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Boston Red Sox<\/a> (14-21, fifth in the AL East) vs. Detroit Tigers<\/a> (18-18, second in the AL Central)<\/p>\n

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

PITCHING PROBABLES: Red Sox: Jovani Moran<\/a> (0-0, 2.33 ERA, 1.09 WHIP, 17 strikeouts); Tigers: Framber Valdez<\/a> (2-1, 3.35 ERA, 1.26 WHIP, 32 strikeouts)<\/p>\n

LINE: Tigers -186, Red Sox +155; over\/under is 8 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The Boston Red Sox bring a 1-0 advantage into the next game of the series against the Detroit Tigers.<\/p>\n

Detroit has an 18-18 record overall and a 12-4 record in home games. The Tigers have the 10th-best team ERA in MLB<\/a> play at 3.86.<\/p>\n

Boston has gone 8-11 on the road and 14-21 overall. The Red Sox have an 11-1 record in games when they out-hit their opponents.<\/p>\n

The teams meet Tuesday for the sixth time this season. The Red Sox are up 3-2 in the season series.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Kevin McGonigle<\/a> leads the Tigers with a .315 batting average, and has 11 doubles, two triples, two home runs, 19 walks and 16 RBIs. Riley Greene<\/a> is 11 for 38 with two home runs and three RBIs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

Wilyer Abreu<\/a> has a .297 batting average to lead the Red Sox, and has six doubles, a triple and four home runs. Marcelo Mayer<\/a> is 12 for 34 with five RBIs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Tigers: 4-6, .250 batting average, 4.39 ERA, outscored opponents by four runs<\/p>\n

Red Sox: 5-5, .271 batting average, 3.68 ERA, outscored opponents by four runs<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Tigers: Will Vest: 15-Day IL (forearm), Tarik Skubal: 15-Day IL (elbow), Gleyber Torres: day-to-day (side), 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: Danny Coulombe<\/a>: 15-Day IL (cervical spasms), Patrick Sandoval: 60-Day IL (elbow), Ranger Suarez: day-to-day (hamstring), Justin Slaten<\/a>: 15-Day IL (oblique), Garrett Crochet: 15-Day IL (shoulder), 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 (14-21, fifth in the AL East) vs. Detroit Tigers (18-18, second in the AL Central)…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2386],"tags":[29375,5,2259,48,7792,147,53,2583,75686,79,713,1329,5416,24530,1093,388,4140,19,1248,4,768,624,1083,1587,594,1946,33608,606],"class_list":["post-690852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-detroit-tigers","tag-bailey-horn","tag-baseball","tag-beau-brieske","tag-boston-red-sox","tag-danny-coulombe","tag-detroit","tag-detroit-tigers","tag-detroittigers","tag-event_preview","tag-framber-valdez","tag-jackson-jobe","tag-javier-baez","tag-johan-oviedo","tag-jovani-moran","tag-justin-slaten","tag-justin-verlander","tag-kevin-mcgonigle","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-marcelo-mayer","tag-mlb","tag-reese-olson","tag-riley-greene","tag-romy-gonzalez","tag-sonny-gray","tag-tigers","tag-triston-casas","tag-troy-melton","tag-wilyer-abreu"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116521402582730388","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690852","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=690852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690852\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=690852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=690852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=690852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}