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06/26/2010 - Chicago, IL (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Paul Konerko's solo home run in the eighth inning off Andrew Cashner broke a tie game and gave the White Sox a 3-2 decision over the Cubs for their 11th straight victory.
Matt Thornton closed the contest in the ninth for his third save of the season, capping the first time the ChiSox have won 11 in a row since a 12-game run from June 17-27, 1961.
Alex Rios and Alexei Ramirez also drove in a run in the victory, the club's 15th in 16 games. The Sox are now 15-2 against the National League this season and have won seven of the last eight against their Windy City rivals.
Cashner (0-1) took the loss behind Carlos Silva, who had his start pushed back two days due to a right hamstring injury and lasted six frames, allowing two runs on three hits and a walk. The Cubs have lost four of five overall.
Silva's counterpart was also effective in a no-decision, as Freddy Garcia yielded two runs on eight hits in seven innings of work. J.J. Putz (4-2) was credited with the win for tossing a flawless eighth.
Aramis Ramirez's first home run since June 5th leading off the top of the seventh tied the game, 2-2. Alfonso Soriano doubled after the blast but was stranded on third.
With one out in the eighth, Cashner, in his second inning of relief, served up a 1-2 fastball that Konerko took over the left-field wall for his 19th homer of the year and a 3-2 lead.
Thornton walked Aramis Ramirez with one out in the ninth before getting Soriano to bounce into a 5-4-3 double play to clinch another White Sox win.
Gordon Beckham tripled leading off the third and stayed there until Rios knocked him in on a single to center with two away for a 1-0 edge.
The Cubs answered in the sixth when Derrek Lee's one-out base hit to center plated Ryan Theriot, who led off the frame with a single.
The Sox countered in the bottom half, as Konerko walked, moved to second when Carlos Quentin was hit by a pitch, advanced to third on a flyout to center and raced home on Alexei Ramirez's sacrifice fly to right.
Game Notes
The Cubs became the first major league franchise to reach 20,000 regular season games on Saturday...Cubs manager Lou Piniella announced Tom Gorzelanny will take over Carlos Zambrano's spot in the rotation if Zambrano returns to the team following his indefinite suspension...Garcia, who is 4-0 lifetime against the Cubs, had won his previous five starts...The Cubs outhit the Sox, 8-4...The White Sox will go for their fourth consecutive three-game series sweep on Sunday with John Danks on the hill opposite Ryan Dempster.
<< Staten and Tomasulo remain on top in Mexico
Leon, Mexico (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - B.J. Staten and Peter Tomasulo both shot
rounds of even-par 72 on Saturday to remain in the lead after three rounds of
the Nationwide Tour's Mexico Open.
Staten birdied the 18th hole to join Tomasulo at nine-u
<< A's send Patterson to BoSox for pitcher
Oakland, CA (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - The Oakland Athletics shipped outfielder Eric
Patterson to the Boston Red Sox on Saturday in exchange for pitching prospect
Fabian Williamson.
Patterson was hitting a paltry .204 with four home runs, five do
<< Rays rebound against D'Backs
St. Petersburg, FL (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Jason Bartlett and Sean Rodriguez paced
the offense by driving in two runs apiece, as Tampa Bay bested Arizona, 5-3,
in the second of a three-game interleague set from Tropicana Field.
Carlos Pena a
<< Kawakami gets first win in Braves' victory over Tigers
Atlanta, GA (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Chipper Jones hit a three-run home run, and
Kenshin Kawakami snapped a long winless streak to lift the Atlanta Braves to a
4-3 win over the Detroit Tigers in the middle installment of a three-game
interle
Cameron, Red Sox top Giants >>
San Francisco, CA (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Mike Cameron slugged a three-run homer
and Darnell McDonald hit a solo shot as Boston doubled up San Francisco, 4-2,
in the second installment of a three-game interleague series.
Adrian Beltre added
Los Angeles, Toronto FC battle to scoreless draw >>
Toronto, ON (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Donovan Ricketts made just one save to earn his
ninth shutout the season Saturday in a 0-0 tie against Toronto FC at BMO Field
in MLS.
