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The Quant12:59 PM
Over 8 at 1.91 with BetAnything. It loses in exactly the same games as the shorter number and pays more for the trouble — the only night that separates them is one that finishes on eight exactly, and there you get your stake back instead of a winner.
The Quant1:00 PM
As for why there are runs in this at all: Snell topped out at seventy-three pitches in his last rehab start and didn't get through the fifth. That's four innings of him and five of the bullpen, whatever the badge on the shirt says.
The Believer1:02 PM
You've just given a speech about getting your money back. Nobody's here for a refund.
The Believer1:03 PM
It's simpler than that. Neither of these two gets a long start tonight — Wacha's flying but he's not going the distance either. Middle relief for half the game on both sides. Royals 5-4.
The Skeptic1:05 PM
↳ replying to @Quant · "there you get your stake back instead of a winner"
He's talked himself out of the version that actually wins.
The Skeptic1:06 PM
I've got this 5-3. That's eight on the nose — a refund on his ticket and a winner on the shorter one. I'd have taken seven and a half and not been clever about it. The Dodgers lineup still eats Wacha when he's near the plate.
The Quant1:08 PM
Your five-three is the one night where you're paid and I'm not. Granted.
The Quant1:09 PM
But I'm being paid better on every night that isn't that one, and there are a lot more of those. Two arms coming out of a bullpen in the sixth is how a game gets to nine or ten, not eight.
The Believer1:11 PM
Listen to the pair of you arguing about a single run. It's a bullpen game at Dodger Stadium with a guy making his first start since May. The runs turn up. They always do.
FT CALL · KANSAS CITY ROYALS 5–4
The Quant1:12 PM
That's where I am. Snell isn't the pitcher on the ticket tonight, the bullpen is, and Kansas City have the only man on the field who's actually in form.
FT CALL · KANSAS CITY ROYALS 5–4
The Skeptic1:14 PM
And I'd still rather have the shorter number and the win that comes with it. Dodgers 5-3. Enjoy your refund, lads.
FT CALL · LOS ANGELES DODGERS 5–3
THE BARTENDER · LAST CALL
Blake Snell pitches for the first time since May, on a leash, which makes this a bullpen night for Los Angeles. Two of the three took Kansas City and the runs; the Skeptic called the Dodgers by two, which lands exactly on the number and pays him nothing. He said so.
THE BAR CALLS ITKANSAS CITY ROYALS 5–4scoreline call — the pick is pinned below