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The San Francisco Giants and San Diego Padres continue their three-game set tonight with two offenses still searching for consistency, which puts even more weight on the starting pitching matchup.

That’s good news for San Francisco.

With Logan Webb taking the ball against a Padres lineup that’s struggled to generate offense lately, my Giants vs. Padres predictions and MLB picks are backing the home side to take advantage in a low-scoring battle on Tuesday, May 5. 

Who will win Padres vs Giants today: Giants ML (-127)

Logan Webb is the biggest reason to trust San Francisco here. The veteran right-hander has consistently handled the San Diego Padres well, including a win in his last outing against them, and this version of San Diego’s lineup looks far less threatening than in years past.

The Padres have struggled to string together quality at-bats lately, scoring just four runs in five May contests, especially against pitchers who can limit hard contact and work deep into games — two things Webb does extremely well.

With both offenses trending toward low-scoring performances, this game likely comes down to which starter gives his team the cleaner innings. Right now, that edge belongs to Webb and the Giants at a reasonable price.

COVERS INTEL: Logan Webb struck out five Padres in his first start this season, picking up the win after six solid innings of work. 

Padres vs Giants Over/Under pick: Under 7.5 (-115)

This matchup checks almost every box for a low-scoring game. San Diego enters averaging just 3.1 runs per game, dead last in home runs, while San Francisco’s offense hasn’t exactly inspired confidence either. Both teams sit near the bottom of the league in OPS and slugging percentage, making sustained rallies difficult to trust.

On the mound, Logan Webb gives the Giants a reliable edge in a game that already projects to be tight. Even Walker Buehler’s underlying matchup is manageable against a San Francisco lineup lacking consistent power production.

Unless defensive mistakes or bullpen implosions take over late, this feels more like a 3-2 or 4-2 type of game.

Padres vs Giants odds

• Moneyline: Padres +110 | Giants -130
• Run line: Padres +1.5 (-190) | Giants (-1.5 (+160)
• Over/Under: Over 7.5 | Under 7.5

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Go Rays!

Some runs would be nice. Please note the term runs is plural. .

There is a little bit of news, Jose Berrios is feeling soreness, which, since he has a stress fracture, isn’t a huge surprise.

Shane Bieber is close to being ready to face live batters. It is like he’s at the start of spring training, so it will be a month before he’s back (all going well).

Tonight’s lineup with no Vlad, for the first time this year. I suppose he can have a game off every 36. But Springer is back and hitting at the top of the lineup.

Go Jays Go.

The Nats have a bad home record at 4-12. However, part of that is due to the teams they have played. They have already faced the Dodgers, Braves and Brewers at Nats Park. Now, they will get a lighter touch against the Twins. They need to take advantage of this and boost their home record.

With Luis Garcia Jr. nursing a wrist injury, Curtis Mead will be at first base against a righty. Daylen Lile will hit second, with Blake Butera looking to get his left fielder going. Jorbit Vivas will get the nod at third base over Brady House. Keibert Ruiz will be behind the plate after showing some signs of life with the bat in the Brewers series. Cade Cavalli has struck out 10 in back to back starts, and he gets the ball tonight.

The Twins lineup is headlined by their leadoff hitter Byron Buxton. We will also get to see fan favorite Josh Bell back at Nationals Park. I am sure he will get a nice little ovation. Catcher Ryan Jeffers has been one of the Twins hottest hitters lately and he will hit third. Taj Bradley is finally translating his excellent stuff into results this year, and will be a tough pitcher for this Nats lineup to crack.

Game Info:

Stadium: Nationals Park

Time: 6:45 PM EST

TV: Nationals.TV

Radio: 106.7 The Fan

This series is an opportunity for the Nats to build momentum, but it is also a potential land mine. The Twins are going to view this as a get right series as well. This is a matchup of two evenly matched teams and I am excited to see it. Follow along in the comments down below and let’s go Nats.

First, the good news. The Red Sox got a slew of cautiously optimistic injury updates this afternoon from Comerica Park in Detroit. First up, Roman Anthony:

He won’t be available these last couple of games in Detroit, but in the grand scheme of things, this is far from the worst update we could have gotten today.

