Ricky Dimon
The week in Major League Baseball continues with an outrageous 19-game schedule on Wednesday. That’s right; a full slate plus 4 postponements and suspensions due to weather bring us a smorgasbord of betting opportunities on this schedule. The YRFI/NRFI market is extremely popular in baseball betting. After all, you don’t have to sit around for 3 hours to see if your wager hits; the satisfaction (or in some cases disappointment) is immediate. It all comes down to the first inning. I have been in fine form so far this season, with a 45-33-2 record on best bets while going 4-for-9 on Same Game Parlays at +481, +632, +439 and +600 odds and 7-3 on YRFI/NRFI plays. Here are my favorite YRFI/NRFI bets for Wednesday, and also be sure to check out all of our MLB picks after our experts went 62-30 for +46.6 units last week!
YRFI/NRFI best bet: Yankees vs Blue Jays – YRFI (-104)
Odds available at FanDuel Sportsbook at time of publishing
A run being scored early has great appeal in this YRFI/NRFI market. Jose Berrios is taking the mound on Wednesday, which is normally good news for Toronto. Unfortunately for Berrios, Aaron Judge is 14-for-37 lifetime against him with 5 home runs, 2 doubles and 5 walks; Cody Bellinger is 4-for-6 with a homer and 2 walks. New York scored twice in the first inning of Tuesday’s showdown and it has a great chance of putting at least 1 on the board during the opening frame today.
The Yankees are countering with Will Warren, who comes in with a 4.37 ERA and 1.32 WHIP. He surrendered 2 first-inning runs to Baltimore a couple of starts ago and gave up 3 runs in the first 3 innings to the Angels right before that. In other words, getting out of the gates has been a struggle for him of late. The O’s have scored a ridiculous 42 runs in their last 5 games, so Warren could be in trouble early and often on Wednesday.
Read our full Yankees vs Blue Jays prediction for tonight
YRFI/NRFI best bet: Giants vs Diamondbacks – NRFI (-120)
Odds available at DraftKings Sportsbook at time of publishing
Look for the bats to be much quieter when the Giants and Diamondbacks collide in Arizona. This projects to be a nice pitching matchup between Landen Roupp of the G-Men and Merrill Kelly of the Snakes. Roupp comes in with a 3.43 ERA and has not allowed a single earned run in his past 2 starts across 11.1 innings; Kelly is sporting a 3.49 ERA and 1.07 WHIP after compiling a 2.79 ERA in June.
San Francisco has crossed the plate a grand total of 6 times during its current 4-game losing streak. Leadoff batter Mike Yastrzemski is 9-for-43 lifetime against Kelly and Rafael Devers is 1-for-9. Nobody on Arizona’s active roster has gotten more than 1 hit all time off Roupp, so there is little to no familiarity with him in that matchup. The NRFI cashed in each of the first 2 contests of this series and I expect more of the same on Wednesday night as the second of my YRFI/NRFI best bets.
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