{"id":1613,"date":"2008-08-16T07:50:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-16T12:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/08\/white-sox-athletics-pointspread-pointers\/"},"modified":"2008-08-16T07:50:00","modified_gmt":"2008-08-16T12:50:00","slug":"white-sox-athletics-pointspread-pointers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/08\/white-sox-athletics-pointspread-pointers\/","title":{"rendered":"White Sox-Athletics Pointspread Pointers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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The fans at McAfee Coliseum will be treated to a game between the Chicago White Sox and the Oakland Athletics when they take their seats on Saturday. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
John Danks will be the starting pitcher for the White Sox on this day. Lefthander Danks is 9-5 this season with a 3.18 ERA. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
It’ll be Greg Smith toeing the rubber for the Athletics in this contest. Lefthander Smith is 5-11 with a 3.92 ERA so far this season. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
NewBodog oddsmakers currently have the White Sox listed as 142-moneyline favorites versus the Athletics, while the game’s total has not yet been posted. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Kurt Suzuki belted a pinch hit walk-off home run to give the A’s a 6-4 win over the White Sox on Friday, as +110 underdogs. The 10 runs made it OVER the posted over\/under (8.5). <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Jack Cust went 3-for-3 at the plate with two home runs and three RBIs for the A’s. Huston Street<\/st1:address><\/st1:Street> tossed a scoreless ninth in relief and was credited with the win. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
A.J. Pierzynski had two hits, including a solo home run for the White Sox, who were favored at -125 in that game. Horacio Ramirez gave up the winning run and suffered the loss. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Team records:
Chicago<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>: 68-53 SU
Oakland: 56-65 SU<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Chicago most recently:
When playing on Saturday are 6-4
Before playing Oakland are 4-6
After playing Oakland are 6-4
After a loss are 7-3<\/p>\n

Oakland most recently:
When playing on Saturday are 4-6
Before playing Chi White Sox are 6-4
After playing Chi White Sox are 5-5
After a win are 3-7<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

A few trends to consider:
The total has gone OVER in 6 of Chi White Sox’s last 7 games on the road
The total has gone UNDER in 8 of Chi White Sox’s last 11 games when playing Oakland
Chi White Sox are 4-2 SU in their last 6 games
Chi White Sox are 3-8 SU in their last 11 games when playing Oakland
Oakland is 5-1 SU in their last 6 games when playing at home against Chi White Sox
Oakland is 8-3 SU in their last 11 games when playing Chi White Sox
The total has gone UNDER in 8 of Oakland’s last 11 games when playing Chi White Sox
The total has gone UNDER in 5 of Oakland’s last 7 games at home<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Next up:
Oakland<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> home to Chi White Sox, Sunday, August 17<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

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The fans at McAfee Coliseum will be treated to a game between the Chicago White Sox and the Oakland Athletics when they take their seats on Saturday. John Danks will be the starting pitcher for the White Sox on this day. Lefthander Danks is 9-5 this season with a 3.18 ERA. It’ll be Greg Smith … Continue reading White Sox-Athletics Pointspread 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-1613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1613","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=1613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1613\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}