{"id":5031,"date":"2009-07-27T08:22:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-27T13:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/07\/blue-jays-mariners-lines-preview\/"},"modified":"2009-07-27T08:22:00","modified_gmt":"2009-07-27T13:22:00","slug":"blue-jays-mariners-lines-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/07\/blue-jays-mariners-lines-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Jays-Mariners Lines Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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The Toronto Blue Jays and the Seattle Mariners will both be gunning for a victory on Monday when they meet at Safeco Field. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Blue Jays will trot Ricky<\/st2:GivenName> Romero<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> out to the mound in this one. Lefthander<\/st2:GivenName> Romero<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> has a 8-4 record and a 3.45 ERA this season. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Starting this game for the Mariners will be Felix<\/st2:GivenName> Hernandez<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName>. The righthander has a 2.45 ERA to go along with a 11-3 record this season. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Oddsmakers currently have the Mariners listed as 170-moneyline favorites versus the Blue Jays, while the game’s total has not yet been posted. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Blue Jays defeated Tampa<\/st1:PlaceName> Bay<\/st1:PlaceType><\/st1:place> 5-1 as a +100 underdog on Sunday. The six runs scored fell UNDER the posted over\/under total (8.5). <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Brett Cecil allowed only one run on four hits over seven innings for Toronto and Scott Rolen hit a three-run home run in the win. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Mariners lost to Cleveland<\/st1:place><\/st1:City><\/st2:Sn> 12-3 as a +120 underdog on Sunday. The 15 runs scored went OVER the posted over\/under total (8). <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Franklin<\/st2:GivenName> Gutierrez<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> drove in a pair of runs for Seattle<\/st1:place><\/st1:City><\/st2:Sn>, while Jason<\/st2:GivenName> Vargas<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> was roughed up for six runs on seven hits in four innings. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Current streak:
Seattle<\/st1:place><\/st1:City><\/st2:Sn> has lost 3 straight games.<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Team records:
Toronto<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>: 48-51 <\/font>SU<\/st2:GivenName>
Seattle<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName>: 51-47 SU<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Toronto most recently:
When playing on Monday are 1-9
Before playing Seattle are 8-2
After playing Tampa Bay are 5-5
After a win are 3-7<\/p>\n

Seattle most recently:
When playing on Monday are 7-3
Before playing Toronto are 3-7
After playing Cleveland are 6-4
After a loss are 6-4<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

A few trends to consider:
The total has gone UNDER in 5 of Toronto’s last 6 games on the road
The total has gone UNDER in 7 of Toronto’s last 9 games when playing Seattle
The total has gone UNDER in 10 of Toronto’s last 13 games
The total has gone UNDER in 4 of Toronto’s last 6 games when playing on the road against Seattle
Seattle is 5-1 SU in its last 6 games when playing at home against Toronto
The total has gone UNDER in 7 of Seattle’s last 9 games when playing Toronto
The total has gone UNDER in 8 of Seattle’s last 12 games
The total has gone OVER in 4 of Seattle’s last 6 games <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Next up:
Seattle<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:place><\/st1:City> home to Toronto<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>, Tuesday, July 28<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

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The Toronto Blue Jays and the Seattle Mariners will both be gunning for a victory on Monday when they meet at Safeco Field. The Blue Jays will trot Ricky Romero out to the mound in this one. Lefthander Romero has a 8-4 record and a 3.45 ERA this season. Starting this game for the Mariners … Continue reading Blue Jays-Mariners 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-5031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5031","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=5031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5031\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}