{"id":5008,"date":"2009-07-26T06:06:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-26T11:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/07\/rangers-royals-lines-preview-2\/"},"modified":"2009-07-26T06:06:00","modified_gmt":"2009-07-26T11:06:00","slug":"rangers-royals-lines-preview-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/07\/rangers-royals-lines-preview-2\/","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 gunning for a victory on Sunday when they meet at Kauffman Stadium. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Rangers will pin their hopes on the pitching of righthander Kevin<\/st1:GivenName> Millwood<\/st1:Sn><\/st2:PersonName> in this game. Millwood has a 9-7 record and a 3.44 ERA this season. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Millwood’s opponent in this one will be Sidney<\/st1:GivenName> Ponson<\/st1:Sn><\/st2:PersonName>. The Royals righthander has a 7.00 ERA to go along with a 1-6 record this season. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Oddsmakers currently have the Rangers listed as 160-moneyline favorites versus the Royals, while the game’s total has not yet been posted. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Royals evened their three-game series with a 6-3 win over the Rangers on Saturday, as -115 favorites. That game’s nine runs went as a PUSH against the posted over\/under (9). <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Billy<\/st1:GivenName> Butler<\/st1:Sn><\/st2:PersonName> cracked a two-run homer to help lead the Royals. Luke<\/st1:GivenName> Hochevar<\/st1:Sn><\/st2:PersonName> had 13 strikeouts over seven innings for his sixth win of the season. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Michael<\/st1:GivenName> Young<\/st1:Sn><\/st2:PersonName> went 3-for-4 at the plate with a solo home run for the Rangers, who were +105 underdogs. Derek<\/st1:GivenName> Holland<\/st1:Sn><\/st2:PersonName> allowed seven hits and four runs over 4 2-3 innings on the hill. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Team records:
Texas<\/st2:place><\/st2:State>: 53-42 SU
Kansas City: 38-58 SU<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Texas most recently:
When playing on Sunday are 6-4
Before playing Detroit are 4-6
After playing Kansas City are 5-5
After a loss are 5-5<\/p>\n

Kansas City most recently:
When playing on Sunday are 3-7
Before playing Baltimore are 2-8
After playing Texas are 3-7
After a win are 5-5<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

A few trends to consider:
The total has gone UNDER in 9 of Texas’s last 10 games
Texas is 5-1 SU in its last 6 games
Texas is 4-1 SU in its last 5 games when playing on the road against Kansas City
The total has gone UNDER in 5 of Texas’s last 7 games on the road
Kansas City is 4-9 SU in its last 13 games when playing Texas
Kansas City is 1-4 SU in its last 5 games when playing at home against Texas
Kansas City is 1-7 SU in its last 8 games at home
Kansas City is 1-10 SU in its last 11 games <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Next up:
Texas<\/st2:place><\/st2:State> home to Detroit<\/st2:place><\/st2:City>, Monday, July 27
Kansas City<\/st2:place><\/st2:City> at Baltimore<\/st2:place><\/st2:City><\/st1:Sn>, Monday, July 27<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

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The Texas Rangers and the Kansas City Royals will both be gunning for a victory on Sunday when they meet at Kauffman Stadium. The Rangers will pin their hopes on the pitching of righthander Kevin Millwood in this game. Millwood has a 9-7 record and a 3.44 ERA this season. Millwood’s opponent in this one … 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-5008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5008","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=5008"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5008\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}