Stephen Nover is on a 62 percent hot streak on his combined baseball and WNBA going 26-16-1, including winning eight of his last 12 WNBA premium/free plays. Keep churning a profit as Stephen has a special 2-for-1 Friday finding one strong play in each sport. Read and win!
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Today’s Free Picks
| Sport | Game Selection | Game Time |
|---|---|---|
| MLB | (969) Washington Nationals at (970) Tampa Bay Rays | 7:10pm EDT - Jun 19/2026 |
The PLAY: Over +7.5 (-118) Action
This is the lowest total on a Nationals game all month. Is it justified? I sure don't think so in a pitching matchup of Cade Cavalli versus Griffin Jax. I'm expecting double-digit runs.
Cavalli has a 3.98 ERA and 1.39 WHIP. The Nationals are the worst defensive team in the league. They are going to have problems fielding at Tropicana Park's strange artificial turf venue.
The Rays have the fourth highest batting average in the majors and own the highest on base percentage in the American League.
The Nationals score the most runs in baseball averaging 5.4 per game. They are facing Jax, a converted reliever, who has a decent 3.68 ERA but is prone to giving up home runs having surrendered seven in 44 innings. Only six teams have homered more than the Nationals.
Both bullpens rank in the bottom nine in ERA.
So for me this is an easy call on the Over given this total.
Consultant Bio
Stephen Nover is unique among professional handicappers. A multiple award-winning sportswriter for numerous newspapers, including the Las Vegas Review-Journal, Nover has one the best combinations of gambling and media sources in the world.
The author of two sports gambling books, "Las Vegas Sports Beat" and "Sports Gaming Beat", along with a book on fantasy football titled, "Winning Fantasy Football", Nover is a former professor at the University of Nevada-Las Vegas having taught a football handicapping class there. He also was the co-host of the Sunday night sports betting radio show "The Stardust Line" during the 1990's.
Parlaying nearly 50 years worth of professional gambling experience with tremendous knowledge of the players through elite deep-roster Rotisserie leagues and building on copious gaming and media sources - having worked for newspapers in the Midwest, South and West and also for legendary Hall of Fame oddsmaker Roxy Roxborough - Nover is a true Las Vegas wise guy. He helped learn his craft from such masters as Roxborough, Dave Malinsky, Lem Banker and Russ Culver.
Part of what makes Nover so special is the pride he takes in writing his deep-dive analysis, which always is unique, well-researched and sometimes entails out-of-the-box thinking.