We could be staring at the final two-game slate of the MLB season on Thursday, and there are home run angles everywhere.
The Cleveland Guardians and Tampa Bay Rays are set to open the day in a game moved up to the afternoon for ALCS Game 3, while the Los Angeles Dodgers try to stay alive against the Milwaukee Brewers in NLCS Game 4. With all four teams in action, there’s a home run prop for each side.
Junior Caminero looks like the cleanest swing on the board. He hit 42 home runs in the regular season, but the postseason power has not shown up yet.
That could change quickly. Caminero has recorded a hit in four straight games, and he doubled in Game 2.
With the way he’s been putting the ball in play, this feels like the spot to back him for his first career postseason homer.
Travis Bazzana hasn’t had a huge postseason line, going 4 for 24, but the contact quality has been there. Two of those hits were doubles, and he put together some loud outs in the last game.
He ripped a 399-foot flyout with an exit velocity of 102.4 miles per hour in his third at-bat, then followed it up by scorching a 107.1 mph out in his final trip in Game 2. The rookie also hit 15 homers during the regular season, with seven coming at home.
Jake Bauers is another name worth watching. He’s in a groove after a marathon plate appearance in Game 2 against Yoshinobu Yamamoto, then launching the go-ahead homer off Blake Snell in Game 3.
That shot left the bat at 109.4 miles per hour and traveled 412 feet. Bauers has also gone deep off Tyler Glasnow before, which adds another layer to his case.
Shohei Ohtani is still searching for a breakout game in this series, but the power signs remain loud. In Game 3, he went 1 for 2 and continued his slump, yet the hit he did get came off the bat at a game-high 113.5 miles per hour. It came against southpaw DL Hall, and with the Brewers still to name a starter for Game 4, there’s also the possibility Milwaukee leans on lower-leverage arms if the Dodgers jump out early and force them into innings-eating mode.
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