MLB Baseball Betting: Blue Jays vs. White Sox Prediction: May 6th 2010

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May 6, 2010

Toronto Blue Jays vs. Chicago White Sox
Free Pick: Chicago White Sox -170 (Danks)
Courtesy of Mike Rose (Handicapperspicks.com)
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The Blue Jays continued to be one of the best road teams in baseball yesterday afternoon at Progressive Field rallying for three runs in the top of the 9th to steal the series finale and pull off the sweep of the Cleveland Indians; the victory improved manager Cito Gaston’s club to 9-3 (+$924) as a visitor on the year.

The White Sox clawed over the .500 mark at home last night after it jumped on Royals starter Brian Bannister early with four runs in the 1st inning and cruised to the 9-2 home victory. They’re 8-7 (-$65) at “The Cell” to date.

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Lefty Dana Eveland made a solid impression on his new teammates throughout his first three starts of the season. Each was a dominating effort where he allowed two ER’s or less. However, in his L/2 outings, the burly lefty has labored.

Toronto has dropped both after he allowed seven ER’s through three IP vs. the Red Sox and four ER’s through 6.2 IP vs. the A’s. All in all, Eveland stands 2-1 on the year with a 4.76 ERA & 1.59 WHIP. He’s allowed 32 hits and 15 earned runs through 28.1 IP and owns an unimpressive K/BB ratio of 13/13.

John Danks has been the one consistent hurler on manager Ozzie Guillen’s staff this season. The lefty enters his fifth start a perfect 3-0 with a 1.85 ERA & 1.00 WHIP. He’s allowed just 25 hits and seven ER’s through 34 total innings of work and boasts a rock solid K/BB ratio of 27/9.

This will be his first career start against the Blue Jays at home. In four outings at Rogers Centre, the lefty stands 1-2 with a 5.03 ERA & 1.53 WHIP. He toyed with the BJ’s offense back in mid April of this season allowing just two hits and an ER through seven IP of Chicago’s dominating 11-1 road victory.

Not a big fan of laying this type of chalk at all, but it looks to be well warranted in this spot.

Though Toronto is one of the best road teams in the game, I believe the baseball gods will punish them for pulling that win out of their behinds yesterday afternoon; the Tribe had them dead to rights and blew it.

I’m also of the belief that Eveland will continue his downward trend and get rocked by a Palehose outfit he made look foolish last month. Danks will continue to be Danks against Toronto who’s allowed two ER’s or less in 3/4 career stars vs. the BJ’s.

After getting off to a slow start, Chicago’s snagged victories in five of its L/6 home games, and its 7-1 in Danks’ L/8 outings vs. the AL East. As for Toronto, it may have taken six of its L/8 games played in Chicago, but it’s also failed to tally a “W” against each of the L/5 southpaws it’s faced.