Cashing In

Your "Bad Beat" for Saturday is on:

Blue Jays (32 combined hits, runs and errors) at Arizona.

If you didn't know some on-line sportsbooks have props for each game with an over/under on "hits, runs and errors". Well the Toronto-Arizona game last night was no exception and had the very high number of 32. It would take a lot to get over that total but it certainly didn't look to be the case early on.

The Diamondbacks went crazy and built an 8-1 lead after two and the game already had a total of 19 with seven innings remaining which pretty much meant this thing was going to obviously skyrocket over that 32.

Or not.

There literally was not even a hit until the fifth inning and that was the only hit until the seventh. So this thing went from 19 after two to 21 into the eighth!?!?

Now that's a change of events!

Toronto did wreak some havoc in that frame plating four runs and four hits tacking 8 on to get to 29. But there was only one more hit in the final inning and this number ended on 30, a shocking under in the end!



Your winners for Sunday are on:

4* Angels (plus 150) at St. Louis.

4* Mets (plus 125) vs. New York.

A dreadful 3* loser on the Magic and a 2* winner on the Mets plus about 150 made this day finish up right around even.



I'm a lot higher on Mike Scioscia's Angels than most right now as the Halos have been struggling for the bulk of this season. But I do believe this team will be very good as they just have too much talent to not be and with their stud ace in Jered Weaver on the bump I can't help but back Anaheim plus a hefty number like this.

Chris Carpenter is a beast and Albert and the Redbirds are really good and probably better than the Angels but Anaheim boasts a very professional hitting team with guys like Matsui, Hunter, Abreu and others and should get some licks in today.

Weaver will not just get blasted and with Anaheim in this thing for all 9 innings I will take my chances that they are able to pull this game out in the end as they did yesterday.



Joe Girardi's Yankees are not locked and loaded right now and are actually quite injured. Today's visitors still do have a ton of tlaent thanks to Arod alone but this team is not playing all that great and are up against still one of the best in Johan Santana.

CC Sabathia is awesome and overall probably about equal to Santana. I expect both lefties to do their thing and be very good as they usually are but taking away one of the Yankees bats and having guys like Winn or Cervelli around takes away some fear of the Big Bad Bronx Bombers.

I'm sure Wright will strike out a couple of times but the guy is still solid to go along with Reyes and Bay and I'll back the home dog Mets today.