news as Cain could use all the runs he could get, and should he get pulled early, the 3.75 ERA of the San Francisco bullpen is extremely deceptive, considering that group’s collective 1.50 WHIP.

Now granted, Colorado southpaw Franklin Morales has numbers that are just as bad as Cain this year, with a 6.00 ERA and 1.62 WHIP. However, his numbers are also skewed by one bad outing at Arizona, and he was certainly serviceable in his only career starts here in San Francisco last season, allowing two runs on six hits in five innings. Also, he has the support of a Colorado bullpen that is now probably the best in the division.

Finally, as if the Giants don’t have enough problems offensively, they are batting an anemic /208 vs. left-handed pitching this year, so if the Rockies could manage to scrape together a few runs off of Cain, that should be enough to get the victory.

MLB Free Pick: Rockies -110