{"id":38447,"date":"2011-05-22T00:42:46","date_gmt":"2011-05-22T07:42:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.capperspicks.com\/blog\/?p=38447"},"modified":"2023-02-07T07:39:51","modified_gmt":"2023-02-07T15:39:51","slug":"odds-chicago-vs-boston-gambling-prediction-preview-21511","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/mlb-baseball\/odds-chicago-vs-boston-gambling-prediction-preview-21511\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday MLB Betting \u2013 Cubs vs. Red Sox Preview & Pick"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sunday MLB Baseball Picks: Cubs vs Red Sox<\/strong><\/h2>\n

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Sunday Night Baseball Betting \u2013 Cubs vs Red Sox Preview & Pick
\nDate: Sunday, May 22, 2011
\nVenue: Fenway Park, Boston, MA
\nBroadcast: ESPN
\nChicago Cubs at Boston Red Sox Betting Lines from BetOnline.com
\nMoney Line: Boston -140
\nOver\/Under: 9 (-115)<\/strong>
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Chicago Cubs (19-23 through May 19)
\nMatt Garza (2-4, 3.72)<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Chicago Cubs are struggling to say in the National League Central race this season and pitching is clearly to blame. The Cubbies are 28th in baseball with a 4.50 team ERA and their 14 quality starts through 42 games is the majors\u2019 worst mark.<\/p>\n

They have a tall order on Sunday night against a Boston team that enters this series 76-28 over its last 104 interleague games. However, they might be sending the right guy to the hill for the nationally televised affair in Matt Garza.<\/p>\n

I would call Garza a big-game pitcher. He\u2019s 7-4 with a 3.83 ERA against mighty Boston in his career during the regular season; he also dominated Boston with two victories in the 2008 playoffs as a Tampa Bay Ray, allowing two runs over 13 innings. He seems to pitch best when the stakes are high and the ESPN Sunday-nighter could give him that feeling.<\/p>\n

Boston Red Sox (23-20)
\nTim Wakefield (0-1, 5.40)<\/strong><\/p>\n

After their disastrous start, it\u2019s hard to believe Boston is just half a game back of the Yankees and a game and a half behind first-place Tampa in the jam-packed American League East. Through Thursday\u2019s action, the BoSox had won six straight games. \"Bet<\/a><\/p>\n

Despite the hot streak, the Red Sox are still looking for some more reliable pitching at the back end of their rotation. Jon Lester and Josh Beckett have sparkled and Clay Buchholz is coming around but John Lackey and Daisuke Matsuzaka hit the DL this week. That means the BoSox will turn to trusty Tim Wakefield on Sunday night. The 44-year-old knuckleballer has a 3-1 record in five career starts against the Cubs.<\/p>\n

MLB Trends:<\/strong><\/p>\n

CHC are 7-19 in their last 26 Sun. games.
\nOver is 16-6 in CHC last 22 Sun. games.
\nBOS are 10-1 in their last 11 games on grass.
\nBOS are 7-1 in their last 8 overall.
\nBOS are 7-1 in their last 8 home games.<\/p>\n

The pick:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Boston has been hot but the conditions don\u2019t quite seem right for a win on Sunday night. We\u2019ve already established that Garza loves to step up his play for big games, especially against Boston. <\/p>\n

Also, aging Wakefield has been brutal at home this season, posting a 6.35 ERA. One Cub who has repeatedly smashed the soft-tossin\u2019 Wakefield in his career: Alfonso Soriano, who has four homers and seven RBI in 36 at-bats against him. <\/p>\n

Soriano has his power stroke back this season and could lead Chicago to victory on Sunday night.<\/p>\n

Cubs vs Red Sox prediction: Cubs 6, Red Sox 3
\nMoney Line: OFF
\nOver\/Under: OFF<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Shea weighs in with his MLB Free Pick for Sunday night Interleague baseball. It\u2019s the Chicago Cubs vs. Boston Red Sox matching up at Fenway. Odds favor the Red Sox opening at -140.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":195,"featured_media":33250,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[670],"tags":[47732,47733,47618,111,112,49290,49291,49292,49293,49294,49295,49296,13492,27271,2058,683,686,48628,48627],"class_list":["post-38447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mlb-baseball","tag-2011-major-league-baseball","tag-2011-mlb-betting","tag-2011-mlb-picks","tag-baseball-picks","tag-baseball-predictions","tag-chicago-boston-betting","tag-chicago-boston-odds","tag-chicago-cubs-vs-boston-red-sox","tag-chicago-cubs-vs-boston-red-sox-gambling","tag-chicago-cubs-vs-boston-red-sox-pick","tag-cubs-red-sox-lines","tag-cubs-red-sox-odds","tag-espn-sunday-night-baseball","tag-major-league-baseball-betting-odds","tag-mlb-baseball-betting","tag-mlb-handicapping","tag-mlb-pick","tag-sunday-night-baseball-odds","tag-sunday-night-baseball-picks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38447","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\/195"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38447"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":108286,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38447\/revisions\/108286"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}