- Shohei Ohtani and Pete Crow-Armstrong have homered on the same date seven times this season, including Monday and Tuesday.
- Ohtani carries Wednesday’s second-shortest home run price at +215, with Crow-Armstrong at +300.
- The two play in separate games, so the pairing multiplies out to roughly +1160 as a two-leg parlay.
- Ohtani has 30 homers in 117 games, and Crow-Armstrong has 31 in 127 games with 31 steals.
CHICAGO – Shohei Ohtani and Pete Crow-Armstrong carry two of Wednesday’s shortest home run prices, Ohtani at +215 and Crow-Armstrong at +300, a day after the two homered on the same date for the seventh time this season.
The Prices And What The Parlay Pays
Wednesday’s home run board has Ohtani at +215, second only to Kyle Schwarber at +200, and Crow-Armstrong at +300. A +215 price implies about 32% and +300 implies 25%. Whether either hitter’s real rate of homering on a given day beats what the price pays is the whole question. The implied figure is what the book charges, not a forecast of what happens.
No market posts both of them going deep, because they are not in the same game. A same-game parlay cannot hold legs from two different ballparks, so the combination is ordinary two-leg math: 3.15 multiplied by 4.00 comes to 12.60, or about +1160, a price implying roughly 8%. That compounding is the same structure as betting on a parlay in any other sport, and it is why the payout stretches so far past either single leg.
Home run props sit on the daily player board alongside the game lines at legal MLB betting sites, and they move on lineup and starting-pitcher news. Crow-Armstrong carries the longer of the two prices despite the higher season homer total, and Ohtani’s number is set for a park where he has homered nine times during a 21-game hitting streak.
Seven Shared Homer Dates Through Tuesday
Both game logs land on the same seven calendar dates: June 6, June 13, June 16, June 20, Aug. 5, Aug. 17 and Aug. 18. Three of the seven have come in the last 15 days, and the last two came back to back.
Two of those dates were multi-homer days for both hitters. On Aug. 5 at Wrigley Field they traded leadoff homers in the first inning and each finished with two in a 7-6 Cubs win. On Aug. 17 they each hit two again, roughly 900 miles apart.
Ohtani is hitting .294 with 30 homers and 80 RBIs in 117 games, and his .949 OPS ranks seventh in the National League. Crow-Armstrong is at .282 with 31 homers, 31 steals and a .935 OPS in 127 games. Both figures sit in the range that separates the league’s top bats, and both come over full-season workloads rather than one hot month.
Monday And Tuesday Put The Pattern Back To Back
Crow-Armstrong drove Luis Castillo’s first pitch of Monday’s game over the right-field line for his fifth leadoff homer of the year. He then led off the 10th with a two-run walk-off, his 30th homer, completing a second straight 30-30 season.
Ohtani spent the same night at Coors Field. He took Tomoyuki Sugano deep for a solo shot in the fifth and Juan Mejia for a two-run homer in the sixth in a 4-for-5 night, the second of them landing in a Dodgers reliever’s glove in the bullpen. Ohtani has hit safely in 21 straight games at Coors, batting .413 with nine homers there over that stretch.
Tuesday repeated it in miniature. Crow-Armstrong led off again, a 2-1 four-seamer from Bryan Hudson for his 31st in a 4-3 Cubs win, and Ohtani hit his 30th in a 7-6 Dodgers win over Colorado.
Both Are In The Lineup Picture
Crow-Armstrong started and led off each of the first two games of the Crosstown series, and the Cubs close it against the White Sox at 1:20 p.m. CT Wednesday at Wrigley Field. The Cubs entered the week at 72-53, second in the National League Central; the White Sox were 65-58 and leading the American League Central.
Ohtani has started every game of the Colorado series as the designated hitter and has not pitched since early July. The Dodgers were 74-51 atop the NL West and the Rockies 50-74 entering the week, and the two close the series at Coors Field on Wednesday night. Both prices stay on the daily board at sportsbooks offering legal sports betting until first pitch.
