I finished last week with a monster day from our MLB best bets, going 2-1 while cashing a +260 player prop when Giancarlo Stanton hit a solo home run as the only run in the New York Yankees vs. Toronto Blue Jays series opener. I am not calling for any home runs today, but my trio of best bets for Monday’s 11-game slate does feature a player prop on one of the game’s hottest sluggers at the moment.
Read on for my top MLB picks & predictions for Monday, September 8.
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Monday’s Best MLB Bets & Picks
(Odds courtesy of DraftKings Sportsbook)
New York Mets (-121) at Philadelphia Phillies (-101) | O/U 9.0 (+102/-124)
Mets slugger Juan Soto entered Sunday amid a 15-game on-base streak. In that span, he batted .396 with six home runs, 20 RBI, and a 1.352 OPS. That presents great value for him to score a run for ninth time in the last 11 games.
Soto has a great chance to plate himself, as three of his 10 career hits against Aaron Nola have been home runs. While Soto's +255 home run odds are appealing, I am backing this wager with five stars of confidence, especially since Soto bats in front of Pete Alonso, who has six home runs and has batted .327 in 55 career at-bats against the Phillies righty.
Soto leads the Majors with 34 runs scored since Aug. 4, so I am backing him to cross the plate yet again.
Pick: Juan Soto Over 0.5 Runs (-150)
Milwaukee Brewers (-126) at Texas Rangers (+104) | O/U 8.0 (-117/-105)
The Texas Rangers entered Saturday 9-3 since August 22, while averaging 6.6 runs per game, and batting .286 with 22 home runs as a team in that span. While the Rangers scored four total runs in the two games the rest of the weekend, they still split those games with the first-place Houston Astros.
That should give Texas confidence when entering this series against a Brewers team that has inflated moneyline odds coming off a road sweep of the Pittsburgh Pirates when they didn’t have to face Paul Skenes.
Pick: Rangers Moneyline (+104)
Colorado Rockies (+237) at Los Angeles Dodgers (-302) | O/U 9.0 (-116/-105)
Los Angeles may be clinging to a one-game lead in the NL West and still be among the top World Series contenders, but it has been a below average baseball team for the last two months. Since July 4, Los Angeles is 23-31, which is the third-worst record in the NL and is only 3.5 games better than Colorado in that span, which is why I am taking a flier on the road underdogs with my Rockies vs. Dodgers best bet.
Lately, Los Angeles has come up with the most dumbfounding ways to lose. Saturday's loss to the Baltimore Orioles made the Orioles just the ninth team in the expansion era to win a game after being no-hit through at least 8 2/3 innings. That loss also was the Dodgers' seventh in their last eight games, and brought its losing streak to two last-place teams (the Orioles and Pittsburgh Pirates) to five (the Dodgers snapped that losing streak yesterday).
Colorado is the only MLB team with fewer than 22 road wins this season. However, Los Angeles has failed to cover the run line in eight of its last nine games, and is an uninspiring eight games over .500 against teams with a losing record this season.
Colorado is 2-8 in its 10 head-to-head meetings with the Dodgers, but this is worth a flier at these odds.
Pick: Rockies Moneyline (+237)
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