New York Yankees vs. Oakland As Pick

New York Yankees vs. Oakland As Pick

Darin Zank
Date: August 20, 10:07 pm
Location: Oakland Coliseum
TV: ESPN

Betting Odds

Moneyline: Yankees -135/A's +125
Total: 9.5

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The New York Yankees, now the best team in Baseball at 40 games over .500, head West for three games with the playoff-hopeful A's starting Tuesday night in Oakland. Who do we like here for our free MLB pick?
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MLB Betting Odds<br />
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Tuesday's MLB betting odds opened New York at around -140 over Oakland, with an over/under of 10 runs. Early betting action then dipped the Yanks to -135 and the total to 9.5.
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Yankees vs. A's Set-Up<br />
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New York just split four games at home with Cleveland over the weekend, losing Sunday's series finale 8-4. The Yanks then had Monday off to travel.
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Just before that New York swept four games from Baltimore, and just before that it won the last game of a series against Toronto. So the Yankees are 7-2 over their previous nine games.
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At 83-43 overall New York leads the AL East by ten games over second-place Tampa Bay, and it's three games up on Houston in the battle for the best record in the American League.
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Oakland, meanwhile, just took three of four games at home from those AL West-leading Astros, missing out on the sweep by losing Sunday 4-1. The A's then also had Monday off.
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Just before that Oakland split two games with the Giants, and just before that it took two of three from the White Sox. So the A's are 6-3 over their last nine games.
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At 71-53 overall Oakland trails the first-place Astros by eight games in the AL West, but it's also just one game back of the Rays in the battle for the second American League wild-card berth.
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This series is the first meeting between these teams this season. Last year the Yankees took the season series from the A's four games to three.
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Tuesday's Starting Arms<br />
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<a class="advblue" href="https://www.sportsbettingstats.com/mlb/pitcherlog/39657&quot; title="Homer Baily Pitching Logs">Bailey</a> by our strict standards, is 9/24 on quality starts this season, 4/6 since joining Oakland in a trade with Kansas City. Last Wednesday he held San Francisco scoreless on two hits through seven innings of a 9-5 A's victory, which was a super bounce-back effort after giving up seven runs in less than five innings in his previous start against the Cubs.
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The Royals, a team that's 35 games under .500 overall, went 8-10 with Bailey this year, and Oakland is 4-2 with him.
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In his one start against New York this season, back in April when he was with Kansas City, Bailey allowed just one run and three hits through six frames of a 6-1 Royals win.
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<a class="advblue" href="https://www.sportsbettingstats.com/mlb/pitcherlog/99108&quot; title="Domingo German Pitching Logs">German</a> is 9/20 on quality starts this year and two for his last three. Last Tuesday he held Baltimore to two runs and five hits through seven innings of an 8-3 Yanks victory. And over his last three starts he's allowed eight runs – seven earned – and 18 hits, including six home runs, through 19 innings.
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On the season New York is 17-3 with German and 8-0 over his last eight starts.
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In his only career start against Oakland, back in May of last season, German got nicked for six runs in five innings of a game the Yanks eventually won 7-6.
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Tuesday's Batting Splits<br />
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New York is batting .271/.343/.487 against right-handed pitching this season. Numbers like those help this unit rank among the top two or three in the Majors in this split.
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Oakland is batting .239/.318/.425 against RH pitching this season.
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The Bullpens<br />
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The Yankees bullpen owns a 4.15 ERA this season and a 1.33 WHIP while allowing a .730 OPS.
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The A's pen owns a 4.01 ERA and a 1.29 WHIP while allowing a .707 OPS.
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Totals Report<br />
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Overs are 72-50 in Yankees games this season.
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Unders are 66-57 in A's games this season.
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Unders are 35-29 in games played at Oakland Coliseum this season.
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Overs are a combined 24-18 with Bailey and German this season.
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Overs played 5-2 in Yankees-A's games last season.
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<span style="font-size:16px;"><b><span style="color:#008000;">Get more details:</span></b> <a class="advblue" href=" https://www.sportsbettingstats.com/mlb/matchup/1082708">Yankees at A's' MLB Match-up Stats</a> </span>
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Yankees at Athletics Prediction 08/20/2019

We gotta give German the edge in the pitching match-up, and New York gets the check-mark in the splits with the sticks. So we're going with the Yankees at the manageable price for our free MLB pick for Tuesday.

Free Pick: Take the Yankees -135
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