{"id":362151,"date":"2025-08-09T15:29:41","date_gmt":"2025-08-09T19:29:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.northstargaming.ca\/admin\/nsgcms\/?p=362151"},"modified":"2025-08-09T15:29:41","modified_gmt":"2025-08-09T19:29:41","slug":"blue-jays-vs-dodgers-best-bets-august-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.northstargaming.ca\/admin\/nsgcms\/blue-jays-vs-dodgers-best-bets-august-9\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Jays vs. Dodgers best bets Aug. 9: Freddie Freeman looks to continue second-half surge"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>After dropping last night&#8217;s series opener, the Toronto Blue Jays look to get even with the Los Angeles Dodgers on Saturday night.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The pregame narrative:<\/strong> Two-time Cy Young winner Blake Snell gets the ball for L.A. in what will be just his second start in the past four months. Snell and the Dodgers are favoured against Chris Bassitt and the Blue Jays.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Check out my Blue Jays best bets vs. the Dodgers for Aug. 9, including prop bets on Freddie Freeman and Ernie Clement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Blue Jays best bets vs. Dodgers<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.northstarbets.com\/sportsbook\/sports\/baseball\/competitions\/10065\"><strong>Full MLB betting markets<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.northstarbets.com\/sportsbook\/news\/article\/mlb-injury-report\"><strong>MLB injury report<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.northstarbets.com\/sportsbook\/news\/stats\/mlb\/top-players\/hitting\/OPS-on-base_plus_slugging\"><strong>MLB player stats<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.northstarbets.com\/sportsbook\/news\/stats\/mlb\/standings\/division\"><strong>MLB standings<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Best bet: Freeman over 1.5 total bases (+100)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s easy to take Freeman&#8217;s production for granted, given how long he&#8217;s been an upper-tier hitter in MLB.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But what he&#8217;s doing in his age-35 season is really impressive \u2014 and he&#8217;s only gotten better as the year has gone on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Freeman&#8217;s average recently crept back up above .300. He&#8217;s on track to post at least a .300 BA and a 130 OPS+ for the eighth time in the past 10 years.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Since the all-star break, Freeman has a .348\/.420\/.536 slash line with 37 total bases in 19 games.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Freeman&#8217;s batted ball metrics aren&#8217;t eye-popping, but they&#8217;re comfortably above average. He ranks in the 65th percentile or better in hard-hit rate, xBA, xSLG and average exit velocity, per Baseball Savant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Two of his favourite pitches to hit are cutters and sinkers from right-handed pitchers, and he&#8217;ll likely see plenty of those tonight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Blue Jays starter Chris Bassitt throws cutters\/sinkers nearly 60% of the time to left-hitting batters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 66 plate appearances against those pitch types from RHPs, Freeman has a 1.150 OPS this season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He&#8217;s also 3-for-9 with a home run vs. Bassitt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Key stat:<\/strong> Freeman has gone over 1.5 bases in 13 of his past 21 games.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Jays vs. Dodgers picks<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><strong>Clement over 0.5 runs (+130)<\/strong>:<\/strong> He&#8217;s cooled off a bit, but Clement has still been among the best hitters when facing southpaws this season. That makes this an interesting play for me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Clement has a 150 wRC+ against LHPs, which ranks 19th among 159 qualified hitters. That&#8217;s ahead of guys like Jose Ramirez, Manny Machado and even Bo Bichette.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In his past 16 games, Clement has an .857 OPS and 15 runs. He bounces around the lineup a bit, but Toronto&#8217;s lineup has been so good that he can score from anywhere.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Clement batted in the No. 2 spot in the past two games, and there was a lefty on the mound both times. The same is true tonight, so hopefully he&#8217;s back in that favourable spot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Blue Jays best bets made at 3:20 p.m. ET on 08\/09\/2025.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After dropping last night&#8217;s series opener, the Toronto Blue Jays look to get even with the Los Angeles Dodgers on Saturday night. The pregame narrative: Two-time Cy Young winner Blake Snell gets the ball for L.A. in what will be just his second start in the past four months. Snell and the Dodgers are favoured [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":362143,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sidebar_plugin_meta_block_field":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[452,60],"tags":[10],"class_list":["post-362151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-com","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>Blue Jays best bets vs. Dodgers: Aug. 9 MLB betting | NSB<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Check out our Blue Jays vs. Dodgers best bets for Aug. 9, 2025. 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