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Major League Baseball Parlay Of The Day 4-23-21

April 24, 2021
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It was yet another very nice day for us betting on Major League Baseball yesterday as we managed to grind out a stellar 6-3 record, including money line underdog winners on the Mariners (+145) and the Cubs (-103). We nailed our game total 3-team parlay for an attractive $600 payout, and our red-hot start to the baseball season continued as we have been finding ways to get the money on a daily basis.

I’ll be the first to admit that we did run good in a tough spot last night to get paid, as the Seattle Mariners were being no-hit by Red Sox starter Nick Pivetta late into the game. It wasn’t looking good for our bet on Seattle, and our game total bet of over 9.5 runs was in peril, as the score was 2-0 heading into the 6th inning. But these refuse to lose Mariners rallied one more time, and when all the smoke cleared, they picked up a 7-3 win to cash both of our bets. With the win, the Mariners are now tied with the streaking Oakland Athletics for the best record in the American League. We will bank back all of our cash from yesterday and get right back to the grind today, with everyone’s favorite way to play, the parlay! Let’s get started!

Money Line Parlay

Not all parlays are the same. In this first section, we are going to focus on money line parlays. The money line is your most basic way to bet on a baseball game. Because baseball has so few runs scored, we don’t see a point spread on a game like we do with the NFL and the NBA; rather, MLB betting offers a money line bet. With a money line bet, if you want to bet the favorite, you have to lay odds, and if you want to bet the underdog, the book will lay you odds. One example would be the New York Yankees as -200 betting favorites. That means you win $100 for every $200 that you bet on New York if the Yankees win. If you want to take an underdog, an example would be The Seattle Mariners +200. That means for every $100 you bet, you would win $200 if Seattle comes in.

Oakland Athletics (-139) at Baltimore Orioles

The Oakland Athletics are baseball’s hottest team as they are riding a MLB best 11-game winning streak and have won 12 of their last 13 games, going all of the way back to April 7th. I have been riding with the A’s on this blistering hot streak and getting paid along the way. The A’s were last seen sweeping the Minnesota Twins, and in the final game of that series, they managed to tie the game up in the bottom of the 9th and win it in the bottom of the 10th. It has been a magical run for Oakland, and now that they have taken a day off to stop and look back to reflect on what they have been able to do, the real question is, can they keep it up? Oakland kicks off a 7-game road trip today against a struggling Baltimore Orioles team that has lost 10 of their last 15.

Cole Irvin gets the nod today for the A’s, and after a rough first couple of outings on the year, he was excellent in his last start, throwing 6 innings of shutout ball against the Detroit Tigers. I am not sure that Irvin can be trusted to be that sharp again tonight, but when you look at Baltimore starter Jorge Lopez, Irvin certainly seems to be the better side of the starting pitching matchup. Lopez has gotten hammered this season to the tune of an 8.56 ERA. Lopez has allowed 5 home runs already this year and constantly finds himself in jams. I am shocked to see Oakland priced so low in this game, as they are on fire. Until the A’s cool down a little bit, I have no choice but to keep backing them.

Toronto Blue Jays at Tampa Bay Rays (-157)

With so many pitchers have record-breaking starts to the season, Tyler Glasnow has seemingly been a bit overshadowed. Jacob deGrom and Corbin Burnes have been hogging all of the headlines, and deservedly so, as they have been fantastic, but Glasnow has been just as good and deserves mention among the game’s elite starting pitchers. Glasnow is 2-0 with a 0.73 ERA in 4 starts for Tampa Bay. He has a whopping 36 Ks in 24.2 innings pitched, and he has allowed 2 hits or fewer in 3 of his 4 starts. Normally a guy that is pitching as well as Glasnow is right now is going to be a prohibitive favorite, but the Blue Jays Steven Matz has been great this season as well, keeping this line reasonable.

Matz is 3-0 with a 1.47 ERA in 3 starts, having allowed just 1 run in each start. The Blue Jays pitching staff has been quite a bit better than advertised coming into this season, as they lead the AL in team ERA, and Matz has been a major contributor to that success. The problem for Toronto has been their lack of run production. Toronto was able to pick up a win over the Boston Red Sox in their last game, to snap a 3-game losing streak that saw them score just 4 total runs in the 3 games. You hate to fade a guy that has been as good as Matz has been, but Glasnow is on another level right now. The Rays had won 5 straight before blowing their last game after leading in the bottom of the 9th. I see Glasnow continuing his tear and the Rays to get back on track with a win in game 1 of this series with a struggling Blue Jays team.

