These are the condensed versions of picks for Friday’s Major League Baseball games between the San Francisco Giants and San Diego Padres, and the Arizona Diamondbacks and Los Angeles Dodgers. There are links to the full previews on the Winners and Whiners website below. The confidence rating on a scale from 1 to 5 is in parentheses.
Note: The 5/5 does NOT represent the best overall pick of the day’s games when there are multiple games, simply the best pick of each individual game.
Side Prediction/Full Game: Padres -155 (4/5) — WIN!
Total Prediction/Full Game: OVER 7.5 runs Even (3/5) — LOSS!
Prop Prediction/Full Game: Padres OVER 3.5 runs -145 (5/5) — WIN!
Side Prediction/1st 5 innings: Padres -0.5 runs -120 (3/5) — WIN!
Total Prediction/1st 5 innings: OVER 4 runs -115 (3/5) — PUSH!
Prop Prediction/1st 5 innings: NO to 1st-inning run -145 (3/5) — WIN!
Arizona at Los Angeles Dodgers:
Side Prediction/Full Game: Diamondbacks +140 (4/5) — WIN!
Total Prediction/Full Game: OVER 7 runs -120 (5/5) — WIN!
Prop Prediction/Full Game: Diamondbacks OVER 2.5 runs (4/5) — WIN!
Side Prediction/1st 5 innings: Diamondbacks +140 ML (3/5) — LOSS!
Total Prediction/1st 5 innings: OVER 4 runs (3/5) — LOSS!
Prop Prediction/1st 5 innings: YES to 1st-inning run +115 (3/5) — LOSS!
Day’s Record: 7-4-1 (.625)
Previous Day’s Record: 5-7-0 (.417)
March Record: 12-11-1 (.521)
April Record: N/A
May Record: N/A
June Record: N/A
July Record: N/A
August Record: N/A
September Record: N/A
October Record: N/A
Season Record: 12-11-1 (.521)
1-Star Pick Record: 0-0 (.000) (0-0-0 (.000) in March)
2-Star Pick Record: 0-0 (.000) (0-0-0 (.000) in March)
3-Star Pick Record: 2-4-1 (.357) (5-9-1 (.367) in March)
4-Star Pick Record: 3-0 (1.00) (4-1-0 (.800) in March)
5-Star Pick Record: 2-0 (1.00) (3-1-0 (.750) in March)
(Joc Pederson photo courtesy Kelvin Kuo/USA TODAY Sports)
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