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Last Sunday’s MLB parlay picks came a few strikeouts short of sweeping the board to put us comfortably in the black at BetMGM Sportsbook for the week. The Dodgers managed to score the 2-1 win over the Cardinals and sent Sonny Gray to the showers before he could topple his 17.5 outs prop, but Clayton Kershaw only managed a pair of strikeouts to come nowhere close to exceeding his 4.5 K prop. We then went on to sweep the board in what I capped to be a fantastic pitcher’s duel between Blake Snell and J.P. Sears. The former easily toppled his 8.5 K prop while the latter buried his 17.5 outs prop by ripping off 23. Not even extra innings could push this dead nuts under over the number. Let’s close the week strong with another batch of parlay legs – SLAM YOUR MAN!!

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Arizona Diamondbacks vs. Boston Red Sox MLB Same Game Parlay:

We got involved in this pivotal interleague set in Friday’s opener when we backed the homebased Red Sox. With Zac Gallen squaring off against Kutter Crawford on Saturday, it’s possible this afternoon’s matchup decides the series victor against the closing baseball betting lines. With that the case, I’ll be siding with the hosts once again and look for the BoSox to come out on top with it possessing what I deem to be the pitching advantage on the starting bump. Tanner Houck will be out to earn his first win since early July against Merrill Kelly who will be making just his third start in four months since coming off the IL back on August 11. The righty’s results haven’t been great with the velocity down and the hittable balls up. It’s resulted in a 7.20 ERA and 6:4 K/BB ratio through 10.0 combined innings.

Provided the right-hander is 100 percent, things will start to click, just not right here or right now against a Boston lineup ripping the cover off RHP. Only the Royals have mashed righties worse than the Red Sox since the calendar turned to August with Boston the owners of a .286 average, .348 on-base percentage (#3), and .820 OPS (#3) over 523 plate appearances. Kelly’s fastball/change mentality will have a rough go of it against Jarren Duran and Co. who seemingly specialize against the pitch types when taking a gander at their individual run values over at Baseball Savant. For one reason or another, the All-Star break threw Houck for a loop. The righty looks to have settled back into a groove in allowing 2 ER or fewer in each of his last three turns to lower the ERA back down to 3.01. He’s been at his best in front of the Boston crowd (2.94 ERA), and I’m expecting the winless drought to end once this one’s said and done.

RED SOX MONEYLINE
KELLY OVER HITS
HOUCK OVER OUTS

San Francisco Giants vs. Seattle Mariners MLB Same Game Parlay:

Like the series above, we already got involved in this series between San Francisco and Seattle on Saturday when we rode the under of what I hope played out to be a fabulous pitcher’s duel. I’m running it right back here in the finale with Robbie Ray set to square off against Bryan Woo in a battle of “anything you can do I can do better.” Though it’s been quite the rollercoaster ride for Ray since making his 2024 debut at the end of July with the left-hander 3-2 and the owner of a 4.88 ERA, I 100 percent respect the way he bounced back in his most recent start against the White Sox after getting blitzed by Atlanta the start prior. He only logged two outs and gave up 5 ER in likely the shortest stint of his career! But the vet was back to his old tricks last time out after tossing 6.2 innings of 1 ER ball at the Palehose while racking up another 9 K making it three starts that the lefty has racked up at least 8 K.

Another huge showing is expected in T-Mobile this afternoon running up against a Mariners lineup that sports a pitiful 26.8% overall K rate against LHP that’s fattened all the way up to 31.5% over 241 plate appearances in August. Not to be outdone, Woo is likely to be well up to the task of going mano-a-mano with the left-hander nearly untouchable at home where he’s pitched to a 1.54 ERA by way of only allowing 21 hits (1 HR) and 6 ER with a 28:3 K/BB ratio over 35.0 total innings. Seattle is yet to go down in defeat on the MLB odds in any of his six made starts in front of the hometown faithful. The kid’s control is something else, and I expect it to shine in this one with the Giants only taking walks at a 6.5% clip dating back to August 1. Look for hard contact to be few and far between in this one ultimately leading to a low scoring pitcher’s duel through the first five frames.