COLORADO ROCKIES @ ARIZONA DIAMONDBACKS
Baseball : United States : MLB Regular Season
Sunday, August 22nd 2010 - Start 4:10PM ET
(9:10PM GMT)

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ARIZONA DIAMONDBACKS

Daniel Hudson goes for Arizona and what a pitcher he has been so far. He is 4-2 with a 3.57ERA in 7 starts, but he is 3-1 with Arizona. Hudson has given up only 7 earned runs in 29.2 innings of work in the NL.

No one from the Rockies side has ever stepped to the plate against Hudson before, giving him an advantage. Colorado are hitting only .230 as a team and over their last 8 games, that average is around .210

COLORADO ROCKIES

Colorado will send out Jhoulys Chacin to make his 3rd start for the home side and his first 2 starts were both games that went Under the posted total. He has surrendered just 5 earned runs and 10 hits in 11.7 innings pitched against the Diamondbacks. The right-handed hurler had 14 strikeouts while allowing just 5 walks in those 2 games.

LaRoche (1-6), Upton (0-6), Johnson (1-5), Reynolds (0-5) have all faced Chacin on 5/6 occasions each and managed just 1 hit, with some not even getting that. The Diamondbacks, as a team, are hitting only .227 against the rest of their division.

BETTING VERDICT

Arizona does have a bullpen that has blown games late, but Hudson is a pitcher that pitches very deep into the finals couple of innings and so that minimises the chances of the bullpen getting to throw the monkeywrench. Under 9 runs.

The Pick :

Under 9 runs

FIXED ODDS BETTING :

Take the Under 9 runs @ 1.87 (Pinnacle) - MAIN BET