MLB Baseball
2011-08-15 - Baltimore Orioles at Oakland Athletics
A Sports Betting Pick by Addicted
Baseball : North America : MLB
Monday, August 15th, 2011, 10:05PM US
(3:05AM GMT)
PREVIEW
Baltimore own the worst away record in the American League. They are on the Wet Coast to open a series with Oakland, who badly want to end their 3 game skid. The pitchers do not look solid and the total is set a wee bit low.
The Oakland Athletics go with Gio Gonzalez tonight. The southpaw is 9-10 with a 3.25ERA but has been in awful form of late. His last 17 innings of work have seen him hit 23 times to the tune of 15 runs. In those last 2 starts he has also walked 9 batters.
Gonzalez has started twice against Baltimore this season, giving up 6 runs on 14 hits. Baltimore have managed to score runs of late and that means Gonzalez looks in for a long night. In his last 4 starts, he has a 0-4 record with an awful 8.86ERA! Baltimore has hammered at least 3 runs or more in their last 7 games and I see them scoring about 4 or 5 tonight.
The Baltimore Orioles hand the ball to Tommy Hunter, who is 1-2 with a 4.67ERA. Right-handed Hunter has been tagged for 8 runs in under 11 innings of work.
Hunter has made 5 starts against Oakland, as a member of the Texas Rangers. He owns a 4-0 record against the Athletics but has a 4.65ERA. Oakland has scored 4 runs or more in 8 of their last 10 games. They are very likely to be able to score more than just a couple against Hunter, and will surely find more runs when they face the Baltimore Orioles relief corps, who have a 4.65ERA away from home.
Two of the three games between these two teams in Oakland have gone Over the total, and we’ll look for another high-scoring game between the Orioles and A’s tonight.
TEAM STATS
Baltimore Orioles
Overall 46-72, Streak W1
Oakland Athletics
Overall 53-67, Streak L3
BETTING VERDICT
Baltimore have played Oakland on the west coast 3 times and 2 of those games went over. This number should be at 8 or 8.5 in my opinion so to get over evens means value and then some. Bet the Over.
The Pick :
Over 7.5 runs to be scored
BEST BETTING TIP :
Take Over 7.5 runs to be score @ 2.02 (Pinnacle)
