Sunday Night Baseball Free Pick
(The Spread) – The ESPN Sunday Night Baseball matchup should be a good one, as the Red Sox host their bitter rivals, the Yankees at 8:05PM ET.
Odds: Oddsmakers have made the Red Sox –159 money line favorites over the Yankees, who are +149 on the ML. The over/under total for tonight’s game is currently set at 9 runs.
Pitching Matchup: Freddy Garcia will take on Josh Beckett in tonight’s pitching matchup. Garcia enters the day with a 10-7 record and a 3.22 ERA as he’s won his last three starts. Beckett is 9-4 on the year with a 2.20 ERA but hasn’t won a start in his last two decisions.
MLB Public Betting: Of the 4,900-plus wagers on tonight’s game, 60% of MLB public bettors currently favor the Red Sox at –156.
MLB Free Pick: Take the over. According to latest MLB trends, the over is 6-2-1 in Beckett’s last nine starts against the Yankees and 36-15-1 in the last 52 meetings between these two teams in Boston. The over is also 4-0 in the Yankees’ last four games during Game 3 of a series and 20-7 in the Red Sox last 27 games as a favorite of –151 to –200. When these two teams met, it usually makes for a long, drawn out game but scoring is usually never a problem. Game 1 of this series was low-scoring (3-2 Yankees), but yesterday the Red Sox took it to the Bombers, 10-4. Expect a close, high-scoring affair tonight.
ESPN SUNDAY NIGHT BASEBALL FREE PICK: YANKEES/RED SOX OVER 9
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