{"id":4798,"date":"2009-06-28T08:19:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-28T13:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/06\/twins-cardinals-odds-preview-2\/"},"modified":"2009-06-28T08:19:00","modified_gmt":"2009-06-28T13:19:00","slug":"twins-cardinals-odds-preview-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/06\/twins-cardinals-odds-preview-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Twins-Cardinals Odds Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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The Minnesota Twins and the St. Louis Cardinals will both be gunning for a victory on Sunday when they meet at Busch Stadium. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Ace Francisco<\/st2:GivenName> Liriano<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> will be the starting pitcher for the Twins on this day. Lefthander<\/st2:GivenName> Liriano<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> is 3-8 this season with a 5.88 ERA. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Cardinals will counter Liriano with Joel<\/st2:GivenName> Pineiro<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName>. Righthander<\/st2:GivenName> Pineiro<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> has a 3.40 ERA to go along with a 6-8 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
Albert<\/st2:GivenName> Pujols<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> belted two home runs with four RBIs in leading the Cardinals over the Twins 5-3 on Saturday, as +105 underdogs. That game’s eight runs went UNDER the posted over\/under (9). <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Josh<\/st2:GivenName> Kinney<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> earned the win in relief for the Cardinals, and Ryan<\/st2:GivenName> Franklin<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> closed out the ninth with his 18th<\/sup> save. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Brendan<\/st2:GivenName> Harris<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> went 2-for-4 at the plate with three RBIs for the Twins, who were -115 favorites. Kevin<\/st2:GivenName> Slowey<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> surrendered five runs over three innings <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Team records:
Minnesota<\/st1:place><\/st1:State>: <\/font>38-38 SU
St.<\/st1:address><\/st1:Street> Louis<\/st2:GivenName>: 41-35 SU<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Minnesota most recently:
When playing on Sunday are 5-5
Before playing Kansas City are 6-4
After playing St. Louis are 2-8
After a loss are 7-3<\/p>\n

St. Louis most recently:
When playing on Sunday are 8-2
Before playing San Francisco are 6-4
After playing Minnesota are 5-5
After a win are 4-6<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

A few trends to consider:
Minnesota is 1-4 SU in its last 5 games when playing on the road against St. Louis
Minnesota is 1-4 SU in its last 5 games when playing St. Louis
St. Louis is 4-1 SU in its last 5 games when playing at home against Minnesota
St. Louis is 4-1 SU in its last 5 games when playing Minnesota
St. Louis is 3-6 SU in its last 9 games at home
St. Louis is 2-4 SU in its last 6 games <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Next up:
Minnesota<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> at Kansas City<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>, Monday, June 29
St. Louis<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> home to San Francisco<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>, Monday, June 29<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

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The Minnesota Twins and the St. Louis Cardinals will both be gunning for a victory on Sunday when they meet at Busch Stadium. Ace Francisco Liriano will be the starting pitcher for the Twins on this day. Lefthander Liriano is 3-8 this season with a 5.88 ERA. The Cardinals will counter Liriano with Joel Pineiro. … Continue reading Twins-Cardinals 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-4798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4798","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=4798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4798\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}