VSiN Primetime | August 17, 2026 | Hour 4

**SPEAKER_1** (0:04)
Live from the Circus Sportsbook in downtown Las Vegas on VSiN, the SportsBetting Network.

**Tim Murray** (0:12)
Alongside Matt Youmans, I'm Tim Murray. It is VSiN Primetime, Dustin Swedelson coming up in an hour, and we always hit on the VSiN Pro page plays of our game of the night, Matt. And I forgot to mention that our good friend and colleague, Dustin Swedelson, when that error occurred in the bottom of the fifth inning, he had White Sox first five money lines. So that was a 3-2 lead. That became a 4-3 loser for Dustin Swedelson.

**Matt Youmans** (0:43)
At plus 130, he had on the White Sox.
That was a tough beat to take there. Defensive breakdown by the White Sox, and the Cubs will take the lead into the late innings at Wrigley tonight. Jensen Lewis played this under the total of 8.5. That's going to be a close call.

**Tim Murray** (0:58)
That's going to be a sweat right now. 4-3 is the score right now as they head into the 7th inning. Shota Imanaga tonight on the Hill. Six innings, only gave up two hits. Struck out 10 for Shota Imanaga. Gave up a homer, which we talked about, or you talked about, his really lone blemish, a Gritchick, three-run homer in the top of the fourth inning. But all in all, pretty strong performance from Shota Imanaga tonight. Luis Castillo, he allowed four runs, three of them earned on eight hits. He exited after four and two-thirds. So top of the seventh inning, Matt, four to three lead for the Chicago Cubs, our VSiN Primetime game of the night. We forgot to update the Dodgers. They ran into a bit of trouble in the bottom of the third. Bases loaded, was it no outs or one out?

**Matt Youmans** (1:43)
Bases loaded with no outs, and Blake Snow did get out of it, and he got into some more trouble the next inning. Rockies had a couple of runners on, but Snow gets out of it again, just got to pop out, so it's still five-one Dodgers.

**Tim Murray** (1:55)
You have Kansas City Royals on a parlay tonight. The Royals leading seven to four in the top of the eighth inning against the West Sacramento A's. Michael Wacha, fine, five innings, four runs, six hits, three strikeouts. Gave up three homers tonight.

**Matt Youmans** (2:13)
Yeah, he was not very good tonight. Actually, Wacha has been really good recently, under the radar good, and tonight not so hot, but he gets a lot of run support, and the Royals still have a good lead there.

**Tim Murray** (2:23)
So the White Sox have a lead in the division of five and a half games. The Tigers trying to catch them, and they are currently up eight five on the Pittsburgh Pyres, that one top of the eighth inning. So Matt, we've been talking a lot of college football as we are ones to do. By the way, two weeks, or excuse me, a week from Wednesday, Matt and I will be getting ready for the season. We'll have a special edition of VSiN Primetime live from Honolulu. Matt, getting ready for some Week Zero football. We're going to do a full four hour show, all college football, a college football preview show. And looking forward to that nine days from now out in Honolulu, brought to you by our friends at Rainbow Authentics.
And then we're going to do our Week Zero preview show, VSiN College Football Betting Podcast, also in Honolulu. We'll fly back home. You'll work Friday, I'll work Saturday. And then we'll go back out to the Bay area and check out Stanford in Hawaii, live and in person.

**Matt Youmans** (3:22)
That's going to be great. College Football's here next week. And it's going to be a trip to Honolulu and a trip to Palo Alto. Couldn't ask for more. So if I get this straight, Tim, next Tuesday, we're going to do the show here next Monday night.

**Tim Murray** (3:33)
Yep.

**Matt Youmans** (3:34)
We jump on the red eye on Hawaiian Airlines. We get in.

**Tim Murray** (3:38)
By the way, Shohei Otani just went, not Shohei Imanaga.

**Matt Youmans** (3:41)
Otani.

**Tim Murray** (3:42)
Otani just went yard.

**Matt Youmans** (3:44)
Six one Dodgers.

**Tim Murray** (3:45)
Six one Dodgers.

**Matt Youmans** (3:46)
28 homers now for Otani. So we get in about six in the morning, five or six in the morning in Honolulu. We're going to the early morning practice.

**Tim Murray** (3:54)
Yep.

**Matt Youmans** (3:54)
Timmy Chang's having an early morning practice on the UH Manoa campus. So we'll be out there at practice next Tuesday morning.

**Tim Murray** (4:01)