{"id":5586,"date":"2009-09-16T07:12:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-16T12:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/09\/baseball-betting-angels-vs-red-sox\/"},"modified":"2009-09-16T07:12:00","modified_gmt":"2009-09-16T12:12:00","slug":"baseball-betting-angels-vs-red-sox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/09\/baseball-betting-angels-vs-red-sox\/","title":{"rendered":"Baseball Betting: Angels vs Red Sox"},"content":{"rendered":"<table cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" border=\"0\" >\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\" style=\"font: inherit;\">\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">A winning streak will be on the line for the Boston Red Sox on Wednesday when they battle the Los Angeles Angels at <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = \"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags\" \/><st1:place><st1:PlaceName>Fenway<\/st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType>Park<\/st1:PlaceType><\/st1:place>. <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = \"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office\" \/><o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">The Angels will pin their hopes on the pitching of lefthander Joe Saunders in this game. Saunders has a 13-7 record and a 4.81 ERA this season. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">It&#8217;ll be Paul Byrd toeing the rubber for the Red Sox in this contest. Righthander Byrd is 1-1 with a 6.08 ERA so far this season. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Oddsmakers currently have the Red Sox listed as 105-moneyline favorites versus the Angels, while the game&#8217;s total has not yet been posted. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Daisuke Matsuzaka tossed six shutout innings to earn the victory, as the Red Sox dropped the Angels 4-1 on Tuesday night. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><st1:City><st1:place>Boston<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> won as -105 home underdogs, while the game played UNDER the 9.5-run total set by sportsbooks. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">David Ortiz was 2-for-4 with a big fly and two runs batted in for the Red Sox, as Jacoby Ellsbury went 2-for-4 for <st1:City><st1:place>Boston<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Erick Aybar went 2-for-4 with an RBI for <st1:City><st1:place>Los Angeles<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>, while John Lackey was hit with the loss after giving up two earned runs over 7 2-3 innings for the Angels. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Current streak:<br \/><st1:City><st1:place>Los Angeles<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> has lost 2 straight games.<br \/><st1:City><st1:place>Boston<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> has won 6 straight games.<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Team records:<br \/><st1:City><st1:place>Los Angeles<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>: 86-58 SU<br \/><st1:City><st1:place>Boston<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>: 85-58 SU<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Los Angeles most recently:<br \/>When playing on Wednesday are 6-4<br \/>Before playing Boston are 4-6<br \/>After playing Boston are 5-5<br \/>After a loss are 6-4<\/p>\n<p>Boston most recently:<br \/>When playing on Wednesday are 3-7<br \/>Before playing LA Angels are 6-4<br \/>After playing LA Angels are 4-6<br \/>After a win are 7-3<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">A few trends to consider:<br \/>LA Angels are 6-2 SU in their last 8 games when playing on the road against Boston<br \/>LA Angels are 13-6 SU in their last 19 games when playing Boston<br \/>LA Angels are 8-4 SU in their last 12 games <br \/>Boston is 5-0 SU in its last 5 games at home<br \/>Boston is 5-0 SU in its last 5 games <br \/>Boston is 6-13 SU in their last 19 games when playing LA Angels<br \/>Boston is 2-6 SU in their last 8 games when playing at home against LA Angels<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Next up:<br \/><st1:City><st1:place>Boston<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> home to LA Angels, Thursday, September 17<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><o:p><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=3>&nbsp;<\/font><\/o:p><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><a\nhref=\"http:\/\/www.offshoreinsiders.com\/\"><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>OffshoreInsiders.com<\/b><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A winning streak will be on the line for the Boston Red Sox on Wednesday when they battle the Los Angeles Angels at Fenway Park. The Angels will pin their hopes on the pitching of lefthander Joe Saunders in this game. Saunders has a 13-7 record and a 4.81 ERA this season. It&#8217;ll be Paul &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/09\/baseball-betting-angels-vs-red-sox\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Baseball Betting: Angels vs Red Sox<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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-5586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5586","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=5586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5586\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}