MLB parlay picks July 14: Bet on the Braves and Red Sox to stay hot out of the ASG break
We’re backing three teams to start their second half on the right foot in Friday’s MLB parlay.
The pregame narrative: The Atlanta Braves and Boston Red Sox went into the all-star break on a rampage and we expect them to pick up where they left off. Elsewhere, the Tampa Bay Rays are worth a look on the run line against one of the league’s worst teams.
Find all our MLB parlay picks for July 14 below.
MLB odds as of 4:45 p.m. ET on 07/13/23.
MLB parlay picks
Parlay: Braves moneyline + Red Sox moneyline + Rays -1.5 (+291)
Braves moneyline (-250): There’s no debating that Atlanta is the best team in baseball. The Braves own a league-best 60-29 record and have won 20 of their past 23 games thanks to a historically dominant offence.
The team has a league-high 169 home runs and owns a collective .831 OPS with eight of nine starters sporting an OPS+ over 100.
That’s bad news for Chicago White Sox starter Michael Kopech.
The 27-year-old has been solid this year and posted a 2.96 ERA in June. But we’ll still gladly back the Braves’ bats to stay hot.
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Red Sox moneyline (-117): Boston won eight of its last nine games heading into the all-star break, including five of six from the Toronto Blue Jays and Texas Rangers.
The Red Sox take on the Cubs in Chicago and the home side has a less-than-impressive 21-22 record at Wrigley Field.
We’re expecting Boston to take home a win behind a strong effort from sophomore Brayan Bello.
The righty stumbled out of the gate this season but has been stellar since. Bello has a 2.39 ERA in 11 starts since May 1 and Boston is 7-4 in those games.
Rays -1.5 (-200): It’s not often you’ll find a team with -200 odds to cover a 1.5-run line. We would never recommend betting on this individually but believe it’s a solid play in the context of a parlay.
That’s because the odds are warranted.
Tampa Bay — behind stud Tyler Glasnow — faces the Kansas City Royals, who are on a historically poor pace this season.
KC is a league-worst 31-60 (34.1%) with a -155 run differential. The team has the third-worst batting average (.232) and slugging percentage (.371) and isn’t a threat on most nights.
We don’t expect the Royals’ bats to get hot against Glasnow.
