{"id":4128,"date":"2009-04-08T07:03:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-08T12:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/04\/royals-white-sox-lines-preview\/"},"modified":"2009-04-08T07:03:00","modified_gmt":"2009-04-08T12:03:00","slug":"royals-white-sox-lines-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/04\/royals-white-sox-lines-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"Royals-White Sox Lines Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Kansas City Royals and the Chicago White Sox will both be trying to pick up a win on Wednesday when they battle at U.S. Cellular Field. <br \/>Zach Greinke will be the starting pitcher for the Royals on this day. Righthander Greinke is 0-0 this season with a 0.00 ERA. <br \/>Starting this game for the White Sox will be Gavin Floyd. The righthander has a 0.00 ERA to go along with a 0-0 record this season. <br \/>Oddsmakers currently have the White Sox listed as 115-moneyline favorites versus the Royals, while the game&#39;s total has not yet been posted. <br \/>Jim Thome&#39;s three-run shot in the bottom of the eighth inning lifted the White Sox past the Royals 4-2 on Tuesday. <br \/>Chicago cashed as -145 home favorites as the game played under the 7.5-run total set by oddsmakers. <br \/>Thome finished 3-for-4 for the White Sox, while Octavio Dotel picked up the win in relief of starter Mark Buehrle for Chicago. <br \/>Alex Gordon had a homer and two runs batted in for Kansas City, as Kyle Farnsworth took the loss after allowing the dinger to Thome. <br \/>Team records:<br \/>Kansas City: 0-1 SU<br \/>Chicago: 1-0 SU<br \/>Kansas City most recently:<br \/>When playing on Wednesday are 3-7<br \/>Before playing Chi White Sox are 6-4<br \/>After playing Chi White Sox are 6-4<br \/>After a loss are 7-3<\/p>\n<p>Chicago most recently:<br \/>When playing on Wednesday are 7-3<br \/>Before playing Kansas City are 4-6<br \/>After playing Kansas City are 4-6<br \/>After a win are 3-7<br \/>A few trends to consider:<br \/>Kansas City is 8-2 SU in its last 10 games on the road<br \/>Kansas City is 13-4 SU in its last 17 games <br \/>Kansas City is 2-10 SU in their last 12 games when playing on the road against Chi White Sox<br \/>Kansas City is 1-6 SU in their last 7 games when playing Chi White Sox<br \/>Chi White Sox are 6-1 SU in their last 7 games when playing Kansas City<br \/>Chi White Sox are 10-2 SU in their last 12 games when playing at home against Kansas City<br \/>Chi White Sox are 5-1 SU in their last 6 games at home<br \/>Next up:<br \/>Chi White Sox home to Kansas City, 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 Kansas City Royals and the Chicago White Sox will both be trying to pick up a win on Wednesday when they battle at U.S. Cellular Field. Zach Greinke will be the starting pitcher for the Royals on this day. Righthander Greinke is 0-0 this season with a 0.00 ERA. Starting this game for the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/04\/royals-white-sox-lines-preview\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Royals-White Sox Lines 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-4128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4128","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=4128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4128\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}