{"id":15432,"date":"2011-05-15T14:22:46","date_gmt":"2011-05-15T19:22:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=15432"},"modified":"2011-05-15T14:22:46","modified_gmt":"2011-05-15T19:22:46","slug":"familiar-foes-boston-red-sox-at-n-y-yankees-betting-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/familiar-foes-boston-red-sox-at-n-y-yankees-betting-preview-15432\/","title":{"rendered":"Familiar Foes: Boston Red Sox at N.Y. Yankees Betting Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"

Boston Red Sox (19-20) AT New York Yankees (20-17)<\/strong>
\nMay 15, 2011 at 8:05 PM EST<\/strong>
\nMoneyline:\u00a0 BOS -130, NYY +120<\/strong>
\nTotal:\u00a0 8.5<\/strong><\/p>\n

SP:\u00a0 BOS- Jon Lester, NYY- Freddy Garcia<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Jon Lester struggled last outing but has been very good against the Yankees in his career<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

If pitchers’ duels are your thing, you may be in luck tonight.\u00a0 Jon Lester and Freddy Garcia both sport ERAs under 3.00, though only Lester has been able to cash in on it with a good win – loss record (4-1), while Garcia has received less than stellar run support (2-2 record).\u00a0 It is actually Garcia who has the slightly better ERA at 2.61.<\/p>\n

Boston will look to sweep the Yankees, after shutting them out in a 6-0 win on last night.\u00a0 The pitching dominance came at the hand of Josh Beckett, whose pitches were effective and in the strike zone all night.\u00a0 \u201cThat\u2019s probably the best cutter I\u2019ve seen him have in a while. Changeup\u2014 he used all his pitches,\u201d Boston manager Terry Francona said. \u201cWe have a lot of confidence in him. We always have. He worked hard and said last year he was going to come back with a vengeance, and I think he has.\u201d<\/p>\n

There is a lot of clouds of speculation around the disappearance of Jorge Posada, who now claims to be injured after being ejected in the 7th inning of Saturday’s loss.\u00a0 \u201cWant me to tell you what I think? (The Yankees are) doing that guy wrong,\u201d Boston’s David Ortiz remarked, \u201cYou know why? Because that guy is legendary.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI told him I couldn\u2019t play, and that I needed time to clear my head, and that was it. My back stiffened up a bit. I was taking a lot of groundballs at first base and working out, and it stiffened up,\u201d Posada lamented.\u00a0 “I wasn\u2019t 100 percent to play the game. I mean, nothing serious.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jacob Ellsbury and Adrian Gonzalez both had multiple RBI games on Saturday and Dustin Pedroia went 3 of 4 from the plate, while also scoring a run.<\/p>\n

Red Sox pitcher Jon Lester is 4-1 with a 1.99 ERA in his 7 starts at Yankee Stadium, and his record is 3-0 with a 0.89 ERA over the last three.\u00a0 He didn’t do well in his last appearance, giving up 5 runs in 5 1\/3rds innings of\u00a0 7-6 ten inning loss.\u00a0 But that should change against the Yankees, as he has dominated them historically.\u00a0 Manager Terry Francona said Lester’s pitching was “uncharacteristic, and that he “[wasn’t] throwing it where he wanted to.”\u00a0 Pitchers do have bad days, but Red Sox fans will have to hope it isn’t part of an actual trend.<\/p>\n

Freddy Garcia, taking the mound for the Yankees, gave up only one run and 6 hits over 6+ innings in the 3-1 win over the KC Royals on Tuesday.\u00a0 He knows his power is not what it used to be, but his variety of pitches keep him competitive…”I don’t have the power anymore.\u00a0 I’ve got to go out there and make it happen,” he said.<\/p>\n

Some betting trends:<\/p>\n

Boston is 5-2 SU in their last 7 games and the Red Sox are 8-4 SU in their last 12 games on the road.\u00a0 The total has gone UNDER in 6 of Boston’s last 9 road games while the Red Sox are 6-1 SU in their last 7 against the Yankees.\u00a0 The Red Sox are 5-1 SU in their last 6 road games in Yankee Stadium while the total has gone UNDER in 4 of the last 6 at Yankee Stadium.<\/p>\n

The total has gone UNDER in 4 of the Yankees’ last 5 games and the Yankees are 1-4 SU in their last 5 games.\u00a0 The total has gone UNDER in 5 of their last 6 at home while they are 1-4 SU in their last 5 home games.\u00a0 The Yankees are 1-6 SU in their last 7 against the Red Sox and the total has gone UNDER in 4 of their last 6 at home against Boston.\u00a0 The Yankees are 1-5 SU in their last 6 games at Boston.<\/p>\n

Garcia has gone 5-0 with a 4.55 ERA in his last 9 starts against the Red Sox, but with Lester’s pitching that may not be good enough.\u00a0 Expect for Lester to come out and exercise control over a variety of pitches.\u00a0 Like I said, this game might not have much offensive production and I like the ‘under’ on this one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Boston Red Sox (19-20) AT New York Yankees (20-17) May 15, 2011 at 8:05 PM EST Moneyline:\u00a0 BOS -130, NYY +120 Total:\u00a0 8.5 SP:\u00a0 BOS- Jon Lester, NYY- Freddy Garcia If pitchers’ duels are your thing, you may be in luck tonight.\u00a0 Jon Lester and Freddy Garcia both sport ERAs under 3.00, though only Lester […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40250,"featured_media":4470,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1444],"tags":[69,149],"class_list":["post-15432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","tag-boston-red-sox","tag-new-york-yankees"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40250"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15432"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15432\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15434,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15432\/revisions\/15434"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}