World Series Game 1 Best Bets and Player Props for Yankees at Dodgers

The World Series is here, and it's one of the best matchups we've had in quite some time as the Los Angeles Dodgers tangle with the New York Yankees.

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Today's Best MLB Bets and Player Props

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New York Yankees at Los Angeles Dodgers

Dodgers Moneyline (-126)

Game 1 gives us a headline-grabbing pitching matchup of Gerrit Cole versus Jack Flaherty. Given how these two aces did in the regular season, the pitching advantage falls to the Dodgers.

Flaherty ended the regular season with a 3.10 SIERA, 29.9% strikeout rate and 13.3% swinging-strike rate -- experiencing a major bounce-back year after signing with the Detroit Tigers last offseason. While the postseason has been a different story for Flaherty -- 5.51 SIERA in 15 1/3 innings -- over the much larger sample of the 2024 regular season, he was excellent.

Cole's 2024 campaign started late due to injury. Although he was still pretty darn good, pitching to a 3.79 SIERA and 25.4% K rate, he wasn't as good as Flaherty was. He ended with a meh 10.7% swinging-strike rate, his lowest since 2017, and he permitted a career-worst 44.1% fly-ball rate.

It's much of the same story when we look at these two offenses: both are very good, but LA is slightly better.

The Dodgers led baseball in wOBA (.337) and ISO (.189) while the Yanks ranked third in both (.331 and .181, respectively). The Dodgers recorded a .340 wOBA at home, and the Yankees' road wOBA was .331.

These two teams are both so dang good, but the Dodgers are slightly better offensively and also have the pitching edge in Game 1. Give me LA to take the series opener.

Max Muncy to Record an RBI (+175)

As mentioned, Cole gave up a lot of fly-balls this season (44.1% fly-ball rate). That was especially true against left-handers, with Cole surrendering a 47.9% fly-ball rate in the split.

Max Muncy can take advantage, and I like him to drive in a run on Friday.

Muncy doesn't need help generating fly-balls. He put up a 54.2% fly-ball rate in 2024 and has registered a 50.4% fly-ball rate since 2022 (1,437 plate appearances).

With the platoon advantage this year, Muncy posted a .376 wOBA and 52.8% fly-ball rate. He'll likely hit fourth in Game 1 -- right behind Shohei Ohtani, Mookie Betts and Freddie Freeman. That's about as good of a spot for RBIs as you can get.

Our MLB player projections have Muncy forecasted for 0.62 RBI tonight, the third-most for Game 1.

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