{"id":4456,"date":"2009-05-21T09:03:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-21T14:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/05\/indians-royals-lines-preview-2\/"},"modified":"2009-05-21T09:03:00","modified_gmt":"2009-05-21T14:03:00","slug":"indians-royals-lines-preview-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/05\/indians-royals-lines-preview-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Indians-Royals Lines Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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The Cleveland Indians and the Kansas City Royals will meet on the field at Kauffman Stadium on Thursday in a battle of division rivals. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Indians will pin their hopes on the pitching of righthander Carl<\/st2:GivenName> Pavano<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> in this game. Pavano has a 3-4 record and a 6.33 ERA this season. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Royals will counter Pavano with Zach<\/st2:GivenName> Greinke<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName>. Righthander<\/st2:GivenName> Greinke<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> has a 0.60 ERA to go along with a 7-1 record this season. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Oddsmakers currently have the Royals listed as 220-moneyline favorites versus the Indians, while the game’s total has not yet been posted. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Indians scored twice in the eighth inning and came away with a 6-5 win over the Royals on Wednesday, as +105 underdogs. That game’s 11 runs made it OVER the posted over\/under (9.5). <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Mark<\/st2:GivenName> DeRosa<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> went 3-for-4 at the plate with one RBI for the Indians. Aaron<\/st2:GivenName> Laffey<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> earned the win, while Kerry<\/st2:GivenName> Wood<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> added his sixth save. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Jose<\/st2:GivenName> Guillen<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> had two hits and drove in two runs for the Royals, who were -115 favorites. Sidney<\/st2:GivenName> Ponson<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> gave up two runs in relief and was tagged with the loss. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Team records:
Cleveland<\/st1:place><\/st1:City><\/st2:Sn>: 15-26 SU
Kansas City: 21-19 SU<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Cleveland most recently:
When playing on Thursday are 6-4
Before playing Cincinnati are 5-5
After playing Kansas City are 5-5
After a win are 1-9<\/p>\n

Kansas City most recently:
When playing on Thursday are 1-9
Before playing St. Louis are 7-3
After playing Cleveland are 7-3
After a loss are 5-5<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

A few trends to consider:
Cleveland is 4-2 SU in its last 6 games when playing Kansas City
Cleveland is 1-4 SU in its last 5 games on the road
Cleveland is 1-4 SU in its last 5 games
Kansas City is 9-3 SU in its last 12 games at home
Kansas City is 2-4 SU in its last 6 games when playing Cleveland
Kansas City is 3-8 SU in its last 11 games <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Next up:
Cleveland<\/st1:place><\/st1:City><\/st2:Sn> at Cincinnati<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>, Friday, May 22
Kansas City<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> at St. Louis<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>, Friday, May 22<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

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The Cleveland Indians and the Kansas City Royals will meet on the field at Kauffman Stadium on Thursday in a battle of division rivals. The Indians will pin their hopes on the pitching of righthander Carl Pavano in this game. Pavano has a 3-4 record and a 6.33 ERA this season. The Royals will counter … Continue reading Indians-Royals Lines 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-4456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4456","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=4456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4456\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}