{"id":5108,"date":"2009-08-01T08:03:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-01T13:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/08\/tigers-indians-lines-preview-2\/"},"modified":"2009-08-01T08:03:00","modified_gmt":"2009-08-01T13:03:00","slug":"tigers-indians-lines-preview-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/08\/tigers-indians-lines-preview-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Tigers-Indians Lines Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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The Detroit Tigers and the Cleveland Indians will both be gunning for a victory on Saturday when they meet at Progressive Field. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Tigers will pin their hopes on the pitching of righthander Rick<\/st2:GivenName> Porcello<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> in this game. Porcello has a 9-7 record and a 4.62 ERA this season. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
It’ll be Jeremy Sowers toeing the rubber for the Indians in this contest. Lefthander Sowers is 2-7 with a 5.58 ERA so far this season. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Oddsmakers currently have the Indians listed as 110-moneyline favorites versus the Tigers, while the game’s total has not yet been posted. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Jamey<\/st2:GivenName> Carroll<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> drove in the winning run in the 13th<\/sup> inning to give the Indians a 4-3 victory over the Tigers on Friday, as +145 underdogs. That game’s seven runs went UNDER the posted over\/under (9). <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Asdrubal<\/st2:GivenName> Cabrera<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> went 2-for-7 at the plate with a two-run homer and three runs batted in for the Indians. Tomo<\/st2:GivenName> Ohka<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> pitched four scoreless innings to post the victory. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Carlos<\/st2:GivenName> Guillen<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> belted a two-run homer in a losing effort for the Tigers, who were -165 favorites. Casey<\/st2:GivenName> Fien<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> gave up the winning run in relief. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Team records:
Detroit<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>: 53-48 <\/font>SU<\/st2:GivenName>
Cleveland<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName>: 43-60 SU<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Detroit most recently:
When playing on Saturday are 4-6
Before playing Cleveland are 6-4
After playing Cleveland are 5-5
After a loss are 5-5<\/p>\n

Cleveland most recently:
When playing on Saturday are 4-6
Before playing Detroit are 3-7
After playing Detroit are 5-5
After a win are 4-6<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

A few trends to consider:
Detroit is 7-2 SU in its last 9 games when playing Cleveland
The total has gone UNDER in 6 of Detroit’s last 8 games when playing Cleveland
The total has gone UNDER in 11 of Detroit’s last 15 games on the road
The total has gone UNDER in 16 of Detroit’s last 22 games
The total has gone OVER in 5 of Cleveland’s last 5 games
The total has gone UNDER in 6 of Cleveland’s last 7 games at home
Cleveland is 6-2 SU in its last 8 games
The total has gone UNDER in 6 of Cleveland’s last 8 games when playing Detroit<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Next up:
Cleveland<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:place><\/st1:City> home to Detroit<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>, Sunday, August 2<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

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The Detroit Tigers and the Cleveland Indians will both be gunning for a victory on Saturday when they meet at Progressive Field. The Tigers will pin their hopes on the pitching of righthander Rick Porcello in this game. Porcello has a 9-7 record and a 4.62 ERA this season. It’ll be Jeremy Sowers toeing the … Continue reading Tigers-Indians 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-5108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5108","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=5108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5108\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}