{"id":1695,"date":"2008-08-23T07:47:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-23T12:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/08\/indians-rangers-pointers\/"},"modified":"2008-08-23T07:47:00","modified_gmt":"2008-08-23T12:47:00","slug":"indians-rangers-pointers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/08\/indians-rangers-pointers\/","title":{"rendered":"Indians-Rangers Pointers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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The Cleveland Indians and the Texas Rangers will both be gunning for a victory on Saturday when they meet at Rangers Ballpark. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Jeremy Sowers will be the starting pitcher for the Indians on this day. Lefthander Sowers is 2-6 this season with a 6.00 ERA. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Sowers’s opponent in this one will be Brandon McCarthy. The Rangers righthander has a 0.00 ERA to go along with a 0-0 record this season. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
NewBodog oddsmakers currently have the Rangers listed as 135-moneyline favorites versus the Indians, while the game’s total has not yet been posted. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Indians scored twice in the top of the ninth to come away with a 7-5 win over the Rangers on Friday, as +110 underdogs. The 12 runs went as a PUSH against the posted over\/under (12). <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Ben Francisco went 3-for-5 at the plate for the Indians with one RBI. Fausto Carmona allowed one run off six hits over six innings in the win. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Marlon Byrd cracked a three-run homer in a losing effort for the Rangers, who were -125 favorites in that game. Matt Harrison gave up five runs off seven hits over 3 2-3 innings in the loss. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Current streak:
Cleveland<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> has won 5 straight games.<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Team records:
Cleveland<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>: 60-67 SU
Texas: 63-66 SU<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Cleveland most recently:
When playing on Saturday are 6-4
Before playing Texas are 4-6
After playing Texas are 5-5
After a win are 8-2<\/p>\n

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

A few trends to consider:
Cleveland is 5-0 SU in its last 5 games
Cleveland is 4-1 SU in its last 5 games on the road
Cleveland is 8-3 SU in its last 11 games when playing on the road against Texas
Texas is 3-8 SU in its last 11 games when playing at home against Cleveland
Texas is 1-4 SU in its last 5 games at home
Texas is 1-4 SU in its last 5 games <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Next up:
Texas<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> home to Cleveland<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>, Sunday, August 24<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

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The Cleveland Indians and the Texas Rangers will both be gunning for a victory on Saturday when they meet at Rangers Ballpark. Jeremy Sowers will be the starting pitcher for the Indians on this day. Lefthander Sowers is 2-6 this season with a 6.00 ERA. Sowers’s opponent in this one will be Brandon McCarthy. The … Continue reading Indians-Rangers 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-1695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1695","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=1695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1695\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}