John Ryan Free Sports Picks & Handicapper Review

The machine learning summary projections call for 76ers to score at least 112 points, get a minimum of 58 rebounds, and have a minimum of a nine rebounding edge over the Nets. In past games where the 76ers scored 115 or more points they have earned a 142-35 SU record for 80% and won these games by an average of 9.4 points and a 130-45-2 ATS record and cove3rfed the spread by an average of 9.3 points. When I add in the rebounding edge of 9 boards to the query, the results improve to 54-2 SU winning by an saverage of 16 points and 46-10 ATS covering the spread by an average of 11.4 points.

The Kansas City Royals won 4-3 in 10-innings over the Chicago White Sox salvaging the final game of a 3-game series after losing the first two games. Tim Anderson, who leads the AL in hitting, hit a towering home run in the fourth inning for the White Sox and celebrated it by flipping and spiking his bat. In his next at-bat, he was promptly drilled in the buttocks on the first pitch and both benches cleared when Anderson had to be restrained by Royals catcher Martin Maldonado. Perhaps it is time to end this silly tradition of retaliation against a player who showed too much excitement over his home run. If you don’t like seeing the other team’s players celebrate their successes, then don’t serve up 400-foot home runs.

The Yankees are coming off a sweep of their two-game series with the rival Red Sox. They have had many player injuries to deal with and are still trying to get to the 0.500 level before April ends. After they scored 15 runs in a blowout win over Baltimore on April 7, they have struggled losing five of the last eight games. They were first swept by Houston and then lost two-of-three games to the Chicago White Sox before sweeping the two-game series with the Red Sox. 

Kansas City (965) will have veteran hurler Homer Bailey on the hill to face the Yankees starter Domingo German with the first pitch set for 6:35 PM EST. Bailey is coming off an impressive start against Cleveland where he earned the win and completed seven innings of two-hit ball He will be making his fourth start of the season and has had two career starts against the Yankees and both were in the Bronx. In those two starts, he has a 1-1 record with a 5.84 ERA and 1.541 WHIP.

In his start against Cleveland, he threw 102 pitches overall consisting of 47 fastballs, nine sliders, 13 curves, and 33 splitters. He faced 22 batters and threw the first-pitch strike to 16 of them. By working ahead in the count, he was then able to throw the splitter as the out pitch. He had an impressive 21 called strikes and 11 swinging strikes underscoring the excellent command he had with all his pitches. I fully expect more of the same in this matchup against the Yankees, who are prone to chase pitches out of the strikeout. Take the Royals boxed with Bailey currently priced as 183 Dogs at Five Dimes.