Right pitching matchup, plus price value and a season-long 81 percent winning trend all factor in making this Stephen Nover's top June run line play.
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Today’s Free Picks
| Sport | Game Selection | Game Time |
|---|---|---|
| MLB | (979) Oakland Athletics at (980) San Francisco Giants | 9:45pm EDT - Jun 23/2026 |
The PLAY: San Francisco Giants -125 Aaron Civale (RHP), Robbie Ray (LHP) Must Start
It was bound to happen. Journeyman A's starter Aaron Civale is proving inadequate.
Civale, who had a 5.37 ERA last year, has allowed 18 earned runs during his last three starts spanning 12 innings. That's an ERA of 13.50 for Civale, who is on his sixth team.
The A's also have the third highest bullpen ERA at 5.02.
The Giants are home and going with Robbie Ray. He is 3-1 with a 3.55 ERA when pitching at home. He draws an A's line-up missing one of its best power hitters, injured Brent Rooker.
Consultant Bio
Stephen Nover is unique among professional handicappers. A multiple award-winning sportswriter for numerous newspapers, including the Las Vegas Review-Journal, Nover has one the best combinations of gambling and media sources in the world.
The author of two sports gambling books, "Las Vegas Sports Beat" and "Sports Gaming Beat", along with a book on fantasy football titled, "Winning Fantasy Football", Nover is a former professor at the University of Nevada-Las Vegas having taught a football handicapping class there. He also was the co-host of the Sunday night sports betting radio show "The Stardust Line" during the 1990's.
Parlaying nearly 50 years worth of professional gambling experience with tremendous knowledge of the players through elite deep-roster Rotisserie leagues and building on copious gaming and media sources - having worked for newspapers in the Midwest, South and West and also for legendary Hall of Fame oddsmaker Roxy Roxborough - Nover is a true Las Vegas wise guy. He helped learn his craft from such masters as Roxborough, Dave Malinsky, Lem Banker and Russ Culver.
Part of what makes Nover so special is the pride he takes in writing his deep-dive analysis, which always is unique, well-researched and sometimes entails out-of-the-box thinking.