The Twins are a tougher lineup than they appear. ...

Are the Phillies the best team in the majors? ...

The Rays are off to a slow start. ..

If we're looking for a team to win a game on the road ...

Boston has won 12 of the past 14 meetings. ...

The Padres have won 5 of 6...........

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Dodgers Playing Tight

Snell Gets Shelled

Pale Hose Coming Up Empty

Boston and Dallas have gone over in 10 of their last 12 playoff games....

Come Out Firing

I consider myself an OK writer. Certainly not Hemingway but also certainly not ... who is awful? Some Harlequin romance writer or something (lot of lumberjacks getting lucky in those somehow ... not that I would know; who has even met a lumberjack other than Wolverine?). I am running out of adjectives to explain the White Sox lineup. It honestly makes me laugh. I half expected to see Mitchell Trubisky batting cleanup today. But I'm not bitter. It is Garrett Crochet pitching so we can't crush this. I was really hoping that Brewers starter Robert Gasser (known to buddies as Bob Gas) would be set O/U 2.5 ER as I would have played Under that for sure but no dice.

The Rangers have their backs against the wall but are not out of this series just yet. Playing on the road has been a plus throughout the postseason in both conferences (witness the Oilers winning in Dallas last night) and New York is 5-2 as a visitor in the playoffs, including a Game 3 win in Sunrise. The power play has not been working as well as it should but big-goal potential still oozes from Panarin, Zibanejad, Kreider, Trocheck (who has scored many big goals in these playoffs) and now Alexis Lafreniere, with four goals in the past three games. Igor Shesterkin also very capable in goal to get this series back to MSG for a Game 7. Play Rangers on Money Line

This "total" at seven seems a bit low considering that Reid Detmers is on the mound for the Halos. Notoriously streaky, but it has been a while since Detmers looked even a little bit good; certainly not in May, when he posted a 9.49 ERA. No surprise, then, that the last six games he has started have all landed "over" with the opposition scoring at least five runs (often much more) in the process. Bryce Miller (5.22 ERA in May) not all that much sharper lately on the Mariners side, and it was another "over" in the opener of this weekend set at T-Mobile Park last night (5-4 Seattle). Play Angels-Mariners "Over"