Fixture: Boston @ LA Dodgers
Time/Date: 10:10 PM ET, August 23, 2013
Pick: LA Dodgers
Odds: -109 (1.92 in decimal odds) @ Pinnacle
This will be the first game of 3 game Interleague series played in Los Angeles.
LA Dodgers are leading National League West with 75-52 record and they are 37-25 at home. Boston is leading American League East with 75-54 record. They are 17-17 in their last 34 games.
Boston is coming to LA after taking the series in San Francisco 2-1. LA Dodgers are returning home after going 5-2 on a 7 game road trip, visiting Philadelphia and Miami.
LA Dodgers starters are performing really well, in last 12 games the Dodgers went 10-2, with starters posting a 1.86 ERA. Dodgers pitching staff is ranked 3rd in MLB with 3.24 team ERA. Boston's pitchers are ranked 17th with 3.83 ERA.
Ricky Nolasco will be starting for the Dodgers tonight. He is 9-9, 3.60 ERA in 26 starts this season. He is 3-0, 2.82 ERA in 4 August starts and has gone 4-1, 2.98 ERA in 8 starts since joining the Dodgers in a trade with Miami on July 6. LA Dodgers are 5-1 in Nolasco's last 6 starts and 4-1 in Nolasco's last 5 starts on grass.
Boston is sending out John Lackey who is 8-10, 3.22 ERA after 22 starts in 2013. He recorded a win in his last start, but before that he went 0-4 in 5 starts allowing 18 earned runs on 42 hits in 32.2 innings of work combined. While being excellent at home, where he went 5-2, 2.07 ERA in 9 starts, Lackey is not that good on the road. In 13 away starts he is 3-8, 4.12 ERA. Boston is 1-4 in Lackey's last 5 starts as an underdog, 1-4 in Lackey's last 5 starts as a road underdog and 1-5 in Lackey's last 6 road starts.
Adrian Gonzalez and Carl Crawford joined the Dodgers from Boston last season. Gonzalez is batting .370 over his last 11 games and he leads the Dodgers with 16 home runs and 77 RBI's. Crawford's .291 batting average is his best since 2010 when he was with Tampa Bay.
The Dodgers are 25-8 in 33 games since the All Star break and I expect them to win tonight.
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