{"id":6544,"date":"2009-04-30T07:45:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-30T12:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/04\/blue-jays-royals-lines-preview\/"},"modified":"2009-04-30T07:45:00","modified_gmt":"2009-04-30T12:45:00","slug":"blue-jays-royals-lines-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/04\/blue-jays-royals-lines-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Jays-Royals Lines Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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The Toronto Blue Jays and the Kansas City Royals will both be trying to pick up a win on Thursday when they battle at Kauffman Stadium. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Lefthander<\/st2:GivenName> Brian<\/st2:middlename> Burres<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> will take the mound for the Blue Jays to start this game. Burres is 0-1 this season with a 12.47 ERA. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Royals will counter Burres with Kyle<\/st2:GivenName> Davies<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName>. Righthander<\/st2:GivenName> Davies<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> has a 4.88 ERA to go along with a 1-1 record this season. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Oddsmakers currently have the Royals listed as 135-moneyline favorites versus the Blue Jays, while the game’s total has not yet been posted. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Billy<\/st2:GivenName> Butler<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> belted two home runs and drove in four runs to lead the Royals to an 11-3 win over the Blue Jays on Wednesday, as -155 favorites. That game’s 14 runs sailed OVER the posted over\/under (8). <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Mike<\/st2:GivenName> Aviles<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> went 2-for-3 with two RBIs for the Royals. Zack<\/st2:GivenName> Greinke<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> improved to 5-0, allowing just five hits and two runs over seven innings of work. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Brian<\/st2:GivenName> Tallet<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> was rocked for 10 runs off 11 hits over four innings in the loss for the Blue Jays, who were +135 underdogs. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Team records:
Toronto<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>: 15-8 SU
Kansas City: 11-10 SU<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Toronto most recently:
When playing on Thursday are 4-6
Before playing Baltimore are 6-4
After playing Kansas City are 6-4
After a loss are 9-1<\/p>\n

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

A few trends to consider:
Toronto is 6-2 SU in its last 8 games when playing Kansas City
Toronto is 16-8 SU in its last 24 games
Toronto is 2-5 SU in its last 7 games when playing on the road against Kansas City
Kansas City is 5-2 SU in its last 7 games when playing at home against Toronto
Kansas City is 2-6 SU in its last 8 games when playing Toronto<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Next up:
Toronto<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> home to Baltimore<\/st1:place><\/st1:City><\/st2:Sn>, Friday, May 1
Kansas City<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> at Minnesota<\/st1:place><\/st1:State>, Friday, May 1<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

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The Toronto Blue Jays and the Kansas City Royals will both be trying to pick up a win on Thursday when they battle at Kauffman Stadium. Lefthander Brian Burres will take the mound for the Blue Jays to start this game. Burres is 0-1 this season with a 12.47 ERA. The Royals will counter Burres … Continue reading Blue Jays-Royals Lines 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-6544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6544","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=6544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6544\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}