{"id":5062,"date":"2009-07-29T08:44:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-29T13:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/07\/white-sox-twins-odds-preview-2\/"},"modified":"2009-07-29T08:44:00","modified_gmt":"2009-07-29T13:44:00","slug":"white-sox-twins-odds-preview-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/07\/white-sox-twins-odds-preview-2\/","title":{"rendered":"White Sox-Twins Odds Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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The Chicago White Sox will be fighting to snap a losing streak on Wednesday when they take on the Minnesota Twins at The Metrodome. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Jose<\/st2:GivenName> Contreras<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> will be the starting pitcher for the White Sox on this day. Righthander<\/st2:GivenName> Contreras<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> is 4-9 this season with a 4.80 ERA. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Meanwhile, it’ll be Francisco<\/st2:GivenName> Liriano<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> who starts for the Twins. Lefthander<\/st2:GivenName> Liriano<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> is 4-10 with a 5.56 ERA so far this season. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Oddsmakers currently have the Twins listed as 150-moneyline favorites versus the White Sox, while the game’s total has not yet been posted. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Nick<\/st2:GivenName> Punto<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> knocked in two runs, as the Twins topped the White Sox 5-3 on Tuesday night. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Minnesota<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> won as -120 home favorites as the game played UNDER the 8.5-run total set by oddsmakers. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Scott<\/st2:GivenName> Baker<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> allowed only one run over six innings to earn the win for the Twins, while Joe<\/st2:GivenName> Nathan<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> picked up his 28th<\/sup> save of the season for Minnesota<\/st1:place><\/st1:State>. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Gordon Beckham went 2-for-4 with two runs batted in for Chicago, as Mark Buehrle gave up five runs over 6 1-3 innings to take the loss for the White Sox. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Current streak:
Chicago<\/st1:place><\/st1:City><\/st2:Sn> has lost 2 straight games.
Minnesota<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> has won 3 straight games.<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Team records:
Chicago<\/st1:place><\/st1:City><\/st2:Sn>: 51-50 SU
Minnesota: 51-50 SU<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Chicago<\/st1:place><\/st1:City><\/st2:Sn> most recently:
When playing on Wednesday are 7-3
Before playing NY Yankees are 3-7
After playing Minnesota<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> are 7-3
After a loss are 6-4<\/p>\n

Minnesota<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> most recently:
When playing on Wednesday are 6-4
Before playing LA Angels are 4-6
After playing Chi White Sox are 5-5
After a win are 5-5<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

A few trends to consider:
The total has gone UNDER in 5 of Chi White Sox’s last 5 games on the road
The total has gone UNDER in 5 of Chi White Sox’s last 5 games
The total has gone OVER in 8 of Chi White Sox’s last 11 games when playing on the road against Minnesota
The total has gone OVER in 5 of Chi White Sox’s last 7 games when playing Minnesota
Minnesota is 8-1 SU in their last 9 games when playing at home against Chi White Sox
Minnesota is 5-1 SU in their last 6 games when playing Chi White Sox
Minnesota is 4-1 SU in its last 5 games at home
The total has gone OVER in 8 of Minnesota’s last 11 games when playing at home against Chi White Sox<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Next up:
Chi White Sox home to NY Yankees, Thursday, July 30
Minnesota<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> home to LA Angels, Friday, July 31<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
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The Chicago White Sox will be fighting to snap a losing streak on Wednesday when they take on the Minnesota Twins at The Metrodome. Jose Contreras will be the starting pitcher for the White Sox on this day. Righthander Contreras is 4-9 this season with a 4.80 ERA. Meanwhile, it’ll be Francisco Liriano who starts … Continue reading White Sox-Twins 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-5062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5062","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=5062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5062\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}