Rating: 2 Unit MLB Free Pick - Colorado at San Diego

Today, the Padres hope to avoid losing the third game of a four-game series to the Rockies, who hold an overall 8-7 edge on San Diego this season. Paddack had been scheduled to start Sunday. Tatis was supposed to be at shortstop. And to make the immediate matters even worse, Sunday afternoon's pitching pairing of Colorado left-hander Austin Gomber (8-5, 3.69 ERA) against Padres' rookie spot starter Reiss Knehr (0-0, 4.91 ERA) clearly favors the visitors. Here is the line to contemplate -- Gomber already has faced the Padres three times this season. In those games, he is 1-0 with a 0.47 ERA, having pitched 19 1/3 innings and giving up two runs (one earned) on 12 hits and two walks with 17 strikeouts. Overall, the 27-year-old Gomber, who was the Rockies main return from the Cardinals in the Feb. 1 Nolan Arenado trade, has made 17 starts, giving up 43 runs (37 earned) on 69 hits and 26 walks with 86 strikeouts in 90 1/3 innings.

Rating: 2 Units

Daulton Jeffries has made one career start and Reid Detmers is making his Major league debut today. Neither of these pitchers will be much better than the other but the Angels have scored 1 run in the first three games of this series. The Athletics have the bullpen advantage and the lineup advantage with the Angels battling through injuries, take the As.

Rating: 2 Units

In this matchup for the AL East lead, Tampa Bay does not have the advantage that this line would suggest. Boston desperately needs to salvage the series finale and should be all in to achieve that. There has been a value on Red Sox RHP Nick Pivetta as an underdog of late. Boston is 6-2 since Sept. 27, 2020 when Pivetta starts as an underdog.

Rating: 2 Units

Atlanta's Charlie Morton is better than Milwaukee's Brett Anderson by a fair amount. Solid price

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The Phillies are desperate to avoid the sweep and they've got a significant pitching edge Sunday, with Kyle Gibson versus Mitch Keller. The Pirates have never seen Gibson, who made the All-Star team this season while with the Rangers. Keller just got recalled from the minors. In the majors this year, he's posted a 7.04 ERA and 1.80 WHIP. Lay it.

Rating: 2 Units

The Angels finally have announced their starting pitcher: Chris Rodriguez is being recalled but probably won't go more than a couple of innings. He's 2-0 with a 3.66 ERA in 19.2 big-league innings and this will be the rookie's first start. I feel comfortable taking the Rangers at home on the runline behind Dane Dunning, who is 4-2 with a 2.58 ERA at home. Texas is actually pretty competent in its own ballpark

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Look for the Yankees to tee off on the Orioles' Jorge Lopez, who is 0-6 with a 7.43 ERA in his last nine starts. He owns a 7.23 career ERA versus New York, including an 8.44 ERA this season. Andrew Heaney makes his Yankees debut and is coming off two strong starts in which he allowed five earned runs over 13 innings while fanning 15. With D.J. LeMahieu expected back in the lineup, I'll back the Yanks -1.5 runs

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Phillies LHP Ranger Suarez's last appearance came in relief against Washington on Thursday. He'll make his first start since 2018 this time around. That puts Suarez in a tough spot, as he gave up an unearned run, two hits and a walk on Thursday. Grab the Nationals to cash as home underdogs in RHP Josiah Gray’s team debut.

Rating: 2 Units

Today  is "Civic Holiday" in Canada so why this game is the lone matinee on the MLB schedule. I believe the Jays are going to have a massive home-field advantage this season with all the strict COVID protocols involving other teams. They will just want to get out of there because they are essentially under hotel lockdown (too bad because Toronto is awesome; I'd move there tomorrow if not so cold). Appears to be a huge pitching mismatch between Cleveland's Eli Morgan (1-7, 7.47) and Toronto's Robbie Ray (9-5, 3.04). Not much value on the Jays -260 on the money line, so we'll do the run line at -138.