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Two struggling American League teams will hook up this weekend when the Detroit Tigers play against the Seattle Mariners in a three-game series at Safeco Field.
The Mariners, who have the AL’s worst record at 20-34, can only hope for a better showing than they had last week at Detroit.
The Tigers, with the league’s third worst record at 22-31, swept all three games and outscored Seattle by a combined score of 30-14.
So in an attempt to change things around for the Mariners, Manager John McLaren — who recently received a vote of support from team management — will skip left-handed Jarrod Washburn’s turn in the pitching rotation to start three right-handers against Detroit.
That’s because the Tigers are an AL-worst 15-28 against right-handed pitching, and 7-3 against left-handers this season.
Seattle’s Carlos Silva, who has a 3-4 record with a 5.14 earned run average, is expected to start tonight against Detroit left-hander Nate Roberson, who has a 2-5 record and a 5.88 era.
The Detroit Pistons are listed as six-point favorites over the Boston Celtics for tonight’s Game 6 of the Eastern Conference finals at the Palace of Auburn Hills.
The Pistons, who trail, 3-2, in the best-of-seven series and need a victory to keep their season alive, are 7-3 against the point spread in their last 10 games as a home favorite of 3.5 to six points.
Boston will enter the game with a 5-1 record against the point spread in its last six games as a road underdog of 3.5 to six points, and the Celtics are 5-1 against the point spread in their last six games at Detroit.
But Boston is 1-7 against the point spread in its last eight road games overall and 2-8 against the point spread in its last 10 playoff games.
The over/under combined points total for tonight’s game is 176. The under is 4-0 in the Celtics’ last four road games and 4-1 in Detroit’s last five home games.

latimes.com