{"id":1910,"date":"2008-09-10T07:31:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-10T12:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/09\/athletics-tigers-pointers\/"},"modified":"2008-09-10T07:31:00","modified_gmt":"2008-09-10T12:31:00","slug":"athletics-tigers-pointers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/09\/athletics-tigers-pointers\/","title":{"rendered":"Athletics-Tigers Pointers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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The Oakland Athletics and the Detroit Tigers will both be gunning for a victory on Wednesday when they meet at Comerica<\/st1:PlaceName> Park<\/st1:PlaceType><\/st1:place>. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Sean Gallagher will be the starting pitcher for the Athletics on this day. Righthander Gallagher is 4-6 this season with a 5.26 ERA. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Tigers will counter Gallagher with Armando Galarraga. Righthander Galarraga has a 3.28 ERA to go along with a 12-5 record this season. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Oddsmakers currently have the Tigers listed as 230-moneyline favorites versus the Athletics, while the game’s total has not yet been posted. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Rajai Davis went 2-for-5 with a run batted in, as the Athletics edged the Tigers 3-2 on Tuesday night. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Oakland<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> cashed as +130 road underdogs as the teams played under the 10-run total posted by sportsbooks. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Daric Barton and Emil Brown drove in runs for the Athletics, while Joey Devine picked up the win relief for Oakland<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Edgar Renteria knocked in two runs for Detroit<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>, as Fernando Rodney was tagged with the loss after coming in for Tigers starter Nate Robertson. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Team records:
Oakland<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>: 66-78 SU
Detroit: 70-75 SU<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Oakland most recently:
When playing on Wednesday are 7-3
Before playing Texas are 1-9
After playing Detroit are 5-5
After a win are 2-8<\/p>\n

Detroit most recently:
When playing on Wednesday are 6-4
Before playing Chi White Sox are 3-7
After playing Oakland are 3-7
After a loss are 5-5<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

A few trends to consider:
Oakland is 6-3 SU in its last 9 games when playing Detroit
Oakland is 4-8 SU in its last 12 games when playing on the road against Detroit
Detroit is 8-4 SU in its last 12 games when playing at home against Oakland
Detroit is 3-6 SU in its last 9 games when playing Oakland
Detroit is 4-9 SU in its last 13 games at home<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Next up:
Oakland<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> home to Texas<\/st1:place><\/st1:State>, Thursday, September 11
Detroit<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> at Chi White Sox, Friday, September 12<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
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The Oakland Athletics and the Detroit Tigers will both be gunning for a victory on Wednesday when they meet at Comerica Park. Sean Gallagher will be the starting pitcher for the Athletics on this day. Righthander Gallagher is 4-6 this season with a 5.26 ERA. The Tigers will counter Gallagher with Armando Galarraga. Righthander Galarraga … Continue reading Athletics-Tigers Pointers<\/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-1910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1910","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=1910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1910\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}