{"id":1658,"date":"2008-08-20T06:04:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-20T11:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/08\/athletics-twins-vegas-betting-odds\/"},"modified":"2008-08-20T06:04:00","modified_gmt":"2008-08-20T11:04:00","slug":"athletics-twins-vegas-betting-odds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/08\/athletics-twins-vegas-betting-odds\/","title":{"rendered":"Athletics-Twins Vegas Betting Odds"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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The Oakland Athletics and the Minnesota Twins will both be trying to pick up a win on Wednesday when they battle at The Metrodome. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Athletics will pin their hopes on the pitching of lefthander Dallas Braden in this game. Braden has a 2-2 record and a 4.34 ERA this season. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
It’ll be ace Francisco Liriano toeing the rubber for the Twins in this contest. Lefthander Liriano is 3-3 with a 4.96 ERA so far this season. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
NewBodog oddsmakers currently have the Twins listed as 280-moneyline favorites versus the Athletics, while the game’s total has not yet been posted. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Brian Buscher went 4-for-5 with a two-run dinger and five runs batted in, as the Twins slammed the Athletics 13-2 on Tuesday night. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Minnesota<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> cashed as -210 home favorites as the game played over the 8.5-run total set by sportsbooks. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Carlos Gomez smacked a two-run homer for the Twins, while Kevin Slowey gave up one earned run over seven innings to get the win for Minnesota<\/st1:place><\/st1:State>. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Kurt Suzuki went deep for Oakland<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>, as losing pitcher Sean Gallagher was roughed up for 10 runs over five innings for the Athletics. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Team records:
Oakland<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>: 57-68 SU
Minnesota: 71-54 SU<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Oakland most recently:
When playing on Wednesday are 6-4
Before playing Seattle are 4-6
After playing Minnesota are 5-5
After a loss are 4-6<\/p>\n

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

A few trends to consider:
Oakland is 3-6 SU in its last 9 games when playing Minnesota
Oakland is 4-17 SU in its last 21 games
Oakland is 1-5 SU in its last 6 games when playing on the road against Minnesota
Oakland is 3-17 SU in its last 20 games on the road
Minnesota is 5-1 SU in its last 6 games at home
Minnesota is 5-1 SU in its last 6 games
Minnesota is 5-1 SU in its last 6 games when playing at home against Oakland
Minnesota is 6-3 SU in its last 9 games when playing Oakland<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Next up:
Oakland<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> at Seattle<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>, Thursday, August 21
Minnesota<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> at LA Angels, Thursday, August 21<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

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The Oakland Athletics and the Minnesota Twins will both be trying to pick up a win on Wednesday when they battle at The Metrodome. The Athletics will pin their hopes on the pitching of lefthander Dallas Braden in this game. Braden has a 2-2 record and a 4.34 ERA this season. It’ll be ace Francisco … Continue reading Athletics-Twins Vegas Betting Odds<\/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-1658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1658","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=1658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1658\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}