{"id":4251,"date":"2009-04-18T08:21:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-18T13:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/04\/athletics-blue-jays-odds-preview\/"},"modified":"2009-04-18T08:21:00","modified_gmt":"2009-04-18T13:21:00","slug":"athletics-blue-jays-odds-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/04\/athletics-blue-jays-odds-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"Athletics-Blue Jays Odds Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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The fans at Rogers Centre will be treated to a game between the Oakland Athletics and the Toronto Blue Jays when they take their seats on Saturday. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Trevor<\/st2:GivenName> Cahill<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> will be the starting pitcher for the Athletics on this day. Righthander<\/st2:GivenName> Cahill<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> is 0-1 this season with a 2.25 ERA. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Cahill’s opponent in this one will be Brian<\/st2:GivenName> Tallet<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName>. The Blue Jays lefthander has a 0.00 ERA to go along with a 0-0 record this season. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Oddsmakers currently have the Blue Jays listed as 140-moneyline favorites versus the Athletics, while the game’s total has not yet been posted. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The A’s rallied late and defeated the high-flying Blue Jays 8-5 on Friday, as +130 underdogs. That game’s 13 runs made it OVER the posted over\/under (9). <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Bobby<\/st2:GivenName> Crosby<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> hit a bases-loaded triple to lead the way for the A’s. Andrew<\/st2:GivenName> Bailey<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> tossed two scoreless innings to pick up the victory, and Brad<\/st2:GivenName> Ziegler<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> collected his third save. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Aaron<\/st2:GivenName> Hill<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> had two hits and drove in two runs for the Blue Jays, who were favored at -150 in that game. Brandon<\/st2:GivenName> League<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> surrendered three runs in relief to suffer the loss. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Team records:
Oakland<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>: 5-5 SU
Toronto: 8-4 SU<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Oakland most recently:
When playing on Saturday are 4-6
Before playing Toronto are 4-6
After playing Toronto are 4-6
After a win are 6-4<\/p>\n

Toronto most recently:
When playing on Saturday are 3-7
Before playing Oakland are 6-4
After playing Oakland are 7-3
After a loss are 7-3<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

A few trends to consider:
Oakland is 8-4 SU in its last 12 games when playing on the road against Toronto
Oakland is 3-6 SU in its last 9 games on the road
Oakland is 5-10 SU in its last 15 games
Oakland is 1-4 SU in its last 5 games when playing on the road against Toronto
Toronto is 6-1 SU in its last 7 games when playing Oakland
Toronto is 4-1 SU in its last 5 games when playing at home against Oakland
Toronto is 9-4 SU in its last 13 games
Toronto is 4-2 SU in its last 6 games at home<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Next up:
Toronto<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> home to Oakland<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>, Sunday, April 19<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

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The fans at Rogers Centre will be treated to a game between the Oakland Athletics and the Toronto Blue Jays when they take their seats on Saturday. Trevor Cahill will be the starting pitcher for the Athletics on this day. Righthander Cahill is 0-1 this season with a 2.25 ERA. Cahill’s opponent in this one … Continue reading Athletics-Blue Jays Odds Preview<\/span> →<\/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-4251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4251","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=4251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4251\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}