Sunday, April 8, 2012

Boston Red Sox at Detroit Tigers (-113)
Suggestion: Detroit Tigers (-113)

It's only two games into a very long season, but the Tigers are bringing the hot bats early. April is usually a tough month for batters, but we watched them blister the Sox Jon Lester and Josh Beckett in back to back games. Beckett was assaulted yesterday in a 10-0 loss giving up 7 runs and 5 home runs in 4 2/3 innings. While Lester lost 3-2, the final score fails to reflect that the Tigers left seventeen runners on base! Our pitching matchup here gives us a nice situation for Detroit's Max Scherzer who did poorly in one game last year against the Sox, but went 4-0 last April. Boston's Clay Buchholz is a slow starter in April, over the past three years, this is the only month in which he has a losing record, and gives up more hits than innings pitched. He does relatively poorly in the daytime as well, with a 5-7 record and a 1.56 WHIP (vs. 25-7, 1.17 at night). Against this Tigers lineup, with clear skies at Comerica Park, we'll watch the shelling continue and the Detroit roll over Buchholz on their way to a third straight victory. Invest in the Detroit Tigers (-113)