Editor's note: only the marquee game carries a Vegas line right now. The rest of the slate is listed without picks until our picks model ships. Live tiles for every game are at watch.uristocrat.com.
Tuesday is a full baseball night with a WNBA playoff race running alongside it. The Brewers come home at 77-48, the best record in the sport, after taking three of four from the Dodgers in Los Angeles. Seattle rolls into Milwaukee at 59-66 and needs a lot to go right in a hurry. Elsewhere the Yankees try to bury Baltimore, the Rays keep the best record in the AL East warm against Toronto, and Indiana visits Toronto's first-year WNBA team.
Marquee: Seattle Mariners at Milwaukee Brewers, best record in baseball at home (7:40 p.m. ET, MLB.TV)
Milwaukee is 77-48 and just went into Dodger Stadium and won three of four, which is the kind of week that stops being a hot streak and starts being a resume. Kyle Harrison (9-3, 3.47) takes the ball for the Brewers against Bryce Miller (4-6, 3.39). Miller's ERA is the better number and his record is the worse one, which tells you most of what you need to know about Seattle's season at 59-66. This is the opener of three at American Family Field, with Logan Gilbert and George Kirby lined up behind Miller, so the Mariners have their best arms pointed at the league's best team. Tonight is the game where they can steal one before Milwaukee's rotation settles in.
Vegas line: Brewers -145, Mariners +135, total 7.5 (o7.5 -114 / u7.5 -105), run line Brewers -1.5 (+149). Odds via ESPN.
Also tonight
- New York Yankees at Baltimore Orioles (6:35 p.m. ET, YES/MASN). New York is 69-55 and Baltimore is 61-64, and the gap has mostly been road results. The Yankees are 38-28 away from the Bronx. Camden Yards is where that number either holds up or stops mattering.
- Toronto Blue Jays at Tampa Bay Rays (6:40 p.m. ET, Sportsnet). Tampa is 75-49, second-best record in baseball, and has done it without much national attention. Toronto is 61-65 and playing out the string. The Rays are the reason the AL East race is already close to settled.
- San Diego Padres at New York Mets (7:10 p.m. ET, SNY). Robbie Ray against Zac Thornton at Citi Field. San Diego is 67-59 and holding a playoff spot. The Mets are 57-69 and are now the team other clubs schedule to fix themselves.
- Indiana Fever at Toronto Tempo (7:00 p.m. ET). Indiana is 23-12 and comfortably in the postseason picture. Toronto is 10-23 in its first WNBA season. Expansion years are brutal, but the Tempo get one of the league's biggest draws in their building.
- Atlanta Dream at Las Vegas Aces (9:00 p.m. ET). Las Vegas is 24-12 and playing for seeding. This is the late window and the best basketball on the slate.
- Los Angeles Dodgers at Colorado Rockies (8:40 p.m. ET). The Dodgers are 75-51 and just lost a home series to Milwaukee. Colorado is 50-75. Coors Field is the softest possible place to reset.
The thread tonight is that the two best teams in baseball, Milwaukee and Tampa Bay, are both at home and both underexposed. Neither is on a national broadcast. Both are on pace to be the story in October.
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