Next up, Sonny Gray and Ranger Suarez:

If we fill in the rest of the blanks here and get Ranger Suarez to start Saturday and then Payton Tolle on Sunday before the off day on Monday, the Red Sox may finally be tracking towards a scenario where they can get Brayan Bello out of the rotation. (Fingers crossed!)

Unfortunately though, they won’t be able to keep him off the mound tonight. Now as you’ll probably notice in the lineups below, the Red Sox are actually not starting Brayan Bello tonight — instead going with Jovani Moran. Bello however will likely appear as the bulk guy somewhere in the game as the Red Sox play lefty / righty matchups and try to minimize the bullpen damage as much as possible. It’s a last ditch effort to try and make a Bello game competitive (good luck with that!).

In fact, the effects of his ineffectiveness are reaching all the way down to Worcester as we got this tweet from Tommy Cassell today.

In other words, even the team is preparing for another Bello bludgeoning.

If all that wasn’t bad enough, take a look at tonight’s lineup. There’s no Roman Anthony as we discussed above, but there’s also no Masataka Yoshida and Marcelo Mayer because there’s a lefty on the mound. It gets even worse when you consider that lefty is Framber Valdez and that his 3.35 ERA this year is being inflated by one bad start in Minnesota where he gave up eight runs. In the other six combined outings, he’s only given up seven earned runs in 35.1 innings.

Oh, and in addition to all of this, Garrett Whitlock and Aroldis Chapman have both pitched in back to back games, so Chad Tracy is probably going to want to stay away from them tonight if possible.

In other words, the only reason to expect a win from the Red Sox in this game is because baseball is baseball and at times it likes to be the dumbest sport ever and produce stunningly unexplainable results. Short of that happening though, the Red Sox have already kind of won in the big picture today with those injury updates, so we’ll just have to suffer through tonight.

⚾️ First Pitch: 6:40pm — Comerica Park, Detroit, MI

📺 TV: NESN

📻 Radio: WEEI

Due to inclement weather passing through the St. Louis area, tonight’s game against the Cardinals has been postponed. It will be made up as part of a split doubleheader between the two teams on July 7, the next time the Brewers visit St. Louis. The makeup game will be at 1:15 p.m. and the scheduled game will take place at 6:45 p.m.

Unfortunately, this new date will present a challenge for the Brewers. Between June 26 and July 12, the Brewers had 17 games in a row scheduled without an off day. Now, that stretch will be extended to 18 games in 17 days. Between June 16 and July 12, the team will have just one day off. The only good news is that stretch happens right before the All-Star Break, which will give the team a chance to recover.

On the Cardinals side, they were currently in a streak of 17 games in a row before this postponed game and are scheduled to fly to San Diego after tomorrow’s game. They will also have to play 14 games in 13 days leading up to the All-Star Break with the rescheduled game.

For tomorrow, the updated starters are still TBD. Brandon Sproat was scheduled to face Andre Pallante tonight, with a TBD starter — expected to be Jacob Misiorowski — facing Matthew Liberatore tomorrow. The teams have not announced if they are updating those starters.

First pitch is scheduled for 12:45 p.m. tomorrow. The forecast is clear of inclement weather so that game should happen as scheduled.

It’s been a rough couple of days for the Orioles. That series in the Bronx was an absolute disaster, and it likely has the entire clubhouse on edge. Those games felt like they were from another era. It had early-2000s vibes, a time when the Yankees still had most of the players from their dynasty of the 1990s, and the Orioles were in the midst of a run that featured exactly zero winning seasons between 1998 and 2011.

No major changes for the O’s are on the immediate horizon though. That’s likely because it’s May. There is little to be done. The team simply has to survive this wave. They can either rise above and get their feet under them, or they can be pulled under and crushed by the weight of it all. Fingers crossed.

Chris Bassitt is on the bump. He has been one of the team’s bright spots lately. Over his last four starts he has thrown a total of 21.2 innings and has a 2.92 ERA. The peripherals aren’t as pretty (4.16 FIP, eight walks, 14 strikeouts), but we will take what we can get right now.

The Marlins aren’t coming in with the best form. They lost three of four to the Phillies this weekend, and scored a total of six runs over their last three games. So, maybe the Orioles actually have a chance? We’ll see.

