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Heading into Tuesday’s action the Cleveland Indian’s hadn’t scored more than 4 runs in their last 8 games. The team is sitting near the bottom in team hitting batting .236. Aaron Laffey is coming off 3 excellent starts allowing only 2 earned runs in 21 innings pitched. Laffey sports a very good WHIP at 0.82. WHIP measures walks and hits to innings pitched and the lower the better. Low WHIP means you don’t give up baserunners and when you don’t give up baserunners you don’t give up big innings. The White Sox are sitting in first place through the first 43 games of the season even with Mark Buerle sitting 2-5 with an ERA over 5. Buerle is coming off a good start against he weak hitting Giants surrendering only 1 earned run in 6 + innings of work. But Cleveland has gone under in 14 of their last 16 games with weak hitting and outstanding starting pitching. Let’s go under again with the Indians. Play this one under 9 runs.