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With a full slate of baseball that’s scheduled to begin earlier than midday and a wholesome dose of WNBA motion, there’s no higher time to construct some constructive momentum for the week forward.
Pittsburgh Pirates at Atlanta Braves
First pitch is ready for 11:35 a.m. ET, so for those who had been planning on rolling away from bed, gobbling down breakfast and heading proper over to the board, that is the sport for you. There’s no hurt in choosing up the strains stay both.
Atlanta might be gunning for a three-game collection sweep of Pittsburgh, nevertheless it’s been a comparatively quiet collection for Braves designated hitter Marcell Ozuna.
Ozuna has gone simply 1-for-6, however he’s received a particularly favorable matchup on deck, because the Pirates plan to ship left-hander Bailey Falter to the mound on Sunday. In 4 profession begins in opposition to Atlanta, Falter is 1-1 with a 6.41 ERA.
Higher but, Ozuna is 4-for-9 (.444) in opposition to Falter in his profession, though he hasn’t been capable of rip off a multi-hit sport in opposition to him.
That modifications on Sunday.
You might play it secure and go together with an alternate line right here, however why not get a little bit dangerous to begin the day?
Marcell Ozuna over 1.5 hits, +165 (DraftKings)
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Indiana Fever at Phoenix Mercury
Protection has seemingly been elective for each Indiana and Phoenix this season.
Opponents are scoring a league-high 87.9 factors per sport in opposition to the Fever, whereas the Mercury are allowing the fourth-most factors per sport (84.6) within the 12-team WNBA.
There needs to be loads of factors to go round on each side, and whereas everybody else’s consideration goes to be on Caitlin Clark, we’re targeted on Kelsey Mitchell.
Mitchell has been scorching over her previous six video games, averaging 19.8 factors whereas capturing 53.8 % from the sphere and 52.9 % from 3-point vary. She ought to completely feast in opposition to a Phoenix group that lets guards rating a whopping 64.3 factors per sport in opposition to it.
Kelsey Mitchell over 16.5 factors, -115 (DraftKings)
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Washington Nationals at Tampa Bay Rays
The place will we go once we die? What got here first, the hen or the egg? How is Washington’s Patrick Corbin nonetheless pitching within the majors? These are all questions we might by no means get solutions to.
Corbin is 1-7 with a 5.46 ERA this 12 months, and he’s led the Nationwide League in losses in every of the previous three seasons. We do have to offer him credit score the place credit score is due, although, as he has pitched to a 2.60 ERA over his previous three outings.
In the meantime, Tampa Bay’s offense has been quiet. Too quiet.
The Rays have averaged simply two runs throughout the primary two video games of their three-game set with Washington, and in the event that they wish to have a breakthrough, Corbin is the man to have one in opposition to. He’s 0-1 with a 7.36 ERA in two profession begins in opposition to Tampa Bay, and on 5 days of relaxation, he’s 0-3 with a 6.94 ERA this season.
Corbin has had the previous 5 days off, so what which means. It is time to hammer the Rays.
Rays group whole over 4.5 runs, -105 (DraftKings)
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