{"id":4943,"date":"2009-07-22T07:03:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-22T12:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/07\/twins-athletics-lines-preview-2\/"},"modified":"2009-07-22T07:03:00","modified_gmt":"2009-07-22T12:03:00","slug":"twins-athletics-lines-preview-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/07\/twins-athletics-lines-preview-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Twins-Athletics Lines Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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The Minnesota Twins and the Oakland Athletics will both be trying to pick up a win on Wednesday when they battle at Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Righthander<\/st2:GivenName> Glen<\/st2:middlename> Perkins<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> will take the mound for the Twins to start this game. Perkins<\/st2:Sn> is 5-5 this season with a 4.75 ERA. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Perkins<\/st2:Sn>‘s opponent in this one will be Trevor<\/st2:GivenName> Cahill<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName>. The Athletics righthander has a 4.72 ERA to go along with a 5-8 record this season. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Oddsmakers currently have the Athletics listed as 110-moneyline favorites versus the Twins, while the game’s total has not yet been posted. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Michael<\/st2:GivenName> Cuddyer’s run-scoring triple in the top of the 10th<\/sup> inning lifted the Twins over the Athletics 3-2 on Tuesday night. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Minnesota<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> won as +120 road underdogs as the game played UNDER the 8-run total listed by sportsbooks. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Delmon<\/st2:GivenName> Young<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> and Nick<\/st2:GivenName> Punto<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> also drove in runs for the Twins, while Matt<\/st2:GivenName> Guerrier<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> picked up the win in relief of starter Anthony<\/st2:GivenName> Swarzak<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> for Minnesota<\/st1:place><\/st1:State>. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Orlando Cabrera and Adam<\/st2:GivenName> Kennedy<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> knocked in runs for Oakland<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>, as Andrew<\/st2:GivenName> Bailey<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> was handed the loss after allowing the go-ahead run in the top of the 10th<\/sup> inning. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Team records:
Minnesota<\/st1:place><\/st1:State>: 48-46 SU
Oakland: 39-53 SU<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Minnesota<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> most recently:
When playing on Wednesday are 5-5
Before playing LA Angels are 6-4
After playing Oakland<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> are 7-3
After a win are 4-6<\/p>\n

Oakland<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> most recently:
When playing on Wednesday are 6-4
Before playing NY Yankees are 3-7
After playing Minnesota<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> are 3-7
After a loss are 6-4<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

A few trends to consider:
Minnesota is 5-2 SU in its last 7 games on the road
Minnesota is 4-2 SU in its last 6 games
Oakland is 2-4 SU in its last 6 games
Oakland is 4-10 SU in its last 14 games at home<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Next up:
Minnesota<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> at LA Angels, Thursday, July 23
Oakland<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> at NY Yankees, Friday, July 24<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

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The Minnesota Twins and the Oakland Athletics will both be trying to pick up a win on Wednesday when they battle at Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum. Righthander Glen Perkins will take the mound for the Twins to start this game. Perkins is 5-5 this season with a 4.75 ERA. Perkins‘s opponent in this one will be … Continue reading Twins-Athletics 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-4943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4943","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=4943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4943\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}