Tigers Seek Sweep in Low-Scoring Game Against Red Sox

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00:00tonight the tigers and the red socks detroit looking for a three-game series sweep in drs

00:05we've seen a lot of runs so far in these first two games 14 to 2 detroit wins the opener last

00:12night in the 11th inning courtesy of a javi baez three-run walk-off home run the tigers win

00:1810 to 9 but tonight the total just seven why the reigning al si young winner tarek skuble

00:25on the bump for detroit the tiger is a hefty favorite minus 220 will detroit in fact pull off

00:33the midweek series sweep over the red socks tonight they probably should you get a lot of left-handed

00:38batters in the lineup for detroit why is that important hunter dobbins on the season 39 lefties

00:42he's faced a 308 iso and a weighted on base percentage of 394 if you just take a look at the

00:47last 30 days which includes only 28 batters from the left-hand side still hammering them ben 357

00:52iso and a weighted on base percentage of 394 why is that important left-handed batters with good

00:57numbers against right-handed pitching this year kerry carpenter as well as colt keith riley green

01:02and the other lefties in the lineup that will play out zach mckinstry trey sweeney and so forth here a

01:07lot of left-handed pitchers should give you the advantage but the biggest advantage is not the

01:11left-handed bats going against hunter dobbins it's the left-hander that you have on the mound

01:14pitching for you tonight in tarik skuble how about an x fit minus number of 56 once again i just told

01:21you the league average is 100 he's at a 56 his era 2.08 his fifth number which is a 2.12 and x fit

01:29number 2.34 absolutely filthy it's a heavy price they should win but i do think it might be a lower

01:36scoring game today why because skuble is probably going to hold it down for maybe two runs four to

01:41victory here possibly for detroit on tap