Chad Durbin and John Danks, tonight's starting pitchers for the Tigers and White Sox, spell over. Play it that way when Chicago hosts Detroit.
Our Wednesday MLB selection is on the Detroit Tigers and the Chicago White Sox over the total.
The Tigers had to put veteran starter and arguably their most valuable player for 2006, Kenny Rogers, on the DL right before the start of the season, and that has opened up a door for guys like journeyman starter Chad Durbin. While the situation with Rogers has been a good thing for Durbin -- giving him a chance to start games for the defending AL champs -- it has not been a very good thing for his team.
Durbin's numbers throughout the years have been simply abysmal. His lifetime record is 17-31 and his ERA is 6.31. Durbin's teams (he pitched for KC and Cleveland before joining Detroit) have lost seven of his last eight starts vs. the White Sox, and in three of those games Chicago scored double-digit runs against the Tigers with the majority coming off of Durbin. It doesn't bode well for Durbin that Chicago is hitting almost 50 points higher against righties so far in 2007.
On the other side the Sox will start one-time Ranger prospect, left-hander John Danks. Danks' numbers are not pretty either, though much better than Durbin's, and Danks has much less experience and should only get better with more starts. Durbin passed that point several years ago. Like Durbin however, Danks has to go out there knowing that Detroit as a team hits much better vs. southpaws (.264 vs. .234) not to mention the fact that the Tiger bats have really come alive lately (23 runs in the last 3 games). Take the Over.
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