Sports Handicapper Joey Tron's Picks & Predictions

I like the Mets to win this one on the road against the Marlins and rebound from their 8-0 blow out loss yesterday. The Mets are sending Luis Severino to the hill who is 0-0 his L3 starts however he has pitched well only allowing 7 ERs on 9 hits and striking out 15 across 18 IP. He no doubt has a tendency to walk batters, however the Marlins have one of the lowest batting avg in baseball, at .228. The Marlins are sending Braxton Garrett to the hill who was roughed up his last start 6 days ago. He was called back up from the minors and allowed 5 ERs on 5 hits and 1 HR across 5.1 IP against the Phillies. A handful of Mets batters have great splits against Garrett in their career, including Pete Alonso (.400) ; Sterling Marte (.600) and Francisco Lindor (.357). Miami struggles at home going 7-15 ; take the Mets ML to rebound BIG here. -Joey Tron

I like the Orioles to win this game at home against the Mariners in what will be a great pitching match up between Dean Kremer and Luis Castillo. The Orioles are 7-3 their L10 and the Mariners enter this one 5-5 their L10 and losers in 2 of 3. Dean Kremer takes the hill for the Orioles who is 3-1 his L4 starts and is looking for a big rebound start after his most recent loss to the DBacks. In those 4 starts, he allowed 7 ERs on 12 hits while striking out 30 batters across 24 IP. He has decent splits against this Mariners line up and should tally strike outs against them, as the Mariners rank 1st in the MLB in total strikeouts. The Mariners are sending Luis Castillo to the hill who similarly is on a tear going 3-1 his L4 outings as well. He has allowed 6 ERs on 16 hits while striking out 28 across 25.2 IP. Castillo has only faced a handful of Orioles batters, but the ones he did face, are hitting .333 and .385. This game may very well produce just a few runs and the bats of the Orioles will get us the win. The Orioles are 16-9 at home and the Mariners are 9-11 on the road. Take the Orioles ML here. -Joey Tron

I like this game between the Canucks and Oilers to stay UNDER 6 goals tonight. We have now see back to back games produce a 3-2 scoreline and I do not see this game going over 5 goals. Arturs Silovs stepped up and has been playing great posting a .900 SV% or better in back to back games and has allowed just 6 goals on 75 shots faced the L2 games. The Vancouver defense must play tighter defense tonight on the road and contain this Oilers shot parade. The Oilers are undecided on their net minder however if they want any chance at all at surviving tonight, they MUST start Calvin Pickard. Pickard has allowed just 5 goals in the 3 appearances he has made in the post season thus far and has posted a .905 SV% or better in all 3 games. This series has gotten a lot more defensive with each game and tonight should not be any different as Vancouver looks to close this series out. Play the UNDER here. -Joey Tron

I like the Mavs to win this game and cover this spread at home against the Thunder. This pendulum has swung and all the momentum heading into Game 6 into Dallas's direction and they will not squander this. Experience matters and the likes of Luka Doncic and Kyrie Irving have been in a situation like this many times before. The biggest difference maker in this series has been the 3PT shooting. The Mavericks have made 14 more 3PT shots this series (67-53) and will make more tonight as well. The Mavs depth has been a problem for the OKC lineup as the Mavs bench has been scoring more than some of OKC's starters - last game Luka and Kyrie combined for just 43 points and they won by 12. Dallas is hungry and should have closed this series out days ago and should be resting right now. Dallas is 16-6 when the spread is -5 to -2 and OKC is just 22-22-1 ATS on the road. Lay the points with the Mavs here. -Joey Tron