vegas veteran benjamin eckstein, writer of america’s line, brings three years of expertise to make weekly??picks within his”ecks & bacon” column.
las vegas — had a slew of questions regarding the red sox-royals game that has been suspended wednesday night at 4-4 in the end of the ninth inning. the rule is that??a sport should go 8.5 innings in order to have an effect at the sportsbooks. the match went nine, but almost all the joints are calling that the moneyline calculator a push, because there will not be an outcome until august 22.
however, the 4-4 score at the end of eight innings did cover the under, together with the over/under??total closure at 11. and in case you had the royals on the runline, that was +1.5 runs, proceed to the counter and collect your money, baby, it had been a winner!!!
gave a baseball winner, even a football winner??and a winning parlay in last week’s column. how am i gonna shirt 4-0??? push it into 7-0, baby!!!
start tonight together using the dodgers. it’s impossible to avoid ferris, oops, walker buehler and his 7-0 mark at dodger stadium dating back to the center of last season.
so we ain’t gont prevent him. walker’s numbers at home are, which makes up ridonkulous, a new note! tell me, eck. how about just one teeny little earned run throughout the past 16 innings, which translates to an invisible 0.56 era. and about 26 ks in 16 eyeglasses. yeah, twenty-six!
as for tonight’s nfl action, we’ve experienced a standing principle of not opening the wallet for some of their display, oops, preseason games, but there are trainers who’ve owned this space. my guy @jtfoz informs me this minnesota’s??mike zimmer in 14-7 (66.7%)??is among the three greatest coaches against the spread from the preseason. you make the call.
searching in about the english premier league tomorrow, and we’ll begin with watford over brighton & hove. the hornets started last season with four straight wins and ought to not have any problem with the seagulls.
why? because watford has not dropped its opening league match in the previous 12 seasons. yeah, twelve seasons. it was six wins and six draws, so we’ll require watford to win, and just in the case back it up with a little money on the draw on.
in the late game, gotta have tottenham over aston villa. you know that i’m arsenal and my wife is tottenham, and as far as it pains me to root for the spurs, do not wanna leave money on the table. it is gonna be costly, however boy, do we all have reasons.
tottenham has won eight of the previous 10 inside this matchup, while scoring 24 and devoting only three. don’t believe that the villans have enough to stay shut, but just in case, we will back up with a couple pennies on the draw like +450.
plz struck me on twitter over the weekend, even @vegasvigorish, just in case anything pops onto the baseball diamond.
benjamin eckstein is a nationally syndicated sportswriter/oddsmaker. his column, america’s line, with the ecks & bacon appetizer, has conducted in the new york daily news and over 100 other newspapers since 1988. you can follow him on line at??www.americasline.com. he’s beloved by many, when he picks winners, and detested by others, when he chooses the occasional failure. if you want slice of eck, hit his email…ben@americasline.com.