Best Bets for today: It’s easy to look at a game like this, the final contest of a Wild Card quadruple-header on Friday, and see the starting pitchers — Max Scherzer vs. Yu Darvish — and think it’ll finish 2-1 or 2-0, like the first two games of the day did.

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The 2022 Major League Baseball playoffs open up with the Cleveland Guardians playing host to the Tampa Bay Rays. New Illinois bettors can get in on betting on the playoffs with a bet on the house up to $1,250 at Caesars Sportsbook when you register here with our promo code.

If the Toronto Blue Jays, Philadelphia Phillies and Cleveland Guardians all win their wild card series, you win, and it’s boosted to +575 odds exclusively at Caesars Sportsbook, meaning a bet of $10 would win you $57.50.

There’s an extra Wild Card series in each league, and each series will be three games as opposed to the previous one-and-done format for Wild Card teams looking to advance to the NLDS.

Odds and player props for the Chicago White Sox game Tuesday night against the Minnesota Twins are available at Caesars Sportsbook