{"id":1693,"date":"2008-08-23T07:43:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-23T12:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/08\/tigers-royals-pointspread-pointers\/"},"modified":"2008-08-23T07:43:00","modified_gmt":"2008-08-23T12:43:00","slug":"tigers-royals-pointspread-pointers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/08\/tigers-royals-pointspread-pointers\/","title":{"rendered":"Tigers-Royals Pointspread Pointers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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The Kansas City Royals will be fighting to snap a losing streak on Saturday when they take on the Detroit Tigers at Kauffman Stadium. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Zach Miner will be the starting pitcher for the Tigers on this day. Righthander Miner is 3-1 this season with a 3.52 ERA. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Miner’s opponent in this one will be Kyle Davies. The Royals righthander has a 4.71 ERA to go along with a 5-4 record this season. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Odds aren’t yet posted for this game, so check back later for the opening line and total. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Tigers gave up three runs in the final two innings, but held on for a 4-3 win over the Royals on Friday, as -180 favorites. The combined seven runs went UNDER the posted over\/under (9.5). <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Miguel Cabrera smacked two home runs to lead the Tigers. Justin Verlander tossed 6 2-3 shutout innings to earn the win. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Ross Gload was a perfect 4-for-4 at the plate for the Royals, who were +165 underdogs in that game. Brian Bannister surrendered five runs over eight innings in the loss. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Current streak:
Kansas City<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> has lost 6 straight games.<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Team records:
Detroit<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>: 63-65 SU
Kansas City: 55-73 SU<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Detroit most recently:
When playing on Saturday are 8-2
Before playing Kansas City are 3-7
After playing Kansas City are 2-8
After a win are 3-7<\/p>\n

Kansas City most recently:
When playing on Saturday are 2-8
Before playing Detroit are 7-3
After playing Detroit are 6-4
After a loss are 2-8<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

A few trends to consider:
Detroit is 4-1 SU in its last 5 games when playing on the road against Kansas City
Detroit is 4-1 SU in its last 5 games when playing Kansas City
Detroit is 4-1 SU in its last 5 games on the road
Detroit is 4-2 SU in its last 6 games
Kansas City is 1-4 SU in its last 5 games when playing at home against Detroit
Kansas City is 1-4 SU in its last 5 games when playing Detroit
Kansas City is 1-5 SU in its last 6 games at home
Kansas City is 0-5 SU in its last 5 games <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Next up:
Kansas City<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> home to Detroit<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>, Sunday, August 24<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

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The Kansas City Royals will be fighting to snap a losing streak on Saturday when they take on the Detroit Tigers at Kauffman Stadium. Zach Miner will be the starting pitcher for the Tigers on this day. Righthander Miner is 3-1 this season with a 3.52 ERA. Miner’s opponent in this one will be Kyle … Continue reading Tigers-Royals Pointspread Pointers<\/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-1693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1693","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=1693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1693\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}