This was discussed here: https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/9ggimh/bottom_align_latex_previews_in_org_mode/
Here is a screenshot: https://i.redd.it/n83ri6campm11.png For inline previews centering is clearly suboptimal, after all text in a sentence is supposed to be bottom aligned. Currently this behavior is not configurable, you have to change the :ascent 'center property in org--format-latex-make-overlay. Emacs : GNU Emacs 26.1.50 (build 8, x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.24.1) of 2018-09-25 Package: Org mode version 9.1.9 (release_9.1.9-65-g5e4542 @ /home/carlos/local/stow/emacs-26/share/emacs/26.1.50/lisp/org/)