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Major League Baseball (MLB) might not be the most popular sport in the world to wager on, but it still presents a really good betting option. MLB betting comes in many different forms, and this is a season that presents plenty of betting opportunities as well.

Major League Baseball was founded all the way back in 1876, but the league has obviously gone through some major changes since that time. Most of the major rules are still in place, but the way that the game is played is now much different.

There are currently 30 teams in MLB, and every team plays 162 games during the regular season. MLB games typically start at the end of March, or early April, and the World Series wraps up during the first week of November.

MLB teams are split up into leagues and divisions, but there is now more crossover games than ever before. The American League and National League now operate under the same basic rules, and that keeps things similar regardless of what league you are looking at.

Knowing the best MLB betting sites &amp; sportsbooks is also important if you plan to bet on MLB, and this article will explore that as well. By the time you are done reading this article, you should be ready to bet on baseball.
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The narrative is going to be that the Los Angeles Dodgers lost the NLDS. When you have one of the league’s largest payrolls and future Hall of Famer Clayton Kershaw gives up back-to-back home runs on back-to-back pitches to blow a lead, the takes are pretty one-sided. When the manager uses Kenta Maeda for one inning, but Joe Kelly for two, the takes get even more one-sided.

There will be a time and place to talk about that, but let the record show that the Washington Nationals WON the NLDS. They won a playoff series for the first time in franchise history. They battled through the adversity of the Wild Card Round and two cross-country flights to win in extra innings at Dodger Stadium, a place where the Dodgers went 59-22 in the regular season. They went 1-2 in the postseason.

The Nationals advanced and their prize for advancing is another underdog winner in the St. Louis Cardinals. An historic first inning took all of the drama away at SunTrust Park and that was all she wrote, as the Cardinals moved on to the NLCS. They expected to get the Dodgers and be on the road in Chavez Ravine for Game 1. Instead, they are at Busch Stadium against a Wild Card team that won more games in the regular season than they did.

One team did what it had to do in Game 5. The other made what could be a catastrophic decision. The Nationals got six solid innings from Stephen Strasburg and went to Patrick Corbin to face four batters in relief. Corbin could be used in Game 1, but now the Nationals can roll out Max Scherzer on Friday on regular rest after he started Game 4. That means Corbin for Game 2 and Strasburg for Game 3, which won’t be played until October 14, so he’ll be on regular rest.

The Cardinals scored 10 runs in the first inning of Game 5 and still used Jack Flaherty for over 100 pitches. To further compound matters, he purposely hit Ronald Acuna Jr. between the shoulders with a huge lead in the fifth. MLB won’t suspend him, but they should. Acuna’s alleged “antics” aside, there was a lot of intention in that pitch and that bullshit needs to be stopped in baseball. Call me soft, call me a snowflake, call me whatever. A dude pimping a home run to hurt a pitcher’s feelings isn’t the same as throwing a pitch at 95 mph with the potential to cause bodily harm.

Anyway, Flaherty still won’t be available until Game 3. The Cardinals will have him for Games 3 and 7 now, but skipping Flaherty’s start or limiting him to one inning since he got hot could have meant three potential starts. Sure, short rest would have been a factor, but it may be a risk worth taking when you consider the rest of the Cardinals rotation.

In any event, it wasn’t a banner day for managers this past Wednesday and those decisions are only going to be magnified as the postseason rolls along.

There are a lot of things to focus on in this series, but as I did for the NLDS, let’s take a look at my three keys and how these teams stack up. The Nationals are -120 with the Cardinals +100 at BetOnline.
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 	<li><strong> Miles and Waino</strong></li>
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With Flaherty unavailable before Game 3, in all likelihood, it will be up to Miles Mikolas and Adam Wainwright. Both guys were exceptional in their NLDS starts. Wainwright increased the usage of his curveball dramatically and threw 7.2 shutout innings with eight strikeouts and two walks. Mikolas only struck out two batters, but he kept the ball in the yard and only allowed one run on three hits. Shutting down the Braves is no easy task, but Mikolas was able to do it.

Those two guys will be huge in this series. Dakota Hudson contributed with 4.2 innings of useful work with one run allowed on five hits, but it is really tough to rely on him, given his penchant for walking batters.

The Cardinals were third in ERA and second in FIP among starting pitchers in the second half, due in large part to Flaherty’s performance. He had an 0.91 ERA with a 2.22 FIP and a 3.19 xFIP in 99.1 innings. Mikolas, however, greatly improved from the first half with a 3.72 ERA, a 4.05 FIP, and a 4.15 xFIP. Mikolas shaved 18 points off of his wOBA against from first half to second half and 39 points of SLG. He still allowed 11 home runs in 84.2 innings, but that was better than 16 in 99.1 innings.

