FanDuel’s Friday home run board put Ben Rice, Aaron Judge and Mike Yastrzemski in the spotlight for May 29, 2026, as bettors looked for power plays built on form, matchups and ballpark conditions. The most eye-catching prices came with Rice at +310 and Judge at +340, two Yankees set to face the Athletics at Sutter Health Park in Sacramento later that night.
That game, first pitch at 9:40 PM ET, gave the Yankees a familiar setup: a moderate-to-hitter-friendly environment and a starter in Luis Severino, who entered Friday 2-5 with a 4.23 ERA. Rice had already hit three home runs in his last five games and carried 16 homers and 37 RBI across 184 plate appearances in 2026, along with a.437 slugging percentage against right-handers. Judge’s case was built on more than raw power. He had 17 home runs, a 22.4 percent barrel rate, a 94.2 mph average exit velocity and a 57.5 percent hard-hit rate, numbers that have kept him among the game’s most dangerous one-swing bets.
Severino’s profile cut both ways for the Yankees’ backers. The framing around him was that he could get beat by the long ball, but he had also limited New York to four hits and five walks in their April meeting, a reminder that even a pitcher with a home-run problem can still survive a matchup once. That is what made the Friday slate more than a simple power list: the prices, the setting and the pitcher history all pushed the same direction, but the last meeting said the outcome was not automatic.
The Braves-Reds game at Great American Ball Park, set for 6:40 PM ET, carried the same logic in another hitter-friendly setting. FanDuel said the offensive environment and pitching matchup lined up perfectly for another Mike Yastrzemski home run, and it grouped him with Rice and Judge as one of the biggest power threats on the board in favorable matchups. For bettors, the slate was less about guessing at upside than deciding whether Friday’s parks and pitchers were enough to make the numbers worth the swing.
