{"id":5733,"date":"2009-09-24T07:38:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-24T12:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/09\/mlb-betting-red-sox-vs-royals\/"},"modified":"2009-09-24T07:38:00","modified_gmt":"2009-09-24T12:38:00","slug":"mlb-betting-red-sox-vs-royals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/09\/mlb-betting-red-sox-vs-royals\/","title":{"rendered":"MLB Betting: Red Sox vs Royals"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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The Boston Red Sox and the Kansas City Royals will both be gunning for a victory on Thursday when they meet at Kauffman Stadium. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Red Sox will pin their hopes on the pitching of righthander Clay Buchholz in this game. Buchholz has a 6-3 record and a 3.49 ERA this season. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Starting this game for the Royals will be Anthony Lerew. The righthander has a 0.00 ERA to go along with a 0-0 record this season. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Oddsmakers currently have the Red Sox listed as 210-moneyline favorites versus the Royals, while the game’s total has not yet been posted. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
David Ortiz homered and drove in four runs to lead the Red Sox over the Royals 9-2 on Wednesday. The Red Sox won that game as -210 favorites, while the 11 runs made it OVER the posted over\/under (8.5). <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Jacoby Ellsbury and Jason<\/st1:PlaceName> Bay<\/st1:PlaceName><\/st1:place> drove in a pair of runs for the Red Sox. Josh Beckett improved to 16-6 with the win, allowing two runs over six innings of work. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Luke Hochevar gave up eight hits and six runs over five innings in the loss. Oddsmakers had the Royals as +190 underdogs in that game. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Team records:
Boston<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>: 90-61 SU
Kansas City: 63-89 SU<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Boston most recently:
When playing on Thursday are 8-2
Before playing NY Yankees are 4-6
After playing Kansas City are 7-3
After a win are 8-2<\/p>\n

Kansas City most recently:
When playing on Thursday are 7-3
Before playing Minnesota are 4-6
After playing Boston are 1-9
After a loss are 6-4<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

A few trends to consider:
The total has gone OVER in 4 of Boston’s last 5 games on the road
The total has gone OVER in 4 of Boston’s last 5 games
The total has gone OVER in 4 of Boston’s last 5 games when playing on the road against Kansas City
Boston is 11-3 SU in its last 14 games
Kansas City is 6-1 SU in its last 7 games at home
The total has gone OVER in 4 of Kansas City’s last 5 games when playing at home against Boston
Kansas City is 12-4 SU in its last 16 games
The total has gone OVER in 5 of Kansas City’s last 7 games <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Next up:
Boston<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> at NY Yankees, Friday, September 25
Kansas City<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> home to Minnesota<\/st1:place><\/st1:State>, Friday, September 25<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

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The Boston Red Sox and the Kansas City Royals will both be gunning for a victory on Thursday when they meet at Kauffman Stadium. The Red Sox will pin their hopes on the pitching of righthander Clay Buchholz in this game. Buchholz has a 6-3 record and a 3.49 ERA this season. Starting this game … Continue reading MLB Betting: Red Sox vs Royals<\/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-5733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5733","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=5733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5733\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}