Aug. 19 MLB Picks — San Diego at Cincinnati

These are the condensed versions of picks for Monday’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.

(Manny Machado photo courtesy Bill Streicher/USA TODAY Sports)

San Diego Padres at Cincinnati Reds:

Side Prediction/Full Game: Reds (-165) — 3/5 — LOSS!
Total Prediction/Full Game: UNDER 9 runs (Even) — 4/5 — WIN!
Prop Prediction/Full Game:  Reds UNDER 5 runs (-121) — 5/5 — WIN!
Side Prediction/1st 5 innings: Reds 3-way ML (-121) — 3/5 — LOSS!
Total Prediction/1st 5 innings: UNDER 5 runs (-105) — 3/5 — WIN!
Prop Prediction/1st 5 innings: Padres UNDER 1 run first 3 innings (-121) — 3/5 — PUSH!

Day’s Record: 3-2-1 (.583)
Previous Day’s Record: 10-7-1 (.583)
August Record: 120-83-7 (.588)

July Record: 143-163-15 (.469)
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: 766-742-45 (.508)

1-Star Pick Record: 0-0 (.000)          (0-0-0 (.000) in August)      (0-0-0 (.000) overall)
2-Star Pick Record: 0-0 (.000)          (0-1-0 (.000) in August)      (0-1-0 (.000) overall)
3-Star Pick Record: 1-2-1 (.375)       (71-47-4 (.598) in August)   (438-446-30 (.496) overall)
4-Star Pick Record: 1-0 (1.00)          (29-20-3 (.587) in August)   (194-179-8 (.520) overall)
5-Star Pick Record: 1-0 (1.00)          (20-15-0 (.571) in August)   (134-117-7 (.533) overall)

1-Star by month: 0-0-0 (.000) in July; 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 July; 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: 83-106-14 (.443) in July; 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: 39-40-1 (.494) in July; 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: 25-31-0 (.446) in July; 21-28-1 (.430) in June; 33-21-2 (.596) in May; 30-18-4 (.615) in April; 5-4-0 (.556) in March