MLB Betting – Pirates vs Phillies Preview & Pick
It’s cool to see a Battle of Pennsylvania game matter besides Penguins/Flyers or Steelers/Eagles for a change, isn’t it?
It’s cool to see a Battle of Pennsylvania game matter besides Penguins/Flyers or Steelers/Eagles for a change, isn’t it?
Every game matters now in the American League Central, where the Detroit Tigers held a one-game lead over the Cleveland Indians and 3.5-game lead over the Chicago White Sox through Monday.
Whoa, daddy! The Pittsburgh Pirates and Atlanta Braves haven’t played a meaningful game against each other since the 1992 NLCS.
It pays to play in the American League Central, where it doesn’t take much to capture first place.
The Milwaukee Brewers need to get hot in a hurry. The competition has become too fierce in the National League Central to allow for a slump.
The Los Angeles Dodgers are hardly relevant in the National League West race at this point of the year but, hey, it’s Clayton Kershaw versus Tim Lincecum.
In the American League West, the cream appears to be rising to the top as we enter the second half of 2011.
The Washington Nationals deserve some credit for even playing .500 ball considering they’ve been without Stephen Strasburg all year, they’ve lost Adam LaRoche for the season and they’ve played much of the year without Ryan Zimmerman.
The St. Louis Cardinals emerge from the All-Star break pretty much as healthy as they’ve been since the start of 2011.
The New York Yankees begin their playoff stretch run at Toronto this week – but they must do so without some key contributors. Alex Rodriguez’s meniscus surgery will sideline him until late August.
It’s officially time for the Chicago White Sox to stop underachieving.
Despite losing six of 10 through Wednesday, the Cincinnati Reds continue to tread water in the National League Central.
The season is still young, as teams have roughly 75 games left to play in 2011, but the weekend set with the New York Yankees remains a huge one for the Tampa Bay Rays.
I wonder if the Philadelphia Phillies spent the first few months of 2011 saying, “Hello? Atlanta? Weren’t you supposed to slug it out with us at the top of the standings? We’re waiting.”
Though they aren’t gaining much ground in the competitive National League East, the New York Mets have to be happy with their play of late.
The Cincinnati Reds must feel like they have nine lives.