Jim Feist

Chicago Cubs off to an excellent start at 10-3 on the season and 1st place in the NL Central. The Cubs had a few days off as the Cardinals series was postponed due to Cardinals having the Covid virus. Now they return to action at Cleveland. Veteran Jon Lester gets the start. He looked like his young self thus far, with a 1-0 record in two starts and a 0.82 ERA. While he doesn't strike out all that many anymore, his control is still very good. The Cleveland Indians are 3rd in the AL Central with a 10-7 record. The Indians have won four straight games. The Indians have also allowed a league low 37 total runs. Adam Plutko starts today for the Tribe. Plutko has one start and that was against the White Sox. He went six innings and allowed just two runs. Both these pitchers are solid and the the way the Indians have playing under, it's difficult to go against here Play UNDER.

 Despite their bout with the Covid bug, the Miami Marlins are 7-3 and have the best winning percentage in the NL East. They have lost two straight game however. Elieser Hernandez will make his second start of the season. Hernandez went 4 1/3 innings in his first start vs the Orioles and allowed no runs and just two hits for the WIN. Toronto is just 5-8 to start the season and has scored just 39 runs, lowest in the A.L. Hyun-Jin Ryu came of from the Dodgers and had his best start of the season in his last outing vs the Braves. Ryu went five innings and allowed just one hit and not runs. Don't expect many runs in this one tonight. Ryu is quality and the Jays are struggling for runs. Play UNDER.

Early game here on Tuesday has Houston and San Antonio squaring-off in a battle of Texas. Houston has clinched their division title and a playoff spot. Right now the Rockets are 4th in the West but could overtake 3rd place Denver which is just one game ahead of them. The San Antonio Spurs are close to elimination. The Spurs are 2-games back of the 8th and final playoff spot, currently held by Memphis. That means the Spurs can't lose here tonight or they are done. The Spurs have covered five of their last seven games. With what's on the line here tonight, I'll take San Antonio to keep their playoff lives afloat. Take San Antonio.

Start of the NHL playoffs has the top seed in the West, Vegas, playing the bottom seed in Chicago. The Blackhawks had a big scoring series with Edmonton and it won't get any less here against Vegas. Vegas scored well in all three of their round robin games and they did so with arguably their top player in Max Pacioretty. Pacioretty is back now and that just means more scoring power for Vegas. I look for this entire series to be high scoring and it starts tonight. Play the OVER.

Europa League Quarter-finals has Sevilla vs Wolverhampton. Wolverhampton Wanderers finished 7th in the English Premier league, their second season back at the top tier. They are coming off a win over Olympiakos, 1-0 to advance to today's contest. This is a defense first team and not very flashy in their style of play. Sevilla looked very good in their win over a very good Roma team, 2-0. This game looks to be a tough defensive battle today so I'll go UNDER.