Boston Red Sox @ New York Yankees
Game Total: 8.5
New York Yankees -180
Game Play Predictions
Boston Red Sox
David Price checks into this contest winning five of his last six starts.
Price faced the Yankees earlier this season and was pulled after one inning after allowing four earned runs. He was pulled because of an injury in all fairness.
Price has struck out six or more batters in seven out of last 10 starts. The Yankees rank eighth in the entire league in strikeout percentage versus left-handed pitching at 23.5-percent.
This season, Mookie Betts is slashing .424/.487/.758 against the Yankees. He has back-to-back multi-hit games to start this series.
Andrew Benintendi has Luis Severino figured out going 9-for-19 with two homers and 10 RBI against him.
J.D. Martínez has hit 22 of his 25 homers against right-handed pitching this year.
Boston’s offense leads Major League Baseball in AVG, OPS, wOBA and wRC+ against righties this year.
Rafael Devers has finally come alive at the dish hitting .333 over his last 10 games and is coming off a 5-for-5 effort on Saturday.
The Red Sox have five players with a wOBA of .375 or better against right-handed pitchers this year; Andrew Benintendi , J.D. Martínez , Mookie Betts , Mitch Moreland , Xander Bogaerts
Sandy León has homered in both games this series and has three multi-hit games over his last four.
New York Yankees
Luis Severino leads the league -- amongst all starting pitchers -- in average fastball velocity at 97.7 MPH.
Severino has 12 wins on the year which leads the MLB and has allowed more than three earned runs in one of his 17 starts this year.
Severino ranks in the top-10 amongst all qualified starting pitchers in ERA, xFIP and SIERA.
Aaron Judge is hitting .347 at home this season compared to .193 on the road. Unfortunately for him, he gets a lefty Sunday. He’s hitting just .220 vs. LHP on the year.
Giancarlo Stanton is the complete opposite of Judge versus southpaw hurlers. His slash line against LHP reads .346/.409/.790 with a .444 ISO and .485 wOBA.
Despite the lefty-lefty matchup, Didi Gregorius is 12-for-28 (.429 AVG) with a homer and five RBI against David Price .
Greg Bird homered twice on Saturday but has just two hits over a 17 at-bat span against the handedness this season.
Gleyber Torres has been really good against left-handed pitching this year hitting .328 with a .420 wOBA.
As a team, the Yankees rank second in OPS and wOBA and third in wRC+ against lefties.
Kyle Higashioka will likely start at catcher for the Yankees on Sunday. He hit .191 at Triple-A before his call up.