{"id":4873,"date":"2009-07-16T08:19:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-16T13:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/07\/angels-athletics-odds-preview\/"},"modified":"2009-07-16T08:19:00","modified_gmt":"2009-07-16T13:19:00","slug":"angels-athletics-odds-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/07\/angels-athletics-odds-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"Angels-Athletics Odds Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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The Los Angeles Angels will be trying to extend a winning streak on Thursday when they take on the Oakland Athletics at Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

The Angels will give the ball to starter Ervin Santana in this one. Righthander Santana is 1-5 this season with a 7.81 ERA.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

Starting this game for the Athletics will be Dallas Braden. The lefthander has a 3.12 ERA to go along with a 7-7 record this season.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

Oddsmakers currently have the Athletics listed as 135-moneyline favorites versus the Angels, while the game’s total has not yet been posted.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

The Angels defeated the Yankees 5-4 as a +125 underdog on Sunday. The nine runs scored caused this game to be a PUSH on the posted over\/under total (9).<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

John Lackey allowed two runs on six hits in seven innings for the Angels and Maicier Izturis was 2-3 with an RBI and a run scored in the win.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

The Athletics defeated <\/span>Tampa<\/span><\/st1:placename> <\/span>Bay<\/span><\/st1:placetype><\/st1:place> 7-3 as a +180 underdog on Sunday. The 10 runs scored went OVER the posted over\/under total (8).<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

Kurt Suzuki was 3-4 with a pair of RBI and two runs scored for <\/span>Oakland<\/span><\/st1:place><\/st1:city> and Mark Ellis drove in two runs in the win.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

Current streak:
<\/span>Los Angeles<\/span><\/st1:place><\/st1:city> has won 3 straight games.
<\/span>Oakland<\/span><\/st1:place><\/st1:city> has won 2 straight games.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

Team records:
<\/span>Los Angeles<\/span><\/st1:place><\/st1:city>: 49-37 SU
Oakland: 37-49 SU<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

Los Angeles<\/span><\/st1:place><\/st1:city> most recently:
When playing on Thursday are 5-5
Before playing <\/span>Oakland<\/span><\/st1:place><\/st1:city> are 6-4
After playing NY Yankees are 8-2
After a win are 7-3<\/p>\n

<\/span>Oakland<\/span><\/st1:place><\/st1:city> most recently:
When playing on Thursday are 2-8
Before playing LA Angels are 5-5
After playing <\/span>Tampa<\/span><\/st1:placename> <\/span>Bay<\/span><\/st1:placetype><\/st1:place> are 7-3
After a win are 3-7<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

A few trends to consider:
LA Angels are 7-2 SU in their last 9 games on the road
The total has gone OVER in 6 of LA Angels’s last 8 games <\/span>
LA Angels are 6-2 SU in their last 8 games <\/span>
LA Angels are 5-2 SU in their last 7 games when playing on the road against Oakland
The total has gone UNDER in 5 of Oakland’s last 6 games at home
The total has gone UNDER in 10 of Oakland’s last 13 games <\/span>
The total has gone UNDER in 5 of Oakland’s last 7 games when playing at home against LA Angels
Oakland is 2-4 SU in their last 6 games when playing LA Angels<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

Next up:
Oakland<\/st1:place><\/st1:city> home to LA Angels, Friday, July 17<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

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The Los Angeles Angels will be trying to extend a winning streak on Thursday when they take on the Oakland Athletics at Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum. The Angels will give the ball to starter Ervin Santana in this one. Righthander Santana is 1-5 this season with a 7.81 ERA. Starting this game for the Athletics will … Continue reading Angels-Athletics 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-4873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4873","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=4873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4873\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}