An already weak-hitting Toronto lineup that is also *WITHOUT* two of their top bats! Yet they are on the road giving an ELITE starter bug trouble...
So ELITE starter WHEELER allows a whopping 12 on base and 6 ER in just 5.1 ip facing a WEAKASS Toronto lineup missing two stars...
Friday results: 3 - 5 -3.76u [1 - 1 BB]
Brewers blow it to weakass Twins, and Phillies "ACE" Wheeler has a "BAD" outing vs a depleted & weak Toronto offense. Cost me 4 losses right there!
On the flip side, I will count my blessings, as I had seriously contemplated taking BALT, COLO and Detroit....all three of which LOST despite out-hitting the winners by significant margins! 
I wanted Bahhstin but the price was just far too high....naturally they won easily.
And I seriously considered Arizona as a "value bet" - as I have them with an expected better run production than the slumping Dodgers - but didn't want to push my luck with coin-flippers after winning with NYMets earlier so I passed -- on what turned out to be a good payoff 
So I escaped 3 fluky losses where my 3 picks outperformed the winners as I expected, took two 2 unexpected losses on HEAVY HOME FAVS and missed out on multiple winners as well.
So the mighty, 2-time World Champ Dodgers - mired in a slump - have now lost 7 straight .....3 at home followed by 4 on the road....HEAVY FAVS in 4 of those losses, and they are over-priced again tonight.....This despite the fact that it can be argued they neither held a significantly stronger pitching matchup nor better offense (or even equal!) in any of those 7 losses, save maybe the last one.
During this slump, Dodgers have scored just 25 runs (meager 3.6 rpg),
while their opponents have tallied 46 (6.6 rpg against LAD pitching) 
In Yamamoto's 20 starts he's only tossed 2 BAD outings (and a technical 3rd one with awful WHIP) but the most recent was just before ASB when these same DBacks whacked him for 6 earnies!
In fact, DBacks swept that series 3 zip in LA, outscoring them 23 - 8
His counterpart tonight is B. Pfaadt (R) who faced him in that July 11 game, allowing only 6 to reach base and just 2 earnies in LA!
Yamamoto has better numbers overall, but Pfaadt is no slouch!!!
......Since returning on June 30 (from banishment to AAA for 3 starts - where he excelled with a 0.80 WHIP!!) he has started 7 games;
the DBacks won all 7;
outscoring them 53 - 21 (avg 7.6 vs 3.0); 18 - 6 at home!
allowed only 1 homer;
just 42 allowed on base over 34 innings; 
and his earnies for those 7 winning starts were: 1 0 2 2 2 0 0 0
Keep in mind, in LA's 8 games thus far vs DBacks since mid-April, Dodgers have won just 2 and one of those was 6 - 5, so they would be 1 - 7 vs the -RL for massive juice loss.
Ooooops, forgot to add....in their previous 2 - 6 losing record vs Arizona (since mid-April) Dodgers had available the VERY GOOD offensive bat & power from lefty Dalton Rushing (catcher)..... They don't now 
......As a replacement they called up a dude from AAA who has played very sparingly in MLB with 4 teams, with a career .190 avg
Zona woukd be the play if any - Dodgers aren’t hitting - They barely touched Kelly last night and their reliever “s are weak. I lost a games thinking the Dodgers were going to snap out it . One would think that the hitters drugs have worn off and they need another fix . It’s strange but happens for sure. Zona has been playing well and have their ace on the mound . I’m not wagering on this - Cards and RSox RL and parlay - Dodgers may win but the risk is not worth it to me - Zona yes . 
The top team in MLB are the Brewskies (I lost betting them last night as HEAVY HOME FAVS). They started a lefty last night [Drohan, 1.17 WHIP] but the TWINS scored 6 against him **WITHOUT slugger BUXTON** and ultimately 8 [behind the pitching of very mediocre at best, Zebby Matthews, career 5.63 ERA and poor WHIP]
Tonight, the Brewers will start another lefty, Gasser, with numbers very similar to Drohan's.....with the key difference being his counterpart on the TWINS, Taj Bradley, is definitely BETTER THAN Zebby Matthews!
Well I can honestly say
I am finally going to escape a Saturday without recording even one loss! 
I'm not so confident about Sunday though. . .
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