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The Philadelphia Phillies had a tough time at the start of the season falling way below expectations. When that happens changes are made and it’s always the manager that gets canned. Seven games below .500 at the start of June, the Phils fired Joe Girardi. Seven games later they reached the break-even point. They’ve cooled off a bit since winning their first eight games under interim Rob Thomson and the Phils will be without Bryce Harper, one of the game’s top attractions, when they host the St.... 

It’s a showdown in the Wild West on FOX Saturday Baseball when the San Diego Padres head up I-5 to tangle with the Los Angeles Dodgers in the first meeting in LA between the top two teams in the NL West this season. We typically see more games between division rivals at this juncture of the season, but the clubs are hooking up for just their second series. The Dodgers took two of three in San Diego in April outscoring the Pads 18-6 extending their dominance against their SoCal neighbor. San Dieg... 

Two of the best teams in baseball go at it again on Tuesday when the Houston Astros visit the New York Mets for an interleague tilt. The clubs met just last week in Houston in a possible World Series preview. The Astros swept the two-game series handing the Metropolitans their first losing streak in almost a month. Prior to this season the clubs last met in 2017, they’ll conclude their season series with four games in a week. I guess you could call it a scheduling quirk, but it’s good for the ga... 

You can’t win them all, but the Atlanta Braves sure are trying. They started this month winning 14 straight games and improved to 17-3 in June following a walkoff win over the Giants on Wednesday. Sunday Night Baseball will have the defending champs hosting the Los Angeles Dodgers in a rematch of last season’s NLCS. Atlanta won all three games at Truist Park to take the series in six games extending their home winning streak over LA to five. The Dodgers got a bit of revenge by taking two of thre... 

It’s too bad the Colorado Rockies don’t play NL West rival San Diego more often. They beat the Padres five times in the span of nine days while failing to post a win over another team. The Rox and Minnesota Twins enter this series with records below .500 in interleague play, which isn’t surprising for the last place Rockies. The Twins recently dropped two of three to Arizona in an interleague series and could use victories to stay in the hunt in the AL Central. The teams haven’t met since Colora... 

Don’t look now, but the Atlanta Braves only sit 5-games in back of the NL East leading New York Mets for bragging rights. It was only three weeks ago that Brian Snitker’s troops were staring at a double-digit deficit in the standings! That’s what happens when you rattle off a 13-game win streak to decisively throw your hat back in the ring. It’s certainly within the realm of possibility that it kicks this series off with the San Francisco Giants riding that win streak with the Chicago Cubs on th... 

The Chicago White Sox entered the 2022 MLB betting season the odds-on favorite to win the AL Central and a bonafide contender to win the World Series. With 10+ weeks of the campaign in the books, Tony LaRussa’s troops have grossly failed to live up to expectations. Currently in third place within the division and needing to make up a ton of ground just to get back into the wild card discussion, the team is starting to get back some of the key cogs it’s been forced to play without since Opening D... 

The St. Louis Cardinals and Boston Red Sox haven’t crossed paths on the diamond in interleague play since 2017; that comes to an end this weekend when the teams collide in Beantown. Both teams enter the series white hot with the Redbirds logging wins at online sportsbooks in five of their last six games, while the BoSox have come out triumphant in 10 of their last 12 to remain competitive in the ultra-competitive AL East. Unfortunately for both teams, injuries have wreaked havoc within the rotat... 

The Los Angeles Angels couldn’t have asked for a worse matchup to kick off the week than a trip to Chavez Ravine to run up against the NL West leading Los Angeles Dodgers. Especially with new manager Phil Nevin looking to throw rookie left-hander Reid Detmers to the wolves against Freddie Freeman and Co. who’ve done nothing but bash left-hander pitching to this point of the regular season. Making the task at hand for the Halos all the more tough is the fact that they’ll be running up against Ton... 

The New York Mets hit the betting board as +600 underdogs to win the National League. Buck Showalter has proven that his presence has been enough to propel this underachieving squad into the penthouse suite of the NL through the first nine-plus weeks of the season. As it stands right now, the Mets are the toast of the league with a league-best 38-20 overall record that would allow it to secure home field advantage should the playoffs start right now. Pete Alonso and Co. has done nothing but fatt... 

The San Francisco Giants seemingly picked right back up where they left off a season ago winning ball games and putting money in MLB bettor’s pockets through the first six weeks. Then Gabe Kapler opened his mouth about not coming out for the national anthem and the team hit the skids. I’m not saying it’s the main reason why, but the two occurrences line up congruently. Beginning May 18, the reigning NL West champs have procured a grand total of seven wins in their last 18 tries to fall 5.5-games... 

The Chicago White Sox entered the 2022-23 MLB betting season heavy -200 favorites to run away with the AL Central pennant. Nearly 50 games into the thick of it, Tony LaRussa’s squad is staring up at the Minnesota Twins in the standings five-games out. Chicago however is yet to take to the playing field with its roster fully intact with a number of players having yet to even suit up once while others have routinely been put on the IL or COVID list. The team’s “MO” for now has been to tread water ... 

Two teams traveling similar paths will collide against the MLB betting odds in front of a nationally televised audience on Saturday night when the Los Angeles Angels and Philadelphia Phillies pick their series back up from the City of Brotherly Love. Joe Maddon’s squad is struggling mightily right now having dropped six straight games at online sportsbooks after getting bludgeoned by the Yankees in Tuesday’s series opener. It hasn’t been much better for Joe Girardi’s squad who just dropped a fif... 

