{"id":4633,"date":"2009-06-18T10:18:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-18T15:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/06\/diamondbacks-royals-odds-preview-2\/"},"modified":"2009-06-18T10:18:00","modified_gmt":"2009-06-18T15:18:00","slug":"diamondbacks-royals-odds-preview-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/06\/diamondbacks-royals-odds-preview-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Diamondbacks-Royals Odds Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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The Arizona Diamondbacks and the Kansas City Royals will both be trying to pick up a win on Thursday when they battle at Kauffman Stadium in an interleague contest. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Dan<\/st2:GivenName> Haren<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> will be the starting pitcher for the Diamondbacks on this day. Righthander<\/st2:GivenName> Haren<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> is 5-4 this season with a 2.20 ERA. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
It’ll be Luke<\/st2:GivenName> Hochevar<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> toeing the rubber for the Royals in this contest. Righthander<\/st2:GivenName> Hochevar<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> is 2-2 with a 5.60 ERA so far this season. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Oddsmakers currently have the Diamondbacks listed as 142-moneyline favorites versus the Royals, while the game’s total is sitting at 8. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Diamondbacks had 15 hits as they crushed the Royals 12-5 on Wednesday, as +155 underdogs. The game’s 17 runs sailed OVER the posted over\/under (7.5). <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Stephen<\/st2:GivenName> Drew<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> had two hits and drove in three runs for the Diamondbacks. Max<\/st2:GivenName> Scherzer<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> allowed nine hits and two runs over six innings for the win. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Jose<\/st2:GivenName> Guillen<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> had three hits and drove in three runs for the Royals, who were -175 favorites. Zack<\/st2:GivenName> Greinke<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> gave up six runs over 6 2-3 innings in the loss. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Team records:
Arizona<\/st1:place><\/st1:State>: 28-38 SU
Kansas City: 29-35 SU<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Arizona most recently:
When playing on Thursday are 8-2
Before playing Seattle are 4-6
After playing Kansas City are 4-6
After a win are 2-8<\/p>\n

Kansas City most recently:
When playing on Thursday are 8-2
Before playing St. Louis are 5-5
After playing Arizona are 8-2
After a loss are 3-7<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

A few trends to consider:
Arizona is 4-2 SU in its last 6 games when playing on the road against Kansas City
Arizona is 3-6 SU in its last 9 games
Arizona is 2-5 SU in its last 7 games when playing Kansas City
Kansas City is 4-1 SU in its last 5 games at home
Kansas City is 4-1 SU in its last 5 games
Kansas City is 5-2 SU in its last 7 games when playing Arizona
Kansas City is 2-4 SU in its last 6 games when playing at home against Arizona<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Next up:
Arizona<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> at Seattle<\/st1:place><\/st1:City><\/st2:Sn>, Friday, June 19
Kansas City<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> home to St. Louis<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>, Friday, June 19<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

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The Arizona Diamondbacks and the Kansas City Royals will both be trying to pick up a win on Thursday when they battle at Kauffman Stadium in an interleague contest. Dan Haren will be the starting pitcher for the Diamondbacks on this day. Righthander Haren is 5-4 this season with a 2.20 ERA. It’ll be Luke … Continue reading Diamondbacks-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-4633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4633","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=4633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4633\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}