The Chicago White Sox are the better team by record at 39-35, but Vegas has the Detroit Tigers as home favorites at minus-143, so there must be something going on with the pitching matchup at Comerica Park today. It's a getaway day afternoon start at 1:10, the kind of game where the manager goes to the pen early and suddenly eight and a half runs starts looking thin — oddsmakers set the over/under right there, which feels about right if either starter can't get through five.

Detroit's sitting at 31-44, which means they badly need this one at home, but the White Sox have been playing above .500 ball and their heart of the order has been getting into pitchers' stuff all week. Bold prediction: Chicago southpaw or not, the White Sox leave the yard at least once and take this one on the road, covering the run line while Detroit's bullpen does what it's been doing all year.