Baseball Sharp Plays delivered by PinnacleSports.com.
2007-08-10
Online betting on baseball games: over on Boston Red Sox, under or against New York Yankees
OVER on Boston Red Sox games:The lines for Red Sox games have been bet over by our sharps continuously for a long time now. At one point it got so heavy that we would artificially raise the line earlier in the day, assuming the bets were coming even though the action we respect tends to come later on. It doesn't happen every day, and it's more likely to happen at Fenway than it is elsewhere, but it seems hard to go wrong with these bets. UNDER and AGAINST the New York Yankees games:This is the big one, especially the betting against the Yankees. For the entire year, the Yankees have been treated as the best team in the game even when they looked like nothing of the kind. Now that they are performing, the public enthusiasm has reached epic proportions. Yankee games are consistently the highest action game of the day, and the public money almost never goes against them. That's why the sharps almost always oppose, betting into what are almost certainly inflated numbers. If you shop around and use the best available metrics, this is the greatest opportunity in MLB this season. The under is a far less extreme case, but it comes from the same public exuberance surrounding the Yankees' lineup.