{"id":5303,"date":"2009-08-17T06:47:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-17T11:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/08\/royals-white-sox-odds-preview-3\/"},"modified":"2009-08-17T06:47:00","modified_gmt":"2009-08-17T11:47:00","slug":"royals-white-sox-odds-preview-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/08\/royals-white-sox-odds-preview-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Royals-White Sox Odds Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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The Kansas City Royals and the Chicago White Sox will both be trying to pick up a win on Monday when they battle at U.S. Cellular Field. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Brian<\/st2:GivenName> Bannister<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> will be the starting pitcher for the Royals on this day. Righthander<\/st2:GivenName> Bannister<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> is 7-9 this season with a 4.20 ERA. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
It’ll be ace Mark<\/st2:GivenName> Buehrle<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> toeing the rubber for the White Sox in this contest. Lefthander<\/st2:GivenName> Buehrle<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> is 11-6 with a 3.70 ERA so far this season. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Oddsmakers currently have the White Sox listed as 245-moneyline favorites versus the Royals, while the game’s total has not yet been posted. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Royals defeated Detroit<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> 3-2 as a +175 underdog on Sunday. The five runs scored fell UNDER the posted over\/under total (9.5). <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Willie<\/st2:GivenName> Bloomquist<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> had an RBI for Kansas City<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> and David<\/st2:GivenName> DeJesus<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> scored a pair of runs in the win <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The White Sox lost to Oakland<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> 3-2 as a -130 favorite on Sunday. The five runs scored fell UNDER the posted over\/under total (8.5). <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Scott<\/st2:GivenName> Podsednik<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> had an RBI and a run scored for Chicago<\/st1:place><\/st1:City><\/st2:Sn>, while John<\/st2:GivenName> Danks<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> allowed two runs on eight hits in 7 1-3 innings. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Team records:
Kansas City<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>: 46-71 <\/font>SU<\/st2:GivenName>
Chicago<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName>: 60-58 SU<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Kansas City most recently:
When playing on Monday are 4-6
Before playing Chi White Sox are 4-6
After playing Detroit are 4-6
After a win are 1-9<\/p>\n

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

A few trends to consider:
The total has gone UNDER in 5 of Kansas City’s last 6 games when playing on the road against Chi White Sox
The total has gone OVER in 9 of Kansas City’s last 13 games
Kansas City is 4-8 SU in its last 12 games on the road
Kansas City is 6-12 SU in its last 18 games
The total has gone UNDER in 5 of Chi White Sox’s last 6 games when playing at home against Kansas City
Chi White Sox are 10-4 SU in their last 14 games when playing at home against Kansas City
Chi White Sox are 5-2 SU in their last 7 games when playing Kansas City
Chi White Sox are 15-7 SU in their last 22 games at home<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Next up:
Chi White Sox home to Kansas City<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>, Tuesday, August 18<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

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The Kansas City Royals and the Chicago White Sox will both be trying to pick up a win on Monday when they battle at U.S. Cellular Field. Brian Bannister will be the starting pitcher for the Royals on this day. Righthander Bannister is 7-9 this season with a 4.20 ERA. It’ll be ace Mark Buehrle … Continue reading Royals-White Sox 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-5303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5303","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=5303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5303\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}