{"id":4792,"date":"2009-06-28T08:06:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-28T13:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/06\/royals-pirates-lines-preview-2\/"},"modified":"2009-06-28T08:06:00","modified_gmt":"2009-06-28T13:06:00","slug":"royals-pirates-lines-preview-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/06\/royals-pirates-lines-preview-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Royals-Pirates Lines Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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The Pittsburgh Pirates will be trying to extend a winning streak on Sunday when they take on the Kansas City Royals at PNC<\/st1:PlaceName> Park<\/st1:PlaceType><\/st1:place>. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Royals will pin their hopes on the pitching of righthander Zach<\/st2:GivenName> Greinke<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> in this game. Greinke has a 9-3 record and a 1.90 ERA this season. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Pirates will counter Greinke with Charlie<\/st2:GivenName> Morton<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName>. Righthander<\/st2:GivenName> Morton<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> has a 3.00 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 Pirates won their fourth straight overall on Saturday by defeating the Royals 6-2, as -165 favorites. The eight runs went UNDER the posted over\/under (9). <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Delwyn<\/st2:GivenName> Young<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> belted a three-run homer and drove in four runs for the Pirates. Paul<\/st2:GivenName> Maholm<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> allowed just two runs over seven innings for the win. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Billy<\/st2:GivenName> Butler<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> drove in both runs for the Royals, who were +145 underdogs. Bruce<\/st2:GivenName> Chen<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> gave up four runs over 6 1-3 innings in the loss. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Current streak:
Kansas City<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> has lost 3 straight games.
Pittsburgh<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> has won 4 straight games.<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Team records:
Kansas City<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>: 31-42 SU
Pittsburgh: 35-39 SU<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Kansas City most recently:
When playing on Sunday are 4-6
Before playing Minnesota are 5-5
After playing Pittsburgh are 4-6
After a loss are 3-7<\/p>\n

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

A few trends to consider:
Kansas City is 4-2 SU in its last 6 games when playing Pittsburgh
Kansas City is 5-17 SU in its last 22 games on the road
Kansas City is 1-4 SU in its last 5 games when playing on the road against Pittsburgh
Kansas City is 2-8 SU in its last 10 games
Pittsburgh is 6-1 SU in its last 7 games at home
Pittsburgh is 4-1 SU in its last 5 games
Pittsburgh is 4-1 SU in its last 5 games when playing at home against Kansas City
Pittsburgh is 2-4 SU in its last 6 games when playing Kansas City<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Next up:
Kansas City<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> home to Minnesota<\/st1:place><\/st1:State>, Monday, June<\/st2:GivenName> 29
Pittsburgh<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> home to Chi Cubs, Monday, June 29<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

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The Pittsburgh Pirates will be trying to extend a winning streak on Sunday when they take on the Kansas City Royals at PNC Park. The Royals will pin their hopes on the pitching of righthander Zach Greinke in this game. Greinke has a 9-3 record and a 1.90 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-4792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4792","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=4792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4792\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}