MLB · Baseball · Aug 21, 2026 19:10 EDT

Boston Red SoxvsSan Francisco Giants

Red Sox–Giants Asian handicap shows 7.1% overpricing at Hard Rock, 24 hours before first pitch

What happened: Final score: 6–4. The edge paid: the flagged side won, returning +1.36 units on a flat 1-unit stake. The closing line moved against the signal (-1.3% CLV) — honest note: on this one, the market did not confirm the edge. For the record: the flagged price stayed live for about 25 hours after detection before the edge closed.

How it ended, price by price: Boston Red Sox vs San Francisco Giants — full match recap with closing odds

Offered at Hard Rock2.45Fair price2.29+7.1% above fair

This story covers a single signal — right now the member board has 662 live signals across 274 matches, found the same way.

The setup — the analysis as published at detection, written 24.5 hours before start and frozen for the record. The market it describes has since closed; the outcome is above.

At detection—24 hours ahead of Boston Red Sox vs San Francisco Giants (MLB)—the Asian handicap market has fractured across the book ecosystem. Hard Rock is quoting decimal odds of 2.45 on one side, a level that sits 7.1% above where independent sharp sources have anchored their consensus fair value. The dislocation is active; this reflects genuine real-time disagreement between a retail operator and the distributed judgment of sharp analysis.

That price departure measures 2.5 standard deviations from the consensus cluster—a separation that exceeds ordinary daily variance and signals material market disagreement on fair value.

The consensus fair line rests on 2 independent sharp sources, so the edge is not a single operator's outlier view but distributed professional assessment.

Baseball Asian handicap trades at comparable odds-levels have tracked well historically. Across 111 settled bets in this exact segment, cumulative ROI has reached +43.2% when mispricings of this magnitude have materialized.

Mispricings in this market segment do not typically persist through first pitch. Historical patterns suggest comparable edges have compressed toward consensus in roughly 8 hours from detection.

Historical, aggregate data on settled bets — not betting advice and not a guarantee. Markets adapt; edges fade; variance is real.

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Cincinnati Reds vs St. Louis Cardinals · MLB · Baseball — flagged side Under 8.5 @ 2.15
79 Omen Score

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Why this bet
+4.4%
Entry edge
+0.9%
Edge near close
+0.1%
Risk-adjusted edge
2.13
Fair price (no-vig)
2.25
Entry odds
Quality
80/100
Confidence
9
Sharp books
Prime signal
Class
Market state: Recreational consensus (no sharp anchor) · priced from: Market reference
Sizing
1.55%
Recommended stake
0.8%
Full Kelly (theoretical max)
Insights
Rec-book consensus only — no sharp anchor.High confidence + meaningful price gap — best risk-adjusted segment.
A sample of bookmakers on this betnear close — every price against the same no-vig fair
BookmakerOddsVs fair
Hard Rock2.15+0.9%
espn-bet2.10-1.4%
Hard Rock2.10-1.4%
1xBet2.08-2.3%
Matchbook2.08-2.3%
sport8882.05-3.8%
betparx1.96-7.9%
Bally Bet1.96-7.9%
BetRivers1.96-7.9%
PMU1.83-14.3%
Risk & profitability profile
Heavy favoriteFavoriteCoin flipUnderdogLongshot
2.15 odds → 47% implied win probability
47%
Fair win probability
+4.9% 🔒
Expected ROI (model)
+8.0% 🔒
Cohort realized ROI
The endingthe part only a settled signal can show
Detected Aug 17, 18:51 UTC at 2.25 (+4.4% edge) → fair price at close 2.13 → closing-line value +1.1%
✅ Settled: WON · +1.25 units
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Record settled · last updated Aug 22, 2026 02:03 UTC · How these numbers are made: methodology · the dataset — fair prices shown are margin-free. Spotted an error? Request a correction (include this page's URL).