When we think of classic baseball matchups \u2013 the kind ESPN eats up for Sunday-night telecasts \u2013 The Rangers and Twins don\u2019t usually come to mind. But, fact of the matter is, each of these teams is an American League division leader. <\/p>\n
So maybe they\u2019ll treat us to a quality game after all. <\/p>\n
CLICK HERE TO GRAB OUR BEST Picks Packages for 2010 MLB Betting! \u2014\u2013><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Sunday, May 30, 8:05 p.m. ET<\/strong><\/p>\n Texas Rangers (26-21, 1st place in AL West) Though each of these teams has a solid offense, we\u2019ll see two good (if unpredictable) young pitchers take the mound on Sunday night. <\/p>\n Derek Holland (2-0, 2.95) Has prospect Derek Holland officially arrived? He showed plenty of promise in 2009 but still took his lumps more often than not. As a result, he opened 2010 at Triple-A. <\/p>\n the minor-league stint paid off; Holland hasn\u2019t lost, has held opponents to a .225 average and has walked just three batters over three starts (and one relief appearance) since rejoining the Rangers. <\/p>\n Holland has faced the Twins twice, amassing a 3.86 ERA against them. <\/p>\n It\u2019s worth noting that Holland hasn\u2019t figured out how to keep the ball in the park yet. He allowed 26 homers in just 138.1 innings last season and has served up four gopher balls in 18.1 innings this year. <\/p>\n In one start against Holland each, Delmon Young and Nick Punto have both taken him deep. Interestingly enough, Minnesota\u2019s Scott Baker has the same affliction. His seven homers allowed in 60.1 innings are \u201cgood\u201d by his standards. But long balls haven\u2019t stopped Baker from being an effective pitcher overall. He\u2019s walked just 13 batters this season and has a healthy strikeout rate. <\/p>\n The Rangers have been fairly tough on Baker in his career, hitting five homers in 36 innings and giving him a 5.25 ERA against them. Big Nelson Cruz has Baker figured out; the power hitter has launched two homers off Baker in just six career at-bats. <\/p>\n This is a very even matchup on paper, but I give the Twins the edge. The Twins are 15-9 at home, really enjoying their new stadium. <\/p>\n Baker is also hot, having shut out the mighty New York Yankees for five innings in his last start.<\/p>\n Gambling Trends:<\/strong><\/p>\n Minnesota is 4-1 SU in its last 5 games when playing Texas Sunday Night Baseball FREE PICK for Texas Rangers vs Minnesota Twins<\/strong><\/p>\n Pick: Minnesota Twins<\/p>\n ESPN Sunday Night Baseball Prediction (Shea Matthews\u2019 record: 4-3)<\/p>\n Baseball – Sunday Night Contest<\/strong><\/p>\n Get paid to watch TV? The BetUS.com MLB Sunday Night Contest makes the weekly primetime game that much more exciting! It\u2019s an opportunity to maximize your viewing pleasure and win MASSIVE Free Plays! We\u2019ll give away monthly awards, as well as prizes to our top three regular season finishers.\u00a0Enter the free contest every week and pick all of the wager options for the Sunday night ESPN game. 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The top three at season\u2019s end will win amazing free plays of $2000 for first place, $1000 for second place and $500 for third place.<\/p>\n <\/strong> Shea weighs in with his MLB Predictions for Sunday night and the Texas Rangers vs. Minnesota Twins….Key trend, The total has gone UNDER in 5 of Texas’s last 7 games …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":68,"featured_media":22895,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[670],"tags":[27267,27266,27268,111,13510,112,27274,13499,27271,2058,678,683,686,29568,29565,1208,29566,29567,29569,29570],"class_list":["post-22894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mlb-baseball","tag-2010-major-league-baseball","tag-2010-mlb-betting","tag-2010-mlb-picks","tag-baseball-picks","tag-baseball-prediction","tag-baseball-predictions","tag-espn-baseball","tag-espn-baseball-prediction","tag-major-league-baseball-betting-odds","tag-mlb-baseball-betting","tag-mlb-betting","tag-mlb-handicapping","tag-mlb-pick","tag-rangers-twins-lines","tag-rangers-twins-odds","tag-sunday-night-baseball","tag-texas-minnesota-betting","tag-texas-minnesota-odds","tag-texas-rangers-vs-minnesota-twins-gambling","tag-texas-rangers-vs-minnesota-twins-pick"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/68"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22894"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22894\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23022,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22894\/revisions\/23022"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nMinnesota Twins (27-20, 1st place in AL Central <\/p>\n
\nScott Baker (4-4, 4.48) <\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/media.partners.betus.com\/BANNERS\/baseball\/sportsbook_baseball_250x250_mybanner.gif\")
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\nThe total has gone UNDER in 4 of Minnesota’s last 5 games when playing Texas
\nMinnesota is 4-1 SU in its last 5 games when playing at home against Texas
\nThe total has gone UNDER in 5 of Texas’s last 6 games when playing on the road against Minnesota
\nThe total has gone UNDER in 4 of Texas’s last 5 games when playing Minnesota
\nThe total has gone UNDER in 5 of Texas’s last 7 games
\nThe total has gone UNDER in 4 of Texas’s last 6 games on the road
\nThe total has gone UNDER in 5 of Minnesota’s last 6 games when playing at home against Texas<\/p>\nWHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR? Click here NOW to Join Betus.com Sportsbook and start MLB baseball gambling all season long<\/a><\/h3>\n
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