This match tonight i’m going on the underdog once more, well almost every aspect of tobight’s game will favour the diamondbacks tonight, and the only factor witch makes them underdog tonight is the starting pitcher they are sending in – Arizona will put on the mound randy Johnson, who is coming back from an injury and performed badly on his debut at home. But he has lot of experience (21 years on MLB), and he also has a lot of skill – so when comparing to the San diego inicial pitcher – who is going to be randy wolf – Johnson is better (in terms of carrer).

It’s a fact that wolf (san diego) has started this season very good – he played two games so far and made some great pitching, I don’t expect him to do less tonight, but I really expect Johnson to perform also very good, leaving the decision of the match to two factor that benefit Arizona largely: the bullpen and their hitting ability lately.

In terms of bullpen, and considering neither of the starting pitchers will stay in the game more then 6,7 innings, the edge goes to Arizona – they have a lot better bullpen this season – 1.38 vs 5.10 – arizona’s bullpen has been able to perform in great shape doing mostly even better then the starting pitcher, while the opposite occurs when we see San Diego’s bullpen.

In terms of batting things are pretty unbalanced here also, because the San Diego are going true a serious batting crisis at the moment, they have a batting avg of 0.199 in the last 7 games! Against a 0.277 batting avg in the last 7 by Arizona. Arizona also have a very much relieved team on the injuries department and they are better physically because the padres have been playing long games lately.

San diego only won 1 game in the last 9 they played and the confidence on their side isn’t great for sure. My pick here goes to the away team clearly.



Pick : Arizona diamonbacks (-1.5) handicap
Odds : 2.70
Stake : 8 / 10
Bookmaker : Pinnacle
Date : 2008-04-26
Match Result : 1-5
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