{"id":1698,"date":"2008-08-23T07:55:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-23T12:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/08\/twins-angels-pointspread-pointers\/"},"modified":"2008-08-23T07:55:00","modified_gmt":"2008-08-23T12:55:00","slug":"twins-angels-pointspread-pointers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/08\/twins-angels-pointspread-pointers\/","title":{"rendered":"Twins-Angels Pointspread Pointers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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The Minnesota Twins and the Los Angeles Angels will both be trying to pick up a win on Saturday when they battle at Angel Stadium. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Nick Blackburn will be the starting pitcher for the Twins on this day. Righthander Blackburn is 9-7 this season with a 3.71 ERA. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Angels will counter Blackburn<\/st1:place> with Jon Garland. Righthander Garland has a 4.33 ERA to go along with a 11-8 record this season. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
NewBodog oddsmakers currently have the Angels listed as 140-moneyline favorites versus the Twins, while the game’s total has not yet been posted. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Twins won their second straight with a convincing 9-0 win over the Angels last time out. The Twins won that game as +165 underdogs, while the nine runs made it OVER the posted over\/under (8.5). <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Denard Span belted a three-run homer and finished 3-for-4 at the plate with four RBIs for the Twins. Glen Perkins improved to 11-3 with the five-hit shutout victory. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Joe Saunders was tagged for six runs off nine hits in 5 1-3 innings on the mound for the Angels, who were favored at -185 in that game. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Current streak:
Minnesota<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> has won 4 straight games.
Los Angeles<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> has lost 2 straight games.<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Team records:
Minnesota<\/st1:place><\/st1:State>: 74-54 SU
Los Angeles<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>: 77-50 SU<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Minnesota most recently:
When playing on Saturday are 6-4
Before playing LA Angels are 5-5
After playing LA Angels are 2-8
After a win are 7-3<\/p>\n

Los Angeles most recently:
When playing on Saturday are 6-4
Before playing Minnesota are 5-5
After playing Minnesota are 6-4
After a loss are 5-5<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

A few trends to consider:
Minnesota is 8-1 SU in its last 9 games
Minnesota is 5-1 SU in its last 6 games on the road
Minnesota is 4-9 SU in their last 13 games when playing on the road against LA Angels
Minnesota is 3-7 SU in their last 10 games when playing LA Angels
LA Angels are 15-6 SU in their last 21 games at home
LA Angels are 7-3 SU in their last 10 games when playing Minnesota
LA Angels are 9-4 SU in their last 13 games when playing at home against Minnesota
LA Angels are 1-5 SU in their last 6 games <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Next up:
LA Angels home to Minnesota<\/st1:place><\/st1:State>, Sunday, August 24<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

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The Minnesota Twins and the Los Angeles Angels will both be trying to pick up a win on Saturday when they battle at Angel Stadium. Nick Blackburn will be the starting pitcher for the Twins on this day. Righthander Blackburn is 9-7 this season with a 3.71 ERA. The Angels will counter Blackburn with Jon … Continue reading Twins-Angels 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-1698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1698","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=1698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1698\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}