{"id":4668,"date":"2009-06-20T08:54:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-20T13:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/06\/diamondbacks-mariners-odds-preview\/"},"modified":"2009-06-20T08:54:00","modified_gmt":"2009-06-20T13:54:00","slug":"diamondbacks-mariners-odds-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/06\/diamondbacks-mariners-odds-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"Diamondbacks-Mariners Odds Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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The Arizona Diamondbacks and the Seattle Mariners will both be gunning for a victory on Saturday when they meet at Safeco Field in an interleague contest. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Diamondbacks will give the ball to starter Billy<\/st2:GivenName> Buckner<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> in this one. Righthander<\/st2:GivenName> Buckner<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> is 2-3 this season with a 6.21 ERA. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Mariners will counter Buckner<\/st2:Sn> with Jason<\/st2:GivenName> Vargas<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName>. Lefthander<\/st2:GivenName> Vargas<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> has a 3.89 ERA to go along with a 1-2 record this season. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Oddsmakers currently have the Mariners listed as 140-moneyline favorites versus the Diamondbacks, while the game’s total has not yet been posted. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Mariners scored all their runs in the eighth inning as they defeated the Diamondbacks 4-3 on Friday, as -135 favorites. That game’s seven runs went UNDER the posted over\/under (7.5). <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Ken<\/st2:GivenName> Griffey<\/st2:Sn> Jr.<\/st2:nameSuffix><\/st1:PersonName> belted a two-run homer to lead the way for the Mariners. Miguel<\/st2:GivenName> Batista<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> earned the win in relief, and David<\/st2:GivenName> Aardsma<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> closed out the victory with his 13th<\/sup> save. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Miguel<\/st2:GivenName> Montero<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> went deep in a losing effort for the Diamondbacks, who were +115 underdogs. Tony<\/st2:GivenName> Pena<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> allowed four hits and three runs over one inning of relief. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Team records:
Arizona<\/st1:place><\/st1:State>: 29-39 <\/font>SU<\/st2:GivenName>
Seattle<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName>: 33-34 SU<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Arizona most recently:
When playing on Saturday are 4-6
Before playing Seattle are 5-5
After playing Seattle are 6-4
After a loss are 5-5<\/p>\n

Seattle most recently:
When playing on Saturday are 5-5
Before playing Arizona are 6-4
After playing Arizona are 6-4
After a win are 5-5<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

A few trends to consider:
Arizona is 2-4 SU in its last 6 games
Arizona is 2-5 SU in its last 7 games when playing on the road against Seattle
Arizona is 0-5 SU in its last 5 games when playing Seattle
Seattle is 5-0 SU in its last 5 games when playing Arizona
Seattle is 5-1 SU in its last 6 games at home
Seattle is 5-2 SU in its last 7 games when playing at home against Arizona<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Next up:
Seattle<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:place><\/st1:City> home to Arizona<\/st1:place><\/st1:State>, Sunday, June 21<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

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The Arizona Diamondbacks and the Seattle Mariners will both be gunning for a victory on Saturday when they meet at Safeco Field in an interleague contest. The Diamondbacks will give the ball to starter Billy Buckner in this one. Righthander Buckner is 2-3 this season with a 6.21 ERA. The Mariners will counter Buckner with … Continue reading Diamondbacks-Mariners 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-4668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4668","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=4668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4668\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}