Editor's note: only the marquee game carries a line right now, pulled from a real sportsbook page. The rest of the slate runs pick-free until our model ships. Live scores and every game tile are at watch.uristocrat.com.
Sunday is a daytime slate. The two hottest teams in the WNBA meet at 1pm ET on ABC, then fifteen MLB games run more or less straight through until the Red Sox and Dodgers close it out on NBC. If you only have one screen, start in Minneapolis.
Marquee: Indiana Fever at Minnesota Lynx, two teams nobody wants to play right now (1:00pm ET, ABC)
Minnesota is 24-6 and has won nine straight. They have not lost since July 6. Indiana is 19-10, has won five in a row, and just put 112 on Portland on Friday behind a Caitlin Clark triple-double: 26 points, 10 assists, 10 rebounds. Clark is on the injury report with a back issue but the Fever list her as probable, and Aliyah Boston is probable too, per the team's own game preview. Damiris Dantas is out. The interesting part is what the market did with all that. Minnesota opened at -6.5 and got bet down to -4.5, which is a real move for a home team riding a nine-game streak against a team it should be favored against comfortably. Somebody likes the road side. This is also the only game today on broadcast ABC, so it is the one your group chat will actually be watching.
Vegas line: Lynx -4.5 (-118), total 192.5, moneyline MIN -205 / IND +170. Source: ESPN WNBA odds, Sunday morning.
Also today
- Boston Red Sox at Los Angeles Dodgers (7:20pm ET, NBC and Peacock). The national nightcap. Boston is 59-51, the Dodgers are 69-42 and have the best record in the National League. Emmet Sheehan goes for Los Angeles against Boston's Jake Bennett. Last game of the day and the only one still going after 10pm ET on the East Coast.
- New York Yankees at Chicago Cubs (2:20pm ET). Best matchup on the board by records: 62-49 against 63-48. Gerrit Cole starts for New York, Colin Rea for Chicago. A one-game separation in early August between two teams that will see each other again in October if things hold.
- Chicago White Sox at Tampa Bay Rays (1:40pm ET). Tampa is 65-45 and the White Sox are 58-52, which is not a sentence anyone wrote two years ago. Griffin Jax against Anthony Kay. The Rays are the second-best team in the American League by record and get almost no national airtime for it.
- Milwaukee Brewers at Los Angeles Angels (3:15pm ET, Peacock). Milwaukee is 69-41, the best record in baseball, and Jacob Misiorowski is on the mound against a 42-69 Angels team. This is the mismatch of the day and also the most fun pitcher to watch on the slate.
- Connecticut Sun at Dallas Wings (7:00pm ET, ESPN). Dallas is 18-11 and in the playoff race. Connecticut is 7-22 and playing out the string. Worth it for the Wings, who have been one of the better watches in the league this summer.
- Toronto Tempo at Golden State Valkyries (8:30pm ET). The two most recent expansion teams, and one of them is 19-9. Golden State has turned Chase Center into a real home floor in year two. Toronto is 10-18 in its first season.
The thread today is that the best teams are all playing at once and mostly not on national TV. Milwaukee at 69-41, the Dodgers at 69-42, Tampa at 65-45, Minnesota at 24-6, and only two of those four are on a broadcast network. Every tile above has live scores and where-to-watch info at watch.uristocrat.com.
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