Chip Chirimbes Sports Handicapper Review & Free Picks

Toronto at New York Mets 1:40 ET

Mets over Blue Jays- Every once in a while a pitcher comes up with a itch that is difficult to describe and for Kodai Senga (5-3, 3.44 ERA) his ‘Ghost Forkball’ as he joins Fernando Valenzuela, Bruce Sutter and Yu Darvish among a few others. His opponent pitching for Toronto will be Yusei Kikuchi (6-2, 4.47) and immigration has hit MLB with a pair of Japanese starters taking the mound. Both of these hurlers are over 30 years old with the Mets Senga a rookie against the Blue Jays Kikuchi who is in his sixth year and has yet to have a winning season. Take NEW YORK METS!

Tampa Bay at Boston 1:35 ET

Red Sox over Rays- The aura of the Rays is starting to tarnish a bit as they lost their opportunity to go undefeated this season. But, they are still one of the toughest line-ups to deal with from top to bottom with putting the bat on the ball by keeping it in play as well as leading the MLB in home runs. Tampa Bay has dropped 3-of-5 and will send rookie Tai Bradley (3-2, 3.60 ERA) to the hill and he is off his best performance of the season shutting down the Cubs in a 1-0 victory. Boston will start Tanner Houck (3-4, 5.30) who won his first three decisions the last of which came on April 20 and it has been the long ball that has done him in surrendering seven dingers in just 53 innings. The Rays are just 5-11 in their last 16 road games against teams with winning records and 1-4 in their last five games at Boston while the Red Sox are 5-1 versus the AL East.Take BOSTON!

Baltimore at San Francisco 4:05 ET

Giants over Orioles- It took 58 games but the Giants have scratched and clawed all the way back to reached .500 at 29-29. Yesterday’s Power Play win with SF should be repeated here Sunday as a Megabucks winner with San Francisco sending Anthony DeScalafani (4-4, 3.48 ERA) to the bump against Baltimore’s Tyler Wells (3-2, 3.29). Wells has been truly amazing allowing just 40 hits in 63 innings pitched all in 11 appearances giving up more than four hits only three times. Traveling west has not been a good experience for the Orioles as they are 4-10 against the NL West and the Giants are 5-2 in their last seven inter-league games. Take SAN FRANCISCO!

Miami at Denver 9:00 ET

Nuggets (-) over Heat- In all three of their previous playoff series No. 8 seed Miami was able to get a jump on the No. 1 Bucks, No. 5 Knicks and No. 2 Celtics in the opening game of the series and that put tremendous pressure on the home clubs. They felt ambushed in a way and that is not something Denver has to worry about. After crushing Phoenix in their final two games of the series the Nuggets swept the Lakers and won their seventh straight over the Heat in Game One. I am sure to hear how Miami will make adjustments and the Game-1 loser is covering with the zigzag concept is they play...well not so fast. Let us take a closer look at this Heat club. To start with they are just 3-9 ATS following a loss by 10 points or more. And I have more, Miami is 9-26 ATS in the lat 35 overall meetings and 0-4 ATS at Mile High. Finally, they are 4-14 ATS in their last 17 with 2 days rest while the Nuggets are 9-3 ATS in their last 12 games on two days rest and we will rest with the Nuggets are 8-3 last 11 at home. Plus they really are a lot better and hungry. Nuggets can shoot the ball and the other side not so much, as they already shot their load in the last three anomalies. Take DENVER!