This weekend\u2019s MLB schedule is filled with a number of interesting matchups featuring some surprising front runners along with a few favorites that continue to try and make-up ground from a slow start. <\/p>\n
After crunching the stats for the matchups for Thursday\u2019s slate of games, we uncovered a two-team parlay that promises jump-start your weekend.<\/p>\n
Game 1- Toronto Blue Jays vs. Minnesota Twins Henderson Alvarez is slated to get the start for Toronto. He is coming off his first career shutout and second career complete game in a win over the Angels this past Friday. This marks the right-hander\u2019s fifth quality outing in his first six starts. He is now 2-2 with a 2.83 ERA on the year.<\/p>\n Jason Marquis is scheduled to be on the mound for Minnesota. In his last outing against Seattle, he gave-up two runs on just four hits in six innings of work, but issued six walks while battling some control issues. The right-hander is 2-1 on the year with a 5.40 ERA. He is 1-1 against Toronto with an ERA of 4.15.<\/p>\n The Blue Jays are just 2-5 in Alvarez\u2019s last seven starts but 13-3 in their last 16 games in Minnesota. The Twins are 17-35 in Game 1 of their last 52 series. Despite Toronto\u2019s record with Alvarez on the mound, his current form against a team that has won just eight games all season will be enough to secure the win. [dfads params=’groups=10&limit=1&return_javascript=0′]<\/p>\n Game 2- Detroit Tigers vs. Oakland Athletics Max Scherzer is expected to be on the mound for Detroit. He is just 1-3 on the year with an ERA of 6.32, but turned in a solid outing against the White Sox his last time out in which he gave-up one run on four hits in seven innings of work. The right-hander is 1-1 against the Athletics with a 4.22 ERA.<\/p>\n Oakland will go with Bartolo Colon as its starter in this one. The right-hander got bounced around by Tampa Bay his last time out; giving-up three earned runs and eight hits in just five innings. He is now 3-2 on the year but still boasting a 2.83 ERA. Lifetime against the Tigers, Colon is 7-8 with an ERA of 5.32.<\/p>\n The Tigers are 1-4 in Scherzer\u2019s last five starts and 2-5 in their last seven games against a team with a winning record. Oakland is 5-1 in its last six games and have won four of its last five games at home.<\/p>\n The A\u2019s are 5-3 in the last eight meetings overall and 4-2 in the last six games against Detroit at home.<\/p>\n Oakland stays hot at the Tigers\u2019 expense to successfully fill-in the back-end of Thursday\u2019s parlay.<\/p>\n MLB Betting Previews- Thursday May 10 Parlay This weekend\u2019s MLB schedule is filled with a number of interesting matchups featuring some surprising front runners along with a few favorites that continue to try and make-up ground from a slow start.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64,"featured_media":39697,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[670],"tags":[112,54458,54461,35692,48347,3618,458,681,3775,12769,688,54457,2076,54826,10860,1293,54827],"class_list":["post-51195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mlb-baseball","tag-baseball-predictions","tag-baseball-spreads","tag-bet-on-mlb-baseball-games","tag-blue-jays-vs-twins","tag-detroit-tigers-vs-oakland-athletics","tag-expert-handicappers","tag-free-mlb-pick","tag-mlb-gambling","tag-mlb-odds","tag-mlb-parlay","tag-mlb-picks","tag-parlay-predictions","tag-parlays","tag-tigers-vs-athletics","tag-toronto-blue-jays","tag-vegas-odds","tag-vs-minnesota-twins"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51195","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\/64"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51195"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51195\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51221,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51195\/revisions\/51221"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nMoney Line: Toronto -125 Minnesota +110
\nTotal Line: 8.5<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nMoney Line: Detroit +105 Oakland -110
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