After the feared ‘zig-zag’ pattern produced a dud Saturday, Mark likes Chicago’s team total over 4.5 at plus money. He’s banking on the Sox bats— which had topped that number in three of their previous five—to rebound against an Angels staff that owns a 5.18 ERA over the last two weeks and could be short several high-leverage relievers on a Sunday getaway day.

Cash Out Sports Picks recommended backing the Los Angeles Angels on the money-line in Friday’s series opener with Chicago. The tout noted that Los Angeles has been the second-most profitable AL club this season and has cashed eight of Tyler Anderson’s last ten starts against sub-.500 opponents. Anderson owns strong home splits and the Angels have taken six of their last seven series openers with him. Chicago, still without a named starter and ranking 29th in slugging, provides little resistance. With a dependable home arm and a lifeless White Sox offense, the Angels are the pick.

B Wade took Luis Robert over 1.5 hits + runs + RBIs, noting the outfielder has cleared that combo in nine of ten games since the break, missing only once against the Cubs. Chicago is blitzing pitchers for 7.5 runs per game in that stretch (ten, ten, seven, eight, eleven, four, six, three, nine). Robert is 2-for-5 lifetime off Friday starter Tyler Anderson, and Wade expects the White Sox’s offensive surge—plus Anderson’s recent struggles—to keep Robert’s counting-stat train rolling.

B Wade said to smash the over on Tyler Anderson allowing 2.5 earned runs. Anderson has been touched up in 7 of his last 10 outings and surrendered four earned to this same club a season ago. The Angels’ staff as a whole has "become unraveled" and now faces a Chicago lineup averaging 7.5 runs in nine games since the All-Star break, including five double-digit explosions and 18 total runs in their recent three-game set with Philadelphia. Wade expects that hot stretch to carry right into Friday, projecting at least three runs on Anderson before the bullpen even shows.