{"id":4635,"date":"2009-06-18T10:21:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-18T15:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/06\/athletics-dodgers-lines-preview-2\/"},"modified":"2009-06-18T10:21:00","modified_gmt":"2009-06-18T15:21:00","slug":"athletics-dodgers-lines-preview-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/06\/athletics-dodgers-lines-preview-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Athletics-Dodgers Lines Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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The Oakland Athletics and the Los Angeles Dodgers will both be trying to pick up a win on Thursday when they battle at Dodger Stadium. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Athletics will give the ball to starter Vin Mazzaro in this one. Righthander<\/st2:GivenName> Mazzaro<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> is 2-1 this season with a 1.37 ERA. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
It’ll be Randy<\/st2:GivenName> Wolf<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> toeing the rubber for the Dodgers in this contest. Lefthander<\/st2:GivenName> Wolf<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> is 3-2 with a 3.41 ERA so far this season. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Oddsmakers currently have the Dodgers listed as 143-moneyline favorites versus the Athletics, while the game’s total is sitting at 7\u00bd. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The A’s got out to a four-run lead and managed to earn a 5-4 victory over the Dodgers on Wednesday, as +150 underdogs. The nine runs made it OVER the posted over\/under (8). <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Jack<\/st2:GivenName> Cust<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> went 2-fo-r4 at the plate with a two-run homer for the A’s. Trevor<\/st2:GivenName> Cahill<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> got the win, allowing four hits and two runs over 5 1-3 innings. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Andre<\/st2:GivenName> Ethier<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> drove in two runs in a losing effort for the Dodgers, who were -170 favorites. Hiroki<\/st2:GivenName> Kuroda<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> surrendered all five runs over six innings of work. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Team records:
Oakland<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>: 28-36 SU
Los Angeles<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>: 43-23 SU<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Oakland<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> most recently:
When playing on Thursday are 2-8
Before playing San Diego<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> are 7-3
After playing LA Dodgers are 6-4
After a win are 6-4<\/p>\n

Los Angeles<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> most recently:
When playing on Thursday are 5-5
Before playing LA Angels are 6-4
After playing Oakland<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> are 3-7
After a loss are 8-2<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

A few trends to consider:
Oakland<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> is 4-1 SU in their last 5 games when playing LA Dodgers
Oakland<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> is 1-4 SU in its last 5 games on the road
Oakland<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> is 1-4 SU in its last 5 games
LA Dodgers are 1-4 SU in their last 5 games when playing Oakland<\/st1:place><\/st1:City><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Next up:
Oakland<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> at San Diego<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>, Friday, June 19
LA Dodgers at LA Angels, Friday, June 19<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

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The Oakland Athletics and the Los Angeles Dodgers will both be trying to pick up a win on Thursday when they battle at Dodger Stadium. The Athletics will give the ball to starter Vin Mazzaro in this one. Righthander Mazzaro is 2-1 this season with a 1.37 ERA. It’ll be Randy Wolf toeing the rubber … Continue reading Athletics-Dodgers 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-4635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4635","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=4635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4635\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}