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Wednesday’s Best MLB & NHL Bets

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No matter your sport of choice, there's always sports betting action to be had. We'll have you covered each and every day with our daily best bets. Here are all of our best bets across each major sport in action today.

Today's Best Bets

Here are today's best bets.

MLB Best Bets

San Francisco Giants (+146) vs. Minnesota Twins (-174)| O/U 7.5 (-104/-118)

Is San Francisco Giants righty Anthony DeSclafani experiencing an early-season slide? DeSclafani has thrown just 10 1/3 combined innings in his previous two starts and has pitched to a 5.26 ERA in his last three. DeSclafani has four or fewer strikeouts in four of his nine starts (he ranks in the 25th percentile for strikeout rate), and the fact that he typically pitches to contact means he will not have a significant advantage over a Minnesota Twins lineup that ranks in the top half of the league in wRC+ against right-handed pitching this year, but whose 25.2% strikeout rate was the third-highest in the league entering Tuesday. In addition, DeSclafani has been removed after 77 and 84 pitches in his last two starts, which suggests manager Gabe Kapler has less confidence in him as the game progresses.

Minnesota's Joe Ryan has been lights out this season, with the eighth-best ERA (2.25) of any qualified starting pitcher in the league. And of those top eight pitchers, he has the second-best WHIP (0.89). However, he faces an underrated Giants lineup that has been much better with the recent additions of Brandon Crawford and Mike Yastrzemski off the IL. 

Despite Ryan's gaudy ERA, the Over has cashed in each of his last seven home starts and is 3-0-1 in DeSclafani's last four starts with three days of rest. Thus, the total is a tad too low for this series finale.

Pick: Over 7.5 (-104)

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NHL Playoffs Best Bets

Carolina Hurricanes (-105) vs. Florida Panthers (-115) | 5.5 (+105/-125)

Even though the series is 3-0 in favor of the Panthers, it doesn't feel like a 3-0 series. This has been a fantastic matchup from an outside perspective. If the Cats can pull off the sweep, it will be the most tightly-contested sweep in history (at least that I can remember).

That said, I'm locking in the Hurricanes on the moneyline tonight. I'm not worried about the defensive end of the ice for Carolina. They've been just about as good as you can be defensively, allowing just four regulation goals over the 180 minutes of regulation hockey this series. 

The question becomes whether they have enough juice upfront to sneak a couple of goals past the red-hot Sergei Bobrovsky. The Russian-born netminder is on a tear, stopping 132 shots out of 135 attempts this series (.978 SV%). 

Based on how Bobrovsky is playing right now, I don't blame anyone for backing the Panthers to close out the series tonight in another low-scoring affair. However, this Canes team is simply too good to get swept out of the playoffs. They're fantastic defensively, and they've managed to get timely goals all season. Look for them to pour on the pressure offensively and do their best to play with a lead rather than chasing. I'm going to take a shot with Carolina to avoid the sweep. 

Best Side Bet: Carolina Hurricanes Moneyline (-105)

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