Zack Short’s Detroit Tigers and the Boston Red Sox, who will be sending Chris Sale to the mound, go head to head at Fenway Park on Friday, August 11. The first pitch will be thrown at 7:10 PM ET.
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Player Prop Odds for Short
| Prop | O/U | Over Odds |
|---|---|---|
| Hits | 0.5 | -129 |
| Runs | 0.5 | -103 |
| RBI | 0.5 | -104 |
| Strikeouts | 1.5 | +108 |
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Stats and Trends for the Boston Red Sox
- The Red Sox’s Sale (5-2) will make his 12th start of the season.
- The left-hander last pitched on Thursday, June 1 against the Cincinnati Reds, throwing 3 2/3 innings and giving up one earned run.
- The 34-year-old has pitched in 11 games this season with a 4.58 ERA, 10.8 strikeouts per nine innings and a batting average against of .241.
- The Red Sox average the 14th-most strikeouts per nine innings (8.8) in the league this season.
- The Red Sox have the 17th-ranked ERA (4.35) in the majors this season.
- The Red Sox rank 19th in MLB with a combined 1.319 WHIP this season.
- The Red Sox have allowed 148 home runs this season, or 1.3 per game. That ranks 24th in MLB.
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Zack Short Stats vs. the Red Sox
| Date | Opp. SP | H/AB | XBH | HR | RBI | R | K/BB | SB |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8/5/2021 | Martín Pérez | 0-for-3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2/0 | 0 |
| 8/4/2021 | Eduardo Rodríguez | 0-for-1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1/2 | 0 |
| 8/3/2021 | Garrett Richards | 0-for-1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1/0 | 0 |
Short Stats and Trends
- Short has picked up a hit in 30 of 68 games this season, with multiple hits in seven of them.
- In 7.4% of his games this season, he has hit a home run (five of 68). He’s hit a round-tripper in 2.7% of his trips to the plate during the 2023 campaign.
- He has touched home plate at least once 12 times this season in 68 games played (17.6%), including one game with more than one run scored.
- In 22.1% of his contests this year (15 of 68), Short has picked up at least one RBI. In 10 of those games (14.7%) he recorded two or more RBI, while accounting for three or more of his team’s runs in three games.
- In 48.5% of his contests this season (33 of 68), he has gone down on strikes one or more times. In 10 of those games (14.7%), he registered more than one strikeout.
| Home | Away | |
|---|---|---|
| 42 | GP | 26 |
| 19 (45.2%) | Games w/1+ Hit | 11 (42.3%) |
| 5 (11.9%) | Games w/2+ Hits | 2 (7.7%) |
| 8 (19.0%) | Games w/1+ Run | 4 (15.4%) |
| 4 (9.5%) | Games w/1+ HR | 1 (3.8%) |
| 10 (23.8%) | Games w/1+ RBI | 5 (19.2%) |
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