Sportsbook online notes have Boston’s Kevin Youkilis and Detroit’s Rick Porcello being suspended for five games each by MLB for their involvement in Tuesday night’s bench-clearing brawl. Youkilis will begin serving his suspension immediately which could hurt the Red Sox in offshore sportsbook odds.
Sportsbook online info had Porcello appealing his suspension but it is not likely to be reduced. The Red Sox will have to do without Youkilis for the next five games in sportsbook online numbers. “You’ve just got to do what you got to do,” Youkilis said. “I don’t really have an opinion on it. It is what it is. You just got to move forward. Hopefully the next four days will be quick.” Casey Kotchman will replace Youkilis at first base on Wednesday as offshore sportsbook info tells us. The Red Sox had given thought to appealing the suspension but they decided to just get it over with. “We decided to take our medicine and move on,” manager Terry Francona said. “We seem to be healthy right now. There’s always the idea that you could get it reduced. There’s also the idea that it could come at a worse time. So take our medicine, do the best we can, and move on.”
Youkilis has been hit 10 times this season which is fourth most in the American League as sportsbook online stats indicate and he simply had seen enough. “The past two days, there was a reason,” Youkilis said. “I don’t have any regrets over it,” Youkilis added, “The kids I work with in my charity and stuff like that, just telling them that’s not the right thing to do. But there comes a point in your life where it takes so much, and if people don’t do things in the right manner, then you get kind of fed up with it. You have to do what you have to do in life to protect yourself. I take one ball off the eye or anything like that, my career could be over. And I take a lot of pride in this career.”
Online betting tells us that the Red Sox and Tigers are very much in the playoff race in the American League and Youkilis and Porcello are key players who can impact sportsbook online numbers at the offshore sportsbook. Sports betting had the loss of Youkilis being more hurtful to the Red Sox in sportsbook online odds since Porcello will only miss one start while Youkilis misses five games. The Red Sox are the second choice in World Series sportsbook online numbers at the offshore sportsbook behind the Yankees.