{"id":5070,"date":"2009-07-30T08:33:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-30T13:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/07\/royals-orioles-odds-preview-2\/"},"modified":"2009-07-30T08:33:00","modified_gmt":"2009-07-30T13:33:00","slug":"royals-orioles-odds-preview-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/07\/royals-orioles-odds-preview-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Royals-Orioles Odds Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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The Kansas City Royals and the Baltimore Orioles will both be trying to pick up a win on Thursday when they battle at Camden Yards. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Royals will give the ball to starter Luke<\/st2:GivenName> Hochevar<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> in this one. Righthander<\/st2:GivenName> Hochevar<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> is 6-3 this season with a 4.84 ERA. <\/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 Orioles listed as 155-moneyline favorites versus the Royals, while the game’s total has not yet been posted. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Adam<\/st2:GivenName> Jones<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> belted a three-run homer as the Orioles defeated the Royals 7-3 last time out, as +115 underdogs. The game’s 10 runs made it OVER the posted over\/under (8). <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Nick<\/st2:GivenName> Markakis<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> went 3-for-5 at the plate and drove in three runs for the Orioles. Matt<\/st2:GivenName> Albers<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> got the win in relief, and Jim<\/st2:GivenName> Johnson<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> tossed two innings in picking up the save. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Alberto<\/st2:GivenName> Collaspo<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName>, Miguel<\/st2:GivenName> Olivo<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName>, and Mike<\/st2:GivenName> Jacobs<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> went deep for the Royals, who were -135 favotites. Robinson<\/st2:GivenName> Tejeda<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> gave up a pair of runs in relief in suffering the loss. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Team records:
Kansas City<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>: 40-60 <\/font>SU<\/st2:GivenName>
Baltimore<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName>: 43-57 SU<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Kansas City most recently:
When playing on Thursday are 4-6
Before playing Tampa Bay are 1-9
After playing Baltimore are 5-5
After a loss are 2-8<\/p>\n

Baltimore most recently:
When playing on Thursday are 2-8
Before playing Boston are 1-9
After playing Kansas City are 5-5
After a win are 3-7<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

A few trends to consider:
The total has gone UNDER in 12 of Kansas City’s last 17 games on the road
Kansas City is 4-2 SU in its last 6 games when playing Baltimore
The total has gone UNDER in 4 of Kansas City’s last 6 games
Kansas City is 2-4 SU in its last 6 games on the road
The total has gone UNDER in 5 of Baltimore’s last 6 games at home
The total has gone UNDER in 7 of Baltimore’s last 9 games
Baltimore is 10-4 SU in its last 14 games when playing at home against Kansas City
Baltimore is 17-7 SU in its last 24 games when playing Kansas City<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Next up:
Kansas City<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> at Tampa<\/st1:PlaceName> Bay<\/st1:PlaceType><\/st1:place>, Friday, July 31
Baltimore<\/st1:place><\/st1:City><\/st2:Sn> home to Boston<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>, Friday, July 31<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

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The Kansas City Royals and the Baltimore Orioles will both be trying to pick up a win on Thursday when they battle at Camden Yards. The Royals will give the ball to starter Luke Hochevar in this one. Righthander Hochevar is 6-3 this season with a 4.84 ERA. It’ll be Brad Bergesen toeing the rubber … Continue reading Royals-Orioles 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-5070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5070","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=5070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5070\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}