This is a 6* play on CLEVELAND

Cleveland just swept the Tigers last weekend and that was in Detroit. Now they welcome this struggling division rival to Progressive Field and it's difficult to imagine this series going much differently. The Tigers are just plain bad. They were idle yesterday so that Miami passed them in runs scored for the season. That means Detroit has scored the fewest runs in all of baseball, leading to them being outscored by 132 runs this year. Cleveland is 5-1 vs. Detroit in 2019 and 31-13 against them since the start of 2017. The Tigers have just one win in the last six games overall. While the Indians did lose yesterday afternoon, that came after back to back 10-run efforts in Texas (won both games). Trevor Bauer is pitching for Cleveland tonight and when he faced Detroit last weekend he went the distance, allowing only four hits. It was his second straight strong start. Matthew Boyd goes for the Tigers. He's won just one of his past seven starts and lasted only 4 innings in his last one. Play on CLEVELAND

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