Ready Set Bet | August 23, 2026 | Hour 3

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**Matt Brown** (0:17)
At number three, Ready Set Bet here on VSiN, the SportsBetting Network. Talk about that golf tournament that's going on and how the five-stroke lead for Wyndham Clark. Well, early on here, trying to make it at least a little bit interesting is Gary Woodland, one under through two. Colin Morikawa, two under through two. So they are both at 12 now to join Cantlay and Rory McIlroy is five strokes back, trying very hard to come run down Wyndham Clark. Chris Goddard, up on the other hand, Bogie's one. So he does not head in the right direction to start this off. Trying to have a little bit of drama here with this one. Trying, but you see Wyndham goes 64, 64, 65 Seems like he has got this course figured out. Got something that he likes about this one for sure. But we'll keep you updated. You know, we'll see. Maybe there's something, maybe there's something that could happen to make this home stretch. The last three holes are at least somewhat interesting. There is risk reward type stuff that goes on. So if it is down to like a stroke or two, maybe there could be some drama there as we get going. We also have some runs happening over in Major League Baseball, at least early on here. These games that we got going, we said that there was already a run there for the Cardinals. Is there up one nothing on the Phillies? We're now to the bottom of the second there in now. Nothing in the Rays and Orioles yet. Nothing in the Jays and Yankees yet. As we mentioned, the Yankees get back Cody Bellinger today as he ends up hitting, just sliding right back into the clean up spot for them.
They make the trade there at the deadline for, for, you know, trying to put someone in the center of that lineup. And you're looking here and you're like, man, got to be a good thing. You would think anyway, got to be a good thing to get Ramos out of, to get Ramos out of San Francisco, right? Like, you're just thinking like, this has got to be, you know, Hewlett Ramos hitting in the worst hitting park basically in all of baseball, even though it's not a left-hander, you want to be a left-hander at the Yankee Stadium. Still getting him out of there. It's got to be great for him. He's been horrific since he's been with them. So they were expecting to get at least a little bit of a bump with him in the lineup. He's done nothing at all. So getting Bellinger back in there is massive for this Yankees team. We did get a run there for the Marlins. So the Marlins get one across early on here against the the Nats. Herberto Hernandez doubles in Ramirez there in that one in the first inning. So one nothing in favor of the Marlins over the Nats. Those are the only ones that are going. We do have one that's going to start here in about 10 minutes or so, and that is the Royals and the Tigers. This is Andrew Sears going up against Daniel Lynch. He mentioned this Royals team out of nowhere just decided to like went, rattle off seven in a row, decide to be a good team when it doesn't matter. Spoiling though, the Tigers and everything that they were trying to put together with that. It's a pass for me on this. Lynch has regression symbols, signs just like all over him. Looks like he should be bad here in this one. In about 10 minutes, we get the White Sox and the Mets, and I'm a little bit different here than Colby, and Colby was on a home run prop here in this one. I played the Mets going up against the White Sox, and yes, it is my White Sox. I love the White Sox. But Fetty is a guy that I like to fade pretty much as much as I can when the price is fair. And also Nolan McLean kind of has started to figure it. I went on that pretty bad, went on that pretty bad run there for a little bit. And I think there was a deal where he was tinkering too much. He was trying too much, started walking way more guys than he had in the past. I think it was one of those things where he was trying to nibble and just wasn't working. He started pounding his own a little bit more now. And so I do like what McLean brings to the table against this White Sox team that for whatever reason the offense has fallen off over the last week, week to 10 days for them. And then you have Fetty on the hill for the White Sox who is, doesn't strike anybody out, walks too many people. See, that's the difference between McLean and a guy like Fetty. McLean walks too many people, but he also has a high strikeout rate. 27.49% K rate for Nolan McLean despite the fact that he's got a 10% walker. That can help out. You put a guy on for free if you can actually get a punch out afterwards. But when you have a 16% K rate to go along with the 10% walk rate, then that's absolutely horrific. That's kind of where Fetty sits right now. So, hot hitting Mets. Wait until it doesn't matter for them to like put things together. And that's exactly what they're doing right now. So, I did take the Mets there in that one. Also, even here in about, let's call it six, seven minutes, we get the A's on the road at the Astros, Jack Perkins, Christian Javier. Going in this one, neither one of these dudes is any good. We talked about this one with Greg a little bit.