{"id":60646,"date":"2023-08-15T13:14:25","date_gmt":"2023-08-15T17:14:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/?p=60646"},"modified":"2023-08-15T13:14:25","modified_gmt":"2023-08-15T17:14:25","slug":"mlb-betting-picks-of-the-day-8-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2023\/08\/15\/mlb-betting-picks-of-the-day-8-15\/","title":{"rendered":"MLB Betting Picks of the Day 8\/15"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Monday night in The Show was dominated by superstar and up-and-coming starting pitchers across the league. We had our usual suspects dominating:\u00a0<\/span><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2023\/08\/15\/angels-vs-rangers\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Texas Rangers<\/span><\/a><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u2019\u00a0<\/span><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/s\/scherma01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2023-08-15_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Max Scherzer<\/span><\/a><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0(7 IP, 11 SO, W),\u00a0<\/span><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2023\/08\/14\/rays-franco-investigation\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Tampa Bay Rays<\/span><\/a><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u2019\u00a0<\/span><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/g\/glasnty01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2023-08-15_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Tyler Glasnow<\/span><\/a><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0(6 IP, 7 SO, W), and\u00a0<\/span><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2023\/08\/15\/yankees-vs-braves\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Atlanta Braves<\/span><\/a><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0<\/span><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/f\/friedma01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2023-08-15_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Max Fried<\/span><\/a><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0(6 IP, 2 ER, W) all gave their teams chances to win last night. Then, we had some young arms showing us what they could do.\u00a0<\/span><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2023\/08\/14\/san-diego-padres-vs-baltimore-orioles\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Baltimore Orioles<\/span><\/a><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u2019\u00a0<\/span><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/r\/rodrigr01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2023-08-15_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Grayson Rodriguez<\/span><\/a><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0(7 IP, 6 SO, W),\u00a0<\/span><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2023\/08\/15\/mariners-vs-royals\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Kansas City Royals<\/span><\/a><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u2019\u00a0<\/span><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/s\/singebr01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2023-08-15_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Brady Singer<\/span><\/a><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0(7 IP, 8 SO), and\u00a0<\/span><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2023\/08\/15\/astros-vs-marlins\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Miami Marlins<\/span><\/a><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u2019\u00a0<\/span><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/g\/garrebr01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2023-08-15_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Braxton Garrett<\/span><\/a><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> (5 IP, W) all set up their clubs with great performances last night.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">All gas \u26fd\ufe0f <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ev8cxoUB9F\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/ev8cxoUB9F<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Baltimore Orioles (@Orioles) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Orioles\/status\/1691291730329358336?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">August 15, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Unfortunately, we only had one batter of our three starts last night. Miami Marlins slugger\u00a0<\/span><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/search\/search.fcgi?pid=belljo02,belljo01&amp;search=Josh+Bell&amp;utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2023-08-15_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Josh Bell<\/span><\/a><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0hit his 16th home run of the season, his fifth since joining the Marlins, in their 5-1 win over the\u00a0<\/span><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2023\/08\/14\/marlins-vs-astros-clash-of-the-divisional-hopefuls\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Houston Astros<\/span><\/a><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">. Our other two picks,\u00a0<\/span><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2023\/08\/15\/diamondbacks-vs-rockies\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Arizona Diamondbacks<\/span><\/a><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0<\/span><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/p\/phamth01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2023-08-15_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Tommy Pham<\/span><\/a><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0and Baltimore Orioles\u00a0<\/span><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/m\/mccanja02.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2023-08-15_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">James McCann<\/span><\/a><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">, received days off on Monday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Tuesday night in the MLB features every team playing, and LWOS has three baseball prop bets for red-hot hitters coming into tonight\u2019s action. Don\u2019t forget to tail and BOL!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h4><strong><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">PHILADELPHIA PHILLIES v. TORONTO BLUE JAYS: GUERRERO JR. o1.5 TB (+135)<\/span><\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">This should be one of the better series of the week as the red-hot\u00a0<\/span><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2023\/08\/15\/phillies-vs-blue-jays\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Philadelphia Phillies<\/span><\/a><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0look to take this series against the\u00a0<\/span><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2023\/08\/13\/blue-jays-cubs-clash\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Toronto Blue Jays<\/span><\/a><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">, who sit in the last AL Wild Card position. First baseman\u00a0<\/span><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/g\/guerrvl02.