In their last two matches against the Texas Rangers, the Yankees have put on nine runs on the board for both games and in today's series decider, they will be hoping to increase their lead on closest rivals Boston. At current, New York are exactly six games ahead of the second place team and with forty odd games to go, if they do put a few more games onto the win column these two weeks, it should be smooth sailing for them. The Yankees have the best home record in baseball, with a proud achievement of 42-19. As for the overall record, they could be the first team in the majors to reach the eighty game winning mark today.

Texas are a decent team but against the so called bigger teams, they do lack the necessary cutting edge in their pitching staff to cause any sort of worry. The Ranger's pitcher for the game will be Nippert, who have struggled to find his form over the last few weeks. In fact he has not last past the sixth inning for quite some time now already. As for the home side, Burnett will take the hill and I expect another dominating performance from him after his complete collapse against the Rex Sox in his last start.

Pick: NY Yankees win by 7 runs or more @8.00