{"id":5130,"date":"2009-08-02T09:05:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-02T14:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/08\/blue-jays-athletics-lines-preview-2\/"},"modified":"2009-08-02T09:05:00","modified_gmt":"2009-08-02T14:05:00","slug":"blue-jays-athletics-lines-preview-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/08\/blue-jays-athletics-lines-preview-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Jays-Athletics Lines Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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The Toronto Blue Jays and the Oakland Athletics will both be gunning for a victory on Sunday when they meet at Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Lefthander<\/st2:GivenName> Ricky<\/st2:middlename> Romero<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> will take the mound for the Blue Jays to start this game. Romero<\/st2:Sn> is 9-4 this season with a 3.59 ERA. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Starting this game for the Athletics will be Vin Mazzaro. The righthander has a 5.16 ERA to go along with a 2-7 record this season. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Oddsmakers currently have the Blue Jays listed as 125-moneyline favorites versus the Athletics, while the game’s total has not yet been posted. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Aaron<\/st2:GivenName> Hill<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> belted a three-run homer and drove in four runs to help the Blue Jays defeat the A’s 6-5 on Saturday. The Blue Jays won the game as -115 favorites, while the 11 runs made it OVER the posted over\/under (9). <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Lyle<\/st1:PlaceName> Overbay<\/st1:PlaceName><\/st1:place> went 2-for-3 with one RBI and a run scored for the Blue Jays. Brett<\/st2:GivenName> Cecil<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> improved to 5-1 with the win, giving up six hits and four runs. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Adam<\/st2:GivenName> Kennedy<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> hit a bases-loaded double for three runs batted in for the A’s, who were +105 underdogs. Trevor<\/st2:GivenName> Cahill<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> gave up eight hits and six runs over 5 1-3 innings of work in the loss. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Team records:
Toronto<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>: 50-54 SU
Oakland: 44-59 SU<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Toronto most recently:
When playing on Sunday are 9-1
Before playing NY Yankees are 3-7
After playing Oakland are 8-2
After a win are 2-8<\/p>\n

Oakland most recently:
When playing on Sunday are 4-6
Before playing Texas are 2-8
After playing Toronto are 2-8
After a loss are 7-3<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

A few trends to consider:
Toronto is 11-3 SU in its last 14 games when playing Oakland
Toronto is 5-2 SU in its last 7 games when playing on the road against Oakland
Toronto is 3-6 SU in its last 9 games
Toronto is 4-11 SU in its last 15 games on the road
Oakland is 2-5 SU in its last 7 games when playing at home against Toronto
Oakland is 3-11 SU in its last 14 games when playing Toronto<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Next up:
Toronto<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> home to NY Yankees, Tuesday, August 4
Oakland<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> home to Texas<\/st1:place><\/st1:State>, Monday, August 3<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

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The Toronto Blue Jays and the Oakland Athletics will both be gunning for a victory on Sunday when they meet at Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum. Lefthander Ricky Romero will take the mound for the Blue Jays to start this game. Romero is 9-4 this season with a 3.59 ERA. Starting this game for the Athletics will … Continue reading Blue Jays-Athletics 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-5130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5130","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=5130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5130\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}