Live Bet Sunday | August 9, 2026 | Hour 7

**Scott Seidenberg** (0:00)
This is Live Bet Sunday on VSiN, The Sports Betting Network.
Back here on Live Bet Sunday, I'm Scott Seidenberg with you on VSiN, The Sports Betting Network, always on Twitter, at Scott's on air and at VSiN Live. Going to take me a little bit of time to get over the betting FOMO of not betting Jackson Merrill to hit a home run. It was given out, I gave it out right here on the show. Prior to the game, we were previewing Sunday Night Baseball between the Padres and the Astros, and I got a tweet at Scott's on air. You guys can hit me up. One of our viewers, Jim, asked for a home run bet. He said, you got a home run pick tonight. I said either Jackson Merrill or Taylor Tramiel. Those are the two players that I had projected as the most likely home run hitters. Taylor Tramiel was part of our same game parlay. He did get a single in his first at bat, and then Jackson Merrill homered. Plus $4.94, I believe it was, on Jackson Merrill. Scola tweeting at me, thank you for Merrill, sir. Scola, you're welcome. Congratulations. Cash in that bet. Jim, I hope you played that as well. So Jackson Merrill, homers, the Astros have a two to one lead here in the top of the third inning against the Padres. Your live betting line right now up on DraftKings, Astros minus 165 We did bet them before the game at plus 105, or the best line available was plus 107, if you shopped around. We got it at plus 103, excuse me, but the best line available was about plus 107 plus 108, depending on when you bet it. Total is now nine and a half. This game closed with a total of nine. Still alive for our prop parlay, our same game parlay, which if you're just tuning in, we did have a little bit of fun, a little sprinkle with the same game parlay before the game, where we did a 10 to 1 odds. Priced that on DraftKings, different books, you could have got maybe a little bit of a higher payout. But we did Astros on the money line with Christian Javier, the Astros starting pitcher, to go under two and a half earned runs allowed. He has obviously allowed one earned run with that Jackson Merrill solo home run. And then we did three players to go over one and a half hits plus ones plus RBIs. One of those players has already come through for us in Taylor Tramell as he got a single and then scored on Dalton Varshow's two run home run. So he has a hit and he has a run scored. We've already cashed that leg. Now the other two players we have are Jeremy Pena and Christian Walker. Both of them went, they got out in their first at bats. Jeremy Pena flew out, Walker grounded out. So both of them are for 1 Right now, Jeremy Pena is about to bat. So we will take a look to see if we can cash a Jeremy Pena bet here for our same game parlay. See if that will come through for us here. So one out here in the top of the third inning. Again, the Astros lead the Padres 2-2-1. So let's see if we can, now two outs, I guess, as Pena, did he get out?
Lamont Wade grounded out. Jeremy Pena grounds out the shortstop. So first pitch swinging for Jeremy Pena, ground out the shortstop. Now more sweat gets, it hurts now because you think, what does he get? Four at bats over the course of a game. He is already 0-2. First pitch swinging, ground out to short. So we need a little bit of a help. We need a little bit help in the Jeremy Pena leg over the next two at bats for the remainder of this game. A lot of baseball left to be played. A lot of baseball left to be played. That is, of course, your Sunday night game in progress right now. Finals from earlier today in Major League Baseball was the National 7-1 over the Cincinnati Reds. The A's beat the Red Sox 4-3. How crazy is the A's beating the Red Sox today? On any given day, anybody can beat anybody. We know that, right? Momentum is only as good as your next day's starting pitcher. But how rare was this result from both sides? Okay, as Bob Nightingale of USA Today tweeted out earlier today, the Boston Red Sox were the hottest team in Major League Baseball. Still are, right? They won 27 of 30 games. They were 27-3. Prior to today, the Red Sox had not lost back-to-back games since June 29th and July 1st.