MLB Tuesday Recap: Dogs Rule The Roost

Betting MLB Stinkers, Not Just Dogs, but Stinkers... Paid Big on Tuesday

MLB underdogs outperformed the competition Tuesday, going 10-5 straight up. Seven of the winning underdogs had odds of +130 or longer, including the Kansas City Royals and Oakland Athletics. Read on for more results in our MLB Tuesday recap.

Big Day for Underdogs

Underdogs went 10-5 straight up in our MLB Tuesday recap. The Kansas City Royals scored the biggest upset at +188, defeating the San Diego Padres 5-4. The Royals did all their damage in the second inning, and San Diego couldn’t get right-hander Seth Lugo off the hook.

The Minnesota Twins also surprised, beating the Los Angeles Dodgers 5-1 despite +175 odds. Left-hander Clayton Kershaw, pitching three days following the death of his mother, allowed seven hits and two runs over four innings. It was the shortest outing of the season for the three-time National League Cy Young winner.

The New York Yankees (+148) won, too, beating the Toronto Blue Jays 6-3 thanks to Aaron Judge’s tiebreaking two-run home run in the eighth inning.

Overs Have Slight Edge

MLB teams combined to average 4.6 runs, with the Over going 8-6-1. The Athletics edged the Arizona Diamondbacks 9-8 in 12 innings in the highest-scoring game on the MLB schedule. Outfielder Esteury Ruiz’s walkoff single gave Oakland (+130) only its 10th win of the season.

Two other games in our MLB Tuesday recap featured 13 total runs.

Mets Continue to Disappoint

Despite an MLB-high $346 million payroll, the New York Mets are floundering near the bottom of the NL East, only 1.5 games ahead of the Washington Nationals. New York dropped to 20-23 on the season (16-26 against the spread, tied for worst in MLB) following Tuesday’s 8-5 loss to the Tampa Bay Rays, in which right-hander Justin Verlander — who signed a two-year, $86 million contract in the offseason — allowed six runs and was booed lustfully.

So far, injuries and underperformance are the biggest culprits for the Mets, who are battling the 20-23 Padres as MLB’s most disappointing team. The Mets, who were projected to win 94.5 games, have seen their World Series odds plummet from +800 to +1400.

The Mets own the sixth-worst team ERA (4.77) in baseball. To make matters worse, they’re just 19th in both runs scored (179) and batting average (.240) and 20th in home runs (44). Fourteen of those longballs have come from first baseman Pete Alonso, the MLB leader alongside Dodgers infielder Max Muncy.

Oakland and KC Enjoy Rare Success

Tuesday marked only the second time this season in which Oakland (10-34) and Kansas City (13-31), baseball’s two worst teams, won on the same day. The only other instance came on April 12, when the Athletics beat Baltimore 8-4 and the Royals defeated the Rangers 10-1.

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