The Friday, August 22 sports calendar is packed with four NFL preseason games, a full 15-game MLB schedule, three WNBA contests and the second round of the 2025 Tour Championship. It’s also the final night of rest before the 2025 college football season officially begins with five Week 0 contests on Saturday, starting with No. 22 Iowa State vs. No. 17 Kansas State in Dublin, Ireland. Before then, Friday has plenty of intriguing options for sports bettors, including Patrick Mahomes and the Kansas City starters taking the field against Caleb Williams and the Bears starters at 8:20 p.m. ET.
Whether you’re dabbling in MLB betting, football betting or anything else on the Friday sports calendar, there are a number of online sports betting options, and our team can help point you in the right direction. Our computer model and experts will weigh in on all of the biggest events every day and they’re offering their top sports betting picks right now.
Here’s what we’re betting today:
MLB best bets
Game: Rockies vs. Pirates (6:40 p.m. ET)The Pick: Over 8.5 runs (-110)
The Rockies are allowing the most runs in baseball (6.4 runs per game) and are starting Antonio Senzatela, who has a 7.00 ERA this season. The 30-year-old is facing the Pirates for the second time this month, and Pittsburgh rocked him for eight runs before the end of the first inning in a wild 17-16 contest last meeting. It’s difficult to imagine 30+ runs being scored again, but the model projects both teams to find offensive success, as the Pirates hitters should feel confident against Senzatela again. The Pirates are 3-8 over their last 11 games, and allowed at least seven runs in five of those contests. The model projects the Over to hit in 70% of simulations.
Game: Nationals vs. Phillies (6:45 pm…
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Author : Brandt Sutton
Publish date : 2025-08-22 15:57:00
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