Best MLB Bets Today – Free (Saturday 8/26)

Welcome to a Saturday edition of MLB best bets. Friday, Mookie Betts stayed red hot and kept our winning ways going in front of the Boston faithful. Saturday, we’ll look into another scorching-hot team, the Seattle Mariners. The Royals and Mariners will play game 2 of their weekend series Saturday afternoon in T-Mobile Park. 

Kansas City Royals @ Seattle Mariners

The Mariners caught fire at the perfect moment of the season. They have erased a 10-game deficit in the AL West and now sit tied atop the division with the Texas Rangers. Seattle enters Saturday having won 9 of their last 10 games and have a very favorable matchup with Jordan Lyles, who will be taking the bump for the Royals. 

Jordan Lyles has struggled all season for Kansas City. He carries a 3-14 record, 6.20 ERA and 1.27 WHIP on the season. Lyles just faced this Seattle lineup Aug. 15 and gave up 9 hits, 6 earned runs and 4 home runs in a losing effort. 

Seattle has terrorized RHP over the last 14 days with the seventh-best team average (.277), sixth-best OPS (.843) and third-best wRC+ (142) over that stretch. Eugenio Suárez has been a consistent contributor to the Mariners’ hot streak at the plate and has excellent career numbers against Lyles. Suárez has recorded 6 hits in 14 at bats against Lyles, good for a .500 AVG.  

Best Bets

Seattle Mariners Team Total Over 5.5 Runs (+110, DraftKings Sportsbook) — 1-Unit Wager
Eugenio Suárez Over 0.5 RBIs (+145, DraftKings Sportsbook) — 0.5-Unit Wager 

The Mariners offense has led the charge over their hit stretch. Seattle has scored at least 6 runs in nine of their last 11 games. Suárez has driven in 3 runs in his head-to-head matchups with Lyles, he’s also hit two home runs. Saturday afternoon, we’ll put our hot streak on the line with the hottest lineup in the game currently.