{"id":5098,"date":"2009-07-31T06:36:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-31T11:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/07\/blue-jays-athletics-odds-preview\/"},"modified":"2009-07-31T06:36:00","modified_gmt":"2009-07-31T11:36:00","slug":"blue-jays-athletics-odds-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/07\/blue-jays-athletics-odds-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Jays-Athletics Odds Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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The Toronto Blue Jays will be fighting to snap a losing streak on Friday when they take on the Oakland Athletics at Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Scott<\/st2:GivenName> Richmond<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> will be the starting pitcher for the Blue Jays on this day. Righthander Richmond is 6-4 this season with a 3.66 ERA. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
It’ll be Dallas Braden toeing the rubber for the Athletics in this contest. Lefthander<\/st2:GivenName> Braden<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> is 7-9 with a 3.74 ERA so far this season. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Oddsmakers currently have the Athletics listed as 133-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 were defeated 3-2 by the Mariners in Wednesday’s rubber match, as -180 favorites. That game’s five runs went UNDER the posted over\/under (7.5). <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Adam<\/st2:GivenName> Lind<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> belted a two-run homer for the Blue Jays, while Roy<\/st2:GivenName> Halladay<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> gave up 11 hits and three runs over seven innings in just his fourth loss. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The A’s were defeated 8-5 by the Red Sox last time out, as +340 underdogs. That game’s 13 runs made it OVER the posted over\/under (9). <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Tommy<\/st2:GivenName> Everidge<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> and Rajai<\/st2:GivenName> Davis<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> drove in a pair of runs each for the A’s. Craig<\/st2:GivenName> Breslow<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> allowed the winning run and suffered the loss in relief. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Current streak:
Toronto<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> has lost 2 straight games.<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Team records:
Toronto<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>: 49-53 SU
Oakland: 43-58 SU<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Toronto most recently:
When playing on Friday are 5-5
Before playing Oakland are 6-4
After playing Seattle are 3-7
After a loss are 4-6<\/p>\n

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

A few trends to consider:
The total has gone UNDER in 6 of Toronto’s last 7 games on the road
Toronto is 10-2 SU in its last 12 games when playing Oakland
The total has gone UNDER in 4 of Toronto’s last 5 games when playing Oakland
Toronto is 4-1 SU in its last 5 games when playing on the road against Oakland
The total has gone UNDER in 4 of Oakland’s last 5 games when playing Toronto
The total has gone OVER in 4 of Oakland’s last 6 games at home
The total has gone UNDER in 4 of Oakland’s last 6 games when playing at home against Toronto
Oakland is 5-10 SU in its last 15 games at home<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Next up:
Oakland<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> home to Toronto<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>, Saturday, August 1<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

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The Toronto Blue Jays will be fighting to snap a losing streak on Friday when they take on the Oakland Athletics at Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum. Scott Richmond will be the starting pitcher for the Blue Jays on this day. Righthander Richmond is 6-4 this season with a 3.66 ERA. It’ll be Dallas Braden toeing the … Continue reading Blue Jays-Athletics 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-5098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5098","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=5098"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5098\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}