{"id":5023,"date":"2009-07-27T07:58:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-27T12:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/07\/athletics-red-sox-lines-preview\/"},"modified":"2009-07-27T07:58:00","modified_gmt":"2009-07-27T12:58:00","slug":"athletics-red-sox-lines-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/07\/athletics-red-sox-lines-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"Athletics-Red Sox Lines Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
The Oakland Athletics and the Boston Red Sox will both be trying to pick up a win on Monday when they battle at Fenway Park. <\/p>\n
The Athletics will pin their hopes on the pitching of righthander Trevor Cahill in this game. Cahill has a 6-8 record and a 4.50 ERA this season. <\/p>\n
Starting this game for the Red Sox will be ace Josh Beckett. The righthander has a 3.42 ERA to go along with a 11-4 record this season. <\/p>\n
Oddsmakers currently have the Red Sox listed as 320-moneyline favorites versus the Athletics, while the game’s total has not yet been posted. <\/p>\n
The Athletics lost to the Yankees 7-5 as a +155 underdog on Sunday. The 12 runs scored went OVER the posted over\/under total (10). <\/p>\n
Mark Ellis homered and had three RBI for Oakland and Dallas Braden was roughed up for seven runs in 5 2-3 innings. <\/p>\n
The Red Sox lost to Baltimore 6-2 as a -175 favorite on Sunday. The eight runs scored fell UNDER the posted over\/under total (9.5). <\/p>\n
Dustin Pedroia and Jed Lowrie drove in runs for Boston in the loss. <\/p>\n
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Team records:
Oakland: 41-56 SU
Boston: 57-40 SU <\/p>\n
Oakland most recently:
When playing on Monday are 5-5
Before playing Boston are 5-5
After playing NY Yankees are 2-8
After a loss are 6-4<\/p>\n

Boston most recently:
When playing on Monday are 6-4
Before playing Oakland are 4-6
After playing Baltimore are 7-3
After a loss are 5-5 <\/p>\n

A few trends to consider:
The total has gone UNDER in 5 of Oakland’s last 6 games when playing on the road against Boston
The total has gone UNDER in 8 of Oakland’s last 12 games on the road
The total has gone OVER in 4 of Oakland’s last 6 games on the road
Oakland is 3-6 SU in its last 9 games when playing Boston
The total has gone UNDER in 9 of Boston’s last 10 games
Boston is 8-1 SU in its last 9 games when playing at home against Oakland
Boston is 5-1 SU in its last 6 games at home
The total has gone UNDER in 5 of Boston’s last 6 games when playing at home against Oakland <\/p>\n
Next up:
Boston home to Oakland, Tuesday, July 28<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n
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The Oakland Athletics and the Boston Red Sox will both be trying to pick up a win on Monday when they battle at Fenway Park. The Athletics will pin their hopes on the pitching of righthander Trevor Cahill in this game. Cahill has a 6-8 record and a 4.50 ERA this season. Starting this game … Continue reading Athletics-Red Sox 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-5023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5023","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=5023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5023\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}