{"id":4459,"date":"2009-05-21T11:03:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-21T16:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/05\/mlb-odds-thursday-baseball-betting-picks\/"},"modified":"2009-05-21T11:03:00","modified_gmt":"2009-05-21T16:03:00","slug":"mlb-odds-thursday-baseball-betting-picks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/05\/mlb-odds-thursday-baseball-betting-picks\/","title":{"rendered":"MLB Odds &#8211; Thursday Baseball Betting Picks"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=Section1>\n<p class=MsoBodyText><span class=SpellE><font size=3 face=\"Times New Roman\"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Interleague<\/span><\/font><\/span> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.betonline.com\/sports-betting\/baseball\" title=\"baseball betting\" id=vi56>baseball betting<\/a> play is just around the corner, but <span class=GramE>a pair of major rivalries each still have<\/span> another tilt on the <span class=SpellE>sked<\/span> tonight. Let&#8217;s make some MLB betting picks for the Cubs <span class=SpellE>vs<\/span> Cardinals odds and the Red Sox <span class=SpellE>vs<\/span> Blue Jays odds.<\/p>\n<p> <b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Red Sox <span class=SpellE>vs<\/span> Blue Jays odds\u2014Jon Lester (2-4, 6.51) <span class=SpellE>vs<\/span> Robert Ray (1-1, 3.60), 7:10 p.m. ET<br \/> <\/span><\/b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.betonline.com\/sports-betting\/mlb-odds-792.aspx\" title=\"MLB odds\" id=azvw>MLB odds<\/a>: Red Sox -200, Blue Jays +170<\/p>\n<p> You can almost hear Blue Jays odds supporters leaping off the bandwagon already after Toronto lost two of three to the Yankees last week and now stares down a sweep at the hands of the Red <span class=GramE>Sox .<\/span> No-name hurler Robert Ray doesn&#8217;t exactly inspire confidence in sportsbook players tonight. He hasn&#8217;t been half bad for the Jays so far this season but his solid home outings against the White Sox and Orioles can&#8217;t possibly prepare him for the experience of pitching before a hostile crowd at <span class=SpellE>Fenway<\/span>. Jon Lester has struggled in baseball betting this season but he&#8217;s 17-4 all-time at <span class=SpellE>Fenway<\/span> and his friendly surroundings give him as good a chance as any to bounce back. Bet on the Red Sox to pull off the sweep. <\/p>\n<p> Baseball betting pick: Red Sox -200<\/p>\n<p> <b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Cubs <span class=SpellE>vs<\/span> Cardinals odds\u2014Sean Marshall (2-2, 4.02) <span class=SpellE>vs<\/span> Adam Wainwright (3-2, 3.83), <\/span><\/b><st1:time Hour=\"20\" Minute=\"15\"><b><span  style='font-weight:bold'>8:15 p.m. ET<\/span><\/b><\/st1:time><br \/> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.betonline.com\/sports-betting\/mlb-odds-792.aspx\" title=\"MLB odds\" id=kdis>MLB odds<\/a>: Cubs +120, Cardinals -140<\/p>\n<p> <span class=GramE>Here<\/span>&#8216;<span class=GramE>s<\/span> an example of how baseball betting lines can be deceiving. The Cards are just a mild favorite at home when they&#8217;re actually a rock-solid pick tonight. <st1:City><st1:place>Marshall<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> has faced <st1:City><st1:place>St. Louis<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> twice already this season, allowing six earned runs over 11 innings. He didn&#8217;t dominate the Cards in either start and now Albert <span class=SpellE>Pujols<\/span> and company get a third crack at him. Wainwright&#8217;s career numbers against the Cubs aren&#8217;t that great, but a closer look at his splits shows he&#8217;s owned them from 2008-on. He dominated <st1:City><st1:place>Chicago<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> to the tune of 2.38 ERA and <span class=GramE>.186 batting average<\/span> in &#8217;08 and carved the Cubbies up on April 24, allowing one earned run over seven innings. The Cards look good for anyone <a href=\"http:\/\/www.betonline.com\/\" title=\"betting sports\" id=w073>betting sports<\/a> tonight.<\/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>Interleague baseball betting play is just around the corner, but a pair of major rivalries each still have another tilt on the sked tonight. Let&#8217;s make some MLB betting picks for the Cubs vs Cardinals odds and the Red Sox vs Blue Jays odds. Red Sox vs Blue Jays odds\u2014Jon Lester (2-4, 6.51) vs Robert &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/05\/mlb-odds-thursday-baseball-betting-picks\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">MLB Odds &#8211; Thursday Baseball Betting 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-4459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4459","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=4459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4459\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}