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Jair Jurrgens is over priced in this spot today. He has struggled his last three outings with a 5.50 ERA, 11 earned runs, and 25 hits in just 18 innings. Jurrjens is 1-2 with a 3.18 ERA in three career starts versus Pittsburgh in his young career. Jurrgens has been a two to one favorite once before in his career and he lost that game vs. Washington as a -211 favorite last season. There is no doubt the young hurler is very talented but at this point we don't see him laying two to one odds in this situation. His bullpen has been struggling with a 6.12 ERA in the past three games. Two nights ago they blew a 6-3 lead in the 7th inning to Pittsburgh and eventually won in extra innings.
The Braves are facing a player they dealt away in the Nate McLouth deal. Righty Charlie Morton should be plenty motivated tonight to face his old team. Coaches have talked highly of Morton ever since being selected in the third round of the 2002 draft by Atlanta. He has a 94-97 MPH fastball, a lights out slider, a solid curveball, and a decent changeup. Even after a rough rookie season last year the Atlanta system still considered him to have the upside of Jo Jo Reyes and Jair Jurrgens if he could get things to pan out. The Pirates have lost the first two games by one run and have seen their bullpen pitching very solid of late. That's a good sign since Morton will be on a pitch count tonight in his debut for the Bucs. We expect them to hit Jurrgens well since they are batting .294 vs. right handed hurlers the past 10 games vs. the Braves batting just .255 vs right handed pitchers their past 10 games. Morton has a lot of heart and it will be on display tonight vs. his former team and we love the dog value.
Pirates+200
Jair Jurrgens is over priced in this spot today. He has struggled his last three outings with a 5.50 ERA, 11 earned runs, and 25 hits in just 18 innings. Jurrjens is 1-2 with a 3.18 ERA in three career starts versus Pittsburgh in his young career. Jurrgens has been a two to one favorite once before in his career and he lost that game vs. Washington as a -211 favorite last season. There is no doubt the young hurler is very talented but at this point we don't see him laying two to one odds in this situation. His bullpen has been struggling with a 6.12 ERA in the past three games. Two nights ago they blew a 6-3 lead in the 7th inning to Pittsburgh and eventually won in extra innings.
The Braves are facing a player they dealt away in the Nate McLouth deal. Righty Charlie Morton should be plenty motivated tonight to face his old team. Coaches have talked highly of Morton ever since being selected in the third round of the 2002 draft by Atlanta. He has a 94-97 MPH fastball, a lights out slider, a solid curveball, and a decent changeup. Even after a rough rookie season last year the Atlanta system still considered him to have the upside of Jo Jo Reyes and Jair Jurrgens if he could get things to pan out. The Pirates have lost the first two games by one run and have seen their bullpen pitching very solid of late. That's a good sign since Morton will be on a pitch count tonight in his debut for the Bucs. We expect them to hit Jurrgens well since they are batting .294 vs. right handed hurlers the past 10 games vs. the Braves batting just .255 vs right handed pitchers their past 10 games. Morton has a lot of heart and it will be on display tonight vs. his former team and we love the dog value.
