Baseball Betting: Red Sox vs. White Sox Odds & Predictions: August 25th 2009

Boston Red Sox vs. Chicago White Sox
Free Pick: Boston Red Sox -1.5 (-145 betting odds)
Tue Aug 25 ‘09 7:10p
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Garcia made his first start in the Bigs in almost a year a week ago tonight against the Kansas City Royals. He got tagged with the loss in Chicago’s 5-4 loss, and looked nothing like the hurler that helped lead the White sox to their World Series championship back in ‘05. He allowed seven hits and five earned runs while striking out three and walking one in just 4.1 innings work. After the outing, he said he relied too much on his slider and should have trusted his fastball more. He’s fared well against Boston throughout his career going 6-2 with a 4.78 ERA in 14 overall starts.

After four straight no decisions, Lester scratched the win column his last time out against Toronto to earn his 10th victory on the year. He baffled the Blue Jays through eight innings allowing just three hits and one ER with a K/BB ratio of 5/2. The lefty strikeout artist has surrendered just six ER’s and has averaged 1.22 K’s per inning pitched to go along with a 2.00 ERA in the month of August. Boston’s 8-3 in his 11 home starts where he’s allowed just 74 hits (4 HR) and 26 ER’s in 70.1 innings of work. He has two career starts against Chicago under his belt where he’s 1-1 with a 4.15 ERA & 1.39 WHIP.

Boston’s just flat out owned Chicago ever since they ousted them from the playoffs in ‘05. Garcia’s the last guy Guillen wanted to see in this spot since he needs to give his overtaxed pen a break after failing to register a quality start in their L/2 games. Lester’s a machine that’s been pretty much untouchable in August. If Chicago gets to him, kudos to them; I don’t see it happening at all…