{"id":5835,"date":"2009-09-29T07:06:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-29T12:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/09\/mlb-handicapping-royals-vs-yankees\/"},"modified":"2009-09-29T07:06:00","modified_gmt":"2009-09-29T12:06:00","slug":"mlb-handicapping-royals-vs-yankees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/09\/mlb-handicapping-royals-vs-yankees\/","title":{"rendered":"MLB Handicapping: Royals vs Yankees"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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The Kansas City Royals and the New York Yankees will both be trying to pick up a win on Tuesday when they battle at Yankee Stadium. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Anthony Lerew will be the starting pitcher for the Royals on this day. Righthander Lerew is 0-1 this season with a 3.85 ERA. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Meanwhile, it’ll be AJ Burnett who starts for the Yankees. Righthander Burnett is 12-9 with a 4.19 ERA so far this season. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Oddsmakers currently have the Yankees listed as 250-moneyline favorites versus the Royals, while the game’s total has not yet been posted. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Robinson Cano was 2-for-4 with a grand slam to lead the Yankees past the Royals 8-2 on Monday night. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
New York<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> cashed as -160 home favorites, while the teams played UNDER the 10.5-run total posted by sportsbooks. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Ramiro Pena went 2-for-4 with a homer and two runs batted in for the Yankees, as Chad Gaudin allowed two runs over 6 2-3 innings to get the victory for New York<\/st1:place><\/st1:State>. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Mark Teahen went yard for Kansas City<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>, while Luke Hochevar took the loss after getting ripped for eight runs over six innings for the Royals. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Current streak:
New York<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> has won 6 straight games.<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Team records:
Kansas City<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>: 64-93 SU
New York<\/st1:place><\/st1:State>: 101-56 SU<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Kansas City most recently:
When playing on Tuesday are 4-6
Before playing NY Yankees are 4-6
After playing NY Yankees are 3-7
After a loss are 5-5<\/p>\n

New York most recently:
When playing on Tuesday are 7-3
Before playing Kansas City are 7-3
After playing Kansas City are 6-4
After a win are 6-4<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

A few trends to consider:
The total has gone OVER in 4 of Kansas City’s last 6 games
The total has gone UNDER in 10 of Kansas City’s last 15 games when playing NY Yankees
Kansas City is 1-5 SU in their last 6 games when playing NY Yankees
Kansas City is 1-5 SU in its last 6 games
NY Yankees are 5-0 SU in their last 5 games at home
NY Yankees are 5-0 SU in their last 5 games
NY Yankees are 21-4 SU in their last 25 games when playing at home against Kansas City
NY Yankees are 5-1 SU in their last 6 games when playing Kansas City<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Next up:
NY Yankees home to Kansas City<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>, Wednesday, September 30<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

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The Kansas City Royals and the New York Yankees will both be trying to pick up a win on Tuesday when they battle at Yankee Stadium. Anthony Lerew will be the starting pitcher for the Royals on this day. Righthander Lerew is 0-1 this season with a 3.85 ERA. Meanwhile, it’ll be AJ Burnett who … Continue reading MLB Handicapping: Royals vs Yankees<\/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-5835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5835","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=5835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5835\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}