{"id":372336,"date":"2025-10-01T11:39:51","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T15:39:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.northstargaming.ca\/admin\/nsgcms\/?p=372336"},"modified":"2025-10-01T11:39:51","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T15:39:51","slug":"mlb-prop-bets-and-game-2-wild-card-predictions-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.northstargaming.ca\/admin\/nsgcms\/mlb-prop-bets-and-game-2-wild-card-predictions-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Best MLB Game 2 wild-card prop bets: Playoff predictions on Mookie Betts, Yoshinobu Yamamoto and Cody Bellinger"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>October baseball is officially here and I&#8217;m dialling up four MLB prop pick recommendations for the marathon playoff slate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"block-d0873b89-4dfa-47d6-9954-56140c451c77\"><strong>Today&#8217;s MLB props narrative<\/strong>: The Los Angeles Dodgers manhandled the Cincinnati Reds in Game 1 and I&#8217;m expecting more of the same tonight. I&#8217;m targeting L.A. stars <a href=\"https:\/\/www.northstarbets.ca\/sportsbook\/news\/stats\/mlb\/mookie_betts\/batting-stats\">Mookie Betts<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.northstarbets.ca\/sportsbook\/news\/stats\/mlb\/yoshinobu_yamamoto\/pitching-stats\">Yoshinobu Yamamoto<\/a>, and expect <a href=\"https:\/\/www.northstarbets.ca\/sportsbook\/news\/stats\/mlb\/cody_bellinger\/batting-stats\">Cody Bellinger<\/a> to come up big in a must-win game for the New York Yankees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"block-d0873b89-4dfa-47d6-9954-56140c451c77\">Check out my favourite MLB prop bets for Game 2 of the 2025 wild-card series on Wednesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"block-22b3784f-32c2-400a-beef-1578a991be49\">MLB prop bets<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"block-0c59b741-4781-48d8-8ffa-d93f8ee90c10\"><strong>Best bet:<strong> Bellinger over 1.5 total bases (+170) &amp; 1+ RBI (+180)<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bellinger is likely to occupy a middle-of-the-order spot behind Aaron Judge in a much more manageable Game 2 assignment.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Yankees will see Brayan Bello after Boston Red Sox ace Garrett Crochet delivered a sensational performance last night. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bello is wild and is coming off his worst month of the season. Bellinger will have a very real chance of stepping up with runners on base at his home park, where he rakes, and I like him to capitalize.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Yankees saw Bello three times this season and Bellinger hit cleanup in all of those contests, including a mid-September game the right-hander laboured through.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bellinger&#8217;s ability to handle left-handed pitching should help him out later in the contest, too, when Boston manager Alex Cora looks to play the matchup game following Bello&#8217;s departure.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 30-year-old Bellinger hit a robust .353\/.415\/.601 off southpaws this season. Bellinger is batting .329 with a .917 OPS vs. lefties over the last three seasons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"block-13bf476e-3f27-4d52-86f2-70dff07fd638\"><strong>Key stat<\/strong>: Bellinger hit .302\/.365\/.544 at Yankee Stadium with a 152 wRC+ and 18 of his 29 homers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"cacheembed:118593\">Embed: #118593<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul id=\"block-10146156-2d6b-49a8-b097-37743fd550b5\" class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><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\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Full MLB betting markets<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><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\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>MLB injury report<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><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\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>MLB stats &amp; standings<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"block-ebade6eb-0e6a-4675-8cbc-3a4396c11ac4\">MLB postseason player props<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Betts to score a run (-103)<\/strong>: In a major starting pitching mismatch, the Cincinnati Reds are deploying Zack Littell for their do-or-die game.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Littell is a soft-tosser who doesn&#8217;t miss bats and throws lots of strikes. It leads to plenty of contact (fifth-most among starters), a dangerous way to pitch against the powerful Dodgers.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We&#8217;re unlikely to see a deep outing from Littell, who will turn it over to a bullpen that threw five innings last night after Hunter Greene got walloped. Not good.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Leadoff man Shohei Ohtani seems like a shoo-in to score but you&#8217;ll have to pay -200 for that. But Betts, hitting right behind Ohtani and in front of power bats Freddie Freeman, Teoscar Hernandez and Max Muncy, is a highly playable -103.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Betts reached base three times in Game 1, though he didn&#8217;t score. That was following his most productive month of the season (.299\/.343\/.557).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Best playoff pitching prop<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Yamamoto over 17.5 outs (-110)<\/strong>: The Reds have an unimposing lineup that was below average, per wRC+, against both lefties and righties during the regular season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Teammate Blake Snell carved up the Reds over six innings before allowing a pair of seventh-inning runs ahead of a Dodgers bullpen meltdown in the eighth. I&#8217;m expecting Yamamoto to enjoy similar results.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Dodgers can end the series tonight, setting up their rotation quite well for the NLDS, which begins Saturday but has a day off baked in before Game 2 on Monday.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Because of those factors listed above, I anticipate the Dodgers will be just fine letting Yamamoto ride things out.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There&#8217;s plenty to like about this matchup and the way he has performed of late:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Yamamoto posted a 0.67 ERA over four September starts.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>He cleared this line in six of his final seven outings and 18 of 30 starts this season.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Yamamoto keeps the ball in the yard, is dynamite against both lefties and righties and punched out batters at the fifth-best rate among qualified starters. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The only starter in MLB with a lower xERA was NL Cy Young favourite Paul Skenes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"block-571cf986-8d14-4776-b519-20fa27d04fec\"><em>MLB prop picks made at 9:30 a.m. ET on 10\/01\/2025<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>October baseball is officially here and I&#8217;m dialling up four MLB prop pick recommendations for the marathon playoff slate. Today&#8217;s MLB props narrative: The Los Angeles Dodgers manhandled the Cincinnati Reds in Game 1 and I&#8217;m expecting more of the same tonight. I&#8217;m targeting L.A. stars Mookie Betts and Yoshinobu Yamamoto, and expect Cody Bellinger [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":372354,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sidebar_plugin_meta_block_field":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[130,155],"class_list":["post-372336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mlb","tag-mlb","tag-mlb-props"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>MLB prop bets Oct. 1, 2025: Game 2 wild-card predictions | NSB<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Check out our best MLB prop bets for Game 2 of the wild-card series. 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