Live Bet Sunday | August 23, 2026 | Hour 2

**Femi Abebefe** (0:00)
This is Live Bet Sunday on VSiN, the Sports Betting Network.
Welcome back. It is hour number two of Live Bet Sunday here on VSiN, the Sports Betting Network. Femi Abebefe, Joe Ceraulo, hanging with you guys here on this Sunday. As always, you can watch us, vsin.com/watch the VSiN Watch app, and you can listen to us live on Sirius XM channel 158 Also, if you happen to miss a segment or so, check us out, the VSiN Best Bets Podcast. You can go out there and listen to us on demand, and listen to us wherever you want, whether in your car, at the gym, working out, whatever you're doing, you can be taking in all the fun that is Live Bet Sunday. We still have two hours to go here on this program, and we have a handful of baseball games set to get underway here in this four o'clock hour. Joe, let's not waste any more time because I know you want to get to something and we will get to it. But let's pay off our business first. Let's give out some bets because I do have a bet in a four o'clock game that's about to get underway, but I will give you the lead off spot. You'll get first tee. What do you like on the West Coast card of major league baseball?

**Joe Ceraulo** (1:08)
You're a gem, Femi, a gentleman and a scholar, some would say, give me first look here.

**Femi Abebefe** (1:12)
I try.

**Joe Ceraulo** (1:13)
How about we go over in Petco Park? Twins, Padres saw some offensive fireworks yesterday. Huge comeback from San Diego down there. And over the last two weeks, this is a Padres team, ranks seventh in runs per game, nearly five of them, 4.92 to be exact. They're nine and three in those two weeks. And how about a couple of cats making up for lost time? Fernando Tatis in the month of August, Femi's white whale. Tatis seven home runs in the month of August, an OPS over a thousand, Jackson Merrill right behind him with five home runs and an OPS of nearly 900 this month. You got two starters on the mound who I don't trust with a damn. Walker Bueller has had a decent August, but back in July, the ERA was over nine. Bailey Ober in his last five starts has an ERA up near six. I think these two teams could tee off on a getaway day. Give me the over eight and a half in San Diego. And Femi, for our viewers, they saw what my other bet is. Our listeners on the audio platforms have not yet. So I will make them wait. That's called a tease in this industry. I'll defer to you for your next bet.

**Femi Abebefe** (2:18)
The Fernando Tatis thing, apparently I just need to stop betting him to hit home runs. And that's how he was going to get out of the slump. So Tatis can thank me out there and solely me for why he has been hitting the ball well and has once again learned how to play baseball. But that's all I'll say about that because I mean, my goodness.

**Joe Ceraulo** (2:35)
Does that make you his slump buster?

**Femi Abebefe** (2:38)
Stop it.

**Joe Ceraulo** (2:41)
First time in your life you've been called a slump buster.

**Femi Abebefe** (2:45)
I tell you what, man, I know I'll tell the story off the year because it involves to coming in hot to coming in. It involves people who like work here at VSiN. So I'm like, I'm not going to out them.
So I'll just I'll just tell this off the year. But anyways, my one baseball bet.

**Joe Ceraulo** (3:03)
Buster at the office.

**Femi Abebefe** (3:05)
No, no, no, it's not get off my one baseball bet. Today is the Cincinnati Reds first five in the money line. Plus 110 against the Arizona Diamondbacks. I don't know what's going on with the Diamondbacks. Could tell Martez at like the talking stick resort out there in Phoenix. Hey, doing God knows what he's not with the team. I don't know what's happening there, but it has nothing to do with that. I just like the spot here for Cincinnati. And I also like the aspect of fading Mitch Brad, who I think is worse than his numbers even suggest like his ERA four point one seven. Okay, you know, average or so whatever the FIP five point three seven. This to me is a fraud with a capital left. So I'm going to take Cincinnati on the road at plus money all day long and twice on Sunday, which happens to be today.