Free MLB Baseball Betting Picks: July 27th 2009: ATS Consultants

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OVER 10.5 Kansas City Royals/Baltimore Orioles:
A battle of really bad lefties tonight at Oriole Park at Camden Yards between the Royals and Orioles. There is virtually nothing to get excited about in this series except the fact that the Orioles will be calling up their top pitching prospect, Chris Tillman to pitch on Wednesday. Back to tonight, Bruce Chen (0-5, 6.58) goes for KC. Chen has been abysmal as you can see by his numbers. I don’t really know how they can justify sending him out there every fifth day until I see. Baltimore will counter with Rich Hill (3-3, 7.64), who for some reason keeps hanging on in the Baltimore rotation. He’s allowed 64 hits while walking 37 in just 55 innings. He’s been particularly abysmal in his last 5 outings, with an ERA of 11.00 in 18 combined innings. This should be his last chance with the Orioles.

UNDER 7 Pittsburgh Pirates/ San Francisco Giants:
Cy Young winner Tim Lincecum (10-3, 2.45) is well on his way to contending for a second straight Cy Young award and tonight he should have an easy time with the struggling Pirates offense. Lincecum should be extra motivated tonight as he’s coming off of his worst outing of 2009 last week against the Braves. He allowed 4 runs in just 5 innings of work in the loss. Even with that effort, he’s 2-1 with a 2.93 ERA in his last 5 starts. He faced the Pirates on July 17, and gave up 1 run in 7 innings pitched. He was outdueled that night by tonight’s opponent, Paul Maholm, who pitched 8 shutout innings that night. By the way, the Giants won that game 2-1 in extra innings. We expect more of the same tonight with these two pitchers dueling all night.

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