{"id":1656,"date":"2008-08-19T07:02:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-19T12:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/08\/tigers-rangers-preview\/"},"modified":"2008-08-19T07:02:00","modified_gmt":"2008-08-19T12:02:00","slug":"tigers-rangers-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/08\/tigers-rangers-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"Tigers-Rangers Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"<table cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" border=\"0\" >\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\" style=\"font: inherit;\">\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">The Texas Rangers will be fighting to snap a losing streak on Tuesday when they take on the Detroit Tigers at Rangers Ballpark. <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = \"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office\" \/><o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Righthander Armando Galarraga will take the mound for the Tigers to start this game. Galarraga is 11-4 this season with a 2.97 ERA. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Meanwhile, it&#8217;ll be Vicente Padilla who starts for the Rangers. Righthander Padilla is 12-6 with a 4.85 ERA so far this season. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Odds aren&#8217;t yet posted for this game, so check back later for the opening line and total. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Curtis Granderson was 2-for-4 with four runs batted in to lead the Tigers over the Rangers 8-7 on Monday night. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = \"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags\" \/><st1:City><st1:place>Detroit<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> cashed as -115 road favorites as the game played over the 11.5-run total listed by sportsbooks. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Gary Sheffield went 3-for-5 with a two-run jack for the Tigers, while Kenny Rogers gave up three runs over six innings to get the victory for <st1:City><st1:place>Detroit<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Michael Young and Frank Catalanotto drove in two runs apiece for <st1:State><st1:place>Texas<\/st1:place><\/st1:State>, as reliever Frank Francisco was tagged with the loss for the Rangers. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Current streak:<br \/><st1:State><st1:place>Texas<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> has lost 2 straight games.<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Team records:<br \/><st1:City><st1:place>Detroit<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>: 61-64 SU<br \/>Texas: 62-64 SU<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Detroit most recently:<br \/>When playing on Tuesday are 4-6<br \/>Before playing Texas are 6-4<br \/>After playing Texas are 6-4<br \/>After a win are 3-7<\/p>\n<p>Texas most recently:<br \/>When playing on Tuesday are 1-9<br \/>Before playing Detroit are 4-6<br \/>After playing Detroit are 3-7<br \/>After a loss are 3-7<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">A few trends to consider:<br \/>Detroit is 5-0 SU in its last 5 games when playing Texas<br \/>The total has gone OVER in 5 of Detroit&#8217;s last 6 games on the road<br \/>Detroit is 7-2 SU in its last 9 games when playing on the road against Texas<br \/>Detroit is 6-12 SU in its last 18 games <br \/>The total has gone UNDER in 4 of Texas&#8217;s last 6 games at home<br \/>Texas is 2-7 SU in its last 9 games when playing at home against Detroit<br \/>Texas is 1-5 SU in its last 6 games at home<br \/>Texas is 1-6 SU in its last 7 games <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Next up:<br \/><st1:State><st1:place>Texas<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> home to <st1:City><st1:place>Detroit<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>, Wednesday, August 20<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><o:p><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=3>&nbsp;<\/font><\/o:p><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><a\nhref=\"http:\/\/www.offshoreinsiders.com\/\"><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>OffshoreInsiders.com<\/b><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Texas Rangers will be fighting to snap a losing streak on Tuesday when they take on the Detroit Tigers at Rangers Ballpark. Righthander Armando Galarraga will take the mound for the Tigers to start this game. Galarraga is 11-4 this season with a 2.97 ERA. Meanwhile, it&#8217;ll be Vicente Padilla who starts for the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/08\/tigers-rangers-preview\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Tigers-Rangers Preview<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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-1656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1656","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=1656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1656\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}