{"id":4819,"date":"2009-07-03T10:37:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-03T15:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/07\/white-sox-royals-lines-preview\/"},"modified":"2009-07-03T10:37:00","modified_gmt":"2009-07-03T15:37:00","slug":"white-sox-royals-lines-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/07\/white-sox-royals-lines-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"White Sox-Royals Lines Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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The fans at Kauffman Stadium will be treated to a game between the Chicago White Sox and the Kansas City Royals when they take their seats on Friday. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The White Sox will give the ball to starter John<\/st2:GivenName> Danks<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> in this one. Lefthander<\/st2:GivenName> Danks<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> is 6-6 this season with a 4.08 ERA. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
It’ll be Zach<\/st2:GivenName> Greinke<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> toeing the rubber for the Royals in this contest. Righthander<\/st2:GivenName> Greinke<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> is 10-3 with a 1.95 ERA so far this season. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Oddsmakers currently have the Royals listed as 143-moneyline favorites versus the White Sox, while the game’s total has not yet been posted. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The White Sox closed out the Royals with a 4-1 victory in the opener of a four-game series on Thursday, as -140 favorites. That game’s five runs went UNDER the posted over\/under (9). <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Jayson Nix homered and scored once for the White Sox. Mark<\/st2:GivenName> Buehrle<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> tossed 8 1-3 scoreless innings to pick up the win. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
David<\/st2:GivenName> DeJesus<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> drove in the only run for the Royals, who were +120 underdogs. Bruce<\/st2:GivenName> Chen<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> allowed two runs over six innings in the loss. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Current streak:
Chicago<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:place><\/st1:City> has won 6 straight games.
Kansas City<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> has lost 3 straight games.<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Team records:
Chicago<\/st1:place><\/st1:City><\/st2:Sn>: 41-38 SU
Kansas City: 33-45 SU<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Chicago most recently:
When playing on Friday are 4-6
Before playing Kansas City are 5-5
After playing Kansas City are 5-5
After a win are 7-3<\/p>\n

Kansas City most recently:
When playing on Friday are 7-3
Before playing Chi White Sox are 4-6
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:
Chi White Sox are 5-0 SU in their last 5 games on the road
Chi White Sox are 5-0 SU in their last 5 games
Chi White Sox are 4-1 SU in their last 5 games when playing on the road against Kansas City
Chi White Sox are 4-1 SU in their last 5 games when playing Kansas City
Kansas City is 2-6 SU in its last 8 games
Kansas City is 1-4 SU in their last 5 games when playing at home against Chi White Sox
Kansas City is 1-4 SU in their last 5 games when playing Chi White Sox
Kansas City is 1-8 SU in its last 9 games at home<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Next up:
Kansas City<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> home to Chi White Sox, Saturday, July 4<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

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The fans at Kauffman Stadium will be treated to a game between the Chicago White Sox and the Kansas City Royals when they take their seats on Friday. The White Sox will give the ball to starter John Danks in this one. Lefthander Danks is 6-6 this season with a 4.08 ERA. It’ll be Zach … Continue reading White Sox-Royals 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-4819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4819","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=4819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4819\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}