{"id":5169,"date":"2009-08-06T05:59:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-06T10:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/08\/twins-indians-lines-preview\/"},"modified":"2009-08-06T05:59:00","modified_gmt":"2009-08-06T10:59:00","slug":"twins-indians-lines-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/08\/twins-indians-lines-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"Twins-Indians Lines Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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The Minnesota Twins and the Cleveland Indians will meet on the field at Progressive Field on Thursday in a battle of division rivals. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Twins will give the ball to starter Nick<\/st1:GivenName> Blackburn<\/st1:Sn><\/st2:PersonName> in this one. Righthander Blackburn is 8-5 this season with a 3.83 ERA. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Meanwhile, it’ll be Fausto<\/st1:GivenName> Carmona<\/st1:Sn><\/st2:PersonName> who starts for the Indians. Righthander<\/st1:GivenName> Carmona<\/st1:Sn><\/st2:PersonName> is 2-6 with a 7.13 ERA so far this season. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Oddsmakers currently have the Twins listed as 148-moneyline favorites versus the Indians, while the game’s total has not yet been posted. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Indians banged out 11 hits and scored an 8-1 victory over the Twins on Wednesday, as a -110 pick’em. That game’s nine runs went UNDER the posted over\/under (9.5). <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Grady Sizemore, Asdrubal<\/st1:GivenName> Cabrera<\/st1:Sn><\/st2:PersonName>, and Shin-Soo Choo all drove in a pair of runs for the Indians. Aaron<\/st1:GivenName> Laffey<\/st1:Sn><\/st2:PersonName> pitched eight innings for the win, allowing six hits and one run. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Francisco<\/st1:GivenName> Liriano<\/st1:Sn><\/st2:PersonName> gave up eight hits and four runs over five innings in the loss. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Team records:
Minnesota<\/st2:place><\/st2:State>: 53-54 <\/font>SU<\/st1:GivenName>
Cleveland<\/st1:Sn><\/st2:PersonName>: 45-62 SU<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Minnesota most recently:
When playing on Thursday are 2-8
Before playing Detroit are 6-4
After playing Cleveland are 4-6
After a loss are 4-6<\/p>\n

Cleveland most recently:
When playing on Thursday are 4-6
Before playing Chi White Sox are 1-9
After playing Minnesota are 7-3
After a win are 4-6<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

A few trends to consider:
Minnesota is 8-15 SU in its last 23 games when playing on the road against Cleveland
Minnesota is 2-5 SU in its last 7 games on the road
Minnesota is 1-4 SU in its last 5 games
Cleveland is 8-4 SU in its last 12 games
Cleveland is 15-8 SU in its last 23 games when playing at home against Minnesota
Cleveland is 7-14 SU in its last 21 games at home<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Next up:
Minnesota<\/st2:place><\/st2:State> at Detroit<\/st2:place><\/st2:City>, Friday, August 7
Cleveland<\/st2:place><\/st2:City><\/st1:Sn> at Chi White Sox, Friday, August 7<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

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The Minnesota Twins and the Cleveland Indians will meet on the field at Progressive Field on Thursday in a battle of division rivals. The Twins will give the ball to starter Nick Blackburn in this one. Righthander Blackburn is 8-5 this season with a 3.83 ERA. Meanwhile, it’ll be Fausto Carmona who starts for the … Continue reading Twins-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-5169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5169","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=5169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5169\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}