{"id":4237,"date":"2009-04-16T09:21:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-16T14:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/04\/blue-jays-twins-odds-preview\/"},"modified":"2009-04-16T09:21:00","modified_gmt":"2009-04-16T14:21:00","slug":"blue-jays-twins-odds-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/04\/blue-jays-twins-odds-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Jays-Twins Odds Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Toronto Blue Jays and the Minnesota Twins will both be trying to pick up a win on Thursday when they battle at The Metrodome. <br \/>Ace righthander Roy Halladay will take the mound for the Blue Jays to start this game. Halladay is 2-0 this season with a 3.86 ERA. <br \/>Meanwhile, it&#39;ll be ace Francisco Liriano who starts for the Twins. Lefthander Liriano is 0-2 with a 6.94 ERA so far this season. <br \/>Oddsmakers currently have the Blue Jays listed as 145-moneyline favorites versus the Twins, while the game&#39;s total has not yet been posted. <br \/>The Blue Jays belted out 16 hits en route to a 12-2 victory over the Twins on Wednesday, as +130 underdogs. The 14 runs sailed OVER the posted over\/under (8.5). <br \/>Aaron Hill went 4-for-5 at the plate with three RBIs, including a two-run dinger. Scott Richmond tossed 6 1-3 innings for the win, allowing two runs and four hits. <br \/>Scott Baker surrendered six runs in just four innings in suffering the loss for the Twins, who were -150 favorites. <br \/>Team records:<br \/>Toronto: 7-3 SU<br \/>Minnesota: 4-6 SU<br \/>Toronto most recently:<br \/>When playing on Thursday are 4-6<br \/>Before playing Oakland are 6-4<br \/>After playing Minnesota are 7-3<br \/>After a win are 4-6<\/p>\n<p>Minnesota most recently:<br \/>When playing on Thursday are 6-4<br \/>Before playing LA Angels are 4-6<br \/>After playing Toronto are 3-7<br \/>After a loss are 6-4<br \/>A few trends to consider:<br \/>Toronto is 11-1 SU in its last 12 games when playing Minnesota<br \/>Toronto is 5-1 SU in its last 6 games when playing on the road against Minnesota<br \/>Toronto is 8-3 SU in its last 11 games <br \/>Toronto is 5-2 SU in its last 7 games on the road<br \/>Minnesota is 1-4 SU in its last 5 games <br \/>Minnesota is 1-5 SU in its last 6 games when playing at home against Toronto<br \/>Minnesota is 1-11 SU in its last 12 games when playing Toronto<br \/>Next up:<br \/>Toronto home to Oakland, Friday, April 17<br \/>Minnesota home to LA Angels, Friday, April 17<\/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 Toronto Blue Jays and the Minnesota Twins will both be trying to pick up a win on Thursday when they battle at The Metrodome. Ace righthander Roy Halladay will take the mound for the Blue Jays to start this game. Halladay is 2-0 this season with a 3.86 ERA. Meanwhile, it&#39;ll be ace Francisco &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/04\/blue-jays-twins-odds-preview\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Blue Jays-Twins 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-4237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4237","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=4237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4237\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}