Baseball Betting: Blue Jays vs Orioles
The Blue Jays are off to a solid start this year and just whipped through the Royals over the weekend. Now they are in Baltimore looking to avenge a poor home series against the surprising Orioles.
Toronto Blue Jays (10-7) vs Baltimore Orioles (10-7)
Wednesday April 25
Camden Yards – Baltimore, MD
7:05PM
Moneyline: Baltimore -110, Toronto +100
O/U:
PITCHING MATCHUP: Blue Jays RH Kyle Drabek (2-0, 2.00 ERA) vs. Orioles RH Jason Hammel (2-0, 2.37 ERA)
Toronto
As this is being written the O’s are up 2 to 1 in the series opener. If the Jays are going to stay in the playoff hunt they need to do better against the team time will show is the division’s weakest.
Jay’s starter Kyle Drabek has been the most pleasant surprise for the Jays brass so far. Last year he was dreadful and seemed destined for another season in the minors. Instead he has given him team a chance to win in each of his starts (and they have won all three) by not giving up more than 2 runs in any of them. His best game of the year was against these same Orioles back in Toronto a little more than a week ago. [dfads params=’groups=10&limit=1&return_javascript=0′]
Baltimore
The Baltimore Orioles are a tough team to gauge right now. They started with a sweep of the lowly Twins and that has basically been the difference between a .500 record and their 9-6 record heading into Tuesday night. That seems about right as this team is not especially good at creating runs or preventing them. Odds are they are at the bottom looking up before too long.
The really surprising part has been the power of these Orioles. They are third in the majors in homers despite Mark Reynolds having just an atrocious start. Picking up the slack have been Adam Jones and Matt Wieters. Both are good hitters but with 5 dingers already they are exceeding expectations. Nolan Reimold also has chipped in 5 homers and he is not even playing every day. When the power subsides this team is in for a serious fall.
O/U Pick: Over
Score Prediction: Toronto 7 – Baltimore 4