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Brewers avoid sweep with extra-inning win over CardinalsBaseball Betting Lines06/07/2010 - St. Louis, MO (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Corey Hart drove in the game-winning run with a 10th-inning sacrifice fly to push Milwaukee past St. Louis 4-3 to avoid a series sweep at Busch Stadium. Rookie Zach Braddock (1-0) earned his first major league win with a scoreless ninth inning, as the Brewers wrapped up their seven-game road trip with only two wins. John Axford blanked the Redbirds in the bottom of the 10th to earn his fourth save in as many tries. Prince Fielder had three hits, walked and scored the winning run, while Rickie Weeks had a pair of hits, including a home run, and scored twice for Milwaukee, which halted a three-game slide. Jason Motte (2-2) absorbed the loss after allowing the decisive run on a pair of hits in his lone inning of work for the Cardinals, who had a three-game win streak snapped and fell for just a second time in seven contests. Fielder started the winning rally with a one-out walk and moved to second base on a Ryan Braun infield single. He advanced to third when Casey McGehee singled to right, and Hart then drove a Motte offering to deep center field to chase home Fielder with the go-ahead marker. Axford allowed a one-out single to Yadier Molina before retiring Randy Winn on a fly ball and Skip Schumacker on a broken-bat line out to second base to end the comeback attempt. The Brewers opened the game with three straight singles to load the bases. Felipe Lopez's fielding error on Braun's ground ball allowed Weeks to score, and McGehee followed with a sacrifice fly to plate Carlos Gomez for a 2-0 advantage. The teams swapped leadoff longballs in the third, as Weeks did it for the visitors and Colby Rasmus responded in kind for the Redbirds. Albert Pujols brought the home team to within a run, 3-2, in the sixth with another leadoff home run. Manny Parra, making his third start of the year, then walked Ryan Ludwick, Molina and Rasmus to load the bases with one out and was lifted in favor of Dave Bush. The veteran right-hander struck out Schumacker after a 12-pitch battle and gave way to Kameron Loe, who retired pinch-hitter David Freese to end the threat and protect the lead. Ludwick led off the eighth inning with a double and advanced to third base on a Molina ground out. Loe was then replaced by Carlos Villanueva, who gave up a Winn sacrifice fly to left field that plated Ludwick to tie the game at three. Parra was charged with a pair of runs on four hits while walking four and striking out a career-high 10. Cardinals starter Jamie Garcia was also not involved in the decision after giving up three runs -- two earned -- on eight hits while walking two and fanning four. Game Notes The only other home run hit off Garcia this season was by Cincinnati's Drew Stubbs on May 14...The southpaw has not allowed more than two earned runs in any of his 11 starts...Parra had surrendered only two home runs in 31 innings prior to Sunday...Milwaukee is 16-5 when scoring first...Matt Holliday had one hit in five at-bats to extend his hitting streak to ten games, while Pujols pushed his to seven straight...The Cardinals were hitless in eight at-bats with runners in scoring position and stranded 11.
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Football Betting Sportsbook Accepts Credit CardsMichael Vick is back, Brett Favre isn't and the NFC East remains the best division in the NFC, maybe in all of football. As players start to gather for the start of another season, some things change and some stay the same in the world of the NFL. The NFC East has been the dominant division in the National Conference for a while, despite limited playoff success, save for the New York Giants surprise Super Bowl win two seasons ago. Hell, there's a generation of kids in Texas who have never seen the Cowboys win a playoff game (last win was in 1996). But collectively, the Giants, Eagles, Cowboys and Redskins (well, maybe not so much the Redskins) are as good as a division gets in an NFC conference that has struggled to stay competitive with the AFC side. Sports bettors have both acknowledged the NFC East's dominance, as one glance at the NFL future odds menu will show. Looking over the NFL betting odds at online sports book MySportsbook.com we see the top three teams listed to win the NFC Championship are all from the NFC East: Dallas Cowboys - 7 - 1 Philadelphia Eagles - 13 - 2 New York Giants - 9 - 2 Slotting in behind these three are two teams from the NFC North: the Minnesota Vikings (15-2) and the Chicago Bears (10-1). Again, despite the lack of recent playoff success, the Dallas Cowboys are popular with the sports betting community, as they hold 14% of all the money wagered on who will win the NFC Championship. So far, the New York Giants are the bettors' favorite to represent their conference in the Super Bowl, as they have 24% of the overall NFC Championship betting volume. And what about the Philadelphia Eagles? For the most part, the Eagles had a very productive offseason, the kind that could bring them back to the top. They had a good draft adding the likes of WR Jeremy Maclin and RB LeSean McCoy. Unfortunately, the team received a blow when long-time defensive coordinator Jim Johnson passed away on Tuesday. But this team will make a real run at the division title this year. Going into the regular season, Philly is listed at +240 to win the division. Last season the Eagles were 9-6-1 SU and 10-6 ATS. Teams from the NFC East will play teams from the AFC West in the regular season and the Eagles haven't really been a good bet in the last 20 games against the likes of San Diego, Oakland, K.C. and Denver, only going 8-12 ATS. Two seasons removed from that Super Bowl title, the New York Giants see themselves listed as the odds-on favorite in NFC East championship futures at +162. Plaxico Burress is gone and with him all the bad publicity surrounding the gun in the sweatpants incident, but can they replace him in the offense? Last season the Giants were a very reliable bet going 12-4 ATS. In the Giants' last 20 games against fellow teams from the NFC East; they are 13-7 ATS. Dallas is listed at +240 to win the division. Dallas went 9-7 SU and 7-9 ATS last season and with the amount of talent the Cowboys have, a similar performance won't do. The Cowboys have been atrocious against divisional rivals, going 6-14 ATS in their last 20. The Washington Redskins are longshots to win the division at +550. Visit MySportsbook.com for free sportsbook odds RSS feeds go to MySportsbook.com for all your betting football needs. Big 12 Conference betting odds Work left to do: Texas Tech, Oklahoma State, Kansas State Work left to do: Texas Tech [18-11 (7-7), RPI: 44, SOS: 12] A critical two-point win over OK State leaves the Red Raiders with Baylor and at Iowa State left. Get both and the Red Raiders likely are good to go. Get one and there could be some interesting comparisons with a K-State team that could finish two or three games "ahead" of them in the standings but doesn't have any of the quality wins Texas Tech has. Not a lot in nonconference play (against Arkansas in Little Rock being the best win, by far) to lean on. Oklahoma State [18-9 (5-8), RPI: 50, SOS: 35] Still without a road win, the Cowboys now need to win two on the road just to get to .500 in conference play. It's hard to recall a team (OK, other than Clemson) falling so precipitously from lock status to almost certainly out of the NCAAs at this point. There are wins to be had in the last three, including a very big home game against K-State on Tuesday, but this team is reeling. Can you tell the pressure to win is getting to them with the way the final possession played out at Texas Tech? There are some good nonconference performances to lean on, specifically beating Missouri State and Syracuse on neutral floors and Pitt in OK City, but if the Pokes don't right this very, very soon, that won't be enough. Kansas State [20-9 (9-5), RPI: 56, SOS: 96] It pays to be in the Big 12 North. The nine league wins are Colorado (twice), Missouri (twice), Iowa State (twice), Baylor, Nebraska and (a good one against) Texas. That helps explain the middling computer profile. The win over USC is nice, but the nonconference leaves a lot to be desired. The game at OK State in Stillwater on Tuesday is huge, as it could KO the Cowboys and leave K-State with a home date against Oklahoma with which to work.
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