840-731 YTD/ (435-366 Top plays) Umpire Overs=60-37 Umpire Under=1-1
College World Series=2-1
All plays are standard bets unless adorned with a star. Those adorned with a star are TOP Plays. Top plays are listed in order of strength.
⭐️Yanks-1-110
⭐️Braves-120
⭐️Phils-150
⭐️Cardinals-1-130
⭐️Angels/Brewers Over 8-115 (Umpire Over-see writeup)
⭐️NY Mutts+102
⭐️Dodgers-1.5-120
⭐️Royals-1-130 (Full game)
⭐️Red Sox+118
⭐️SF Gigantes+110
⭐️Angels+0.5+105 (F5-First 5 innings)
Twins-1+100
Seattle+130
Arizona-148
Royals-0.5-115 (F5-first 5 innings)
Angels+150 (Full game)
Stl/Miami Over 8-115 (Umpire Over-See writeup)
Mutts/Rangers Over 8-130
Pittsburgh/Cincy Over 7.5-125
Boston/Toronto Over 7.5-120
Royals/A's Over 7-120
Atlanta/Detroit UNDER 7.5-120 (Umpire Under-see writeup)
***First Umpire Over--Angels/Brewers Over 8 with Mark Carlson, who is rated in the extremely friendly hitter category at 4.29 just below Todd Tichenor and Alfonso Marquez who are the more hitter friendly umps. Carlson's games he is 8-4-1 to the over in 2024, on 10 runs avg per game, 2.29 SO/BB Ratio, and just over 63% called strikes. His last 5 seasons or 139 games he is over 54% to the over on 9.5 runs and just over 63% called strikes. With gas can Peralta going, I expect the angels to be able to score more than the 3 last night they got late, and brewers should be able to hit later in the game on LAA's pen as they are ranked 30th in ERA this season. Anderson may go 6-7 innings tops, so I do expect more runs late. Carlson being behind the plate gives me a lot more confidence.
***2nd Umpire Over is STL/Miami Over 8- with CB Bucknor who is 7-6 to the over on 9.2 runs and 64% strikes on a 2.75 SO/BB Ratio. He's been rated a hitter friendly ump every year as he consistently is calling strikes at a low 63-64%, and a sub 3 SO/BB ratio. While it can be argued both offenses arent the best, esp the marlins, they did put up 9 last night and 6 the night before. these 2 teams have combined for 30 runs in 2 games. Miami home games have been high scoring this year and with the pitching going today and CB behind the dish I expect similar results.
*1st Umpire Under is ATL/DET Under 7.5 with Jeremy Riggs---he's a newer ump who hasn't worked many games this year so we have to look more at the past as in 5 games this year he's just over 9 runs per game on almost 65% called strikes but last 2 years tell the story of his favoritism towards pitchers and lower scoring games as last year his games were 9-15 to the over (15 unders), on under 8 runs a game and just over 63% strikes while 2022 his games averaged even less at 7.9, and his games were 11-17 to the over under (17 unders/11 overs). His SO/BB ratio usually is around 3 or above as in 2022 it was 3.3 and his total runs responsible for which most umps avg about 1 per game or a bit less, he is constantly below 1 and often less than .5 runs responsible for. The pitching matchup today needs little writeup as to why most expect a pitcher dual. Skubal against Lopez, 2 of the better pitchers in MLB going. and both teams have been struggling to score in this series as both games finished 2-1 and that was with pitching matchups not quite as strong as today. With Jeremy behind the dish I feel more confident he squeezes the hitters and runs will be more at a premium.