The player prop board for Wednesday, July 29 reads like a missing persons report. Bats that used to fill a box score have gone silent for weeks at a time, and the market has spent the last month adjusting to it. A few hitters are still doing damage, and they stand out precisely because so little else is happening.
Scope note: these are the evening games. The four early starts are left off, as are the Rays and Padres games, where the pitching plans weren't settled at publish time.
| Bet | Record | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Mookie Betts Under 1.5 Total Bases | 15 of last 16 | -154 |
| Brady Singer Over 4.5 Strikeouts | 9 straight | -104 |
| Seiya Suzuki Over 0.5 Runs | 13 of last 16 | +123 |
| Jahmai Jones Under 0.5 RBI | 18 straight | -225 |
| Jacob Wilson Under 1.5 Hits | 13 of last 15 | -167 |
| Munetaka Murakami Over 0.5 Hits | 17 of last 22 | -136 |
| Carlos Narváez Under 0.5 Hits | 15 of last 21 | +119 |
Mookie Betts is out of answers, and he said so himself
The Dodgers' star has been held to 1 total base or fewer in 15 of his last 16 games, including his last 6 in a row. His Total Bases number sits at 1.5 tonight with the Under at -154, and Emerson Hancock is expected to start for Seattle.
The context here isn't a mystery the way these droughts usually are. Betts hit .140 in July across a dozen games, he's carrying a career-low .664 OPS, and Dave Roberts has already shuffled him around the batting order looking for a spark. Betts told reporters he's done everything he can and is out of answers. The trend and the season line up, which is not always how these droughts go.
Worth a look: Betts Under 1.5 Total Bases at -154.
Singer's strikeout floor keeps holding up
Brady Singer has cleared 5 strikeouts in 9 straight starts, averaging 5.8 punchouts across that run, and Cincinnati sends him out against Cleveland with his number set at 4.5. The price is -104, which is about as close to even as this market gets.
Now the honest part: Singer is 4-9 with a 4.56 ERA this season. This is not an argument that he's pitching well. It's an argument that he keeps getting to 5 strikeouts whether the rest of the start goes his way or not, and that's the only thing this bet asks of him. Joey Cantillo goes for the Guardians.
Worth a look: Singer Over 4.5 Strikeouts at -104.
Seiya Suzuki keeps crossing the plate
Somebody on this board has to score. Suzuki has come around to score a run in 13 of his last 16 games, and he's done it 3 straight times heading into St. Louis, where Dustin May is expected to start.
At +123, he's the rare plus-money angle attached to a real streak rather than a one-night explosion. The Cubs have been the loudest offense on the card lately, which is the same story running through tonight's team trends board from the other direction.
Worth a look: Suzuki Over 0.5 Runs at +123.
18 games without an RBI
That's the number, and it belongs to Boston's Jahmai Jones. He hasn't driven in a run in 18 consecutive games, which is the longest active drought of its kind anywhere on tonight's card. Jacob Lopez is expected to start for Oakland.
His Under 0.5 RBI is -225, and that's a steep number to lay on any single at-bat outcome, so the streak is more interesting as a piece of trivia than as a ticket. Sometimes the most striking number on a board is the one you look at and walk away from.
Jacob Wilson can't string hits together
Oakland's shortstop has been held to 1 hit or fewer in 13 of his last 15, and he's done it 7 straight times. His Hits number is 1.5 with the Under at -167, and Patrick Sandoval is expected on the mound for Boston.
Two hits in a game is a normal ask for a contact hitter, which is what makes a 7-game run of falling short worth flagging rather than shrugging at.
Worth a look: Wilson Under 1.5 Hits at -167.
Murakami is the bat that hasn't gone cold
The White Sox slugger has recorded at least 1 hit in 17 of his last 22, with a hit in 5 straight. Cam Schlittler is expected to start for the Yankees, and Murakami's Over 0.5 Hits sits at -136.
On a night when this many hitters have simply stopped producing, a bat that keeps finding a base hit is a different kind of angle than everything else on this page.
Worth a look: Murakami Over 0.5 Hits at -136.
A catcher who has stopped hitting entirely
Carlos Narváez has failed to record a hit in 5 straight games, and he's been held hitless in 15 of his last 21. Boston's catcher draws Jacob Lopez in Oakland, and the Under on his 0.5 Hits number pays +119.
A hitter this cold, priced at plus money, needs no story attached beyond the record itself.
Worth a look: Narváez Under 0.5 Hits at +119.
Quick hits
- Logan O'Hoppe still hasn't scored a run in 15 straight games, now 22 of his last 23. The drought we flagged Monday just keeps going.
- Teoscar Hernández hasn't driven in a run in 10 consecutive games, and 24 of his last 30 have finished the same way.
- Nick Loftin has a hit in 8 straight for Kansas City, at -154.
- Heliot Ramos has been held to 1 total base or fewer in 7 straight, with the number at 1.5 and the Under at -135.
- Dominic Canzone put up 8 total bases last night. That's one game, and one game predicts nothing, so it's here as a curiosity and not as a trend.
Seven prop angles, and four of them are bets on a hitter failing. That's not a house style, that's just what the board handed us this week. Someone will break out tonight and make this whole page look silly, which is more or less the job.
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