Sept. 12 Picks — Boston at Toronto; Tampa Bay at Texas

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.

(Tommy Pham photo courtesy Kim Klement/USA TODAY Sports)

Boston Red Sox at Toronto Blue Jays:

Side Prediction/Full Game: Blue Jays ML (+131) — 3/5 — LOSS!
Total Prediction/Full Game: UNDER 10.5 runs (-115) — 4/5 — LOSS!
Prop Prediction/Full Game: Red Sox UNDER 5.5 runs (-121) — 5/5 — LOSS!
Side Prediction/1st 5 innings: Blue Jays +0.5 runs (-140) — 3/5 — LOSS!
Total Prediction/1st 5 innings: UNDER 6 runs (-121) — 3/5 — PUSH!
Prop Prediction/1st 5 innings: Blue Jays OVER 2.5 runs (Even) — 3/5 — LOSS!

Tampa Bay Rays at Texas Rangers:

Side Prediction/Full Game: Rangers +1.5 runs (-125) — 3/5 — WIN!
Total Prediction/Full Game: UNDER 10 runs (-105) — 3/5 — PUSH!
Prop Prediction/Full Game: Pham to have RBI (+108) — 4/5 — WIN!
Side Prediction/1st 5 innings: Rays -0.5 runs (-121) — 5/5 — LOSS!
Total Prediction/1st 5 innings: UNDER 5.5 runs (-110) — 3/5 — LOSS!
Prop Prediction/1st 5 innings: OVER 0.5 runs/YES to 1st inning run (-140) — 3/5 — WIN!

Day’s Record: 3-7-2 (.333)
Previous Day’s Record: 5-1-0 (.833)
September Record 37-37-4 (.500)

August Record: 195-146-12 (.571)
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: 878-843-54 (.510)

5-Star Pick Record: 0-2 (.000)        (7-6-0 (.538) in September)      (155-131-9 (.541) overall)
4-Star Pick Record: 1-1 (.500)        (11-8-1 (.575) in September)    (226-202-9 (.527) overall)
3-Star Pick Record: 2-4-2 (.375)    (19-23-3 (.456) in September)  (497-509-36 (.494) overall)
2-Star Pick Record: 0-0 (.000)        (0-0-0 (.000) in September)      (0-1-0 (.000) overall)
1-Star Pick Record: 0-0 (.000)        (0-0-0 (.000) in September)      (0-0-0 (.000) overall)

5-Star by month:
34-23-2 (.593) in August
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

4-Star by month:
50-35-3 (.585) in August
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

3-Star by month:
111-85-7 (.564) in August
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

2-Star by month:
0-1-0 (.000) in August
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

1-Star by month:
0-0-0 (.000) in August
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