Mets vs Tigers Prediction - MLB Picks 5/2/23

Detroit Tigers (10-17) vs New York Mets (16-13)

Game Info: Tuesday, May 2, 2023 at 6:40 pm (Comerica Park)

Michael Lorenzen (0-1) (7.07) vs Joey Lucchesi (1-0) (2.19)

Betting Odds: Detroit Tigers +125 / New York Mets -150 --- Over/Under: 8.5 Click Here for the Latest Odds

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The New York Mets will play the Detroit Tigers in Game 1 of their series on Tuesday night at Comerica Park in Detroit, Michigan.

Mets Preview

The New York Mets are 16-13 this season and they have lost six of their last eight games. New York is coming off of a series loss to Atlanta, where they lost two out of the three games. The New York pitching staff has a 4.48 ERA, a 1.35 WHIP, and a .238 opponent batting average this year. The Mets offense has scored 135 runs with a .242 batting average and a .334 on base percentage. Pete Alonso is batting .248 with 11 home runs and 28 RBI’s for the Mets. The projected starting pitcher for New York is Joey Lucchesi, who is 1-0 with a 2.19 ERA and a 1.05 WHIP over 12.1 innings pitched this season.

Tigers Preview

The Detroit Tigers are 10-17 this season and they have lost four of their last five games. Detroit is coming off of a series loss to Baltimore, where they lost three out of the four games in the series. The Detroit pitching staff has a 4.80 ERA, a 1.24 WHIP, and a .240 opponent batting average. The Tigers offense has scored 88 runs with a .222 batting average and a .290 on base percentage this season. Nick Maton is batting .171 with four home runs and 13 RBI’s for the Tigers. The projected starting pitcher for Detroit is Michael Lorenzen, who is 0-1 with a 7.07 ERA and a 1.64 WHIP over 14.0 innings pitched this year.

Trends

New York is 4-0 in their last 4 interleague games and 0-4 in their last 4 Tuesday games. The over is 15-5 in New York’s last 20 game one’s of a series. Detroit is 5-1 in their last 6 interleague games and 4-1 in their last 5 Tuesday games. The under is 9-3-1 in Detroit’s last 13 games. New York is 3-7 in these two teams last 10 head to head meetings.

Pick

Both of these teams come into this series struggling, but New York has the much better lineup in this matchup. Detroit is one of the worst hitting teams in the MLB and they have scored the least amount of runs in baseball. Detroit is starting Michael Lorenzen, who has allowed 11 earned runs over 14.0 innings pitched this year. New York is starting Joey Lucchesi, who has allowed three earned runs over 12.1 innings of work. I am actually going to take the Tigers in this game, as the Mets had a doubleheader on Monday and had to travel to Detroit as well. 

The pick in this article is the opinion of the writer, not a PickDawgz site consensus.

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