Free MLB Baseball Betting Picks: August 12th 2009: ATS Consultants

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UNDER 9.5 Cleveland Indians/Texas Rangers:
Good pitching matchup tonight at The Jake. Texas sends rookie Tommy Hunter to the mound to oppose Cleveland’s Fausto Carmona. Texas is in playoff contention, while Cleveland is playing out the string and trying to establish a foundation for 2010 and beyond.

Hunter (4-2, 2.63) has been a real find for the Rangers. So much that they recently released Vincente Padilla, a double figure game winner in 2008 to solidify Hunter’s spot in the rotation. Hunter is 3-1 with a 2.32 ERA in his last 5 starts. He’s never faced the Indians in his brief MLB career.

Carmona (2-6, 6.66) fianlly appears back in form after an awful 2008, and an even worse start to this season. He was sent down to single A to basically start over, but has worked his way back into the Major League rotation and is showing signs of life his last few efforts. Since his return to the rotation on July 31, he’s only allowed 3 runs in 11 innings pitched. Cleveland hopes he has turned it around completely allowing him to anchor the rotation in 2010.

OVER 7.5 Seattle Mariners/Chicago White Sox:
Two aces take the mound tonight in Seattle with Mark Buehrle taking on Felix Hernandez. On the surface, this matchup screams under, but looking inside the numbers says something completely opposite.

Buehrle pitched a perfect game a few weeks ago, but since then he’s been awful with a capital A. He’s allowed 17 runs on 23 hits in his last 19 innings pitched. A far cry from that perfect game a few weeks ago. He’s 11-6 with a 3.89 ERA for the season, but will have stop this slide if the Sox are to contend with the Tigers in the AL Central.

Hernandez (12-4, 2.84) has been mostly brilliant in 2009, but he’s began to hit the wall of late also. He’s allowed 12 runs in his last 18 innings of work and 22 hits in that span. Seattle is barely hanging on in the Wild Card race and need the pitching to step up the rest of the way.

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