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Horse Racing Minnesota Twins vs. Toronto Blue Jays Same Game Parlay: 4.60 Bet Builder For Tuesday Night
MINNESOTA TWINS VS TORONTO BLUE JAYS SAME-GAME PARLAY, STATS, PLAYER PROPS
Now that the MLB regular season has concluded, it is time to start the process that will crown a Champion in 2023 as the playoffs begin on Tuesday. Ej is suggesting a 4.60 same-game parlay for the match between the Twins and Blue Jays, and he doesn’t expect much scoring to take place to open this Wild Card series.
Same Game Parlay Odds: 4.60
Odds via Bet365 as of 8:00 am on October 3, 2023. Odds may now differ
MINNESOTA TWINS VS TORONTO BLUE JAYS Stats & Facts
- The Twins are 7 – 0 in Lopez’s last 7 starts to open game 1 of a series.
- The Blue Jays are 0 – 5 in their last 5 playoff games.
- The Blue Jays are 0 – 4 in their last 4 playoff away games.
MINNESOTA TWINS VS TORONTO BLUE JAYS SAME GAME PARLAY: WILD CARD PLAYOFFS ARE UNDERWAY
MINNESOTA TWINS USING HOME FIELD ADVANTAGE TO OPEN SERIES WITH JAYS
The Minnesota Twins will play host to the Toronto Blue Jays as the Wild Card playoffs begin on Tuesday night, and this best-of-3 series will be played entirely on the Twins home field. There will be no games played in Toronto in the post-season unless the Jays get past the Twins, and let me tell you now that I do not expect to see a playoff in Canada this year.
The Twins are listed at 1.87 favourites to win game 1 of this series on Tuesday night in the Land of 10,000 Lakes, and I am expecting the home side to come out with a victory to open the festivities. The Blue Jays essentially backed into the post-season because the teams in the chase around them all fell apart, so I have zero confidence that the road team will win either of these first two games.
I expect a 2-game sweep of the Jays and it all starts tonight as Pablo Lopez and Kevin Gausman are set to open the series on the mound for their respective clubs. As most of us know, these two are considered the aces in the starting rotation, and in a 3-game series such as this, the first game is about as important as it gets.
I expect both starters to have solid outings, and there isn’t much that we can take from the six games they played against each other during the regular season. Toronto won two of the three games in Minnesota and the Twins won two out of three games in Toronto as they split the season series 3 – 3.
Lopez will outduel Gausman and we might not be seeing much scoring on Tuesday so along with the Twins Moneyline I have two other plays to add to this same-game parlay.
THERE WILL BE NO EARLY RUNS SCORED
The line setters are showing a 1.80 offer on the under 0.5 run in the first inning, and while yes, the top of each batting order is usually responsible for the damage on the scoreboard I don’t see runs crossing the plate early.
The Jays’ offence was terrible down the final stretch of the regular season, and as you see in my stats above, Toronto and the post-season don’t exactly get along. The Jays have been bounced out of the opening round the last two times they’ve been here.
In 2020, the Rays swept the Jays out of the Wild Card playoffs, 2 – 0, and last year the Mariners provided the 2-game sweep of Toronto. When the lights shine brightest the Jays fold like lawn chairs and they showed us it again just last week as they tried to clinch their position in the post-season.
Expect nothing to happen early in this game, and this total of 8.5 is entirely too high for me as well so let’s add the game total to the combo!
A LOW-SCORING GAME 1 IN MINNESOTA
My prediction: 4 – 3 Twins! All I can see in my head is 4 – 3 Minnesota and a Game 1 win in the books for the Twinkies! As I just said I don’t expect runs early and I don’t expect either offense to have much success as nerves in the playoffs always have their influence on players’ emotions.
The Twins finished the regular season with an 8 – 3 record, and that is the type of momentum a team needs to win games in the playoffs. Lopez is going to shut down the Jays for 6 innings, and because we are playing a same-game combo here the game total got moved to 8.5 for it. As you can see, the true game total is 7.5, so we get to sneak in that extra run in our favour and I’ll take it!
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