The falloff that everyone was expecting from Baltimore hasn\u2019t happened…yet. Right now they are being sustained by a fantastic start from slugging first baseman Chris Davis, who is in the top 3 in the Majors in homers, RBI and average. <\/p>\n
Friday April 26<\/strong> ATS Matchup Stats<\/a> | Gambling Insight!<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n Check out our in-house Handicapper!!! Buy Razor Ray’s MLB Picks Today!<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n They are playing a bunch of one run games again this season and are killing it there so you could argue there is room to grow from their performance thus far this season.<\/p>\n Lost amidst everything Baltimore did last season was the first year performance of starter Wei-Yin Chen. Certainly not the highest touted Asian import the Taiwanese lefty made 30+ starts for a team that made the playoffs. The numbers weren\u2019t fantastic but he was solid.<\/p>\n Most interestingly he was extremely sharp against Oakland with a 2-0 record and an E.R.A. of just 0.71.<\/p>\n The free swinging A\u2019s just couldn\u2019t layoff with 16 punchouts in just 12 innings.<\/p>\n Last year\u2019s other surprise team – the A\u2019s – are also proving their performance was no fluke, though fewer thought their pitching fueled performance was. They have slowed since a hot start but are in second place in the division right now. \u00a0[dfads params=’groups=10&limit=1&return_javascript=0′]<\/p>\n Like Baltimore they could also have some room to improve given that their best pitcher has been Bartolo Colon so far and their homer leader, Coco Crisp – trends that are likely to change. Long live the Indians.<\/p>\n Oakland starter Tommy Milone just gets the job done. He doesn\u2019t dominate hitters and give up too many hits but he was 13-10 last year and has a 3-1 record so far this season as a follow up. He has just 1 career start against Baltimore but it was a good one and a win.<\/p>\n Milone was hit pretty hard by Tampa in his last outing but he tends to throw much better in Oakland\u2019s home park, the oddly named O.co Colisseum.<\/p>\n Nice value on the favourite A\u2019s this evening. Milone is way better at home than on lineup will give him enough support to grab a victory to start this underrated series.<\/p>\n Since today marks the start of many series I would suggest also looking at the series price in this one between two second place teams.<\/p>\n Baltimore Orioles (13-9) vs Oakland A\u2019s (13-10) The falloff that everyone was expecting from Baltimore hasn\u2019t happened…yet. Right now they are being sustained by a fantastic start from slugging first baseman Chris Davis, who is in the top 3 in the Majors in homers, RBI and average.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":180,"featured_media":35736,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[670],"tags":[53103,58756,10728,58939,58757,104,112,22527,13138,11787,683,3775,688,11217,58938],"class_list":["post-61864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mlb-baseball","tag-53103","tag-2013-mlb-baseball-odds","tag-baltimore-orioles","tag-baltimore-orioles-vs-oakland-athletics","tag-baseball-free-pick","tag-baseball-free-picks","tag-baseball-predictions","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-mlb-baseball-handicapping","tag-mlb-baseball-lines","tag-mlb-handicapping","tag-mlb-odds","tag-mlb-picks","tag-oakland-athletics","tag-orioles-vs-athletics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61864","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\/180"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61864"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61864\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":108021,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61864\/revisions\/108021"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nO.co Colisseum – Oakland, CA<\/strong>
\n10:05PM<\/strong>
\nProbable Starters:<\/strong>
\nBAL: Wei-Yin Chen (L)<\/strong>
\nOAK: Tommy Milone (L)<\/strong>
\nMoneyline: Oakland -125, Baltimore +115 at Bovada<\/a><\/strong>
\nO\/U: 7.5<\/strong><\/p>\nBaltimore<\/h3>\n
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Oakland<\/h3>\n
O\/U Pick: Over
\nScore Prediction: Oakland 6 – Baltimore 5<\/h3>\nView The MLB Cappers Leaderboard For 2012 – Picks Packages for 2013 On Sale! \u2014\u2013><\/strong><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"