July 14 MLB Picks — San Francisco at Milwaukee; Arizona at St. Louis; Houston at Texas

These are the condensed versions of picks for Sunday’s Major League Baseball game(s). 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.

(Justin Verlander photo courtesy Ken Blaze/USA TODAY Sports)

San Francisco Giants at Milwaukee Brewers:

Side Prediction/Full Game: Giants (+150) — 3/5 — WIN!
Total Prediction/Full Game: OVER 10 runs (-110) — 3/5 — WIN!
Prop Prediction/Full Game: Giants OVER 4 runs (-121) — 5/5 — WIN!
Side Prediction/1st 5 innings: Giants +0.5 runs (Even) — 4/5 — WIN!
Total Prediction/1st 5 innings: UNDER 5.5 runs (-121) — 3/5 — WIN!
Prop Prediction/1st 5 innings: OVER 0.5 runs 1st inning (-145) — 3/5 — WIN!

Arizona Diamondbacks at St. Louis Cardinals:

Side Prediction/Full Game: Diamondbacks -1.5 runs (+135) — 4/5 — LOSS!
Total Prediction/Full Game: UNDER 8 runs (-110) — 3/5 — WIN!
Prop Prediction/Full Game: Diamondbacks’ Escobar to have RBI (-118) — 3/5 — LOSS!
Side Prediction/1st 5 innings: Diamondbacks -0.5 runs (+105) — 5/5 — LOSS!
Total Prediction/1st 5 innings: UNDER 4.5 runs (-125) — 4/5 — LOSS!
Prop Prediction/1st 5 innings: UNDER 2.5 runs first 3 innings (-131) — 3/5 — LOSS!

Houston Astros at Texas Rangers:

Side Prediction/Full Game: Astros -1.5 runs (-140) — 5/5 — WIN!
Total Prediction/Full Game: UNDER 10.5 runs (-110) — 3/5 — LOSS!
Prop Prediction/Full Game: Rangers UNDER 4 runs (-115) — 3/5 — PUSH!
Side Prediction/1st 5 innings: Astros -0.5 runs (-160) — 4/5 — WIN!
Total Prediction/1st 5 innings: OVER 6 runs (Even) — 3/5 — WIN!
Prop Prediction/1st 5 innings: Astros OVER 1.5 runs first 3 innings (-131) — 3/5 — WIN!

Day’s Record: 11-6-1 (.639)
Previous Day’s Record: 9-9-0 (.500)
July Record: 55-57-8 (.492)

June Record: 147-149-6 (.497)
May Record: 178-146-5 (.549)
April Record: 156-153-11 (.505)
March Record: 18-35-1 (.343)

Season Record: 554-540-31 (.506)

1-Star Pick Record: 0-0 (.000)          (0-0-0 (.000) in July)      (0-0-0 (.000) overall)
2-Star Pick Record: 0-0 (.000)          (0-0-0 (.000) in July)      (0-0-0 (.000) overall)
3-Star Pick Record: 7-3-1 (.682)       (26-35-8 (.462) in July)    (310-328-20 (.486) overall)
4-Star Pick Record: 2-2 (.500)          (18-13-0 (.581) in July)    (144-132-4 (.521) overall)
5-Star Pick Record: 2-1 (.667)          (11-9-0 (.550) in July)      (100-80-7 (.553) overall)

1-Star by month: 0-0-0 (.000) in June; 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 June; 0-0-0 (.000) in May; 0-0-0 (.000) in April; 0-0-0 (.000) in March

3-Star by month: 88-80-5 (.523) in June; 99-92-2 (.518) in May; 90-94-4 (.489) in April; 7-27-1 (.214) in March

4-Star by month: 38-41-0 (.481) in June; 46-33-1 (.581) in May; 36-41-3 (.469) in April; 6-4-0 (.600) in March

5-Star by month: 21-28-1 (.430) in June; 33-21-2 (.596) in May; 30-18-4 (.615) in April; 5-4-0 (.556) in March