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Toronto Blue Jays (106) - Tue September 9th ‘08 8:10p
Game 1 of the doubleheader with Burnett facing Vasquez.
The White Sox begin a crucial series today looking to add to, or maintain their 2 1/2 game lead over the Twins in the AL Central The first order of business will be a doubleheader against a red-hot Toronto club. The Blue Jays have won eight straight and have had very little trouble against the White Sox this season. The Blue Jays swept a four-game home series from them back in May and will be looking for their first five-game winning streak over Chicago in over 19 years. The Blue Jays also outscored the White Sox 12-5 in their series in May, posting two shutouts. Both teams will use Monday’s scheduled starters in the first game of the doubleheader. Toronto will turn to 16-game winner A.J Burnett who also leads the league in strikeouts with 201. Burnett is 0-1 with a 4.15 ERA in his last three outings. Chicago counters with Javier Vazquez who has 11 wins on the season. Vazquez has pitched well at home lately, but hasn’t received much help from his offense. In his last five starts at U.S. Cellular Field, Vasquez is 1-4 with a 3.55 ERA, as eight total runs of support in those four losses have backed him. The offense doesn’t figure to be much better against a hard thrower like Burnett. Take the Jays and take a look at a possible UNDER play in this one. - Courtesy of Bob Harvey

Kansas City Royals (190) - Tue September 9th ‘08 8:10p
The Kansas City Royals will take on AL Central rivals the Minnesota Twins tonight at the Metrodome. The Royals look like they will again finish in the Central basement while the Twins fight it out with the White Sox for first place. Consequently, we are going to predict the ‘nothing to play for’ Royals to get a close victory tonight. Royals’ starter Brian Bannister entered the year with a great deal of promise and early in the season he looked to be fulfilling that promise (3-0 in his first three starts). But then the rest of the season came, and he has been up and down for the majority of it. His last win came way back on June 23rd and he sits at 7-14 on the year with an unimpressive 5.56 ERA. However, of late, Bannister has shown some signs of getting things corrected. In his last three starts he has allowed just seven earned runs while striking out 13 and walking six. Opponents have averaged just 3.66 runs per game in that stretch. Minnesota’s Nick Blackburn is having an excellent year and he has been solid at home. The Twins have lost his last two home starts though, and they have dropped seven of their last 10 games overall. Despite being the superior club to Kansas City, they are just 6-4 against them in the last 10 played at the Metrodome. Yes, that is a winning record, but it is no sure thing and at +190 odds Kansas City is well worth the risk in this situation. Bannister’s biggest flaw this season has been giving up the long ball, and giving it up with men on base. Minnesota is not a power hitting club though, as they have just 100 home runs on the year, ranking ahead of only KC and San Francisco. Anytime Bannister keeps the ball in the ballpark, the Royals have a good opportunity to win. I think that will be the case tonight as Bannister limits the Twins and KC ekes out just enough runs to pull off the upset. Things to consider: Kansas City has also won three of Bannister’s last six road starts. The Royals are 4-1 in Bannister’s five career starts versus the Twins, and he has allowed just eight earned runs in those starts. Free MLB Pick: Take the Royals +190 - Courtesy of Matt Foust

Tampa Bay Rays (155) - Tue September 9th ‘08 7:05p
Yes, the Tampa Bay Rays are showing signs of wilting under pressure and the Boston Red Sox have the 16-2 Daisuke Matsuzaka on the mound, but the effect of this has given tremendous value to Scott Kazmir in this spot. After all, Kazmir has a comparable ERA to Dice-K (2.99 vs. 2.88) over the entire season, a better WHIP (1.22 vs. 1.33) and a much lower ERA over the last three starts (1.56 vs. 3.60). Kazmir is in raging form right now, as he has allowed three runs or less in eight of his last nine starts, and has allowed a miniscule four hits and posted 13 strikeouts in 11.1 innings over his last two outings. Now, Boston has won each of the last seven games started by Matsuzaka, but this is the first time in that span that his statistics are not vastly superior to his mound opponent. Also, do not forget that the Red Sox are just 1-4 as a team in his last five starts vs. Tampa Bay since last season. All things considered, Kazmir seems to ooze value at better that +150 here. MLB Free Pick: Rays +155 - Courtesy of LT Profits
 
Washington Nationals @ New York Mets u8.5 (100) - Tue September 9th ‘08 7:10p
Oliver Perez of the New York Mets and John Lannan of the Washington Nationals have both been pleasant surprises this season, and each has had some success vs. their respective opponents tonight. Perez has been plagued by inconsistency in recent seasons, and truth be told, that carried over into the first part of this year. However, as if someone flipped a switch, Perez has suddenly become a model of consistency over the last two months. He has 11 Quality Starts in his last 13 outings, and he allowed only four runs in each of the two non-quality outings, both against the Houston Astros. The Mets are 10-3 as a team in those Perez starts the last two months, with the Under going 8-4-1. On of these Quality Starts came against these Nationals, where he allowed three runs and six hits in 6.2 innings of a 9-3 win. Now Lannan may be just 8-13, but he deserves a much better fate than that considering his very good 3.88 ERA. He has allowed two runs or less in four of his last six starts, and he just may have had they best start of his major league career vs. these Mets earlier this season, when he allowed just one run and three hits in six innings with a whopping 11 strikeouts. Finally, while both bullpens have struggled for most of this year, each has shown tremendous improvement lately, with the Washington bullpen posting a 2.83 ERA in the last 10 games and the Mets pen performing even better, with a 1.14 ERA over this same span. MLB Free Pick: Nationals, Mets Under 8.5 (+100) - Courtesy of LT Profits