{"id":5156,"date":"2009-08-04T08:22:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-04T13:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/08\/mariners-royals-odds-preview\/"},"modified":"2009-08-04T08:22:00","modified_gmt":"2009-08-04T13:22:00","slug":"mariners-royals-odds-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/08\/mariners-royals-odds-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"Mariners-Royals Odds Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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The Seattle Mariners and the Kansas City Royals will both be trying to pick up a win on Tuesday when they battle at Kauffman Stadium. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Mariners will pin their hopes on the pitching of lefthander Ryan<\/st1:GivenName> Rowland-Smith<\/st1:Sn><\/st2:PersonName> in this game. Rowland-Smith has a 1-1 record and a 3.12 ERA this season. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
It’ll be Luke<\/st1:GivenName> Hochevar<\/st1:Sn><\/st2:PersonName> toeing the rubber for the Royals in this contest. Righthander<\/st1:GivenName> Hochevar<\/st1:Sn><\/st2:PersonName> is 6-4 with a 5.28 ERA so far this season. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Oddsmakers currently have the Mariners listed as 125-moneyline favorites versus the Royals, while the game’s total has not yet been posted. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Mariners lost to Texas<\/st2:place><\/st2:State> 4-2 as a +165 underdog on Sunday. The six runs scored fell UNDER the posted over\/under total (9.5). <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Jose<\/st1:GivenName> Lopez<\/st1:Sn><\/st2:PersonName> was 2-4 with an RBI for Seattle<\/st2:place><\/st2:City><\/st1:Sn>, while Ian<\/st1:GivenName> Snell<\/st1:Sn><\/st2:PersonName> allowed two runs on three hits in six innings. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Yuniesky<\/st1:GivenName> Betancourt<\/st1:Sn><\/st2:PersonName> went 2-for-4 with a solo shot for Kansas City<\/st2:place><\/st2:City> in its 10-4 loss to Tampa<\/st2:PlaceName> Bay<\/st2:PlaceType><\/st2:place> on Monday. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Tampa<\/st2:PlaceName> Bay<\/st2:PlaceType><\/st2:place> cashed as -140 home favorites as the game played OVER the 8-run total set by oddsmakers. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Team records:
Seattle<\/st2:place><\/st2:City><\/st1:Sn>: 54-51 SU
Kansas City: 41-64 SU<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Seattle most recently:
When playing on Tuesday are 4-6
Before playing Kansas City are 0-10
After playing Texas are 4-6
After a loss are 6-4<\/p>\n

Kansas City most recently:
When playing on Tuesday are 6-4
Before playing Seattle are 10-0
After playing Tampa Bay are 2-8
After a loss are 3-7<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

A few trends to consider:
The total has gone UNDER in 5 of Seattle’s last 6 games on the road
The total has gone UNDER in 5 of Seattle’s last 6 games
Seattle is 3-7 SU in its last 10 games
Seattle is 0-5 SU in its last 5 games when playing on the road against Kansas City
Kansas City is 5-0 SU in its last 5 games when playing at home against Seattle
Kansas City is 5-0 SU in its last 5 games when playing Seattle
Kansas City is 1-5 SU in its last 6 games
Kansas City is 1-8 SU in its last 9 games at home<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Next up:
Kansas City<\/st2:place><\/st2:City> home to Seattle<\/st2:place><\/st2:City><\/st1:Sn>, Wednesday, August 5<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

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The Seattle Mariners and the Kansas City Royals will both be trying to pick up a win on Tuesday when they battle at Kauffman Stadium. The Mariners will pin their hopes on the pitching of lefthander Ryan Rowland-Smith in this game. Rowland-Smith has a 1-1 record and a 3.12 ERA this season. It’ll be Luke … Continue reading Mariners-Royals 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-5156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5156","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=5156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5156\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}