New
York Mets at Washington Nationals (-108, 8)
No team
in baseball is swinging a hotter bat than the boys from the District of
Columbia.
Over the past seven days – a span of six games – the
Nats have scored an MLB-best 45 runs – three more than the next closest
team, and are batting a Major League-leading .307 over that stretch,
including an OBP of .384 that also is tops in the bigs.
The team
has been gearing up for this stretch to getting hot for short
stretches, scoring at least nine runs in one game of each of its past
four series.
And that’s not good for the Mets. New York has a
road ERA of 4.46 for the season and has been even worse over its past
eight away games, yielding an average of 6.75 runs per outing.
"It's
like anything else," Nationals hitting coach Rick Eckstein told the
Washington Post. "You go about your day. You work hard. You plan, and
you have a plan. When it works and it executes, everything is great.
When you're not getting that key hit, when you're not doing that, it
goes back to evaluating what adjustments you need to make. Sometimes,
you've got to say, 'Nope, we've got the right plan. We've just got to
keep plugging away.' The guys have done a nice job to battle and be real
tough at the plate and execute."
Pick:
Nationals.
Cleveland
Indians at Los Angeles Angels (-145)
To put it
simply, the Angels have waived the white flag.
On Tuesday, Los
Angeles purchased the contracts of prospects Mark Trumbo and Hank Conger
and recalled right-handers Matt Palmer and Bobby Cassevah and third
baseman Kevin Frandsen from Triple-A Salt Lake.
Palmer, Cassevah
and Frandsen all have seen time up in the Show this season, but none of
them did enough to stick. Meantime, it will be a chance for Trumbo, a
24-year-old first baseman, who is hitting .301 with 36 homers and 122
RBI and Conger, a 22-year-old catcher, who is hitting .300 with 11
homers and 49 RBI, to earn a regular spot for next season.
"They're
all players that we know can help us and fill out our depth chart,"
Angels manager Mike Scioscia told ESPNLosAngeles.com. "We'll see where
they can fit in and if they can get a chance to get the feel of
contributing in a big league environment. We're excited about some of
the guys coming up, but we still have a group in there that we're going
to move forward with."
Overall, the Angels are 3-7 in their past
10, six games under .500 and 9.5 games out of the first in the American
League West. Good luck, rookies.
Pick: Indians.
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