{"id":11292,"date":"2011-05-05T14:55:43","date_gmt":"2011-05-05T14:55:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/?p=11292"},"modified":"2011-05-05T14:55:43","modified_gmt":"2011-05-05T14:55:43","slug":"astros-vs-reds-picks-and-prediction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2011\/05\/astros-vs-reds-picks-and-prediction\/","title":{"rendered":"Astros vs. Reds Picks and Prediction"},"content":{"rendered":"

OffshoreInsiders.com Senior Sports Handicapper<\/a> Matt Rivers has a Major League Baseball winner for Thursday is on the Houston Astros (+135) to Cincinnati.<\/p>\n

Due note this a 12:35 EST game\u00a0so if you need to get down on it do it early.<\/p>\n

Reasoning: Homer Bailey had a ton of fanfare when he broke into the big leagues because of his stuff. But thanks to injuries and frankly underachieving the guy has not really materialized into all that much.\u00a0Bailey is still young so I\u2019m not going to write him off just yet but as of right now he is no Brett Myers and I\u2019ll therefore back this road dog and take my chances.<\/p>\n

When all is said and done it\u2019s the Reds who are clearly the superior team of these two. Joey Votto is the reigning MVP and Dusty Baker\u2019s club has a high upside. But things have not been all that great after the 4-0 start to the season and if not for the three run 9th<\/sup> inning yesterday Cincinnati would in fact be under .500 going into this game. So it\u2019s not as if everything is all hunky dory with the defending NL Central champions because that\u2019s far from the case.<\/p>\n

The Astros aren\u2019t very good, I get that,\u00a0but ever since leaving Philadelphia Myers has been an absolute machine and that\u2019s with those last two starts against the Brewers being one of his weaker ones in a Houston uniform. This guy hurls quality start after quality start and is a horse right now. I expect the right-hander to more than hold his own and I\u2019m really not all that sure what Bailey is going to be able to\u00a0do in his season debut. If he can shake off the shoulder troubles and come out and dominate for five or six innings it may not even be enough against Myers and if he looks rusty than to get any money at all with the \u2018Stros is a\u00a0joke.<\/p>\n

Houston is coming off of\u00a0that bad loss yesterday and it\u2019s never a bad thing to back\u00a0a team in such spot as more times than not they will be focused and play well that next game. In the end I\u2019m about\u00a0Pence, Bourn and the boys from Houston to\u00a0do enough for Myers in a victory.<\/p>\n

Top expert pick<\/a> on this game: Houston from Matt Rivers<\/p>\n

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OffshoreInsiders.com Senior Sports Handicapper Matt Rivers has a Major League Baseball winner for Thursday is on the Houston Astros (+135) to Cincinnati. Due note this a 12:35 EST game\u00a0so if you need to get down on it do it early. Reasoning: Homer Bailey had a ton of fanfare when he broke into the big leagues … Continue reading Astros vs. Reds Picks and Prediction<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports_betting_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11292"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11293,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11292\/revisions\/11293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}