Baseball is back! Now that the MLB season is back in full swing it’s time for Jimmy to clean up on some nice early-season underdogs on the baseball moneyline. A quick scan of Wednesday’s matchups and pitching probables, and two possible underdogs worth laying a couple of bucks on stand out.

First up is another game between Boston and Oakland. The Sox and A’s replay the second game of their Japanese adventure with Jon Lester getting the ball for Boston and Rich Harden taking the hill for Oakland.

Even though Harden held the Sox to one run on three hits with nine strikeouts in six innings last week, I wouldn’t be surprised in Boston is listed as the favorite. Unless Lester improves on the four-inning clunker he threw against the A’s in the land of the rising sun, Oakland should surprise the Sox again.

Also in California on Wednesday, the Giants and Dodgers renew acquaintances in Los Angeles with both teams sending their young guns to the mound. The Giants will start flame-throwing lefty Tim Lincecum, while the Dodgers turn to young righthander Chad Billingsley.

Both hurlers are only 23 years old and have the makeup to be a future ace for both staffs, but they’re not there quite yet.

With the Dodgers playing at home, they opened as -150 moneyline favorites over at , but I’m dropping my cash on the Giants (with an underdog play at +140). Lincecum dominated in his last spring training start when he threw five no-hit innings with seven strikeouts against the Rangers.

Billingsley struggled with his command in his final spring training starts and may not have everything worked out by Wednesday.

Plenty of baseball betting on the go as the season hits full stride. Moneylines, 5-inning lines, runlines, prop bets, player head-to-head bets. You name it, you can play it.

Jimmy Harris