{"id":4540,"date":"2009-06-11T09:49:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-11T14:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/06\/twins-athletics-lines-preview\/"},"modified":"2009-06-11T09:49:00","modified_gmt":"2009-06-11T14:49:00","slug":"twins-athletics-lines-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/06\/twins-athletics-lines-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"Twins-Athletics Lines Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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The Minnesota Twins and the Oakland Athletics will both be trying to pick up a win on Thursday when they battle at Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Twins will give the ball to starter Nick<\/st2:GivenName> Blackburn<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> in this one. Righthander Blackburn is 5-2 this season with a 3.30 ERA. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Athletics will counter Blackburn<\/st1:place> with Trevor<\/st2:GivenName> Cahill<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName>. Righthander<\/st2:GivenName> Cahill<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> has a 4.21 ERA to go along with a 3-5 record this season. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Oddsmakers currently have the Athletics listed as 115-moneyline favorites versus the Twins, while the game’s total has not yet been posted. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Twins scored three runs in the ninth inning and came away with a 6-3 victory over the A’s on Wednesday, as +110 underdogs. The nine runs made it OVER the night’s posted over\/under (8.5). <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Jason<\/st2:GivenName> Kubel<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> went deep for the Twins, while Matt<\/st2:GivenName> Guerrier<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> got the win in relief. Joe<\/st2:GivenName> Nathan<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> whiffed two batters and closed out the ninth for his 13th<\/sup> save. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Andrew<\/st2:GivenName> Bailey<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> suffered his first loss of the season, giving up three hits and three runs. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Current streak:
Minnesota<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> has won 2 straight games.
Oakland<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> has lost 2 straight games.<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Team records:
Minnesota<\/st1:place><\/st1:State>: 30-31 SU
Oakland: 26-32 SU<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Minnesota most recently:
When playing on Thursday are 6-4
Before playing Chi Cubs are 5-5
After playing Oakland are 7-3
After a win are 6-4<\/p>\n

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

A few trends to consider:
The total has gone UNDER in 7 of Minnesota’s last 9 games on the road
The total has gone UNDER in 11 of Minnesota’s last 15 games
The total has gone OVER in 4 of Minnesota’s last 6 games when playing Oakland
Minnesota is 4-2 SU in its last 6 games when playing Oakland
Oakland is 7-2 SU in its last 9 games
The total has gone UNDER in 13 of Oakland’s last 18 games
Oakland is 7-3 SU in its last 10 games at home
The total has gone OVER in 4 of Oakland’s last 6 games at home<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Next up:
Minnesota<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> at Chi Cubs, Friday, June 12
Oakland<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> at San Francisco<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>, Friday, June 12<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

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The Minnesota Twins and the Oakland Athletics will both be trying to pick up a win on Thursday when they battle at Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum. The Twins will give the ball to starter Nick Blackburn in this one. Righthander Blackburn is 5-2 this season with a 3.30 ERA. The Athletics will counter Blackburn with Trevor … Continue reading Twins-Athletics 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-4540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4540","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=4540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4540\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}