{"id":1646,"date":"2008-08-18T06:33:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-18T11:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/08\/athletics-twins-who-will-cover\/"},"modified":"2008-08-18T06:33:00","modified_gmt":"2008-08-18T11:33:00","slug":"athletics-twins-who-will-cover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/08\/athletics-twins-who-will-cover\/","title":{"rendered":"Athletics-Twins Who Will Cover?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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The Oakland Athletics and the Minnesota Twins will both be gunning for a victory on Monday when they meet at The Metrodome. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Athletics will pin their hopes on the pitching of ace righthander Justin Duchscherer in this game. Duchscherer has a 10-8 record and a 2.59 ERA this season. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Twins will counter Duchscherer with Nick Blackburn. Righthander Blackburn has a 3.73 ERA to go along with a 9-6 record this season. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
NewBodog oddsmakers currently have the Twins listed as 140-moneyline favorites versus the Athletics, while the game’s total has not yet been posted. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Athletics lost to the White Sox 13-1 as a +110 underdog on Sunday. The 14 runs scored went OVER the posted over\/under total (8). <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Daric Barton was 2-3 and drove in the A’s lone run while Gio Gonzalez was roughed up for seven earned runs in three 1-3 innings. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Twins defeated Seattle<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> 11-8 as a -215 favorite on Sunday. The 19 runs scored went OVER the posted over\/under total (9.5). <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Jason Kubel was 4-5 with two RBI and four runs scored for Minnesota<\/st1:place><\/st1:State>, while Justin Morneau homered and had a pair of RBI in the win. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Current streak:
Oakland<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> has lost 2 straight games.
Minnesota<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> has won 4 straight games.<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Team records:
Oakland<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>: 56-67 SU
Minnesota: 70-53 SU<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Oakland most recently:
When playing on Monday are 5-5
Before playing Minnesota are 4-6
After playing Chi White Sox are 3-7
After a loss are 3-7<\/p>\n

Minnesota most recently:
When playing on Monday are 5-5
Before playing Oakland are 7-3
After playing Seattle are 8-2
After a win are 6-4<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

A few trends to consider:
The total has gone UNDER in 6 of Oakland’s last 7 games when playing on the road against Minnesota
The total has gone UNDER in 6 of Oakland’s last 8 games on the road
The total has gone UNDER in 10 of Oakland’s last 14 games when playing Minnesota
The total has gone UNDER in 13 of Oakland’s last 19 games
Minnesota is 6-1 SU in its last 7 games at home
The total has gone UNDER in 6 of Minnesota’s last 7 games when playing at home against Oakland
Minnesota is 5-1 SU in its last 6 games
The total has gone OVER in 4 of Minnesota’s last 5 games at home<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Next up:
Minnesota<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> home to Oakland<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>, Tuesday, August 19<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

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The Oakland Athletics and the Minnesota Twins will both be gunning for a victory on Monday when they meet at The Metrodome. The Athletics will pin their hopes on the pitching of ace righthander Justin Duchscherer in this game. Duchscherer has a 10-8 record and a 2.59 ERA this season. The Twins will counter Duchscherer … Continue reading Athletics-Twins Who Will Cover?<\/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-1646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1646","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=1646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1646\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}