{"id":5917,"date":"2009-10-06T06:21:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-06T11:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/10\/mlb-betting-odds-tigers-vs-twins\/"},"modified":"2009-10-06T06:21:00","modified_gmt":"2009-10-06T11:21:00","slug":"mlb-betting-odds-tigers-vs-twins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/10\/mlb-betting-odds-tigers-vs-twins\/","title":{"rendered":"MLB Betting Odds: Tigers vs Twins"},"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\">The Detroit Tigers and the Minnesota Twins will both be trying to pick up a win on Tuesday when they battle at The Metrodome in a one-game playoff to decide the AL Central. <?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\">Righthander Rick Porcello will take the mound for the Tigers to start this game. Porcello is 14-9 this season with a 4.04 ERA. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Meanwhile, it&#8217;ll be Scott Baker who starts for the Twins. Righthander Baker is 15-9 with a 4.36 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 Twins listed as 170-moneyline favorites versus the Tigers, while the game&#8217;s total is sitting at 8\u00bd. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Ryan Raburn went 3-for-4 with two homers and three runs batted in to lead the Tigers over the White Sox 5-3 on Sunday. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = \"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags\" \/><st1:City><st1:place>Detroit<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> cashed as -190 home favorites, while the game played OVER the 7.5-run total set by oddsmakers. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Jason Kubel was 3-for-4 with two dingers and six runs batted in to lead the Twins over the Royals 13-4 on Sunday. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><st1:State><st1:place>Minnesota<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> won as -220 home favorites, while the teams played OVER 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\">Team records:<br \/><st1:City><st1:place>Detroit<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>: 86-76 SU<br \/>Minnesota: 86-76 SU<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Detroit most recently:<br \/>When playing on Tuesday are 5-5<br \/>After playing Chi White Sox are 5-5<br \/>After a win are 5-5<\/p>\n<p>Minnesota most recently:<br \/>When playing on Tuesday are 2-8<br \/>After playing Kansas City are 8-2<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 \/>The total has gone UNDER in 4 of Detroit&#8217;s last 5 games when playing on the road against Minnesota<br \/>The total has gone OVER in 4 of Detroit&#8217;s last 5 games on the road<br \/>Detroit is 5-2 SU in its last 7 games on the road<br \/>Detroit is 1-4 SU in its last 5 games when playing on the road against Minnesota<br \/>Minnesota is 9-1 SU in its last 10 games at home<br \/>The total has gone OVER in 5 of Minnesota&#8217;s last 6 games <br \/>The total has gone UNDER in 4 of Minnesota&#8217;s last 5 games when playing at home against Detroit<br \/>Minnesota is 4-1 SU in its last 5 games when playing at home against Detroit<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>The Detroit Tigers and the Minnesota Twins will both be trying to pick up a win on Tuesday when they battle at The Metrodome in a one-game playoff to decide the AL Central. Righthander Rick Porcello will take the mound for the Tigers to start this game. Porcello is 14-9 this season with a 4.04 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/10\/mlb-betting-odds-tigers-vs-twins\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">MLB Betting Odds: Tigers vs Twins<\/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-5917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5917","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=5917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5917\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}