{"id":4949,"date":"2009-07-22T07:31:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-22T12:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/07\/red-sox-rangers-odds-preview\/"},"modified":"2009-07-22T07:31:00","modified_gmt":"2009-07-22T12:31:00","slug":"red-sox-rangers-odds-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/07\/red-sox-rangers-odds-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"Red Sox-Rangers Odds Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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The Boston Red Sox will be fighting to snap a losing streak on Wednesday when they take on the Texas Rangers at Rangers Ballpark. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Red Sox will give the ball to starter Clay<\/st2:GivenName> Buchholz<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> in this one. Righthander<\/st2:GivenName> Buchholz<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> is 1-0 this season with a 1.59 ERA. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Starting this game for the Rangers will be ace Vicente<\/st2:GivenName> Padilla<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName>. The righthander has a 4.67 ERA to go along with a 7-5 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
Hank Blalock went 2-for-3 with two runs batted in to lead the Rangers over the Red Sox 4-2 on Tuesday night. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Texas<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> won as +125 home underdogs as the game played UNDER the 9.5-run total posted by oddsmakers. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Winning pitcher Tommy<\/st2:GivenName> Hunter<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> gave up one run over six innings for the Rangers, who got RBIs from Josh<\/st2:GivenName> Hamilton<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> and David<\/st2:GivenName> Murphy<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> in the payday. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Kevin<\/st2:GivenName> Youkilis<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> and Mike<\/st2:GivenName> Lowell<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> drove in runs for Boston<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>, while Josh<\/st2:GivenName> Beckett<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> allowed four runs over eight innings to take the loss for the Red Sox. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Current streak:
Boston<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> has lost 4 straight games.
Texas<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> has won 3 straight games.<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Team records:
Boston<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>: 55-38 SU
Texas: 51-41 SU<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Boston most recently:
When playing on Wednesday are 8-2
Before playing Baltimore are 7-3
After playing Texas are 6-4
After a loss are 6-4<\/p>\n

Texas most recently:
When playing on Wednesday are 4-6
Before playing Kansas City are 7-3
After playing Boston are 4-6
After a win are 7-3<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

A few trends to consider:
Boston is 16-7 SU in its last 23 games when playing Texas
Boston is 6-3 SU in its last 9 games when playing on the road against Texas
Boston is 1-4 SU in its last 5 games when playing Texas
Boston is 1-4 SU in its last 5 games on the road
Texas is 4-1 SU in its last 5 games when playing Boston
Texas is 8-2 SU in its last 10 games at home
Texas is 3-6 SU in its last 9 games when playing at home against Boston
Texas is 7-16 SU in its last 23 games when playing Boston<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Next up:
Boston<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> home to Baltimore<\/st1:place><\/st1:City><\/st2:Sn>, Friday, July 24
Texas<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> at Kansas City<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>, Friday, July 24<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

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The Boston Red Sox will be fighting to snap a losing streak on Wednesday when they take on the Texas Rangers at Rangers Ballpark. The Red Sox will give the ball to starter Clay Buchholz in this one. Righthander Buchholz is 1-0 this season with a 1.59 ERA. Starting this game for the Rangers will … Continue reading Red Sox-Rangers 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-4949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4949","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=4949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4949\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}