Bryan De La Cruz has quickly taken advantage of the Phillies bringing him up in late July. In part time duty, he is hitting .286 in the month of August where he has nine RBI’s. All nine of those RBI’s have come in weekend action, with six of those on Sunday’s. After a slow start yesterday where the Phillies needed extra innings to beat the Angels, look for a better team performance at the plate today. Split play here on a run/RBI for De La Cruz.

Bryan De La Cruz has quickly taken advantage of the Phillies bringing him up in late July. In part time duty, he is hitting .286 in the month of August where he has nine RBI’s. All nine of those RBI’s have come in weekend action, with six of those on Sunday’s. After a slow start yesterday where the Phillies needed extra innings to beat the Angels, look for a better team performance at the plate today. Split play here on a run/RBI for De La Cruz.

A take away last night in the Phillies victory was Trea Turner recording his first stolen base in 36 games. He has not had consecutive games with a stolen base since June 5th. Yusei Kikuchi has been a pitcher teams can run on, and he is making just his second start since April. Take Turner who is now eyeing hitting 20 stolen bases on the season, to record another in back to back games.

The Athletics bullpen is a big concern today against the Orioles. After an extra inning game on Friday, and extended use in Saturday’s loss. Jeffrey Springs has one of the highest first inning ERA’s in baseball, which works his pitch count up quickly. Take Coby Mayo to take advantage in the series finale. Over on his combo line.

The Athletics have won their last two home series, after not winning a home series since April. They have some work to do against the Orioles after losing in extra innings last night. Shane Baz has seen the Orioles lose each of his last seven starts, and the Athletics scored five runs off of him in April. Back the Athletics to even the series as the home underdog.

The Mets have a favorable matchup today as the Astros will use an opener in Sousa before turning it over to Christian Javier. Javier has had a rough month of August and season with an ERA over six. Looking for the Mets to have base traffic multiple times for Carson Benge to deliver on. He produced the only RBI in yesterday’s loss with a double. Play his combination line over

Complete games from pitchers tend to have an impact a few starts later. Noah Cameron pitched a one hit complete game against the Angels two starts ago, but threw just 85 pitches his last start against Detroit. While the outing was effective it was his fewest pitches since May 16th. Toronto’s Nathan Likes may be hitting in the ninth spot, but he has three home runs over his last five games. If Cameron has a shorter outing, Lukes should get two at bats against the Royals bullpen. Split play here for a run/RBI.

Complete games from pitchers tend to have an impact a few starts later. Noah Cameron pitched a one hit complete game against the Angels two starts ago, but threw just 85 pitches his last start against Detroit. While the outing was effective it was his fewest pitches since May 16th. Toronto’s Nathan Likes may be hitting in the ninth spot, but he has three home runs over his last five games. If Cameron has a shorter outing, Lukes should get two at bats against the Royals bullpen. Split play here for a run/RBI.

For the Colorado Rockies the success at the plate they had two series ago against the Dodgers has been missing. In that three game series they totaled fifteen runs, and since they have scored just twelve runs. I expect an uptick today after ending a seven game losing streak in yesterday’s win over the Washington Nationals. Cole Carrigg has been hitless in three straight games for the first time since before All Star break. He has also not had a multi-hit game in a span of ten games, which the longest stretch before was seven games. Take Carrigg in all prop variations.

For the Colorado Rockies the success at the plate they had two series ago against the Dodgers has been missing. In that three game series they totaled fifteen runs, and since they have scored just twelve runs. I expect an uptick today after ending a seven game losing streak in yesterday’s win over the Washington Nationals. Cole Carrigg has been hitless in three straight games for the first time since before All Star break. He has also not had a multi-hit game in a span of ten games, which the longest stretch before was seven games. Take Carrigg in all prop variations.

For the Colorado Rockies the success at the plate they had two series ago against the Dodgers has been missing. In that three game series they totaled fifteen runs, and since they have scored just twelve runs. I expect an uptick today after ending a seven game losing streak in yesterday’s win over the Washington Nationals. Cole Carrigg has been hitless in three straight games for the first time since before All Star break. He has also not had a multi-hit game in a span of ten games, which the longest stretch before was seven games. Take Carrigg in all prop variations.

The Cincinnati Reds had the typical travel flat game with Monday’s shutout loss against the Giants. They seemed to have a lingering effect of blowing Sunday’s 3-0 lead against the Arizona Diamondbacks. We have seen this pattern time and time again with the Reds post All Star break, and they respond. Off a shutout loss they are 5-0 in the second half of the season. The Reds get back in the win column.

With the Philadelphia Phillies loss yesterday, the Kansas City Royals now hold the best win streak in MLB at eight wins. Nick Loftin had a brutal stretch at the plate from August 11th to the 19th, where he was 1 for 24 from the plate. Highlighted in that stretch was multiple strikeouts four times. That had occurred only eight times all season for Loftin, and shows how down his play was. Yet, Sunday he snapped out of it with a 3 for 4 night and a home run. Take Loftin over his combination line against the Blue Jays.

I’m typically not one to get in the way of a win streak, but breaking that rule tonight. The Philadelphia Phillies are on a nine game win streak, but got away with a miracle win in yesterday’s thriller over St. Louis. Zack Wheeler has not recorded a win Post All Star break. As we did last week when Seattle lost by twenty two runs to the Brewers, will back them again after losing by seventeen runs yesterday. Logan Gilbert gets his third win in a row for the first time this season.

Mickey Gasper of the Red Sox has made the most of being called up just a week ago. Through six games in August Gasper has hit three home runs and totaled nine RBI’s. He had a double in both games over the weekend for the Red Sox against the Giants, and will see Sandy Alcantara who gave up eight hits his last outing. That’s the second most hits he has given up since June. Take Gasper over on his combination line tonight.