MLB Baseball betting action sees the N.Y. Yankees taking on the Kansas City Royals Monday August 25th at Kauffman Stadium in Kansas City MO. Cappers Picks provides free MLB Baseball handicapping tips all season long. On the season the Yankees have an Over/Under record of 52-73 and a run-line W/L record of 64-64 and the Royals have an Over/Under record of 58-64 and a run-line W/L record of 75-54.
This battle of SoCal teams gives us the narrative of two clubs on different trajectories.
The Dodgers are using their massive pocketbook to cruise to a 4.5 game lead in the NL West division, while the Friars find themselves in third in the West only because of the utter incompetence of the Arizona Diamondbacks and the Colorado Rockies.
The Boston Red Sox host the Minnesota Twins on Wednesday afternoon in the third game of a three-game set. The Twins had a pretty strong run going at Fenway entering this series, but the Red Sox have rung off two low-scoring wins in a row, and will be looking for a series sweep on Wednesday.
On the season the Rockies have an Over/Under record of 23-11 and a run-line W/L record of 24-12 and the Rangers have an Over/Under record of 18-14 and a run-line W/L record of 12-22.
On the season the Dodgers have an Over/Under record of 1-3 and a run-line W/L record of 2-2 and the Padres have an Over/Under record of 0-2 and a run-line W/L record of 2-0.
Boston did not show very well last night in this series opener between first place teams getting shutout on the West Coast. Yesterday they had just two hits off of Ricky Nolasco and things won’t get much easier this afternoon.
Oakland currently sits in the final AL Wild Card position but things are tightly bunched with three teams all within a three and a half games of the A’s.
The Atlanta Braves have the best record in the Majors and should be pumped to face off with a potential playoff opponent in St. Louis.
Except for a couple of runs the Arizona Diamondbacks couldn’t solve Pittsburgh rookie Gerrit Cole in dropping the first game of their series last night.
The Giants and Marlins combined for a week’s worth of offense in their opener Friday night with the Giants winning 14-10. San Francisco cranked out 19 hits with OF Hunter Pence and 3B Pablo Sandoval going a combined 7 for 10 with 8 RBI.
The Cleveland Indians are in the thick of the American League race thats for sure.
New York was showing some signs of life before getting hammered by the Angels in the closing game of their 4 game set on Thursday. Prior to that they had won 4 in a row and 5 of 6 and things are slowly getting to a normal stage with 3B Alex Rodriguez in the lineup – if there is a normal.
A month ago it didn’t look like this series would be all that meaningful…but with Kansas City’s recent strong play they are actually in the conversation as it relates to the American League Central and certainly the Wild Card race.
The Minnesota Twins took both ends of their Friday double header to distance themselves even further from the last place Chicago White Sox. We are through two thirds of the season and the Twins are proving to be closer to bad than horrible, with a great chance to extend their winning on Saturday afternoon.
Baltimore is working their way up the coast trying to steal some wins against struggling National League teams to stay afloat in the American League Wild Card race. They took two at San Diego and are now hoping the Giants will be equally hospitable.
Detroit is wicked hot right now. Not only have they won 12 games in a row but they just walked into the second place team in their division’s house – Cleveland – to take the last 4. They have now built a 7 game cushion and asserted their dominance over the division.
