Buehrle, ChiSox stop Royals
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07/02/2009 -
Kansas City, MO (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Mark Buehrle took a shutout into the ninth
inning, as the Chicago White Sox extended their season-high win streak to six
games with a 4-1 win over the Kansas City Royals.
Buehrle (8-2) allowed a run on six hits, walked none and struck out one in 8
1/3 frames. He did not give up the run until the ninth, when Bobby Jenks
entered to get the final two outs, in addition to his 19th save this season.
Jayson Nix had two hits, including a homer, while Jim Thome went 2-for-4 and
scored once to help the White Sox take the opener of the four-game series.
Bruce Chen (0-2) got his second start of the season for the Royals and for the
second time took the loss, despite a solid outing. He surrendered two runs on
five hits in six-plus innings, with one walk and five strikeouts.
David DeJesus doubled and drove in the lone run for Kansas City, which has
lost three in a row and six of eight.
Nix homered to left to lead off the fourth, getting Chicago on the scoreboard,
and the White Sox held on to the lead thanks to Buehrle. The left-hander
benefited from inning-ending double plays in the first, second and fifth
innings to move the game along and keep his pitch count low.
Also, Buehrle was perfect in the fourth and sixth, and Chicago added another
run in the seventh. Thome led off with a double and Paul Konerko followed with
a single to put runners on the corners. Chen was lifted in favor of Ron Mahay
who got A.J. Pierzynski to ground into a double play. Thome scored on the play
to make it a 2-0 game.
Buehrle worked a 1-2-3 bottom of the seventh, and the White Sox went up 3-0 in
the eighth. Scott Podsednik's single plated Brian Anderson, who reached on a
walk and went to second on a wild pitch.
After Buehrle again was perfect in the home eighth, Josh Fields scored on
Gordon Beckham's RBI groundout in the top of the ninth to push Chicago's lead
to four.
Buehrle ran into trouble in trying to complete the shutout, as Alberto
Callaspo opened the bottom of the ninth with a double. Callaspo scored two
batters later, when DeJesus doubled. Buehrle was taken out for Jenks, who got
the next two batters out to end the game.
Game Notes
Chicago's previous season-high win streak was four games (May 29-June
1)...Mark Teahen had two hits for the Royals...Konerko had two hits for the
White Sox...Chicago has won 13 of its last 17 overall, and 12 of its last 15
as the visitor.
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Super Bowl 2009, the Arizona Cardinals and the Pittsburgh Steelers.
Let’s take a look at the Super Bowl 2009 betting odds and the betting line and figure out where they’ve been and where they are going to go.
MySportsbook.com put up the Super Bowl 2009 betting odds late on Sunday night with the Pittsburgh Steelers favored by 6.5 points and a total betting line at 47.5 points.
Since then, however, the Super Bowl 2009 betting odds have seen a good deal of movement and you’ll want to be on top of where they are likely to move to make sure you get the best line value for the big game.
Since opening, the Super Bowl 2009 betting lines went to Steelers -7 in the span of roughly 3 hours but were quickly bought back down just minutes later to 6.5 again.
After that is took about 5-6 more hours before the betting line went back to -7 where it has sat for a while now and is likely to remain. The opening betting total of 47.5 was bet down right after the line became available and went to 47 within minutes.
Roughly a day later it has been bet even further down to the 46.5 tally it currently is set at.
Roughly 60% of gamblers seem to be on the Cardinals here so the point spread will be bet down and a 7.5 would not last very long at all with many taking the early 6.5 in hopes of finding a potential middle in the Super Bowl 2009 betting odds.
If you like Arizona and see a 7.5, I’d take it as soon as possible because it’s unlikely to last. For Pittsburgh backers, the -7 might be the best you’ll be able to find but a 6.5 is definitely possible close to game time.
Regarding the Super Bowl 2009 betting odds for the total, most tracked gamblers are already on the over and with those who took the under 47.5 already securing a middle on the over 46.5, the only way I see it moving is back up to 47 so if you like the over, I’d recommend betting now.
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