{"id":1652,"date":"2008-08-19T06:26:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-19T11:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/08\/royals-indians-preview\/"},"modified":"2008-08-19T06:26:00","modified_gmt":"2008-08-19T11:26:00","slug":"royals-indians-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/08\/royals-indians-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"Royals-Indians Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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The Kansas City Royals and the Cleveland Indians will both be trying to pick up a win on Tuesday when they battle at Progressive Field. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Luke Hochevar will be the starting pitcher for the Royals on this day. Righthander Hochevar is 6-11 this season with a 5.44 ERA. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Starting this game for the Indians will be Anthony Reyes. The righthander has a 2.19 ERA to go along with a 1-1 record this season. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
NewBodog oddsmakers currently have the Indians listed as 175-moneyline favorites versus the Royals, while the game’s total has not yet been posted. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Royals lost to the Yankees 15-6 as a +225 underdog on Sunday. The 21 runs scored went OVER the posted over\/under total (8.5). <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Ross Gload had a pair of RBI for Kansas City<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>, while Brian Bannister was lit up for 10 runs on 10 hits in only one inning. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Indians defeated the Angels 4-3 as a +145 underdog on Sunday. The seven runs scored fell UNDER the posted over\/under total (9). <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Franklin Gutierrez was 3-3 with a pair of RBI for Cleveland<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>, while Jeremy Sowers earned the win after allowing two earned runs in six 2-3 innings. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Current streak:
Kansas City<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> has lost 2 straight games.<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Team records:
Kansas City<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>: 55-69 SU
Cleveland: 56-67 SU<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Kansas City most recently:
When playing on Tuesday are 2-8
Before playing Cleveland are 3-7
After playing NY Yankees are 2-8
After a loss are 4-6<\/p>\n

Cleveland most recently:
When playing on Tuesday are 3-7
Before playing Kansas City are 5-5
After playing LA Angels are 5-5
After a win are 4-6<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

A few trends to consider:
The total has gone UNDER in 5 of Kansas City’s last 6 games when playing Cleveland
The total has gone UNDER in 5 of Kansas City’s last 6 games when playing on the road against Cleveland
Kansas City is 4-1 SU in its last 5 games when playing Cleveland
The total has gone UNDER in 7 of Kansas City’s last 9 games on the road
The total has gone UNDER in 5 of Cleveland’s last 6 games when playing Kansas City
The total has gone UNDER in 5 of Cleveland’s last 6 games when playing at home against Kansas City
The total has gone UNDER in 4 of Cleveland’s last 5 games at home
The total has gone UNDER in 4 of Cleveland’s last 5 games <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Next up:
Cleveland<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> home to Kansas City<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>, Wednesday, August 20<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

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The Kansas City Royals and the Cleveland Indians will both be trying to pick up a win on Tuesday when they battle at Progressive Field. Luke Hochevar will be the starting pitcher for the Royals on this day. Righthander Hochevar is 6-11 this season with a 5.44 ERA. Starting this game for the Indians will … Continue reading Royals-Indians Preview<\/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-1652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1652","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=1652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1652\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}