Matthew Lowrimore
We have put together a 4-pick cross-sport parlay that will take you right through Wednesday, including action from the Stanley Cup Finals, MLS and MLB. One pick is taken from each sport with a second pick from the MLB. A winning ticket would give us a nice payout with odds of +1444 at DraftKings. Let’s break down each of these plays.
MLB: Tampa Bay Rays ML (+120) vs New York Yankees, 7:05 pm ET
Tonight’s game between the Rays and Yankees features a fantastic pitching matchup between two of the top contenders for the American League Cy Young award. Shane McClanahan gets the nod for the Rays tonight and he’s established himself at the top of the rotation for Tampa Bay following an impressive rookie season last year. He has a 7-2 record and 1.87 ERA, ranking towards the top of all qualified pitchers in nearly every metric.
Opposing McClanahan will be Nestor Cortes, who is similarly having a dominant season with a 5-2 record and 1.97 ERA for New York. Cortes allowed 1 run across 8 innings in his lone start against the Rays this season, but he struggled in his latest start against the Twins, giving up 4 runs in 4.1 innings. Not that Cortes is due for any major regression, but his start in Minnesota gives the Rays some hope of being able to punch some runs across against him. With the bullpens being evenly matched, take the Rays behind McClanahan.
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MLB: Milwaukee Brewers ML (-135) vs New York Mets, 7:10 pm ET
Milwaukee righty Corbin Burnes is just 3-4 on the season, but he has been just as dominant as he was a year ago. In fact, if you use opposing batting average as the measure, he has been even better. This is a matchup of quality teams and he is very capable of shutting down the Mets even though his last 2 outings were far from great. Lefty David Peterson is one of many pitchers who have stepped up for the Mets with Max Scherzer and Jacob deGrom out. As a starter, he is not going deep very often, but he keeps his team in the game.
When Burnes is on the mound you usually have to pay a very heavy premium but that is not the case against New York today.
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MLS: Orlando City SC +0.5 (+120) vs New England Revolution, 7:30 pm ET
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Stanley Cup Finals: Tampa Bay Lightning vs Colorado Avalanche – Over 6 goals (-120), 8:00 ET
Andrei Vasilevskiy may very well make the difference in the Stanley Cup Finals for the Lightning, but this first game may not be his best performance. Tampa’s Game 1 against the Rangers in their last series demonstrated that Vasilevksiy would prefer to stay in a groove rather than have too much time off. He allowed 6 goals in a game that ended with 8 total goals.
The Avalanche have made it this far with their goalscoring ability as they ended the season with the 2nd-most goals per game at home. They still have issues with who will even be in net as starter Darcy Kuemper got injured during this postseason. Their most recent Game 1 after several days of rest was also high-scoring with 14 total goals. We don’t even need half of that for this over.
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