Mets at Phillies MLB Odds & Picks: The second place Philadelphia Phillies will be looking to keep pace with the Atlanta Braves in the battle for the National League East while the third place New York Mets, eight games back in the standings, are trying to keep from falling out of the race. On Saturday, the Phillies play the Mets at Citizens Bank Park in Philadelphia in the second game of their weekend series. Starting today's game for the Phillies is left-hander Cole Hamels who is 7-7 on the season with a 3.56 ERA. Countering for New York Johan Santana. The Mets ace left-hander is 8-6 this year with a 3.20 ERA.
The Phillies are slight favorites at -128 on the Sportsbook.com MLB board with a posted total of seven. Mets backers are getting +118 odds. Hamels and Santana must pitch for any action to count.Some early struggles and iffy defense doomed Santana in Atlanta, where he took a loss Monday despite striking out a season-high 11 batters. More important was Santana's run total, four in seven innings, which will have to go down in Philadelphia.
Hamels allowed four runs in seven innings Sunday against Washington, but he pitched much better than that. In fact, that was just the second time since April that he had allowed more than three earned runs in a start.
The Phillies rallied with six runs in the eighth inning and defeated the Mets 7-5 on Friday, as -130 favorites. That game's 12 runs made it OVER the posted 8.5 total. Placido Polanco led the Phillies with a pair of runs batted in, while Chad Durbin collected the win in relief. Bobby Parnell surrendered four runs off four hits in under an inning of relief in the loss.
MLB Picks: The the UNDER on the posted seven total.
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