{"id":4854,"date":"2009-07-09T09:20:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-09T14:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/07\/rangers-mariners-lines-preview\/"},"modified":"2009-07-09T09:20:00","modified_gmt":"2009-07-09T14:20:00","slug":"rangers-mariners-lines-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/07\/rangers-mariners-lines-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"Rangers-Mariners Lines Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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The Seattle Mariners will be fighting to snap a losing streak on Thursday when they take on the Texas Rangers at Safeco Field. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Rangers will give the ball to starter Tommy<\/st2:GivenName> Hunter<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> in this one. Righthander<\/st2:GivenName> Hunter<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> is 1-1 this season with a 3.18 ERA. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
It’ll be Felix<\/st2:GivenName> Hernandez<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> toeing the rubber for the Mariners in this contest. Righthander<\/st2:GivenName> Hernandez<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> is 8-3 with a 2.62 ERA so far this season. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Oddsmakers currently have the Mariners listed as 180-moneyline favorites versus the Rangers, while the game’s total has not yet been posted. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Andruw<\/st2:GivenName> Jones<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> belted three home runs to lead the Rangers to an 8-1 victory over the Angels<\/st2:Sn> on Wednesday, as +125 underdogs. That game’s nine runs went UNDER the posted over\/under (10). <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Marlon<\/st2:GivenName> Byrd<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> hit a two-run homer and Taylor<\/st2:GivenName> Teagarden<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> also went deep. Vicente<\/st2:GivenName> Padilla<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> allowed just eight hits and one run over six innings for the win. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Mariners blew a ninth inning lead and lost 5-3 to the Orioles last time out, as -115 favorites. That game’s combined score went UNDER the posted over\/under (9). <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Jose<\/st2:GivenName> Lopez<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> led the way with a two-run homer, and David<\/st2:GivenName> Aardsma<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> gave up five runs in relief and suffered the loss. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Current streak:
Texas<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> has won 2 straight games.
Seattle<\/st1:place><\/st1:City><\/st2:Sn> has lost 2 straight games.<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Team records:
Texas<\/st1:place><\/st1:State>: 47-36 <\/font>SU<\/st2:GivenName>
Seattle<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName>: 43-41 SU<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Texas most recently:
When playing on Thursday are 6-4
Before playing Seattle are 8-2
After playing LA Angels are 8-2
After a win are 7-3<\/p>\n

Seattle most recently:
When playing on Thursday are 5-5
Before playing Texas are 5-5
After playing Baltimore are 6-4
After a loss are 6-4<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

A few trends to consider:
Texas is 5-0 SU in its last 5 games when playing Seattle
Texas is 7-1 SU in its last 8 games
Texas is 6-1 SU in its last 7 games when playing on the road against Seattle
Texas is 4-1 SU in its last 5 games on the road
The total has gone OVER in 4 of Seattle’s last 5 games when playing at home against Texas
Seattle is 8-3 SU in its last 11 games at home
The total has gone OVER in 5 of Seattle’s last 7 games when playing Texas
The total has gone UNDER in 14 of Seattle’s last 20 games at home<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Next up:
Seattle<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:place><\/st1:City> home to Texas<\/st1:place><\/st1:State>, Friday, July 10<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

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The Seattle Mariners will be fighting to snap a losing streak on Thursday when they take on the Texas Rangers at Safeco Field. The Rangers will give the ball to starter Tommy Hunter in this one. Righthander Hunter is 1-1 this season with a 3.18 ERA. It’ll be Felix Hernandez toeing the rubber for the … Continue reading Rangers-Mariners 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-4854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4854","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=4854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4854\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}