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The Angels are fully balanced. They can't hit and they don't have good pitchers.

Rookie Ryan Johnson, the Angels' worst starter, gets the call here against the Orioles.

I will take a plus price on Baltimore by laying 1 1/2 runs on the run line.

Why not? Johnson has a 7.63 ERA and 1.59 WHIP. The Angels are 2-6 in his starts. Each of those losses have been by multiple runs.

The Angels are averaging 2.5 runs in their last 17 games since the All-Star break. That would easily rank last in the majors if computed over the entire season. As it is, the Angels are well below average in every key offensive category.

Orioles starting pitcher Brandon Young has been respectable with a 3.31 ERA and 1.29 WHIP. He is 2-1 with a 2.85 when pitching at home.

(#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.

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The WNBA Comp play for Thursday is on Toronto plus the points at 10 eastern. Toronto is off a pair of road dog losses to a solid Golden St but should be tough here with home favored loss revenge on Portland. Rob notes that WNBA Home favorites of 10 or less with 3+ days rest that are off a home loss and are taking on a team off a road loss that has home loss revenge are 0-3 straight up the past 15 seasons. Portland has failed to cover both times this season as a home favorite with 2+ days rest. The Tempo have covered 2 of 3 on the road with home loss revenge and we will back them here tonight. GL Rob V-

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

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