The Daily Grind

Sunday, July 5, 2026

Underdogs covered the runline 10-5 and won outright 8-7 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.

10-5
Underdog Runline
8-7
Underdog Outright
8
Actionable Plays

Actionable plays

SideStakeResult
PiratesReduced stakeWon outright (+ covered)
RedsFull stakeWon outright (+ covered)
TwinsReduced stakeWon outright (+ covered)
White SoxReduced stakeWon outright (+ covered)
RockiesReduced stakeWon outright (+ covered)
DiamondbacksReduced stakeCovered +1.5 (lost outright)
Blue JaysFull stakeLost
PadresReduced stakeWon outright (+ covered)

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)50-2963.3%
Reduced-stake plays (line-cooling)106-4669.7%

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 22-22 (50.0%), reduced-stake plays 94-39 (70.7%). Records are recomputed straight from our logged game-by-game data every night. Stand-down (WATCH) results — 9-6 this season — are excluded entirely, even though they'd improve the headline.

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