VSiN PrimeTime | August 3, 2026 | Hour 3

**SPEAKER_1** (0:01)
This is VSiN PrimeTime. Live from the Circus Sportsbook in downtown Las Vegas on VSiN, the sports betting network.

**Tim Murray** (0:13)
Coming up at 15 minutes, a gentleman who helped us out with our VSiN college football betting guide, Paul Stone. He will join us in 15 minutes, talk some best bets. He will also break down his top quarterbacks. We got a lot of baseball going on as we speak, as Bryce Harper hits a homer off of the Crappy Nats bullpen. It is now 6-3 Phillies.
Minus 1340 in the seventh inning the Nationals were.

**Matt Youmans** (0:41)
How about that? It would have been a nice dog to play live there with the Phillies.

**Tim Murray** (0:45)
What a coulda shoulda.

**Matt Youmans** (0:47)
Dang. Talk about Phillies and their firepower. I really, really like the move they made by getting Luis Arias from the Giants batting 324, put him at the top of that line up. I think it makes the Phillies formidable. Gives them a shot to take down the Dodgers.

**Tim Murray** (1:02)
Bryce Harper dead center, two run shot in the eighth. Now six, three Phillies. Phillies six unanswered since the seventh. Since they had a little stretch time at Citizens Bank Park, they stretched it out and they got six runs.

**Matt Youmans** (1:18)
It's interesting. We had Cody Decker on the first hour, former MLB player, and he talked about Mike Trout. He said, I really believe if Trout wanted to be traded, he would have been traded. I don't understand why Trout is so stubborn and sticking with the Angels.
It's a losing organization. I know there's something to be said for loyalty and playing for one team, but the Phillies, as Cody pointed out, we've talked about this many times. Phillies seem like to be a perfect fit for Trout.

**Tim Murray** (1:44)
He's from South Jersey.

**Matt Youmans** (1:46)
This Phillies team can make a run. The guys never want a playoff game.
Man, they should have made that work.

**Tim Murray** (1:54)
It is a bit odd when you think about it, but for whatever reason, he is sticking in Los Angeles as is Reid Detmers. But a couple of other moves, they did trade Joe Adele to the Cleveland Guardians. Guardians were busy. They got Joe Adele. They got Foster Griffin from the Washington Nationals. Right now, bottom of the fifth inning. Before we update you on our game of the night, top of the fourth right now at Wrigley, the Pirates still holding on to a 4-1 lead. The Brewers did get on the board with a RBI single just a moment ago as Joey Ortiz, a RBI single to make it 4-1.
That was just the second hit of the night for the Milwaukee Brewers. So, end of five in Milwaukee, Pirates up 4-1. So, some dogs were barking in the Pirates and the Nats, the Pirates holding on. The Cardinals still up 6-2, Matt. But the Yankees on the board, too little, too late. Two-run homer here in the bottom of the fifth. Austin Wells just went yard, the number nine hole hitter. I know a lot of Yankee fans were hoping for a catcher, and Adley Rutchman goes to the Boston Red Sox. Kind of a double whammy there for the Yankees. They don't get a catcher, and they're our tribal, and a team that is red hot right now does in the Boston Red Sox.

**Matt Youmans** (3:19)
Yeah, but you can understand why the Red Sox got Rutchman when you look at what Boston gave up in the deal. And that's one thing, I'm not going to knock Brian Casper for this because he said the Yankees were in conversations about the Baltimore catcher who went to Boston. And when you see what the Red Sox gave up, you can see why Baltimore did the deal with Boston.
And it's a good move for the Red Sox, but they gave up a lot.

**Tim Murray** (3:42)
It was a hefty haul, to say the least, for the Boston Red Sox. But they are red hot right now, coming off a sweep of the Dodgers. Dodgers might be looking at four losses in a row, as they were up three-nothing, had a three-run homer in the top of the first inning, Matt. But since then, it's been all Cubs. As Seiya Suzuki went yard in the bottom of the first, you had Alcantara, Kevin Alcantara coming up from the minors, hitting his first homer of the season. And Carson Kelly went yard as well. 6-3 right now at Wrigley Field. The Cubs with the lead, top of the fourth inning, one out in the top of the fourth, as Matthew Boyd's still on the hill for the Chicago Cubs. So 6-3 is the score right now, our VSiN PrimeTime game of the night. Another contending team at the Tampa Bay Rays. In action right now as they lead the Colorado Rockies. Let's update you on Yankee Stadium, Matt, as we got back-to-back homers.