T.M. Selection: Diamondbacks/Padres OVER.

I am on the over in the Arizona Diamondbacks vs San Diego Padres game on Sunday. The Diamondbacks have played in 5 games in a row now with 7+ runs total in them. That is not enough to go over this posted total here but I think this is going to be a high scoring game and I expect to see runs from both teams like we have seen in the 1st 2 games of this series. Both teams have been putting up runs in this series and that has also been a common theme for both in their previous series too. The Padres have had 7 games in a row now with 7+ runs total in them but 6/7 of those had 8+ runs in them which would have went over the total here. Merrill Kelly (8-5, 3.36 ERA) is up for the D-Backs here and he looked great at the beginning of the year but he looked a bit shaky in June and has been giving up some runs in every start now consistently over his previous 6 starts. His worst start this season also came in a road game and I think he is going to give up runs in this road game since the padres have been hot with their bats lately, putting up a ton of runs themselves. Mike Clevinger (2-2, 3.79 ERA) is up for the Padres here and he also had a great start to the year but has looked quite shaky in his 2 most recent starts. He gave up 4 runs in 2 starts in a row now and I think he is going to have another game like that with the D-Backs putting up runs lately. I think this could be a closer game with both teams scoring runs back and forth and I see each team driving up the score here as they both look to take a lead. I'm expecting some runs here, I like the over in this game.

T.M. Prediction: 6-5 Padres.