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08/29/2010 - Seattle, WA (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Luke French tossed seven strong innings to help the Seattle Mariners take a 2-1 win over the Minnesota Twins in the finale of a three-game set.
French (3-4) was charged with just one run on three hits with a walk and four strikeouts for the Mariners, who had dropped six of seven coming into the contest. Franklin Gutierrez went 2-for-3 with an RBI while Adam Moore drove in the winning run.
Carl Pavano (15-10) took the loss despite a solid start after giving up two runs on five hits with a walk and two strikeouts over seven innings for the Twins, who had a three-game winning streak stopped. Michael Cuddyer's solo home run accounted for the Minnesota offense.
Despite the loss, the Twins maintained a 4 1/2 game lead over Chicago, which lost to the Yankees on Sunday, for first place in the AL Central.
The pitchers were dominating the game through the first six innings, but Minnesota got on the board in the seventh on Cuddyer's solo home run, his 12th of the season.
Seattle, though, answered in the bottom of the frame. With one out, Jose Lopez singled and Casey Kotchman followed with a single. A wild pitch moved the runners up a base and Gutierrez tied the game with a single to left. Moore then hit into a fielder's choice that saw Kotchman score for a 2-1 lead.
Brandon League came on the mound for Seattle in the eighth and worked around a two-out single by J.J. Hardy.
David Aardsma pitched around a one-out single by Orlando Hudson in the ninth to pick up his 25th save of the season.
Game Notes
Minnesota hosts Detroit for three games starting on Tuesday...The Twins took six of the 10 games against Seattle this season...Seattle hosts the Angels for three games beginning Monday...Pavano fell to 1-2 against Seattle...French improved to 1-1 against Minnesota.
<< Kuchar wins playoff for Barclays title
Paramus, NJ (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Matt Kuchar birdied the first playoff hole
Sunday to defeat Martin Laird and win The Barclays, the first playoff event of
2010.
Kuchar fired a five-under 66 and was the only player to post four rounds i
<< Pato brace leads AC Milan over Lecce
Rome, Italy (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - AC Milan opened its 2010-11 Italian Serie A
campaign with an impressive 4-0 win over Lecce on Sunday.
Alexandre Pato scored twice and Thiago Silva once in the opening half-hour
before Filippo Inzaghi
<< Sochaux move into 4th with thrashing of PSG
Paris, France (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Sochaux moved into fourth in the French Ligue
1 table after four weeks with a 3-1 win over Paris Saint-Germain on Sunday.
Modibo Maiga opened the scoring for Sochaux in the 13th minute before Ideye
Brown a
<< Gonzalez pitches Oakland past Texas
Arlington, TX (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Gio Gonzalez went six innings to help the
Oakland Athletics take an 8-2 win over the Texas Rangers in the rubber match
of a three-game set.
Gonzalez (12-8) gave up just two runs on five hits with
Uihlein wins U.S. Amateur Championship >>
University Place, WA (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Peter Uihlein defeated David Chung, 4
& 2 on Sunday to win the 110th U.S. Amateur Championship at Chambers Bay.
It will be a happy 21st birthday for the Oklahoma State University star.
"I hope
Said nips Papis for Montreal Nationwide win >>
Montreal, Canada (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Boris Said finally became a first-time
winner in one of NASCAR's national touring series after he edged Max Papis by
inches at the finish line in Sunday's NAPA Auto Parts 200 Nationwide Series
race at
O's record first-ever season sweep of Angels >>
Anaheim, CA (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Jeremy Guthrie came within two outs of his
first career shutout and Matt Wieters knocked in the lone run with a sacrifice
fly in the seventh inning, as Baltimore posted a 1-0 victory to complete its
first-e
Gonzalez homers twice as Rockies take series from Dodgers >>
Denver, CO (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Carlos Gonzalez went 3-for-4 with two homers
and four RBI, as the Colorado Rockies defeated the Los Angeles Dodgers, 10-5,
in the rubber match of a three-game series at Coors Field.
Dexter Fowler chipped in
Kurt Warner to start, Matt Leinart to watch
Despite the debate that's swirling , Kurt Warner will remain the starting quarterback for the Arizona Cardinals, coach Dennis Green said today. The Arizona Cardinals are the +7 point underdog at online sportsbook MySportsbook.com for this Sunday's game.
Green's comment came in a statement released by the team following an ESPN report that Green decided that rookie Matt Leinart would replace Warner as starter for Sunday's game at Atlanta.
"Generally talking about the starting lineup is not something we do," Green told the AP. "However, given the speculation that was out there we want to make it clear. We're disappointed after last week, but we still expect to be a playoff football team and we fully expect Kurt Warner to be the quarterback that leads us. That has not changed."
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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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