Boston Red Sox vs. Tampa Bay Rays
Free Pick: Boston Red Sox +120 odds
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Tampa Bay has been the single most profitable team to support in all of baseball this year, earning their backers more than 14 units of profits on a single unit per game basis. The Rays 32-12 record is the best in baseball, and their 19-5 mark on the highway is by far the best road record of the 30 MLB teams.

Rays supporters are clearly doing well this year. But it’s surely worth noting that all of Tampa Bay’s profits – every dollar – have come supporting this team on the road. If you’ve played the Rays in every home game in 2010, you’re dead even; nary a penny’s worth of profits.

It’s still early in the season, but this is a huge series for the Red Sox, who trail the Rays by 8.5 games in the standings. Much of that deficit comes from the four game sweep that Tampa Bay put together at Fenway Park last month, when the Rays outscored the Red Sox 24-9. At the time, the Red Sox lineup was ice cold. That’s certainly not the case right now – the Sox pounded out eight runs in their win at Philly yesterday, and have averaged more than 5.5 runs per game over their last dozen contests.

The Red Sox have won four of Clay Buchholz’s last five starts. In his last two outings, against solid lineups in Minnesota and Detroit, Buchholz has been dominant, allowing just eight hits and three runs in 14.1 innings of work. Meanwhile, Tampa rookie hurler Wade Davis has been decidedly mediocre since his hot start, allowing 28 baserunners in 16.2 innings of work in his last three outings, two of which came against the light hitting Mariners and A’s. Look for Boston to steal a win here, tightening up what is sure to be a very competitive race in the AL East. 2* Take Boston.

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