Live Bet Saturday | August 29, 2026 | Hour 5

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**Will Hill** (1:01)
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**Brad Taylor** (1:15)
Top of the hour here in beautiful downtown Las Vegas. As we are broadcasting live from the Circa Resort and Casino, I am Brad Taylor.
And you can follow me on Twitter at BottomLineLex, along with, as always, our friend in need when it comes to this, Will Hill. Follow him, at not the Will Hill, too easy in that the, as we are getting ready for some college football to start, and some Major League Baseball, because coming up right now, he is the guy who is in charge of the Yankees Unloaded YouTube Podcast. You can find him on Twitter at GarySheffieldJR. He is Gary Sheffield Jr. Gary, nice to meet you, sir, and thanks for joining us today. How are you?

**Gary Sheffield Jr.** (1:58)
I'm good, man.
I was listening to the show. You were talking about PCA and Otani. I don't know if you guys saw it, but Dave Roberts scratched that start tomorrow for Otani. So that's very interesting. That might look even better.

**Brad Taylor** (2:13)
That might have another something to do with the fact that you've got to lay more than minus 1,100 now to get PCA is the MVP.
But we do have one game going on tonight. Your Yankees, game number 2 against the Red Sox tonight. Max Fried is going for the Yankees here. We were talking about this during the break. Max Fried, how long is he going to go tonight? Because at DraftKings right now, number of outs, over under outs recorded tonight for Max Fried, 13.5 is the total. There's some juice to the under as well. So the experts are telling us, Max Fried's not going 5 innings tonight, Gary, your thoughts on that number?

**Gary Sheffield Jr.** (2:52)
The experts are experts for a reason, but when I look at this and I watched that game one, it was atrocious. I hope you missed it, but we had low leverage guys out there. You saw a lot of Yarborough, you saw multi-inning, and it really, when you listen to Aaron Boone this morning, he said, well, who's going to pitch and who's going to get these outs out of the bullpen for the second half of these games? He said, I don't know.
So it tells me that one of those games we're getting high leverage guys, the other, we're just getting the others, right? We're getting the scraps. This game too, I feel like Aaron Boone's gonna make this as a must-win game, and it seems like the experts are going out there and gambling that Aaron Boone is gonna come out and go to his bullpen early, and frankly, I take the over there.

**Will Hill** (3:40)
What chance would you give the Yankees catching the raise when you're trying to make up ground? And you know, it sounds good to say, hey, we'll make up a couple of games here or there. But when you start going backwards, Gary, this late in the season and you're trying to make up ground to begin with, it's tough. You think ultimately this is Tampa that wins the division. I know they play four times in September, but how do you handicap this AL East race, which I guess Boston probably thinks they're a part of as well.

**Gary Sheffield Jr.** (4:02)
They should think they're a part of it. And when you look at the raise, you're gonna need some help. It's not just about the Yankees here. It's also about that series against Tampa at home. You're gonna have to sweep them.