{"id":4321,"date":"2009-05-02T08:04:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-02T13:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/05\/indians-tigers-odds-preview\/"},"modified":"2009-05-02T08:04:00","modified_gmt":"2009-05-02T13:04:00","slug":"indians-tigers-odds-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/05\/indians-tigers-odds-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"Indians-Tigers Odds Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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The Cleveland Indians and the Detroit Tigers will meet on the field at Comerica<\/st2:PlaceName> Park<\/st2:PlaceType><\/st2:place> on Saturday in a battle of division rivals. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Aaron<\/st1:GivenName> Laffey<\/st1:Sn><\/st2:PersonName> will be the starting pitcher for the Indians on this day. Lefthander<\/st1:GivenName> Laffey<\/st1:Sn><\/st2:PersonName> is 2-0 this season with a 2.41 ERA. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
It’ll be Zach<\/st1:GivenName> Miner<\/st1:Sn><\/st2:PersonName> toeing the rubber for the Tigers in this contest. Righthander Miner is 2-1 with a 6.43 ERA so far this season. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Oddsmakers currently have the Tigers listed as 110-moneyline favorites versus the Indians, while the game’s total has not yet been posted. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Jhonny<\/st1:GivenName> Peralta<\/st1:Sn><\/st2:PersonName> drove in two runs and the Indians held off a late charge to defeat the Tigers 6-5 on Friday, as +155 underdogs. That game’s 11 runs made it OVER the posted over\/under (10). <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Carl<\/st1:GivenName> Pavano<\/st1:Sn><\/st2:PersonName> tossed 7 1-3 innings for the win, and Kerry<\/st1:GivenName> Wood<\/st1:Sn><\/st2:PersonName> closed out the ninth for his fifth save. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Miguel<\/st1:GivenName> Cabrera<\/st1:Sn><\/st2:PersonName> hit a three-run homer for the Tigers, who were -175 favorites. Armando<\/st1:GivenName> Galarraga<\/st1:Sn><\/st2:PersonName> surrendered eight hits and five runs in the loss. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Current streak:
Detroit<\/st2:place><\/st2:City> has lost 3 straight games.<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Team records:
Cleveland<\/st2:place><\/st2:City><\/st1:Sn>: 9-14 SU
Detroit: 11-11 SU<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Cleveland most recently:
When playing on Saturday are 7-3
Before playing Detroit are 7-3
After playing Detroit are 6-4
After a win are 2-8<\/p>\n

Detroit most recently:
When playing on Saturday are 2-8
Before playing Cleveland are 3-7
After playing Cleveland are 3-7
After a loss are 6-4<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

A few trends to consider:
Cleveland is 5-0 SU in its last 5 games when playing Detroit
Cleveland is 4-1 SU in its last 5 games when playing on the road against Detroit
Cleveland is 4-2 SU in its last 6 games on the road
Cleveland is 4-8 SU in its last 12 games on the road
Detroit is 2-4 SU in its last 6 games at home
Detroit is 1-4 SU in its last 5 games when playing at home against Cleveland
Detroit is 0-5 SU in its last 5 games when playing Cleveland<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Next up:
Detroit<\/st2:place><\/st2:City> home to Cleveland<\/st2:place><\/st2:City><\/st1:Sn>, Sunday, May 3<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

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The Cleveland Indians and the Detroit Tigers will meet on the field at Comerica Park on Saturday in a battle of division rivals. Aaron Laffey will be the starting pitcher for the Indians on this day. Lefthander Laffey is 2-0 this season with a 2.41 ERA. It’ll be Zach Miner toeing the rubber for the … Continue reading Indians-Tigers 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-4321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4321","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=4321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4321\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}