Posted on 4/23/2008 3:44:59 PM

MLB Online Baseball Betting - Yankees vs. White Sox

By Mike Rose

The online sports betting killer Yankees jumped to one-game over .500 (11-10) last night when their offense erupted in the late innings against the White Sox bullpen to pull out the 9-5 road victory. Chien-Ming Wang wasn’t at his best, but his 10 hits and three earned runs through six innings were good enough to notch his fourth victory of the season. The victory, in Wang's 85th career start, made him the fastest Major Leaguer to record 50 wins as a starter since Dwight Gooden, who won his 50th game in his 82nd start on June 29, 1986.

Wang became the quickest Yankee to 50 wins since friend and former pitching coach Ron Guidry did it in his 82nd start on Aug. 13, 1979. He was the benefactor of another huge night from Bobby Abreu who flat out loves to hit at US. Cellular Field. He leads all Major Leaguers in batting average (.415) and has six homers and 15 RBIs in 14 games played at “The Cell”. Even though he was tagged with the loss, White Sox hurler Jose Contreras put forth his second straight quality start. He went 6 1/3rd innings allowing seven hits and four earned runs with a K/BB ratio of 3/1. Two of those earned runs crossed the plate on Abreu’s slam off reliever Octavio Dotel.

Mike Mussina will be making his fifth start of the season tonight, and he’ll toe the rubber sporting a 1-3 record with a 5.75 ERA. The Yankees lost each of his last two starts against the Red Sox, but his last effort was horrific only seeing him last three innings allowing five earned runs and seven hits to their hated rivals. He won two of his three starts against Chicago last season and sports an overall mark of 11-10 with a 4.15 ERA and 1.229 WHIP in his career against the White Sox.

Chicago’s ace, Javier Vazquez, will look to pick up his fourth win of the season when he squares off against the Yanks for the fifth time in his career. He’s coming off another dominating start against Tampa Bay that saw him go six strong allowing six hits and two earned runs in the White Sox 9-2 victory. The two runs he allowed in the sixth inning stopped a streak of 15 shutout innings, and the lone walk he surrendered was the first against the last 75 batters he faced. However, he’s struggled against his former employer going 1-3 with a 5.25 ERA and 1.750 WHIP in four career starts.

Vazquez and the White Sox opened –135 home favorites with the ‘total’ set at 9.5 over –115. You can get down on both the ‘side’ and ‘total’ at BetUS.com right now!!!

The Yankees are 0-2 this season as an underdog between +125 and +150 this season, and they’re 1-4 in Mike Mussina’s L/5 starts as an underdog. Making the Yanks even less attractive in this spot is the fact that they’re 6-14 their L/20 when installed a road underdog. On the flipside, the White Sox are 8-1 in Vazquez’ L/9 overall starts, and 5-0 his L/5 starts when installed a favorite between –110 and –150.

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