Oct 7th, 2008 – betED.com Press Release<\/strong> – Bet the NLCS and ALCS at betED.com The Los Angeles Dodgers face the Philadelphia Phillies in the opener of the National League Championship Series on Thursday (8:15 pm ET, FOX), with Philadelphia a -136 moneyline favorite in betED.com MLB Betting Odds. The Phillies are a 1\u00bd-run favorite (+155) and the over\/under is 7\u00bd.<\/p>\n betED.com MLB Future Odds have the Phillies as a -120 favorite to win the best-of-seven series and the Dodgers a +100 dog.<\/p>\n The Boston Red Sox are -135 favorites to win the best-of-seven American League Championship Series against the Tampa Bay Rays, with Game 1 slated for Friday night in Tampa (8:35 pm ET, TBS). The Rays are a +115 underdog.<\/p>\n Philadelphia earned a trip to the NLCS for the first time in 15 years with a 6-2 victory over the Milwaukee Brewers on Sunday. The Phillies captured the best-of-five NLDS 3-1, winning their first postseason series since beating the Atlanta Braves in the 1993 NLCS.<\/p>\n Los Angeles won their first postseason series in 20 years with a sweep of the Chicago Cubs in their NLDS.<\/p>\n Philadelphia is 6-1 SU in its past seven, a perfect 5-0 SU in its past five at home, and 4-1 SU in the past five meetings with the Dodgers, both overall and at home. The total has gone under in four of the past five meetings.<\/p>\n Tampa Bay beat the Chicago White Sox 6-2 on Monday to win their ALDS 3-1, clinching their first berth in an ALCS in franchise history. The Red Sox edged the Los Angeles Angels 3-2 on Monday to win their ALDS, also 3-1.<\/p>\n The Rays have homefield advantage for the ALCS as they won the season series with the Red Sox 10-8.<\/p>\n The National League Championship Series between the Dodgers and the Phillies gets underway tomorrow on FOX. betED.com online sportsbook has the Phillies favored. We also preview the ALCS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":68,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[670],"tags":[3071,2723,159,1376,1380,991,3075,2722,3073,693,3072,911,3074,1028,3076,1186],"class_list":["post-2438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mlb-baseball","tag-alcs","tag-baseball-gambling","tag-beted","tag-beted-sportsbook","tag-betedcom","tag-picks","tag-dodgers-vs-phillies","tag-mlb-lines","tag-mlb-preview","tag-mlb-runlines","tag-nlcs","tag-odds","tag-playoff-preview","tag-predictions","tag-red-sox-vs-rays","tag-spread"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/68"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2438"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2438\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2440,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2438\/revisions\/2440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nWho plays who in the 2008 World Series will be determined when the NLCS and ALCS get underway Thursday and Friday. <\/p>\nBet the MLB Baseball Playoffs at betED.com.<\/a><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"