Chicago Cubs at New York Mets Betting Odds
Opening Moneyline: Cubs -125 / Mets +105 O/U 8.5 runs
Time: 7:05 PM EST Monday April 19, 2010 on ESPN
Tonight in a NL match up of a couple of sub-.500 teams the New York Mets host the Chicago Cubs. The Mets are really off to a bad start this season, as they have lost four straight series' to begin the season for the first time since 1997. The Cubs have not started well either and have lost their last 2 games.
Chicago has lost 2 games in a row, is 5-5 in their last 10 games, and is in 3rd place in the NL Central 3 games back of the St. Louis Cardinals. New York is coming off a loss, is only 3-7 in their last 10 games, and is in last place in the NL East 4 games back of the Philadelphia Phillies.
This season New York is 2-4 at home and the Chicago is 2-4 on the road.
Both teams played yesterday, as the Mets lost to the St. Louis Cardinals 5-3 and the Cubs lost to the Houston Astros 3-2.
Taking the mound the Cubs tonight will be Randy Wells (1-0 2.92 ERA), who went 6 innings and gave up 4 earned runs in a no decision in his last start. On the hill for the Mets is Jonathon Niese (0-1 6.55 ERA), who struggled in his last start giving up 5 earned runs in 5 innings in a no decision.
Wells is a righty and the Mets have had no success against right hand pitchers this season going 0-4 in their last 4 games.
Dating back to last season the Chicago is 5-0 in Wells' last 5 starts in the first game of a series.
The Mets' offense is really struggling, as they have not had an extra base hit in their last 2 games and in 6 of their last 8 games have failed to score more than 3 runs.
New York's Jose Reyes and Jason Bay are really off to bad starts, as Reyes is only batting .154 and Bay, whop led Boston in HR's last season, is only batting .217. Each player has yet to hit a HR and each only has 2 RBI's.
The Cubs offense has been better than the Mets, as they have 11 HR's as a team and a few players hitting over .300, but they are stranding many men on base and not getting hits when it counts.
Cubs' slugger Alfonso Soriano only has 1 HR and 3 RBI's in 38 at bats this season and he needs to snap out of his slump for Chicago to move up in the standings.
Betting Trends
Dating back to last season Chicago is 4-1 in Wells' last 5 starts.
In the last 5 games between these 2 teams the total has gone Under 4 times.
Our Selection : Neither team have their bats going, but Wells is the superior starter here and the Cubs have been hitting ok versus left handers as of late. Take the Cubs -125 at Bodog.
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