Francona opts for opener against Guardians. Brent Suter will start for Reds
Left-hander Brent Suter will start the game followed by Chase Petty, the originally scheduled starter.
'Suter has some rest,' manager Terry Francona said. 'He's the natural guy for that. If he gets rolling, he could actually pitch a couple (innings). We're trying to balance winning and helping Petty.'
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'No one should be exploiting the success and failures of children playing the game they love for their own personal gain.' BetOnline and Bovada are among the offshore sites offering daily odds on LLWS matchups. They are both based outside the United States and are both illegal to use in the U.S. and not subject to its laws. BetOnline is located in Panama and has offered sports betting and gambling since 1991. Bovada, a Costa Rica-based company, joined the scene in 2011. BetOnline's brand manager Dave Mason said in a post on X that BetOnline is making the moneylines itself and that it 'ain't easy.' He has posted odds on X throughout the tournament. Jon Solomon, the community impact director of Project Play, an initiative of the Aspen Institute's Sports and Society program, said there are negative effects on young players whose games are the subject of betting. Such wagering, he says, is fairly common. In 2018, Project Play surveyed Mobile County, Alabama, and found that '26% of surveyed youth said they had played in a game where adults bet money on who won or the final score,' according to its State of Play report. The report said that tackle football, basketball and baseball were more likely to be gambled on by adults according to the children surveyed. 'This is just, you know, bets that usually sort of happen, maybe at the field, or in the gym,' Solomon said in a phone interview. 'Kids are already facing a lot of pressure in youth sports these days. It is a highly commercialized industry with a lot of people already making a lot of money.' When gambling is involved in the actual performance of the game, Solomon believes the pressure can be even higher. The report showed that gambling 'was witnessed by both boys (33%) and girls (19%).' 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