{"id":2243,"date":"2008-10-06T06:17:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-06T11:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/10\/angels-red-sox-pointers\/"},"modified":"2008-10-06T06:17:00","modified_gmt":"2008-10-06T11:17:00","slug":"angels-red-sox-pointers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/10\/angels-red-sox-pointers\/","title":{"rendered":"Angels-Red Sox Pointers"},"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 fans at U.S. Cellular Field will be treated to a game between the Tampa Bay Rays and the Chicago White Sox when they take their seats on Monday. <?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 Rays will trot Andy Sonnanstine out to the mound in this one. Righthander Sonnanstine has a 13-9 record and a 4.38 ERA this season. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Sonnanstine&#8217;s opponent in this one will be Gavin Floyd. The White Sox righthander has a 3.84 ERA to go along with a 17-8 record this season. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Odds aren&#8217;t yet posted for this game, so check back later for the opening line and total. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">The White Sox stated alive on Sunday with a 5-3 win over Tampa Bay as a -130 favorite in Game 3 of the ALDS. The eight runs scored fell UNDER the posted over\/under total (8.5). <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">John Danks allowed three runs in 6 2-3 innings with seven strikeouts for Chicago, while Dewayne Wise drove in a pair of runs in the win. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">B.J. Upton hit a two-run home run for the Rays and Matt Garza took the loss after giving up five runs in six innings. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Team records:<br \/>Tampa Bay: 97-65 SU<br \/>Chicago: 88-74 SU<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Tampa Bay most recently:<br \/>When playing on Monday are 6-4<br \/>After playing Chi White Sox are 6-4<br \/>After a loss are 5-5<\/p>\n<p>Chicago most recently:<br \/>When playing on Monday are 6-4<br \/>After playing Tampa Bay are 4-6<br \/>After a win are 3-7<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">A few trends to consider:<br \/>Tampa Bay is 7-2 SU in their last 9 games when playing Chi White Sox<br \/>Tampa Bay is 4-10 SU in their last 14 games when playing on the road against Chi White Sox<br \/>Tampa Bay is 1-4 SU in its last 5 games on the road<br \/>Chi White Sox are 4-1 SU in their last 5 games at home<br \/>Chi White Sox are 10-4 SU in their last 14 games when playing at home against Tampa Bay<br \/>Chi White Sox are 4-2 SU in their last 6 games <br \/>Chi White Sox are 2-7 SU in their last 9 games when playing Tampa Bay<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">The Los Angeles Angels and the Boston Red Sox will both be gunning for a victory on Monday when they meet at Fenway Park. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">The Angels will trot ace John Lackey out to the mound in this one. Righthander Lackey has a 12-6 record and a 3.71 ERA this season. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Lackey&#8217;s opponent in this one will be Jon Lester. The Red Sox lefthander has a 3.11 ERA to go along with a 17-6 record this season. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Odds aren&#8217;t yet posted for this game, so check back later for the opening line and total. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">The Angels stayed alive on Sunday with a 5-4 win over Boston in extra innings as a +135 underdog. The nine runs scored caused this game to be a PUSH on the posted over\/under total (9). <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Erick Aybar delivered an RBI single in the 12<sup>th<\/sup> inning to plate the game-winner for the Angels, while Mike Napoli was 3-5 with two home runs and three RBI in the win. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Jacoby Ellsbury was 2-5 with three RBI for Boston and Javier Lopez was tagged with the loss after surrendering the game-winning run in the 12<sup>th<\/sup> inning. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Team records:<br \/>Los Angeles: 100-62 SU<br \/>Boston: 95-67 SU<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Los Angeles most recently:<br \/>When playing on Monday are 6-4<br \/>After playing Boston are 8-2<br \/>After a win are 6-4<\/p>\n<p>Boston most recently:<br \/>When playing on Monday are 3-7<br \/>After playing LA Angels are 3-7<br \/>After a loss are 7-3<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">A few trends to consider:<br \/>LA Angels are 5-0 SU in their last 5 games when playing on the road against Boston<br \/>LA Angels are 8-1 SU in their last 9 games on the road<br \/>LA Angels are 9-2 SU in their last 11 games when playing Boston<br \/>LA Angels are 14-7 SU in their last 21 games <br \/>The total has gone UNDER in 4 of Boston&#8217;s last 6 games at home<br \/>Boston is 6-3 SU in its last 9 games <br \/>Boston is 2-9 SU in their last 11 games when playing LA Angels<br \/>Boston is 0-5 SU in their last 5 games when playing at home against LA Angels<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><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 fans at U.S. Cellular Field will be treated to a game between the Tampa Bay Rays and the Chicago White Sox when they take their seats on Monday. The Rays will trot Andy Sonnanstine out to the mound in this one. Righthander Sonnanstine has a 13-9 record and a 4.38 ERA this season. Sonnanstine&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/10\/angels-red-sox-pointers\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Angels-Red Sox 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-2243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2243","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=2243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2243\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}