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The Tampa Bay Rays picked up a 6-4 win over the Los Angeles Dodgers to even the World Series at 1-1 on Wednesday. They’ll reconvene for Game 3 here with Walker Buehler on the mound for Los Angeles while Charlie Morton takes the hill for the Rays. This is a mismatch on the mound, and I’m rolling with the Dodgers on the run line. Morton is 36 and over the hill now, and he had a 4.74 ERA during the regular season. Buehler on the other hand has been dominant, with a 1.89 ERA and 29 strikeouts in 19 postseason innings this year. Tampa Bay winning Game 2 wasn’t surprising since they had the pitching edge, but they won’t have Blake Snell to save them in this one. The Rays have topped five runs only once in their last 12 games, and they simply aren’t explosive enough offensively to keep up with Los Angeles. The Dodgers easily could be up 2-0 as well, but they wasted plenty of chances. That won’t happen again here.
Even though I’m taking the run line I also think the under makes some sense here, since I don’t see the Rays scoring much at all. As I mentioned above they’ve had an extremely low ceiling during the playoffs, and in Buehler’s last time out he tossed six scoreless innings against an elite Braves lineup with a lot more pop than this Tampa one. Tampa has a .213 batting average during the playoffs to go with a pitiful .703 OPS, and they strikeout more than any other team in the league. Against a strikeout artist like Buehler, that’s a recipe for disaster. Los Angeles also hasn’t quite been themselves offensively recently, and the Rays have a very strong bullpen. I think this will easily be the lowest scoring game of this series so far.
The biggest theme of MLB betting is ‘opportunity.’ That’s because teams usually play 162 games a year and on any given day from April to October there are up to 15 games to wager on. The 2020 MLB schedule is different as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, with a shortened 60-game regular season set to take place, but daily MLB wagering opportunities will still be available. This means if your MLB predictions get hot, you can really build up your bankroll quickly. It also means that if you have a not-so-great day at the sportsbook window, you can get right back on the horse the next day whereas, in the NFL for example, you have to wait nearly a week to get back into your picks.
As with all major sports, the 2020 MLB schedule has been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. With the best part of the first four months of the scheduled 2020, Baseball season lost due to the lockdown, the MLB and MLBPA finalized a return-to-play plan on June 23, with the teams’ reporting on July 1st and the MLB opening night 2020 set for July 23rd followed by MLB Opening Day 2020 on July 24.
The delayed start to the season is not the only change to the 2020 MLB schedule, with much of the season’s lost, a 60-game regular season with an expanded 16-team MLB postseason has been agreed upon.
The MLB playoffs expansion will feature 16 instead of the usual 10 teams, with the top two teams in each division earning an automatic berth to the MLB playoffs. The seventh and eighth teams in each league will be chosen from the best records remaining. With 16 teams instead of 10, there will be no one-game wild-card round this year, with the first round being best-of-3, followed by best-of-5 and best-of-7 rounds in the LCS and World Series.
Also, in order to limit travel distances, each team’s regular season will consist of playing their divisional opponents 10 times, with the rest of their 2020 MLB schedule against their geographic counterpart in the other league, for example, AL East vs NL east
While the current situation is fluid, and subject to change, MLB has outlined a season, right the way through to the 2020 World Series, and all of the key dates for the 2020 MLB schedule as they stand, can be seen below.
Parity is such a thing in baseball with 162-games, in theory, the top teams should rise to the top, with only a 60-game regular season, injuries, poor form, and all other key factors in making our MLB picks and predictions could be exacerbated. In this shortened season our expert’s knowledge and analysis are as important as ever to successful wagering on the 2020 MLB season, so be sure to check out our MLB best bets for our top plays on today’s games.
With the situation MLB and MLBPA have found themselves in, changes had to be made in order to get the MLB season 2020 up and running, those changes include the number of games, personnel, and include a few key rules changes that you must keep in mind when making your MLB Picks and Predictions throughout the 2020 MLB season.
The key Changes to the 2020 MLB Season can be seen below.
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The most popular way to bet on MLB is via the Moneyline. This means games are basically handicapped based on each of the team’s starting pitchers. “Sure thing” pitchers such as Jacob deGrom, Max Scherzer, and Clayton Kershaw are going to cost you, often requiring a $200 or more wager to make $100 (-200). Finding an even pitching matchup or one of those stud pitchers that may be fatigued and going against them is the best way to make money in MLB betting. Our free MLB expert picks help you identify these profitable matchups for every game of the baseball season.
The spread in baseball is known as ‘the run line’. Many bettors feel there isn’t as much value laying -200 on an all-star caliber pitcher because even elite pitchers can turn the game over to his bullpen who will subsequently blow the game and cost them the win. Therefore betting on the run line (-1.5 or +1.5) is a great way to find better MLB prices compared to the Moneyline. A Clayton Kershaw pick on the ML (win outright) for example might be -240 but betting that same game to win by 2 runs or more (run line) could be priced at -120. MLB run line betting works in the opposite way too. There are a lot of 1-run games in baseball and betting on a team +1.5 runs is a great way to string together wagering wins if you think teams can keep games close.
There’s no other sport where the stadiums and the weather are so crucial to the scoring as the MLB. This is why our free MLB picks on the totals see almost as much wagering from the public as the sides of a game.
The dimensions of the MLB parks are also different and need to be factored in when making your MLB predictions. Coors Field for example is located in the high altitude of Denver, Colorado which means it’s not unlikely to see scores similar to 11-8 three or four times a week. Minute Maid Park in Houston for example has a left-field wall that is just 315 feet from home plate compared to AT&T Park in San Francisco that has a right-center field alley of 421 feet.
Weather is a major factor when picking our MLB predictions today. The ball travels better on 92 degree Summer days in Arlington, Texas, or when the wind is blowing out to left field at 23 MPH at Wrigley Field in Chicago. So before you head to the window make sure you check the weather report to give your ticket the best chance of cashing.
There are numerous ways to have success betting on MLB. For example, if you are confident in a team’s starting pitching but have reservations on their bullpen and relievers, sportsbooks offer the first 5 innings lines.
Also if you are really confident in a particular matchup you can bet on alternate run lines or taking a team to win by -2.5 or even -3.5 runs with increasing payouts. Another fun way to essentially bet on all MLB games of the day at once is with a grand salami wager, in which you’re wagering on the over/under for total runs scored in all games on a given day. There’s plenty of fun to be had on a daily basis with our MLB predictions.
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