Seattle Mariners vs New York Yankees 5/8/19 MLB Odds, Preview, and Prediction

The Seattle Mariners and New York Yankees meet for the third time in their current four-game series. The Yankees took the first two meetings and will be looking to make it three in a row on Wednesday.

Jonathan Loaisiga gets the call to start on top of the mound for the Yankees. The 25-year old right hander from Managua, Nicaragua has pitched thrice for the Yankees this season with two starts. He has no record with an ERA of 2.7 and a WHIP of 1.30. In a total of 10 innings pitched this season, Loaisiga has given up just three earned runs on seven hits with one home run. He has walked a total of six batters and fanned out 10. The Yankees are 1-2 in the three games he’s appeared this season.

Second baseman DJ LeMahieu leads the depleted Yankees’ batting order with his .330 batting average. First baseman Luke Voit leads the team with 29 RBIs while batting at .254 while catcher Gary Sanchez has 21 RBIs including a team-high 11 home runs drilled. As a team, the Yankees have scored a total of 183 runs on a batting average of .258.

For the Mariners, it will be Yusei Kikuchi who will stand on top of the hill on Wednesday. The 27-year old left hander from Iwate, Japan has started 8 games this season and has a record of 1-1 with an ERA of 3.98 and a WHIP of 1.16. In a total of 40.2 innings pitched this season, Kikuchi has allowed 22 runs (18 earned runs) on 38 hits with five home runs. He has walked 9 batters and struck out a total of 35. The Mariners are 4-4 in games where he started. In his last outing, Kikuchi limited the Indians to one run on three hits and one walk in seven innings of work.

Second baseman Dee Gordon is the Mariners’ top hitter at a .301 batting average. Right fielder Domingo Santana leads the team with a total of 33 RBIs while batting .270 and connecting on seven homers. Meanwhile, designated hitter Edwin Encarnacion leads Seattle with 11 home runs on the season. Encarnacion has also produced 24 RBIs for the Mariners. As a team, Seattle has a batting average of .261 and they have batted in a total of 207 RBIs on the season.

Who Wins?

The Mariners are 3-7 SU in their last 10 games played. Seattle is 1-3 SU in their last four games on the road. The Yankees are 6-4 SU in their last 10 games played. New York is 3-1 SU in their last four games played at home. The Yankees are 9-1 SU in their last 10 games against the Mariners.

Seattle is 1-8 SU in their last nine games played, 1-7 SU in their last 8 road games. The Yankees are 12-4 SU in their 16 games overall and 84-41 in their last 125 home games. The Mariners are 18-37 in the last 55 overall meetings between these two teams. Seattle is 0-7 SU in their last six trips to Yankee Stadium.

The Yankees are still banged up big time but they keep on finding ways to win. That’s why they are still the slight baseball betting favorites here. On the other hand, the Mariners are healthy but have cooled off significantly recently and can’t seem to win games lately. I think this can go either way but with the better form, I’m picking the New York Yankees to beat the Seattle Mariners on 5/8/19.

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Seattle is 5-5 ATS in their last 10 games played. The Mariners 3-1 ATS in their last four games played on the road. New York is  6-4 ATS in their last 10 games played. The Yankees are 3-1 ATS in their last four home games played.

Seven out of the last 10 meetings between these two teams were decided by two or more runs. Nine out of the Yankees’ last 10 games, win or lose, have been decided by at least two runs while four out of the Mariners’ last 10 games were separated by a solitary run. I think the Yankees will win this by at least two runs. Prediction: Yankees -1.5

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The total has gone over in eight out of the last 10 games played by the Mariners. Seattle has seen the total go over in 3 out of their last four games on the road. The over is 7-3 in the Yankees’ last 10 games played. The total has gone over in three out of the last four home games played by the Yankees. Head to head, the under is 7-3 in the last 10 meetings between the Mariners and Yankees.

The total has gone over in 8 out of Seattle’s last 11 games against an American League opponent. The over is 9-4 in the Yankees’ last 13 games overall. The over is also 6-2 in New York’s last eight games against teams from the American League. Both these offenses are averaging over five runs per game this season but against each other, they have averaged just over 7 runs in their last 10 meetings. Seattle’s last three games have produced at least 9 runs per game while the Yankees have hit 9 runs in three out of their last four games. The over is 5-1-1 in Kikuchi’s last seven starts and 16-5 in the Yankees’ last 21 against opponents with a winning record.  Prediction: Over 9

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