{"id":365138,"date":"2025-08-26T09:27:36","date_gmt":"2025-08-26T13:27:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.northstargaming.ca\/admin\/nsgcms\/?p=365138"},"modified":"2025-08-26T09:27:36","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T13:27:36","slug":"twins-vs-blue-jays-best-bets-august-26-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.northstargaming.ca\/admin\/nsgcms\/twins-vs-blue-jays-best-bets-august-26-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Twins vs. Blue Jays best bets Aug. 26: Expect Alejandro Kirk to shine, Toronto to cover"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Toronto Blue Jays can secure a series win \u2014 and a <em>season<\/em> series win \u2014 in Tuesday night&#8217;s home matchup against the Minnesota Twins.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The pregame narrative<\/strong>: After a 10-4 victory last night, Toronto is now 3-1 vs. Minnesota on the season. The Twins have lost 12 of their past 16 games to fall well out of wild-card contention, while Toronto is holding tight to a five-game lead in the AL East.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Check out my Blue Jays best bets vs. the Twins for Aug. 26, featuring a prop bet on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.northstarbets.ca\/sportsbook\/news\/stats\/mlb\/alejandro_kirk\/batting-stats\">Alejandro Kirk<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Blue Jays best bets vs. Twins<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Best bet:<strong> Blue Jays -1.5 (+120)<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Last night&#8217;s win for Toronto was comfortable from wire to wire, as the team scored four in the first inning and retained a multi-run lead the rest of the way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I think the Jays should be able to win by margin again tonight. They&#8217;re simply the better team, and starter Chris Bassitt has done his best work inside Rogers Centre.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Since the all-star break, Toronto has an MLB-best .288\/.355\/.487 slash line and a 134 wRC+. In the same span, Minnesota is collectively batting .227 with the 23rd-ranked wRC+ (93).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>In the Twins&#8217; past 16 games, Minnesota is just 5-11 vs. a +1.5 run line. The team has a -39 run differential in that span.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Bassitt is 8-0 with a 2.73 ERA and a .690 opponent OPS in 14 home starts this year. In contrast, he is 3-7 with a 6.10 ERA and an .839 opponent OPS in 13 road outings.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>These teams have been moving in opposite directions for a while. The current gap between them is enough to make this plus-money run line price enticing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bailey Ober, who starts for the Twins tonight, allowed five earned runs to the Jays in June as part of a 6-4 victory for Toronto.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Oh, and the Jays have the third-best run line record in MLB (76-56), per Team Rankings. The Twins&#8217; run line record is 61-70.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Key stat:<\/strong> Toronto is 10-4 vs. a -1.5 run line in Bassitt&#8217;s 14 home starts this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"cacheembed:117251\">Embed: #117251<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li class=\"insights\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.northstarbets.ca\/sportsbook\/sports-hub\/baseball\/mlb?utm_source=insights&amp;utm_medium=text_link&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=sportsbook_mlb\">Full MLB betting markets<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"insights\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.northstarbets.ca\/sportsbook\/news\/article\/mlb-injury-report?utm_source=insights&amp;utm_medium=text_link&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=injury_reports\">MLB injury report<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"insights\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.northstarbets.ca\/sportsbook\/news\/stats\/mlb\/top-players\/hitting\/OPS-on-base_plus_slugging?utm_source=insights&amp;utm_medium=text_link&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=stats_pages\">MLB stats &amp; standings<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Jays prop bet<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Kirk over 1.5 bases (+120):<\/strong> Kirk had a great night in the series opener, going 1-for-2 with a home run and a pair of walks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In his past 16 starts, the catcher is now 8-8 vs. this prop with a .500 SLG.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ober has one of the lowest walk rates in the majors (5.1%, 93rd percentile according to Baseball Savant), so Kirk will likely have to put the ball in play to reach base. That&#8217;s a good thing for this prop.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kirk has excellent bat-to-ball skills, evidenced by his 93rd-percentile xBA (.292) and his 91st-percentile hard-hit rate (51.4%). And he&#8217;s batting .302 vs. right-handed pitchers this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Blue Jays best bets made at 9:05 a.m. ET on 08\/26\/2025.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Toronto Blue Jays can secure a series win \u2014 and a season series win \u2014 in Tuesday night&#8217;s home matchup against the Minnesota Twins. The pregame narrative: After a 10-4 victory last night, Toronto is now 3-1 vs. Minnesota on the season. The Twins have lost 12 of their past 16 games to fall [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":365152,"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-365138","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>Blue Jays best bets vs. Twins: Aug. 26 MLB betting | NorthStar Bets<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Check out our Twins vs. Blue Jays best bets for Aug. 26, 2025. 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