MLB | Aug 03, 2015 Baltimore Orioles vs. Oakland A's Total 7½ ov-105 at PINNACLE

1. Pitching - The Twins hand the ball to Ervin Santana (2-1, 3.78 ERA) who'll make his sixth start since coming back from an 80-game suspension. He's been inconsistent in the previous five and struggled big time in his most recent starts, surrendering eight runs (six earned) on eight hits and four walks in 5 2/3 innings. The Jays will counter with elite southpaw David Price (9-4, 2.53) who'll make his first start for Toronto since coming over from the Tigers. It won't be his first start at Toronto though where he's 7-0 with a 3.86 ERA in nine career starts as a visitor. He should not have any problem to make Rogers Centre his own and he's dominated the Twins over the last two seasons going 6-1 with a 1.87 ERA in seven meetings. 

2. Home Cookin' - The Blue Jays are a solid 32-21 at home for the year and they're 4-1 in their last five games as a home favorite. The Twins meanwhile have won just one of their last five away from home as an underdog.  

3. X-Factor - Minnesota has lost five straight games when facing a left-handed starter. 

Kliuber posted a 2.91 ERA in July and has a 2.80 ERA with 126 strikeouts in his last 15 starts (112 1/3 innings).Last years Cy Young award winner despite of an 11 loss season is still in top tier form and   coming off a complete-game, one-run win over the AL-best Royals. With the Angels scoring  a total of 15 runs during their current six-game losing streak. With that said, Kluber should oncee again shine and limit run production from a slumping side.

 Meanwhile, Richards the Halos starter has lost back-to-back games despite posting a 2.70 ERA over his last three starts. The righty hurler  owns a  stellar 2.08 ERA in nine starts at home this season. Richards faces a very inconsistent Tribe offense that has scored 3 or less run in 9 of their L/11 overall, and scored the fewest runs in the big leagues since June 1 with 174. The Tribe have scored three or fewer runs in 52 percent (54-for-104) of their games this season. Things dont look to get better tonight , as no.1 offensive threat 2nd baseman Jason Kipnis is expected to miss because of a nagging injury.

Under is 7-2 in Indians last 9 road games with the total set at 6.5 or lower.Under is 35-14-3 in Angels last 52 games with the total set at 6.5 or lower.

I'm expecting a lot of offensive fireworks in this one, as we have two strong offensive teams facing off in Washington. The Nationals will send out the struggling Doug Fister, who has a 4.39 ERA and 1.425 WHIP in 14 starts, including a 5.62 ERA and 1.625 WHIP in his last 3 outings.

Arizona counters with Zack Godley, who has mixed results in his first two starts. Godley tossed 6 shutout innings at home against the light-hitting Brewers in his MLB debut, but allowed 3 runs on 7 hits (2 HRs) and 3 walks in 6 innings at Seattle.

The White Sox will have Quintana on the mound and has a 2.48 ERA in 14 night starts this season. He posted a 40K/ 2 BB mark for the month of July. There has been an average of only 6 runs scored in his home starts this season.

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