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The over/under in the Diamondbacks and Nationals is just 6.5. Both Stephen Strasburg and Patrick Corbin have kept their ERA’s relatively low. Corbin though has not been able to reach the ten win mark, as the bullpen has failed him multiple times.

Such achievements being derailed can weigh in any athletes head. The thought of it being in a pitcher’s head has to be of higher concern. The rest of the Diamondbacks starters have been awfully inconsistent and that also puts added pressure on Corbin.

Strasburg is one of those high profiled starters that you can get high value on taking the overs on over/under lines. He has given up several early inning runs. 6.5 is about a full run too low for me.

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Last weeks series in Oakland saw the series struggle to produce runs for both the White Sox and Athletics. Now the tide changes and shifts to the city of Chicago. A week ago I posted the free play with both pitchers at the mound in Oakland, and I’ll do the same today.

Chris Sale and Jarrod Parker combined for a great outing in a 2-0 game June 2nd. Parker allowed two hits while Sale allowed four. An incredible night for both. Chances of both pitchers throwing that well again are doubtful considering their overall pitching record this year, and hitters wanting to avenge their woeful performance of a week ago. No individual can accept being shutdown an entire night as a competitor, which all athletes are. Imagine a whole team with that mindset embedded and fresh in their heads off of five days.

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Two pitchers having a phenomenal season go head to head in Matt Moore and Anibel Sanchez. Moore is 8-0, while Sanchez has five losses but for the most part has been pitching well.

Moore really has not faced a lineup with the potency of Detroit. Expect the Tigers to attack his pitches hard early to try and rattle the unshaken pitcher thus far in 2013.

I do not expect Moore to be shaken though. His pitching dominance continues today, as he has been stuck at 8-0 for two starts now. His latest was May 31st, when three rain delays forced Tampa Bay to go with a fresh pitcher.

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Monday’s are usually days that the sports schedule does not have too many spotlight games. Today, though, there is a game seven in the NBA. And it’s not just any team. It’s the Miami Heat, who have had the focus of the media almost more than Tim Tebow.

Each day, i give a free play and today’s is the Miami Marlins. They’re coming off a surprising three game sweep of the New York Mets. It’s the most life that this team has shown this season. The comedy of jokes on each player on the roster has been stunted temporarily. I think their momentum continues against Kyle Kendrick and the Phillies.

Kendrick gave up seven hits to this Marlins team in early May. That was during an atrocious stretch for the Marlins bats. They’re coming in hitting the ball well as a team, and should boost that outing of hits into the double digit range.

You can either take Miami as a moneyline play, or be on the safer side and take them +1.5 as a -140 payout.

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Neither of these teams has tremendous boasting power in their lineups. When they’re producing runs it comes from timely hits. As-of-late neither team has shown the consistency, primarily in this series to do that. Yesterday both teams hit the ball well, but you could not tell in the 7th inning of a 3-1 game.

The White Sox did tie the game in that inning, but the countless runners left on base came back to bite them in extra innings. Chicago walked in the winning run in the bottom of the tenth frame.

Bartolo Colon had his way with the White Sox lineup Friday. Jarrod Parker gets the start Sunday for Oakland against Chris Sale. Parker has shown enough in his last four starts that this game should sail under the 7 runs. Usually when teams get base hits the day prior in a series, it carries over to better success from a runs standpoint the following day.

Not in this series.

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When two pitchers face off against each other that have been on a roll, one of two things typically happens. They’ll both continue to pitch stellar, and a quick-low scoring game is the result. Or the bats get hot and the other side of the spectrum happens….runs and lots of hits.

I expect the latter today when Cleveland and a hot Tampa Bay team match up. Matt Moore has not lost a game yet. One of his eight wins has already came against Cleveland, in which he only allowed two hits.

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Both teams bats have been producing as of late, and that is why you see a set run total of 8.5. By the time both of these pitchers get relieved, I believe there will already be six to seven runs on the board.

Those that want to bank on the bullpen of these teams to secure an under may do so, but I believe both teams will have late inning run success today.

Take the over of 8.5