The Phillies put on a show last night at Dodger Stadium. Kyle Schwarber hit 3 home runs and the Phillies beat the Dodgers 9-4. Now Philadelphia travels to Phoenix to take on the Diamondbacks.
Philadelphia currently sits atop the MLB, going 68-46 through 114 games so far this year. Tonight they're in the desert to take on the Arizona Diamondbacks.
Philly is coming off a series win against the Dodgers in Los Angeles, winning 2 of the 3 games and averaging 6 runs per game. The Phillies have now won 3 of their L4 games, after a six game slide near the end of July and going into August.
The Diamondbacks have won 12 of their L14 games and are coming off a series sweep of the Guardians, in Cleveland. They're playing in their first home game in about a week.
The Phillies and Diamondbacks have met just 3 times this season, with the Phillies winning 2 of the 3 meetings. An average of 9 runs were scored per game and tonight we're getting a pitching matchup that should produce offense.
We went to Timmy Turner last night and it took him all 9 innings, but he came through for us. Tonight we're going right back.
Turner's familiarity with this Diamondbacks squad is why I love this play. Due to his time with the Dodgers he's seen the Diamondbacks a fare share and played in 29 games at Chase Field.
He's hitting a career 0.361 in Arizona, with 8 home runs, 23 RBI and 25 runs scored. This season in 3 games against Arizona, Turner's hitting 0.308 with a home run, 3 RBI, and 3 runs scored.
Turner's been slumping recently but this East Coast road trip may be just what he needed to snap back into form. He finished July batting 0.292 with 10 home runs 43 runs/RBI.
This month he's hitting 0.192 and he's scored just 2 runs through 5 games. Last night he finally recorded 2 hits in a single game and hopefully that was a sign of what's to come.
Ketel Marte has been an absolute Home Run machine over the last few weeks.
Both of these teams have offenses stacked with big hitters. The Phillies just had their way with the Dodgers and don't look like they'll be cooling down anytime soon.
Schwarber hit 3 home runs last night and the Phillies finished with 7 total extra-base hits; take that in, 7 of their 10 hits were either a double or home run.
Tonight they're in Arizona to take on the Diamondbacks.
The DBacks have been hot, they've got the 2nd best batting average (0.299) over the L15 days, scored the 2nd most runs (85), and hit the 2nd most home runs (26) in that same period.
The offense is hot and big reason why they've won 12 of their L14 games. The Diamondbacks have been relentless against lefties this year, recording a 0.279 (1st) batting average against them, and scoring 183 runs against them (1st).
Who's the team in 2nd? The Phillies. Philadelphia ranks 2nd in batting averag/runs scored against lefties and today they too will face off with Arizona's left handed pitcher, Jordan Montgomery.
Philly's batting 0.268 against lefties this year and they've managed to score 175 runs in the process, while hitting a league leading 48 home runs against lefties..
To Recap, MLB Betting Insights for August 8th, 2024:
In the Phillies vs. Diamondbacks game today, we're rolling with two plays. Trea Turner o1.5 Total Bases (-115) and we're rolling with the Phillies/Diamondbacks F5 o5.5 (+102); both via BetOnline.
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