{"id":5059,"date":"2009-07-29T08:21:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-29T13:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/07\/athletics-red-sox-odds-preview-3\/"},"modified":"2009-07-29T08:21:00","modified_gmt":"2009-07-29T13:21:00","slug":"athletics-red-sox-odds-preview-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/07\/athletics-red-sox-odds-preview-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Athletics-Red Sox Odds Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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The Oakland Athletics and the Boston Red Sox will both be trying to pick up a win on Wednesday when they battle at Fenway<\/st1:PlaceName> Park<\/st1:PlaceType><\/st1:place>. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Brett<\/st2:GivenName> Anderson<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> will be the starting pitcher for the Athletics on this day. Lefthander<\/st2:GivenName> Anderson<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> is 5-8 this season with a 4.32 ERA. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Meanwhile, it’ll be Brad<\/st2:GivenName> Penny<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> who starts for the Red Sox. Righthander<\/st2:GivenName> Penny<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> is 7-4 with a 4.71 ERA so far this season. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Oddsmakers currently have the Red Sox listed as 180-moneyline favorites versus the Athletics, while the game’s total has not yet been posted. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Rajai<\/st2:GivenName> Davis’ RBI-single highlighted a two-run 11th<\/sup> inning, as the Athletics went on to surprise the Red Sox 9-8 on Tuesday night. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Oakland<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> won as +185 road underdogs as the game played OVER the 9.5-run total posted by oddsmakers. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Adam<\/st2:GivenName> Kennedy<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> was 5-for-7 with three runs batted in for the Athletics, while Craig<\/st2:GivenName> Breslow<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> got the victory in relief of starter Vin Mazzaro for Oakland<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Kevin<\/st2:GivenName> Youkilis<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> went 3-for-5 with two RBIs for Boston<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>, as Manny Delcarmen 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
Team records:
Oakland<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>: 42-57 SU
Boston: 58-41 SU<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Oakland most recently:
When playing on Wednesday are 2-8
Before playing Boston are 4-6
After playing Boston are 3-7
After a win are 2-8<\/p>\n

Boston most recently:
When playing on Wednesday are 5-5
Before playing Oakland are 5-5
After playing Oakland are 6-4
After a loss are 5-5<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

A few trends to consider:
The total has gone OVER in 4 of Oakland’s last 5 games
The total has gone OVER in 4 of Oakland’s last 5 games on the road
The total has gone UNDER in 4 of Oakland’s last 6 games when playing on the road against Boston
Oakland is 2-4 SU in its last 6 games when playing Boston
Boston is 9-2 SU in its last 11 games when playing at home against Oakland
Boston is 6-2 SU in its last 8 games at home
The total has gone UNDER in 9 of Boston’s last 12 games
Boston is 4-2 SU in its last 6 games when playing Oakland<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Next up:
Boston<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> home to Oakland<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>, Thursday, July 30<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
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The Oakland Athletics and the Boston Red Sox will both be trying to pick up a win on Wednesday when they battle at Fenway Park. Brett Anderson will be the starting pitcher for the Athletics on this day. Lefthander Anderson is 5-8 this season with a 4.32 ERA. Meanwhile, it’ll be Brad Penny who starts … Continue reading Athletics-Red Sox Odds 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-5059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5059","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=5059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5059\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}