{"id":15807,"date":"2011-05-26T12:40:18","date_gmt":"2011-05-26T17:40:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=15807"},"modified":"2011-05-26T12:40:18","modified_gmt":"2011-05-26T17:40:18","slug":"rios-return-chicago-white-sox-travel-to-toronto-to-take-on-blue-jays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/rios-return-chicago-white-sox-travel-to-toronto-to-take-on-blue-jays-15807\/","title":{"rendered":"R\u00edos Return: Chicago White Sox Travel to Toronto to take on Blue Jays"},"content":{"rendered":"

Chicago White Sox (23-28) AT Toronto Blue Jays (24-25)<\/strong>
\nMay 26, 2011 at 7:07 PM EST<\/strong>
\nOpening Moneyline:\u00a0 TOR -135, CHW +115<\/strong>
\nCurrent Moneyline: TOR -151, CHW +135<\/strong>
\nOpening Total: 8<\/strong>
\nCurrent Total: 8<\/strong><\/p>\n

SP:\u00a0 CHW- Phil Humber, TOR- Brandon Morrow<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Morrow is off to a poor start this year<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The White Sox are coming off a series loss to the Rangers, a series in which they dropped two of the three games, with the last one being a 2-1 battle last night on Wednesday.\u00a0 Prior to the Texas series, the Sox had won 5 straight series and split two others, since the sweep in Minnesota early in May.<\/p>\n

A big story of the game will be Alex Rios’ return to Toronto.\u00a0 He was claimed by the White Sox after being waived by Toronto in August of ’09 and he has struggled mightily this season.\u00a0 He’s hitting just .165 on the road, despite his 88 RBIs and 21 HRs last season.\u00a0 As to why he is struggling, Ozzie Guillen has no answers.\u00a0 \u201cThat\u2019s the question we ask every day,\u201d Guillen said. \u201cMaybe he has one good at-bat a game. He\u2019s practicing, he\u2019s having good at-bats.\u201d<\/p>\n

Last season against Toronto, the White Sox went 3-5, which was actually an improvement on years’ past, when the White Sox dropped 13 out of 15 games.\u00a0 In fact, the White Sox had dropped 10 straight in Toronto prior to splitting a 4 game series in April of 2010.<\/p>\n

Phil Humber will take the mound for the White Sox.\u00a0 Humber is 3-3 with a 3.10 ERA this season and he has held batters to .191 BA.\u00a0 In Friday’s 6-4 ten inning loss, Humber gave up 2 runs in 7 innings.\u00a0 He has never started a game against Toronto and his two appearances weren’t too good.\u00a0 He gave up 4 runs in 2 1\/3rds innings over the showings.\u00a0 Humber was once regarded as a highly touted pitching prospect, but he never really panned out.\u00a0 It may be his pitch selection that has been responsible for his mediocrity.\u00a0 He relies too heavily on fast balls and curve balls and doesn’t mix it up too much.\u00a0 His predictability limits his potential…Humber’s PECOTA projection predicts a 7-8 record with a 4.81 ERA this season.<\/p>\n

Brandon Morrow will take the mound for the Blue Jays.\u00a0 He’s 2-2 on the year with a 5.06 ERA and in his career against the White Sox he has been even worse, with a 0-1 record and a 8.38 ERA, over two starts.\u00a0 The aforementioned Rios is 2 of 9 against Morrow and he has struck out 5 of the 9 at bats.\u00a0 Morrow allowed 4 runs and 9 hits over 6 innings in what actually turned out to be a 7-5 win over the Astros.\u00a0 Morrow’s PECOTA projection predicted a 6-4 record with a 4.12 ERA.<\/p>\n

Some betting trends:<\/em><\/p>\n

The total has gone OVER in 5 of the White Sox’ last 7 games and the White Sox are 6-3 SU in their last 9 games.\u00a0 The total has also gone OVER in 5 of their last 6 against the Toronto Blue Jays and the White Sox are 1-4 SU in their last 5 against the Jays.\u00a0 The Total has also gone OVER in 4 of the last 6 road games in Toronto and the White Sox are 2-12 SU in their last 14 on the road in Toronto.<\/p>\n

The total has gone OVER in 4 of Toronto’s last 5 games and the Blue Jays are 2-4 SU in their last 6 games.\u00a0 The total has gone OVER in 5 of the Blue Jays’ last 6 games against the White Sox and the Blue Jays are 4-1 SU in their last 5 games against the White Sox.\u00a0 The total has gone OVER In 4 of the Blue Jays’ last 6 games at home against the White Sox while the Blue Jays are 12-2 SU in their last 14 games at home against the Chicago White Sox.<\/p>\n

This pitching matchup is between two pitchers who were both once thought to be significantly better than they turned out to be.\u00a0 Morrow has struggled this year, but could pull out of his slump against the White Sox tonight, even if the White Sox have been playing better.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Chicago White Sox (23-28) AT Toronto Blue Jays (24-25) May 26, 2011 at 7:07 PM EST Opening Moneyline:\u00a0 TOR -135, CHW +115 Current Moneyline: TOR -151, CHW +135 Opening Total: 8 Current Total: 8 SP:\u00a0 CHW- Phil Humber, TOR- Brandon Morrow The White Sox are coming off a series loss to the Rangers, a series […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40250,"featured_media":4581,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1444],"tags":[1747,171,4888,223],"class_list":["post-15807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","tag-brandon-morrow","tag-chicago-white-sox","tag-phil-humber","tag-toronto-blue-jays"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40250"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15807"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15807\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15808,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15807\/revisions\/15808"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}