Friday was a different kind of day as I got out of the Tuley’s Takes home office (I’m not fully recovered from my sore throat but well enough to resume most normal activities) to sign up a proxy client for some football contests here in town and then took my family on a 2 1/2-hour drive each way to Cedar City, Utah, to see “Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street.”
The show, part of the Utah Shakespeare Festival, was excellent and helped ease the pain of losing my Best Bet of the day on the Mariners in a 5-2 loss to the Astros. Even if I lost that, I was hoping to salvage the night with Shotei Ohtani pitching for the Angels (+ 130) against the Braves. It looked like I handicapped that game pretty well as Ohtani pitched six shutout innings, but he didn’t get any run support and then got lit up for six runs in the 7th inning and the Angels lost 8-1. Let’s recap the rest of the Friday MLB card and then try to find a live dog or two on Saturday.Friday’s recaps
MLB: Faves went 9-5 Friday with the most significant wins (in my humble opinion) being the Blue Jays (-118) routing Red Sox 28-5 and the Astros (-120) beating the Mariners 5-2 to snap their 14-game winning streak. Biggest upsets were by the Padres (+ 160 in 4-1 win at Mets), Guardians + 141 in 8-2 win at White Sox) and Reds (+ 130 in 9-5 win vs. Cardinals). Road teams led 8-6. Overs dominated 11-3.
More MLB: Faves lead 830-550 SU (60.1 percent) on the season with 23 games closing pick-'em (faves usually win around 59 percent, so still ahead of that pace, but gap had been narrowing but back above 60 percent now). Home teams lead just 730-673 (52 percent, but usually closer to 54 percent). Unders still lead 691-646-64 (51.7 percent).