Orioles lineup

1. Gunnar Henderson, SS
2. Taylor Ward, LF
3. Dylan Beavers, DH
4. Pete Alonso, 1B
5. Samuel Basallo, C
6. Leody Tavares, CF
7. Colton Cowser, RF
8. Cpby Mayo, 3B
9. Blaze Alexander, 2B

RHP Chris Bassitt (2-2, 5.46 ERA)

Marlins lineup

1. Xavier Edwards, 2B
2. Liam Hicks, 1B
3. Otto Lopez, SS
4. Kyle Stowers, LF
5. Jakob Marsee, CF
6. Connor Norby, DH
7. Joe Mack, C
8. Owen Caissie, RF
9. Graham Pauley, 3B

LHP Sandy Alcantara (3-2, 3.04 ERA)

Texas Rangers @ New York Yankees

Tuesday, May 5, 2026, 6:05 PM CDT (105.3 The Fan / Rangers Sports Network)

Yankee Stadium

RHP Jacob deGrom vs. RHP Elmer Rodriguez

Go Rangers!

The Athletics head back to the City of Brotherly Love today to start a three-game series against the Philadelphia Phillies at Citizen Bank Park. Less than a week ago You’d say these two teams were headed in opposite directions with the A’s leading the American League West, and the Phillies at the bottom of the National League East. But after firing their manager, Rob Thomson and replacing him with former Dodgers and Marlins skipper Don Mattingly, they have gone 7-3, climbed out of the cellar and are playing much closer to their expectations.

Luis Severino will take the mound for the A’s this afternoon. Severino is 2-2, with a 4.46 ERA in seven starts this season. He’s coming off two consecutive Quality Starts (QS) where he’s notched wins. Severino will face off against Cristopher Sánchez for Philadelphia. Sánchez is 2-2 with a 2.90 ERA this season with 40.1 innings pitched. He’ll go up against this lineup for Mark Kotsay’s A’s today:

Severino will take on this lineup for the Phillies today:

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On the surface, just about everything that Cincinnati Reds lefty Andrew Abbott has been throwing this year is the same as it was during his All Star campaign in 2025.

His fastball, never a true heater, is within 0.4 mph of last year’s average, and obviously he’s been pitching in the cooler weather of April. It’s usage is almost identical, and he’s leaned on his curveball and change just about the same exact amount this year as last. He’s virtually abandoned his cutter (just 0.3% of his pitches this year), but even last season it was used just 4.3% of the time.

The only thing that jumps off the page when breaking down his stuff this year is that his velocities on his secondary pitches have been oddly off. While he chucked his curve at 81.0 mph on average last year, it’s nearly two full mph slower in 2026 (79.3 mph). Meanwhile, the speed on his change has bumped up almost a full mph to 85.7 from 84.8 last season.

It should maybe come as no surprise that the pitch values, per FanGraphs, on those two pitches have cratered as he has struggled to begin 2026. However, his fastball last season – a pitch that was valued as one of the 21 best in the sport among pitchers who threw 100+ IP – has lost almost all of its value.

One particularly interesting bit on how his season-over-season stuff has changed, though, is with his arm angle. Per Statcast, his 2025 season saw him pitch with a 48 degree arm angle, yet that’s increased to 52 degrees so far in 2026. Whether that’s by design I do not know, but that seems like a significant enough change that maybe, just maybe, it’s what’s tweaking his ability to locate his pitches.

Abbott’s 4/30 start against the Colorado Rockies was his best since Opening Day, though that, of course, came against the Colorado Rockies. The hope is that on Tuesday against the Chicago Cubs in Wrigley, he’ll be able to once again show that he’s rounding back into form and that the bulk of his April drubbing was the exception, not the rule.

He’ll be up against Jameson Taillon in the second game of the series after last night’s devastating walk-off loss. The Reds are mired in a 4-game losing streak as they road trip through the NL Central, and man, would it ever be nice to see them pick themselves up off the mat and get a victory to shake those trees.

First pitch is set for 7:40 PM ET, with hopefully fewer weather issues than last night.

Here’s how the Reds will line up for the start:

First Pitch: 5:45 PM CDT

TV: Twins.TV

Radio: TIBN, WCCO 830, The Wolf 102.9 FM, Audacy App, LosTwins.com

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The Twins start their road trip in Washington, and will face the Nationals 2022 first round pick, RHP Cade Cavalli. On the mound for the Twins will be Taj Bradley.