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Boston Red Sox<\/a> (15-21, fifth in the AL East) vs. Detroit Tigers<\/a> (18-19, first in the AL Central)<\/p>\n

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

PITCHING PROBABLES: Red Sox: Sonny Gray<\/a> (0-0); Tigers: Jack Flaherty<\/a> (0-2, 5.90 ERA, 1.79 WHIP, 32 strikeouts)<\/p>\n

LINE: Tigers -120, Red Sox +101; over\/under is 8 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The Boston Red Sox and the Detroit Tigers square off in the last game of a three-game series. The Red Sox will sweep the series with a victory.<\/p>\n

Detroit has an 18-19 record overall and a 12-5 record in home games. The Tigers have a 13-7 record in games when they record eight or more hits.<\/p>\n

Boston is 9-11 on the road and 15-21 overall. The Red Sox have a 9-5 record in games when they did not allow a home run.<\/p>\n

Wednesday’s game is the seventh time these teams match up this season. The Red Sox hold a 4-2 advantage in the season series.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Kevin McGonigle<\/a> has two home runs, 20 walks and 16 RBIs while hitting .308 for the Tigers. Gleyber Torres<\/a> is 10 for 32 with a home run and four RBIs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

Wilyer Abreu<\/a> has six doubles, a triple and five home runs for the Red Sox. Willson Contreras<\/a> is 13 for 38 with two doubles, four home runs and 10 RBIs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Tigers: 4-6, .240 batting average, 4.34 ERA, outscored by two runs<\/p>\n

Red Sox: 6-4, .274 batting average, 2.83 ERA, outscored opponents by 18 runs<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Tigers: Gleyber Torres: day-to-day (side), Will Vest: 15-Day IL (forearm), Tarik Skubal: 15-Day IL (elbow), 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: Roman Anthony: day-to-day (wrist), 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: 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 (15-21, fifth in the AL East) vs. Detroit Tigers (18-19, first in the AL Central)…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2375],"tags":[29375,5,2259,141,48,2542,7792,53,75686,95,84,713,1329,5416,1093,388,4140,19,4,89,2543,768,1083,1587,1946,33608,409,606],"class_list":["post-691726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-boston-red-sox","tag-bailey-horn","tag-baseball","tag-beau-brieske","tag-boston","tag-boston-red-sox","tag-bostonredsox","tag-danny-coulombe","tag-detroit-tigers","tag-event_preview","tag-gleyber-torres","tag-jack-flaherty","tag-jackson-jobe","tag-javier-baez","tag-johan-oviedo","tag-justin-slaten","tag-justin-verlander","tag-kevin-mcgonigle","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-mlb","tag-red-sox","tag-redsox","tag-reese-olson","tag-romy-gonzalez","tag-sonny-gray","tag-triston-casas","tag-troy-melton","tag-willson-contreras","tag-wilyer-abreu"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116527159249845427","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691726","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=691726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691726\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=691726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=691726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=691726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}