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Each day of the WNBA season, our team of fantasy and betting experts breaks down every game on the slate, making note of everything from injuries and lineup changes to recent trends and more.
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Here's what to look for during today's slate:
What you need to know for Monday's games
There are two games on the slate for Monday, both with interesting storylines. Reigning WNBA MVP Breanna Stewart faces her old squad in the Seattle Storm, who are on the second half of a back-to-back after a hard-fought win over the Washington Mystics on Sunday.
In the other game, the Connecticut Sun face the Indiana Fever for the second time this season after limiting super rookie Caitlin Clark to 4-of-11 shooting from beyond the arc and blowing them out in the season opener. Will things be different with the game in Indiana instead of Connecticut?
Monday's Fantasy Stream Team
DiJonai Carrington (available in 41.4% of ESPN leagues) is one of the most added players in fantasy hoops, up from 6.4% rostered last week to over 58% today. Carrington should be universally rostered, because she's locked in as the starting point guard for the Sun and playing excellent ball. Through two games, she has averaged 18.5 PPG, 4.5 RPG, 2.0 APG, 1.5 SPG and 0.5 BPG in 34.0 MPG.
Jordan Horston (available in 70.8% of leagues) is coming off the bench in her sophomore campaign, but still playing enough minutes to make a solid contribution to fantasy hoops squads. Horston has at least seven rebounds in all three games so far and is averaging 6.3 PPG, 8.3 RPG, 2.7 SPG, 1.0 APG and 0.3 3PG in 24.7 MPG.
Dre's Bets for Monday
Breanna Stewart over 22.5 points (-120): Stewart is one of the elite scorers in the WNBA, coming off a season when she averaged 23.0 PPG on her way to winning her second MVP award. After only scoring eight points in the season opener, Stewart has dropped 55 points in her past two outings with at least 24 points in each game. The Storm could be without Nneka Ogwumike (GTD, ankle), their best frontcourt player, for the second straight game. Plus, Stewart played the first six seasons of her career with the Storm, and players tend to want to cook against their former teams.
Alyssa Thomas to record a triple-double (+375): Thomas has the potential to drop a triple-double pretty much every night. Over her past 28 games last season, Thomas dropped six triple-doubles with an additional 11 points-rebounds double-doubles and three more points-assists double-doubles. Through two games this season, Thomas already has one triple-double, in the opener against the same Fever she faces on Monday. At significant plus money, I see value in calling for Thomas to run that trip-doub back again Monday evening.
Connecticut Sun at Indiana Fever
7:00 p.m. ET, Gainbridge Fieldhouse, Indianapolis
Line: Sun -6.5
Money line: Sun (-260), Fever (+205)
Total: 163.5 points
BPI prediction:
Sun: 55.2% chance to win.
Projected margin of victory: 1.4 points
Injury report
Sun: No injuries reported
Fever: Damiris Dantas (Out)
Seattle Storm at New York Liberty
7:00 p.m. ET, Barclays Center, Brooklyn
Line: Liberty -11.5
Money line: Storm (+410), Liberty (-600)
Total: 167.5 points
BPI prediction:
Liberty: 74.3% chance to win.
Projected margin of victory: 7.3 points
Injury report
Storm: Nneka Ogwumike (Day-to-day), Nika Muhl (Day-to-day -- not injury related)
Liberty: No injuries reported
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ATLANTA -- — Manny Machado's two-run double in the eighth gave San Diego the lead and the Padres rallied from a five-run deficit to beat the Atlanta Braves 6-5 on Monday in the first game of a split doubleheader.
The Braves blew a 5-0 lead, wasting a strong start from Reynaldo López, in their fourth straight loss, their longest losing streak of the season. Machado's double off Joe Jiménez (1-1) drove in Jurickson Profar and Jake Cronenworth to cap a four-run inning. Cronenworth singled in two runs in the inning.
“It's been all year, we haven't really left the fight," Machado said. “This team, until that last out is made, we're going to continue to fight.”
Atlanta led 5-2 before San Diego's four-run eighth. The Padres had lost 117 consecutive games when trailing by three runs through seven innings since their most recent such comeback on May 29, 2021, at Houston.
“Oh my gosh, I love this team, I just love this team,” manager Mike Shildt said.
Shildt said Machado's go-ahead hit was “Manny doing Manny things.”
Marcell Ozuna and Matt Olson hit back-to-back homers in the third inning for Atlanta, which had 12 hits after being held to a combined two runs and 11 hits while losing the first two games of the series.
Ronald Acuña Jr. had three of the Braves' nine hits in four innings against Dylan Cease, who previously had not given up more than six hits in a game this season.
Olson and Michael Harris II had run-scoring singles in the first.
López allowed two runs in 6 1/3 innings in the matchup against Cease, his former Chicago White Sox teammate.
Jhony Brito (1-2) gave up one hit in a scoreless seventh for the Padres. Robert Suarez, helped by shortstop Ha-Seong Kim's diving catch of a popup hit by Harris in shallow center field, pitched a perfect ninth for his 13th save.
San Diego right-hander Randy Vásquez was scheduled to face Atlanta's Chris Sale in Monday night's second game.
TRAINER'S ROOM
Padres: Second baseman Xander Bogaerts suffered mild left shoulder inflammation and left the game in the third inning. Bogaerts was hurt while diving for a bases-loaded single by Acuña. Shildt said imaging test results were negative and more tests are scheduled. Tyler Wade replaced Bogaerts. ... Right-hander Logan Gillaspie, promoted from Triple-A Texas-El Paso to serve as the 27th man in the doubleheader, threw two scoreless innings.
Braves: Right-hander Daysbel Hernández worked out of a jam in a scoreless ninth after he was promoted from Triple-A Gwinnett to serve as the 27th man. ... Right-hander Jackson Stephens elected free agency after declining his outright assignment to Gwinnett. ... Catcher Travis d’Arnaud (head contusion) was expected to return for the second game. Catcher Sean Murphy (strained left oblique), who has been out since March 30, is set to begin his rehab assignment.
UP NEXT
Padres: Right-hander Joe Musgrove (3-3, 6.37) is expected to return from the 15-day injured list after recovering from right elbow inflammation when the Padres open a three-game series at Cincinnati on Tuesday night.
Braves: Right-hander Charlie Morton (3-1, 3.52) will face Right-hander Javier Assad (4-0, 1.49) when the Braves open a three-game series at Chicago on Tuesday night.
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