{"id":1596,"date":"2008-08-14T06:26:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-14T11:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/08\/royals-white-sox-pointspread-pointers\/"},"modified":"2008-08-14T06:26:00","modified_gmt":"2008-08-14T11:26:00","slug":"royals-white-sox-pointspread-pointers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/08\/royals-white-sox-pointspread-pointers\/","title":{"rendered":"Royals-White Sox Pointspread Pointers"},"content":{"rendered":"<table cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" border=\"0\" >\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\" style=\"font: inherit;\"> <\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: rgb(16,16,255) 2px solid\"><p> <\/p>\n<div id=yiv859069101>\n<table cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 border=0>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td vAlign=top>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">If familiarity breeds contempt, there should be animosity aplenty on Thursday when the Kansas City Royals and the Chicago White Sox meet at U.S. Cellular Field. <\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">The Royals will give the ball to starter Kyle Davies in this one. Righthander Davies is 5-3 this season with a 4.66 ERA. <\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Starting this game for the White Sox will be D.J. Carrasco. The righthander has a 0.00 ERA to go along with a 0-0 record this season. <\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Odds aren&#8217;t yet posted for this game, so check back later for the opening line and total. <\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">The White Sox shut out the Royals for the second straight game with a 4-0 win on Wednesday, as -200 favorites. The four runs went UNDER the posted over\/under (9). <\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Jermaine Dye drove in one run and scored another to lead the White Sox. Mark Buehrle allowed five hits over seven innings in picking up the win. <\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Luke Hochevar suffered the loss after giving up three runs off five hits over seven innings. <\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">The Royals were +175 underodgs in that game. <\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Current streak:<br \/>Kansas City has lost 2 straight games.<br \/>Chicago has won 2 straight games.<\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Team records:<br \/>Kansas City : 54-66 SU<br \/>Chicago: 67-52 SU<\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Kansas City most recently:<br \/>When playing on Thursday are 7-3<br \/>Before playing NY Yankees are 4-6<br \/>After playing Chi White Sox are 7-3<br \/>After a loss are 4-6<\/p>\n<p>Chicago most recently:<br \/>When playing on Thursday are 3-7<br \/>Before playing Oakland are 4-6<br \/>After playing Kansas City are 3-7<br \/>After a win are 4-6<\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">A few trends to consider:<br \/>Kansas City is 5-2 SU in its last 7 games on the road<br \/>Kansas City is 5-11 SU in their last 16 games when playing Chi White Sox<br \/>Kansas City is 2-8 SU in their last 10 games when playing on the road against Chi White Sox<br \/>Kansas City is 1-6 SU in its last 7 games <br \/>Chi White Sox are 8-2 SU in their last 10 games when playing at home against Kansas City<br \/>Chi White Sox are 8-3 SU in their last 11 games at home<br \/>Chi White Sox are 11-5 SU in their last 16 games when playing Kansas City<br \/>Chi White Sox are 4-2 SU in their last 6 games <\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Next up:<br \/>Kansas City at NY Yankees, Friday, August 15<br \/>Chi White Sox at Oakland , Friday, August 15<\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=3>&nbsp;<\/font>  <\/p>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><a\nhref=\"http:\/\/www.offshoreinsiders.com\/\"><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>OffshoreInsiders.com<\/b><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If familiarity breeds contempt, there should be animosity aplenty on Thursday when the Kansas City Royals and the Chicago White Sox meet at U.S. Cellular Field. The Royals will give the ball to starter Kyle Davies in this one. Righthander Davies is 5-3 this season with a 4.66 ERA. Starting this game for the White &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/08\/royals-white-sox-pointspread-pointers\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Royals-White Sox Pointspread Pointers<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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-1596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1596","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=1596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1596\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}