Nevada vs. California and Kansas vs. Southern Mississippi point spread picks are up.
Courtesy of OddsShark.com: Today in the Daily Sports Roundup: The Golden Bears play on the road in Nevada, the Rangers begin a series out in Seattle, and the Rockies seek a win at Dodger Stadium.
Colliding on the gridiron . . .
College football offers up a pair of games on Friday, with Kansas at Southern Miss and California at Nevada. The Jayhawks are 1-1 SU and 1-0 ATS so far this season, while Southern Miss sits at 1-1 SU and 0-2 ATS. Oddsmakers like the Golden Eagles at home in that contest, pegging them as the 5.5-point favorites. Meanwhile, the Golden Bears are 2-0 SU and 1-0 ATS through the first two weeks of the season, and Nevada is at 2-0 SU and 1-0 ATS. California is pegged as a 3-point road favorite against the Wolf Pack.
As well, there is one Canadian Football League game on tap for Friday night, with Calgary at Saskatchewan. The Stampeders (9-1 SU, 8-2 ATS) ride a seven-game winning streak into Friday’s matchup, and they trounced Edmonton 36-20 on the road last week. The Roughriders (6-4 SU, 5-5 ATS) will be looking to bounce back from an ugly 31-2 road loss to Winnipeg last week in which they managed just a pair of singles. Oddsmakers have Calgary listed as a 2.5-point road favorite for Friday night’s matchup.
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Meeting up on the diamond . . .
The American League schedule for Friday has the Yankees at Baltimore, the Angels at Tampa Bay, Toronto at Boston, Oakland at Minnesota, Cleveland at Kansas City, Detroit at the White Sox, and Texas at Seattle. C.J. Wilson is expected to get the ball for the Rangers in that last contest, while the Mariners send Felix Hernandez (11-11, 2.39 ERA) to the mound. Lefthander Wilson is coming off a short outing against the Yankees in which he gave up four runs on six hits over just three innings of work. Righthander Hernandez lost to the Angels last time out, surrendering seven runs in his 6 1-3 innings.
Over in the National League on Friday it’s then Arizona at Pittsburgh, Washington at Philadelphia, the Cubs at Florida, Atlanta at the Mets, Cincinnati at Houston, San Diego at St. Louis, Milwaukee at San Francisco, and Colorado at the Dodgers. Ubaldo Jimenez (18-6, 2.75 ERA) is slated to pitch for the Rockies on Friday night, with Hiroki Kuroda (10-12, 3.32 ERA) taking the hill for Los Angeles. Righthander Jimenez was stuck with a no-decision against the Diamondbacks last time out despite giving up just one run on six hits over his six innings of work. Righthander Kuroda is also coming off a hard-luck no-decision, surrendering one run on four hits in six innings against Houston.
Free pick…
Matt Rivers, who was the winningest handicapper ever—nobody came close—on a large network of sites says Friday is on the Mariners in the first 5 innings at 5 Dimes
A little unconventional play here as this is a first five inning play on the home M’s. Here is my logic and it’s fairly simple, Felix Hernandez is amazing. Yup that’s it, no rocket science, no crazy algorithms, that’s it.
Certainly Seattle’s offense has been awful and the team overall is a complete disaster. Ichiro has not even been very good this season and what appeared to be a promising season that started with a pitching staff that had three studs in Hernandez, Cliff Lee and Erik Bedard turned into a dreadful underachieving piece of garbage. With that said though Hernandez has been the best pitcher in baseball over the past few months and that is including everybody. The last start wasn’t good as King Felix allowed four earned but in the previous six starts the guy allowed a grand total of one earned run. Yes that’s right in the previous 45 innings he allowed one run. I know mind-boggling.
I don’t trust anything about this Seattle club including their offense, bullpen and pretty much everything else, save Hernandez, and the M’s are up against a very tough lefty in CJ Wilson and a first place Texas club that is well superior. But the King is truly amazing and very possibly will not allow a run in the first five innings. Granted Wilson may not either but to not really lay anything with Hernandez in this situation is well worth it. Think about it this guy has not allowed a run in five of his last seven starts.
We could be looking at a 0-0 push after five and if that is the case then so be it. But to get the best pitcher in the game on his home mound in Seattle and not really lay anything is a must play, period.
For more information: Yup, that’s right I don’t say the above lightly at all as I have a whopping four plays tonight including a monster raising of the bar 400,000* between Cal and Nevada. This is one of those swing days going into the weekend that can actually make or break the next week plus I’m flat out loving today and will smack the heck out of that Crookie and do so with a vengeance.
400,000* Cal-Nevada plus a trio of bonus 200,000*’s including the total from Nevada plus Kansas-Southern Mississippi and Milwaukee-San Francisco on the diamond. 4-0? Heck yes baby! Get all the sports service picks now.