{"id":5054,"date":"2009-07-29T08:04:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-29T13:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/07\/royals-orioles-lines-preview-2\/"},"modified":"2009-07-29T08:04:00","modified_gmt":"2009-07-29T13:04:00","slug":"royals-orioles-lines-preview-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/07\/royals-orioles-lines-preview-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Royals-Orioles Lines Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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The Kansas City Royals and the Baltimore Orioles will both be gunning for a victory on Wednesday when they meet at Camden Yards. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Royals will trot ace Zach<\/st2:GivenName> Greinke<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> out to the mound in this one. Righthander<\/st2:GivenName> Greinke<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> has a 10-6 record and a 2.04 ERA this season. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
It’ll be Brad<\/st2:GivenName> Bergesen<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> toeing the rubber for the Orioles in this contest. Righthander<\/st2:GivenName> Bergesen<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> is 6-5 with a 3.56 ERA so far this season. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Oddsmakers currently have the Royals listed as 145-moneyline favorites versus the Orioles, while the game’s total has not yet been posted. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
John<\/st2:GivenName> Buck’s run-scoring single in the top of the 11th<\/sup> inning lifted the Royals past the Orioles 4-3 on Tuesday night. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Kansas City<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> cashed as +110 road underdogs as the game played UNDER the 9.5-run total posted by oddsmakers. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Billy<\/st2:GivenName> Butler<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> hit a two-run homer for the Royals, while Jamey<\/st2:GivenName> Wright<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> picked up the win in relief of starter Brian<\/st2:GivenName> Bannister<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> for Kansas City<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Adam<\/st2:GivenName> Jones<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> smashed a two-run dinger for Baltimore<\/st1:place><\/st1:City><\/st2:Sn>, as Danys<\/st2:GivenName> Baez<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> was tagged with the loss after allowing the go-ahead run in the top of the 11th<\/sup> inning. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Current streak:
Kansas City<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> has won 2 straight games.
Baltimore<\/st1:place><\/st1:City><\/st2:Sn> has lost 2 straight games.<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Team records:
Kansas City<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>: 40-59 <\/font>SU<\/st2:GivenName>
Baltimore<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName>: 42-57 SU<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Kansas City most recently:
When playing on Wednesday are 6-4
Before playing Baltimore are 3-7
After playing Baltimore are 6-4
After a win are 5-5<\/p>\n

Baltimore most recently:
When playing on Wednesday are 3-7
Before playing Kansas City are 5-5
After playing Kansas City are 5-5
After a loss are 4-6<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

A few trends to consider:
Kansas City is 4-1 SU in its last 5 games when playing Baltimore
The total has gone UNDER in 4 of Kansas City’s last 5 games on the road
The total has gone UNDER in 4 of Kansas City’s last 5 games
Kansas City is 4-2 SU in its last 6 games when playing on the road against Baltimore
The total has gone UNDER in 5 of Baltimore’s last 5 games at home
The total has gone UNDER in 7 of Baltimore’s last 8 games
Baltimore is 16-7 SU in its last 23 games when playing Kansas City
Baltimore is 9-4 SU in its last 13 games when playing at home against Kansas City<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Next up:
Baltimore<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:place><\/st1:City> home to Kansas City<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>, Thursday, July 30<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
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The Kansas City Royals and the Baltimore Orioles will both be gunning for a victory on Wednesday when they meet at Camden Yards. The Royals will trot ace Zach Greinke out to the mound in this one. Righthander Greinke has a 10-6 record and a 2.04 ERA this season. It’ll be Brad Bergesen toeing the … Continue reading Royals-Orioles 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-5054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5054","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=5054"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5054\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}