The best rivalry in baseball opens up the 2010 Major League Baseball regular season as the Boston Red Sox host the New York Yankees on Sunday night in a game that can be seen on ESPN 2. CC Sabathia gets the start for the Yankees while Josh Beckett goes for Boston.
SBG Global Current Line: Red Sox - 131 , Total 9 Flat
This will be the seventh career Opening Day start for Sabathia who was 19-8 with a 3.37 ERA last year for the Yankees. New York was 22-12 in Sabathia’s starts a year ago. Early in the MLB Betting season he struggled as he went 1-3 with a 4.85 ERA in his first six starts but he was 18-5 with a 3.06 ERA in his last 28 starts. Sabathia was 3-1 with a 2.22 ERA in four starts against the Red Sox a year ago.
Beckett makes his fifth career start on Opening Day and his second with Boston. He was great last year in the opener against Tampa Bay as he pitched seven innings and allowed just one run and two hits. Beckett was 2-1 with a 5.34 ERA in five starts against the Yankees a year ago. In 17 career starts against New York he is 9-5 with a 5.33 ERA. Last year Beckett was 17-6 with a 3.86 ERA.
The Yankees are 62-44-1 all time on Opening Day (34-14-1 at home, 28-30 on the road). Last year the Yankees lost 10-5 at Baltimore on Opening Day. The last time the Yankees played Boston at Fenway on Opening Day was in 1985 and they lost 9-2. The Yankees are 18-10-1 all time in Opening Day games vs. Boston and 6-4 all-time in Openers at Boston.
New York is only 2-8 in the last tenMLB Betting games at Boston. Both of those wins were late last season as New York won two of three at Boston in August. All three of those games went over the total. That was not the case earlier in the season as two of the three games at Boston in April went under.
This is a three-game series between the New York and Boston. On Tuesday it will be A.J. Burnett against Jon Lester. Wednesday’s matchup has Andy Pettitte vs. John Lackey.