The concern with Mikolas is the same as it is with every starter. The times through the order penalties start to mount for him. The first time through, opposing batters had a .309 wOBA with a .426 SLG. The second time through, he yielded a .326 wOBA and a .454 SLG. The third time through, he yielded a .333 wOBA and a .494 SLG.

Wainwright’s numbers were mostly identical between first half and second half. Like Mikolas, his TTO splits are a big deal. Opposing batters posted a .304 wOBA the first time through. They had a .348 the second time through.

Wainwright threw 57 curveballs out of his 120 pitches in Game 3. He had six of his 13 swinging strikes on the CB. He did get a little fortunate with some of the batted balls, but it was very clear that he got the memo about using his best pitch. Wainwright allowed a .284 wOBA during the season on his curveball. He allowed a .365 wOBA on everything else. As a team, the Nationals ranked 13th in wOBA against curveballs at .279.

These two will be huge, especially because a long series means two starts for each of them.
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 	<li><strong> Coming Out Swinging</strong></li>
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Pitching staffs can get exposed in a seven-game series. A five-game series is easy. You generally use your three best starters and your five best relievers and carry a mop-up dude if you need one. Playing up to seven games in 10 days is a little bit different. A fourth starter gets introduced to the mix. Middle relievers become more important. Primary relievers could see a higher workload. Remember when Brandon Morrow pitched all seven games of the 2017 World Series? (He’s pitched 30.2 innings since and just missed all of 2019)

Given the need for more starting pitching depth, the Cardinals may have the bullpen advantage, which I’ll touch on in my last key. The Nationals have the offensive advantage. Washington’s offense posted a .350 wOBA in the second half with a 113 wRC+. Only the Astros and Yankees were better in the wOBA department. Keep in mind that pitchers inexplicably take up plate appearances for the NL teams. Washington was fifth in SLG after the All-Star Break.

The Cardinals, meanwhile, ranked 16th in wOBA and had a league average offense with a wRC+ of 100. This is a huge worry for me coming into this series. The Nationals offense is just better in event facet. The Nationals walk more and strike out less. The Cardinals are going to face some very hard throwers. The Nationals are going to face guys like Mikolas and Wainwright with lower strikeout rates. Perhaps Mikolas and Wainwright can neutralize Washington’s BB% advantage, but you’d surely like to see more strikeout stuff out of the Cardinals rotation.

In fairness, the Nationals did tie for the league high in BABIP in the second half at .316. They tied with the Rockies, who are perennially near the top of the list because of Coors Field. The Cardinals only had a .296 BABIP. It’s entirely possible that there was a lot of good luck in there for the Nationals, who ranked 17th in average exit velocity in the second half at 87.7 mph.

The Cardinals ranked 28th. And they were among the lowest in average exit velocity over the course of the season. Quality of contact is something that can be a little bit tough to figure out, but the Nationals did make better quality contact all season long.

Paul Goldschmidt was 9-for-21 in the NLDS and hit a couple of home runs. Marcell Ozuna did the same. The Cardinals only hit four home runs, but did have 16 doubles and a triple. Extra-base hits will be important with the strikeout artists for the Nationals in that starting rotation. The Cardinals struck out in 24% of their PA in the NLDS against a Braves team not really known for as much strikeout prowess. The Nationals struck out in 22.1% of their PA against a Dodgers team with a lot more strikeout artists.

The Nationals are going to make more contact and likely with more quality. Their offense could very well be the deciding factor in this series.
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 	<li><strong> Searching for Relief</strong></li>
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Both of these bullpens worry me. The Nationals have already used Strasburg and Corbin in relief in these playoffs. Corbin has actually been used twice in relief. Scherzer was also used in relief. Of the 54 innings for the Nationals, 32 have been pitched by Scherzer, Strasburg, and Corbin. In a seven-game series, that may not be sustainable.

At some point, guys like Hunter Strickland, Wander Suero, and Tanner Rainey are going to have to get outs. It’s hard to push Sean Doolittle too far with his extensive injury history. Daniel Hudson has already pitched four of the six playoff games, though he has only thrown 3.2 innings. Davey Martinez isn’t thought to be a managerial savant, but he’s going to have to become one rather quickly to help push this pitching staff through.

The Nationals staff has 75 strikeouts in 54 innings and, again, that will be a big key to the offensive performances in this series.

The Cardinals bullpen was pretty solid in the second half. It ranked top 10 in fWAR and the relievers collectively struck out over a batter per inning, although a 9.09 K/9 ranked 17th in the new normal of Major League Baseball.

Carlos Martinez was great in the second half, but he had his hiccups in this past series with six runs allowed in jus 3.1 innings. John Brebbia had a 4.30 ERA, but a 2.57 FIP in the second half. Giovanny Gallegos, Tyler Webb, and Ryan Helsley all had solid second half numbers. Andrew Miller is not reliable at this point in his career and walked two more batters in the NLDS.

