After nearly seven months of baseball action, the World Series is finally here. With 28 teams at home, only two teams — the Los Angeles Dodgers and the Toronto Blue Jays — still stand with a chance at lifting baseball’s greatest trophy.
Playing in the Fall Classic is old news for Los Angeles, which ousted the New York Yankees in five games to win the 2024 World Series. Toronto, meanwhile, hasn’t been here since 1993, when it defeated the Philadelphia Phillies in six to win its second straight title.
The two starting pitchers for tonight’s 8 p.m. ET clash could hardly have different experience levels. Blue Jays starter Trey Yesavage is a rookie who started this season for Single-A side Dunedin. The Dodgers’ Blake Snell, meanwhile, is a 10-year veteran and two-time Cy Young Award winner with a 3.15 career ERA, the fifth-best among active pitchers.
There are hundreds of bets available on each game of this Fall Classic, but one of the most fun and rewarding ways to participate in the action is through a same-game parlay. I’ve broken down my favorite three-leg SGP below.
Blue Jays vs. Dodgers Same Game Parlay
- Los Angeles Dodgers Moneyline
- Los Angeles Dodgers O1.5 Home Runs
- Blake Snell v Trey Yesavage – Most Strikeouts Thrown Moneyline: Trey Yesavage
Los Angeles Dodgers Moneyline
There’s simply no stopping Los Angeles, which produced the first NLCS sweep since the Washington Nationals beat the St. Louis Cardinals in 2019. Rogers Centre isn’t an easy place for opposing teams to win — Toronto went 54-27 on home turf, the second-best record in baseball — but neither is Citizens Bank Park, where the Dodgers took both games behind brilliant starts from Snell and tomorrow’s starter, Yoshinobu Yamamoto. Los Angeles has won each of Snell’s last six starts, and he’s given up just three earned runs in 40.0 innings across that span. Snell also likes the venue, pitching to a solid 2.63 ERA in eight career starts there. The Dodgers won two of the teams’ three games in August, all in Southern California.
Los Angeles Dodgers O1.5 Home Runs
During the regular season, Los Angeles thrived on power, going deep 244 times, the second-most of any team in the league. So far in the postseason, the Dodgers have mostly kept the ball in the ballpark, hitting just 13 in 10 games, but Shohei Ohtani is always capable of hitting three on his own in any given game. Yesavage is a good pitcher, but his average exit velocity and hard hit rate would rank in the league’s bottom decile if he’d pitched enough innings to qualify. Julio Rodríguez and Josh Naylor both took him deep during the ALCS, and the Blue Jays’ bullpen has given up 11 homers in 11 games these playoffs.
Blake Snell v Trey Yesavage – Most Strikeouts Thrown Moneyline: Trey Yesavage
It’s hard to go against Snell, who has the highest career K/9 figure in MLB history and has fanned nine or more batters in each of his postseason appearances, but Yesavage sat down 11 New York Yankees in 5.1 innings of no-hit ball in his playoff debut. He and Snell have fairly similar chase rates (Yesavage 36.3%, Snell 33.9%), whiff rates (Yesavage 35.4%, Snell 35.6%), and strikeout rates (Yesavage 25.8%, Snell 28.3%). On one hand, Snell is the odds-on favorite in part because Dave Roberts is likely to keep him in the game longer than John Schneider will Yesavage, but Toronto has struck out just 64 times in 11 games and Los Angeles 93 times in 10. Snell’s gaudy strikeout numbers ultimately result from his whiff rate, and the Blue Jays simply don’t whiff.
