Our Tuesday night MLB predictions take us to Yankees Stadium where the Seattle Mariners and New York Yankees will lock horns for the first time in the 2010 baseball betting season.
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The Mariners had been playing their best ball of the season winning seven of their previous 10 ball games (+$437) entering last weekend’s Interleague series with Milwaukee, but the Brew Crew ended up being inhospitable hosts taking two of three overall. The series loss was manager Don Wakamatsu’s squads eighth in a row as a visitor where they stand 11-26 costing MLB bettors upwards of $1370 on the year.

Manager Joe Girardi and the defending champs wrapped up their 2010 Interleague betting schedule in fine fashion by storming back in the 9th inning of ESPN’s Sunday night broadcast to steal a 6-4 win in extra innings against the Los Angeles Dodgers. The series victory was the club’s third straight and they enter Game 1 of this series an impressive 25-10 (+$635) in the house that Steinbrenner built.

Seattle Mariners (31-44, -$1448) vs. New York Yankees (47-28, +$472)
Game Date/Time: Tuesday, June 29th, 7:05 ET
Game Location: Yankees Stadium, Bronx, NY
TV/Radio Broadcast: FOX-Northwest, My9, XM

MLB Betting Odds: Seattle Mariners +1.5 -150 +140 (Cliff Lee – L) vs. New York Yankees -1.5 +130 -160 (Philip Hughes – R): Total 7.5 O +105 7.5 U -125

Cliff Lee’s 37-inning streak without issuing a walk will fully be put to the test tonight against a Yankees club that’s taken more walks (310) than any other AL team this season. That said; the lefty enters his 12th start 6-3 overall with a 2.39 ERA & 0.91 WHIP having allowed just 75 hits and 23 ER’s with a K/BB ratio of 76/4 through 86.2 total innings pitched. Each of his L/6 outings has been of the quality variety; the M’s stand 5-1 during that stretch and they’ve won seven of his 11 starts on the year. He’s a perfect 4-0 the L/4 times he opposed NY in Yankees Stadium, and in 11 career starts vs. the Yankees, he’s 6-4 with a 4.40 ERA & 1.41 WHIP.

In a move made to rest Philip Hughes’ arm to avoid wear and tear, management decided to shut him down for the L/10 days; this will be his first outing since he picked up his 10th win of the season against the New York Mets. 2010 has really been a showcase year for the righty as he stands 10-1 overall with a 3.17 ERA & 1.13 WHIP through 82.1 total innings of work. The Yankees are undefeated the seven times he’s taken to the Stadium bump this season. Hughes owns a 6-0 record in the Bronx to go along with a 3.71 ERA, 1.15 WHIP, and K/BB ratio of 40/14 through 43+ innings pitched. His lone start against the Mariners came back in 2007 when he limited them to five hits and a pair of runs in the Yanks 10-2 home victory.

MLB Insider Tip: Tonight’s price on NY has more to do with the question mark that Hughes is pitching on 10 days rest than it does with the fact that he’s opposing a red hot Cliff Lee.

Honestly, it doesn’t make much of a difference to me. Getting the opportunity to play the Yanks at home at less than -200 is a steal. Yes, Lee is in very fine form but the team surrounding him hasn’t done much to impress of late or for the season for that matter.

Seattle’s a pathetic 1-8 (-$660) as a road underdog in the +125 to +150 range, while the Yanks are a $$$-making 5-1 (+$350) as a home chalk up to -175. NY’s won more than it’s lost against lefties overall (15-12), and they’ve taken 22 of the L/30 meetings between these clubs in the Bronx.

Hughes 2010 performance has NOT been a fluke! My MLB predictions for tonight’s series opener have him picking right back up where he left off t lead the Yanks to victory.

My MLB Prediction: New York Yankees (Hughes)
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Ubaldo Jimenez, Colorado Rockies (14-1, +$1,272) – The bad news for MLB betting fans of Jimenez’s is that the days of getting good numbers on him are absolutely gone. The good news is that he just keeps on finding ways to win games, which keeps putting money in their pockets one unit at a time. His ERA ballooned up to 1.60 in his most recent start against the Red Sox, but the team just continues to win. At 13-1, 30 wins still seems like a possibility.

