Boston @ San Francisco picks

Rafael Devers and the Giants take on his former club, and there will be some added incentive to do well and beat the Red Sox. Behind solid pitching from Hayden Birdsong and a bullpen that's among the best, the Giants should pick up the win and rub salt in the Red Sox's wound. 

The Giants own the seventh-best OPS in the league against ground-ball pitchers, an extreme split when you consider they’re just 27th against fly-ballers, and hitting inside a pitcher’s paradise like Oracle Park is only going to put the onus on Dobbins and the gloves behind him.

Roman Anthony is penciled in 3rd in the lineup today.. Oracle Park has the shallowest right field fences among all major league stadiums.. The wind projects to be blowing out to RF at 24.2-mph in this game, the strongest of the day for batters.. Hitting from the opposite that Hayden Birdsong throws from, Roman Anthony will have an advantage in today's matchup.. Hitters such as Roman Anthony with extreme flyball tendencies are usually more effective when facing pitchers like Hayden Birdsong who skew towards the groundball end of the spectrum.

Abraham Toro has primarily hit in the back-half of the lineup this season (63% of the time), but he is projected to hit 4th in the batting order in this matchup.. Oracle Park has the shallowest right field fences among all major league stadiums.. The wind projects to be blowing out to RF at 24.2-mph in this game, the strongest of the day for batters.

When assessing his home run skill, Willy Adames ranks in the 93rd percentile according to the leading projection system (THE BAT X).. The wind projects to be blowing out to RF at 24.2-mph in this game, the strongest of the day for batters.. Extreme flyball hitters like Willy Adames tend to be more successful against extreme groundball pitchers like Hunter Dobbins.. Willy Adames will benefit from the home field advantage today, which ought to bolster all of his stats.. Willy Adames has made sizeable improvements with his Barrel% in recent games, upping his 10.7% seasonal rate to 16.7% in the past two weeks' worth of games.

When assessing his home run skill, Willy Adames ranks in the 93rd percentile according to the leading projection system (THE BAT X).. The wind projects to be blowing out to RF at 24.2-mph in this game, the strongest of the day for batters.. Extreme flyball hitters like Willy Adames tend to be more successful against extreme groundball pitchers like Hunter Dobbins.. Willy Adames will benefit from the home field advantage today, which ought to bolster all of his stats.. Willy Adames has made sizeable improvements with his Barrel% in recent games, upping his 10.7% seasonal rate to 16.7% in the past two weeks' worth of games.

Roman Anthony is penciled in 3rd in the lineup today.. Oracle Park has the shallowest right field fences among all major league stadiums.. The wind projects to be blowing out to RF at 24.2-mph in this game, the strongest of the day for batters.. Hitting from the opposite that Hayden Birdsong throws from, Roman Anthony will have an advantage in today's matchup.. Hitters such as Roman Anthony with extreme flyball tendencies are usually more effective when facing pitchers like Hayden Birdsong who skew towards the groundball end of the spectrum.