VIP Picks 8/27/25

The sky is falling, two losing days in a row. Down 2 units on the week going into Wednesday so really need to put together a winning night tonight and then it’s 5 straight days of football. Focus. Lock in. Let’s go.

MLB:

6:35 EST

Red Sox (-159)  - 💪

Play this one to profit 1 unit. Brayan Bello is pitching for the Red Sox and he’s been great this season going deep into games and shutting teams down. He’s coming off of 7 scoreless innings against the Yankees in his last start. He’s held this Orioles lineup to a .229 avg over 48 at bats and the Red Sox won 19-5 in his only start against them this season. The O’s start Dietrich Enns who is an opener so he won’t pitch more than 1-2 innings and then they will turn to their 25th ranked bullpen. The Sox have won the first 2 games of this series and should complete the sweep tonight. 

7:40 EST

Brewers (-145)

11-2 Quinn Priester will pitch for the Brewers and they haven’t lost a game with him on the mound since May and he’s been pitching every 5 days so that’s pretty fucking good, actually 15 wins in a row. He doesn’t have much history against the DBacks but the guy is a winner and I like betting on winners. Ryne Nelson will pitch for the DBacks and the Brewers haven’t done much against him in the past but his 5.40 ERA this month and how hot the Brewers have been gives me confidence that they will get some run support for Priester tonight. 

8:10 EST

Parlay

Astros ML / Dodgers ML (-101)

Framber Valdez pitching for the Astros vs 2-10 Chase Dollander and his 6.91 ERA. Not much else to say about that matchup. The Dodgers will face Nick Lodolo who they beat about a month ago and this will be the first time he’s pitched in over 20 days due to a finger injury. Ohtani is pitching for LA and he’s lost 4 in a row but the control and strikeouts have gotten better as he continues to ramp up. The Reds are hitting just .219 against him lifetime. Take the even money here.