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This is a game of great importance and a margin of 7.5 is somewhat unexpected, given the fact two excellent pitchers will start the game and all four games played so far in the series ended with an under. Zack Greinke will take the mound for the home team and try to secure the sixth game in the series, and their trip to St. Louis. This will certainly be one of the most important games of his career. He has shown incredible ability in this season and at one point was undefeated in 11 games with an ERA below 2.00 during this period. Greinke also started this series and pitched in St. Louis. He did a great job and allowed just two runs. He ended the last ten games of the regular season with a 6-1 ratio and an ERA of 1.36. He is the strongest when playing at home, with a 2.11 ERA. In his career he was very successful against the Cardinals with a 8-3 ratio and 3.10 ERA. The visiting team will be starting with the young Joe Kelly - this will be his second start in this series. He pitched in the first game against Greinke and like him he allowed two runs and in the end he received a no decision. He also pitched in the series against Pittsburgh, but also received a no decision and allowed two earned runs. He finished the regular season with a 7-2 ratio in the last ten games with an excellent 2.34 ERA. Out of the last ten games played between these two teams, eight ended with an under. Injuries of the Dodgers also speak in favor of this bet: they are missing one of their best players Matt Kemp, Hanley Ramirez is questionable, but if he plays he will not be at his best, and Andre Ethier is also in pain and can hardly give his maximum with an injury which has been bothering him for a month. Details

All three games in the series ended in over, and there is no reason to believe that the same thing won't happen today. Especially as both teams will have their 4th best pitchers on the mound. Boston were very good offensively in the series and they scored 23 runs in total. Rays also had lots of chances but they only managed to score 11 runs so far. Today they simply must win if they wish to stay in the playoffs and they will certainly look for their chances in the attack. Especially as they are well aware that the Red Sox are very strong offensively and they will have to match them in that area in order to win. Boston are at 5,37 runs per game in average this season, and the Rays are at 4,31. The Rays will have Jeremy Helickson on the mound today (12-10, 5,17 ERA) who is playing his worst season since he joined them three years ago. He was struggling in the regular part of the season and he is 2-6 with very bad 7,02 ERA in the last 10 games. On five occasions he allowed more than five runs per game and today he will have to give everything he's got if he wishes to stop Red Sox's excellent offense. Helickson has a 4,77 ERA on Tropicana field this season and he is 4-2 (4,21 ERA) against the Red Sox. He didn't perform good against Red Sox's batters. David Ortiz has a .368 BA against him and he also hit two home runs. Mike Napoli is at .333 and Pedroia also hit one home run against Helickson. The away team will have Jake Peavy (12-5. 4,17 ERA) on the mound today. He signed for them in mid-season from Chicago. Peavy is 4-1 with a 4,07 ERA in Boston's jersey. He is doing fine, but nothing more than that, really. In the last four games he allowed 15 runs to his opponents. But, he was really struggling when playing away from home this season (5,27 ERA). In the last part of the season he had some trouble with controlling the baseball, and that was also the case in his last start against Tampa almost a month ago. He allowed them three runs and he ''walked'' five of the opponents batters. He is 3-1 with a 4,91 ERA against the Rays. Details

Favoring Dodgers can only be justified because of Clayton Kershaw who is an excellent pitches, but it is obvious that it is forgotten who pitches for the Braves. The series will be opened by the starter of Braves Kris Medlen (15-12, 3.11 ERA) who is in phenomenal shape, almost untouchable. In the last six matches he allowed for unbelievable four runs. The opponents simply don't have a solution for him and it is the reason why he got the honor of starting the first match in the series. In his last start in the regular season, Medlen demolished Philadelphia when he didn't allow them any runs in eight great innings. In the last ten matches this pitcher made a 7-2 ratio with a phenomenal 1.64 ERA. In total, in the last 66 innings he allowed only 13 runs. On home field he made 2.26 ERA this season. Against Dodgers he never lost in his career and made a 3-0 ratio with 1.23 ERA. Apart from having a great pitcher, the Braves are the best home team of the league with 56-25 ratio and to win on their Turner FIeld is really a great challenge. The away team will have to rely on their pitcher ace Clayton Kershaw (16-9, 1.83 ERA). His 1.83 ERA is the best in MLB. In this season he had 2.14 ERA away, and against Braves he has 29 innings where he never participated in the decision but he scored a very good 2.45 ERA in those matches. This season he didn't face them yet. This is a match that could very easily end with a football result (1-0) or something like that, so under is also a good option (4/10). I think this match is completely even and Braves cannot be this much of an underdog. In the last series against Dodgers on Turner Field they won all three matches. Details

