Don't let the sizzling triple-digit temperatures across the country fool you: October baseball isn't far away. And fans are actually getting a hint of playoff ball this week in Atlanta, where the Braves and Dodgers are in the midst of a three-game series in which the two division leaders have been been separated by little more than a rumor. In Game 1 on Tuesday, Atlanta eked out a 4-3 win on Ozzie Albies' go-ahead single with two outs in the eighth inning.
And then last night, the teams traded the lead four times, capped off by pinch-hitter Ha-Seong Kim's walk-off single for a wild 6-5 Braves victory. Bet on Thursday's MLB slate with the FanDuel promo code and get up to $350 in bet reset bonuses: Thursday's final game of the series has the best pitching matchup of them all. Chris Sale (12-9, 2.20 ERA) takes the mound for Atlanta against L.A.'s Yoshinobu Yamamoto (12-7, 2.61).
The Braves are -122 money line favorites against the Dodgers (+110). Dodgers is the marquee attraction on Thursday, there are other sports betting options on a sporting landscape that includes six other MLB games and a four-game NFL preseason slate. Below is a snapshot of what to watch and bet at the best sports betting apps, for Thursday, Aug. 27.
Claim the Caesars Sportsbook promo code CBSDYW here to bet on Thursday and double your winnings on 10 bets: Time: 7:07 p.m. | Location: Toronto | TV: MLB.TV | Stream: Fubo (Try for free) SportsLine pick -- Model: Blue Jays +1.5 (-173) | Expert: Royals -110 (Eric Cohen) The hottest team in all of baseball is — and this is not a misprint — Kansas City. Even though the Royals lost on Wednesday, they are 9-1 over their last 10 games. (To be fair, seven of those wins came over the Athletics and Tigers.) On Thursday, Noah Cameron (8-8, 4.02) takes the mound for Kansas City. He has a 1.05 ERA over his last six starts and has gone at least seven innings in four of those.
"Current Blue Jays are only 3-for-20 (.150 average) against the left-hander," Cohen says. Meanwhile the SportsLine Projection Model, which simulates every MLB 10,000 times, doesn't completely disagree. It says Toronto has a 72.0% chance to cover and assigns a B grade to the Blue Jays run line of +1.5 (-173).
Time: 7:10 p.m. | Location: New York | TV: MLB.TV | Stream: Fubo (Try for free) SportsLine pick -- Model: Mets +173 | Expert: Brewers -1.5 -119 (Matt Snyder) Milwaukee's Jacob Misiorowski can strengthen his case to win the National League Cy Young Award when he takes the mound against the Mets at Citi Field. Misiorowski (13-5, 1.68) leads all of baseball in ERA, strikeouts (216) and WHIP (0.76) and gives the Brewers, who have the best record in the majors at 82-51, a major edge in starting pitching. "The Mets are sending Sean Manaea and his 4.31 ERA to the mound," Snyder says.
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