MLB All-Star Game – Can N.L. Pitching Break the A.L.’s Unbeaten Streak?

July 13, 2010 by admin
Filed under: MLB Baseball Betting 

This Tuesday night the best baseball players in MLB descend upon Mickey Mouse’s hometown of Anaheim, CA for the annual MLB All-Star Game.

The American League has won every Midsummer Classic since 1997 except for a tie in 2002.  That’s 12 victories over the National League since 1997.  How amazing is that?

Pretty amazing!  But the National League will go into the Midsummer Classic with supposedly a better arsenal of pitchers in Ubaldo Jimenez of the Colorado Rockies, Josh Johnson of the Florida Marlins and Roy Halladay of the Philadelphia Phillies.

Will the N.L. finally break the streak?  Or, will the A.L. make it 13 out of the past 14 years?

2010 MLB All-Star Game

National League vs. American League

Where:  Angel Stadium, Anaheim, CA

When:  July 13th, 2010 at 8:00 pm EST

TV:  FOX

MLB Betting Odds

National League All-Stars                  +1 ½ -190        Ev

American League All-Stars                 -1 ½ +160        -120

There’s really no reason to look at baseball betting trends. The only trend that matters is that the A.L. has dominated the N.L. in the last 13 years of the All-Star Game.

It makes more sense to look at the individual make-up of each team for this year’s All-Star Game and then to determine the winner based on drawing a few conclusions.  After studying each line-up, there’s something that’s very apparent, the N.L. pitchers are better than the A.L.’s pitchers.

David Price from the Tampa Bay Rays, who gets the start for the A.L., has been very good in 2010 but he hasn’t dominated the way that Johnson, Jimenez and Halladay have.  The same goes for other A.L. pitchers like C.C. Sabathia from the New York Yankees, Jered Weaver from the Los Angeles Angels and Cliff Lee from the Texas Rangers.

Overall, the N.L.’s pitching should keep the A.L.’s awesome batters from getting out of control, but will it be enough?  The biggest question isn’t whether or not the N.L.’s pitchers can keep the A.L.’s batters from going crazy against them, they can.  The big question is whether or not the N.L. batters are good enough to get to the A.L.’s less than dominant pitchers.

Save for the awesome Albert Pujols, the St. Louis Cardinals’ first baseman who was the top vote getter in N.L. balloting, the rest of the N.L. batters leave something to be desired.  I don’t see them having any more luck against the A.L. pitchers than the A.L. batters will have against the N.L. pitchers.

But the fact remains that the N.L. has an amazing amount of pitching talent on which to draw from this Tuesday night.  After Jimenez, Johnson and Halladay, the National League can turn to Tim Lincecum from San Francisco, Yovani Gallardo from Milwaukee, Tim Hudson from Atlanta and Adam Wainwright and Chris Carpenter, both from the St. Louis Cardinals.

Pitching will carry the day for the N.L. in the 2010 All-Star Game.  They’re the team to bet in the baseball sportsbook to win on Tuesday night.

MLB Sportsbook Pick:  National League All-Stars Ev

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