Two of the hottest teams in baseball collide for a three-game series starting Tuesday when the New York Yankees take on the Seattle Mariners at Yankee Stadium. First pitch is 7:05 p.m. ET. Domingo German is scheduled to start for New York, opposed by Marco Gonzales of Seattle. The Yankees are -162 sportsbook favorites (bet $162 to win $100), with the over-under for total runs scored set at nine.
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The model enters the week on an 8-4 run with its top-rated MLB money-line selections.Now, it has crunched the numbers for Mariners-Yankees and locked in money-line, over-under, and against-the-spread picks. You can see them over at SportsLine.
The model knows the high-powered Yankees boast an AL-high 113 home runs and league-best .462 slugging percentage.
They lost 3-1 on Sunday to Tampa Bay after dominating the first three games of the series and still finished the weekend on an 8-2 run in their previous 10. They held opponents to one or zero runs four times in that span.
German (1-4, 5.23 ERA) has struggled of late, with a 1-3 mark and one no-decision among his past five starts. He has allowed at least three earned runs inn each of those outings, but took a 4-3 win over the Rays in his most recent performance.
Conversely, Gonzales (7-3, 3.42 ERA) has quietly put together one of the most dominant first halves of the season among AL starters. The lefty is 4-0 with one no-decision in his past five starts.
The 26-year-old has allowed six total earned runs in that span, though half of them came in a no-decision against the Angels in his last start. He gave up seven hits and two walks in five innings.
Seattle is coming off a 5-2 homestand in which it swept the Angels and split four games with the Red Sox over the weekend.
So what is the top play between these two surging AL clubs? Visit SportsLine now to see which side of Mariners-Yankees you should support from the advanced computer model that is hitting nearly 70 percent of its recent MLB picks.
