{"id":292301,"date":"2024-08-18T13:30:12","date_gmt":"2024-08-18T17:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.northstargaming.ca\/admin\/nsgcms\/?p=292301"},"modified":"2024-08-18T16:18:34","modified_gmt":"2024-08-18T20:18:34","slug":"yankees-vs-tigers-picks-sunday-night-baseball-august-18-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.northstargaming.ca\/admin\/nsgcms\/yankees-vs-tigers-picks-sunday-night-baseball-august-18-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Yankees vs. Tigers Sunday Night Baseball picks: Bet on Skubal, Judge to shine in Little League Classic"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>At a special venue in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, the Detroit Tigers and New York Yankees are set for the Little League Classic in prime time on Sunday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The pregame narrative:<\/strong> Tarik Skubal is barrelling toward an AL Cy Young victory, and he&#8217;ll look to add to his resume tonight after carving up the Yankees back in May. I&#8217;ve got prop bets on the two biggest stars of this game: Skubal and AL MVP favourite Aaron Judge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Check out my Yankees vs. Tigers picks for Sunday Night Baseball on Aug. 18.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Yankees vs. Tigers picks<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"insights\">MLB markets:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/can01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.northstarbets.ca%2Fsportsbook%2Fsports-hub%2Fbaseball%2Fmlb&amp;data=05%7C02%7CSpencer.Closs%40northstargaming.ca%7C916f83cdf6b946d991c308dcbd828528%7Ca474078ecda74c118881901a044d2bef%7C0%7C0%7C638593615480015353%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=glJDBFkhC3LlPn8TV%2Fci0zsI%2FxcZyEJj%2FJpQPRib62o%3D&amp;reserved=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Click Here<\/a>&nbsp;| MLB stats:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/can01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.northstarbets.ca%2Fsportsbook%2Fnews%2Fstats&amp;data=05%7C02%7CSpencer.Closs%40northstargaming.ca%7C916f83cdf6b946d991c308dcbd828528%7Ca474078ecda74c118881901a044d2bef%7C0%7C0%7C638593615480025470%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=fm4gxgwnsPkAy6JgPBFxseYap85TjIRttY90lvM%2F9ZE%3D&amp;reserved=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Click Here<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Best Bet: Skubal over 7.5 Ks (+112)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"cacheembed:91949\">Embed: #91949<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Yankees strike out at a below-league-average rate, but this pick isn&#8217;t really about them. It&#8217;s about Skubal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The heavy <a href=\"https:\/\/www.northstarbets.ca\/sportsbook\/event\/1020331933\">AL Cy Young favourite<\/a> is bulldozing his opponents these days, cashing this prop in six of his past seven outings. In that span, Skubal has averaged 8.7 Ks per start.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Skubal&#8217;s workload has been steady all season, which always makes an over more enticing. Of his 24 starts, he&#8217;s completed six-plus innings 21 times.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That includes a gem at Yankee Stadium in early May: 6.0 IP, 6 H, 2 ER, 12 K, 0 BB.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yes, he fanned a dozen Yankees the last time he faced them without issuing a single free pass. That&#8217;s dominant stuff.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Skubal doesn&#8217;t like to play with his food. His 4.9% walk rate (91st percentile) and 30.5% K rate (92nd percentile) make that very clear.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He plays off his upper-90s fastball with a devastating changeup that garners a 48.0% whiff rate, per Baseball Savant. The Yankees fanned on that changeup in 12 of 17 swings back in May.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Given that Skubal has cleared this Ks total routinely in recent outings \u2014 and he was dominant earlier this year against the Yankees \u2014 the plus-money price here feels like a bargain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Key stat:<\/strong> Skubal has 23 Ks in 69 plate appearances against the current Yankees lineup (33.3% K rate).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Quick picks<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Judge over 1.5 bases (-108):<\/strong> It takes a Cy Young favourite to put Judge&#8217;s bases prop in a reasonable price range. At this number, I&#8217;m happy to buy in against pretty much any arm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"cacheembed:91954\">Embed: #91954<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Judge, who&#8217;s hovering toward lock territory as the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.northstarbets.ca\/sportsbook\/event\/1020331934\">AL MVP favourite<\/a>, has a staggering 1.172 OPS. He&#8217;s on pace for the highest single-season OPS (excluding the COVID-shortened year) since Barry Bonds in 2004.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Walks are the primary risk for Judge to not hit this mark. But as mentioned, Skubal doesn&#8217;t walk many batters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Judge has cashed this bet in six straight games as well as 14 of his past 20. And he&#8217;s 5-for-11 with two doubles and two home runs against Skubal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Picks made at 11:40 a.m. ET 08\/18\/2024.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At a special venue in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, the Detroit Tigers and New York Yankees are set for the Little League Classic in prime time on Sunday. The pregame narrative: Tarik Skubal is barrelling toward an AL Cy Young victory, and he&#8217;ll look to add to his resume tonight after carving up the Yankees back in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":292316,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sidebar_plugin_meta_block_field":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[10],"class_list":["post-292301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mlb","tag-mlb-betting"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Yankees vs. Tigers picks: Sunday Night Baseball | NorthStar Bets<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Check out our Yankees vs. Tigers picks for Sunday Night Baseball. 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