Aug. 20 MLB Picks — Philadelphia at Boston; Cleveland at N.Y. Mets

These are the condensed versions of picks for Tuesday’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.

(Rafael Devers photo courtesy Brian Fluharty/USA TODAY Sports)

Philadelphia Phillies at Boston Red Sox:

Side Prediction/Full Game: Phillies ML (Even) — 4/5 — WIN!
Total Prediction/Full Game: UNDER 11 runs (-115) — 3/5 — WIN!
Prop Prediction/Full Game: Red Sox UNDER 5.5 runs (-121) — 5/5 — WIN!
Side Prediction/1st 5 innings: Phillies 3-way ML (+121) — 3/5 — WIN!
Total Prediction/1st 5 innings: UNDER 6.5 runs (-121) — 3/5 — WIN!
Prop Prediction/1st 5 innings: Phillies 3-way ML first 3 innings (+135) — 4/5 — WIN!

Cleveland Indians at New York Mets:

Side Prediction/Full Game: Indians -1.5 runs (+111) — 4/5 — LOSS!
Total Prediction/Full Game: UNDER 8.5 runs (-115) — 3/5 — LOSS!
Prop Prediction/Full Game: Indians ML/UNDER 8.5 runs double (+146) — 3/5 –LOSS!
Side Prediction/1st 5 innings: Indians -0.5 runs (-115) — 5/5 — LOSS!
Total Prediction/1st 5 innings: UNDER 4.5 runs (-115) — 4/5 — WIN!
Prop Prediction/1st 5 innings: Mets UNDER 2 runs (-136) — 3/5 — PUSH!

Day’s Record: 7-4-1 (.625)
Previous Day’s Record: 3-2-1 (.583)
August Record: 127-87-8 (.590)

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: 773-746-46 (.509)

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: 3-2-1 (.583)       (74-49-5 (.598) in August)   (441-448-31 (.496) overall)
4-Star Pick Record: 3-1 (.750)          (32-21-3 (.598) in August)   (197-180-8 (.522) overall)
5-Star Pick Record: 1-1 (.500)          (21-16-0 (.568) in August)   (135-118-7 (.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