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2023-08-15_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Vladimir Guerrero Jr.<\/span><\/a><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0of the Toronto Blue Jays will be looking to stop that from happening. In his career against Phillies\u2019 starter Zach Wheeler, he has hit .286 with one home run.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">In the past week, Guerrero Jr. has gone .310 at the plate and has hit safely in six of the last seven games, with three being multi-hit efforts. Wheeler has been serviceable this season for the Phillies but hasn\u2019t reached the ace status we have become accustomed to in recent years, with his hard-hit rate (37.7%) the highest it\u2019s been in his whole career.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Wheeler\u2019s 6.55 ERA at the Rogers Center and 5.19 against the Blue Jays in his career might be all that Guerrero Jr. and the Blue Jays need in tonight\u2019s game. Target Vlad\u2019s total bases prop or HR+RBI total (1.5, -110).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h4><strong><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">DETROIT TIGERS v. MINNESOTA TWINS: CARPENTER o1.5 TB (+115)<\/span><\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2023\/08\/15\/tigers-vs-twins\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Detroit Tigers\u2019<\/span><\/a><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0<\/span><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/c\/carpeke01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2023-08-15_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Kerry Carpenter<\/span><\/a><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0has been one of the hottest batters on the planet in the past two weeks. He has slashed .340\/.407\/.623 and is currently riding a 10-game hit streak with six multi-hit efforts.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2023\/08\/13\/phillies-take-on-twins\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Minnesota Twins<\/span><\/a><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0pitcher\u00a0<\/span><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/o\/oberba01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2023-08-15_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Bailey Ober<\/span><\/a><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0got rocked by this same Tigers team last time. He gave up 11 hits and four earned runs in five innings pitched and has gone 2-2 with a 4.15 ERA in his previous seven games. Ober has a 5.30 ERA in his career vs. Detroit and has given up three and four earned runs against them this year.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Carpenter has a career slash line of .368\/.405\/.500 against the Twins and has hit .357 at Target Field. Ober will lean on his fastball (46% thrown), and Carpenter has slashed .273\/.399\/.606 on the four-seam all season. Lock in Carpenter\u2019s total bases prop, or take his odds to hit a home run at +450.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h4><strong><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">SEATTLE MARINERS v. KANSAS CITY ROYALS: RODRIGUEZ o2.5 H+R+RBI (+100)<\/span><\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Going a bit under the radar is the second-half\u00a0<\/span><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2023\/08\/15\/mariners-vs-royals\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Seattle Mariners<\/span><\/a><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u2019\u00a0<\/span><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/search\/search.fcgi?pid=rodriju01,rodrig010jul,rodrig014jul&amp;search=Julio+Rodriguez&amp;utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2023-08-15_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Julio Rodriguez<\/span><\/a><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0is having. He has slashed .280\/.346\/.508 since the All-Star break and has hits in three of his last four games. Rodriguez also loves whenever he gets to face these Royals; he has gone .412\/.474\/.588 all-time against the Midwest club.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2023\/08\/14\/royals-take-on-mariners\/\" target=\"_self\">Kansas City Royals<\/a>\u00a0starting pitcher <\/span><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/l\/lylesjo01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2023-08-15_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Jordan Lyles<\/span><\/a><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0has had a rough go of it this season; his ERA sits at 6.13 for the year and 5.98 against the Mariners for his career. Lyles will throw that curveball and sweeper combo almost 40% of the time, with whiff rates at 24.2% and 21.8%.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Rodriguez has been teeing off on the off-speed this year (.275\/.384\/.503) and has an average exit velocity in the top 5% of hitters this season. Look to target Julio\u2019s H+R+RBI total (o2.5. +100) or take his total bases prop (o1.5, -135).<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo Credits: Kevin Sousa-USA TODAY Sports<\/p>\n<p><br style=\"font-weight: 400;\" \/><br style=\"font-weight: 400;\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monday night in The Show was dominated by superstar and up-and-coming starting pitchers across the league. We had our usual suspects dominating:\u00a0Texas Rangers\u2019\u00a0Max Scherzer\u00a0(7 IP, 11 SO, W),\u00a0Tampa Bay Rays\u2019\u00a0Tyler Glasnow\u00a0(6 IP, 7 SO, W), and\u00a0Atlanta Braves\u00a0Max Fried\u00a0(6 IP, 2 ER, W) all gave their teams chances to win last night. Then, we had some [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4823,"featured_media":60655,"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":[6171,1071],"tags":[85,4308,51,5910,174,268,158,36,640],"class_list":["post-60646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports-gambling","category-mlb","tag-detroit-tigers","tag-julio-rodriguez","tag-kansas-city-royals","tag-kerry-carpenter","tag-minnesota-twins","tag-philadelphia-phillies","tag-seattle-mariners","tag-toronto-blue-jays","tag-vladimir-guerrero-jr"],"modified_by":"Evan Mazza, Site Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60646","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\/4823"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60646\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}