It\u2019s been an exciting first few days of the new MLB season, and the Guardians and Mariners wrap up their season-opening series at T-Mobile Park in the first nationally televised Sunday night showdown of the 2026 campaign.<\/p>\n
Here\u2019s a three-leg same-game parlay to consider for the primetime AL clash:<\/p>\n
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Cleveland Guardians at Seattle Mariners, 7:20 p.m. ET<\/p>\n
Slade Cecconi Over 4.5 Strikeouts<\/p>\n
Jose Ramirez To Record 2+ Hits + Runs + RBI<\/p>\n
Same-Game Parlay Odds: +335 on FanDuel Sportsbook<\/p>\n
The Guardians have gotten the best of the Mariners in two of the first three games of the season-opening series, with Cleveland\u2019s latest success coming in the form of a Saturday night 6-5, 10-inning victory. Stephen Vogt\u2019s crew also recorded a 6-4 win Opening Day, so the Guardians bats have been in reasonably good form early even when factoring in Friday\u2019s 5-1 loss.<\/p>\n
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Cleveland had a +12.0-run differential on the road last season, per Team Rankings<\/a>, as well as a stellar 42-17 record against the run line as an away team in 2025. As such, we\u2019ll start the first leg of our three-leg parlay with a bet on the Guardians keeping any loss to one run or less, while the possibility of an upset victory is very much in play thanks partly to what I see as a starting pitcher advantage for the visitors.<\/p>\n Guardians starter Slade Cecconi was at his best on the road last season, posting a 5-3 record, 3.75 ERA, 1.16 WHIP, 9.2 K\/9 and minuscule 1.9 BB\/9 across 62.1 innings, per RotoWire<\/a>. Cecconi has only faced the Mariners once in his career, but that outing went well. The right-hander neutralized Seattle for six innings early in the 2024 season at T-Mobile Park, allowing just one run on three hits and a walk while recording eight strikeouts.<\/p>\n With the Mariners already having gone down on strikes a whopping 36 times in the first three games, a bet on Cecconi getting to at least five Ks \u2013 like he did on 10 occasions last season, including seven times on the road \u2013 is our second leg.<\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n Meanwhile, the Mariners will hand the ball to Emerson Hancock for Sunday\u2019s series finale, and the talented but inconsistent right-hander will look to start building on last season\u2019s 4-5 record, 4.90 ERA and 1.38 WHIP across 90 innings over 22 appearances (16 starts). Hancock had a rocky body of work at home, where he pitched to a 2-3 mark, 4.98 ERA, 1.29 WHIP, 3.3 BB\/9 and 1.2 HR\/9 over a 43.1-inning sample.<\/p>\n Hancock did have one of the best starts of his career against Cleveland, however, shutting the Guardians out over seven innings on two hits and a walk on June 15 in Seattle. However, he struggled with left-handed hitters throughout the 2025 campaign, surrendering a .264 average, .844 OPS, .364 wOBA, 5.04 xFIP and 2.3 HR\/9 to that handedness, per Fangraphs.<\/p>\n Therefore, our third leg banks on the switch-hitting Jose Ramirez, who\u2019s off to a somewhat slow start but posted an .849 OPS and .354 wOBA against right-handed pitchers last season, potentially recording his first multi-hit game of the season. That possibility is further fueled by Ramirez\u2019s performance against the three pitches Hancock threw most often to left-handed hitters last season, the four-seamer, sinker and changeup (as per Baseball Savant<\/a>) \u2013 the veteran slugger generated respective. 383, .387 and .405 wOBAs against those offerings in 2025, per Fangraphs<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s been an exciting first few days of the new MLB season, and the Guardians and Mariners wrap…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":572494,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,6115,5258,5260,131895,13278,5143,591,12293,20883,85,28147,5885],"class_list":["post-572493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cleveland","tag-cleveland-guardians","tag-detroit-tigers","tag-emerson-hancock","tag-jose-ramirez","tag-mariners","tag-mlb","tag-ohio","tag-slade-cecconi","tag-sports","tag-stephen-vogt","tag-the-guardians"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=572493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572493\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/572494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=572493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=572493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=572493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}