MLB Baseball
2011-04-09 - Cleveland Indians at Seattle Mariners
A Sports Betting Pick by Goober
Baseball: United States: MLB 2011
Saturday, April 9, 2011 - First Pitch 9:10 PM ET
It's early in the year, but the Cleveland Indians are off to a surprising start at 5-2, including the 3 game sweep of Boston earlier in the week. They followed that up with a 12-3 victory over the Mariners in Seattle on Friday night.
Saturday night the Indians will send Justin Masterson to the mound. Masterson won his first start of the year, giving up only 1 run in 7 innings against the White Sox on Sunday.
Masterson has dominated Seattle in his brief career so far. He's made 6 appearances (3 starts and 3 relief appearances) against the Mariners and is 2-0 with a 1.16 ERA.
He should continue to have good luck against them as the Mariners are struggling offensively. After winning their first two games, Seattle has only scored 13 runs in losing all of their last 5 games. They have allowed 35 runs in those 5 games.
Seattle will be hoping Doug Fister can end their losing streak. He took the loss in his first start of the season, allowing 3 runs in 5 2/3 in a 7-1 loss to Oakland.
Fister has made two career starts against Cleveland and is 0-1 with a 4.63 ERA. The loss came at home to the Indians last September.
Cleveland are 8-2 in the last 10 meetings in Seattle.
While Cleveland isn't a great team, I don't think prices above evens can be ignored. They are the better team, have the better pitcher going, and have had success in Seattle.
So I will take Cleveland to win this game.
The Pick :
Cleveland 4, Seattle 2
BEST BETTING TIP :
Take the Cleveland Indians to win this game @ 2.09 (Pinnacle).
