Online sport betting numbers are out for the American League and National League Championship Series.The NLCS is virtually a pick at the sportsbook in sportsbetting between the Philadelphia Phillies and Los Angeles Dodgers while the New York Yankees are almost 2-1 online sport betting favorites over the Los Angeles Angels in the ALCS.
Online sport betting may favor the Yankees but they haven’t really matched up very well against the Angels in the past. Despite that fact, New York is heavily favored in online sport betting to reach the World Series. New York played about as well as they could in dispatching the Twins in three straight.
“We were good enough to get through the first round,” Derek Jeter said, “Now it gets more difficult. This [last] series, we could not have played better.” The Yankees were led by Alex Rodriguez who finally got the playoff monkey off his back as the hit for a .455 average, with two home runs and six RBIs. He will need to have another strong series if the Yankees are to get past a talented Los Angeles team in online sport betting. The Angels have a very good lineup that is deep with players like Bobby Abreu, Chone Figgins, Vladimir Guerrero and Torii Hunter. The difference in this online sport betting series could be the bullpens where the Yankees have the best closer in the history of the game in Mariano Rivera while the Angels have a solid closer in Brian Fuentes but not much else. The Yankees and Angels split their 10 regular season sportsbetting meetings this season. Game 1 of the ALCS is Friday in New York and the Yankees are -165 sportsbetting favorites at the sports book with CC Sabathia on the mound while the Angels go with John Lackey.
The NLCS begins on Thursday and the Phillies will not have much time to rest. They will have left-hander Cole Hamels in Game 1 but he has not pitched nearly as well as he did a year ago. Last year in the NLCS he owned the Dodgers, going 2-0 with a 1.93 ERA. He will be opposed by the Dodgers’ Randy Wolf on Thursday. The sportsbetting price on Game 1 is nearly identical to the series price with the Los Angeles Dodgers a very slight online sport betting favorite at the sportsbook.