{"id":4759,"date":"2009-06-26T07:53:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-26T12:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/06\/royals-pirates-lines-preview\/"},"modified":"2009-06-26T07:53:00","modified_gmt":"2009-06-26T12:53:00","slug":"royals-pirates-lines-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/06\/royals-pirates-lines-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"Royals-Pirates Lines Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
\n
The Kansas City Royals and the Pittsburgh Pirates will both be trying to pick up a win on Friday when they battle at PNC<\/st1:PlaceName> Park<\/st1:PlaceType><\/st1:place>. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Royals will trot ace Gil<\/st2:GivenName> Meche<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> out to the mound in this one. Righthander<\/st2:GivenName> Meche<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> has a 4-6 record and a 4.11 ERA this season. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Pirates will counter Meche with Virgil<\/st2:GivenName> Vasquez<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName>. Righthander<\/st2:GivenName> Vasquez<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> has a 0.00 ERA to go along with a 0-0 record this season. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Odds aren’t yet posted for this game, so check back later for the opening line and total. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Royals lost to Houston<\/st1:place><\/st1:City><\/st2:Sn> 5-4 as a +100 underdog on Thursday. The nine runs scored caused this game to be a PUSH on the posted over\/under total (9). <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Mark<\/st2:GivenName> Teahen<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> was 2-4 with two RBI for Kansas City<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> and Brian<\/st2:GivenName> Bannister<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> allowed five runs on six hits in six innings. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Andrew<\/st2:GivenName> McCutchen<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> hit a walk-off single for his second RBI of the game, as the Pirates defeated the Indians 3-2 last time out. The Pirates won the game as +135 underdogs, while the five runs went UNDER the night’s posted over\/under (8.5). <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Freddy Sanchez<\/st2:Sn> drove in the other run, while Matt<\/st2:GivenName> Capps<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> pitched a scoreless ninth to earn the victory in relief. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Current streak:
Pittsburgh<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> has won 2 straight games.<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Team records:
Kansas City<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>: 31-40 SU
Pittsburgh: 33-39 SU<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Kansas City most recently:
When playing on Friday are 4-6
Before playing Pittsburgh are 6-4
After playing Houston are 4-6
After a loss are 4-6<\/p>\n

Pittsburgh most recently:
When playing on Friday are 5-5
Before playing Kansas City are 3-7
After playing Cleveland are 6-4
After a win are 5-5<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

A few trends to consider:
The total has gone OVER in 4 of Kansas City’s last 5 games when playing Pittsburgh
Kansas City is 4-1 SU in its last 5 games when playing Pittsburgh
The total has gone OVER in 7 of Kansas City’s last 9 games when playing on the road against Pittsburgh
The total has gone UNDER in 10 of Kansas City’s last 15 games on the road
The total has gone OVER in 4 of Pittsburgh’s last 5 games when playing Kansas City
Pittsburgh is 4-1 SU in its last 5 games at home
The total has gone OVER in 7 of Pittsburgh’s last 9 games when playing at home against Kansas City
Pittsburgh is 2-5 SU in its last 7 games <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Next up:
Pittsburgh<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> home to Kansas City<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>, Saturday, June 27<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

 <\/font><\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n

<\/u><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

OffshoreInsiders.com<\/b><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Kansas City Royals and the Pittsburgh Pirates will both be trying to pick up a win on Friday when they battle at PNC Park. The Royals will trot ace Gil Meche out to the mound in this one. Righthander Meche has a 4-6 record and a 4.11 ERA this season. The Pirates will counter … Continue reading Royals-Pirates 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-4759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4759","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=4759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4759\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}