Players have to execute, which was a big theme of Game 5 in the Nationals/Dodgers series, but managers also have to put them in the best positions to succeed. The Cardinals have a lot of bullpen options, likely more reliable ones than the Nationals, given that Washington now needs its starters to actually start games.

The Cardinals only had 46 K in 45 innings against the Braves. That means a lot more balls in play from their pitching staff than the Nationals pitching staff.

Fortunately, the Cardinals were among the best defensive teams in baseball. The Nationals were more of a league average defense.

On the whole, the Nationals have two key advantages – their offense and their starting rotation. The Cardinals have two key advantages – their bullpen and their defense. It is going to appear that Washington has a huge edge with the Big Three of Scherzer, Strasburg, and Corbin and a better lineup. I can’t disagree with that statement.

When it comes down to the playoffs, we all know the importance of bullpens. That could end up being the great equalizer, assuming C-Mart gets his head right. St. Louis’s defense could also bail out the pitching staff.

Ultimately, though, I’m picking the Nationals to advance to the World Series. They’re going to put more balls in play and they’re going to prevent more balls in play by striking out Cardinals hitters. In the high-variance environment that is the playoffs, give me the team with more batted balls in play. Even though few teams in baseball were able to convert more balls in play into outs than the Cardinals, the Nationals offense is clearly better than what St. Louis brings to the table.

I’ll take Washington in about six games or so. They’ve slain one playoff demon by winning a series. The pressure should be off a little bit now.

2019 MLB Playoffs NLCS Preview & Prediction: Washington Nationals vs. St. Louis Cardinals

The National Football League (NFL) is easily the most popular sport in the United States, especially when it comes to betting. NFL betting puts up the biggest numbers every single year, and bettors are always looking for new betting options.

The NFL was founded all the way back in 1920 in Canton, Ohio, and that is where the Hall of Fame is located to this day. There were only a handful of teams in the league when it first started, but it didn’t take long for the league to grow.

There are now 32 teams in the NFL, and the league is broken up into two conferences and eight total divisions. Since the league just continues to be more and more popular, the league has added an extra regular season game for each team to play in.

NFL teams now play 17 total regular season games, and then the top seven teams in each conference advance to the postseason. The NFL regular season begins in September, and the Super Bowl is now played during the month of February.

When it comes to the NFL, the Super Bowl is the event that draws the most betting attention. This league isn’t going away anytime soon, and it’s actually started to become more of an international competition.

This article will not only cover the best NFL betting sites &amp; sportsbooks, but will also provide some tips on how to bet on the NFL.
<h3>Where to bet on NFL</h3>
Knowing where to find the best NFL sportsbooks is a big key if you want to have some success when wagering on this sport. Here are six of the best NFL sportsbooks to use, and all of them are going to be a little bit different.

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<p>The Jaguars and Lions are set to face off at 7:30 ET on ESPN+. The Lions will host the game at The Field House in Commerce, TX. Southern is favored by -2.5 in this non-conference showdown. The game's over/under is currently at 144.5 points.</p><h3>SOUTHERN JAGUARS VS EAST TEXAS A&M LIONS BETTING PICK</h3><p>The Pick: East Texas A&M Lions +2.5</p><p>This game will be played at The Field House at 7:30 ET on Wednesday, November 13th.</p><h3>WHY BET THE EAST TEXAS A&M LIONS:</h3><ul><li>We have this one finishing with a projected score of 76-71 in favor of the Lions.</li><li>Not only will East Texas A&M pick up the win, but look for them to cover at +2.5.</li><li>The over/under is currently sitting at 144.5 points, and we like the over with a projected 147 points.</li></ul><h3>Can Southern Pull Off A Win at The Field House?</h3><h3>Southern Jaguars Recent Game/Games</h3> 

<p>The Jaguars dropped their season opener on Thursday, falling 89-74 to the Hawkeyes. Southern was a +26.5 point underdog going into the game, but they managed to keep things closer than expected.</p> 

