April 21st Sports Wager of the Day!

Game: Kansas City Royals @ Cleveland Indians
Sport: Major League Baseball
Pick: Cleveland Indians -1.5

Reason for Pick:
Sydney Ponson is winless in his career vs. the Cleveland Indians, sporting an 0-7 record with an 8.60 ERA. Aaron Laffey is 2-2 with a 2.73 ERA against the Royals.

The Indians blew out the Yanks a couple of games in their last series but were cooled off a bit in the last game by flamethrower A.J. Burnett. Sydney Ponson is no A.J. Burnett and when you also consider the specific matchups, the Indians will return to scoring bunches of runs.

In their last series together the Indians outhit the Royals 30-23 but didn't capitalize on many of their opportunities as they ended up being outscored 17-10. With their bats as hot as they are right now, they will capitalize this time and this game can potentially be a blowout in the Indians favour.


Game: Florida Marlins @ Pittsburgh Pirates
Sport: Major League Baseball
Pick: Under 9

Reason for Pick:
Pittsburgh's Jeff Karstens (0-0, 6.75 ERA) came over from the New York Yankees in the Xavier Nady trade last season, and he threw 15 shutout innings in his first two starts with them last year.

Florida's Anibal Sanchez (1-0, 1.64) is off to a better start to the year after missing most of last season following shoulder surgery. Sanchez walked three and gave up eight hits Thursday against Atlanta, but allowed only two runs in a 6-2 win.
Today's home plate umpire is a pitcher-friendly ump which will put pressure on the hitters to expand their strike zone.

Furthermore, this is the first time each opposing pitcher has faced their opponent and only one batter on each team has faced the opposing pitcher. As a result, the batters will have a tough time to get a vibe with the pitcher for the first two at-bats.

Past 10 Picks:
TIE - April 20, Basketball (DAL @ SAS) - PICK OVER 189
LOSS - April 20, Baseball (CIN @ HOU) - Pick HOU
LOSS - April 19, Baseball (CLE @ NYY) - Pick over 10.5
WIN - April 19, Baseball (OAK @ TOR) - Pick-Tor
WIN - April 18, Baseball (FLA @ WAS) - Pick-Fla-1.5
LOSS - April 18, UFC (Magalhaes vs. Eliott) - Pick-Magalhaes
LOSS - April 18, UFC (Loiseau vs. Herman) - Pick-Loiseau
LOSS - April 17, Baseball (ARI @ SF), Pick - Ari -1.5
WIN - April 16, Baseball (SF @ LAD), Pick - Over 8

Year to Date Record (win-loss-tie): 8-8-2