{"id":1717,"date":"2008-08-25T06:42:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-25T11:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/08\/twins-mariners-who-will-cover\/"},"modified":"2008-08-25T06:42:00","modified_gmt":"2008-08-25T11:42:00","slug":"twins-mariners-who-will-cover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/08\/twins-mariners-who-will-cover\/","title":{"rendered":"Twins-Mariners Who Will Cover?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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The Minnesota Twins and the Seattle Mariners will both be gunning for a victory on Monday when they meet at Safeco Field. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Ace Francisco Liriano will be the starting pitcher for the Twins on this day. Lefthander Liriano is 4-3 this season with a 4.23 ERA. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
It’ll be Miguel Batista toeing the rubber for the Mariners in this contest. Righthander Batista is 3-9 with a 7.07 ERA so far this season. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
NewBodog oddsmakers currently have the Twins listed as 210-moneyline favorites versus the Mariners, while the game’s total has not yet been posted. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Twins lost to the Angels 5-3 as a +150 underdog on Sunday. The eight runs scored caused this game to be a PUSH on the posted over\/under total (8). <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Justin Morneau was 3-4 with a home run and three RBI for Minnesota<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> and Nick Punto was 3-4 in the loss. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Mariners defeated Oakland<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> 8-4 as a -190 favorite on Sunday. The 12 runs scored went OVER the posted over\/under total (8). <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Jose Lopez hit a three-run home run and Kenji Johjima was 2-3 with a solo home run for Seattle<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>, while Miguel Cairo was 2-3 with two RBI in the win. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Current streak:
Minnesota<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> has lost 2 straight games.<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Team records:
Minnesota<\/st1:place><\/st1:State>: 74-56 SU
Seattle: 48-82 SU<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Minnesota most recently:
When playing on Monday are 4-6
Before playing Seattle are 6-4
After playing LA Angels are 2-8
After a loss are 7-3<\/p>\n

Seattle most recently:
When playing on Monday are 3-7
Before playing Minnesota are 7-3
After playing Oakland are 5-5
After a win are 3-7<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

A few trends to consider:
The total has gone OVER in 5 of Minnesota’s last 5 games when playing Seattle
The total has gone OVER in 9 of Minnesota’s last 11 games when playing on the road against Seattle
Minnesota is 4-1 SU in its last 5 games when playing Seattle
Minnesota is 8-3 SU in its last 11 games
The total has gone OVER in 5 of Seattle’s last 5 games when playing Minnesota
The total has gone OVER in 9 of Seattle’s last 11 games when playing at home against Minnesota
The total has gone OVER in 11 of Seattle’s last 14 games
The total has gone OVER in 4 of Seattle’s last 6 games at home<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Next up:
Seattle<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> home to Minnesota<\/st1:place><\/st1:State>, Tuesday, August 26<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

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The Minnesota Twins and the Seattle Mariners will both be gunning for a victory on Monday when they meet at Safeco Field. Ace Francisco Liriano will be the starting pitcher for the Twins on this day. Lefthander Liriano is 4-3 this season with a 4.23 ERA. It’ll be Miguel Batista toeing the rubber for the … Continue reading Twins-Mariners Who Will Cover?<\/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-1717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1717","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=1717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1717\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}