{"id":1838,"date":"2008-09-05T06:33:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-05T11:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/09\/indians-royals-who-will-cover\/"},"modified":"2008-09-05T06:33:00","modified_gmt":"2008-09-05T11:33:00","slug":"indians-royals-who-will-cover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/09\/indians-royals-who-will-cover\/","title":{"rendered":"Indians-Royals Who Will Cover?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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The Cleveland Indians and the Kansas City Royals will both be trying to pick up a win on Friday when they battle at Kauffman Stadium. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Indians will trot Anthony Reyes out to the mound in this one. Righthander Reyes has a 2-1 record and a 2.01 ERA this season. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Meanwhile, it’ll be Brandon Duckworth who starts for the Royals. Righthander Duckworth is 2-0 with a 4.91 ERA so far this season. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Oddsmakers currently have the Indians listed as 152-moneyline favorites versus the Royals, while the game’s total has not yet been posted. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Indians failed to complete a sweep of the White Sox, as they were doubled 4-2 in the finale on Wednesday. The Indians were +120 underdogs in that game, while the six runs went UNDER the day’s posted over\/under (9.5). <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Jhonny Peralta hit a two-run double for the Indians. Jeremy Sowers gave up all four runs over 5 1-3 innings in the loss. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Royals completed a sweep of their doubleheader and three-game series on Thursday, as they defeated the A’s 9-6. The Royals won the game as -115 favorites, while the 15 runs made it OVER the posted over\/under (9). <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Jose Guillen went 2-for-4 at the plate and drove in three runs to lead the Royals. Kyle Davies allowed just one run and three hits over five innings in the win. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Current streak:
Kansas City<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> has won 3 straight games.<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Team records:
Cleveland<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>: 67-71 SU
Kansas City: 60-79 SU<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Cleveland most recently:
When playing on Friday are 3-7
Before playing Kansas City are 7-3
After playing Chi White Sox are 3-7
After a loss are 6-4<\/p>\n

Kansas City most recently:
When playing on Friday are 0-10
Before playing Cleveland are 2-8
After playing Oakland are 4-6
After a win are 4-6<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

A few trends to consider:
Cleveland is 5-0 SU in its last 5 games on the road
Cleveland is 12-4 SU in its last 16 games
Cleveland is 8-3 SU in its last 11 games when playing on the road against Kansas City
The total has gone UNDER in 7 of Cleveland’s last 10 games when playing on the road against Kansas City
Kansas City is 4-1 SU in its last 5 games
The total has gone UNDER in 7 of Kansas City’s last 10 games when playing at home against Cleveland
The total has gone OVER in 4 of Kansas City’s last 6 games when playing Cleveland
Kansas City is 6-13 SU in its last 19 games when playing Cleveland<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Next up:
Kansas City<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> home to Cleveland<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>, Saturday, September 6<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

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The Cleveland Indians and the Kansas City Royals will both be trying to pick up a win on Friday when they battle at Kauffman Stadium. The Indians will trot Anthony Reyes out to the mound in this one. Righthander Reyes has a 2-1 record and a 2.01 ERA this season. Meanwhile, it’ll be Brandon Duckworth … Continue reading Indians-Royals 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-1838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1838","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=1838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1838\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}