{"id":4892,"date":"2009-07-18T08:47:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-18T13:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/07\/tigers-yankees-lines-preview\/"},"modified":"2009-07-18T08:47:00","modified_gmt":"2009-07-18T13:47:00","slug":"tigers-yankees-lines-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/07\/tigers-yankees-lines-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"Tigers-Yankees Lines Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"<table cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" border=\"0\" >\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\" style=\"font: inherit;\">\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">The Detroit Tigers and the New York Yankees will both be gunning for a victory on Saturday when they meet at Yankee Stadium. <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = \"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office\" \/><o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">The Tigers will give the ball to ace starter <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = \"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags\" \/><st1:PersonName><?xml:namespace prefix = st2 ns = \"urn:schemas:contacts\" \/><st2:GivenName>Justin<\/st2:GivenName> <st2:Sn>Verlander<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> in this one. <st1:PersonName><st2:GivenName>Righthander<\/st2:GivenName> <st2:Sn>Verlander<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> is 10-4 this season with a 3.38 ERA. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">The Yankees will counter Verlander with ace <st1:PersonName><st2:GivenName>CC<\/st2:GivenName> <st2:Sn>Sabathia<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName>. <st1:PersonName><st2:GivenName>Lefthander<\/st2:GivenName> <st2:Sn>Sabathia<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> has a 3.86 ERA to go along with a 8-6 record this season. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Odds aren&#8217;t yet posted for this game, so check back later for the opening line and total. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><st1:PersonName><st2:GivenName>Mark<\/st2:GivenName> <st2:Sn>Teixeira<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> belted a three-run homer in the seventh inning as the Yankees defeated the Tigers 5-3 in Friday night&#8217;s opener. The Yankees won the game as -240 favorites, while the eight runs went UNDER the posted over\/under (10). <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><st1:PersonName><st2:GivenName>Hideki<\/st2:GivenName> <st2:Sn>Matsui<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> went 2-for-4 at the plate with one RBI for the Yankees. <st1:PersonName><st2:GivenName>Phil<\/st2:GivenName> <st2:Sn>Hughes<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> tossed two innings of relief for the win, and <st1:PersonName><st2:GivenName>Mariano<\/st2:GivenName> <st2:Sn>Rivera<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> collected his 24<sup>th<\/sup> save. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><st1:PersonName><st2:GivenName>Curtis<\/st2:GivenName> <st2:Sn>Granderson<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> went deep for a solo home run for the Tigers, who were +210 underdogs. <st1:PersonName><st2:GivenName>Joel<\/st2:GivenName> <st2:Sn>Zumaya<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> surrendered five hits and three runs to suffer the loss. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Team records:<br \/><st1:City><st1:place>Detroit<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>: 48-40 SU<br \/><st1:State><st1:place>New York<\/st1:place><\/st1:State>: 52-37 SU<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Detroit most recently:<br \/>When playing on Saturday are 6-4<br \/>Before playing NY Yankees are 7-3<br \/>After playing NY Yankees are 2-8<br \/>After a loss are 6-4<\/p>\n<p>New York most recently:<br \/>When playing on Saturday are 6-4<br \/>Before playing Detroit are 3-7<br \/>After playing Detroit are 7-3<br \/>After a win are 7-3<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">A few trends to consider:<br \/>The total has gone UNDER in 8 of Detroit&#8217;s last 9 games on the road<br \/>The total has gone UNDER in 4 of Detroit&#8217;s last 5 games <br \/>Detroit is 4-2 SU in its last 6 games <br \/>Detroit is 8-15 SU in their last 23 games when playing on the road against NY Yankees<br \/>NY Yankees are 5-1 SU in their last 6 games when playing Detroit<br \/>NY Yankees are 4-1 SU in their last 5 games at home<br \/>NY Yankees are 14-5 SU in their last 19 games <br \/>The total has gone OVER in 7 of NY Yankees&#8217;s last 10 games <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Next up:<br \/>NY Yankees home to <st1:City><st1:place>Detroit<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>, Sunday, July 19<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=MsoNormal><o:p><font size=3 face=\"Times New Roman\">&nbsp;<\/font><\/o:p><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><a\nhref=\"http:\/\/www.offshoreinsiders.com\/\"><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>OffshoreInsiders.com<\/b><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Detroit Tigers and the New York Yankees will both be gunning for a victory on Saturday when they meet at Yankee Stadium. The Tigers will give the ball to ace starter Justin Verlander in this one. Righthander Verlander is 10-4 this season with a 3.38 ERA. The Yankees will counter Verlander with ace CC &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/07\/tigers-yankees-lines-preview\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Tigers-Yankees Lines Preview<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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-4892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4892","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=4892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4892\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}