The Oakland Athletics and Boston Red Sox close down their six-game regular-season series with a three-game set finale at Fenway Park in Boston, so letโs see whatโs the best Athletics vs. Red Sox betting pick for Thursday, June 16, 2022. Boston easily outlasted Oakland 6-1 as a heavy -230 moneyline fave last Tuesday, while Wednesday nightโs clash between the Aโs and Sawx has been excluded from the analysis.ย ย
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Athletics vs Red Sox Betting Pick
This game will be played at Fenway Park at 1:35 PM ET on Thursday, June 16, 2022.
Why Bet The Red Sox:
โ Paul Blackburn (5-2; 2.31 ERA) will get the ball for the Athletics and face the Red Sox for the second time this season. Just 12 days ago, the 28-year-old right-hander took a loss in a heavy 8-0 home defeat to Boston, allowing four earned runs on seven hits and a couple of walks across four innings of work. The current Boston lineup has a 1.071 OPS in 12 at-bats against Blackburn.ย ย
โ Rich Hill (2-3; 4.38 ERA) will get the nod for the Red Sox and meet the Aโs for the second time in 2022. The 42-year-old lefty emerged victorious in a 5-2 win at Oakland Coliseum on June 5, yielding just one earned run on three hits across six innings of work. The Athletics have a 75 OPS+ against the left-handed starting pitchers in 2022.
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โ The Red Soxโs bullpen has done an excellent job through the first two weeks of June, posting a 2.13 ERA, 2.82 FIP, .266 BABIP, and 0.24 HR/9 across 38 frames of work. On the other side, Oaklandโs bullpen has a miserable 8.05 ERA and 5.62 FIP in 34.2 innings of work in June.
Oakland Athletics
The Aโs have gone 2-15 over their previous 17 games overall. Iโve mentioned how bad their bullpen has been of late, while the Athleticsโ lineup was slashing only .201/.258/.354 over the last couple of weeks. Oakland has scored just 32 runs in its previous 11 contests.
Backstop Christian Bethancourt leads the way with a decent .268/.308/.447 triple-slash in 123 at-bats this season. Outfielder Seth Brown has eight home runs and 31 RBIs in 193 at-bats, while catcher Sean Murphy has accounted for seven dingers and 25 RBIs so far this season.
Boston Red Sox
The Sawx have won ten of their previous 12 contests to improve to 33-29 on the season. They were sitting at the fourth spot in the AL East on Wednesday, 12 and a half games behind the top-ranked New York Yankees.
Boston has scored 55 runs in that 12-game span, tallying a .245/.318/.398 slash line to go with a sparkling 2.01 ERA and .200 opposing batting average. Rafael Devers and JD Martinez have combined for seven homers and eight doubles through the first 11 games in June.