{"id":2095,"date":"2008-09-23T06:51:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-23T11:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/09\/royals-tigers-pointers-2\/"},"modified":"2008-09-23T06:51:00","modified_gmt":"2008-09-23T11:51:00","slug":"royals-tigers-pointers-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/09\/royals-tigers-pointers-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Royals-Tigers Pointers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The division rival Kansas City Royals and Detroit<br \/>Tigers are set to renew hostilities on Tuesday when<br \/>they meet at Comerica Park. <br \/>Zach Greinke will be the starting pitcher for the<br \/>Royals on this day. Righthander Greinke is 12-10 this<br \/>season with a 3.59 ERA. <br \/>It&#39;ll be Freddy Garcia toeing the rubber for the<br \/>Tigers in this contest. Righthander Garcia is 1-0 with<br \/>a 0.00 ERA so far this season. <br \/>Oddsmakers currently have the Royals listed as<br \/>123-moneyline favorites versus the Tigers, while the<br \/>game&#39;s total has not yet been posted. <br \/>Mike Aviles was 2-for-5 with two runs batted in, as<br \/>the Royals defeated the Tigers 6-2 on Monday night. <br \/>Kansas City won as +120 road underdogs as the teams<br \/>played under the 9.5-run total posted by oddsmakers. <br \/>David DeJesus went 4-for-4 with an RBI for the Royals,<br \/>while winning pitcher Gil Meche allowed two runs over<br \/>six innings for Kansas City. <br \/>Magglio Ordonez and Jeff Larish drove in runs for<br \/>Detroit, as Zach Miner gave up four runs over six<br \/>innings to take the loss for the Tigers. <br \/>Current streak:<br \/>Detroit has lost 4 straight games.<br \/>Team records:<br \/>Kansas City: 71-86 SU<br \/>Detroit: 71-84 SU<br \/>Kansas City most recently:<br \/>When playing on Tuesday are 2-8<br \/>Before playing Detroit are 2-8<br \/>After playing Detroit are 5-5<br \/>After a win are 6-4<\/p>\n<p>Detroit most recently:<br \/>When playing on Tuesday are 8-2<br \/>Before playing Kansas City are 6-4<br \/>After playing Kansas City are 4-6<br \/>After a loss are 2-8<br \/>A few trends to consider:<br \/>The total has gone UNDER in 8 of Kansas City&#39;s last 9<br \/>games when playing Detroit<br \/>Kansas City is 5-1 SU in its last 6 games on the road<br \/>The total has gone UNDER in 5 of Kansas City&#39;s last 6<br \/>games when playing on the road against Detroit<br \/>Kansas City is 9-2 SU in its last 11 games <br \/>The total has gone UNDER in 8 of Detroit&#39;s last 9<br \/>games when playing Kansas City<br \/>The total has gone UNDER in 5 of Detroit&#39;s last 6<br \/>games when playing at home against Kansas City<br \/>The total has gone UNDER in 4 of Detroit&#39;s last 5<br \/>games at home<br \/>Detroit is 7-3 SU in its last 10 games when playing<br \/>Kansas City<br \/>Next up:<br \/>Detroit home to Kansas City, Wednesday, September 24<\/p>\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 division rival Kansas City Royals and DetroitTigers are set to renew hostilities on Tuesday whenthey meet at Comerica Park. Zach Greinke will be the starting pitcher for theRoyals on this day. Righthander Greinke is 12-10 thisseason with a 3.59 ERA. It&#39;ll be Freddy Garcia toeing the rubber for theTigers in this contest. Righthander Garcia &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/09\/royals-tigers-pointers-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Royals-Tigers Pointers<\/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-2095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2095","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=2095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2095\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}