Potentially significant injury news regarding the Seattle Mariners as reliever David Phelps left with right elbow discomfort after throwing seven pitches in the seventh inning of the first game of Sunday’s doubleheader against the Kansas City Royals. Phelps is flying back to Seattle to meet with team doctors on Monday. The Mariners acquired Phelps from the Miami Marlins before the trade deadline in exchange for four minor league players, including highly regarded outfielder Brayan Hernandez. Phelps had pitched very well since the deal but now could be finished. Here are three games on Tuesday’s MLB betting picks and my recommendations.
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NY Yankees at Toronto Blue Jays
When: 7:07 PM ET Where: Rogers Centre, Toronto TV: YES (NY) / SNET (Toronto) Stream: MLB.tv Radio: 101.9 FM (NY) / SN590 (Toronto) Opening MLB Betting Lines: TBA It’s an AL East series opener between these two. The Yankees are second in the division but currently holding down one of the AL’s wild-card spots, while the Blue Jays are last in the East and really more looking toward 2018. New York starts big left CC Sabathia (9-4, 3.81). He took the loss his last time out, serving up a pair of homers over six innings in a 4-3 loss to the Tigers on Aug. 1. John Hicks’s three-run home run off Sabathia in the second inning gave the Tigers a lead they would not relinquish. The last Tigers rookie to produce a game-winning RBI on a home run in the Bronx was Travis Fryman, who connected against Chuck Cary on Oct. 1, 1990. Sabathia will be facing the Blue Jays for the fourth time this year. He is 1-1 with a 7.62 ERA in those efforts.Who Will Pitch for Toronto on Tuesday?
Toronto lefty JA Happ (4-8, 3.92) allowed only one run on six hits and a walk while striking out 10 over seven innings in Wednesday’s 5-1 win over the White Sox. After escaping a bases-loaded, one-out situation in the first inning, the lefty allowed just one baserunner over the next four innings before Chicago finally pushing their lone run across in the sixth. Happ’s 10 Ks were a season high, while the outing snapped a string of six straight starts in which he’d walked multiple batters. The Yankees are 5-5 vs. the Blue Jays in 2017. They will play the 11th of 19 games in 2017 on Tuesday (9G in the Bronx, 10G at Toronto). The Yanks have won 10 of their last 20 matchups since 8/15/16, including a three-game sweep from 9/5-7/16. New York has gone 22-35 in their last 57 meetings with Toronto (since 7/26/14). It has lost 14 of their last 19 series to Toronto since 6/23/14Expert MLB Betting Prediction
Take Happ at home, where his numbers are much better.Boston Red Sox at Tampa Bay Rays
When: 7:10 PM ET Where: Tropicana Field TV: NESN (Boston) / Fox Sports Sun (Tampa Bay) Stream: MLB.tv Radio: 103.7 FM (Boston) / 95.3 FM (Tampa Bay) Opening MLB Betting Lines: TBA The Rays have the misfortune of facing the AL Cy Young betting favorite in Red Sox left-hander Chris Sale in this series opener. Sale (13-4, 2.70) did prove he was mortal last time out as he was slammed for seven runs on eight hits — including two home runs — and a walk over five innings but escaped with a no-decision in Tuesday’s 12-10 win over Cleveland. He struck out five. An anticipated pitcher’;s duel with Carlos Carrasco instead turned into a classic Fenway Park shootout that saw 10 runners cross the plate in the first two innings and five more score in the ninth. Sale’s 20.2-inning scoreless streak was snapped in brutal fashion in his worst start of the year. The rough outing aside, the southpaw’s 2.08 FIP still leads all qualified starters — as does his 12.68 K/9.
