{"id":4301,"date":"2009-04-24T11:51:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-24T16:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/04\/mlb-betting-friday-night-picks-2\/"},"modified":"2009-04-24T11:51:00","modified_gmt":"2009-04-24T16:51:00","slug":"mlb-betting-friday-night-picks-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/04\/mlb-betting-friday-night-picks-2\/","title":{"rendered":"MLB Betting &#8211; Friday Night Picks"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=Section1>\n<p class=MsoBodyText><font size=3 face=\"Times New Roman\"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>With respect to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.betonline.com\/sports-betting\/Pacquiao-Hatton-odds-835.aspx\" title=\"Pacquiao vs Hatton odds\" id=\"kz:v\"><span class=SpellE>Pacquiao<\/span> <span class=SpellE>vs<\/span> Hatton odds<\/a>, the best clash of the titans in sports to watch right now is probably the Yankees <span class=SpellE>vs<\/span> Red Sox line. With both teams retooled for 2009 MLB betting, the rivalry should be better than ever. Let&#8217;s break down tonight&#8217;s matchup and another key National League baseball betting line.<\/p>\n<p> <b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Yankees <span class=SpellE>vs<\/span> Red Sox odds: <span class=SpellE>Joba<\/span> Chamberlain (0-0, 5.06) <span class=SpellE>vs<\/span> Jon Lester (1-2, 5.50), tonight at 7:10 p.m. ET<br \/> <\/span><\/b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.betonline.com\/sportsbook\/mlb-lines.aspx\" title=\"MLB lines\" id=\"eg6_\">MLB lines<\/a>: Yankees +110, Red Sox -130<\/p>\n<p> Hard to believe the Yanks and <span class=SpellE>BoSox<\/span> haven&#8217;t met yet this season, but all that will be forgiven when dynamic young starters <span class=SpellE>Joba<\/span> Chamberlain and Jon Lester go head to head tonight. Chamberlain&#8217;s talent is off the charts, but he&#8217;s still a work in progress; he has to get over his propensity for nibbling if he wants to go deep in games. He&#8217;s struggled out of the gate at the sportsbook and, while he has been successful at <\/span><\/font><st1:place><st1:PlaceName><span class=SpellE>Fenway<\/span><\/st1:PlaceName>  <st1:PlaceType>Park<\/st1:PlaceType><\/st1:place> in the past (2-0, 3.00), he&#8217;s facing the hottest team in baseball as the Red Sox have won seven straight games. Jon Lester is 17-3 at home in his career and loves facing the Bronx Bombers (2-0, 3.42), so he&#8217;s a good bet to lead his team to victory tonight.<\/p>\n<p> Online betting pick: Red Sox -130<\/p>\n<p> <b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Phillies <span class=SpellE>vs<\/span> Marlins odds: Brett Myers (1-0, 5.03) <span class=SpellE>vs<\/span> Josh Johnson (2-0, 2.91), tonight at <\/span><\/b><st1:time Hour=\"19\" Minute=\"10\"><b><span  style='font-weight:bold'>7:10 p.m. ET<\/span><\/b><\/st1:time><b><span style='font-weight:bold'><br \/> <\/span><\/b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.betonline.com\/sportsbook\/mlb-lines.aspx\" title=\"MLB lines\" id=cs2l>MLB lines<\/a>: Phillies +114, Marlins -134<\/p>\n<p> How are the Marlins only a -134 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.betonline.com\/sportsbook\/default.aspx\" title=sportsbook id=dtnn>sportsbook<\/a> favorite in this one? The matchup screams &#8220;Marlins blowout,&#8221; as <span class=SpellE>flyball<\/span> pitcher Brett Myers faces a lineup that specializes in long balls. Myers has served up a ridiculous seven homers in 19.2 innings over three starts so far this season. He has an ugly career mark against <st1:State><st1:place>Florida<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> (6-10, 5.58) and the Marlins&#8217; top hitters all <i><span style='font-style:italic'>own <\/span><\/i>him (especially Dan <span class=SpellE>Uggla<\/span> &#8212; .344, three homers, nine RBI in 32 AB), so the Marlins odds are a tasty catch tonight.<\/p>\n<p> Online betting pick: Marlins -134<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><a\nhref=\"http:\/\/www.offshoreinsiders.com\/\"><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>OffshoreInsiders.com<\/b><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With respect to the Pacquiao vs Hatton odds, the best clash of the titans in sports to watch right now is probably the Yankees vs Red Sox line. With both teams retooled for 2009 MLB betting, the rivalry should be better than ever. Let&#8217;s break down tonight&#8217;s matchup and another key National League baseball betting &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/04\/mlb-betting-friday-night-picks-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">MLB Betting &#8211; Friday Night Picks<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4301","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=4301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4301\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}