Matt Rivers
Matt Rivers
MONSTER 100,000* INTERLEAGUE GAME OF THE YEAR Plus Bonus Lock
Your winners here are on:
1. 100,000♦ Braves
2. 50,000♦ Blue Jays MINUS 1 1/2 RUNS
1. Tommy Hanson has all of the makings of being a future All-Star, if not a Cy Young award winner. I do realize that he is still somewhat raw and showed it against the Brewers in his debut last week as Ryan Braun lit him up a few times but to get him and what is clearly the superior Brave team here at around a pick is a semi steal and a must play.
I have no issues with some of the Oriole players as there is talent with Markakis, Roberts, Scott and a few others but Bobby Cox boasts the far more well balanced team thanks in part to the clear superior bullpen led by three potential closers in Gonzalez, Soriano and Moylan and with a red hit Chipper Jones along with Brian McCann, Nate McClouth and Yunel Escobar the Braves lineup is better than what it has been showing of late.
Don't get me wrong the Bravos are a team that can crap on themselves and be offensively challenged at times as we saw just that the last two days against the Pirates. This is not the Braves of the late 90's or early 00's I fully understand that but Jason Berken, he of the 9 earned runs in his last game and he of the 8 BB to 5 K in his three starts is going to get hit today and to be able to get the Braves with Hanson and not really have to lay anything in this situation is a total steal.
Is it a dead on mortal lock? No it's not but for the most part the visitors have the better everything and even on the road and with a DH I'm all about the visitors from Hotlanta.
2. Roy Halladay is an absolute beast and against the skidding and beat up Marlins at home I just don't see anything but another Halladay gem leading to another solid Toronto win.
Ricky Nolasco can be good but he can also be fairly awful. We have seen both siders of him this season but more times it's been the bad side. Here up North and against what has been a pretty solid lineup led by guys like Hill, Wells, Rios, Lind and Overbay I just do not see Nolasco looking all too good in this thing.
Teams that are used to facing Halladay look terrible against him even after some adjustments and now in this Interleague spot this game could be a total disaster for the Marlins as injuries to Hanley Ramirez and Jorge Cantu cannot help matters, even if those guys are able to go in this game after not starting in the 6-5 loss yesterday.
This thing has 6 or 8-1 written all over it!
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