{"id":4991,"date":"2009-07-25T08:01:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-25T13:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/07\/indians-mariners-lines-preview\/"},"modified":"2009-07-25T08:01:00","modified_gmt":"2009-07-25T13:01:00","slug":"indians-mariners-lines-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/07\/indians-mariners-lines-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"Indians-Mariners 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 Cleveland Indians and the Seattle Mariners will both be trying to pick up a win on Saturday when they battle at Safeco Field. <?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 Indians will give the ball to starter Jeremy Sowers in this one. Lefthander Sowers is 1-7 this season with a 6.32 ERA. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Meanwhile, it&#8217;ll be ace <?xml:namespace prefix = st2 ns = \"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags\" \/><st2:PersonName><?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = \"urn:schemas:contacts\" \/><st1:GivenName>Erik<\/st1:GivenName> <st1:Sn>Bedard<\/st1:Sn><\/st2:PersonName> who starts for the Mariners. <st2:PersonName><st1:GivenName>Lefthander<\/st1:GivenName> <st1:Sn>Bedard<\/st1:Sn><\/st2:PersonName> is 5-2 with a 2.70 ERA so far this season. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Oddsmakers currently have the Mariners listed as 180-moneyline favorites versus the Indians, while the game&#8217;s total has not yet been posted. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><st2:PersonName><st1:GivenName>Aaron<\/st1:GivenName> <st1:Sn>Laffey<\/st1:Sn><\/st2:PersonName> fanned seven batters and allowed just three hits over seven innings Friday, as the Indians defeated the Mariners 9-0. The Indians won the game as +115 underdogs, while the nine runs made it OVER the posted over\/under (8.5). <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><st2:PersonName><st1:GivenName>Ryan<\/st1:GivenName> <st1:Sn>Garko<\/st1:Sn><\/st2:PersonName> led the Indians with a three-run homer, while Laffey improved to 4-2 with the win. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><st2:PersonName><st1:GivenName>Ryan<\/st1:GivenName> <st1:Sn>Rowland-Smith<\/st1:Sn><\/st2:PersonName> gave up five hits and four runs over seven innings in the victory. The Mariners were -135 favorites in that game. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Current streak:<br \/><st2:City><st2:place><st1:Sn>Cleveland<\/st1:Sn><\/st2:place><\/st2:City> has won 2 straight games.<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3 face=\"Times New Roman\">Team records:<br \/><st1:Sn><st2:City><st2:place>Cleveland<\/st2:place><\/st2:City><\/st1:Sn>: 39-58 <\/font><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><st2:PersonName><st1:GivenName>SU<\/st1:GivenName><br \/><st1:Sn>Seattle<\/st1:Sn><\/st2:PersonName>: 51-45 SU<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Cleveland most recently:<br \/>When playing on Saturday are 5-5<br \/>Before playing Seattle are 4-6<br \/>After playing Seattle are 5-5<br \/>After a win are 2-8<\/p>\n<p>Seattle most recently:<br \/>When playing on Saturday are 3-7<br \/>Before playing Cleveland are 7-3<br \/>After playing Cleveland are 6-4<br \/>After a loss are 8-2<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">A few trends to consider:<br \/>Cleveland is 13-6 SU in its last 19 games when playing on the road against Seattle<br \/>Cleveland is 4-2 SU in its last 6 games on the road<br \/>Cleveland is 2-6 SU in its last 8 games when playing Seattle<br \/>Seattle is 6-2 SU in its last 8 games when playing Cleveland<br \/>Seattle is 5-2 SU in its last 7 games <br \/>Seattle is 11-5 SU in its last 16 games at home<br \/>Seattle is 6-13 SU in its last 19 games when playing at home against Cleveland<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Next up:<br \/><st2:City><st2:place><st1:Sn>Seattle<\/st1:Sn><\/st2:place><\/st2:City> home to <st1:Sn><st2:City><st2:place>Cleveland<\/st2:place><\/st2:City><\/st1:Sn>, Sunday, July 26<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 Cleveland Indians and the Seattle Mariners will both be trying to pick up a win on Saturday when they battle at Safeco Field. The Indians will give the ball to starter Jeremy Sowers in this one. Lefthander Sowers is 1-7 this season with a 6.32 ERA. Meanwhile, it&#8217;ll be ace Erik Bedard who starts &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/07\/indians-mariners-lines-preview\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Indians-Mariners 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-4991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4991","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=4991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4991\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}