Another 4-Team Baseball Parlay

Another 4-Team Baseball Parlay

I thought Noah Lowry and the Giants would beat the recently struggling Livan Hernandez and the DBacks.For the second straight night, I hoped for a slugfest in Arlington as the Rangers squared off against the Tigers. In the last game, I expected the best pitcher in the major leagues so far, Jake Peavy and the Padres, to beat the Dodgers in San Diego.

So my picks were as follows:
Yankees over White Sox
Giants over DBacks
Rangers vs. Tigers over 11.5
Padres over Dodgers

In game 1, I got more of a pitchers duel than I had expected. After 6
innings of play, the Yankees were up 1-0 on an RBI groundout by Hideki
Matsui. The White Sox tied it up in the 7th and the Yankees scored 3 in the 8th to grab a 4-1 lead. The White Sox came right back in the bottom of the inning with 2 runs of their own, but the Yankees blew the game open with 6 runs in the 9th, powered by Alex Rodriguezs major league leading 21st home run, a grand slam, 1 for 1.

In game 2, I had to sweat it out as the game went into extra innings tied up at 4. Omar Vizquel won this one for me with a game winning single and Steve Kiline worked the 10th inning for his 1st save of the year. Vizquel had 3 hits and 3 RBI while Connor Jackson homered and drove in 3 for the DBacks.

In game 3, it was chock full of offense and poor pitching as Kameron Loe
basically pitched batting practice, allowing 9 runs and 9 hits in 2 innings
of work. Mike Maroth allowed 3 runs over 5 innings and the Tigers won 11-4, easily covering the over for me. Curtis Granderson drove in 3 runs with 3 hits and Brandon Inge drove in 3 on 2 hits for the Tigers.

In game 4, I was pretty upset for most of the night as Jake Peavy had a rare off night on the mound. The ace right-hander allowed 4 runs and 7 hits in 6 2/3 innings of work. The Dodgers held a 5-1 lead going into the bottom of the 9th at a pitcher friendly park. I basically needed intervention by the gambling gods. Well, guess what? I got it! Geoff Blum started the inning by beating out an infield single to second base. Terrmel Sledge reached on an error by first baseman Garciaparra, who fielded his grounder but had the ball pop out of his glove. Marcus Giles singled to left to load the bases, and Paul McAnulty hit a chopper and outraced Garciaparra to the bag, for an
infield single that brought in the innings first run. Adrian Gonzalez hit a
two-run ground-rule double to right-center, Josh Bard was intentionally
walked to reload the bases and Mike Camerons single to center brought in
McAnulty to tie the game. And I won my 4-teamer folks. Hows that for a
nice ending to my night and week?

Winning a parlay is truly a great feeling. It was nice to get back on the
winning side again. Hopefully I can build some momentum over the weekend and
make a big run.

Till next time, may all your bets be winners.