Rating: 2 Units

Pitcher: Berrios
What’s a stopper for? To stop losing streaks. The Twins have lost three straight, two to the Mariners and one yesterday afternoon vs. these Red Sox. Their bullpen has been blowing things late. If it fails again, we can hate their bullpen and curse it for days. Jose Berrios is Minnesota’s ace, their stopper. He usually fades late in the season but last we looked, it’s still way early. The Twins are hitting .295 against left-handed pitchers (Rodriguez), #4 in MLB in that category. The Red Sox are hitting an MLB-leading .303 against right-handed pitching, but Berrios is no ordinary right-hander. He nohit the Brewers over 6 innings in his first start and has a 0.69 WHIP after two, with 20-3 K-BB.
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Rating: 2 Units

Pitcher: go against Keller

The Angels find themselves atop the AL West, having dominated right-handed pitching up to this point (6-1, +$610, averaging 6.1 runs per game in those contests). Today they'll face off against Brad Keller, who has been rocked in two starts this year (19.31 ERA). LA has had 26 hits in the first two games of the series, so we'll lay the short price on the visitor in this afternoon's rubber match.

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Rating: 2 Units

Pitcher: Berrios

What’s a stopper for? To stop losing streaks. The Twins have lost three straight, two to the Mariners and one yesterday afternoon vs. these Red Sox. Their bullpen has been blowing things late. If it fails again, we can hate their bullpen and curse it for days. Jose Berrios is Minnesota’s ace, their stopper. He usually fades late in the season but last we looked, it’s still way early. The Twins are hitting .295 against left-handed pitchers (Rodriguez), #4 in MLB in that category. The Red Sox are hitting an MLB-leading .303 against right-handed pitching, but Berrios is no ordinary right-hander. He nohit the Brewers over 6 innings in his first start and has a 0.69 WHIP after two, with 20-3 K-BB.

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Rating: 2 Units

Pitcher: Wheeler

We were prepared to be against the Mets when Peterson was supposed to pitch against these Phillies on Monday when opposed by Chase Anderson. It didn’t happen due to rainout. They’re asking Peterson to beat Zach Wheeler this time, a tougher task, given that Wheeler and Aaron Nola are head-and-head for best pitcher on the Phillies. As noted on Monday, lefty Peterson, had a decent rookie season (6-2, 3.44 ERA, 1.21 WHIP). But he is now a candidate for the ol’ sophomore jinx. It started with his first outing, 4 innings of 7-hit, 6-run ball in Philadelphia last week (that’s what we call a “Madison Bumgarner game.”) The Phillies should not be saddened to see him again so soon.

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Rating: 3 Units

"That was a big game for us," Warriors’ head coach Steve Kerr said after beating back Denver prior to this trip. "We have a chance to get on a little run. It was important for us to get a win, especially against a really good team." Unlike Doc Rivers, who doesn’t know who his next opponent is, Steve Kerr knew where they’d be flying with a good opportunity despite missing James Wiseman and Kelly Oubre – to this first of three remaining games with lousy OKC this month. It takes place with rest after the Blunder, er, Thunder, lost at Utah last night with Lu Dort taking 31 of the team’s 93 shots against a scrimmaging home favorite. The Golden State mindset will be very different.

Rating: 3 Units

On Feb. 5 and 6, the Bulls scored 119 and 118 points here against the Magic in
a 1-1, back-to-back split. But now, the guy who had 43 points against them for
the Magic in the game Orlando won, Nikola Vucevic, is on Chicago’s side. Since the All-Stark break, Orlando has failed to reach 100 points in nine of 18 games. They’ve lost six in a row, the four most recent at home, the last two by 124-87 and 120-97 scores. Opposing head coach Popovich the other night: “Orlando is in a tough spot right now, but they’re trying.” They’ve lost six straight, 19 of 23. “We’ve got to learn how to win, and that goes for myself, too,” former Bull Wendell Carter said. If Billy Donovan thought Carter could learn to win, then he probably wouldn’t have traded him. Fellow Orlando center Mo Bamba set a career highs in scoring twice in the past three games, but left Monday’s loss in the first quarter with a hip contusion and did not return.

Rating: 2 Units

Charlotte will be without Malik Monk and Gordon Hayward here. Gordon has been out for a while but when Cleveland beat the Hornets early in the season, Gordon was 11 for 18 from the floor. The Lakers were in North Carolina on Tuesday and Charlotte had to fight tooth and nail. When the smoke cleared the Hornets could not shake off the fact they only scored 16 in the third quarter and it cost them the game. Okay, Cleveland has trouble putting it in the hole but they are just outside the top ten in allowing points and they should be focused here. Cleveland has not played since Sunday when they blew a fourth-quarter lead against New Orleans. The emphasis will be on playing 48 minutes.

Rating: 3 Units

The Nets rolled to victory in Minnesota yesterday afternoon game against an opponent with off-court city distractions. They were fortunate that Karl Anthony-Towns didn’t play along with the fact three Minnesota starters had only 12 points combined. The Sixers lost to the Nets in January on a night when Joe Harris put up 28 points, double his average this season. Philly destroyed the Nets in February. They had twice as many steals, 7 guys got to double figures and Brooklyn allowed the Sixers to shoot 51% from the floor. Shake Milton has been instant offense for Philly off the bench and he can get his own shot whenever he wants it. One thing that can’t be overlooked is how often Joel Embiid gets to the free-throw line. In the 51 games Joel played last season, he got to the line 435 times. He has already attempted 419 free throws in 36 games This allows the defense to set up and avoid being caught in a bad transition situation.

Rating: 2 Units

The West Division-leading Avalanche have won eight of their last nine games while gunning for a top playoff seed. Meanwhile the fourth-place Blues are just trying to make the postseason bracket after struggling for much of the season. Their current three-game winning streak convinced general manager Doug Armstrong not to sell off players before the trade deadline. But the Blues' schedule is loaded with showdowns against the Avalanche (four games), the second-place Vegas Golden Knights (two) and the third-place Minnesota Wild (five), making for quite a gauntlet in the last month of the regular season. That means 11 of their remaining 15 games are against teams currently bound for the playoffs, and one against the Arizona Coyotes, who are one point behind them. Consider that the Avalanche won have three of four games against the Blues this season while building a 14-7 scoring margin. Goaltender Philipp Grubauer (25-8-1, 2.00 GAA) is 2-1 with a 1.68 GAA against them this season.