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If you haven't been following, I encourage you to read the comments on yesterday's post. We got some good discussion going.

Yesterday:

Cincinnati +113. Down one, with first and second and one out in the ninth, Dusty Baker sent up a slow right-handed groundball hitter to face Ryan Franklin. One pitch later, the game was over. Every time I think Baker can't make me think less of him, he makes a move like this. Just a terrible decision in that spot--the chance of a GIDP there had to be at least 25|PERCENT|.

Baltimore -118. Lefties went 5-for-15 with five walks against Justin Masterson in the Orioles win.

Minnesota +156. The road to hell is paved with dumbass decisions based on small sample sizes. With that said, when Ron Gardenhire chose Matt Guerrier to pitch to Alex Rodriguez with a one-run lead and the bases loaded in the seventh, he was giving Alex a shot against a pitcher against who he had a .500 career average. No, wait; that's his home-run average: three homers in six at-bats. It's now four in seven.

Philadelphia/Milwaukee over 9.5 (-122). Never in doubt. Thanks. Brewers!

Houston/San Francisco under 8.5 (-105). The Giants' offense baffles me.

Los Angeles (AL) -118. The A's offense amuses me.

Today:

Maybe we should spread vertically a bit more, but it's not happening today.

Minnesota +126, one unit. I'm on the Liriano Express. Plus, the Yankees just get more battered by the day.

Washington/Colorado over 8.5 (-115), (game one), one unit. Same as yesterday, at slightly worse money.

Houston/San Francisco over 6 (-110), one unit. This is just out of fascination with the line. I have never seen a baseball total this low before. I've seen 6.5, but never 6. I'm intrigued. It's such a low standard that it's almost an autoplay; just too many things can happen in a baseball game that will get a game to 6.

Philadelphia/Milwaukee over 9.5 (-122), two units. I don't like it quite as much I did yesterday, but more than enough to play it.

Cleveland/Baltimore under 8.5 (+100), one unit. Part Brian Matusz, part the two unimpressive offenses, especially the Indians against southpaws.

New York (NL) +103, one unit. John Maine has 20 strikeouts in 18 innings over his last three starts. Nate Robertson is being paid $9.5 million by the Tigers to pitch for the Marlins.

Los Angeles (NL) -111 , two units. Clayton Kershaw has had one bad inning all year, and the Padres are pretty overvalued right now.