{"id":1831,"date":"2008-09-05T06:16:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-05T11:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/09\/athletics-orioles-preview\/"},"modified":"2008-09-05T06:16:00","modified_gmt":"2008-09-05T11:16:00","slug":"athletics-orioles-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/09\/athletics-orioles-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"Athletics-Orioles Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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The Oakland Athletics and the Baltimore Orioles will both be trying to pick up a win on Friday when they battle at Camden Yards. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Athletics will trot Dallas Braden out to the mound in this one. Lefthander Braden has a 3-3 record and a 3.59 ERA this season. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Braden’s opponent in this one will be Chris Waters. The Orioles lefthander has a 5.45 ERA to go along with a 2-1 record this season. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Oddsmakers currently have the Orioles listed as 125-moneyline favorites versus the Athletics, while the game’s total has not yet been posted. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The A’s were defeated 9-6 Thursday night and were swept in the three-game series by the Royals. The A’s were +105 underdogs, while the 15 runs made it OVER the posted over\/under (9). <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Ryan Sweeney belted two doubles and finished with two RBIs for the A’s. Dan Meyer gave up eight runs off nine hits over 3 1-3 innings in the loss. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Orioles lost 5-4 to the Red Sox and were swept in the three-game series on Wednesday, as +280 underdogs. The nine runs fell UNDER the posted over\/under (10). <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Luke Scott drove in one run and scored once for the Orioles. Jim Miller gave up the winning run and suffered the loss. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Current streak:
Oakland<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> has lost 4 straight games.
Baltimore<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> has lost 6 straight games.<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Team records:
Oakland<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>: 63-77 SU
Baltimore: 63-76 SU<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Oakland most recently:
When playing on Friday are 6-4
Before playing Baltimore are 8-2
After playing Kansas City are 4-6
After a loss are 6-4<\/p>\n

Baltimore most recently:
When playing on Friday are 5-5
Before playing Oakland are 2-8
After playing Boston are 2-8
After a loss are 1-9<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

A few trends to consider:
The total has gone UNDER in 5 of Oakland’s last 6 games when playing Baltimore
Oakland is 4-1 SU in its last 5 games when playing Baltimore
Oakland is 11-3 SU in its last 14 games when playing on the road against Baltimore
Oakland is 1-4 SU in its last 5 games on the road
The total has gone UNDER in 5 of Baltimore’s last 6 games when playing Oakland
The total has gone OVER in 5 of Baltimore’s last 7 games
Baltimore is 3-11 SU in its last 14 games when playing at home against Oakland
Baltimore is 1-4 SU in its last 5 games when playing Oakland<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Next up:
Baltimore<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> home to Oakland<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>, Saturday, September 6<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

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The Oakland Athletics and the Baltimore Orioles will both be trying to pick up a win on Friday when they battle at Camden Yards. The Athletics will trot Dallas Braden out to the mound in this one. Lefthander Braden has a 3-3 record and a 3.59 ERA this season. Braden’s opponent in this one will … Continue reading Athletics-Orioles Preview<\/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-1831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1831","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=1831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1831\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}