{"id":4141,"date":"2009-04-09T09:08:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-09T14:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/04\/tigers-blue-jays-odds-preview-3\/"},"modified":"2009-04-09T09:08:00","modified_gmt":"2009-04-09T14:08:00","slug":"tigers-blue-jays-odds-preview-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/04\/tigers-blue-jays-odds-preview-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Tigers-Blue Jays Odds Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Detroit Tigers and the Toronto Blue Jays will both be gunning for a victory on Thursday when they meet at Rogers Centre. <br \/>The Tigers will give the ball to starter Rick Porcello in this one. Righthander Porcello is 0-0 this season with a 0.00 ERA. <br \/>The Blue Jays will counter Porcello with Ricky Romero. Lefthander Romero has a 0.00 ERA to go along with a 0-0 record this season. <br \/>Oddsmakers currently have the Blue Jays listed as 119-moneyline favorites versus the Tigers, while the game&#39;s total has not yet been posted. <br \/>Miguel Cabrera belted two home runs as the Tigers got their first win of the season by getting past the Blue Jays 5-1 on Wednesday, as +120 underdogs. That game&#39;s six runs fell UNDER the posted over\/under (9). <br \/>Cabrera finished 3-for-4 with four RBIs, while Zach Miner allowed just one run over 5 2-3 innings in earning the victory. <br \/>Aaron Hill drove in the lone run for the Blue Jays, who were favored at -140 in that contest. Jesse Litsch surrendered five runs over six innings in the loss. <br \/>Team records:<br \/>Detroit: 1-2 SU<br \/>Toronto: 2-1 SU<br \/>Detroit most recently:<br \/>When playing on Thursday are 5-5<br \/>Before playing Texas are 6-4<br \/>After playing Toronto are 4-6<br \/>After a win are 4-6<\/p>\n<p>Toronto most recently:<br \/>When playing on Thursday are 4-6<br \/>Before playing Cleveland are 3-7<br \/>After playing Detroit are 6-4<br \/>After a loss are 6-4<br \/>A few trends to consider:<br \/>Detroit is 2-4 SU in its last 6 games when playing on the road against Toronto<br \/>Detroit is 2-5 SU in its last 7 games when playing Toronto<br \/>Detroit is 1-4 SU in its last 5 games <br \/>Detroit is 1-6 SU in its last 7 games on the road<br \/>Toronto is 5-2 SU in its last 7 games when playing Detroit<br \/>Toronto is 5-2 SU in its last 7 games <br \/>Toronto is 4-2 SU in its last 6 games when playing at home against Detroit<br \/>Toronto is 12-6 SU in its last 18 games at home<br \/>Next up:<br \/>Detroit home to Texas, Friday, April 10<br \/>Toronto at Cleveland, Friday, April 10<\/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 gunning for a victory on Thursday when they meet at Rogers Centre. The Tigers will give the ball to starter Rick Porcello in this one. Righthander Porcello is 0-0 this season with a 0.00 ERA. The Blue Jays will counter Porcello with Ricky Romero. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/04\/tigers-blue-jays-odds-preview-3\/\" 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-4141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4141","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=4141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4141\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}