Wind blowing out at Wrigley plus bad pitching equals Best Bets for August 7
Each day, one of our experts at bet.NOLA.com will offer up a best bet (or two or three) that mobile sportsbooks in Louisiana are offering. It might be a traditional spread bet, a player prop or one of the various odds boosts that books offer.
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Here are the best bets for Sunday, August 7:
TOP PLAY
The play: Over 8 runs in Marlins at Cubs
The odds/bet: -110 ($33 to win $30)
The book: Caesars Sportsbook
Time/TV: 1:20 p.m. (MLB TV)
Our take: Two pitchers who haven’t been great as of late in Miami’s Jesus Luzardo and the Cubs’ Adrian Sampson with the wind blowing out of Wrigley Field. Who doesn’t like free money?
Good chance the bullpens for both teams will be going early here, as well, since Luzardo has only made it past the fifth in two of his seven starts this season, and Sampson was just converted back into a starter six weeks ago and has averaged a little more than 5 innings per start, while giving up 11 total earned runs in his last four appearances.
The bats haven’t been going strong for either team, but in the final game of this three-game set, they all will let loose before jumping on a plane.
BACK TO THE WELL OF FAVORITES
The play: MLB parlay, Phillies over Nationals and Brewers over Reds
The odds/bet: -123 ($12.30 to win $10)
The book: Caesars Sportsbook
Time/TV: Phillies-Nats at 12:35 p.m. and Reds-Brewers at 1:10 p.m. (Both on MLB TV)
Our take: Whenever I get in a MLB funk, I go to the well, pick out two top-notch pitchers going against bad teams and put together a favorites parlay. Voila. Funk over.
That’s what we have here, as Corbin Burnes is set to go against the Cincinnati Reds, who despite their victory over Milwaukee on Saturday are 20 games below .500. For the Phillies, their ace Aaron Nola has a 2.85 ERA with 152 strikeouts in 139 innings, and he is set to go against the team that has the second-worst strikeout rate in all of baseball and the worst overall record (by more than 10 games!) with still two months to play.
HOW WE’VE FARED
MLB: St. Louis Cardinals over New York Yankees (WON $30 – Hooray our schneid has been ended! Hooray! Let’s throw a party! Wait, are we supposed to advertise how bad we have been before this?)
English Premier League: Brighton +1 goal over Manchester United (PENDING early Sunday, $10 to win $12)
Wednesday’s profit/loss: +$30 (1-0, 1 pending)
Total for the week: -$138.70 (3-10, 1 pending)
Total for August: -$138.70 (3-10, 1 pending)
Total for 2022: -$278.80 (194-225, 1 pending)
If a line or odds are minus, it considers the juice one must lay to place the bet. Ex: Team A is -160 on the money line, one would have to bet $160 to win $100 (or $16 to win $10). OR Team B is a 5-point favorite at -110, one would have to bet $110 to win $100 (or $11 to win $10.)
Conversely, on positive lines, if Team C is +140 on the money line, a $100 would bring in $140 (or $10 to win $14).
