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MLB · Wednesday, September 9, 2026

Cincinnati Reds @ Los Angeles Dodgers

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The lean (0 units — logged, not staked)

Los Angeles Dodgers -1.5 run line · confidence 46.7% of 10,000 sims · edge -7.6 pts · 0u

Rhett Lowder (5.43 ERA, 1.49 WHIP) vs Yoshinobu Yamamoto (2.67 ERA, 0.90 WHIP).

Projected 3.9–5.2; sim total 9.1 against a 8.5 line; park factor 1.00.

Market at board time: moneyline +231 / -285 (consensus at board time) · total 8.5.

Circuit-breaker log (6 checks)
  • Rule 2 fired: market line -271 exceeds the night-game juice cap (-180): pivoted off the moneyline to LAD -1.5 (covers 46.7% of sims).
  • Rule 8 check passed: raw model 59.9% vs de-vigged market 71.0%: 11.2-point divergence within the 12-point cap (blended to 46.7% at MODEL_WEIGHT=0.5).
  • Edge gate: model edge vs offered price is -7.6 pts (minimum 2). No allocation; a good side at a bad price is a bad bet.
  • Rule 4 check passed: both starters carry full-season workloads.
  • Rule 6 check passed: away 14-day wOBA 0.363 vs league 0.317 (gap -0.047, threshold 0.035).
  • Rules 3/5 (velocity/spin telemetry): manual review required: Statcast feed not wired.

Open vs close

MarketBoard timeClose
Moneyline (away / home)+231 / -285+234 / -285
Total8.58 (o-110 / u-110)

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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