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Today’s Free Picks
| Sport | Game Selection | Game Time |
|---|---|---|
| MLB | (925) Boston Red Sox at (926) Colorado Rockies | 8:40pm EDT - Jun 22/2026 |
The PLAY: Boston Red Sox -125 Jake Bennett (LHP), Ryan Feltner (RHP) Must Start
There are not too many teams with a worse record than the Red Sox. Colorado is one of those teams. The Rockies have the worst mark in baseball at 30-48. That is four more losses than Boston has.
The Rockies' biggest weakness is their pitching. It ranks last in ERA and WHIP. Colorado also has the fewest quality starts. Ryan Feltner, today's Rockies starter, is one of the architects of this disastrous pitching staff. Feltner has a 5.05 ERA with 1.5 home runs and 3.5 walks allowed per nine innings. He can expect little help from a Colorado bullpen that has the second highest ERA in the majors at 5.13.
The Red Sox are a respectable 19-19 on the road because they have hit much better as a visitor. Boston averages a full run per game more on the road than at home at 4.4 runs compared to 3.4.
Red Sox rookie starter Jake Bennett has a 4.79 ERA, but is a good fit to handle Coors Field giving up 0.4 home runs and 2.2 walks allowed per nine innings. Bennett has shown good command and an ability to generate ground ball outs during his 20 2/3 innings.
Bennett has a much stronger bullpen behind him than Feltner has. Boston relievers have the third lowest ERA in the majors at 3.13. The Red Sox also are a much better fielding team than Colorado.
Since Boston plays better on the road and the price is not too high, I'll fade the Rockies here.
(Editor's note: Stephen Nover's Monday card today is headed by his 5 percent Cream of the Crop June Baseball Total. Stephen is 16-6-1 on his lifetime 5 percent plays. Stephen also has a WNBA sides play looking to go 11-5 on his last 16 WNBA premium/free plays.)
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.