Last week Lenny Melnick’s Tout Daily by RTSports.com victory was overshadowed by the awarding of three golden tickets.
This week, on Lenny’s birthday no less, Scott Pianowski snuck past Lenny late in the day, grabbing victory in Week 1 Period 2 of the Tout Daily contest.
That puts Pianowski atop a cluttered leaderboard of teams vying for tickets to the finals in Period 2. You can view the leaderboard here.
Scott rode big games from popular choice Madison Bumgarner and less popular choice Zack Greinke to victory.
On the hitting side his big bat was Matt Duffy, a rarely selected player last night who had a big game against Chad Bettis and the Rockies, and Alex Presley, whose rare homer was rostered by an astounding 43 percent of RTSports.com Daily teams last night.
Pianowski adopted the popular Cincinnati-Milwaukee stack last night and won, even though Tucker Barnhart, Chris Carter, Colin Walsh and Jonathan Villar barely registered.
Melnick led most of the night, at least until Bumgarner notched the W in San Francisco for Pianow, behind the best pitching performance of the night, by Danny Salazar. He was hurt by Noah Syndergaard, or rather by a Mets offense that could not turn Thor’s QS into a W.
Melnick scored in the Cincinnati-Milwaukee game with the expensive but productive Joey Votto, and got a nice game from the red hot Brandon Drury against the Braves. Happy birthday, Lenny!
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