{"id":5119,"date":"2009-08-02T08:43:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-02T13:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/08\/tigers-indians-lines-preview-3\/"},"modified":"2009-08-02T08:43:00","modified_gmt":"2009-08-02T13:43:00","slug":"tigers-indians-lines-preview-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/08\/tigers-indians-lines-preview-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Tigers-Indians Lines Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"<table cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" border=\"0\" >\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\" style=\"font: inherit;\">\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">The Detroit Tigers and the Cleveland Indians will both be trying to pick up a win on Sunday when they battle at Progressive Field. <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = \"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office\" \/><o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><?xml:namespace prefix = st2 ns = \"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags\" \/><st2:PersonName><?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = \"urn:schemas:contacts\" \/><st1:GivenName>Righthander<\/st1:GivenName> <st1:middlename>Armando<\/st1:middlename> <st1:Sn>Galarraga<\/st1:Sn><\/st2:PersonName> will take the mound for the Tigers to start this game. Galarraga is 5-9 this season with a 4.84 ERA. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">The Indians will counter Galarraga with <st2:PersonName><st1:GivenName>Carl<\/st1:GivenName> <st1:Sn>Pavano<\/st1:Sn><\/st2:PersonName>. <st2:PersonName><st1:GivenName>Righthander<\/st1:GivenName> <st1:Sn>Pavano<\/st1:Sn><\/st2:PersonName> has a 5.66 ERA to go along with a 8-8 record this season. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Oddsmakers currently have the Tigers listed as 120-moneyline favorites versus the Indians, while the game&#8217;s total has not yet been posted. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">The Tigers scored twice in the top of the 12<sup>th<\/sup> inning and held on for a 4-3 victory over the Indians on Saturday, as -125 favorites. The seven runs went UNDER the posted over\/under (10). <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Miguel Cabrera went 3-for-6 at the plate and drove in one run for the Tigers. Bobby Seay improved to 2-2 with the win in relief, and Zach Miner closed out the 12<sup>th<\/sup> for the save. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Jhonny Peralta drove in a pair of runs for the Indians, who were +105 underdogs. Jose Veras allowed two runs in relief and suffered the loss. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Team records:<br \/>Detroit: 54-48 SU<br \/>Cleveland: 43-61 SU<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Detroit most recently:<br \/>When playing on Sunday are 2-8<br \/>Before playing Baltimore are 5-5<br \/>After playing Cleveland are 6-4<br \/>After a win are 4-6<\/p>\n<p>Cleveland most recently:<br \/>When playing on Sunday are 6-4<br \/>Before playing Minnesota are 5-5<br \/>After playing Detroit are 4-6<br \/>After a loss are 6-4<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">A few trends to consider:<br \/>Detroit is 4-1 SU in its last 5 games when playing on the road against Cleveland<br \/>Detroit is 8-2 SU in its last 10 games when playing Cleveland<br \/>Detroit is 2-4 SU in its last 6 games <br \/>Detroit is 2-8 SU in its last 10 games on the road<br \/>Cleveland is 6-3 SU in its last 9 games <br \/>Cleveland is 1-4 SU in its last 5 games when playing at home against Detroit<br \/>Cleveland is 2-8 SU in its last 10 games when playing Detroit<br \/>Cleveland is 1-4 SU in its last 5 games at home<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Next up:<br \/>Detroit home to Baltimore, Monday, August 3<br \/>Cleveland home to Minnesota, Tuesday, August 4<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=MsoNormal><o:p><font size=3 face=\"Times New Roman\">&nbsp;<\/font><\/o:p><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><a\nhref=\"http:\/\/www.offshoreinsiders.com\/\"><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>OffshoreInsiders.com<\/b><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Detroit Tigers and the Cleveland Indians will both be trying to pick up a win on Sunday when they battle at Progressive Field. Righthander Armando Galarraga will take the mound for the Tigers to start this game. Galarraga is 5-9 this season with a 4.84 ERA. The Indians will counter Galarraga with Carl Pavano. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/08\/tigers-indians-lines-preview-3\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Tigers-Indians Lines Preview<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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-5119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5119","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=5119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5119\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}