{"id":1714,"date":"2008-08-25T06:36:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-25T11:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/08\/rangers-royals-who-will-cover\/"},"modified":"2008-08-25T06:36:00","modified_gmt":"2008-08-25T11:36:00","slug":"rangers-royals-who-will-cover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/08\/rangers-royals-who-will-cover\/","title":{"rendered":"Rangers-Royals Who Will Cover?"},"content":{"rendered":"<table cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" border=\"0\" >\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\" style=\"font: inherit;\">\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">The Texas Rangers will be fighting to snap a losing streak on Monday when they take on the Kansas City Royals at Kauffman Stadium. <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = \"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office\" \/><o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">The Rangers will trot Scott Feldman out to the mound in this one. Righthander Feldman has a 4-5 record and a 5.02 ERA this season. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Feldman&#8217;s opponent in this one will be Gil Meche. The Royals ace righthander has a 3.96 ERA to go along with a 10-9 record this season. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">NewBodog oddsmakers currently have the Royals listed as 133-moneyline favorites versus the Rangers, while the game&#8217;s total has not yet been posted. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">The Rangers lost to <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = \"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags\" \/><st1:City><st1:place>Cleveland<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> 4-3 as a -150 favorite on Sunday. The seven runs scored fell UNDER the posted over\/under total (11.5). <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Milton Bradley was 2-4 with an RBI for the Rangers, while Vicente Padilla gave up three runs in five innings. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">The Royals defeated <st1:City><st1:place>Detroit<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> 7-3 as a +160 underdog on Sunday. The 10 runs scored fell UNDER the posted over\/under total (10.5). <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Mark Teahen drove in three runs for the Royals, while Jose Guillen hit a solo home run in the win. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Current streak:<br \/><st1:State><st1:place>Texas<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> has lost 3 straight games.<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Team records:<br \/><st1:State><st1:place>Texas<\/st1:place><\/st1:State>: 63-68 SU<br \/>Kansas City: 56-74 SU<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Texas most recently:<br \/>When playing on Monday are 8-2<br \/>Before playing Kansas City are 8-2<br \/>After playing Cleveland are 3-7<br \/>After a loss are 3-7<\/p>\n<p>Kansas City most recently:<br \/>When playing on Monday are 5-5<br \/>Before playing Texas are 4-6<br \/>After playing Detroit are 6-4<br \/>After a win are 5-5<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">A few trends to consider:<br \/>The total has gone OVER in 5 of Texas&#8217;s last 6 games when playing Kansas City<br \/>Texas is 4-1 SU in its last 5 games when playing Kansas City<br \/>The total has gone OVER in 4 of Texas&#8217;s last 5 games when playing on the road against Kansas City<br \/>The total has gone OVER in 8 of Texas&#8217;s last 11 games on the road<br \/>The total has gone OVER in 5 of Kansas City&#8217;s last 6 games when playing Texas<br \/>The total has gone OVER in 4 of Kansas City&#8217;s last 5 games when playing at home against Texas<br \/>Kansas City is 5-2 SU in its last 7 games when playing at home against Texas<br \/>The total has gone UNDER in 4 of Kansas City&#8217;s last 6 games at home<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Next up:<br \/><st1:City><st1:place>Kansas City<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> home to <st1:State><st1:place>Texas<\/st1:place><\/st1:State>, Tuesday, August 26<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><o:p><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=3>&nbsp;<\/font><\/o:p><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><a\nhref=\"http:\/\/www.offshoreinsiders.com\/\"><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>OffshoreInsiders.com<\/b><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Texas Rangers will be fighting to snap a losing streak on Monday when they take on the Kansas City Royals at Kauffman Stadium. The Rangers will trot Scott Feldman out to the mound in this one. Righthander Feldman has a 4-5 record and a 5.02 ERA this season. Feldman&#8217;s opponent in this one will &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/08\/rangers-royals-who-will-cover\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Rangers-Royals Who Will Cover?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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-1714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1714","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=1714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1714\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}