AL East Now Tied As New York Falls To Tampa Once Again

What a difference a month and a half makes. In mid-July, the Yankees had a comfortable 10-game lead in the American League East—a huge score for MLB baseball betting fans that look forward to seeing playoff betting lines featuring New York. Today, they’re tied with Baltimore.

A bulk of the Yankees narrowing lead happened over the weekend, when New York faced Baltimore, dropping two of three to the Orioles and seeing their lead dwindle to just two games.

Then on Monday, a loss to Tampa Pay coupled with Baltimore’s win in Toronto, narrowed New York’s lead over the Orioles to just one game, dropping the collective jaws of players in the process.

And on Tuesday, that 1-game lead was cut to nada as the Yankees fell to Tampa Bay 5-2 while the Orioles crept up the division ladder with a 12-0 clobbering of the other birds in their division, the Blue Jays.

The Orioles face off against the Blue Jays once again tonight, and New York will try to hammer down a win against Tampa Bay. Another win for Baltimore and a loss for New York will sink the Yankees even further.

Needless to say, we don’t have to remind sports gamblers who keep dropping coin on the Yankees that their team no longer has the AL East locked up.

Of course, even if the Yankees fall further, they’ll have a chance to move back up as they head to Baltimore right after the Tampa series for a 4-game set. For online sports bettors, that’s an amazing opportunity to reclaim a division lead. Either that or it’s a recipe for disaster waiting to happen.

But the focus for online sportsbook bettors is on tonight. The Yankees send Hiroki Kiroda to the mound. He’s fairly familiar with late-season performance surges, having been instrumental in advancing the Dodgers to the NL Championship series in ’08 and ’09. Matt Moore will stare down batters for Tampa Bay. In his only start against the Yankees, he shut them out over five innings, striking out 11 in the process.

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