{"id":1836,"date":"2008-09-05T06:30:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-05T11:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/09\/red-sox-rangers-pointspread-pointers\/"},"modified":"2008-09-05T06:30:00","modified_gmt":"2008-09-05T11:30:00","slug":"red-sox-rangers-pointspread-pointers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/09\/red-sox-rangers-pointspread-pointers\/","title":{"rendered":"Red Sox-Rangers Pointspread Pointers"},"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 trying to extend a winning streak on Friday when they take on the Boston Red Sox at Rangers Ballpark. <?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 Red Sox will give the ball to ace starter Josh Beckett in this one. Righthander Beckett is 11-9 this season with a 4.34 ERA. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">It&#8217;ll be ace Kevin Millwood toeing the rubber for the Rangers in this contest. Righthander Millwood is 9-7 with a 4.84 ERA so far this season. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Oddsmakers currently have the Red Sox listed as 140-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\">Alex Cora scored on a throwing error in the ninth inning to lift the Red Sox to a 5-4 win over the Orioles as -350 favorites on Wednesday. The game&#8217;s nine runs fell UNDER the posted over\/under (10). <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Dustin Pedroia went 3-for-4 with a solo home run for the Red Sox, and Mark Kotsay drove in a pair of runs. Justin Masterson tossed two scoreless innings of relief for the win. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Matt Bradley&#8217;s sacrifice fly gave the Rangers a 1-0 win over the Mariners in the rubber match on Wednesday, as +110 underdogs. The team&#8217;s played UNDER the posted over\/under (11). <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Josh Hamilton went 3-for-4 at the plate for the Rangers. Dustin Nippert tossed seven scoreless innings for the win, and Frank Francisco closed out the ninth with his fourth save. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Current streak:<br \/><?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = \"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags\" \/><st1:City><st1:place>Boston<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> has won 3 straight games.<br \/><st1:State><st1:place>Texas<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> has won 2 straight games.<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Team records:<br \/><st1:City><st1:place>Boston<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>: 82-57 SU<br \/>Texas: 69-72 SU<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Boston most recently:<br \/>When playing on Friday are 6-4<br \/>Before playing Texas are 8-2<br \/>After playing Baltimore are 7-3<br \/>After a win are 6-4<\/p>\n<p>Texas most recently:<br \/>When playing on Friday are 6-4<br \/>Before playing Boston are 4-6<br \/>After playing Seattle are 8-2<br \/>After a win are 4-6<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">A few trends to consider:<br \/>Boston is 5-0 SU in its last 5 games when playing Texas<br \/>The total has gone OVER in 6 of Boston&#8217;s last 7 games on the road<br \/>Boston is 5-1 SU in its last 6 games <br \/>The total has gone OVER in 4 of Boston&#8217;s last 5 games when playing Texas<br \/>The total has gone UNDER in 5 of Texas&#8217;s last 6 games <br \/>The total has gone OVER in 4 of Texas&#8217;s last 5 games when playing Boston<br \/>Texas is 4-10 SU in its last 14 games at home<br \/>Texas is 1-4 SU in its last 5 games when playing at home against Boston<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Next up:<br \/><st1:State><st1:place>Texas<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> home to <st1:City><st1:place>Boston<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>, Saturday, September 6<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=MsoNormal><o:p><font size=3 face=\"Times New Roman\">&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 trying to extend a winning streak on Friday when they take on the Boston Red Sox at Rangers Ballpark. The Red Sox will give the ball to ace starter Josh Beckett in this one. Righthander Beckett is 11-9 this season with a 4.34 ERA. It&#8217;ll be ace Kevin Millwood toeing &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/09\/red-sox-rangers-pointspread-pointers\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Red Sox-Rangers Pointspread Pointers<\/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-1836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1836","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=1836"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1836\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}