{"id":1889,"date":"2008-09-08T05:45:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-08T10:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/09\/indians-orioles-preview\/"},"modified":"2008-09-08T05:45:00","modified_gmt":"2008-09-08T10:45:00","slug":"indians-orioles-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/09\/indians-orioles-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"Indians-Orioles Preview"},"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 Baltimore Orioles will be fighting to snap a losing streak on Monday when they take on the Cleveland Indians at Camden Yards. <?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 Indians will trot ace Fausto Carmona out to the mound in this one. Righthander Carmona has a 8-5 record and a 4.52 ERA this season. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">The Orioles will counter Carmona with Garrett Olson. Lefthander Olson has a 6.53 ERA to go along with a 8-7 record this season. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Oddsmakers currently have the Indians listed as 140-moneyline favorites versus the Orioles, 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\">Victor Martinez drove in three runs to lead the Indians to a 3-1 win over the Royals on Sunday, as -155 favorites. The four runs fell UNDER the posted over\/under (7.5). <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Cliff Lee improved to 21-2 with the win, and Jensen Lewis earned his eighth save. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Daniel Cabrera took the loss as the Orioles fell 5-1 to the Athletics on Saturday night. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">The Athletics rolled to the win as +114 underdogs in that contest, while the combined score fell UNDER the posted total (9). <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>Baltimore<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> has lost 8 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>Cleveland<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>: 69-72 SU<br \/>Baltimore: 63-78 SU<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Cleveland most recently:<br \/>When playing on Monday are 4-6<br \/>Before playing Baltimore are 6-4<br \/>After playing Kansas City are 6-4<br \/>After a win are 7-3<\/p>\n<p>Baltimore most recently:<br \/>When playing on Monday are 6-4<br \/>Before playing Cleveland are 4-6<br \/>After playing Oakland are 6-4<br \/>After a loss are 1-9<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">A few trends to consider:<br \/>Cleveland is 11-1 SU in its last 12 games on the road<br \/>The total has gone OVER in 7 of Cleveland&#8217;s last 8 games when playing on the road against Baltimore<br \/>The total has gone OVER in 6 of Cleveland&#8217;s last 7 games when playing Baltimore<br \/>Cleveland is 14-5 SU in its last 19 games <br \/>The total has gone OVER in 7 of Baltimore&#8217;s last 8 games when playing at home against Cleveland<br \/>The total has gone OVER in 6 of Baltimore&#8217;s last 7 games when playing Cleveland<br \/>The total has gone OVER in 6 of Baltimore&#8217;s last 9 games <br \/>Baltimore is 4-2 SU in its last 6 games when playing at home against Cleveland<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Next up:<br \/><st1:City><st1:place>Baltimore<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> home to <st1:City><st1:place>Cleveland<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>, Tuesday, September 9<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 Baltimore Orioles will be fighting to snap a losing streak on Monday when they take on the Cleveland Indians at Camden Yards. The Indians will trot ace Fausto Carmona out to the mound in this one. Righthander Carmona has a 8-5 record and a 4.52 ERA this season. The Orioles will counter Carmona with &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/09\/indians-orioles-preview\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Indians-Orioles Preview<\/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-1889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1889","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=1889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1889\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}