FanDuel Sportsbook: Wednesday MLB Bets to Consider
No NBA today, so I’m finally back to digging into baseball. Using MLB odds from the FanDuel Sportsbook, I’ll dive into my best bets for Wednesday’s night slate.
We have a few underdogs popping in plus spots plus one favorite out West in a late game, so there will plenty of action to track throughout the evening. Let’s get into it…
Rays +108 Full Game, +100 F5 – I’m betting this one for both the first five innings and the full game. The Rays are a profitable team both against left-handed pitchers and as home underdogs, so I really like this spot getting some juice coming off a loss to a tougher lefty in Clayton Kershaw. Tampa does have their share of strikeout issues against lefties, but they boast a few potent RHBs at the top of the lineup and are a fairly patient bunch with a 10% walk rate against southpaws. I also tend to like being on the Rays side when they use an opener like Stanek, so I’m hopping aboard the Rays train tonight and counting on them to get back in the win column at home.
Phillies +150 Full Game – The Phillies will get to face off with a familiar arm in Cole Hamels, while the Cubs will do battle with soft-tossing lefty Cole Irvin. Both games in this series so far have come down to the last inning with the Phillies blowing a save last night after the Cubs did the same thing the night prior. I don’t see a big enough difference here for the Phillies to be getting +150 here. Philadelphia is another patient bunch against LHP (9.6% walk rate) and the only lefty they are likely to throw out there is Bryce Harper, so I’ll take the plus money on the away team here.
Twins -120 Full Game, -136 F5 – This is another game I’m likely to bet both the full game and first five innings. Minnesota will continue their trip out west against Matt Harvey tonight, something that should make the Twins left-handed bats salivate. Harvey has struck out six in each of his last two outings, but should have trouble maintaining that here against a Twins team that has the third lowest K-rate against RHP. If your book has a Harvey strikeout prop in the 4.5 range, I’d be comfortable with the under there. On the other side of this matchup, Martin Perez has looked like a totally different pitcher in 2019, finally showing some strikeout upside. Like Harvey, he’ll have a hard time maintaining against an Angels team that strikes out even less than the Twins, but I like his chances to neutralize the non-Trout bats in this lineup. They are sending three lefties out there with Jonathan Lucroy in the clean-up spot.
Nationals -112 Full Game, -116 F5 – I like this one a little better on the full game but wouldn’t have any issues betting the first five on the Nationals side. We’ll see two of the best pitchers the game has to offer tonight, although I’m on the Nationals side for a few reasons. The Mets lineup looks putrid this evening, as they’ll send just one lefty up to face Scherzer (Robinson Cano) and the back-half of this lineup looks incredibly weak in this matchup. It also doesn’t hurt that deGrom is coming off of his worst start of the year against the lowly Marlins. I certainly don’t like the Nationals chances of hanging a big number on deGrom, but I think they can do enough here to give Scherzer enough of a cushion here. He shouldn’t have much of an issue racking up strikeouts against this right-handed heavy lineup.