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 … Read more
An international team is 5/7 (-140) to win the title, with the American side at 1/1 (+100). Texas leads the American bracket at 5/2, ahead of California at 3/1 and New Jersey at 4/1. South Korea heads the international bracket at 2/1, followed by Nicaragua … Read more
Klassen has walked 15 in 14 2/3 major league innings, a 9.20 rate nearly triple the league average. Ten of those walks came in two April starts, and his latest outing went six innings with one walk. Alvarez has drawn 86 walks, fourth in MLB, … Read more
Max Fried is on the 15-day injured list with a left elbow bone bruise and cannot return before Aug. 29. Fried leaves at 4-4 with a 2.81 ERA over 15 starts, his second elbow injury of the season. Carlos Rodon starts Tuesday against Baltimore, his … Read more
Shane McClanahan starts Monday’s finale against Baltimore, his first major league outing since a July 30 back injury. He carries a 3.09 ERA over 99 innings with a 3.35 FIP, so the run prevention is earned. His edge is home run suppression at 0.64 per … Read more
Milwaukee won the season series 4-3, taking the tiebreaker that breaks any National League seeding tie. The Brewers are 77-48, the best record in baseball, three games ahead of the 74-51 Dodgers. Milwaukee is +850 to win the World Series, a price implying about 10.5%, … Read more
LOS ANGELES – The Los Angeles Dodgers have-185 odds to avenge Thursday’s loss to the Milwaukee Brewers with Yoshinobu Yamamoto on the mound. Milwaukee has -140 odds to cover the +1.5-run line in a game with large implications on NL Pennant odds. Milwaukee Brewers vs … Read more
SAN DIEGO – National League pennant odds haven’t changed much at the top since last week’s update, but the Milwaukee Brewers extended their lead atop the table. Milwaukee now has a three-game lead over the Los Angeles Dodgers (-120) and Atlanta Braves (+575), but the … Read more
LOS ANGELES – For the first time all season, Shohei Ohtani has been dethroned as the betting favorite to win a third-consecutive NL MVP. Chicago Cubs’ Pete Crow-Armstrong now holds -120 legal sports betting to win the MVP award. National League MVP Odds Pete Crow-Armstrong … Read more
Rushing has a partial UCL tear in his right elbow and is shut down from throwing for up to six weeks. Will Smith, out since June 5 with an inflamed disk in his neck, needs three to four more weeks. Deadline pickups Hunter Feduccia and … Read more
A mild left oblique strain put James Wood on the Nationals’ 10-day injured list Tuesday. Wood leads the majors with 100 runs and 90 walks, and has 30 home runs in 114 games. He ranked third in MLB.com’s most recent National League MVP poll, behind … Read more
LOS ANGELES – Tarik Skubal makes his Los Angeles Dodgers debut on Tuesday night with a 7.5-strikeout projection against the Chicago Cubs. The Dodgers have -216 legal sports betting odds to win the game, but there are +115 odds for Skubal not to be credited … Read more