Smooth Sale(ing): Lefty a top Thursday option
May 14 2026
Today's Overview/Schedule/Weather: Eleven games are on the MLB docket; seven of those are matinee affairs. Two games—DET@NYM and PHI@BOS—are under a weather watch with a significant chance of rain impacting scheduled game hours. The day's Matchup Ratings are particularly strong in the strikeouts sector. The overall ratings are slightly stronger than average with a relatively wide dispersal from the top third of the chart to the bottom.
Notable Starts:
Chris Sale is buoyed by a big strikeout rating and is highly rated across the board for his Thursday home turn against the Chicago Cubs. From an OPS-allowed standpoint, May has been the best month interval over Sale's career (.546 OPS allowed). And the veteran southpaw has gotten a...
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