Colrado at Detroit

[mickey]

The Rockies will give the ball to starter Ubaldo Jimenez in this one. Righthander Jimenez is 3-4 this season with a 4.30 ERA.

Starting this game for the Tigers will be Rick Porcello. The righthander has a 3.86 ERA to go along with a 4-3 record this season.

Current streak:
Detroit has won 6 straight games.

The Tigers (23-16) had a 13-5 interleague record in 2008 to improve to 42-12 over the last three years, including 22-5 at Comerica Park. That includes a three-game home sweep of the Rockies (16-24) from June 27-29 with two games decided by one run.

Detroit, though, enters this series on a roll after completing a three-game sweep of Texas with Wednesday's 4-3 victory to open a three-game lead over second-place Kansas City. The Tigers haven't won seven in a row since June 17-24, 2007, and appear to be gaining confidence.

The Tigers are hitting .322 with 10 homers and outscoring opponents 47-15 during their current winning streak. To try and keep it going, they'll turn to 20-year-old Rick Porcello (4-3, 3.86), who is looking to win a fourth consecutive start.

The rookie right-hander has won his last three starts with a 1.00 ERA, a vast improvement from his previous four starts when he went 1-3 with a 6.23 ERA.
(3-4, 4.30), who's 2-0 with a 1.35 ERA in his last three starts.

Ubaldo Jimenez is 0-2 with a 5.73 ERA in two career interleague starts. One of those defeats came at Detroit on June 27, when he gave up four runs and nine hits in four innings of a 7-1 loss.



A few trends to consider:
The total has gone UNDER in 5 of Colorado's last 6 games when playing Detroit
The total has gone OVER in 4 of Colorado's last 6 games when playing on the road against Detroit
Colorado is 2-4 SU in its last 6 games on the road
Colorado is 2-4 SU in its last 6 games
Detroit is 5-0 SU in its last 5 games at home
Detroit is 5-0 SU in its last 5 games
The total has gone UNDER in 5 of Detroit's last 6 games when playing Colorado
Detroit is 4-1 SU in its last 5 games when playing at home against Colorado

recommend: Detroit (PLAY OF THE DAY)

[boiseboy]

good luck with the tigers mickey!!!!!!

boise...

[Earl]

Good Luck to you Mickey

[mickey]

thnx Boise & Earl,go Tigers.

[mickey]

Milwaukee at Minnesota

The last three years the Twins are 41-13 in interleague play! Twins vs. LHP in the last 10 games have a .331 avg and are scoring 7.41 runs per 9 innings. Slowey is coming around in my opinion and he has a 2-0 record vs. the Brewers in IL play in 3 GS with a 2.42 ERA. The Brewers have only gotten 13 hits in 69 AB vs the RHP.

On the other sie you have Parra who has been solid at home, but away from home he is 2-3 with a 5.33 ERA 1.83 runs higher than he is at home.

MIN 7-3 at home vs. MIL in the last 10 games played. MIN only 1 of those 7 wins was by just 1 run!

recommend Minnesota:& Take MIN -1.5 (+160)

[agent318]

Wow, Mickey, Awesome.

[Slyce]

What I tell ya ...with ya on those Twinkies though

[mickey]

Originally Posted by Slyce

What I tell ya ...with ya on those Twinkies though