{"id":4787,"date":"2009-06-27T08:16:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-27T13:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/06\/rockies-athletics-odds-preview\/"},"modified":"2009-06-27T08:16:00","modified_gmt":"2009-06-27T13:16:00","slug":"rockies-athletics-odds-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/06\/rockies-athletics-odds-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"Rockies-Athletics Odds Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"<table cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" border=\"0\" >\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\" style=\"font: inherit;\">\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">The Colorado Rockies and the Oakland Athletics will both be gunning for a victory on Saturday when they meet at Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum in an interleague contest. <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = \"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office\" \/><o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">The <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = \"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags\" \/><st1:place>Rockies<\/st1:place> will give the ball to starter <st1:PersonName><?xml:namespace prefix = st2 ns = \"urn:schemas:contacts\" \/><st2:GivenName>Jorge<\/st2:GivenName> <st2:Sn>De La Rosa<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> in this one. <st1:PersonName><st2:GivenName>Lefthander<\/st2:GivenName> <st2:Sn>De La Rosa<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> is 3-7 this season with a 5.85 ERA. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">The Athletics will counter <st2:Sn>De La Rosa<\/st2:Sn> with <st1:PersonName><st2:GivenName>Trevor<\/st2:GivenName> <st2:Sn>Cahill<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName>. <st1:PersonName><st2:GivenName>Righthander<\/st2:GivenName> <st2:Sn>Cahill<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> has a 3.68 ERA to go along with a 5-5 record this season. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Odds aren&#8217;t yet posted for this game, so check back later for the opening line and total. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><st1:PersonName><st2:GivenName>Garrett<\/st2:GivenName> <st2:Sn>Atkins<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> drove in two runs to lead the <st1:place>Rockies<\/st1:place> in a 4-2 victory over the A&#8217;s on Friday, as +120 underdogs. The six runs went UNDER the posted over\/under (8.5). <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><st1:PersonName><st2:GivenName>Todd<\/st2:GivenName> <st2:Sn>Helton<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> went 1-for-3 at the plate with two RBIs for the <st1:place>Rockies<\/st1:place>. <st1:PersonName><st2:GivenName>Jason<\/st2:GivenName> <st2:Sn>Hammel<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> improved to 5-3 with the win, and <st1:Street><st1:address>Huston Street<\/st1:address><\/st1:Street> collected his 17<sup>th<\/sup> save. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><st1:PersonName><st2:GivenName>Kurt<\/st2:GivenName> <st2:Sn>Suzuki<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> belted a solo home run for the A&#8217;s, who were -140 favorites. Dallas Braden surrendered five hits and four runs over 5 1-3 innings in the loss. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Current streak:<br \/><st1:City><st1:place>Oakland<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> has lost 3 straight games.<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Team records:<br \/><st1:State><st1:place>Colorado<\/st1:place><\/st1:State>: 38-35 SU<br \/>Oakland: 31-41 SU<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Colorado most recently:<br \/>When playing on Saturday are 3-7<br \/>Before playing Oakland are 4-6<br \/>After playing Oakland are 4-6<br \/>After a win are 8-2<\/p>\n<p>Oakland most recently:<br \/>When playing on Saturday are 6-4<br \/>Before playing Colorado are 5-5<br \/>After playing Colorado are 6-4<br \/>After a loss are 4-6<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">A few trends to consider:<br \/>Colorado is 18-3 SU in its last 21 games <br \/>Colorado is 10-2 SU in its last 12 games on the road<br \/>Colorado is 1-6 SU in its last 7 games when playing on the road against Oakland<br \/>Oakland is 6-1 SU in its last 7 games when playing at home against Colorado<br \/>Oakland is 2-5 SU in its last 7 games at home<br \/>Oakland is 1-4 SU in its last 5 games <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Next up:<br \/><st1:City><st1:place>Oakland<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> home to <st1:State><st1:place>Colorado<\/st1:place><\/st1:State>, Sunday, June 28<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=MsoNormal><b><span style=\"TEXT-TRANSFORM: uppercase\"><o:p><font size=3 face=\"Times New Roman\">&nbsp;<\/font><\/o:p><\/span><\/b><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><a\nhref=\"http:\/\/www.offshoreinsiders.com\/\"><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>OffshoreInsiders.com<\/b><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Colorado Rockies and the Oakland Athletics will both be gunning for a victory on Saturday when they meet at Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum in an interleague contest. The Rockies will give the ball to starter Jorge De La Rosa in this one. Lefthander De La Rosa is 3-7 this season with a 5.85 ERA. The &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/06\/rockies-athletics-odds-preview\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Rockies-Athletics Odds Preview<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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-4787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4787","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=4787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4787\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}