{"id":5142,"date":"2009-08-03T08:20:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-03T13:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/08\/rangers-athletics-odds-preview\/"},"modified":"2009-08-03T08:20:00","modified_gmt":"2009-08-03T13:20:00","slug":"rangers-athletics-odds-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/08\/rangers-athletics-odds-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"Rangers-Athletics Odds Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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The Texas Rangers and the Oakland Athletics will both be gunning for a victory on Monday when they meet at Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Rangers will give the ball to starter Dustin<\/st2:GivenName> Nippert<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> in this one. Righthander<\/st2:GivenName> Nippert<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> is 1-0 this season with a 4.84 ERA. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
It’ll be Brett<\/st2:GivenName> Anderson<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> toeing the rubber for the Athletics in this contest. Lefthander<\/st2:GivenName> Anderson<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> is 6-8 with a 4.33 ERA so far this season. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Oddsmakers currently have the Athletics listed as 125-moneyline favorites versus the Rangers, while the game’s total has not yet been posted. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Rangers defeated Seattle<\/st1:place><\/st1:City><\/st2:Sn> 4-2 as a -175 favorite on Sunday. The six runs scored fell UNDER the posted over\/under total (9.5). <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Jarrod<\/st2:GivenName> Saltalamacchia<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> hit a two-run home run for Texas<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> and Michael<\/st2:GivenName> Young<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> added a solo shot in the win. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Athletics lost to Toronto<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> 7-2 as a +105 underdog on Sunday. The nine runs scored went OVER the posted over\/under total (8.5). <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Mark<\/st2:GivenName> Ellis<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> drove in a run for Oakland<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> and Vin Mazzaro was roughed up for seven runs on 10 hits in five innings. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Current streak:
Oakland<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> has lost 2 straight games.<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Team records:
Texas<\/st1:place><\/st1:State>: 59-44 SU
Oakland: 44-60 SU<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Texas most recently:
When playing on Monday are 8-2
Before playing Oakland are 8-2
After playing Seattle are 6-4
After a win are 7-3<\/p>\n

Oakland most recently:
When playing on Monday are 5-5
Before playing Texas are 2-8
After playing Toronto are 2-8
After a loss are 6-4<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

A few trends to consider:
The total has gone UNDER in 4 of Texas’s last 5 games on the road
Texas is 11-3 SU in its last 14 games
The total has gone UNDER in 14 of Texas’s last 18 games
The total has gone UNDER in 6 of Texas’s last 8 games when playing Oakland
The total has gone OVER in 5 of Oakland’s last 5 games
The total has gone OVER in 5 of Oakland’s last 6 games at home
The total has gone UNDER in 6 of Oakland’s last 8 games when playing Texas
The total has gone UNDER in 4 of Oakland’s last 6 games when playing at home against Texas<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Next up:
Oakland<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> home to Texas<\/st1:place><\/st1:State>, Tuesday, August 4<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

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The Texas Rangers and the Oakland Athletics will both be gunning for a victory on Monday when they meet at Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum. The Rangers will give the ball to starter Dustin Nippert in this one. Righthander Nippert is 1-0 this season with a 4.84 ERA. It’ll be Brett Anderson toeing the rubber for the … Continue reading Rangers-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-5142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5142","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=5142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5142\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}