{"id":1839,"date":"2008-09-05T06:35:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-05T11:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/09\/tigers-twins-preview\/"},"modified":"2008-09-05T06:35:00","modified_gmt":"2008-09-05T11:35:00","slug":"tigers-twins-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/09\/tigers-twins-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"Tigers-Twins Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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The Detroit Tigers and the Minnesota Twins will both be trying to pick up a win on Friday when they battle at The Metrodome. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Righthander Armando Galarraga will take the mound for the Tigers to start this game. Galarraga is 12-4 this season with a 3.05 ERA. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
It’ll be ace Francisco Liriano toeing the rubber for the Twins in this contest. Lefthander Liriano is 4-3 with a 3.45 ERA so far this season. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Oddsmakers currently have the Twins listed as 155-moneyline favorites versus the Tigers, while the game’s total has not yet been posted. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Tigers were clipped 7-1 by the Angels in Thursday’s rubber match as +145 underdogs. The eight runs fell UNDER the posted over\/under (9.5). <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Curtis Granderson homered in a losing effort for the Tigers. Kenny Rogers was tagged for six runs in just two innings in the loss. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Twins were swept away in their three-game series with the Blue Jays as they lost 9-0 in Thursday’s finale. The game was listed as a pick’em, while the nine runs made it OVER the posted over\/under (8.5). <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Denard Span went 2-for-4 at the plate in the loss for Minnesota<\/st1:place><\/st1:State>. Kevin Slowey surrendered three runs off 10 hits over 5 2-3 innings in a losing effort. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Current streak:
Minnesota<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> has lost 3 straight games.<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Team records:
Detroit<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>: 67-73 SU
Minnesota: 77-63 SU<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Detroit most recently:
When playing on Friday are 4-6
Before playing Minnesota are 5-5
After playing LA Angels are 6-4
After a loss are 6-4<\/p>\n

Minnesota most recently:
When playing on Friday are 5-5
Before playing Detroit are 6-4
After playing Toronto are 3-7
After a loss are 5-5<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

A few trends to consider:
The total has gone UNDER in 4 of Detroit’s last 5 games on the road
Detroit is 5-2 SU in its last 7 games on the road
The total has gone UNDER in 8 of Detroit’s last 12 games when playing on the road against Minnesota
Detroit is 3-8 SU in its last 11 games
Minnesota is 6-1 SU in its last 7 games at home
Minnesota is 5-1 SU in its last 6 games when playing at home against Detroit
Minnesota is 5-1 SU in its last 6 games when playing Detroit
The total has gone OVER in 4 of Minnesota’s last 6 games at home<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Next up:
Minnesota<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> home to Detroit<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>, Saturday, September 6<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

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The Detroit Tigers and the Minnesota Twins will both be trying to pick up a win on Friday when they battle at The Metrodome. Righthander Armando Galarraga will take the mound for the Tigers to start this game. Galarraga is 12-4 this season with a 3.05 ERA. It’ll be ace Francisco Liriano toeing the rubber … Continue reading Tigers-Twins 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-1839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1839","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=1839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1839\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}