The Detroit Tigers offense was not looking good on Friday night against the Kansas City Royals…until it did.
In the top of the seventh inning, with the Tigers trailing 1-0, Miguel Cabrera doubled and rookie 1B Spencer Torkelson followed it up with a 2-run home run that still has not landed.
Following the game, a fired-up Torkelson spoke to Bally Sports Detroit about the home run.
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— Bally Sports Detroit (@BallySportsDET) April 16, 2022
While speaking to reporters in the locker room, Torkelson explained why the 432-foot home run felt so good.
From The Detroit News:
“I was pretty fired up,” Torkelson said. “It felt really good. And we needed it. That’s why it felt so good.”
“He got me out my first at-bat with that sinker and I kind of had that in the back of my head,” Torkelson said. “And I didn’t take a good swing at the first slider in that last at-bat. He got it in on me. I kind of figured he go back to it.”
Keller did and Torkelson crushed it.
“I just had a better plan than he had in that third at-bat,” Torkelson said.
Sannes’ Win Total Projections: 5 Bets to Make Based on Opening 2022 Win Totals
It’s a betting bonanza kind of week. We had the women’s basketball national championship last night with the men on tap Monday.
Then we sprint to Thursday with The Masters and MLB opening day at the same time.
But the NFL had to stick its snoot in the action, too.
Last Friday, FanDuel Sportsbook posted its first win totals for the 2022 season. As if there weren’t enough already on our plates.
We could ignore these for a bit until the non-NFL sports start to chill out. But then we’re missing out on — potentially — the softest numbers we’ll get all year. We want to pepper these before the market grinds them into efficiency.
As such, let’s run through just the spots where my numbers differ most from the market in order to pick off the biggest values. Then we can circle back and run through more bets later on.
Here are the five totals where my win total projections differ from the market by at least one win. As a note, I omitted the Seattle Seahawks over 5.5 (-130) because my numbers are currently assuming DK Metcalf will return. A trade there would make their projection much lower than its current mark of 6.7.
