{"id":1581,"date":"2008-08-12T06:49:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-12T11:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/08\/royals-white-sox-preview\/"},"modified":"2008-08-12T06:49:00","modified_gmt":"2008-08-12T11:49:00","slug":"royals-white-sox-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/08\/royals-white-sox-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"Royals-White Sox Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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The Kansas City Royals and the Chicago White Sox will both be trying to pick up a win on Tuesday when they battle at U.S. Cellular Field. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Royals will pin their hopes on the pitching of righthander Brian Bannister in this game. Bannister has a 7-10 record and a 5.37 ERA this season. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
It’ll be Javier Vazquez toeing the rubber for the White Sox in this contest. Righthander Vazquez is 8-10 with a 4.95 ERA so far this season. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
NewBodog oddsmakers currently have the White Sox listed as 170-moneyline favorites versus the Royals, while the game’s total has not yet been posted. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Royals defeated Minnesota<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> 5-4 as a -105 favorite on Sunday. The nine runs scored went OVER the posted over\/under total (8). <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Tony Pena Jr. delivered an RBI single in the bottom of the 12th<\/sup> inning for Kansas City<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>, while Mark Teahen was 3-5 with three runs scored in the win. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
John Danks took the loss on Monday night as the White Sox fell by a final score of 5-1 to the Red Sox. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Red Sox were winners as -142 road favorites in that contest, while the combined score went UNDER the day’s posted total (8.5). <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Team records:
Kansas City<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>: 54-64 SU
Chicago: 65-52 SU<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Kansas City most recently:
When playing on Tuesday are 5-5
Before playing Chi White Sox are 4-6
After playing Minnesota are 5-5
After a win are 6-4<\/p>\n

Chicago most recently:
When playing on Tuesday are 5-5
Before playing Kansas City are 6-4
After playing Boston are 2-8
After a loss are 6-4<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

A few trends to consider:
Kansas City is 5-0 SU in its last 5 games on the road
The total has gone OVER in 5 of Kansas City’s last 6 games when playing Chi White Sox
The total has gone OVER in 5 of Kansas City’s last 6 games when playing on the road against Chi White Sox
Kansas City is 4-1 SU in their last 5 games when playing Chi White Sox
The total has gone OVER in 5 of Chi White Sox’s last 6 games when playing Kansas City
The total has gone OVER in 5 of Chi White Sox’s last 6 games when playing at home against Kansas City
Chi White Sox are 6-2 SU in their last 8 games when playing at home against Kansas City
Chi White Sox are 17-8 SU in their last 25 games at home<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Next up:
Chi White Sox home to Kansas City<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>, Wednesday, August 13<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

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The Kansas City Royals and the Chicago White Sox will both be trying to pick up a win on Tuesday when they battle at U.S. Cellular Field. The Royals will pin their hopes on the pitching of righthander Brian Bannister in this game. Bannister has a 7-10 record and a 5.37 ERA this season. It’ll … Continue reading Royals-White Sox Preview<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1581\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}