Arizona Diamondbacks at Atlanta Braves (-167)

At some point, this Atlanta Braves team is going to get hot. They are far too talented to continue with their recent mediocre results. We might be at the start of that run right now, as Atlanta is 4-2 in their last 6 games, and they are starting to play well after a slow start. The Braves will host the Arizona Diamondbacks tonight in game 1 of a 3-game series, hoping to slow down the suddenly streaking DBacks that have won a season-high 4 games in a row. Atlanta will turn to youngster Huascar Ynoa on the mound today, hoping that he can be better than he was in his last start, where he got roughed up for 6 earned runs by the Chicago Cubs. Ynoa has electric stuff, and at age 22, he has a bright future for Atlanta. Before his last start, he had allowed just 1 earned run in 12 innings, with 15 Ks and only 2 walks.

Arizona will answer the Braves right hander with a right hander of their own in Luke Weaver. Weaver has really struggled this season on the road, as he is 0-1 with a 6.52 ERA in 2 starts. Arizona is in a unique position as they lead the National League in runs scored, but they are last in team ERA. We have seen both of those trends play out during this current 4-game winning streak, as they pounded out 32 runs while giving up 22. I like Huascar Ynoa to get back on track tonight at home. Young pitchers almost always pitch better at home, and Ynoa has been no exception, as in his lone home start of the season, he worked 6 innings, allowing just 1 run, and striking out 10. And against Luke Weaver, who just can’t pitch well on the road, I see Atlanta cruising. We already mentioned Weaver’s bad road stats this year, and looking back at last year, he was 0-5 with a 6.58 ERA in 6 road starts for Arizona. We have lots of strong trends going in both directions in this game, and I am going to back the Braves.

Money Line Parlay

  • Teams Odds
  • Oakland Athletics -139
  • Tampa Bay Rays -157
  • Atlanta Braves -167

$100 Bet Wins $350

Game Total Parlay

The game total bet, commonly known as an over/under bet, is when you bet on how many total runs will be scored in a game. These totals tend to range from 7 or 8 runs on the low end, up to 12 to 13 runs on the high end, and you have to pay juice on both sides of the action. A typical totals bet would be, for example, 8 total runs with -110 juice on the over or the under. If the teams combine to score 9 runs or more, the book pays out the over bets, if the game comes in at 7 runs or less the books pay the under bets, and if the total lands right at 8 runs, all bets push.

Toronto Blue Jays at Tampa Bay Rays Under 7.5 Runs (-110)

We just talked about how great both Tyler Glasnow and Steven Matz have been this year, and it makes sense that the game total is very low in this matchup. You can never love going under such a low total too much, but if both of those guys can pitch as well tonight as they have this year, the game will stay well under the total. Taking the under in Rays games is one of my favorite plays, and with how Toronto has managed to pitch, combined with their lack of run production, unders in Blue Jay’s games have been a winning play as well. I’ll take the under in what should be a pitcher’s duel.

San Diego Padres at Los Angeles Dodgers Under 7 Runs (-110)

I took the under in the Dodgers and Padres game last night, and the game never really threatened to go over, finishing with a 3-2 final score. These teams have matched up 4 times in the last week, and the last 3 games have all been very low scoring. San Diego has averaged just 2 runs per game in those last 3 meetings, and the Dodgers haven’t been much better, at just 2.5 runs per contest. Today we have Yu Darvish and Clayton Kershaw pitching for their respective teams, and they have both been fantastic. Darvish has given up just 3 earned runs in his last 3 starts combined, spanning 20 innings, while punching out 22 batters. Kershaw has been even better, allowing just 1 run in his last 3 outings with 22 Ks in 19 innings worked. 7 runs is an awfully low total for a game with lineups as powerful as the Dodgers and Padres have, but with Darvish and Kershaw at the top of their games right now, I am jumping on the under.

Cincinnati Reds at St. Louis Cardinals Over 7.5 Runs (-110)

Sonny Gray and Kwang Hyun Kim are both going to be better this year than they looked in their 1st starts of the season last week. Both guys got late starts to their seasons, and neither were very sharp in their first appearances of the season. Gray threw just 71 pitches against the Cleveland Indians before getting yanked and finished his day with 4.1 innings pitched, allowing 2 earned runs on 6 hits and 2 walks. Kim lasted just 3 innings, giving up 3 runs to the Philadelphia Phillies. While I do expect both of these guys to be better today than they were last week, this total is far too low when you consider the fact that these starting pitchers are still trying to shake the rust off after late starts to the season. I’ll take the over.

