These are the condensed versions of picks for Monday’s Major League Baseball games. There are links to the full preview(s) on the Winners and Whiners and Stat Salt websites 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(s) from each individual game.
Los Angeles Dodgers at Arizona:
Side Prediction/Full Game: Dodgers (-131) — 3/5 — LOSS!
Total Prediction/Full Game: UNDER 8.5 runs (Even) — 5/5 — LOSS!
Prop Prediction/Full Game: Diamondbacks UNDER 4 runs (-121) — 4/5 — LOSS!
Side Prediction/1st 5 innings: Dodgers -0.5 runs (+111) — 3/5 — LOSS!
Total Prediction/1st 5 innings: UNDER 4 runs (-105) — 3/5 — LOSS!
Prop Prediction/1st 5 innings: OVER 0.5 runs 1st inning (-110) — 3/5 — WIN!
Day’s Record: 1-5-0 (.167)
Previous Day’s Record: 11-7-0 (.611)
June Record: 113-114-3 (.498)
May Record: 178-146-5 (.549)
April Record: 156-153-11 (.505)
March Record: 18-35-1 (.343)
Season Record: 465-448-19 (.509)
1-Star Pick Record: 0-0 (.000) (0-0-0 (.000) in June) (0-0-0 (.000) overall)
2-Star Pick Record: 0-0 (.000) (0-0-0 (.000) in June) (0-0-0 (.000) overall)
3-Star Pick Record: 1-3 (.250) (66-61-3 (.519) in June) (262-274-10 (.489) overall)
4-Star Pick Record: 0-1 (.000) (30-32-0 (.484) in June) (118-110-4 (.517) overall)
5-Star Pick Record: 0-1 (.000) (17-21-0 (.447) in June) (85-64-6 (.568) overall)
1-Star by month: 0-0-0 (.000) in May; 0-0-0 (.000) in April; 0-0-0 (.000) in March
2-Star by month: 0-0-0 (.000) in May; 0-0-0 (.000) in April; 0-0-0 (.000) in March
3-Star by month: 99-92-2 (.518) in May; 90-94-4 (.489) in April; 7-27-1 (.214) in March
4-Star by month: 46-33-1 (.581) in May; 36-41-3 (.469) in April; 6-4-0 (.600) in March
5-Star by month: 33-21-2 (.596) in May; 30-18-4 (.615) in April; 5-4-0 (.556) in March
(Clayton Kershaw photo courtesy Robert Hanashiro/USA TODAY Sports)
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