Sports Betting Weekend: MLB & the Races
The Cleveland Indians are the hottest team in baseball right now, and they’ll look to keep that hot streak going this weekend when they visit the Toronto Blue Jays for a four-game series starting on Thursday.
The Indians have won 12 straight games with consecutive series sweeps over the Kansas City Royals, Chicago White Sox and Tampa Bay Rays. Toronto enters the series after taking two of three games from the Colorado Rockies.
This is the first time this season Cleveland and Toronto will meet up, but last year in seven games Toronto had a slight edge at 4-3. In their last seven home games against the Indians the Blue Jays are 5-2, and the last four games all played UNDER the posted total.
The Baltimore Orioles will also try and extend their winning streak this weekend when they take on the Seattle Mariners. The Orioles have won seven in a row, while Seattle is floundering at 3-8 in their last 11 games.
Earlier this season Seattle took two of three from the Orioles in Baltimore. Despite Baltimore’s powerful lineup, which leads the Majors in home runs, the UNDER is 6-1 in the Orioles' last seven games at Seattle.
In the National League this weekend the Chicago Cubs and New York Mets meet up in a rematch of last year’s NLCS. The Cubs enter the series having won three in a row, while the Mets have dropped their last four and eight of their last 12.
In last year’s NLCS the Mets swept the Cubs in four straight games. That was the complete opposite of their regular season results, where the Cubs were 7-0 against the Mets.
NASCAR returns to Daytona International Speedway this weekend for the Coke Zero 400. Earlier this season Denny Hamlin claimed the checkered flag at Daytona in the Daytona 500, but he’s a +1000 underdog at online sportsbook Bovada to win again.
Dale Earnhardt Jr., a two-time winner of this race and four-time winner at Daytona, is the favorite at +550.
Formula 1 takes to the track for the Austrian Grand Prix this weekend at Red Bull Ring. The last two seasons Nico Rosberg has won in Austria. He’s a slight underdog at Bovada at +175, while Lewis Hamilton is the favorite at +125. The Mercedes teammates have combined to win all but one race on the F1 circuit so far this season.