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05/01/2010 - (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - The Toronto Blue Jays aim for their third consecutive victory against the struggling Oakland Athletics in the third of four games at Rogers Centre.
Toronto made it two straight on Friday, as Alex Gonzalez smacked a pair of home runs in a 10-2 rout. Vernon Wells went 3-for-4 with a two-run homer for the Blue Jays, who won the series opener, 6-3, on Thursday to snap a five-game skid.
John Buck, coming off a three-homer game, went 2-for-3 with two RBI and a run scored.
Brandon Morrow (2-2) was solid in six frames, allowing two runs on seven hits. He also tied a career high with nine strikeouts and walked two to improve to 3-0 in 18 career appearances (four starts) against the A's.
"I had a good slider again tonight and that was really the key," Morrow said.
Cliff Pennington knocked in a run and scored for the Athletics, who have dropped six in a row on the road. Kevin Kouzmanoff drove in the other run for Oakland.
Dana Eveland will get the ball for the Blue Jays this afternoon, and he carries a 2-0 record and 4.57 ERA into the clash. Eveland certainly has room for improvement despite the unblemished record, as he has allowed 24 hits and 10 walks through 21 2/3 innings of action. On Monday, Eveland was fortunate to get a no-decision after he allowed seven earned runs on eight hits in only three innings against Boston.
A lefty, Eveland has never faced Oakland, a team he pitched for from 2008-09.
On the bump for the Athletics today will be Gio Gonzalez, who is 2-1 with a 3.68 ERA through four starts. Gonzalez was most recently in action on Sunday when he pitched brilliantly, throwing seven scoreless innings against Cleveland en route to victory. Gonzalez allowed only five hits in that tilt.
The Oakland lefty has only faced Toronto once in his career and allowed four earned runs in six innings of a loss.
Oakland has lost its last four games to fall to 12-12 overall, but that mark is still good for a first-place tie with the Angels atop the AL West standings.
As for Toronto, it is also 12-12, placing the team third in the AL East.
Toronto is 14-3 in its last 17 against the A's and has won eight of its last nine against them at Rogers Centre.
<< Bruins, Flyers meet for Game 1 in Boston
(Sportsbook Betting Lines) - A pair of first-round underdogs will face each other in
Game 1 of the Eastern Conference semifinals today, when the Boston Bruins host
the Philadelphia Flyers at TD Garden.
The sixth-seeded Bruins hold home-ice advantage a
<< Celtics visit Cavs for Game 1 of East semis
(Sportsbook Betting Lines) - The incidental stuff has been taken care of.
Now, the top- seeded Cleveland Cavaliers and the veteran-laden Boston Celtics
are preparing to do some heavy lifting, as the teams meet in the Eastern
Conference semifinals in a
<< Spurs-Suns Preview Capsule
A look at the Western Conference semifinal series between the Phoenix Suns and San Antonio Spurs, which begins Monday (with regular-season and playoff records):No. 3 PHOENIX SUNS (54-28, 4-2) vs. No. 7 SAN ANTONIO SPURS (50-32, 4-2).Season series: S
<< Jazz-Lakers Preview Capsule
A look at the Western Conference semifinal series between the Los Angeles Lakers and Utah Jazz, which begins Sunday (with regular-season and playoff records):No. 1 LOS ANGELES LAKERS (57-25, 4-2) vs. No. 5 UTAH JAZZ (53-29, 4-2).Season series: Laker
Twins, Indians continue series in Cleveland >>
(Sportsbook Betting Lines) - The second of three weekend games between the Minnesota
Twins and the Cleveland Indians will take place this evening at Progressive
Field.
The defending American League Central champion Twins made an early claim on
firs
Yanks, White Sox resume set in the Bronx >>
(Sportsbook Betting Lines) - The New York Yankees are set for the second of a three-
game series with the visiting Chicago White Sox this afternoon at Yankee
Stadium.
New York has won its last three games, including the opener of this series,
and is
Braves try to string back-to-back wins together against Astros >>
(Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Now that they've ended a nine-game skid, the Atlanta Braves
can get to work on starting a win streak tonight when they host the Houston
Astros in the second game of a three-game weekend series at Turner Field.
Braves rooki
Nationals hope to stay hot in South Beach >>
(Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Now that they've completed a successful April, the
Washington Nationals can begin a second straight winning month tonight when
they visit Sun Life Stadium for the second test of a three-game weekend set
with the host Florida
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“You either have a passion for it or you don’t,” Seba said.
“The #1 thing for us is to make a line for each game that creates good two-way action. We do this by drawing from past experiences and applying them to current situations. People think it’s much more complicated, but it’s not. “Divided action means the sportsbook is guaranteed a profit on the game because of the fee charged to the bettor (called juice or vig – typically $11 bet to win $10).
Power ratings are the oddsmaker’s value of each team and are used as a guide to calculate a "preliminary" pointspread on an upcoming game. The power ratings are adjusted after each game a team plays. Examples of non-game factors that would require an adjustment to a team's power rating are key player injuries and player trades.
Once a game’s power rating based pointspread is determined, the oddsmaker will make adjustments to that line after considering each team's most recent games played and previous games played against that opponent. Also, adjustments are made after reading each team’s local newspapers to get a sense of what the coaches & players are thinking going into the game.Since the oddsmaker’s ultimate goal is equally dividing the sports betting action, public perception and sportsbook betting patterns must be taken into account. For example, the public might have heavy betting interest week after week on a popular college football betting team such as USC. If an oddsmaker comes up with a preliminary line of USC -7, then an adjustment up to -7.5 or -8 would be made in response to the public’s expected USC bias.
The last step in the line-making process for each oddsmaker is taking one final look to determine whether or not the line "feels right." This is where common sense and past experience with how games are bet enters into the picture.A round-table discussion among the 4-5 oddsmakers involved in making the line for each sport is then conducted and a consensus line is decided upon by the Odds Director before it is released to the sportsbooks. Of the 4-5 oddsmakers, generally the 2 most respected opinions are weighed more heavily by the Odds Director before he decides on the final line.
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Individual books having players who consistently bet with certain tendencies (such as an extreme bias toward favorites or toward a certain popular team like USC)The purpose of these adjustments, like all line adjustments, is to more equally divide the betting action.
Once betting begins, sportsbooks can adjust the line at any time. In doing so they attempt to make more attractive the team that is getting less action. By moving the line, sportsbooks can influence how the public bets on a particular game.For example, if the pointspread on a game is 7 and most of the money is coming in on the underdog (taking the +7), sportsbooks will then move the number down to 6 ½ to try and attract money on the favorite.
Moving the line is the oddsmaker's effort to balance betting action, and often times such moves can have a major impact on a bettor’s decision. Oddsmakers can also change the line depending on various event-related factors such as player injuries or weather. Obviously, if the line comes out a week ahead of the event (which is the case in football), there is much that could happen during the week leading up to the event that could affect the line. Oddsmakers have to determine if any changes are necessary and send out an "adjusted line."“The main objective is that our clients get equal action on both sides,” Seba said. “We’re not trying to pick the team that covers the spread, we’re trying to make it a coin flip, a tough decision (for the bettor). If we’ve done that, we’ve done our job.”
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