Wednesday 8-7-19 Free Plays / Trends / Betting Info / Etc

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Easy Money Sports

Lee's Free Wednesday Selection Is

SAINT LOUIS w/Flaherty +121

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The Last Call

Wednesday's Free Play: San Diego Padres - 150

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Teyas Sports

FREE PICK 8/7 GAME #2 TEXAS

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John Anthony Sports

Wednesday Free Selection: ARZ DBACKS -133

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Tony Sacco

Tony Sacco's Free Play for Wednesday is on the PHI PHILLIES +122

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By: Andrew Caley


STREAKING AND SLUMPING STARTERS

STREAKING

Gerrit Cole, Houston Astros (13-5, 2.87 ERA, $194): The Astros have an embarrassment of riches in the starting rotation. Cole is our streaking starter, but Verlander is hotter, Greinke there now, and their fifth starter, Aaron Sanchez just threw a combined no-hitter. Wow.

Anyways, 1.29 ERA and a 0.86 WHIP with 33 punchouts over his last four starts. Additionally, Cole has allowed more than two earned runs just once since May 27th. That’s pretty good. Houston ins a massive -350 home favorite this afternoon against the Rockies.

SLUMPING

Yusei Kikuchi, Seattle Mariners (4-8, 5.49 ERA, $-574): To be fair, most of the Mariners are struggling, but Kikuchi’s current four-game stretch has been pretty rough. The right-hander has been tuned for an 8.24 ERA with a 1.63 WHIP over that stretch. He and the Mariners are +135 home dogs for tonight’s matchup against the Padres.



BOMBERS AND BIRDS

Most trends that really catch your eye usually start around 10 games or so and you’re happy if they last another week or so. But not this one. Get this, the Yankees and Orioles have played to the Over 41 times in the last 52 meetings, with 10 Unders and one Push. This has a lot to do with the Yankees unreal lineup and the Orioles historic awfulness, but we digress. Tonight’s matchup features the struggling James Paxton (6-6, 4.61 ERA) of the Yankees going up against John Means (8-6, 3.12 ERA) of the Orioles.

Paxtion has an 8.78 ERA in his last three starts and a 5.83 ERA on the road, while Means has an ERA of 6.46 over his last three starts. Means has also never started against the Yankees, which is the same boat Asher Wojciechowski was in last night and he allowed five runs on six hits in four innings, including three dingers. The Over tonight is 10.

PLUNDERING THE PIRATES

The Pirates have settled at the bottom of the NL Central standings after dropping 14 of their previous 16 games and most of that damage has come against division foes. The Buccos have lost five consecutive series against NL Central teams, including losing the first two games of their current series with the Brewers. Pittsburgh has also lost 10 of its last 13 meetings with Milwaukee.

Trevor Williams (4-4, 4.75) gets the call for the Pirates, while the Brewers counter with newly acquired Drew Pomeranz (2-9, 5.54). The Pirates are +115 home dogs with a total of 9.5.