Boston — It’s enough to make a lesser competitor call in sick, or switch positions.
Say you are Tigers lefty Blaine Hardy and you are preparing to face the Boston Red Sox, which he will do Wednesday night. Sooner or later you are going to come across these facts:
u25a0 The Red Sox entered the series with the Tigers with six players posting an OPS over .850, that’s the most in the major leagues. They have three players with an OPS over 1.0 (Mookie Betts, J.D. Martinez and Mitch Moreland).
u25a0 They have three of the top five slugging percentages in baseball.