{"id":1610,"date":"2008-08-16T07:31:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-16T12:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/08\/royals-yankees-pointers\/"},"modified":"2008-08-16T07:31:00","modified_gmt":"2008-08-16T12:31:00","slug":"royals-yankees-pointers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/08\/royals-yankees-pointers\/","title":{"rendered":"Royals-Yankees Pointers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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The Kansas City Royals and the New York Yankees will both be gunning for a victory on Saturday when they meet at Yankee Stadium. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Zach Greinke will be the starting pitcher for the Royals on this day. Righthander Greinke is 9-8 this season with a 4.09 ERA. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
It’ll be Sidney Ponson toeing the rubber for the Yankees in this contest. Righthander Ponson is 7-3 with a 4.27 ERA so far this season. <\/font><\/div>\n
NewBodog oddsmakers currently have the Yankees listed as 190-moneyline favorites versus the Royals, while the game’s total has not yet been posted. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Royals scored in the top of the ninth inning to pull out a 4-3 win over the Yankees as +185 underdogs on Friday. The seven runs fell UNDER the posted over\/under (8.5). <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Mark Teahen drove in two runs to lead the Royals. Leo Nunez posted the win in relief, and Joakim Soria notched his 33rd<\/sup> save. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Derek Jeter went 3-for-4 at the plate with one RBI for the Yankees, who were favored at -210 in that game. Mariano Rivera gave up the winning run and suffered the loss. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Current streak:
New York<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> has lost 2 straight games.<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Team records:
Kansas City<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>: 55-67 SU
New York<\/st1:place><\/st1:State>: 64-58 SU<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Kansas City most recently:
When playing on Saturday are 7-3
Before playing NY Yankees are 4-6
After playing NY Yankees are 2-8
After a win are 5-5<\/p>\n

New York most recently:
When playing on Saturday are 6-4
Before playing Kansas City are 6-4
After playing Kansas City are 8-2
After a loss are 4-6<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

A few trends to consider:
The total has gone UNDER in 6 of Kansas City’s last 7 games on the road
The total has gone UNDER in 7 of Kansas City’s last 9 games when playing NY Yankees
The total has gone UNDER in 15 of Kansas City’s last 22 games
Kansas City is 6-3 SU in its last 9 games on the road
NY Yankees are 21-4 SU in their last 25 games when playing at home against Kansas City
The total has gone UNDER in 4 of NY Yankees’s last 5 games
The total has gone UNDER in 7 of NY Yankees’s last 9 games when playing Kansas City
The total has gone OVER in 6 of NY Yankees’s last 8 games at home<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Next up:
NY Yankees home to Kansas City<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>, Sunday, August 17<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

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The Kansas City Royals and the New York Yankees will both be gunning for a victory on Saturday when they meet at Yankee Stadium. Zach Greinke will be the starting pitcher for the Royals on this day. Righthander Greinke is 9-8 this season with a 4.09 ERA. It’ll be Sidney Ponson toeing the rubber for … Continue reading Royals-Yankees Pointers<\/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-1610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1610","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=1610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1610\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}