The AL East is always competitive, but usually by this point in the season just two teams are battling it out for top honors. <\/p>\n
BAL: Wei-Yen Chen (4-2, 3.75 ) v BOS: Josh Beckett (4-5, 4.26) Matchup<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0Preview<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n This year however, it’s different as all five teams are separated by just a few games, including the newly overhauled Baltimore Orioles who will try to maintain their position while closing in on division-leader Tampa Bay when they play Game 2 of a three-game series at Boston on Wednesday.<\/p>\n Slumping Baltimore (30-24) entered Tuesday’s opener having dropped 10 of 13 to fall out of the division lead.<\/p>\n Orioles outfielder Adam Jones had only two home runs in his last 13 games – both coming in an 8-6 loss to Toronto on May 29 to begin the series as well. While the as a team had managed only 15 runs through the first six games of their nine-game trek and were 1-5 in that span.<\/p>\n The O’s will send out Wei-Yin Chen to try and compensate for the poor run totals over the last few weeks.<\/p>\n The 26-yeard lefty was unable to overcome a rough first inning during Friday night’s contest against the Rays, allowing five runs on five hits over 5 2\/3 innings in the 5-0 loss. However, he was able to settle down after that and retire the next 10 batters he faced before being pulled at 94 pitches.\u00a0[dfads params=’groups=10&limit=1&return_javascript=0′]<\/p>\n Chen earned a no-decision in his lone start against the Red Sox this season, allowing three runs over five innings back on May 4<\/p>\n Meanwhile, the Red Sox came into the series after taking two of three from the host Toronto Blue Jays over the weekend.<\/p>\n Boston (28-26) will counter with Josh Beckett. He may be catching the Orioles at the right time as he has just a 7-5 career record against them with a 4.25 ERA.<\/p>\n The 32-year old right-hander made it through the seventh inning for the fourth start in a row on Thursday against the Tigers, however he still picked up the loss in the game, 7-3. He struck out just one batter for the second time all season, dropping his strikeout-per nine innings number to a career-low 6.54.<\/p>\n Matt\u2019s Free Prediction: Baltimore-<\/strong>I don’t think we will see many runs from either club in this one, so it’s going to likely be decided on the mound. <\/p>\n Even though Beckett has been pitching better since dealing with an oblique injury at the beginning of May, I look for Chen to go deeper than Beckett, which would then force Boston to rely on its anemic bullpen.<\/p>\n Orioles vs Red Sox MLB Betting + Handicapping Picks The AL East is always competitive, but usually by this point in the season just two teams are battling it out for top honors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":68,"featured_media":33250,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[670],"tags":[55095,55096,52320,111,54458,54464,458,22527,681,683,55094,55093],"class_list":["post-51800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mlb-baseball","tag-baltimore-boston-odds","tag-baltimore-orioles-vs-boston-red-sox-gambling","tag-baltimore-vs-boston","tag-baseball-picks","tag-baseball-spreads","tag-free-handicapping-picks","tag-free-mlb-pick","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-mlb-gambling","tag-mlb-handicapping","tag-orioles-red-sox-lines","tag-orioles-vs-red-sox-betting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/68"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51800"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51800\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51821,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51800\/revisions\/51821"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nDate\/Time: Wednesday, June 6, 7:10PM EST
\nVenue: Fenway Park, Boston, Massachusetts
\nBroadcast: MASN (Baltimore), NESN (Boston)
\nLINE: Boston -161
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