{"id":1666,"date":"2008-08-21T06:49:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-21T11:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/08\/royals-indians-vegas-betting-odds\/"},"modified":"2008-08-21T06:49:00","modified_gmt":"2008-08-21T11:49:00","slug":"royals-indians-vegas-betting-odds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/08\/royals-indians-vegas-betting-odds\/","title":{"rendered":"Royals-Indians Vegas Betting Odds"},"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 Thursday when they battle at Progressive Field. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Royals will trot Zach Greinke out to the mound in this one. Righthander Greinke has a 9-8 record and a 3.92 ERA this season. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Greinke’s opponent in this one will be Cliff Lee. The Indians lefthander has a 2.43 ERA to go along with a 17-2 record this season. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
NewBodog oddsmakers currently have the Indians listed as 225-moneyline favorites versus the Royals, while the game’s total has not yet been posted. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Indians struck for five runs in the eighth inning to come back and defeat the Royals 8-5 on Wednesday, as a -105 pick’em. The 13 runs made it OVER the posted over\/under (9). <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Kelly Shoppach belted two home runs, and Franklin Gutierrez had three RBIs for the Indians. Juan Rincon threw a scoreless eighth for the win, and Jensen Lewis closed out the game with just his fourth save. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Mike Aviles went 3-for-4 at the plate with three RBIs for the Royals. Joakim Soria was tagged with the loss after giving up three runs in relief. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Current streak:
Kansas City<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> has lost 4 straight games.
Cleveland<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> has won 3 straight games.<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Team records:
Kansas City<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>: 55-71 SU
Cleveland: 58-67 SU<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Kansas City most recently:
When playing on Thursday are 3-7
Before playing Detroit are 7-3
After playing Cleveland are 4-6
After a loss are 2-8<\/p>\n

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

A few trends to consider:
Kansas City is 6-12 SU in its last 18 games when playing Cleveland
Kansas City is 7-18 SU in its last 25 games when playing on the road against Cleveland
Kansas City is 1-7 SU in its last 8 games on the road
Kansas City is 1-7 SU in its last 8 games
Cleveland is 4-1 SU in its last 5 games at home
Cleveland is 4-1 SU in its last 5 games
Cleveland is 18-7 SU in its last 25 games when playing at home against Kansas City
Cleveland is 12-6 SU in its last 18 games when playing Kansas City<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Next up:
Kansas City<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> home to Detroit<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>, Friday, August 22
Cleveland<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> at Texas<\/st1:place><\/st1:State>, Friday, August 22<\/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 Thursday when they battle at Progressive Field. The Royals will trot Zach Greinke out to the mound in this one. Righthander Greinke has a 9-8 record and a 3.92 ERA this season. Greinke’s opponent in this one … Continue reading Royals-Indians 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-1666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1666","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=1666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1666\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}