{"id":1671,"date":"2008-08-21T07:09:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-21T12:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/08\/yankees-blue-jays-preview\/"},"modified":"2008-08-21T07:09:00","modified_gmt":"2008-08-21T12:09:00","slug":"yankees-blue-jays-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/08\/yankees-blue-jays-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"Yankees-Blue Jays Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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The New York Yankees and the Toronto Blue Jays will both be trying to pick up a win on Thursday when they battle at Rogers Centre. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Sidney Ponson will be the starting pitcher for the Yankees on this day. Righthander Ponson is 7-3 this season with a 4.19 ERA. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Ponson’s opponent in this one will be Roy Halladay. The Blue Jays ace righthander has a 2.67 ERA to go along with a 14-9 record this season. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
NewBodog oddsmakers currently have the Blue Jays listed as 170-moneyline favorites versus the Yankees, while the game’s total has not yet been posted. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Andy Pettitte allowed just one run over seven innings as the Yankees defeated the Blue Jays 5-1 last time out, as -165 favorites. The six runs fell UNDER the posted over\/under (9.5). <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Derek Jeter went 3-for-5 at the plate with a two-run homer to lead the Yankees. Pettitte improved to 13-9 with the victory. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Alex Rios drove in the run for the Blue Jays, who were +150 underdogs. David Purcey gave up all five runs off seven hits in just four innings of work. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Team records:
New York<\/st1:place><\/st1:State>: 67-59 SU
Toronto: 65-61 SU<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
New York most recently:
When playing on Thursday are 5-5
Before playing Baltimore are 2-8
After playing Toronto are 6-4
After a win are 4-6<\/p>\n

Toronto most recently:
When playing on Thursday are 2-8
Before playing Boston are 6-4
After playing NY Yankees are 3-7
After a loss are 6-4<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

A few trends to consider:
NY Yankees are 2-4 SU in their last 6 games when playing on the road against Toronto
NY Yankees are 2-6 SU in their last 8 games on the road
Toronto is 6-2 SU in its last 8 games
Toronto is 4-2 SU in their last 6 games when playing at home against NY Yankees
Toronto is 15-8 SU in its last 23 games at home
Toronto is 1-4 SU in its last 5 games at home<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Next up:
NY Yankees at Baltimore<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>, Friday, August 22
Toronto<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> home to Boston<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>, Friday, August 22<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

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The New York Yankees and the Toronto Blue Jays will both be trying to pick up a win on Thursday when they battle at Rogers Centre. Sidney Ponson will be the starting pitcher for the Yankees on this day. Righthander Ponson is 7-3 this season with a 4.19 ERA. Ponson’s opponent in this one will … Continue reading Yankees-Blue Jays 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-1671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1671","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=1671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1671\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}