The Diamondbacks won the opener, 6-2, behind an early lead where they never had to look back. Arizona are now winners of three consecutive games, while the Padres dropped two of the previous three that followed six straight wins.

Today’s Major League Baseball action gets going early with two games at 12:35 p.m. ET. With two-thirds of the day’s action being played in the afternoon window, we focus our trio of best bets on the early games,