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Phillies a -180 Series Favorite at Home Against Diamondbacks
By Joe Tansey
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The Phillies have a nice little test on their hands this weekend against the Arizona Diamondbacks.
Both teams come into the three-game weekend series with 17-14 records, but the Phillies are -180 on the series money line at DraftKings Sportsbook.
Each team comes into the series in decent form. The Phils are 4-1 in their last five games, while the DBacks just took two of three from the New York Mets at Citi Field.
At least for me, the series price is a little high because the Phils won’t have Zack Wheeler or Cristopher Sanchez throwing.
Jesus Luzardo is on the hill on Friday, but then the Phils have Aaron Nola on Saturday and Ranger Suarez making his season debut Sunday.
Arizona is getting Ketel Marte back from the injured list on Friday and the DBacks have some decent arms lined up with Merrill Kelly, Brandon Pfaadt, and Eduardo Rodriguez starting in that order.
There’s not a lot of significant batter-versus-pitcher history in any of the three matchups. Eugenio Suarez has a homer against Nola and Suarez. Trea Turner has a .417 career batting average versus Kelly.
Outside of that, there’s a home run here or there, but no absolutely wild splits.
The under is certainly on the table on Friday. Luzardo and Kelly have two starts between them in which they conceded three or more earned runs. They’ve been remarkably consistent. and that not only puts the full game under in play, but the first five under is worth looking at as well.
DraftKings has three live profit boosts available for Friday’s MLB slate. I would fire one on the under 9.5 once the game begins.
Other PA sports betting apps and New Jersey sports betting apps have some boosts to take a look at. FanDuel is offering a 50 percent boost on YRFI and NRFI bets. Obviously if I’m touting the pitchers I might as well take a flier on the NRFI as well.
BetMGM has a home run odds boost token, I’d use that on Turner if you want to pick anyone from this game because of his track record against Kelly.
Joe Tansey writes sports betting posts for Crossing Broad and also covers the Philadelphia Union for his Substack site, Union Soccer Blog.