Game Total Parlay

  • Teams Odds
  • Toronto Blue Jays at Tampa Bay Rays Under 7.5 Runs -110
  • San Diego Padres at Los Angeles Dodgers Under 7 Runs -110
  • Cincinnati Reds at St. Louis Cardinals Over 7.5 Runs -110

$100 Bet Wins $600

The Daily Dog

Do you want a chance at jumbo payouts? The best way to stack the cash fast is by parlaying underdogs! You can find high-value underdogs on the board basically every day betting Major League Baseball, and there is no way to win faster than by parlaying a couple of dogs together and getting paid.

New York Yankees at Cleveland Indians (+125)

I have been betting against the New York Yankees a lot lately. Despite being the favorites to win the American League coming into the season, the Yankees are currently sitting in last place in their division, and only the Minnesota Twins have a worse record in the AL than New York does right now. I bet against New York yesterday in game 1 of this series with Cleveland and felt pretty good about things when the Indians took a 3-0 lead early. New York came back to eventually win that game, but it is still surprising to see them as a fairly heavy favorite again tonight in game 2. Jordan Montgomery has gotten blasted for 8 earned runs in his last 2 starts combined in just 11 innings of work, and even against this weak Indians lineup, I see him struggling. Until New York starts winning games with regularity, or the books stop pricing them as favorites every game, I am going to continue to look for ways to fade them and get paid.

Seattle Mariners (+123) at Boston Red Sox

How can you not love what the Seattle Mariners are doing right now? Nobody believes in this team, and they refuse to lose, as they have made late-inning come from behind victories a nightly occurrence. It is too early to tell if this hot start for Seattle is for real, but it has been a fun ride for Mariner’s fans as the M’s haven’t made the postseason since Ichiro was a rookie back in 2001. The Red Sox have played great as well, but even Boston wasn’t immune to the M’s comeback shenanigans, as they let Seattle steal a win from them last night after leading all game long. Yesterday I took Seattle in what I saw as a coin flip type of game and cashed a ticket. I will again back the Mariners in another game that could go either way. If you lay me juice on a coin flip, I am going to take it every time.

Texas Rangers (+128) at Chicago White Sox

Dane Dunning has been a major piece of multiple high-profile trades, as he has been one of the most promising prospects in baseball since being drafted in the first round back in 2016. Tommy John surgery slowed Dunning’s ascent to the Big Leagues, but after breaking in last year for the Chicago White Sox and pitching well, he has exploded onto the scene this year for the Texas Rangers. Texas brought in Dunning in the offseason in exchange for Cy Young Award candidate Lance Lynn, to be the face of their rebuild, and he has impressed. Dunning is 1-0 with a 0.60 ERA in 3 starts this year for Texas, and he hasn’t allowed a single run since giving up a 1st inning home run to Bo Bichette in his 1st start of the season, a stretch spanning 14.2 innings.

Texas isn’t likely to stay in contention this year, as conventional wisdom says they are still a year or two away from finishing off this current rebuild, but these young guys are starting to believe in themselves, and they have won 6 of their last 9 games. The White Sox are supposed to be at the end of their long rebuild, and while this team is as talented as any team in the American League, they just haven’t been able to string together many wins, as they are currently sitting at just 9-9 on the year. I am going to take the Rangers in an upset special, as Dane Dunning is pitching like the All-Star we all expected him to be at some point in his career, and he is too good right now not to want to back as a big dog.

The Daily Dog Money Line Parlay

  • Teams Odds
  • Cleveland Indians +125
  • Seattle Mariners +123
  • Texas Rangers +128

$100 Bet Wins $1,044

Get Rich Or Die Trying

In this final section, we are going to go for the jumbo payouts! These are your lottery ticket types of plays that aren’t going to come in all that often but pay off big time when they do. A wise man once said, if you don’t swing hard, you never hit any home runs. Well, in this section, we swing for the fences!

Los Angeles Angels at Houston Astros (-141)

I expected the Houston Astros to snap out of their funk in Colorado earlier this week, and it never happened, as they got swept by the Rockies in a 2-game set. It looks like I was just a bit early on my prediction, as Houston finally looked respectable again last night at home, with the LA Angels in town. The Astros were gutted by COVID-19 as they lost Jose Altuve, Yordan Alverez, Alex Bregman, and Martin Maldonado for almost an entire week. Houston didn’t win a game with the heart of their lineup missing but looked great last night as Maldonado, Bregman, and Alverez combined for 5 hits, 3 RBI, and 1 run scored. There is a chance that Altuve gets to rejoin the team tonight as well, as he has yet to return from his presumptive positive COVID-19 diagnosis.

