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MLB · Friday, August 14, 2026

Kansas City Royals @ Los Angeles Angels

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The lean (0 units — logged, not staked)

Kansas City Royals ML (-104, FanDuel) · confidence 50.2% of 10,000 sims · edge -0.8 pts · 0u

Seth Lugo (4.41 ERA, 1.37 WHIP) vs Grayson Rodriguez (7.20 ERA, 1.62 WHIP).

Projected 4.6–4.7; sim total 9.3 against a 8.5 line; park factor 1.00.

Market at board time: moneyline -110 / -104 (consensus at board time) · total 8.5.

Circuit-breaker log (7 checks)
  • Rule 2 check passed: market line -104 within the night-game juice cap (-180; night -180, day -170, day = first pitch before 17:00 venue-local).
  • Rule 8 check passed: raw model 49.7% vs de-vigged market 50.7%: 1.0-point divergence within the 12-point cap (blended to 50.2% at MODEL_WEIGHT=0.5).
  • Edge gate: model edge vs offered price is -0.8 pts (minimum 2). No allocation; a good side at a bad price is a bad bet.
  • Rule 4 flag: Grayson Rodriguez under 60 IP this deep in the season (limited workload / possible IL return). Volume freeze: confidence downgraded one tier.
  • Rule 6 check passed: away 14-day wOBA 0.286 vs league 0.314 (gap +0.028, threshold 0.035).
  • Rules 3/5 (velocity/spin telemetry): manual review required: Statcast feed not wired.
  • Weather (totals paper track ONLY): 76°F at first pitch: run environment x1.023. Applied to the paper totals pick; the staked board ignores weather entirely.

Open vs close

MarketBoard timeClose
Moneyline (away / home)-110 / -104+134 / -156
Total8.58.5 (o-105 / u-115)

The close is the last pre-first-pitch capture. Movement toward a side after we post is the fastest honest read on pick quality — see the CLV column on the ledger.

No stake rode on this game. The lean and its failed gates above are the whole position: passing is a position too.

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