The New York Yankees went into this past weekend’s extended series with the Tampa Bay Rays owners of a 4.5-game lead atop the AL East standings. They came out of it with the exact same lead after earning the split. It marked their second failure to win a series at online sportsbooks in their last three tries. Even so, Aaron Boone’s troops own one of the best home records in the game and get six straight in front of the hometown faithful over the next week starting with a struggling bunch of Los Angeles Angels who just allowed the Toronto Blue Jays to go into the “Big A” and sweep a four game series from them. Joe Maddon’s troops lost some ground in the AL West standings because of it. More importantly, he lost a major bullet with 3B Anthony Rendon hitting the IL due to wrist inflammation. NY also has its fair share of injury concerns with Giancarlo Stanton, Josh Donaldson, Aroldis Chapman, Jonathan Loaisiga, and Chad Green all not returning anytime soon. With the bullpen ailing, NY will need Nestor Cortes to continue pitching well above expectations. I believe he will! First pitch for the non-divisional AL tilt between the Los Angeles Angels and New York Yankees is scheduled for Wednesday, June 1, 2022. Take it in live on FS1 at 7:05 p.m. ET from Yankee Stadium. Bet on MLB odds and player props at BookMaker.eu every day of the season. ... 

The Los Angeles Angels rate out as one of only seven American League teams that own a +.500 record to this point of the MLB betting season. Even so, online sportsbooks currently have 10 teams lined with shorter odds to win the World Series. Is Joe Maddon’s squad one MLB bettors can seriously trust? It’ll finally get a chance to prove it belongs with a huge series in the Bronx against Aaron Judge and the AL East leading New York Yankees to kick off the week. It’ll prove to be a breath of fresh ai... 

The time for the Philadelphia Phillies to make a move in the NL East is now with the New York Mets suffering from some catastrophic losses in the starting rotation. Jacob deGrom is still months away from a possible return to the starting bump while Max Scherzer will be out of commission for at least six weeks due to an oblique injury. It’s now or never for Joe Girardi’s squad to eat into the 8-game deficit the team has fallen into within the division standings. As such, I firmly expect the “Figh... 

Quirky scheduling finds the Chicago Cubs and Chicago White Sox opening up their abbreviated two-game series on Saturday in front of a nationally televised FOX audience. The Pale Hose swept the two-game series earlier in the MLB betting season at Wrigley Field, and linemakers will have Tony LaRussa’s squad favored to bust out the brooms on the 2022 series through Sunday. The first of the two match-ups will pit left-hander Wade Miley up against veteran left-hander Dallas Keuchel who’s been nothing... 

NL heavyweights will pick their three-game series back up on the sunny west coast Tuesday night when Corbin Burnes leads the Milwaukee Brewers up against Blake Snell and the San Diego Padres. Much will be on the line with both squads currently in the thick of their respective division chases as well as being a pair of perceived favorites to win the National League pennant at online sportsbooks. The Friars will be looking to put their best foot forward after getting dominated by the Brew Crew a s... 

A brilliant starting pitching matchup is set to go down in the finale between the Chicago White Sox and New York Yankees with Dylan Cease set to square off against Jameson Taillon in a pairing of exciting right-handers. The former got a taste of what it’s like to throw at the Bronx Bombers in his most recent start. It didn’t go too well even though he racked up 11 strikeouts. The latter looks to finally be living up to his top prospect billing from years past coming up through the Pittsburgh Pir... 

NL West rivals collide Saturday afternoon when the San Diego Padres and San Francisco Giants lock horns in the second of a pivotal early-season three-game set. The Friars will be out to settle the score through the weekend after Gabe Kapler’s troops took two of three from San Diego at home back in early April. Sean Manaea absorbed a tough-luck loss in one of those games after getting outdueled by Logan Webb even after tossing six innings of 2 ER ball to go along with six strikeouts. His nemesis ... 

A year removed from ending up the best overall wager in the game at online sportsbooks $3670, the Seattle Mariners have struggled to find much traction at the outset of the 2022 MLB betting season. The club did however kick off its extended 10-game road trip with a series win in New York against the Mets who hadn’t dropped a single series to this point of the season. Maybe that gets Scott Servais’s squad getting back to playing at the level MLB bettors got used to last season. The struggles cont... 

The Houston Astros are considered by online sportsbooks to be a contender in the AL as well as a bonafide World Series contender when taking a peek at their futures odds offerings. The same can’t and won’t be said for a Boston Red Sox outfit that’s dramatically failed to live up to expectations at the outset of the MLB betting season. After winning 92 games a season ago, the BoSox only hit the board with an 85.5 win total for 2022. It looks like oddsmakers overestimated! Through 31 games played,... 

After splitting a four-game series by the Bay through the end of last week, the San Francisco Giants and St. Louis Cardinals will close out this weekend’s set under the lights of ESPN’s Sunday Night Baseball telecast. San Fran entered the series on quite a roll after winning a fifth straight by sweeping the division rival Colorado Rockies in a dominant showing in front of the hometown fans. The Redbirds put an end to a mini three-game losing streak on Wednesday night to even their series up with... 

Two playoff caliber teams will partake in the meat of a three-game set on Saturday afternoon with a nationally televised audience watching their every move. The San Diego Padres have gotten out to a solid start to their 2022 campaign. Manny Machado has taken full advantage of Fernando Tatis Jr.’s absence to become the running +450 favorite to take home the NL MVP Award at online sportsbooks. The story hasn’t quite been the same for the defending World Series champion Atlanta Braves who are no lo... 

Division contenders square off in the finale of an enormous three-game set when the Tampa Bay Rays and Los Angeles Angels close it out from the “Big A” on Hump Day night. If that’s not enough to entice MLB bettors to take the game in live, maybe the starting pitching matchup will do the trick. AL Cy Young Award contenders Shane McClanahan and Shohei Ohtani will be getting the starting nod for their respective clubs. Both hurlers have the fifth (12-1) and fourth (10-1) shortest odds to win the aw...