MLB Best Bets: Top home run props for Sunday 5/31/26
Dan Johnson analyzes his three favorite home run props across all of today's loaded MLB slate.
May 31, 2026
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Dan Johnson analyzes his three favorite home run props across all of today's loaded MLB slate.
May 31, 2026
UPDATE: Rafaela was scratched due to lower back tightness. It looks like he’s, at worst, only day-to-day. Manager Chad Tracy expects him to be in the lineup following tomorrow’s off day. Boston Red Sox center fielder Ceddanne Rafaela was scratched from Sunday’s lineup ahead of the series finale against the Cleveland Guardians at Progressive Field. […]
May 31, 2026
Philadelphia returns to Dodger Stadium with October still close enough to sting. Los Angeles ended the Phillies’ 2025 season here, then spent this May looking every bit like a club prepared to do the same thing again. The Dodgers are 36-20 after winning five straight and 12 of 14, closing their Colorado sweep with Shohei […]
May 29, 2026
The Diamondbacks arrive in Seattle carrying one of the sharper late-May runs in baseball. Arizona enters 31-24, second in the NL West, after winning five straight and 10 of 11. The Diamondbacks swept San Francisco on the road after taking three of four from Colorado, turning a middling start into a genuine divisional push. Seattle […]
May 29, 2026
Toronto arrives at Camden Yards with a small opening and an exhausted margin for error. The Blue Jays are 28-29 after Thursday’s 2-1 win, their seventh victory in nine games. Baltimore is 26-31, still trying to carry forward a three-game sweep of Tampa Bay. The Orioles scored 26 runs in that series, then wasted eight […]
May 29, 2026
The Washington Nationals’ return home arrives with the strange electricity of a young club discovering that its future might already be useful. Washington is 29-28 after a 4-2 trip through Atlanta and Cleveland, with series wins over two clubs carrying October expectations, while San Diego arrives at 31-24 after a four-game losing streak and its […]
May 29, 2026
Dan Johnson shares his top player prop bets for today's MLB slate, including home run, HRRs, and more.
May 29, 2026
Dan Johnson analyzes his three favorite home run props across all of today's loaded MLB slate.
May 29, 2026
There is something fitting about Backrooms (the movie) arriving in theaters as one more artifact unearthed from the Backrooms (the world). The idea began with a stray image of an empty yellow room and an anonymous warning about falling out of reality. It accumulated through creepypasta, wikis, video games, Discord excavation and Kane Parsons’ astonishing […]
May 29, 2026
Euphoria goes long for its finale. Episode 8, “In God We Trust,” airs Sunday, May 31 at 9:00 p.m. ET/PT on HBO and Max, and the episode reportedly runs 93 minutes—basically a movie-length ending for a season that has already blown past its old high-school shape. HBO has framed it as the Season 3 finale, […]
May 28, 2026
The Astros and Rangers arrive at Thursday’s finale with the same kind of uneven record, but the series has started to tilt toward Houston’s hottest bat and Texas’ thinning lineup. The Astros are 25-32, the Rangers are 25-30, and Houston has taken two of the first three in Arlington while scoring 20 runs across the […]
May 28, 2026