Boston at Seattle

Seattle has been a chamber of horrors for the Red Sox over the years. As good as Boston has been, they have not won a series here in over seven years! The Mariners are 19-7 over that period and have had done that with some very bad teams along the way. They have now taken nine straight here from Boston. The innings are mounting for Diasuke Matsuzaka, and he will end up the season over 200 innings. He had a career record of 108-60 in Japan, but the only two years he pitched over 200 innings he went 15-15 and 14-13 - his worst two years. There is also a trend developing when teams see him for a second time on the season. His numbers are worse than his overall performance, his strikeouts are down, his HRs up, and his walks up. His ERA facing a team for the second time is just about 5. This will be the third time for Seattle, who has solved him in each of his pervious two starts. Boston is a terror vs. RHP, where they have gone 50-26. The story is completely different vs. LHP, where they are a sub-.500 and money burning 15-17. This team has been mediocre for almost 60 games now as they have posted a 30-28 record over their last 58, including just 12-15 on the road. The Mariners are 25-9 in their last 34 at home, and have been a very streaky team. They have had losing streaks of 6, 6 and 7 games, and winning streaks of 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 5 and 8 games. The good news is they are on a streak right now, winners of 6 of 7, and we will ride them as a home dog in this one.