{"id":60310,"date":"2023-08-08T12:30:09","date_gmt":"2023-08-08T16:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/?p=60310"},"modified":"2023-08-08T11:45:06","modified_gmt":"2023-08-08T15:45:06","slug":"spencers-best-bets-for-baseball-august-8th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2023\/08\/08\/spencers-best-bets-for-baseball-august-8th\/","title":{"rendered":"Spencer’s Best Bets For Baseball: August 8th"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Best Bets series has swiftly and violently turned into the worst bet series. Yesterday felt like we slipped into an alternate dimension where everything was backward. Gerrit Cole had one of the worst starts of his season, allowing five hits, four earned runs, and striking out three. This is coming against one of the worst teams in the majors, who just waived the white flag at the trade deadline. The only typical thing about this game was Aaron Boone losing his mind on an umpire and getting tossed.<\/span><\/p>\n

It was moving swiftly on. It’s Tuesday, which can only mean one thing… dingers shall ding on this day.<\/span><\/p>\n

Dinger Tuesday<\/span><\/h3>\n

For those familiar with the promotion, I will save you from a full explanation. However, if you are still getting familiar, a full write-up of the rise can be found\u00a0<\/span>here<\/span><\/strong><\/a>. Additionally, a full run-down of the promotion rules can be found\u00a0<\/span>here<\/span><\/strong><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

As always, please opt-in on FanDuel before placing your $25 bet on any games.<\/span><\/p>\n

WAS @ PHI\u00a0<\/span><\/em>GAME 1<\/span><\/em><\/strong>: Alec Bohm (+560) 0.25U<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

MIA @ CIN: Josh Bell (+400) 0.25U<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

TOR @ CLE: Jose Ramirez (+450) 0.25U<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

NYY @ CWS: Luis Robert (+500) 0.25U<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

COL @ MIL: Nolan Jones (+540) 0.25U<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Best Bets Aug. 8th<\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\n

Dodgers @ Diamondbacks<\/span><\/h3>\n

We will target just one matchup today, as most focus will be on the dingers. The\u00a0<\/span>Los Angeles Dodgers<\/span><\/a>\u00a0travel to the desert to take on the\u00a0<\/span>Arizona Diamondbacks<\/span><\/a>. This one is pretty straightforward. The Diamondbacks are giving Brandon Pfaadt the start tonight. He is a rookie full of potential, but his first go at it could have been better. The high-octane Dodger offense will look to take advantage of the struggling rookie.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Pick: Dodgers F5 -0.5 (-114) 0.5U<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

J.D. Martinez 1+ RBI (+110) 0.25U<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Best Bets Record<\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\n

Day 23 Recap: Death By 1000 Cuts<\/span><\/p>\n

NYY F5 -0.5 \u274c\u274c<\/span><\/p>\n

Dunning 5+ Ks & Rangers F5 \u274c\u274c<\/span><\/p>\n

Garcia RBI \u274c\u274c<\/span><\/p>\n

Witt Jr. SB \u274c\u274c<\/span><\/p>\n

Suarez o1.5 BB \u26a0\ufe0f\u26a0\ufe0f<\/span><\/p>\n

Overall: 55-67-7 (-0.19U)<\/span><\/p>\n

Yesterday: 1-4-0 (-2.75U)<\/span><\/p>\n

Main Photo Credits: Kirby Lee-USA TODAY Sports<\/p>\n

Players Mentioned: Gerrit Cole<\/a>, Alec Bohm<\/a>, Josh Bell<\/a>, Jos\u00e9 Ram\u00edrez<\/a>, Luis Robert Jr.<\/a>, Nolan Jones<\/a>, Brandon Pfaadt<\/a>, J.D. Martinez<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Best Bets series has swiftly and violently turned into the worst bet series. Yesterday felt like we slipped into an alternate dimension where everything was backward. Gerrit Cole had one of the worst starts of his season, allowing five hits, four earned runs, and striking out three. This is coming against one of the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4668,"featured_media":60316,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1071,6171,2],"tags":[1987,326,3826,1547,596,1129,92,6391,2936],"class_list":["post-60310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mlb","category-sports-gambling","category-featured","tag-alec-bohm","tag-arizona-diamondbacks","tag-brandon-pfaadt","tag-j-d-martinez","tag-jose-ramirez","tag-josh-bell","tag-los-angeles-dodgers","tag-luis-robert-jr","tag-nolan-jones"],"modified_by":"Evan Mazza, Site Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4668"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60310\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}