I missed on the Oakland-Detroit game yesterday; one bad inning undid Bartolo Colon, who gave up 3 in the first and that was all Detroit needed as Max Scherzer took over. For the post-season we’re 8-for-9. Should have gone to Vegas 🙂
Gut feeling on today’s games: always take the aces. David Price and Justin Verlander going today. Not much time for deeper analysis. Price has been awesome against Boston this year, especially at Fenway. Meanwhile Verlander’s disappointing season finished on a decent note, with two double-digit strikeout games to finish off the season.
Look for Detroit to sweep in Oakland and for Tampa to leave Boston with a split. Both results seem rather acceptable: Boston had the upper hand on Tampa this year (winning 12 of 19 on the season series) but Price is tough to beat. And Oakland got healthy on Houston (winning 15 of 19 on the year) and might not be quite as good as its 96 wins indicates.