Free MLB Picks – Twins at Tigers MLB Odds: There are seven games to play in the Major League Baseball regular season and the Detroit Tigers and Minnesota Twins enter into a four games series at Detroit's Comerica Park that could very well decide who wins the American League Central Division. The Tigers hold a slim two games lead in the division standings over the hard charging Twins. Monday night, the Twins could cut Detroits lead in half; or on the flip-side, a Detroit win would require Minnesota to sweep the remaining three games of the series to get a tie. Detroit will send Rick Porcello to the mound looking to hold off the Twins. Porcello is 14-9 on the season with a 4.14 ERA. The Twins will counter with Nick Blackburn. The Minnesota righthander is 11-11 on the season with a 4.18 ERA.
MLB Picks oddsmakers at online sportsbook Bodog.com list the Tigers as -128 favorites on the moneyline with a 9-run total. Twins backers are getting +118 moneyline odds as the underdog.
Porcello overcame early command issues to cruise to victory with five innings of one-run ball in his last start Wednesday at Cleveland. He improved to 5-2 with a 3.23 ERA over 11 starts since the beginning of August, scattering 56 hits over 61 1/3 innings. Rather than running out of gas in his first Major League season, he almost had too much energy in his last start, working at too quick of a pace for manager Jim Leyland's liking. Now, he gets a rematch with the Twins, who beat him despite a quality start Sept. 18 at the Metrodome.
Blackburn looked good in his last outing pitching seven scoreless innings, scattering eight hits and striking out six in the victory. Blackburn mixed in all of his pitches and the Twins were pleased by the number of offspeed pitches he used in the outing. The club hopes to see more of the same from Blackburn when he faces the Tigers in the series opener. Blackburn is 1-1 with a 5.11 ERA in two starts vs. Detroit this season.
Michael Cuddyer drove in the lone run for Minnesota in its 4-1 loss to Kansas City on Sunday.Kansas City cashed as -175 home favorites, while the teams played UNDER the 8-run total listed by oddsmakers.
Curtis Granderson went 3-for-4 with a big fly for the Tigers in their 8-4 loss to the White Sox on Sunday. Chicago won as +130 home underdogs, while the teams played OVER the 8.5-run total posted by oddsmakers.
Free MLB Picks: This is a must win for both clubs but Detroit will have the crowd behind it. Take Detroit -128.
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