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With Jason Heyward ailing, the Atlanta Braves may have a tough time continuing their success at the plate after snapping a long road skid. Tim Hudson, though, may not need all that much support.
The Braves, who may be without the rookie slugger, hope Hudson can come through with yet another outstanding performance against the Washington Nationals on Thursday night.
Atlanta (12-15) snapped an eight-game road losing streak Wednesday night, getting a tiebreaking single from Matt Diaz in the 10th inning to win the middle game of this three-game set 7-6.
The Washington Nationals are 8-6 at home this season and the Atlanta Braves are 3-11 on the road this season. This is a close match-up with both teams having a 45 to 55 percent chance of winning based on 10,000 game simulations generated one play at a time.
Internet Betting - The big game on this week’s NFL sked sees Minnesota Vikings QB Brett Favre returning to his old stomping ground, Lambeau Field.
The Vikes are 3.5-point underdogs and the Total is set at 47.
Favre has taken a pre-emptive strike saying that this year’s Vikings team “physically, and from a talent level, is the best team [he’s] ever been on”–that would include the 1996 Green Bay Packers team that Favre won a Super Bowl with.
Favre said his comments weren’t a slight to that ‘96 team. - Betting Odds
While Minnesota is 3-6 straight up in its last nine visits to Wisconsin, it is also 7-2 against the spread.
The Vikings are also 2-7 SU and ATS when underdogs of 4-points or less.
The big game on this week’s NFL sked sees Minnesota Vikings QB Brett Favre returning to his old stomping ground, Lambeau Field.
The Vikes are 3.5-point underdogs and the Total is set at 47.
Favre has taken a pre-emptive strike saying that this year’s Vikings team “physically, and from a talent level, is the best team [he’s] ever been on”–that would include the 1996 Green Bay Packers team that Favre won a Super Bowl with.
Favre said his comments weren’t a slight to that ‘96 team.
While Minnesota is 3-6 straight up in its last nine visits to Wisconsin, it is also 7-2 against the spread.
The Vikings are also 2-7 SU and ATS when underdogs of 4-points or less.
Favored to take the East (+150), the Cleveland Cavaliers didn’t exactly get off to a good start, losing to the Boston Celtics in their opener last night.
The Cavs look to rebound tonight in Toronto at the ACC when they take on the Raptors–Cleveland is a 6-point road fave with the Over/Under at 192.5.
In Cleveland’s last 13 visits to Toronto, it has taken 10 Unders, 2 Overs and a Push, including Unders in the last seven-straight games.
The Cavs have also done well when playing the second of back to backs, going 11-1 SU and 9-3 ATS in such games.
As mentioned, the World Series begins tonight between the Philadelphia Phillies and the New York Yankees with the AL champs listed as -173 home faves and the NL champs +158 road ‘dogs.
In the last 10 meetings overall between the two, the Under has prevailed 8 times and the Over twice.
In Philly’s last nine road games, they have gone Over the Total 8 times.
The Yankees are 9-1 SU in their last 10 home games with 9 Unders and a Push on the Total, including 7 Unders in a row.
Cliff Lee starts for Philadelphia and in his last 10 road starts, his teams (Cleveland and Philly) have gone 8-2 SU.
CC Sabathia takes the mound for the Pinstripes, who are 9-0 SU in CC’s last nine home starts with 8 Unders.
Both the Bronx Bombers and the Phillies are 8-2 SU in their last 10 games in October with the NL Pennant winners taking 7 Overs, 2 Unders and a Push in the same time.
Billingsley left his last start against Atlanta on Friday after straining his hamstring on a single. He threw on the side before Monday's series opener against the Giants and still felt the tightness so the Dodgers decided to skip his next start baseball betting game.
All-Star pitcher Chad Billingsley will miss his scheduled start against the San Francisco Giants on Wednesday with a strained left hamstring.
Billingsley was originally scheduled to pitch tonight against the San Francisco Giants and Dodgers skip Joe Torre says that Jeff Weaver will be his replacement.
"The last few pitches I tried to go game-speed and had to shut 'er down," Billingsley said, adding that it felt like a grabbing pain.
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The Dodgers have not decided who will start in Billingsley's place, but the first option is to have Jeff Weaver start and a cast of relievers back him up, since the Dodgers have an off day on Thursday. Billingsley's next turn would be on Monday, and that start remains a possibility. Billingsley said he doesn't feel he needs to go on the disabled list.
"I don't view it as a setback," Billingsley said. "Being only two days and being able to throw almost 100 percent, I'm happy with that."
"Stan feels that he has made significant progress but not far enough along to pitch him on Wednesday," Torre said.
The Dodgers haven't decided on a starter for Wednesday's baseball lines game against Tim Lincecum. Jeff Weaver, who threw three perfect innings of relief on Sunday, and James McDonald are options to come out of the bullpen and start in Billingsley's place. With a day off Thursday and 13 pitchers on the roster, Torre said the team might not need to add another pitcher.
"We don't have a plan yet," Torre said. "Obviously we are going to need one. We don't have one, but we know we have sort of a safety plan knowing we could get it done with the pitchers that we have here."
Billingsley is the Dodgers top pitcher, with an 11-6 record and 3.73 ERA. He has 143 strikeouts in 149 2/3 innings. The Dodgers can ill afford to lose Billingsley for any length of time because of the way they have struggled of late.
Los Angeles entered this crucial series against the second-place Giants having lost 11 of 17 games. The Dodgers still led San Francisco and Colorado by 5½ games in the NL West.
Manager Joe Torre says he hopes Billingsley can return to the mound next Monday and does not need to go on the disabled list. The Dodgers haven't decided on a starter for Wednesday's game against Tim Lincecum. Jeff Weaver is an option after throwing three perfect innings of relief on Sunday.
Weaver is 4-3 SU in his last seven road baseball betting games against the Giants.
After making a run at landing Blue Jays ace Roy Halladay before Friday's Trade Deadline, the Phillies instead acquired Indians ace Cliff Lee. The Phillies and Indians announced Wednesday evening that Lee and outfielder Ben Francisco have been traded to the Phillies for prospects Jason Knapp, Carlos Carrasco, Jason Donald and Lou Marson.
The Phillies improved their rotation and added a much-needed right-handed bat for their bench. The Indians get four of the top 10 prospects in Philadelphia's system, according to Baseball Betting America. The Blue Jays? Well, they might have overplayed their hand with less than 48 hours to go before the Deadline.
Lee isn’t exactly a winning pitcher this year however.
In his last 20 Baseball Betting games, Cleveland was only 8-12 SU.
