MLB Picks: Texas @ Seattle July 10th
July 10, 2009
Producing winning MLB picks is the result of hard work, knowledge of professional handicapping and taking advantage of good situations. The Seattle Mariners and Texas Rangers will play the second of a 4 game series tonight. The Rangers held on to a 1-0 lead until the 8th inning when Franklin Gutierrez hit a 3 run bomb to seal the deal for Seattle.
Friday night’s match-up features Scott Feldman (7-2, 3.91 era) against Brandon Morrow (0-3, 5.05 era). Both teams are in playoff contention as Texas leads the West by a half game over Anaheim and 3.5 over the Mariners. Although the pitching match-up seems one-sided, I am picking the Seattle Mariners in a minor upset tonight. The Rangers have been mediocre at best on the road this season compiling a 19-20 record thus far. They have been very streaky with their bats and occasionally find themselves on the wrong side of blowouts.
Seattle is starting to feel as if they have a shot at the division and will be playing their best to get Morrow his first win of the season tonight. Anticipate another low scoring affair tonight. Ichiro Suzuki is now batting .356 after another 3 hit game yesterday, but it’s the Mariners pitching staff that has them in the hunt. Baseball is an extremely difficult sports to handicap. That being said, these MLB predictions are my opinion and are written to give you insight into how a sports handicapper breaks down a game.
