Anyone have any thoughts ?
I think I like BOS to complete the sweep tonight, but they have had serious issues all season long closing out home sweeps (Apr. 20-22 vs. TEX, where Buchholz was on the hill for game 3, Apr. 23-25 vs BAL, May 10-12 vs. TOR, Jun. 1-3 vs. OAK, and Jun. 11-13 vs. PHI.)
Recently, however, BOS was able to successfully sweep ARZ and even did it by defeating Dan Haren (though a season-long punchless Haren) in game 3. Buchholz has been great this year, but LAD counters with Hiroki Kuroda, who has allowed only 3 ER in his last 18 innings and 0 (zero) ER in his last 2 starts. Because of the decent matchup on the hill, Im wondering if anyone thinks that the sweep factor is something to consider here?
On a side note, what do you all think of Buchholz first called pitch a Strike at -170 ? 62% of his pitches this year are going for strikes, so I think this could be worth a look. If I cant get a good lean on the game, I might just let it ride on the first pitch, literally