{"id":5190,"date":"2009-08-07T09:06:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-07T14:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/08\/athletics-royals-odds-preview\/"},"modified":"2009-08-07T09:06:00","modified_gmt":"2009-08-07T14:06:00","slug":"athletics-royals-odds-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/08\/athletics-royals-odds-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"Athletics-Royals Odds Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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The Oakland Athletics and the Kansas City Royals will both be trying to pick up a win on Friday when they battle at Kauffman Stadium. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Athletics will give the ball to starter Vin Mazzaro in this one. Righthander<\/st2:GivenName> Mazzaro<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> is 2-8 this season with a 5.73 ERA. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
It’ll be Brian<\/st2:GivenName> Bannister<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> toeing the rubber for the Royals in this contest. Righthander<\/st2:GivenName> Bannister<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> is 7-7 with a 3.51 ERA so far this season. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Oddsmakers currently have the Royals listed as 130-moneyline favorites versus the Athletics, while the game’s total has not yet been posted. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The A’s failed to complete a four-game sweep of the Rangers, falling 6-4 in Thursday’s finale. The A’s were +100 underdogs, while the 10 runs made it OVER the day’s posted over\/under (9). <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Nomar<\/st2:GivenName> Garciaparra<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> drove in one run and scored another in a losing effort for the A’s. Trevor<\/st2:GivenName> Cahill<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> allowed eight hits and five runs over six innings to suffer the loss. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Royals scored five runs in the first inning on Thursday to help them defeat the Mariners 8-2, as a -110 pick’em. That game’s 10 runs made it OVER the posted over\/under (9.5). <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Billy<\/st2:GivenName> Butler<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> led the Royals with a three-run homer. Bruce<\/st2:GivenName> Chen<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> scattered 10 hits and two runs over 6 2-3 innings for the win. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Team records:
Oakland<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>: 47-61 SU
Kansas City: 42-66 SU<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Oakland most recently:
When playing on Friday are 5-5
Before playing Kansas City are 4-6
After playing Texas are 5-5
After a loss are 6-4<\/p>\n

Kansas City most recently:
When playing on Friday are 4-6
Before playing Oakland are 5-5
After playing Seattle are 5-5
After a win are 4-6<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

A few trends to consider:
The total has gone OVER in 5 of Oakland’s last 5 games on the road
The total has gone OVER in 4 of Oakland’s last 5 games when playing Kansas City
Oakland is 16-6 SU in its last 22 games when playing on the road against Kansas City
The total has gone UNDER in 7 of Oakland’s last 10 games when playing on the road against Kansas City
Kansas City is 4-1 SU in its last 5 games when playing at home against Oakland
The total has gone OVER in 4 of Kansas City’s last 5 games when playing Oakland
Kansas City is 6-2 SU in its last 8 games when playing Oakland
The total has gone UNDER in 7 of Kansas City’s last 10 games when playing at home against Oakland<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Next up:
Kansas City<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> home to Oakland<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>, Saturday, August 8<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

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The Oakland Athletics and the Kansas City Royals will both be trying to pick up a win on Friday when they battle at Kauffman Stadium. The Athletics will give the ball to starter Vin Mazzaro in this one. Righthander Mazzaro is 2-8 this season with a 5.73 ERA. It’ll be Brian Bannister toeing the rubber … Continue reading Athletics-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-5190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5190","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=5190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5190\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}