{"id":6543,"date":"2009-04-30T07:43:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-30T12:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/04\/athletics-rangers-odds-preview\/"},"modified":"2009-04-30T07:43:00","modified_gmt":"2009-04-30T12:43:00","slug":"athletics-rangers-odds-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/04\/athletics-rangers-odds-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"Athletics-Rangers Odds Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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A winning streak will be on the line for the Texas Rangers on Thursday when they battle the Oakland Athletics at Rangers Ballpark. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Lefthander Dallas Braden will take the mound for the Athletics to start this game. Braden is 2-2 this season with a 2.52 ERA. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Rangers will counter Braden with ace Vicente<\/st2:GivenName> Padilla<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName>. Righthander<\/st2:GivenName> Padilla<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> has a 8.27 ERA to go along with a 1-1 record this season. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Odds aren’t yet posted for this game, so check back later for the opening line and total. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Nelson<\/st2:GivenName> Cruz’s RBI-single in the bottom of the eighth inning lifted the Rangers past the Athletics 5-4 on Tuesday night. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Texas<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> won as -145 home favorites as the game played under the 10-run total listed by sportsbooks. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Cruz<\/st2:Sn> finished with two runs batted in for the Rangers, while Kevin<\/st2:GivenName> Millwood<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> allowed two earned runs over eight innings to earn the win for Texas<\/st1:place><\/st1:State>. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Ryan<\/st2:GivenName> Sweeney<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> was 2-for-4 with a homer for Oakland<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>, as Michael<\/st2:GivenName> Wuertz<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> was handed the loss after allowing the single to Cruz<\/st2:Sn> in the eighth. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Current streak:
Texas<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> has won 2 straight games.<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Team records:
Oakland<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>: 7-11 SU
Texas: 10-10 SU<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Oakland most recently:
When playing on Thursday are 5-5
Before playing Seattle are 4-6
After playing Texas are 4-6
After a loss are 4-6<\/p>\n

Texas most recently:
When playing on Thursday are 6-4
Before playing Chi White Sox are 6-4
After playing Oakland are 6-4
After a win are 5-5<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

A few trends to consider:
Oakland is 7-14 SU in its last 21 games when playing Texas
Oakland is 2-6 SU in its last 8 games
Oakland is 3-10 SU in its last 13 games when playing on the road against Texas
Oakland is 0-5 SU in its last 5 games on the road
Texas is 4-1 SU in its last 5 games
Texas is 10-3 SU in its last 13 games when playing at home against Oakland
Texas is 14-7 SU in its last 21 games when playing Oakland
Texas is 8-4 SU in its last 12 games at home<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Next up:
Oakland<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> at Seattle<\/st1:place><\/st1:City><\/st2:Sn>, Friday, May 1
Texas<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> home to Chi White Sox, Friday, May 1<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

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A winning streak will be on the line for the Texas Rangers on Thursday when they battle the Oakland Athletics at Rangers Ballpark. Lefthander Dallas Braden will take the mound for the Athletics to start this game. Braden is 2-2 this season with a 2.52 ERA. The Rangers will counter Braden with ace Vicente Padilla. … Continue reading Athletics-Rangers Odds Preview<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6543","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=6543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6543\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}