at Betway, the Yankees are -225 moneyline favourites, with the Blue Jays at +185. New York is -1.5 (-110) on the runline, with Toronto +1.5 (-110). The total is 7.5, with both the Over and Under at -110.<\/strong><\/p>\nFor bettors, while it hasn\u2019t been confirmed, the Blue Jays are going with a bullpen game and will try to piece together nine innings that way. I hate bullpen games, from a betting perspective, because who knows who they\u2019ll throw out there and when.<\/p>\n
If they were facing anyone other than Schlittler, it would be more challenging to make picks. Schlittler went 5.1 innings Saturday, the last time he faced the Blue Jays, a 4-1 loss, giving four hits and one run. He has a nice hate on for the Jays, after Toronto took out New York in last fall’s American League Divisional series, plus some critical comments he\u2019s made about Toronto fans.<\/p>\n
Schlittler will be jacked up to make a statement tonight, on home field.<\/p>\n
But here\u2019s where betting on the Jays gets challenging. Injuries or not, this core has last fall\u2019s World Series run under its belt, and you can\u2019t underestimate the impact that experience has had throughout the organization. It almost doesn\u2019t matter who they throw out there. There\u2019s a competitiveness, a steeliness, to this team that has been evident since the Aug. 3 trade deadline \u2014 and few teams can match it.<\/p>\n
And that\u2019s why I am taking Blue Jays +1.5. Maybe they don\u2019t win, but that runline gives me the cushion I need, because they\u2019ll keep it close.<\/p>\n
Last weekend against the Yankees, the Jays started Braydon Fisher as an opener and then got strong work from Ricky Tiedemann, Simeon Woods Richardson, Mason Fluharty, Spencer Miles, Tyler Rogers and Louis Varland.<\/p>\n
They shut the Yankees down with that lineup.<\/p>\n
I am also taking a Schlittler strikeout prop \u2013 Betway has 6+ Ks at -190, 8+Ks at +220. The Jays\u2019 offence has been their Achilles heel all season, so I am leaning the 6+. Safer. I think Schlittler gets there early, frankly.<\/p>\n
Also, I am looking at Kazuma Okamoto\u2019s stats over the past seven days \u2013 6 games, 24 ABs, 4 runs, 7 hits, 2 doubles, 2 home runs. He\u2019s at +475 to hit one tonight. The short porch in right field doesn\u2019t help him, obviously. But he gets the ball in the air and has legitimate opposite-field power. I am going to sprinkle a little money on the Jays\u2019 rookie.<\/p>\n"}]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.betway.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.betway.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.betway.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.betway.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120145"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.betway.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":120147,"href":"https:\/\/blog.betway.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120145\/revisions\/120147"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.betway.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/117432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.betway.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.betway.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.betway.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}