Sunday was mostly spent watching baseball but also catching up on chores around the house, primarily cleaning our pool.
You see, I had done a pretty good job of cleaning earlier in the week because I knew I had to shock it pretty hard so it didn’t turn green while I was taking my daughter Peyton to her freshman orientation at University of Nevada-Reno. However, as I’m sure everyone has heard by now, there were severe thunderstorms here in Vegas while we were gone. As is usually the case when we get a rare storm, there were tons of leaves and dirt in our pool, and this time one of our garbage cans was blown into the pool, adding to the mess. I had to vacuum the pool, shock it, vacuum and shock a second time. Not how I wanted to spend a good portion of the day, but ya gotta do what ya gotta do. The task would have been more tolerable if we didn’t lose our Best Bet on the Marlins 1st 5 + 130 vs. the Mets as the Mets beat up the Marlins’ Pablo Lopez and led 7-1 after the first 5 innings. However, we did win our secondary play on the Royals 1st 5 + 234 at the Yankees. The game was scoreless through the first 4 innings, but then the Royals broke through with 4 runs in the top of the 5th. The Yankees responded with 3 runs in the bottom half of the inning, but the Royals held on for a 4-3 lead. In addition, we also cashed on the Royals on the full-game money line as they beat the Yankees 8-6, so we came out ahead on the day despite losing our supposed top pick. Let’s recap the rest of Sunday’s (full-game) betting results and look for more 1st 5 inning opportunities on Monday’s card since we’ve been having so much success with them lately. In addition, I have an early play on Thursday’s Hall of Fame Game that I gave out on VSiN’s “The Lookahead” show on Sunday night (15 minutes into the archived version if you want to check that out).Sunday’s recaps
MLB: Faves went 11-4 Sunday. Upsets were by the Royals (+ 234 in 8-6 win at Yankees to snap 5-game losing streak), Guardians (+ 200 in 5-3 win at Rays), Red Sox (+ 127 in 7-2 win vs. Brewers) and Rangers (+ 114 in 5-2 win at Angels). Home teams went 8-7. Unders dominated 11-4.
More MLB: Faves lead 906-599 SU (60.2 percent) on the season with 25 pick-'ems (faves usually win around 59 percent; still ahead of pace; gap had been narrowing but now back over 60 percent). Home teams lead just 801-729 (52.4 percent, but usually closer to 54 percent). Unders lead 757-701-70 (51.9 percent).