Toronto Blue Jays vs New York Yankees Prediction, Pick and Preview, April 11 (4/11): MLB

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Odds

Time	7:05 p.m. EST
Blue Jays money line	-101
Blue Jays run line	+1.5 (-180)
Yankees money line	-119
Yankees run line	-1.5 (+155)
Over / under	9

 

Key stats

	Toronto Blue Jays	New York Yankees
Record	2-1	2-1
Road / home record	0-0	2-1
Last 10 record	2-1	2-1
Streak	L1	L1
Over / under record	2-1	1-2
Runs / game	6.66	4.33
Runs allowed / game	7.66	3.33

 

Preview

The Toronto Blue Jays travel to New York on Monday to play a 4-game series against the Yankees at the Yankee Stadium. Both teams won their opening series 2-1.

Toronto Blue Jays

The Blue Jays won 2 of 3 games against the Rangers in the opening series. The team showed great offense and averaged .283 at bat scoring 6.66 runs per game but they allowed 7.66 runs per game. Valdimir Guerrero leads with abatting average of .455 1 home run and 4 RBI. Danny Jansen is the leader in home runs with two.

Their pitching staff haven't done a good job as they're allowing 7.66 runs per game in the last 3 games.

Probable Pitcher: 

Alek Manoah (0-0, 0.0 ERA) will take the mound in the 1st game of the series for the Blue Jays. Manoah has had a solid start to the spring, posting a 5:3 K:BB through 5.1 innings, and the 24-year-old right-hander is looking to take a step forward after his impressive 2021 big-league debut where he got a 9-2 record with an ERA of 3.22 and 127 strikeouts in 20 appearances. He pitched 2 games against the Yankees and allowed only 3 runs in 11.2 innings striking out 11 batters.

New York Yankees

The Yanks started the season with the right foot, winning the first 2 games at home against their archrivals but lost the third game of the series. The team is averaging 4.33 runs per game with a .235 at bat. Giancarlo Stanton leads with .385 avg and 2 home runs. Anthony Rizzo has 6 RBI and 2 home runs already.

Severino allowed the only 2 runs Boston had in the 2nd game. He also had 5 strike outs and gave 2 BB.

Probable Pitcher:

Jameson Taillon (0-0, 0-0 ERA) will be on the mound for the Yankees in the 1st game of the series. Taillon returned to the mound in 2021 after missing a year for his second Tommy John surgery, and he had a solid campaign with a 4.30 ERA, 1.21 WHIP and 140:44 K:BB across 144 innings (29 starts). He's in his final year of arbitration eligibility and is set to be a free agent at the end of the season. In his last 3 starts against the Blue Jays he's allowed 9 runs in 13 innings.

BETTING TRENDS

Toronto are 5-2 SU in their last 7 games against NY Yankees.

Toronto are 7-1 SU in their last 8 games when playing on the road against NY Yankees.

NY Yankees are 11-5 SU in their last 16 games.

NY Yankees are 6-3 SU in their last 9 games at home.

Prediction

The Blue Jays offense is showing what we all were expecting to do but their last 3 starting pitchers were pounded. They're sending Alex Manoah to the mound for this game and he had an impressive debut last season and also dominated the Yankees in the 2 games he pitched against them. On the other side is Taillon who didn't do so well against the Blue Jays last season. Toronto have dominated the Yankees lately and with this pitching matchup I'm going with the Blue Jays.

PICK: Blue jays ML  (-101)

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