Thursday Betting Recaps
Thursday in the sportsbooks was dominated by the opening round of the U.S. Open, plus a relatively short 10-game MLB card.
We’ll leave the golf recaps to our VSiN colleagues Matt Youmans and Wes Reynolds and others talking about and making picks this weekend. For our purposes here, let’s get to our daily MLB recap and update the fave/dog, home/road and Over/Under records on the season, plus add the season-long USFL betting stats as they head into the regular-season-ending Week 10. MLB: Faves went 6-4 on Thursday with upsets by the Tigers (+185 in 8-4 win at Twins), Nationals (+170 in 4-1, 10-inning win at Astros), Angels (+125 in 5-3 win at Rangers) and Guardians (+102 in 8-6 win at Padres). Road teams went 6-4. Overs led 4-3-3 with pushes in PHI-AZ (9), LAA-TEX (8) and CHW-LAD (9). On the season, faves lead 592-423 with 16 games closing pick-’em. Home teams lead 543-486 with 2 neutral-site games. Unders’ lead down to 498-494-38 with 1 no-action.USFL (ICYMI): After favorites led 3-1 SU and ATS last weekend in Week 9, underdogs still lead 20-16 SU overall and even better at 25-11 ATS (69.4%, though down from 75% most of the season). Over/Unders split 2-2 for the week, but Unders still lead 19-16-1 (54.3%).