The Daily Grind

Tuesday, June 2, 2026

Underdogs covered the runline 11-4 and won outright 7-8 across 15 graded games. Below: the slate result, the plays our models fired — full stake and reduced (provisional) stake — and the games our discipline guard told us to pass.

11-4
Underdog Runline
7-8
Underdog Outright
4
Actionable Plays

Actionable plays

SideStakeResult
MetsFull stakeLost
PadresReduced stakeCovered +1.5 (lost outright)
OriolesReduced stakeWon outright (+ covered)
RoyalsReduced stakeCovered +1.5 (lost outright)

Actionable plays we fire pre-game: full-confidence (Rule A/B) plays at standard stake and provisional (line-cooling, Rule C) plays at reduced stake. Provisional plays carry a smaller stake while that model is still proving out.

Model track record (season to date)

ModelRunline recordCover %
Full-stake plays (Rule A/B)38-1670.4%
Reduced-stake plays (line-cooling)46-2267.6%

How to read this: the totals above are season-to-date and include our pre-launch backtest (Mar 27–May 11), when these rules were still being fit to past data — so they overstate what was bettable in real time. The honest out-of-sample record, since the rules locked on May 12: full-stake plays 10-9 (52.6%), reduced-stake plays 34-15 (69.4%). Records are recomputed straight from our logged game-by-game data every night. Stand-down (WATCH) results — 5-3 this season — are excluded entirely, even though they'd improve the headline.

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