Ala Hann Sport picks

When sports betting experts make the odds for the coming baseball season, they take into account past performance and off-season changes. Just like with NFL betting, if a team did nothing to improve themselves, then you can expect a similar performance from year to year.

As the betting world starts to shift to focusing on NCAA football betting and the baseball All-Star game is approaching, the Toronto Blue Jays find themselves in familiar territory. When the season started the odds makers had the Blue Jays as +5000 to win the World Series. A strong start by Toronto soon faded, and now the Blue Jays are +7500 to win it all. What happened? The MLB betting experts know that the Blue Jays fade as the season wears on, and trading away the best pitcher in the game does not help either.

The Boston Red Sox had a tough start to the 2010 season, but they have since got themselves back on track and are chasing down the New York Yankees for first place in the AL East. But the Red Sox have hit their own patch of rough road and they find themselves in third place; four and half games behind the first place Yankees and two and a half games behind the second place Tampa Bay Rays.

The Red Sox are in desperate need of a winning streak to take them into the All-Star break. They are .500 in their last 10 games, and that includes a current four game losing streak. Unfortunately for the Blue Jays, a series with Toronto could be just what the Red Sox need at this point.

The Blue Jays are putting Ricky Romero on the mound for this game. Romero is 6-5 this year with a 3.39 ERA. Romero has been having a rough time lately with only one win in his last six tries, and giving up eight earned runs in his last start that only lasted two and two-thirds innings.

The Red Sox are second in the AL in home runs, and they trail the Toronto Blue Jays in that category. However, in team batting average the Red Sox are fourth in the AL with a .275 average, and the Blue Jays are last in the AL at .238. The Jays do not hit the ball as often as other teams do, but when they make contact they usually make it count.

Jon Lester will be pitching for the Red Sox and he is having another excellent season. He has a 10-3 record and an impressive 2.76 ERA. Lester is making his first career All-Star appearance in this year’s All-Star game. In his last start he went seven innings and struck out seven batters while only allowing one earned run. Lester can help to set a tone for this series that the Blue Jays may not recover from. He will exploit the Blue Jays’ tendency to swing for the fences, and his wide array of pitches will keep the Blue Jays frustrated all night long.

Pick: Boston Red Sox 5-2

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