The Daily Grind

Sunday, June 21, 2026

Underdogs covered the runline 10-4 and won outright 6-8 across 14 graded games (1 postponed). 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.

10-4
Underdog Runline
6-8
Underdog Outright
6
Actionable Plays

Actionable plays

SideStakeResult
BrewersReduced stakeWon outright (+ covered)
White SoxReduced stakeCovered +1.5 (lost outright)
GuardiansReduced stakeCovered +1.5 (lost outright)
PadresReduced stakeCovered +1.5 (lost outright)
AngelsReduced stakeWon outright (+ covered)
Red SoxReduced stakeLost

Actionable plays we fire pre-game: 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)45-2267.2%
Reduced-stake plays (line-cooling)83-3968.0%

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 17-15 (53.1%), reduced-stake plays 71-32 (68.9%). Records are recomputed straight from our logged game-by-game data every night. Stand-down (WATCH) results — 7-4 this season — are excluded entirely, even though they'd improve the headline.

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