Mike Pelfrey, New York Mets (11-3, +$931) – Pelfrey had his first bad start last week when the Bronx Bombers knocked him around for five earned runs in seven innings of work. It was the first time that one of the top righties for the Mets was beaten in a game since May 1st. This is going to be the first time that New York has had itself a starting pitcher in the All-Star Game that hasn’t been named Johan Santana. We still aren’t totally sure that Pelfrey can keep this pace up for the whole season, but for as long as he is winning, he is worth backing.

Philip Hughes, New York Yankees (11-2, +$764) – The man that beat Pelfrey in that game last week in the Big Apple was none other than Hughes. Who would’ve thought that the best starter that the Yankees would have right around the halfway point of the season wouldn’t be named CC Sabathia, Andy Pettitte, AJ Burnett, or Javier Vazquez? Hughes just continues to put up consistent start after consistent start, and though his 3.17 ERA isn’t necessarily a stud type of a number at this point in the year, that consistency with New York’s lethal lineup keeps producing wins.

Carlos Silva, Chicago Cubs (10-3, +$725) – Is the window of opportunity closing on Silva and the Cubs? His hamstring is acting up right now, which has caused manager Lou Piniella to push him back a few days for his next start. After winning games for the Cubs in ten straight starts, the last two starts haven’t worked so well. Silva has been given two straight losses, even though he only allowed five earned runs in 13.0 innings. The six inning start against the Angels only took 70 pitches, but it was cut short due to that hammy.

Freddy Garcia, Chicago White Sox (9-4, +$716) – The White Sox have won nine straight games, and Garcia is a big part of the season why the team is gaining ground quickly in the AL Central standings. Since allowing seven runs to the Marlins in just 2.1 innings on May 23rd, Garcia has won five straight starts. He has thrown exactly seven innings in four of those five starts, and didn’t allow more than three runs in any of those outings.

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Zack Greinke, Kansas City Royals (3-12, -$1,111) – Poor Zack Greinke still can’t figure out how to get back on track. The oddsmakers are still burying Greinke because of his name in spite of the fact that the Royals flat out stink. The good news for last year’s AL Cy Young Award winner is that he did strike out 12 batters in a complete game victory against the Reds two starts ago, but all in all, a 3.94 ERA doesn’t warrant much in the way of special treatment, especially with a 2-8 record to boot.

Ryan Dempster, Chicago Cubs (5-10, -$897) – Theoretically speaking, Dempster deserves a heck of a lot better than what he has gotten of late from his teammates. The offense continues to fail to put runs on the board on a consistent basis. As a result, the righty has ended up with plenty of starts this year like he had on Tuesday when he allowed two runs over eight innings and lost 2-0. The righty will reach 100 strikeouts in his next start, and as long as his ERA ends up staying around the 3.56 range it sits at right now, he’ll probably get off of this list sooner than later.

Brian Matusz, Baltimore Orioles (3-12, -$801) – The young lefty for the Orioles was pitching quite well in the month of June, as he had four straight starts in which he allowed three or fewer runs. That all went up in smoke against the Marlins on Wednesday when he gave up six runs in 6.1 innings in a 7-5 defeat. Unfortunately, that was the first time since May 20th that his team had given him more than four runs of support.

Jeremy Guthrie, Baltimore Orioles (3-12, -$799) – It should come as no surprise that the Orioles have a pair of starters amongst the five worst in the game considering the fact that they are on pace to break all sorts of records for futility in baseball history. Guthrie’s 4.28 ERA would look fantastic on the Yankees, and against any reasonable team in the game, that would at least post a marginal record. However, because he is an Oriole, Guthrie is just 3-9 and things aren’t looking to get better any time soon.

Charlie Morton, Pittsburgh Pirates (1-9, -$758) – The good news for Pirates bettors is that Morton hasn’t been in the lineup. He has been on the disabled list since May 27th and probably still has a week or so until he comes back from his shoulder fatigue. You never like hearing “shoulder fatigue” on a pitcher, particularly on a bad team, and particularly on one that is playing as poorly as Pittsburgh is right now. Stay away at all costs!

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