Djack's Daily Baseball Picks 5-3-17

By Djack

Trash performance on my part yesterday, I apologize. Never can feel good about 0-3 performance, those are the ones that really kill ya. Although, you gotta spend money to make money, right. When you fall off a bike as a kid what do your parents tell you... Get right back on that bike, same applys for sports gambling. I am going to switch things up a little bit today since picking the run lines hasn't been going to hot. Switching to over/unders today maybe I'll have more luck with that. 9-12 is my record now, hopefully I can get back to .500 after today.

Bet #1
Blue Jays-Yankees has been an absolute slugfest in the first two games. Stroman is throwing for the Jays tonight, he's had a rough start to the year, but we all know he's capable of a great start at any moment. CC Sabathia had an awful outing his last start, although he's been mostly solid for the Yankees this year. With the line set at 8.5 I'm going to have to take the over based solely on the fact that these lineups are both hot right now. Even with the Yankees blowing out the Blue Jays last night , the Jays managed to tag up Tanaka pretty well. Smash the over in this AL East battle.

Bet #2
The Cubs offense has been stagnant lately. Last night they broke out a little bit and seems like recently everyone has been hitting a little bit better. It has taken awhile but I think the Cubs are finally getting past their championship hangover and are finding their groove. Look for their bats to be hot tonight putting up big numbers which will be necessary since Arieta shouldn't let up many runs to a weak Phillies lineup. The over/under is set at 7, easily achievable if the Cubs lineup gets hot, and puts a couple of balls over the wall.Which we all know they are very capable of.

Bet #3
Giants let me down big time last night, got off to a great start just to fall off the wagon and get blown out. With Jeff Samardzija throwing tonight the Dodgers are poised to score a shit ton of runs. Julio Urias, the young stud for the Dodgers, should have a good outing against a poor Giants lineup. The over/under is 7.5, take the over solely because Samardzija is pitching, and will let 5-6 runs on his own.