Hello friends and welcome to the penultimate Friday in the Major League Baseball regular season. It's been such a fun month so far because a handful of races have gotten closer, including, shockingly, the AL Central. The Tigers once had a 14-game lead and it's down to 3 ½. And the Guardians have three head-to-head chances remaining against the Tigers.

Let's use that as our jumping off point in bets.

Lines courtesy of Caesars today.

Guardians (-105) at Twins

At first glance, the Guardians starting Parker Messick against Pablo López sounds like a bad pitching matchup but that's why we get to bet this at close to even money. Remember, the Guardians beat Tarik Skubal on Thursday. This time around, the only have to deal with the lowly Twins .

Those Twins have the second-worst r

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