Garion Thorne shares his favorite MLB bets on DraftKings Sportsbook for Tuesday night’s slate on the diamond.
It’s a full MLB slate on Tuesday night, which, as always, means literally thousands of possible bets and props on the DraftKings Sportsbook.
I don’t know about you, but “thousands” seems like a lot. Why don’t I just narrow the scope down to two? Here are my top picks for this evening’s action on the diamond.
Atlanta Braves at Miami Marlins
Hurston Waldrep Over 4.5 Strikeouts (+100)
We’re not dealing with the largest sample size in the world, but Waldrep has looked the part of a strikeout artist in his 24.2 innings with the Braves in 2025. Waldrep has 24 strikeouts in this span of time with a 12.1% swinging strike rate. He’s also managed to exceed this prop in all three of the starts he’s made with Atlanta, which includes picking up seven strikeouts in each of his last two appearances.
The key pitch in Waldrep’s arsenal is his splitter. In fact, it’s the pitch that the right-hander has used most often at the MLB level this season, with Waldrep’s usage sitting at 31.4%. To say that its been an effective offering would be an understatement, as opponents are hitting just .061 off the splitter with an eye-popping 48.2% whiff rate. Waldrep’s curveball has also been quite good in this four-game run, but if Waldrep is hitting this over on Tuesday, it’ll be because his splitter bamboozled the Marlins.
Crucially, the splitter is also a chase pitch, which is the only way to quickly rack up strikeouts against Miami. The Marlins’ roster might be young, but it’s been showcasing elite ball-to-ball skills as of late, with the Marlins sitting first in zone contact rate across the past two weeks (90.4%). We saw Kevin Gausman, another splitter-heavy pitcher, rack up seven strikeouts against Miami on Sunday. I think this goes pretty similarly.
Los Angeles Angels at Texas Rangers
This isn’t so much an endorsement of the Angels as it is a refusal to trust Patrick Corbin. The veteran left-hander had been surviving all season long, pitching to generally unimpressive, but passable stat lines; yet the wheels have completely fallen off in August. In his four starts this month, Corbin has registered a horrendous 11.48 ERA across 13.1 innings of work. It’s a span where the southpaw has allowed opponents to slash .424/.500/.746 with a .515 wOBA. I’m not even sure if those can be dubbed “video game numbers” because they truly seem like a typo.
This is the Patrick Corbin we’ve come to know in the past half-decade. Remember, in his final four seasons with the Nationals, Corbin didn’t muster a single xERA below 5.50. His 5.71 ERA from 2021 to 2024 is the highest qualified mark in baseball. There is not a single metric on this planet that can suggest Corbin’s been anywhere close to a league-average pitcher since the COVID shortened campaign, which is why her performance in August is almost soothing. It’s nice to have constants in this world.
On the other side of the probables, Yusei Kikuchi will take the mound for the Angels. Kikuchi has been Los Angeles’ most consistent starter in 2025, and the veteran lefty has managed a 3.17 ERA and 3.63 FIP over his past 20 outings. Texas has been plain bad versus LHPs this season, sporting an 81 wRC+ and a .227 average within the split. If the Rangers’ lineup sputters once again in the face of left-handed competition, the Angels should be able to pull away with some crooked numbers off Corbin.