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New York baseball fans are enjoying a terrific summer with the hopes of a more meaningful Subway Series on the horizon. Just a few weeks after sweeping their city rival the New York Mets head across town to finish up a brief two-game series on Tuesday with the New York Yankees. The teams lead their respective divisions, but the Yankees have looked vulnerable since the All-Star break. In the first half they were on pace to break the record for wins in a season, now they have fewer victories than ... 

Entering the season with the longest odds of any MLB team to reach the playoffs, the Baltimore Orioles have surprised everyone. Playing a game in a minor league ballpark to promote baseball to little leaguers would have been appropriate for them in previous years with a winning percentage below .340 in each of the past three full seasons while looking like a minor league squad. It was a stretch to think the club could expedite its rebuild, but here they are in the dog days contending for a wild ... 

They fought to the bitter end in last season’s World Series and two of the best teams in baseball square off on FOX Saturday Baseball when the AL leading Houston Astros visit the surging Atlanta Braves in the middle of a three-game set. Just biding their time, the Astros eventually overtook the Yankees as the top team in the junior circuit by playing consistently good baseball giving them the biggest division lead in the AL. And they have a score to settle after losing the 2021 Fall Classic in s... 

The Los Angeles Dodgers will lose a few games before the season ends, it just doesn’t seem like it’s going to happen. A new week brings a new set of challenges and the Dodgers will be facing a desperate Milwaukee Brewers squad Thursday on FS1 in the third of a three-game set. LA opened its current seven game road trip the way it ended its last homestand; by winning. The Dodgers extended their winning streak to 12 games by stomping the Royals 13-3 on Saturday smashing six homers. Through all their greatness of the last decade with division titles and playoff appearances, the club never won that many games in a row. In fact it’s been over 40 years since they had a longer winning streak. First pitch for this NL contest between the Los Angeles Dodgers and Milwaukee Brewers is scheduled for 8:10 p.m. ET on Wednesday, August 17, 2022 from American Family Field in Milwaukee. The matchup will air live on FS1. Bet on MLB odds and player props at BookMaker.eu every day of the season. ... 

Their two-year reign as AL East champs is likely coming to an end, but the Tampa Bay Rays won’t go down without a fight. They have a chance to at least make things interesting when they take on the division leading New York Yankees from the Bronx Tuesday on TBS. Their success against the Yankees the previous two seasons was a reason why the Rays captured the division crown. Over the 2020 and 2021 seasons Tampa won 19 of the 29 meetings. It’s been a different story this year with the Yanks having... 

If the New York Yankees and Boston Red Sox have a weekend series on the schedule, there’s a good to great chance the game will air on Sunday Night Baseball. Guess what? The teams are hooking up this weekend and SNB is jumping at the chance to show this rivalry matchup despite the teams being on opposite ends of the AL East standings. The Bombers have slumped a bit recently losing eight of 10 entering the series, but they hope to find their mojo against a team they blasted by a combined score of ... 

The game between the Chicago Cubs and Cincinnati Reds is nothing special with both teams right around 20 games under the breakeven point and no playoffs in sight. What has everyone talking about this NL Central contest is the venue. MLB heads back to Iowa on Thursday to play its “Field of Dreams” game after the rousing success of last year’s game. Though it’s not an ideal matchup, the Cubs were an obvious choice given their proximity to the state and that their top minor league affiliate is based in Iowa. That likely makes the Cubs the pick of the fans, though this is considered a home game for the Reds. First pitch for this NL matchup between the Chicago Cubs and Cincinnati Reds is scheduled for 7:15 p.m. ET on Thursday, August 11, 2022 from Field of Dreams in Dyersville, IA. The matchup will air live on FOX. Bet on MLB odds and player props at BookMaker.eu every day of the season. ... 

For teams that have been around for what seems like forever, the New York Yankees and St. Louis Cardinals will be meeting for just the 14th time during the regular season when they hook up on Saturday on FOX. Of course being in opposite league’s limits the opportunities, so this is a unique matchup between storied franchises. Once threatening the MLB record for wins in a season the Yankees have cooled off losing eight of their first 14 games since the All-Star break. They no longer have the best... 

They’re not going to win the AL East but the Tampa Bay Rays are in the thick of the wild card race to continue their run of postseason appearances. Despite a recent rough patch the Rays are holding onto one of three wild card spots, though that can and will change daily until the end of the season. The Rays can improve their chances by beating teams below them in the overall standings and they have an opportunity to do that on Thursday in the opener of a four-game set against the Detroit Tigers ... 

If you like betting on baseball it doesn’t get much better than this. The game’s elite gather at Dodger Stadium for the midsummer classic on Tuesday with a host of betting options available. It’s tough to distinguish between the leagues with so many great ballplayers on each side. However, going off recent trends the American League has the edge. Winners of eight straight and 20 of the last 23 games that declared a winner, the junior circuit has owned the game, though it has just a slight advantage in the overall series at 46-43. The AL has a powerful lineup to tee off against some terrific arms from the NL in what should be the storyline of the 92nd MLB All-Star Game. The MLB All-Star Game is scheduled for 8 p.m. ET on Tuesday, July 19, 2022. The game will air live on FOX from Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles. BookMaker.eu will have betting options for every game of the MLB season. ... 

Major League Baseball’s Home Run Derby reminds me a lot of the NBA’s slam dunk contest. You see the players who can do the most damage and have success in the event once or twice then they retire from the exhibition. Well, that isn’t exactly the case this season with two-time defending champ Pete Alonso returning for a crack at a third straight win. The thing about basebal... 

They played just three games against each other through what was essentially the first half of the season, but the greatest rivalry in baseball comes at fans for a second straight weekend to close the pre All-Star break schedule. The Boston Red Sox and New York Yankees play the middle of a three-game set Saturday on FOX with the Sox looking to continue their run of good fortune against the Bombers. After dropping the first two of a four-game set at Fenway Park, the Sox rallied against the stingi... 

Following a disastrous road trip that dropped the St. Louis Cardinals farther behind in the NL Central, the hope is that a stretch of home games helps out. Smack dab in the middle of their 10-game homestand the Cards host the NL West leading Los Angeles Dodgers Tuesday on TBS in the opener of a three-game set. This is the first meeting between the clubs since the wild card game last October won by LA on Chris Taylor’s walk-off homer. Unfortunately for LA Taylor won’t be around after sustaining a... 

The greatest rivalry in baseball and one of the best in sports takes the stage for Sunday Night Baseball when the New York Yankees and Boston Red Sox conclude a four-game series. Halfway through the 2022 season the Bombers have built a big lead over the Sox in the AL East and are on pace to match the MLB record for most wins in a season. Boston will play a big role in that quest with 12 more games between the clubs still on the schedule after Sunday’s matchup. The teams met back in April in the ... 

A battle between contenders in the NL West takes place on Saturday when the San Francisco Giants visit the San Diego Padres in the third of a four-game set. The clubs are trying to track down the Dodgers for the top spot in the division but both have lost ground recently with spurts of poor play. A welcome sight for the Giants is seeing Yu Darvish on the bump. When the clubs met earlier this season in San Fran, Darvish had the worst outing of his career surrendering nine earned runs in 1.2 innin... 

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...