It\u2019s “Friday Fly Ball Frenzy,” and the home run matchups are loaded with potential. We have pitchers struggling to keep the ball in the yard, favorable platoon splits all over the slate, and a few hitters stepping into matchups where the numbers point directly toward the seats.<\/p>\n
Gunnar Henderson<\/a> will face a pitcher who has been completely helpless against left-handed power. Brooks Lee<\/a> draws a matchup against a fly-ball-heavy righty he’s already taken deep, and Jake Bauers<\/a> looks to capitalize on a struggling starter who has been serving up home runs at an alarming rate. If you’re chasing home run props Friday night, these are three bats with serious moonshot potential.<\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n All odds are from DraftKings Sportsbook<\/a> and are subject to change. DraftKings does not sponsor this content.<\/p>\n Best Home Run Props TodayGunnar Henderson Home Run Bet (+330)<\/p>\n The Orioles<\/a> slugger already has 13 home runs this season and now gets a matchup that screams power potential. Griffin Canning<\/a> has allowed all six of his home runs this year to left-handed hitters, which is exactly the lane Henderson lives in. Add in a 4-for-8 career mark against Canning with a homer already on the resume, and this feels like a great spot for Gunnar to put another baseball into orbit Friday night.<\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n Brooks Lee Home Run Bet (+830)<\/p>\n Lee has already launched 10 homers this season, with two coming in his last five games, and he loves facing right-handed pitching. Better yet, he’s 2-for-2 against Jack Flaherty<\/a> with a home run. Flaherty has been serving up plenty of fly balls and carrying a 5.31 ERA into this matchup. With Lee seeing the ball well and Flaherty struggling to keep hitters in the yard, this feels like a sneaky spot for another Twins fireworks show.<\/p>\n Jake Bauers Home Run Bet (+346)<\/p>\n Andrew Painter<\/a> has lost seven straight decisions and has been taken deep four times over his last two starts. Bauers leads Milwaukee<\/a> with 12 homers, and 10 of them have come against right-handed pitching just like Painter. Add in Bauers’ monster hard-hit rate and Painter’s struggles against lefties, and this feels like a prime setup for another Brewers<\/a> blast Friday night.<\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n 2026 MLB HR Leaders<\/p>\n This story was originally published by Athlon Sports<\/a> on Jun 12, 2026, where it first appeared in the Sports Betting<\/a> section. Add Athlon Sports as a Preferred Source by clicking here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s “Friday Fly Ball Frenzy,” and the home run matchups are loaded with potential. We have pitchers struggling…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":732213,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[82340,4996,64,63,5131,33769,14246,5256,220416,53640,5163,16063,159595,5152,7312,5130,2364,591,128516,5129,2365,85,16050],"class_list":["post-732212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-andrew-painter","tag-atlanta-braves","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-brewers","tag-brooks-lee","tag-byron-buxton","tag-chicago-white-sox","tag-griffin-canning","tag-gunnar-henderson","tag-houston-astros","tag-jack-flaherty","tag-jake-bauers","tag-kyle-schwarber","tag-matt-olson","tag-milwaukee","tag-minnesota-twins","tag-mlb","tag-munetaka-murakami","tag-orioles","tag-philadelphia-phillies","tag-sports","tag-yordan-alvarez"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/732212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=732212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/732212\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/732213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=732212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=732212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=732212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}