Mlb Picks - August 24, 2009

We missed the mark around the bases last night as our mini-slump this week continues. Hang in there as we have gone through a handful of these this season. Those patient enough to wait them out have been rewarded with well over 100% ROI on the season. We are not immune to losing streaks (no one is), but the good news is that this season, our winning streaks have dwarfed them. Tonight, we are back with another pair of MLB picks including a 5-unit selection.

Since June, our MLB picks have been killing the books to the tune of 60%, 177-117 (almost half of those winners are UNDERDOGS), for +144.3 units.

WUNDERDOG 2009 RECENT RESULTS ($100/bet)
SPORT	WINS-LOSSES	%	NET
WNBA	81-69 last 150 picks	54%	+$870
MLB	179-117 last 296 picks	60%	+$15080
NBA	299-237 last 536 picks	56%	+$12460
NFL	72-44 last 116 picks	62%	+$7320
TOTAL			+$35730

Today's MLB Baseball Picks:

Game: San Francisco at Colorado (8:40 PM Eastern)
Pick: 5 units on Colorado -170 (moneyline) (risk 5 to win 2.9)

The Colorado Rockies have put together one of the longest and quietest positive runs in baseball this season. For what has amounted to a half-season of games, (their last 70 played), the Rockies have been the top team in baseball with a 48-22 mark! The Giants have surprised as well, behind their two ace pitchers in Lincecum and Cain, and a home record that is 39-20. That has kept them in the race all season, but the difference between this team is home and away. At home, they are good, winning 66.1% of their games. On the road, they are bad, finding the win column in just 43.1% of their games. That differential is huge - 23% on the negative side. Barry Zito has not paid the kind of dividends for the Giants they had hoped for since coming over as a free agent from the A's. This season he has a 5.13 ERA against winning teams when pitching on the road. The Giants are just 32-65 on the road in their last 97 against a team with a winning record. The Rockies are torching lefthand pitching at home as they are 10-1 in their last 11. The Giants are just 1-4 in their last five played here, so the Rockies get the call.

The Colorado Rockies aren't just winning with a 48-22 mark in their last 70 games, they are winning big. In the last 18 times the Rockies have won, they have won by two runs or more and they are now 22-4 in their last 26 wins by a margin of two or more! They have been superb against lefthand pitching, where they are 10-1 in their last 11 at home. In their last seven, the Rockies have scored 10+ runs in four of them. The winning total has been 81-38 in the 11 games, or 7.4-3.4, a winning margin of four runs per game! I will back the Rockies on the runline here.

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