{"id":16624,"date":"2011-07-24T11:25:16","date_gmt":"2011-07-24T16:25:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=16624"},"modified":"2011-07-24T11:25:16","modified_gmt":"2011-07-24T16:25:16","slug":"al-betting-detroit-tigers-wrap-up-4-game-set-against-division-rival-minnesota","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/al-betting-detroit-tigers-wrap-up-4-game-set-against-division-rival-minnesota-16624\/","title":{"rendered":"AL Betting: Detroit Tigers Wrap Up 4 Game Set Against Division Rival Minnesota"},"content":{"rendered":"

Detroit Tigers (53-47) AT Minnesota Twins (47-53)<\/strong><\/p>\n

July 24, 2011 at 4:10 PM EST<\/strong><\/p>\n

Opening Line: \u00a0MIN -135, DET +115<\/strong><\/p>\n

Current Line: \u00a0MIN -124, DET +114<\/strong><\/p>\n

Opening Total: \u00a08.5<\/strong><\/p>\n

Current Total: \u00a08.5<\/strong><\/p>\n

SP: \u00a0DET- Rick Porcello, MIN- Francisco Liriano<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Miguel Cabrera is hitting .315 with 20 HRs on the season<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Going into last night’s 6-2 loss, the Tigers had beaten the Twins 11 consecutive games, but the Twins won behind the strong hitting of Michael Cuddyer (2 of 4 with a HR) and Joe Mauer (2 of 4). \u00a0Justin Verlander threw a strong outing for the Tigers, allowilng only 5 hits in 8 innings of work, while striking out 9 batters and dropping his ERA to 2.24 and improving his record to 13-5.<\/p>\n

\u201cFive or six runs for Verlander,\u201d Tigers manager Brennan Boesch said, \u201cis like 10 or 12 for anyone else.\u201d<\/p>\n

Verlander realizes the importance of the victory, as it brought the Tigers to within half a game of the Indians for the division crown. \u00a0\u201cWhere we\u2019re at in the division, every game is important,\u201d Verlander said. \u201cIt\u2019s good to get Game One. Hopefully we get three more and get out of here.\u201d<\/p>\n

While the loss hurt the Twins, they remain within striking distance, the problem is that 6 games is a pretty decent distance and if they don’t pick it up soon, they are going to completely demolish their chances of winning the division, or even getting the wild card berth.<\/p>\n

The Twins haven’t hit particuarly well against Tigers’ starter Rick Porcello, who is 9-6 with a 4.76 ERA on the season. \u00a0He has given up 3 runs in each of his 3 starts this month. \u00a0However, against tthe Twins, he has won his last three starts while compiling a 1.83 ERA. \u00a0He attributes it to a better mix of pitches and use of his changeup, commenting, “I think I’m just using a better mix of off-speed stuff…that’s keeping guys off balance.” \u00a0Judging by the nine strikeouts, \u00a0it seems he certainly does have them guessing, particularly late in counts after an odd progression of pitches through the at bat.<\/p>\n

Francisco Liriano clearly has seen his best days, but is still 6-7 wilth a 4.56 ERA. \u00a0He has gone 0-4 with an 8.27 ERA in his last 5 starts against the Tigers, and he gave up 4 runs in 3 innings while facing Porcello on May 10th. \u00a0Liriano has allowed only one earned run in each of his last two starts, however, and is 2-0 this month in his 4 starts. \u00a0He gave up only 1 run and 4 hits in 6 innings against the Indians on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Liriano may have problems, in particular, with Jhonny Peralta, who is 13 of 25 over his last 7 games and is 8 of 13 with 2 HRs and 7 RBIs in this series. \u00a0He is hitting .438 in his last 21 games against the Twins. \u00a0Against Liriano, he is 8 of 26 with 2 HRs.<\/p>\n

Some betting trends:<\/p>\n

The total has gone OVER in 4 of the Tigers’ last 5 games and the Tigers are 4-2 SU in their last 6 games. \u00a0The Tigers are 6-2 SU in their last 8 on the road and they are 11-1 SU in their last 12 games against the Minnesota Twins. \u00a0The total has gone OVER in 6 of the last 8 against the Minneosta Twins, and it has also gone OVER In 5 of the last 6 on the road against the Twins. \u00a0The Tigers are 8-16 SU in their last 24 games on the road against the Twins and the Tigers are 5-1 SU in their last 6 on the road against the Twins.<\/p>\n

The Twins are 15-8 SU in their last 23 games and they are 17-8 SU in their last 25 at home. The Twins are 1-11 SU In their last 12 games against the Tigers and the total has gone OVER \u00a0in 6 of the last 8 at home against the Tigers. \u00a0It has also gone OVER In 5 of the last 6 at home against the Detroit Tigers while the Twins are 1-5 SU in their last 6 games at home against Detroit. \u00a0The Twins are 16-8 SU in their last 24 games at home against the Tigers.<\/p>\n

There isn’t a lot of value in the total at 8.5, which seems pretty accurate given the fact that both pitcher’s have ERAs in the mid 4s. \u00a0The Twins should win this game, and are slight favorites, but with the teams so evenly matched, the odds aren’t particularly enticing either way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Detroit Tigers (53-47) AT Minnesota Twins (47-53) July 24, 2011 at 4:10 PM EST Opening Line: \u00a0MIN -135, DET +115 Current Line: \u00a0MIN -124, DET +114 Opening Total: \u00a08.5 Current Total: \u00a08.5 SP: \u00a0DET- Rick Porcello, MIN- Francisco Liriano Going into last night’s 6-2 loss, the Tigers had beaten the Twins 11 consecutive games, but […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40250,"featured_media":4965,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1444],"tags":[48,240],"class_list":["post-16624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","tag-detroit-tigers","tag-minnesota-twins"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16624","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=16624"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16624\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16626,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16624\/revisions\/16626"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}