Baseball’s Best Bets (June 9, 2009)

Posted by Brian Joseph on Tuesday, June 9, 2009 at 5:08 am

Back-to-back extra inning losses on Friday and Saturday have continued a terrible June run for BDDs BBBs. An early Sunday internet outage cost me the opportunity to make a pick there and there just wasn’t a game worth taking a flyer on on Monday.

Even though we’re still 12 games over .500, the units figure is not moving in the right direction but we’ll look to fix that today:

TODAY’S PICKS

San Francisco Giants (-118) Arizona Diamondbacks
THE BET: 100 Units / Win = +100, Loss = -118

Let’s raise some Cain, baby! Matt Cain that is. Cain possesses a solid batting line of .202/.279/.394 against current Diamondbacks and squares off against inconsistent Billy Buckner. Both teams are coming off of a loss and there’s some concern over the West-to-East travel that the Giants must endure before Tuesday’s match-up. However, the West-to-East travel is usually easier than East-to-West and the Diamondbacks are one of the bottom teams in the National League. Cain is impressive on the road and should have beaten the D-backs back in April but the bullpen failed to cooperate. We’ll bank on history repeating itself only halfway this time.

YESTERDAY’S RECAP

Season-to-Date: 52-40, +500 Units, +861 Units Unadjusted

Yesterday’s Winners (Saturday)
None

Yesterday’s Losers (Saturday)
Chicago Cubs (-132) over Cincinnati Reds (Reds, 4-3)