Best Bets for Friday | WNBA + MLB Picks + Predictions (6.20)

Nothing worse than a 0-4 night for host Matt Perrault to ruin a great week. Matt went from 7-1 to 7-5 on the week. Matt is back with 3 bets for you on the Friday episode of the Daily Juice. 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:14):
What the guys, how are you welcome into a Friday
morning episode of the Daily Juice podcast. Moname is Matt Parolt.
You guys can follow me across all of my socials
at Sports Talk Matt, and we are back after a
rough Thursday. I don't know what that was. I mean,
the whole night was weird. I mean, the Liberty got

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beat huh, the Valkyries beat the Fever, and then to
tell the cherry on top of the crap Sunday is
the Thunder deciding that they were going to punt on
an NBA Finals game. Now, if you're wondering about the numbers,

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the numbers are on their side. In the NBA Finals
for Game sevens, home teams are fifteen and four fifteen
and four overall. In the NBA Playoffs, home teams have
a record of one oh eight in thirty one, one
oh eight in thirty one, so fifteen and four in

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the NBA Finals game seven and one hundred and eight
and thirty one in NBA Finals or NBA games playoff
games in general for game sevens, So, I guess if
you're a Thunder fan, you're gonna take that to bed
tonight and feel good about yourself. At least you know
on Sunday you've got the home crowd. But that was embarrassing,

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no other way around it. That was embarrassing. The effort,
the interest, all of it was embarrassing. Now on the
other side, give the Pacers a ton of credit, give
Halliburton a ton of credit, Give the team, the co
all of it, the crowd, all of it. They were
ready to go. I was dead wrong, absolutely dead wrong.

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And I knew when the Yankees scored two runs in
the top of the ninth inning, or maybe or bottom
of the eighth, rather yeah, bottom of the eighth, I
knew I was in trouble because we had the under
the entire game and the Yankees won seven to three.
Some of you bet it late and got a push
or maybe even got ten and a half, but I

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had nine and a half. So I missed that. Tigers
won easily in the first game of the doubleheader, but
the thunder lost. Mattherin was a ghost, was not even
a question. Was I even a factor gone? He was
way gone. And then lou Dort wound up with seven
four rebounds, no assists, and three points over twelve and

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a half misses. That is down point four eight five
units with an zero to four record, and we go
from being up seven and one for the week to
seven and five and down for the week so far.
That's how fast things can switch. Serves me, right? Why
did I do four? I listened to you guys. I

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like three. Occasionally I'll go to four. But I pushed it.
I'll admit it. I was seven and one and I
got a little greedy, and a good old slice of
humble pie comes from the sports betting gods when you
get a little over your skis that under the Yankees
had hit one in three? Is such a different night,

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and oh and four. It's not great, but it's such
a different night, such an incredibly different night to go
with that, to go one in three, so oh and four.
So here we go Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Let's see
if we can end the week strong and pick it
back up here and get ourselves a winning week still possible.
I have one WNBA play and I have two bets

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in Major League Baseball. It's Friday in late June. There's
no more hockey, so we're gonna you know, and it's
not Saturday or Sunday, so we can't bet golf, we
can't bet Nascar. We're gonna be limited, little limited here
for the month of June and July when it comes
to what we're going to bet on. So I don't

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love betting, just baseball by itself, So we're gonna wind
up getting ourselves into a WNBA. We're three and two
so far in the w Let's see if we can
keep it rolling here tonight with the W but two
baseball bets to give you guys here in just one second.
First and foremost, we are rapidly approaching the giveaway date
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game left in the NBA season, so just one day

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Go to the Betting Pros app or log onto bettingpros
dot com slash Playoffs. Okay, let's start with the WNBA
and the Washington Atlanta game here. So head to head
Atlanta over their last ten games, they are seven and
they're seven and three. Not sorry, I had to head
head to head at six and four for Atlanta six wins,

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four losses, seven and three to the under over the
last ten games between Washington, the Mystics and the Dream
Atlanta eight and two over their last ten games against
the spread, they've been red hot. Now, they didn't cover
in their last game. Sorry, they didn't win their last game,
but they covered their last game. They were eight point dogs.
They lost by five on the road to the New

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York Liberty. They played at Washington. They were four and
a half point favorites and they won the game eighty
nine to fifty six. So that's a complete blowout. Now,
Here are these same two teams playing, this time at Atlanta.
On the year, Atlanta is nine to three. Ats not horrible.

