{"id":6621,"date":"2009-05-15T06:01:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-15T11:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/05\/athletics-tigers-odds-preview-2\/"},"modified":"2009-05-15T06:01:00","modified_gmt":"2009-05-15T11:01:00","slug":"athletics-tigers-odds-preview-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/05\/athletics-tigers-odds-preview-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Athletics-Tigers Odds Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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The Detroit Tigers will be fighting to snap a losing streak on Friday when they take on the Oakland Athletics at Comerica<\/st1:PlaceName> Park<\/st1:PlaceType><\/st1:place>. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Lefthander Dallas Braden will take the mound for the Athletics to start this game. Braden is 3-4 this season with a 2.79 ERA. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Braden’s opponent in this one will be Edwin<\/st2:GivenName> Jackson<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName>. The Tigers righthander has a 2.60 ERA to go along with a 2-2 record this season. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Oddsmakers currently have the Tigers listed as 140-moneyline favorites versus the Athletics, while the game’s total has not yet been posted. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The A’s completed a two-game sweep of the Royals with a 7-2 victory on Wednesday, as -115 favorites. That game’s nine runs made it OVER the posted over\/under (8.5). <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Jack<\/st2:GivenName> Cust<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> led the A’s with four runs batted in, and Josh<\/st2:GivenName> Outman<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> pitched six scoreless innings to earn the win. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Tigers dropped a 6-5 decision to the Twins on Thursday, as a -110 pick’em on the road. That game’s 11 runs made it OVER the posted over\/under (8). <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Clete<\/st2:GivenName> Thomas<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> and Magglio<\/st2:GivenName> Ordonez<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> drove in two runs apiece for the Tigers. Bobby<\/st2:GivenName> Seay<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> allowed four runs in relief and was handed the loss. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Current streak:
Oakland<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> has won 2 straight games.
Detroit<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> has lost 3 straight games.<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Team records:
Oakland<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>: 13-18 SU
Detroit: 17-16 SU<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Oakland most recently:
When playing on Friday are 6-4
Before playing Detroit are 6-4
After playing Kansas City are 4-6
After a win are 4-6<\/p>\n

Detroit most recently:
When playing on Friday are 6-4
Before playing Oakland are 6-4
After playing Minnesota are 6-4
After a loss are 5-5<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

A few trends to consider:
The total has gone UNDER in 5 of Oakland’s last 7 games when playing on the road against Detroit
Oakland is 7-3 SU in its last 10 games when playing Detroit
The total has gone OVER in 4 of Oakland’s last 6 games
Oakland is 4-2 SU in its last 6 games
The total has gone UNDER in 5 of Detroit’s last 7 games when playing at home against Oakland
The total has gone UNDER in 4 of Detroit’s last 6 games when playing Oakland
Detroit is 3-7 SU in its last 10 games when playing Oakland<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Next up:
Detroit<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> home to Oakland<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>, Saturday, May 16<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

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The Detroit Tigers will be fighting to snap a losing streak on Friday when they take on the Oakland Athletics at Comerica Park. Lefthander Dallas Braden will take the mound for the Athletics to start this game. Braden is 3-4 this season with a 2.79 ERA. Braden’s opponent in this one will be Edwin Jackson. … Continue reading Athletics-Tigers 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-6621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6621","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=6621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6621\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}