With their best bats back in the lineup and their ace, Zack Greinke, on the mound, I like Houston to win again tonight at home. The Angels pitching staff is a disaster, and while they do swing a heavy bat, Greinke is filthy and shut down the Halos earlier this year, holding LA to just 2 earned runs in 7 innings. The Astros jumped out to a 6-1 record to start the season, and I expect them to get back to their winning ways as they are close to being back to 100% healthy.

Pittsburgh Pirates (+140) at Minnesota Twins

It’s hard to fully contemplate how the Minnesota Twins can be so bad right now. They have lost 9 of their last 10 games, and their once mighty lineup, that holds the all-time single-season home run record, set back in 2019, is anemic. Minnesota scored 12 runs in their last game and somehow still lost to the Oakland A’s, but prior to that one, the Twins had averaged less than 2 runs per game in their last 7 contests. I can’t imagine Minnesota is going to pick today to start scoring again as JT Brubaker and the Pittsburgh Pirates are starting to get some well-deserved national attention. The Pirates are 8-4 in their last 12 games, and Brubaker is 2-0 with a 1.76 ERA in 3 starts. The Twins are in free fall, and similarly to the Yankees, until the books start adjusting the pricing on Minnesota, I am going to keep fading them. The fact that I get to do that today while backing a Pirates team on the upswing, with a young pitcher that is coming into his prime quickly on the Major League level, is just a cherry on top.

Cincinnati Reds (-112) at St. Louis Cardinals

The Cincinnati Reds have cooled off considerably after their hot start to the season, and their last series was extra nasty, as they got spanked by the Arizona Diamondbacks in a 3-game sweep. But the bats are still swinging for Cincy as they lead all of baseball in runs scored and home runs. If they can get some pitching to back up all of that run support, they are going to win a lot of games. Sonny Gray wasn’t great in his 1st start of the year, but he is only going to get better as the season wears on, and I like the Reds today at basically even money. Neither of these teams are playing very well right now, but my gut says these heavy Red’s bats post a couple of crooked numbers up on the scoreboard against what has been a bad Cardinals pitching staff and take this one going away.

Philadelphia Phillies (+105) at Colorado Rockies

The Colorado Rockies have the worst record in all of MLB right now at 6-12. And to be honest, it should probably be even worse as they got to take advantage of the Astros being forced to play without some of their best players when they swept Houston in a 2-game set in their last series. But even with their putrid record, they are somehow favored against the Phillies tonight at home? Philly has been no world beater by any means, but they are a respectable 9-9 and are the far superior team in this matchup. You can certainly argue that the Rockies have the better side of the starting pitching matchup as German Marquez has been solid, and I would likely agree with that assessment, but the worst team in baseball shouldn’t be favored against a Phillies team that rates out as a potential playoff team.

Miami Marlins at San Francisco Giants (-136)

I took the Giants yesterday, as they have been really good at home this season. The G-Men took care of business and ran their home record to 6-1 on the year with a 3-0 victory. I see a similar outcome in game 2, as Alex Wood started against these very same Marlins in his lone start of the season last week and threw 5 shutout innings. The Marlins bats have shown absolutely zero power, with just 11 homers in 18 games, and I will fade them today. Sandy Alcantara has been pretty good for Miami in 4 starts, but his worst outing of the year came in his last start against these Giants, and with San Francisco being nearly unbeatable at home, I will again back the Giants as small home field favorites.

Kansas City Royals at Detroit Tigers (-103)

Our final bet of the day comes to us from Detroit, as the Tigers host the Kansas City Royals in game 1 f a 4-game set. Casey Mize gets the nod for Detroit, and if you haven’t seen this kid pitch yet, you need to tune in, as he is must-see TV. Mize ran into the buzzsaw that is the Oakland Athletics right now in his last start and got roughed up, but in his start before that, he pitched 7 shutout innings against the Houston Astros. Mize was the number 1 overall pick in the MLB draft in 2018 and has future Cy Young Award winner stuff. I love a play on the Tigers as home dogs against Royal’s starter Mike Minor that has an ERA north of 5 runs in 3 starts for KC.

Get Rich Or Die Trying Parlay

  • Teams Odds
  • Houston Astros -141
  • Pittsburgh Pirates +140
  • Cincinnati Reds -112
  • Philadelphia Phillies +105
  • San Francisco Giants -136
  • Detroit Tigers -103

$100 Bet Wins $5,344

Wrap Up

Parlays are a great way to make quick cash, and here you have four different ways to get in on the parlay bet action! Betting on Major League baseball can be both fun and exciting, as well as being very profitable! Make sure you swing by TheSportsGeek’s Major League Baseball betting page, where our team of pro handicappers bring you sharp betting advice and free MLB picks each and every day!

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