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For Washington, they're seven and five. Washington covered their last
game against Chicago on the road. They beat them seventy
nine to seventy two. They were four point favorites and
they won by seven. They did not cover against Atlanta,
but they did cover against Connecticut, and they did cover
against New York. They've been playing decent basketball, and that's

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why I think this number opened as low as it did.
Number open up at seven and a half. It's been
bet to eight. Some books have already gone to eight
and a half, but I got eight for Atlanta. I
think the dream looked. They just whipped them eighty nine
to fifty, and that game was on the road for Atlanta.
Now Atlanta is back at home. They're red hot in

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terms of against the number. They've covered four consecutive games.
They've covered eight of nine. Here, I'm gonna ride the
hot team against the number. I'll lay the eight Atlanta
minus eight at home against Washington for one point one units.
All Right, to baseball, we go. Let's talk Jacob de Gram.

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Jacob de Gram at home this year one point eight
three ERA on the road this year a two point
eight six ERA, a two and zero record, and then
posing batting average of a wopping one point eight six
just nine earned runs in twenty eight and a third
innings worth of work on the road. Degram goes today

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against the Pittsburgh Pirates. Just being against Pittsburgh Pirates now,
the number is quite aggressive. It's minus one ninety one
eighty five for the Rangers. Mike Burrows is going for
the Pittsburgh Pirates. He actually actually hasn't been awful. Five
and a third against the Cubs, a two to one loss.
He went four and a third with two earned runs
giving up in a ten to three win over Miami,

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and he went five and a third zero earned runs
against Houston in a three to nothing win. Been pretty good.
So there's a shot that the Rangers don't score here.
So instead I want to go to the Pirates team total,
which is two and a half runs in Game one
against School bul they had two goals two runs yesterday.

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But in the nightcap with Paul Skins on the mound,
they actually gave Paul Skins some run support. They scored
eight runs for Paul Skins and they won eight to four.
But if you go back and just look at overall
offense in what we've seen from the Pirates against the
Cubs and the Tigers over the last eight games, the

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Pirates have scored two, one, one, two, three and two
before yesterday where they scored eight, So that would be
a one an eight record to under two and a
half runs being scored for the worst offense in baseball.
They're facing de gram De gram is back. Pirates team

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total is plus money at under two and a half runs.
Let's jump on this. Pirates under two and a half
runs up against Jacob de gramming company here at plus money.
I think it's a good bet. It's a little bit
of a flyer play, but it's plus one twenty two.
Let's jump on that. And then finally let's go to

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the Blue Jays and their matchup coming up here today
and Toronto at home against the White Sox. Again, you
can take a look at this from a game perspective,
but they're throwing Spencer Turnbull an opener, which I don't
love getting involved with that. Toronto is twenty four and
fourteen at home. I like them there minus two to

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ten on the money line you can parlay if you
want to jump in on, like a two leg money
line parlay. I don't hate taking the Phillies today against
the Mets. I don't hate taking the Dodgers today after
losing and what happened last night against the Padres. You
know they're going to be pissed off. So I don't
mind like a three leg money line parlay of Blue
Jays Dodgers in the Phillies. Mets have lost six games

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in a row, so bet the streak. But I want
to kind of, you know, limit my exposure here a bit.
And the White Sox are seven and thirty one on
the road. But Davis Martin isn't awful. He's not great,
but he's not awful. He's two and seven, but ERA
is three point seven nine on the road. He is
a four point six to two ERA, a one in

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five record on the post batting average of two seventy two.
But the one thing we know about these Blue Jays
is at home, the Blue Jays score a lot of runs. Now,
how many runs will we see the White Sox score,
I don't know. But the Blue Jays at home scored
five against Diamondbacks eight and five at home against the Phillies,

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they scored nine, two and three. Against the A's they
scored eight, eight, eleven and twelve. Like when they're at home,
they hit. Their team total is four and a half
today to score five runs. It's a little juicy at
minus one forty six. But given the pitching for the

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White Sox and given the Blue Jays offense at home,
the Blue Jays are forty and thirty four right now,
and I just I like what they do. Overall. The
Blue Jays are forty one, thirty one and two to
the over at home. I think there's a decent shot
that we see and maybe not the game go over,
but the team total to go over here for the

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Toronto Blue Jays over four and a half runs against
the White Sox at MIUS one forty six. You can
bet it at five and a half if you want,
and bet plus money, but I'd rather cash it when
it hits five. Considering that they scored five against the
Diamondbacks eight and then five in those three games that
they're coming off of here, so all three games went

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over four and a half runs. White sucks give up runs,
Blue Jays score runs at home Toronto over four and
a half runs team total for minus one forty six. Okay,
so our three plays for US here today Atlanta, the
Dream laying eight at home against the Washington Mystics in
the w at minus one ten, Pirates team total under

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two and a half at plus one twenty two, and
the Blue Jays team total over four and a half
at minus one forty six. If you want to fade
those plays, I don't blame you. Seven and one to
zero and four. What do we do here today on Friday?
It'll tell us a lot about what the weekend's going
to look like in the ability to have a winning
week here for us minus Matt Parole. You guys can

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