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The Oakland Athletics and the Minnesota Twins will both be gunning for a victory on Monday when they meet at The Metrodome.
The Athletics will pin their hopes on the pitching of ace righthander Justin Duchscherer in this game. Duchscherer has a 10-8 record and a 2.59 ERA this season.
The Twins will counter Duchscherer with Nick Blackburn. Righthander Blackburn has a 3.73 ERA to go along with a 9-6 record this season.
NewBodog oddsmakers currently have the Twins listed as 140-moneyline favorites versus the Athletics, while the game’s total has not yet been posted.
The Athletics lost to the White Sox 13-1 as a +110 underdog on Sunday. The 14 runs scored went OVER the posted over/under total (8).
Daric Barton was 2-3 and drove in the A’s lone run while Gio Gonzalez was roughed up for seven earned runs in three 1-3 innings.
The Twins defeated
Jason Kubel was 4-5 with two RBI and four runs scored for
Current streak:
Team records:
Minnesota: 70-53 SU Oakland most recently:
When playing on Monday are 5-5 Before playing Minnesota are 4-6 After playing Chi White Sox are 3-7 After a loss are 3-7 Minnesota most recently: A few trends to consider:
The total has gone UNDER in 6 of Oakland’s last 7 games when playing on the road against Minnesota The total has gone UNDER in 6 of Oakland’s last 8 games on the road The total has gone UNDER in 10 of Oakland’s last 14 games when playing Minnesota The total has gone UNDER in 13 of Oakland’s last 19 games Minnesota is 6-1 SU in its last 7 games at home The total has gone UNDER in 6 of Minnesota’s last 7 games when playing at home against Oakland Minnesota is 5-1 SU in its last 6 games The total has gone OVER in 4 of Minnesota’s last 5 games at home Next up:
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