Detroit Over City
Like the Red Sox/Detroit over at 7 (-115…now 7.5 at -110) tonight.
It can’t be a 1-0 game every game, right? Yes……Detroit’s offense is struggling…but it’s bullpen is even worse. And the switch-hitting Red Sox OF Nava is 5-for-12 in his career against Detroit’s Game 4 starter Doug Fister. Fister also doesn’t strike people out like Detroit’s staff has…..Red Sox batters have struck out in 50% of the ABs in this series. And they are still up 2-1, which is astonishing considering the epic performance by the Detroit starters, who made the Red Sox set a record for lowest batting average in the first 3 games of a 7 game series at 0.133 (they beat the Cardinals vs the Dodgers this year…..what great television for MLB!!!!).
Now for our Bet of the Week:
Man Wins £125,000 On Bet His Infant Grandson Would Play For Wales
Wilson’s grandfather, Peter Edwards, placed a £50 bet with a local bookmaker when his grandson was 18 months old. At 2,500/1 odds, Edwards bet that his grandson would one day play soccer for Wales. He’s now £125,000 richer, and plans to retire on his winnings.
Edwards described the experience of watching Wilson’s debut to BBC News, and he sounds like a pretty awesome grandpa:
“I was shattered because I had to wait for 85, 86 minutes before he came on and I was panicking because they’d already substituted twice, so I thought he wasn’t going to make it,” he said.
“But when he came on I had another glass of wine. (I was) a proud granddad first for sure.
“I told my wife at half-time that my pulse was 106 – I didn’t know whether that was good or bad.”
And it was….a miracle cover!
