Sports Handicapper Joey Tron's Picks & Predictions

I like the Phillies to win this game on the road in a National League battle after beating the Padres after beating them last night 9-3. The Phillies are sending one of their aces in Ranger Suarez (4-0 ; 1.36 ERA) to the hill who has had a stellar 2024 campaign. He has won his last 4 starts, including allowing just 2 ERs and 6 hits across 13 IP on the road this season. Suarez has good splits against a handful of the Padres batters and can stop them like he has in the past, holding a 2-0 record in his career against the Padres. San Diego is sending Dylan Cease (3-1 ; 1.82 ERA) to the hill who has also had a really good star to the season. Dylan Cease realies heavily on teams striking out as he's done it 7+ times in 4 straight starts, however the Phillies are 18th in K rate, which gives us a huge advantage here, in addition to Dylan Cease not having good splits against a handful of the Phillies lineup. Cease has not faired well pitching in his home ball parks and is 10-12 at home since 2022. The Phillies are 7-4 on the road and the Padres are 6-9 at home. Take the Phillies ML here. -Joey Tron

I like this game between the Islanders and Canes to go UNDER 5.5 goals in this Game 4 match up. The Islanders are on life support down 3-0 in the series and need to do everything in their power to keep this one low scoring. The Islanders are starting Semyon Varlamov who as allowed an average of 3 goals in both his starts in G1 and G2. The Islanders lost control of game 2, however they played better defensively in G1 and G3 and I look for a rebound game from the Isles on their home ice. The Canes defense has been flawless in this series allowing just 6 total goals, and holding the Isles to 2 or less in two of them. The Islanders are going to have to play STRONG defense all 60 mins if they want a chance at flying to Raleigh for Game 5. The under is 3-1 the L4 meetings between these two teams.. Play the UNDER 5.5 goals here. -Joey Tron

I like the Nuggets to cover this spread on the road tonight and end the series with a sweep. The Lakers looked read to go home towards the end of last game and that 2nd half comeback by Denver sucked the life out of the Lakers. The Nuggets have dominated the Lakers since last playoffs series where they swept them 4-0 and theirs no reason they cannot do it again tonight. Denver has been out playing Lakers all series, and AD has no response to Murray or Jokic. The Nuggets have now out rebounded the Lakers 145 to 116 and that is truly the difference in this series. The Nuggets are getting plenty of second chance scoring chances and are limiting the Lakers rebounds on offense preventing them for scoring. Denver is too lethal from different areas on the court for the Lakers to stop them. This game can get ugly down the wire. Lay the points with the Nuggets here. -Joey Tron