Starting pitchers for tonight’s game is Ben Sheets for the A’s who is 2-3 with and ERA of 5.04 with 45 Ks and 28 Walks and it’s Dontrelle Willis who is 1-2 with an ERA of 4.97 with 28 Ks and 25 Walks. The Athletics hope Sheets can rebound tonight, as he is coming back from elbow surgery and seems to be improving. He missed all of 2009 with surgery and in the off season signed a 10 million dollar one year deal with the A’s. Sheet’s has not pitched against the Tiger since 2007. On the other hand the Tiger hope their 30 year old pitcher Willis can make a recovery also tonight.

The A’s are on a 10 game road schedule that takes them to three cities after they won two for three at Baltimore where they started the trip. Presently the A’s who are 7-14 on the road are behind The Rangers by a 1 ½ games in the West.

The Athletics are 7-14 this 2010 season in the away games, while the Tigers are a strong 14-6 while playing on their home field. With that said, it appears that this is still a close game and but it appears that the Tigers have a 55 % chance of winning this matchup. Will this have a negative effect on the MLB Betting lines or MLB odds for this series game?
The Athletics and the Tigers Stats:
The A’s are: 25-23 SU
The Tigers are: 25-21 SU
The A’s lately:
While playing Friday’s they are 2-8
Before they played the Tigers they were 3-7
After they played the Orioles they are 6-4
After their last win they are 6-4

The Tigers lately:
While playing Friday’s they are 5-5
Before they played the A’s they were 7-3
After they played Seattle they are 4-6
After their last loss they are 6-4
The Next Game:
The Tigers at home vs. the Athletics, on Saturday, May 29

Our Odds Makers have the lines at present for the YANKEES at -1 ½ (+145) and the TWINS at +1 ½ (-165) and the Total – Over 9 (-105) and under 9 (-115) and the YANKEES are -105 and the TWINS are -105 on the Money Line.

Philadelphia (8-4), the defending NL champs are off to a great start to the 2010 ML betting season and are likely an even better team this season than they were last baseball betting season. The reason of course is the addition of ace Roy Halladay who has been dominating NL batters so far in his brief stint as the Phillies’ MLB betting ace.

Halladay has been as close to perfect as you can be in sports betting so far with his new team and has been putting up some of the best numbers in the MLB odds action. He’s 3-0 with a 1.13 ERA and has 21 Ks in 24 innings pitched. And in case you’re wondering that’s an average of 8 innings per starts. He’s already got one complete game this MLB betting season and he’ll sure have a few more by the time the baseball betting season ends.

Halladay should be expected to be the starter in this one as he’ll have five days of rest under his belt from his previous start and if that’s the case you’ve got to like the Phillie’s odds in this MLB betting matchup.

The Braves (7-5) are a pretty good team and will likely challenge for a wildcard spot in the NL playoff betting but if Halladay is on the mound they don’t stand much of a chance in this sports betting matchup. Atlanta is just 1.0 game behind in the NL East standings and would love to gain some ground and maybe even take the division lead by the end of this three game baseball betting series, but this isn’t likely one of the games they’ll win.

Even if the Braves do somehow hit Halladay hard in the early innings that’s only half the battle against a team like the Philadelphia Phillies who also have one of the best hitting lineups in the MLB odds competition. Anyway you look at it, this seems to be one sports betting matchup that the Phillies will win.

But now that the Philadelphia Phillies traded for Halladay in the MLB betting off-season and the NL batters have to face him all year long, no team or player in the Junior League is pleased at this sports betting prospect.

For the teams and batter of the NL East betting competition things are even worse as they have to face Halladay at a much greater frequency than any of the other NL teams.

On Tuesday the Atlanta Braves (7-5) should get a bird’s eye view of the Phillies’ ace and chances are they’re not going to like it. Halladay has been all but unhittable so far this baseball betting season and he looks like the only man on the planet that might be able to pry the NL Cy Young Award from the Giants Tim Lincecum. Halladay has pitched an incredible 24 innings in his three MLB betting starts (8.0 innings per start), won all three (3-0 in the MLB odds action), struck out 21 batters in those 24 innings and held his ERA to just 1.12. Good luck if you’re the Atlanta Braves, the next MLB betting victims on the schedule.

But the Braves will have an ace of their own on the mound for this MLB odds action. Derek Lowe is likely to take the mound for Atlanta and is a perfect 3-0 to start this MLB betting season. However, unlike Halladay, his ERA is a pudgy 4.67 and it’s been the team’s run support not his stellar pitching that’s padded his baseball betting record. And he can’t afford to make mistakes against a batting lineup like Philly’s –one of the best in baseball betting.

The only way the Braves win this one is if they can hit Halladay early and knock him out of the game. This is a MLB betting matchup that Atlanta’s bats will have to win on their own. Martin Prado and young hitting sensation Jason Heyward have been red hot and they’ll have to continue against Halladay.

If not, the Braves will just one more team on the growing list of NL betting opponents that grew the day that Halladay was traded to the Phillies.

The Mets (2-5), unfortunately find themselves in familiar territory so far this year: last in the NL East. Last year was a baseball betting aberration, or so the Met’s faithful hoped. After being absolutely depleted by injuries it was no wonder that the team finished near the bottom of the NL betting competition. But this MLB betting season was supposed to be different.

With a healthy roster, ace Johan Santana finally in good form and host of free agent bats meant to bolster the team’s meager run production in the 2010 MLB odds action, this was going to be the year the team got back into MLB playoff betting contention. But it hasn’t happened yet and the team’s baseball postseason betting hopes won’t get any help facing a dominating Cardinal staff and stacked lineup.

The Cards (5-2) starting pitching has been among the best in the NL betting action so far this year. Ace Adam Wainright has been all but unhittable (2-0, 1.20 ERA, 13 Ks) and his fellow starters haven’t been bad either. But the Card’s have the luxury of having an off night as well, as Albert Pujols and Matt Holliday have been blasting opposing pitchers so far this MLB betting season (8 HRs and 20 RBIs between the two of them through 7 baseball betting games).

Depending on the pitching matchups the Cards will win at least 2 of the 3 games in this MLB odds series and could even sweep.

The St. Louis Cardinals (5-2) have been dominating opponents so far in the young 2010 MLB betting season. The team started the year with a 4-2 road record before opening up the baseball betting action at Busch Stadium.

The New York Mets (2-5) have done just the opposite of the Red Birds in the 2010 betting odds action. This team has been a bit of a disappointment after stocking up on free agent bats in the baseball betting off season and getting its pitching staff more or less healthy. When the team heads to St Louis it will definitely have its work cut out for it and no baseball odds maker is going to give the team much of a chance in the game. Unless ace Johan Santana is pitching.

And this is a real possibility. Santana, the Cy Young winner, will either pitch the opening night of this 3-game baseball betting series on Friday, or he’ll pitch in this game. If that were to happen the Mets’ MLB odds of winning this game would increase tremendously. Santana only has one win this season and his ERA of 4.91 in 11 innings of work is hardly impressive but he’ll be ready to pitch in this series.

The Cards just might have their ace, Adam Wainright, on the mound which would turn this MLB odds matchup into a pitching duel between two of the best in the NL. Regardless of the teams’ records, that pitching matchup would make this a very interesting baseball betting proposition.

Still, the Cards offense is far superior to the Mets and it would take a near perfect performance by Santana to win this MLB betting matchup.