{"id":4928,"date":"2009-07-21T09:12:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-21T14:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/07\/twins-athletics-odds-preview\/"},"modified":"2009-07-21T09:12:00","modified_gmt":"2009-07-21T14:12:00","slug":"twins-athletics-odds-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/07\/twins-athletics-odds-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"Twins-Athletics Odds Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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The Minnesota Twins will be fighting to snap a losing streak on Tuesday when they take on the Oakland Athletics at Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Righthander<\/st2:GivenName> Anthony<\/st2:middlename> Swarzak<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> will take the mound for the Twins to start this game. Swarzak is 2-3 this season with a 4.50 ERA. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
It’ll be Dallas Braden toeing the rubber for the Athletics in this contest. Lefthander<\/st2:GivenName> Braden<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> is 7-8 with a 3.45 ERA so far this season. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Oddsmakers currently have the Athletics listed as 140-moneyline favorites versus the Twins, while the game’s total has not yet been posted. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Matt<\/st2:GivenName> Holliday<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> was 4-for-5 with two homers and six runs batted in to lead the Athletics over the Twins 14-13 on Monday night. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Oakland<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> cashed as +115 home underdogs as the game played OVER the 9-run total posted by oddsmakers. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Jack<\/st2:GivenName> Cust<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> went 3-for-4 with a solo dinger and two RBIs for the Athletics, while Craig<\/st2:GivenName> Breslow<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> picked up the win in relief of starter Gio<\/st2:GivenName> Gonzalez<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> for Oakland<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Justin<\/st2:GivenName> Morneau<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> was 3-for-5 with two big flies and seven RBIs for Minnesota<\/st1:place><\/st1:State>, as Jose<\/st2:GivenName> Mijares<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> was handed the loss after coming into the game for Twins starter Nick<\/st2:GivenName> Blackburn<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName>. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Current streak:
Minnesota<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> has lost 2 straight games.<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Team records:
Minnesota<\/st1:place><\/st1:State>: 47-46 SU
Oakland: 39-52 SU<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Minnesota most recently:
When playing on Tuesday are 5-5
Before playing Oakland are 5-5
After playing Oakland are 7-3
After a loss are 7-3<\/p>\n

Oakland most recently:
When playing on Tuesday are 4-6
Before playing Minnesota are 5-5
After playing Minnesota are 3-7
After a win are 3-7<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

A few trends to consider:
Minnesota is 4-2 SU in its last 6 games on the road
Minnesota is 6-12 SU in its last 18 games when playing on the road against Oakland
Oakland is 12-6 SU in its last 18 games when playing at home against Minnesota
Oakland is 4-9 SU in its last 13 games at home<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Next up:
Oakland<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> home to Minnesota<\/st1:place><\/st1:State>, Wednesday, July 22<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

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The Minnesota Twins will be fighting to snap a losing streak on Tuesday when they take on the Oakland Athletics at Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum. Righthander Anthony Swarzak will take the mound for the Twins to start this game. Swarzak is 2-3 this season with a 4.50 ERA. It’ll be Dallas Braden toeing the rubber for … Continue reading Twins-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-4928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4928","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=4928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4928\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}