Enjoy Wednesday around Major League Baseball, because it will be the last time we have four playoff games on the same day. The prime-time matchup features the Tampa Bay Rays trying to eliminate the New York Yankees in Game 3 of the ALDS, but with Max Fried on the hill for the Bombers, I expect a Game 4 on Thursday night back at Yankee Stadium. Bet $5+ on any of today's MLB games to get $150 in bonus bets at DraftKings Sportsbook: It's an 8 ET first pitch tonight on TBS.
It looks to be a bit pitcher-friendly weather, with temps in the lower 60s at first pitch and winds somewhat sideways 5 to 10 mph. At around -160 at DraftKings, New York is taking 72% of handle and 68% of bets. There is split action on the total of 7.
The Rays are now -750 on the series line and the Yanks +500. In all best-of-five postseason series, teams with a 2-0 lead have gone on to win the series 83 of 93 times (89%). The last time a team rallied from 0-2 in a best-of-5 was in the 2017 ALDS, when the Yankees advanced after losing the first two games in Cleveland.
Fans can try MLB betting on the best sports betting apps and get bonuses. The SportsLine Projection Model also has picks on games like Rays-Yankees from its 10,000 simulations, and our experts also offer insights on games every day. FanDuel SGP price: +113 (subject to change) I think it's fair to say the Yankees could really use Aaron Judge right about now, having been held to two total runs in dropping the first two games at Tropicana Field.
And the defense was a disaster in Monday's 5-2 loss in committing four errors (three in the first inning alone), one shy of the franchise playoff record. The lone bright spot was Ben Rice hitting a pair of solo shots, already his second two-homer game of these playoffs after he had one in Game 1 of the Wild-Card Round vs. I was stunned to hear Rice is the first player in Yankees history with two multi-homer games in a single postseason.
His five homers are the second-most in Yankees history in a player's first 10 postseason games, behind Bernie Williams' six. Rice is +326 to go yard tonight, shortest odds of any player. However, other than Rice's two homers, the Yankees reached safely just three other times in the first two games (one hit, two walks) while striking out 17 times.
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