{"id":1631,"date":"2008-08-17T08:07:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-17T13:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/08\/royals-yankees-pointspread-pointers\/"},"modified":"2008-08-17T08:07:00","modified_gmt":"2008-08-17T13:07:00","slug":"royals-yankees-pointspread-pointers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/08\/royals-yankees-pointspread-pointers\/","title":{"rendered":"Royals-Yankees Pointspread 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 Sunday when they meet at Yankee Stadium. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Royals will trot Brian Bannister out to the mound in this one. Righthander Bannister has a 7-11 record and a 5.36 ERA this season. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
It’ll be Mike Mussina toeing the rubber for the Yankees in this contest. Righthander Mussina is 15-7 with a 3.30 ERA so far this season. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
NewBodog oddsmakers currently have the Yankees listed as 265-moneyline favorites versus the Royals, while the game’s total has not yet been posted. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Brett Gardner drove in the winning run to give the Yankees a 3-2 win over the Royals in 13 innings on Saturday, as a -190 favorite. The five runs fell UNDER the posted over\/under (9.5). <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Gardner<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> finished 3-for-5 at the plate and Robinson Cano had two hits with one RBI for the Yankees. David Robertson tossed two innings of relief for the win. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Alex Gordon homered in a losing effort for the Royals, who were +170 underdogs. Jeff Fulchino gave up the winning run and was tagged with the loss. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Team records:
Kansas City<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>: 55-68 SU
New York<\/st1:place><\/st1:State>: 65-58 SU<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Kansas City most recently:
When playing on Sunday are 5-5
Before playing Cleveland are 3-7
After playing NY Yankees are 2-8
After a loss are 4-6<\/p>\n

New York most recently:
When playing on Sunday are 6-4
Before playing Toronto are 5-5
After playing Kansas City are 8-2
After a win are 5-5<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

A few trends to consider:
The total has gone UNDER in 7 of Kansas City’s last 8 games on the road
The total has gone UNDER in 4 of Kansas City’s last 5 games
The total has gone UNDER in 8 of Kansas City’s last 10 games when playing NY Yankees
The total has gone UNDER in 4 of Kansas City’s last 6 games when playing on the road against NY Yankees
NY Yankees are 21-4 SU in their last 25 games when playing at home against Kansas City
The total has gone UNDER in 5 of NY Yankees’s last 6 games
The total has gone UNDER in 8 of NY Yankees’s last 10 games when playing Kansas City
NY Yankees are 14-5 SU in their last 19 games at home<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Next up:
Kansas City<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> at Cleveland<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>, Tuesday, August 19
NY Yankees at Toronto<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>, Tuesday, August 19<\/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 Sunday when they meet at Yankee Stadium. The Royals will trot Brian Bannister out to the mound in this one. Righthander Bannister has a 7-11 record and a 5.36 ERA this season. It’ll be Mike Mussina toeing the … Continue reading Royals-Yankees 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-1631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1631","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=1631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1631\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}