A 4-Team MLB If Bet
Written by Sportsbook.com
Thu, 28 Jun 2007
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There was a full slate of games yesterday in baseball and a slew of favorable matchups. So I picked 4 of them and did an If-Win bet. I liked Brandon Webb and the D’Backs to beat the Dodgers in Arizona. I also liked Tom Glavine to beat the winless Anthony Reyes. I liked Erik Bedard to beat the slumping Yankees and lastly, I liked John Smoltz and the Braves to beat the Nationals in Atlanta.
So my picks were as follows:
D’Backs over Dodgers
Mets over Cardinals
Orioles over Yankees
Braves over Nationals
In game 1, Brandon Webb was wild, but effectively wild as he completely shut down the Dodgers. Webb threw seven shutout innings to lead the Diamondbacks to a 2-0 victory. He struck out three, allowed seven hits and issued a season-high five walks. He stranded runners in every inning but the fifth and seemed to be pitching from the stretch all night. The Dodgers left 13 men on base. Chad Tracy hit a sacrifice fly and Eric Byrnes singled in a run for the Diamondbacks for the game’s only runs and I was one for one.
In game 2, the Mets had to battle the elements and the Cardinals lineup. I game featured a couple of rain delays and after heavy downpours in the 6th inning, the Mets won the rain-shortened game, 2-0. Tom Glavine was solid, pitching 1-hit ball for 6 innings to earn his 297th career win. Scott Rolens second-inning infield single was the only hit off Glavine, who walked two and struck out one in his 25th career shutout. David Wright hit a two-run homer off winless Anthony Reyes in the first, for the only scoring in the game and I was 2 for 2.
In game 3, Erik Bedard handcuffed the Yanks all night while the Yankees $28 million pitcher struggled and fell to 1-3 on the season. He threw five shutout innings, but his bid fell apart under a barrage of hits in a four-run sixth that included a three-run homer by Aubrey Huff. For the O’s, Erik Bedard allowed just 3 hits in 7 innings, striking out 8. I was now 3 for 3.
In game 4, I was already on the plus side going in. The Braves didn’t disappoint, absolutely clobbering the Nationals 13-0. Atlanta had a season-high 22 hits and scored in six of the first seven innings, snapping out of an offensive slump that resulted last week in just one run during five straight home losses to Detroit and Boston. Yunel Escobar and Edgar Renteria each had RBI singles and Jones had an RBI fielders choice off Billy Traber in the fifth inning, turning a 7-0 lead into a 10-0 rout. Brian McCann followed with a two-run homer in the sixth, his seventh of the year, and Jeff Francoeur had an RBI single in the seventh. Escobar, starting at second in place of Kelly Johnson, had four hits and scored four runs, Francoeur finished 3-for-3 with three RBIs, and Renteria had three hits and drove in two runs.
Perfect ending to a perfect night. Hopefully my picks spill over into tonight…
Till next time, may all your bets be winners.