L.A. (10-1-3), which leads the Western Conference by nine points, has allo
Reds roll to win over struggling Indians >>
Cincinnati, OH (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Brandon Phillips reached base three times
and drove in a run, and the Cincinnati Reds beat the floundering Cleveland
Indians, 6-4, in the second of three interleague games between the two Ohio
basebal
Sportswriter captures North America Cup at Mohawk >>
Campbellville, ON (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Dan Patch Award winner Sportswriter led
most of the way and was able to hold on to win Saturday's $1.5 million North
America Cup at Mohawk Raceway. The three-year-old pacer covered the mile in
1:48 3/
Is there such a thing as a trap game in the NFL?
I once asked that question to Pete Korner, who at the time was office manager and a senior linesmaker for Las Vegas Sports Consultants.
Korner almost ripped my head off. There is no such thing as a trap game, he loudly berated me. It’s a myth. The numbers are made using power ratings, he said.
There are trap games, though. They just might not be what you think. The perception is of a good team, say Philadelphia, laying a small number against New Orleans.
Using the highly-respected power ranking from The Gold Sheet, you’d find the Eagles with a power rating of 4 and the Saints at 8. When you factor the game being played in New Orleans, you could see why the line opened so short at less than a field goal.
For some, this makes it enticing to take the Eagles. That’s not a real trap game, though.
A real trap game, says professional gambler Dave Malinsky, is thinking you’re getting value betting a bad team, which brings us to the Oakland Raiders-Denver Broncos matchup.
The Raiders are +15 in this long-standing division rivalry. Denver is on a short week having dispatched Baltimore Monday. However, the Raiders haven’t covered the spread their last 10 games.
Many bettors don’t trust the Raiders to give a full effort. Few think much of Art Shell and his Oakland’s coaching staff.
So oddsmakers have to do something to make Oakland attractive if they hope to get equal action.
Now Malinsky is a value shopper. But he won’t touch the Raiders even getting more than two touchdowns.
“I try to eliminate the undisciplined, unfocused teams because they’re the ones most likely to suffer the bad beats,” he said.
Near the top of Malinsky’s list of stay-away teams is the Miami Dolphins, who have yet to cover a spread this season.
“Whatever you think of Nick Saban, you have to look at the penalties and turnovers,” Malinsky said.
It’s easy to point out the Dolphins failed to get the money this past week against New England because Olindo Mare missed a field goal and had another field goal blocked. But even though the Dolphins outgained the Patriots, 283-213, they committed eight penalties.
Bad teams not only cost themselves victories, but pointspread covers as well. The Arizona Cardinals and Green Bay Packers are two more examples.
The Cardinals couldn’t have been in a better position this past Sunday, up 14-0 at home against a mediocre Kansas City Chiefs squad. But they couldn’t hold it. The Packers got a push against St. Louis, but also could have won losing by three when Brett Favre fumbled at the St. Louis 11-yard line with 44 seconds left.
“The Packers were in a position to beat Philadelphia, too,” Malinsky said. “But they couldn’t even cover double digits.
“These teams just make mistakes and it costs you … they always will look good from a value standpoint. They really will. But that’s the trap.”
Houston and Tennessee rank among the six-worst teams. Malinsky wouldn’t be afraid to take either of these teams, however, if the price were high enough.
The Texans are bad, Malinsky said, but they have some discipline. The Titans showed they could not only come up with an outstanding game plan, but execute it as well, losing by one to the Colts on the road as an 18 ?-point underdog this past Sunday.
“Jeff Fisher is a worker,” Malinsky said of the Titans coach. “I’m not sure how hard Art Shell wants to work when he gets out of bed.”
Fisher, though, could be out as Tennessee coach after this season. Is he still worth backing in the right spot, with the right price, as a lame duck coach?
“It’s in his nature to keep working hard and not worry about any possible lame duck status,” Malinsky said. “He’s coaching for his resume.”
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