The Toronto Blue Jays go for the sweep of the Los Angeles Angels on Sunday.
The pregame narrative: Toronto won yesterday's game behind Vladimir Guerrero Jr. and a strong pitching performance from Bowden Francis. I'm expecting Vladdy to clear his bases total once again today while fading Tyler Anderson against the streaking Jays.
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Blue Jays picks vs. Angels
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Best Bet: Guerrero over 1.5 bases (-110)
This is a bet I will take until the well runs dry and that doesn't appear to be happening any time soon.
Yesterday, Guerrero recorded an RBI double in the bottom of the first to make this prop a sweat-free winner.
He wasn't finished there as the slugging first baseman mashed a homer in the bottom of the eighth, bringing his total bases to six for the game.
Vladdy's cashed this prop in four of his five games against the Angels this season including an Aug. 14 appearance where he met today's starter for the Angels, Anderson.
Guerrero had a single and a double off of the lefty before adding a home run in the ninth inning to cap off an amazing night.
The truth is he's had a lot of those over his last 51 games. In that timeframe, he is hitting .371 with 74 hits in 197 at-bats. A whopping 47 of those have gone for extra bases.
Since the calendar turned to August, Vladdy has cleared this total in 12-of-20 games played.
Key stat: Guerrero is hitting .326 with a .616 SLG against LHP this season.
Quick pick
Anderson under 17.5 outs (+123): Firstly, the Blue Jays have looked like a different team on offence since August 11.
Their bats are red hot with an MLB-leading 24 home runs since August 11. In that span, they also top the majors in extra-base hits (54).
That brings me to Angels' starter Anderson (10-11, 3.40 ERA). As eluded to earlier, the lefty was shaken up in a matchup against Toronto on Aug. 14 where he gave up seven earned runs and fell just shy of this mark, pitching 5.2 innings (17 outs).
He followed that up with a start against the Kansas City Royals and got smoked again. The result was five earned runs on 12 hits.
Anderson's given up three or more runs in five of his last seven outings and isn't producing the kind of numbers you see from a starter going deep into games.
The other good news is the Angels needed only two relievers in yesterday's loss and have a fresh bullpen. So they won't need to take any chances if things go south for their starter.
Picks made at 10:34 a.m. on 08/25/24.
