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05/18/2010 - Toronto, ON (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Aaron Hill smacked a three-run home run as the Toronto Blue Jays dominated the Minnesota Twins, 11-2, to split a two-game set.
Lyle Overbay went 2-for-4 with a two-run home run and three RBI, Vernon Wells hit a solo home run and drove in two and Edwin Encarnacion hit a two-run home run for the Blue Jays, who have won five of six. Shaun Marcum (3-1) went seven innings in the start and was charged with just one run on five hits with two walks and three strikeouts.
Alexei Casilla and Jason Kubel each drove in a run for the Twins, who had a two-game win streak stopped. Carl Pavano (4-4) was tagged for six runs on 10 hits over four innings.
Toronto grabbed the lead in the first as a sacrifice fly from Wells was followed by an RBI double by Overbay for a 2-0 lead.
In the second, Jose Bautista was hit by a pitch to start the inning and Encarnacion followed by hitting a pitch off the top of the wall in left-center and over for a 4-0 lead.
In the third, Wells started the frame by drilling the first pitch he saw into the left field stands for a 5-0 lead.
Minnesota finally got on the board in the fourth when Michael Cuddyer led off with a triple and Kubel followed with a single to make it a 5-1 game.
Toronto, though, got the run back in the bottom of the fourth. Jose Molina reached first on an infield single to start the inning and Fred Lewis followed with a double. After Hill struck out, Adam Lind singled to right to easily score Molina, but Lewis was gunned down at home by Kubel.
Toronto blew the game wide open in the sixth. With one out, Molina and Lewis singled and Hill followed with a blast over the left field wall. After Jesse Crain entered the game, Wells reached base on an infield single, making it to third on an error from Crain, and Overbay made it an 11-1 game with his fourth home run of the season.
Casilla's pinch-hit, one-run triple in the eighth accounted for the final score.
Game Notes
Toronto has another two-game set with the Mariners in Seattle starting on Wednesday...Minnesota also has a two-game set in Boston beginning on Wednesday...Toronto has won 15 of the last 19 against Minnesota...Pavano is 3-5 in 10 appearances against Toronto...Marcum improved to 2-1 in four starts against Toronto...Encarnacion was activated from the 15-day disabled list prior to the game.
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“You play to win the game!”
Those are the words of notoriously intense head coach Herman Edwards. Unfortunately, from a bettors’ perspective, most coaches don’t feel that way about the NFL preseason. August is a time to evaluate young players, finalize the depth chart and pray your star players stay healthy.
The trick to making money during the exhibition schedule is identifying coaches – like Edwards – who can’t stand losing even when there's nothing on the line.
The New York Jets betting won 15 of 21 preseason games and went 14-7 against the spread (ATS) during Edwards’s five-year tenure with the club. In his first season as the Kansas City Chiefs field boss, the team improved from 0-4 to 2-2.
Identifying win-a-holics like Edwards is a good start if you plan betting the preseason – even though most say you shouldn’t ... but what the hell do they know anyway?
Here’s a brief rundown of two teams that have a habit of winning during the second-stringers’ season, and another club that has a good chance of exceeding this year.
Playing in the media hub of North America can be stressful but the press can’t write anything negative about the way Tom Coughlin’s boys play in the preseason. The Giants won and covered all four games last summer, improving their record to 7-1 both straight up (SU) and against the spread over the last two years.
Coughlin has shown he’s not afraid to give his starters more time in the second preseason game than most of his colleagues, no doubt one of the reasons his team has been so dominant.
Bettors can count on America’s team early on. The Cowboys are 14-6 both SU and ATS since 2002 in warm-up contests. Former coach Bill Parcells, the coach of the team the last four years, has an intimidating, in-your-face presence – surely a reason Dallas has had so much early success.
The Big Tuna won’t be strolling the sidelines with looks of disgust, but new coach Wade Phillips will be anxious to make a good first impression for owner Jerry Jones.
Dallas plays the Indianapolis Colts and the Denver Broncos before things get serious. They then face the Houston Texans in their third contest (the game starters see most game time) and finish off with the Minnesota Vikings.
Expect a Dallas team able to walk away with another 3-1 preseason record.
This team scored a league-worst 12 offensive touchdowns last season, so the rookies and veterans each have something to prove. There’s a bounty of first-unit jobs up for grabs and plenty of bodies competing for those slots.
First-time head coach Lane Kiffin will be eager to impress an owner who employs the philosophy, “Just win, baby!”
The 32-year-old Kiffin has to command respect from a locker room full of players older than him. All of these factors should lead to purpose in preseason.
Don’t forget: before playing like a team that belonged in NFL Europe, Oakland went 4-1 (both SU and ATS) in exhibition games.
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In terms of sports wagering, the NFL is "the most popular game in town." The explanation behind that is easy.
It is called the "pointspread."
Many years ago, NFL games, as well as the more popular college games, used straight odds as a vehicle for betting. For example, if the Bears were playing the Giants, and it shaped up as a competitive contest, the Bears might be, say, a 7/5 favorite. If they were playing an also-ran, it might be 10/1. Well, there is a point where a line becomes prohibitive, as far as betting the favorite. And who would waste money betting an underdog that has virtually no chance? Such a setup did not contribute to promoting betting action.
But in modern sports betting, a "pointspread" is used.
A NFL pointspreads are exactly that, a pre-established point difference between the two sides that will, for all intents and purposes, create a handicap that evens things out, and in doing so, produces comparable wagering activity on both sides of that proposition. So in lieu of a odds figure in which to bet the team to win outright, the Bears might be a three-point favorite over the New York Giants, and a 17-point favorite over the also-ran. Now that the team that is the underdog can "get" points, there can be equal action on both sides.
In sportsbooks, this is usually done with efficiency by charging the losing bettors 10% extra - in effect, bettors are laying 11/10 on those games. So they are actually betting $110 to win $100. If they lose, they pay the "vig." If they win, they simply collect.
The establishment of the pointspread as the corner stone around which team sports like football can be wagered upon was truly what brought gridiron betting into the stratosphere for online football betting .
Don't believe it? Just take a look at what happens around the Super Bowl.
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