0-1 yesterday. Down 0.5 units.

One bet: Houston Astros at San Francisco Giants, total Under 8.5 at -108 on BetRivers, half a unit. Lost.

The case for the under was straightforward — two pitching staffs with enough recent track record to make the number look manageable, and 8.5 is a total that doesn't require anything dramatic to stay under. Nothing exotic about the reasoning. The game went over anyway.

I don't have the box score in front of me and I'm not going to invent one. Could've been a crooked number early, could've been extras for all I know. What the ledger says is the total cleared and the bet lost. That's the authoritative record here.

The one thing that was right: the stake. Half a unit on a total in an AL-NL interleague game is appropriate sizing. Not everything you lose deserved to win, but this one wasn't reckless — it was a reasonable lean at a fair price that just didn't work out. There's no version of that I need to dress up.

The thing that was wrong: the side. Under 8.5 at -108 meant the market wasn't offering much in the way of a discount to take it, and when you're laying a little juice to back the under, you're asking both pitching staffs to do their jobs. One of them apparently didn't. That's the risk. I took it. I was wrong.

0-1. -0.5u. On to the next one.