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Boston Red Sox<\/a> (13-21, fifth in the AL East) vs. Detroit Tigers<\/a> (18-17, second in the AL Central)<\/p>\n

Detroit; Monday, 6:40 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

PITCHING PROBABLES: Red Sox: Payton Tolle<\/a> (0-1, 3.37 ERA, 1.03 WHIP, 15 strikeouts); Tigers: Tarik Skubal<\/a> (3-2, 2.70 ERA, 0.95 WHIP, 45 strikeouts)<\/p>\n

LINE: Tigers -236, Red Sox +193; over\/under is 7 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The Detroit Tigers open a three-game series at home against the Boston Red Sox on Monday.<\/p>\n

Detroit is 18-17 overall and 12-3 at home. The Tigers have a 13-5 record in games when they scored five or more runs.<\/p>\n

Boston is 7-11 on the road and 13-21 overall. Red Sox pitchers have a collective 4.24 ERA, which ranks seventh in the AL.<\/p>\n

The teams meet Monday for the fifth time this season. The season series is tied 2-2.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Kevin McGonigle<\/a> has two home runs, 19 walks and 16 RBIs while hitting .315 for the Tigers. Riley Greene<\/a> is 12 for 37 with three home runs and five RBIs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

Wilyer Abreu<\/a> has four home runs, 16 walks and 14 RBIs while hitting .298 for the Red Sox. Willson Contreras<\/a> is 12 for 38 with two doubles, three home runs and nine RBIs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Tigers: 5-5, .262 batting average, 4.28 ERA, outscored opponents by six runs<\/p>\n

Red Sox: 4-6, .255 batting average, 3.89 ERA, outscored opponents by one run<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Tigers: Gleyber Torres: day-to-day (side), Will Vest: 15-Day IL (forearm), Zach McKinstry: 10-Day IL (hip\/abdominal), Javier Baez<\/a>: 10-Day IL (ankle), Casey Mize: 15-Day IL (groin), Justin Verlander<\/a>: 15-Day IL (hip), Connor Seabold: 15-Day IL (ankle), Bailey Horn<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Trey Sweeney: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Reese Olson<\/a>: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Parker Meadows: 60-Day IL (head\/arm), Jackson Jobe<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Troy Melton<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Beau Brieske<\/a>: 60-Day IL (groin)<\/p>\n

Red Sox: Ranger Suarez: day-to-day (hamstring), Justin Slaten<\/a>: 15-Day IL (oblique), Garrett Crochet: 15-Day IL (shoulder), Patrick Sandoval: 15-Day IL (elbow), Kutter Crawford: 15-Day IL (wrist), Triston Casas<\/a>: 60-Day IL (knee), Sonny Gray<\/a>: 15-Day IL (leg), Johan Oviedo<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Romy Gonzalez<\/a>: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Tanner Houck: 60-Day IL (elbow)<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Boston Red Sox (13-21, fifth in the AL East) vs. Detroit Tigers (18-17, second in the AL Central)…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":284951,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2386],"tags":[29375,5,2259,48,147,53,2583,75686,713,1329,5416,1093,388,4140,19,4,3973,768,624,1083,1587,382,594,1946,33608,409,606],"class_list":{"0":"post-689988","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-detroit-tigers","8":"tag-bailey-horn","9":"tag-baseball","10":"tag-beau-brieske","11":"tag-boston-red-sox","12":"tag-detroit","13":"tag-detroit-tigers","14":"tag-detroittigers","15":"tag-event_preview","16":"tag-jackson-jobe","17":"tag-javier-baez","18":"tag-johan-oviedo","19":"tag-justin-slaten","20":"tag-justin-verlander","21":"tag-kevin-mcgonigle","22":"tag-major-league-baseball","23":"tag-mlb","24":"tag-payton-tolle","25":"tag-reese-olson","26":"tag-riley-greene","27":"tag-romy-gonzalez","28":"tag-sonny-gray","29":"tag-tarik-skubal","30":"tag-tigers","31":"tag-triston-casas","32":"tag-troy-melton","33":"tag-willson-contreras","34":"tag-wilyer-abreu"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116515740285916236","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=689988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689988\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/284951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=689988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=689988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=689988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}