{"id":4996,"date":"2009-07-25T08:15:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-25T13:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/07\/rangers-royals-lines-preview\/"},"modified":"2009-07-25T08:15:00","modified_gmt":"2009-07-25T13:15:00","slug":"rangers-royals-lines-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/07\/rangers-royals-lines-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"Rangers-Royals Lines Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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The Texas Rangers and the Kansas City Royals will both be trying to pick up a win on Saturday when they battle at Kauffman Stadium. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Rangers will give the ball to starter Derek<\/st2:GivenName> Holland<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> in this one. Lefthander<\/st2:GivenName> Holland<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> is 1-4 this season with a 6.28 ERA. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
It’ll be Luke<\/st2:GivenName> Hochevar<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> toeing the rubber for the Royals in this contest. Righthander<\/st2:GivenName> Hochevar<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> is 5-3 with a 5.09 ERA so far this season. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Oddsmakers currently have the Royals listed as 115-moneyline favorites versus the Rangers, while the game’s total has not yet been posted. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Rangers scored early and went on to defeat the Royals 2-0 on Friday, as +135 underdogs. The two runs went UNDER the posted over\/under (8). <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Scott<\/st2:GivenName> Feldman<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> tossed a four-hitter through eight innings for the win, and C.J.<\/st2:GivenName> Wilson<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> collected his 10th<\/sup> save. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Zack<\/st2:GivenName> Greinke<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> allowed just three hits and one run over seven innings in the loss. The Royals were -155 favorites in that game. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Current streak:
Texas<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> has won 5 straight games.
Kansas City<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> has lost 10 straight games.<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Team records:
Texas<\/st1:place><\/st1:State>: 53-41 SU
Kansas City: 37-58 SU<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Texas most recently:
When playing on Saturday are 9-1
Before playing Kansas City are 7-3
After playing Kansas City are 6-4
After a win are 7-3<\/p>\n

Kansas City most recently:
When playing on Saturday are 3-7
Before playing Texas are 4-6
After playing Texas are 3-7
After a loss are 1-9<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

A few trends to consider:
Texas is 5-0 SU in its last 5 games
Texas is 6-1 SU in its last 7 games when playing on the road against Kansas City
Texas is 9-3 SU in its last 12 games when playing Kansas City
Kansas City is 3-9 SU in its last 12 games when playing Texas
Kansas City is 1-6 SU in its last 7 games when playing at home against Texas
Kansas City is 0-5 SU in its last 5 games at home
Kansas City is 0-5 SU in its last 5 games <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Next up:
Kansas City<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> home to Texas<\/st1:place><\/st1:State>, Sunday, July 26<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

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The Texas Rangers and the Kansas City Royals will both be trying to pick up a win on Saturday when they battle at Kauffman Stadium. The Rangers will give the ball to starter Derek Holland in this one. Lefthander Holland is 1-4 this season with a 6.28 ERA. It’ll be Luke Hochevar toeing the rubber … Continue reading Rangers-Royals 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-4996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4996","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=4996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4996\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}