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<\/a>Detroit hits the road after dropping three of four home games against the Texas Rangers, including a 12-4 setback as -161 favorites Sunday, while going OVER the betting total in each of those affairs.\u00a0 The Tigers have allowed more runs over their past five games than in any five-game stretch since June 28-July 2, 2011.\u00a0 Outfielder Torii Hunter will lead the offense, as he\u2019s 4 for 7 in his career against today\u2019s opposing starter.\u00a0 Detroit is 12-9 in day games this season.<\/p>\n
Tigers starting pitcher Drew Smyly (2-2, 2.97 ERA) pitched a scoreless inning out of the bullpen last Thursday versus the Rangers.\u00a0 The left-hander is 1-0 with a 1.71 ERA in four road appearances\u2014ranking seventh in ERA among AL pitchers when taking the hill away from home.\u00a0 Dating back to 2012, Smyly\u2019s 2.70 ERA in day games ranked ninth among active players in the Junior Circuit.\u00a0 In three career relief appearances versus the Athletics, Smyly has allowed five runs and five hits over 2.1 innings.<\/p>\n
Oakland went 5-4 on its recently completed nine-game road trip, which ended with a 3-1 setback to the Toronto Blue Jays Sunday.\u00a0 The Athletics have thrived against AL Central opponents at this ballpark since May 17, 2013\u2014going 30-9 over that span.\u00a0 It\u2019s important to point out that the club entered yesterday\u2019s game 28 for 31 in stolen base attempts, which is the best percentage in all of baseball.\u00a0 Oakland is 5-2 as home favorites of -125 to -150 this season, with the OVER going 4-3 in that situation.<\/p>\n
Athletics starting pitcher Tommy Milone (2-3, 3.99 ERA) picked up a 3-2 road victory over the Tampa Bay Rays last time out, as he surrendered two runs and five hits over 5.2 innings of work.\u00a0 The left-hander is 1-0 with a 1.80 ERA in three home outings, with opposing hitters batting .174 against him.\u00a0 Milone has compiled a 2-0 record and 3.24 ERA in three starts versus the Tigers.<\/p>\n
Sports bettors will likely back the Tigers due to their 11-3 record in their last 14 road games.<\/p>\n
Make sure to check out our Major League Baseball picks<\/a> all season long and get the most up-to-date betting odds at Bookmaker<\/a><\/p>\n The Detroit Tigers (28-18) and Oakland Athletics (30-20) will open up an American League series on Monday afternoon at the O.co Coliseum, with the first pitch scheduled for 4:05 p.m. ET Detroit Tigers vs. Oakland Athletics\u00a0 Detroit hits the road after dropping three of four home games against the Texas Rangers, including a 12-4 setback […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":4966,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1444],"tags":[151,48,8284,25,1449,6742],"class_list":["post-34128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","tag-american-league","tag-detroit-tigers","tag-drew-smyly","tag-mlb","tag-oakland-athletics","tag-tommy-milone"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34128","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\/181"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34128"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34128\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34129,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34128\/revisions\/34129"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}