Aug. 22 MLB Picks — San Francisco at Chicago Cubs; Washington at Pittsburgh

These are the condensed versions of picks for Thursday’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.

(Nicholas Castellanos photo courtesy Quinn Harris/USA TODAY Sports)

San Francisco Giants at Chicago Cubs:

Side Prediction/Full Game:  Cubs -1.5 runs (+105) — 4/5 — LOSS!
Total Prediction/Full Game: UNDER 7.5 runs (-115) — 3/5 — WIN!
Prop Prediction/Full Game: Baez to have 2 or more hits (+121) — 3/5 — LOSS!
Side Prediction/1st 5 innings: Cubs -0.5 runs (-131) — 3/5 — WIN!
Total Prediction/1st 5 innings: UNDER 4 runs (-121) — 5/5 — WIN!
Prop Prediction/1st 5 innings: Cubs 3-way ML 1st inning (+270) — 3/5 — LOSS!

Washington Nationals at Pittsburgh Pirates:

Side Prediction/Full Game: Nationals -1.5 runs (-140) — 5/5 — WIN!
Total Prediction/Full Game: OVER 8.5 runs (-110) — 3/5 — LOSS!
Prop Prediction/Full Game: Nationals OVER 5 runs (-110) — 4/5 — WIN!
Side Prediction/1st 5 innings: Nationals 3-way ML (-145) — 5/5 — WIN!
Total Prediction/1st 5 innings: OVER 4.5 runs (-110) — 3/5 — LOSS!
Prop Prediction/1st 5 innings: Nationals -0.5 runs first 3 innings (-125) — 3/5 — WIN!

Day’s Record: 7-5-0 (.583)
Previous Day’s Record: 8-2-2 (.750)
August Record: 142-94-10 (.598)

July Record: 147-177-15 (.456)
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: 788-754-48 (.511)

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: 3-4 (.429)          (81-55-6 (.592) in August)   (448-454-32 (.497) overall)
4-Star Pick Record: 1-1 (.500)          (36-22-3 (.615) in August)   (201-181-8 (.526) overall)
5-Star Pick Record: 3-0 (1.00)          (25-16-1 (.610) in August)   (139-118-8 (.540) 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