If you had bet on the Yankees throughout their season high 6 game winning streak, you would have been up about $550 for a $100 wager on each game. That’s a pretty good run. Streak bettors continue to do well this baseball season as some teams seem to be on roller coaster rides through 2013.
Of course, if you had stayed with New York for game 7 you were really on a roll, until the Orioles scored 2 runs in the top of the ninth to avoid the shut out and win the game. So much for the streak… this one at least.
Elsewhere around the league, the Arizona Diamondbacks won four in a row to take firm grip on first place in the National League West ahead of the Colorado Rockies and the Los Angeles Dodgers who are tied for second place in the division at 4.5 games out.
The National League Central continues to be one of the most competitive divisions in major league baseball after the St. Louis Cardinals won 3 in a row while MLB’s winningest ball club, the Pittsburg Pirates, lost, unbelievably, to the lowly Cubs.
But don’t forget the Cincinnati Reds lurking just 4 games back and looking very solid at the mid-season mark. On Sunday afternoon, the Reds blasted the Seattle Mariners 13 to 4.
The Texas Rangers and the Oakland A’s are in a hot battle for the lead in the American League West with neither team able to put together a long enough winning streak to pull away.
The Atlanta Braves were once in firm control of the National League East until the Washington Nationals went on a 4 game winning streak and pulled themselves back into competition for the divisional lead at mid-season.
On the other hand, while it looked for awhile that the Miami Marlins were gaining ground in the NL East they did work themselves up to the .500 mark, the Marlins have just dropped 4 in a row again and have now fallen completely out of the picture at 32-55 on the season.
But the worst burn out of all has to go to the San Diego Padres who have somehow managed to lose 9 games in a row and have now fallen to 40-49 so far this year. They just barely managed to lose to the Nationals on Sunday by a score of 5 to 4… but, it still just goes down as another lost game for the Padres.
