Sports Wagering – Resurgent Red Sox in Wild Card Contest

August 26, 2010 in Baseball News by writer | No comments

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As they have been a perennial baseball betting online contender for the past decade plus, Sports betting expectations are always high for the Boston Red Sox at the sports book. As the Boston Red Sox have been uncharacteristically under the baseball betting online radar for a lot of the year, Sports betting news for 2010 has been unusually quiet from Beantown.

The New York Yankees have been dominating the American league East Division for a lot of the year and had a comfortable lead on the Tampa Bay Rays, who had a firm grip on the wild card spot in the American league.

After being one of the biggest money losers on the board with the Sports lines, the Boston Red Sox have quietly climbed into the black with better play as they went 14-9 from July 22-August 14 and inched closer to the slumping Rays in the process.

Boston remains one of the top offensive teams in the major leagues as they ranked 2nd in run production while their pitching staff has continued to be sporadic as it ranked 18th for staff earned run average.

The staff allowed crucial walk off losses a while back to Toronto and Texas with the sport wagering lines which make things more annoying as they misused time gaining more ground on Tampa Bay. Boston has also suffered critical injuries to players such as first baseman Kevin Youkilis, who’s out for the year.

Outfielder Jacoby Ellsbury has been suffering from a sore left side that caused him to leave a match early last weekend and he hasn’t performed well recently when able to play.

2nd baseman Dustin Pedroia who fractured his left foot and had to rehab with AAA Pawtucket, was another Sports betting concern. He is supposed to be back soon.

On the other hand in sports gambling odds, outfielder JD Drew has been hitting the ball with a .368 mark throughout a five game stretch in which he had four home runs. With a 3.20 earned run average and 6 blown saves, closer Jonathan Papelbon has been sporadic this year. Daniel Bard blew five more saves for Boston.

Between that and the sluggish April start that coincided with Tampa Bay bolting out of the gate with a huge lead, the ground to make up for Boston has been lengthy and hard nevertheless they closed the gap to within four competitions.

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