— Rams 28, Giants 6
Rams outgained the Giants 481-182.
Future Hall of Fame QB Stafford was 22-31/327 passing, with 4 TDs.
WR Adams caught eight passes for 95 yards, two TD’s.
LA had TD drives of 80-78-86-64 yards.
Giants lost QB Dart after the first series (knee injury).
Giants were 3-14 on third down (9-11 last week).
Rams are 11-6-1 ATS in last 18 games as a home favorite.
Under McVay, Rams are 30-17-2 ATS in games coming off a loss.
— Orioles 4, Blue Jays 3
Pete Alonso homered twice; he has 40 HR’s this year.
His second homer was a 2-run shot in 8th inning.
Toronto is 3.5 games behind Chicago for the last Wild Card slot.
— Tigers 9, Nationals 2
Ben Malgeri homered, had three RBI
River Ryan threw 3 shutout IP in his first start in two years.
Next year, Detroit’s ballpark will be known as Fifth Third Park.
— Giants 5, Twins 2
Giants led 4-0 in the second inning.
Drew Gilbert was 3-for-4, scored twice, had 3 RBI
Brett Harris had two hits, two RBI.
— Last week of baseball season, only three games Monday. Maybe they left this day open for any makeup games that needed to be played.
— Baseball needs to enforce the rule about the on deck hitter staying in the on deck circle; guys tend to creep closer to home plate, to get a better look at the pitches, but Sunday in Cincinnati, Cubs’ 3B Alex Bregman got drilled in the face with a checked swing/foul ball, now he probably won’t play in any more games this season.
Multiple fractures in his left cheekbone, his left eye is swollen, he’ll be lucky if the eye isn’t messed up going forward.
— Chicago White Sox have 64 home runs from rookies this year, the most of any team.
— Famous birthdays, September 22nd:
Larry Dierker, 80
Harold Carmichael, 77
Jeffrey Leonard, 71
Vince Coleman, 65
Bonnie Hunt, 65
Mark Guthrie, 61
Mike Matheny, 56
Alexei Ramirez, 45
Carlos Correa, 32
Jeremy Pena, 29
— NFL divisions against the spread in non-divisional games:
Home favorites are 9-7 ATS in non-divisional games.
Road favorites are 3-2 ATS in non-divisional games.
NFC West teams are 3-0-1 ATS in non-divisional games.
NFC South teams are 2-4 ATS in non-divisional games.
NFC North teams are 1-3 ATS in non-divisional games.
AFC East teams are 5-2-1 ATS in non-divisional games.
AFC North teams are 4-3 ATS in non-divisional games.
AAFC South teams are 4-5 ATS in non-divisional games.
— College conferences against the spread in non-conference games:
AAC 17-11 ATS, 15-6 as an underdog
ACC 9-12 ATS, 5-7 as a favorite
Big 18- 20-18 ATS, 14-12 as a home favorite.
Big X 12-14 ATS, 7-11 as a favorite.
C-USA 17-7 ATS, 13-5 as an underdog
MAC 6-19 ATS, 4-16 as a road underdog
Mountain West 8-8 ATS, 4-0 as a home favorite
Pac-8 9-9 ATS, 3-6 as a road underdog
SEC 15-12 ATS, 11-8 as a home favorite
Sun Belt 12-13 ATS, 9-9 as a road underdog
— MAC teams get paid a lot of $$$ to play Big 18 teams, but they don’t do very well on the field in these games.
So far this season, MAC teams are 1-10 SU against the Big 18 (Mass upset Rutgers)
MAC teams are 2-8-1 ATS against the Big 18
— Atlanta Falcons announced that Michael Penix Jr will start at QB Thursday night at Green Bay. Falcons lost their first two games 20-13/34-3, with 3rd stringer Cooper Rush playing QB.
— Kansas City Chiefs have won their last eight overtime games.
