{"id":1895,"date":"2008-09-08T06:57:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-08T11:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/09\/blue-jays-white-sox-preview\/"},"modified":"2008-09-08T06:57:00","modified_gmt":"2008-09-08T11:57:00","slug":"blue-jays-white-sox-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/09\/blue-jays-white-sox-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Jays-White Sox 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 Toronto Blue Jays will be trying to extend a winning streak on Monday when they take on the Chicago White Sox at U.S. Cellular Field. <?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 Blue Jays will give the ball to starter AJ Burnett in this one. Righthander Burnett is 16-9 this season with a 4.40 ERA. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Meanwhile, it&#8217;ll be Javier Vazquez who starts for the White Sox. Righthander Vazquez is 11-12 with a 4.34 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 White Sox listed as 135-moneyline favorites versus the Blue Jays, 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\">The Blue Jays completed a three-game sweep of the Rays with a 1-0 shutout on Sunday, as +120 underdogs. The team&#8217;s played UNDER the day&#8217;s posted over\/under (8.5). <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Rod Barajas drove in the lone run in the that game. David Purcey tossed eight scoreless innings with seven strikeouts to earn the victory. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">The White Sox lost 3-2 to the Angels in the series finale on Sunday, as -135 favorites. The five runs went UNDER the posted over\/under (9.5). <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Paul Konerko went deep in a losing effort for the White Sox. Horacio Ramirez gave up the winning run and was saddled with the loss. <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>Toronto<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> has won 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>Toronto<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>: 76-66 SU<br \/>Chicago: 80-62 SU<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><st1:City><st1:place>Toronto<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> most recently:<br \/>When playing on Monday are 4-6<br \/>Before playing Chi White Sox are 7-3<br \/>After playing <st1:place><st1:PlaceName>Tampa<\/st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType>Bay<\/st1:PlaceType><\/st1:place> are 3-7<br \/>After a win are 7-3<\/p>\n<p><st1:City><st1:place>Chicago<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> most recently:<br \/>When playing on Monday are 7-3<br \/>Before playing <st1:City><st1:place>Toronto<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> are 4-6<br \/>After playing LA Angels are 7-3<br \/>After a loss are 6-4<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">A few trends to consider:<br \/>The total has gone UNDER in 5 of Toronto&#8217;s last 5 games when playing Chi White Sox<br \/>Toronto is 5-0 SU in their last 5 games when playing Chi White Sox<br \/>Toronto is 5-0 SU in its last 5 games <br \/>The total has gone OVER in 5 of Toronto&#8217;s last 6 games <br \/>The total has gone UNDER in 5 of Chi White Sox&#8217;s last 5 games when playing Toronto<br \/>Chi White Sox are 4-1 SU in their last 5 games when playing at home against Toronto<br \/>The total has gone UNDER in 4 of Chi White Sox&#8217;s last 5 games when playing at home against Toronto<br \/>Chi White Sox are 9-3 SU in their last 12 games at home<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Next up:<br \/>Chi White Sox home to <st1:City><st1:place>Toronto<\/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 Toronto Blue Jays will be trying to extend a winning streak on Monday when they take on the Chicago White Sox at U.S. Cellular Field. The Blue Jays will give the ball to starter AJ Burnett in this one. Righthander Burnett is 16-9 this season with a 4.40 ERA. Meanwhile, it&#8217;ll be Javier Vazquez &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/09\/blue-jays-white-sox-preview\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Blue Jays-White Sox 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-1895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1895","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=1895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1895\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}