Day 2 of the 2025 MLB season brings two DraftKings Pick 6 victories

Cardinal
by SMRJigsawPuzzles

Day two of the 2025 MLB season and was my second day of playing Draft Kings Pick 6 in the regular season.

I started pick 6 in the last weeks of the 2024 NFL season and did awesome. (see previous stories).

Since then I have struggled with basketball as I don’t really follow it that close and I struggled with the spring training games as you never know how many innings the players will play.

Day one of the regular season was kind of a bust as I only banked $16 out of many $1 bets.

For day two I changed my approached from day one, which was just a wild scrambled pick and guess. I also found myself in a Fanduel frame of mind, which doesn't work.

Day two paid off a tad better then Day 1 as I even nailed a 6 of 6 pick. 

Toronto Blue Jay Bo Bichette came through with more than 1.5 bases. His teammate Vlad Guerrero Jr. did the same. A trio from the Arizona Diamondbacks, Lourdes Gurriel Jr, Ketel Marte and Eugenio Suarez did the same as did San Diego Padre Fernando Tatis Jr.

The payout was $39.19 Not bad for a $1 bet.

I also nailed a 4 of 4 pick by selecting  

Houston Astro Yordan Alvarez, Los Angeles Dodger Shohei Ohtani, Atlanta Braves Matt Olson and new Chicago Cub Kyle Tucker, in the walk category. The payout was an $9.80 payout.

There were many other lineups that were so close to being fulfilled. 

My first double digit win on Draft Kings Pick 6 baseball games

 

I just won double digits for the first time on Draft Kings Pick 6 baseball.

I did a Pick 3 lineup during spring training and turned $1 into $53. Now granted it is not the $100s and $1000s that some win, but for a $1 bet. It works for me.

I chose Sonny Gray of the St. Louis Cardinals and predicted that he would throw less than 4.5 strikeouts. I was correct, as he struck out four but was not able to get that fifth one.

Then I selected New York Mets Juan Soto and Mark Vientos and predicted that they would slug homers, and they did. Therefore my 3 of 3 pick was accurate. Soto and Vientos paid a bonus, therefore my winnings added up to $53.28.

Here is hoping that my baseball knowledge and the DraftKings Pick6 games combine for a winning 2025 season.

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Birds
by SMRJigsawPuzzles

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Black Bear Name Plate
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My first auto redemption card is Chris Sale

 

It finally happened.

Today, for the first time in my 43 years of collecting, I pulled a  

Topps redemption card for an autograph. 

Now I have pulled autos out of packs before, but never a redemption card.

This is merry Christmas to me, as the autograph will be a Chris Sale autograph, the Atlanta Braves 2024 Cy Young Award Winner.

I didn’t make a video of the pull. One reason, I don’t have the equipment to make good card pulling videos and second, I don’t like to be on camera.

But I assure you there was joy and excitement. I was on the phone with a friend, and all I could say was “Finally! Whoo hoo! I got one!”

And how cool that my first Topps redemption is of an Atlanta Brave, my all time favorite team.

I know many will think how awesome, a Chris Sale autograph, while others will be like who cares, its not Ohtani.

But this could have been an autograph of a bat boy and I would be excited, as to me collecting should be about the love of the game and the hobby and not always the money.

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Bowling
by SMRJigsawPuzzles

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