{"id":5248,"date":"2009-08-13T06:42:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-13T11:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/08\/royals-twins-lines-preview\/"},"modified":"2009-08-13T06:42:00","modified_gmt":"2009-08-13T11:42:00","slug":"royals-twins-lines-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/08\/royals-twins-lines-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"Royals-Twins Lines Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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The division rival Kansas City Royals and Minnesota Twins are set to renew hostilities on Thursday when they meet at The Metrodome. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Righthander<\/st1:GivenName> Gil<\/st1:middlename> Meche<\/st1:Sn><\/st2:PersonName> will take the mound for the Royals to start this game. Meche is 4-9 this season with a 4.50 ERA. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Twins will counter Meche with Carl<\/st1:GivenName> Pavano<\/st1:Sn><\/st2:PersonName>. Righthander<\/st1:GivenName> Pavano<\/st1:Sn><\/st2:PersonName> has a 5.09 ERA to go along with a 10-8 record this season. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Oddsmakers currently have the Twins listed as 175-moneyline favorites versus the Royals, while the game’s total has not yet been posted. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Joe<\/st1:GivenName> Crede<\/st1:Sn><\/st2:PersonName> launched a three-run homer as the Twins defeated the Royals 7-1 on Wednesday, as -200 favorites. The eight runs fell UNDER the night’s posted over\/under (9). <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Francisco<\/st1:GivenName> Liriano<\/st1:Sn><\/st2:PersonName> whiffed eight batters over seven innings for the win, while allowing just three hits and one run. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Willie<\/st1:GivenName> Bloomquist<\/st1:Sn><\/st2:PersonName> belted a solo home run for the Royals, who were -180 underdogs. Brian<\/st1:GivenName> Bannister<\/st1:Sn><\/st2:PersonName> was rocked for seven runs over six innings in the loss. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Team records:
Kansas City<\/st2:place><\/st2:City>: 44-69 SU
Minnesota: 55-58 SU<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Kansas City most recently:
When playing on Thursday are 6-4
Before playing Detroit are 6-4
After playing Minnesota are 4-6
After a loss are 5-5<\/p>\n

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

A few trends to consider:
Kansas City is 6-3 SU in its last 9 games when playing on the road against Minnesota
Kansas City is 7-18 SU in its last 25 games
Kansas City is 2-6 SU in its last 8 games on the road
Minnesota is 3-6 SU in its last 9 games when playing at home against Kansas City
Minnesota is 3-8 SU in its last 11 games
Minnesota is 1-4 SU in its last 5 games at home<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Next up:
Kansas City<\/st2:place><\/st2:City> at Detroit<\/st2:place><\/st2:City>, Friday, August 14
Minnesota<\/st2:place><\/st2:State> home to Cleveland<\/st2:place><\/st2:City><\/st1:Sn>, Friday, August 14<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

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The division rival Kansas City Royals and Minnesota Twins are set to renew hostilities on Thursday when they meet at The Metrodome. Righthander Gil Meche will take the mound for the Royals to start this game. Meche is 4-9 this season with a 4.50 ERA. The Twins will counter Meche with Carl Pavano. Righthander Pavano … Continue reading Royals-Twins 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-5248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5248","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=5248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5248\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}