{"id":4294,"date":"2009-04-23T06:39:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-23T11:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/04\/rangers-blue-jays-odds-preview\/"},"modified":"2009-04-23T06:39:00","modified_gmt":"2009-04-23T11:39:00","slug":"rangers-blue-jays-odds-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/04\/rangers-blue-jays-odds-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"Rangers-Blue Jays Odds Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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The Texas Rangers and the Toronto Blue Jays will both be trying to pick up a win on Thursday when they battle at Rogers Centre. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Rangers will pin their hopes on the pitching of righthander Kevin<\/st2:GivenName> Millwood<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> in this game. Millwood has a 1-1 record and a 1.17 ERA this season. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Millwood’s opponent in this one will be Scott<\/st2:GivenName> Richmond<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName>. The Blue Jays righthander has a 3.48 ERA to go along with a 1-0 record this season. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Oddsmakers currently have the Rangers listed as 125-moneyline favorites versus the Blue Jays, while the game’s total has not yet been posted. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Blue Jays scored in the 11th<\/sup> inning to defeat the Rangers 8-7 and evened the three-game series on Wednesday, as -150 favorites. That game’s 15 runs sailed OVER the posted over\/under (10.5). <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Rod Barajas cracked two home runs and finished with four RBIs for the Blue Jays. Jason<\/st2:GivenName> Frasor<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> tossed two innings to earn the win. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Michael<\/st2:GivenName> Young<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> went 3-for-5 with a solo home run and two RBIs for the Rangers, who were +130 underdogs. C.J.<\/st2:GivenName> Wilson<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> gave up the winning run in relief. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Team records:
Texas<\/st1:place><\/st1:State>: 6-8 SU
Toronto: 11-5 SU<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Texas most recently:
When playing on Thursday are 5-5
Before playing Baltimore are 2-8
After playing Toronto are 3-7
After a loss are 3-7<\/p>\n

Toronto most recently:
When playing on Thursday are 6-4
Before playing Chi White Sox are 7-3
After playing Texas are 5-5
After a win are 5-5<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

A few trends to consider:
The total has gone OVER in 8 of Texas’s last 9 games
The total has gone OVER in 4 of Texas’s last 5 games on the road
Texas is 5-2 SU in its last 7 games when playing Toronto
The total has gone OVER in 5 of Texas’s last 7 games when playing on the road against Toronto
The total has gone OVER in 9 of Toronto’s last 12 games
Toronto is 5-2 SU in its last 7 games
The total has gone OVER in 5 of Toronto’s last 7 games when playing at home against Texas
Toronto is 7-3 SU in its last 10 games at home<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Next up:
Texas<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> at Baltimore<\/st1:place><\/st1:City><\/st2:Sn>, Friday, April 24
Toronto<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> at Chi White Sox, Friday, April 24<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

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The Texas Rangers and the Toronto Blue Jays will both be trying to pick up a win on Thursday when they battle at Rogers Centre. The Rangers will pin their hopes on the pitching of righthander Kevin Millwood in this game. Millwood has a 1-1 record and a 1.17 ERA this season. Millwood’s opponent in … Continue reading Rangers-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-4294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4294","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=4294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4294\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}