Los Angeles Dodgers vs. Chicago White Sox (June 24)
Both the Los Angeles Dodgers (47-24, +2100) and Chicago White Sox (33-37, -$435) pick Interleague play back up on Wednesday night from beautiful US Cellular Field for the second of three baseball betting battles.
The Dodgers enter tonight’s confrontation with the Palehose with the best record in all of baseball after taking the first game of this series by a 5-2 final count behind a stellar pitching performance from Hiroki Kuroda who tossed 8.2 innings of two-run ball.Manager Joe Torre’s Dodgers own a solid 8.5-game lead in the NL West over the San Francisco Giants. As a visitor in ’09, the Manny-less Dodgers have been stellar winning 22 of their 36 overall games to put a robust $1078 worth of MLB wagering profit in their betting backer’s pockets.
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The White Sox have caught fire of late winning six of their L/10 overall (+$350), which includes a series win at Cincinnati in Interleague betting play over the weekend. Though John Danks churned out another quality start last night throwing seven innings of three-run ball, his teammates failed to give him any run production. Manager Ozzie Guillen’s ballclub has been kinder to its betting backers on the road (17-18, +$379) than at home where they currently sit three-games under .500 (16-19, -$814) in ’09. Both clubs have excelled throughout their 2009 Interleague wagering seasons as the Dodgers are 8-5 in 13 games adding $260 on top of their seasonal intake of $2100, while the White Sox counter with a 7-5 record that’s netted their backers $220 overall.
Gavin Floyd and the White Sox currently sit as -125 home favorites over the visiting Dodgers and Randy Wolf with the game ‘total’ set at 9 over -115 per the current Bookmaker MLB odds.
Randy Wolf secured his 10th no-decision of the year his last time out against the Oakland A’s. 
The lefty now finds himself just eight shy of the LA Dodgers record set by Odalis Perez back in 2004. He enters his 16th start of the year 3-2 with a 3.29 ERA and 1.15 WHIP with a K/BB ratio of 69/28, and the Dodgers have won 10 of his 15 outings overall. He’s been even stingier away from Chavez Ravine going 3-1 with a miniscule 2.28 ERA allowing just 32 hits and 11 ER’s through 43.1 total innings of work. The Dodgers have won seven of his L/8 starts, and he boasts a 1.35 ERA & 1.05 WHIP vs. the Palehose in his career.
Gavin Floyd has rediscovered his 2008 magic over his L/3 starts, and Chicago is 4-2 his L/6 overall efforts. He sports a tidy 1-0 record with a 1.25 ERA and 0.83 WHIP his L/3 starts where he’s allowed just 14 hits and three earned runs with a K/BB ratio of 14/4 through 21.2 total innings of work. Chicago is 5-2 in his seven home starts where his ERA plummets to 2.68 from his seasonal mark of 4.65. That said; the Dodgers have gotten to him the three times he’s faced them evidenced by his 0-3 record and 10.50 ERA.
LA is 25-12 against sub .500 teams in ’09, while the White Sox have struggled vs. winning teams posting a 15-18 overall mark. The Dodgers are 5-1 their L/6 road games, and 4-1 the L/5 times they were installed a road pup. Chicago’s a perfect 4-0 its L/4 at home against a lefty in Interleague play, and they’re 8-2 their L/10 in game 2 of a series. The ‘under’ is a perfect 7-0 in each of the L/7 meetings.
Can the Dodgers win their fifth consecutive three-game series with a win tonight, or will the White Sox step up in their own house and take out the best $$$ team in all of baseball?
