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Free Total Annihilator On Sparks vs Sky under 188½ -110

1* Bet on Sparks/Sky: over 189½

(#967) Athletics @ (#968) Cincinnati Reds | OVER | . 

Mason Barnett (1-1, 4.85 ERA) vs. TBD. 

Turning into a starter, for the meantime at least, Mason Barnett did not have a good July. Posting a 8.79 ERA over six outings during last month, I don't see much improvement coming from the 25 year old on Thursday. This is another hitter friendly ballpark and the struggles will continue against a hungry Reds lineup.

Despite still being quite a few games back, Cinci is still pushing to make a run at a wildcard spot. The Reds just announced that Hunter Greene will be heading to the IL, meaning this will probably be a bullpen game or a pitcher called up from the minor leagues. I expect lots of runs in this one on Thursday afternoon.

Burns' Prediction: 8-5 Reds.

This is a FREE PLAY on the Mariners.

I unfortunately lost with Seattle last night, but I believe the Mariners are definitely with a "second look" here on Wednesday to rebound.

The Mariners fell to 32-25 at home, while the Tigers improved to 25-31 on the road.

Seattle looks to avenge yesterday's loss facing Drew Anderson (4-4, 4.24 ERA), who is having to make a spot start here after Tarik Skubal and Casey Mize were traded.

The home side counters with Bryan Woo (7-8, 4.56 ERA), who is looking to rebound himself following a poor loss against the Dodgers.

Woo, though, has unquestionably been better at home this season than on the road, as he's 6-0 with a tiny 2.21 ERA in the Pacific Northwest.

Consider SEATTLE.

Good luck, NP

1* Free Play on Sparks/Sky over 189½ -110

1* Free Pick on Panthers/Cardinals: under 35½

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1 Unit FREE PLAY on San Diego Padres -119

The San Diego Padres are in the midst of their best stretch of baseball this season. They have gone 9-2 in their last 11 games overall and they have scored at least 5 runs in 11 of their last 16 games. Casey Mize makes his Padres' debut after getting traded from the Tigers. Mize has a 2.70 ERA and 0.99 WHIP in 16 starts this season. We'll go against rookie Mitch Bratt, who is 0-1 with a 5.23 ERA and 1.84 WHIP in five starts this season while giving up 12 earned runs and 38 base runners in 20 2/3 innings for the Diamondbacks. Give me the Padres.

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1* Free Sharp Play on Tigers vs Mariners over 7½ -115

Hamilton getting the points against BC is the lean that actually makes sense on this number, and the 2026 data plus the line movement only reinforce the caution on the home favorite.

The Lions sit at a messy 2-5 and have been one of the more inconsistent teams in the entire league. Hamilton is only 3-5 themselves, but they have shown more fight and have kept games competitive more often than the pure record suggests. The number opened closer to BC -5.5 and has drifted up toward -6.5 to 7, the kind of slow climb you often see when the public leans into the home side without real sharp conviction behind it. Laying six or six and a half with a club that has dropped five of seven already feels soft, and the upward movement has done nothing to make the price more attractive. Home field still carries weight in the CFL, but it has not been enough to turn this version of the Lions into a reliable cover machine. League-wide, home favorites sitting under .300 this season have been far from automatic against mediocre road teams, and BC fits that profile a little too cleanly.

The recent form tells a clearer story than the standings alone. BC has struggled to string together complete games on both sides of the ball and has been vulnerable to giving up leads or failing to finish. Hamilton has been outscored overall, sure, but they have hung around in enough contests to make the plus side interesting. When you look at how large home favorites have performed against .300-to-.400 road clubs in 2026, the cover rate drops off once the number climbs past a touchdown. The expected value on laying 6.5 with this Lions team simply does not jump off the page the way it does in cleaner mismatch spots, especially after the line has already moved against the underdog.

The math is straightforward. A 2-5 home team laying more than a touchdown against a 3-5 visitor creates a break-even threshold that demands a higher win-and-cover rate than BC has delivered so far. Even after adjusting for home-field advantage, the Lions’ inconsistency has produced enough stinkers to make the price feel a little rich. The fact that the number has stretched from the mid-fives into the sixes suggests the market is still buying the home side, yet the underlying form does not fully support that confidence. Hamilton’s ability to stay within one score in several of their losses gives them a realistic path to cashing the ticket, whether by keeping it close or straight-up stealing one if BC has another off night. League trends this year have shown that soft home favorites in the 6-to-7 range have been vulnerable when the underdog still has some fight left.

I like the underdog points here more than I like the favorite. This is the kind of spot where the market sometimes overrates the home team simply because the other side is not lighting the world on fire, and the line movement so far looks more like public steam than informed money. BC has not earned heavy trust at a larger number, and Hamilton has shown just enough resilience to make the plus side attractive. Grab the Tiger-Cats plus the points and let the inconsistency of the Lions do the rest, or wait for a better number if the line keeps drifting. Either way, this does not feel like a spot to hammer the chalk

ASA WNBA play on Chicago Sky -2.5 vs. LA Sparks, 9pm ET - The Sky have played really well of late with a 5-5 SU record, but they have covered 8 of those ten games, meaning they’ve been extremely competitive in this stretch of games. The Sky are coming off a disappointing home loss to the Mercury and should rebound here. In fact, a quick glance at the Sky’s last game and they were favored by -1.5 point at home against a much better Phoenix team right now and are only a slightly bigger chalk here. LA decided to move on from Kelsey Plum who was traded to the Mercury this week, which means a rebuild is in the works for the Sparks. The trade did result in a win over Portland in the first game without Plum on the roster, but we don’t see them as a team trending up at this point in time. The Sparks are 1-6 SU in their last seven games, 3-7 in their last ten games. When we examine the last 10 games for both teams, we see the Sky are playing significantly better with a +1.5 Net rating compared to the Sparks -3.6. These same two teams squared off on this court in mid-July with the Sky winning by 14-points as a -2.5-point favorite. We are betting on a repeat performance by Chicago.

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