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Toronto Blue Jays @ Oakland Athletics
My Pick: Oakland Athletics Team Total Over 4 Runs (-125) - L
Marcus Stroman will be taking the mound for Toronto and he owns a 1.99 ERA overall (4.50 on the road). Stroman has looked somewhat decent in his four starts this year. He held a weak hitting Detroit team to 0 ER through 7.0 innings, then proceeded to give up 2 ER through 5.2 to Baltimore and 3 ER through 6.0 to Cleveland. His last game was better, giving up 0 ER to Tampa Bay. However, he only played 4.0 innings in that game and the Toronto bullpen still went on to blow it and lose 8-4. Today could be another stressful evening for him as the Blue Jays roll into Overstock.com Coliseum - A park Stroman would probably like to forget his previous two visits at. Last season in Oakland he finished with a 12.60 ERA allowing 11 HA and 7 ER through just 5.0 innings. In fact, Overstock.com Coliseum is where Stroman had his highest ERA last year. Two years before that wasn't any better, he finished with an 11.57 ERA allowing 9 HA and 6 ER through just 4.2 innings - Also his highest ERA park of the year. Oakland ended up finishing with 8 runs in each of those games and that now makes Stroman 0-3 SU throughout his three career games there. The Athletics are still doing a good job scoring runs this year. The team ranks 10th in the league for runs scored off right-handed pitchers and 11th for runs scored at home. Projected starters for Oakland collectively own an .317 average, .387 wOBA and .122 ISO against Stroman and the team has managed to score at least 4 runs in every single home game they've played against the Blue Jays since 2017 - Their last 6. Heck, the Blue Jays are now 4-12 SU their previous 16 games inside Overstock.com Coliseum. To me, this doesn't really look like the kind of setup for Toronto to break out of that funk. I'm thinking they'll need someone better on the mound than a guy with that kind of history against the Athletics. Aaron Brooks has had great run support this year with Oakland scoring at least 7 runs in two of his three starts - I can understand the one game they couldn't reach that number in considering it was against Houston. Toronto's bullpen owns a 3.89 ERA (12th in the league) and has given up 7 ER their previous 5 games. All of that, along with wind that should favor hitters makes me think 4 should be an absolute minimum for Oakland this evening...