{"id":4122,"date":"2009-04-08T06:54:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-08T11:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/04\/tigers-blue-jays-odds-preview-2\/"},"modified":"2009-04-08T06:54:00","modified_gmt":"2009-04-08T11:54:00","slug":"tigers-blue-jays-odds-preview-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/04\/tigers-blue-jays-odds-preview-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Tigers-Blue Jays Odds Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Detroit Tigers and the Toronto Blue Jays will both be trying to pick up a win on Wednesday when they battle at Rogers Centre. <br \/>The Tigers will pin their hopes on the pitching of righthander Zach Miner in this game. Miner has a 0-0 record and a 0.00 ERA this season. <br \/>Meanwhile, it&#39;ll be Jesse Litsch who starts for the Blue Jays. Righthander Litsch is 0-0 with a 0.00 ERA so far this season. <br \/>Oddsmakers currently have the Blue Jays listed as 133-moneyline favorites versus the Tigers, while the game&#39;s total has not yet been posted. <br \/>Rod Barajas&#39; sacrifice fly in the bottom of the ninth inning lifted the Blue Jays over the Tigers 5-4 on Tuesday night. <br \/>Toronto won as -125 home favorites as the teams played under the 9.5-run total listed by oddsmakers. <br \/>Aaron Hill smashed a three-run dinger for the Blue Jays, while B.J. Ryan picked up the win after blowing the save in the top of the ninth for Toronto. <br \/>Brandon Inge went 2-for-4 with a homer for Detroit, as Brandon Lyon was tagged with the loss after allowing the sac fly to Barajas. <br \/>Current streak:<br \/>Detroit has lost 2 straight games.<br \/>Toronto has won 2 straight games.<br \/>Team records:<br \/>Detroit: 0-2 SU<br \/>Toronto: 2-0 SU<br \/>Detroit most recently:<br \/>When playing on Wednesday are 5-5<br \/>Before playing Toronto are 2-8<br \/>After playing Toronto are 3-7<br \/>After a loss are 2-8<\/p>\n<p>Toronto most recently:<br \/>When playing on Wednesday are 4-6<br \/>Before playing Detroit are 6-4<br \/>After playing Detroit are 6-4<br \/>After a win are 4-6<br \/>A few trends to consider:<br \/>Detroit is 1-4 SU in its last 5 games <br \/>Detroit is 1-4 SU in its last 5 games when playing on the road against Toronto<br \/>Detroit is 1-5 SU in its last 6 games when playing Toronto<br \/>Detroit is 0-5 SU in its last 5 games on the road<br \/>Toronto is 5-1 SU in its last 6 games when playing Detroit<br \/>Toronto is 5-1 SU in its last 6 games <br \/>Toronto is 4-1 SU in its last 5 games when playing at home against Detroit<br \/>Toronto is 12-5 SU in its last 17 games at home<br \/>Next up:<br \/>Toronto home to Detroit, Thursday, April 9<\/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 Detroit Tigers and the Toronto Blue Jays will both be trying to pick up a win on Wednesday when they battle at Rogers Centre. The Tigers will pin their hopes on the pitching of righthander Zach Miner in this game. Miner has a 0-0 record and a 0.00 ERA this season. Meanwhile, it&#39;ll be &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/04\/tigers-blue-jays-odds-preview-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Tigers-Blue Jays Odds 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-4122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4122","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=4122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4122\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}