The Minnesota Twins are chasing the Kansas City Royals for the AL Central lead sitting 5.5 games back and made up some ground with a 10-1 annihilation of the New York Yankees last night. I like them to carry that momentum over to tonight's contest and I think we're getting terrific value on the home-team in this match-up.

Here are my keys to the game:

1. Pitching - The Yankees hand the ball to CC Sabathia (4-8, 5.25 ERA) who's off a solid home start against Seattle when he yielded only one run on six hits in six innings of a 2-1 win. Outings like that have been few and far between for the veteran southpaw this season though, and considering how the Twins swung their bats yesterday he's likely to regress back to normal tonight. The Twins will counter with Tommy Milone (5-2, 3.38) who lasted only 2 2/3 innings his last start when he was torched for seven runs (five earned) on five hits in a 14-1 loss at Oakland. He had yielded only a total of seven runs over his last six starts prior though, and he's won three straight at home behind a 1.80 ERA.

2. Situational - The Yankees have lost four of their last five as a road favorite of -110 to -150 and are 1-6 in Sabathia's last seven starts following a Quality Start in his last appearance.

3. X-Factor - Torii Hunter was 2-for-5 with a homer in last night's contest and he has plenty of experience against Sabathia going 21-for-76 (.276) with eight doubles and three homers.

Selection: This is a play on the Minnesota Twins (10*)