Dillon Gee has a huge motive in his last start of the season, and that is to finish it in style and break the barrier of 200 pitched innings for the first time in his career. Gee has made a huge turnaround this season, which began with the New York Yankees when he overturned 12 strikeouts, and has had a 10-4 ratio with 2.73 ERA. In the last ten games he has had a 5-2 with a 2.49 ERA ratio, while at Citi Field he recorded a 2.49 ERA. Against the Brewers he has a 0-2 ratio in his career, but only four batters from the current roster of Brewers saw this. This bet is based on another very important information, and that is the Brewers' injury list. In addition to being a long time without their best hitter and two other leading ones, they were left without their backbone Aramis Ramirez who injured his knee again and will not be returning until the end of the season. They also lost a striker Jean Segur who has the best hitting average . Details

Cole Hamels showed a lot in the second part of the season, and he should continue today against the worst offense in the league playing in desperate form. In his last 20 starts, Hamels has 2.96 ERA which is truly great. Today he will try to get his 100th career win. In his last 10 games Hamels has a 4-1 score with excellent 2.71 ERA. Away from home he was solid with a 3.40 ERA, while he is 9-12 with 3.16 ERA against Marlins. He has a great motive, a 100th career win, and a strong end to he season would mean a lot to him. In their last ten games, Miami has a 2,43 run average which is real bad, and it is important to point out they are worse against the lef-handed pitchers with a 2.18 run average. Hamels is better than Marlins at this point, no doubt about that, and it is hard to predict Marlins scoring 4 runs in this game. Details

When the teams with good pitchers collide, we always expect a good match. Diamondacks will be counting on the good performance of their star Patrick Corbin (14-6. 2,92 ERA). Corbin experienced a minor crisis recently, but in his last match he shown that the bad times are behind him. He was a crucial player in the away win against Dodgers. In the almost seven innings he allowed only one run and eight hits. In the last eight matches he has 3-5 score with 4,05 ERA. Every time he played on the Chase Field so far, he was excellent. He has a 2,21 ERA and is especially successful against left-handed batters who have a .181 hits in average per game against him. He has 3-1 career record with Dodgers with 2,27 ERA.

The away team will count on their own big star Zack Greinke (14-3, 2,74 ERA) who is enjoying a great run. He has not experienced a loss in last nine matches he started. In those matches he has an incredible 1,58 ERA record. In the last 13 matches he spend at least 6 innings on mound. In the last 9 matches he allowed nine or less runs per game and he is a true enigma for all the teams in the competition. Last game he started was the one against San Francisco. In that game he allowed only one run and four hits through six innings. To all that he added five strikeuots. He pitched two times against Arizona this season and he allowed them only two runs through 14 innings. He has 3,45 ERA on away matches. Both teams went under the margin in most matches this season. In the 24 matches that Greinke had started the game for the Dodgers, they went under the margin 17 times. Their last three matches were also under the margin.

Last three times Corbin started for Arizona they went under also. D-Backs have the average of 3,46 runs per game in their last ten matches, and Dodgers have even worse average - 3,04 per game. Injuries of the Dodgers best batters (Crawford, Ethier and Ramirez) also talk in favor of this bet. Out of the last 11 matches these teams played against each other, nine have ended under the margin. Details