HOU 4, SEA 2

A fun game to watch -- which is nice, since it's today's only match, as it turns out -- and a nice range of points, but Seattle goes down 2-0 despite not looking like that's what's happening, if that makes sense.

And the team illustrates the giveth/taketh away knife's edge the PP always lives on: Seattle pickers look great now, but will those points hold if the Mariners get eliminated Saturday?

"Could Altuve start hitting and throw a rope down this well?" is another question I have, but no answers 'til the weekend. For now, the points:

Alvarez 4
Tucker 4

Crawford 2
Haniger 2
Rodriguez 2
Santana 2

And here's the money, with the full standings once more after the jump since the CLE/NYY game got postponed entirely...

32 Crase
29 Yuhan 1
25 Winklepleck 1

23 The Chavez Ravine 3
22 Reid 2

21 O'Reilly
20 Reid 1 and Rogge

19 Drake
18 Fell 2, Cayenne 2, and Cameron 1
17 Brady
16 Sung and Bauer Shock

15 SDB 2
14 Yuhan 2 and Cayenne 1
13 Bingham 2

12 DGB
11 JArbour and Cameron 2
10 Bingham 1 and Fell 1

9 Quinn
8 SDB 1, Dunn, and Tormey
7 MArbour 2

5 Stempel
4 Shotwell 2

This is a particularly striking Sliding Doors-ing of what you'd expect to see from the slates on offer, I'd say. The top-ranked pickers have gone single-team, said teams got out of the play-in round in one piece by whatever means, and/or there's an avant-garde pick that's scorching rn (hello Joe, whaddya know)...nothing unusual there. It's the BOTTOM half whose hell is fresh -- perfectly good, still-complete slates with no-duh picks like Altuve and Judge, or whose Atlanta picks went cold without the Mets to kick around or something.

That said, we'll have a whole new narrative in here by this time tomorrow, with the Guardians/Yankees Game 2 starting at 1 ET; then the National League steps back in at 4:40 with ATL/PHI, and the west-coast rematch at 8:40. 

If my math looks weird beyond the existing weirdness, let me know; otherwise, see you back here tomorrow afternoon!