The Yankees have won six straight matches going into tonight's game and they will be looking confident when Andy Petite returns to the mound after the horrific outing at Atlanta five days ago. The right hander pitcher followed up by a decent start to allow a total of seven hits and three earned runs over three innings which was one of his worst performance of the season. However, I do believe that he will recover and post yet another quality and moreover his era is respectable. In Petite's last two losses, he has rebounded with solid wins and it could be a case again today.

The Mariners are also pretty good right now but I do not think they will be good enough to last the whole nine innings especially with the shaky bull pen that they have. The Mariners do tend to concede late devastating runs and even if the Yankees fall behind in the game, the number of times they have overturned deficits in key situations in 2009 is more than any other team. Petite will just have to prevent Ichiro Suzuki from reaching the bases but even if he does not, Petite has a very high success rate of pick off this year and I do not think the Seattle club will outscore the home team in tonight's second game of the series.

Pick: NY Yankees -1.5 @2.12