{"id":5323,"date":"2009-08-19T05:58:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-19T10:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/08\/red-sox-blue-jays-lines-preview-3\/"},"modified":"2009-08-19T05:58:00","modified_gmt":"2009-08-19T10:58:00","slug":"red-sox-blue-jays-lines-preview-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/08\/red-sox-blue-jays-lines-preview-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Red Sox-Blue Jays Lines Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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The Boston Red Sox and the Toronto Blue Jays will meet on the field at Rogers Centre on Wednesday in a battle of division rivals. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Red Sox will pin their hopes on the pitching of righthander Clay<\/st2:GivenName> Buchholz<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> in this game. Buchholz has a 1-3 record and a 4.45 ERA this season. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Buchholz’s opponent in this one will be Roy<\/st2:GivenName> Halladay<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName>. The Blue Jays ace righthander has a 2.65 ERA to go along with a 13-5 record this season. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Oddsmakers currently have the Blue Jays listed as 165-moneyline favorites versus the Red Sox, while the game’s total has not yet been posted. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
David<\/st2:GivenName> Ortiz<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> was 2-for-3 with a big fly and three runs batted in, as the Red Sox outgunned the Blue Jays 10-9 on Tuesday night. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Boston<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> cashed as -150 road favorites, while the teams played OVER the 8.5-run total set by oddsmakers. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Jacoby Ellsbury went 2-for-3 with three RBIs for the Red Sox, as Hideki Okajima picked up the win in relief of starter Josh Beckett for Boston. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Rod Barajas was 2-for-5 with a two-run blast for Toronto, while Casey Janssen took the loss after coming into the game for Blue Jays starter Ricky Romero. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Current streak:
Toronto has lost 3 straight games.<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Team records:
Boston: 67-51 SU
Toronto: 55-62 SU<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Boston most recently:
When playing on Wednesday are 6-4
Before playing Toronto are 5-5
After playing Toronto are 4-6
After a win are 5-5<\/p>\n

Toronto most recently:
When playing on Wednesday are 5-5
Before playing Boston are 4-6
After playing Boston are 4-6
After a loss are 3-7<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

A few trends to consider:
Boston is 10-5 SU in its last 15 games when playing Toronto
Boston is 2-8 SU in its last 10 games on the road
Toronto is 5-10 SU in its last 15 games when playing Boston
Toronto is 3-7 SU in its last 10 games at home
Toronto is 1-5 SU in its last 6 games <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Next up:
Toronto<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> home to Boston<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>, Thursday, August 20<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

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The Boston Red Sox and the Toronto Blue Jays will meet on the field at Rogers Centre on Wednesday in a battle of division rivals. The Red Sox will pin their hopes on the pitching of righthander Clay Buchholz in this game. Buchholz has a 1-3 record and a 4.45 ERA this season. Buchholz’s opponent … Continue reading Red Sox-Blue Jays 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-5323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5323","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=5323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5323\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}