We have a nearly perfect Friday MLB slate today. The keys to a perfect Friday slate are quite simple actually in the summer. We need the Cubs to be playing a 2:20 PM EST home game. Check! Preferably against an American League or NL Central Team. Bonus Check! We need a total of 15 games across the league on this fine Friday. Check! We need at least three, preferably four games that start out in the Pacific Time Zone. We have five. Check! And we need all non Cubs games to start at 7:05 PM EST or later… Negative 🙁 Oh so close as the Reds and Pirates will play game 2 of their series starting at 6:10 PM and it will not be on the DraftKings main slate tonight, but given that it’s Skenes vs Greene I think we can give that one a pass and it’s a nice little warm up to a fantastic slate. Why? Well, yes, we have the Royals going into Coors Field. The sad part is that Bobby Witt is perfect for Coors, but not to fear. We have the Royals bullpen which no matter how much of a lead they have in the 9th, they’ll blow it. I fully expect at least one game in this series to go 15 innings simply because neither bullpen can hold the lead. You see, that’s the key to the lead. You have to hold it. Muetaka Murakami gets to go down to see a COSTCO maybe for the first time in his life as the White Sox visit the Rays for … checks notes … yep, that’s a battle of 1st place teams going into August. The Rangers pushed back Nate Eovaldi just so he can go into Houston and hopefully destroy the Astros — more likely to give up 3 HR though. One of my favorite “that’s a random series” that happens every year and yeah, it just feels random and like a DFS winner is the Tigers at the Athletics. In Dongers Club history, this has significance. I doubt anyone even knows it but me. And, well, okay fine, I’ll tell the story. The first time I did an article posting on the SCOUT message boards it was the Tigers as a stack at the Athletics in the Oakland Coliseum on a Saturday afternoon as my contrarian top pick overall. They went off, and…...
MLB · July 31, 2026