{"id":4655,"date":"2009-06-20T08:23:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-20T13:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/06\/cardinals-royals-lines-preview\/"},"modified":"2009-06-20T08:23:00","modified_gmt":"2009-06-20T13:23:00","slug":"cardinals-royals-lines-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/06\/cardinals-royals-lines-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"Cardinals-Royals Lines Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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The St. Louis Cardinals and the Kansas City Royals will both be gunning for a victory on Saturday when they meet at Kauffman Stadium in an interleague contest. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Chris<\/st2:GivenName> Carpenter<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> will be the starting pitcher for the Cardinals on this day. Righthander Carpenter is 4-1 this season with a 1.59 ERA. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
It’ll be Brian<\/st2:GivenName> Bannister<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> toeing the rubber for the Royals in this contest. Righthander<\/st2:GivenName> Bannister<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> is 5-3 with a 3.96 ERA so far this season. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Oddsmakers currently have the Cardinals listed as 170-moneyline favorites versus the Royals, while the game’s total has not yet been posted. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Cardinals scored six runs in the third inning as they doubled the Royals 10-5 on Friday, as a -110 pick’em. That game’s 15 runs sailed OVER the posted over\/under (9.5). <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Ryan<\/st2:GivenName> Ludwick<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> belted a grand slam home run to lead the Cardinals. Brad<\/st2:GivenName> Thompson<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> gave up five hits and four runs over seven innings in the win. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Miguel<\/st2:GivenName> Olivo<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> went 2-for-4 at the plate with a two-run homer for the Royals. Kyle<\/st2:GivenName> Davies<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> surrendered nine hits and eight runs over 2 2-3 innings. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Current streak:
Kansas City<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> has lost 3 straight games.<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Team records:
St. Louis<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>: 37-31 SU
Kansas City: 29-37 SU<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
St. Louis most recently:
When playing on Saturday are 6-4
Before playing Kansas City are 5-5
After playing Kansas City are 5-5
After a win are 3-7<\/p>\n

Kansas City most recently:
When playing on Saturday are 4-6
Before playing St. Louis are 5-5
After playing St. Louis are 4-6
After a loss are 3-7<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

A few trends to consider:
St. Louis is 5-1 SU in its last 6 games when playing Kansas City
St. Louis is 14-4 SU in its last 18 games when playing on the road against Kansas City
St. Louis is 4-2 SU in its last 6 games on the road
St. Louis is 4-2 SU in its last 6 games
Kansas City is 5-10 SU in its last 15 games at home
Kansas City is 6-14 SU in its last 20 games
Kansas City is 4-14 SU in its last 18 games when playing at home against St. Louis
Kansas City is 1-5 SU in its last 6 games when playing St. Louis<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Next up:
Kansas City<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> home to St. Louis<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>, Sunday, June 21<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

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The St. Louis Cardinals and the Kansas City Royals will both be gunning for a victory on Saturday when they meet at Kauffman Stadium in an interleague contest. Chris Carpenter will be the starting pitcher for the Cardinals on this day. Righthander Carpenter is 4-1 this season with a 1.59 ERA. It’ll be Brian Bannister … Continue reading Cardinals-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-4655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4655","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=4655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4655\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}