<p>After trailing 48-37 at halftime, Southern put up 37 points in the 2nd half while allowing 41. The game’s total points of 163 went over the pre-game O/U line of 160.5.</p><p>In their last game, the Southern Jaguars put up 74 points, shooting 47.7% from the field with an effective field goal percentage of 52.3%. They hit 54.3% of their two-point attempts and 31.6% from beyond the arc, making 6 threes on 19 attempts. However, their free-throw shooting was a struggle, connecting on just 6 of 15 attempts for 40%.</p> <p>Pryce Sandfort led the way with 22 points, hitting 6 of 8 threes and shooting 80% overall. Payton Sandfort added 17 points and 7 assists, while Owen Freeman contributed 15 points and 8 rebounds. Josh Dix also had 14 points and 5 assists, and AJ Barnes chipped in 14 points in just 15 minutes.</p><p>Southern's defense struggled in their last game, giving up 89 points on 53% shooting from the field. They allowed their opponent to hit 32 of 60 shots, including 18 threes on 40 attempts, a 45% clip from beyond the arc.</p> <p>Inside the arc, Southern's defense allowed 14 of 20 two-point attempts to fall, a 70% success rate. They also sent their opponent to the free-throw line 12 times, where they made 7 free throws (58%). Southern limited offensive rebounds, giving up just 5.</p><h3>Are the Lions Ready for a Home Win?</h3><p>The Lions faced a tough challenge on Friday, November 8th, as they took on the Aggies on the road. Entering the game as +31 point underdogs, East Texas A&M fell short of covering the spread, losing 87-55.</p> <p>After trailing 50-24 at halftime, the Lions managed to put up 31 points in the 2nd half while allowing 37. The combined points for the game ended just under the O/U line of 143.5, with a total of 142 points.</p><p>East Texas A&M struggled offensively in their last game, scoring just 55 points and shooting 39.3% from the field. Their effective field goal percentage was 46.4%, with a 29.2% mark from beyond the arc, hitting 7 of 24 attempts.</p> <p>Zhuric Phelps led the way with 18 points in 17 minutes, shooting 61.5% from the field. Henry Coleman III and Manny Obaseki each added 14 points, with Coleman grabbing 8 rebounds.</p><p>East Texas A&M struggled defensively, giving up 87 points while allowing their opponent to shoot 55% from the field. The Lions couldn't contain the two-point shooting, with the opposing team hitting 63% of their shots inside the arc, going 29/46.</p> <p>From three-point range, East Texas A&M allowed 5 threes on 15 attempts, a 33% shooting rate. They also sent their opponent to the free-throw line 24 times, where they made 14. The Lions gave up 15 offensive rebounds in the game.</p>

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<p>The inaugural FedExCup Fall begins this week with the Fortinet Championship at Silverado Country Club in Napa, California. The tournament will be the first of seven events that will determine the 125 players who will earn exempt status into full-field events in 2024. Tournament play begins on Thursday, September 14th, and concludes on Sunday, September 17th.</p>



<p>Max Homa will try to win for the third year in a row when he tees it up this week. Homa would become the first golfer since Steve Stricker at the John Deere Classic (2009-11) to win the same tournament three consecutive years in a row.</p>



<p>The Fall series will include the same benefits as Regular Season tournaments, with added drama for players sitting outside the top 70 in the FedExCup. Players in the top 50 following the conclusion of the TOUR Championship can still play in the Fall Series but have already secured full status for next year. Players ranked from 51-70 have also clinched their cards but will battle to improve or hold their position to get into the first two Signature Events of 2024.</p>



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<h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="h-silverado-country-club-north-course">Silverado Country Club (North Course)</h2>



<p>The North Course was the original 18-hole golf course that opened for play in 1955. Famed golf course architect Robert Trent Jones Jr. re-designed the layout in 1966, the same year the South Course was added to the property. In 2011, Johnny Miller put the North Course through a second re-design, lengthening the course by 250 yards, widening the fairways, repositioning the bunkers, and giving the tee box a fresh look.</p>



<p>Playing as a par-72, the North Course stretches approximately 7,123 yards. Since last year, the routing of the course has changed, with the holes 1-7 and no. 18 remaining the same and the rest re-routed.</p>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="h-fortinet-championship-field">Fortinet Championship Field</h2>



<p>Homa headlines the field that includes him and Ryder Cup teammate Justin Thomas. Thomas finished the Regular Season ranked no. 71 in the FedExCup Standings, just missing out of the playoffs by a few points.</p>



<p>In total, there are six golfers who finished inside the top 50 teeing it up this week. Joining Homa are Cam Davis, Sahith Theegala, Andrew Putnam, Brendon Todd, and Eric Cole.</p>



<p>Ryder Cup captain Zach Johnson and Vice Captain Stewart Cink are in action. Cink won this tournament back in 2020, the first of two victories for Cink within a year.</p>



<p>Other notables in the field this week include Matt Kuchar, Webb Simpson, Joel Dahmen, and Kevin Kisner.</p>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="h-fortinet-betting-favorites">Fortinet Betting Favorites</h2>



<p>Homa (+700) enters the week as the betting favorite as he tries to make it 3-straight wins at Silverado. The 32-year-old comes in ranked seventh in the Official World Golf Rankings.</p>



<p>Thomas (+1400) falls right behind Homa as he looks to find his form in his final tune-up before the Ryder Cup. The two-time major champion had a shaky Regular Season with only three finishes inside the top 10.</p>



<p>Theegala (+1800), Davis (+2200), and Stephan Jaeger (+2200) round out the Top 5. Theegala and Jeager are looking for their first PGA Tour victories of their careers.</p>



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