{"id":5731,"date":"2009-09-24T07:34:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-24T12:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/09\/mlb-handicapping-mariners-vs-blue-jays\/"},"modified":"2009-09-24T07:34:00","modified_gmt":"2009-09-24T12:34:00","slug":"mlb-handicapping-mariners-vs-blue-jays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/09\/mlb-handicapping-mariners-vs-blue-jays\/","title":{"rendered":"MLB Handicapping: Mariners vs Blue Jays"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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The Seattle Mariners and the Toronto Blue Jays will both be trying to pick up a win on Thursday when they battle at Rogers Centre. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Mariners will pin their hopes on the pitching of righthander Felix Hernandez in this game. Hernandez has a 16-5 record and a 2.45 ERA this season. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Blue Jays will counter Hernandez with Ricky Romero. Lefthander Romero has a 4.28 ERA to go along with a 12-9 record this season. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Oddsmakers currently have the Mariners listed as 155-moneyline favorites versus the Blue Jays, while the game’s total has not yet been posted. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Mariners were defeated 5-4 by the Rays on Wednesday, as +160 underdogs. The game’s nine runs made it OVER the posted over\/under (8.5). <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Mark Lowe allowed two runs in relief and was tagged with the loss. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Travis Snider homered and drove in two runs in helping the Blue Jays defeat the Orioles 7-3 on Wednesday, as -115 favorites. That game’s 10 runs made it OVER the posted over\/under (9.5). <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Jose Bautista went 2-for-5 at the plate with one RBI and two runs scored. Scott Richmond pitched five innings for the win, allowing five hits and three runs. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Current streak:
Toronto<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> has won 3 straight games.<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Team records:
Seattle<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>: 79-73 SU
Toronto: 69-83 SU<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Seattle most recently:
When playing on Thursday are 6-4
Before playing Toronto are 3-7
After playing Tampa Bay are 4-6
After a loss are 5-5<\/p>\n

Toronto most recently:
When playing on Thursday are 5-5
Before playing Seattle are 8-2
After playing Baltimore are 6-4
After a win are 4-6<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

A few trends to consider:
The total has gone UNDER in 5 of Seattle’s last 6 games when playing on the road against Toronto
The total has gone UNDER in 9 of Seattle’s last 12 games when playing Toronto
The total has gone UNDER in 5 of Seattle’s last 7 games
Seattle is 5-2 SU in its last 7 games
Toronto is 5-1 SU in its last 6 games at home
The total has gone UNDER in 5 of Toronto’s last 6 games when playing at home against Seattle
The total has gone OVER in 9 of Toronto’s last 12 games
The total has gone UNDER in 9 of Toronto’s last 12 games when playing Seattle<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Next up:
Toronto<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> home to Seattle<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>, Friday, September 25<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

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The Seattle Mariners and the Toronto Blue Jays will both be trying to pick up a win on Thursday when they battle at Rogers Centre. The Mariners will pin their hopes on the pitching of righthander Felix Hernandez in this game. Hernandez has a 16-5 record and a 2.45 ERA this season. The Blue Jays … Continue reading MLB Handicapping: Mariners vs Blue Jays<\/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-5731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5731","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=5731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5731\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}