{"id":4813,"date":"2009-07-03T10:26:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-03T15:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/07\/athletics-indians-lines-preview\/"},"modified":"2009-07-03T10:26:00","modified_gmt":"2009-07-03T15:26:00","slug":"athletics-indians-lines-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/07\/athletics-indians-lines-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"Athletics-Indians Lines Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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The Oakland Athletics and the Cleveland Indians will both be trying to pick up a win on Friday when they battle at Progressive Field. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Athletics will give the ball to starter Trevor<\/st2:GivenName> Cahill<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> in this one. Righthander<\/st2:GivenName> Cahill<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> is 5-6 this season with a 4.23 ERA. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Cahill’s opponent in this one will be David<\/st2:GivenName> Huff<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName>. The Indians lefthander has a 6.26 ERA to go along with a 3-3 record this season. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Oddsmakers currently have the Indians listed as 125-moneyline favorites versus the Athletics, while the game’s total has not yet been posted. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The A’s got two-run homers from Jason<\/st2:GivenName> Giambi<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> and Jack<\/st2:GivenName> Cust<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> as they defeated the Tigers 5-1 on Wednesday, as +115 underdogs. That game’s six runs went UNDER the day’s posted over\/under (7.5). <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Dallas Braden allowed just five hits and one run over seven innings in getting his sixth win of the season. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Indians were defeated 6-2 by the White Sox last time out, as -115 favorites. That game’s combined score fell UNDER the posted over\/under (9.5). <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Grady Sizemore and Shin-Soo Choo drove in one run apiece. Jeremy Sowers allowed 11 hits and five runs over six innings in the loss. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Current streak:
Cleveland<\/st1:place><\/st1:City><\/st2:Sn> has lost 5 straight games.<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Team records:
Oakland<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>: 33-44 <\/font>SU<\/st2:GivenName>
Cleveland<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName>: 31-49 SU<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Oakland most recently:
When playing on Friday are 6-4
Before playing Cleveland are 7-3
After playing Detroit are 4-6
After a win are 4-6<\/p>\n

Cleveland most recently:
When playing on Friday are 4-6
Before playing Oakland are 2-8
After playing Chi White Sox are 5-5
After a loss are 2-8<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

A few trends to consider:
The total has gone UNDER in 5 of Oakland’s last 6 games
The total has gone UNDER in 4 of Oakland’s last 5 games when playing Cleveland
The total has gone UNDER in 4 of Oakland’s last 5 games when playing on the road against Cleveland
The total has gone OVER in 5 of Oakland’s last 7 games on the road
The total has gone UNDER in 4 of Cleveland’s last 5 games
Cleveland is 4-1 SU in its last 5 games when playing Oakland
The total has gone UNDER in 4 of Cleveland’s last 5 games at home
The total has gone UNDER in 4 of Cleveland’s last 5 games when playing Oakland<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Next up:
Cleveland<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:place><\/st1:City> home to Oakland<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>, Saturday, July 4<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

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The Oakland Athletics and the Cleveland Indians will both be trying to pick up a win on Friday when they battle at Progressive Field. The Athletics will give the ball to starter Trevor Cahill in this one. Righthander Cahill is 5-6 this season with a 4.23 ERA. Cahill’s opponent in this one will be David … Continue reading Athletics-Indians 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-4813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4813","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=4813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4813\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}