{"id":4484,"date":"2009-05-25T09:29:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-25T14:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/05\/tigers-royals-odds-preview\/"},"modified":"2009-05-25T09:29:00","modified_gmt":"2009-05-25T14:29:00","slug":"tigers-royals-odds-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/05\/tigers-royals-odds-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"Tigers-Royals Odds Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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The Detroit Tigers and the Kansas City Royals will both be gunning for a victory on Monday when they meet at Kauffman Stadium. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Ace Justin<\/st2:GivenName> Verlander<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> will be the starting pitcher for the Tigers on this day. Righthander<\/st2:GivenName> Verlander<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> is 4-2 this season with a 3.99 ERA. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Meanwhile, it’ll be ace Gil<\/st2:GivenName> Meche<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> who starts for the Royals. Righthander<\/st2:GivenName> Meche<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> is 2-4 with a 4.42 ERA so far this season. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Oddsmakers currently have the Tigers listed as 145-moneyline favorites versus the Royals, while the game’s total has not yet been posted. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Tigers lost to Colorado<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> 3-1 as a -155 favorite on Sunday. The four runs scored fell UNDER the posted over\/under total (10). <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Magglio<\/st2:GivenName> Ordonez<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> was 2-3 with a run scored for Detroit<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> and Dontrelle<\/st2:GivenName> Willis<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> allowed three runs on seven hits in 6 2-3 innings. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Royals defeated St. Louis<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> 3-2 as a +140 underdog on Sunday. The five runs scored fell UNDER the posted over\/under total (8.5). <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Mike<\/st2:GivenName> Jacobs<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> drove in the winning run in the seventh inning for Kansas City<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>, while Brian<\/st2:GivenName> Bannister<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> earned the win City after allowing two runs on seven hits in six innings. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Current streak:
Detroit<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> has lost 2 straight games.<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Team records:
Detroit<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>: 24-18 SU
Kansas City: 22-22 SU<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Detroit most recently:
When playing on Monday are 5-5
Before playing Kansas City are 3-7
After playing Colorado are 5-5
After a loss are 5-5<\/p>\n

Kansas City most recently:
When playing on Monday are 4-6
Before playing Detroit are 4-6
After playing St. Louis are 4-6
After a win are 6-4<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

A few trends to consider:
The total has gone UNDER in 5 of Detroit’s last 5 games
The total has gone UNDER in 7 of Detroit’s last 8 games when playing on the road against Kansas City
The total has gone UNDER in 11 of Detroit’s last 14 games when playing Kansas City
Detroit is 7-2 SU in its last 9 games
The total has gone UNDER in 7 of Kansas City’s last 8 games when playing at home against Detroit
The total has gone OVER in 6 of Kansas City’s last 7 games at home
The total has gone UNDER in 11 of Kansas City’s last 14 games when playing Detroit
Kansas City is 9-4 SU in its last 13 games at home<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Next up:
Kansas City<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> home to Detroit<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>, Tuesday, May 26<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

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The Detroit Tigers and the Kansas City Royals will both be gunning for a victory on Monday when they meet at Kauffman Stadium. Ace Justin Verlander will be the starting pitcher for the Tigers on this day. Righthander Verlander is 4-2 this season with a 3.99 ERA. Meanwhile, it’ll be ace Gil Meche who starts … Continue reading Tigers-Royals 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-4484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4484","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=4484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4484\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}