Well I’m going again on the very good form of the dodgers – they are hitting very good and tonight they have also the pitching advantage.

Let’s see the pitchers then,

The Mets are going to send in O Perez, a pitcher that has a season ERA of 4.03, but he has made some terrible appearances on the last games, 3 out the last 4 games he simply blew it. Facing such a hard batting team, it should be a very hard night to Perez – he has been having problems also with his control.

The dodgers are sending in Chad Billingley – he has a season ERA of 5.33 which is worse then tonight opponent, but he has a peculiar thing – he has a better WHIP then is opponent (1.579 vs 1.689), which means that even having a worse ERA he has been better in avoiding hits from the other team.

Another aspect is the fact that Billingley is striking-out a lot lately, in the last 4 matches he has stroke out 8, 9 times which is huge.

So even having worse ERA I believe that Bilingley is better now then Perez, and the Dodgers have such a huge edge on bullpen – (2.2 vs 6.07), so even if Perez is able to level things up, the bullpen probably would unbalance it.

In terms of batting the differences are even bigger (0.321 vs 0.239), the dodgers are hitting wonderful and having such a great period of confidence, so, a team like the Mets, having problems batting lately should post many problems for these strong dodgers tonight. Going for the handicap here.



Pick : Los Angeles Dodgers (-2.5) handicap
Odds : 3.35
Stake : 8 / 10
Bookmaker : 5dimes
Date : 2008-05-06
Match Result : 5-1
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