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Both teams have performed below expectations in the month of April as the Yankees were a .500 team and the Tigers were 4 games under after last weekend's games. The Yankees got bad news on Monday as their starting catcher Jorge Posada was placed on the disabled list for the first time in his career. Andy Pettite labored in his last start giving up 4 earned runs in 5 innings of work in defeat to the Indians. Teams are hitting .283 against Pettite this season. Jeremy Bonderman has been struck with control problems over his last 2 starts walking 13 batters in 9 2/3rd's innings of work. Despite allowing over 2 base runners per inning in his last 2 starts he has been fortunate to only allow 4 earned runs. In his last start he had trouble throwing fastballs for strikes and two starts ago his slider wasn't working. With both starters struggling a bit this game will get down to the late innings and the Tigers bullpen is performing better right now. Take Detroit +115.