{"id":4893,"date":"2009-07-18T08:53:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-18T13:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/07\/red-sox-blue-jays-lines-preview-2\/"},"modified":"2009-07-18T08:53:00","modified_gmt":"2009-07-18T13:53:00","slug":"red-sox-blue-jays-lines-preview-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/07\/red-sox-blue-jays-lines-preview-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Red Sox-Blue Jays Lines Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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The Boston Red Sox and the Toronto Blue Jays will meet on the field at Rogers Centre on Saturday in a battle of division rivals. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Red Sox will pin their hopes on the pitching of righthander Brad<\/st2:GivenName> Penny<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> in this game. Penny<\/st2:GivenName> has a 6-3 record and a 4.71 ERA this season. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Starting this game for the Blue Jays will be Marc<\/st2:GivenName> Rzepczynski<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName>. The lefthander has a 3.00 ERA to go along with a 0-1 record this season. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Odds aren’t yet posted for this game, so check back later for the opening line and total. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Kevin<\/st2:GivenName> Youkilis<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> and David<\/st2:GivenName> Ortiz<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> drove in a pair of runs to lead the Red Sox to a series-opening 4-1 win over the Blue Jays on Friday, as a -110 pick’em. The five runs went UNDER the posted over\/under (8.5). <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Clay<\/st2:GivenName> Buchholz<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> earned his first victory of the season, and Jonathan<\/st2:GivenName> Papelbon<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> closed out the game with his 24th<\/sup> save. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Alex<\/st2:GivenName> Rios<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> drove in the lone run for the Blue Jays, while Ricky<\/st2:GivenName> Romero<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> surrendered four runs over 4 1-3 innings in the loss. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Current streak:
Boston<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> has won 4 straight games.
Toronto<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> has lost 3 straight games.<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Team records:
Boston<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>: 55-34 SU
Toronto: 44-47 SU<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Boston most recently:
When playing on Saturday are 7-3
Before playing Toronto are 5-5
After playing Toronto are 6-4
After a win are 5-5<\/p>\n

Toronto most recently:
When playing on Saturday are 6-4
Before playing Boston are 5-5
After playing Boston are 3-7
After a loss are 3-7<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

A few trends to consider:
Boston is 6-1 SU in its last 7 games
The total has gone UNDER in 4 of Boston’s last 5 games when playing Toronto
The total has gone UNDER in 4 of Boston’s last 5 games when playing on the road against Toronto
Boston is 13-4 SU in its last 17 games on the road
The total has gone UNDER in 5 of Toronto’s last 5 games
The total has gone UNDER in 5 of Toronto’s last 5 games at home
The total has gone UNDER in 4 of Toronto’s last 5 games when playing Boston
The total has gone UNDER in 4 of Toronto’s last 5 games when playing at home against Boston<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Next up:
Toronto<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> home to Boston<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>, Sunday, July 19<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

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The Boston Red Sox and the Toronto Blue Jays will meet on the field at Rogers Centre on Saturday in a battle of division rivals. The Red Sox will pin their hopes on the pitching of righthander Brad Penny in this game. Penny has a 6-3 record and a 4.71 ERA this season. Starting this … Continue reading Red Sox-Blue Jays 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-4893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4893","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=4893"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4893\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}