SD 7, NYM 1

Not a promising Day 1 for BPP, net -- and definitely not a promising day for the Mets. We can get into it in the comments if you need the therapy, but the shelling of Maxie was not a surprise. I hope my prediction that, if they lose this game, they're done is wrong, but...

That said, some pickers did well from the nightcap:

Alonso 1
Escobar 6
McNeil 1

Machado 4

At the end of the first day of play, here's how it looks at the top:

8 Bauer Shock
7 O'Reilly and Crase 2
6 Winklepleck 1

5 Drake and Crase 1
4 Reid 2

3 Fell 1 and Bingham 2
2 Cayenne 2, SDB 1, and Yuhan 2

1 Los Cameron, Bauer Shock, JArbour, SDB 2, Brady, DGB, Dunn, Fell 2, Quinn, Reid 1, Rogge, Shotwell 2, and Stempel

All other slates are all-bye picks and won't be heard from 'til next week.

Tomorrow, it's already all elimination games starting at noon with Rays/Guardians (not that the ESPN intern got the memo about the name change...sigh). Then it's Mariners/Jays at 4, SD/Metsies at 7:30, and Phils/Cards at 8:30.

Good luck, everyone -- and don't forget to check my math!